The city wall outside the north gate has long been filled with smoke and dust, the Western Xia army began a full-scale attack not long ago, more than 1,000 trebuchets began to throw a large number of stones inside and outside the city wall, scattered stones like rain, smashed the entire section of the north gate city wall can not stand on it at all.

The trebuchet has a range of nearly 600 steps, and the stones thrown are high and far, although in order to pursue the effect of long distances, the stones thrown are not too big, but they fall down from the sky like a scattered flower, the power is still amazing, especially the nearly 10,000 defenders inside and outside the city wall of the north gate have a fatal injury, and after several rounds, they smashed and injured hundreds of Song troops, and destroyed a lot of newly heightened not very solid wall battlements.

The soldiers of the Song army had to huddle behind the battlements, covering their bodies with shields to cover the stones falling from the sky, and many of them were buried alive by the stones.

The most violent blow is the newly built Wengchengkou, the height is not high, the city tower of the Wengcheng until the top is all in the range of the bombardment of rocks, the top of the smashed city tower and the wall on the side collapsed in several places, and the defenders inside also fell and suffered many casualties.

Su Jin rode to the gate of the North City, and his eyes were covered with white dust, and he was so choked that he couldn't breathe. In the smoke and dust, people ran back and forth to avoid the stones, and they became a pot of porridge.

Wang Chao grabbed a soldier in front of him and scolded angrily: "What are you running? Where are Lord Pan and Master Jing? ”

The soldier was covered in blood, pointed behind him and said, "I don't know, I really can't stand being smashed, it's not a place for people." ”

Wang Dynasty shouted angrily: "Fleeing from the battle? You are looking for death, come to someone, tie him up and take him to the city, and if you want to die, he will be the first to die. Two horsemen stepped forward and pushed the soldier to the wall.

Su Jin frowned, dismounted into the smoke and dust, and climbed the city wall with flying stones, and Jingtai and Pan Jiang, who heard the news, held a big shield to block the falling stones in the sky and connected Su Jin into the strong city tower at the north main gate.

Su Jin split his head and asked, "What's the situation?" ”

Pan Jiang wiped the dust on his face and scolded: "Damn, the Xixia dog seems to be crazy, this smash actually lasted for nearly a quarter of an hour, seeing that this posture is about to end, the next thing is to charge." ”

Su Jin squinted his eyes and looked down at the city, the smoke and dust were dissipating, and in the haze, he could see that the Western Xia army was preparing to charge in the distance.

"What about the casualties in the city?"

Jingtai said: "I'm afraid there are not many dead, there must be a lot of injuries, but I can only carry it, the lower officials think that this casualty is insignificant, as long as the city wall is not damaged." ”

Su Jin nodded, the city wall should be no problem, the stone of the city wall three zhang high and two zhang wide will not collapse after three or five months, it seems that Jingtai and Pan Jiang have seen a big battle, and they are used to such a bombardment scene, and they are not too panicked, Su Jin is a little calm.

"Fortunately, I ordered someone to carry the bed crossbow down in advance, otherwise it would have been smashed into a pile of rotten wood now, and I would have let the thief taste the crossbow arrow piercing the heart later." Pan Jiang licked his lips and showed his snow-white teeth.

The trebuchet's attack gradually stopped, and the moment the smoke and dust cleared, the Song soldiers who had just crawled out of the stones found that the cavalry of the Xia army had reached a place three hundred steps below the city.

The first batch of Xia troops is the right army of Yeli Yu beggar 10,000 people, this is a recruit team composed of ordinary herdsmen Latin, put in the front charge is to be cannon fodder, the pit under the city has not been cleared, and the arrows of the Song army must be dense and ruthless for the first time, these recruits are to fill the pit and be beaten, followed by the three 10,000 people behind is the elite, they carry ladders, rushing cars and other climbing equipment, will step on the corpse of the cannon fodder recruits to officially start the city.

Not surprisingly, the 10,000-strong recruits were mercilessly attacked, and on the way, they continued to fall into the pit with men and horses, and became the goods to fill the pit, and when they entered within 100 paces, only more than 7,000 of the 10,000 men remained, and the rest were struggling in the pit; And these more than 7,000 people immediately suffered from the bow and arrow of the Song army at the head of the city, and tens of thousands of disgraced Song soldiers shot condescendingly with a bow, turning the range within 100 steps into a forbidden area for the living, and more than 7,000 people and horses continued to fall, and finally rushed to the bow and arrow dead end on the other side of the moat that had been filled in with stones after paying a lot of casualties.

