Xiongzhou, Zhou Wei was at the head of the city, looking at the Liao army that drove to the city, his eyes flashed, and he couldn't help nodding: "The Liao dog is more elite, more fierce, and more difficult than the Xia army, and this battle will be very difficult!" ”

He participated in the Battle of Xihe and knew the combat power of the Western Xia army very well. The Western Xia army is also the strongest army in the world, but compared with the Liao army, it is inferior, far less powerful than the Liao army. For the Liao army, the hardships of this battle can be imagined, not to mention, the Liao army still has many goose carts.

When the Liao army drove to the city, it did not immediately attack, but made various preparations.

Ye Luming is a veteran of the battlefield, of course he understands what to do now, what the Liao army wants to do now is not to attack the city with goose carts, but to destroy the city defense equipment on the city. As soon as he arrived at the city of Xiongzhou, he used a goose cart to launch a siege war, which was something that only a fool would do, and Yeluming, a veteran general who had been on the battlefield for a long time, would definitely not do it.

Xiongzhou was the strongest city in the north of the Song Dynasty, with a large number of city defense equipment, if it was not destroyed, he would not have enough goose carts to see.

Therefore, as soon as he arrived at the city, Yeluming gave an order, and the Liao army began to build watchtowers and gun mounts.

The lookout is a reconnaissance facility used to look out and observe the enemy's situation, and it plays an extremely important role on the battlefield. The gun carriage is the base of the stone thrower. A stone thrower is bulky, its base is large, and the gun carriage must be erected for the stone thrower to be effective.

Of course, these things will not be done by the Liao army, but by the people of the Song Dynasty who were driven away by the Liao army. Countless people of the Song Dynasty drove the Liao army away and were busy in the ice and snow.

In addition to building a lookout and erecting a gun mount, the people were driven to find stones. The cannonballs of the stone thrower are stones, the more the better, under the coercion of the Liao army, the people of the Song Dynasty did not dare not do it, countless stones, stone tablets were transported, and a stone mountain was piled up.

"The people of the Great Song Dynasty, don't help the abuse!" Zhou Wei shouted loudly at the people under the city from the city, asking them to resist the Liao army and not work for the Liao army.

However, what was provoked was the anger and abuse of the people of the Song Dynasty.

"Incompetent officials, raising you useless thieves with an army, will know how to oppress our people, and when you meet the Liao people, it will be like a mouse seeing a cat."

"The thief army is only majestic in front of our people, how dare you fight with the Liao."

"After a hundred years of fighting, it is not the people at our border who have suffered."

"The Liao people are coming, burning, killing and looting, and destroying our sisters. The thieves are coming with the army, and they are even more ruthless than the Liao, there is no benefit, and even the ground has to be scraped. ”

Listening to the insults of the people, Zhou Wei's mouth opened wide, and he wanted to refute, but he didn't know where to refute, and his heart was very depressed. The people are not wrong, in the hundreds of years of the Song-Liao War, the Liao State pressed the Song Dynasty to fight, when did the Song Dynasty win the war?

In addition, the military discipline of the Song army was corrupt, and the looting was no worse than that of the Liao army, not to mention the burning and killing of silver, and the killing of the people to fill the military merits was endless.

Many people in the Xiongzhou Army have done this, and after listening to the abuse of the people, they began to scold the people angrily: "You untouchables are low-level untouchables, and you are innocent of death." ”

"Enough!" Zhou Wei shouted violently, like thunder, turned around, glared at the Song Jun who were scolding, and reprimanded: "This is the mistake you made when you were not strict in military discipline!" You are embarrassed to curse the people. I won't pursue your past affairs, but if anyone dares to mess around again in the next big war, don't blame me for Zhou Wei's ruthless military law! ”

Zhou Wei vented his depressed feelings, and all of them burst out at these soldiers, like ancient fierce beasts, murderous, these soldiers couldn't help but be afraid and didn't dare to speak anymore.

The Song Dynasty was incompetent, not that all the generals of the Song Dynasty were bad people, and there were good generals, and this Zhou Wei was one of them.

