For this situation, Tong Guan and the Western Army are also quite helpless.

Obviously, what he said was true, but no matter how he shouted the thieves in the city, he just didn't believe it.

However, since the military order to siege the city was issued, there was naturally no reason to give up halfway and change the order overnight, so the tragic siege battle soon began.

This time, there was no threat from the western thieves on the periphery, and the western army also used all its strength to storm Xingqing Mansion.

Speaking of which, Tong Guan saw that Wu Xuan did not have Richard Brother's head, and immediately thought that even if he sent someone to call out the thief, he would not believe it.

But he still ordered a strong attack, in fact, he also wanted to test the power of the Western Army's various new siege equipment, and strive to capture Xingqing Mansion with these advanced weapons before Lin Chong rushed back.

Even if you can't attack it for a while, you can still accumulate experience.

Therefore, on the first day of the siege of the city, Tong Guan took out all his family resources, and ordered people to set up more than 2,000 catapults in the afternoon, and bombarded a section of the city wall indiscriminately.

These new catapults offered by Huan Yi were all processed into key components according to unified standards by craftsmen of the Ordnance Supervision Department in Bianjing City, and continuously transported to the Kansai front, and then other non-core components were built locally, and then assembled in a unified manner.

From the beginning of the siege to now, the siege of the western army has slowly accumulated as many as 5,600 planes, and by the next day, the other catapults have also been pushed under the city, and more than 5,000 catapults have bombarded Xingqing Mansion together.

This is also forgotten, because the Liangshan army relied on the new thunderbolt bomb to break through the Bianjing Jiancheng in less than half an hour, which made the Zhao and Song imperial courts also realize the power of this new gunpowder weapon.

Since then, Zhao Ji, Cai Jing and others have also immediately ordered people to hurry up the research and development of new gunpowder formulas and develop more and better gunpowder weapons.

It's just that what they don't know is that in the original history, gunpowder weapons existed in the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, and even the earliest musket weapons such as assault muskets appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty.

However, the gunpowder formula of the Northern Song Dynasty was too messy, in addition to the three components of saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal, it was also doped with clear oil, yellow wax, wolf poison, hemp and other more than a dozen or even dozens of messy ingredients, so the gunpowder of the Song Dynasty mainly relied on burning and releasing poisonous smoke to kill and injure the enemy, rather than relying on the explosive performance of gunpowder.

In fact, since gunpowder was invented by the Chinese, it was not until the end of the Ming Dynasty that the Chinese developed a formula that was not much different from that of later generations.

It took 500 years!

Therefore, it has only been a few months, and it would be really strange for the Song Dynasty to be able to develop a gunpowder weapon close to the thunderbolt of the Liangshan army.

So from the next day, the western thief soldiers in the city tasted all kinds of strange gunpowder weapons of the Song army, and for a time the flames on the city wall were soaring, and the smoke was billowing out, choking their snot and tears, and the coughing sound was incessant.

But after all, it was a life-and-death battle to defend the capital, and the Western thieves were also tenacious when they were cornered, and after suffering several losses and almost being attacked by the Western army taking advantage of their scrambling opportunities, these Western thieves also immediately found a way to deal with it.

To deal with the burning fireballs of the Song army, they prepared buckets of water and baskets of sand in advance, the water was used to extinguish the burning wooden towers, and the sand was used to extinguish the burning fireballs; When dealing with gunpowder weapons, which mainly rely on poisoning smoke, each soldier was covered with sand and soil, and each soldier was prepared to cover his mouth and nose with a wet towel.

Although the Song army's offensive was like a rainbow, all kinds of stones, newly developed thunderbolts, poison smoke balls, and burning fireballs rained down on the city wall; In addition, there were many Song army god arm archers standing on the siege vehicles several zhang high, constantly pouring arrows on the city wall, and even the hooks on the siege ladder several times were set on the city wall.

But the Western Thieves still stubbornly fought back the Song Army's offensive again and again, and there were burned-out ladder trucks everywhere under the city wall, rolling wood and stones smashed on the city wall, hot oil poured on the burning flames, billowing smoke, and countless corpses of Western Army soldiers.

In just two days, the Western Army lost nearly 3,000 lives under the city, and even more were wounded.

The western thieves in the city were also not happy, because there were too many catapults in the Song army, and all kinds of gunpowder weapons were too annoying, and there were also those archers who stood in the siege vehicles and shot arrows, shooting far and accurately, and the casualties of the western thieves in the city were not lower than those of the Song army.

It was almost a life for a life, the lives of the soldiers of the Song and Xia sides were rapidly consumed in the most tragic way, and the screams inevitably sounded in the city and under the city, and the heavy smell of blood mixed with the smell of gunpowder rose to the sky, making people feel sick.

But both the offensive and defensive sides are gritting their teeth and insisting, the western thief's side is naturally for the survival of the country and the nation, and the Song army is also for revenge for a hundred years of blood revenge, in order to prove the strength of the first strong army of the Great Song Dynasty, and strive to capture Xingqing Mansion before the Liangshan army arrives.

Otherwise, the Western Army has been fighting with the Western thieves for decades, and more than 100,000 Western troops will not be able to capture a Xingqing Mansion, but they will need the help of the Liangshan Army to avenge the blood revenge.

However, many times, things are like this, it is never transferred by the will of people, the western thieves in the city have not yet run out of ammunition and food, and the morale is also not low, and the western army cannot be attacked.

It wasn't until the Liangshan army held Richard Brother's head with the tip of his gun all the way to the city of Xingqing Mansion that the stalemate between the offensive and defensive sides was broken in an instant.

Seeing Brother Richard, there was also a kind of head of a high-ranking general of Western Xia, as well as dozens of battle flags of various armies of Western Xia appeared under the city of Xingqing Mansion and appeared in the hands of the Liangshan cavalry, and the Western thief soldiers in the city believed that the Song army had not lied before, and the main army of 200,000 of His Royal Highness the King of Jin was really wiped out.

All the Western Thief defenders were immediately frightened, and many of them even knelt down on the spot and cried loudly to the heavens.

"O gods! Why don't you bless me ...... Great Xia?"

"In a desperate situation, the gods can't save ......"

"God, is the Great Xia Kingdom really going to end......"

The morale of the western soldiers on the city wall was greatly demoralized and terrified, and Li Qianshun, Li Liangfu, Li Renzhong, Li Renli and others, who had been supervising the battle under the city for several days, had their first reaction after hearing the news was what to do.

Up to now, not to mention that the morale of the defenders in the city has been lost, and the morale of the army is shaken, perhaps within a day, the western army will be able to attack the city, enter the city and even the palace, and then they will be a dead end.

The outside is surrounded by iron buckets, and there is nowhere to escape.

And even if they can regain their morale, repel the enemy's attacks again and again, and hold the city for a month or even two months, the food in the city is always limited, and without foreign help to help, the soldiers and civilians in the city will still die.

"Your Majesty, the matter has come to this, let's open the city and surrender!"

After a short blank mind, it was Li Renzhong, the king of Pu, who offered advice.