Hearing that it was Ping Po Guo, more Xixia soldiers surrounded him: "It's Ping Po Guo!" The soldiers erupted in cheers. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

One apple a day, the doctor stays away from me! The Western Xia soldiers did not have this concept, mainly because the water source had been out for several days, and the only road leading to the water source was full of mines. As soon as the soldiers swarmed up, Dura hurriedly drew his sword and shouted, "Stand back!" Who dares to come forward to be dealt with by military law! ”

Order still has to be maintained, otherwise these dozen or so carts of Ping Po Guo will not be enough for 30,000 soldiers, and then there will be a bloody case caused by Ping Po Guo. Du Luo hurriedly sent someone to inform the Gang Meng, and the Gang Meng, who received the news, also arrived. He was very excited to look at this apple fruit, this is a charcoal in the snow.

hurriedly called to escort Ping Poguo's ramming: "These are all sent by Lord Liang?" ”

Chang replied: "Yes, Lord Liang knows that everyone is very anxious about running out of water, these are only part of it, and Lord Liang's soldiers are mobilizing more fruits everywhere, and trying to find a way to find water sources to solve their urgent needs." ”

Meng Meng picked up a piece of apple fruit and took a bite, it was so sweet and juicy that even the sound of Du Luo and others swallowing saliva could be heard in his ears. Where does the saliva come from, everyone tastes terrible, and if there is saliva, it is also to quench thirst.

"General, you have been unwilling to retreat to the southwest, the prince said that you are to confront the Song army, and another reason is that you are unwilling to face the prince of Liang head-on, now you know, right? Lord Liang's mood is still towards the Western Xia Army, you don't protect such a monarch, do you want to protect the queen mother who seeks power? ”

Du Luo couldn't help it: "Yes, what General Man said is reasonable, and the general thinks twice!" ”

As soon as he said this, the lieutenants around him responded one after another.

The effect of Ping Po Guo was too great, and she thought about it: "Does Lord Liang have a way to break Yongle City?" ”

"Yes, yes, but the prince can't tell us for the time being!"

She nodded and turned around and instructed Du Luo to divide the apples as much as possible first.

"General, don't be too anxious, I think if the prince sees you and knows the situation of the former enemy, he will solve the follow-up matter as soon as possible!" said casually.

The words still touched Liang Yiqi a lot, seeing that Liang Yiqi was well prepared, even if he rushed to the southwest at that time, presumably Liang Yikui would have a full countermeasure.

Now it is not only the water source that has been cut off, but also the connection with the imperial court for the Western Xia army, and the pros and cons are carefully weighed. It is not necessarily a bad thing to take refuge in Liang Yikui in this way, at least he no longer has to carry the infamy of his face, if he succeeds or is the hero of the founding of the country, he no longer has to succumb to the authority of that woman. He nodded: "Take me to see Lord Liang." ”

Having milk is a mother's words are scolding, but no matter how plump the ideal is, it is better than the real skinny, no water means that even porridge and rice can't be made, when the Xixia soldiers fall down horizontally, one by one when the mouth is full of bubbles and dry mouth, the one with water is the father.

It's not like the Xixia soldiers, the Xixia soldiers are also people, and they are also recruited by ordinary people, it doesn't matter who leads the troops and who is in power for the people, what ideals do you talk about when people are going to die? Living simply, who can let the people have clothes and food, and then they will talk about higher demands such as dignity. And now the Xixia soldiers only want water, and they are not stupid, except for their own sake, he doesn't know that there are only two wells in Yongle City, and they can't maintain the water source of fifty or sixty thousand soldiers. Therefore, even if the soldiers are not at this time, in case the Song army rushes out of the city, the defeated Western Xia army comes back to Xingqing Mansion, not to mention the Pingpo fruit, it is simply impossible to eat any good fruit.

When the time came to witness the miracle, he only brought one or two lieutenants and a few personal guards to see Liang Yiqi. Who would have thought that it was really like what the king said, and he came by mistake. No one could have imagined that more than 300 people in Hengshanzhai would receive Liang Yiqi and his 3,000 soldiers, and what they didn't expect was that they would be followed by 30,000 Western Xia troops.

Even Liang Yiqi himself couldn't believe that Wang said that he could really do it. Sha Shiyan and the other brothers of the Salt Gang were even more stunned, seeing that they usually walked into the council hall with a reckless cuteness to see Liang Yiqi and the king, Wu Tong patted Sha Shiyan, who had not yet come back to his senses: "The king has reappeared, and there will be unexpected things in the future, Brother Sha, you have to be mentally prepared!" ”

The Song army in Yongle City, like the Western Xia army, was looking forward to a rain, there were only two wells in the city, and the people waiting to fetch water by the wells lined up with various utensils that could draw water. In the early morning of the second day after Meng went to see Liang Yiqi, officials of all sizes in the city gathered in the palace: "Shen Jingluo, how can we fight this battle?" The soldiers and the people were full of complaints. The chief bookkeeper in the city, the officials and some local officials all gathered in the government office to ask Shen Kuo about countermeasures.

"The only way now is to retreat!" Shen Kuo said.

