The continuous camp surrounded the Zhenrong army, the moat had long been filled, and the city walls had been smashed in many places by stone throwers.

The siege of the twentieth day stained the city walls with blood.

Many times, the Western Xia soldiers had already ascended to the city, but they were defeated by the tenacious Western army.

The terrain in the northwest is precipitous, the city is mostly built in the dangerous place, the Northern Song Dynasty and the Western Xia are not short of siege equipment, but the topography of many cities makes the siege equipment unable to be used, as long as the defenders are prepared, it is easy to take one enemy ten.

In the fifth year of Zhenghe, Liu Zhongwu and Wang Hou led 100,000 troops to attack Zangdihe City, and the defenders in the city would not exceed 10,000, and in the end, the casualties of the army were nearly half, and they still did not capture.

There are many such examples, so the Northern Song Dynasty and Western Xia rushed to build castles in dangerous places. If a nail is stuck in a dangerous place, it will take a lot of effort for the other party to pull it out, and it will also wear out their fingers. This is the way to let each other go, and both countries have been doing this for decades, and neither can help the other. Because just a nail has been pulled, the other party will immediately nail another one. Unless the other party is disabled at one time, the battle between the two sides is to pull out the nails of each other.

In the past ten years, Tong Guan has used soldiers very fiercely, and he has pulled out a lot of nails in Western Xia in one go, but his ten fingers are also worn out. Unconsciously, half of the blood of the Western Army was also left.

However, this time it was the turn of the Western Xia soldiers to pull out the nails, and when the 200,000 army hit the Zhenrong army, there were only 150,000 left, and no more than 10,000 people were beheaded.

Although Brother Cha knew that these 10,000 people were veterans of the Seed Army, Brother Cha was still bloody, and the result of the battle was only more than ten castles and one city of the Huaide Army. Chago also knew that the gains and losses of capturing these castles were not worth the losses, but he had no choice, these castles were stuck in dangerous places, and the places that could be bypassed were all sheep's intestine paths.

The 200,000-strong army took the small road, and it would only take more time to bypass it than to storm it.

The Western Xia wanted to seize the Sixth Route of Shaanxi, and even entered the Central Plains. What they are robbing is time, and only by taking advantage of the chaos in the Central Plains can they have the opportunity to seize more places. Otherwise, the Han people will give them a hard blow when they have their hands free.

In order to seize time, Chage relied on the advantage of his troops, crushed all the way, regardless of casualties, stormed the castles along the way, and hit the Zhenrong army.

Li Qianshun's road was much faster, one was surrendered in Xi'an, and the other was that the old people did not have so many troops to deploy all the castles.

In the sixth year of Zhenghe, Brother Cha led people to break the Jingxia City built by the seed master, and after the city was broken, the seed army in the city was slaughtered, which greatly damaged the vitality of the seed army.

The old breed with insufficient troops chose to deploy the Huaide army, the Zhenrong army, and the Deshun army, otherwise just with the fortresses along the way, they could ruthlessly release the blood of the two armies of the Western Xia.

When he hit the Zhenrong army, Cha Ge once sent people to the city to persuade Liu Zhongwu to surrender, but Liu Zhongwu refused. Brother Cha had no choice but to wave his troops and horses to besiege the Zhenrong army.

Brother Cha didn't take Liu Zhongwu in his eyes, he was only afraid of Liu Fa and Lao Chong. After Liu Fa's death, only the old species remained. But he soon found that it would be difficult for him to defeat Liu Zhongwu if he was given a fortified city. He is only stronger than Liu Zhongwu in field combat, but Liu Zhongwu obviously will not give him the opportunity to fight in the field.

Liu Zhongwu did not fight, he could only attack the city.

The Zhenrong army has a moat, and it is very deep, and he wants to dig tunnels and dig down the city walls, but obviously he can't do it. It can only fill in the moat and make siege equipment to attack.

Wood was needed to make siege engines, but the craftsman told him that the trees were cut down within twenty miles.

After Liu Zhongwu arrived at the Zhenrong army, the first thing he did was to send people to cut down the trees outside the city. If it can't be burned, it will be pushed into the Hulu River, no matter where they will drift, it will only drift to the southeast, and it will definitely not float in the hands of the Xixia people.

Shaanxi Sixth Road overhauled the castle, and there were not many trees left, and it was frantically cut down by 20,000 people. By the time Chage came, they had already cut down all the trees on both sides of the Hulu River for twenty miles. There are also a lot of forests in other directions, and they don't burn the forests farther away, but it is not easy to transport firewood from more than ten miles away.

When Chago heard this, he almost vomited blood.

A general suggested that he demolish the houses of the people nearby, but Chage did not do so.

