Chapter Forty-Eight: The Liao Army Siege the City

Li Yuangong waved his hand: "Go back to the Shuaifu!" Tonight, I will hold a banquet to entertain the heroes of Lian Yunfeng, and I want to have a drunk with my brother. ”

Since the Liao people sent troops, Li Yuangong, as the commander of Western Xia, has been nervous, and he did not dare to relax for a moment. Even Yunfeng and the others entered the city, which also made the morale of the Western Xia army great, and Li Yuangong saw it in his eyes and was happy in his heart.

The surrounding generals suddenly became enthusiastic when they saw Prince Ruimang, who was usually cold-faced, and they were all happy, and the atmosphere was far less solemn than the previous war.

Back at the Shuaifu, seeing that Lian Yunfeng's soldiers were already on duty around the Shuaifu, looking familiar and sophisticated, Li Yuangong couldn't help but nod in approval. There were already people arranging a feast under the Shuaifu Hall, and everyone came to the side hall of the lobby to sit and talk for a while.

When the day was approaching, the banquet in the Shuai's mansion began, Li Yuangong sat in the center, the left chamber was Lianyunfeng people, and the right chamber was an important general of the Western Xia Army. Qin Fei is not good at drinking, and even Yunfeng is a group of female generals, so he just tastes it at a superficial level. However, the generals of the Western Xia, seeing that Prince Ruimang was very interested, were eager to welcome him, and the party clan was already good at drinking and had a bold temperament, and after a while, he was already drunk.

Li Yuangong raised his glass again and invited him to drink, although Qin Fei was not strong enough to drink, he had to do it. Qin Fei's heart suddenly moved, and he whispered to Erniang, and Erniang turned around and walked out of the handsome hall after hearing this. Li Yuangong said: "Brother Xian, it is really a great pleasure for you and me to get together today, and the Liao people are now helpless, so let the heroes of Lian Yunfeng drink a few more cups, but what's the matter?"

Qin Fei hurriedly said: "What the elder brother said is very true, but the younger brother suddenly thought that the Liao people are scheming, and they have repeatedly assassinated the enemy's main generals. ”

When the old general Yuan Ying heard this, he nodded again and again: "Qin Shaoxia is reasonable. Twenty years ago, the Liao people committed the border, and I followed the generalissimo Tuoba in the first battle of Xiaoheihe, and the two sides were in a stalemate, and the Liao people were blocked by Marshal Tuoba in Xiaoheihe for more than 20 days, and could not move forward half a step. It wasn't until later that Huo Dezhenjun, the national teacher of the Liao State, sneaked into the tent of Shuai at night and assassinated the Tuoba Marshal, and our Western Xia army immediately retreated on all fronts, and has not been able to recover the lost territory so far. ”

The old generals around Yuan Ying nodded one after another, and the battle of Xiaohei was very impressive for the older generation of Western Xia generals. When Li Yuangong heard this, his brows moved, and he felt that Qin Fei's concern was not unreasonable, but he had to take precautions. If you go down to persuade you to drink, you are not as persistent as just now, and everyone is having fun at will.

As he was talking, he heard a bang outside the Shuai's mansion, followed by the sound of dense bowstrings and the sound of arrows "crackling" like rain hitting plantains. ”

Li Yuangong led everyone to the courtyard, only to see a person lying on the ground, dressed in black, like a hedgehog, full of feather arrows, and even his original face could not be seen. As soon as the two of them climbed into the courtyard wall of the Shuaifu, they were discovered, and after a rain of arrows, they died and fled.

Li Yuangong couldn't help but be angry, and said to Qin Fei: "Brother, the Liao people dare to be so arrogant, you and I will go to the Liao camp tonight and bring back the head of the Liao army master, but I want to see who in the Liao camp can stop the two of us?"

Qin Fei hurriedly persuaded: "Brother Hugh should be angry, you and I both have the smell of alcohol tonight, this is a taboo for night walkers, and I will go to Liaoying with my brother tomorrow night, and then I will be angry for my brother." ”

As soon as Li Yuangong heard that this was indeed the case, he no longer had a seizure, and still returned to the hall with everyone to drink, and it was not until the second half of the night that everyone dispersed.

The next morning, just after washing, the sound of war drums was heard outside the city. Duo'er had already come to Qin Fei's gate, and the two hurriedly got on their mounts and ran towards the city gate. As soon as I arrived at the city gate, I saw that there were huge boulders flying in the air continuously, once they hit people and animals, they broke their bones and tendons, and when they hit the house, the house collapsed, and it was fierce.

The two came to the city wall and saw that Li Yuangong and a group of Western Xia generals were in the city. It seems that after the trebuchet flew the stones, the Liao people were about to storm the city, and the city walls had already prepared rolling logs, bricks and tiles, and hot oil.

The trebuchet boulder flew down, but it only stopped moving for a while, and although the flying stone was terrifying, it was not accurate, and it was difficult to cause a lot of damage. Li Yuangong gave the order, and everyone on the city wall was waiting for him, seeing that the Liao army under the city was about to attack the city.

