"Firearms!"

Empress Dowager Xiaoliang saw that the wall chiseling technique failed again, and couldn't help gritting her teeth, and the sudden appearance of firearms by the Song army caused the Xia army to suffer heavy casualties.

"Dig a tunnel!"

"Siege engine!"

"Ladder!"

"Trebuchet!"

"Night Fight!"

The Western Xia army tried all its tricks, exhausted all its weapons, and even attacked the city at the cost of human lives, but even if it had the upper hand for a while, it had even attacked the city wall, and it was all defeated because of the thunderous firearms of the Song army.

It's been more than ten days, and Pingxia City is still as stable as Mount Tai.

"It's unreasonable!"

Seeing that the Xia army was once again defeated under the attack of the earth-shattering thunder, the Empress Dowager Xiao Liang was almost angry, and her nails directly scratched her beautiful face.

The Western Xia army has never fought such a battle, and it obviously has absolute strength, but it has no way to take the small Pingxia City.

"Queen Mother, you can't attack Pingxia City anymore, the firearms of the Divine Arm Crossbow and the Song Army are too lethal, and our army has already suffered as many as 30,000 casualties." Wei Ming Ah Wu cried and begged.

Due to the special shape of the fortress, the power of the divine arm crossbow was undoubtedly displayed, coupled with the amazing lethality of the earth-shaking thunder, the continuous siege of the city caused heavy casualties to the Western Xia soldiers.

"Thirty thousand soldiers!"

The faces of the Western Xia generals were embarrassed, and the losses of the Song army defending the city were naturally minimal, and they had fought with the Great Song Dynasty for many years, and there was never a precedent for the loss of 30,000 soldiers and horses in a siege battle.

In the small city of Pingxia, the Western Xia army planted a big heel.

For more than ten days, the Xia army not only did not make an inch, but lost more than 30,000 soldiers, and even the tragic siege of Yongle City that year, Western Xia did not lose so much.

"You can't retreat! It is impossible for the Song army to have endless firearms, and once the Song army's firearms are exhausted, it will be the end of the Song army. Liang Yiqi directly objected.

Wei Ming Ah Wu angrily reprimanded: "Who knows how many firearms the Song army has, and how many crossbow arrows there are, my Xixia boy has already killed 30,000 in battle, and how many soldiers' lives have to be paid to exhaust the Song army's firearms, 40,000?" Fifty thousand? ”

A series of rhetorical questions from the famous Ah Wu left Liang Yi speechless.

"What if I wait to break through Pingxia City at any cost? With the financial resources of the Great Song Dynasty, it took another twenty days to form a Pingxia city, while it took twenty years for the Western Xia men to grow up. "Wei Ming, Ah Wu was heartbroken.

Other party generals also asked to withdraw their troops! Slowly.

Liang Yiqi retorted: "You generals know that you feel sorry for the soldiers, but have you ever known that once we withdraw from the army, the New Year's currency of the Great Song Dynasty will be completely abolished, and the grain production area of the Jingsai Military Division will be placed under the threat of Pingxia City and completely deserted, and you are willing to bear this price." ”

"Once we retreat, it means that the Western Xia is helpless against Pingxia City, and in the future, all the cities of the Great Song Dynasty will be changed to the method of building the city of Pingxia City, and the Western Xia will no longer have the method of clamping down on the Great Song Dynasty."

"I am waiting for this moment to cooperate with the Liao State to coerce the Song State, if our army retreats, how can I explain to the Liao State?"

………………

Liang Yikui naturally opposed the withdrawal of troops, and the reason why the Liang family was in the dictatorship of the parent party was to rely on the military merits of constantly fighting against Xia to gain a firm foothold.

He often told his subordinates that the reason why he raised troops to the south year after year was to make the Song Dynasty afraid of Western Xia and want to seek peace for the country.

And now the army has invaded the Yanyan Road, only captured Jinmingzhai, killed 3,000 Jinmingzhai soldiers, and now besieged Pingxia City, without an inch.

Once the war is lost, the military exploits that the Liang family relies on for survival will be lost, which is unacceptable to Liang Yikui.

In the face of Liang Yiqi's series of rhetorical questions, the party generals were silent, and it was obvious that the appearance of Pingxia City made the Western Xia generals see the crisis.

Once the Great Song Dynasty replicated Pingxia City on the Song-Xia border, I am afraid that it will be even more difficult to attack the Great Song Dynasty in the future.