This time, they are not going to grab a handful and leave, but to turn Shaanxi Sixth Road into their land, and Brother Cha, who is proficient in Han culture, also knows that he must try his best to buy the hearts of the people. If all their houses are demolished, it won't be long before Shaanxi Sixth Road will know about it. At that time, the Han people will resist desperately, just like the seed army in front. There were not so many people in Western Xia who fought with the Han Chinese.

Chago ordered the soldiers to escort the craftsmen to the nearest forest and make siege equipment and transport them over.

It took a day, from a dozen miles away, to transport the first batch of siege to the city, when they came across oil.

The name oil was first used by Shen Kuo in the Northern Song Dynasty in "Mengxi Bi Tan". However, the discovery and use of oil was very early, and oil gushed out in many places in the northwest. When the Western army and the Western Xia soldiers and horses defended the city, they would use oil to burn the siege equipment, thus making the siege more difficult.

If you simply take a ladder, the Western Army will not use oil, because the oil in the city is also limited. Moreover, 30,000 western troops defended the city, if it was broken by the ladder, it would be an absolute shame for the western army.

Chage couldn't deceive the Western Army's oil, and only relied on the ladder to kill thousands of people, and not a single person climbed the city. Chage could only grit his teeth and use the large siege equipment he made, and then the Western army used a stone thrower to smash a can of oil on the siege equipment, and then a rocket could make the large siege equipment that craftsmen had worked so hard to build turn into ashes.

However, in three days, the forest more than ten miles away was cut down, and all the large-scale siege equipment manufactured was burned. Artisans can only go farther to cut down trees, and a batch of timber takes half a day to arrive.

Brother Cha didn't dare to let the craftsmen make large instruments anymore, otherwise the army would have to watch the craftsmen's painstaking efforts turn into piles of ashes under the city, and then they could only wait outside the city.

On the fifth day of the siege, the Western Xia soldiers and horses began to attack one after another, and there were no clever siege equipment, just simple ladders.

A simple ladder was built on the city wall, and the Xixia people climbed up without fear of death. The Western Army smashed the Tangut people below with the stones that had been prepared for a long time, and when the stones were used up, they used push rods to knock down the ladders. Those who are lucky enough to climb to the top of the city, what awaits them are condescending swords and guns.

The Tangut people spent a few more days to pile up a dirt mountain outside the city, which was higher than the head of the city, and the archers swooped down on the people at the head of the city, but the bows and crossbows of the Western army had a longer range than the bows and crossbows of the Tanguts, and the earth mountains a few feet higher than the head of the city could not shoot the Western army.

Brother Cha could only order his men to continue to pile up the dirt mountain, but the higher the dirt mountain, the larger the volume, and the more difficult it was to pile it up.

In the twenty days of the siege, the Western Xia army lost 80,000 people.

In the middle, Brother Cha sent someone to recruit Liu Zhongwu, and the promised official position was higher, but Liu Zhongwu was unmoved, and shot Brother Cha's messenger with an arrow.

It's not that Brother Cha doesn't want to recruit Liu Zhongwu in person, but Liu Zhongwu's archery skills are clever, and he also has a son Liu Qi's archery skills are even more clever. There are many rumors about Liu Qi's archery skills in Western Xia, and there are hundreds of Western Xia soldiers who are said to have been shot and killed by Liu Qi, and Brother Cha doesn't want him to be one of them.

At a banquet, everyone wanted to see Liu Qi's archery. Liu Qi asked people to hang up a kettle, shoot an arrow first, and after pulling it out, the water continued to flow out of the arrow hole. Liu Qi shot another arrow, and immediately blocked the hole left by the previous arrow, and the water no longer flowed out.

In fact, Brother Cha also knew that halfway through the battle, neither the Western Army nor the Western Xia soldiers and horses dared to surrender.

A few years ago, Liu Fa attacked Xia Ren Duoquan City, fought for more than ten days, and the Western Xia defenders could not wait for reinforcements, so they opened the city and surrendered, as a result, Liu Fa ordered the slaughter of the defenders who surrendered in the city. Then, after the Western Xia conquered Jingxia City, they also slaughtered the defenders in the city.

After these two battles, no one dared to surrender anymore.

If the surrender failed, Brother Cha could only continue to besiege the Zhenrong army, and the Zhenrong army could bypass it, but there were more than 10,000 elites of the Western Army in the Zhenrong army, and Brother Cha did not dare to leave them behind to attack Weizhou.

And the other way did not defeat the Deshun army, and after discussing with Li Qianshun, Cha Ge decided to attack the city at any cost on both roads.

Half of the soldiers and horses of the Deshun army and the Zhenrong army were the family army, and the rest were the soldiers and horses of the Western army who retreated from Jiangnan.

