Back to the Song Dynasty as a tyrant

yes!Da Xia has been getting stronger these years, but what about Da Song?

Bianjing’s detailed work has sent one after another reform and new policy measures of Zhao Guan’s family, but we are addicted to the trade with Da Song, gradually gaining a sense of psychological superiority, and think again and again that Da Song will be in Zhao Guan’s house Toss the next problem.

Brother Li Cha stood up and walked to the front yard. The leaves were blowing in the wind, and winter was coming.

"Your Highness, although the Song Army has sent another army from the south, we must hurry up and defend now!" Ning Keren said hastily, "How many soldiers and horses are there in Hongzhou now?"

Brother Li Cha came back to his senses, he closed his eyes and took a deep breath to dispel the disappointment in his heart, and forced himself to regain his state.

"Don't worry, we have been overwhelmed by the Song army's offensive for the past month. I admit that I was a little anxious before, but now the Song army's strategy is very clear. Liu Kai attacked Shizhou and Xiazhou to contain the enemy. Youzhou, south of Jingyuan Road, another large army will be dispatched northward, aiming at the Hongzhou defense line, and Weizhou may also face the attack of the Song army."

Having said that, Ning Keren became even more anxious, and almost jumped up on the spot, he yelled strangely: "Prince Jin! What should we do now!"

"Soldiers are coming to block the water and cover the earth!" Brother Li Cha's eyes became serious, "The Song army will either attack Hongzhou, Longzhou, or both at the same time. Longzhou is mountainous and easy to defend but difficult to attack. Hongzhou is flat , the main force of the Song army will definitely attack Hongzhou."

"Then what do we do now?"

"This king will personally lead [-] elite troops to meet the main force of the Song army!" Brother Li Cha said.

Brother Li Cha didn't know that at this moment, Zhao Ning's army had already arrived at the city of Hongzhou.

Of course, Li Shifu's army has also arrived in Longzhou.

Song Jun is one step ahead, step by step.

Although Brother Li Cha had fully understood Zhao Guan's real intentions and knew Zhao Guan's strategic deployment, but at the tactical level, he did not expect that the Song Army was far beyond his expectations.

That afternoon, the soldiers at the head of Hongzhou City saw the mighty Song Army appearing on the plain in front of them.

Countless footsteps sounded like the tide lapping on the shore during high tide.

Banners and flags cover the sky, and there are so many people that there is no end in sight at a glance.

In front of an army of [-], Hongzhou City was like a small boat in a sea of ​​anger.

Soon Hongzhou guard Xifeng Gu Ye received the news that the soldiers of the Song army were approaching the city. He put on iron armor and led his men all the way to the top of the city. When he saw the Song army under the city, he couldn't help frowning.

"General, what should we do now?"

"Immediately send someone to Youzhou to spread the news." Xifeng Gu Ye said, "If we gather the elites of the city, I will fight the Song Army to see what the Song Army can do!"

"But the other party has hundreds of people than us."

"As long as the Song Army can't take Hongzhou City within a day, King Jin of Youzhou will send reinforcements over. Fighting is not about the number of people. Now that I have a large number of elites in Daxia, it's time to shine! I will never Like a trash like Li Yu!"

"Yes!"

"Your Majesty, do you need to send an envoy to persuade you to surrender?"

"Don't waste time, first bombard with heavy artillery, and the opponent will soon know how to choose."

Sun Fu said, "What if the opponent doesn't surrender?"

Zhao Ning looked at Hongzhou City in front of him, and said lightly: "Then kill without mercy."

Hongzhou belonged to Wuyan City in the Tang Dynasty. It was one of the five cities built by Li You, the governor of the Tang Dynasty, and it was also the only way to Xiazhou.

In other words, as long as Zhao Ning wins Hongzhou, he and Xiazhou will be able to encircle Youzhou in the middle.

Once Youzhou is taken, Xixia's Hengshan defense line will completely collapse.

This is fatal to Xixia.

"Prepare heavy artillery!"

Orders were passed down, orderlies on horseback, waving banners.

