The low, powerful sound of war drums 'Boom!' Boom! Knocking, 10,000 soldiers gathered around the huge ladder and the nest car and walked slowly, but halfway through, the ladder and the nest car were difficult to continue, and below Yixian was the slope, the center of gravity of the ladder and the nest car was too high, especially the nest car, which was very easy to overturn when pushed up the slope.

Yelu Kunping said angrily: "The ladder and the nest car will pull me up." ”

The Liao soldiers had no choice but to whip the healthy oxen and drag the nest cart and ladder slowly.

At the head of the city, the seven thousand Song troops were already in battle, Yang Wenguang looked coldly at the Liao soldiers who were speeding up, he turned around and ordered: "Roll wood and prepare!" ”

The Song army prepared tens of thousands of thick and stubby pieces of wood, each of which weighed at least fifty or sixty catties, which was a trick that Yang Wenguang learned from the Western Xia people.

In the fierce sound of war drums, the Liao army shouted and rushed towards the city, entering the 400-step line, generally speaking, entering the 400-step line means entering the strike zone at the head of the city, and bed crossbows and the like will be launched at this time.

Just after thousands of people ran through the 400 line, there were people who kept screaming and falling, some people stepped on the tribulus terrestris thorn, some people stepped on the trap pit, stepping on the tribulus terrestris thorn only pierced the skin, but stepping on the trap was seriously injured, and was directly pierced by the bamboo stick through the instep.

However, the tribulus thorns in Yi County cannot be compared with Ba County, which sprinkled 200,000 tribulus thorns, while Yi County only sprinkled 30,000 thorns, but tens of thousands of traps were made.

Although it brought a psychological shadow to the attacking soldiers, under the supervision of the offensive war drums, the attacking soldiers did not stop and continued to run.

Yang Wenguang squinted at the approaching nest car, and he immediately ordered: "Throw the rolling log!" ”

Two soldiers in a group, lifted the log and threw it hard, the log rolled down the slope, the soldiers in front found that the log was overwhelming, so frightened that they fell to the ground, the log flew over their heads, and many soldiers behind could not dodge, and were hit by the log.

The rolling logs that did not hit the soldiers continued to roll down the slope, and hundreds of healthy cattle pulling the nest cart and the ladder were immediately smashed to the bone and tendons, and lost their pulling force, several nest cars swayed, and fell backwards violently, the soldiers shouted and fled in all directions, but there were still people who could not escape, at least dozens of soldiers were crushed under the overturned nest car and ladders, and died on the spot.

"Stop!" Yang Wenguang raised his hand and stopped the giant tree's attack.

When the enemy is lying down, the lethality of the giant tree attack is significantly weakened, and if it can be combined with the defenders' arrows, it is also a good auxiliary method.

"Prepare your arrows!" Yang Wenguang immediately ordered.

Thousands of archers stood in the rear, and in fact, the Song army's thistles and traps were not aimed at the siege infantry, but at the archers of the Liao State.

The Liao archers were strong, and they could shoot arrows at high speed, which could completely suppress the Song army's throwing of rolling logs at the head of the city, so it was necessary to deploy thistle thorns and horse traps within the attack range of the Liao cavalry.

As for the archers, they shot arrows into the air behind the city head and inside the city, and the arrows of the Liao archers did not affect them.

The soldiers of the Liao army ran like a tide, running closer and closer, and people kept stepping on the thistle terrestris and trapping the horse pit and fell, but the Liao soldiers of the brigade still gradually approached the city and entered seventy steps.

Yang Wenguang immediately ordered: "Throw the rolling log!" ”

More than 1,000 soldiers lifted the rolling logs, the first batch of more than 500 rolling logs were thrown down the city, they rolled, and smashed towards the Liao soldiers who came to the impact, the Liao soldiers were caught off guard, the rolling logs smashed into the dense crowd, and the Liao soldiers were smashed to the bones, broken skulls, hundreds of soldiers were smashed over, and then the second batch of rolling logs flew head-on, and the soldiers who came back to their senses lay on the ground.

Yang Wenguang immediately ordered, "Archery!" ”

With a crisp bang, five thousand soldiers at the head of the city fired arrows at the same time, and the dense arrows quickly formed a black cloud, flew into the air, drew an arc, and fell into the enemy like raindrops, and suddenly a miserable scream sounded.

Lying on the ground by the probability of being shot by arrows is greater, for a time, the Liao army suffered heavy casualties, and soon, the second, third, and fourth rounds of arrows flew head-on again, and the arrows were like a torrential rain, so that the 5,000 Liao soldiers who entered the range of the arrows were extremely killed and wounded, and almost all of them were almost completely spared, almost everyone was wounded, more than 2,000 people were killed, and 3,000 people were injured.

The Liao army couldn't stand it, turned around and ran, only to see the overwhelming rolling logs chasing behind, and the soldiers were constantly knocked down from behind by the rolling logs, and the soldiers ran out of hundreds of steps before they got out of the attack range of the rolling logs.

Yelu Kunping looked frightened in the back, the Song army was not injured, but they suffered four or five thousand casualties, in the final analysis, the Song army was condescending and had the most favorable terrain, how could Yi County be able to attack it?

