"What a terrible bunch of enemies."

Dayan Ozir Khan sat in a soft chair in a dejected manner, and in such a cold weather, even though the brazier was burning in the tent, he still subconsciously wanted to curl up his huge body in the chair.

Today, he witnessed the vanguard army withering and metabolizing like insects after autumn under the fire of the Xia army, and the terrible nature of the Xia army's artillery left a deep impression on him and all the Heshute soldiers.

However, no matter how much they feared the ferocious firepower of the Xia army, they had to do something to solve the current predicament, if they could not break through the siege of the Xia army and return to Qinghai, all of them would be trapped in this damned acropolis.

Since the breakthrough during the day will become the target of the Xia army's artillery, then Dayan Ozir Khan can only think of risking a breakthrough at night, and the Xia army will lose its shooting vision when breaking through at night, and it will be too late when the artillery can see clearly, they have already rushed to the outside of the Xia army's camp, and if they fire again, they will accidentally injure their own people.

Therefore, after a brief period of decadence, Dayan Ozir Khan once again regrouped, gathered all the thousand households and nobles in the army, and announced to them that he would launch another breakthrough tonight.

When his words fell, it immediately caused a commotion, and they were unwilling to be exposed to the range of the Xia army's artillery, and endured the artillery bombardment in vain.

However, after listening to the Khan's account, they had no choice but to agree, in addition to the people who died in the breakthrough this morning, there were more than 18,000 people in the Xining Acropolis, and Dayan Ozir Khan divided them into two parts, one led by him personally, to break through from the south gate, and the other from the west gate.

Breaking through from two directions at the same time, the Xia army will definitely not be able to block all of them, and it is better to break through as many as they can than to be wiped out here.

The city was discussing how to break through the siege, and outside the city was also sharpening its knives and preparing to attack the city, Liu Shixun was ready to take advantage of the deterrent situation brought by the artillery bombardment in the morning to attack the city, and he did so, the officers and men of the army only rested for one morning, and launched an attack on the Xining Acropolis in the afternoon of the same day.

The brick and stone walls of Xiningwei were built in the third year of Wanli, and have been damaged by several wars over the past few decades, and the former rulers, whether they are the Ming Dynasty, the Shun army, or the current Heshute Khanate, have not repaired the city walls.

Therefore, when the Xia army launched an attack on the city, the city wall of Xiningwei soon let out a wail in the roar of artillery, and there were many cracks on the surface of the city wall, and even collapsed.

At this time, Dayan Ozir Khan finally regretted why he did not repair the wall of Xiningwei in the first place, but it was too late to regret it, and he could only resist the attack of the Xia army with all his might.

In order to motivate the soldiers in the city, he personally led the guards to the front line, organized soldiers and horses to try their best to strengthen the collapsed city walls, but their repair speed was far less fast than the Xia army's artillery destruction, only after a few rounds of shelling, the Xining Wei city wall finally could not withstand the pressure and collapsed.

As if it were a beginning, with the collapse of the first section of the wall, several more walls collapsed one after another, and after the collapse of the wall, there was a splash of smoke and dust, and the masonry flew sideways, and even affected the defenders hiding nearby, knocking some unlucky people down and stunning.

Fortunately, the Heshute army withdrew from those crumbling sections of the city wall in advance, and there were no greater casualties except for a few unlucky ones who were killed and injured by the flying masonry.

Before they could rejoice in this, with another new and passionate trumpet, the Xia soldiers marched towards the gap in the collapsed city wall with neat steps, and the dense drumbeat converged, and each beat seemed to beat on their hearts.

The Xia army advanced all the way and soon came into the range of the Heshute army, which lacked firearms and relied on the traditional and ancient Mongolian bow, so after the Xia army entered the range, the Heshute army fired thousands of arrows.

I only heard a deafening sound of strings, and then a rain of black arrows rose into the air, crossed arcs in mid-air, and fell into the Xia army's army formation like raindrops with a sound of breaking the air like a grim reaper's grin, and immediately shot many Xia soldiers.

Even if the soldiers of the Xia Army did not completely eliminate the armor, the light armor and short armor on their bodies were also defensive arrows

The damage of the arrow contributed to the force, but there were still many soldiers who were shot and fell to the ground, and the soldiers at the front were directly shot into hedgehogs.

The Xia army braved rounds of dense arrows to advance all the way to the gap in the city wall, and then, in the angry roar of the officers, the soldiers quickly regrouped their formation, and the soldiers in the front row raised their preloaded rifles one after another, and fired a volley at the Heshute army that formed a tight shield formation behind the gap.

The Mongol infantry in the shield array only saw a row of sparks explode in front of the Xia army on the opposite side, and then the sight was covered by the thick white gunsmoke, and then, the tight shield array was suddenly pierced by projectiles with armor-piercing effects, and the soldiers in the front row snorted and fell forward, and there were multiple gaps in the shield array.

