When the cavalry harassed, three puffs of wolf smoke rose in the south of the city, and then hundreds of war drums on all sides of Beizhou beat at the same time, from light to heavy, from slow to fast, and it seemed that the earth was trembling in every sound of war drums. To the sound of war drums, the infantry moved, the shield bearers in the front, the crossbowmen in the back, and the queue mixed with bridges, stone cannons, rushing carts and ladders, slowly but neatly pressed towards the city walls. Judging from the formation of the queue and the orderliness of the action, the siege tactics of the Song army were still very mature.

The stone cannons stopped first and began to fire stone projectiles. But at this time, the stone cannon launch relied on dozens of people pulling the rope at the same time to throw the stone projectile out, and there was always a difference in the size of the force each time, so the bullet was not accurate at all, and whether it could hit the city wall completely depended on character. Therefore, in Li Buqi's view, the role of these stone cannons is more threatening than actually killing.

The stone cannons in the city also began to return fire, although the rate of fire was also slow and the impact points were scattered, but outside the city was a large number of people, and there were constantly artillery stones falling in the ranks of attackers, smashing out bloody paths. Fortunately, the officers were wielding broadswords to suppress them, and the soldiers were still moving slowly and steadily.

The bed crossbows on the city began to shoot, and the javelins that flew into the attacking team one after another directly divided the corpses of the soldiers or inserted them into the ground, and then the crossbow arrows on the city also began to fire condescendingly, and more and more officers and soldiers fell to the ground, but the pace of the attacking team did not stop, but the rhythm increased slightly. The soldiers, with their shields or heavy armor, continued to move slowly to the rhythm of the drums, and nothing seemed to stop them.

This gave Li Buqi a new understanding of the Song army. No wonder after Song Taizong, a military fool, Song Zhenzong, a coward as a mouse, and the Great Song Dynasty also fought a draw with the Liao State, at least the Hebei Song army still has some combat effectiveness. He said to himself: "It seems that if there is a working cavalry, it can still be fought in Hebei." ”

Tao Lin asked curiously: "Why do the officials remember to fight a battle in Hebei?" ”

Li Buqi said: "How much have you watched "Three Kingdoms"? ”

Tao Lin said: "I've seen half of it. ”

Li Buqi nodded and said, "Now Song, Liao, and Western Xia are in a situation of one three kingdoms. If you want to recover Yanyun, you must first solve the worries of Western Xia, and if you want to kill Western Xia, you must first weaken the Liao State. The Liao State was established longer than the Great Song Dynasty, and it should be almost decayed now. Look at the defeat of the Liao State in Xia, how can there be the shadow of the Liao State Iron Cavalry in the past? If you lose one or two more battles, I am afraid that all kinds of problems will be exposed, and at that time, the Liao State will be crippled if it does not die. ”

Tao Lin asked: "This is also the purpose of the officials to give the method of making spirits to the Liao State?" ”

Li Buqi said: "Test you and see if you can guess my purpose." ”

Tao Lin thought for a while and said: "The officials have always said that if there is not enough food to eat, the people will rebel. Our Great Song Dynasty has suffered disasters one after another in the past few years, and the Liao people have heard that it is not very peaceful, but they are afraid that there will not be enough food to eat. If they use grain to make wine again, then there will be even more shortage of grain, and there will inevitably be an accident in Liao at that time. ”

Li Buqi said: "Yes. Liao is short of food, if you stand up to it, there will be civil strife, if you want to grab it from the Great Song Dynasty, hehe, Hebei has not fought for more than 40 years, right? If you don't fight again, I'm afraid that you won't know what the war is going on from top to bottom. ”

After speaking, Li Buqi put up his whip, and the two cavalry scout trumpeters who followed him immediately picked up the trumpet and blew the assembly horn. This horn was built by Li Buqi according to the trumpet system of the drum and bugle corps of the later school, which is different from the horn sound used by the current army for command, and will not interfere with the command of the infantry, but the sound travels far away. After a while, first the Zhenwu army scouts, and then the Hebei forbidden army were all lined up behind Li Buqi. As soon as the number of people was counted, there were two fewer people in the Hebei Forbidden Army, and they thought that they were unlucky enough to shoot the bow and crossbow on the city wall. However, such a small loss is still acceptable for the effect of attracting firepower from the city.

