History has undergone tremendous changes, when Yuan Hao didn't realize it, because of the chaos of the Northern Song Dynasty, a huge change has taken place, Yuan Hao thought that the impregnable city, in the eyes of the Northern Song Dynasty, was a smooth pass, and even in the hands of Han Qi, a large number of killer weapons were prepared.

On the other side, near Helan Mountain, the main force of the Liao State, after a short repair, began to move forward, because of Zhou Wenxiu's harassment, coupled with Yuan Hao's contraction, there was no resistance from the attitude, and it took more than half a month to reach Xingqing Mansion from the vicinity of Helan Mountain, Yuan Hao was already in a tight battle.

Standing at the head of the city, Yuan Hao, looking at the Liao cavalry rushing over, his heart was full of longing, he paid a lot, but it was not big, Xixia was a tribal system, many big tribes, and not under his control, with the help of this opportunity of the Liao State, he also dealt with some disobedient tribes, especially in Xingqing Mansion, it was easier.

As long as he successfully survives this catastrophe, the control of the entire Western Xia will rise by several levels, so with the maximum power in his control, he can completely recover this loss from the Northern Song Dynasty.

Historically, even if the losses of the Western Xia were not very large, they still kept attacking the Northern Song Dynasty in the following years, which made the Northern Song Dynasty a little anxious and tireless.

The cavalry gradually approached, looking at the strictly guarded Xingqing Mansion, but they got closer, shot a wave of arrows, and then stopped, and began to camp at a distance from the city.

Yuan Hao doesn't care, this is just a striker, even if he sends troops and takes it, it's nothing, not to mention that he is quite well prepared, if the large army of the Liao army arrives and takes it out when he starts to attack the city, it will play the maximum role.

Yuan Hao's confidence lies in the defense of Xingqing Mansion, which has been used as the royal capital of Western Xia, the city that has been operated for decades, and the defense has been developed to the maximum by him.

Yuan Hao has reason to believe that let alone 100,000 people, even if it is 300,000 people, don't want to attack Xingqing Mansion. He has shrunk his strength, in Yuan Hao's view, Liao can get nothing except a little population, or livestock and the like, this is where his confidence lies, he didn't expect that on the other side, the Song army has already attacked Lingzhou strongly.

Yuan Hao left a part of the army in Lingzhou, but these troops were comfortable for too long, and they did not expect to be attacked by the Northern Song Dynasty.

The cavalry was divided into 10 parts, attacking the small tribes scattered around, maybe when Zhou Wenxiu attacked, he just skipped next to Lingzhou, fast in and out, but the Northern Song Dynasty was different.

10 teams is a catastrophe for some small tribes, even medium-sized tribes.

Within 3 days, he ran 200 miles, almost penetrating the entire Lingzhou, except for a few big cities such as Xiping Mansion that did not attack, and the rest had all fallen.

The war, from the very beginning, began to tilt towards the Northern Song Dynasty, and at the same time, the Northern Song Dynasty was also tight on the outside and loose on the inside, constantly squeezing personnel inward.

On Han Qi's battle map, one by one, the banners representing Western Xia were pulled out, and a large amount of harvest and land allowed him to slowly master Lingzhou, and now, only the last few cities remain.

The longbow and heavy infantry are also slowly in place, compared to the nimble, offensive and defensive cavalry, these mounted infantry are much slower, but their attack power is stronger.

There is no need to consider the question of whether it is worth it or not, and any city that wants to give it will not be able to resist their footsteps.

First of all, it is a place more than 60 miles in the hinterland of Lingzhou, which is also considered a medium-sized city, and the Longbow team began to show strength.

This is said to be a city, but in fact, it is just a stockade place, facing the double attack of longbow and heavy infantry, only to resist for 15 minutes, then raise the flag and surrender, and the longbow team even stopped at a superficial taste, and did not even shoot 10 rounds of arrows.

What really makes the longbow team completely show its role is Xiping Mansion, Xiping Mansion is the core of Lingzhou, and it is also the largest city in Lingzhou, although this city, although it is not like Xingqing Mansion, it is a strong city made of stone, but it is also similar, a relatively complete city and city defense, it is not easy to capture him.

But in front of Song Jun, he only slightly blocked Song Jun's footsteps.

Maybe it was the relationship between the last city, or maybe the people around were gathered here, Han Qi not only came here in person, but almost most of the Song army also gathered here.

A classic example of a true demonstration of the role of the longbow, it is shown here that in the battle of Xipingfu, the longbow of the Song army showed its terrible power, and a total of 20,000 longbowmen were used, and these longbowmen covered the sky with a rain of arrows when the sun rose.

In just one stick of incense, 2 million arrows were shot, you know, the military and civilians of Xiping Mansion combined, there are no more than 50,000 people, even if they flee around, there are no more than 100,000 people.

