Ye Li Yu beggar carried the two back, stripped off their clothes and roasted the fire, not knowing what was going on, so he reached out and pulled the rope, and the rope was pulled out, and it was damp.

Where is he standing in a daze, is there groundwater?

There must be water underground, and the Shimen River is nearby, how can there be no underground water? The problem is that when the water level of the Shimen River is at its lowest, even if there is groundwater, it still leaks into the Shimen River. I'm digging a tunnel, but the tunnel isn't digging deep, so the water comes from?

Zhang Yuan reacted a little faster than him, grabbed it, and pulled another rope, the rope was pulled out, and it was also damp on it, and there was obviously water inside, but the person didn't have time to escape, and it was all blocked inside.

When they dragged it again, there was no water here, and the people inside were digging, and when they saw that the rope had been taken away, they felt very strange, so they said to their companions, "Go out and have a look." ”

Continue to dig hard, Yeli begged the order to dig under the enemy village before breakfast, and must work hard. I felt a little wrong, and even though there was water in the distance, it froze, and it was very hard like the original soil, but when it was close to the water source, the soil became soft. I didn't expect it for a while, it was soft and good, and it could dig faster, and the two hammers went down, and the water rushed in, and the soil became bigger and bigger, and the tunnel was quickly filled. The companion who came out to inquire was almost at the entrance of the cave, and heard a voice behind him, and he couldn't see clearly in it, and he was stunned for a while, and the water quickly spread over, and the water knew it, and hurriedly fled out. Escaped quickly, but was still drenched in water. crawled out, just like the first two, shivering from the cold, and shouted for help.

Yeli Yuqi also woke up, and pulled the ropes of the other two tunnels, only one authentic person was saved, and the soldiers of the other two tunnels all disappeared into the tunnel and could never get out.

Where did Zhang Yuan stand in a daze, getting up early in the morning to prepare for a three-dimensional attack, who knows if he will be demoralized when he encounters this situation?

He looked blankly at the stone gate wall.

It is not tall and thick, but I faintly feel that it is stronger than the Weizhou city wall.

Zheng Lang sat on the head of the city and looked funny.

These means are really clumsy.

Until now, Zheng Lang saw the clumsiness of the Western Xia people, and some inexplicable fantasies arose in his heart.

There were famous generals in Western Xia, and Genghis Khan was helpless for a while, and the others were just like that, including the killed Shan Yu Weiliang, the Yeli brothers who fought with him in front of him, Li Yuanhao, and the later did not hide the false Pang.

They can only be called lucky, and they are far from the road to fame.

Therefore, Zheng Lang thought that these two battles had greatly damaged Yuan Hao's vitality, could he send troops to conquer Lingzhou once and completely disintegrate Western Xia?

Just think about it, there are many practical difficulties, and the domestic sad urging system and the distant Khitan can become uncertain factors. Thinking of this, I couldn't help but sigh, in a year or two, it's time to go back and have a good talk with Zhao Zhen.

Then he said, "Do you know who that man is?" ”

Zhang Yuan did not leave Yeli to meet the beggars, Zheng Lang had seen it several times, and finally doubted it in his heart.

Shake your head from side to side.

Li Lingming can know, but expect him to say it? So Zheng Lang said: "Send scouts to check, who is this Han person?" ”

It may not be Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao, there are several Han high-ranking officials in Western Xia, but these two are the most hateful.

Turn your head and focus on the situation again.

Yeli Yuqi changed his tactics and launched the stone thrower, which was praised by countless descendants and was called the whirlwind cannon.

In fact, the Song Dynasty's is the real whirlwind cannon, and the Xixia whirlwind cannon is just a copycat version of the Song Dynasty's whirlwind cannon. Even if the whirlwind cannon can turn to the stone thrower, the power is not the largest among the stone throwers of the Song Dynasty, and the largest is the tiger squat cannon.

than a stone thrower? Zheng Lang laughed.

