It is a taboo for military strategists to defend the city for a long time.
After the Xixia generals learned that the Xihe Road Fan tribe had mobilized 300,000 troops, they all advised Liang Yi to retreat.
The Xixia generals still retained the style of the tribal chiefs' deliberative system when discussing matters.
There was no chair, so Liang Yimi and the generals sat on the ground. Everyone passed around a large piece of mutton, cutting it and eating it in turns with knives. In the past, after eating, they would make a blood alliance and march together the next day.
However, now that Dangxiang has initially completed centralization of power, military decision-making power is almost in the hands of Liang Yimi.
So the blood-based alliance is eliminated.
However, the system of tribal collegiality still has some reservations.
In terms of the tribal collegial system, although the tribal leaders were frightened by Liang Yimi's power, they still retained the straightforward deliberation style of the grassland people and took turns advising each other to withdraw their troops.
Liang Yimi glanced at Lanzhou City outside the tent and fell into deep thought.
He wanted to replicate the victory in the Battle of Mingsha City. Victory in the War against the Song Dynasty could consolidate his internal rule and suppress domestic opposition. This would bring together the scattered parties.
If you fail, you will lose face.
The last time he was defeated by Zhang Kai at Taoshui, he was forced to take charge by Li Bingchang due to domestic pressure.
Liang Yimi thought about it again and again, and decided to respect the military discipline as much as possible. He stuck the knife in the big meat, and then promised the generals that he would use all his strength to attack the city for three more days, and if he failed, he would retreat.
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Inside Lanzhou City.
After years of fighting, Li Hao and Wang Wenyu knew that Dangxiang's strength was not to be underestimated.
In terms of military industry, Dangxiang's knives, swords, and armors are better than those of the Song army. The Xixia sword and Xixia horse are both the best in the world. Even the divine arm bow that the Song army is proud of is learned from Dangxiang.
Come.
Dangxiang's armor was far superior to that of the Song army. His armor was said to be "all cold-forged, hard, smooth and shiny" in history.
Han Qi, when he was supervising the army at Jingyuan Road, took out a pair of Dangxiang armor and ordered someone to shoot it with a powerful crossbow. It could not penetrate more than fifty steps (this object was made using cold forging technology, which the Song Dynasty had not yet learned).
This armor directly made Mo Dao and Tang Dao withdraw from the stage of history. Only the divine arm bow and heavy ax can pose a threat to the Xixia Iron Kite and the Jurchen Iron Pagoda.
The word "Beiwei" in the Western Army's Beiwei Army is also a Dangxiang language. The Western Army learned and imitated the Dangxiang military system and established it (most of the four Zhongxing generals came from the Western Army and also adopted this name to establish Beiwei).
The party item also has a cyclone cannon.
Xixia paid much more attention to military industry than the Song Dynasty. When the Song Dynasty envoy went to Li Yuanhao as an envoy, he heard the sound of ping-pong-pong-pong-pang-pong iron coming from the palace.
On the contrary, the military regulations of the Song Dynasty are difficult to describe.
Half of the fraud cases that broke out on Yanyan Road this time were related to ordnance embezzlement.
Only after Lu Huiqing, Zhang Yue and Shen Kuo of the capital's weapons supervisors were reformed successively did the past abuses improve. Previously, Zhang Yue and Lu Huiqing discovered cheating cases in the weapons supervisory department and secretly changed the good bows into bad ones.
Dismantle and sell for money.
Although several people were punished in this case, further investigation was stopped by the officials.
Li Hao and Wang Wenyu looked at the Dang Xiang army gathered under the city, their faces a little ugly.
"The Western thief is serious this time."
"Even the kites moved."
Li Hao and Wang Wenyu looked at each other.
"What is the governor thinking?"
"I want to build a house in Xingdaofang, the inner city of Bianjing."
Wang Wenyu said: "I heard that it is the place where Grand Master Zhang Jinglue and Little Zhang Jinglue live. Every inch of land is worth every inch of gold!"
Li Haodao: "Yes, this is a victory. I will personally ask the emperor to report it. Forget it if the ball is dead! What about you?"
