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Seeing this, Zhao Gu ordered the Song soldiers to hide on the spot, and at the same time threw the stones and rolling logs that had been prepared down to smash the Liao soldiers who were eager to climb up.

The archers on the Song army's side also fired arrows to return fire, screaming a famous Liao soldier and returning to the western sky.

Because of the height, the arrows of the Song army flew farther and faster, while the Liao army went upstream, and many arrows often did not hit the city wall because of the lack of follow-up force, but smashed many Liao soldiers after falling.

But these casualties are almost negligible in a siege battle, and a few dozen dead are simply insignificant compared to the sheer number of thousands.

In comparison, the power of rolling wood is much greater, often a rolling log rolls down with the ladder, and it can smash down the Liao soldiers on the entire ladder, so that they can roll down the city wall like a falling gourd.

The power of the stone is also no worse than that of the rolling log, and the Liao soldiers who are hit by it are often either killed or injured, and their heads are broken and bleeding.

After a while, the burned oil was also poured down, and the hot Liao soldiers opened their skin and flesh, screaming again and again.

The Liao soldiers were not pinched in the mud, and when the Song soldiers threw stones and oil down, their archers immediately saw the opportunity to shoot arrows wildly, and a wave of arrows rained down, which also took the lives of many Song soldiers.

Outside the city gate at the bottom, there were soldiers of the Liao army carrying logs against the wall, making a loud noise, wantonly destroying the west gate of Shuozhou City.

For the Liao soldiers who stormed the city gate, the main attack of the Song army fell on them, and almost every breath, a Liao soldier died outside the city gate.

The Liao soldiers were still holding the logs and impacting without fear of death, and whenever someone died, someone immediately replaced them, stepping on the corpses of their companions and continuing to move forward, and then continuing to fall.

The horrors of war were fully presented at this moment, and every minute and every second people died, blood was sprinkled like rain on and under the city, and the wails resounded in the sky and touched people's hearts.

But overall, the Liao army suffered greater casualties, but the Liao army was outnumbered, so the situation was still stalemate, even if the Song army could replace the three Liao soldiers, the situation was still very unfavorable to the Great Song side.

After all, not far away, there are still 15,000 Liao soldiers waiting for them.

An hour passed quickly, silently, and finally a squad in the Liao army took advantage of the loopholes in the city wall to defend the soldiers and climbed the city wall.

Seeing this, the Liao army shouted loudly, and the Song soldiers hurriedly plugged the hole and forced the squad back.

But Rao was like this, the defense of the Song army was briefly disrupted at this moment, and two squads of Liao soldiers rushed up.

At this moment, a flying arrow hit the head of the Liao soldiers who rushed to the city wall first, followed by two Liao soldiers who fell to the ground, also shot in the head by the arrow.

The Song soldiers looked back one after another, but saw Zhao Gu standing with a bow and arrow in his hand, constantly shooting arrows one after another.

"Zhao joins the army and is still a sharpshooter!"

When the Song army saw that Zhao Gu had personally participated in the battle, they naturally stood in high spirits, and soon killed the two teams of Liao soldiers who rushed up.

In this way, under the cover of Zhao Gu's arrows, the Song army blocked the first wave of impact of the Liao soldiers, and the sky was about to get dark.

The winter night is unusually dark, and the sky is dark and gloomy, which makes people feel very uncomfortable.

But in the eyes of the Song army, there is no more beautiful color than this black, because as long as it is dark, it means that the Liao soldiers are going to retreat, and they can rest.

As we all know, Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures is located in the north of the land of China, the climate is cold, especially in winter, it gets dark very early, and every night, the temperature will inevitably drop sharply.

Sure enough, the Liao soldiers soon withdrew their troops, and the Song soldiers who had been fighting all afternoon fell to the ground one after another, enjoying this rare comfort.

After a short rest, Zhao Gu immediately asked people to count the number of people, and after learning about the casualties, Zhao Gu's heart couldn't help but feel a touch of bitterness.

According to today's situation, the Liao army is afraid that there are one or two thousand casualties, but the Great Song side also killed nearly 300 people, and more than 100 people were seriously injured.

In other words, at this time, there were less than six hundred people left in Zhao Gu's hands.

This is only the first day of the big battle, if all the large armies of the Liao army attack the city together, how long can they resist?

Without revealing the worries in his heart, Zhao Gu then asked the still alive soldiers to bury the dead soldiers, treat some people who could still be rescued, and after having dinner with the soldiers, he came to the head of Shuozhou City alone.

Looking at the light of the fire in the Liao State military camp not far away, Zhao Gu was full of confusion in his heart, but he could never find a way to reverse the tide of the battle.

Today is just a tentative battle of the Liao army, and they only attacked the west city gate, if the Liao army starts tomorrow and attacks the four city gates at the same time, where can the six hundred soldiers under him still be able to stop it?

Do you really have to pin your hopes on the 10,000 reserves?

He had been standing at the head of the city until it was very late at night, and the soldier on the night vigil reminded Zhao Gu to go back to rest, so he smiled faintly at the soldier, and at the same time took off his coat and draped it on the soldier.

"There has been a big battle in the afternoon, and staying up late at night to guard must be very tired, but you still don't slack off, it's a matter of life and death for everyone, you know?" Zhao Gu admonished.

The soldier nodded, and Zhao Gu smiled again: "Keep a good vigil, if we can all live after this battle, I will personally ask the Privy Council for you." ”

"Thank you for joining the army."

"Then I'll go back first."

After Zhao Gu finished speaking, he was about to leave directly, and when he passed by the stone house on the city wall for the soldiers to change shifts and rest at night, a strange smell suddenly came from his nose.

Zhao Gu quickly reacted that this smell was the smell of charcoal burning.

Suddenly, an astonishing idea popped up in Zhao Gu's mind.

Why don't I make gunpowder?

Speaking of gunpowder, we have to talk about its history, in ancient China, the emperor would worship alchemy, gunpowder was discovered at that time, and then people slowly developed its formula, that is, saltpeter, sulfuric acid and charcoal.

But to this day, no one really finds its value, according to historical records, gunpowder in the Song Dynasty was mostly used to make fireworks, as well as juggling, etc., and then used for arson, which is also its only military use.