"Ten times more casualties?" The officials of the full court exclaimed.

Take the broken Jinmingzhai as an example, its defenders are nearly 3,000 people, if Jinmingzhai is so designed, if the Western Xia soldiers want to break through this fort, they will have to pay at least 30,000 people, this price is probably not affordable in the Western Xia.

"Seriously!" Zhao Xu said in surprise.

If the fortress really has such an amazing defensive power, then the defensive strength of the Great Song Dynasty will be greatly improved, not to mention the Western Xia, or the Liao State to let it return.

Fan Zheng nodded solemnly and said: "In the Kaifeng Forbidden Army, a large number of divine arm crossbows are equipped. ”

"Order the three armies, immediately sand table deduction fortress and god arm crossbow!" Zhao Xu couldn't wait.

"Obey the order!" The privy envoy Zeng Bu said solemnly.

In the camp of the forbidden army, the important ministers of the imperial court gathered!

"Qi Qi Guan's family, the sand table of the fortress has been prepared." Taiwei Meng Yuan said solemnly.

The sand table deduction of the forbidden army is naturally not all sand tables, but requires a lot of actual combat to testify.

"Let's get started!" Zhao Xu couldn't wait.

"Boom!"

As the war drums beat, a large number of soldiers set up ladders from outside the range of the divine arm crossbow to simulate attacking the corner of the fortress.

"Qi Qi Guan's family, it will take a hundred breaths for the soldiers to attack and ascend to the city." Taiwei Meng Yuan said with a solemn face.

And Fan Zheng sneered: "One hundred breaths, you know the time of one hundred breaths, how many crossbow arrows can be fired by the divine arm crossbow." ”

Taiwei Meng Yuan said with an embarrassed face: "At least ten crossbow arrows." ”

The biggest advantage of the crossbow is that you can use the trigger to easily wind the crossbow machine, so as to achieve repeated firing and continuous attack.

"If there are two people in a row, it is enough to shorten the time to fire the Divine Arm Crossbow by half, and it can fire a crossbow arrow up to five breaths, and the biggest advantage of the fortress is that it can attack from multiple sides, and it can also stand more soldiers in a small space, so that the defender can gain a local advantage in numbers, coupled with the super power of the Divine Arm Crossbow, it is enough to make all the invading enemies have no return." Fan Zheng said solemnly.

At that moment, a group of forbidden troops immediately held divine arm crossbows to defend according to the pattern of the fortress, and in the same long section of the city wall, the soldiers that the fortress could accommodate were as many as fifty percent more than the ordinary city wall.

"Divine Arm Crossbow, fire!"

With Fan Zheng's order, all the divine arm crossbows were fired in unison.

"Buzz!"

The huge rain of arrows spread outward, and everywhere it went, the bricks and stones were cracked, and the grass and trees were broken, but this was only the beginning, as the divine arm crossbow kept firing, a full hundred breaths of arrow rain stopped.

Zhao Xu looked at the scene in front of him with a hundred officials in shock, only to see that the corners of the fortress were full of dense crossbow arrows.

"Unless you fill it at the cost of your life! No one was able to break through the defenses of the Divine Arm Crossbow and the Bastion. Zeng Bu exclaimed.

Zhao Xu and the hundred officials of the Manchu Dynasty nodded with deep feelings, the Divine Arm Crossbow is the first artifact of the Great Song Dynasty, and no flesh and blood can resist the attack of the Divine Arm Crossbow, which has been recognized by the government and the opposition, and the fortress is to exert the power of the Divine Arm Crossbow to the extreme.

Meng Yuan was unwilling, and deduced with Fan Zheng three times in succession, and failed miserably each time.

Seeing this, the hundred officials couldn't help but feel happy, the fortress plus the divine arm crossbow had such power, so that they could see the hope of resisting Western Xia.

