[I don't know if fourteen o'clock can be counted as morning.] Finally kicked out. 】

Outside the Xicheng Village, the drums of war have been beaten.

A Khitan cavalryman galloped back and forth under the city, laughing at the clumsy archery skills on the walled wall with their actions.

The bowstring of the divine arm on the head of the city kept ringing, but it was fifty or sixty paces away, and it was still a little difficult for the national law to calculate the amount in advance and shoot the cavalry who roamed freely off the horse. It's just annoying to watch, it's not even harassment, and if you want to shoot at the head of the city, you have to stick to the wall to succeed.

More than 100 steps outside the Xicheng Village, the Liao people erected several long poles, and there were human heads hanging on the poles. I couldn't see the appearance clearly from a little distance, but I could still tell from their helmets that it was the style of Song Jun.

In the mountains north of Xicheng Village, there are several pillars of smoke that have just reached the sky, and three have dissipated almost without a trace, only by squinting their eyes and using their eyes can they find the only faint traces of smoke on the top of a thick green mountain.

It has been determined that three beacons have been breached, but all of them have not had time to be withdrawn. There are only ten people in a beacon, and there is not much hope under the attack of the Liao, and it is already remarkable to insist on letting the wolf smoke go.

There is still the last beacon tower burning with wolf smoke, but Qin Huaixin no longer has hope, he only hopes that the beacon commander of the last beacon will be a little smarter, and when he sees that the situation is not good, he fled into the mountain with his subordinates. Anyway, they have already issued an evacuation order before, and the crime of escaping from the battle will not be added to their heads.

The crossbow at the head of the city chased the cavalry that was moving back and forth under the city. This group of cavalry, which was more slippery than rats, used three lives to calculate the effective range of the Divine Arm Bow, and then stepped on that dangerous line unscrupulously. They moved nimbly on their horses and walked on their feet, and even with their bows, they didn't have time to aim and shoot.

But that's not what a siege looks like. If you really want to attack the city, it should not be the cavalry that goes into battle, but the siege equipment and infantry are pulled out.

The structure of the thunderbolt is not complicated, and it is not difficult to replicate it if you can take a few more looks. The ships are all there, not to mention the simpler Thunderbolts? If the Liao people moved out more than a dozen thunderbolt guns today, Qin Huaixin would not be surprised. At the same time, I will not worry that the defense of Xicheng Village is not just a wall, but a set of high and low barrier system, which cannot be attacked by a dozen thunderbolt guns. Not to mention the weapons to deal with siege equipment, he also has them.

Qin Huaixin was prepared for this, but the Liao people did not take out thunderbolt cannons or other siege equipment. Not even a spaceship. Even though the first emperor of the Liao State died due to the spaceship, when he went into battle, who cared about this, he would definitely use it when he needed it. But Qin Huaixin didn't see it.

"It seems that Han Jingluo is right, he doesn't really want to attack the city." Son Qin Wan sighed.

Still not dizzy. Qin Huaixin whispered to himself, making Qin Wan turn his head to look at him suspiciously.

Qin Wan didn't see anything unusual on his father's face, and after a while, he asked, "...... Will the Liao people still attack the nearby villages as expected? ”

"Probably so." According to Qin Huaixin, there are at least six villages that can enter the village from the north side without going through Xicheng Village.

Qin Wan chuckled and said, "Fortunately, they are all prepared. ”

The defense line of Yanmen Pass is based on Yanmen Village, and the main forces are placed in Yanmen Village. Because Xicheng Village is at the forefront, there are only two commanded troops, with a total of more than 820 people. It's just that because of the previous order of Daizhou, a part of the troops were divided into several villages to set up ambushes, and now there are still four in the village, and the remaining vacancies are made up by the township soldiers and archers who were recruited, so that the number of troops in the village can reach 1,200.

In addition, there should be two commanders of reinforcements in Xicheng Village, which was promised by Yanmen Village before, but I don't know when it will arrive. Even if they don't get it, Qin Huaixin is confident that he can use the city defense on the periphery of Xicheng Village to resist the attack of the Liao people, Mo said that the three thousand people in front of him are ten times that, and he is also confident.

"Is the ship ready?" Qin Huaixin asked.

Qin Wan turned around and looked around, then turned back to Qin Huaixin and said, "Second brother is on it." ”

But he didn't say anything, the feeling of his feet not touching the ground, Qin Huaixin didn't like it, but since the balloon was distributed, every time it was activated, the second son always scrambled to go up. After a few times, Qin Huaixin didn't bother to say anything.

A huge spherical airbag emerged from the village, and the eyes of the Liao army suddenly converged, and a spaceship painted with the faces of the four-colored ghost beasts of crying, laughing, happy and angry rose into the sky under their gaze.

The interior of the Song people's Xicheng Village is already two to three zhang higher than the slope outside the village, and the spaceship is even more suspended at a height of more than 20 zhang, and is firmly tied to the sky above the military village by a long rope.

The ghost beast pattern on the airbag did not make the Khitan cavalry outside the village feel the slightest fear. The Iron Rider of the Five Academies, who can shoot and hunt with the Son of Heaven, has seen too many times of spaceships floating in the sky, and it is not a rare thing. At most, he cursed the crew on the spaceship's gondola, and he also fell from the sky.

The cavalry was still riding by, and Yelu Yingyin led the crowd to guard a mile away from the gate of Xicheng Village, and tapped his fingers on the saddle under him. If he wants to get ahead in the country, he has to do something, which is why he has today's war. What about the military order, there are 2,000 soldiers and horses in the headquarters, even if they are defeated, Xiao 13 does not dare to do it. What's more, when he captures a few villages, it will be easy to get hundreds of heads. The Song people on the edge of the edge have bows and knives hidden in their homes, and a bunch of weapons have been searched, and who can say that the heads placed together are the people?

