Doctor of the Great Song Dynasty: In the beginning, Li Qingzhao and Li Qingzhao made a private decis

Chapter 159 Pingxia City

"More than ten times the casualties?" All the officials in the court exclaimed.

Take the destroyed Jinming Village as an example, its defenders were nearly 3000 people. If Jinming Village was designed in this way, Xixia soldiers would have to pay at least 3 people if they wanted to break through the fort. This price may not be affordable for Xixia.

"Really!" Zhao Xu said in surprise.

If the bastion really has such an amazing defensive power, then the defensive strength of the Song Dynasty will be greatly improved, not to mention the Xixia, it is the Liao Kingdom that will let it go home.

Fan Zhengzheng nodded his head and said: "The Kaifeng Forbidden Army is equipped with a large number of god-armed crossbows. Whether it is true or not, you can find out if it is true or false."

"Order the three armies to immediately deduce the bastion and the crossbow in the sand table!" Zhao Xu couldn't wait.

"I obey the order!" Privy Envoy Zeng Bu said solemnly.

In the camp of the forbidden army, important court officials gathered!

"Report to the officials, the bastion sand table has been prepared." Taiwei Meng Yuan said solemnly.

The sand table deduction of the imperial army is naturally not all sand table, but requires a lot of actual combat to testify. For this reason, the Kaifeng camp specially built a corner of the bastion, which is specially used for collection and deduction.

"Let's start!" Zhao Xu said impatiently.

"Boom!"

With the beating of the war drum, a large number of soldiers set up ladders to simulate attacking a corner of the bastion from beyond the range of the god arm crossbow.

"Reporting to the officials, it will take a hundred breaths for soldiers to attack and ascend the city." Taiwei Meng Yuan said with a serious face.

And Fan Zheng sneered and said: "One hundred breaths, everyone knows how many crossbow bolts the god arm crossbow can fire in one hundred breaths."

Taiwei Meng Yuan said with embarrassment: "At least ten crossbow arrows."

The biggest advantage of the crossbow is that you can use the trigger to easily string the crossbow, so as to achieve repeated firing and continuous attack. If it is a bow and arrow, it may take a lot of effort to open ten bows in a row.

"If there are two people in a row, it is enough to shorten the time to launch the god arm crossbow by half, and it can fire a crossbow bolt in five breaths. The biggest advantage of the bastion is that it can attack from multiple sides, and more soldiers can stand in a small space. The defender's partial superiority in numbers, coupled with the superpower of the God Arm Crossbow, is enough to make all the invading enemies never return." Fan Zheng said solemnly.

Immediately, a group of imperial guards immediately defended according to the pattern of the bastion with their crossbows in their hands. In the same length of the city wall, the bastion can hold [-]% more soldiers than ordinary city walls.

"God arm crossbow, launch!"

Following Fan Zheng's order, all the god arm crossbows fired at once.

"Buzz!"

The huge rain of arrows spread outwards in a dark mass. Wherever it went, the bricks and stones were cracked, and the vegetation was broken. However, this was only the beginning. With the continuous firing of the divine arm crossbow, the rain of arrows lasted for a full hundred breaths.

Zhao Xu and all the officials looked at the scene in front of him in amazement, only to see that the corner of the bastion was filled with densely packed crossbow arrows.

"Unless you spare your life! No one can break through the defense of the God Arm Crossbow and Bastion." Zeng Bu exclaimed.

Zhao Xu and the officials of the Manchu Dynasty nodded with deep emotion. The Divine Arm Crossbow was the number one artifact of the Song Dynasty. No flesh and blood could resist the attack of the Divine Arm Crossbow. Unleash the power of the god arm crossbow to the extreme.

Unwilling to be reconciled, Meng Yuan played the sand table with Fan Zheng three times in succession, failing miserably each time.

Seeing this, all the officials couldn't help showing joy. The bastion and the god arm crossbow are so powerful that they see the hope of resisting Xixia.