I saw that the Liao camp slowly pushed out several arrow towers, each arrow tower was about 20 zhang high, and there were 40 archers inside. The base of the arrow tower is unusually wide, about more than ten zhang of the square platform, hundreds of shield hands push forward, facing the city gate, is a long twenty zhang rushing car, also slowly moving towards the city gate, it seems that this time the Liao army is going to attack the city in a big way.

Several 10,000 people in the Liao camp have been waiting in front of the camp, each 10,000 people team is carrying dozens of ladders, only to listen to a burst of golden drums in the Liao military camp, a small red flag pointed to Xiazhou City on the Diao Dou commanded in front of the camp, the commander of the 10,000 people shouted, and the Liao army lifted the ladder and rushed to the city wall of Xiazhou.

When the Liao army was close to the city wall, there was a bang on the city wall, and for a while arrows rained down, and the Liao soldiers under the city fell to the ground one after another. However, because of the large number of people, the front fell, and the back rushed up quickly. Some of the ladders actually leaned against the city wall, and the arrow towers also moved near the city wall, and began to shoot at the archers on the city wall.

In an instant, the arrows rained down, the bricks and stones flew sideways, the city wall was like a slaughterhouse of killing, a wave of Liao soldiers rushed up, they were willing to die rather than retreat at the cost of their lives, finally there were a few ladders of Liao soldiers climbed the city wall, in a blink of an eye, they were stabbed down by dozens of spears under the city, the middle of the car has been pushed under the city gate, but the Liao soldiers around have been shot, only the car is left alone at the city gate.

Not long after, there was another golden drum behind Liao Ying, and Diao Dou put on a small flag, raised it again, and pointed to the city gate.

The Liao soldiers once again launched a fierce attack on the whole line, and hundreds of ladders were lined up under the city wall, which were lifted by the soldiers and rushed to the city wall, and the arrow tower also turned close to the city wall. In the middle, a group of about 500 soldiers held shields, rushed to the city gate, and then pushed the car to the city gate, the city wall again arrows like locusts, and there was a hot oil splashed, and there were rockets shot on the car on the oil, "boom" ignited a flame, the surviving soldiers next to the car had to drop the car, retreat.

Qin Fei couldn't help frowning when he looked at the situation in front of him, the Liao army had many casualties in attacking the city like this, but there was no practical effect, and the Western Xia soldiers were also shot, but compared to the casualties of the Liao soldiers, they were almost nothing to mention.

There is a ladder of the first dead soldier has jumped on the city wall, behind dozens of Liao soldiers with sharp blades to protect the breakthrough, the Liao soldiers under it are coming up, and the Liao soldiers on the battlefield let out cheers.

Li Yuangong stood above the city gate, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw the Liao people climbing the city wall, and said to the general beside him: "Raise the flag and let our sergeants dodge away, and let them board some more people." Then he instructed the guards behind him: "Prepare for the feather shooting camp." ”

With a move of the guard, two hundred soldiers of the shooting feather battalion wearing fine armor behind him had gathered on the side, about thirty zhang away from the Liao people climbing the wall, and at this time, the soldiers on the Xixia City had withdrawn to the side, and the Liao people had climbed the city with hundreds of people.

Li Yuangong said to the guard: "Release the arrow!" The guard waved his hand, and the two hundred shooting feather battalions had already drawn the full moon with a bow, and the arrows were like meteors and dense like raindrops, and in a flash, hundreds of Liao people who had landed in the city had no living mouth, and the corpses were stuffed with the battlements of the city, and the guards waved their hands to stop the arrows, and the Western Xia soldiers stepped forward to throw all the Liao corpses at the battlements into the city.

The Liao soldiers who rushed in the middle regrouped, intending to storm the city gate again. Every time you get close to the car, the city will rain arrows fall, the Liao people's shield can not protect the whole body, people continue to be hit by arrows, there are hot oil splashed on the city, it is even more impossible to prevent, the dead and wounded Liao soldiers next to the car are piled higher than the body, and they rush dozens of times, and only dozens of people escape back each time.

The Liao army's desperate siege lasted until noon, leaving thousands of corpses of the Liao army under the city wall, but they returned in vain. A group of Western Xia generals, together with Qin Fei and Duo'er, were stunned, the Liao army's siege in the morning was a one-sided massacre, and the enemy generals ignored the siege and regarded the lives of the soldiers as if they were mustard, which made the generals in the city puzzled.

In order to prevent the Liao army from attacking the city again in the afternoon, all the generals only had lunch in a hurry on the city wall, the arrows left on the city wall have been collected by special personnel, and the consumption of rolling wood and stones, masonry and tiles have also been replenished, and the wounded soldiers were carried down for treatment, and the soldiers on the city were on strict guard, watching the Liao camp Dazhai.

I don't know that until the evening, there was no movement in Liaoying.