Chapter 910: The Tiger Roars and the Eagle Raises, and the City Heads Fight Bloody!
Within five or six days, ten miles in front of the fortress where Xiao Tang was stationed was already crowded with people, converging into a sea of people, but seeing that the assembled Xia army formation was boundless and boundless, it had the momentum of wanting to throw a whip and break the stream, and it couldn't help but make people palpitate. The elite soldiers and fierce generals of the military divisions in the western part of the Xia Kingdom gathered in one place, and since Brother Cha thwarted Liu Fa and took advantage of the situation to go south, it seems that no one from the other Song army groups below Tong Guan planned to take the initiative to resist the Xia army that wanted to enter the territory of the Song State, as if the enemy army had not moved. On the contrary, only Xiao Tang, who led the troops under his command who had gone through a series of tragic battles, still stood in the key pass, trying to rescue those lonely and helpless people of the Great Song Dynasty as much as possible.
In the vast western borderland, the surrounding counties and towns under the rule of the Song State, the military villages, and the dock walls are almost uninhabited, and the Xia army of the various departments let out a tsunami-like shouting and killing sound, and slowly moved towards the city fortress over there, with a member of the army Xia General let out a roar almost like a wolf howl, tens of thousands of Xia army foot soldiers moved together, dozens of towering towers also began to move forward slowly, and a tragic war finally kicked off.
Xiao Tang stood at the head of the city wall, his eyes stared at the Xia army swarming under the city, on his side Wang Jin, Yao Pingzhong, Wu Jue, Liu Qi and other generals also looked at Xiao Tang with their eyes, with Xiao Tang bowing slightly, the loud horn of the generals behind him also resounded through the army in an instant, and the archers of the Song army, who had been waiting for a long time, quickly put the longbow in their hands, and the sharp arrow clusters had also been put on the arrow strings, just an order from the officer, These battle-hardened Song soldiers would immediately rain arrows at the enemy troops in front of them.
Closer, closer......
In the deafening shouting of killing, Xiao Tang's fists crackled, and there seemed to be a raging fire burning in his eyes, and the Xia army foot soldiers who were about to attack the city were like a black and oppressive ant, and when they saw that they were about to rush to the foot of the city wall, Xiao Tang's slowly raised right arm finally fell fiercely, and the thunderous roar of Yao Pingzhong next to him also resounded through the city: "Release the arrow!" ”
When the crossbowmen of the Song army at the head of the city heard this, they immediately opened their bows, pulled the strings, and let go, and in an instant, thousands of sharp wolf tooth feather arrows broke through the air and let out a piercing scream, swept through the sky, and suddenly turned into a puff of cold arrow rain and fell on the head of the Xia army!
A burst of miserable howls immediately rose, and the soldiers of the Xia Kingdom who were constantly hit by arrows fell to the ground with a wail, but their offensive did not stop, and countless brave Xia soldiers braved the rain of arrows to put several ladders on the top of the city, these soldiers held sharp blades in their mouths, and began to climb up with their hands and feet, and soon someone had approached the head of the walled city, which was not very tall.
The archers of the Song army quickly rushed down the city wall, still shooting into the sky under the orders of the officers, and the rain of arrows that drew a parabola in mid-air was still shooting the enemy troops attacking the city outside, and the strong crossbowmen holding the divine arm bow retreated a few steps sideways, and still saw the opportunity to move forward, and then pulled the machine in his hand to shoot the enemy as much as possible with a hard crossbow that shot in a straight line and had terrifying strength. The pikemen and sword and shield bearers crowded the city at this time, and first the spearmen stabbed the sharp spears in their hands in the air, and in an instant, they made several blood holes in the bodies of those Xia soldiers who were about to climb the city.
Rows of spears stabbed out like lightning and quickly retracted, nearly a hundred corpses suddenly fell straight from the air, and soon more than a dozen large lances with a length of more than eight zhang also poked out of the Song army formation, and slammed into the siege ladder that hooked up at the head of the city, those ladders immediately tilted out under the impact of fierce force, and the Xia army foot soldiers who were originally climbing on the ladder also fell down from mid-air, as the ladder and body smashed on the foot soldiers below who could not dodge, many people were smashed and fractured, Those who still did not lose their breath could only let out a terrible scream helplessly. Soon the rolling wood and stones also poured and fell from the top of the city, and the Xia army that was hit by the broken limbs and bones, under the fierce counterattack of the Song army, the momentum of the Xia army's siege of the city was finally slowed down.
