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    The continuous barracks surrounded the Zhenrong army, the moat had long been filled in, and even the city walls had been destroyed by trebuchets in many places.

    The twenty-day siege left the city walls stained with blood.

    Many times, Xixia soldiers have climbed to the top of the city, only to be beaten down by the tenacious Western army.

    The terrain in the northwest is steep, and most of the cities are built in strategic locations. The Northern Song Dynasty and Western Xia both lacked siege equipment. However, the terrain of many cities made it impossible to use siege equipment. As long as the defenders were prepared, it was easy to defeat ten with one.

    In the fifth year of Zhenghe, Liu Zhongwu and Wang Hou led 100,000 troops to attack Zangdihe City. The defenders in the city could not exceed 10,000 people. In the end, the army suffered nearly half casualties, but it was still not captured.

    There are many such examples, so the Northern Song Dynasty and Xixia rushed to build castles in strategic locations.  If a nail is stuck in a dangerous place, it will take a lot of effort for the other party to pull it out, and it will also wear out the fingers.  This is a way to bleed each other's blood. Both countries have been doing this for decades, and no one can do anything about the other.  Because as soon as a nail was pulled out, the other party would immediately hammer in another one.  Unless the opponent is crippled at one time, the battle between the two sides is to pull out each other's nails.

    In the past ten years, Tong Guan has been very fierce with his troops. He pulled out many nails in Xixia in one go, but all his fingers were worn out.  Unknowingly, half of the Western Army's blood was left.

    But this time it was the turn of Xixia troops to pull out the nail. When the 200,000-strong army reached the Zhenrong Army, only 150,000 were left, and no more than 10,000 people could be beheaded.

    Although Brother Cha knew that these ten thousand people were veterans of the Zhong family army, Brother Cha was still heartbroken. The results of the battle were only more than ten castles and one city of Huaide's army.  Cha Ge also knew that the gains outweighed the losses by capturing these castles, but he had no choice. These castles were stuck in dangerous places, and the places that could be bypassed were all narrow paths.

    The 200,000-strong army will only take more time to go around than to attack by force.

    Xixia wants to capture the Sixth Route of Shaanxi.  Even into the Central Plains.  What they are fighting for is time. Only by taking advantage of the chaos in the Central Plains can they have a chance to capture more places.  Otherwise, if the Han people free their hands, they will give them a severe blow.

    In order to seize time, Brother Cha relied on his superior strength to crush all the way, regardless of casualties, stormed the castles along the way, and defeated the Zhenrong Army.

    Li Qianshun¡¯s route was much faster.  One is that someone from Xi'an Prefecture has surrendered, and the other is that Mr. Xianggong, the old manager, does not have that many troops to deploy all the castles.

    In the sixth year of Zhenghe, Cha Ge led people to destroy the Jingxia City built by Zhongshi Dao. After the city was destroyed, they slaughtered all the Zhongjia troops in the city, which greatly weakened the Zhongjia army.

    Laozhong, who lacked troops, chose to deploy the Huaide Army, the Zhenrong Army, and the Deshun Army.  Otherwise, just by relying on the fortresses along the way, we can severely unleash the blood of the two Xixia armies.

    When they reached Zhenrong Army, Brother Cha once sent people to the city to persuade Liu Zhongwu to surrender, but Liu Zhongwu refused.  Brother Cha had no choice but to use his troops to besiege the Zhenrong army.

    Brother Cha didn¡¯t take Liu Zhongwu seriously. The only two people he feared were Liu Fa and Lao Zhong.  After Liu Fa died.  Only the old species are left.  But he soon discovered that even if Liu Zhongwu was given a strong city, it would be difficult for him to defeat Liu Zhongwu.  The only thing he is better than Liu Zhongwu is his field fighting ability, but Liu Zhongwu obviously will not give him a chance to fight in the field.

    Liu Zhongwu will not fight.  He could only attack the city.

