There is a saying that is contrary to the word, and most of the time it is. If Yelu Hongji could listen to Xiao Wuna's suggestion, don't be busy attacking the city, but transfer half of the troops to the border to block the attack of the Northern Song Dynasty forbidden army, just like this, the new army in Xijin Mansion will be consumed, Hong Tao really has no good way to deal with it, and he can only go out of the city and fight with the Liao soldiers in a hurry.

Even if the new army is not weak in the field, it will definitely be much more difficult to defend than hiding behind the city wall, and even if it can break through the encirclement in the end, it will have to break its muscles and bones, and if it is not good, it will be completely annihilated.

The eyes of the Fifth Courtyard Department and the Sixth Xi Department were red when they saw the corpses of the clansmen hanging at the head of the city, and they put on a posture of playing with their lives as soon as they came up, and there was no point, a charge was five or six teams of thousands of people, there were not many ladders and trenches, there was only one shield car per team, and most of the soldiers' siege weapons were long poles.

It is a simple climbing apparatus made of rattan sticks wrapped around it, with a large iron hook at one end, which is used to climb upwards after hooking the head of the castle. The person at the top held a shield to make do with it, and those behind could only pray for God's mercy.

So how should the moat be crossed? The Liao army crossed the river in the same way as the Western Xia people, attacking with soil. The soldiers in the front held shields to shield the arrows, and the soldiers in the back formed a manpower transport line, taking soil from beyond the range of the arrows and putting them in bags, passing the bags and pouring them into the moat.

"Anyway, the emperor is here, so you can't make some tall utensils?" Looking at the Liao soldiers who were working hard under the city, Hong Tao could only pouting and shaking his head. The rumors are true, the Liao army is indeed inferior to the Western Xia people in siege technology, and it is still at the level of relying on people.

"Crunch...... Crunch......" At this moment there was a very unpleasant noise in the city.

"Hey, let your sister take the lead again, what are you waiting for, hurry up and order the launch!"

Hong Tao didn't have to look back to know what the sound was, trebuchet. It seems that Wang Da has begun to fight back, don't be idle, there are bricks and tiles, but throw them hard!

Wang Twelfth was already a little impatient, and immediately after getting permission, he used the flag language to contact the trebuchet below, not only to give the launch order, but also to explain the shooting of Zhu Yuan clearly.

The Liao army has prepared so many geniuses to attack, and there are so many trebuchets in the city that they are almost woods. There is still time to calculate the shooting elements by test firing, and a table is given on how much counterweight, at how many angles, and how far can be thrown for a piece of bricks and tiles of the same weight.

As long as the distance is told to the sapper who controls the trebuchet, it can't be said that the throw is accurate, and it can also reach ** without leaving ten. This thing itself is not a precision strike weapon, and a deviation of ten meters is normal.

Faced with the bricks and tiles flying out from behind the city wall, the Liao army had no choice but to stand there and stare dryly. If you have better eyes, you look up like flying a kite, and you find the trajectory that flies over and quickly dodge.

But don't go too far, the Liao army is very flexible in some places, and sometimes it is very rigid. Without the order of the general, if you want to advance, you must advance, and if there is a big pit in front of you, you have to jump in, and hesitation is death.

Don't look at the bricks and tiles are inconspicuous, but the kinetic energy flying from a few hundred meters away is also leveraged, and anyone who hits it will immediately lose its combat effectiveness, and there are not many deaths and many injuries.

And the hit rate of the bricks flying out of the city is quite high, just like having eyes, where there are many people flying, there is a large piece, it is not easy to hide when you see it, there is always a piece for you.

At the beginning, the Liao army was still replenishing the reserves, but after all, human flesh was not as hard as bricks, and it was too cheap to smash these things, and the work of filling the moat suddenly came to a standstill.

Only a small number of Liao siege troops rushed under the city walls along the moat that had been filled by the new army, but the number was too small to be assisted by large siege equipment.

The long pole that hooked the head of the city often fell off suddenly halfway up, and the soldiers who climbed fell from a height of three or four meters, and then were smashed by their own people, and those who broke their arms and legs abounded.

Iron hooks that no one climbs or climbs high enough are fine, as long as there are people on the pole and climb more than half the height, the pole will fall off 100%. What caused the hook to slip suddenly, and when it still slipped?