Yelu Ming saw it in his eyes, smiled in his heart, pointed at the head of the city with the horsewhip in his hand, and laughed: "Zhou Wei, did you hear it?" Your officials are incompetent, you have lost the hearts of the people, hurry up and open the city gate to welcome the Daliao warriors into the city, I guarantee that there will be no crime in the autumn! If you dare to say a word, hum, you must kill a chicken and dog! ”

"Yeluming, you are rampant!" Zhou Wei did not show weakness at all, snorted coldly, and sneered at each other: "Xiongzhou has stood for a hundred years, and Liaogou has been attacking for so many years, when did you climb the city?" ”

The voice was raised and a little shrill and a little shrill : "Yeluming, it's still too late to withdraw at this time, if you are obsessed, how can you regret it?" You only have tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and you want to capture Xiongzhou, which is really delusional. ”

"Zhou Wei, let you see the power of the Great Liao Warriors! Sons and daughters, give me a siege! Yelu Ming pulled out his scimitar fiercely, held it high in his hand, waved it at Xiongzhou, and shouted: "Seven cannons, scattering star cannons, give me a blast!" Raze Xiongzhou to the ground! ”

"Raze to the ground!"

The Liao army let out an earth-shattering roar, and tens of thousands of Liao troops roared in unison, which was more powerful than thousands of thunderbolts, and the earth was trembling.

"Boom!"

The sound of a huge machine sounded, and the star-scattering cannon and the seven-tip cannon were threatened against the city. Hundreds of stone throwers at the same time, the power is extraordinary, people are surprised, only to see countless stones thrown into the air, smashed at the head of Xiongzhou City.

"Whew!"

The sound of the wind sounded, sharp and piercing, shaking people's ear drums, like thunder exploding in the ears.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

The sound of violent crashing sounded, the ground shook, and countless stones rolled on the top of the city, and the destruction was great in all directions. When a person touches him, he is either dead or injured. The city tower even smashed a lot of holes, and broken wood and tiles flew everywhere.

smashed on the top of the city, but there was not much destruction. It's just that, under the hard encounter, a lot of stones collided, and in the splash, many Song soldiers were injured.

Of course, no matter how powerful the stone thrower is, it is impossible to smash the city wall, and the use of the stone thrower to smash the city wall is not until the Mongol period, the "return cannon" made by using the stone throwing machine technology in the Middle East, this period is far from reaching this level.

Yeluming's purpose was not to smash the city, but mainly to smash bed crossbows and stone throwers. The bed crossbow is the sharpest city defense equipment in the Song Dynasty, with the bed crossbow, the casualties of the Liao army will be very large, not to mention, the destruction of the goose cart is very large. If there is no goose cart, the Liao army's siege will be extremely difficult, and it will be almost impossible to capture the city.

Therefore, these catapults are mainly aimed at bed crossbows and catapults. This attack was not small, and several bed crossbows and stone throwers were smashed.

Zhou Wei will not be beaten, but calmly responds, and ordered loudly: "Bed crossbow, stone thrower, kill me!" ”

"Woohoo!"

Countless thick crossbow arrows appeared in the air and pounced on the Liao army under the city.

Xiongzhou City is the most important city in the north of the Song Dynasty, this bed crossbow is mostly huge, it takes dozens of people to use, the crossbow arrow is thick and long, up to one zhang, the arm is thick, this shot out, the power is devastating. Wherever the crossbow bolts went, the Liao army was overturned on their backs, and the stone thrower was shot, and there would be major damage.

Countless stone-throwing machines were thrown from the top of the city, and fell on the stone-throwing machines below the city, and several of them were smashed, and many gunners died.

Because the Liao State obtained the sixteen states of Yanyun, although the scientific and technological strength of the Song Dynasty was more advanced than that of the Liao State, this gap was not large, and compared with the Qin, Han, Sui and Tang dynasties, China's huge lead over the nomads was far from enough. This made the strength of the Liao State soar, such as the stone throwing machine, bed crossbow, these equipment, the Liao State has.

