The army of the Western Xia army stopped two miles away from Shizhou City, the drums stopped, and the 30,000 army began to line up, and soon, a black carpet-like army formation was completed outside the city, and the 30,000 sabers were shining and murderous.

Li Binglie, the commander of the Western Xia army, who was about to command the first siege battle, appeared in the army on horseback, and he looked at this city from afar, which was famous for its tall and sturdy city, and the city wall shone in the blue light in the sun, proving the legend of Shizhou City, which is made of the famous granite stone in Hengshan, which is also the origin of the name of Shizhou City.

Li Binglie is fierce and conceited, but he is indeed the leader of the younger generation, and he is not stupid, he carefully looked at this bluestone city under the city, the solidity of this city made him secretly surprised, in his impression, Shizhou City should be the same as Yinchuan City, but he didn't expect this castle to be so tall and strong, he secretly regretted it in his heart, he broke through the city in a battle, he said too much.

"General, I'm afraid 30,000 people won't be able to break through this city." An adjutant general beside him said worriedly.

"If you can't beat it, you have to fight!"

Li Binglie gritted his teeth, if he couldn't take this city, he would lose face, "No matter what, you must take it and attack the northern and eastern cities." ”

'Boom! Boom! Boom! The earth-shattering drums sounded again, and the 30,000 Western Xia army poured out like a tide, surging more than 100 siege ladders, and slaughtered the north and east cities of Shizhou City.

In fact, the first batch of soldiers who attacked Shizhou City were generally victims, and the Western Xia would never let the Dangxiang people go into battle, and they were generally composed of mountain people and the Lang Ling composed of selected brave and warlike slaves.

These 30,000 people are the troops used to charge into battle in the Western Xia army, including 20,000 mountain troops and 10,000 Lang Ling, who have a very low status in the Western Xia army, and they are the first to take the lead in this dangerous war.

Dozens of ladders and trebuchets lined up, vigorously driving towards Shizhou City, three miles away, 30,000 soldiers dressed in leather armor, holding shields and spears, shouting and killing shook the sky, and the battle of Shizhou City finally broke out again after being silent for half a month.

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The terrain of the eastern and northern cities is relatively flat, and it is very useful to use siege weapons, and the Western Xia army is divided into two routes, and the northern and eastern cities each invested 15,000 troops.

At the head of the eastern city, 10,000 Song troops and 10,000 Xiang troops stood at the head of the city, the Song army's eyes were cold, and they raised their bows and crossbows together, but the soldiers of the Xiang army were a little frightened, and the overwhelming 200,000 Western Xia army outside the city made each of them tremble.

The war has broken out, they are duty-bound to go into battle, the soldiers of the box army are responsible for operating trebuchets and cannons, the huge trebuchet is about two zhang high, the long arm behind the stone pocket hangs, with a winch on the force to launch, a stone throwing needs fifty people to pull, can throw a hundred catties of boulder three hundred steps away.

The heavy artillery was operated by twenty soldiers, and could equally throw a forty-pound Thunderbolt or Thunderbolt 300 paces away.

The Thunderbolt Cannon is a rudimentary version of the Thunderbolt, the gunpowder only has a preliminary explosive power, the general shell is made of wood, clay pots or thick oiled paper, the explosion itself does not produce much lethality, the key is that it is mixed with a large amount of lime, stingers or iron nails, and they are used to kill and injure the enemy.

"Heaven-shattering thunder prepares!"

Li Yanqing shouted loudly, Wang Gui hurriedly commanded ten cannons to be wound, and Li Yanqing decided to use the earth-shaking thunder to deter the morale of the enemy army.

Li Yanqing's eyes were coldly watched as the black pressure pressed the enemy army to rush up, and the ladders were full of soldiers of the Western Xia Army who were ready to attack the city, the enemy army had already entered within three hundred steps, Li Yanqing waved his long knife, and gave an order, "Launch!" ”

'Bang! Boom! Boom! ’

The cannon made a huge crashing sound, and ten earth-shattering thunderbolts rose into the air, drawing ten arcs in the air, and flew towards the dense crowd three hundred away, and the Song soldiers raised their shields one after another, or hid behind the battlements and covered their ears.

Less than a zhang away from the top of the head of the Western Xia army, the earth-shattering thunder exploded one after another, and the earth-shattering explosion made everyone's hearts seem to be torn apart, huge shock waves and pieces of iron burst out in all directions, and a large number of soldiers screamed and were knocked down, and almost all the soldiers of the Western Xia army lay on the ground, covering their ears in pain.

Li Qianshun in the distance looked in the direction of Dongcheng in shock, his eyes widened, shaking the sky, he finally heard the explosion of the earth-shaking thunder with his own ears, and it really deserved its name!

His heart was suddenly filled with infinite anticipation for his earth-shattering thunder.

Li Bingyeol fought outside the mile, although the shock wave and iron pieces could not hit him, but the huge explosion also brought a great shock to him, his war horse was startled and screamed, and the front hooves were raised high.

Not only was the Lord shocked by the sound of the explosion, but all the Western Xia soldiers were stunned by the explosion of ten earth-shattering thunders, there were many explosions, the soldiers squatted down one after another, pressing their hearts in pain, and many people's ears were buzzing, and they were deaf and couldn't hear anything.

