Chivalrous Song Dynasty

Zhong Shidao listened carefully, and said with a chuckle: "This year's spring thunder came so early, but it took care of Mizhi Village first. Is this because God wants Mizhi to have more abundant rain?"

Chapter 410

There is a saying of "Awakening of Insects" in the 24 solar terms.

Animals hide in the buried soil in winter and do not drink or eat, which is called "stinging".The so-called Waking of Insects means that under the shock of spring thunder, these dormant animals wake up and start to move.

He is an all-rounder in both civil and military affairs, otherwise he wouldn't be called a master of economics, so he thought that the sound of spring thunder in the direction of Mizhi Village at this time was Jingzhe's spring thunder.

However, no matter how polite he is, he still can't guess that these spring thunders are the "thunderbolts" fired by Ling Zhen and the gunners. Yinzhou soldiers.

Zhao Kai, who was standing by the river, was stunned by this spectacular siege. So, can the siege battle be fought like this?

Just now, he was still standing in the dark night, reciting a song "Long Westward Journey" by Chen Tao of the Tang Dynasty to the phosphorescent dry bones by the river:

"Swear to sweep the Huns regardless of their own lives,

Five thousand Diaojin mourns Hu Chen.

Poor riverside bones,

It's still the person in the spring girl's dream. "

But the picture changed in a blink of an eye. With the deafening thunder, Yinzhou City, which was occupied by the Xixia people, turned into a sea of ​​flames.

Does anyone know what is the effect of the combination of Thunderbolt Ling Zhen and the magic operator Jiang Jing?

With Bai Sheng's excellent match, Jiang Jing can make Ling Zhen's cannon hit the best accuracy ever!

After passing the test of the subject Bai Sheng left for Jiang Jing, Jiang Jing can calculate the shooting parameters of the artillery without using trigonometric functions!As a result, every shot of Ling Zhen can hit the target that needs to be bombarded the most.

Under the reflection of the fire, a floating bridge was erected temporarily on the surface of the Wuding River.

No need for anyone to swim across the river, Ma Ling can "fly" close to the water surface to the opposite bank by stepping on the hot wheel, and then connect the two banks with a long cable, and the engineers can lay the pontoon bridge along the long cable.

Along the way, not only artillery and gunpowder were transported by the "caravan", but also enough pontoon equipment and materials.

When Yinzhou City was in flames, a thousand knife-cutters had already ambushed under the city. Once Fan Rui's Hunting Talisman was used, he could enter Yinzhou City to harvest the heads of the defenders.

Bai Sheng stood beside Zhao Kai with his hands behind his back. He felt that in this Hengshan, his team was invincible, as long as the enemy didn't know the existence of his artillery.

The enemy has no way of knowing the existence of the artillery, because neither the carrier pigeons flying in the sky nor the messengers running on the ground can escape the nets he has set up.

There is Haidongqing cruising in the sky, which can catch all suspicious birds; on the ground, there is a horse spirit patrolling the city, and if anyone is found to have escaped from Yinzhou City, he will immediately kill him with a gold brick.

And those enemies in the city who can tell that Yinzhou City has been bombarded will become dead in a blink of an eye.

The spring thunder of waking up not only awakened the Xixia people in Yinzhou City, but also awakened the men and women in Mizhi Village, but they dared not go out of the village to check.Because the old businessman's order they received is to strictly guard against death, no matter what happens.

The sentry who boarded the watchtower to check found that Yinzhou on the other side of the river was on fire, and when they excitedly reported it to the guard, the guard's order was still to strictly guard the walls and gates of the village to prevent the enemy from cheating.

It took less than half an hour from the firing of the first shot to the occupation of Yinzhou City.

What Bai Sheng wants to fight is a blitzkrieg. He needs to take down all the cities in the Hengshan area that belong to Xixia in the fastest time.

Because he was worried about encountering ups and downs, and worried that Xixia would take corresponding measures to counterattack and retaliate after he reacted.

He clearly believes that his army is invincible in the Hengshan area, but it does not mean that it is invincible in the whole of Xixia.

He always felt that even if he had artillery and mages, he might not be able to flatten Xixia all the way.

If Xixia was so easy to fight, I'm afraid it would have been wiped out by Song Dynasty long ago.Although Ling Zhen's artillery is sharp, it cannot crush the iron kite in a field battle. This is the consensus between him and Di Lie.

Especially knowing that the Ming Dynasty, which had artillery in later generations, still lost to the Eight Banners cavalry of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, he understands how immature the current artillery is.

Then let’s talk about the master, the Song Dynasty has always been assisted by people like Zhang Tianshi or Lin Lingsu, why didn’t they participate in the war between Song and Xia in the early days?There must be a reason for this.

