"Get away." Zhao Pu said.

He only had five thousand soldiers and horses in his hand, and three thousand were still in Papaya Fort. One reason was that he had no time to mobilize, and the other was that they had to cooperate with Zhou Yongqing's actions at night. So after receiving Wang Ju's order, Zhao Pu could only bring two thousand soldiers to ambush.

Two thousand soldiers were more than enough to defend Whidinburgh, but they were slightly insufficient for ambush battles. Moreover, the terrain here was relatively flat.

But Xixia has really many troops, and it is calculated in units of tens of thousands at every turn. Just like in Xigu Village, Mei Qingmeluo felt that he had insufficient troops and easily divided five thousand troops. Indeed, in terms of military strength, even though Xixia suffered several major defeats, she still has an absolute advantage today.

The Xia army came, and Zhao Pu leaned on the terrain and defeated them again and again.

Although he had few troops in his hands, the task given by Wang Ju was not to wipe out the enemy completely, but to delay time. This could still be done.

After dragging it for nearly an hour, Zhao Pu saw a large group of cavalry shadows from Xixia appearing behind.

Wang Ju brought some telescopes, which were very small. Only one brigade general sent out, but Zhao Pu and Zhou Yongqing also got one. He was standing on a high place again. The Xixia people at the bottom of the slope didn't know that reinforcements from the rear were coming soon, but Zhao Pu discovered it first.

So Zhao Pu ordered a retreat. The Xixia people did not know that reinforcements from the rear were coming and did not dare to chase them. They had to watch them penetrate into the Mian Snow Mountain and retreat to Whidinburgh.

The five thousand cavalry led by Wang Zang were here.

Not particularly fast, because they also bring some things.

Later generations often had a very wrong understanding of the height of ancient city walls, and even said that it was more than ten meters high. This was wrong. Generally, the height was about two meters. For example, the height of Kaifeng City was mostly about seven meters. The height of Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty was only more than six meters. By the Ming Dynasty, the height of the city wall was further increased, but the height of the city wall was only four meters.

Now the height of the walls of the fortresses on the front lines of the Song Dynasty is also two meters high, which is the standard height.

But this two zhang is very vague. In fact, most of the city walls are less than two zhang in height, and some are about six meters, which is already a qualified product. There are still only about five meters, including the wall of Baibao City. Otherwise, Liu Shao could not throw the hook onto the city wall. But even this height has a height advantage. Even if it is five or six meters, it is equivalent to the height of one and a half floors of residential buildings in later generations.

Xixia was constrained by financial resources and supplies, so she had to temporarily create a large number of simple siege ladders.

This kind of siege ladder is rarely used for iron nails. Monoliths are chiseled on the ladder columns, and tenons are left on both sides of the cross bar. Then, it will be closed and a siege ladder will come out.

However, it doesn't seem easy either.

First of all, the mortise and the tenon should match.

Secondly, the crossbar also needs to be drawn out, and finally the selection of two ladders.

The city wall is five meters high. However, the siege ladder is slanted, so the height of the ladder must be as high as six meters. And it cannot be too thin, too thin, and not too thick, as it will be heavy. However, you cannot cut down one thick tree after another and slowly dig it out, so just finding suitable wood will cause headaches for the people of Xixia.

However, it has one advantage that it can be disassembled.

After receiving the news, Rendaolingding immediately sent five thousand cavalrymen to try to destroy Gaomin's ice castle.

But in order to prevent it, Wang Zangbu also brought some siege ladders over. There was no problem with the crossbar and hung it on the horse's back. The difficulty was the ladder. Considering that due to time, the ice wall built by Gao Min might not be too high, he sawed off the bottom of the siege ladder, leaving only half of the above. In this way, the length of the ladder also decreased, but that's true, it was four or five meters long, and it was very inconvenient to run on the horse's back.

Therefore, although they are cavalry, they are not coming quickly.

Wang Zangbu came over and asked about the past, said a few words to his guard, and asked him to go back and report.

