"The officials, the flat ladder is called the opposite, and it is also used as a moat bridge, which is passed down from the end of the Han Dynasty, and the upper and lower two wide ladders can be used as a bridge to cross the river after being opened. The box car is generally called a slapstick, which is covered with thick leather and can prevent rockfall from hot oil. The man is driven forward in it, and it is used to dig under the city. The high building is called the leather cave by the Xia people, which is covered on all sides by wooden planks or thick cowhide, and the bow and crossbow are not injured. Soldiers can stand on the top floor and shoot at the defenders from the top floor, or they can climb the city through a springboard. ”

There are really people who know that they explain to Hong Tao the same, not only the name and history are clear, but also the structure and history, and they are clear and concise.

"Lift the mask...... How old are you? The person who answered was not tall, had a crisp voice, wore plate armor, a mask and helmet, and held a telescope.

This dress is only the youth group, Hong Tao looked at the little face in the helmet and really couldn't recognize that it was Wang Ji, once the girl wrapped her hair and put on the armor, it was not the same as usual.

"It's Xiao Qi......" In order to let his officials see clearly, Wang Qi moved to take off his helmet.

"No, it's good to wear it like this, stay safe. You weren't in Huangzhou to help Superintendent Xu teach, why did you come here? ”

No wonder I can't recognize it, it turns out to be Wang Qi. She is the most popular student in this group of children, and she is also Xu Donglai's favorite student. Because other children don't like to read the scriptures and historical classics, she is the only one who can read them.

"......" estimated that Wang Qi deliberately put down the mask because he was afraid that Hong Tao would find out, and now he was dumbfounded, and he couldn't help but look at Wang Da's face.

"You are doing a good thing behind the back of an official, why do you have to fight when she is a teacher!"

This glance made Hong Tao understand that it must have been arranged secretly by Wang Da. She can't wait to bring the children's league and the youth league with her. It's not that I want my younger siblings to die, but I think that this way I will make the fastest progress in learning.

“…… Not only Wang Qi came, but the students over ten years old in the Huangzhou class were also in the team, and I arranged for them to listen to the ...... in each team.

"Hey, I'm grumpy! When you return to Mawei City, the pits in the whole city will be cleaned by you, get out! Hong Tao raised his foot, not willing to kick; He raised his hand and looked at the helmet on Wang's head, but he couldn't get down. It can't be dealt with immediately by military law, and without Wang Da, a warmonger, the combat effectiveness of the new army will immediately drop by 10%.

"Trebuchet loads, pick up big rocks!" Wang Da has figured out the temper of this adoptive father, as long as he doesn't make big taboos, small mistakes are usually thunder and rain. And the memory is very poor, and if you perform better, you may forget the punishment.

With Wang Da commanding here, Hong Tao didn't even look at the striking effect of the trebuchet, so he took Chen Niang to Beicheng. The Western Xia army that attacked yesterday at night was very fierce, and Beicheng was still not very relieved.

The two Western Xia armies were quite coordinated, and the attacks were launched almost simultaneously. However, the armies of the northern city have obvious differences in siege equipment, except for the ladder and the confrontation, there is only one very special equipment.

It was carried on the back of a camel, a shelf less than two meters high, and there were about twenty of them, and I don't know what they were used for. But Hong Tao had a rough guess, Shen Kuo once introduced that there was a Poxi army in Western Xia, which used a small trebuchet placed on a hunchback, called a whirlwind cannon.

"Let's hit them with trebuchets first, hide the others, let them get closer, and the officer wants to see what these shelves are for." The siege crossbows on the city walls were ready, and they were stopped by the flood before they could be fired.

Hong Tao's curiosity came up again, and he couldn't figure out what the use of such a broken shelf could be. Once the firepower of the siege crossbow is too fierce, people will not see the result when they retreat.

"Hit, hit, official, hit another one!" One big and one small hid in the city tower and probed their brains with binoculars, and whenever a Western Xia soldier was hit by bricks and tiles, it would attract the cheers of Chen Niang.

This ancient over-the-horizon long-range strike made the Xia people's team a little commotion, and they couldn't see the appearance of the weapon, and a brick flew from the sky, and whoever hit it would break their bones and tendons.

For this reason, they all walked with their heads up, and from time to time they tripped over the potholes under their feet, and the formation was inevitably a little scattered, so angry that the commander of each team rode on a horse and whipped this time, and the soldiers who played with their lives restrained would maintain the formation.