Before they could rejoice that they had survived, the stones on the top of the city rained down, all of which were thrown by trebuchets on the head of the city, and now they were all returned to the cannon fodder.

Fortunately, the Song army at the head of the city quickly shifted its attention, the second echelon of 10,000 people had already flown in, with the front cannon fodder to fill the pit, the second wave of charging Xia army was much smoother, the advantage of cavalry impact was vividly reflected, the Song soldiers only had time to shoot two rounds of arrows, and the second wave of Xia army had come to the city wall.

The short ladder was quickly spliced together, and the soldiers of the Xia army erected thousands of tall ladders and slowly set up the top of the city with arrows and stones on the top of the city.

At the same time, the third and fourth groups of 10,000 people also flocked with various ladders, hooks and rushing cars, thousands of ladders with iron hooks hooked to the top of the city wall, embedded in the rammed earth, no matter how the Song army on it kicked and pushed, it did not move, and the soldiers of the Xia army screamed and climbed to the top of the city with thick armor and thick helmets.

More than a dozen giant wooden chariots were also pulled by more than a dozen horses to attack the city gate of the urn city, braving the rain of arrows and stones on the city tower to start ramming the city gate of the urn city.

The Western Xia army began a full-scale attack on Weizhou in this simple and crude way with no technical content.

This kind of simple ladder has long been abandoned in this year, the armory of the Great Song Dynasty has a more advanced lifting ladder, there is a wooden wheel that can be pushed below, the top of the ladder is covered by iron armor, anti-arrow fire and anti-stone is also mobile and flexible, seven or eight soldiers climb the ladder after the dozen soldiers shake the shaft to automatically rise the soldiers on the ladder to the same height of the city wall, and then step on the wall to start hand-to-hand combat.

But it is obvious that the Western Xia are overconfident in their cavalry, and this new type of cloud ladder is also a high-level secret, so the Western Xia people can only use the original long ladder as a tool to climb the city, and the Western Xia soldiers who are exposed in mid-air naturally become a live target, the Song soldiers can shoot at his face with arrows, can smash his head with a big stone, and can use a spear to push them directly down the ladder, although the simple and rough way of playing is very frightening, but the disadvantages are naturally great.

However, the soldiers of the Xia Army have their own secret books, they often climb up in the air and do not go up, but take out their unique secret weapon 'flying hook' and throw it on the city wall, the city head is full of Song soldiers, and a casual catch is a person who is hooked down from the city head by the upside down, it turns out that ' The clever 'Western Xia soldiers were because the height of the city wall was too high, and the flying hook could not be thrown at all, so they chose to use the ladder as a springboard, this trick really worked, and at the same time that the Xia soldiers fell down the ladder like dumplings, there were also hundreds of Song soldiers who were hooked by the flying hook and ripped down the city.

At the beginning of the battle, it was in a white-hot stalemate, the number of casualties on both sides continued to rise, the city and the city fought in this short half an hour, the Xia army suffered more than 10,000 casualties, and the Song army's casualties were nearly 3,000.

Pan Jiang hurriedly ran into the city tower from the city wall and said to Su Jin: "Lord Su, I humbly request the use of oil cans, and our casualties will be too great if we continue like this." ”

Su Jin looked at the Xia Army's formation that was not very dense under the city and shook his head and said: "That can only be used at a critical time, Xia Jun has learned to be obedient, the formation is not dense, it must have learned the lesson in Dingchuan Village, and the power of fire oil must have the greatest effect in a dense formation." ”

Pan Jiang said: "Yes, it's just that it's a little tight now, and the output city wall has been attacked by the western thieves, but fortunately, we are supporting fast enough." ”

Su Jin said: "Ask Li Zhong to gather the people to transport the boulder and wood we prepared to the city, let them taste the big guy first, now the bow and arrow and small stones are useless." ”

Pan Jiang patted his head and said, "How did I forget those big guys, the big mace carefully designed by Master Su is just coming in handy now." ”

Su Jin said with a smile: "Save a little, throw one at each ladder, and the management is a blur of flesh and blood." ”

Pan Jiang hurriedly shouted and ordered someone to pass the order, and after a while, Li Zhong personally led the team, and five or six people carried one by thousands of people, and carried three or four hundred big tree trunks covered in long thorns to the city, which was the wooden mace designed by Su Jin.