What he said? This sniper battle exposed the truth, that is, the actual strength of the Song Dynasty was still insufficient. No matter what, after the Battle of Dashun City was announced, the entire Xixia army was shocked.

However, if the Song army has already inserted into the Mengmen Sancha behind the Ice City and is about to be successfully built, if the troops are sufficient, then more troops will be sent to Mengmen Sancha to support it, including speeding up the construction speed and enhancing the defense power of the Ice City... and it is also easy to do it, because there are only a few small villages along the way and several small garrisons in Renduolingding. There are not many troops and their defense power is not strong.

But the Song army chose to snipe and delay time rather than support, so Wang Zangbu judged that the Song army was in short supply, but he still wanted to force the Xixia army back through various methods.

The personal soldiers quickly rode back to report, and Wang Zangbu looked at the group of people down the slope and said, "Come on."

In fact, Wang Zangzi left them behind in a while.

Wang Zangbu came to Mengmen Sancha, and the Song army also saw that their cavalry had arrived and was on guard.

However, there are many people behind it building this ice wall, many of which seem to be soldiers from Xixia, and some are the people around.

Most of the actions given by Wang Ju are a rough plan. Except for some necessary ones, this action plan will be given in more detail. The others are mostly for the leaders to adjust themselves in this action plan and let them perform according to actual conditions.

Including the high-sensitivity industry.

Wang Ju did not mention asking them to attack the surrounding villages, and of course there was no support or objection. Gao Min did not expect to attack the surrounding villages, although this was the intersection of three small rivers, there were many flat small rivers and primordials, and some people lived.

However, these villages on the front line, like those on the Song Dynasty, not only were the people fierce, but they also built some village walls that could not be captured, but the casualties would inevitably be large, and time would not be afforded.

However, after defeating the Xia army with grain escorts, Gao Min still sent some scouts out to investigate and found out that there were many villages around, and of course there were also village walls, but because of the 300,000 troops in Xixia, Ding Zhuang from the village almost conquered them together.

Gao Min became interested, and what he lacked the most now was labor.

The ancient city wall began to grow taller after the Ming Dynasty, like the nearly four-meter-high city wall in Chang'an. However, it was not that high in the Tang and Song Dynasties. For example, the Shouzhou City Wall. After repeated repairs in the Ming Dynasty, the height was only about eight meters high. In fact, its height was less than seven meters in the Song Dynasty.

But there is little difference in width.

A complete city wall includes the foundation of the city wall, which is from the foot of the wall to the head of the city. The height of the city wall refers to the height of the wall foundation. However, there are also buildings on this wall foundation, women's walls that serve as bunkers, and marches for counterattacks.

In a broad sense, the city wall also includes the city tower, corner tower, city gate, urn city and moat.

Moreover, with the development of offensive and defensive tactics, siege tactics are not only forcibly climbing the city, but also for crashing cars, digging tunnels and other tactics. Therefore, the thickness of the city wall is also very strict. Often, its thickness exceeds its height.

The simplest example is the Ming Chang'an City Wall. It is twelve meters high, fifteen meters wide on the top and eighteen meters wide on the bottom!

The city wall of Song Shouzhou is less than seven meters in height, with a top width of four to ten meters, and a bottom width of eighteen to twenty-two meters! Of course, it is a relatively large city wall, and the walls of the fortresses on the front line will not be so strict.

However, the general bottom width is more than ten meters, and the top width is at least four meters, which is a barely qualified city wall.

The wall of Mengmen Sancha is only a temporary ice city wall. However, if it wants to block the enemy's attack for several days, it must be built according to the minimum required city wall. That is, the average thickness must be kept between seven and eight meters, plus a height of nearly five meters, and for every meter of construction, nearly forty cubic projects are generated. The entire wall reaches more than one thousand meters, which is a project volume of more than 40 cubic meters.

If it weren't for the urgent time, then nearly 3,000 soldiers could still complete this fast ice wall within two days. However, would the Xixia people give them two days of light?