Wang Wenyu smiled and said, "I'm not as ambitious as you. It would be nice to have a big house in Qinzhou City."
Li Hao and others saw that there were more than a dozen gun positions in the west of Lanzhou City than yesterday, and the place where many soldiers gathered was where Liang Yi and dozens of party generals were.
These Weiqin soldiers all carried large shields on their backs.
Wang Wenyu opened and closed his eyes and said: "Liang Yi is going to attack the east of the city today, please let me go."
Li Hao said: "Let's go!"
Wang Wenyu led his troops to the east watchtower of the city and stationed themselves there, with wood, rolling stones, oil pans and three-bow crossbows all ready.
This three-bow bed crossbow was the most lethal weapon of the Song army. The front two crossbow arms were in formal configuration, and the rear crossbow arm was in reverse configuration. The arrows were like spears. When the party troops attacked the city, the sound of a capstan turning was heard from the top of the city.
This is a dozen Song soldiers stringing the three-bow bed crossbow.
This was the sharp weapon used to kill Khitan general Xiao Dalin back then. If this three-bow crossbow were shot on his body, it would be useless even if he wore three layers of warp armor.
Because they knew the importance of Lanzhou, the weapons supervisor and the Qinfeng Road Transfer Envoy all sent the best weapons to Lanzhou. How many resources have been accumulated in this small place in the past six months.
The sound of the heavy crossbow being cocked slowly made one's teeth weak, and then the rumble of drums sounded in the party formation. The soldiers had sweat on their foreheads the first few times, but now they are just numb.
Before the attack on the city, the party members from Liang Yi and down carried out sacrifices. After Wu Zhu burned the sheep blades with mugwort, he got a good or bad omen for the invasion.
Afterwards, several tribal leaders and generals who had failed to attack the city in the past few days were tied to wooden posts. Liang Yimi and other generals shot them with arrows, turning them into hedgehogs.
On the Song Army side, monks also climbed onto the city wall and chanted sutras for the soldiers.
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The soldiers on the Dangxiang Army side also recited scriptures silently.
Immediately, the Dangxiang army launched an attack on Lanzhou City under the urging of war drums. The artillery stones under the city first tilted the stone bombs towards the city head, and then the soldiers carried the ladders and earth bags in skirmish lines and charged towards the bottom of the city wall.
This time Liang Yimi sent fresh troops that had not been able to attack the city in the previous few days. These were Liang Yimi's trusted tribesmen.
It should be noted that many of those who attacked the city in the past few days were captured Song prisoners or tribes who had betrayed the party. These people were captured by the Qi Sheng Army. Or they were tribes from Lanzhou who had trade with the Song people. The newly attached tribes and the surrendered Song people.
The former was to die in an open and aboveboard manner, while the latter had to almost commit suicide to pay the certificate of surrender to Liang Yimi, otherwise he would be tied to a wooden post and shot to death.
The Song army was also willing to report the killing of these people as casualties in exchange for military merit. These were tacitly understood by both families. As for the imperial court, they turned a blind eye.
Therefore, in the first two days of Lanzhou's siege, Dangxiang's army seemed to have suffered nearly 20,000 casualties, but its muscles and bones were not moved.
But today, it was the trusted clansmen who were replaced. After the soldiers and horses attacking the city saw the party general who was shot and killed due to the failure of the siege, these soldiers launched an attack on the city head without fear of death.
Today, the Dangxiang army concentrated its attack on the east city wall, which was also the place where they attacked most violently these days.
The day before yesterday, Liang Yi buried his troops to attack the city wall. These troops were tribal soldiers, but not tribal soldiers. These were elites temporarily drawn by the party from each tribe, and were directly commanded by the leading general.
Capture enemy prisoners before going into battle and use them to drive troops, and use them to supervise the battle team when going into battle.
This was also the purpose of Liang Yi's campaign to conquer the Song Dynasty.
Every time a tribe was conquered or new people were surrendered, they would use the captured army to drive them as the vanguard. They would either die in battle under the city or defeat the Song army.
