Fenghou

When Chen Qing came to the north city, Xiao Qun pointed to the battlements and said, "They suddenly appeared from here, right in front of the villain."

"They didn't use rope or steel claws?"

Xiao Qun shook his head, "No! I didn't use any tools. If I used tools, I would definitely see it."

Zheng Ping scratched his head, wondering: "The city wall is so smooth, without tools, how can they go to the city?"

Chen Qing smiled lightly, "There are many ways, such as building a ladder, or using a ladder, which is a little lower than the city wall, so you won't be discovered."

Speaking of this, Chen Qing said again: "The key is not how the opponent goes to the city, but that this is a defensive loophole. We didn't consider that the enemy army would find some warriors with high martial arts skills. We will plug this defensive loophole next. , I suggest building three horse walls outside the city, so that there will be people standing guard outside the walls, and the patrol force should be strengthened, and the soldiers must look outside when patrolling.”

Zheng Ping nodded, "Understand, I will start building the horse wall tomorrow, and increase the number of patrol soldiers in the northern city to 1000, so as to ensure that the same mistake will not happen again."

This incident also allowed Chen Qing to learn the difference between the Xixia people. Perhaps because of their weaker national power, the Xixia people prefer to use some low-cost means, such as assassination, sneak attack, etc. Give the Xixia people any chance.

As soon as Chen Qing came down from Beicheng, soldiers came to report, "Reporting to the government, the three escaped Heijintang warriors have been captured!"

Chen Qing was overjoyed, and quickly asked, "Where did you catch it?"

"It's south of the warehouse!"

Chen Qing urged his horse to run towards the south of the warehouse. A large number of soldiers gathered on the street south of the warehouse. The corpses of three black-clothed warriors were dragged out, their bodies covered with arrows.

Seeing Chen Qing approaching, Yang Zaixing hurriedly cupped his fists and reported, "To report to the authorities, they hid in this private house and kidnapped several women with children. As a result, a child came out of the dog hole and reported to the patrolling soldiers. "

"Are the people injured?"

"Two women were slightly injured, but no one was killed. They rushed out and tried to escape, but were shot to death by random arrows!"

After capturing the last three black-clothed warriors, Chen Qingcai breathed a sigh of relief.

2 Chapter Twenty

Li Liangfu didn't sleep all night. He had been observing the movement of Ganquan Fort in the camp. From the gunpowder arrows above Ganquan Fort, from the alarm bells resounding all over the city, until dawn, there was no fireworks in the castle.

Li Liangfu is basically sure that Liang Gui and his men failed, and it is estimated that none of them survived.

These Heijintang warriors were overconfident, this was a war, a barracks, not a princely mansion where they could enter and assassinate casually.

It's a pity that I wasted my two thousand five hundred taels of silver, and I don't know where they put it?

Li Liangfu returned to the big tent and took out the map of Ganquan Fort to study carefully. He has now realized that the soldiers directly attacking the city is not the best strategy, and it is not their advantage. They should still use large siege weapons to attack Ganquan Fort.

But the current number of trebuchets is far from enough. They only brought [-] heavy trebuchets with the army, and they should bring all the remaining [-] heavy trebuchets.

Li Liangfu wanted to do it, so he immediately ordered: "Notify the Baochuan garrison, and immediately transport all eighty heavy trebuchets to the camp!"

After a pause, he added: "There are also heavy battering rams and three giant trebuchets!"

……

At dusk, there was a dull sound of war drums in the Xixia army camp, which was different from the sound of the drums for sending troops, but at the same time there was the low sound of horns for sending troops.

Chen Qing and all the generals rushed to the north city wall to look at the enemy camp. They saw the camp gate opened on the northeast side of the enemy camp. After coming out of the camp, there are hundreds of soldiers pushing behind. It seems that the enemy army is going to use trebuchets again.

Through the sneak attack last night, Chen Qing already knew that the other party had obtained the map of Fort Ganquan, otherwise they would not have known that the warehouse was located in the middle of the city.

Now that they got the map, they still need to use heavy trebuchets, and the target of the attack is ready to come out. It must be to attack the Xicheng barracks.

"Pass my order, all the bed crossbows will be concentrated in the west city, and the god arm crossbow army will also be transferred!"

There are three gullies outside the west city. The ground is undulating and rugged, and it is inconvenient to walk, let alone use a heavy trebuchet. If you want to launch an offensive outside the west city, you must first send a large number of troops to fill the gully and level the land.

If you want to fill up the land at no cost, how can there be such a good thing in the world?

On the west wall, a thousand god-armed crossbowmen quickly assembled, and a bed crossbow was moved by the soldiers.

Sure enough, as Chen Qing expected, before the night fell completely, thousands of Xixia soldiers rushed out of the barracks carrying shovels, baskets and sacks, all the way to the outside of the west city, and began to dig high and fill low, leveling the land.

When they gradually approached the city wall, arrows were suddenly fired from the top of the city, and the arrows shot at the dense crowd like a torrential rain. The Xixia soldiers were caught off guard and screamed.