Empress Dowager Xiao Liang couldn't help but fall into a dilemma, one was the situation of the Liang family, and the other was the life of the Western Xia soldiers.

Renduo Baozhong said solemnly: "Queen Mother, Weichen found another suspicious place, that is, since our army besieged Pingxia City, no reinforcements from the Song army have been found!" ”

Empress Dowager Xiaoliang couldn't help but be surprised, now the Western Xia army has besieged Pingxia City for more than ten days, it stands to reason that Jingyuan Road has already received the news, according to the attitude of the Song army in the past, the Song army has already rushed to the rescue, but now the Western Xia scouts have not found the Song army reinforcements.

"Yes, it seems that Song Jun deliberately asked me to wait to attack Pingxia City." Wei Ming Ah Wu exclaimed.

Thinking of the strange structure of Pingxia City and all kinds of powerful weapons of great destruction, everyone in Western Xia couldn't help but feel stunned, and Song Jun's various behaviors revealed weirdness.

Empress Dowager Xiao Liang looked around at the elder brother of the main battle and the generals of Western Xia, and said solemnly: "The mourning family understands that this battle of Pingxia City must be dangerous, but the battle of Pingxia City is related to the national fortunes of the two countries of Song and Xia. I will give the generals another three days, and if they can't capture Pingxia City within three days, withdraw immediately! ”

"Obey your orders!" A number of Western Xia generals received orders one after another.

At the moment, the drums of war are beating.

The Western Xia army once again attacked the city, and attacked Pingxia City again with the attack of the divine arm crossbow.

"Divine Arm Crossbow!"

"Golden juice! Knock the wood! Rolling stone! ”

This time, the defenders of Pingxia City did not stop their hands, and the traditional method of defending the city and firearms were used together.

At the same time, Song Jun also began to save on the use of earth-shaking thunder! Unless the Xia soldiers attacked the city wall, they used earth-shattering thunder to repel the Xia army, of course, this also caused a surge in casualties among the Song army.

Seeing more and more wounded soldiers transported to the wounded barracks, Fan Zheng couldn't help frowning and commanded a group of military doctors to provide emergency treatment.

"Lord Supervisor, the Xia army is attacking the city urgently, or you will come to the city wall to command ........................." A forbidden army general worried.

The Western Xia army was besieging the city, and Fan Zheng, as a supervisor, was doing the work of a healer, which was too dereliction of duty.

"Don't worry, as long as the earth-shaking thunder is not used up, Pingxia City can't be broken! The two generals are veteran generals in the army, and Fan Mou stepped forward to just add to the chaos! Fan Zheng said lightly, as a doctor, Fan Zheng naturally knows his strengths, and rash command is the source of chaos.

At that moment, Fan Zheng sprinkled a handful of gunpowder on the wound of the wounded soldier and ignited it directly, as the smell of gunpowder spread, the wounded soldier screamed, and the original bleeding wound gradually stopped.

"Next!" Fan Zheng waved his hand and said lightly.

"But what if the Heaven-Shaking Thunder runs out?" The generals of the forbidden army on the side listened to the sound of earth-shaking thunder roaring outside the city, and said worriedly, now that the military situation is urgent, the earth-shaking thunder is sharply consumed.

Fan Zheng sneered: "If you want to exhaust the earth-shattering thunder in Pingxia City, Western Xia will have to pay at least more than 100,000 casualties, do you think Western Xia is willing to pay such a huge price?" ”

When he ordered the checkered iron shell, it was determined according to this number, he didn't believe that the military discipline of the Western Xia soldiers had such an iron law, and he still insisted on attacking the city with 100,000 casualties.

"One hundred thousand!" The general of the forbidden army couldn't help but open his mouth wide.

You must know that there are only 20,000 soldiers in Pingxia City, and if the 20,000 defenders can be exchanged for 100,000 Western Xia soldiers, even if Pingxia City is breached, they will die as they deserve.

"Don't worry, Pingxia City can't be broken!"

Fan Zheng patted the general of the forbidden army on the shoulder, and swept over the camp tent next to the camp camp for the wounded soldiers, where there were stacks of neat stacks of explosive bags, and the wounded soldiers on the side were cooperating with each other to carefully fold one or twenty catties of gunpowder into squares.

