This did work a little, first of all, to force the Tornado to stop firing. These small trebuchets are scattered, and the soldiers who operate them have also seen the wooden sign at the head of the city, and are engaged in an ideological struggle, should they beat the family of the prime minister to death?

Then the Western Xia soldiers who besieged the city reacted instinctively, they would rather take a few more arrows than avoid these people on the city, and specially find battlements that did not tie people to climb.

However, without the cover of the whirlwind cannon, the defenders at the head of the city could brazenly stand up and shoot and aim, and for a while, the casualties of the Western Xia attacking troops increased. The moat has almost become a moat, and the corpses on the riverbank are layer upon layer.

"Woooooooooo......oo Woowoo...... Horn Horn Horn ...... Ahhhhh......h

"See, people are not human when they are fighting, even if Minister Liang Yi is buried below, he has to order his relatives to be shot in order to win. If you want to talk about morality, try to avoid war, and once the war starts, forget about it. Siege crossbows are prepared, focusing on shooting the people on the pontoon. ”

If the Western Xia generals really didn't hurt the lives of these women and children, Hong Tao would feel very disappointed, because he met an unqualified commander, and there was nothing to be happy about if he won the war.

As soon as the siege crossbow was activated, the soldiers crossing the river of the military division of Baima Qiang Town were unlucky again, and there were only a few opponents, and they could only pass through the river if they wanted to cross the river. As soon as the formation is dense, it will be taken care of by the siege crossbow, and it is impossible to shoot only one person at a time, so you have to come in a string.

Hong Tao is so bad that he can block the pontoon bridge with fire oil bombs, and just like this, his lives are lost in blood splashes and flesh and bones.

He felt that this kind of scene was more exciting, not for himself, but for the Western Xia soldiers. This is again an experiment about human nature.

He wanted to see how long the cowardly side of human nature could hold out in such a situation without exploding. Even the strongest person will have a threshold, and if you exceed the limit, you will still collapse.

"Wasp, these cars can't be spared, when they get closer, they burn it with a canister of fire oil, and the rest of the people continue to standby."

The first people to cross the river were not people, but the chariots described by Wang Qi. Now that Hong Tao has become a slightly experienced commander, he knows what is most harmful to the city wall, and immediately gives the order.

The chariot was indeed very strong, and when crossing the river, it took two hits, and the siege crossbow could not shoot through. But after all, it is made of wood and leather, and the iron plate can be burned soft, and the tank does not dare to say that it is not afraid in the face of fire oil.

At this time, the Western Xia archers under the city suddenly attacked, and sent a dense rain of arrows to the city, not only shooting those women and children who were half-dead by stone bullets into hedgehogs, but also suppressing the density of crossbow arrows of the new army.

And then the real killer came. I saw ropes flying up one by one, and at the front end was a four-clawed iron hook, just enough to hook to the head of the city.

The Western Xia soldiers who had crossed the moat were like a queue, and they quickly climbed along the rope towards the city. They learned the lesson of last night, and each team spaced more than ten meters apart so that they would not burn a large area at once.

"The hornet's nest blocks the north bank of the moat, cuts the ropes and shoots with crossbow arrows." Hong Tao felt that he had almost understood that in addition to being fierce, this Western Xia army was really not as deep as the Xia army in the south in terms of siege tactics. Since you have to find a master to learn, after giving this order, you will pull Chen Niang down the city tower.

Don't look at Hong Tao is not a qualified land commander, but he has the vision to see where it hurts the most at a glance. When the northern city was covered in white smoke, the archers who were standing on the north bank of the moat to cover the troops who had ascended the city were out of luck.

The distance of 100 meters was really instantaneous, and most of the people had not seen what was smoking on the top of the city before they had been pierced by the huge arrows that were whistling and flying.

The strong inertia would carry them backwards, and then crash into a row of archers behind them, while also stabbing the steel arrows exposed from their backs into the chest and abdomen of their companions.

Without the cover of the archers, the hook that hooked the walls became meat on the chopping board. The rope mixed with leather and linen was tough when it was soaked again, but it could not hold up the fact that each of the Forces nouvelles had a steel marching shovel.

