Using phosphorus bombs to cover the Western Xia defenders on the city's head, and then bombarding the city walls with artillery, this is the latest siege tactic of the imperial army.

If you want to blow down the thick walls of Xingqing Mansion with artillery alone, it is actually quite laborious, and the reason for the power of the cannonballs is that a large number of cannonballs are needed.

With artillery and phosphorus bombs suppressed, several Imperial sappers carrying huge bags of explosives rushed forward, placed them at the bottom of the city wall, and then pulled the fuse.

"Boom! Rumble! Boom ......" A series of earth-shattering gunpowder explosions sounded, and the Xixia people who were close to the city wall were dizzy, and the thick city wall finally collapsed......

Pang Wanchun and the others, who were watching the battle, waited for the smoke and dust to disappear, and were surprised to find that there was still a city wall behind the collapsed city wall!

There was a distance of several tens of meters between the two walls, which caused a lot of trouble for the imperial army, because if they rushed in from these collapses, they would face the Western Xia defenders who were preparing to attack on another wall.

In view of this, Pang Wanchun hurriedly ordered the soldiers to stop attacking the city, and sending troops into such terrain would be tantamount to adding fuel to the tactics, and the amount of stuffed in would not be enough for the Tanguts to kill.

"There's a set!" Leonidas put down the binoculars and said with a sneer.

Kress said disdainfully, "Playing this in front of our imperial army is really underestimating us!" ”

Li Qianshun built this capital of Western Xia really well, and the double-layer city wall is really surprising.

If an ordinary army wants to capture the first wall, it will inevitably suffer heavy losses, but when they find that they have to face another wall after fighting to the death, the blow to morale is too great.

The Tangut people did a good job, but the imperial army was not an ordinary army, and it was not too difficult to solve this dilemma.

The open space between the two layers of city walls is the best position for the Tanguts to kill and injure the imperial army, because there is an obstacle of the first city wall, so the powerful artillery of the empire cannot hit the flat fire at all, and if it is fired from the back, it will not be able to destroy the inner city wall.

Without the help of artillery, the price to pay for a hard attack was too much, so the Imperial Army chose another way to deal with it......

Because the Western Xia soldiers had all retreated to the second wall for defense, a large number of Imperial Legion sappers poured up with explosive bags without threat.

The approach of Cress, Leonida, Pang Wanchun and others is very simple and direct, since Xingqing Mansion was built into a city with the word 'Hui' by Li Qianshun, then they plan to completely blow down the outer city wall, so that it has changed from 'Hui' to 'mouth'.

It is estimated that Li Qianshun, the lord of Western Xia, and other Western Xia courtiers and generals, did not expect that the imperial army would use this most stupid way to break their own defense system.

The heavy sword has no edge, and the great ingenuity does not work!

The Imperial Army used this brutal method with no technical content and no attention to detail to blow up the entire wall of Xingqing Mansion facing the Imperial Army Formation.

Taking advantage of the collapse of the city wall, which kicked up a huge amount of smoke and dust, obscuring the view of both sides, the Imperial Army's engineer battalion quickly cleared the broken masonry from the road ahead, and then moved a large number of artillery forwards to the effective range.

After some gunpowder, there are no more fortified cities in this world that cannot be attacked, so the final outcome of this battle can also be predicted......

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Li Nan, who was based in Changsha, the capital of the empire, although he stayed here, was actually always paying attention to the battlefield in the northwest.

A large number of battle reports flew in one after another, spreading the changes in the battlefield to Li Nan, although he was not on the battlefield in person, he could also know everything that happened there.

In the command room of the military, there are special staff officers who place chess pieces representing the strength of the two sides on a large deduction sand table in the room according to the information in the battle report.

Li Nan looked at the situation reflected on the sand table, and said with a smile: "The Southern Route Army has now taken most of the Western Xia, and the Northern Route Army has also begun a general attack, right?" ”

"Your Majesty said yes!" Luda pointed to the southern part of Western Xia, which had been marked red to resist and explained: "In addition to the main Dangxiang clan in Western Xia, other Han, Dangxiang, Huihe, Tuyuhun, Tatar, Tubo, Shatuo and other tribes have surrendered to the empire, and the country of Western Xia is about to be removed." ”

Li Nan knew that the empire was now attacking with a large army, and it would inevitably be able to take the small country of Western Xia, although the effort was temporarily disproportionate to what he received, but this time he also wanted to solve this restless small country once and for all.

Since the establishment of the Western Xia country, it has always invaded the Song State, the Liao State, the Western Regions, the Tibetan State, and later the Jin State, and it can be said that it is like a hungry wolf, neither abiding by any rules, nor paying attention to any morality, only for profit.

As long as the interests are sufficient, the Western Xia can become allies with any force, and will also attack any country and force.

In fact, this is not only the case of the Tangut people, it can be said that in addition to the Han people living in the Central Plains, most of the other alien races are also like this.

Because these aliens do not have their own history and cultural heritage, they all believe in the most fundamental law of the jungle, and they can do everything in order to survive.

The thousands of years of history of China is actually a process of continuous invasion by foreign races, continuous resistance and counterattack by the Han people, and then fusion of them.

In this regard, Li Nan admired the practices of the Han Dynasty.

Although the early Han Dynasty also humiliated the princess Black Hun and relatives, but since Emperor Liu Che of the Han Dynasty succeeded to the throne, he changed his attitude towards foreign races and shouted "Those who commit strong Han crimes will be punished even if they are far away!" The domineering words completely subdued the alien race and drove all the threatening enemies away and killed.

The Tang Dynasty also did this, but unfortunately it was later changed by Confucianism and the national conditions at that time, and a more disgusting policy of harmony was used.

The Great Song Dynasty, which was wiped out by the empire, did not do a good job at this point, although it spent money to buy peace, but at least it did not give women to foreign people, but unfortunately Jingkang's shame, there were countless Chinese women who were taken away by the Jin.

The empire respects the emperor, and Li Nan's thinking about foreign races is actually similar to Liu Che in nature.

If you want to come to the empire to live a stable life, then the empire and Li Nan both welcome it and will give a lot of help, but if you dare to provoke the empire, it is to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, the more ruthless the better!

In these years, Western Xia saw that the empire was powerful, and sent envoys many times to form an alliance, but Li Nanli rejected it overwhelmingly.

Not long ago, the cannibal tragedy on the border was the fuse, and Li Nan decided to destroy the small country of Western Xia in one fell swoop, so that there would be one less hungry wolf to serve him next to the couch, and he could better deal with the Jin Kingdom and Mongolia in the north, and the Western Liao in the west.

Now the final battle of Xingqing Mansion is not over, but Li Nan has already predicted the end.