Yinchuan City is also called Tibetan City, it is located at the northeast outlet of Hengshan Grand Canyon, condescendingly, cut off the northeast exit of the ancient original road, in the north of it, is the confluence of Wuding River and Mingtang River, the rolling river water passes through from the outside of the north city, but flows into Hengshan from another outlet more than 20 miles away, and another small river gourd water passes through the city, flows into the canyon. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Yinchuan City has always been a battleground for soldiers, the Song and Xia countries for the battle for Yinchuan City had dozens of battles, Yinchuan City also changed hands several times, is currently controlled by the Western Xia Army, it is the bridgehead of the Western Xia Army to resist the Song Army's northern expedition.

Since the Song army began large-scale combat preparations last year, the Western Xia army did not show weakness and began to carry out large-scale repairs to Yinchuan City, heightened and strengthened the city walls, and installed large catapults.

Yinchuan City did not block the mouth of the canyon, it was actually located a mile away from the mouth of the canyon, this is also to prevent the enemy from the cliff condescending attack, although it did not block the mouth of the valley, but it still choked the way for the army to go north, even if the army can climb over the gentle mountains from both sides, but the heavy army must pass through the city.

The Western Xia deployed 20,000 troops in the city of Yinchuan, making the city the first stumbling block of the Song army's northern expedition.

The Song army built a large camp at the mouth of the canyon, the mouth of the canyon is as wide as three miles, the terrain is flat, the large camp of the Song army is a plate structure, made of giant trees and mud, although it is not as wide and solid as the city wall, but it is enough to resist the sneak attackers, plus there is a small river into the valley, the water source is sufficient, the logistics grain and grass support is strong, and the Western Xia army can calmly confront and attack the city.

The only flaw is the dam of the Tiger Roaring Gorge, once the dam collapses, the baggage team in the valley for dozens of miles will be lost, and at the same time cause huge casualties, the master also fully realized the importance of the dam, not only sent heavy troops to guard, but also rebuilt a dam a mile away, even if the Western Xia army took away the dam, the flood could be intercepted in time, so as not to cause major losses.

The barracks had been built for five days, and the repairs were basically completed, but the Song army remained unmoved, and did not launch an attack on Yinchuan City, not even a tentative attack.

At the beginning of the night, the seed master Dao, accompanied by dozens of generals, went to inspect the outside of Yinchuan City, he stared at the city for a long time, and then turned around and asked Li Yanqing: "How does Li Senjun think Yinchuan City can be taken?" ”

Li Yanqing smiled slightly: "Yesterday, the marshal also said that the battle around Yinchuan City has been fought more than 20 times in the past hundred years, and the city has changed hands several times, I believe that all kinds of strategies and means have been exhausted, and the two armies of Song and Xia are already very familiar with each other. ”

"What does Li Senjun mean by the strange soldier?"

"Now I just have an idea, it's not perfect, it's better to ask other generals to talk about themselves."

Seed Master Dao looked at him deeply, and then asked the deputy general Yao Pingzhong, "Pingzhong might as well talk about it!" ”

Yao Pingzhong sighed and said: "We have captured Yinchuan City three times, and finally had to give up when the army retreated south, three times to capture Yinchuan City, two of which were storms, and the other was to deceive the enemy army out of the city. ”

The rest of the generals responded one after another, and they all thought that there was only one way to attack, and the seed master nodded, "You all have experience, and you are not bad, Yinchuan City has been preparing for war for a long time, and it is not easy to take Yinchuan City, the key is to know yourself and your opponent, the reason why I asked Li to join the army today is because the Intelligence Department has collected a lot of important information about Yinchuan City from various channels, I know that the main person who will defend Yinchuan City will be Li Liangfu, a famous general of Western Xia, and I know that the total strength of Yinchuan City is 20,000 people, and I know that their grain storage is enough to deal with half a year, This is a credit to the Intelligence Division. ”

The coach's unsparing praise made Li Yanqing a little embarrassed, and he hurriedly said modestly: "Everyone performs their duties, this is within the responsibility of the Intelligence Department, and the handsome has won the award!" ”

"Although it's a matter of duty, intelligence is really important, what is everyone's impression of Li Liangfu?"

Everyone did not answer, the master said slowly: "This person is the Western Xia clan, four years ago, Liu Jingluo led 50,000 troops to Lingzhou, at that time the main general of Lingzhou was Li Liangfu, the Song army besieged for half a month, the Song army was tired and retreated, the Western Xia Jin King Chage led 10,000 cavalry to attack the camp at night, and the Song army was caught off guard, and the 50,000 Song army was wiped out that night, and finally only 800 people broke through and escaped, which was also Liu Jingluo's most painful failure. ”

Liu Jingluo mentioned here refers to Liu Fa, the envoy of Xihe Jinglu, his reputation in the Northwest Army is even above the Seed Master Road, but unfortunately the fiasco four years ago made him accountable by the imperial court, plus he is old, it is difficult to have a chance to turn over, this time the Song army attacked Xia, although the commander is Taiwei Tong Guan, but the main general of the Western Front Army is Liu Fa.

