"Withdraw. @頂@点@小@说, x." Zhao Pu said.

He only had 5,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, and 3,000 soldiers and horses were still in Papaya Fort, first, they had no time to mobilize, and second, they had to cooperate with Zhou Yongqing's actions at night. So after receiving Wang Ju's order, Zhao Pu could only come over with two thousand soldiers and horses to ambush.

Two thousand soldiers and horses were more than enough to defend Whitinburg, but for ambush warfare, the troops were slightly insufficient. The terrain is also relatively flat.

But there are really a lot of troops on the Xixia side, and they are calculated in tens of thousands at every turn, just like Xigu, Mei Qing Baluo felt that the troops in her hands were insufficient, and she easily divided 5,000 soldiers and horses. Indeed, in terms of military strength, even though Western Xia suffered several major defeats, it still has an absolute advantage.

The Xia army came, and Zhao Pu relied on the terrain and repelled them again and again.

Although he had few troops in his hands, the task given to him by Wang Ju was not to completely annihilate the enemy, but to delay time. This can still be done.

After dragging on for nearly an hour, Zhao Pu saw the shadow of a large group of Western Xia cavalry appear in the rear.

Wang Ju brought some telescopes, the number was very small, and only one was issued by a brigade general, but Zhao Pu and Zhou Yongqing also got one. He was standing on a high place again, and the Xixia people below the slope didn't know that the reinforcements from the rear were about to arrive, but Zhao Pu found it first.

So Zhao Pu ordered a retreat, and the Tanguts did not know that reinforcements from the rear were coming, and they did not dare to chase them, so they had to watch them burrow into the vast snow-capped mountains and withdraw to Whittingburgh.

It was the 5,000 cavalry led by Zang Kui who came.

Not very fast, because they also bring some things.

Later generations often have a very wrong understanding of the height of the ancient city wall, and even appear more than ten zhang high. This is not right. Generally, the height is about two zhang. For example, the height of the city wall of Kaifeng City is about seven meters. The height of Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty was only more than six meters. In the Ming Dynasty, the height of the city wall was further increased, but the high city wall was only four zhang.

Now the height of the walls of the forts on the front line of the Song Dynasty is also two zhang, which is the standard height.

But this two zhang is very vague, in fact, most of the height of the city wall is less than two zhang, some are about six meters, this is already a qualified product. There is also a part that is only about five meters long, including the walls of the White Panther City. Otherwise, Liu Shaoneng would not have been able to throw the hook on the city wall. But even this height also has a height advantage, even if it is five or six meters, it is equivalent to the height of one and a half floors of residential buildings in later generations.

Constrained by financial and material resources, Western Xia had no choice but to temporarily build a large number of improvised siege ladders.

Iron nails are rarely used in this kind of siege ladder, and the mortise is chiseled out of the stairs, and the tenons are left on both sides of the crossbar, and then they are closed, and a siege ladder comes out.

However, I don't think it's easy.

First of all, the mortise and tenon should be matched.

Secondly, the crossbar also has to be planed out, and finally the selection of two ladder columns.

The walls are five meters high. However, the siege ladder is erected diagonally, so the height of the ladder must be six meters long. And it can't be too fine, too fine and the quality is unqualified, and it can't be too coarse, too coarse will be very heavy. However, it is not possible to cut down the thick trees one by one and slowly plane them finely, so just looking for suitable wood gives the Tangut people a headache.

However, it has the advantage of being able to be disassembled.

After receiving the news, Rindo Lingding immediately sent 5,000 cavalry to try to destroy the ice castle of Gaomin.

But just in case, let the Zang Kui also bring some siege ladders over, there is no problem with the crossbar, hanging on horseback, the difficult thing is the ladder pillar. Considering that due to the relationship of time, the ice wall built by Gao Min may not be too high, so he sawed off the bottom of the siege ladder, leaving only half of the top. In this way, the length of the ladder post is also reduced, but even so, it is also four or five meters long, and it is very inconvenient to run on the back of a horse.

Therefore, although it was cavalry, it did not come quickly.

