The prisoners of war were brought to the city again.

This time, however, it was different, as most of the POWs had shields in their hands, but many of these shields were wooden shields. This is helpless, Wang Ju has only stayed in the ordnance supervision for more than ten months, and has been reforming the ordnance superintendent in the first few months, and after the reform is completed, the ordnance superintendent can be regarded as starting to be truly put into production, if it is calculated from this time period, it is actually only one year. It is impossible to make all the armor complete the redressing, and the Song Dynasty does not have so much financial resources for the time being, which can be squandered by Wang Ju.

Of course, it would be better if it dragged on until next winter, at least Zhang Ruoshui would not let the ordnance supervisor quickly corrupt for the time being.

However, it is impossible to delay until next year, and next year Wang Shao will most likely open the border river.

Therefore, there were still a large number of unqualified weapons and armor stored on the battlefield of Huanqing Road this time, although Wang Ju brought the weapons and armor of the general weapons supervisor to the front line.

The wooden shields worked for the time being, at least they were standing on the top of the city, and they didn't have to face the threat of enemy swords.

These men went up to the top of the city and stood in a row again.

The large shields of the Song Dynasty differed slightly from those of the Tang Dynasty, which was an almost rectangular irregular pentagonal shape, and the Song Dynasty changed from a pentagonal shape to a hexagonal shape. It's close to a rectangle, but it's not really square. Some of these large shields were made by Li Sangou's soldiers last night.

Many of today's soldiers are multi-purpose soldiers, and they may lay down their weapons, and they may be carpenters, bricklayers, lacquerers, leatherworkers, and blacksmiths.

This is also a product of the needs of war and the times.

Even though the Song Dynasty was commercially developed, it was still dominated by a closed small-scale peasant economy, which doomed many things, the people were self-sufficient, and the houses were broken and repaired by themselves, and they wanted to make a piece of furniture and get it themselves. Even the cloth and clothes were arranged by the women of the family to grow mulberry and hemp, weave, and sew.

This is especially true of the army, which opened mountains, built roads, bridges, and built camp fences, and it was impossible to hire special craftsmen.

In this regard, Western Xia did not have an advantage, because the city of Dashun was blocked, and the materials in the rear could not be delivered to the front line in time, and there was a shortage of everything, grain and grass, equipment, and even tools and nails.

But Rou Yuanzhai is not short of these.

This is something that is often ignored in history books and military books, as if everyone has been here for thousands of years, and there is nothing worth recording. But it actually matters.

At least because of this, in just one night, Li Sangou had more than 1,000 large wooden shields in his hands, although they were a little rougher, but they immediately caused two shield walls to appear in Rouyuan Village. And because they are irregular hexagons, this is also a great improvement, because if you remove the sharp corners underneath, then it can be placed smoothly on the ground. In fact, in this way, not only is there an extra side, but the big shield has also developed from a side shield to a standing shield. However, it is not a true quadrangular shield, so the combination of each shield creates holes that become battlements for archers to counterattack.

The shield wall appeared, Li Sangou asked his subordinates to issue bows and arrows to more than 1,000 prisoners of war, there were composite bows sent by Wang Ju, the number of divine arm bows was still small, it was impossible to popularize it in an all-round way, and it was too restrictive, even if it was improved, not all soldiers could fill it.

But there are not many real black lacquer bows, and there are a large number of summer-made bows and crossbows captured from the battle of Anjiang Fort.

However, it was enough, at least the range could reach a dirt hill dozens of paces away.

One is the stimulation of money, the second is Li Sangou's promise, and the third is that there are Song soldiers guarding behind, it is easy to follow orders, and if you don't obey orders, everyone understands the consequences.

More than a thousand Western Xia prisoners of war began to fire arrows to fight back.

When a Western Xia general saw this, he was so angry that he shouted: "You scum, dare to shoot us with arrows? Are you from Daxia? ”

One of the prisoners of war had the courage to shout: "You know that we are Bactria people, why are you still shooting us with arrows?" ”

"Who got you in the way?"

"We can't help it."

"Why don't you die!"

Just as Li Sangou came over, he said: "What he meant was wrong when you surrendered, even if you commit suicide, you shouldn't surrender." But I don't quite understand, did Western Xia have such an army? ”

Don't say that Western Xia, whether it is the Liao State or the future Jin State, there is no such army. Even if the battle between the Song Dynasty's good water river and the gentleman's pavilion is a special case, what if you don't surrender when you are defeated? Or who can be truly not afraid of death?

