At dawn the next day, the army of the Seed Master Dao who confronted Yinchuan City launched the first siege, led by the deputy general Yao Zhongping to carry out a tentative attack, although the battlefield could not be opened in front of Yinchuan City, but the Song army still invested the maximum limit of 20,000 troops, more than 100 siege equipment. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The army of 20,000 is arranged into five phalanxes, each phalanx is separated by dozens of steps, and is lined up in a three-mile-wide open space, just like five huge black carpets, a large flag is erected in front of each team, and in the middle is a yellow flag, which is the flag of the commander, and the remaining three flags are divided into green, red, white, and black flags, representing the generals of the four directions.

The morale of the Song soldiers was high and murderous, they consisted of spear infantry, sword and shield infantry and crossbow troops, wearing heavy armor, the armor of the Song infantry weighed sixty-two catties, and could resist the enemy's bows and arrows at a distance of fifty paces.

'Boom! Boom! Boom! ’

The drums of war are like thunder, the trumpets are like the sky, the flags cover the sky and the sun, the spears are like forests, and the shields are like mountains, and they are black in the sun.

Deputy General Yao Zhongping was wearing iron armor and an eagle helmet, he rode on a war horse, and pointed at the city with a war knife, "Attack!" ”

"Woo~~"

The sound of low trumpets resounded through the heavens and the earth, and in the middle of each team was erected a dozen wooden punches, which were used to defend against the flying stones in the city, accompanied by the huge sound of wooden skin punches, and dozens of ladders, the eight thousand troops of the two phalanxes began to slowly kill towards the city wall.

All kinds of siege weapons developed to the Song Dynasty, although the general shape remains the same, but compared with the Sui and Tang dynasties, many important structures, such as spindles, axle rings, etc., are made of steel, especially after the large-scale promotion of fried iron, the hardness of pig iron has increased greatly, close to steel, and various instruments made of wrought iron are also more handy, and the siege equipment of the Song army is lighter, more durable and durable.

The drums on the city were also loud, Li Liangfu sneered repeatedly, 20,000 people wanted to capture Yinchuan City, the Song army was simply delusional, he wanted to teach this arrogant Song army a hard lesson, and wanted to make the ancient original road a gorge of bones.

"Pass my orders, trebuchets ready!"

Twenty large trebuchets on the head of the south city creaked open, two feet high, eight feet long, can throw a hundred catties of boulders to three hundred steps away, only fifty people can pull it, the swarthy twenty trebuchets stand at the head of the city, just like twenty sky-swallowing monsters, a hundred catties of boulders are put into the bomb pocket, the firing rod is stuck in the winch gear, waiting for the order to launch.

In the middle of the battlements, 10,000 Xixia soldiers hold longbows and arrows, a four-foot-long thick pole arrow has been put on the bowstring, the bow and arrow used for defense and the bow and arrow used for peaceful warfare are different, do not need the arrow to shoot far, but must be heavy, so that the arrow can rely on its own gravity to shoot through the enemy's armor, so it is generally used with a big arrow, the arrow shaft with thick fingers, the sharp arrow tip is streamlined, and there are bloodletting grooves on the four sides, which was the advantage of the Central Plains army, but it has been transmitted to Liaoxia.

The Song army is not much ahead of Liaoxia in science and technology, but it has a large population and strong national strength, and can smelt pig iron and manufacture weapons in large quantities, which is difficult to compare with Liaoxia.

The Song army had gradually entered the range of the trebuchet, and Li Liangfu gave the order to shoot, and he opened his throat and shouted: "Shoot! ”

Twenty large trebuchets were fired at the same time, and twenty boulders flew into the air and roared towards the city.

Ten giant skinned buckets 20 zhang long and 8 zhang wide are slowly moving, which are made of giant logs, covered with double cowhide, coated with thick grease on the surface, and at the same time the axis rotation is very flexible, which can effectively dissipate the impact of the boulder, and each skin bucket hides hundreds of soldiers.

At this time, there was a strange whistling sound overhead, and looking up from the city, I saw twenty small black dots appear in the sky, like a flock of geese skimming the sky, but the small black dots became bigger and bigger, and instantly turned into a boulder rolling in the sky, smashing down on their heads, the team shouted, and the soldiers hid under the charge.

But there were still a large number of soldiers who had nowhere to hide, and they shouted and dodged everywhere, and boulders fell, 'Bang! With a loud bang, the dust was flying, several soldiers couldn't dodge, and were smashed into meat sauce by the boulder, and the boulder continued to roll forward, knocking over more than ten people in a row before stopping.

A boulder hit a skin bucket in the middle with a loud bang, the cowhide bucket flipped, unloading the boulder's violent impact, the boulder flew out, but the bucket was intact.

