The trumpet sounded, and the killing sound shook the sky."
After Wanyan Zongwang destroyed the opponent's strategy of clearing the wall, he launched a fierce attack on Shazhou City.
Xixia's original combat strategy was to use the desert terrain to advance if it was advantageous and to retreat if it was unfavorable. However, the sandbank was the end of the Hexi Corridor and was a very important stronghold that could not be easily captured by the Jin army. This is why Li Yuanhao originally sent
The Pingxi Army Division was arranged in Sha and Gua prefectures.
If you want to capture the sandbar, you must first occupy the outer earth walls, earthen forts and cross the trenches.
Xixia is no better than the Song Dynasty, especially in the Hexi Corridor. They do not have solid city walls here, and low earth walls and earthen forts are the defensive features of the sandbank.
Because the Xixia Army had not had a direct battle with the Jin Army before, especially the Xixia Army here, but because the Jin Army was too strong, they did not dare to go out of the city to meet the enemy when facing the Jin Army's attack. Most of them hid in the soil.
Fort and low wall behind defense.
The war horses neigh.
This siege force composed of surrender soldiers, Uighurs and a small number of Jurchens began to launch a fierce attack around these earth walls and earthen forts.
Whoosh whoosh!
The bows and arrows met in the air, causing bursts of sound that broke through the air.
Boom boom boom!
Huge boulders fell from the sky one after another, knocking the Jin army upside down.
This is Xixia's special weapon, called the cyclone cannon. It is actually a centrifugal trebuchet that uses centrifugal force to throw stones. It is mounted on a high earthen fort and looks very intimidating.
However, the Jin army was not weak either. They relied on skillful shooting of the enemy, but saw Xixia soldiers falling from the earthen wall one by one.
In a short time, the Jin army in the northwest had rushed into the enemy camp, but this was only the beginning.
These earthen walls and earthen forts are not in a straight line, but are scattered in twos and threes, looking like a maze. Once the cavalry rushes in, the horses immediately become a burden, because there are earthen walls one after another, one in the east and one in the west.
One place prevents them from using their speed.
"kill---!"
As soon as the Jin Army rushed into the earth wall defense line, many enemy troops suddenly appeared around them. They held swords in their hands and swarmed up, surrounding a column of the Jin Army. The two sides started a fierce hand-to-hand battle. Once the cavalry lost speed,
, that is the food in the hands of the infantry.
Because the earthen wall is not neatly lined up, the bows and arrows are not very dense, so it is not difficult to rush in. It is precisely because of this that the earthen wall formation has become a nightmare for the cavalry.
Several attacks by the Jin army were all resolved in the earth wall formation.
Fortunately, this was just a trial battle and the losses were not very large.
On a sand dune to the west of the sandbank, Wanyan Zongwang, Liu Yanzong and other generals stood on it to watch the battle. Although the ones attacking the city today were not their elites, they were also Turks. Their fighting power was not weak, but they saw that their side was trapped.
Inside the earthen walls, Wanyan Zongwang couldn't help but frown. These earthen walls were not high or long, but they were messy and disorderly, somewhat similar to the formation of the Han people. It was easy to get in, but difficult to get out.
After watching for a long time, Wanyan Zongwang sighed and said: "It will be difficult to capture the sandbank without breaking through this wall!"
Liu Yanzong nodded and said: "And the party members seem to be much stronger than we expected."
A counselor named Dong Wen beside him suddenly said: "Both of you are in command, but in fact these are not party members."
This Dong Wen is also a Han, and he returned to Wanyan Zongwang with Liu Yanzong. Wanyan Zongwang said, "Who are these?"
Dong Wendao: "This is Xixia's captured army. It is actually an army composed of slaves. It is composed of Han people and some surrounding tribes."
"Han Chinese?"
Wanyan Zongwang secretly sneered. These Han people are really ridiculous. When their own country was attacked, they all rushed to flee, but when they became slaves in other countries, they became so violent. He did not say this.
, because they have to worry about the feelings of Liu Yanzong and Dong Wen. After all, they are also Han Chinese.
There are many Han people, and these ethnic minorities use enslaved Han people to expand the manpower of their own countries. When Li Yuanhao was in high spirits, he captured more than 100,000 Han people from the Song Dynasty and sent them to Xixia as slaves. In order to consolidate his political power, he organized these slaves into a group.
The army, called the Survival Army, was specially designed to charge into battle for other party members.
How could these ethnic minorities withstand such casualties?
