After the Imperial Army's artillery was powerful, it quickly knocked out the Whirlwind Cannons on the city wall, and then began to move forward in a progressive manner, aiming at the trebuchets in the city.

Because of the barrier of the city wall, no one on the imperial army could see the loss of the Tangut trebuchet, and could only bombard it roughly according to the direction in which the boulder was thrown.

When the imperial soldiers were pressing, the Tanguts on the city wall also took out the weapons at the bottom of the box!

The killer weapon of the Tangut people is firearms, and these firearms are relatively advanced, which is all thanks to the Song people.

Ren Dejing and others were originally Song ministers, and Western Xia had always had the habit of recruiting Song people, so these people also brought a large number of Central Plains technologies to Western Xia.

The proof of the invention of gunpowder weapons in the Northern Song Dynasty is the military masterpiece "General Essentials of the Martial Classics" compiled by Zeng Gongliang and Ding Du Fengyi in 1044.

In this military encyclopedia of the Song Dynasty, the gunpowder recipes for three types of military weapons - poison smoke balls, artillery, and tribulus fireballs are listed in detail. This is also the world's earliest military gunpowder formula discovered so far.

Among them, the proportion of nitrate has increased significantly, much larger than the sum of sulfur and charcoal, and it is close to the correct formula of black powder in later generations.

In the early days of the Northern Song Dynasty, the emperors of all dynasties made great efforts to govern the country, attached great importance to military equipment, compiled and repaired military books, and developed the weapons industry.

But in the late Northern Song Dynasty, the emperor was mediocre, got by, the military equipment was abolished, and the song and dance were leveled. In the period of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, gunpowder also changed from military equipment to entertainment, which can be described as a brilliant night of fireworks and a time when the country is in danger.

After the Western Xia obtained these firearms information of the Song people, they did not pay much attention to it originally, but when the empire that relied on firearms turned out to be born and beat the surrounding countries, they began to increase their efforts to develop gunpowder weapons.

Huge wooden boxes appeared on the city wall, and the front of these boxes exposed dense, fist-sized holes, when the Tanguts ignited the back of the wooden boxes, hundreds of rockets flew out of the boxes in an instant.

This kind of firearm that is very similar to the Katyusha rocket artillery in later generations is called ten thousand horses galloping by the Tangut people, and a large number of rockets are fired after ignition, which does have the meaning of ten thousand horses galloping.

Although this firearm is not accurate, it does not need to be aimed at a large number of Imperial soldiers under the city, as long as it is fired.

In addition to these advanced firearms, the Western Xia army on the head of the city also threw a gourd-shaped earth-shattering thunder downward, a firearm that existed in the Song Kingdom, and the effect was similar to that of the imperial army's grenades.

The Imperial Army roamed the world and fought with the surrounding countries, so that the enemy tasted the power of grenades, but they did not expect that today they were counterattacked by the Tanguts with the same means.

Seeing that their own imperial soldiers were either shot by the swarm of rockets or killed by the earth-shaking thunder, the three legion commanders who were watching the battle suddenly turned pale.

Pang Wanchun pointed to the head of the city and said coldly: "It seems that the Xixia people are really hidden!" It is estimated that these firearms do not even have the Song Kingdom and the Jin Kingdom, but they secretly made so many of them, Li Qianshun and Ren Dejing and others learned from the empire, and they really learned very well!.

"Indeed!" Kress said: "The Western Xia army has the most complete military structure at that time, which is not even comparable to our empire. If His Majesty the Emperor hadn't made a move against Western Xia this time, then it would have been really difficult to deal with them over time, allowing them to have more complete firearms and weapons. ”

Leonida sighed with emotion: "The ambition of the wolf son of the Tangut people, it seems that His Majesty can see it clearly!" ”

Although the Tangut people made a lot of efforts, what they lacked most was time.

You must know that firearms are applied to the army, and this is not an overnight thing, and the empire has also researched, trained and improved many times over the years, so there is the current invincible army.

Li Qianshun, the lord of Western Xia, in order to guard against the party and other tribes, has always regarded the craftsman who makes firearms as his biggest secret.

The Western Xia soldiers who lacked relevant training actually found it difficult to operate these firearms, just like the galloping rockets of the ten thousand horses, some of which exploded directly on the spot, and the soldiers were placed in the wrong position, and they were fired into the city behind after ignition, etc.

The thing that caused the most damage to the Western Xia soldiers was actually the kind of earth-shattering thunder, a grenade-like throwing weapon that needed to be thrown after igniting the fuse.

Just like when the common people set off firecrackers in later generations, because of the non-standard production, some of the leads burned quickly, and some of the leads burned slowly, and it was just slow to do so, but the earth-shattering thunder that burned faster would immediately explode in the hands of the soldiers......

Kress turned his head to look at the Imperial flag beside him, and then said to Leonida and Pang Wanchun, "It's just a windless day!" ”

The other two naturally understood the meaning of Kress's words, but when they remembered the cruelty of that weapon, they would forget it intentionally or unintentionally.

At present, against the Western Xia army that is defending the city with firearms, if the imperial soldiers are allowed to attack hard, the loss will be too great, so Pang Wanchun and Leonidas glanced at each other and nodded slowly but firmly.

This cruel weapon is, of course, a phosphorus bomb.

Soon a phosphorus bomb was fired at the head of Xingqing Mansion, and after it exploded, it emitted a white light, and then the terrible flames in the shells fell on the defending Western Xia soldiers.

Flames floated down from the sky, and if anything touched by this terrible flame, it would be like maggots on tarsal bones, difficult to peel off.

In addition to these terrible and cruel phosphorus fires, the explosion of the phosphorus bombs also brought a large amount of poisonous smoke, which was enveloped in the city because it was a windless weather today.

One after another, the screams came from the city walls, all of which were Western Xia soldiers who had been burned by phosphorus fires, and many of them even jumped from the high walls in order to relieve the pain caused by the flames that could burn to the bones.

The number of Tangut people who were burned to death was not many, but it was extremely miserable, and a large number of Tangut soldiers were smoked to death by the poisonous smoke from the phosphorus fire.

When these phosphorus bombs exploded on the city walls, the Tangut counterattack became less and less powerful until it disappeared. The Imperial Army also stopped attacking for the time being, after all, they couldn't stand it now rushing into the city shrouded in poisonous smoke.

The poisonous smoke finally slowly dissipated, revealing the charred city walls and corpses everywhere.

Phosphorus fire will kill a person for a while and a half, but it can't be shaken off like a maggot on the tarsal bone......

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