The strange scream broke through the air and reached his ears, Yelu Yingyin's eyes widened in confusion, several black shadows crossed his eyes, and the next moment, a terrible howl sounded not far in front of Yelu Yingyin's body, but it immediately stopped abruptly.

Where the screams fell, were three iron spears more than five feet long. Breaking through the wind and waves, it unstoppably penetrated all obstacles in its path. The nearest one had pierced through the horse with men, and the cluster of arrows had pierced into the mud, the scarlet and blood-colored shafts were exposed, and even the iron arrows were peeking out from under the horse's belly.

"Bed crossbow!"

"Eight Bull Crossbow!"

Exclamations rang out at the same time. This is the most famous divine weapon of the Song people, and it is more thunderous than the divine arm bow. Yelu Yingyin stood a mile away, just to guard against the bed crossbow, she thought it was far enough, but she didn't expect to be able to shoot here!

The bright red blood on the guards' bodies was reflected in their eyes, and Yelu Ying's mind was blank, and a sense of fear that almost paralyzed her whole body reached the ends of her hair, and after a short pause, she came back to her senses and immediately turned her horse back.

There was also a sigh of loss at the head of the city, Xiao Tzulin, the commander of the Liao army outside the city of Lanzhou, was killed with one blow, and the Western Xia privy envoy Du Luowei under Luowu City was also killed by one arrow, but such a miracle really cannot be replicated.

As the most powerful model of the bed crossbow, if the Eight Bull Crossbow shoots out one shot and three sword arrows and is a little more accurate, if there are two more bed crossbows on the city, maybe it will be able to make a great contribution today.

"If only a few more bed crossbows." Qin Wan sighed softly.

The range and power of the bed crossbow lived up to expectations, but the accuracy was as breathless as the long-range shooting arm bow. The short arrows of the wood feather shot by the Divine Arm Bow can reach more than three hundred steps at most, but at that distance, they can basically deviate from more than ten zhang, or even dozens of zhang. If you want to hit the target more accurately, you basically have to be within the range of seventy or eighty steps, and you can't exceed 100 steps at most. Only the soldiers with the divine arm bow lined up in an arrow formation could exert the greatest power, so that the cavalry of the two captives in the northwest could bypass it far away as soon as they saw it.

And the bed crossbow is impossible to form an arrow array in any case, and there are very few of them on the head of a city, in fact, they are more used to destroy the enemy's formation and siege equipment.

The range of the bed crossbow is almost all above 500 steps, among which the most powerful eight-bull crossbow is called a thousand steps, and there is even a legend of 1,500 steps. But that's basically by boasting, by the wind, by the terrain. But the distance of one and a half miles is very easy, if it is as close as one mile, you can even add a little accurate head to shoot again, ten arrows and eight arrows, most of them can hit one arrow.

With such a hit rate, coupled with only three eight-bull crossbows, it is certainly not easy to shoot the commander of the enemy army, but it is enough to drive the Khitan iron cavalry outside the city far away.

With the threat of the eight-ox crossbow, the cavalry of the Liao army wanted to get close to the city, so they could only sweep through the horses and whips, and could not stay more within the range of one and a half miles, otherwise there would be several one-shot three-sword arrows when they landed. A five-foot-long iron spear, as long as it hits, can be declared hopeless, who would dare to take such a risk?

Yelu Yingyin didn't dare to get half a step closer, and was driven by a few eight-bull crossbows to stop two miles away. In such a situation, the cavalry sent to the city to harass must first cross the distance of two miles, come back in a circle, and run two miles. Even one person and three horses can't support it a few times!

Looking at the city walls that had become blurred two miles away, Yelu Yingyin desperately hoped that the subordinates he had sent to plunder the villages near the left would come back with good news and heads.

Standing on the top of the city, Qin Wan looked from afar, condescending, and the range of his vision was much larger than that of Yelu Yingyin, and he could see that the opposite side no longer had much will to fight. But they didn't retreat yet, because Qin Wan could only get it on his toes, and the Khitan soldiers were waiting for the soldiers who attacked the surrounding villages to retreat.

Qin Wan was not worried about this.

Several of the villages most likely to be attacked have already evacuated their women and children to the Xicheng village. The remaining sturdy soldiers belong to the ranks of the township soldiers in terms of establishment, and they are the archers on the edge of the edge, and the combat effectiveness that erupts when guarding their homes is not comparable to that of ordinary forbidden troops. With the elite sent to Lu, it is not difficult to let the Liao people return in vain, and if it is arranged well, it can even wipe out its entire army - a village deep in the mountains,

But soon after, the letter received made Qin Huaixin and Qin Wan's faces change, two of the six villages were breached, and two of the remaining four places suffered casualties were not small, only two successfully ambushed the attacking thief army, and harvested nearly a hundred war horses—this is the number of dead and wounded and intact combined.

"How many Liao soldiers are there who attacked the village?"

Qin Wan asked the last pawn who came to report the news, the village guarded by his subordinates was one of the two villages that were breached.

The pawn hesitated for a moment, then replied, "...... About eight or nine hundred. ”

Qin Wan's eyes flashed with coldness, and he knew that this number should be at least a five-fold discount: "In other words, it is about the same as the number of people in the village?" ”

The pawn who came back to report lowered his head and didn't dare to look at it directly: "It's a little more than us." ”

With the same number of people, this side still occupies a favorable position, and there are preparations in advance, but there are still two villages that have been breached, and there are not a few dead and wounded. If it was himself, Qin Wan didn't think that he could do it with too high a certainty.

And it's not the elite of the palace and the leather room, most of them are the leaders of the tribal nobles.

Raise your eyes to look at the enemy outside the city: 'Sure enough, you can't underestimate it......