After watching for a while, Wanyan Zongwang saw that there was no hope of clearing these earthen walls, and said: "Ming Jin withdraws the troops, there is no point in continuing to fight."
Dong Wen suddenly said: "Du Tong, I have a plan to break through this earth wall formation."
Wanyan Zongwang was overjoyed and said, "Speak quickly."
Dong Wendao: "This earth wall formation is obviously used to deal with our cavalry. It is easy to enter but not easy to get out. However, this earth wall formation also has inevitable disadvantages, that is, this earth wall is not stronger than the city walls in the Central Plains. It is fragile and will be destroyed if hit.
If it is broken, we can use it to break the earthen wall by ramming it into a car."
Wanyan Zongwang listened thoughtfully.
But Liu Yanzong was overjoyed and said: "Du Tong, this plan is terrible. This earth wall cannot withstand the impact of a car crash. Once the earth wall collapses, the opponent's infantry will be vulnerable. We can let the Uighur infantry push the car and lead the charge.
Once the wall is broken, the cavalry will cover up and annihilate the enemy."
Wanyan Zongwang nodded and said: "Yes, the disadvantage of the earth wall is that it is fragile. Immediately order to build a crash chariot, but chariots are rare and cannot attack from three sides at the same time. Let's concentrate our forces to attack from the south first, break a gap, and cover
You go around the sandbank."
"yes."
This battle ended with the Jin army's defeat.
The party members did not pursue him because they could not catch up, but they sent the Jin army away with their cheers.
The previous fear of the Jin Army disappeared without a trace at this moment. Is the Jin Army nothing more than this? The morale of the Jin Army was greatly boosted for a while.
However, the Jin army's retreat was only for the next wave of more violent offensives.
In order to break through these earth walls and earth forts, Wanyan Zongwang immediately ordered to build a siege vehicle. In fact, he had borrowed a lot of siege equipment from the Gaochang Uyghurs, but the equipment was too bulky. Facing these earth walls, it was overkill.
, Wanyan Zongwang hopes to build some small crash cars, specially used to break the earth wall formation of the sandbank.
Three days later, with the help of Gaochang Uighurs, fifty crash cars had been built.
To the south of the sandbar car, the horn sounded again.
Shu Liesu personally led 20,000 coalition troops to launch a fierce attack on the position south of the sandbank. Compared with the previous time, this time it was mostly composed of infantry. The shield soldiers were in front to cover the chariot soldiers behind, and the archers were hidden in the shields.
After the soldiers, a small number of cavalry covered the two wings to prevent the enemy troops from rushing out. Wanyan Zongwang enslaved the strong men he had just captured to push the chariot forward.
Whoosh whoosh!
When the Jin army entered the shooting range, arrows rained down, but they were all blocked by the shield soldiers. The archers hiding among the shield soldiers also fired back with bows and arrows, covering their own army's advance.
Although the Jin army's attack lost its former agility, it was still using heavy swords and no sharp edges, and slowly and step by step advanced towards the enemy's position.
The guard who defends the south is called the Mother of Guards. Standing at a high place, he has seen the frightening crashes in the Jin army's formation, and he also understands the Jin army's intentions. Although the bows and arrows are strong, they cannot hurt the crashes.
.Once the car crashed close to the earth wall, the consequences would be unimaginable. He rushed to the front line, roared loudly, and ordered the soldiers to use cyclone cannons to concentrate fire on the Jin Army's tanks.
Boulders fell one after another. These boulders caused a very fatal blow to the Jin army's collision. Whenever they were concentrated, they were all damaged. But unfortunately, due to the arrangement of the earthen forts and earthen walls, and the limited number of cyclone cannons, the firepower was unable to
The concentration and aiming are not enough to completely destroy the opponent's tank.
After several rounds of stone rain, more than ten ram cars were destroyed. Shu Lie quickly noticed and ordered the soldiers to lift the ram logs on the ram cars and move forward. Their attack this time was not mainly to destroy the opponent's army, but to destroy these vehicles.
The earthen walls were used to create a path for their cavalry, so these bumping timbers were very important.
After an hour of fierce fighting, the Jin army finally broke into the enemy's camp. The infantrymen climbed up the earth wall one by one, jumped off the earth wall brandishing their swords, and started a new round of hand-to-hand combat with the Xixia soldiers behind the wall.
boom!
boom!
With the cover of the infantry, the enemy was no longer able to stop the collision. The big men pushed the collision and violently hit the earth wall, once, twice...
Before even two impacts, cracks appeared on the earthen wall.