But were the POWs really right to do so? Li Sangou found it difficult to explain the truth clearly, so he simply gave an order: "In this way, you will be treated the same as the strongmen under me, and for every Xia soldier killed, ten silk horses will be rewarded." ”

Li Sangou glanced at the prisoners of war with shields and said, "Of course, you can also participate, but for your convenience, for every Xia Jun killed, ten taels of silver will be rewarded." Let you take it home after the war, but I won't force it. ”

After speaking, Li Sangou's expression was complacent, look, many people in our Song Dynasty said it.

That's right, can the prisoners of war listen to the big truth, and what big truth can Li Sangou say. Real money is real.

The order was given, and the prisoners of war on both sides first released their arrows softly, but the arrows became sharper and sharper, and each prisoner of war had drawn their bowstrings to the brim, and then aimed before releasing the arrows.

So there was a strange scene on the battlefield, the Western Xia also placed fortifications on the earth mountain, and the fortifications were also covered by shields, of course, the fighters were all Western Xia soldiers.

On the head of the city, in addition to the battlements, there are Song Dynasty officers and soldiers smashing rolling stones under the city, and the shields behind the female wall are also Western Xia soldiers, and the archery is even more Western Xia soldiers. This was not an offensive and defensive battle in Song Xia, it was an offensive and defensive battle within Western Xia.

The Western Xia soldiers on the earth mountain and under the city wall became more and more angry, and you really let go of the arrows, so the counterattack became more and more fierce. The Western Xia prisoners of war at the head of the city saw that their companions kept falling, and they also fired real fire, so the more they fought, the more fierce they became.

They were unconsciously angry, but the Western Xia soldiers behind them all looked at each other, and their hearts were even more mixed, which was very unpleasant.

If it goes on like this, what a blow it will have to morale, Liang Yi buried his anger and broke it, so he pushed thousands of elite soldiers, all of them were real Xixia crossbows in their hands, trying to end this nightmarish battle as soon as possible.

But Liang Yi buried it like this, which really forced the prisoners of war to be anxious. Even those who were shield-wielding, whose homes were not in Yanzhou and the nearby Hengshan area, angrily asked Li Sangou to fight. Of course, Li Sangou was willing to do so, and immediately issued weapons.

The number of these prisoners of war is quite large, more than 4,100 people, although several hundred people died, and more than 3,000 people, and the strength of the Jiucheng Fort guarding Huanqing Road is less than 3,000 people.

For a while, the Xia soldiers in the city and under the city were in full swing, and Liang Yi was buried and immortal, and the immortal wanted to die......

There are many troops in the Western Xia, hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and the camp alone is set up for several miles, and there is no end in sight. So Liang Yi buried himself in anger and asked the soldiers of the three armies behind him to go up the mountain to cut down trees and make siege ladders. If there is a lack of iron nails, it doesn't matter, drill holes in the ladder posts, leave tenons on the crossbars, and forcibly close the tenons to the tenons. Anyway, I didn't expect to make a cloud ladder like the Song Dynasty. But this kind of siege ladder, which has no protective properties, also means that more soldiers will die. As a result, the more soldiers were invested, the more soldiers died, and of course, the more prisoners of war died, so the prisoners of war became more red-eyed.

Anyway, if you don't let us live, what are you afraid of.

As a result, in the afternoon, almost the entire city wall of Rouyuan Village was filled with all kinds of crude siege ladders, but in the evening, Rouyuan Village was still unharmed, on the contrary, the corpses of countless summer soldiers were piled up under the city wall.

As for the Song Dynasty, many people also died, but eighty percent were prisoners of war.

Such a tragic offensive and defensive battle, such a result of casualties, made the soldiers of the entire Western Xia battalion not know what to say.

The sky is dark, and the night is about to fall again. Liang Yi was buried in the camp and walked around angrily, and in the end it was Song Ji who persuaded him, his wisdom flashed again, it was not possible to attack like this, it was better to make up his mind from the dirt mountain.

Although the Song army piled up high earth mountains under their noses, the casualties were large, but it was better than this siege casualties, as long as the earth mountains were piled up to a certain height and the Song people lost the height advantage of the city wall, then the opponent's advantage would become a disadvantage. But the other party's disadvantage still exists, that is, there are few troops.

Of course, if Liang Yibury has been maintaining such a siege regardless of losses, Rouyuan Village will be lost sooner or later, after all, although it is covered by the city wall, it will also hurt 1,000 enemies and 300 self-losses. However, the difference in strength between the two sides is huge.

But the tide of battle is constantly changing.

The three forts in front were all under fierce attack on this day.

The rear has completed a major transfer.