As long as the Song army is defeated, these newly attached tribes will become the second line, and the new conquerors will become the vanguard.
As long as they can keep winning, Dangxiang's advantage will snowball and grow. Later, the rise of the Jurchens and Mongolia all learned from this method.
When there were not enough new recruits, Liang Yimi had no choice but to directly attack the east city wall with his captured troops the day before yesterday. As a result, Lanzhou City was shaken to a certain extent.
Today this place will once again become the focus of both offense and defense.
Liang Yi buried here first and threw in the capture army and the tribes he attached to, while the most elite Yuyuan Sixth Banzhi and Su Wei army remained motionless. This was used to monitor and suppress the soldiers and horses of the other tribes.
The military technology of the Dangxiang Army is very advanced, and the means of siege are not backward. In addition to cannons and cannons, there are also goose carts, weaving bridges, ladders, etc., as well as methods of digging into walls.
Dangxiang's artillery stones first hit the city head. The cannon stones were as big as a bucket and as small as a fist. In order to defend against the cannon stones, the Song army covered the city head with cloth bags filled with chaff, wet horse dung and
net.
After a round of artillery bombardment, the goose cart was pushed out.
The Qisheng Army's initial charge was repulsed by the Song Army's Divine Arm Bow, and Dangxiang's artillery stones also caused certain casualties to the Song Army. In particular, a bed crossbow of the Song Army was directly hit by the artillery stone.
A city wall was flattened, and several Song soldiers fell from the top of the city along with flying broken bricks.
Seeing this, the morale of the captured soldiers was greatly boosted, and arrows shot towards the city oars like raindrops.
Dangxiang's bow was so powerful and sharp that the city's oars were immediately filled with arrows, and even a brick on the city plate was chipped off by the arrows.
Under the cover of arrows, the party soldiers on the front line were once again covered with rawhide and iron sheets and approached the city to dig the wall. On top of the city, the Song army poured hot oil and wood, beating the party soldiers below the city to pieces.
Lanzhou City immediately sent another hundred divine-armed archers to the wall. The people in Lanzhou City also knew that once the city was defeated, they would be in trouble, so they were busy carrying earth, rocks and arrows, and treating the wounded.
Even Wang Wenyu's two concubines joined in, one of them was pregnant.
Soon three goose carts approached the city wall. The soldiers were hidden inside the goose carts. When they advanced to the top of the city, the goose beaks would be placed on the city wall. The soldiers hiding in the goose carts shouted and went to the top of the city to fight with the Song army. .
This kind of goose cart is not afraid of arrows and stones, and even crossbows cannot penetrate them. Every time it reaches the city wall, it brings great trouble to the Song army.
In the distance, there were more than ten goose carts slowly approaching. Seeing this, Wang Wenyu shouted: "Where are the thunder cannons? Throw them at me!"
Several Song soldiers under the city wall immediately pulled the cannon ropes, and the cannon stones filled with gunpowder flew out instantly.
The thunderbolt smashed open near the goose cart of Dang Xiang's army, and the affected area spread into a sea of fire. The flaming Dang Xiang was tumbling in the sea of fire.
One after another, the goose carriages were burned down by thunderbolt cannon fire. Occasionally, some approaching ones were smashed with large rocks by the Song army.
Another wooden stick wrapped with iron nails was thrown down from the top of the city, and the party soldiers who climbed up from the ladder were smashed to pieces.
Seeing the soldiers retreating from the battle, several party generals rode forward to drive them forward. When they saw the soldiers drew their swords, they cut them to prevent them from retreating.
Farther away from the Thunderbolt Cannon, more than a dozen Song soldiers pulled a huge cannon stone. The cannon stone flew dozens of feet in one breath, and hit one of the party generals who drew his sword and shouted.
The head of this general, who wore a red-knotted felt helmet and held a crescent shovel in his hands, was like paper in front of the boulder. The moment the opponent was hit, dozens of people on the left and right rushed to him with howls like crying fathers.
Seeing this, Wang Wenyu clapped his legs and laughed and said: "How happy! Another party of General Xiang has been killed!"