In this area, earth is much cheaper than stone, and most residents live in earth houses. It is precisely because earth walls are easy to build that the Party members were able to build such a large-scale earth wall array in such a short period of time.
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Youdao is about slow work and meticulous work. This is the so-called shoddy project in later generations. Although it has a good effect against cavalry, it is really vulnerable when it comes to collisions.
There was a loud "crash" and an earth wall collapsed. Many Xixia soldiers had no time to escape and were buried alive here.
In the blink of an eye, more than ten earth walls collapsed.
Seeing all this, Mother Wei thought to herself that this was not going to work, so she decisively ordered the soldiers to take the initiative and use their flesh and blood to block the car from moving forward, so that the car could not get closer to the earth wall.
You can't stick to the rules on this battlefield. Originally, the earth wall was used to protect your soldiers, but now the situation has changed, and it has become the soldiers to step forward to protect the earth wall.
kill---!
The Xixia soldiers who were originally hiding behind the earth wall rushed out. Because the Jin army did not join the cavalry and the infantry fought the infantry, the Xixia people still had the advantage. After an hour of fighting, they finally stopped the Jin army's offensive and protected the soil behind them.
Walls and earthen forts.
There was a change in the enemy's force, so Shu Liesu would not stand firm to the end, so he immediately ordered two thousand cavalry to outflank him and cover his infantry in attacking the wall.
Since the Xixia soldiers had already left the earthen wall and there was no earthen wall around them to protect them, the cavalry rushed up and became unstoppable. They rushed from both sides and the formation of the Xixia soldiers was thrown into chaos.
When Mother Wei saw it, her eyes were full of despair, but at this moment, there were sudden footsteps behind her.
I saw an army moving towards this side quickly.
It is Xixia's reinforcements.
It turned out that Shazhou was sending all the main force of Brother Li Fei's Jin army to the south. He was afraid that Mother Wei could not hold on, so he quickly mobilized reinforcements.
When Mother Wei saw that it was her reinforcements, she couldn't help but be overjoyed and shouted loudly: "Brothers, our reinforcements have arrived, rush for me!"
As soon as the reinforcements arrived, the morale of the Xixia soldiers was greatly boosted, and they withstood the most ferocious attack of the Jin army.
"Damn, it's just a little bit close."
When Shu Lieshu saw the opponent's reinforcements arriving, he couldn't help but cursed. Suddenly, he heard the sound of horse hooves coming from behind again.
"Shu Liesu."
It was General Balu who came over with five thousand light horses and said: "Shu Liesu, I have been ordered by the capital to come to help. No matter what, we must destroy the earthen wall outside today.
Otherwise it will be difficult to cover the advance of the deputy capital commander."
Upon hearing this, Shu Lieshu nodded and said: "Now that the enemy has come out of the earthen wall to fight our army, our cavalry no longer needs to be afraid."
The two joined forces and launched the most violent attack on the enemy's position.
Seeing the fierceness of the Jin Army's cavalry, Mother Wei did not dare to fight with them, so she quickly ordered the soldiers to retreat. After hiding behind the earthen wall, the Jin Army saw this and quickly ordered the cavalry to stop attacking, and ordered the infantry to quickly push the car and destroy it crazily.
However, when the cavalry stopped, Mother Guard ordered the soldiers to go out to fight.
Shu Liesu could only mobilize his cavalry and charge horizontally, forcing the Xixia soldiers back again.
Fighting and retreating, retreating and fighting again, caused the Jin soldiers to suffer heavy losses. The battle did not end until the evening. No matter what, the Jin army still destroyed most of the outer earth walls.
After a day's rest, the Jin army began to make a comeback. After another day of bloody fighting, they once again advanced their position three miles, destroyed the earthen wall outside the sandbank, and forced the Xixia soldiers back behind a trench. This trench was naturally formed.
Yes, but due to the arrival of the Jin Army, it was deepened and widened a lot. The Xixia soldiers retreated here, but they could no longer retreat. If they retreated further, they would be the city wall. Mother Wei reorganized her troops and mobilized troops from the city.
They sent out their elite troops and fought with the Jin army for a day on the trench. Both sides suffered heavy losses. However, the Xixia soldiers also successfully stopped the Jin army's offensive. However, the Jin army also achieved its strategic goal and finally opened a gap in the south.
Cover the road to Guazhou.
Wanyan Zongwang still launched several more symbolic attacks, creating an atmosphere of being unable to conquer for a long time. At this time, Liu Yanzong also led his troops to the expedition.
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