Chapter 58 is that tigers will definitely eat people

As the besieging party, Tie Xinyuan naturally will not die down, and as soon as the siege vehicle was assembled by the craftsmen, it was sent to the battlefield by Tie Xinyuan, braving the rain of arrows from the Western Xia people and slowly approaching the big stone city. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At first, there was only one, and by the time the sun was already hanging on the top of the mountain, six huge siege engines had gathered at the gate of the city.

The thick crossbow was nailed to the siege engine, making the behemoth constantly tremble and shake, but it never fell, and the pace of progress was still steady.

The siege vehicles of the Hami Kingdom were completely different from the common siege vehicles of the Tanguts, there were no crossbowmen standing on the siege vehicles to shoot at them, and there were no armored oxen dragging them in front of the siege vehicles, and the Tanguts had not yet figured out how these siege engines moved.

"The king is trying to intercept the Western Xia people in the Great Stone City?" Wang Anshi, who came to Big Rock City in a hurry, seemed to see a little doorway.

Tie Xinyuan smiled: "Yes, we can't beat the Xixia people in the field. ”

Wang Anshi chuckled: "I'm afraid the damage will be more serious when attacking the city." ”

Tie Xinyuan watched Tie Wu, who had left the formation, said leisurely: "I won't attack the city, I will only use gunpowder to blow this city into powder." ”

Wang Anshi was stunned for a moment and said, "It costs ......"

Tie Xinyuan smiled at Wang Anshi, grabbed his left hand with his right hand, and his two thumbs were constantly entwined, too lazy to answer Wang Anshi's question.

Wang Anshi smiled awkwardly and said: "A certain family has forgotten that the king is extremely rich, and the most important thing is materials, money and food. ”

Tie Xinyuan said with a smile: "Sir has been in the gunpowder workshop for a long time, I wonder if a million guan can completely destroy this city?" ”

Wang Anshi smiled bitterly: "200,000 catties of gunpowder is enough to move mountains and reclaim the sea." ”

Tie Xinyuan nodded and said: "There are 30,000 enemies in the city, and one million guan is spread on each person's head but more than thirty guan, this deal is done." ”

"I'm afraid I won't be tied to death, a certain family thinks that the Xixia people are not out of the city yet, I'm afraid they are waiting for the king to approach, and then they can have a scuffle, if a certain family's guess is unfortunate, the king will be very bad."

Tie Xinyuan laughed silently, his white teeth shining in the sunset, and his arrogant attitude made Wang Anshi extremely unpleasant.

"How much does the gentleman know about the king's army?"

Wang Anshi looked around suspiciously, but did not find any difference between the soldiers around him and the soldiers of Hami Country.

Just as he was about to sneer at each other, he heard Tie Xinyuan continue: "In the past five years, I haven't done anything, I have been concentrating on training these 21,000 soldiers, and I will serve this army with camp-like skilled craftsmen, and thirty percent of the money and grain collected by the Hami Kingdom every year are spent on more than 20,000 people, and this king doesn't know how much he has subsidized out of his own pocket, and the money and food consumed by more than 20,000 people is more than all the rest of the army in the Hami Kingdom combined."

It's a real army built of gold, but the ridiculous world doesn't know anything about it, and they all think that I, Hami, are easy to bully, but they don't know that they are giving this king a perfect opportunity to plunder all directions. ”

As soon as Tie Xinyuan's words fell, he heard a roar in front of him, and the first siege vehicle was finally stopped after being attacked by the Tangut trebuchet.

Then, countless stones the size of a human head poured down from the walls of the Great Stone City.

The stones fell densely on the ground, the sound was deafening, and the six siege engines were bathed in this rain of stone bullets like lotus leaves in the heavy rain.

Wang Anshi sighed and said: "Before the moment of life and death, the Xixia people have already used catapults, it seems that they really plan to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the king." ”

Tie Xinyuan shook his head and said, "He wants?" Since they didn't fight with this king in the Gobi early, it was no longer his turn to think about it. ”

Speaking of this, Tie Xinyuan seemed to be a little irritable, and turned around and yelled at Wei Chiwen: "Ask the old monk, is it still dead when you meet Bobo?" ”

Wei Chiwen hurriedly replied: "I asked the old monk just now, and the old monk said that unless your medicine doesn't work, you will die soon." ”

When Tie Xinyuan heard this, he yelled at Tie Er: "Lao Tzu has pretended to be a pig and eaten a tiger for so many years, he can't pretend to be any longer, and if he pretends to be a pig again, Lao Tzu will really become a pig."

After a stick of incense, a strong wall formation was unfolded, and the ballista was forcibly sent into range, and the cannon began to seal the door. ”

Tie Er tapped the armor and took the order, Wang Anshi couldn't help but sit up straight on his horse, ready to see how the army made of gold in Tie Xinyuan's mouth fought.

After sending three waves of stone bullets, the trebuchets of the Tangut people were completely silent, and the Hami warriors who were all over the mountains took the opportunity to push the trebuchets closer to the city wall.