Just as they were hurrying to fill the gap, the first row of Xia soldiers on the opposite side had already knelt on one knee, loading their rifles, and the soldiers in the second row quickly raised their rifles and fired a second volley over the head of the robe, and more Mongolian soldiers were shot and fell to the ground, so the originally tight shield formation was shaken.

Not every breach of the attack is so uniform, on the battlefield at the south gate, the Xia army here chose to use grenadiers to open the way, they held the rain of arrows of the Heshute army all the way up the slope formed by the ruins, coldly looked at the enemy army formation behind the gap, and then lit the grenade and threw it at the enemy army.

After a few breaths, the fist-sized grenade exploded, knocking the Mongol formation on its back, and then the tall grenadier soldiers roared and raised their rifles diagonally, bayonets and rushed down the slope head-on into the chaotic Mongol formation.

The two sides were then plunged into a fierce hand-to-hand combat, and the grenadiers, all of whom were brave and skilled in close combat, and with grenades to clear the way, they soon forcibly tore a small hole in the formation of the Heshute army.

After them, more line infantry followed suit, killing and wounding many enemy soldiers by firing projectiles from the barrels of their guns before charging with their rifles with their muzzles and smoke coming into battle with the Mongols.

The bottom fell into a fierce battle, and the Mongols on the city wall were not idle, they took bows and arrows, and wantonly shot at the Xia soldiers below, and the Xia light infantry also raised their guns to shoot back, and they were skilled in archery, and for a time they actually caused a suppressive effect.

Not everyone in the Heshuot army was a professional soldier, and its army consisted of a large number of conscripted herdsmen, who soon lost ground in hand-to-hand combat with the Xia army, and began to retreat, and their retreat caused the entire front to be shaken.

At this time, an army of aristocratic warriors from the Tibetan Plateau joined the battle in time, all dressed in traditional Tibetan iron armor and armed with long knives or iron bones, and skilled in battle.

The iron bones that the noble warriors love to use are terrifying, compared to the sharp weapons that are easy to be guarded by armor, this blunt weapon is more powerful, as long as the iron bones are hit in the head, the head will immediately break the blood flow, the brain will burst, even if you wear a helmet, it is useless, the helmet will be dented, the light is concussion, and the heavy is brain death.

Under the desperate resistance of the Heshute army, the Xia army finally failed to take Xiningwei in a battle, seeing that the sky was getting dark, and the front line could not achieve a decisive victory, Liu Shixun had to order Mingjin to withdraw his troops and end today's siege.

As the drums of retreat sounded, the panting Xia soldiers looked at the corpses all over the ground and the enemy who were also fast to the limit with some unwillingness, but they still obeyed the order and slowly withdrew from the city.

With the withdrawal of the Xia army, the defenders in the city were paralyzed to the ground as if relieved, although the battle only lasted for half a day, but in this half a day, both sides were sacrificing their lives to fight, consuming a lot of physical strength, and the spirit was highly tense.

As soon as the battle was over, the tight string was immediately loosened, and everyone collapsed to the ground regardless of the image, gasping for breath, their faces showing the joy of the rest of their lives, and even screaming to the sky, wanting to vent the pent-up emotions in their hearts.

After only a moment's respite, they had to get up from the ground again, and under the command of the officers, they labored hard to clear the battlefield, search for the wounded, and mobilize the city's inhabitants to come to their aid.

Dayan Oqi

Erhan looked at the corpses all over the ground around the city wall with some despair, the siege of the Xia army directly disrupted his plan, he originally wanted to break out overnight after night, but looking at the current state of the generals and soldiers in the army, let alone break out, even if they run from the south of the city to the north of the city, they will lose half their lives.

He can't break through alone, he has stood on the city wall and looked at the camps of the Xia army in four directions, the Xia army has placed heavy troops in every direction outside the Xining Acropolis, if more than 10,000 soldiers in the city are desperate to break through, there will definitely be many people who can successfully break through.

But if only he broke through with a few people, he would have been successful in breaking through half of the Xia army's camp.

Therefore, he could only dismiss this idea.

That night, Dayan Ozir Khan once again gathered the thousand households and nobles in the army, and the number of people who came at night was significantly smaller than the number gathered during the day, and everyone looked tired and depressed.

The Khan announced in front of them that the plan for the breakout scheduled for tonight was canceled, which was of course expected by everyone, but they were obviously not concerned about this, and after Dayan Ozir Khan finished speaking, everyone began to whisper, and after a while, the nobles elected a person.

The nobleman first saluted the king of the Khan, and then said, "King Khan, the Xia army is attacking fiercely, and its number is several times that of mine, and our army has suffered heavy losses in today's battle, and if the Xia army attacks the city again tomorrow, our army may not be able to withstand it."

"What do you want to say?" Dayan Ozir Khan looked at him, and he had a faint premonition in his heart.

"Please also ask the Khan to send an envoy to the Xia army for the sake of the soldiers in the city to negotiate peace, this stupid war will not benefit us at all, and our casualties today are already worthy of the Ororos." The man said.