He naturally knew that the output of the Heaven-Shaking Thunder was limited in a short period of time, so he transported in advance a large amount of gunpowder, even if the Heaven-Shaking Thunder was used up, the famous explosives package in later generations would be enough for the Western Xia army to drink a pot.

For three days, the Western Xia soldiers took turns to attack Xia City day and night!

However, under the protection of the fortress, the divine arm crossbow and the earth-shattering thunder, Pingxia City was crumbling, but it never fell.

The closest to success, the Xia army directly captured a corner of the fortress, but the special structure of the fortress allowed the captured corner to attack at the same time on both sides of the corner, and at the same time, under the strategy of the earth-shaking thunder, the Song army abolished a lot of casualties, and finally recaptured the city wall.

"Can't fight anymore! The Queen Mother has withdrawn! Our army has already suffered 50,000 casualties! "Wei Ming, Ah Wu was heartbroken.

The three-day siege battle directly killed 20,000 Western Xia soldiers, but the Song army's firearms were still not exhausted.

"Can't withdraw, the Song army's firearms are about to run out, just need another wave of siege, and they will definitely be able to take Pingxia City." Liang Yiqi said unwillingly.

"Every time it's a little bit worse, doesn't Lord Xiangguo think that the Song army deliberately asked me to wait for the siege of the city to die?" Wei Ming Ah Wu refuted.

Whether it is the Divine Arm Crossbow and the Song Army's firearms, only in places where soldiers attack intensively, will they exert the greatest lethality, the Song Army can obviously use firearms in advance, but when the Xia Army sees hope, it will use the earth-shattering thunder again and again to defeat the Western Xia attack, and then use the Divine Arm Crossbow to continuously harvest the lives of the Xia Army.

"Now that the troops are withdrawn, will the sacrifices of the previous soldiers be in vain?" Liang Yiqi asked.

Empress Dowager Xiaoliang was heartbroken when she heard this, she led the army to claim 500,000, but in fact it was only 300,000, and now she has lost 50,000 in the small Pingxia City.

"Do you know how many firearms there are in the Song army, the Song army also has a divine arm crossbow, plus 20,000 defenders, even if Pingxia City is captured, the Song army has lost 20,000 soldiers, and Daxia can lose another 50,000 soldiers?" Wei Ming Ah Wu laughed miserably.

Suddenly, the generals of the Western Xia were silent, the population of the Western Xia was a hundred times that of the Great Song Dynasty, if they fought for troops, the Western Xia could not afford to spend it at all, let alone the Great Song Dynasty would exchange 20,000 for 50,000 soldiers in the Western Xia, or even more.

Western Xia has always been the advantage of field warfare, mainly looting, if after fighting Pingxia City but found that the harvest is not proportional to the pay, the hearts of the Western Xia generals immediately wavered.

"Empress Dowager Qi, Song army reinforcements have been found fifty miles away in the east!"

"Thirty miles northwest of the Song army cavalry found!"

All of a sudden, news of reinforcements from the Great Song Dynasty came in a steady stream, and they fanned out to the Xia army.

"The Song army's reinforcements are coming, doesn't it just prove that Pingxia City is already at the end of the crossbow." Liang Yiqi was not worried, but happy.

The Song army's reinforcements had not arrived for a long time before, but now they have arrived, and it is obvious that it has reached the agreed time in Heping Xia City, which also shows that the firearms in Ping Xia City have been almost consumed.

"No! As long as Pingxia City still has firearms, it will not be able to attack it in a short time, and if it is taken advantage of by the Song army again, our army may be in danger of being wiped out. Wei Ming Ah Wu tried his best to dissuade him.

"But the opportunity to break through Pingxia City is right in front of me, if I miss this time, will I wait for the next time to fill it with the lives of 50,000 soldiers?" Liang Yiqi rebuked angrily.

For a moment, the generals of Western Xia fell into a tangle.

"Retreat!" Suddenly, Empress Dowager Xiaoliang said in a firm voice, "Since it was agreed that the troops would withdraw in three days, and since Pingxia City had not been captured in three days, then withdraw the troops according to the promise." ”

"The Queen Mother is wise!" The generals of Western Xia breathed a sigh of relief.

Pingxia City is too dangerous, and they really don't want to let the Xixia man die in vain.

"But ..................." Liang Yiqi still wants to fight again.

