The soldiers of Xixia were tired of marching and their morale was sluggish. Under the fierce attack of the Song army, the soldiers of Xixia were in chaos and their teams were soon defeated. At this time, as two gunpowder arrows exploded in the sky, dust suddenly flew in the distance, and the earth began to tremble slightly. Soon the dust covered the sky and the sun. The eight thousand cavalry led by Wang Gui were coming from two miles away.

"Array to fight!"

"Array to fight!"

Gao Tingyi, who was located in the front army, shouted loudly and ordered the soldiers to line up to resist, but at this time the morale of the army had completely shaken. The soldiers began to flee in all directions, and only more than a thousand people responded to his call.

"General, it's a cavalry! The cavalry is coming!" A soldier shouted in fear at the sweeping cavalry.

Gao Tingyi's scalp was numb. He looked back at the army. The army had already fled in all directions, with only more than a thousand people following him. He sighed in his heart and shouted, "Retreat with me!"

He turned his horse's head and fled in panic to Luocheng with more than a thousand soldiers.

Wang Gui's cavalry did not take care of them. They scattered around and began to ruthlessly chase the Xixia soldiers under the moonlight. The bodies of Xixia soldiers who were hacked to death were everywhere in the desert. For a moment, the corpses were everywhere, blood flowing into a river. The pungent bloody aura filled the entire wasteland. A wolves screamed excitedly from afar.

The war ended in an hour. Most of the soldiers in Xixia were killed by the Song army's cavalry, and only a few soldiers fled the battlefield. The Song army slightly cleaned up the battlefield. Li Yanqing led more than 10,000 soldiers back to the camp of Weicheng, and Wang Guize led 8,000 cavalry to Luocheng to pick up Niu Gao's army.

At this time, Gao Tingyi had already learned that Luo Cheng was attacked and captured by the Song army. He was shocked and angry, but very scared and did not dare to stay too long. He sent a soldier to Weicheng to deliver a letter, and he led more than a thousand soldiers to escape to Xiacheng hundreds of miles east. As for how to solve the military ration problem halfway, he himself didn't know.

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The defenders of Weicheng received news that 20,000 reinforcements were destroyed the next afternoon. The news was shocked by Chaka. He immediately used a letter eagle to report the message to Xingqing Mansion, and at the same time ordered the defenders to be on high alert. He knew in his heart that the next target of the Song army must be Weicheng.

As night fell again, Li Yanqing stared at Wei Cheng, which was shrouded in the darkness, wondering if he could knock on the gate of Wei Cheng tonight? Li Yanqing was full of confidence in the battle tonight.

Any city will have defense loopholes. The primary factor in siege is not how powerful siege weapons you have, but whether you have found loopholes in city defense.

Weicheng was built on the hillside. The slope was high and the city was steep, easy to defend but difficult to attack. It seemed impeccable. However, for the experienced Li Yanqing, when he saw Weicheng for the first time, he discovered the biggest weakness in Weicheng's defense, that is, the city was too small.

The circumference of Weicheng City is less than four miles, and less than one mile from east, west, south and north. Such a small city means that it is difficult to resist the saturated attacks of the enemy without a strategic depth.

As early as Li Yanqing arrived in Xixia, the ten heavy trenchers were transported to the front-line military camp by dismantling parts. Hundreds of craftsmen installed the ten heavy trenchers in just one day.

With the help of the night cover, ten heavy catapults began to slowly move towards Weicheng. This heavy catapult was two feet high and six feet high and five feet long, and could throw a hundred kilograms of heavy objects away from two hundred steps. If the heavy object was reduced to fifty kilograms, the range could reach 350 steps.

Although there are more than a dozen miniature catapults on the top of Weicheng City, the target of this catapult is mainly the enemy attacking the mountain. The throwing distance is up to fifty steps, and it cannot threaten the heavy catapults in the distance.

Unless the Xixia army uses a bed crossbow, even if the Xixia army uses a bed crossbow, the Song army will have a complete response. What's more, the Xixia does not have the longest-range strike weapon, such as the bed crossbow, and at most only a military crossbow with a range of 150 steps. In the face of the Song army's long-range attack, the Xixia army is helpless.

The Song army set the position of the ten heavy trenchers at 200 steps away. When shooting upwards here, they could easily throw 50 kilograms of heavy objects into the city. Although they knew that the Western Xia army had no choice but to attack two hundred steps away, the general Liu Ziyu still ordered the construction of a fence. The so-called fence is to build a sandbag wall in front of the trencher with sandbags, which was two feet high and one mile long. The Song army shot upwards without any obstacles, but shooting downwards on the city will be effectively blocked by the sandbag wall.

Liu Ziyu volunteered, and he led 5,000 troops to become the main force in attacking Weicheng tonight, but the entire attack plan was formulated by coach Li Yanqing, and Liu Ziyu must implement the established plan without fail.

Ten heavy trenchers creaked behind the sandbag wall, and ten thunders were placed in the throwing steel pockets. The thunders were just the first step of the attack, with the purpose of destroying all stone buildings in the city, but the real blow was the second step.

