On the 14th, before dawn, the Xia army outside the city had already launched an attack. This attack caught the defenders off guard, and the Xia army climbed the city wall several times, but fortunately, the defenders fought bravely and occupied the place where the Xia army boarded.

With the exception of incendiary bombs, which were not taken out until the last minute, the defenders, who had lost all their props, engaged in fierce hand-to-hand combat with the Tanguts.

There are very few archers who can still shoot arrows after two days with their palms intact, and most of them have their hands blurred after repeating the act of drawing their bows for a long time.

Even worse, both hands were trembling incessantly, not to mention archery, and it was difficult to even hold the bow.

This is where the crossbowmen's strengths come into play, as they are much slower than the archers in terms of rate of fire and are not as precise at their targets, but they are more durable.

When the archers had to go down to rest, they were able to continue fighting.

Once activated, the eight-bull crossbow is like a missile that has just been launched. Embedded deep in the ground beneath the city, there were two or three hapless soldiers strung on the arrows.

At the moment when the north gate was opened by the Xia army's battering ram, the two eight-bull crossbows placed at the city gate were instantly launched. Each arrow was strung with seven or eight Xia troops, and two roads were rushed out of the Xia army's formation.

When the Xia army panicked in the face of the eight-ox crossbow, the defenders at the city gate hurriedly threw out seven or eight incendiary bombs, and then struggled to close the gate.

The previous latch had been destroyed, and a few more people came carrying a huge piece of wood, and the defenders worked together to put the block wood as a latch, and outside the door was the terrible howl of the Xia army burned by incendiary bombs.

At the height of the battle, Tang Ning also took Lin Wei to the city wall to assist in the defense. Qi Fu didn't dare to come up, the situation was urgent, and Tang Ning didn't deliberately ask him.

He took Lin Wei, holding the big crossbow made by Gong Yihuan in his hand, and stood in the city, when someone came out, Tang Ning shot out with an arrow.

There were strings of arrow boxes hanging on his body, and at this moment, Tang Ning felt that he was more fierce than Stallone.

The battle tended to be white-hot, from the dawn of the morning to the middle of the night, the Xia army's attack on Huanzhou City never stopped.

There were corpses everywhere on the walls, and the blood was so thick that it was like taking a breath of blood.

The two sides fought fiercely against the black light and blind fire, and it was not until the time of the sea that the Xia army withdrew its troops.

Chong Pu was old, although he had extra strength, and he wanted to kill the thief, but his guards and general judges were afraid that something would happen to this person, so they tried their best to dissuade him, and it was not until a group of people knelt in the courtyard that they persuaded the old man.

As the governor of Huanzhou, as well as the leader of the family army in the Huanzhou area, there is no room for mistakes. Once something happens to Chongpu, the consequences can be very serious.

However, he still stood in a tall building in the middle of the city and watched the battle from a distance, and Downing was one of the ones he paid special attention to. and the guard who has been following him, who can be called brave, makes Pu feel a little itchy.

By the end of the battle, the defenders were already exhausted. The soldiers who came to change the guard ate steamed buns silently, while the soldiers before them carried the corpses of the fallen brothers down the city wall.

It didn't take long for the entire Huanzhou City to be filled with earth-shattering snoring.

Tang Ning and Lin Wei were also very tired, Tang Ning was better, after all, this guy didn't participate in hand-to-hand combat. But Lin Wei is different, although this person has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, practicing three times in winter and three times in summer, he has never had such an experience as today.

For nearly ten hours, there was no uninterrupted battle, at this moment

, his arms were a little numb, and his eyelids were heavy.

Qi Fu, who had been waiting under the city, saw that the two of them had come down, and hurriedly stepped forward, reaching out to help Lin Wei, who was walking step by step, and said, "Brother Lin, why do you also look like you are prostration?" ”

Lin Wei smiled bitterly and said, "I'm too tired, I'm really tired." I didn't think anything about it just now, but the thief retreated, and I felt that these two arms were very sore. These two legs have no strength, and they are weak. ”

Tang Ning snorted and said, "Don't say it's a battle, even if you stay under the city, you will be exhausted if you stay for so long." Let's go, help you Brother Lin go back to the camp tent to rest.

The thieves have been fighting for so long today and have not been able to defeat Huanzhou City, and they will definitely not be reconciled in their hearts.

There are so many of them, they can take turns to rest and take turns to fight. Tomorrow will probably launch an attack of the same intensity, so I think I should have to get up early tomorrow. Let's take advantage of this to get a little more sleep, otherwise there will be no time to rest. ”

Lin Wei nodded, and Qi Fu put Lin Wei in one hand and Tang Ning in the other, and went back to the camp to sleep.

When Chong Pu rushed over, Tang Ning and Lin Wei were already snoring, and the whole barracks was full of snoring, and it seemed that everyone was tired.

Chong Pu was a little regretful, he still wanted to ask Tang Ning to bring this guard over and let him come to his side to do things. It's a pity that such a talent is nested around a small superintendent.

In Chong Pu's opinion, if the guard has a strategy, it is not impossible to become a general like Zhi Keshi.

Even if there is no strategy, it is enough to be a tiger general.

