The sky-high fire that ignited in the middle of the night on Longshan was seen by the soldiers of the Xixia battalion, and someone had already hurriedly reported it into the big tent.

Suddenly hearing the commotion inside and outside the tent, and there seemed to be footsteps rushing into the account, Li Yuanhao suddenly woke up, stretched out his hand to lift the sword on the side of the bed and shouted at the curtain and asked, "Who?" ”

A chamberlain beside him just opened the curtain on the periphery of the bed, and suddenly saw a sharp sword of blue light against his nose, and his feet were so frightened that he quickly knelt down.

"Your Majesty, Zhang Zhongshu came to ask for a meeting, and the slave maid is here to report."

Li Yuanhao realized that he had overreacted, he had been placing a blade next to his bed, I don't know when he always felt unsafe, although he knew that there would never be anything unfavorable to him in this camp, but he still reflexively picked up the guy.

Li Yuanhao put down his sword and shouted: "In the middle of the night, what is Zhang Yuan doing here?" Don't you know I'm resting? ”

The attendant said in a trembling voice: "The slave and maid also said it, but Lord Zhang said that it was a military matter, and the slave and maid did not dare to delay." ”

Li Yuanhao's heart froze, he simply put on his robe and kicked his shoes, and ordered the waiter to bring cold water to wash his face, and then slowly walked out of the sleeping tent and came to the tent of the discussion, Zhang Yuan had already knelt under the tent tremblingly, and quickly kowtowed when he saw Li Yuanhao.

"Excuse me, what are you doing here in the middle of the night?" Li Yuanhao waved his hand with a yawn.

"Your Majesty, something is wrong, something happened on Longshan."

Li Yuanhao frowned and asked, "Longshan? What could happen? ”

Zhang Yuandao: "Your Majesty moved outside the tent, you can take a look." ”

Li Yuanhao stood up and took three steps and two steps to the outside of the tent to watch in the direction of Longshan, but saw that the direction of Longshan was blazing red, a sky-high fire was raging on the eastern slope of Longshan, and the firelight illuminated half of the sky in the west red, although it was dozens of miles away, it seemed that he could still feel the heat wave rolling smoke and dust into the sky.

"This ...... What's going on? How could there be a fire on the mountain? Where are the 5,000 soldiers who felled wood now? ”

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid...... I'm afraid that the whole army is annihilated, this fire is definitely caused by man, the minister has sent a large army to respond, not long ago, the sentinel under the mountain reported, two watches, there was a shouting of killing on the eastern slope of Longshan Mountain. ”

Li Yuanhao scolded angrily: "The Song people are really hateful, they actually dare to take the initiative to provoke, quickly send troops to respond, and send another team of men and horses to intercept the Song army who set fire, and they are not allowed to return to the city." ”

Zhang Yuan hurriedly said: "The minister has already ordered someone to do it, but I am afraid that it will be too late, it is now nearly four watches, and the enemy army is afraid that it has already returned to the city." ”

Li Yuanhao scolded angrily, the depression in his heart was beyond words, it was obvious that his plan was seen through by the Song people, after this fire, it was nothing to lose thousands of soldiers, and more importantly, the plan of cutting down trees and building ladders for a full-scale attack would not be implemented, just like a beautiful woman lying on the bed, her pants had just been half off, and suddenly someone forcibly dragged the woman away in front of her, which made people embarrassed.

"It's not simple, it's not simple, there are masters in this Weizhou city, could it be that Su Jin guessed my plan? Impossible, isn't this son a weak-crowned boy? How can you be so good at fighting? It must have been Han Qi who came to Weizhou, it must be. Li Yuanhao muttered angrily.

Zhang Yuan said cautiously: "Your Majesty, if the trees in Longshan are burned, what should we do next?" ”

Li Yuanhao gritted his teeth with a blue face and said, "Do you want to escape the catastrophe after burning the trees?" How can I allow them to do what they want, the more stubborn they resist at this moment, the more I will behead all the people in the city and wash them in blood, pass on my order, from today onwards, the three armies will take turns to attack the city without interruption, I originally did not want to use such a siege method with huge casualties, but the Song people are so cunning, I can't take care of it much. ”

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As soon as the sky was brightened, the north city wall was subjected to a fierce attack, hundreds of trebuchets poured gravel on the city wall at the same time, more than 30,000 Xia soldiers rushed to the city with only a few casualties with the suppressive power of trebuchets, 800 ladders were set up on the city again, and the Xia soldiers climbed to the city head with their lives.

The 20,000 defenders of the northern city of the Song army resisted desperately, the two sides fought in a tug-of-war, and the city wall was lost several times. Before the Song army defending the city had time to take a breath, the horn sounded in the camp of the Xia army, and the trebuchet suppressed the stone throwing again, and the other 30,000 Xia troops came like a tide again, followed by a bloody battle, until the afternoon, the 30,000 Xia troops were killed and retreated.

From morning to noon, it was almost an uninterrupted fight, the spirit and physical strength of the defenders of the Song army were highly nervous and tired, the Xia army was like a chicken blood, completely ignoring the casualties and attacking the city wall, the number of attacks on the city wall was nearly fifty or sixty times, and the breakthrough point also increased from more than ten places at the beginning to hundreds of places, if it were not for the courage of the Song army, these two charges could break through the north city wall.

The urn city of the north city played a huge role in the two battles in the morning, especially the second charge, after the car hole opened the urn city gate, moved away the huge stones and sundries that blocked the urn city hole, the Xia army thought that they had broken through the north gate of Weizhou City, and a large number of people poured into the urn city.

