Chapter 164 City Break

If you fight hard, you will die.

Before dawn, Yuan Hao's daring army filled the moat on the west side of the Zhenrong Army. Countless casualties were killed and injured on the short ten-foot-wide river, paying the price of 3,000 people. However, the real battle had just begun. These dead people were just bait to lure the enemy, and Yuan Hao's elite soldiers were still resting in the rear.

The time of Yin has passed. A big earth mountain suddenly appeared 50 feet outside the west city of the Zhenrong Army. The earth mountain is 20 feet long and 10 feet wide, all made of loess. The top of the platform is built, and there is a wooden female wall on the platform. The height of the wall can be compared with the Zhenrong Army.

Looking at the earthy mountain rising in the haze, Guo Kui was shocked and quickly asked his own soldiers to inform Xu Sichun to let him send more archers to board the battle building on the horse's face and shoot it with a rocket. The implication is to burn the female wall on the mountain with fire.

Of course, Xu Sichun knew how much harm the Tushan would cause to the Zhenrong army. After waiting for the Xixia people to make a move, he quickly sent 300 archers to the battle tower in the horse's face and kept shooting with rockets.

At dawn, a hot drama was staged on the head of Zhenrong's army city again, that is, Xu Sichun's archer shot the female wall on the top of the Tushan Mountain of the Xixia Army desperately and wanted to take down the Tushan with a drum.

But the strange thing is that when Song Jun's rocket hit the female wall, the female wall is fine at all. No matter how the fire oil on your arrow burns, the wooden female wall is still not damaged. This time, Xu Sichun is gone.

Hurry up and ask someone to help Guo Kui to discuss. Guo Kui said, "My musket team consumed a lot of bullets last night. We need to temporarily preserve our strength and fire back when the Xixia army attacks the city. And his musket and Ben can't deal with the female wall, we have to rely on the Zhen Rongjun brothers to work together to think of a way."

Xu Sichun sighed, "Now we have to ask the military cyclone cannon to throw stones to attack. Our arrows don't work at all."

Guo Kui said, "That's it. Please send someone to the Chinese army to call the whirlwind cannon to fire."

Xu Sichun nodded silently and turned around and ordered his own soldiers to rush to the Chinese army to report the matter.

Before dawn, the three cyclone cannons in the Zhenrong army fired back. Each of the car gun needed 70 people to drag, one to release, 12 catties of stone bullets, and 50 steps away.

If the three cyclone cannons fired at the same time, it would be quite powerful, but the accuracy was too poor. In three attacks, only one stone bomb landed on the earthy mountain, or halfway up the mountain, and even the female wall was not touched.

When he was preparing for his brother's four rounds of attacks, something suddenly stood up on the top of Xixia Tushan Mountain. After the bucket flashed, a smoke ball flew over the air. The smoke ball dragged its black tail and went straight to the Zhenjun army. The archers on the wall were so scared that they shrank their necks and watched the smoke ball fall into the city and hit a grass. Go up.

After the smoke ball fell to the ground, it shattered, followed by countless Mars. The sparks were burning more and more vigorously, before someone came to put it out, it crackled. During this period, the thick smoke rolled, and the black and white gas rushed to the sky. The spicy smell made people unable to open their eyes.

Coincidentally, the west wind was blowing over the Zhenrong Army at that time, and the thick smoke of the smoke ball just blew on the west wall, which made the defenders burst into tears and painful. They quickly urged people to extinguish the place where the thick smoke rose.

Unexpectedly, just as the Song army sent people to find the smoke ball that landed on the ground, several big smoke balls flew into the city. In an in an flash, the Zhenrong army city was in chaos. Because of the thick smoke, it blocked the view. It was difficult to find an accurate place for a while. The West City was still surrounded by thick smoke.

When the thick smoke was in the Zhenrong army, Yuan Hao smiled proudly, stood on a tall and strong watchtower, and waved: "Attack"

The Xixia army attacked like a tide, and the West City was in crisis. Because the defenders' sight was blocked, they had to shoot back with arrows. At this time, the first wave of Xixia's attacking troops who were not afraid of death had already killed the city. After the cloud ladder got on the head of the city, the rear army rolled and killed.

Xu Sichun waved his long sword with one arm and ordered, "Come on, give me a dung cannon and smash it hard"

In order to resist the fierce attack of the first wave of the Xixia army, the West City mobilized all the useful soldiers to take turns to go down the city to carry the dung guns in the armor depot under the city, ran up the city wall and smashed them fiercely outside the mouth.

The rotten water in the crock broke the manure cannon and splashed everywhere on the body. It can not only corrode the armor of the Xixia soldiers, but also invade the muscles through the armor, making people turn into a white bone in an instant.