At this time, the official brigade had already entered the range of crossbow arrows, and the crossbowmen stayed in place to suppress the city. Every time it is launched, it makes people feel that as soon as the daylight is dark, they see a rain of black arrows sprinkled on the city wall, which can be regarded as the firepower coverage of the Great Song Dynasty. At the same time, a bed crossbow continued to fire javelins into the city wall, and the iron head of the gun sank into the female wall, leaving only the broken barrel, which seemed to have chiseled through the masonry of the female wall.

But the feathered arrows and javelins in the city were shot down more violently, and the arrows were staggered, creating a large haze over the battlefield.

The shield-bearers continued to advance in front of the trenches, some of whom threw sacks of earth and firewood into the ditches that had been drained of water to fill in the trenches, and some pushed the bridges into the trenches to build bridges, and then rushed through the trenches. Many people rushed to the bottom of the city, but the arrows from the walls and the horses on both sides made the shields inadequately protected them, and the shields and heavy armor were useless against the stones and ash bottles thrown from the walls. At this time, Li Buqi had an intuitive understanding of the usefulness of horse noodles, and began to consider whether to build a few corrugated forts when necessary in the future.

The numerous bows and crossbows under the city also caused heavy casualties to the defenders, and Li Buqi kept seeing someone poke out a little bit and fall down the city. Finally, the ladder arrived, and an iron hook was installed at the top of the ladder to hold on to the female wall and prevent the ladder from being overturned. Officers and soldiers climbed the ladder with their shields in their hands, and although people were constantly hit by arrows or stones, they continued to move forward. But suddenly, Li Buqi saw a large pot of liquid poured from the city wall, and the soldiers who were immediately splashed fell down like insects sprayed by insecticide. Then a torch was thrown, and the entire ladder burst into flames. Some of them were on fire, stumbling to put out the fire, and the cries could be heard from so far away.

In some places, a pot of liquid was poured without fire, but Li Buqi guessed that it was boiled feces and urine. If this thing is poured on his body, even if he doesn't die at the time, he will die miserably due to infection later. Large-scale burns and serious infections, even if there are antibiotics in later generations, it is not easy to treat, and in the Great Song Dynasty, then don't think about curing it at all.

Other ladders were originally firmly attached to the walls, but the defenders erected their instruments on the walls, struck the iron hooks, pried them up, and then overturned them with push rods.

In winter, the north wind was blowing, and a strong scorching and stench mixed with the strange smell of meat and blood wafted in the wind, Li Buqi turned his head to look at the scout cavalry of the Zhenwu Army and his own guards, and their faces became extremely ugly, of course, the cavalry of the Hebei Forbidden Army was no better.

Then the sound of a trumpet was heard from the south, and the bearded officer shouted: "The chief has increased his troops." ”

Li Buqi hurriedly turned the binoculars to look over, and gasped. There are still so many soldiers under this city, what are you doing at this time to fill in hand-to-hand combat infantry, crowding under the city to be a target for others? What is needed now is a crossbowman.

Li Buqi pulled the reins and was about to stop the advance of the troops, but after thinking about it, he still held back-now to intervene in the command is nine times out of ten to carry the black pot, it is better to save it. Always let Myeongho have fun once.

After taking a few deep breaths, he calmed down and ordered the two commanders: "Okay, there is nothing for us here. We went back to where we were. ”

When I returned to the lookout, I saw Ming Ho sitting on the official hat chair produced by the Li family's woodware workshop, holding a cup of hot tea in a chic manner and slowly blowing away the foam on the surface.

Ming Ho stood up and said with a smile when he saw Li Buqi coming to the stage: "Li Junjian worked hard, so he sat down to rest and watched the officials and soldiers break the thieves with peace of mind." ”

But as if slapping the old man in the face, a small colonel who gave an order ran up and reported: "Report, the Shenrui army in the east of the city suffered heavy casualties, and it couldn't support it, so it retreated." General Hao was preparing to attack again. ”

Myeongho's eyes glared: "Retreat without an order!" Chop off all the heads of the retreating Shenrui army! The first four cities. Ordered Hao Zhen to attack here immediately, and those who retreated without an order were killed. ”

The herald Xiao Xiao shuddered, and hurriedly took the order. Li Buqi glanced at several officers on the lookout, and his face was like a dead old man. Myeongho turned around and ordered the flag officer: "Beat the drum!" Command to intensify the attack! ”