The siege battle of Baxian has entered the third day, the battlefield is filled with gunsmoke, corpses are all over the field, full of pungent smell of oil smoke, on the first day of the attack, the Liao army suffered a big loss, the defenders of Baxian County sprinkled a large number of quenched tribulus thorns around the city, so that the attacking enemy army was caught off guard, hundreds of cavalry and more than 1,000 infantry were pierced by the tribulus terrestris piercing the soles of the feet, temporarily lost their combat effectiveness.

Although the small thistle thorn has not yet reached the state of killing, it has caused a great shadow on the psychology of the soldiers, seriously affecting the morale, making it impossible for the soldiers to charge when they attack, and when they cautiously walked to the city, they were hit head-on by the rain of arrows at the head of the city.

In two days and three attacks, the Liao soldiers suffered heavy casualties without touching the city, losing more than 6,000 soldiers and nearly 300 siege ladders.

At night, 30,000 cavalry of the Liao army continued to gallop back and forth in the east of Baxian County, sprinkling bags of soil on the ground passing through the city wall, they wanted to build several new roads, and at the head of the city, Wang Qigong looked coldly at the enemy cavalry advancing continuously, and beside him, 3,000 Song soldiers with crossbows in their hands were already in battle.

Once the enemy army is within range, they will not hesitate to fire arrows, there is no unified order, and the soldiers are free to play.

At this time, nearly 100 soldiers in the northeast direction at the same time released arrows, there was a scream and the neighing of war horses from the city, and more than a dozen cavalry close to the city to send soil were shot by random arrows, and then, the soldiers of the Song army continued to release arrows, and cavalry were constantly shot, and countless casualties were immediate.

When Xiao Han's slave got the news, he had to order: "It's a hundred steps away from the city, you don't have to go deep." ”

In fact, laying new roads is only to coax their own soldiers, to remove the influence in their hearts, knowing that there are more thistles under the city walls, how can they possibly get rid of them?

At the third watch, the cavalry in front came to report that the thirteen new roads had been paved, and Xiao Han's slave immediately ordered the troops to be collected and waited for dawn.

After the Liao soldiers stopped paving the road, the city was completely quiet, and soon, more than 100 soldiers climbed the rope to go down to the city, and scattered a large number of thistle thorns on the new road........

At daybreak, a dozen new roads appeared in the east of the city, along which soldiers could charge without worrying about stepping on thistles.

However, these dozen or so new roads were all dead-end roads, and disappeared when they were about a hundred paces away from the city, and the powerful crossbow of the god arm at the head of the city shot more than 300 cavalry in the night, so that the other cavalry were afraid to take a single step.

'Boom! Boom! Boom! The drums of war sounded, three miles away, tens of thousands of Liao troops lined up in the wilderness, 13,000 infantry were ready, the armor was clear, the swords and guns were unsheathed, and the murderous spirit was surging, they carried 300 siege ladders, but they didn't know that 300 siege ladders were already their last siege weapons, and there was no wood to replenish around, if they couldn't take Baxian today, they would lose their ability to siege the city.

Xiao Han's slave pulled out his sword and shouted: "The first one to attack the head of the city will be rewarded with ten thousand taels of silver, and the official will be promoted to three levels!" ”

The 13,000 infantry shouted loudly, their morale was uplifted, and Xiao Han's slave pointed at the head of the city with his sword, "Kill me!" ”

"Kill!"

Thirteen thousand soldiers roared and rushed to the city, and the sound of huge war drums inspired the soldiers to charge.

The Liao soldiers ran along the thirteen newly paved roads, and there was indeed no threat of thistles thorns, which made their morale high, but when they were still one hundred and fifty steps away from the city, the soldiers who were running in front fell down one after another, holding their feet and howling, and suddenly the steps of the running soldiers stopped, and the soldiers began to panic, and he knew in his heart that the soldiers in front stepped on the thistles again, and they did not remove them at all.

The soldier's sudden stop made Xiao Han's slave furious, he knew very well that this would happen, but he would never allow the soldier to be cowardly at this critical moment.