Deputy General Ye Lufeng said in a low voice: "As far as the humble officials know, Yi County is built on the mountain, all relying on a spring on the mountain, if this spring can be cut off or led away, within ten days, the defenders of Yi County will have to surrender." ”

Yelu Kunping was overjoyed, and immediately found two generals who were familiar with Yi County to inquire, and one of the generals said: "There is indeed a spring flowing into the county seat on the mountain, and there is a cliff above, so it is impossible to lead it away. ”

Yelu Kunping immediately ordered Yelu Feng to lead 500 people up the mountain to block the spring, which was a ruthless move to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle, in fact, it was also the biggest weakness of Yi County, he was on higher ground, and the water flowed to a lower place, and it was easy for the enemy to grasp the handle on the water source.

Sure enough, that morning, a stream flowing into the city from the mountains suddenly disappeared, and the water source of Yi County was cut off, although Yi County had a little spare water and a large amount of ice in the ice cellar, but these could not sustain the drinking water problem of 15,000 soldiers and nearly 20,000 soldiers for a long time, at most for seven or eight days.

The first crisis in Yi County came unexpectedly.

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At night, Yang Wenguang led more than 100 people to stand in front of the ditch in the north of the city, and a stream in the back mountain entered the city gate through this ditch.

But now the stream has disappeared, and there are no enemy troops in the north of the city, indicating that the Liao army has found a water source and blocked it.

Yang Wenguang's expression was extremely solemn, this time he was careless, forgetting that Yi County had been occupied by the Liao army for a long time, and the Liao army knew the weaknesses of this county better than him, Yang Wenguang knew in his heart that once the water source was really cut off, they had only one way to break through.

Ma Wei said in a low voice: "Old general, while the enemy army is not ready, break through tonight!" As long as we cross the water, the enemy cavalry will not be able to pursue us, and we will be able to preserve at least eighty percent of our troops. ”

Yi Shui is ten miles south of the city, although the enemy is cavalry, as long as they are hidden, they can run through ten miles before being discovered by the enemy, it should be said that Ma Wei's suggestion is good, and if you break through tonight, you can succeed.

But the problem is that they are willing to give up Yizhou, which was so easy to capture?

Yang Wenguang pondered for a long time, and then asked the county order next to him, "Kong County order, there is no other way, such as we can dig wells and so on." ”

Kong Ran shook his head gloomily, "Don't be kidding, the soil layer below is good, but below there are stones, I have been a county magistrate for four years, and I have never heard that Yi County can drill wells for water." ”

Yang Wenguang thought about it again and said to Ma Wei: "You gather the army first, and then I'll see if there is any other way." ”

Ma Wei received the order, and Yang Wenguang sent dozens of soldiers to the city to inquire if there was any other way to obtain water sources.

All night, Yang Wenguang couldn't sleep, this blow came too suddenly, they had the upper hand, but they were pulled by the enemy's bottom and turned over.

Yang Wenguang stood at the head of the city and looked at the Liao army camp in the distance, the military camp was also brightly lit, and it seemed that the Liao army was also waiting all night, waiting for himself to lead the army to break through.

Ma Wei walked forward quickly and reminded Yang Wenguang: "Old general, it's already five watches, and if you don't break through, I'm afraid it'll be too late." ”

Yang Wenguang glanced at the Liao camp in the distance and said: "The Liao camp has also stayed awake all night, which means that they have been prepared, do you think there will be no ambush soldiers by the Yishui River?" ”

Ma Wei was stunned for a moment, and then said: "But in any case, it is better to break through early than late, once the enemy army arrives, I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to even break through." ”

At this moment, a soldier rushed over, bowed down and said, "Old general, there is an old man who said that there is a water source elsewhere." ”

Yang Wenguang was immediately overjoyed, and hurriedly asked, "Where is the old man now?" ”

"Over there in the North City!"

Yang Wenguang and Ma Wei hurriedly rushed over, only to see more than a dozen soldiers following an old man What were they looking for?

"Is that him?" Yang Wenguang stepped forward and asked.

Dutou hurriedly said: "It's this old man, he went out early in the morning and happened to meet us, he said that the water source had been cut off before, but they dug a well to solve it." ”

Yang Wenguang was stunned, there are stones below, can you dig a well?

He stepped forward and asked, "Old man, can you dig a well down there?" ”

The old man nodded, "Nowhere else, but there is one place that can." ”

He said: "Thirty years ago, the canal was also cut off, and we dug hundreds of wells in the city, all of which failed, but if we succeeded in digging a well in one place, the water came out, and there was not only a small stream in this mountain, but also a dark river, all of which were connected, and if the spring was blocked, the amount of water in the dark river would increase." ”

The old man pointed to the middle of the road, "If I'm not mistaken, this is here, after digging up, there should be a stone slab underneath, and under the stone slab should be the well we dug, it may be a little blocked." ”

Yang Wenguang immediately asked people to dig up the road, and sure enough, a stone slab was found underneath, and the stone slab was lifted, and a dark hole appeared.

At noon the next day, he dug a big pit three zhang wide and one zhang deep, dug a few feet deep, dug a stone cave, and saw a spring gushing out of the stone cave.

The soldiers in the pit hurriedly climbed up, and the surrounding soldiers hugged each other excitedly, and couldn't help but cheer loudly.