Chapter 380 Prince Meat Grinder (Nine)

Yeli met a beggar and ordered the two of them to carry back, peel off their clothes and roast the fire. He didn't know what was going on, so he reached out and pulled the rope out, and the rope was wet. (-< Shuhai Pavilion >-Shuhaige Dot com)

Where did he stand in a daze? Is there groundwater?

There must be water underground, and the Shimenchuan is nearby. How can there be no groundwater? Problem: Now when the water level of Shimenchuan reaches its lowest level, even if there is groundwater, it will leak into Shimenchuan. I am digging tunnels, but the tunnels are not dug deep. What water is coming?

Zhang Yuan reacted faster than him, snatched over and pulled another rope. The rope was pulled out, and it was also damp, and there was obviously water inside, but the person didn't have time to escape and was blocked inside.

If you drag it, there is no water here. People inside are digging. When they see the rope being taken away, they feel very strange, so they say to their companions: "Go out and take a look."

Continue to dig forward. Ye Li met the order given by a beggar. He must dig under the enemy camp before breakfast. He must work hard. He felt something was wrong. He was far away. Even if there was water, it was frozen. It was as hard as the original soil, but when it was close to the source of water, the soil became soft. Unexpectedly, it was good to be soft and could be dug faster. Two hammers went down. Wow, the water rushed in, and the soil was getting bigger and bigger, quickly filling the tunnel. The companion who came out to ask was almost at the entrance of the cave. He heard a sound behind it and couldn't see clearly inside. He was stunned for a while. The water quickly spread. The water knew it and rushed out. He fled very quickly, but was still flooded by the water. Climbed out, just like the two of them at the beginning, his whole body was trembling with coldness and shouting for help.

Yeli Yuqi also woke up and pulled the other two authentic ropes. Only one authentic person was saved. All the other two authentic soldiers disappeared in the authentic tunnel and would never come out.

Where did Zhang Yuan stand in a daze? He got up early in the morning to prepare for a three-dimensional attack. Who knew that in this situation, would it be a blow to morale?

He looked at the wall of Shimen Village in a daze.

It is not tall or thick, but I feel vaguely stronger than the Weizhou city walls.

Zheng Lang sat on the top of the city and looked funny.

These methods are really clumsy.

Until now, Zheng Lang saw the clumsiness of the Xixia people and had some inexplicable fantasies in his heart.

There was a famous general in Xixia, and Ji Lasiyi once left Genghis Khan helpless, and the others were just the same, including the murdered Shan Yuweiliang, the Yeli brothers who fought with him, Li Yuanhao, and later the Mozang Epang.

They can only be called lucky and very far away from the road to famous generals.

So Zheng Lang thought that these two battles would greatly damage Yuan Hao's vitality. Can he send troops to conquer Lingzhou once and completely disintegrate the Western Xia?

Just thinking about it, the actual difficulties are many, the tragic domestic system and the Khitan in the distance can become uncertain factors. Thinking of this, I couldn't help but sigh. In a year or two, it's time to go back and have a good talk with Zhao Zhen.

Then he said, "You know who that person is?"

Zhang Yuan Buli met the beggars. Zheng Lang had seen it several times and finally doubted it in his heart.

Shake your head left and right.

Li Lingming could know him, but he was hoping that he would say it? So Zheng Lang said: "Send scouts to investigate, who is this Han person?"

It may not be Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao. There are several high-ranking Han officials in Western Xia, but these two are the most hateful.

Turn your head and pay attention to the situation again.

Yeli Yuqi changed his tactics and launched a stone throwing machine. The Xixia stone throwing machine was praised by countless descendants and was named the whirlwind cannon.

In fact, the Song Dynasty was the real whirlwind cannon. The Xixia people's whirlwind cannon is just a copycat version of the Song Dynasty whirlwind cannon. Even if the whirlwind cannon cannon cannon be turned to rock throwing, its power is not the largest among the Song Dynasty stone throwing machines, and the largest one is the tiger squat cannon.

Compared to the stone thrower? Zheng Lang laughed.

Start the competition and let the Xixia people get close to each other.

A general placed the whirlwind cannon and was about to launch the stone bullet when Zheng Lang shouted: "Let it go."

It was not placed on the top of the city wall, but it started to launch directly inside the city wall. Hundreds of huge stones were smashed down, some of which were large and fell on a small stone thrower in Xixia and directly bombarded into pieces.

After two rounds, all the counterfeit whirlwind cannons in Xixia were silent.

Zheng Lang looked very carefully. Some stone throwers had a long range, but their shortcomings were very serious. There were many people operating, the launch speed was slow, and the accuracy was seriously insufficient. When each stone bullet was fired, it was like buying a welfare lottery, and it was purely based on luck to win the prize.