He came over and asked what had happened, and said a few words to the guards in a low voice, asking him to go back and report it.

What he said was that this sniper war exposed a truth, that is, the Song Dynasty's troops were actually insufficient. In any case, after the news of the Battle of Dashun City, the entire Western Xia army was shocked.

However, if it is as everyone thinks, since the Song army has been inserted into the rear Mengmen Sancha to build the ice city, and is about to succeed in building it, if the troops are sufficient, then more troops will be sent to Mengmen Sancha to support, including speeding up the construction of the city and strengthening the defense of the ice city...... And it is easy to do, because there are only a few small villages along the way, as well as a few small garrisons in Renduo. There are not many troops, and the defense is not strong.

However, the Song army chose to snipe and delay time, rather than support, so he judged that the Song army was tight, and still figured out various methods to force the Western Xia army back.

The soldiers quickly rode back to report the report, and looked at the group of people down the slope and said, "Keep up." ”

In fact, after a while, they were left behind.

The Song army also saw the arrival of their cavalry and was on guard.

However, there are many people behind who are building this ice wall, many of whom seem to be Western Xia soldiers, and some of whom are surrounding people.

Most of Wang Ju's orders are a rough plan of action, and this plan of action will be more detailed except for some necessary ones. The others are mostly for each boss to self-regulate in this action plan and let them play according to the actual situation.

Including Gao Min's line.

Wang Ju did not mention letting them attack the surrounding villages, and of course there was no talk of support or opposition. Gao Min also did not think of attacking the surrounding villages, although this is the place where three small rivers meet, there are many flat small rivers and plateaus, and some people live.

However, these villages located on the front line are the same as those of the Song Dynasty, not only the people are fierce, but also some walls have been built, which cannot be attacked, but the casualties are bound to be very large, and the time is even more wasted.

However, after defeating the Xia army, Gao Min still sent some scouts out to investigate, and he found out a piece of news. There are many villages around, of course, there are also walled walls, but because of the emergence of 300,000 troops in Western Xia, Ding Zhuang in the village was almost taken away.

Gao Min moved his mind, and what he lacked most now was labor.

The ancient city walls began to become taller after the Ming Dynasty, such as the nearly four-zhang high city wall of Chang'an. But it was not so high in the Tang and Song dynasties. Such as the city wall of Shouzhou. After repeated repairs later, including the Ming Dynasty. The height is only eight meters high. In fact, in the Song Dynasty, its height was less than seven meters.

But there is not much difference in width.

A complete city wall includes the base of the wall, that is, the height from the foot of the wall to the head of the city, and the height of the wall refers to the height of the base of the wall. But on the base of this wall there are also buildings, women's walls for bunkers, and battlements for counterattacks.

In a broad sense, the city wall also includes the towers, corner towers, gates and urns, and moats.

And with the development of offensive and defensive tactics, siege tactics are not only forced to enter the city, but also tactics such as crashing cars, digging tunnels, etc. Therefore, the requirements for the thickness of the city wall are also very strict. Often, its thickness also exceeds its height.

The simplest example is the Chang'an City Wall in the Ming Dynasty. Twelve meters high, fifteen meters wide at the top, and eighteen meters wide at the bottom!

The height of the Song Shouzhou city wall is less than seven meters, the top width is four to ten meters, and the bottom width has reached eighteen to twenty-two meters! Of course, it was a relatively large city wall, and the walls of the forts on the front line would not be so strict.

However, the general base width is also more than 10 meters, and the top width is at least 4 meters or more, which can be regarded as a barely qualified city wall.

The wall of the three forks of the Moe Gate is only a temporary ice wall. However, in order to withstand several days of enemy onslaught, it had to be built according to the minimum required walls. That is, the average thickness should be kept between seven and eight meters, and with the height of nearly five meters, for each meter long, nearly forty cubic meters of work were produced. The entire fence reaches more than 1,000 meters, which is more than 40,000 cubic meters.

If it weren't for the urgency of time, then nearly 3,000 soldiers would still be able to complete this kind of rapid ice wall in two days. But will the Tanguts give them two days of light?