But before the defenders at the head of the city had time to catch their breath, a terrible horn suddenly sounded in the middle of the army, and the Xia army seemed to be a wave of unsettled, wave after wave of monstrous waves, and the formation of countless heads swept towards the city fortress again!
In the large array of the Xia army in the rear, thousands of sharp arrows suddenly shot out of the air, drawing a piercing scream of breaking wind in the air, which instantly hit the head of the city and poured down towards the Song army defending the city. Crowded on the city wall, the Song soldiers who did not have time to set up shields to block immediately many people were killed by arrows, some of their bodies immediately fell from the city, and some of the soldiers who were injured by arrows had arrows stuck in their bodies but refused to retreat, and still had to stay on the wall to fight to the end.
"Boom!" "Boom! "Boom! "Boom! ”.... The loud sound suddenly exploded on the wall, and countless flying stones smashed the wall of the city to the point that the stones burst out, and a few flying stones mixed with the wind and thunder suddenly attacked, and many Song soldiers were smashed and broken in an instant, and they were killed on the spot!
Outside the city and the side of the Xia army's crossbowmen, there are more than two hundred camels with torsion stone throwers placed among the stocky Bactrian camels, and the Xia Guo Poxi army keeps shooting out the fist-sized stones in the saddle bag, and at this time, the stone throwing machine with a fist of stones casts stone bullets and momentum, which is almost several times higher than when the Xia army general Ren Duoyi attacked the Linxia City that Xiao Tang was defending!
It didn't take long for the continuous stone rain to blow another cloud of smoke rising, the smoke choked the mouth and nose, presumably the Xia army added poisonous smoke bombs made of wolf dung, poisonous weeds, gunpowder and other materials to the stones issued by the Poxi army, and many Song soldiers who inhaled the poisonous smoke began to cough violently, and were smoked to tears!
Under the blow of the unstoppable whirlwind cannon of the Poxi Army, Xiao Tang had no choice but to retreat to the rear of the city under the support of his personal generals, but Wang Jin, Niu Gao, Zhu Dingguo, Zhai Xing, Zhai Jin and other generals also shouted orders to order the Song army soldiers at the entrance of the city wall to wait solemnly, the cold killing machine burned in the eyes of every Song army soldier, the sharp blades in their hands reflected the cold chill, and they also knew very well that the most tragic fight was just beginning. After the poisonous smoke dissipates a little, a large number of soldiers of the Xia army under the city wall will definitely take this opportunity to rush to the city, and now at this time, all the comrades in Ze robe can only have a chance to survive if they are hugging together, otherwise not only them, but also the countless old and weak women and children of the Song people who took refuge behind the city fortress will all die under the butcher's knife of the Xia army!
The battle has been fought to this point, and no strategy can be used, it is nothing more than to fight to win whose fighting spirit is stronger, and who can grit their teeth and persist until the last moment...... Xiao Tang thought in his heart, and his hands also touched the hilt of the wolf tooth cold blade double knife on his waist.
"Take the twelve states of Shanxi first, and other elements will hit the yatou! Looking back at Qinsai, he is as low as a horse, and gradually sees the Yellow River flowing straight north! Xiao Tang raised his arms and howled, and what he sang in his mouth was widely spread among the Western Army in the border areas of the Great Song Dynasty.
"Tianwei swept across the Yellow River, and the Qiang people sang all the Han songs! Moyan crosses the mountains and flows backwards, and goes from the west of the church to make Enbo....... "The soldiers of the Western Army who are familiar with this military song in the city fortress, and even the soldiers of the Jingnan Army and the rest of the army almost all responded loudly to Xiao Tang and sang loudly, and in an instant, the surging roar resounded inside and outside the city fortress, and the awe-inspiring battle spirit seemed to rush into the sky in an instant!
But just as Xiao Tang was singing loudly and was about to pull out his double knives, a big hand was on his shoulder, and when Xiao Tang looked back, he saw Wu Song standing behind him. Wu Song's face was resolute, and he suddenly smiled again, and said: "Brother, you are the commander of the army, and you always fight for your life, what are we generals who obey orders in front of your account?" Now is not the time for you to move lightly, you and I are fighting side by side, not in a hurry! ”