Chapter 243 Tiger Cannon Fight

Zhao Ming went down, continued to stare ahead, and ordered: "Take another twenty steps back." ”

This retreat, the pressure of the Western Xia people was relaxed, more people waded into the river with mud bags on their backs, threw the mud bags down, and turned back, but under the suppression of the strong firepower of the Song army, the mud bags were thrown very quickly, but they were very slow when they went back, and they had to continue to carry the mud bags after returning to the camp.

Looking at these people, I thought to myself, why bother.

Under the suppression of the bow and arrow of the Song army, many Tangut people were killed, but they could still be identified by the physiognomy and kind diagnosis, and most of them were the Tangling Lang of the Western Xia.

But the problem is complicated, and compared to the clumsy ethnic policy of the Song Dynasty, both the Western Xia and the Liao State seem to have done even better than the Song Dynasty. Of course, this was also forced, a stalemate with the Song Dynasty, and the Han people needed to plant, and only by growing food could they feed more people, provide more supplies, and further suppress the Song army. This requires Han Chinese.

Because of the emphasis on farming, the Han people did not feel rejected on the mountain side, and at the same time, it was their homeland, so it had to be. Even Wang Ju hasn't figured out this question now, so don't expect the implant diagnosis to figure it out.

Even if you figure it out, you can't say that the Western Xia is using the Han people as the colliding Linglang, and the Song Dynasty is also using the Fan people as cannon fodder, and everyone is each other.

Li Liangzuo watched a large number of soldiers fall, and was furious again, and then called Ye Weima to ask: "This is what you said that the Song army is unprepared and Zhizhou is weak?" ”

Ye Yuma said: "Your Majesty, this may have been done by the soldiers of Dashun City, and it has nothing to do with that Zhizhou." ”

It seems to be an explanation.

But at this moment, Song Ji frowned again.

The Song army retreated forty paces, and many Western Xia people with accurate arrows continued to wade into the river with shields on their heads. Exchanged shots with the Song army.

So the implant doctor gave another order: "Twenty more steps back." ”

Of course, this made the Tangut people's bottom of the river smoother, but the Song army's casualties dropped significantly.

The Tanguts threw bags of mud into the river, but from the river to the other side of the river, one after another were shot dead by the Song army.

Some of the corpses followed the river. Drift back downstream.

"Lin Chongban's archery skills are really outstanding," Zhang Qi didn't have Wang Ju's martial arts, so he had to stay in the city and watch the battle, but Xun noticed the young general Lin Guang, this is a continuous release of arrows, not a short handover between the two armies. Put three or four arrows, and the enemy will be killed in front of you, and you will turn into a white-knuckle battle, so you can see everyone's body and archery skills at this time.

Some officers and soldiers couldn't keep up, and the arrows were released. But it is soft and non-lethal, and some of them have good bodies, and each arrow continues to fly and shoot as it began.

Among them, Lin Guangbiao xiàn is the most outstanding, not only has he never stopped, but his arrows are accurate, almost every two or three arrows go out, he can shoot a Western Xia soldier.

So far, Lin Guang is alone. At least a dozen soldiers were killed.

"There is hope for a big victory," he said.

Today's battle killed many Western Xia soldiers again, but it was not a collapse battle. In fact, the real killing and capture of prisoners were produced in the collapse battle, including Wang Ju's three battles, although the casualties were not small, but for Li Liangzuo's attacking army, it was only a drop in the dime, but it would have an immeasurable effect on the morale of both sides.

After saying that, he ordered again: "Change camps." ”

Several battalions of soldiers poured out of Dashun City. Rotate the soldiers who are fighting on the front line to rest.

Some Western Xia soldiers thought that this opportunity could be taken advantage of and rushed to the other side of the river. But after only a dozen steps, he immediately bent down. He screamed in the river and was shot one after another.

Horses can be stabbed, and besides, they are people.

The doctor shouted, "Hold your ground, and take ten steps back." ”

Retreating four times, seventy steps back, the main battlefield had entered the river, and more corpses drifted downstream with the river.

However, after the Tangut people sacrificed nearly 1,000 people, they finally covered the bottom of the river with large and small mud bags.

He turned his head to look at the back of the city, and waved the flag in his hand at Zhao Ming.

Zhao Ming took three battalions of cavalry, including his soldiers just now, on horseback, and quickly rushed out of Dashun City.

