Song Dynasty Iron Armored Army

Chapter 520 Huge Flying Head
Liu Tang mobilized fifty heavy artillery to aim at the city gate and the drawbridge.

With drums and horns, the siege began.

The Xixia soldiers on the city wall still don't understand how to attack without a ladder or a car crash.

I heard the sharp whistle of the cannon, and countless black spots hit the top of the city.

"Dodge."

The Xixia soldiers hid behind the female wall one after another, but they were wrong. The solid green brick female wall became like tofu under the bombardment of shells.

The inside and outside of the city wall became bullet points, and many unlucky soldiers were hit by shells and were immediately crippled.

More shells hit the solid city gate, and with a bang, the heavy city gate was shattered into slag and torn apart.

The Chai Lin binoculars could clearly see that this group of people dropped a lot of wine jars in the city gate, which seemed to be some kind of kerosene, and they were setting a trap here.

Immediately sneered: "You prepare the oil, then I will help you set the fire."

Liu Tang arranged for the artillery shells bombarding the city gate to be replaced with explosive shells, and fired again at the city gate. A few shells just hit the city gate hole where the oil had been splashed. The slag was ignited, and even the city gate tower was ignited immediately. The northwest region was dry and rainless, and the items were very dry. Once ignited, the flames blazed instantly.

It's over. At that time, the Xixia defenders predicted that as soon as the city gate was opened, the enemy would follow in, so they poured kerosene and prepared to burn the enemy. As a result, the enemy didn't come, and the fire came first, burning the city gate and buildings. When it is on, the brick and wood structure building is on fire as soon as it is burned, and the fire is raging.

The Cangzhou army couldn't get in, and the Xixia soldiers couldn't get out either.

The artillerymen replaced the bombs and bombarded the city wall continuously.The other sergeants were eating jerky while lining up.

The light and heavy cavalry rested separately, feeding the horses, drinking water, etc.From noon to the west of the sun, the city walls of Xingqing Mansion were seriously damaged.

Chai Lin looked at the sun and ordered to go back to the camp.

Master Zhong was puzzled, and said: "It seems that we can win a battle today, why not attack it by force."

Wu Yong shook his head mysteriously: "It's easy to break the thieves in the mountains, but it's hard to break the thieves in the heart."

Xixia has been established for more than a hundred years. It is not difficult to capture Xingqing Mansion, but it will inevitably encounter fierce resistance and cause heavy casualties to both sides. This is what Chai Lin does not want to see. The city wall is the heart of the Xixia people for more than a hundred years, completely destroying their self-confidence in bow horse riding and shooting that they are proud of.

The next day, the sun rose as usual, and the people in the city went to the well to fetch water for cooking. Suddenly, someone shouted: "Look, a huge head is flying from the sky."

At this time, the city wall had exploded, and a huge head flew slowly from the east. How big is this head, at least 20 meters high. This is a somewhat hideous head, and it is still hanging below. a basket.

At this moment, Chai Meng, the reconnaissance battalion, was sitting in the basket.

It turns out that this is just a hot air balloon with a strange shape. The balloon made of huge canvas is very huge. It uses fierce oil as fuel, and the flight is still very good. Printed leaflets in Xixia and Song scripts.

What is written above is the policy of this battle, do not harm civilians, do not damage commercial companies, ensure the safety of the people in the city, and so on.

Tens of thousands of flyers fluttered down from the sky.

The generals and kings of Xixia knew with their noses that this was not ordinary paper, and immediately ordered that all leaflets must be turned in and burned immediately, and anyone who dared to hide them would be executed.

However, the content on the paper still spread quietly, especially some active people in the city began to think about the way out.

The destruction of Xingqing Mansion is only a matter of time.

That night, there was nothing to do all night, until dawn was about to come, and that huge flying head came again.

This time the situation is a little different, the flying height is relatively low, and the feathered arrows of the Xixia people shoot upwards, no matter how low he is, the feathered arrows cannot hurt him.

When flying directly above the city wall, Chai Meng found that the generals of Xixia were pointing and pointing.The dark ten thousand people fell down, several at a time, right among the generals.

Boom boom boom, the loud noise was like thunder, and a small mushroom cloud rose in the sky.The generals of Xixia were almost dismissed at once. There was a big gap in the already low city wall, and the Xixia soldiers suddenly had no leader.

Chai Lin waved his hand: "Prepare for shelling, firecrackers and horizontal sabers are ready to enter the city."

Originally, Chai Lin planned to wait a few days before taking down here, but there was a change in the Jin soldiers, and the losses were not enough, so they sent more troops to the Sixteen States of Yanyun.

So Chailin is going to fight quickly.

The artillery bombarded again, it was no longer aimless bombardment, but focused on one point and only one round, the city wall of more than [-] meters fell down, followed by the extension of the artillery, smashing the Xixia cavalry blocked in the gap. Abandon armor.

The firecrackers came up, the formation was dense, and the firepower was extremely powerful. They quickly entered the city from the ruins, some along the street, and some on the city wall.Immediately after, the heavy infantry and light cavalry entered the city one after another, leaving four thousand heavy cavalry to protect the artillery.

The dragons in the city had no leader, and they fought very fast, and the battle ended before noon.

The Xixia palace fell, and Chai Lin led the army to occupy the palace. The military discipline was strict, and it was strictly forbidden to set fire or destroy cultural relics. Hundreds of concubines and court ladies did not suffer any harm.

Two days later, Xingqing Mansion was returned to the system, and [-] captive Xixia soldiers changed their clothes, disrupted their formation, and rushed to Weizhou Mansion under the escort of heavy cavalry, handing them over to the Western Army for post-war reconstruction.

Pang Wanchun led the army from the west road, and wiped out more than a dozen cities in the west of Xixia along the way. His cavalry increased from more than 5000 to 4.

After working all the way to Yumen Pass, the entire territory of Xixia was recovered. After discussion, Pang Wanchun was stationed in Liangzhou, Ganzhou, and Yumen Pass.

Zhong Shidao was stationed in Xiping Mansion and Weizhou Mansion.Lu Fang, who made great contributions in this battle, led [-] cavalry and [-] infantry to guard Xingqing Mansion and Haoshuichuan.

Although Xixia was gone at this time, the Western Liao Kingdom had just risen and occupied a vast area of ​​the Western Regions.

The engineering corps led by Tao Zongwang has become stronger again, and 15 sergeants have been added, a total of [-], to assist Pang Wanchun in governing Ganzhou and Liangzhou.Water was diverted from the vicinity of the Daxueshan Mountains, water canals were built, and local farmers were helped to grow grapes, corn, and wolfberries. Later, a huge canal project was formed, which is world-famous.

Lu Junyi and Guan Sheng's light cavalry were formally reorganized, and eight thousand light cavalry returned to Daming Mansion with the army to fight against the Kingdom of Jin again.

Chailin led the light cavalry back to Kaifeng, Tokyo, and the other army marched slowly.

When Chai Lin returned to Kaifeng, Ma Ling, who was in charge of monitoring Zengtou City, had important information. Zengtou City raised troops, and even sent [-] troops in an attempt to attack Dongping Mansion.

(End of this chapter)