Just behind the gate of Dashi City, a hundred zhang away, more than a dozen strong armor soldiers had already removed the gate latch, and firmly grasped the city gate with both hands, as long as the commander gave an order, they would immediately open the city gate.

Qi Yubo closed his eyes and listened to the movement outside the city, and then opened his eyes suddenly, and his eyes looked at the red flag at the head of the city without blinking.

The trebuchet was completely silent, and the eight-bull crossbow on the head of the city was still spitting out crossbow guns unhurriedly, and the crossbow guns fell outside the city, like a dense grove.

The tattered siege engines smashed by the stone bullets seemed to move, first a one-foot-high iron plate poking its head out from both sides of the trebuchet, and then the iron plate extended endlessly to both sides.

In the frightened eyes of the Xixia people at the head of the city, the iron plates poking out of the six siege vehicles were actually connected.

From the huge belly of the siege vehicle, more than a dozen vigorous armor soldiers were drilled, and they quickly inserted some short iron rods into the grooves on the iron plate, just pulling hard, the finger-thick iron chain was pulled out, just in an instant, dozens of thick iron chains connected the six siege vehicles tightly together, forming a one-zhang high arc-shaped iron wall at the gate of Dashi City.

The six cannons also slowly moved forward, and the huge muzzles of the guns passed through the large hole in the iron plate, and pointed at the city gate in unison.

Wang Anshi was dumbfounded, he watched the iron wall continue to extend into the distance, this time it was not the siege vehicle, but those tall soldiers standing in the front, smashing the tower shield in their hands into the ground, and soon, there were back row soldiers who stepped forward and put the tower shield in his hand on the first tower shield, and the iron spear in his hand was inserted into the ring buckle, forming a dense support point behind the tower shield, and it seemed that the city wall was extremely strong.

Soldiers in black armor whistled behind the iron wall, and groups of soldiers scattered from the group under the command of the soldiers. Skillfully inserting the iron spear into the assassination hole, the front of the iron wall was immediately covered with movable thorns composed of iron spears......

The sound of the ballista moving forward drowned out the roar of the ballista against the iron wall, and the gate did not open until the ballista was in place.

The Xixia people watched as their originally angry Dashuai suddenly spat blood, and they didn't even have time to step forward before they saw blood spurting out from Dashuai's mouth, nose, eyes, and ears, and at the same time, Dashuai's body was gurgling, and his body seemed to be shrinking continuously, as if he was cursed, and after a while, he shrunk into a ball on the horse, and was wrapped in armor and fell off the horse with a clatter.

The terrifying scene fell in everyone's eyes, and there was silence in the cave of the city gate, even if the screams of the Western Xia warriors came from the head of the city, they didn't seem to hear it.

Tie Xinyuan didn't want to wait any longer for news from the old monk, since Qi Yu Bobo hadn't appeared until now, he felt that there was no need to wait any longer.

The ballista's pocket was already full of gunpowder packs and gunpowder shells, and after he waved the order, the herald's flag shook, and at the same time, the Hami soldiers with wooden hammers smashed open the machine at the first time, allowing the gunpowder shells and gunpowder packs to fly freely.

The city gate finally opened, and the grief-stricken lieutenant general personally led the troops to start an assault, although the current situation was not quite what all of them imagined, as a veteran of the battlefield, the lieutenant general knew that if he did not attack at this time, he might not have a chance to attack.

Liu Chu stood on the side of the artillery, he looked at the cannon in front of him curiously, he really wanted to know what kind of power this thing that Tie Xinyuan called the god of war would have.

Tie Xinyuan was far away from artillery, he was extremely wary of the inferior artillery that appeared in this era, and he would never go one step closer to the artillery without thoroughly testing its safety.

Liu Chu watched as the sergeant put the red-hot iron bar on the thick medicine twist, and as soon as the spark flashed, the medicine twist burst into brilliant sparks, and quickly drilled into the root of the artillery.

"Boom-"

Liu Chu was shocked by the loud sound of the artillery, and fell to the ground, and in a trance seemed to see a black cannonball fly out of the barrel and smash straight towards the city gate.

Wang Anshi saw clearly with his binoculars, the cannonball turned into two in mid-air, tied with an iron chain in the middle, circling, and flying towards the gate of the city that was constantly spitting out cavalry with a piercing scream.

The next moment, in his sight, the cavalry on the course of the cannonball suddenly shattered, the stumps and severed arms flew all over the sky, and the cannonball actually waded out a straight clearing in the surging crowd.

After six loud bangs, a large blank space appeared at the gate of the city, which had just returned to the crowd......

A Tangut man who had just found that he had lost an arm fell from his war horse with a wild scream, and was dragged around the city by a frenzied war horse.

Wang Anshi turned a blind eye to the explosions in the city, looked at Tie Xinyuan in surprise and said, "This-"

Tie Xinyuan seemed to know what Wang Anshi was going to say, and said lightly: "It's a tiger that always eats people, otherwise what kind of king of beasts is it?" ”