The sound of the nomads' horns was the first to break the silence after dawn, and the sound of war drums followed by the sound of the drums, and the beat of the drums changed from slow to fast from sparse to tight, which made people's heartstrings involuntarily raised.

Shunzhou City Marshal's Mansion, early in the morning, the planter Dao, the planter, Liu Zhongwu and Lotte and other generals gathered together, since the moment the Western Xia two armies were defeated and returned, the nerves were tensed.

Staring at the huge map hanging in the Shuai's mansion, Liu Zhongwu said coldly: "It seems that the Xia people are about to launch an attack on Shunzhou City!" ”

Seed Master Dao nodded: "The Xia people have been preparing for three days, and it is time to attack. ”

"Li Qianshun is a gamble, 100,000 against 70,000 we can fight positional warfare, and the Western Xia people still dare to fight siege warfare!" A general snorted coldly, and then came out to bow and said: "Three marshals, the last general is willing to go out of the city to fight with the Xia people!" ”

"The last general is also willing to fight!"

"The last general is going to fight!"

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After the general's voice fell, a group of generals from Jingyuan and Huanqing asked for battle, before the Song army marched all the way and the good news was frequent, at this time the morale was high, how could they watch the offensive and defensive posture shift. Moreover, the strong are respected in the army, and between the generals of Huanqing and Jingyuan, there is also the meaning of going out of the city to fight and indirectly compete with each other.

"The Xia army dared to attack Shunzhou with 100,000 people, do you dare to believe it?" Waving his hand to signal the generals below to silence, the seed master said slowly: "I think that at this time, all the armies deployed by the Xia army to the east of Xiazhou are all gathered in Xingqing Mansion!" ”

There was a general at the bottom and said: "In this way, Xingqing Mansion can send at least 150,000 Xia troops to fight in the field, and there are tens of thousands of defenders in addition to this?" ”

The master nodded: "There is a cloud in the art of war: 'Ten will surround it, five will attack it, and if it is multiplied, it will be divided, the enemy will be able to fight, if it is less, it can escape, and if it is not, it can be avoided.'" Without 150,000 men, the Xia army would not dare to attack the city. ”

Someone suddenly realized: "The Xia army is twice the size of our army, divided into the west and the north, if our army fights head-on, the light is divided into the east and west, which is the unfavorable place of 'doubling is dividing'!" ”

It's okay to play a little intrigue and trickery, siege warfare and defensive warfare are not Lotte's strong points, and Lotte doesn't have any opinions and suggestions on this.

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The weather was cold, the Xixia army began to move to Shunzhou City, and the attack on Shunzhou City also kicked off, only to see these Xixia people first provoked in Shunzhou City, and saw that the Song army did not have the intention of fighting, and began to shout and scold, seeing that the Song army had not moved, they began to add heavy crossbows and catapults to bombard Shunzhou City.

The dispersion point of the catapult is too large, and the quasi-head is basically relying on the blind, except for being used to attack the enemy's dense team, the siege is really not of much use, as for the god arm bow, although the accuracy is good, but the killing area is small, and it cannot cause large-scale damage.

"The grievances of the real mother, all the way to Shunzhou, every battle is drenched, how did it become like this today, the real mother|mother|unhappy......"

"If the marshal lets go out of the city gate to fight, Lao Tzu is capable of turning ten ......"

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Although the weather was cold, the Song army in Shunzhou City was highly motivated, but it was a pity that they were not allowed to fight, and they were holding a bad breath in their hearts, especially when they were facing the strong bombardment of the Xia army's heavy crossbows and catapults.

The cruelty of the war was seen by Lotte as early as in the Battle of Tong'an City, but it was the first time that he had seen the siege and defensive battles of Zhengbajing'er. For the attack of the Xia army, the Song army in Shunzhou City also gave a counterattack, and when the Xia army was attacking the city, they threw some explosives into the Xia army with heavy crossbows and catapults, which blew up the flesh and blood of the Xia army, and suppressed the offensive of the Xia army for a while.

However, there was not much gunpowder left, and the gunpowder in the rear was not delivered for a long time, although it caused some casualties to the Xia army, and after these battles, it was dumbfounded.

Seeing the power of gunpowder, the Xia army began to retreat in an all-round way, but seeing that the Song army could no longer take out gunpowder to defend, the courage of the Xia soldiers gradually increased, and a team of soldiers carried the ladder to the near of Shunzhou City, and then sacrificed their lives to climb up, but most of them had not yet climbed to the head of the city, so the Song soldiers who were guarding the city pushed down, and fell one by one to break their bones and tendons, and the screams were endless.

"Meat grinder" and "meat grinder", in the previous life, Lotte had heard two famous generals in the world comment on a certain war, and the Shunzhou City in front of him was re-enacting that scene, 100,000 against 70,000, the Western Xia and Song army were performing on the city wall with their lives, from morning to night, and from night to the next morning until noon in front of them.

The battlefield was tragic, and the wounded soldiers were carried to the wounded barracks on stretchers, and the original wounded barracks could not be believed to have so many wounded soldiers, and at this moment they had to start requisitioning other houses to expand.

Fighting means death, and in the past, anyone who was wounded by a sword in the abdomen was certain to die, but since Lotte taught the military Zhonglang Zhong to take precautions such as disinfection after abdominal opening and colonization, the mortality rate has been greatly reduced.

"It seems that Li Qianshun gave a death order, and he must be exterminating us here!" On the city wall, the master Dao watched the Xia army being beaten and retreated again and again, and was forced to charge by the generals of the Xia army with knives and guns in the rear again and again, and squinted his eyes.