    There is a moat in Zhenrong Army, and it is very deep. He wants to dig tunnels and collapse the city walls.  Obviously it can't be done.  They can only fill in the moat and build siege equipment to attack by storm.

    Making siege equipment requires wood.  But the craftsman told him that all the trees within twenty miles had been cut down.

    After Liu Zhongwu arrived at Zhenrong Army, the first thing he did was to send people to cut down the trees outside the city.  Those that cannot be burned are pushed into the Hulu River. It doesn't matter where they float. They will only float to the southeast and will never reach the hands of the Xixia people.

    Shaanxi Sixth Road overhauled the castle. There were not many trees left, and they were chopped down by 20,000 people.  By the time Chage came over, they had cut down all the trees for twenty miles on both sides of the Hulu River.  A lot of large forests in other directions were burned. They didn't burn the forests even further away, but it was not easy to transport firewood from more than ten miles away.

    When Brother Cha heard this, he almost vomited blood.

    Some generals suggested that he demolish the houses of nearby people, but Brother Cha did not do so.

    They are not planning to grab a handful and leave this time, but to turn Shaanxi Sixth Road into their territory. Brother Cha, who is proficient in Han Chineseization, also knows that he must try his best to win over the people.  If all their houses are demolished, it won't take long for everyone in Shaanxi Sixth Road to know about it.  At that time, the Han people will fight to the death, just like the Zhong family army before.  There are not that many people in Xixia fighting against the Han people.

    Brother Cha ordered the soldiers to escort the craftsmen to the nearest forest to make siege equipment and transport it over.

    It took a day to transport the first batch to attack the city from more than ten miles away. When they started to attack the city, they encountered oil.

    &nbspThe name "oil" was first used by Shen Kuo of the Northern Song Dynasty in "Mengxi Bi Tan".  However, the discovery and application of oil happened very early, and oil gushes out in many places in the northwest.  When the Western Army and Xixia soldiers and horses were defending the city, they would use oil to burn the siege equipment, thus making the siege more difficult.

    To build a simple ladder, the Western Army would not use oil, because the oil in the city is also limited.  Moreover, if the 30,000 Western troops defending the city were breached by the ladder, it would definitely be a great shame for the Western troops.

    Brother Cha could not defraud the Western Army of oil. He only relied on ladders to inflict thousands of casualties, and no one reached the top of the city.  Cha Ge could only grit his teeth and use the large-scale siege equipment he had made. Then the Western Army used a trebuchet to smash cans of oil on the siege equipment. Then a rocket could make the large-scale siege equipment that the craftsmen spent a lot of effort build  The siege engines were reduced to ashes.

    In just three days, the forest more than ten miles away was cut down, and all the large siege equipment manufactured was burned.  Craftsmen can only go further to cut down trees, and it takes half a day to deliver a batch of wood.

    Brother Cha didn¡¯t dare to let the craftsmen make large equipment anymore, otherwise the army would watch under the city as the craftsmen¡¯s hard work turned into piles of ashes, and then they would have to wait outside the city.

    On the fifth day of the siege, the Xixia soldiers and horses began to attack the city one after another. There were no sophisticated siege equipment, just simple ladders.

    A series of simple ladders were set up on the city wall, and the Xixia people climbed up without fear of death.  The Western Army used the stones that had been prepared to hit the Xixia people below. When the stones were used up, they used push rods to push down the ladder.  Those who were lucky enough to climb to the top of the city were greeted by condescending swords and guns.

    The Xixia people spent several days building a mountain of earth outside the city, which was higher than the top of the city. The archers shot down on the people on the top of the city.  However, the crossbows of the Western Army had a longer range than the crossbows of the Xixia people, and they could not hit the Western Army even though the mountains were several feet above the city.

    Brother Cha could only order his men to continue to pile up the earth mountain, but the higher the earth mountain, the larger the volume, and it became more difficult to pile it up.

    After twenty days of siege, the Xixia army lost 80,000 people.

