The Rise of the Song People of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 275
When Ma Teng decided to pay attention to defending the city, Li Yuanhao was in trouble. The Xixia people are brave and tough, and they are not afraid of death, but they are also nomads!
The cavalry of the nomads are sharp, and they are always unfavorable in field battles, but siege is their weakness. It is a common problem of all nomads that they are not good at siege, because before the chaos of China, nomads were the sworn enemies of farming peoples, but they never thought of occupying the Great Wall for a long time. South.

It was all about plundering enough food, grass, money, people, and women in one fight and then retreating in one blow. Therefore, the nomads at that time basically didn't need to attack the city, and they just detoured to grab things when they encountered a strong city.

It was not until hundreds of years later that the Liao people mastered the use and improvement of Han siege equipment from the Han people, and gradually changed this situation.

In the Mongolian period, the Mongols even used Western technology to improve the return gun on the principle of the catapult, and established the reputation of the world's most powerful army in Mengcheng.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty a thousand years later, the frequent use of red cannons made breakthrough achievements in siege warfare.

But now it is still the end of Han Dynasty, the traditional nomads choose not to attack the city, but the city with a low wall and plenty of oil and water. Usually there are only two ways, the first is to push the wall!

As the name suggests, the local people who were fighting grass valleys were captured and used as a shield to force the generals who defended the city. Xianbei people and early Mongols often used this method.

In particular, before returning to the cannon, the Mongols practiced this trick perfectly, used a large amount of cannon fodder to fill the city, and then stepped on the corpse of the cannon fodder to fight the enemy on the city wall to win the city. This move was the only way to win the city.

The other is galloping and shooting consumption, using super high horse galloping and shooting skills to continuously consume the defenders, and then use simple siege equipment to pile up with human lives.

On the basis of the above, the Dangxiang people invented a third method of siege. The Xixia Dangxiang people selected death squads. When attacking cities with only one-foot-high walls, they formed death squads and used super high riding skills to stand on tall war horses. Then he jumped on the city wall and fought hand to hand with the defenders.

Such miraculous siege tactics can only be done by nomads who don't take their lives seriously!
But now Pingxiang City is in Xiliang, a rare fortified city with a wall as high as two feet, not to mention jumping on a war horse at such a height, only Shi Xie sent a group of Xixia people to jump on elephants There is the possibility of jumping on the city wall.

Now Li Yuanhao is in trouble. After more than ten years of rebellion, Xiliang has long been sparsely populated. Even if the war started, the people would flee into the city. Cheng wins Pingxiang's headache.

Someone said that the party members are all cavalry, so just like other nomads in the past, just bypass the strong city and attack the hinterland of Ma Teng!
Not to mention that the Dangxiang people came here for Ma Teng's territory, that is, they are fundamentally different from ethnic groups like Xianbei. The Dangxiang people began to pay attention to the territory and wanted to grab large tracts of land, thus entering a semi-agricultural and semi-nomadic nation.

This is also the essential difference in the qualitative change of the nomads after the Five Random Chinas. Before the Five Random Chinas, the nomadic people believed that the southern territory could not be herded, and even if it was conquered, it would be useless. Site, just shoot and go back.

However, the nomadic peoples after the Five Disorders of China, as long as they entered the hinterland of the Central Plains, began to gradually Sinicize, thus learning Han culture and becoming a farming people, or a half-farming and half-nomadic people.

For example, the Liao, Jin, Xixia, etc. in history were typical semi-agricultural and semi-nomadic peoples, and the regimes established by the northern minorities in the Five Dynasties and Sixteen Kingdoms were completely Sinicized regimes, such as the former Qin Dynasty.

And it is useless to bypass Pingxiang. You must know that Xiliang warlords like Ma Teng and Han Sui are not like the warlords of the Central Plains. Although they are poor, they are all cavalry!

The consequence of bypassing Pingxiang was that the back road was cut off and Ma Teng unrestrictedly harassed the back road with cavalry and cut off supplies.

In addition, using human wall tactics is useless in Xiliang. Liangzhou is not like Youzhou. In the early days, Bingzhou was a densely populated area.

After several times of strong attacks, Li Yuanhao left hundreds of corpses each time and returned without success. Facing such a fortified city, even with a fierce general like Zan Tianwang, there was nothing he could do. After a month of confrontation like this, Li Yuanhao suddenly thought If one person plots to support Pu, only the Han can deal with the Han!

In this way, Li Yuanhao bluffed and waited for Zhang Pu, while Ma Teng defended the city and let Ma Chao attack at night from time to time, which also gave Li Yuanhao quite a headache, so the war reached a stalemate.

Until Zhang Pu came from Gaoping, he smiled when he saw Pingxiang City, and asked Li Yuanhao how many thousands of civilian husbands he wanted!And ten days!

Although Li Yuanhao didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in Zhang Pu's gourd, he still allocated it to Zhang Pu's husband.

Zhang Pu gathered together all the civilians who knew how to be carpenters, and the rest dug tunnels from the camp to Pingxiang City.

Ten days later, dozens of Lvgong cars and two rushing cars appeared in front of Li Yuanhao. A large wheel, the outermost layer is wrapped with wet cowhide, and a huge hammer is hung below it to hit the city wall.

The charging cart is specially used to attack the city gate, and the upper part should be wrapped with iron sheets, but there is no iron sheet temporarily, so it is the same to use wet cowhide instead, and a huge log below is used to hit the city gate.

Li Yuanhao was overjoyed. Sure enough, he still needed to use the Han people to deal with the Han people. With these siege tools, how can he worry about peace and prosperity!

At the same time, Li Yuanhao dispatched his elite infantry, 'Bubazi', to attack the city!
Bubazi is an elite infantry army organized by Xixia. It is composed entirely of mountain people. It is the best able to climb heights and climb slopes like walking on flat ground. It is a very difficult force.

In addition to Lv Gongche and Chongche, Zhang Pu also ordered people to dig a tunnel to Pingxiang. Zhang Pu said that as long as the eldest son attacked the city normally to attract the attention of the defenders, he waited for someone to dig a tunnel to the bottom of the city wall and use wood to support the city wall. Once the fire burns these logs, the city wall will collapse, and Pingxiang will be within reach by then!

When Ma Teng, Ma Chao, Pound and others saw dozens of huge siege vehicles and rush vehicles being slowly pushed under the city wall by groups of Xixia soldiers early the next morning, they rubbed their eyes in disbelief. Everyone realized that the arduous defensive battle had just begun, and these party members had mastered such a siege weapon.

Ma Chao immediately ask for a fight!

"Father, don't let these siege weapons get close to the city wall, you must destroy them before they reach the city wall, otherwise Pingxiang will be lost!"

(End of this chapter)