When the officers of the artillery battalion saw the flag, they knew it was time to go first.

"Prepare heavy artillery!"

The people from the engineering battalion in the back took out the large equipment, and some strong soldiers carried the big logs over and started to assemble them on the spot.

There are a total of twenty heavy artillery pieces.

Not long after, everything was assembled.

The crossbowmen and infantry behind were all ready for the Xixia people to rush out at any time.

But the Xixia people did not rush out for the time being, after all, it is an idiot to have a city and not defend it.

Next, big stones were sent up.

Zhao Ning sat on the highest handsome platform, watching the scene in front of him calmly.

It is obviously not as high as the top of the city, but it seems to be overlooking the whole city.

Chapter 1043 Dimensionality Reduction Strike (Part [-])

"Report! Shangguan, the shells are ready!"

"Fire, no need to ask for instructions."

"Yes!"

The orderly waved the flag.

Then, following the angry roars of the trebuchet, stone cannons poured with kerosene pierced the sky, dragging raging flames, and smashed towards the city wall of Hongzhou City.

Looking at the twenty flames falling from the sky, the Xixia soldiers at the head of the city of Hongzhou instinctively raised their shields.

The first heavy cannon just hit the battlements, smashing the rammed battlements to pieces, the flames danced around with the splash of the fire oil wrapped on it, the gushing heat waves and the broken battlements hit the surrounding people back As soon as he retreated, he let out a burst of exclamation.

The heavy cannon gave a shock to the battlements, and then fell.

But it shook the power of the city in an instant, deterring the Xixia soldiers nearby.

Before everyone could react, the rest of the heavy artillery came down one after another.

Several of them hit the wall of the city, and the people at the top of the city only felt their feet tremble.

Several more hit the shields of Xixia soldiers on the tower, making a dull sound.

Just think about how terrifying the force would be if a stone the size of the heads of four adults hit it from 200 meters away.

The one at the front was the worst, the shield in his hand was smashed and deformed, the bones in his arm were split open in an instant, pushed back by a huge force, wrapped in the middle, his internal organs were dislocated, and blood was coming out of his mouth.

The crowd behind was shaken away.

It was like a grown-up strong man holding a big iron ball and smashing it hard. The iron ball hit the soft soil and splashed a pile of mud.

All the remaining heavy artillery smashed into the city and fell near the tower.

Some fell on houses, and a large piece was smashed into pieces, and some smashed into the crowd behind the city wall, and the people who were hit were bloody and bloody.

What was even more frightening was that the shell bounced twice on the ground, rolled forward for a certain distance, crushed more people to death, and screamed continuously.

The fire waves were rolling, exuding a burnt smell.

The shell weight of the heavy artillery is several times that of the tiger squatting artillery shell, and the range is similar, and the energy is naturally greater. It is the pinnacle of siege weapons in the cold weapon era.

This wave of heavy artillery went down, and the morale of the Xixia people was greatly shaken.

Xi Feng Gu Ye also trembled in his heart, and said, "This is the Song Army's heavy artillery that was reported by the Jianing Army Division of Youzhou some time ago?"

There was a commotion from the Xixia soldiers at the head of the city, and they barely calmed down under the scolding of the officers.

Xi Feng Gu Ye vaguely watched the Song soldiers in front begin to refill the shells, his face darkened involuntarily.

But he didn't make up his mind to make a decision right away.

In this situation, it is difficult for a person to make a decision immediately, and it is very human that can do it.

The Xixia people at the top of the city gradually settled down, and the Xixia people in the city also slowly recovered.

But as soon as everything was restored, the Song Army's second round of heavy artillery came one after another, which once again had a huge impact on Hongzhou's defense line.

Hongzhou is a city wall of rammed earth, not to mention this kind of earth rammed, even the brick walls may not be able to withstand the attack of such heavy artillery.

The blow this time was even more terrifying, except that Xixia soldiers were thrown away, and cracks like spider webs appeared near the city wall where they were hit.

Xifeng Guye finally realized that this could not go on like this, he immediately turned around, ran towards the steps of the city wall, and shouted loudly: "Assemble the elite, go out of the city to fight!"