Meng Yuan lost his eyes, and looked straight at Fan Zhengdao: "I admit that the bastion and the god arm crossbow are indeed powerful, but the bastion is not easy to build, and the god arm crossbow is a forbidden weapon in the Song army, and it is impossible to equip the entire army! The law cannot be carried out by the whole army at all! If I were the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang, after being frustrated in front of the bastion, I would definitely take a detour, and without the protection of the bastion, the power of the divine arm crossbow would be greatly reduced."

The hearts of all the officials in the court suddenly sank, and the joy in their hearts was swept away.

Fan Zheng was not surprised by this and said: "What Meng Taiwei said is indeed possible, if that is the case, let the bastion be built in the place that threatens Xixia the most, and let Xixia feel like a thorn in the throat, if you want to get rid of it, then hurry up!"

"The most threatening place?" Baiguan couldn't help being stunned, looking at Fan Zheng in confusion.

Fan Zheng blamed the huge sand table map of the battle between Song and Xia in front of him, and analyzed: "It is well known that the tribes of Xixia are nomadic, and their domestic Huhua thinking is very heavy. Except for Hetao, most of the north of the Yellow River are pastures. Their grain production areas They are concentrated in the Hengshan and Tiandu Mountains south of the Yellow River, if the bastion is built here, how will Xixia react, my lords said."

Following the direction Fan Zheng pointed, all civil and military officials couldn't help but gasp, because what Fan Zheng pointed to was exactly where there were a lot of farmlands at the foot of Tiandu Mountain, and it was the Xixia grain-producing area. There, it is enough to threaten the lifeline of Xixia, and Xixia will definitely not let it go, and I am afraid that it will use all the power of the country to attack the bastion.

"Wonderful! Wonderful! And if the bastion is built under Tiandu Mountain, Xixia will definitely come to attack. The power of the bastion plus the god arm crossbow is enough to make Xixia suffer." Zeng Bu cheered.

Fan Zheng nodded and said: "That's right. For a long time, Xixia has been attacking all the roads in the northwestern part of the Great Song Dynasty, making them tired of coping, and it is easy to disperse their troops and be defeated one by one. The Song Dynasty has always been strategically passive."

All the officials nodded, this is what troubled Xixia the most.

"If we build a bastion in front of Xixia's grain production area and Xixia has to attack, we will choose the battlefield. Although the defense is still the main focus, we have already taken the initiative strategically."

"Strategic initiative!"

Zhao Xu couldn't help being startled, and couldn't help being excited in his heart. If Da Song were to choose the battlefield, he would naturally be fully prepared, how could Xixia get cheap.

"What do you love ministers think?" Zhao Xu turned around and asked the ministers.

"This strategy is feasible!" Zhang Dun pondered for a moment, then nodded solemnly.

"You can give it a try!" Zeng Bu also solemnly said.

In the end, even Lu Dafang, who had always been conservative, nodded slowly. Da Song had been harassed by Xixia all the time.Since the combination of the bastion and the god arm crossbow has such a terrifying defensive power, it can not only weaken Xixia's military strength, but also threaten Xixia's grain production areas. It is like a nail nailed into Xixia's heart.

Seeing this, Zhao Xu was overjoyed and said: "If this city is completed, it will not only protect the Song Dynasty border, but also continue to weaken Xixia. Why not call it Pingxia City."

"The officials are wise!" All the officials complimented one after another.

Both the bastion and the divine arm crossbow can be promoted in the Great Song Dynasty, and Pingxia City can be defended. After that, the bastion will be popularized in the Great Song Dynasty. Together with the divine weapon, the divine arm crossbow will greatly enhance the defense capabilities of the Great Song Dynasty.

"Pingxia City!"

Fan Zheng couldn't help sighing, the place he was referring to was the place where Pingxia City was established by the later Song Dynasty. He didn't expect that the history was still surprisingly similar a few years in advance.

It's just that this time Pingxia City has the blessing of the Bastion and the God Arm Crossbow. Once it appears in the world, it will definitely shock the world.

(End of this chapter)