After several days of fighting, a long section of the moat of the Western Xia Royal City was finally filled in. The last barrier blocking the northwest army from attacking the Western Xia Royal City was cleared. After two days of rest, the northwest army officially launched an attack on the Western Xia Royal City.
A general offensive was launched.
Zeng Yi, who had participated in the general attack on Tubo, when facing the Xixia royal city and the final general attack of the northwest army, he very clearly felt the difference between Xixia and Tubo. The Xixia army, especially this last army, fought extremely tenaciously and the soldiers were fierce.
Not afraid of death, he even withstood the firepower of the northwest army and repelled the northwest army that had already attacked the city wall several times.
As an assault force, the death-character battalion of the death squads suffered very heavy casualties. Facing the stubborn Xixia people, the northwest army also found it difficult to deal with them.
"The Death Word Battalion is beginning to show fear of fighting. Why don't we withdraw?" The Death Word Battalion is not a regular army after all. Although everyone is a desperado and their personal strength is also very strong, there is very little cooperation and basically everyone
He loves to fight alone, not to mention that there is a group of Xixia surrender troops among them. Zeng Yi couldn't help but said when he found that the Death Word Battalion was timid in the face of such heavy casualties.
But immediately there was a general of the Northwest Army who shook his head and said: "If you make a big effort, it will weaken again, and then it will be exhausted. If you retreat, the Death Word Battalion will be destroyed!"
Although the word "death camp" refers to prisoners on death row surrendering to the army, the "death word camp" is also a very important reason for the Northwest Army to reduce casualties. If the "death word camp" is spent, the battle to seize the city gate with the largest casualties will have to be faced by the northwest army itself.
People!
"Despite the current state of the Death Word Camp, it is impossible to break through the Xixia people's defense line!"
The commander of the northwest army thought for a moment and said: "Order! The first person to attack the Xixia King's City will be rewarded with 500 silver and be made a baron!"
As soon as these words came out, the deputy general immediately conveyed the order!
"General, I have your order. Whoever takes the lead in attacking the Xixia King's City will be rewarded with five hundred silver coins and will be granted the title of baron!"
Soon the news spread throughout the battlefield. After hearing this order, the Death Character Battalion, which was still a little timid just now, suddenly seemed to have been given a shot of chicken blood. Everyone worked hard to sweep away the situation that had just reached decline.
The Xixia defenders were so beaten that they couldn't resist it for a while!
As a player, Zeng Yi still doesn't understand the temptation of the lowest title to these ordinary people, especially those in the Death Word Camp.
Although the Central Plains had an imperial examination system, which could open up the circulation of social classes and network talents for the court, the imperial examination was not open to anyone who wanted to. Generally speaking, at least three types of people could not take the examination, one was the son of businessmen, and the other was the son of criminals.
, there is another kind, the son-in-law who comes to the door. In real history, Li Bai, the greatest poet throughout the ages, has all three. His ancestors committed crimes, and his father was in business, so he is the son-in-law who comes to the door. I have to admire that Li Bai is really a good hand at catching lottery tickets.
.These three types of people were called untouchables at that time, the four nationalities, scholars, farmers, industry and merchants. The first two were called good people and could take the exam, while the latter two could not.
In addition to a few types of people, there are also ordinary police officers. Police officers are crucial to the stability of all parts of the Central Plains, but police officers have a pariah status. The three classes of government officials, except for the strong class, are all pariahs. There are people in a family who can do it
Because of this, the third generation could not take the imperial examination. At least in theory, their status was lower than that of ordinary farmers.
If you are unable to participate in the imperial examination, you will basically ruin the development potential of a family. An ordinary person may have been an ordinary person for generations, and there is basically no possibility of further advancement. Although the title of baronet is small, it has been separated from the status of a pariah when he was young.
Xiao is also a nobleman.
The nobles don't have those restrictions. For those in the Death Word Camp, this is an opportunity, an opportunity to reach the sky and change the fate of the family's descendants in one step. For them, this is great news. Especially since there are
Five hundred taels of silver, such a large sum of money, for many people, has already made them rich overnight. If they can get this title and this silver, they can not only live a good life, but even marry a concubine.
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"Is the temptation of a title and five hundred taels of silver so great?"
"Mr. Ni, you don't understand that there is no greater temptation for these death row prisoners than this!"
"Then, how about a few more rewards?"
The coach of the Northwest Army shook his head, "You can't give too much. If you give too much, it won't be precious!"
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Under the temptation of titles and money, the morale of the Death Character Camp reached its peak. Tens of thousands of people from the Death Character Camp actually attacked the city wall, and the entire wall of the Xixia Royal City was in chaos.
The Northwest Army immediately ordered the regular army to follow. The regular army followed the path opened by the Death Character Camp and soon climbed onto the city wall.
At this moment, the commander-in-chief of the Northwest Army began to give orders for the artillery to be fired at close range. Upon hearing this order, Zeng Yi knew that the Northwest Army was preparing to attack the gate of the Xixia Royal City.
In ancient wars, siege warfare was necessary and brutal. In the cooler era, the defenders in siege warfare had a geographical advantage. Throwing stones and rolling logs down on the city, with the help of gravity, was more lethal. The attacker needed to
You can imagine how difficult it is to overcome gravity and attack upward.
Therefore, in ancient times, there were five ways to siege a city, and ten times to attack it. In other words, a city with five times the number of people could besieged, and a city with ten times the number of people could attack a city.
Of course, this is not absolute. Just like now, the northwest army is not five times as powerful as the Xixia army. The northwest army also has time to besiege the Xixia royal city, so the northwest army has to launch an siege. In fact, in general siege, the first thing to attack is
It's the city gate. Compared with the thick, tall and sturdy city wall, the city gate is the weakest link in the city wall system.
In the past, when attacking city gates, most people used ramming vehicles and used brute force to break open the city gates. But now that the northwest army is equipped with artillery, there is no need to get close and dangerous ramming vehicles!
Several artillery pieces were pushed to the front line and aimed directly at the gate of the Xixia Royal City. Seeing this situation, the Xixia people became nervous again. But at this time, there was a chaos on the city wall, and the two armies were fighting everywhere. The Xixia people didn't care about the artillery at all.
Already.
Although the gates of the Western Xia Royal City are wooden gates, they are covered with iron sheets and are still very hard. If you use the previous methods to rush the car, it really can't be broken open in half a day, but the current artillery is different. After a few shots,
, the city gate has cracked.
Finally, after several rounds of artillery fire, the entire south gate of the Western Xia Royal City was bombarded into pieces. "Cavalry is ready to enter the Western Xia Royal City!" Tens of thousands of Northwest Army cavalry who had been prepared for a long time went directly to kill them.
After the south gate of the Xixia King's City was opened, a group of Xixia people held up their spears and stood behind the city gate. They formed a spear formation to face the cavalry of the Northwest Army who rushed over.