Begin the competition, let the Tanguts get closer,

A general set up the whirlwind cannon and was about to launch the stone projectile, when Zheng Lang shouted: "Release." ”

None of them were placed on the head of the city, and they began to be launched directly inside the city wall, and hundreds of huge stones fell down, some of which were large, and fell on this small stone throwing machine in Western Xia, and directly blasted into slag.

After two rounds, all the cottage whirlwind cannons in Western Xia were dumb.

Zheng Lang looked very carefully, some stone throwers still have a long range, but the shortcomings are very serious, there are many people who do it, the launch speed is slow, and the accuracy is seriously insufficient.

sighed, not to mention stone bullets, I'm afraid the power of carrying a gunpowder bag is also limited.

But after two rounds of fighting, Yeli Yuqi had to order another retreat.

In fact, he didn't know how to attack the city, anyway, he felt good, so he brought a batch of them over, and tried to see which one had a better effect. So another trick was made, the soldiers pushed the cart, and the car was tied with crashing wood, which was the original crash of Western Xia, and Zheng Lang couldn't bear to see it. I don't know how far the siege equipment of the Tangut people developed later, and now I really can't look at it.

In the capital, he deliberately took a look at the weapons of the Song Dynasty, including some siege equipment, such as siege vehicles, wooden house shapes, equipped with four or six wheels, covered with cowhide or sheepskin, the outermost baffle, with a ring ladder inside, and a wooden bridge on the top floor, the soldiers pushed the siege vehicle to the side of the city wall, put down the wooden bridge, and directly walked from the wooden bridge to the enemy's city.

It seems to be very powerful, but in fact, it is not, the most afraid of fire attack, even if you push a dozen siege engines close to the enemy's city wall, you can't occupy the city. Unless hundreds of siege engines are pushed to the enemy's wall, a swarm of thousands of people will enter the enemy's city at the same time.

That's impossible, it's too expensive to build, and it's inconvenient to carry.

There was also the crash, which, like the Tanguts at this time, had a huge wooden stake, but the head of the pile was wrapped in iron leaves to make it sharper, and on top there was a roof-like protective cover, covering the moist hides to prevent the flames from burning. At the same time, there was a ring tied to the top, and the soldiers went to the city wall and used the huge swing force of the ring to smash the iron tip into the enemy's city wall.

This is the real crash, or not to overestimate its power, the defender can throw a boulder from above, boiling oil, no oil can be boiled with water to pour down, or with burning grease thrown on the crash car to burn, destruction.

The Song Dynasty had, but not much, it was evolved from the weapons of the Tang Dynasty at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and later it was stealing, who would attack with these siege equipment? Attacking the Sixteen States of Youyun?

Don't scare Lu Yijian to death.

Besides, the ladder is not a ladder used by the people, nor is it a ladder like that of Western Xia, some weigh more than a thousand catties. There are four wheels below, and the big one has six wheels, equipped with shields, winches, grappling hooks, and pulleys, that is, a pair of wheels, which can slide up and down along the city wall when climbing the city, and there is a transfer car in the middle that can be connected and folded. In addition to this kind of large cloud ladder in the Song Dynasty, there were also flying ladders, bamboo flying ladders, tiptoe ladders, etc.

But have you used it?

It seems that when the Five Route Army invaded Western Xia, often a small city could not be captured, where did these powerful siege equipment go?

I don't know.

Retracted his thoughts and looked down, even if it was this kind of crash, he couldn't let it really crash, and the wall of his own village couldn't be taken seriously, it could collapse in a few clicks.

Getting closer and closer, seeing that there were only a dozen steps, some Western Xia soldiers began to run regardless of the rain of arrows and crossbows on the head of the city, so that the crash car could exert more strength and crash into the wall. Zheng Lang gave the order.

Some small pipes stretched out from the head of the city, and behind it was an iron kettle, on which there was a large cork, first uncover the iron kettle, put the boiling oil into it, and the two squeezed the cork, and the boiling oil was launched from the bamboo pipe at the mouth of the iron kettle. The principle is similar to that of a high-pressure water gun, which is not as powerful as a high-pressure water gun, but standing at the head of the city, it can shoot forty or fifty meters away. It is still a heavy instrument, which was invented by Zheng Lang.

