The abnormal movements of the western army under the city of Xingqing Mansion for more than ten days naturally made the western thief defenders in the city a little confused.

The Song army has been besieging the city for half a year, and in the first three months, the western army was not in a hurry to attack the city, but built a walled fort around Xingqing Mansion, dug trenches, and then continued to strengthen the fortifications little by little.

Standing on the city wall of Xingqing Mansion, you can see that on the plains outside the city, countless ditches come and go, and the outermost bends and turns of the dredging and blocking ditch are only half a person high, but they are enough to delay the movement of war horses.

Behind the horse ditch is a series of three deep trenches, more than one zhang wide and one zhang deep, the trench is full of all kinds of bamboo sticks, ghost arrows, sharp wooden stakes, thistles terrestris and all kinds of ghost things, fall down and estimate not to want to live.

In addition, between the ditches and the ditches, the Song people also built a small fortress beacon, and behind these three deep trenches are a series of earthen walls as high as three or four zhang wide and four or five zhang wide, and there are battlements on the earthen wall like the female wall on the city wall.

With such fortifications and the strong bows and crossbows of the Song people, it became impossible for the defenders in the city to send people to sneak out in the middle of the night, or fill in the trenches in turn, break through the small fortresses, and break through the large walled fortresses.

As a result, it is already invincible to simply deal with the defenders in the city, but it is also difficult for the Song army to break through the high and deep moats of Xingqing Mansion.

In addition, during this time, the Great Xia army outside the city of Xingqing Mansion continued to harass the fortresses along the Song army, and the Western army besieging the city with several times more hostility also formed a larger encirclement, concentrating troops from time to time to storm a little.

Since the completion of the construction of various fortifications of the Western Army, the offensive of the Western Army on Xingqing Mansion has also stopped, and the defenders in the city have also found some rules after a long time.

That is, on weekdays, the Western army will pretend to attack a certain section of the city wall from time to time, and always maintain the coercion of the defenders in the city, which makes the people in the city extremely nervous and mentally nervous;

On the other hand, if the army of King Richard of Jin outside the city attacked a certain walled fort of the Western Army, the Western Army would suspend this siege trick, wait for the incoming Bactrian army to attack and then turn around and continue to maintain pressure on the defenders in the city.

I don't know how many times this kind of situation has happened for two months before, but in the past ten days or so, the Song army has suddenly stopped besieging the city.

Not only that, but the movement of the battle outside the city has not been heard for a long time, which shows that the army of King Richard of Jin has not launched an attack on the western army of the siege for a long time.

Something really isn't right!

For this situation, the defenders in the city naturally have various speculations, and the most speculated is that the Liao State must have come forward, or political pressure or direct military intervention.

After all, for decades, the Liao State has secretly supported the Great Xia State to consume the strength of the Song Dynasty, and their emperor also married the daughter of the Liao Tianzuo Emperor.

At the beginning of the Battle of Pingxia City, the 400,000 troops of the Great Xia Army were defeated and returned, and they almost destroyed the country, wasn't it because the Liao State came forward strongly that forced the Song Dynasty to withdraw its troops and promised to sue for peace?

In addition to the speculation of the Liao State, the second is that there must have been some civil strife in the Song Dynasty, for example, before Xingqing Mansion was completely surrounded, didn't the Song Dynasty send news that Lin Chong had rebelled in Liangshanbo?

In short, most of the party members in the city still think on the bright side of the abnormal movements of the Western Army outside the city, after all, everyone needs a psychological comfort when they are under siege, right?

It was almost noon on this day, and when the defenders on duty on the city wall shrank their heads as usual and discussed all kinds of conjectures in the city, they heard the horns suddenly sound behind the walled wall in the distance, and soon a group of soldiers of the Western Army came out from behind the wall.

Immediately, hundreds of patrol cavalry were seen to come to the front of the two armies under the city of Xingqing Mansion through the reserved passage between the trenches, and spread out their sparse formations to cover the follow-up troops.

Immediately after that, the western sergeants of the brigade wore helmets and armor, countless banners flew up, spears were like forests, and layers of crossbowmen rushed towards the city of Xingqing Mansion like waves.

And farther away, countless shield carts, siege vehicles, siege ladder trucks (not simple long ladders, but complex siege equipment with wheels and carriages at the bottom), and countless people are pushing many catapults and bed crossbows to the city.

Seeing this movement, naturally the officers on duty sent people to run down the city wall as soon as possible, and hurriedly reported to the emperor Li Qianshun that he knew, and the defenders in the city were completely stunned.

Seeing that the whole army of the Song Army is exhausted, and if it does not break through the posture of Xingqing Mansion and vows not to give up, is it possible that this time it is going to be real and do everything to storm the city?

Then they quickly got the answer, and they saw that not long after, the huge formation of the Song army suddenly split in half from the middle, holding out countless rolled flags, and it was actually Tong Guan, the commander of the Western Army, who came to the front of the battle and ordered people to shout in front of the formation.

"The western thieves in the city have heard this, Brother Richard has already given the first punishment, and the main force of the 200,000 western thieves has been wiped out! Those who know the matter quickly surrender to avoid death, otherwise once the city is broken, the chicken dog will not be left ......"

The defenders in the city were stunned for a moment, and the first reaction of Li Qianshun, the Western Xia Emperor who rushed to the scene after hearing the news, was: "Fake, don't believe it!" Brother Cha is also a world-famous general, brave and strategic, wise and brave, how can it be possible that the 200,000 army will be wiped out! ”

When he said this, the Western Xia nobles and generals who accompanied him to the city naturally hurriedly agreed: "It's ridiculous, Song Dog is so skilled, he used such a shoddy trick, do you think we will be fooled?" ”

"Exactly, since Song Dog wants to fight, let's fight! Look at whether they have more dog lives, or our rolling wood and stones, and arrows have more hot oil! ”

He is indeed not wrong in what he said, the ancient siege battle can be compared to modern times, and it can be directly opened with cannons, at this time, the siege can only be filled with human lives, and the defending side can occupy a huge advantage by virtue of its geographical advantage.

Generally speaking, in a well-defended city like Xingqing Mansion, when the morale and combat strength of the soldiers on both sides are about the same, the attacker does not have ten times the strength, and it is impossible to gnaw down four or five times as many soldiers without dying.

Not to mention anything else, let's just say that in the battle of Zhao Guangyi's attack on the Northern Han Dynasty, hundreds of thousands of elites from the founding of the Great Song Dynasty besieged Taiyuan City, which was defended by only tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians, and as a result, they attacked day and night for more than three months, with no less than 300,000 casualties, but they still couldn't shake Taiyuan Jiancheng!

In the end, all the peripheries of Taiyuan City were captured, and the reinforcements of the Liao State were repulsed, and the lonely city of Taiyuan City was difficult to defend, and the ammunition was exhausted, and the Emperor of the Northern Han Dynasty went out of the city to surrender.

In the battle of Pingxia City between Song and Xia, the main force of 400,000 Western thieves attacked Pingxia City, which was defended by only 20,000 people, and it was also a head that could not be attacked, and finally was rushed by the Western Army reinforcements and launched a counterattack.

Therefore, seeing that the Song army was going to attack Xingqing Mansion in earnest, all the party members in the city, including Li Qianshun, were not only not afraid at all, but they were beaten one by one, and vowed to kill all the enemies who committed in the future.