Fenghou

Chapter 462
The Xixia army opened up two battlefields, a northern battlefield and an eastern battlefield. The northern battlefield is in charge of the deputy general Tuoba Chengqing, while the eastern battlefield is in charge of the commander Xia Lian. The chief general Cao Baozong decides the progress of the war. He does not stop the war. Never stop.

Of course, Cao Baozong's confidence was high, and he believed that today's lunch would definitely be settled in the city.

"The trebuchet goes first!"

With Cao Baozong's order, thirty large trebuchets began to move forward slowly.
Eight thousand troops were deployed on the top of the city, four thousand each in the north and east, Liu Cui and Niu Gao were in charge of the north and east respectively, and Gao Ding led two thousand soldiers to support them.

At the same time, the Song army ambushed [-] people each in Xichengtou and Nanchengtou, waiting for orders to attack. Li Muqing, Wang Lun, Chen Dayu, Su Ping, and a group of emerging generals will also play their roles.

At the same time, [-] crossbowmen were deployed under the city. They stood close to the city wall, waiting for orders to start deploying counterattacks.

In addition, there are [-] logistics workers who are responsible for the transportation of materials in the two cities, as well as the handling and rescue of wounded soldiers.

The Song army is also ready and will do its best to destroy the enemy's vital forces. This time the Song army does not need prisoners of war, and they will completely destroy the enemy physically.

Chen Qing stood on the turret connecting the North City and the East City. The turret was made of big stones, which was very strong and could resist the impact of the big stones. This was also the command center of the entire Song Army.

Chen Qing watched the enemy's trebuchets slowly move forward. He had rich experience, and he could tell at a glance that the enemy's trebuchets were not capable of throwing enough. They belonged to large trebuchets. Step around.

With two hundred and fifty steps, an ordinary god arm crossbow can shoot through the enemy's armor. In terms of large trebuchets, the Xixia people are obviously not as good as Jin Bing.

"Pass my order, the north city and the east city each deploy a thousand god-arm crossbow soldiers to attack the enemy's catapults!"

Two thousand god arm crossbow troops went to the north city and the east city, they raised their crossbows and waited for the catapult to come forward.
Fifteen trebuchets outside the northern city took the lead, and they also prepared baffles to prevent the bows and crossbows of the Song army from shooting.

The trebuchet was not ready yet, dense black dots appeared in the sky, and then a thousand crossbow arrows fell from the sky, shooting at the trebuchet like raindrops. Dozens of Xixia soldiers were unable to dodge and were shot dead on the spot by random arrows. Two of them The belt of the catapult was shot and the catapult collapsed.

"Ready to throw!"

In a hurry, thirteen trebuchets began to launch towards the city. The first round was full of [-]-jin boulders, and the [-]-jin kerosene balls were not ready yet.

More than a dozen boulders soared into the air, roaring and shooting at the top of the city, and the soldiers at the top of the city shouted and squatted down one after another, "Boom! 'With a loud noise, a boulder hit the battlements, and then bounced high, over the top of the city, and flew down the city.

And another boulder hit a trebuchet on the top of the city. The trebuchet was smashed to pieces and pieces of wood were scattered everywhere.

The projected angle is too small, and it is not easy for the boulders to land on the top of the city. Of the thirteen boulders, only four hit the top of the city. After passing the city, fly to the city.

The east city was weaker, with only nine trebuchets left, all of the nine boulders failed to be projected, and none of the boulders hit the top of the city.

Cao Baozong was annoyed and shouted: "Change the fire oil ball!"

As soon as he finished speaking, two huge fires suddenly appeared in the sky, spreading out in the sky like a goddess scattering flowers. These are fire clay balls of the Song Army, fired by a thousand-step gun. Scattered in mid-air, a mass of burning fire clay dispersed into hundreds of small burning fireballs, spread out and threw them towards the catapult positions. Flames were burning everywhere, and thick smoke was billowing, which greatly hindered the actions of the Xixia Army.

Cao Baozong became angry from embarrassment. He originally wanted to use the trebuchet to hit the morale of the Song army, but he did not expect that the Song army's kerosene weapons were so sharp, which affected the morale of his own army instead.