The range of the fireball thrown by the trebuchet is [-] steps, so they must be launched at about [-] steps to throw the fireball into the city. However, [-] steps is a dangerous area, and the bed crossbow, god arm crossbow and military crossbow are all lethal .

Seeing that the soldiers could not level the land, Li Liangfu felt helpless. At this time, Murong Tao suggested: "If the land cannot be leveled, then simply lay wooden boards or rafts so that the trebuchets can pass."

This is a good idea. There are still a lot of spare fences in their barracks, which can just be spread on the ground.

Li Liangfu immediately sent soldiers to fetch the barracks and spread the ground. Thousands of soldiers held shields and carefully laid out the barracks. Although hundreds of people were shot down by a burst of arrows when they approached the [-]-foot line, the ground became level.

Twenty heavy trebuchets began to advance slowly, and the huge protective shields also advanced together. This time they blocked the strong bow and crossbow of the Song army, and placed twenty heavy trebuchets two hundred steps away. Each trebuchet, manned by fifty soldiers, was ready for launch.

At the same time, the Song army in the city was also actively responding. They dismantled all the large tents, the warehouses in the south were also dismantled, and the armor and weapons were also transferred to the main warehouse in the city.

There was an open space three miles long and one mile wide in the west city. Niu Gao led six thousand militiamen to dig thousands of round pits on the ground, prepared a large amount of soil, and waited for the enemy to attack.

'Boom!Bang!Bang! '

The trebuchet made a series of loud noises, and twenty large fireballs whizzed and threw them into the city.

"Get ready!" Niu Gao shouted, staring at the fireball.

Fireballs hit the ground one after another, the fireballs shattered, and a large amount of inflammable materials such as gunpowder, sulfur, and fire cloth poured out, forming twenty pieces of flames immediately.

"dash forward--"

Niu Gao yelled, dozens of teams of soldiers rushed forward, pushed the ball, shoveled the fire, and irrigated the soil. The aircraft has not yet started the second round of launches.

But the soldiers knew very well that the second round of throwing must be fire oil cans. Sure enough, twenty black objects suddenly appeared in the sky, and the militia soldiers shouted, "The Xixia people have brought oil."

The clay pot full of kerosene hit the ground heavily, the pot shattered, and the kerosene splashed all over the ground. The impatient militia soldiers rushed up, covered the soil, mixed it, and shoveled it into the car, almost in one go. The oil on the altar didn't even ignite a single spark.

In the imagination of the Xixia army, the city must be full of fire and smoke, but in fact nothing happened.

At this time, Chen Qing laughed from the top of the wall and said, "Let General Niu light the kerosene in one of the pits to create a little smoke to comfort the Xixia people."

"Follow the order!"

The soldiers ran away, and not long after, a large pit used to place fire oil soil was lit, and black smoke gradually filled the sky over the west city, as if a fire was burning the city.

The Xixia soldiers immediately cheered, but Li Liangfu's face was not very good. He had experience, the smoke was wrong, it came from one place, and at this moment he wished to grow his wings and fly to the sky, but he couldn't see what was going on inside the city.

Li Liangfu looked around, there was really no place to see the city, and the crescent-shaped hill to the south was too far away from the city, so he couldn't see what was inside the city.

In fact, Li Liangfu vaguely guessed that Song Jun could not stand still, and must have dismantled the big tent, but he didn't see it with his own eyes, so he was always so worried.

It seems that a large observation deck needs to be built to keep abreast of the situation in the city.

"General Murong!"

"I am humble!"

"Ben Shuai asks you, are there any trees near here?"

"Reporting to Commander, there are trees fifty miles upstream of the Baishui River, all of which are pine forests, but it is estimated that most of them have been cut down."

"It's okay, I don't use it much, you immediately arrange an army to cut down trees, I need to build a five-foot-high observation tower."

"Humble post obeys orders!"

Murong Tao hastily went to make arrangements.

Li Liangfu looked at Ganquan Castle and said to himself, "I don't believe that I can't take down your castle!"

……

In Baochuan County, a transport team escorted by 3000 people slowly drove out of the county seat. The transport team was pulled by camels. On average, each cart was pulled by five camels. A siege engine was placed on the cart The spare parts, a total of one hundred carts, stretched for five miles.

Generally, this kind of heavy luggage is transported by water, but here is a desert, there is no river, so it can only be transported by land.

The team walked very slowly, for a distance of 150 miles, they would have to walk for at least three days.

As soon as the convoy left Baochuan County, it was discovered by the Song army scouts in the distance. The three scouts observed for a while, and immediately galloped southward.

The [-] cavalry led by Liu Cui were stationed in a mountain depression about [-] miles away from Baochuan County. After they canceled the mission of sneak attacking the enemy camp, they turned all their energy to intercepting the enemy's logistics supply team.

It's just that they still haven't made any achievements until now, and it's also because no supply team has come out, which really makes Liu Cui feel deeply depressed.

The soldiers had just finished their breakfast and were packing their luggage. At this moment, three cavalry rushed into the col and shouted: "General, there is business coming!"

Not only Liu Cui was overjoyed, but all the soldiers cheered together, and finally waited until the enemy supply team came out.