Now that he's asleep, let him go to sleep first. It's been a day of fighting, and it's been hard. Other matters should be discussed after the siege of Huanzhou is resolved.

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"Marshal, Huanzhou has been besieged for two days, don't we really send reinforcements to support?"

Ma Bujun was deployed in the Song Dynasty and was a very powerful position, generally placed in places near Liao and Xia, as local military governors, in charge of the army's garrison, defense, training, education, reward and punishment affairs.

In battle, he served as a wartime commander. In general, it can be regarded as the second-in-command of Zhang Qi, who has been slightly appeased.

Wang Jing was deployed as the horse infantry army on Huanqing Road, and Zhang Ji had to answer the questions raised.

Sighing, Zhang Qi said helplessly: "Ben Shuai only sent Zhang Cun to lead 5,000 people to Huanzhou to support in the morning, why did you mention it again?" ”

Wang Jing scratched his head and said, "Big handsome, five thousand people...... I'm afraid it's not enough, right? ”

"It's definitely not enough." Zhang Qi said it with confidence, and Wang Jing was a little confused: "But how many soldiers do we have in total?" It was only more than 50,000, and after deducting the defenders of the walled cities, there were only 26,000 people, and there were 4,000 soldiers.

This time, Zhang Cun took 5,000 people to support, and there are more than 20,000 people left, if all the brains are sent out, and the thieves see that there is no support, won't we expose that there are no reinforcements to send?

At that time, the thieves will find out about me, won't the initiative be in their hands again? ”

"What then?" Although Wang Jing has achieved the position of deploying the horse infantry army on the Huanqing Road, this person does not have a good sense of the overall situation, and if he is asked to command a major battle, he doesn't know how to lose.

But this person is fortunately obedient, Zhang Kai is quite easy to use, if the overall situation is insufficient and he is stubborn, Zhang Kai would have removed him a long time ago.

"In two more days, only 3,000 people will be left near Gyeongju for defense

In case, send all the rest of the people out to confuse the front army of the thieves and let them know that we still have reinforcements to send. ”

"But the defenders of Huanzhou are only 6,000 in total, and counting the troops who escorted grain and grass to stay behind before, there are only 8,000 people. Hundreds of thousands of thieves, I'm afraid ......"

Zhang Qi waved his hand and interrupted Wang Jing's words: "This person's ability is far beyond your imagination, and if you hold it for another three days, the situation will change."

Within three days, the thieves will inevitably show their feet, giving General Zhe a chance. They didn't have much grain and grass with them this time, and they had been insisting on the strategy of clearing the wilderness near Huanzhou, and if the supplies couldn't keep up, they could only withdraw their troops.

Not to mention...... Hmph, the old man also prepared a big gift for the thieves, it's been two days, I guess they should have received this big gift! ”

"What gift?" Wang Jing asked curiously.

"Hey, hey." Zhang Qi smiled, but he didn't make a sound, a person in his sixties could hardly make such an obscene expression for him.

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Tang Ning didn't expect to sleep very peacefully, from last night to noon today, when he got up and listened, there was no sound of fighting.

When I walked out of the big tent, I saw that the weather was not bad.

He couldn't figure out why the thieves didn't attack, so he ran to ask Chong Pu, and Chong Pu said with a strange face: "Is this the case, the old man is still not sure......

But do you remember that the marshal just ordered a few days ago that our soldiers were not allowed to go outside to fetch water? ”

"Of course I do." Tang Ning nodded: "Is there something strange here?" At that time, the thieves were pressing, and I thought that the marshal gave this order in order to avoid unnecessary losses, is it ......?"

Speaking of this, Tang Ning suddenly became excited.

Chong Pu sighed and said: "The source of drinking water in the Huanzhou area is limited, and even if the thief soldiers have a sufficient supply of grain and grass, they can't avoid the problem of drinking water.

The marshal seems to have poisoned the water source, and the thieves failed to attack it today, and there is a high probability that it is related to the poison. ”

The excited Tang Ning saw that Chong Pu's appearance was not like a happy appearance, so he asked strangely: "My lord, isn't this a good thing?" Why don't you look so happy? ”

Chong Pu looked at Tang Ning deeply and said, "In a sense, this is indeed a thing to be happy about. After all, the thieves couldn't carry out the siege in this situation, and we were given time to rest.

But have you ever wondered what to do with the people near Huanzhou?

Even if they are lucky enough to escape the clutches of the thieves, they still need to drink water......

In order to make the plan successful, the commander didn't even tell us the details, only said that we were not allowed to drink water from the water sources outside the city, let alone these people, who probably didn't know that there was such a thing. ”

"Are there still people near Huanzhou?" Tang Ning's eyes widened: "This place has been fighting for many years, and it has been clearing the walls all year round, are there still people who are willing to stay here?" ”

"Why not? In front of the station, there are more than 700 families who have been evacuated from Mubo Town, and there are no less than 20 large and small villages in the surrounding area, and at least more than 5,000 people have settled in this vicinity.

They don't necessarily have to farm for a living, they have to do the work in the army.

Do you think the words "uprooted" are as easy to do as they are to say them? If there is really no way out, who wants to leave the homeland where they have lived here for generations? ”

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