‘Dong! dong! dong! dong! dong!’ With a fierce drum sound, the Song soldiers lit the fuse, the catapult fired, and the throwing rod was swung out like a long arm. Ten black thunders rose into the air, flew out from the heads of the soldiers guarding the city, and fell into the city one by one.

Ten deafening thunders exploded one after another in the city, and the explosions were deafening, and the gray-black smoke rose into the sky, connecting them in the sky, covering the entire city.

Immediately afterwards, ten lit thunders were thrown into the city. The city rumbling and exploded, like muffled thunder in the clouds rolling over Weicheng. The pungent smoke filled the whole city. In just two rounds of explosions, most of the houses made of stones and wood had collapsed. Thousands of soldiers were panicked and rushed to the corners. Only by hiding in the corners could they not be buried by the collapsed houses.

The Song army launched five rounds of attacks of the sky-shaking thunder. Fifty rounds of shocking thunders flattened almost all buildings in the city. Even the beacon tower collapsed in the third round of explosion. After the five rounds of explosions, nearly a thousand people were injured and killed in the Western Xia defenders. At this time, the Song army began the second strike, attacking Weicheng by fire.

The Song army's fire attack had its own rules, which was much smarter than when the Jin army attacked Tokyo. Three thousand crossbowmen held their divine arms and crossbows and raised their shields to a hundred steps away from the foot of the mountain, squatting down, using giant shields to cover themselves, and at the same time, ignited the turbulent oil on the arrow with a fire snorkeling. Rockets began to burn. At this time, ten catapults fired rapidly and threw ten turbulent oil tanks into the city.

This kind of tincture oil tank is made of a thin-skinned clay pot. It weighs fifty kilograms after filling the tincture oil. The biggest feature of this kind of clay pot is that it is not strong and will break even if it falls from three feet high, not to mention being shot from a high altitude outside the city.

Just as ten tincture tanks soared into the air, three thousand crossbowmen fired rockets into the city. This plan was formulated by Li Yanqing. He mainly considered that there might be a dedicated person in the city to put out the fire. Of course, the rockets and tincture oil landed at the same time, and even if there were special people to put out the fire, it would be too late.

Just as the turbulent oil tank flew into the city, the sound of shooting clappers sounded, and three thousand soldiers raised their crossbows and fired three thousand rockets into the city. The army then retreated backwards like a tide.

Three thousand rockets rushed into the city like a group of fireflies on a summer night, and then caused a sea of ​​fire in the city, with shattered pottery and overflowing tinsel oil everywhere in the city.

As for the specialized fire-fighting soldiers that Li Yanqing was worried about, there was no trace at all. Not to mention whether they could survive the explosion, more importantly, the specialized fire-fighting soldiers would only be prepared if they experienced a fierce battle like the Tokyo Defense War. Weicheng, who had not experienced the fire for decades, would not have such awareness? Li Yanqing still looked at the Western Xia defenders too highly.

The ignition of tinder oil made the fire extinguishing meaningless. Then, the second, third and fourth rounds of the fire burned all night. The Song army threw hundreds of cans of tinder oil into the city, causing the entire Weicheng to be engulfed by the fire.

The next day at dawn, the entire town was still covered with black smoke, but there was no guard soldier on the top of the city. Dozens of miniature trenchers on the top of the city were burned to ashes, and the city gate was burned with holes. Only a pair of frames were left behind in front of the city gate. With a light pull, it collapsed. However, it finally saved the trouble of the Song army. Not long after dawn, there was a dull sound, and the city gate fell straight and fell into pieces. Many burning black charcoal rolled down the mountain.

The door opened, allowing the Song soldiers to clearly see the situation inside the military city. There were piles of rocks in the military city, and it was pitch black everywhere. The gates to the north disappeared. The gates to the south were wide open, and the strong north wind blew in. The air was filled with black powder. If you were not careful, your body would be covered with a layer of black gray.

Until noon, Liu Ziyu personally led a team of soldiers to enter Weicheng carefully. The ground was still warm, but there was no defender in the city, and even a complete weapon could not be found. However, except for the city gate disappearing, the entire military city wall was still intact, and the sky-shaking thunder did not fall on the top of the city.

Soon, the soldiers sent by Liu Ziyu reported to Li Yanqing: "I have reported to the commander, there is no enemy soldier in the military city, and the ground at the city gate is no longer hot, so you can enter!"

Li Yanqing nodded and said to the soldier: "Go and tell General Liu, clean up Wei Cheng before dark!"

He then said to Wang Guiling: "You can lead 8,000 cavalry to attack Xiping Prefecture. There are no defenders there, so you must occupy it!"

"Abide by the order!"

Wang Gui took a bow and ran to the deployment. A quarter of an hour later, eight thousand cavalrymen left Weicheng under the leadership of Wang Gui and Cao Meng and rushed towards Xiping City a hundred miles away. They were playing the edge of time and betting that Xingqing Mansion hundreds of miles away did not know the news of Weicheng's fall so quickly. They had to get enough chips before the second decision made by the senior management of Xixia.
Chapter completed!