Let’s not talk about the reasons for this, just say that in "Water Margin", Song Jiang has Gongsun Sheng and Fan Rui; Tian Hu has Qiao Daoqing and Ma Ling; Wang Qing has Li Zhu and Kou Wei; Fang La has Bao Daoyi and Zheng Biao ; The Song Dynasty had Lin Lingsu and Gao Lian; the Liao State had He Chongbao.

But do Xixia and Jin have mages?If not, then why the Northern Song Dynasty was destroyed, the Liao Kingdom was also destroyed, the four major bandits Fang La, Song Jiang, Tian Hu and Wang Qing were all destroyed, but Xixia was not destroyed?Instead, the Kingdom of Jin ruled north of the Yangtze River?

Bai Sheng doesn't know the reason, but what is certain is that even if some countries and armed forces have mages, they cannot dominate the world based on this.

Therefore, Bai Sheng also didn't think that he could destroy Xixia only by relying on artillery and the two monks Fan Rui and Ma Ling, so he took the time to fight a blitzkrieg.

Only by occupying the territory in the northwestern region of Hengshan can he be regarded as gaining a firm foothold in this game.

In this blitz, Yinzhou will be the foundation on which he will continue.

He kept the 2 horses under Tian Hu's men who had come over for refuge. Of course, they were not used to eating for nothing. At the same time, they were not used to launch an attack, but to defend the city.

First defend the base area of ​​Yinzhou, and then go to capture other fortresses and fortresses. When one is captured, some people will be allocated to defend it. It is still a little nervous to use [-] tent troops to defend the castle that was originally defended by [-] infantry in Xixia. .

Therefore, he asked the swordsmen from Mangdang Mountain to ask whether the other party would surrender before beheading them. It would not be too late if they refused to surrender in a deadly battle. He did not intend to exchange these heads with Da Song for military merits and rewards.

For those soldiers who surrendered, they were directly broken up and mixed among the [-] defenders to enrich the future defense force.The treatment for these Xixia soldiers is not to issue weapons for the time being, and let them do some work to build bridges.

Of course, what these 2 people need to do most at this time is to fight the fire. Yinzhou City has become their own, how can they let it burn down?If the food and grass in the city were burned, what would the tens of thousands of people eat?

This night's surprise attack was in full swing. Before dawn, Bai Sheng commanded the troops to accurately lay down 73 fortresses according to Zhou Cheng's defense map of the Western Xia garrison.One tenth of the Hengshan area was occupied between the Song and Xia armies.

It has to be mentioned that Zhou Cheng made great contributions to this battle. Under the protection of the false imperial decree given by Bai Sheng, he had already brought tea and delicacies produced in the Song Dynasty to the Northwest, and developed in the Hengshan area. There was a crazy big dump.

The tea leaves are sold for the price of cabbage, why don't Xixia soldiers and civilians treat him like a guest?No matter where he goes, he is a very popular presence, and it is too simple to draw a defense map.

In addition, the weather was also beautiful. It was covered with dark clouds all night, but not a single drop of rain fell. If a moderate rain did fall, Bai Sheng's artillery unit could only watch the fun under tarpaulins.

At daybreak, in the Jinglue Mansion of Yanzhou City, Zhong Shidao received a report from Mizhizhai, saying that God sent down divine punishment on the west bank of the Wuding River last night, and divine thunder struck Yinzhou City to catch fire.

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Hearing the news that Xixia Yinzhou was punished by thunder, Master Zhong Dao was overjoyed, "You will kill yourself if you do many injustices! People are doing it, and the sky is watching. The ancients are honest and do not deceive me!"

All the generals swept away the sleepiness of the whole night, each applauded and congratulated the master.

Zhong Shidao suddenly changed his face and asked, "Where did Di Lie's [-] troops go?"

The messenger from Mizhi Village was stunned and said in a daze, "I didn't see it."

Zhong Shidao was furious immediately, 2 people are in Hengshan Wuding River, you actually said you didn’t see it, could it be that these people have escaped from the earth?

"Why don't you hurry up to investigate?" The command was not the messenger of Mizhi Village, but the generals under him.

With the return of scouts one after another, Zhong Shidao became increasingly aware of the weirdness of the situation.

Since yesterday morning, the troops outside the city have been marching towards Hengshan one after another, and they have already entered the mountainous area in the afternoon. Even though it was pitch black last night and they could not be seen in various military villages, they should be able to be seen after dawn, right?

However, the returns of these scouts were exactly the same - all the areas in the Wuding River were searched, and no one was found!