On the wilderness outside the city, the Mongolian army's stone throwers were smashed and collapsed before they reached two hundred steps outside the city wall, and the gunners were even more killed and wounded, and everyone was shocked by the Mongolian soldiers outside the city.

The generals of the Mongolian army were all surprised, and they were silent and silent, and their long knives were pointed obliquely.

"Herald the siege!"

The military order of Subutai was handed down, and thousands of Xia prisoners were released and driven towards the front of the formation.

And countless Mongolian soldiers followed closely behind, holding swords and bows, ready to attack the city. Some Xia captives were lucky, and helped the Mongolian army carry the ladder, followed the Xia captives who were moving forward in a mess, and went straight to the Lingzhou city wall.

The Mongolian army whipped and stabbed, and several unfortunate people were killed, drenched in blood, and screamed loudly. The rest of the Xia captives cried for their fathers and mothers, and went towards the Lingzhou city wall with panic on their faces.

"Ready!"

Li Deren stood on the city wall, silently, and passed down the military order.

At this time, not to mention that the siege of the city included the Xia people who were captured by the Mongolian army, even his own son and son, and he also killed them without blinking his eyes.

The Xia captives ran to the city wall of Lingzhou, and on the way to run, there were constantly the old, weak, sick and disabled who fell and squeezed down, and countless feet stepped on them, and no one cared. Some old and young people who ran too slowly were mercilessly slashed and stabbed to death by the Mongolian knights, mercilessly.

Bing Yano Limou stood at the head of the city, he saw clearly, an eight or nine-year-old child was in rags, full of panic, running too slowly, was caught up by the Mongolian knights behind, cut off his head with a knife, blood spurted out of his neck, and the headless corpse was knocked over and trampled by the later war horse, and the corpse collapsed a lot.

"Your home has been destroyed, but you are a little bloody, and you are desperate with the Tartars!"

Ye Limou's eyes were blood-red, and he shouted angrily, and he didn't care if the Xia captives outside the city could hear it.

The Xia army at the head of the city was silent, some people couldn't bear to look at it directly, some people were pale, some people were red-faced, and they clenched the weapons in their hands.

The tragic situation outside the city, Zhang Zhongxia was also frightened.

The cruelty of the war, vividly reflected from these Xia captives outside the city, also made him angry.

Why slaughter these poor, defenseless people?

Once the Tatar army invades the Song Territory, those people of the Great Song Dynasty may end up like this.

"Shield! Archer! ”

Li Deren's face did not change, and he shouted loudly as he watched the Mongolian army spread all over the mountains and fields like a tide, getting closer and closer.

At the head of the city, the Xia army raised their shields one after another, the archers had horns and bows in their hands, feather arrows were on the strings, and bed crossbows and crossbows were put on the shelves.

Li Deren's eyes couldn't help but look at Cao Youwan on the side.

"Change the shotgun!"

Cao Youwan's eyes were hideous, and there seemed to be excitement in his eyes, which made Li Deyi a little creepy for a while.

"Remember, get closer, half of the artillery, don't expose your firepower!"

In the surging tide of Mongolian soldiers, Cao Youwan grabbed the head of the city and couldn't wait to pass down the military order.

Looking at the posture of the Mongolian army, there are at least six or seven thousand people, all of whom are foot soldiers. The Mongolian army has all kinds of hairstyles and skin tones. It seems that the composition of the Mongolian army is really complex enough.

However, the largest number of them, the hair bun is still familiar, and it seems that it is still the Han army in the Mongol army.

"Dog's day! Traitors! ”

Cao Youwan scolded fiercely. didn't realize that this was Western Xia, not the Great Song Dynasty. These Han people under the rule of the Jin and Xia people, although they are of the same species, have nothing to do with the Great Song Dynasty.

"General Cao, you are the commander of the army, don't get too close to the city wall!"

