For a whole day, from dawn to dark, the Western Xia armies in both directions were attacking desperately, retreating and coming up one after another. But none of them can climb the city, and they are warriors who can touch the city wall.

There was no ground in sight under the city, it was full of corpses, layer upon layer, and the thickest part was the section of the moat that had just been filled. It is best suited for long-range weapon strikes, and has become a four- or five-meter-high slope of flesh under the all-round coverage of rockets, siege crossbows, thunderbolts, trebuchets, and steel crossbows. Standing at the bottom of the slope, he could not see the city wall, only the corpses of his companions.

Such a tragic and winless attack had exceeded Xia Ren's expectations, and his mood changed as soon as his actions changed. From the afternoon onwards, deserters appeared in the besieging troops, and at first they were all shot and killed by the overseers behind.

But panic is worse than the plague, and its speed is close to the light. After that, there were groups of siege troops who did not work hard, shouted quite loudly, and turned around and ran after a wave of rockets. The Warlord team has no problem, who will they kill to fight?

But the work of filling the moat has not stopped, and the Xia army in the north has also become an engineer this night. In the daytime battles they had lost more than to the south, and the moat had been filled with corpses. This saves trouble, and then cover a layer of soil on top of it almost to pass people, saving a lot of work.

"The morale of the enemy is not as strong as when it first came, but our ammunition consumption is approaching 30%. From tomorrow onwards, stop shooting at random, and greet with trebuchets whenever the enemy retreats. If there are not enough stones, the palace in the inner city will be demolished, and if it is not enough, the inner city wall will be demolished. Don't just patronize the command and kill the enemy, you have to count the ammunition consumption, and we will know the approximate carrying base in the future. ”

At dinner, Hong Tao changed to eat beef, fat cow hot pot, and called all the officers who were not on duty down, while forcing them to eat beef too, while arranging tactics for the next few days.

The new army was not much better than the farmer without ammunition, and was not even equipped with melee weapons, only a dagger and a marching shovel, and its melee ability was close to zero. There is no need to worry about food and water, these cattle and sheep alone can eat for a month, and there are more than a dozen wells in the city.

"I don't know what's going on over there in Wusheling, the last general will take a look at it at night?" Since the arrival of the Western Xia army, the special forces outside the city of Liangzhou have withdrawn.

Although no trace of the enemy has been found in the east and southeast, it is conceivable that the post road leading to Wusheling is definitely impassable. Wasp was confident in his abilities, and he felt that he could break through the blockade of the Xia people and ask for help in Wusheling Ridge.

"The Western Xia army is good at encircling the point to send reinforcements, and there are Miao Kui guarding the Wusheling Pass, and the official can rest assured that once he goes off the cliff, it is estimated that he will not be far from death. Once it is occupied by the Xia people, we will really be alone, you are a bad idea! That is, the wasp said that, if you change Hong Tao, you have to throw the chopsticks over. It's not like you're digging a hole for yourself.

"Don't worry, the Xia people are also long, their casualties in the past two and a half days have been close to forty percent, this official has read the battle reports of the Great Song Dynasty for decades, it seems that no Western Xia army, including the Liao army, can maintain combat effectiveness while losing more than half of it. It's a little difficult for us, it's even harder for them. The official used the lives of the children of the Liang family to provoke them in order to kill and injure them as much as possible, so that they would not use Liangzhou City to fish. Now they can't withdraw if they want to, since they killed the grandson of the Liang family, they must take Liangzhou City, otherwise they will die if they go back! ”

Hong Tao can't kill the enemy with his own hands, but he hasn't been idle in the past few days, and he still knows how to count people, and he is even better at observing words and feelings. In his judgment, these two Western Xia armies had become the end of the crossbow, and a strong attack like this one or two would last at most one or two more, and the intensity would not be the same.

Once morale, or heart, is low, it's hard to pick up quickly, so the ammo consumption will also go down. Of course, if the Western Xia court sent a large number of reinforcements, and the Northern Song court still did not receive reinforcements, the remaining ammunition would really not be able to resist for a few days.