He sighed, let alone the stone bullet, the power of carrying a gunpowder bag may be limited.

But after two rounds of battle, Yeli Yuqi had to order to retreat again.

In fact, he had no idea about how to attack the city. Anyway, he felt good, so he brought a group of people to try and see which one was better. So he made another move. The soldiers pushed the car and tied the car with wood tied to it. This was the original collision of Xixia. Zheng Lang couldn't bear to see it. I don't know how the Xixia people siege equipment developed to the point where it was, but now it really can't be watched.

In the capital, he deliberately looked at the weapons of the Song Dynasty, including some siege equipment, such as siege cars, wooden house-shaped, four-wheel or six-wheeled wheels, outer Mongolian cowhide or sheepskin, a baffle on the outermost side, with a ring ladder inside, and a wooden bridge on the uppermost floor. The soldiers pushed the siege cars to the edge of the city wall, put down the wooden bridge, and directly walked from the wooden bridge to the enemy's head.

It seems to be very powerful, but in fact, it is not the case that it is most afraid of fire attack. It is to push more than a dozen siege cars to approach the enemy's city wall and cannot occupy the city head. Unless hundreds of siege cars push to the enemy's city wall together, thousands of people will walk out of the siege cars and enter the enemy's city head at the same time.

That is impossible, it is too expensive and inconvenient to carry.

There was also a crash. Like the Xixia people at this time, there was a huge wooden stake, but the head was wrapped with iron leaves to make it sharper. There was also a roof-type protective cover on it, covering the wet animal skin to prevent the flame from burning. At the same time, there was a hanging ring on the top. The soldiers went to the city wall to use the huge swing force of the hanging ring to sway, and operated the iron tip to hit the wood and hit the enemy's city wall.

This is the real crash, or it cannot be overestimated. The defender can throw big rocks from above and burn the rolling oil. If there is no oil, you can boil it with water and pour it down, or throw it with burning grease on the crash and burn it to destroy it.

There were, but not many of them. It evolved from the weapons of the Tang Dynasty at the beginning of the founding of the country. Later, they were sloppy and used these siege weapons to attack who would attack? Attack the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun?

Don't scare Lu Yijian to death.

Besides, cloud ladders are not ladders used by the people, nor are they ladders like Xixia. Some weigh more than 1,000 kilograms. There are four wheels below, and the largest ones are six wheels, equipped with anti-shields, winches, grab hooks, and pulleys, which are a pair of wheels. When you climb the city, you can slide up and down along the wall of the city wall, and there are also turntables in the middle that can be connected and folded. In addition to this large cloud ladder, the Song Dynasty also had flying ladders, bamboo flying ladders, tiptoe ladders, etc.

But have you used it?

It seems that when the five armies attacked Xixia later, a small city could not be captured. Where did these extremely powerful siege equipment go?

have no idea.

I took my thoughts back and looked down. Even if it was a car crash, I couldn't let it really hit. I couldn't take the walls of my own village seriously, and it would collapse in just a few strokes.

As we got closer, we saw that there were only a dozen steps, some Xixia soldiers began to run regardless of the arrows and rain on the top of the city, so that they could exert greater strength and hit the wall of the village. Zheng Lang gave an order.

Some small tubes stretched out on the head of the city, and behind it was an iron pot. There was a large cork on the iron pot. First, uncover the iron pot and put the oil in it. The two of them squeezed the cork, and the oil was fired out from the bamboo tube at the mouth of the iron pot. The principle is similar to a high-pressure water gun. It is not as powerful as a high-pressure water gun, but standing at the head of the city, it can shoot forty or fifty meters away. It is still a heavy instrument, invented by Zheng Lang.

The boiling oil was poured and shot, and it was a little cooler, and there was a high temperature of hundreds of degrees Celsius. The screams came again. However, it was not over. Then the Song army shot rockets from the top of the city. After the boiling oil sprayed, the wooden and small wooden cars were hit, and thick boiling oil was stuck on the enemy's leather robe. The flames rose.

The soldiers of Xixia stopped hitting the city, and even ignored the arrow feathers shot from the top of the city, rolling on the ground in pain.

There is another way. If you raise a dirt mountain, Ishikawa Pass is not tall. If you raise five or six small dirt mountain to shoot, the effect of the city wall will be greatly reduced immediately. It is important to enter the deep winter, and the soil is soft and hard. Thinking of five or six dirt mountains that overwhelm the city wall, you will never be able to do it for more than ten days. Can Yeli meet a beggar wait for more than ten days?

This attack failed, which hit the morale of Xixia.