    Brother Zhongcha sent someone to recruit Liu Zhongwu and promised him a higher official position, but Liu Zhongwu remained unmoved.  He also shot Chage's envoy with an arrow.

    It¡¯s not that Brother Cha didn¡¯t want to personally recruit Liu Zhongwu to surrender, but Liu Zhongwu¡¯s shooting skills were superb, and he also had a son, Liu Qi, whose shooting skills were even better.  There are many rumors about Liu Qi's archery skills in Xixia. There are hundreds of Xixia soldiers shot by Liu Qi these days, and Brother Cha doesn't want him to be one of them.

    A banquet.  Everyone wants to see Liu Qi's shooting skills.  Liu Qi asked someone to hang up a kettle and shoot an arrow first. After pulling it out, water continued to flow out of the arrow hole.  Liu Qi shot another arrow and immediately blocked the hole left by the previous arrow, and the water stopped flowing out.

    In fact, Brother Cha also knew that in the middle of the battle, neither the Western Army nor the Xixia troops dared to surrender.

    A few years ago, Liu Fa attacked Xia Renduoquan City for more than ten days.  Unable to wait for reinforcements, the Xixia defenders opened the city and surrendered. As a result, Liu Fa ordered the massacre of the surrendered defenders in the city.  Then after Xixia captured Jingxia City, they also massacred all the defenders in the city.

    After these two battles.  No one dared to surrender anymore.

    Since the surrender failed, Brother Cha could only continue to besiege the Zhenrong Army. The Zhenrong Army could bypass it, but there were more than 10,000 elite Western troops in the Zhenrong Army.  Brother Cha did not dare to leave them behind and attack Weizhou.

    And the Deshun Army was not captured on the other side, after Brother Cha discussed with Li Qianshun.  Decided to attack the city regardless of cost on both sides.

    Half of the soldiers and horses of Deshun Army and Zhenrong Army were Zhongjia troops, and the rest were soldiers and horses of the Western Army who had returned from Jiangnan.

    They originally wanted to take advantage of the fact that most of the Western Army was in the south of the Yangtze River and destroy the Zhong Family Army first. Unexpectedly, the Western Army rushed back one by one desperately and actually came back before they besieged the city.  After Xixia confirmed that the Central Plains was in chaos, they quickly gathered their troops and horses. They gathered troops and horses very quickly. As soon as the Central Plains changed dynasties, all the men of each tribe would immediately gather together.  The 400,000-strong army consists of only the three military divisions of Jingsai, Xishou Baotai, Zhuoge and Nan. Together with the soldiers and horses from Xingqing Prefecture and Lingzhou, the total is only 250,000. The remaining 150,000 are spontaneously organized by nearby tribes.  The soldiers and horses got up.

    As the population of Xixia gradually increased, all the people were no longer soldiers as in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Each tribe had a large number of empty soldiers. Li Qianshun just promised a heavy reward and asked everyone to take up arms.

    Even if these 400,000 people are used up, Xixia can still organize an army of 400,000 people.  However, the Zhenrong Army and the Deshun Army were all owned by Laozhong. As long as the Zhongjia Army was wiped out, there would be only one Laozhong left.  The old man is a powerful soldier, but if one man goes into battle, several Xixia warriors can cut off his head.

    There is another group of 200,000 soldiers and horses in Xixia gathered in Hongzhou, led by Xixia Puwang Renzhong. However, because Hengshan was captured by the Northern Song Dynasty, the terrain was more dangerous.  So Renzhong has been trying to?Buy generals on Huanqing Road and Fuyan Road in order to gain a breakthrough into Shaanxi.

    A few days ago, news came from Renzhong that Xue Sichang, the envoy of Huanqing Road, had agreed to join Xixia.

    Renzhong originally wanted to send troops into Shaanxi immediately and encircle Jingyuan Road in three directions, but Brother Cha thought that the Prince of Liang would bring troops and horses to reinforce the Western Army, so he asked Renzhong to wait until the Prince of Liang came to Weizhou, and then attack again  Exiting Huanqing Road, three groups of soldiers and horses surrounded Jingyuan Road.  At that time, not only will the old man be captured, but Prince Daliang will also be captured.

