Although it was already late at night, Zhao Qiong still couldn't fall asleep. He was a big house in the study room. There were thick felt blankets on the ground, and braziers were lit around. Several candles with cups shone brightly on the room.

Full of maps and drawings, these are all obtained from scouts reconnaissance and visiting locals these days. They not only include the city's defense facilities, but also the layout of the streets, the functions and directions of various places. He sat cross-legged among them, struggling

Thinking about it, he knew that siege was the one with the most casualties and the most difficult one in all wars, and he wanted to find the most suitable tactics.

Lingzhou City was the governor of Shuofang Jiedushi during the Tang Dynasty. It was already quite large at this time. After the Western Xia occupied it in the early Song Dynasty, it was converted into a capital city, expanded it extensively, and built palaces, turning Lingzhou City into a solid city. The terrain was Liao.

The silhouette is vast and the thirty-six forts are circling thousands of miles away, and it is scattered. There are many schools, academies, and temples in the city. It is known to have eight major landscapes: Ninghe view, Yanhu view, Niuhou flying clouds, Longquan spraying jade

,The spring willows on the high bridge, the dripping water in the autumn wuzi, the morning reflection of the green gorge, and the sunset of the yellow sand.

The entire city is slightly square, composed of an outer city and an inner city. The outer city wall is more than three meters high. The main body is made of rammed earth. The outside is covered with bricks, the city tower, the urn city, the arrow tower, the corner tower, and the moat are complete with various defense measures.

There is a Yellow River Chamber in the north, and the south city has become the focus of defense. More than ten solid enemy platforms are built along the city wall. Six large and small city gates are built, with city towers built on the city gate, and an urn city outside the city gate. There is an arrow tower on the urn city.

In order to strengthen defense at the corner, a corner tower was built, with a corner tower of five feet high. The inner city was also the palace city of the past, located in the center of Lingzhou City. The structure of various facilities is similar to that of the outer city, but it is not as complete as the outer city and the strength of the city wall.

Slightly lower than the outer city.

The city wall is strong, but it does not mean that the city is unbreakable. There are many ways to attack the city, such as, hook, ladder, water, cave, protrusion, moth, chariot, carriage, carriage, hollow, rush, etc.

way.

"The city gate is a weakness!" Zhao Qi took a drawing and said to himself. On the stretched city wall, the city gate is also a weakness of guarding. The city gate is mostly made of thick wood. The outside is wrapped with iron sheet reinforced, and the rushing carts are used.

It can usually be destroyed like a scoring cone, and fire live ammunition with a rapid-fire cannon. You can also score after a few rounds.

"No!" Zhao Qi thought about it and denied the plan. There were two urns in the Lingzhou city gate. Even if you risked an arrow to break through the city gate, you would suffer major casualties, and there were two city gates inside. After entering the Toudao Gate, you would have to pay a lot of casualties.

After the vanguard entered, the Xia army would close the city gate again and kill and injure the incoming soldiers from the city wall. The price would be too high.

"What if I dig the tunnel?" Zhao Qi thought of this method. He was even more advanced than the current method. He didn't have to set up a fire to support it. He could do it just by putting some **, but he quickly refused. Lingzhou City Construction

On the ancient Yellow River continent, there is abundant groundwater and the rainy season has just passed. It is better to say that you are digging a well than digging a tunnel. Then it is hard to say.

"Only strong attack!" Zhao Qi made up his mind. Although he had to climb the city wall with arrows and rain when siege, as long as he attacked the city, the situation of defending the city would be passive and even in danger, facing the help of the people around him, and he would climb up everywhere.

If the guardian of the city cannot reasonably allocate troops. The limited space on the city wall also limits the number of troops guarding the city wall. As long as you go up the city wall and follow the road connected between the city walls, you can control the entire outer city wall.

.Open the gate of the Wengcheng and connect the army into the city.

"To get to the city wall, you have to pass the Sheep Horse City and the moat..." Zhao Qi picked out one from the many drawings on the ground and looked carefully, "The moat is about five zhang wide and four zhang deep; the Sheep Horse Wall is fifty long

The wall is one meter high and three feet thick. There are two trenches in front, two meter wide and one meter deep..."

While looking through the drawings, Zhao Qiong drew outlines on the paper, thinking about how he could use the resources he has now to solve the problem, avoid a large number of casualties, and reduce the damage to Lingzhou City. He had long thought about attacking Lingzhou.

The main force of the city must be his Hedong Army, and the first one to bear the brunt is his loyal and brave army. Lingzhou City also has an important position in the northwest. In the future, it will not only be a major border defense center, but also a first line of defense against the attack of Xixia, but also a connection.

If the important trade channels and trading centers in the East and the West are destroyed too much, they will have a great impact on their future rule, so Zhao Qi wanted to keep its prosperity as much as possible.

But he could not have occupied all good things. Thinking about the possible casualties of the siege, Zhao Qiong felt distressed. These people were carefully selected, strictly trained, and had the elites who had experienced the war. They were also the ones who were in the future.

I think that in a few years, I might have to lead this team to a broader world, follow him to conquer cities and conquer the world, and now I must make up my mind to temper it. There is still a spirit ahead.

The taller and more sturdy city of the city is standing on their way forward...

