Weizhou is sixty miles east of Anle Mountain, the city is tall, and the forty-meter-high Kangji Temple tower can be seen in the post station ten miles away, and the scout said that Weizhou was defenseless, Chongbin was overjoyed, and immediately ordered Xu Wen and Yang Zhongwu to sweep away the garrisons and tribes outside the city, and ordered Chong Yan and Han Qing to attack the city at night. Xu Wen and Yang Zhongwu, with the cooperation of Qin Fengjun's cavalry, moved smoothly, and in half a day, they wiped out more than 1,000 Western Xia troops and captured about 2,000 people.

Such a move naturally shocked the city, the scouts could see that the number of defenders on the head of the city increased exponentially; Weizhou is the location of the Jingsai army of Western Xia, and there are about five or six thousand people and about five thousand Xixia troops in the city. Chong Bin looked at Wei Dingguo: "Are you okay?"

"Okay, how can it not work, don't look at Gongsun Sheng and Shan Tinggui took away two hundred people, I don't have three hundred strong teams here. Wei Dingguo knew that the iron drill bits and crowbars designed by Yang Zhi during the Bianliang period, as well as the method of successive blasting, would definitely come in handy tonight.

Heavy war drums sounded outside the city of Weizhou, and thousands of torches were lit up up and down the city almost at the same time, and the flames soared into the sky, covering the light of the stars; the long line of torches outside the city was constantly changing, and the makeshift ladders were pushed to the front by the besieging soldiers. Wei Dingguo stared at the two reconnaissance teams he sent, these two teams of twenty people, mixed in the scout team during the day to reach the city wall, Weizhou's Western Xia army did not cover the city with ice, the two teams chose six places that were convenient for burying gunpowder.

Once the soldiers of the Dingbei Army were close to the city wall, they hid in the dead corner of the arrows of the Western Xia army on the city tower, there were no ladders and chariots, and the Xixia people were reluctant to use rolling wood to beat stones, and the two squads calmly chiseled the mark in the selected location, Wei Dingguo saw clearly in the telescope, and shouted: "Keep up." ”

The two teams of firearms soldiers who planted explosives mixed in the siege team and approached the city wall, and according to the imprint left by the previous team, the reconnaissance team turned to the following two locations; among the Western Xia army at the head of the city, there were also soldiers who had experienced a hundred battles, and when the reconnaissance team turned to the last two points, the city head estimated that he was suspicious, and shot down the stone and wood rockets defending the city from the city tower regardless of the cost.

"Be quick!" Zhong Bin understood that once the defenders remembered the defeat of Western Xia in Yinzhou and other places, they would probably be desperate to water the frozen city, and at that point, the explosives would not work. In fact, there is no need to remind Wei Dingguo that he has already thought of such consequences, but Wei Dingguo kept in mind Yang Zhi's words, it is normal to have accidents during the war, and it really comes to that point, as long as there are people, everything is there.

Therefore, in Wei Dingguo's heart, he had already stored the idea of withdrawing his troops if he couldn't do it, and stared silently at the four points where he was already burying gunpowder; a group of Western Xia soldiers rushed to the city wall, and the shadows of the fire at the head of the city were already full of dense figures. In order to prevent the Song people from invading the north, Weizhou City does not have the south gate and the west gate, only two city gates in the northeast.

The bright moon hangs high, the visibility is quite good, the cold wind blows up the robe of Wei Mingdianyou, Wei Mingdianyou looks at the changing Dingbei army under the city, and has a bad feeling in his heart, it has been more than half an hour has passed, and the Dingbei army only has a few cloud ladders that are not long enough to lean on the city wall, and has not launched a strong attack.

The Dingbei Army under Yang Zhi was respected as the first in the Great Song Dynasty, and it almost never fought any kind of defeat, could it be that after the addition of the Western Army, it became so unbearable; no, the actions of the Dingbei Army during the day were rapid and effective, and they did not even have a chance to open the city gate to respond, and more than 3,000 soldiers and civilians outside the city became prisoners of the other party. Wei Mingdian raised his head suddenly, looked at the formation behind the torches under the city, and finally thought of a terrible thing.

"Shameless!" Wei Mingdianyou's face became a little pale, he thought of the legendary gunpowder siege situation, and suddenly felt that the shadow of death was covering him step by step; Weizhou City because it was built relatively early, there was no complete horse wall measures, the moat was frozen and no longer worked, there were at least a dozen dead ends under the city, if the Dingbei Army was under construction, Wei Mingdianyou didn't dare to think about it, touched the sweat on his forehead, and asked the deputy general next to him: "Are there any fires in those two dead corners in the south?"

The adjutant general grinned and said: "When our army shoots a rocket, we can't tell whether it is a torch or the light of a rocket." ”

"Leave it alone, let all the people go out at once, and everyone will come up with water and water the city. The adjutant general said in surprise: "General, once the city is closed, we can only see the northern army at ease outside the city, and if they make any moves, we will only be able to watch it in a few months." ”

"That's better than being a captive and being killed. Wei Mingdian waved his hand: "Act immediately." ”

Before Wei Mingdianyou's voice fell, the explosion had already sounded, and the huge shock made people tremble, and the west city wall collapsed, and the Dingbei army under the city moved, swarming in one direction; Wei Mingdianyou saw the flag of the military academy, and immediately reacted: "The west city wall has exploded, hurry up and plug the gap." ”

The Western Xia army was running, and there were two explosions in succession, and a section of the city wall in the west and south was blown open again, and hundreds of Western Xia soldiers were torn off the city wall, assisting the people defending the city to flee in all directions in panic; Yu Ming Dianyu is actually an extremely cruel person.,But it's the first time I've encountered such a situation.。。

Wei Mingdianyou was anxious, regardless of right or wrong, and ordered to kill in the direction where the gap appeared, and the gap that had been cut off immediately used to mobilize the cavalry in the city to fill the gap, and beckoned all the people to come out to assist in the defense; maybe the Xixia Iron Cavalry could slaughter these foot soldiers, a thought flashed in Wei Mingdianyou's mind, swallowed his saliva, and was still panicked in his heart.

The herald had only taken two steps, and everyone felt a tremble under their feet, and a loud noise came from under their feet, and the ground shook like a mountain, and when Wei Mingdianyou got up from the ground, he found himself on a pile of rocks, surrounded by soldiers and civilians. The cold sound of arrows penetrated Wei Mingdianyou's eardrums, and the gap was more than 20 meters away, and the feathered arrows rained down, rushing towards the people standing around the gap;