Chapter 221 Road Raid

At nightfall, the luggage team stopped moving forward and found a flat place. The soldiers unloaded the cart from the camel and laid it flat on the ground. The parts on it were very heavy and could not be unloaded from the cart. Put them directly on the carts, arrange them neatly in ten rows, and each row has ten carts, so that the carts are gathered together to the greatest extent.

Three thousand Xixia soldiers lit more than a dozen bonfires, and the soldiers gathered around the bonfires to barbecue and drink, enjoying themselves very happily.

The coachmen gathered with the camels after eating dry food and went to bed early.

The main general of this supply team is Cao Li. He missed Ganquan Fort because of untimely intelligence, but he was lucky and was not held accountable, so he continued to serve as general.

Looking at the dark wasteland, Cao Li was somewhat worried. On the one hand, he was worried about the wolves, and on the other hand, he was also worried about the Song army's sneak attack.

But he couldn't control his subordinates. The soldiers wanted to eat meat and drink, but the commander didn't stop him, so he couldn't do anything about it.

The escort officer stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder with a smile, "My brother has been looking around all night, what are you worried about?"

"In case the Song army strikes, I'm worried!"

"How could there be Song Jun, they are surrounded in the castle, the commander will let them out? Stop thinking about it."

"Actually, I'm still worried about the wolves!"

The escort officer laughed loudly, "It's a bonfire! The wolves dare not come."

As soon as the escort officer waved, several soldiers stepped forward and dragged Cao Li over to drink. Cao Li had no choice but to follow.

At this time, on a mound two miles away, several Song soldiers watched the carnival of Xixia soldiers from a distance. After a long time, they turned their horses and galloped towards the east.

In the mountain depression ten miles away, a ray of light was faintly visible from a marching tent. Inside the big tent, Liu Cui was deploying a battle plan for several capitals.

"This time our goal is heavy supplies, not Xixia soldiers. This is our goal, and we must not miss our goal."

One of the heads asked cautiously: "What if we can wipe out the enemy army?"

"Here is the problem. Have you ever thought about it? There are 3000 people on the other side, six times the number of us. This is not in the barracks. The soldiers all take off their armor, and the horses and weapons are not around. They can set fire to attack and kill wantonly.

But now they are all wearing armor, weapons and horses are by their side, they can jump on horses to fight at any time, we have no problem killing 500 people, 1000 people, but can we kill 3000 people?Once we are entangled by the enemy, how can we complete our mission? "

Liu Cui's words made everyone understand. It is true that we can't take advantage of the moment, we must seize the opportunity to complete the task.

At this time, a soldier reported outside, "The brother who went to investigate has returned."

"Let him in!"

An escort walked in from the outside, knelt down on one knee and saluted, "See Commander!"

"Don't be too polite, tell me about the investigation!"

"Reporting to the general, the enemy army has lit more than a dozen bonfires, drinking and eating meat, shouting and shouting, and they are very excited."

"Are you sure they drink?" Liu Cui asked with a smile.

"The humble staff can be sure that they are indeed drinking and holding the skins. It must not be goat's milk."

Liu Cui asked again: "How are their carts and siege supplies arranged?"

"The carts were all unloaded from the camels and placed neatly in ten rows and ten rows. However, the siege equipment on the carts was not unloaded, and they were still placed on the carts. The carts were on the periphery of the soldiers. On the other side It's hundreds of camels and coachmen."

Liu Cui smiled and said to everyone, "It's similar to the scenario we imagined, so we will implement it according to the previously agreed plan."

……

Time gradually approached the third watch, and the Xixia soldiers, who had eaten enough, fell asleep by the bonfire one after another. They did not take off their armor, and the horses were beside them. The bonfire was already faintly extinguished. .

On the outskirts, dozens of patrols were patrolling one mile away. They were distributed in a large circle, and surrounded the Xixia army and supplies in the core, but the number was obviously too small, and there was only one patrol at a distance of more than 100 steps.

Liu Cui led the cavalry of the Song Army to appear two miles away. Their horseshoes were wrapped in thick cloth, and their speed was not fast, and there was basically no vibration.

Usually five hundred war horses gallop, and the vibration can be faintly felt three miles away, but if the horseshoes are wrapped and the speed is very slow, it may not be discovered until more than 100 steps away.

The cavalry of the Song army approached silently. Liu Cui drew out an arrow and aimed at a patrolman a hundred steps away. The arrow came so suddenly that the patrolman didn't realize it at all.

At the same time, the two guards in the north and the south were also shot dead by masters without shouting, and the three guards were shot dead, and a big gap [-] paces wide appeared, and the Song army urged their horses to pass through the gap without a sound. , approaching the enemy campfire.

When they were two hundred steps away from the enemy, they were finally discovered by the patrol.

The patrols yelled, and several gunpowder arrows shot into the sky, emitting a bright red light.

Liu Cui shouted, "Action!"

The 500 people suddenly accelerated and rushed towards the luggage...

Xixia soldiers woke up from their deep sleep one after another. Someone pushed Cao Li awake. When Cao Li heard that there was a sneak attack, he was shocked and turned over and shouted: "Assemble!"