Yeli Yuqi stood in front of the three armies, a little dazed, and tried it, ladders, hooks, digging tunnels, stone throwers, and crashing cars. In addition to these methods of siege, what other methods can siege the city? Could it be that you can grow your wings and fly into the city?

You can also fly into the city. On the other side of Ishikawa Village is leaning on a low mountain. If the northwest wind is strong, there is a way to make the Xixia people turn their wings. Unfortunately, the wild people don’t know if they meet beggars.

He was so angry that he ordered the general attack.

No more tests, use all you can.

Tens of thousands of people went out together, and densely packed with various equipment to the city wall.

"It should have been like this long ago." Zheng Lang said.

With the Xixia people's ability to attack cities, how can they think of winning by cleverness?

The truth is the only meaning of one force to reduce ten times.

Yeli met Qiqi and didn’t know? He knew, but how many soldiers would be sacrificed in this way?

The bloody battle began. From morning to evening, there were casualties on both sides, and the Xixia people were even worse, leaving at least more than a thousand bodies.

Some results have also been achieved. Many city walls were damaged, and two even collapsed. Fortunately, the area was not large and blocked with fences.

Yeliyu sent someone to shout: "Let's collect the body."

Not only are the corpses, but also their respective weapons, you also need to pick up some.

Zheng Lang said: "Okay."

Both sides sent people to clean up the bodies of comrades under the city wall. Song soldiers were young, but some Song soldiers fell off the city wall after they died. Putting aside the bloody battlefield, this scene in the evening was very warm.

Night fell quietly, the Xixia military camp began to rest, and the Song army could not rest, so they had to repair the destroyed village wall.

Zheng Lang looked at the cold moon and said, "Prepare to lift water."

The soldiers brought each bucket, fed water from the trench, and poured it on the ground outside the city.

When Yeli Yuqi saw that he was anxious and could not drink it, he ordered the soldiers to take turns to launch an attack.

When attacking, defend, watering and defending.

After more than an hour, Yeli had to withdraw his troops and had no way to attack again. In the middle of the winter month, the weather was very cold at night, and all the water poured on the ground began to freeze. His subordinates couldn't stand firmly on the upper side, so how could they attack the city? Although the thin ice that had been trampled into mud by the soldiers, many soldiers were also wet with water. They were trembling with cold, and they didn't have the courage to attack the city.

Han Qi said excitedly: "This method is good. Can it be poured on the city wall?"

There was such a battle example in the past, when the water was poured onto the city wall, the next day it turned into a solid and smooth ice wall, and the enemy sighed.

Zheng Lang shook his head and said, "No. There are certain conditions for this kind of battle example. The effect of the whole stone wall is not significant. If the water cannot be stored, it will not freeze. The earth wall can store water and turn into ice. However, after the weather returns to warm, the water in the wall mud becomes ice. After the water in the wall mud becomes ice, it will squeeze the wall mud, and the city wall will become stronger and melt into water again. The volume will be reduced and then evaporated. The city wall will leave many gaps. As long as the enemy attacks again and hits a few lightly, the city wall will collapse on a large scale. It doesn't matter to Shichuan Village. This village will also be destroyed after the war, but this winter is not cold this morning and melts in the afternoon. In just two days, the walls will not be crispy, and the fighter jets will not arrive so quickly, and Shichuan Village will be in danger."

"I see."

"This is the study of matter. Alas, there is no time. Your Majesty told me that I would write about this study of matter. Now I don't even have time to write about benevolence and righteousness. If I have time to write about the study of matter, I will write about the study of matter." After that, Zheng Lang ordered to continue to splash water.

Gradually, the ice layer on the ground became thicker and thicker, and some water slid into the distance, making it look like a huge and smooth mirror within thirty steps on the west side of the city wall.

Yeli Yuqi looked at the mirror getting bigger and bigger, and was speechless.

It's dawn and there is no way to attack.

The Song army calmly repaired the city walls while having dinner, and then pointed at the Xixia army with laughter.

Yeli came to the beggar and pulled Zhang Yuan out and said, "Zhang Zhongshu, are you knowledgeable and talented, can you solve it?"

What is knowledgeable and talented? That is to fool the people of Xixia. Zhang Yuan looked at it and started a difficult situation and said hesitantly: "The ice will melt in the afternoon, but it will not melt clean. In the evening, the Song people will water it again, day after day, and they will never want to break through this village."

Where is it? It’s just the water in the trench. After five or six nights, the trench will dry up. But Zhang Yuan and Yeli Yuqi don’t know. Yeli Yuqi asked again: “Is there no way to crack it?”

"Chop wood and roast it."

What is this?
To be continued...