They originally wanted to take advantage of the fact that most of the Western Army was in Jiangnan to destroy the Seed Army first, but they didn't expect the Western Army to rush back one by one, and actually came back before they besieged the city. After the Western Xia confirmed the chaos in the Central Plains, they quickly gathered soldiers and horses, and the speed at which they gathered soldiers and horses was also very fast. The 400,000 army is only the three military divisions of Jingsai, Xishou Baotai, Zhuo Yu and Nan, plus the soldiers and horses of Xingqing Mansion and Lingzhou, the total is only 250,000, and the remaining 150,000 are soldiers and horses spontaneously organized by nearby tribes.

With the gradual increase in the population of Western Xia, it was no longer the beginning of the founding of the country that all the people were soldiers, and each tribe had a large number of empty soldiers, Li Qianshun just promised a heavy reward, and let everyone take up arms.

Even if these 400,000 people were gone, Western Xia could still organize an army of 400,000. But the Zhenrong Army and the Deshun Army are all the family backgrounds of the old species, as long as the family army is exhausted, it is useless to leave only one old species. The old breed is very powerful, but if one person goes into battle, a few Western Xia warriors can cut off his head.

There was another road of 200,000 soldiers and horses assembled in Hongzhou, led by King Renzhong of Pu in Western Xia, but because Hengshan was captured by the Northern Song Dynasty, the terrain was even more dangerous. Therefore, Renzhong has been trying to buy off the generals of Huanqing Road and Yanyan Road in order to get a breakthrough and enter Shaanxi.

A few days ago, Zi Renzhong came to the news that Xue Sichang, the envoy of Huanqing Road, had promised to take refuge in Western Xia.

Renzhong originally wanted to immediately wave his troops into Shaanxi and encircle Jingyuan Road with three roads, but Brother Cha thought that Prince Daliang was going to bring soldiers and horses to reinforce the Western Army, so he asked Renzhong to slow down, and waited for Prince Daliang to come to Weizhou, and then troops went out of Huanqing Road, and the three roads of soldiers and horses surrounded Jingyuan Road. At that time, we must not only catch the old species, but also catch the prince of Daliang.

He didn't think that he would not be able to eat the soldiers and horses of the Great Liang, and the Western Xia Xizuo had already found out clearly, and the Great Liang was a group of grass robbers in a place called Liangshan in Jingdong who caught Zhao Ji and the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu, and then deceived Tokyo and destroyed the Song Dynasty. It is impossible for the dignified Western Xia army to defeat a group of grass robbers, so it is still a 600,000 army to surround 100,000 grass bandits.

Zhao Ji also deserved it, and actually dug a tunnel to meet a woman in a green building. That's not an tunnel, that's a grave dug for the Song Dynasty.

A few days ago, the Liao State Yelu Dashi also came to the news, the Liao Emperor personally conquered, but was defeated by the firearms of the Great Liang, thousands of dead and wounded, and then the emperor retreated, Yelu Dashi also asked them to be careful of the firearms of the Great Liang.

Brother Cha has long known that the Liao State has declined, and a few years ago, it took eight years for the Liao State to calm down, and the Western Xia also sent troops to help. In recent years, the rebellions of the Jurchens and Bohai people have made the Liao State even more exhausted. After Cha Ge heard that the Liao State was also the emperor's personal expedition, he did not hold out any hope for the Liao State. In the battle of Hubu Dagang, the 700,000-strong army was defeated by 20,000 Jurchens. With such an emperor's constraints, no matter how great the ability of Yelu Dashi and the others is, I am afraid they will not be able to display it.

The firearms of the Song Dynasty were no strangers, and they had some power, but they were not enough to affect the situation of the war. Daliang and his gang of grass cowards definitely couldn't make firearms, they just grabbed some firearms from the Song Dynasty. The Liao State and the Song Dynasty had not fought for a hundred years, and the soldiers had never seen the firearms of the Song Dynasty, so they were caught off guard. Perhaps a firearm hit the Emperor of Liao and scared the Emperor of Liao back.

The soldiers of Western Xia have seen too many firearms of the Song Dynasty, so why be afraid.

The three-way army annihilated the Chongjia army and the Liang soldiers and horses, and the remaining western army on the Yanyan Road and Yongxing Road was not a cause for concern. Without Shaanxi Sixth Road, the entire Central Plains is like a woman without clothes, and there is no shelter.

Western Xia was unable to invade the Central Plains, but it could be the same as the Liao State forcibly taking the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, first invading the Sixth Road of Shaanxi, and then coercing Liangshan Caokou Gong in the Central Plains to pay some gold and silver for development. If the prince of Daliang can be captured alive, he may be able to make Daliang a puppet of Western Xia.