Xiao Han's slave immediately shouted: "Urge the attack, order the sword and axe to supervise the battle, whoever dares not to advance, don't be killed!" ”

The drums of war sounded again, and the thirteen cavalry rushed away, their blades in their hands, forcing the infantry to charge forward, and they killed hundreds of the last infantry in a row, and the soldiers no longer rushed forward regardless of life or death, and many soldiers even used the cavalry and war horses that had been shot dead last night to pave the way.

The rain of arrows in the sky at the head of the city fell overwhelmingly, and the armor and shields of the attacking Liao soldiers could not resist this powerful penetrating force, and they all screamed and fell to the ground, but the soldiers who fell to the ground became the paving stones of the soldiers behind, many wounded soldiers did not die under the arrows, but died under the ruthless trampling of their companions, and the last hundred or so steps became a road paved with corpses, and a long wooden plank was laid on the trench, and the Liao soldiers finally attacked the city.

There were 8,000 soldiers and 3,000 militia deployed at the head of the city, and there were no large trebuchets or bed crossbows in Bazhou, but Fanning temporarily sent 50 small trebuchets and 300 iron fire mines to Bazhou, and asked them to use them only at the most critical moment.

On the one hand, he was worried that the frequency of use too much would make the Liao army find a way to deal with the iron fire thunder, on the other hand, he did not want the Song army to rely on the iron fire thunder, or hoped that the Song army would improve its combat ability through continuous fighting.

Therefore, whether it is Baosai County, Hejian County, Yi County or Baxian County, the Song army does not easily take out iron fire and thunder, and the Song army can use a lot of weapons to defend the city, such as fierce oil, iron thistle, defender arrows, divine arm crossbows, etc., as long as they are used skillfully, they can also shine in defense.

When the Liao army crossed the trench and put a siege ladder on the city, the Song army threw countless torches down the city, and the fierce fire oil under the city quickly burned.

The arrows were like rain, the flames were blazing, and the casualties of the more than 10,000 Liao troops besieging the city were getting bigger and bigger, but Xiao Hanjianu didn't have any idea of withdrawing, he ordered: "Continue to urge the battle!" ”

'Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! The earth-shattering drums of war rang out once again.

Many soldiers who were about to retreat saw the murderous sword and axe men supervising the battle team, so they had to turn around and rush towards the city wall, there were too many dead, the corpses were covered all over the city, the threat of thistle thorns to the infantry had been lifted, but it was still a great threat to the cavalry, and there were not only a large number of thistle thorns in the wilderness outside the city, but also countless horse pits, in which sharpened wooden sticks were waiting for the horses' hooves to step into.

Because the cavalry could not intervene, the Liao soldiers who besieged the city had no cover, and the powerful arrow rain made the Liao army casualties more and more, the soldiers could not attack the city, but the flames became more and more fierce, and the raging fire under the city engulfed the siege ladders one after another, and the whole city was filled with a pungent smell of burning corpses.

The last siege ladder was also burned because it could not withstand the flames, and without siege weapons, the Liao army under the city became a target.

Seeing that they could no longer attack the city, Xiao Han's slave had to sigh, "Withdraw the army!" ”

'When! While! While! The bell for the withdrawal rang, the Liao army was defeated, and more than 5,000 Liao soldiers retreated desperately.

In the fierce battle that lasted for two hours, the Liao army suffered more than 8,000 casualties, and finally only more than 5,300 soldiers retreated to the main position, the fire under the city was still burning, and more than 300 siege ladders were burned into charcoal.

There was a cheer on the head of the city, and finally the Song army won the third offensive and defensive battle at the cost of less than 500 casualties, and the total annihilation of the Liao army reached more than 12,000 people, and achieved a major victory in the defense of Bazhou.

More than 30,000 Liao soldiers retreated to the ferry twenty miles east of Ba County, where they set up a large camp, the Liao army's self-help has failed, the advance and retreat have been lost, in addition to the grain and grass can still support two months, the other states have lost all the supplies, and now they have no second way except to wait for the rescue of the Liao State.

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