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According to experience, the attack distance of the catapult used for siege is limited, and it is generally placed at a distance of about 200 steps outside the city wall to carry out a stone throwing attack in the direction of the city wall.

The target of the attack was also clear, that is, the walls and the defensive forces on the walls. A hundred-pound boulder is smashed down, although the city wall will not collapse at once, but it will definitely be damaged, and the boulder will not survive no matter what.

The Xia army did not need to attack the city immediately, first smashed a few rounds with catapults, and under normal circumstances, the Song army guarding the city wall would suffer heavy losses, and more importantly, people's psychology would collapse quickly.

Houses within 200 steps of the city wall in the north of the city were likely to be damaged by throwing stones, so the people living here were moved to the south of the city, and the people who transported the supplies could only hide behind the city wall.

The drums of the Xia army's attack sounded again, and Yang Huairen, Yang Shihu and others stood at the head of the city, looking at the dozen or so giant beast-like catapults and oxen pulling horses forward, and their hearts were all in shock.

Looking at the soldiers around him, fine beads of sweat also oozed from their heads, everyone knows what this battle means.

Winning represents endless glory, for more than 100 years, the history of the Song and Xia wars has not won more with less, and it is a record of big victories, what they created is history.

Losing means death. The soldiers defending the city will die, and the tens of thousands of people in Huanzhou behind them will not be spared.

Yang Huairen knew that now the Song army seemed to be on the defensive, but in fact it was waiting for a counterattack.

The only 1,000 cavalry of the Tongyuan Army were hidden behind the city gate, and there were also Brother Hei Niu and Ke Xiaochuan leading nearly 100 internal guards, and their mission was very clear, to take down the heads of Yelituli.

Yang Huairen knew that the thief would capture the king first, and he also knew that it was difficult to capture Yelituli in the midst of the army, but only in this way could he quickly end the battle.

The soldiers of the Song army had prepared everything and were waiting for the moment of counterattack.

Yang Huairen glanced at the flags fluttering on the head of the city from time to time, and saw what he wanted to see, so he tried to calm himself down, telling himself over and over again that the development of things had not deviated, and was still developing according to his plan.

The Xia army marched at the forefront, still the shield wall array, and behind the shield wall array, there were more than a dozen tall catapults.

The soldiers of the Xia army kept whipping the cattle and horses pulling the cart, the cattle and horses were in pain, raised their heads and let out a miserable howl, and the heavy catapult slowly moved forward, making a "creaking" sound.

Behind the catapults, there were hundreds of carriages, the carriages were loaded with several boulders, behind them, were lightly armored siege infantry, and at the end of the entire offensive formation were thousands of Western Xia cavalry.

Once the city of Tongyuan is broken, these bloodthirsty Western Xia cavalry will quickly storm the city and carry out a long-planned massacre.

The leader of these cavalrymen was none other than Yelituri himself, who was dressed neatly and personally in battle today, which shows that he was full of confidence in today's victory, with a horse lance in his hand, and a cold cold light on the head of his silver spear.

In the early morning sun, the tip of the eight-edged lance has a chilling spirit, as if it is longing for blood.

Every soldier of the Xia army, seeing the dozen or so tall catapults, as well as the fierce expression of their main general Ye Lituli, no one doubted today's victory, they just took pity on those Song troops, under such a powerful offensive, they were like cattle and sheep waiting to be slaughtered.

Closer and closer to the city wall of Tongyuan County, Xia Jun also saw the appearance of this tall city clearly, which really made Xia Jun sigh, a small county town on the border of the Great Song Dynasty, there are such magnificent and majestic cities, even in Western Xia, only a few big cities have such a tall city wall.

Once again, it confirmed the wealth of the Great Song Dynasty, and once again increased their desire to occupy this city, what they wanted was to snatch the wealth of the Song people!

The Song people are weak, the Song people are timid, the Song people don't deserve to have such a good city, they don't deserve to have so much wealth, their Xia army is stronger, their Western Xia people are stronger, only the strong are worthy to dominate all this!

Looking at the Song army standing on the city wall, they must have been frightened, right? Although he is still standing at the head of the city and has not escaped, maybe he is just frightened by the majesty of the Xia army and his legs tremble and he can't run, right? Ha ha......

The catapult finally advanced to a distance of only two hundred paces from the city wall of Tongyuan County, the drumming stopped, and the high-spirited sound of the horn was the order to attack.

The Xia soldiers stopped advancing, and on each carriage with large stones, two Xia soldiers jumped up and rolled down from the carriage with the barrels of their guns.

Under the carriage, there was a net made of thick rope that caught the big stone, and the four summer soldiers stood at the four corners of the rope net, and with a loud shout pulled the big stone up, moved to the side of the catapult with heavy steps, lifted one side of the rope net, and let the stone roll into the net at one end of the catapult.

The commander who rode the horse and shook the flag galloped from behind the catapult body, and the stone movers except for the operator ran away.

Waiting for the flag to fall, the catapult operator quickly cut off one end of the huge rocker arm that fixed the catapult, and the other end of the iron block tied to hundreds of catties fell quickly under the influence of gravity, and the other end bounced up quickly, and the boulder in the rope net also flew out towards the sky at 45 degrees.

The huge stone flew into the clear blue sky, and when it flew past the highest point of the parabola, the speed became faster and faster, and it was smashing towards the city wall of Tongyuan County.

More than a dozen boulders flew through the air, and everyone held their breath at that moment, as if time had stopped.

There was a loud bang, and the stones smashed the city wall and shattered into pieces, and the strong city wall also trembled violently, and the outer layer of stones was smashed by the huge impact force, peeled off the city wall, and fell to the ground.

Some of the stones were smashing on the platform of the city wall, and the clay brick wall was immediately smashed out of a huge gap, and a large pit was also smashed out of the platform, and some of the big stones even continued to catapult and fell into the city, rolling and smashing down several adobe houses in a row before stopping.

Seeing that their catapult exerted such a powerful power, Xia Jun was so excited that his blood boiled and he cheered loudly.

At this time, a Xia soldier suddenly shouted excitedly, "Look, the Song army on the city wall has run away!" They're scared away! ”

Everyone looked at the city wall, and sure enough, the Song army who was still standing on the city wall just now ran away, which made them even more excited and shouted loudly.

Ye Lituli was overjoyed in his heart, the Song army was really vulnerable in front of the catapult, the victory came too easily, and now, all the wealth of Huanzhou would be in his pocket.

He raised the horse lance in his hand, made a charging posture, and shouted in his mouth, "The first person to rush into Tongyuan County will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver!" Whoever catches Yang Huairen will be rewarded with 5,000 taels of silver! ”