The strongmen of Fengchuan arrived safely in Gyeongju City, and the officers and soldiers of the Ninth Battalion of Chongyi entered Wujiao Town, and the officers and soldiers of Wujiao Town pushed forward into Huai'an Town. That is, Yanda's subordinates have all converged. Zhao Pu's army continued to advance from the forts around the state, entering Fort Papaya and Fort Whitting. A small number of officers and soldiers and strongmen from Fort Papaya and Fort Whitinburgh retreated to the forts in the rear of Huanzhou to prevent a part of Murong from rebelling again, while the army of Chonggu continued to stay in Ansai on the west side of Slush Fort.

If the march route of these troops is marked, it is like a giant crab sticking out its two claws, or like a giant python with its big mouth open.

But Ren Duo Ling Ding will not think like this, what are you kidding, can the Song Dynasty have this good appetite and not be afraid of being strangled to death?

But Ren Duo Ling Ding is still very careful, after all, there are 5,000 reinforcements from Yuanzhou, and now the strength of Huanqing Road has increased, and he faintly feels that something is wrong, could it be that Li Fugui's extraordinary performance?

can't help but make him suspicious, he also knows the truth of the two days of battle and the night attack in Dashun City, and he also knows the truth about the rapid suppression of the Murong people in Huanzhou, and he knows it in detail, because Murong Yingwei escaped the capture of the officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty, fled to the Slush Castle, and brought the truth of that night.

This shows that there is a smarter person behind the scenes.

So he walked around the tent and finally came up with an idea.

Gyeongju was flooded with smuggled salt, and there were many Gyeongju merchants who had close ties with the Tangut people, so while storming Fort Mery during the day, Rindo Lingding sent people to ride back quickly, find some Tangut merchants in Tongzhaichuan, let them cooperate, and handed over the steward of their home to contact the Song Dynasty smuggled salt merchants, and brought them back to Huai'an Town. After nightfall, Rindo Lingding asked the dozen or so stewards to sneak to Gyeongju by night. Let each of them find the smuggled salt merchant they had contacted before and find out the actual situation in Gyeongju City. Although these dozen stewards will be in danger in this line, as long as a few people can live to bring the news back, it is enough.

More than a dozen stewards all had sad faces, but there was no way, their families were all in the rear, so they had to obey the orders of Ren Duo Lingding and sneak into the night.

In fact, the biggest regret of Western Xia this time was because of Song Ji, Du Duo La's heart was awkward, so that Du Duo Lazhen could not communicate with Ren Duo Ling Ding, otherwise Ren Duo Ling Ding would make some more sensible moves.

Why bother so much, as long as you send scouts to Ningzhou to investigate, the truth will come out.

But Renduo Lingding also had negligence, since the Song Dynasty had already sent troops from Yuanzhou to support Huanzhou, why didn't the Xia army in Huluchuan pay attention to the Song army of the Zhenrong army?

The Zhenrong army also has a road to Huanzhou, from Qianxing Village to the east twenty miles, is Yuanzhou Heizhai ditch, and then forty miles ahead of what is the place? In that year, Fan Zhongyan ordered Jiang Kai to build a thin waist city, surveying the city to Huanzhou Dingbian Village 37 miles, west to Zhenrong Army Qianxing Village 60 miles, south to Yuanzhou Liuyuan Town 70 miles, measure its boundaries far and near to build the city, and the northeast of the thin waist city Banjing River is the thief's way, between the thin waist city and the border village, if there is a rush, that is, the border village and the thin waist city must help each other.

This is the real role of the slender waist city, not only to control the three Tibetan tribes and the Western Xia, and force them to submit to the Song Dynasty, but also to cooperate with the Dingbian Village to prevent the Western Xia from Banjing River to invade Yuanzhou and Huanzhou, and at the same time to open up the three contacts between Yuanzhou, Huanzhou and Zhenrong Army.

Forty miles to the east, Heizhaigou is a thin waist city!

There is also a place, Tiansheng Village, Dongqian Xing Village, West Gaoping Village, Bei'an Yuanbao, Konglan Xiaochuan Caiyuan Sichuan Thief Road. Xiaochuan is Huluchuan, but now the scope of the Song Dynasty control zhì is only in the north of the Zhenrong Military City Gaoping Village, the rest including the later Pingxia City are controlled by the Western Xia people, from the later Pingxia City that wide river has a small river to the Tiansheng Village, that is called Caiyuan River. That is, whether it is from Caiyuan River or Itaichuan in Western Xia, you can notice the movement of the Zhenrong army.

However, no, another 5,000 soldiers and horses of the Song Dynasty quietly entered the city of Slender Waist, and none of the Western Xia scouts found out, on the contrary, Cai Ting used this road to get a steady stream of news about the battle situation in Gyeongju...... R1152