On the seventh day of the siege period issued by the Song army, the Xia army discovered that the Song army camp surrounded Nancheng moved forward, and a large number of civilians began to pile up soil about three hundred steps away from the city, and then laid them layer by layer, and then lay reeds.

After the straw was bunched, the soil was re-covered and compacted again. Due to the large number of people participating, the project progressed very quickly. By sunset, more than 20 meter-high soil platforms had been built in front of the city, but it seemed that the construction had not been completed yet. After dinner,

, countless bonfires were lit outside the city, and the villagers began to build a building again.

Looking at the earthen platforms with prototypes exposed, the Xia army gradually understood that this was the Song army building the earthen mountain. When the height of the earthen mountain reaches or exceeds the height of the city wall, as long as the archers are arranged on it, they can guard the city.

The army fired, suppressed their archers, and covered the siege troops. At the same time, it could also serve as a watchtower and reconnaissance the situation on and inside the city.

Of course, the Xia army did not want the Song army to repair the earth platform so safely to defeat him, but wanted to send troops out of the city, but found that the Song army's cavalry was cruising outside the city. Thinking about it, this might be the Song army's treacherous plan, and building a base is a fake temptation.

It was true that they went out of the city, so they took the opportunity to seize the city gate, so they gave up. They could only shoot arrows and kill the civilians, but it would be fine after a while. Their bows were too small and they could not shoot at all. They were the most

The powerful god arm bow and the bed crossbow were barely shot near the other person, and they were only a dozen steps away from touching them.

On the ninth day, it was a terrible thing. The Song army began to encircle Lingzhou City from all sides, and within two miles, the civilians had begun to clear the road to the city and transport siege equipment. The siege battle was about to begin. Outside the south city, the city was in full swing.

The Song army had already brought the artillery to the earth platform and began to name the defense facilities on the city. The first one was of course the tall and large city tower. After two rounds of test fire, more than 20 cannons fired together, and the majestic city tower

It collapsed with a bang, followed by the arrow towers, corner towers, and battle sheds built on the city walls, and the clappers raised.

After several rounds of artillery fire, the Song army seemed to be unhappy. They replaced the big iron balls with clay pots and smashed them on the city wall with crackling sounds. Then there were a few flowering bullets. The city wall instantly turned into a fire dragon, and the buildings on the city were

Most of the things are made of civil and wood, and the arrows, rolling wood, clapping boards and preparing to set fire to the Song army's grease. In order to prevent the Song army from setting fire, the felt blankets that had been poured on the city wall were burned.

All the Xia soldiers who were hiding in the city were cremated on the city wall.

"Start the timing!" Zhao Xiao, sitting on a high earth platform, said to the artillery commander Zhao Xiao.

"Yes, Prince!" Zhao Xiao immediately flipped an hourglass and started timing.

"Have you recorded all the shooting people?" Zhao Qi asked with a telescope in his eyes and looked at the top of the city.

"Don't worry, your lord, everything is recorded on the record!" Zhao Xiao nodded.

"Okay, order the Second Cannon Battalion to destroy Yangma City, to reach the point where the Xia army cannot repair it within two days!" Zhao Qi turned his target to Yangma City outside the city gate. While the artillery fire was bombarded, the civilians stepped forward to start

Rest and rectify the last section of the road leading to the moat, fill in the potholes, shovel the high ridges, and lay wooden boards in the soft areas.

"Zhao Ren, how did the siege troops train before the battle?" Zhao Zhen turned his face and asked Zhao Ren.

"Prince, now the entire army has completed pre-war mobilization and basic tactical training. Everyone has mastered the removal of firearm faults, observed targets, and carried out live ammunition shooting; the engineering battalion has mastered the essentials of line operations to pass through

Ditches and outer trenches were drilled, and now we can be proficient in the techniques of destroying obstacles, the methods of setting up trenches and smoke discharging techniques; the craftsman team has made enough siege equipment as the prince’s instructions, and now it has been transported to the camp.

, can be put into use at any time; the city-climbing commando has selected and pre-covered, transported, suspended, climbed and fighting after climbing training, and all the weapons and tools are distributed in place!" Zhao Ren

Answer.

"Zhao Ren, I am going to divide the siege troops into two routes, one route is feinted to attack the city gate, and the other route is the main force. The commando's landing location is chosen in the southeast corner. The siege troops must prepare before the artillery fire and use the artillery fire.

Time to complete the task of building trench bridges and carrying equipment. When the commando transports climbing tools to the city wall, they should make full use of the terrain and land objects to suppress the enemy's firepower with support troops..."

"Prince, the Xia army has returned to the city and started to put out the fire and repair the city-guarding equipment!" Zhao Xiao reminded the prince at this time.

"Well, it took less than a quarter of an hour, and it seems that Xia Jun has put in some effort!" Zhao Qi glanced at the hourglass, raised his telescope and looked at the city, "Zhao Xiao, at this time, the artillery camp is about to start

Second round of artillery fire attacks, covering the siege troops to the city, pay attention to the extension of the artillery fire when the siege troops are preparing to climb, firing flowering bullets into the city, preventing the Xia army from coming to the city, and buying time for the commando to climb the city; Zhao Ren, the commando

What you need to do at this time is to quickly climb the city, establish a solid support point, move to both sides and cover the large army to the city..." To be continued...
Chapter completed!