Therefore, Gao Min sent some soldiers to capture the people of the three nearby villages, but unlike the Western Xia people, Gao Min did not covet their wealth, let alone slaughter, but left the old man and children, as well as the woman who fed the ** girl, together. The rest were taken captive into the army and let them participate in the repair of the wall.

But in this case, we can't expect to repair this kilometer-long wall right away, so we should first build a large shape and then thicken it.

Zang watched on his horse.

He immediately saw that its thickness was insufficient, but he didn't have a good way to deal with it, where to find a crash, even if it hit the wood, it was too late to cut the wood.

It's not very high, about six zhang or so, and the female wall in front of it has been repaired, and this height is basically set. This shows that Song Jun is very short of time, and it is obviously too late to increase his height.

Then he continued to look, there were many things he couldn't understand, first of all, he couldn't understand where this Song army came from, not only people, but also so many plates and materials.

But there is one thing he can see again, no matter where they came from, these Xia army prisoners of war and the people of Xia who built the wall were captured during the day, and only these two or three thousand Song troops repaired the wall last night.

The fact that such a long wall has been built into a large shape shows that they have not had a good rest for nearly ten hours.

It can also be identified from the clothes, and some of Song Jun's clothes are still stained with ** muddy water.

Of course, he also saw some details. For example, in order to save the amount of work, the entire ice castle was pressed into an oblate circle, and the widest part was only about 100 steps. If the Xia army attacks from both sides, then the entire ice castle can be covered with trebuchets and crossbows.

Therefore, the Song people took mud while building tunnels, and the entrances and exits of the tunnels were under the city walls, and even some tunnels were almost repaired, and the Song army was carrying materials inside.

Also, the west city wall shrouded the small river in the north, and a mud ridge was built in the middle, about the Song people planned to build another ice wall from the middle to separate the two villages, so that the west side became a separate water village, so that the Song army no longer had to worry about the water source, and even because of the terrain, it was the Xia army that cut off the small river from the upstream, because there was nowhere to divert the water flow, and it would eventually spread.

Obviously, this is a city construction that the Song Dynasty has planned for a long time.

It may have even been before the army of Rindo Lingding entered the Carriage Gorge, and they planned to build the city on this day.

Thinking of this, he suddenly couldn't help but fight a cold war.

But this ice city must be taken. Once the Song army repaired it, there were tunnels to hide, and even hundreds of prisoners of war made them live shields, and they themselves had nearly 3,000 soldiers and horses, and it was very difficult to take them.

Whether it can be taken or not, it is today, because today the Song army is very tired.

Thinking of this, he sent his horse down the dirt mountain, and then ordered the three armies to cover with bows and arrows in the back and shields in front, and set up siege ladders on the ice wall to forcibly attack the city.

Gao Min also mobilized at the head of the city: "Brothers, as long as we hold on for a few hours, we can make great achievements." ”

In a few hours, Zhou Yongqing would lead 5,000 soldiers and horses to replace them.

As for whether it is a great achievement, do you still need to say it?

But it was not easy to hold out for a few hours, and these five thousand cavalry were just an appetizer. There is also a back, and the five thousand soldiers and horses under the command of Sister Baa Luo are also coming, although under Zhao Pu's sniping, there have been some casualties, but Zhao Pu is only a sniper, and the casualties are not large. Then there was a third wave of soldiers and horses, another 5,000 people, escorting a large amount of grain and grass supplies. Behind them are the people, and when they charge, they are warriors.

However, he also despised the Song army.

The Song army is really tired now, but the morale is very high, first, they know the battle of Gyeongju presided over by Wang Ju, and this news alone makes them feel optimistic, and the magical scene last night proves the previous folk legends.

The second is that Zhao Pu's 5,000 soldiers and horses are coming, and they are not fighting alone.

The tragic offensive and defensive battle began.

The Xia army under the city was attacking the city, the Song army was defending the city, arrows were flying in the sky, and screams kept coming. The north wind howled, the flags were about to be torn apart, and the war drums were mournful, as if a death movement suddenly sounded in this calm area...... (To be continued......)

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