Seed Master Dao glanced at everyone, and continued: "Li Liangfu is a typical defensive general, good at defending but not good at attacking, his biggest characteristic is to use all kinds of heavy defensive weapons, good at using fire oil, I estimate that he has deployed a large number of heavy trebuchets at the head of the city, and we also need to prepare, which is why I have not attacked Yinchuan City for a few days." ”

"When is the commander going to attack?" Adjutant General Yao Pingzhong asked.

"Tonight!"

The Seed Master Dao said to everyone unhurriedly: "Tonight we started the first non-contact attack!" ”

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At the first watch, 2,000 Song soldiers rushed out of the gate of the barracks, they held 3,000 fire crows, lined up on the high ground one mile away from the city, the fire crow is a long-distance arson weapon of the Song army, paste the city with bamboo strips and fire oil paper, take off with catapults, but the tail is equipped with a gunpowder tube, and the fuze in mid-air ignites the gunpowder, so that the fire crow can fly with afterburner, and can fly as far as three miles, and finally the gunpowder will ignite the fire crow, so that the fire crow becomes a raging fire ball, and flies into the city, which can ignite the enemy's big tent or warehouse, It was repeatedly tried in the battle against the enemy and became a kind of arson weapon for the Song army.

A group of two soldiers, using the Divine Arm Bow as a catapult, one lit the fire, the other ejected, only to see a black fire crow soaring into the air, flying towards Yinchuan City, all the fuse lines on the tail of the fire crow have been ignited, flashing with dots of light.

When it flew halfway, the stars in the air suddenly became dazzling, the gunpowder was ignited, and the fire crow, which was about to run out of elasticity, regained its strength and flew towards the city, and when the fire crow crossed the city wall, the sky became extraordinarily spectacular, and the fire crow turned into a ball of fire, pounced on every target in the city.

Immediately after the second and third rounds of fire crows took off, the sky turned into a sea of fireworks, which was particularly dazzling.

Although there were no tents in the city, but barracks and houses built of bricks, mud and wood, the three thousand fire crows still brought a lot of trouble to the city, and fires broke out everywhere in the city, thousands of soldiers ran around the city to put out the fires, and the city of Yinchuan was in chaos.

The southern city was very quiet, 8,000 Xixia soldiers stuck to the city, not disturbed by the chaos in the city, and the main general Li Liangfu stood under the city tower, gritting his teeth and watching the Song army launch a fire attack.

Li Liangfu is about 30 years old this year, medium stature, strong physique, a pair of brush-like rough eyebrows, eyes as sharp as an eagle, he is the royal family of Western Xia, originally named the Duke of Weiguo, four years ago to defend Lingzhou meritorious service, was crowned as the king of Zhongwei County, in Western Xia is also a famous general.

Li Liangfu himself was good at using fire, how could he tolerate the Song army attacking him with fire, he immediately shouted: "Trebuchet prepare, fireball attack!" ”

The eight-foot trebuchet squeaked open, dozens of soldiers pushed the winch, and dozens of huge fireballs with a diameter of eight feet were ready, these fireballs were made of strips of cloth soaked in oil and dried, soaked in fire oil, and they themselves had a huge impact and elasticity, coupled with the raging fire, the destructive power was amazing.

Li Liangfu gave an order, the soldiers lit the fireball with a torch, the huge fireball burned fiercely, was thrown out by the long pole, one by one the fireball rose into the air, and flew towards the valley, the fireball landed three hundred steps away, and then bounced high, and continued to fly towards the camp of the Song army.

A huge fireball slammed into the camp wall, and the soldiers standing on the wall shouted, raising their shields, 'Boom! The huge impact smashed more than a dozen soldiers to the ground, and the blazing fireballs immediately flew into the Song army camp, but the Song army had already prepared, how could they let these fire balls rush into the camp tent?

Dozens of zhang away from the camp, the Song army pulled up a large net in mid-air, the fireball smashed on the big net, and then the bullet fell to the ground, and more than a dozen soldiers below acted together and quickly doused the fireball with stream water.

The fireballs of the Western Xia army were fierce, and the fireballs that smashed into the camp were silently annihilated, but most of the fireballs were blocked by the camp wall, and continued to burn on the empty mud ground, with thick smoke billowing and blazing fire, although there was no news, but it also rendered a bit of a tragic war atmosphere.

Seed Master Dao squinted his eyes to observe the trajectory and landing point of the fireball in the air, and quickly calculated the number and strength of the trebuchet in the city, how to deal with the trebuchet of the Tangut people, he had a slight count in his heart.