Just as the bottom of the river was paved, and when these people were about to return to the barracks, Zhao Ming rode more than 1,000 horses to kill them.

Most of these Western Xia people were colliding with Linglang, and there were also captured soldiers, but the number was small, and they saw more than a thousand Song horsemen killed, and one ran faster than the other.

Zhao Mingxun caught up, and in the back, he kept waving a butcher's knife at the Western Xia soldiers as if he were cutting melons and vegetables.

"Strike, strike." Li Liangzuo shouted.

Man Baa led the cavalry out of the camp, but the front was not the Song army, but the military horses that had escaped by themselves, Man Baa couldn't take care of it, and began to trample on each other, especially the bulky iron harriers, which hurt their own people more, and when they finally killed a bloody way from their own people, seeing that the two soldiers of Zhao Ming's cavalry were connected, the horn of withdrawal was sounded on the city of Dashun.

Zhao Ming did not hurry or slow to lead his men to withdraw to Dashun City.

At this time, the Tangut suffered even heavier casualties, the two armies wasted countless arrows, and the Tangut sacrificed less than a thousand people, but at this moment, more than 1,000 people were broken.

Li Liangzuo was even more annoyed and angry, and despite the fact that the sky was approaching dusk, he ordered the siege of the city.

Zhang Qi looked at the battlefield silently, thinking that the offensive and defensive battle had finally officially begun. He had talked about this with Wang Ju before, and Wang Ju said that some people in the court said that the Tangut people were unable to build siege equipment because of the lack of wood, which made the Tangut people not good at siege. Some people also say that the Western Xia were nomads and were good at fighting immediately, so they were not good at attacking cities. Both of these statements are false, or only partially true.

Although most of the Western Xia were cavalry, they also got the Hexi Corridor and the North and South Hetao, which were all important horse breeding places in the Tang Dynasty.

However, the Nanhetao began to be harshly desertified, and there were very few areas that could really raise horses, and unlike the Tang Dynasty, the horse-raising areas of the Tang Dynasty not only included the North and South Hetao, the Hexi Corridor, but also related to the east of the Middle River, and even had pastoral supervisors in the Western Regions and Qinghai at its peak. That's it, the war horses that are prepared all year round are only six or seven hundred thousand.

There are a lot of horses in Western Xia, but horses are not only used for military purposes, they have many uses, and they are mainly conscripted soldiers, so they can make every conscription soldier have horses in their hands? Gyeongju has done it, and every soldier has a horse? You can't even ride it! Therefore, it can only be said that it is a mixed branch of the armed forces that is half cavalry and half infantry.

And there are many Han people who do Bang Linglang, which is different from the nomadic peoples such as the Xiongnu and Turks, and the wood is even more so. Is it true that Hengshan Tiandu Mountain doesn't even have the wood to take a siege machine?

Yes, but did Western Xia have that much financial support?

This is one of them, and the other is to change the Song army, and the Song army will be good at attacking the city?

But when Wang Ju said this, his intention was very far-reaching. This is a hole left for the future. In the future, Zhao Ji will still underestimate the enemy, Wang Ju must warn, especially the Lingzhou City, but he can't say it alone, he has to find more people who understand military affairs to say it together, then it will be convincing.

If there is no Lingzhou death. How good that would be, but this also made Wang Ju painful, not only to convince Zhao Ji, but also to convince many people, some of whom were so slammed that they were in a mess......

It might work. may not succeed, this is inevitable, in the future I can do a lot of things, there are also many things that I can't do, I can only say that now I have a shot in the east and a shot in the west, lay some foundation, and then lay a solid foundation for myself step by step.

Zhang Ji wouldn't know what Wang Ju was planning, and he began to pay attention. See what exactly the Tanguts used to siege the city?

There are siege equipment, simple siege ladders, which are those ladders used by the people. As for the ladder similar to the cloud ladder of the Song Dynasty, none of them were seen.

Zhang Ji turned his head to look at the tall city wall behind him, as well as the terrain built against the mountain, and smiled and said, "General, Dashun City is fine." ”

There are a lot of people, but this city wall is so long, can it take advantage of a large number of people?

Or learn monkeys one by one. Climb up from the back of the West Mountain, the cliff that was deliberately dug by the officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty to be extremely steep.

