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"Li Yongqi is also a mighty general. I have seen his son before, and he is as good as his father." Liu Qi said, "Wait for Wang Shu's reinforcements to come. As long as the follow-up reinforcements come, the crisis will be solved."

"Yes!"

In the early morning of May [-]th, it was still sultry, and the thick stratus clouds seemed to be pressing down in the sky.

The Xixia army deployed and spread out outside the city.

The sound of war drums broke the tranquility of the morning.

Early in the morning, the Song army from Mizhizhai had already arrived at the city in batches. They were wearing armor, holding shields, thunderstorms, fire oil, and barbed wire.

A shout suddenly came from the Xixia army: "Surrender without killing!"

Although it is a party language, it is full of murderous aura and full of momentum, echoing between heaven and earth.

After half an hour, the horns of the Xixia army began to sound.

Groups of Xixia elite infantry marched neatly towards Mizhi Village, the ground seemed to be trembling under their feet.

The horns of the Song Army also sounded from the top of Mizhi Walled City.

Teams of crossbowmen appeared behind the battlements.

The battle of Mizhizhai, which decided the sixth Song Xia battle, kicked off.

Chapter 390 Bloody Battle! (first update)

In ancient times, when there were no satellites, the large armies fought mountain warfare, and strength was part of it, but it often depended on luck.

The general's marching route is the most important thing in the war. In the mountains and mountains, it is extremely difficult to detect.

In the Song and Xia Hundred Years War, both sides suffered losses in the mountainous areas.

The defensive battle has a relatively big weakness.

When the enemy attacks with highly mobile units, the defender must take into account the protection of the people's strength, because those are non-renewable productivity in a short period of time.

This will inevitably bring a certain degree of organizational delay to the defenders.

Judging from Xixia's raid on the back of the Song army, to the capture of Funing Village, and the arrival of soldiers at Mizhi Village, these two points have been confirmed.

It may also be due to the loss of the topographic map of this area, and the large number of scouts of the Song Army did not detect the Xixia people coming out of the remote mountain crevices.

However, the strategic defense adopted by the Song army in this Yinzhou battle is still Fan Zhongyan's "step by step" strategy.

That is the strategy of building a city.

Conquer Yinzhou, build a large number of walled cities around and behind Yinzhou, and connect Yinzhou with the rear.

This strategy has an extremely prominent advantage: it has a lot of room for flexibility.

The Xixia army can break through one or two fortresses. As long as they go deep and cannot penetrate the defense of the Song army in a short period of time, they may enter the encirclement of the Song army.

Fei Tingrongju obviously knew this, so after the whole army captured Funing Village yesterday, he came to Mizhi Village without stopping, and began to attack the city early in the morning.

It seems that he has the initiative, but in fact he is forced to attack the city quickly.

However, to his surprise, the city wall of Mizhi Village was much stronger than the newly built Funing Village.

The city wall of Funing Village is only more than three meters high, but the height of Mizhi Village's city wall has reached nearly six meters. The Song Army also built a turret near the tower, and built a large number of crossbow troops inside.

The height of the city wall like Funingzhai is considered to be the height of a normal small city, and the height of the outer city of Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty was only a little over six meters.

Why not build Funing village higher?

Time, people's power, and money are all limited. In the south of Yinzhou, with Mizhi Village as the center, there are a total of four villages, each of which has tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians.

It is almost impossible to build such a walled city in just over a month, and to build it high.

Only Mizhi Village was added to the original city wall, so it reached six meters.

The Xixia army was wearing iron armor, carrying a small shield in one hand, and a ladder in the other, slowly advancing towards the city wall of Mizhi Village.

"Fire the arrows!" the officer on the top of the city shouted in a rough voice.

As soon as the order was issued, all arrows were fired at once, pressing down like a violent storm.

The forward troops of the Xixia people immediately raised their shields.

The arrows shot on the iron armor, making a "ding ding" sound, just like iron rain hitting the steel plate, making countless dense metal collision sounds.

It may be that there are some inferior armors, and some Xia Jun shot and screamed and fell to the ground.

But most of the bows and arrows were blocked by shields and armor.

Xia Jun continued to move towards the city wall like a sheet of iron men.

Song Jun was shocked. When did the Xixia people have such a high armor rate?

"Use the god arm crossbow!"

The ordinary crossbowmen were immediately replaced, and the god-armed crossbows were replaced.

This time, the crossbow arrows erupting from the city pierced through the air, and even made countless sharp whistling faintly.

The divine arm crossbow arrows were terrifyingly powerful, directly piercing the Xixia people's shields, and also piercing the armor, and the sharp arrows were nailed to the bones.

Xia Jun's formation was partially chaotic, and screams suddenly rang out.

This god-armed crossbow was originally invented by the Xixia people. After being acquired by the Song army during the battle between Song and Xia, the Song Army Supervisor began to develop it frantically and mass-produce it.

This is also the reason why Zhao Ning has not launched strong gunpowder for a long time.

Because it is easy to be taken away by Jin Guo, and then buried under the city wall of Tokyo City, and then there will be Jingkang shame.

After the first wave of God Arm Crossbow ended, the second wave and the third wave followed closely, switching back and forth.

As soon as the god arm crossbow troops came out, they immediately disrupted the formation of Xixia's forward part.

However, the number of divine arm crossbows is limited, and they must be stepped on with feet, which consumes a lot of human strength.

The Xixia people continued to move forward after some confusion occurred.