However, even so, it only delayed the Xixia army that attacked like a tide.

When the manure tank in the armory was used up, he had to send out his soldiers to guard the stacks with two feet four or five long hook rods, fork rods, crutches, and grabbing guns. During this period, he assisted the bows and crossbows to fight back, and the swordsman and long gunmen fought against the dead men of the Xixia army who hit the top of the city.

The bloody battle lasted for nearly three hours. The Xixia army broke through the top of the city several times, but Guo Kui's musketeers were shot on the spot before the dead men could stand firm.

The soldiers in Zhenrong were shocked. They quickly rushed up to plug the gap, cut off or set fire to the ladder of the Xixia Army, and gradually regained the initiative of the battlefield.

However, in the blink of an eye, another wave of attacks of the Xixia army arrived. This time, Xixia's cavalry kept shooting arrows along the city. The arrow was a rocket, tied with smoke on it and kept falling into the city or the wall. In an instant, thick smoke rose everywhere, and the stench of the nose. People trapped in the smoke and dust, as long as they smell a few bites, they will be If you faint, even if you inhale a small amount, you will not stop coughing, and the powerful will even vomit blood. Is this the poisonous smoke tactic commonly used to ride in Xixia? The city guard suddenly fell into panic.

At the same time, the Huanzhou Planting Army and the reinforcements of Fan Zhongyan in Qingzhou, who are ambushed in the mountains on the east side of the Zhenrong Army, are falling into a bitter battle.

It was the main force of the Xixia Jingsai Military Division. When the Huaide army of the Song Dynasty returned to Pingxia City, they killed from the path to the Xiningzhai and Tianshengzhai in the boundary of the Zhenrong army.

The main purpose of this army is to harass the flank of the Zhenrong Army from the east. Unexpectedly, the Huanzhou Planting Family Army and the Fan Zhongyan reinforcements of Qingzhou, who rushed to the Zhenrong Army, met in front of Huluchuan. Because the two sides encountered a fierce melee at night, they could not distinguish between the southeast and the northwest. It was not until dawn that they reluctantly accepted. Pick up their respective armies and retreat 20 miles, ready to fight again.

Therefore, it is impossible for the breeding army in Huanzhou and Fan Zhongyan's reinforcements in Qingzhou to enter the Zhenrong army.

At this time, the Wilder army was also dragged down by the two armies from Tiandu Mountain. They couldn't move and went all out to defend the city. However, this was the trick of Zhang Wen. In his opinion, the Wilder army was scared out in the last battle of Haoshuichuan. The generals of the army were killed and injured heavily, even if there are heavy soldiers in their hands now. Some new soldiers who did not go through the battle are not like the division of tigers and wolves in Tiandu Mountain, so it can be imagined how passive the Wilder army was at that time. They wanted to fight but were afraid of war. They didn't want to have a life-death field battle with the Xixia army at all. They wanted to fight against the Xixia army with castle tactics.

Life and death are only in an instant, and the city is broken in an instant. There is no room for thousands of soldiers in the city to come back to their senses.

Another wave of masked Xixia army killed under the city. This Xixia army came to the edge of the city under the cover of the shield array, stepping on the dead bodies all over the ground, shouting to climb the ladder to attack the head of the city.

Black smoke billowed on the top of the city, and it was impossible to distinguish between the enemy and me at all. Waves of Xixia troops rushed to the city one after another in the chaos. Guo Kui's troops had long retreated into the city and planned to be close to death. No matter what, they had to the army to help.

After the West City fell into a scuffle, the street battle was about to begin. Zhao Xun's 500 crossbow archers had no way to retreat to the streets of the city with Guo Kui. Only Xu Sichun led his troops to resist desperately. The white-edged battle in the West City has long been red. Both sides are fighting with their lives. However, wherever they are forced to a desperate situation, there will always be one side holding the enemy and falling down the city. It is unimaginable that someone will fall from the city every minute and every second, which requires great courage. It's not a real warrior who can't do it at all.

After a loud and earth-shaking noise, sand and stones flew over the head of the West City. A strong Xixia soldier carried a gunpowder barrel on his back and ended the last wave of Song army's resistance with incomparable glory. The fiery flames rose to the sky, which was a signal.

After Yuan Hao saw it, he was overjoyed. He was still worried that the attack would fail again. Unexpectedly, Zhang Wen's strategy was really wonderful. Thinking of this, he personally ordered: "The Poxi army attacked the city, and the warriors of Tiandu Mountain attacked."

This is the last order given by Yuan Hao, perhaps the last one, because this is a decisive battle. In this battle, he will bet the lives of all the slaves, the lives of a thousand forbidden army, and of course, all the lives of the army in the city. He wants to succeed in the battle!