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Chapter 1074: The battle to seize the city with the lowest casualty rate in the history of the Song Dynasty (second update)
Chapter 1083

After six rounds of concentrated volleys from Yuanyou's trebuchet, the south gate of Xiazhou City, the Daozhi Office of the Liao Kingdom, finally could no longer be maintained. With the continuous rumbling sound, the entire south gate collapsed. The towering city gate tower and the female wall disappeared, and what was replaced was a section of nearly ten feet long ruins that had already collapsed.

Seeing this scene, Zhong Shidao made a quick decision, and instead ordered the eight Yuanyou catapults to readjust their direction and start bombarding the city wall that was close to the collapsed position.

At this time, General Liu, whose eyes were already red, took the lead, leading the 1000 yuan Youjia soldiers as the guide, and behind the 1000 yuan Youjia soldiers were a full five thousand elite soldiers of the Song Dynasty.

"Beat the drum! Attack Xiazhou!" Zhong Shidao drew out the saber at his waist, pointed obliquely in the direction of Xiazhou and shouted loudly.Dozens of big drums were sounded in an instant, and the passionate drumbeats were so exciting.

Countless Song warriors roared, brandishing their weapons, and charged towards the collapsed city wall.

The Liao army on the city wall wanted to intercept the Song army from both sides in vain. Unfortunately, the Yuanyou trebuchet once again mercilessly demonstrated how terrifying their existence was.

The strange and mournful whistling sound of the porous stone projectile thrown by Yuanyou's trebuchet was like the shrill laugh of the devil from hell, ruthlessly destroying everything in its way.

The parapet on the top of the city, the iron armor, the flagpole, and the flesh, nothing can stop them from advancing and rolling.Wherever they pass, there will only be a straight passage, and the surroundings will be full of broken flesh, broken bones, armor-breaking rocks...

1000 Yuan Youjia, an elite soldier, encountered only extremely weak resistance, and then staggered to the highest point of the landslide ruins.

Under the cover of a few elites, the flag bearer raised the flag high, roaring that the Great Song Wansheng, countless brave and fearless soldiers of the Great Song passed them, and continued to move forward, forward!
"Great, my Great Song Xijun..." Looking at the tigers of the Great Song Dynasty rushing towards the gap, the corners of Zhong Shidao's eyes became wet, and he murmured in a low voice, the next moment, Zhong Shidao was so high raised his sword. "Excellent, my Great Song Tiger is invincible!"

The main general of the Liao army in the city died suddenly, and many generals were also buried under the stone bullets of Yuanyou's catapult. I saw with my own eyes that the towering and strong South Gate of Xiazhou City was easily destroyed by the Song army into ruins.

Countless Xiazhou young and strong, mustered up their courage, struggled to break free, even pushed down the soldiers of the Liao Army in front of them, and fled towards the city one after another.

Being able to survive in front of a weapon that cannot be resisted by human beings, such an action became their only choice.Similarly, the morale of the Liao army officers and soldiers was like the winter snow meeting the bright summer sun. Within a short time, the ice and snow melted, and they no longer had fighting spirit and courage.

When the No. 1 Liao army soldier dropped the weapon in his hand and ran towards the distance, more and more Liao army officers and soldiers ran towards the city one after another.

The officers and soldiers of the Liao army in other directions had not even been able to feel the atmosphere of war, but the Liao army on the south side of Xiazhou City had already begun to collapse.

Especially when a huge stone bomb crossed the city wall and smashed through several houses, the people of the Liao Kingdom in the city also began to flee frantically towards the north of the city. Completely broke down.

An hour later, Zhong Shidao stood at the southern city wall that had not yet collapsed, looked at the ruins of the southern city gate section of the city wall, and then set his sights on Yuanyou's catapult position, which was more than eighty feet away. .

At this moment, Zhong Shidao's expression seemed very calm, but his heart was already turbulent, even though he originally attached great importance to these long-range weapons that Wang Jinglue attached great importance to, but it was not until this time that he realized that his own importance was not important to him. As far as Yuanyou trebuchet is concerned, it is still too contemptuous.

Even if Xiazhou is not an earthen city like Wuyan Ancient City, even if Xiazhou City's walls are stronger, but in front of the terrifying power of the eight Yuanyou riprap stones on the opposite side, it is more than ten feet thick, and the outside The wall is made of solid bricks, and the solid wall lined with rammed earth also looks so fragile and pitiful.

Originally, Zhong Shidao predicted that within about a day, the southern city wall of Xiazhou could be destroyed, but in the end, from the first stone bomb flying out to the time when the Song tiger took over the entire Xiazhou, the total cost It took less than three hours.

This can be regarded as the easiest and shortest siege battle he has experienced in the past twenty years.In the face of the destructive power of the Yuanyou catapult, the soldiers of the Liao Army had already lost their fighting spirit, so that the attacking Da Song Huben did not encounter any powerful counterattack at all.

Except for dozens of unlucky ghosts who were injured, none of the [-] Song troops died in the battle. This is definitely the battle to seize the city with the lowest casualty rate in the history of the Song Dynasty.

At this moment, the eight Yuanyou catapults were surrounded by five thousand elite Song soldiers in the center, and dozens of craftsmen were dismantling the eight Yuanyou catapults.

After the dismantling of the eight Yuanyou stone catapults that have made great contributions is completed, they will be sent to Xiazhou City and then used to defend the city.

"Tell General Zhang, if the Yuanyou Trebuchet Battalion is missing a part, or if those Liao people approach within twenty feet, the general will kill his head. Do you understand?"

Hearing the words of the teacher, and recalling the scene of Yuanyou's stone-throwing machine showing its power just now, the soldiers of the Song Army who were present at the moment understood more and more why Mr. Wang, the appeasement envoy of North Shaanxi Road Economic Strategy, would treat this thing like this. attention and caution.

"Don't worry, my lord, the final general will definitely not let those Liao people and spies get any chance to get close." General Zhang, who was in charge of the safety of Yuanyou's catapult machine, immediately promised loudly with awe in his heart.

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The sound of fighting in Sanchakou Fort is still going on. The Song army above the city and the Liao army below the city are all attacking each other desperately. The rocks, rolling logs, ladders, and occasionally the roaring gunpowder bombs are all showing their strength. Depending on the intensity of the battle.

But at this time, Yelu Datun, who was supposed to be supervising the battle, was in the tent of the Chinese army, with a livid face, staring at the messenger who prostrated himself on the ground.

And the dozens of generals in the military tent couldn't help but peek at each other, their faces looked very ugly.

They never imagined that Song State would react so quickly. They were attacking Sanchakou Fort on their side. Over there, Zhong Shidao, a well-scheming general of Song Dynasty, actually gathered in the army of Hedong Dao in Daliao. At the border, they quietly crossed the raging Wuding River, and tens of thousands of Song troops gathered at the Xiazhou city.

"Song Dog is really despicable and shameless. It is clear that they want to invade my Daliao, but they have never had a chance, so they use such means as pouring sewage on my soldiers and soldiers at Andingbao to lure our army to march." A Liao general , couldn't help patting his thigh angrily and said angrily.

(End of this chapter)