Poor Family Chapter 859

Chapter 859 Two Battles in Weicheng

The Xixia soldiers were exhausted from marching, and their morale was low. Under the fierce attack of the Song army, the Xixia soldiers were in chaos, and the team was soon defeated. At this time, as two gunpowder arrows exploded in the sky, dust flew in the distance, and the ground began to tremble slightly Soon, the dust covered the sky and the sun, and the 8,000 cavalry led by Wang Gui were overwhelmingly killing from two miles away.

"Array to fight!"

Gao Tingyi, who was in the front army, roared loudly and ordered the soldiers to line up to resist, but at this time the morale of the army was completely shaken, and the soldiers began to flee in all directions. Only a thousand people responded to his call.

"General, it's the cavalry! The cavalry is coming!" A soldier pointed at the cavalry that was coming and shouted in fear.

Gao Tingyi's scalp was numb for a while. He looked back at the army. The army had already scattered and fled in all directions. Only a thousand people followed him. He sighed in his heart and shouted: "Follow me!"

He turned his horse's head and led more than a thousand soldiers to flee in a panic in the direction of Luocheng.

Wang Gui's cavalry ignored them. They dispersed and began to ruthlessly hunt down Xixia soldiers under the moonlight. The desert was full of corpses of Xixia soldiers who had been hacked to death. The smell of blood permeated the entire wasteland, and the excited howling of wolves could be faintly heard in the distance.

The war ended after an hour. Most of the Xixia soldiers were killed by the cavalry of the Song Army. Only a few soldiers fled the battlefield. The Song Army cleared up the battlefield a little bit. He led eight thousand cavalry to Luocheng to meet Niu Gao's army.

At this time, Gao Tingyi had already learned that Luocheng was captured by the Song army. He was shocked and angry, but he was very scared and did not dare to stay longer. Soldiers Yu fled to Xiacheng, hundreds of miles away to the east, and he didn't know how to solve the army ration problem on the way.

The defenders of Weicheng received the news that the entire 20,000 reinforcements had been annihilated in the afternoon of the next day. Chaka was stunned by the news. He immediately reported the message to Xingqing Mansion with a letter eagle and ordered the defenders to stand by. Clearly, Song Jun's next target must be Weicheng.

Night fell again, Li Yanqing stared at the Wei City shrouded in darkness from a distance, wondering if he could knock on the gate of Wei City tonight? Li Yanqing was full of confidence in tonight's battle.

Any city will have defensive loopholes. The primary factor in siege is not how powerful the siege weapons you have, but whether you have found the loopholes in the city's defense.

Weicheng was built on the mountainside, with high slopes and steep walls, easy to defend and difficult to attack. It seemed invulnerable, but for the experienced Li Yanqing, the first time he saw Weicheng, he discovered the biggest weakness in Weicheng's defense. The weakness is that the city is too small.

The circumference of Wei City is less than four miles, and the east, west, north and south are less than one mile each. Such a small city means that there is no strategic depth, and it is difficult to resist the saturation attack of the enemy.

As early as Li Yanqing arrived in Xixia, the ten heavy-duty trebuchets were transported to the front-line barracks in the form of disassembled parts, and it took only one day for a hundred craftsmen to install the ten heavy-duty trebuchets.

With the cover of night, ten heavy-duty trebuchets began to slowly move towards Weicheng. This kind of heavy-duty trebuchet was two feet and six feet high, and the throwing rod was five feet long. It could throw a weight of one hundred catties two hundred steps away. , if the weight is reduced to fifty catties, the shooting range can reach three hundred and fifty paces.

Although there are more than a dozen miniature trebuchets on the top of Weicheng City, the targets of these trebuchets are mainly the enemies who attack the mountain. The throwing distance is at most fifty steps, and they cannot threaten the heavy trebuchets in the distance at all.

Unless the Xixia army uses the bed crossbow, even if the Xixia army uses the bed crossbow, the Song army has a perfect countermeasure. What's more, the Xixia army does not have the most long-range bed crossbow, which can only have a range of 150 steps at most. The military crossbow, in the face of the long-distance attack of the Song army, the Xixia army was helpless.

The Song army set the position of ten heavy trebuchets at two hundred paces away, and they could easily throw fifty catties of heavy objects into the city by firing from here. Liu Ziyu still ordered the construction of a fence. The so-called fence is to use sandbags to build a sandbag wall in front of the catapult. It is two feet high and one mile long. The wall effectively blocks.

Liu Ziyu took the initiative to invite Ying. He led 5,000 troops to become the main force to attack Weicheng tonight. However, the entire attack plan was drawn up by the coach Li Yanqing, and Liu Ziyu must implement the established plan to the letter.

Ten heavy trebuchets creaked and pulled away behind the sandbag wall, and ten thunderbolts were put into the throwing steel pockets. The thunderbolt was only the first step of the attack, and the purpose was to destroy all the stone buildings in the city. The blow is the second step.

'Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! With the beating of a fierce drum, the soldiers of the Song Army lit the matchlock, the trebuchet was launched, and the throwing rod was swung out like a long arm. Ten black thunderbolts soared into the sky, flying from above the heads of the soldiers defending the city. They flew away and fell into the city respectively.

Ten thunderbolts exploded one after another in the city. The sound of the explosion was deafening, and gray-black gunpowder smoke rose into the sky, forming a single piece in the sky, covering the entire city.

Immediately afterwards, in the second round, ten ignited thunderbolts were thrown into the city, and the city exploded rumblingly, like thunder in the clouds rolling over Weicheng, and the pungent gunpowder smoke filled the whole city. After the explosion, most of the houses made of stone and wood collapsed. Thousands of soldiers panicked and rushed to the corners. Only by hiding in the corners would they not be buried by the collapsed houses.

The Song army launched five rounds of thunder-shocking attacks. Fifty thunderbolts almost razed all the buildings in the city to the ground. Even the beacon tower collapsed in the third round of explosions. After five rounds, the Xixia defenders suffered nearly a thousand casualties At this time, the Song army started the second attack, attacking Weicheng with fire.

The fire attack of the Song army had its own rules, much smarter than the fire attack of the Jin army when they attacked Tokyo. Three thousand crossbowmen held the crossbows and shields and ran to a place a hundred steps away from the foot of the mountain, squatting down and covering themselves with huge shields. At the same time, the kerosene on the arrow was lit with a fire pocket, and the rockets began to burn. At this time, ten trebuchets were launched rapidly, and ten kerosene tanks were thrown into the city.

This kind of fire oil tank is a kind of thin-skinned clay pot, which weighs fifty catties after being filled with fire oil. The biggest feature of this kind of pottery pot is that it is not strong. High-altitude projectile outside the city.

At the same time as the ten kerosene tanks rose into the air, three thousand crossbowmen fired rockets into the city. This plan was formulated by Li Yanqing. He mainly considered that there might be special personnel in the city responsible for putting out the fire. Of course, the rockets and kerosene were fired at the same time. When it landed, it would be too late even if someone specially assigned to put out the fire.

At the same time that the fire oil tanks flew towards the city, the sound of shooting clappers rang. Three thousand soldiers raised their crossbows one after another and fired three thousand rockets into the city. The army then retreated like a tide.

Three thousand rockets, like a swarm of fireflies in a summer night, rushed towards the city overwhelmingly, and immediately caused a sea of fire in the city, with broken pottery fragments and overflowing kerosene everywhere in the city.

As for the fire-fighting soldiers that Li Yanqing was worried about, there was no trace of them at all, not to mention whether they could survive the repeated explosions, and more importantly, the fire-fighting soldiers would only be prepared if they experienced a fierce battle like the Tokyo Defense War. How can Weicheng, which has not been in war for decades, have such awareness, Li Yanqing still thinks too highly of the Xixia defenders.

The kerosene was ignited, which made it meaningless to put out the fire, and then the second, third, and fourth rounds of fire burned all night. The Song army threw hundreds of cans of kerosene into the city, causing the entire city of Wei to be engulfed in flames. .

At dawn the next day, the entire small town was still shrouded in black smoke, but there was no longer a single defender on the top of the city. Dozens of miniature trebuchets on the top of the city were burned to ashes, and the city gate was also riddled with fire. Kong, there was only a pair of shelves left in front of the city gate, and it collapsed with a slight pull, but in the end it saved the trouble of the Song army. Not long after dawn, there was a muffled bang, and the city gate fell straight It fell into pieces, and a lot of black charcoal that was still burning rolled down the mountain.

The gate was opened, so that the soldiers of the Song Army could clearly see the situation in the military city. There were piles of rocks in the military city, and it was pitch black everywhere. There is black powder all over the body, and if you are not careful, your body will be covered with a layer of black ash.

Until noon, Liu Ziyu personally led a group of soldiers into Wei City carefully. The ground was still warm, but there was no longer a defender in the city, and even a complete weapon could not be found. However, except for the disappearance of the city gate, the entire city The walls of the military city remained intact, and the Thunderbolt did not land on the top of the city.

Not long after, the soldiers sent by Liu Ziyu reported to Li Yanqing: "Report to Dutong, there is no enemy soldier in the military city, the ground of the city gate is no longer hot, you can enter!"

Li Yanqing nodded, and said to the soldiers: "Go and tell General Liu to clean up Weicheng before dark!"

He then said to Wang Guiling: "You can lead 8,000 cavalry to attack Xiping Mansion. There are no defenders there. You must occupy it for me!"

"Follow the order!"

Wang Guixing saluted and rushed to deploy. A quarter of an hour later, 8,000 cavalry led by Wang Gui and Cao Meng left Weicheng and rushed to Xiping City, a hundred miles away. The Xingqing Mansion, hundreds of miles away, did not know the news of the fall of Weicheng so quickly. They had to get enough bargaining chips before the second decision of Xixia's high-level officials.

(end of this chapter)

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