The soldiers of the new army at the head of the city were almost laughing when they heard the screams of the Liao army, and the secret was a wooden stick with a thick arm, on which was covered with a triangular steel sleeve more than a foot long, and there was such a one on every battlement.

The enemy's iron hook hooked not the battlement bricks, but the steel jacket. At this time, the soldiers in charge of lookout on the enemy towers on both sides will give a signal, and the officer will look at the signal and command.

The two soldiers grabbed the crank of the stick and pulled it upward, and the steel sleeve turned with it, and one of the corners of the triangle hooked by the iron hook immediately became a hypotenuse. It doesn't take much effort or exposing yourself to enemy arrows, and the hook can be easily pushed off.

Needless to say, this thing was figured out by Hong Tao again. When he was in Liangzhou City, he had seen the Tangut people use iron hooks to enter the city, don't look at this thing is simple, but the defenders are really not easy to deal with.

The more people fall under the hook, the more dead the hook will be, and it is not easy to fall off with a crowbar. At this time, you must not expose your body between the battlements, and the enemy archers below are waiting for the defenders to show their faces.

What to do? Hong Tao gave this job to Wang Datou's apprentices when he was in the Daimyo's mansion, and they quickly came up with this simple tool that could not be simpler.

The wooden stick does not need to be carried with the army at all, it can be done when you go to the place to cut down trees and tear down houses, and the triangular steel sleeve is usually not a white belt, it is a part of the chassis of the box car. When needed, it is fixed with a latch, which can connect the box car into a real car formation, and the war horse will not be knocked apart.

When the box car goes uphill or parked, it is still a fixer, and it does not move at all when it is plugged under the wheel, which is a good thing for both civilian and military use.

The Liao army didn't and didn't expect that the method of climbing the city that had been used for hundreds of years would be broken by such a gadget, and they tried more than ten times, but they didn't get anything except a wounded soldier, and the defenders didn't even fire an arrow, and there was no one on the city.

If it is placed on weekdays, Yelu Zhen and Xiao Yi really will not gamble with the lives of their clansmen, and if they can't attack, they will withdraw, cut down more trees and build more shield cars, and come back another day. But the two of them just boasted about Haikou in front of the emperor, and it was less than a day before they went back and slapped themselves in the mouth, where is their face?

If you don't steam steamed buns and fight for breath, Khitan men have a strong sense of honor, and cowardly and incompetent people will not only be looked down upon by others, but even spurned by the clansmen. The two big leaders gritted their teeth and issued an order, doubling the number of men, even if they used human lives to fill in the moat, they would have to fill in a few paths!

The brick-throwing program continued until noon, and after harvesting thousands of wounded people who had been hit by the bricks, three passages one foot wide were finally filled, and the situation in the eastern part of the city was similar.

The new army had lunch to eat, but the Liao army did not, and the lunch break was the time when the siege was at its fiercest. This time, there were more people, and there were ladders and rushing cars to help, and for a while, the shouts of killing in the south and east of the city gradually rose, and the drums shook the sky.

"In this way, our warriors are indeed better at fighting than the Han soldiers. Xiao Wuna, this is what you call the strong army of the Song people? "Yeluhongki's beetle was more than a mile away from the battlefield, on a high platform made of improvised wood.

He could see the attack in the morning, and the brick rain may not be able to see clearly, but he broke through the moat and saw it clearly, and immediately made a positive evaluation of the battle results of the Khitan generals.

At this rate, it seems that Xijin Mansion is not as difficult to conquer as Xiao Wuna said. The enemy army didn't even dare to fight, they would only hide on the city wall and shrink their heads, wondering how could such a cowardly Song army fight Lianke?

The bell must be tied to the bell, since Xiao Wuna said that Song Jun is very powerful, then you can explain it. At this time, Emperor Liao already had some ideas about the collusion between Xiao Wuna and the officials of the Southern Dynasty, and he no longer fully believed in this meritorious man.

"Boom...... Boom...... "This question ...... not only Xiao Wuna heard it, but also the defenders in the city. If you want to say that Hong Tao is really righteous, he knows that Xiao Wuna is not easy to answer, and he can't answer, so he simply gave the answer with practical actions.

Thunderbolts are on the field, although there are not many of them, only a few, but the effect is really amazing. Under the precise guidance of the enemy towers and hot air balloon lookouts on both sides, the soldiers of the new army carried out the commander's intentions 100 percent. The two people dragged their leather pockets and threw them wherever there were many people, and the four thunderbolts landed accurately in the pile.