The city wall outside the north gate has long been filled with smoke and dust. The Xixia army started a full-scale attack not long ago. More than a thousand trebuchets began to throw a large number of stones into and outside the city wall. The scattered stones were like rain, smashing the entire north gate wall.
Can't stand at all.
The trebuchet has a range of nearly 600 steps, and the stones thrown are high and far. Although in order to pursue the long-distance effect, the stones thrown are not too big, but the power is still amazing when they fall from the sky like a goddess scattering flowers.
, especially it was fatal to the nearly 10,000 defenders inside and outside the North Gate city wall. After a few rounds, hundreds of Song soldiers were killed and injured, and many newly raised and weak wall stacks were destroyed.
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The soldiers of the Song Army had to huddle behind the walls and cover their bodies with shields to block the rocks falling from the sky. Many of them were buried alive by the rocks.
The hardest hit was the newly built entrance to the Wengcheng, which was originally not very high. The top of the Wengcheng tower was within the range of the bombardment of rocks. The top and side walls of the tower collapsed in several places, and the defenders inside also fell and were injured.
Quite a few.
Su Jin rode his horse and rushed to the gate of the North City. His eyes were covered with white dust, making him choke and unable to breathe. There were people running back and forth in the smoke and dust to avoid stones, making it a mess.
Wang Chao grabbed a soldier in front of him who was running away with his head in his arms and shouted angrily: "Why are you running? Where are Master Pan and Master Jing?"
The soldier's head was covered with blood. He pointed to the back and said, "I don't know. I really can't bear the beating. That's no place for people."
Wang Chao shouted angrily: "Escape from the battle? Are you looking for death? Come here, tie him up and take him to the top of the city. If he dies, he will be the first to die." Two horse army guards stepped forward and pushed the soldier toward the city wall.
Went up.
Su Jin frowned, dismounted, climbed into the smoke and dust, and climbed onto the city wall despite the flying stones. After hearing the news, Jingtai and Pan Jiang came and held up their big shields to block the falling rocks, and took Su Jin into the strong tower of the north main gate.
Su Jin immediately asked: "How is the situation?"
Pan Jiang wiped the dust from his face and cursed: "Damn it, the Xixia dog seems to be crazy. This beating lasted for nearly a quarter of an hour. It seems that this posture is about to end, and the next step is to charge.
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Su Jin squinted his eyes and looked down at the city. The smoke and dust were dissipating, and he could vaguely see the Xixia army in the distance preparing to charge.
"How are the casualties on the city?"
Jingtai said: "I'm afraid there won't be many dead, but there will definitely be a lot of injuries, but we can only carry it with force. I think the casualties are insignificant, as long as the city wall is not damaged, it will be fine."
Su Jin nodded, there should be no problem with the city wall. The three-foot-high and two-foot-wide city wall stones would not collapse even if they were bombarded for three to five months. It seemed that Jingtai and Pan Jiang had seen large-scale battles and were used to such bombardment scenes.
Too panicked, Su Jin calmed down.
"Fortunately, I ordered someone to lift the crossbow off the bed in advance, otherwise it would have been smashed into a pile of rotten wood. Later, the Western thieves will have a taste of the crossbow arrow piercing the heart." Pan Jiang licked his lips and showed his white teeth.
The trebuchet attacks gradually stopped and the moment the smoke dispersed, the Song soldiers who had just crawled out from the rocks suddenly discovered that the Xia army's cavalry had arrived 300 steps below the city. With the last round of trebuchet bombardment
Xia Jun quietly launched a charge without even blowing the horn.
The first batch of Xia troops was a regiment of ten thousand people from the Right Army who were wild and beggars. This was a new army composed of ordinary herdsmen named Latin. They were placed at the front to charge as cannon fodder. The pits under the city had not yet been cleared, and the first
The arrows fired by the Song army must have been thick and fierce. These recruits were there to fill holes and get beaten. The three ten thousand troops immediately behind were the elites. They carried ladders, rush cars and other equipment for climbing the city. They would be
Stepping on the corpses of cannon fodder recruits, they officially began to climb into the city.
As expected, the team of 10,000 new recruits received a ruthless blow. On the way, people and horses continued to fall into the pits and became pit fillers. When they got within a hundred steps, only 7,000 of the 10,000 people were left.
There were many others, and the rest were struggling in the pit; and these more than 7,000 people were immediately shot by the Song army's bows and arrows on the city top. Tens of thousands of disgraced Song soldiers fired condescendingly with their bows, killing everyone within a hundred steps.