Meng Yuan's eyes were red, and he looked directly at Fan Zhengdao: "I admit that the fortress plus the Divine Arm Crossbow is indeed extraordinary, but the Fortress is not easy to build, and the Divine Arm Crossbow is a forbidden weapon in the Great Song Army, and it is impossible to equip the whole army!" This law simply cannot be implemented in the whole army! If I were the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang, after being frustrated in front of the fortress, I would definitely take a detour, lose the protection of the fortress, and the power of the divine arm crossbow would be greatly reduced. ”

The hearts of the officials of the Manchu Dynasty suddenly sank, and the joy in their hearts was suddenly swept away.

Fan Zheng was not surprised by this: "What Taiwei Meng said is indeed possible, since this is the case, let the fortress be built in the most threatening place of Western Xia, let Western Xia be like a fish in the throat, and want to get rid of it quickly!" ”

"The most threatening place?" Baiguan couldn't help but be stunned, and looked at Fan Zheng puzzled.

Fan Zheng criticized the huge sand table map of the Song and Xia wars in front of him, and analyzed: "As we all know, the various tribes of the Western Xia are from nomadic origin, and their domestic Huhua ideology is very heavy, except for the Hetao in the north of the Yellow River, most of them are pastures, and their grain production areas are concentrated in the Hengshan and Tiandu Mountains south of the Yellow River. ”

Following the direction that Fan Zheng pointed, the civil and military officials couldn't help but gasp, because the place Fan Zheng was pointing to was the place where there was a lot of farmland under Tiandu Mountain, and it was the grain production land of Western Xia.

"Wonderful! Wonderful! And if the fortress is built under Tiandu Mountain, the Western Xia will definitely come to attack, and the power of the fortress and the divine arm crossbow is enough to make the Western Xia suffer. Zeng Bu said excitedly.

Fan Zheng nodded and said: "Yes, all along, Western Xia has been attacking all roads in the northwest of the Great Song Dynasty, so that all roads are tired of coping, and it is easy for the troops to be scattered and broken by each one, and the Great Song Dynasty has always been in strategic passivity. ”

Hundreds of officials are bowed, this is where they have the most headache for Western Xia.

"If we build a fortress in front of the grain-producing areas of Western Xia, and Western Xia has to attack, it is up to us to choose the battlefield, although it is still mainly defensive, and strategically we have already taken the initiative."

"Strategic initiative!"

Zhao Xu couldn't help but be shocked, and couldn't help but be excited in his heart, if the Great Song Dynasty chose the battlefield, he would naturally make adequate preparations, and how could Western Xia get a bargain.

"What do you think?" Zhao Xu turned to the ministers and asked.

"It works!" Zhang Dan pondered for a moment and nodded solemnly.

"You can give it a try!" Zeng Bu also said solemnly.

In the end, even Lu Dafang, who had always been conservative, nodded slowly, and the Great Song Dynasty had been plagued by Western Xia. Since the fortress and the divine arm crossbow together have such terrifying defensive power, they can not only weaken the strength of Western Xia, but also threaten the grain producing areas of Western Xia, like a nail in the heart of Western Xia.

Zhao Xu was overjoyed when he saw this and said: "If this city is completed, it can not only ensure that my Great Song border is worry-free, but also continue to weaken Western Xia, so it is better to call it Pingxia City." ”

"The official is wise!" Hundreds of officials complimented.

Whether it is a fortress or a divine arm crossbow, it can be promoted in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, and Pingxia City can be defended, and in the future, the fortress will be popularized in the Great Song Dynasty, and with the artifact Divine Arm Crossbow, the defense ability of the Great Song Dynasty will be greatly improved.

"Pingxia City!"

Fan Zheng couldn't help but sigh, the place he was referring to was the place where the Great Song Dynasty established Pingxia City in the later generations, but he didn't expect that a few years in advance, the history was still strikingly similar.

It's just that this time Pingxia City has the blessing of the fortress and the divine arm crossbow, and once it appears, it will definitely shock the world.

(End of chapter)