    He did not consider that he would not be able to capture the soldiers and horses of Daliang. Xixia Xizuo had already found out clearly that Daliang was a group of grass bandits in a place called Liangshan in the east of Jingdong. They captured Zhao Ji and Man Chaowu, then deceived Tokyo and destroyed the Song Dynasty.  It was impossible for the majestic Xixia army to defeat a group of grass bandits, so they still surrounded 100,000 grass bandits with an army of 600,000.

    Speaking of Zhao Yan, he deserved it, and actually dug an authentic to go to a private meeting and a green building woman.  That's not a tunnel, it's a tomb dug for the Song Dynasty.

    A few days ago, news came from Yelu Dashi of the Liao Kingdom. The Emperor of Liao went on a personal expedition and was defeated by Daliang's firearms. Thousands of people were killed and injured. Then the emperor withdrew his troops. Yelu Dashi also asked them to be careful of Daliang's firearms.

    Brother Cha had known for a long time that the Liao Kingdom was in decline. A few years ago, it took the Liao Kingdom eight years to calm down due to the Zupu rebellion, and Xixia even sent troops to assist.  In recent years, the rebellions of the Jurchens and Bohai people have made the Liao Kingdom even more exhausted.  After Cha Ge heard that the Liao Kingdom was also conquered by the emperor himself, he gave up any hope for the Liao Kingdom.  In the battle of Hubu Dagang, an army of 700,000 was defeated by 20,000 Jurchens.  There is such a constraint from the emperor.  No matter how big a deal Yelu Dashi and others have, I'm afraid they won't be able to carry it out.

    The Song Dynasty¡¯s firearm Cha Ge was no stranger. It had some power, but it was not enough to affect the situation of the battle.  A group of grass bandits in Daliang definitely couldn't make firearms, they just stole some firearms from the Song Dynasty.  The Liao Kingdom and the Song Dynasty had not fought for a hundred years, and the soldiers had never seen Song Dynasty firearms, so they were caught off guard.  Perhaps a firearm hit the Liao Emperor and frightened him back.

    The Xixia soldiers had seen a lot of Song Dynasty firearms, so why should they be afraid?

    The three armies annihilated the Zhong family army and Daliang soldiers and horses.  The remaining Western troops on Fuyan Road and Yongxing Road are nothing to worry about.  Without Shaanxi Sixth Road, the entire Central Plains would be like a woman without clothes, no longer covered.

    Xixia is unable to invade the Central Plains, but it can first invade and occupy the Sixth Route of Shaanxi just like the Liao Kingdom conquered the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun.  Then they coerced the Liangshan grass bandits in the Central Plains to contribute some gold and silver to develop.  If Prince Daliang can be captured alive, perhaps Daliang can be made a puppet of Xixia.

    Even if it cannot control Daliang, Xixia can still concentrate on development.  With the large population of Shaanxi Sixth Road, a Dangxiang man can marry ten Han women. Twenty years later, the Dangxiang people can form a larger army, and then they can conquer the Central Plains.

    ??Zhongshidao and Chage, who have been fighting for more than ten years, have a big plan this time. It depends on who has better teeth.

    The sunset is like blood.  The land under the city wall has long been soaked with blood, turning red and black.

    Some wild dogs were lingering around the battlefield, grabbing a stump and a broken arm in their mouths and running away.

    Zhao Ji is a dog, so dog slaughter is prohibited nationwide.  In recent years, excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes have become severe, and the people cannot afford to keep many dogs, so many wild dogs have been created.

    The life of wild dogs is also difficult. It is very difficult to compete with wild animals for food in the mountains and forests.  So they came smelling blood.

    Although after the war started, Brother Cha asked the soldiers to kill the wild dogs around the battlefield.  But there is always a hungry dog ??with blood-red eyes that refuses to leave.