Li Deren persuaded Cao Youwan. There were many sharpshooters in the Mongol army, and many Xia soldiers suffered great losses.

"Worried about what? Can he still have a long range of my artillery? ”

Cao Youwan didn't think so, as soon as the words fell, a few feather arrows went straight to the two people on the head of the city, and the surrounding sergeants were already on guard, the shield was blocked, and the feather arrows hit the shield, and the "dangdang" sounded, and they fell down the city one after another.

"I'll go!"

Cao Youwan broke out in a cold sweat.

I'm afraid that this distance will have to be more than 200 steps.

"General Cao, this is Jebe in Genghis Khan's army, all of them are sharpshooters in a thousand, not to be underestimated!"

Li Deren personally picked up a shield and blocked it in front of him.

"Pass the order, all soldiers, be careful of the Tatar archers, don't be careless!"

Cao Youwan also picked up a shield and loudly passed down the military order.

The Mongol army moved forward one after another, surging in frenzy, constantly approaching the city wall, they crossed the broken stone throwers and ballistas, crossed the wasteland outside the city, and soon crossed the frozen moat, and quickly approached the Lingzhou city wall.

The artillery on the head of the city opened fire one after another, but the fire was not fierce. The Mongolian army kept being overturned by shells, but it was a drop in the bucket and did not cause large-scale casualties.

When the Mongol army approached the city wall of Lingzhou, their archers either stopped their formations, or on the way forward, they stretched out their bows and arrows, and wave after wave of arrows rained down on the sky and sun, and sprinkled on the city.

The Mongolian army is raining arrows, and the Xia army at the head of the city is also firing thousands of arrows, and there is no prelude on both sides, it is directly a life-and-death fight.

Arrows are like flying locusts, people continue to fall outside the city, there are screams everywhere, feather arrows shoot on the shield, "Bangbang" sounds, the shield instantly grows a layer of arrows, and a thick layer of arrows soon falls on the city.

Li Deren glanced at Cao Youwan, but the other party was silent, so he had to hold back and not ask.

The first day of siege is definitely a temptation, and you can't expose your own strength. These Han troops were also not the elite of the Mongolian army, and could not cause fundamental casualties.

"Your Highness, the battle to defend the city in Lingzhou is probably protracted, and the ammunition should be spared, and it will be used again when the Tatar elite is attacking the city. Now, we still have to kill the blood, and we can't let the soldiers rely only on firearms! ”

Cao Youwan said loudly, and Li Deren nodded lightly.

To defend the city, in the end, it is necessary to rely on hand-to-hand combat and courage to win.

Countless Mongolian troops carried ladders and quickly approached the city wall, and soon, countless ladders set up the city, and the dense Mongolian army climbed upward, and soon covered the city.

"Thorn!"

Seeing that hundreds of Mongolian troops climbed onto the top of the city, Li Deren shouted loudly, and countless Xia soldiers and Song soldiers picked up their spears and stabbed out of the city one after another, stabbing at the Mongolian army.

The head of the spear shook and continued, like a steel jungle of different lengths, like countless poisonous snakes coming quickly, unable to dodge. The Mongolian army was drenched in blood, falling off the city one by one, and the terrible screams continued.

A little effect, the morale of the Xia soldiers and Song soldiers was greatly boosted, they stabbed with guns one after another, the head of the city head spears in and out, the entire city wall, I don't know how much, the Mongolian army often did not stand firm, was stabbed down the city head by several spears, fell down the city, the city head was difficult to gain a foothold for a while.

A Xia soldier stabbed down a Mongolian soldier, and before he had time to rejoice, the feather arrows under the city roared, flying up to the city, and the Xia soldier suffered several arrows in his face and neck, and fell on the city wall, his head and face were covered with blood, and his body was convulsed.

Another Song soldier was shot in the eye, bleeding profusely, screaming miserably, and being carried down. On the head of the city, Xia soldiers were constantly shot down, either dead or wounded, and the city was full of blood.