The area became a restricted area for human beings. More than 7,000 men and horses continued to fall. After suffering a large number of casualties, they finally reached the dead end of the bow and arrow on the other side of the moat that had been filled with stones.
Before they could rejoice that they had escaped death, stones began to rain down from the top of the city. These were the stones thrown by the trebuchets, and now they were all returned to these cannon fodders.
Fortunately, the Song army at the top of the city quickly diverted its attention. The second echelon of ten thousand troops had already arrived. With the cannon fodder in front filling the hole, the second wave of Xia army's charge went much more smoothly.
The advantage of the cavalry attack was fully demonstrated. The Song soldiers only had time to shoot two rounds of arrows, and the second wave of Xia troops had already arrived under the city wall.
The short ladders were quickly spliced together. Braving the arrows and stones on the top of the city, the soldiers of the Xia army erected hundreds of tall ladders and slowly climbed up to the top of the city.
At the same time, the third and fourth batches of tens of thousands of troops also swarmed in with various ladder hooks and carts. Thousands of ladders with iron hooks hooked the top of the city wall and were embedded in the rammed earth, allowing the people above to do so.
No matter how hard the Song army kicked and pushed, they remained motionless, while the soldiers of the Xia army clamored and climbed to the top of the city wearing thick armor and helmets.
More than ten giant wooden rams were also pulled by more than a dozen horses and attacked the Wengcheng gate. Braving the rain of arrows and stones from the towers, they began to attack the Wengcheng gate.
The Xixia army used this simple and crude method with no technical content to launch an all-out attack on Weizhou.
This kind of simple ladder has long been abandoned in these days. The Song Dynasty's armory has a more advanced lifting ladder with pushable wooden wheels underneath. The top of the ladder is also covered by iron armor, which can prevent arrows, fire, and stones, and is also maneuverable.
, after seven or eight soldiers boarded the ladder, a dozen soldiers below shook the axis of the ladder to automatically lift the soldiers on the ladder to the same height as the city wall, and then stepped onto the wall as if they were on the ground and began to fight hand-to-hand.
But it is obvious that Xixia is overconfident in their cavalry, and this new type of ladder is also a high-level secret, so the Xixia people can only use the original long ladder as a tool to climb the city. Exposed in mid-air, the Xixia soldiers naturally become a living target. Song
The soldiers could aim at his face with arrows, hit him on the head with big rocks, and even push them off the ladder with long spears. Although the simple and crude fighting methods were very frightening, they brought great consequences.
The disadvantages are naturally huge.
However, the soldiers of the Xia army had their own secrets. They often climbed up in the air and did not go up. Instead, they took out their unique hidden weapon "Flying Hook" and threw it at the city wall. There were all Song soldiers on the city wall, and they could just grab one.
The man was thrown upside down from the city wall. It turned out that the 'smart' Xixia soldiers chose to use a ladder as a springboard because the height of the city wall was too high and the flying hook could not be thrown up. This trick was really effective.
While the soldiers of the Xia army fell down the ladder like dumplings, hundreds of soldiers of the Song army were also grabbed by flying hooks and dragged down the city.
As soon as the battle began, there was a fierce stalemate, and the casualties on both sides continued to rise. In the short half-hour of fighting on and off the city, the Xia army suffered more than 10,000 casualties, and the Song army suffered nearly 3,000 casualties.
Most of the Song soldiers were caught off the city wall by flying hooks and fell into the city, where they fell to death or were cut into pieces with random knives.
Pan Jiang hurriedly ran from the city wall into the tower and said to Su Jin: "Master Su, I humbly request the use of fire oil cans. If this continues, our casualties will be too high."
Su Jin looked at the not very dense Xia Jun formation under the city and shook his head and said: "That can only be used at critical times. Xia Jun has learned well and the formation is not dense. He must have learned the lesson from Dingchuan Village.
The power must be in a dense formation to have the greatest effect."
Pan Jiangdao: "That's right, but it's a little tight now. Some of the city walls have been attacked by the Western thieves. Fortunately, our support was fast enough."
Su Jindao: "Tell Li Chong to gather the peasants to transport the huge rocks and trees we prepared up to the city. Let them try the big ones first. Now the bows, arrows and small stones don't work."
Pan Jiang slapped his head and said, "Why did I forget about those big guys? Master Su's carefully designed big mace comes in handy now."
Su Jin smiled and said: "Save it, throw one at each ladder, and save it from being a bloody mess."
Pan Jiang quickly shouted and ordered people to pass on orders. After a while, Li Zhong personally led the team, and several thousand people, five or six people, carried three to four hundred large tree trunks covered with thorns to the top of the city. It was Su.