"If you make a mistake, if you can get hundreds of trebuchets and rain bricks on the enemy, it is estimated that you will not be able to use a bow and crossbow." It is a pity that the number of trebuchets is too small, and the firing frequency is still slow, which can only play a psychological deterrent, and the actual effect is not large.

"Boom...... Smack...... "The trebuchet had just thrown three rounds, and the enemy vanguard had already touched the edge ......of the moat, when suddenly there was a muffled sound, and then there was a crash on the top of the city.

"That's it? Also a whirlwind cannon? It's really better to make a big slingshot...... "What's it that comes up?" Two flew in the shooting hole of the city tower, Hong Tao picked it up and looked at it, and recognized, the scientific name is pebbles, commonly known as stones!

What is the whirlwind cannon, Hong Tao finally understood that it was a torsion trebuchet. Later generations of TV staged this kind of mechanism, it does not need to be dragged by people, nor does it use a heavy hammer to accumulate power, but twists the short end of the delivery arm in a bundle of animal tendons or hair, like twisting twist to tighten the tendons, and uses elasticity to let the delivery arm throw heavy objects.

Its advantage is that it can be made relatively smaller, lighter, easy to carry, and fast to launch. The disadvantage is also obvious, the work efficiency of the tendon is not as good as the lever, so the delivery quality and distance are small.

The pebbles thrown at the head of the city are only the size of a child's fist, and the delivery distance is only more than 100 meters, even if you can throw several pieces at a time, it is not too destructive. It is still somewhat effective in dealing with lightly armored targets in the plains, and it can only be regarded as better than nothing when used to siege cities, and it is useless against the new army anyway.

"My lord, they are building a bridge to cross the river!" When the wasp saw Hong Taoguang watching the excitement, he thought that he had forgotten about the war, and couldn't help but remind him.

"I can't see them building bridges with my big eyes? Don't panic, people come prepared, you have to use all the tricks, and you know yourself and your opponent to deal with it. The order went down and tied the families of the high-ranking officials of the Xia people to the city, and the grandson of the prime minister stayed. ”

Forgot? That's a lot of heart. Hong Tao just wanted to see a long time and learn the ancient land combat techniques. It's easy to shoot a rocket, and the enemy can't even rely on the edge of the city, and he can't learn a fart.

“…… Doing so will hurt the prestige of the adults, and if the imperial history knows about it, it will inevitably be impeached again......" Wasp hesitated a little about the pony's order, and even planned to persuade him to give up.

"This official has a reputation for fart, don't believe it, go down and ask those Xixia soldiers, how many people know this official? As long as you don't say it, it's not impossible for Yushi to know, isn't this the reason? ”

After two or three years of contact with the Great Song Dynasty's forbidden army, box service, and local officials, Hong Tao felt that the reason why the Song people could not defeat the Xia and Liao people was that horses were of course an important factor and military concepts, but there was another aspect that no one seemed to pay attention to before, and it was the moral standard.

The moral standards of the Song people were relatively high, especially the intellectuals, who always aimed at saints, and worked hard even if they could not reach them. However, it seems that there is no need for morality in war, let alone axioms, and it is precisely because these two norms cannot be negotiated that there will be wars, and then follow them to fight, which is not against the current, illogical.

Fighting is not an Olympic competition, it is more like a hooligan gangster fight, whoever makes a vicious move, who is more likely to take advantage. What is not allowed to hit the back of the head and lower abdomen, in order to win the buckle eyes, bite the ears have to be used, where are the rules.

As long as you win, you can describe the process of the war as you want, it was originally a sneak attack and kicked the opponent's eggs, or it can be said that it was an uppercut hit to the opponent's chin, winning the beautiful show, who would object?

"Don't gag them, let them scold, whoever stops shutting will stab them in the back with a crossbow arrow. I'll see if the generals below will shoot to death their Empress Dowager's nephew and the grandson of the Prime Minister. ”

Soon the dozen or so women and children were brought to the wall, each of them tied a buttress sturdily, and several large wooden planks were erected to make them more conspicuous, on which the identities of these people were written in Tangut and Chinese.

They could only cry except for shouting and scolding, and the city was full of people and compatriots, and they had to salute them when they saw it on weekdays, but now they held their lives.