"Archers, stand down, roll the wood!"

Under the city wall, the Mongolian army swarmed in, densely packed, Ye Limou shouted loudly, the Xia soldiers struggled to throw the rolling logs and stones out of the city, smashed over countless Mongolian troops at the same time, and many Xia soldiers were shot over.

"Golden juice!"

The generals of the Xia army shouted loudly, a pot of hot gold juice was poured down, and the Mongolian army who landed in the city howled, which was earth-shattering, and the barbecue meat was fragrant, but it was disgusting.

Compared with about 30% of the archers of the Xia soldiers at the head of the city, the Mongolian soldiers can shoot arrows like flying locusts, killing and injuring the Xia soldiers at the head of the city. The Xia soldiers relied on the city wall, and the Mongolian army relied on the rain of arrows, and the two sides came and went, and countless people fell every moment.

As for the Xia people who suffered from the pond fish in the city, there were countless casualties, and no one cared about their fate.

On the first day of the siege, Cao Youwan did not arrange for the Song army's crossbowmen to enter the city to participate in the battle. This was his carelessness and mistake, which also made him slightly embarrassed, but it was just right to confuse the Meng army.

"Fire!"

Cao Youwan covered his face with a shield and shouted angrily.

The Mongolian army was so densely populated that it was a good opportunity to kill and wound people on a large scale.

The flag officer's order flag flew, the gunners loaded their ammunition one after another, and the feather arrows kept coming, even if there were artillery trucks to cover them, the Song army continued to fall, and soon there were dead and wounded.

Under the vicious battle, there are no eyes for swords and guns, and no one can be left alone.

The artillery at the head of the city rang out one after another, each of which could cover a cross-section of fifty or sixty meters, and twenty-five guns, the entire Mongol army outside the southern city wall, were within their firing range.

The smoke of gunpowder was filled, the sound of artillery was like muffled thunder, the iron pills flew wantonly, the blood mist soared everywhere they went, the archers of the Mongolian army fell countless times, and the arrow rain of the Mongolian army outside the city soon weakened a lot.

It was only a short period of dullness, the drums were thrilling, and countless cloud ladders leaned up to the city, and countless Mongolian army feather arrows roared and shot towards the city.

There was no military order to retreat, and none of the Mongolian soldiers dared to go backwards, screaming and attacking the city. The fierce fighting on the city began again, and it was even more tragic than the first wave.

Someone kept falling, someone kept making up, blood stained the inside and outside of the city wall, up and down the city wall, everyone had a hideous complexion, and everyone had red eyes.

Snowflakes slowly fell, as if trying to cover the traces of the war. The two sides come and go, sacrificing their lives to fight, just wanting to physically destroy each other as soon as possible.

Li De took the lead, commanding the vicious battle at the head of the city, and his face was ugly.

The siege on the first day was so brutal that the defenders suffered heavy casualties. If it goes on for a long time, I don't know how many of the defenders of Lingzhou City can be left.

Eyes swept outside the city, and the stone throwers and ballistae that had been smashed and collapsed were dragged back by the Mongolian soldiers. And some craftsmen-like Mongolian troops are repairing stone throwers, and it looks like they are going to make a comeback.

Li Deren's heart sank slightly. The strength of the Mongolian army should not be underestimated, and the future war will by no means be so easy to deal with.

"General Cao, there are many craftsmen in the Tatar army, and the stone thrower can be easily repaired. It seems that this is really a fierce battle! ”

Sure enough, as Cao Youwan said, the battle in Lingzhou City is by no means a momentary meeting, and it is likely to last for several months.

"Fierce battles are inevitable, now it depends on how long the grain and grass in the city are enough!"

Cao Youwan nodded, secretly frightened.

The Mongolian army is strictly disciplined, and the soldiers are not afraid of death, in case the gunpowder and thunder run out, I don't know if Lingzhou City can still be defended?