There are still more than 10,000 people in Xiazhou City, but for the Song army who is good at defending the city, the siege is also very experienced, not to mention the firearms army A firearms unit, even the ordinary Song army is not afraid to attack the Western Xia city defended by half of the number of people.

Xiazhou is located on the flank of the Xiangqing army, 100,000 Western Xia soldiers are now surrounded in Yan'an Mansion, and the Xiangqing army is the location of their grain road, so losing Xiazhou means that the grain road will be greatly threatened.

But the news of the request for help has just been sent to the front line of Yan'an, and the Song army's attack on Xiazhou City has begun, in addition to the original siege equipment, the Song army also used an ancient siege weapon, which was mainly used to drill the city wall to destroy the city wall.

Of course, it is also used to attack the city wall now, but it is not used to drill through the city wall, but to bury holes and bury explosives, this method of warfare was invented by Zhang San, in order to make the Great Song Dynasty realize that the previous strategy of relying on the city wall defense was outdated, Zhang San handed over this tactic to the Song army for free.

Because Zhang San felt that if all the officers and soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty realized that the city wall was useless, then when the Qi State attacked the city in the future, it would be able to reduce a lot of resistance, and some places might abandon the city and flee or simply surrender.

Therefore, the Western Xia army thought that it could at least defend until the reinforcements arrived by relying on the strong city wall, but the Song army only carried out a siege of ordinary intensity for two days, and then the eastern city wall collapsed with a bang, and most of the Western Xia people on the city wall were killed and injured before they understood what was going on.

The Western Xia generals in the city were also stunned, what was the situation, hurriedly repairing the city wall could not block the musket volley, when the Song army boarded the broken city wall, Li Chuan in the city of Xiazhou decisively ran to the Xiangqing army with the remnants of the army.

For Tong Dali, this is a huge victory, for the entire Great Song Dynasty This is a great victory, the city of Xiazhou was broken, the Song army entered the city, the news was transmitted back to Suizhou, Tong Dali almost fainted with joy.

At this time, the Western Xia cavalry, which had failed to attack in the direction of Yan'an, was also ready to retreat, and 20,000 people were wiped out, so if you want to deal with the Song army in the north, you have to dispatch at least 40,000 or 50,000 people, and if you go to 40,000 or 50,000, there are not many people in Yan'an, and there will be a counter-raid by the Song army in the city, after all, there are still more than 100,000 Song troops in Yan'an Mansion.

Therefore, the Western Xia army simply withdrew directly, and just halfway to the road, they received the news of the fall of Xiazhou, which is really stealing chickens and rice, and Xiazhou, as an important part of the Western Xia defense line against the Song Dynasty, must not be left alone.

In desperation, Li Qing, who led the army of Western Xia, decided to take 70,000 troops to Xiazhou, leaving 30,000 people to monitor the movements of the Yan'an army.

So far, the musket troops have not only completed the task of containment, but also eliminated more than 30,000 Western Xia troops and defeated Xiazhou, which is enough for the Great Song Dynasty to know the strength of the firearms troops, not to mention that Tong Dali reported the merit before and after the elimination of 60,000 Western Xia cavalry.

Can 70,000 cavalry defeat the city defended by 40,000 firearms troops? This was basically impossible, and Tong vigorously vetoed the plan of the Qi officer corps to put the Western Xia cavalry into the city to fight.

Just kidding, if you don't need a good wall, why put the enemy in the city? Isn't that stupid? In fact, Qi just wanted to learn from the experience of Nigu City and once again eliminate a large number of Western Xia cavalry, maybe he could take the Xiangqing army in one fell swoop.

But since Tong Dali was unwilling to take risks, he defended the city in a decent manner, and the Western Xia army arrived at the city of Xiazhou, and also began to build siege equipment, and the cavalry could not fly to the city, and the battle would eventually lead to the city.

After that, things were simple, the Western Xia army on horseback couldn't do the firearms troops, not to mention this kind of dismounted and carrying ladders, musket bullets were shot down in rows, and the Western Xia soldiers died little by little.

The offensive and defensive battle between the two sides lasted only two days, and the Western Xia side stopped fighting, damn it! Ten thousand were lost in two days, and the city walls were not climbed! This battle can't be fought anymore, it's not a question of whether you can beat Xia Zhou or not, but if you fight it, Western Xia will be over!

If it weren't for the Western Xia emperor asking for help from the Liao State and marrying the princess of the Liao State, the Liao State sent troops to put pressure on the Great Song Dynasty, and the Western Xia might not exist.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of this civil strife in the Great Song Dynasty, the Western Xia breathed a sigh of relief, gathered more than 100,000 troops, and planned to pick up a bargain, and this bargain was really picked up by the Western Xia, not only restored the land in the heyday of the Western Xia, but also invaded Yan'an Mansion.

Everything is moving in a good direction, although the Western Xia also heard that the Song State has pacified the civil strife, but the Western Xia only wants to take Yan'an Mansion, and then obtain the entire Guanzhong Plain, and create a great cause that the ancestors have never had.

If the Western Xia was carried away by the victory before, then now it is a state of fright, and now the Western Xia has 80,000 available troops left, and it will not be able to hold the place where the losses are afraid of defeating.

Although there are still some defensive troops in the country, there are no more than 100,000 surplus in the full battle, which is still a big gap with the more than 200,000 in the heyday, so the Western Xia army retreated and asked for help from the Liao State, hoping that the Liao State was pulling them.

But obviously the Western Xia also thought too much, after the Western Xia retreated, the Great Song Dynasty also stopped, and it couldn't be moved! The Great Song Dynasty is really out of money, not only has it been fighting in the past few years, but it has also been hit hard one after another by important economic centers.

There is also the fact that the army has also suffered heavy losses, and more importantly, those veterans don't know where they have been gotten to, and they asked Qi Guo, and Qi Guo said that they were all sent overseas after being rescued, so many of the Great Song Dynasty troops were newly recruited.

So if it weren't for the persecution of Western Xia too much, the Great Song Dynasty would not want to fight this battle, and the Great Song Dynasty was also timid when he fought, and only dared to stay in the city to defend the city, which was also a relationship between too many recruits.

Fought a beautiful battle, the border between the Great Song Dynasty and the Western Xia was temporarily restored, and the Great Song Dynasty also entered a period of calm, the Great Song Dynasty silently repaired the wounds, Zhang San's efforts achieved the desired effect, despite the economic difficulties of the Great Song Dynasty, but still on the basis of the original 100,000 rifles, there were 200,000 orders.

300,000 guns are not enough to arm 500,000 musket troops, these muskets will be delivered in the next two years, the Great Song Dynasty army quickly entered the age of firearms, and the letter of help from the Western Xia reached the Liao State, which had turned its attention to the northeast at this time, and did not care about the little things in the south.

The Jurchens rebelled, to be precise, some of the Jurchens rebelled under the instigation of the Wanyan Ministry, which had more than 18,000 cavalry, and then instigated more than a dozen Jurchen tribes to form an army of more than 30,000 together, and took the Huanglong Mansion in one fell swoop, and then went south to target the Liaoyang Mansion in Tokyo, Liaoguo.