It's a monkey. Not at all. Send a garrison on it, and you can easily kill them one by one.

And it's not just the ladder, of course. There are also crashing woods, but can these collisions knock down the walls of Dashun City?

At the beginning of the tragic offensive and defensive battle, although it looked more optimistic, especially the walls of Dashun City were built on a steep slope, which increased the difficulty of attacking the city, but there were too many Xixia people, and they rushed over like ants.

"Put, put." The doctor kept ordering.

Arrow after arrow flew away, stone after stone fell, and wood studded with iron nails, and the Song army poured fire oil on it and fired it with rockets. Many Tanguts suffered casualties, but the Tanguts continued to storm the city by stepping on the corpses of their comrades.

There were also some soldiers who successfully climbed to the top of the city and fought a tragic battle with the Song army at the head of the city.

One of the generals said, "General, let it go." ”

It was to kill a lot of enemies, but the Song army also had casualties of Yan zhòng, so the competition continued, and the Western Xia people could not bear it, but in the end, Dashun City was able to fight as a commander of the light pole.

He pressed his hand and said, "Wait." ”

Li Liangzuo also thundered, and then said: "Launch the trebuchet." ”

Western Xia also had trebuchets, and successfully transformed a number of small trebuchets, mounted on camels, forming a powerful "artillery army", but because of technical and financial reasons, in large trebuchets, not as good as the Song Dynasty.

Then he said, "It's almost time." ”

He made a gesture to the city, and immediately a soldier in the city rolled out twenty tiger cannons. The original stone cannon was accurately called a stone cannon, next to the stone word, not next to the fire word. There are also many types, such as artillery carts, single-tip guns, double-tip guns, sleeping cannons, tiger squat guns, combined guns, and fire guns.

After the stone cannon was produced, Cai Ting asked Wang Ju if he had a name, Wang Ju said no, Cai Ting said: "The old man will give it a name, it's called Tiger Cannon." ”

This name is majestic, even more majestic than the tiger squat cannon.

So the name of the new trebuchet became the tiger cannon.

The number is not large, the cost is too expensive, and the terrain in the northwest is complex, mostly small areas of offensive and defensive battles, valley battles, mountain road battles, restricting the power of trebuchets, so before the appearance of tiger artillery, the number of trebuchets in the two countries has not been high.

If it is a stone projectile, there is really no need to equip many tiger guns. But with that new type of thistle, the power immediately went up a new level.

Not only were there tiger cannons, but there were also more than a dozen trebuchets in the city, which were pushed out together.

Dozens of huge fire thistles were thrown out, and the most disgusting thing for the Xixia people was because of prevention, and now this kind of tiger cannon is mostly medium and large trebuchet, plus there are two large stone cannons in the city, the disadvantage is that there are many people who operate it, and it must be operated by seventy or eighty people. Therefore, although the power is great, the spare is very small. However, this new type of stone cannon does not need so many manpower, even if it is a few large tiger cannons, it can only be operated by a dozen people.

Therefore, under Zhang Qijian, Wang Ju deliberately made some extra-large thistles in the workshop, weighing almost fifty catties.

Then the sound of the explosion sounded, and with just one projection, nearly a hundred soldiers were killed, countless wounded, and others were blown up stupidly.

"Put it again."

Dozens of fire-thistle balls are rising again, in fact, their lethality is not as good as the bloody battle just now, although the bow and arrow can kill at most one person at a time, they can't stand the Song army. But this thing was so evil that many soldiers began to wolf and rat scurry, ignoring the shouting from the rear.

"Withdraw," Li Liangzuo finally gave the order in grief and indignation.

The doctor was stunned and said, "This is withdrawn?" ”

I haven't had fun yet, Zhang Qi rolled his eyes, and thought, I've had a good time these two days, but you have to know how much money is smashed like this, shot it out, and blown it up.

Ye Weima watched the troops withdraw one by one, and his face became very unsightly.

Undoubtedly, the Song army is definitely not like the intelligence he inquired about, and he has to bear half of the responsibility for the deaths and injuries of the army in the past two days.

At this time, Song Ji came over and said, "General Ye Wei, there is good news. ”

"What good news," Ye Yanma was so angry that he wanted to beat Song Ji.

"Really news," Song Ji clapped his hands, and the two soldiers brought one ...... (To be continued)

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