Liu Zhongwu sneered: "Li Qianshun has a good calculation, he wants to eat us first, but then split up to destroy our five people!" ”

"Circumference three que one!" The division looked around for the defensive part, and snorted disdainfully, "The Xia army attacked us from the west, north, and east, leaving only a south gate for our army to escape......

At this time, the weather was freezing cold, and if the Song army could not withstand the strong attack of the Xia army and withdrew from Shunzhou, it would be tantamount to asking for a dead end.

After experiencing a large number of casualties, the Xia army had to adjust its battle strategy, reducing the charge of the soldiers, and instead launched a bombardment on the city wall of Shunzhou with catapults to consume the Song army's vital forces.

Moreover, the means used by the Xia army were also very cunning, sending a large number of soldiers to launch a feint attack on the city, and when the city was full of Song soldiers and soldiers preparing to defend, the city suddenly collected the troops and used catapults to launch a large and almost saturated bombardment on the city wall of Shunzhou, causing great casualties to the Song army.

I have to admit that the tactics adopted by the Xia army are still very effective, and this move makes the Song army defenseless and helpless, because in the previous battle, all the catapults on the city wall have been destroyed by the Xia army.

"If there is gunpowder, where can you see such a hard time guarding the city!" After tasting the benefits of gunpowder, looking at the fierceness of the battle in front of him, and the casualties of his soldiers, a group of Song army defending generals in the Shuaifu sighed when reporting the battle.

"The Xia army is forcing us to fight, or else it is forcing us to retreat, but no matter what the situation is, it is not good for our army!" The seed master looked at the situation of both sides and said coldly.

"Liu Yanqing, this crumb, is close at hand but doesn't come to the rescue, what kind of heart does he have?" Thinking of Liu Yanqing, who was fishing in troubled waters and occupying Lingzhou, Liu Zhongwu couldn't help but scold.

The division is also worried: "The Xia army surrounds Sanque Yi, and harasses our army's supplies in the rear from time to time, if there are no reinforcements, our army is afraid that it will really have to withdraw from Shunzhou City!" ”

Lotte said: "The next time the Xia army takes this kind of offensive again, our army might as well open the city gate with light cavalry to attack, and when the Xia army retreats, take the opportunity to kill the Xia army in front of the Xia army's array, and destroy it all!" ”

Pressed and beaten by the Western Xia army, and hearing Lotte's suggestion, the generals who were holding a bad breath in their hearts immediately agreed: "The subordinates agree with the plan of Lord Zhongshu, and they are not prepared to attack him by surprise!" ”

"Three handsome men, the last general will ask for ...... battle" felt that Lotte's suggestion was feasible, and a general shouted.

There are not many opportunities to take the initiative, and someone immediately rushed to say: "The last general is willing to go out of the city to fight, if it is not successful, he will definitely come to see him!" ”

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Immediately, the generals under his command asked for battle constantly.

The eyes of the seed master Dao swept over Liu Zhongwu and the two of the seed masters, and asked, "What do you two think of this plan?" ”

Liu Zhongwu and the two of them looked at each other a little, and nodded: "If the opportunity is right, it will be a wonderful move." ”

Several rounds of catapult bombardment caused huge casualties to the defenders of Shunzhou City, which made the Western Xia army, which was originally demoralized due to the loss of the city and land, begin to be invigorated.

Because of this, the Tangut people once again repeated their old tricks, sending a large number of soldiers to feign an attack, secretly loading the catapults, aiming at the Song army stationed on the city wall of Shunzhou.

Boring and ......

When the Western Xia soldiers marched towards Shunzhou City, there were still more than 100 steps left, and the sound of gongs and troops came out from the Western Xia army again, and then these Western Xia soldiers began to retreat back; At the same time, the Western Xia officers commanding the catapults stared at the head of the city of Shunzhou, preparing to give the order to bombard the city walls.

At the same moment when Ming Jin collected his troops in the Xixia military camp, I saw that the gate of the Song army suddenly opened, and a Song army cavalry was killed from the city.

The Song army that rushed out of the city was holding back a breath of anger in their hearts, the Xia army attacking outside the city was just a feint, and there was a huge gap in morale between the two sides.

The two legs can never be separated by four legs, and the infantry without any protection is no match for the cavalry, and these feints of the Xia soldiers broke down to the extreme, knowing that a massacre was inevitable.

The sound of broken bones and tendons, the sound of knives and guns entering the body and screams of horses hitting the human body came from time to time, but in the next moment, the Xia army who feinted was extremely surprised, and the Song army did not launch a large-scale killing of these Xia troops, but directly turned the horse's head and rushed in the other direction.

Mo said that it was the Xia soldiers who feinted to attack, and even the Xia generals who commanded the battle were also taken aback, and soon discovered the intentions of the Song cavalry, and what these Song cavalry really wanted to deal with were those catapults that aimed at the city wall of Shunzhou.

"Stop that Song cavalry!" Knowing the true tactical intentions of the Song army, the general of the Xia army hurriedly ordered.

However, at the next moment when the voice fell, he suddenly heard a rumbling sound like thunder from the direction of his rear army, and then turned to look behind, only to see a tidal wave of cavalry in the distance rushing in the direction of his rear army.

"Song Army, it's the Song Army's reinforcements that have arrived ......"

Without waiting for the general to order his subordinates to inquire about the identity of the comer, he only heard the rear army in the distance be the first to rout, and then a retreating soldier shouted loudly.

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