Therefore, Gao Min sent some soldiers to capture the people of the three nearby villages, but the same approach was different from the Xixia people. Gao Min did not covet their wealth, nor did he massacre them. Instead, he left the elderly, children, and women who were feeding their daughters. The rest were captured into the army and allowed them to participate in the wall repair.

But even so, we can't expect to repair this kilometer-long wall immediately, so we first repair a large shape and then thicken it.

Wang Zang was riding on the horse and watching.

He immediately realized that the thickness was insufficient, but he had no good way to deal with this one. Wherever he went to find a car crash, he didn't have time to log a wood even if he hit it.

It was not very high, about 16 pm, and the female wall in front was built, so the height was basically set. This shows that Song Jun was very nervous, and it was obviously too late to increase it.

Then he continued to watch, and there were many things he couldn't understand. First of all, he couldn't understand where this Song army emerged, not only people, but also so many pieces of equipment and supplies.

But he saw one more thing again. No matter where they came out, these Xia army prisoners of war who built the wall and the people of Xia were captured during the day. Last night, only these two or three thousand Song troops built the wall.

The city wall has been built into a big shape, which shows that they have not received a good rest in the past ten hours.

It can also be identified from the clothes, and some Song Jun's clothes were still stained with mud and water.

Of course, he also saw some details. For example, in order to save engineering volume, the entire ice castle was pressed into a flat round shape, with only about one hundred steps at the widest point. If the Xia army attacked on both sides, then the entire ice castle could be covered with a catapult and a powerful crossbow.

Therefore, the Song people built tunnels while picking up mud. The entrances and exits of the tunnels were just under the city wall. Some tunnels were even well-built, and the Song army was transporting supplies inside.

In addition, the city wall in the west covers the river in the north, and a mud ridge is built in the middle. The Song people plan to build another ice wall from the middle to separate the two villages and make the west side a water village alone. Then the Song army no longer has to worry about the water source. Even because of the terrain, the Xia army cut off the river from the upper reaches, because there is nowhere to guide the boiling water flow, which will eventually spread.

Obviously, this was the construction of a city that the Song Dynasty had planned long ago.

It may even be that before Rendoring Ding's army entered the carriage gorge, they planned to build a city this day.

Thinking of this, Wang Zangbu suddenly couldn't help but fight a cold war.

But this ice city must be taken. Once the Song army was allowed to repair it, there would be a tunnel to hide, and there were even hundreds of prisoners of war who had them make living shields. They themselves had nearly 3,000 soldiers and horses, so it would be difficult to take them down.

Whether it can be taken down is today, because Song Jun is very tired today.

Thinking of this, he pulled down the Tushan Mountain and ordered the three armies to cover the back with bows and arrows, and shields in front, and to lay the siege ladder on the ice wall, and forcibly siege the city.

Gao Min also mobilized on the top of the city: "Brothers, we can make great contributions if we persist for a few hours."

After a few hours, Zhou Yongqing would lead 5,000 troops to replace them.

As for whether it is a great achievement, is it still necessary to say?

But it was not easy to persevere in these few hours. These five thousand cavalrymen were just appetizers. Later, there were five thousand soldiers under Mei Qingmeluo. Even though some casualties occurred under Zhao Pu's sniper, Zhao Pu was just sniper and there were not much casualties. Then there was a third wave of soldiers, another five thousand people, escorting a large amount of food and supplies. The people behind the palace were civilians, and they were soldiers when charging.

However, Wang Zangbu also despised the Song army.

The Song army is really tired now, but the morale is very high. First, they know the Battle of Qingzhou hosted by Wang Ju. The news alone made them feel optimistic. Moreover, the magical scene last night proved the previous folk legend.

Second, Zhao Pu's five thousand soldiers are coming soon, and they are not fighting alone.

The fierce offensive and defensive battle began.

The Xia army was sieging the city, the Song army was defending the city, and arrows were flying in the sky, and screams were heard constantly. The north wind was howling, the flags were about to break, and the war drums were roaring, as if a music of death suddenly sounded in this calm area... (To be continued, please search for astronomy, the novel is better and faster!

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