There is not much advantage in defending the city, and if the Song army is allowed to attack like this, the morale of the army will soon be completely disintegrated.

The horns of the Xixia people's assembly sounded.

The city gate also opened quickly.

The officers began to organize groups of soldiers out of the city.

Sitting on the high platform, Zhao Ning saw this scene and said with a smile, "I am finally willing to come out, prepare the artillery and aim at the gate of the city."

"Yes!"

The messenger immediately went to deliver the order.

The Song Army's artillery battalion began to prepare, and tiger squatting cannons were pushed up.

At the gate of the city, a group of Xixia elites had just assembled, armed with armor, ready to fight the Song army head-on, but unexpectedly, more than 100 iron cannons came rushing forward.

Rotten flesh and broken bones flew across the scene, and the formation of two thousand vanguards that Gu Yeming had lined up suddenly collapsed.

Some iron cannons even jumped over the crowd and directly bombarded into the city gate, killing two people.

The city was in a state of panic, and before they could figure out what happened, the forwards of the Song Army who had been dormant for a long time quickly pushed forward, pierced through the defeated Xixia forwards, and rushed straight into the city.

The Xixia people were completely panicked, and someone shouted: "Quickly close the city gate! Hurry up!"

Someone also shouted: "Don't close it, there are still people outside!"

But now the Xixia people, who were dominated by panic emotions, didn't care so much, and the city gate was quickly closed with a bang.

The desperate shouts of the Xixia soldiers outside did not get a response from inside the city. The occurrence of this scene further shook the morale of the Xixia army in the city.

"Your Majesty, the western thieves have closed the city."

"I saw it!"

On the other side, Sun Fu shouted anxiously: "Why don't you go up to the cavalry? Just use the cavalry to charge up, and you will be able to charge in before the city is closed! How stupid!"

He stomped his feet anxiously, wishing he could ride in by himself.

Zhang Bofen on the side muttered: "The cavalry rushed in, and the door was closed, so the cavalry was caught in the urn!"

Sun Fu didn't seem to hear it, and walked around in a hurry.

Yang Yizhong said below: "Your Majesty, we have gathered and scattered a lot of Western bandits, so we should take advantage of the victory and pursue them!"

"Then continue to use heavy artillery. The western thieves didn't want to open the city to fight, so they smashed the city wall down. Let's go in through the collapsed city wall!"

"Yes!"

The Song army continued to bombard with heavy artillery, and there were roars from the top of the city.

The Xixia army in the city was terrified, and Xifeng Guye was also a veteran who had fought for many years, but this was the first time he encountered such a scene.

You can't defend the city, you can't go out of the city to fight in the field, and you can only stay in the city obediently.

"Defend the city first!" Xi Feng Gu Ye ordered again.

His order has more or less lost its prestige.

At first they said defending the city, and soon they said going out to fight. How long did it take, and then they said defending the city.

The battle has been fought for this sake, so let's defend it.

However, as the Song army continued to bombard it with heavy artillery, the city wall finally couldn't bear it, and it collapsed amidst screams and screams.

It was the confidence of the Xixia people that collapsed together with the city wall.

Xi Feng Gu Ye's face was miserable, he gritted his teeth and ordered: "Defend the city immediately, if the Song army enters the city, they will be killed!"

Song Jun shouted earth-shatteringly from outside the city: "Long live my emperor! Long live the Great Song!"

The sound resounded between heaven and earth.

"Send an infantry team into the city, ask the artillery battalion to assist, and the cavalry to seal off all the main roads outside the city." Zhao Ning ordered.

"Yes."

The forward infantry continued to enter the city one after another. After entering the city, he bombarded the Xixia soldiers on the street in front of him with artillery. After they were scattered, the infantry advanced quickly.

Chapter 1044 Annihilating Xixia’s Viable Forces (Second Change)

Entering the city, the Song army immediately began to adjust tactics according to the terrain.

Fight according to the team, each team has 50 people, equipped with three artillery.