He swung his sword and shouted loudly: "The siege army strikes!"

"Ugh-"

The low-pitched horn blew, and an army of [-] soldiers carried [-] heavy-duty siege ladders and attacked the North City and East City at the same time.

On the first day, they attacked the city on a large scale. This was something that the Song army had never experienced in countless siege battles. It was also an extremely severe test for the Song army. Guard soldiers.

If Chen Qing's main force does not arrive in time, this tactic is very correct. With only a few thousand Song troops in the city, they may be able to defeat the enemy's small-scale attacks again and again, but they cannot withstand the simultaneous attacks of tens of thousands of enemy troops. .

In fact, this is also the tradition of the Xixia army, which is good at concentrating superior forces to attack the castles of the Song army.

But Cao Baozong never dreamed that there would be [-] people in the city, and Chen Qing himself was in the city. According to the exact information he got, Chen Qing would lead the army from Chengji County tomorrow.

A wrong intelligence will plunge the Xixia army into a complete nightmare.

Chen Qing watched the attack of the Xixia army calmly, and ordered: "Launch the trebuchet!"

The trebuchets on the top of the city raised their arms one after another, throwing the eight catties of gunpowder barrels into the rushing crowd. At the same time, arrows from the top of the city rained down on the rushing enemy troops.

The gunpowder barrels are double-layered and will not shatter when they fall to the ground. Each gunpowder barrel contains hundreds of iron nails quenched with poison. This is also the characteristic of Song Dynasty firearms. The poisonous thorns and poisonous nails shot the enemy.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Gunpowder kegs exploded among the crowd, with little impact, and only a few nearby soldiers were killed or injured, but the hundreds of poisoned iron nails it shot out were extremely powerful. None of the ten people was spared, and they were shot by iron nails one after another.

But at the beginning, it didn't affect the soldiers, just a little flesh injury. The soldiers wiped off the blood on their faces and legs, and continued to run. It took a quarter of an hour before the toxicity kicked in.

Arrows shot into the crowd, and soldiers continued to fall from the arrows, but compared to the [-] attacking army, the casualties were nothing.

"Attack! Attack!"

Cao Baozong watched the turbulent army rushing towards the city wall. He was so excited that he couldn't restrain himself. He picked up the drumsticks and beat the big drum to urge the battle. A hundred big drums were beaten at the same time.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The sound of drums was earth-shattering, and the morale of the Xixia Army was like a rainbow. They were getting closer and closer to the city wall, and gunpowder barrels were still exploding in the crowd, which did not affect the morale of the opponent's attack in the slightest.

Chen Qing calmly looked at the surging army on both sides, and ordered: "The number of people in each city is increased to [-], go to the commoner army!"

The so-called commoner army is the Song army, but in order to confuse the Xixia army, the Song army put a commoner coat on the outside of the armor, which looks like a civilian husband in the city, so it is called the commoner army.

After receiving the order, the [-] civilian troops rushed to the North City and the East City.

At this time, a series of siege ladders were hung on the top of the city, and Xixia soldiers rushed up, and the boulders and rolling logs smashed down.
Chen Qing issued the order again, "Shoot with bows and arrows in the city!"

The [-] crossbowmen in the city were divided into two large formations, shooting arrows to the outside of the east city and the north city respectively. The bows and arrows they used to defend the city, a piece of dark cloud-like soldiers and arrows passed over the top of the city and fell into the enemy soldiers outside the city. among.

This made Cao Baozong, the leader of the Xixia Army, startled. The Song army had all gone to the city, so how could there be arrows shooting out of the city?Moreover, the number of soldiers on the top of the city seems to have increased. Could it be that the Song army still had ambushes?

Tuoba Chengqing pointed to the Song army at the top of the city and said, "General, many soldiers of the Song army are wearing civilian clothes. It should be that they mobilized the young and strong in the city to participate in the defense of the city."

This explanation is very reasonable. If the defenders of the city are short of troops, they will definitely mobilize men, women and children in the city to fight together.

Cao Baozong gritted his teeth and said, "If we capture the city, I must kill these bastards!"

(End of this chapter)