What's more, because of the mismanagement of the Song Dynasty, advanced technology was difficult to keep secret. For example, firearms, the Song Dynasty was the first to develop them, but because the secrecy work was not done well, they were soon mastered by the Liao State.

These two situations have created the current situation, the two armies can only use catapults to bombard, as for who can win, can only see who can hold out to the end.

The sound of the wind was incessant, and crossbow arrows and stones flew all over the sky, covering the sky and making it gray. The battle was fought to this extent, it could only be a fight, no one on both sides of the Song and Liao sides would retreat, the gunners on both sides desperately fired stones, and the craftsmen risked their lives to repair the stone thrower.

For a while, no one could help anyone.

The stones thrown up under the city became a supplement to the city, and the Song army picked them up, loaded them on the stone throwing machine, and smashed them to the Liao army. Similarly, the stones thrown down by the Song army were smashed back to the Song army by the Liao army.

The two sides are like this, you go back and forth, desperately carrying out long-range attacks, and the purpose is also the same, to kill each other's long-range equipment.

Although the Liao army was hateful, it had to admit that its military quality was higher than that of the Song army. In the hands of the Liao army, the stone throwing machine played a greater role and fought more accurately, and the price paid by the Liao army was smaller than that of the Song army, although this gap was not too obvious.

Yelu Hongji asked Yelu Ming to attack in the ice and snow, that is, he did not need to bring a cave car, but could bring more goose carts and more stone throwers. This was a very wise decision, and the Liao army was well prepared and carried a lot of stone throwers.

As time progressed, the Liao army's advantage was gradually accumulating, and more and more Song army's bed crossbows and stone throwers were smashed. Losing these bed crossbows and stone throwers, the Song army's counterattack became weaker and weaker.

Zhou Wei saw it in his eyes and was shocked in his heart, he knew that this battle would be very difficult, but he didn't expect that it would be so hard, and he didn't have the upper hand in this long-range bombardment.

Zhou Wei was very anxious, but it was useless to be in a hurry, he pulled out all the bed crossbows and stone throwers in the warehouse, and he couldn't replenish the stone throwers and bed crossbows. If these two sharp weapons are lost, when the Liao army attacks the city with goose carts, the Song army will be even more difficult.

The goose cart is very difficult to destroy, the stone thrower and the bed crossbow can deal with it, without the bed crossbow and the stone thrower, he will have no way to take the goose cart.

Contrary to Zhou Wei's anxiety, Yeluming became more and more happy. As long as the bed crossbow and stone thrower in Xiongzhou were destroyed, the Song army would have no way to deal with his goose cart, and the Liao army could use the cover of the goose cart to break through the city and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Song army.

Speaking of hand-to-hand combat, that is the Liao army is the best at it, and will it be afraid of the Song army?

When the time comes, it will be necessary to let the timid southerners walk around without eating!

This bombardment continued, and after three days of continuous bombardment, the bed crossbows and stone throwers in Xiongzhou City had been destroyed, and they would no longer pose a threat to the goose carts.

It was time to dispatch the goose cart and climb to the top of the city, Yeluming was very happy, and he was about to order the Liao army to use the goose cart. However, at this moment, a disappointing person came, and this person was none other than Yelu Bodhisattva. Seeing Yelu Bodhisattva's blood and wounds, he rode to Yelu Ming on horseback and cried loudly: "General, the last general has suffered a defeat in his conversion!" ”

"Are you losing your conversion?" Ye Luming was a little unconvinced, and sneered: "Just returning to the city of faith, will it stop the pace of the Daliao warriors?" You see, today's Xiongzhou City has almost bombarded me. Even Xiongzhou can't stop the warriors of Da Liao, let alone a small conversion. ”

Yelu Bodhisattva stubbornly told the story of the defeat. Of course, he has changed, and he will not be honest in return. The biggest change is that he said that he fought for three days and three nights, and he did not fight. In fact, he was defeated in one day. If he told the truth, Jeremiah would have cut off his head on the spot.

(To be continued)