The stone was rebounded by the rush, and it popped forward for more than twenty steps, rushing into the crowd, and the soldiers shouted and dodged.

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The second round of trebuchets shot out again, and at this time a ladder was hit, the upper part of the ladder was suddenly shattered, fragments flew in all directions, wood mixed with support columns collapsed, and the huge impact force made the ladder lose its center of gravity and fell backwards, and more than 100 soldiers under the ladder suffered heavy casualties......

Huge boulders smashed into the crowd, rolling and impacting on the ground, the Song soldiers kept dodging, and the ten giant skin rushes stopped at 300 paces, establishing a temporary hiding place for the Song soldiers, so that the soldiers could quickly pass through the most dangerous areas, and also greatly reduced the casualties of the soldiers.

Although the Song army actively defended, the large trebuchets of the Western Xia army still brought nearly 700 casualties to the Song army, but this casualty could not stop the attack of the 20,000 army.......

Yinchuan City is five miles long from east to west, three miles wide from north to south, it is a medium city with a circumference of sixteen miles, the gourd water flows out from the southwest corner of the city, and flows into the ancient original road along the edge of the canyon after a roundabout.

At the same time, the Western Xia army used gourd water to dig a simple moat, which was three zhang wide, but in front of the extremely developed boat bridge of the Song army, this moat had no meaning.

More than 7,000 crossbowmen of the Song army, who had already rushed through the blockade of Stonehenge, quickly gathered in the western section and fired arrows at the head of the city together, and the arrows shot towards the head of the city like a storm, suppressing the shooting of the head of the Western Xia army.

Although they could not aim and shoot arrows, the 3,000 Western Xia soldiers who defended the city still used the method of throwing arrows to shoot arrows at the city, and the arrows on both sides were as dense as rain, and soldiers were constantly shot by stray arrows and fell down screaming.

Hundreds of soldiers of the fortification army braved the rain of arrows to quickly build pontoon bridges, they fastened dozens of large wooden boxes together with iron chains, drove the two iron wedges deep into the earth, and covered the large wooden boxes with wide wooden planks and fastened them with iron nails, so that three pontoon bridges were built in a very short time.

The 7,000 crossbow soldiers were divided into two routes, 4,000 men still released arrows under the city, while 3,000 soldiers put away their bows and crossbows, took off the shields on their backs, drew their swords, and transformed into sword and shield troops.

They carried more than 30 siege ladders and rushed across the pontoon bridge, one siege ladder after another crossed the moat, and built on the city wall, 3,000 Song soldiers climbed up the ladder like an ant colony, climbed the ladder in one hand, held a shield in the other, bit the war knife in the mouth, and struggled to climb up, the Xixia soldiers on the head of the city suddenly attacked, they rained arrows like rain, stones and rolling wood fell down like hail, and a piece of soldiers were hit and shot, screaming and falling down the city......

Yao Zhongping has been watching the movement of the city from the rear, he is also a veteran of a hundred battles, he feels that the Western Xia army did not do its best to defend the city, at least Li Liangfu's best use of fire did not use it, they can use a big fireball to throw, and the lethality of the Song army will be greater.

'Why should he keep room for it?' Yao Zhongping thought secretly.

At this time, a cavalryman galloped up and shouted, "General Yao, the commander orders you to attack immediately!" ”

Yao Zhongping sighed secretly, now that the arrow has been wound, he is not allowed to stop it.

He then waved his sword and shouted, "The third and fourth phalanxes are attacking!" ”

Dozens of antlers blew vigorously, and the low trumpets resounded across the earth again.

Another 8,000 soldiers attacked the city, the third formation was the sword and shield army, and the fourth phalanx was the spear army, all of them were heavily armoured, and they were not afraid of arrows fifty paces away, and the soldiers rushed towards the city like a raging wave, facing the huge stones that were smashed one after another.

Li Liangfu was waiting for the main force of the Song army to attack the city, and when he saw the enemy's two phalanxes launched, he coldly ordered: "Set fire oil!" ”

The boulder turned into a large altar of fire oil, and a jar was the size of a water tank, filled with 80 catties of fire oil, and the weight of the jar was also weighing 100 catties.

One by one, the big altar of fire oil flew out, and it was smashed to pieces, and the brown and black fire oil flowed all over the ground, and some soldiers hurriedly reported to Yao Zhongping.

Yao Zhongping also discovered the enemy's attempt, but the army had already been launched, and he could no longer order a retreat, so he had to give the order: "Keep charging!" ”

Eight thousand soldiers shouted and charged towards the city, and at this time, Li Liangfu shouted and ordered: "Set off the fireball!" ”

Huge fireballs rose into the air, like fireworks blooming, and the pillars of smoke swept through the sky, churning and smashing towards the top of Song Jun's head.........