This thing was designed by Hong Tao according to the appearance of later generations, removing the redundant wrench, but the functions of the axe, saw and knife are all there. If you round it out, not only will the rope break, but there will also be a deep mark on the city bricks.

The Western Xia soldiers who were about to climb the top of the city fell like a kite with a broken string wailing, and a fall was a string. Some of them were hurt, and some of them were fine.

But then it won't be fine, wave after wave of crossbow arrows are almost 100% hit at such a close distance, even if you are not afraid of death, you can only choose to flee at this time.

But where to flee? The pontoon has been burned to the point of a fireball, and the only way to survive is to jump into the water. The ten-meter-wide moat then became a death trap, making it easier for people swimming in the water to be shot.

Moreover, there is a slope more than one meter high to climb when swimming to the opposite bank, and there are very few people who can escape in the end. Some of the soldiers had no strength to climb to the end, and could only watch as the Song army at the head of the city aimed at them with their crossbows, and then was nailed to the muddy embankment.

At this time, Hong Tao had reached the south gate, and the Western Xia army here had already been repulsed once, and there were several burning pontoon bridges and collapsed ladders on the moat. But there are really not as many corpses as in Beicheng, and from this point of view, Wang Da still hasn't gotten the true biography, the pit is not dug big enough, and his heart and eyes are not dark enough.

"Heh, this big guy is very powerful, hurry up, aim and hit, don't let it cross the river...... Oops, why didn't you hit it again, go and go, load this officer, and see if I give it to you! ”

As soon as the enemy saw that the attack of the ladder had been frustrated, he immediately changed his tactics and used archers to cover the three Gedong and planned to force the crossing. The front and sides of this thing are covered by thick wooden planks, and it is useless to shoot with crossbow arrows, and you have to greet them with fire oil bombs. It's a pity that the crossbowman on the city tower didn't hit the right shot twice, and Hong Tao saw that his hands were itchy and planned to operate it himself.

"No, the officials have said that they will perform their duties, and the general will not be able to risk his life easily!" Operating a siege crossbow is not without danger at all, and the arrows fired from under the city are very dense, and even if there is a crossbow shield to cover it, there are still crossbowmen who have been shot in the arms and legs.

As soon as Chen Niang saw that her officials were going out to fight in person, she immediately blocked the door, stuck her hands on her waist, and protested confidently.

"Didn't the officials say that they want to lead by example?" Hong Tao said so many things with this broken mouth that he couldn't remember it himself.

“…… I said, the officials said that they were two fools! Chen Niang thought about it very seriously and actually admitted it.

"My lord, my lord, I shot!" The crossbowman's cheers saved Hong Tao, otherwise he wouldn't have known how to answer.

The three caves were soon transformed into giant torches, able to resist crossbows and stones, but not to the heat of the oil. Even if the Western Xia soldiers hiding inside shot with crossbow arrows and kept splashing muddy water from the basin on the leather cave, it still could not stop the fire from spreading.

After giving hundreds of lives, they finally gave up their efforts, and crawled out of the leather hole and ran back desperately, but unfortunately few could go back alive.

After two consecutive attacks were frustrated, the Western Xia commander was not discouraged, and he sacrificed a third move, earth attack!

Under the cover of thick planks, groups of soldiers began to dig up dirt and throw it into the moat, which was to fill it up alive.

Don't look at the stupid tricks do work, the weapons in the hands of the new army soldiers in the face of thick planks are basically useless, and the soil is the correct posture to restrain the oil from catching fire. Only the trebuchets in the city were very useful, but the hit rate was too low, so they simply stopped.

"Let them dig slowly, I'll go rest for a while." The siege battle turned into a construction site in a blink of an eye, and Hong Tao felt bored. When do you have to fill in this, don't waste it, I guess I won't have to rest at night, so let's take the time to close my eyes.

The reason why stupid methods are called stupid must have their stupid side, and the speed is too slow. It was dusk, and the moat had just been filled in with a slope that had probed four or five meters inward. If tens of thousands of people work through the night, it is estimated that there will be almost three earthen bridges four or five meters wide tomorrow morning.