The boiling oil was poured and shot, slightly cool, and there was also a high temperature of several hundred degrees Celsius, and the screams were heard again. However, it did not end, and then the Song army shot rockets at the head of the city, and after a spray of boiling oil, hitting the wood and small wooden carts, as well as the enemy's leather robes, there was a thick layer of boiling oil, and boom, the flames rose.

The Western Xia soldiers stopped crashing into the city, and even ignored the arrows and feathers shot from the city, and rolled on the ground in pain.

There is also a way, to raise the earth mountain, the Ishikawa plug is not tall, and if you shoot five or six small earth mountains, the effect of the city wall will be greatly reduced immediately. Guan Jian is now entering the depths of winter, the soil is crisp and hard, and he thinks of five or six dirt mountains that overwhelm the city wall, and he has not thought of doing it for more than ten days. Can Yeli meet beggars wait for more than ten days?

The unsuccessful attack undermined the morale of Western Xia.

Yeli Yuqi stood in front of the three armies, a little in a daze, they have all tried, ladders, hooks, digging tunnels, stone throwers, crashing cars, in addition to these several siege methods, what other methods can attack the city? Is it difficult to grow wings and fly into the city?

You can also fly into the city, the other side of the Ishikawa village is leaning on the low mountain, if the northwest wind is strong, there is a way to let the Xixia people conjure wings, but unfortunately Yeli Yu beggar does not know.

Annoyed and angry, he ordered a general attack.

I use all that I can use without being tempted.

Tens of thousands of people rushed to the city wall with various equipment.

"It's long overdue." Zheng Lang said.

With the siege skills of the Tangut people, how could they want to win by skill?

One force down ten will be the true meaning.

I don't know? I know, but how many soldiers will be sacrificed in this way?

The bloody battle began, and from morning to evening, both sides suffered casualties, and the Tanguts were even heavier, leaving at least more than a thousand corpses behind.

It also achieved some effect, many city walls were damaged, and even two collapsed, fortunately the area was not large, and it was blocked with a fence.

Ye Li Yu beggar sent someone to shout: "Let's collect the body." ”

Not only the corpses, but also their respective weapons, also have to pick up some.

Zheng Lang said: "Okay. ”

Both sides each sent people to clean up the corpses of their comrades under the city wall, and there were few Song soldiers, but some Song soldiers fell off the city wall after they died. Putting aside the bloodshed of the battlefield, this scene in the evening is very warm.

Night fell quietly, the Western Xia military camp began to rest, the Song army could not rest, had to repair the destroyed wall.

Zheng Lang looked at the cold moon and said, "Prepare to carry water." ”

The soldiers brought buckets and brought water from the trenches and poured them on the ground outside the city.

Ye Li Yu begged to see that he was in a hurry and couldn't pour it, so he ordered the soldiers to take turns to attack.

Offense is defense, and defense is watering while defending.

After more than an hour, Yeli had to withdraw his troops and could not attack again. In the middle of winter, the night weather was very cold, and all the water poured on the ground began to freeze, and his men could not stand on it, how to attack the city. Although the thin ice was trampled into mud by the soldiers, many of them were also drenched in water. I was shivering from the cold, and I didn't have the courage to attack the city.

Han Qi said excitedly: "This method is good, can it be poured on the city wall." ”

In the past, water was poured on the city wall, and the next day it became a solid and smooth wall of ice, and the enemy sighed.

Zheng Lang shook his head and said, "No." There are certain conditions for this kind of battle, the effect of the whole stone wall is not significant, and the water will not freeze if it cannot be stored. The earthen wall can hold water and become ice, but after the weather warms up, the water in the wall mud becomes ice, squeezing the wall mud, the city wall is stronger, melts into water again, shrinks in size, and then volatilizes out, the city wall will leave many gaps, as long as the enemy attacks again, a few light bumps, the city wall will collapse in a large area. It doesn't matter if Ishikawa Village is here, this village will be destroyed after the war, but this winter is not as cold as last year, it will become ice in the morning and melt in the afternoon, as long as it takes two days, the wall is not crispy, and the fighter plane does not come so soon, and Ishikawa Village will be dangerous. ”

"I see."