Even if the girder could not be controlled, the Western Xia could bury its head in development. With the large population of Shaanxi Liulu, a party man can marry ten Han women, and twenty years later, the party can form a larger army, and then the Central Plains can be captured.

After fighting for more than ten years, the game of Seed Master Dao and Brother Cha is very big this time, and it depends on whose teeth are better.

The setting sun was like blood, and the land under the city walls had long been soaked in blood, red and black.

Some wild dogs hovered around the battlefield, pumping cold and running away with a stump in their mouths.

Zhao Ji is a dog, so it is forbidden to slaughter dogs in the country, and in recent years, the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes have been serious, and the people cannot afford to raise many dogs, so many wild dogs have been created.

The wild dogs were not having a good time, and it was very difficult to compete with wild beasts for food in the mountains and forests, so they came smelling blood.

Although after the start of the war, Chago asked his soldiers to kill the wild dogs around the battlefield, but there were always hungry dogs with blood-red eyes that refused to disperse.

They seem to know more about guerrilla warfare than the Tanguts, and as soon as the cavalry comes, the wild dogs go to the mountains and forests, and as soon as the cavalry leaves, the wild dogs come out.

This is also the war book of Li Yuanhao, the founding lord of the Western Xia, who snatched some of the property and population of the Song State, and the Song army came, and if it could be beaten, it would be fought, and if it could not be beaten, it would run.

Now the wild dogs used the same tricks as their ancestors, and they know how shameless this trick is.

Many Western Xia soldiers couldn't help but shout at the wild dogs, and there was a kind of dignified decisive battle. But the wild dogs are not of the same clan as them, and they can't understand what they say. Or they understood, but they also followed Li Yuanhao's example, shamelessly continuing their tactics.

At first, the Tangut people were still indignant, not wanting the wild dogs to take away the limbs of their comrades. But after more than ten days of siege, no one had the strength to fight the wild dogs.

After defeating the remaining 150,000 men of the Wyed army, another 80,000 were lost, some of whom were wounded and sent to the rear. The rest of the people have long lost their sharpness, dizzy under their feet, who still has the strength to fight the wild dogs. All the people had climbed the ladder, and they were lucky and unlucky, and they were going to stand here and watch their comrades fall off the city.

Up to now, many soldiers have complained. Since the founding of the Western Xia, there has been no siege of the city for more than 20 days. If the defenders were not prepared, they would be able to take the city. The defenders were prepared, surrounded for more than a dozen days, and reinforcements came. And they ran away with the plunder. But now, after more than 20 days of strong attack, the enemy has no reinforcements, but they can't take the city, so they can only watch the relatives of the tribe fall down the city every day.

If it weren't for Chage's promise to let them plunder freely after taking the city, I'm afraid these soldiers would refuse to fight the city again.

Brother Cha and a few generals stood outside the city to watch the battle, watching as a ** soldier rushed up and turned into corpses, or fell under the city and wailed, and then another wave of soldiers continued their unfinished task.

The sky has begun to darken, and whether the city can be broken depends on this wave of soldiers.

A general pointed to a section of the city wall and shouted, "Go up."

When Chago heard the rumour, a soldier climbed the top of the city, and in the blink of an eye, he cut down several people. Good job, there is another person up in the back.

That person is very fierce, no matter how many people go up behind him, he is on the front line.

Without the obstruction of the Western Army, the Western Xia soldiers and horses under the city quickly climbed up from the cloud ladder and occupied a small part of the city.

Brother Cha saw that the city was about to be broken, and couldn't help but be happy: "Go and ask what is the name of the first person to go to the city?" A hundred gold, a hundred camels, and a thousand sheep. Intensify the siege of the city, and today it is said that the city will be broken. ”

Without saying a word, the soldiers ran to the general who commanded the siege.

"No, I'll take command myself."

As soon as the soldiers left, Brother Cha, who had always been pampered and unfazed, changed his mind and strode towards the city.

Several generals also hurriedly followed.

As soon as Brother Cha walked a few steps, he saw a change in the city, a general of the Western Army waved his sword to meet the leader of the fan, and cut the man to the ground in a few moments, and then the tiger entered the flock, and the other Western armies also took the opportunity to attack.

When Chago walked to the front of the battle, dozens of people in the city had already been killed.

The soldiers had just asked the name of the first warrior to go to the city, but the warrior was gone, and he couldn't help but look at Brother Cha with a look of embarrassment.

"Collect the troops, Ming said that the whole army is resting and preparing to meet the soldiers and horses of Liangshan."

Brother Cha threw down a sentence, turned around and left. As for the reward just now, it will obviously be discounted, and there are many people who have climbed to the top of the city a few days ago, so we can't favor one over the other.

(To be continued)