The archers on the wall of the urn city suddenly appeared, condescending to shoot at the crowded Xia army, the Xia soldiers found that there was a stronger city gate in front of them and could not advance at all, hurriedly retreated but crowded, and the thousands of Xia soldiers who poured in were shot alive in the small urn city; It was precisely because of the massacre in the urn city that the Xia army was frightened, that the Xia army's second attack was forced to give up halfway, and most of the Xia soldiers fled from this Shura field in a cold and heartbroken way without even waiting for the retreat horn to be issued.

The hundreds of Xia soldiers who had already rushed to the city lost their follow-up reinforcements, and were completely slaughtered by the Song army, barely blocking the second wave of attacks.

The number of casualties of the Xia army exceeded 20,000, and the Song army also suffered more than 6,000 casualties.

All the people seemed to have a nightmare, after the second wave of attack, the Song soldiers were tired and almost collapsed, but the nightmare was not over, the soldiers who wanted to tear off the city to rest and eat suddenly found that the third wave of the Xia army's attack came again.

This time the number of people is nearly 40,000, looking at the dense Xia army soldiers all over the city, the legs and stomachs of the defenders are weak, and their faces have become pale, the Xia army is fighting with wheels, to exhaust the defenders on the head of the city alive, and to use the advantage of numbers to completely consume the Song army.

Jingtai and Pan Jiang's eyes were green, and the two hurriedly rushed into the city tower where Su Jin was located to ask Su Jin, Su Jin was also worried about himself, but at this moment, he couldn't delay for half a minute, so he hurriedly ordered: "Immediately transfer the other three city walls to help, and order Li Zhong to mobilize 5,000 young and strong people to go to the city to help defend it, and order the soldiers who participated in the battle in the morning to tear down the city head to eat, drink and rest." ”

"How can you stop it? What can 10,000 fresh troops and 5,000 young and strong people who don't know anything be worth? Pan Jiang shouted.

Su Jin said: "If you can't keep it, you have to defend it, as long as you can carry stones and sassalwoods to the city, you can defend the city, and in addition, all the oil canisters in the armory will be moved up for backup, I estimate that these things will be used." ”

Pan Jiang slapped his forehead and said, "I almost forgot that we still have thousands of oil cans, with this thing, we will definitely be able to hold it." ”

Su Jin sighed: "I originally planned to use it as a last resort, but I didn't expect to use the last straw now, but now I can't take care of it, burn my eyebrows and take care of the moment, remember that the oil tank will give priority to burning the ladders, and the number of enemy ladders is only seven hundred, as long as a few hundred more are burned, the wheel attack of the western thieves can be suspended, and we can also take a breath." ”

The defenders of the other three walls of the city ran from the city walls to support, saying that the defenders on three sides, the number was actually only more than 10,000 people, and 5,000 people climbed to the top of the city, and these people, who had never fought before, only glanced at the scene of the corpses under the city being like mountains and rivers of blood, and many people were so frightened that they sat on the ground and could not move.

The exhausted 14,000 defenders of the northern city finally got a chance to rest, the fresh army had just taken place, the Xia army had already arrived under the city, and the dense bows and arrows could not stop the Xia army's advance, dead people were already a common thing, everyone was like a puppet puppet without thoughts, only knowing how to rush forward.

The soldiers of the Xia army rushed to the city and quickly hooked the ladder to the head of the city, braving the stones and sassalwood smashed down like rain on the city head to climb up, there was no extra emotion and action at all, in the face of such indifferent life and death of the Xia soldiers, the more than 10,000 people of the Song army were really unable to resist, and as long as there was a slight relaxation, there were Xia soldiers jumping on the city, once one person went to the city, it would take at least two Song army strength to kill it, and the Song army was not the opponent of the Xia army at all.

Seeing that the head of the city was broken through more than 30 places, a steady stream of Xia soldiers broke through. Seeing that the situation was critical, Pan Jiang had to shout: "Throw the oil canister and burn these grandsons." ”

The people who were responsible for carrying the materials under the city quickly sent more than 3,000 cans of fire oil tanks soaked with cloth strips to the city, and the fire oil tanks were ignited and smashed down the city, and after a while, the city wall became a sea of fire, and the Xia soldiers who were congested under the city were on fire, and immediately swarmed to retreat, and the fire spread outward like ripples with their retreat.

Thousands of soldiers were on fire, no matter how indifferent they were to life and death, they couldn't stand the burning of flesh and skin, and suddenly there was a heart-rending cry, and the ground was full of summer soldiers running around after the fire; What's more, the fire blocked the footsteps of the others who came to attack the walls, and they couldn't get close or they would get caught on fire.

Hundreds of wooden ladders also caught fire, and the soldiers on the ladders jumped down like dumplings, and once they lost the means to climb the city, they had only two ways to retreat or wait for death, and it was obvious that they had to choose the first one.

The defenders quickly cleared the Xia army on the head of the city, and under the fire barrier, the Xia army under the city entered the dead corner of the bow and arrow, so the defenders at the head of the city shot the bow again, and the Xia army suffered countless casualties.

"Blow the trumpet and retreat, quick! Fast! Zhang Yuan, who supervised the war, hurriedly ordered, and the horn sounded like an amnesty from death, and the soldiers of the Xia army immediately rushed with their heads in their hands, leaving the corpses of weapons all over the ground and fleeing back to the camp.