"This is Gewuxue, alas, there is no time, Your Majesty said to me, let me write about this Gewuxue, and now I don't even have time to write about benevolence, so I have time to write Gewuxue." After speaking, Zheng Lang ordered to continue splashing water.

Gradually, the ice on the ground became thicker and thicker, and some of the water slid into the distance, making it look like a huge smooth mirror within thirty or so steps on the west side of the city wall.

Ye Li Yu begged to watch the mirror get bigger and bigger, and was speechless with anger.

It's dawn, and there's no way to attack.

The Song army calmly repaired the city wall, ate at the same time, and then pointed at the Western Xia army with a grin.

Ye Li Yu pulled Zhang Yuan out and said, "Zhang Zhongshu, you are knowledgeable, can you crack it?" ”

What erudite, that is to fool the Tangut people. Zhang Yuan looked at it and said hesitantly: "The ice will melt in the afternoon, but it won't melt clean." In the evening, the Song people watered again, and said again and again, not to break through this village. ”

Where, just the water in the trenches, poured for five or six nights, the trenches dried up. But Zhang Yuan and Yeli don't know. Yeli begged and asked, "Is there no way to crack it?" ”

"Chop wood and roast it."

What kind of solution is this?

In desperation, Yeli Yuqi could only let the soldiers chop firewood from the mountain, throw it over, and while roasting the ice, he took advantage of the northwest wind to let Song Junxun, who was standing downwind, smoke a thick smoke.

Seeing this, Zheng Lang asked the soldier to bring a towel to wet it and cover it on his nose.

Let you roast slowly.

In the afternoon the attack was renewed, and many more places were knocked down, but still nothing was found.

On the third day, Nori Yu begged to slow down the pace, and the scale of the siege became small, and Ishikawa Village was knocked down in many places, proving that this place is not impregnable, but in the face of a scheming enemy, it will cost many people to finally capture the city. Therefore, he turned his attention to the south.

……

South.

Cheng Kesheng didn't dare to go south again, and the scouts couldn't be sent out, so how could he dare to go south?

He led the army to Dingchuan Village and walked around, and shouted to the Song army at the head of the city: "You guys hide here and be turtle grandsons, I won't attack you, let's go attack Shichuan Village, and capture the little prime minister of your Song Dynasty alive." ”

Yaowu showed off his might and led the army all the way north along the Hulu River.

Half a day later, I came to Zheng Lang's new Gaoping Village in the Weiru River Valley, this place is a strategic place, the west controls Shimen Gorge, the north controls Wuyan Qianxia, the east, southeast and south, just with Tiansheng Village, Dongshan Village, Zhenrong Village, Dingchuan Village to form a whole, otherwise the original number of villages is in front, forming a depression, which is not conducive to defense. But it is still a theory, there are more than a dozen big roads and small roads here, and it is impossible to use one village to block all roads. Unless Zheng Lang's regional tactics are implemented, these walled roles will be more played.

He flaunted his might again and continued to evacuate to the northwest.

Ambushed on a hill between Gaoping Village and Shichuan Village, and when he arrived here, Cheng Kexun finally breathed a sigh of relief. There is no hunting team, and there is no Song Dynasty army, so scouts can be arranged calmly.

A large number of scouts were sent out, so that there were barely flies to fly in. But for patrols in other places, it is deliberately relaxed. This is the method discussed by Yeli Yuqi and Zhang Yuan, storming Shichuan Village, forcing the Song army to transfer reinforcements from the south, eating the reinforcements in the field, and then turning back to attack Shichuan Village on both sides.