Moreover, there was a steady stream of troops in the rear. Countless Xia troops in iron armor filled the open space in front of Mizhi Village, as if a large torrent of terrifying steel was rushing towards Mizhi Village.

The drums of the Xixia people began to sound intensively, cheering for the siege troops, and the Xixia army broke out in a shocking cry: "Kill! Kill! Kill!"

The voices of tens of thousands of people seemed to go straight into the sky, trying to disperse the low clouds.

Even the small animals with a radius of dozens of miles were scared and hid.

Firearms were already prepared in the city walls and turrets of the Song Army.

Not long after, the densely packed ladders of Xixia people came up.

Some were pushed down by the iron hooks, and others were immediately replenished.

This most primitive ladder was piled up densely by the Xixia people.

The quantitative change turned into a qualitative change, which made the Song army at the top of the city overwhelmed.

"Fighting fuel tank!"

"Sky Thunder!"

The god arm crossbow troops at the head of the city were immediately replaced, and the fierce oil tanks were brought up one by one and clamped on the battlements.

The people behind started to take out the Zhentianlei, ignited the fuse and threw it down.

With a loud bang, many Xia Jun who hadn't climbed the ladder were panicked, and some even turned around and ran away and knocked down their own people, who were crushed to the ground and screamed.

"French gun!"

Long iron pipes were dragged over one after another. Although the manufacture was relatively rough, they were definitely usable.

As the gunpowder was ignited, flames and pebble-like projectiles spewed out from the musket, and there were more than [-] fire dragons on the top of the city.

Xia Jun, who had just climbed more than half of it, suddenly let out a horrified scream and fell down.

Fei Tingrongju was shocked when he saw the flames on the top of the city.

Song Jun actually improved the fierce fire oil tank!

The fire spraying distance of the fierce oil tank in the past was extremely short, but now this kind of thing is several meters long.

Strictly speaking, this is a combined version of the old-fashioned musket and the burst musket. It is indeed several meters long. The soldiers stood on the top of the city, stretched the muzzle of the muzzle into the air, and the flames spewed out.

That picture is like roasting an ant colony with a lighter.

People are afraid of fire, no matter how thick armor you wear, it is impossible to overcome this psychological barrier in a short time.

As soon as Song Jun's guns came out, Xia Jun who had climbed the ladder began to fall down in batches, pressing on Xia Jun below, making countless screams, which was terrible.

Fei Tingrongju was furious when he saw it.

Song Jun actually has this kind of weapon!

If you can't pay any more, the morale of Xixia's forward troops will soon be worn down.

Suddenly, the sky darkened, and lightning flashed across the sky.

Boom boom boom...

What followed was a series of deafening thunder explosions.

The gust of wind swept over the valleys and rivers wantonly from the mountains.

Soon, the sweltering heat ended and it began to rain cats and dogs.

Chapter 391 Strong strangulation! (Second more)

Song Jun's firearms were wiped out all of a sudden, and even the prepared fierce fire oil tank could no longer be used.

Fei Tingrongju suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed loudly: "Hahaha, God help me too!"

The rain curtain instantly covered the world, and the rain hit the city wall, splashing countless splashes.

The gunpowder was wetted and dispersed.

"Take back the musket!"

The soldiers began to forcefully retract the musket.

Xia Jun's resistance suddenly disappeared without a trace.

"The fierce fire oil tank is also put in! Hurry up!"

The order of the Song army at the head of the city was suddenly disrupted.

"Continue to beat the drums and blow the horn!" Fei Tingrongju roared loudly, "The first person to go up the tower will be rewarded with a thousand guan!"

The drums of the Xixia army became more intensive in the heavy rain, and the sound of the horn seemed to penetrate the rain curtain.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

The torrential rain did not dampen the fighting spirit of the Xixia people. They shouted, and the waves of sound came down like mountains and seas, as if they were going to collapse the walls of Mizhi Village.

The Xia army below continued to attack the city!

"Get ready!" The officers of the Song army at the top of the city all looked ashen, but their voices were still as firm as iron, "Douzi crossbow is ready!"

The fifteen douzi crossbows that had been placed at the top of the city were pushed to the front of the battlements. In the heavy rain, they were like miniature tanks that had been preparing for a long time.

The rain washed over them, splashing countless raindrops.

Douzi crossbow is a kind of three-bow and eight-ox crossbow.

Historical records: There is also an iron bucket tied to the string, with dozens of regular arrows in the bucket, and every single shot can hit dozens of people. It is called the arrow of the bucket in the world, also known as the arrow of the jackdaw, and the arrows are scattered like crows. Fly too!

What do you mean?

There are dozens of arrows in the iron bucket of this thing!

And it is a bed crossbow, supported by three bows, with an extremely long range!

Before the Chanyuan alliance, the Song army shot and killed Liao army leader Xiao Darin, forcing the Liao army to sign an alliance under the city. They used a kind of bed crossbow, which was just a bow and arrow like a spear.

This thing is a rumored range of 1500 meters in later generations, comparable to the existence of sniper rifles.

How else can Boss Zhao be a money burner? There are actually fifteen such bed crossbows in Mizhi Village!

Surrounded by iron armor, soldiers with knives and axes guarded the bed crossbow.

Specially selected soldiers with a strong physique, each crossbow was pulled by dozens of such strong soldiers, and began to use all the strength of the whole body to turn the turntable.

The blue veins on the forehead popped out one by one, and they could only hear their dull roars.

The three-bow and eight-ox crossbow began to make the sound of turning, and the bowstring became tighter and tighter.