"General, please give us another chance!" Di Qing wiped the blood and mud on his face, and shouted to Cao Mata with a hoarse voice. Behind them was the city of Xiping, which was tragically dead. Countless Song soldiers, holding raindrops, put the ladder on the city wall and wanted to climb up the city wall. However, the Dangxiang people at the top of the city kept pushing the ladder down. Then the arrow rain fell, and the ground was filled with dead bodies and blood.

"I have given you a chance. In order to cover you, countless brothers have wasted so much gunpowder, but they only exploded a layer of wall. I was already scolded by the general just now. Do you want me to be scolded again?" Cao Mata cursed with a dark face at this time.

The city wall of Xiping Prefecture is solid. Although the Dangxiang people are not as good as the Song army, they are unable to get close to the city with the city wall and the dense rain of arrows. So Cao Mata boasted about Haikou in front of Zhao Zhen, and wanted to use gunpowder to blow up the city wall. Di Qing took on the task, but he did not expect that the city wall was not blown up at all, but just a layer of wall skin was blown up, which made him very embarrassed in front of Zhao Zhen.

"General, my subordinates were too careless just now and the holes were too shallow, so they could not exert the power of the siege tube. As long as I gave my subordinates another chance, I would definitely blow up the city wall, otherwise I would come and see you!" Di Qing still said with a firm face at this time, and he would get up from wherever he fell. This is a principle that had been taught in martial arts for a long time.

Hearing Di Qing's promise, Cao Ma couldn't help but ponder for a moment, then turned his head to look at the tragic war under Xiping City. Although the Song Dynasty had superior military strength, the solid city wall offset this advantage, and even shot and killed the Song army in large numbers with the cover of the city wall, which also caused heavy casualties and injuries to the Song army. If there was no progress, it would probably be a fierce war of attrition.

Thinking of this, Cao Mata finally nodded and said, "Okay, I will give you another chance. If you can't blow up the city wall, you will be engaged in military law!"

"No!" Di Qing immediately saluted excitedly, then ran to the soldiers to prepare. After a while, a solid turtle cart was pushed out. The so-called turtle cart is actually a chariot that looks like a turtle. It is made of hardwood and cowhide to make tortoise shells. The soldiers hid under the cart to push forward, and could withstand the rain of arrows on their heads.

This time, Di Qing led the team himself, and there was a huge siege tube hidden under the car. The so-called siege tube is actually a huge gunpowder weapon filled with the most powerful gunpowder, which is specially used to explode the city wall or strong stronghold. When used, it is usually necessary to make holes in the city wall, then stuff the entire siege tube into it and ignite the lead. The principle is actually similar to firecrackers.

The Dangxiang people on the city wall had suffered a loss once. Although the previous siege tube failed to blow up the city wall, it also exploded several cracks, especially the loud noise like a mountain collapse and the ground cracks made the Dangxiang people even more frightened. So when they saw the Song army go out of the turtle car again, the Dangxiang people also began to focus on "care" the turtle car. In the blink of an eye, the turtle car was tied into a hedgehog by arrow rain.

However, the turtle car was originally built to deal with the attacks on the head, so these feather arrows could not hurt the soldiers below. However, just as the turtle car approached the city wall, the Dangxiang people above the head began to throw wooden rocks on the turtle car.

"Boom boom boom boom~" Di Qing was dizzy when the loud noise of the rolling wooden stones on his head hitting the tortoise shell, but he didn't care about these things at this time, because he knew that even the strongest turtle car would not last long under this attack, so he immediately shouted: "Dig! Dig it for me!"

After Di Qing finished yelling, he grabbed an iron pick and ran to the city wall. Then he swung it up and started digging holes on the city wall. They chose the previous explosion point. The thick wall tiles outside had already exploded, and the remaining solid rammed earth layer inside was all made of clay and rice soup. One pick could only make a small hole the size of a cup. If you use this method, it would probably take half a day to dig a hole that could be placed in the siege tube.

However, the Song army was very experienced in dealing with such a solid city wall. At this time, someone ran over with a big bucket and then poured vinegar from the bucket onto the rammed earth. As a result, the extremely solid rammed earth immediately became like tofu. A big hole was dug out, and the siege tube was stuffed in. Then the long lead was ignited. Di Qing and others immediately pushed the turtle cart backwards and ran backwards.

"Boom~" With a loud bang, Di Qing and others who were running forward felt a sudden thrust coming from their backs. The bulky turtle car seemed to become lighter like paper, but they were blown forward and rushed forward, and their eyes were also black. Some people couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of black blood with a "wow", which hurt their internal organs by the shock wave of the explosion.

Di Qing was also shocked and dizzy, but at this time he forced himself to sit up, turned his head and looked at the city wall filled with smoke and dust. As a gust of wind blew, the smoke and dust also dissipated, revealing a gap formed by the collapse of the city wall. The broken earth and rocks were mixed with the hands, feet and internal organs of many Dangxiang people. The walls on both sides were also cleared, and there were Dangxiang people lying on the city wall and groaning in pain everywhere.

"Kill, you won't seal the sword for three days after entering the city!" Seeing this opportunity, the main general Zhao Zhen immediately yelled in person. As the words were passed down, the entire Song army also became excited. Countless people held shields and rushed towards the gap in the city wall. At this time, the Dangxiang people also reacted and immediately organized archers to fight back.

However, no matter how much arrow rain was, it could not stop the Song army. Soon the Song army rushed to the gap and then had a hand-to-hand combat with the Dangxiang people. The Dangxiang people were all born cavalry. If they were allowed to ride on horseback, one person could fight five infantry one by one. But if there were no horses, they would become semi-crippled and could not stop the elite infantry of the Song army at all. This also caused the Song army to quickly occupy the gap and began to spread to the city walls on both sides.

"General, if you don't seal the sword for three days, I'm afraid that when you attack Xingzhou again in the future, the Dangxiang people will only resist more fiercely. Then you may not be able to surrender the Dangxiang people." At this moment, a burly general hesitated to Zhao Zhen, saying that the so-called "not sealing the sword is actually that the Song army can kill, rob, etc. in the city at will within three days. It can be said that it is just a little more kind than the massacre of the city.
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