Xu Xi was the first to jump out: "Retreat? Didn't Li Shunju die in vain? Besides, we have more people than the Tanguts, wouldn't it be a loss of face for our court to retreat like this! ”

"If you don't retreat, you're just sitting back and waiting, and if it weren't for Xu Zhi's own decision, how could there be such a big loss?" Shen Kuo had a calm face, this Xu Xi was not enough to succeed and more than to lose. The Song army thought that the infantry was the majority, and if the Western Xia army attacked the city, it would be easy to do, and with the help of the city's momentum, it would be possible to give the enemy some blows, but if it rushed out like this, it would be a death. If you don't rush away, the Western Xia army surrounded the city, and the Song army could be trapped to death. And in this place of Yongle City, it is really difficult to retreat.

Shen Kuo talked about Xu Xi's sore spot, and he hurriedly quibbled: "What does it mean to be in charge without authorization? The three of them had two votes in favor, and besides, Shen Jingluo, didn't you also oppose it at that time? Who knew that the Western Xia army would kill a horse pistol! Anyway, I don't agree with the withdrawal of the army! ”

Just as the two were arguing, they suddenly heard a soldier report: "Shen Jingluo, go to the city and take a look, the Western Xia army is going to attack the city!" ”

This was what Shen Kuo was most worried about hearing, he hurriedly led everyone to run towards the city, two hundred steps below the city stood the Western Xia soldiers, and in front of the front row of soldiers was a row of three-bow ballistas. This was followed by several rows of soldiers carrying crossbows.

The bow is universal for infantry, while the crossbow can only be used by infantry. Because the crossbow generally needs to be opened with foot force, the range is also long. However, the frequency of crossbow firing is low, and from the time the enemy cavalry enters the firing range to the close encounter, only three crossbows can be fired. Four times. Therefore, the Song army sometimes set up crossbowmen, crossbowmen, and crossbowmen to shorten the interval between arrows. The bed crossbow fires dozens of arrows at a time, and has a lot of damage against the enemy's dense attacks. Because of its power, siege armies often used it to shoot at the city walls so that the soldiers could attach themselves to the city, so the siege army called this kind of crossbow arrow (tread arrow).

Seeing that this formation, the Western Xia army was really going to attack the city, and the deputy general stepped forward to receive orders from Shen Kuo, Shen Kuo shook his head: "What we are afraid of now is that the Western Xia army is besieging the city, if he attacks hard, we can destroy as much as we can." Be prepared to defend and endure and wait. ”

Shen Kuo ordered to go on, but time passed little by little, and the Western Xia army had no intention of attacking at all. It's June and July, and the sun is already shining just after noon. The soldiers in the city were sweating like rain, and even Shen Kuo, who was watching the battle in the city with a fan, was soaked with sweat.

"Why don't you attack yet?" Xu Xi flickered the clothes and said impatiently.

Shen Kuo glanced at Xu Xi: "Or, Steward Xu will lead the troops to fight?!" ”

Xu Ximing knew that Shen Kuo was ridiculing him, but he couldn't say anything with a red face.

"Shen Jingluo, look at the movement!" Shen Kuo heard that he was busy looking towards the city with everyone, this look was fresh, and a few carriages came out of the back of the Xixia soldiers' camp with a grunt, and they didn't know what they were moving from basket to basket. The soldiers of Western Xia simply sat on the ground, waiting to be divided from the cart.

A throwing cart was pushed out of the ranks, and the soldiers shouted: "Listen to the Song army in the city, our prince will give you a gift!" ”

"Shoot the arrows!" Xu Xi shouted.

No one listened to him until now, everyone looked at Shen Kuo, Shen Kuo frowned and wondered in his heart, what are the father and son next to the king going to do?

The original structure of the catapult was very simple, a huge lever, the long end was a stone loaded with a holster or a wooden basket, and dozens of ropes were tied to the short end, and when the order was given, dozens of people pulled the rope at the same time and threw the stones using the principle of the lever. But in the Song Dynasty, the technique of throwing stones reached its peak. "Wujing General Essentials" said, "all cannons, sharp weapons in the army, offensive and defensive divisions are used", which shows the importance of catapults, the book also introduces in detail eight commonly used catapults, the largest of which needs to drag 250 people, up to 8.76 meters, 45 kilograms of stone projectiles fired, can shoot 90 steps (the Song military system is converted into modern units is 140.85 meters), it must be pointed out here that "Wujing General Essentials" may be for the purpose of secrecy or deliberately misleading the enemy, the range of the catapult is greatly reduced, In fact, according to other ancient records and modern scientific calculations and simulations, the launch distance of this catapult is not less than 500 meters, which can be said to be an ultra-long-range strike in the era of cold weapons.

Of course, the car in front of him is not so exaggerated, it seems that there are more than a dozen people who can pull it, the Xixia soldiers put a basket of Ping Po fruit on the catapult, a dozen people pulled the rope, and a basket of Ping Po Guo flew towards the city. Compared with the huge stone, the apple fruit is much lighter, and a bunch of apple fruit flew over in an uproar, and the Song army who was smashed was shocked and hurt at first, and then reacted to the fact that it was the apple fruit that immediately became a mess, and they went to grab the fruit, and even the one that fell to the ground and broke it also had extremely thirsty soldiers to grab it, this scene was embarrassing enough. The lieutenant generals and leaders around Shen Kuo hurriedly stepped forward to stop it, and finally restored order.

Shen Kuo, Xu Xi and others were also almost smashed, and seeing that the fruits on the ground were snatched up by the soldiers, Xu Xi stomped his feet in pain: "This, isn't this the Tangut people teasing us." Shen Jingluo, what do they mean by this, why don't they vote more......"

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