It's not that there was less support at the beginning, but that the plan couldn't catch up with the changes. originally expected to let the Qingtang soldiers take the lead, but who would have thought that he would be killed without saying a word. But in order to have to do this in the future, not only will it be no good to keep Dong Yu, but it will also become an enemy.

"Don't talk about ammunition to anyone, whoever says it is a collaborator with the enemy, and he will not be spared!" Most of the middle-level commanders are from the Youth League, and they are really not too worried, as long as Hong Tao says it's okay, they feel it's okay.

But Wang Da didn't trust those officers who were born from special forces and soldiers, and felt the need to add. It's a good thing that the enemy's morale is low, but it's not very beautiful if your own morale is low.

"Well, you really need to pay attention, don't make a bitter face when you go back, and talk more about the scene of killing enemies during the day. Don't think too much about it, the official thinks that the army of the imperial court is already on the way, and it will arrive in a few days. When the time comes, we should cooperate inside and outside, and this point of the Western Xia army is not enough to fill the gaps. ”

Wang Da's addition also reminded Hong Tao that his personality is indeed not suitable for being a coach, mainly because he has no potential as an instructor.

At this time, what is most needed is to draw a big pie instead of the truth, even if there is only a box of ammunition left, you have to proudly say that the reinforcements are thirty miles away, comrades, hold on for half a day, and victory will eventually belong to the people!

The siege battle on the fourth day changed its mode again, and it seemed that the Xia people really couldn't move. Their soldiers are all young and strong people of all ethnic groups, and even if they win such a large number of casualties, they will lose. There is so much less labor in the group that it will not be able to slow down for several years.

But they didn't give up, but replaced the slave soldiers in the lead, trying to disturb the minds of the defenders with nostalgia and family affection, and see if they could find an opportunity.

"These are the Capture Army, right? I don't know who invented this tactic, but it still works, it's really evil. Wang Da, you go to the north gate to help the official keep an eye on it, who dares to retreat from the battle and kill him on the spot. This officer is here to see if there are any saints in my army. Listen to my order, aim and shoot, if anyone on the other side of the brother or sister can't bear to make a move, please stand up, the official is allowed to give him a good time. If you don't squeak now, you will be found by the official for a while, and if you don't say anything, just throw it down to the city and see if your brothers and sisters will take your life. Pass on my word! ”

This tactic is really not the first creation of the Tangut people, it has been used in almost all dynasties, and there are precedents that have worked. Hong Tao couldn't understand that a person with such a naïve brain could be a battlefield commander?

Didn't he know that if he spared the man on the other side, his soldiers would die? At this time, don't say that the other side is just the same race, even if it is the father and son, you have to shoot, and you have to take the lead in shooting, there is no discussion.

In fact, there were not many Song people among these slave soldiers, and they were not fighting in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, so where did the Western Xia army find so many Song people for a while.

They just let the other slaves change into clothes and hairstyles similar to those of the Song people, looking like Song people, and there must still be a lot of Western Xia soldiers in them, ready to fish in troubled waters.

This is Hong Tao's guess, he doesn't care who is below, he will greet when he comes, as long as he is alive, he can't bear it. Seeing that this trick didn't work, the Western Xia generals quickly collected their troops, and then sent a team of envoys to come over under the banner of negotiating.

"This time, the official can shoot it himself, right? There are no stray arrows nearby. "Seeing that this team of people Hong Tao is interested again, when they are fighting, they can't get a chance, and they can shoot a few envoys to play.

"The officials don't plan to hear what they have to say?" Chen Niang didn't stop it, but she just felt that it was a bit unauthentic.

"As long as it's not a surrender, the official is not interested, it can't be done just by surrendering, and all of them must commit suicide, do you think they will agree?"

Say what? Love to say whatever you want, the battle has come to this point, even if the Empress Dowager Liang of Xixia personally promised to let herself go to Xixia to be the emperor, she still has to be shot to death.

"......" Not only Chen Niang was shaking her head, but the soldiers around her were also shaking their heads.

"It's so far...... Whoever has the loudest voice, go talk to them and let them come closer. The envoy walked out of the moat, and when he saw that there was no reaction from the city, he stopped. At this distance, the certainty of Hong Tao's shot is not too great, and he must not lose face.