The white smoke that filled the battlefield gradually dissipated, and the soldiers stood up one after another, dazed and at a loss, because the ten earth-shattering thunderbolts exploded in the dense crowd, bringing amazing lethality.

All the soldiers within a radius of ten zhang of each earth-shattering thunder were shocked to death, and a large number of soldiers were injured and killed by the exploding iron pieces, and the number of soldiers killed by the explosion alone amounted to 3,000 people, and more than 1,000 people were injured, more than a dozen cloud ladders were blown to pieces, and the casualties of the Western Xia army were extremely heavy.

At this time, Li Binglie was the first to react, he knew that if he didn't attack the city immediately, he was afraid that his morale would be greatly affected, so he immediately shouted: "Suspend the attack on the northern city and concentrate on the eastern city!" ”

'Boom! Boom! Boom! It was not Li Binglie who ordered the drumming, but Richard began to urge the war.

"Attack!" Li Bingyeol shouted with a knife.

Under the urging of the rapid war drums and the coercion of the sword and axe hands, more than 25,000 Western Xia troops began to launch a fierce attack on the eastern city.

Li Yanqing snorted coldly, "I don't know if I'm alive or dead!" ”

"Summons trebuchet launch!"

The drums of Shizhou City were loud, and one hundred and thirty trebuchets started at the same time, and the long arm swing out, throwing the boulder weighing eighty or ninety catties into the air, and more than 100 boulders rotated in the air, whistling and smashing into the dense crowd, 'Boom! The boulder fell, rolled in the crowd, blood foam rose into the air, more than a dozen people were smashed into a blur of flesh and blood, miserable, one after another boulders smashed into the crowd, one after another screams.

'Click! A ladder was struck, the ladder broke into several pieces, dozens of people climbing on the ladder fell one after another, and the dense boulders smashed into the ladder.

In the sky, a huge stone was rolling, whistling and smashing to the ground, in a short period of time, the trebuchet launched four rounds, more than 500 boulders smashed into the enemy group, causing more than 2,000 casualties, but the Western Xia army did not stop, they continued to charge, rushed into the range of the bow and arrow.

The arrows of the Song army on the city are like rain, 10,000 arrows and crossbow arrows are intensively shot at the enemy, the arrows are used to defend the city, they are longer and heavier than the arrow shaft, they shoot down from a high place, they will shoot at the enemy with their own weight, and the lethality is extremely strong.

But the Song army's most lethal is still the divine arm crossbow, this kind of crossbow arrow has a killing range of one hundred and eighty steps, and can easily penetrate the shield and leather armor within a hundred steps, which is the most powerful individual crossbow arrow of the Song army.

In the face of the sharp and dense arrow rain, the Western Xia army raised their shields to meet each other, whether it was the Liao army or the Western Xia army, they all had a common characteristic, that is, the protection was relatively weak, although they had mastered the advanced smelting technology, but after all, the national strength was limited, and they could not fully use iron pieces to protect the army.

Liao got Youzhou, advanced technology, rich resources, army equipment is a little better, the protection of the Western Xia army is much weaker, for example, the strongest gilt copper armor of the Western Xia army is an imitation of the Tang Dynasty armor, the technology and system are relatively backward, the protection ability is far inferior to the Song army's vermilion lacquer mountain armor, despite this, the gilt copper armor is only the garrison, the proton army and the iron harrier cavalry, and most of the army is still wearing leather armor.

The shields of the Shanyan army and the Lang Ling were also covered with a layer of cowhide on the wooden board, and the wooden board was thinner, and this kind of shield could only withstand the bows and arrows of the national army, and could not resist the sharp arrows of the Song army, let alone the powerful divine arm crossbow arrows.

However, their current shields are all large shields captured from the Song army on the Western Front, which are very strong and can barely withstand the shooting of arrows, but there are still many shields that are pierced by the crossbow arrows of the divine arm, shooting the enemy behind the shields to death, and the soldiers screaming and falling down.

A ladder approached the city wall, hundreds of soldiers jerked the rope backwards, and a ladder six or seven feet high was pulled up, and dozens of soldiers were attached to the ladder.

'Boom! With a loud bang, the gravel splashed everywhere, the first cloud ladder set up the head of the city, and then more than ten cloud ladders successively set up the northern section of the east city head, thousands of soldiers of the Western Xia army rushed up like an ant colony, slashed with knives, stabbed with spears, shot with arrows, desperately rushed to the head of the city, the arrows on the city were like dense rain, the rolling wood and stones were smashed down like hailstones, the knife split the spear and stabbed, and the flesh and blood flew sideways.

The Song soldiers used a long fork to fork the ladder and pushed it outward, and a long ladder was pushed out, and it flipped backwards and down, and a terrible cry came from the ladder.

The archers of the Western Xia army under the city began to counterattack, and the arrows were like dense rain, shooting towards the head of the city, and the soldiers of the Hedong Army and the box soldiers were constantly shot, screaming and falling from the city, and the casualties gradually increased.

Seed Master Dao has been silently watching the battle situation in Dongcheng, he did not interfere with Li Yanqing's command, so far, Li Yanqing's command is very orderly, all the loopholes are blocked, although the Western Xia army attacked the city fiercely, but it has never found an opportunity to take advantage of.

The red flag flew in the east city, the main general Li Yanqing issued an order to transfer troops, and the general Liu Jian led 3,000 soldiers to kill and join the fierce battle, and the war gradually entered the white heat.