    They seem to understand guerrilla warfare better than the Xixia people. As soon as the cavalry comes, the wild dogs burrow into the forest. As soon as the cavalry leaves, the wild dogs come out.

    This is also the declaration of war of Li Yuanhao, the founding leader of the Xixia Kingdom. He was trying to steal some property and people from the Song Kingdom. When the Song army came, they would fight if they could, and if they couldn't defeat them, they would run away.

    Now that wild dogs use the same tricks as their ancestors, they realize how shameless this trick is.

    Many Xixia soldiers could not help shouting at the wild dogs, and if they had the guts, they would fight in an upright manner.  But the wild dogs were not from the same clan as them and could not understand what they were saying.  Or they understood, but they also followed Li Yuanhao's example and shamelessly continued their tactics.

    At first, the Xixia people were filled with indignation and did not want wild dogs to take away the limbs of their comrades.  But after more than ten days of siege, no one had the strength to fight the wild dogs anymore.

    After defeating the remaining 150,000 Huade Army, another 80,000 were lost, some of whom were injured and sent to the rear.  The remaining people have long since lost their energy and feel dizzy under their feet. Who still has the strength to fight the wild dogs.  Everyone has climbed the ladder. They are lucky and unlucky. They have to stand here and watch their colleagues continue to fall down the ladder.

    Until now, many soldiers have complained.  Since the founding of Xixia, no city has been besieged for more than two seconds.??day.  They can capture the city if the defenders are not prepared.  The defenders were well prepared and after more than ten days of siege, reinforcements arrived.  So they ran away with their plunder.  But now, after more than 20 days of strong attack, the enemy has no reinforcements, but they can't conquer the city. They can only watch their relatives of the tribe fall from the city every day.

    If Cha Ge hadn¡¯t promised to let them loot freely after taking the city, I¡¯m afraid these soldiers would have refused to attack the city again.

    Brother Cha and several generals stood at a place outside the city to observe the formation, watching as a soldier rushed up and turned into a corpse, or fell down and wailed under the city, and then another wave of soldiers continued their unfinished mission.

    The sky is starting to get dark, and whether we can break the city depends on this wave of soldiers.

    A general pointed at a section of the city wall and shouted: "Go up"

    Brother Cha heard the news and saw that a soldier climbed up to the top of the city and chopped down several people in the blink of an eye.  Well done, another person comes up from behind.

    That fan is very fierce. No matter how many people come up behind him, he is always on the front line.

    Without the obstruction of the Western Army, the Xixia soldiers and horses under the city quickly climbed up from the ladder. Dozens of them occupied a small area of ??the city.

    Seeing that the city was about to be breached, Brother Cha couldn't help but said with joy: "Go and ask the name of the first one to come to the city. He will be rewarded with a hundred gold, a hundred camels, and a thousand sheep. Intensify the attack on the city, we will capture the city today."

    The soldiers ran towards the general commanding the siege without saying a word.

    "No, I will take charge personally."

    As soon as the soldiers left, Brother Cha, who had always been indifferent to favors and humiliations, changed his mind and strode towards the city.

    Several generals also hurriedly followed.

    As soon as Brother Cha took a few steps, he saw something change at the top of the city. A general of the Western Army swung his sword to meet the leading Fan. He chopped the man to the ground in a few moments, and then he was like a tiger among the sheep.  , other Western troops also took the opportunity to attack fiercely.

    When Brother Cha walked to the front of the formation, dozens of people on the top of the city had been killed.

    The soldier just asked the name of the first warrior who came to the city, but the warrior was gone, so he couldn't help but look at Brother Cha with an embarrassed look.

    "Retract your troops. The whole army will rest and regroup tomorrow and prepare to face the Liangshan soldiers and horses."

    Brother Cha said a word, turned around and left.  As for the reward just now, it will obviously be at a discount. There were quite a few people who climbed to the top of the city in the past few days, so we can't favor one over the other.
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