Yeli begged to eat two Song troops, Zheng Lang also wanted to eat his two armies, everyone can use about the same number of troops, and who will eat whom in the end will be known in a few days. Soon the decisive moment came, after Dingchuan, the Song Dynasty almost did not send the so-called hunting team, there was no layer of village cover, no matter whether it was sending troops or hunters, it was very dangerous.

Cheng Kexiang can also find out some news.

The three Song armies came to the north, there were about six or seven thousand Song troops in the direction of Dongshanzhai, there were about ** thousand Song troops in the direction of Zhenrong Village, and there were about fifteen thousand Song troops in the direction of Sanchuan Village.

Cheng Ke was shocked when he heard this.

Sure enough, the Song army set up an ambush in Longshan, otherwise it would not have been able to send 15,000 reinforcements to arrive. This is only reinforcements, there are still troops left in the villages, it is conceivable how many Song troops are left in the south, plus the archers, and the people said by the son of the patriarch of Wangke, they are going to die by themselves.

But he also completed the task of Yeli begging, the main force of the Song Dynasty was in the south, and Longshan was the most. But when a new problem comes, it seems that many Song troops have come, and the three roads are one, and if Gaopingzhai sends another part of the army, it may reach more than 30,000 people, and I can't eat the troops in my hands.

Yeli Yuqi quickly replied to him, where do you ambush first and don't move, before the Song Dynasty reinforcements arrive, you send a spy team to annihilate the scouts of the Song Dynasty, and then lead the army to retreat north, and let the Song Dynasty reinforcements. Then I took advantage of my speed and sent a part of the army to stay behind in Shimenxia Village, and most of them were blocked head-on, and there were two kinds of flanking attacks. If the Song army of Shimen Village came out of the village to rescue, it would be the best.

Cheng Ke rewarded the order and walked.

Then the Song army was very careful, and marched northward step by step.

But it did not enter Gaopingzhai, the army of the west road did not move, and the armies of the two routes in the Middle East were integrated, one left and one right parallel to Gaopingzhai and set up a large camp again.

This time, the Song Dynasty attached great importance to the scouts, but when they arrived here, the gap increased, and the scouts still heard the news, and the reason why they camped was to wait for supplies from the rear. It was a bit hasty to send out the army, and the supply was insufficient, otherwise it would not have been so fast. Cheng Ke is also greedy for these supplies, but in order not to startle the snake, he can only restrain the ** in his heart.

Now patiently wait for the three armies of the Song Dynasty to meet and continue north. As long as you go more than 30 miles north, it will be the time of the general decisive battle.

At this time, Shimenzhai was a little miserable, it was the seventh day of the Xixia people's attack, no matter how Zheng Lang used ice water, or other strategies, the wall was also broken in many places, and had to be blocked with fences everywhere. The trenches also dried up, and in order to confuse the enemy, even drinking water was taken out to pour ice.

However, the generals were not worried at all, on the contrary, their expressions became more and more excited. Hearing the scout's report, Han Qi said, "You can release pigeons." ”

"Let it go," Zheng Lang said.

So he came to the head of the city and shouted to the Western Xia soldiers who were attacking the city outside the city: "I want to see the king of your family." ”

When Yeli Yuqi heard this, he cooperated and ordered the three armies to stop attacking, came to the front of the formation, and asked, "Zheng Xianggong, do you want to surrender to our court?" As long as you surrender to our court, I will make a proposal to our majesty and give you the title of king. ”

"I am not uncommon to you the king of Western Xia, I called you here to give you something."

"Oh, what kind of gift?"

Zheng Lang generously opened the gate and let the two soldiers carry a huge box out of the gate.

It seems to be child's play, but thinking about the inside story, Han Qi wants to leave in shame again.

It wasn't until today that he understood how to write the words "Bing is not tired of cheating".

The soldier put the box down and turned to leave.

Yeli Yu beggar was very curious, what kind of gift, let the soldier open it, and suddenly countless pigeons flew out of the box. The sky is so blue, the pigeons are so white, and the sound of the pigeon's whistle is like a loud music