Even if it is 20 arrows for one person, it is very terrible, when the rain of arrows completely ploughed Xiping Mansion, the soldiers of Xiping Mansion have lost all their losses and surrendered directly.

Han Qi heard the result of the surrender and sighed, Xiping Mansion, one of the important bases of the Northern Song Dynasty attacked by the Western Xia, this city that once wanted to be taken, but had no way, was so easily breached.

This is the terrible thing about the longbow, even in the Northern Song Dynasty, if there is no longbow, it will feel very tricky in the face of the crazy attack of the longbow.

The range of the longbow is twice as high as that of ordinary bows and arrows, which is the biggest advantage of the longbow, and he can even attack in a safe place.

A well-trained longbowman has a projection ability of about 180 arrows, which is four or five times that of an ordinary archer, and under such a saturated attack, no army can defend the city safely in such a rain of arrows, as long as there is enough logistics, just fighting and consuming, it is enough to polish the defense of a city.

Not to mention, the pressure brought by this, in fact, later statistics, Xiping Mansion in this incense attack, the loss is not large, the rain of arrows comes, the vast majority of people will dodge, only the soldiers, must stick to their posts.

In the face of the endless rain of arrows, they can only passively resist, but it is impossible to fight back, so that even the slightest bit of wear and tear will make people depressed, not to mention the horror of such a rain of arrows, in the face of endless, terrible attacks, there are a few people who can withstand it, surrender is the only choice.

The fall of Xiping Mansion represents the complete end of the first battle in Lingzhou, from the beginning to the end, it took only 15 days, the cavalry and some other troops, in some key roads, did a good job of blockade, for the time being, there is no news out.

This will be the best news, after it is determined that Western Xia and Liao have fought hard, it will not be a problem to take Lingzhou at all, the key is to defend it.

In the past, the defense of Lingzhou was definitely not good, and the longbow team was easy to capture, and it could not be used as a standard, but even if it was an ordinary attack, it was okay, and if you didn't build enough fortresses, you couldn't defend it at all.

Now, the most important thing is to take advantage of the current time difference to increase defense as much as possible, Han Qi is sitting in Xiping Mansion, and the personnel from the rear base are coming in an endless stream.

Cement, steel, bricks, all of which are transported regardless of the cost, will not have too much reconstruction for Xiping Mansion itself, because Xiping Mansion is not bad in Western Xia and Lingzhou, and in Han Qi's opinion, it is not as good as a small county town in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Rather than spending a lot of power to tinker with the top of the Sai Ping Mansion, it is better to build a fortress on the outside of the Sai Ping Mansion.

After a simple adjustment, on the outside of Xiping Mansion, about 700 meters apart, there will be 8 fortresses, with the support of these fortresses, as long as about 5,000 people are stationed, Xiping Mansion will become an impregnable city, even more than any city in the Northern Song Dynasty that does not currently have a fortress.

In Han Qi's view, as long as this is completed, Lingzhou will basically fall into his hands, and Xiping Mansion belongs to the core of Lingzhou and the most important fulcrum.

This time the attack on the summer, and before, the attack on the summer battle is different, before, just attack in, to obtain some strategic points, but between these strategic points, is a rapid conversion, the Northern Song Dynasty to attack these points is easy, and can not be stationed in the army, in the field of the heavy, Western Xia relative to the Northern Song Dynasty, still occupy an advantage, in this case, this has become a place of contention, not can be stably held.

In this way, even if he defeated the opponent and achieved a little result, he could not hold it, not to mention that in the three battles of the founding of the Western Xia, the Northern Song Dynasty was defeated, and even his own land was occupied, let alone Lingzhou.

With the appearance of the fortress, the 8 fortresses guarding a city seem a little weak, but Han Qi, who knows the terrible fortress very well, knows that this kind of protection is crazy.

Of course, in order to save time and build a fast fortified city, the fortress did not choose the Miaojiazhuang, more than 40 meters high, only 2 5 meters high, which is enough, in the previous attempt, such a fortress, if the manpower and materials are enough, as long as 20 days, can be built.

In the early stage, there may be certain weaknesses, such as the condensation is not too strong, and it will be attacked by heavy engineering paint and damaged, but as long as you wait for 20 days, it will be fine.

For the Song army, their primary goal was to ensure that Xiping was here for 40 days.

Initially, for the Song army, it was a huge torment, the importance of Lingzhou, everyone knows, in case any of them missed, they reported to the Western Xia, maybe Yuan Hao would come to attack, but a few days later, when the fortress began to be built, the waiting Tanma came with the news that the Liao army had surrounded Xingqing Mansion, and they were relieved that they were safe before the Western Xia and the Liao army did not distinguish the winner.