"The mourning family has been decided, withdraw the troops immediately!" Empress Dowager Xiaoliang was unmoved, she didn't know that Pingxia City was already at the end of the crossbow, but she didn't dare to bet, she was the Empress Dowager who listened to the government, and the foundation of power was not stable, once the Western Xia soldiers were damaged too much, I was afraid that they would be abandoned by the Western Xia nobles.

Not to mention, the Song army's reinforcements have arrived, and the chance of breaking through Pingxia City is even slimmer, so it is better to preserve the strength and slowly try to do so.

That night, the Western Xia army withdrew overnight.

When the Song general Yao Xiong got the report of the horse and came to the outside of Pingxia City, he saw that the Western Xia army had disappeared without a trace, and only the corpses of the Western Xia soldiers all over the ground proved how fierce the battle was.

"This is a siege, not a siege"

Yao Xiong looked at such brilliant results, and it was hard to believe that the 500,000 troops of Western Xia besieged Pingxia City, and instead of capturing Pingxia City, they suffered heavy losses.

"I'm afraid that forty or fifty thousand Western Xia soldiers have died!" General Guo Chengguo, who rushed to hear the news, looked at the corpses of Western Xia soldiers all over the ground, and couldn't help but smack his tongue.

"Pingxia City!"

The second general looked at the strangely shaped Pingxia City, and couldn't help but show a trace of shock.

"No wonder Fan Jianjun asked me to wait for a later rescue, maybe I was afraid of scaring away Xia Bing!" The two looked at each other and said strangely in their hearts.

The two did not enter Pingxia City, but immediately led the soldiers to follow the Western Xia army.

"Won!"

Watching the reinforcements continue to chase and kill the Western Xia army, Chong Pu still looked at the city in disbelief.

20,000 people against 500,000 people attacked in turn, and they stubbornly supported it for half a month, and killed 50,000 enemy troops! It's a miracle.

"Won!"

The entire Pingxia City also got the news of the withdrawal of the Western Xia troops and cheered.

"Bastion, Divine Arm Crossbow! Thunder! Yang Weizhong also exclaimed, this battle seems to be dangerous, but everything is under the control of the Song army, as long as the earth-shaking thunder is not exhausted, they always control the rhythm of the war, and only then can they have today's brilliant results.

However, they knew that all these victories were due to one person, and that was the prison army, the evil doctor Fan Zheng.

Why is Fan Zheng a prison soldier, the two of them still call him the evil doctor Fan Zheng, because this prison soldier is still in the wounded barracks, constantly treating the seriously wounded, he is completely a military doctor, where is there the appearance of a prison army.

"Immediately consult the prison army! What to do with the corpses outside. Chong Pu commanded.

A herald immediately went to the camp of the wounded soldiers, and after a while hurried back.

"The prison army has an order! After counting the exploits, burn them all! Otherwise, it will cause a plague! The herald replied.

"The prison army has an order, and it will be executed according to the order!" Chongpu said without hesitation.

Yang Weizhong couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth, it was not an easy job to burn so many corpses.

However, none of the two generals raised any objections, after all, Fan Zheng had already conquered everyone with his magical performance.

At that moment, the gates of Pingxia City were opened, and a large number of soldiers began to count their exploits and burn the corpses of Western Xia soldiers.

"Kill 53,000 enemies!" Yang Weizhong looked at the results of Pingxia City in disbelief.

Chong Pu suppressed the ecstasy in his heart and said: "How many casualties are our army. ”

Yang Weizhong said with a strange face: "Four thousand wounded, one thousand killed." ”

"One thousand and eight killed?" Chong Pu couldn't believe it.

Yang Weizhong nodded and said: "This is thanks to our Fan Jian Army, if it weren't for his excellent medical skills, I'm afraid there would be at least five hundred more deaths." ”

The two glanced at each other, and couldn't help but have a strange expression, not only did they defend Pingxia City, but they killed 50,000 Western Xia soldiers, but they lost less than 2,000 people. As soon as such a record comes out, I am afraid that it will shock the government and the opposition.

"It's time to report to the court!" Chong Pu said excitedly.

Yang Weizhong couldn't help but nod in ecstasy, as soon as such a record came out, although the first credit was the prison army Fan Zheng, the two of them were inevitably promoted and made a fortune.

At that moment, a messenger with one person and three horses galloped towards the direction of Kaifeng City.

"Pingxia City Victory!"

"20,000 defenders killed 50,000 enemies!"

Everywhere I went, the cities of the Great Song Dynasty were all sensational.

(End of chapter)