The two hot air balloons were a huge loss for Li Hu'er, and Li Hu'er said angrily: "Damn, the herald Mingjin withdrew his troops."
Without the help of hot air balloons, the Xia army will inevitably suffer huge losses if it is attacked, Li Hu'er chose to withdraw the army is a very wise choice, but the two withdrawals are also a big blow to the morale of the Xia army, once upon a time the Xia army was invincible, and today it was defeated twice in a row under this small square city; At the same time, the Xia army was defeated twice in a row, which greatly increased the morale of the Song army stationed in Fangcheng, and they brazenly defended it.
Fangcheng was in the camp of the summer army and the big tent of the Chinese army.
Li Hu'er said to the generals: "Raise soldiers for a thousand days, and use them for a while; It's all at this time, you can also think of a way for Lao Tzu."
"General, Fangcheng is well defended, easy to defend and difficult to attack; It's not easy for our army to storm easily," said one of the generals.
"I know this, I'm asking you how to attack" "The last general thinks that we can eliminate a small force and attack the Song army camps on the mountains on both sides, as long as we take these two camps, it will be easy to take the next city."
"General, I think it's inappropriate."
Another said; "They don't know the importance of the two camps of the Song army, so they will definitely send heavy guards to guard them, and the more people our army goes, it is easy to be exposed, and the less people who go is tantamount to meat buns and dogs."
"What do you say should be done" "I thought I could send an elite army to cross Fangcheng Mountain and attack Fangcheng from the rear, and it might be possible to flank from both sides."
"Fangcheng Mountain is steep, where did it come from, and how did we get the news about what we would encounter along the way, and how we met to fight on both sides."
"It's better than waiting here."
Li Hu'er slapped the handsome case and said: "Okay, don't make any noise; Let's all go back and think about what to do."
"General, the last general has a bad idea."
"Bad idea" Li Hu'er frowned and said, "I'll take a look at your spoiled ideas." ” "General, there is a kind of return cannon in our army; It is said to be very powerful, but no one knows if you haven't tried it. ” "What is the return gun" Li Hu'er said puzzledly: "Why hasn't Ben heard of it?"
” "General, the last general once mentioned it to the general, and the general may have forgotten."
"Then what's going on with this return cannon, you tell General Ben."
"General Yu, this was done by a few craftsmen from the Western Regions, and it is currently in our army."
"Is there a finished product now?"
asked Li Hu'er.
"General Yu yet."
"How long does it take to do it?"
"Because it's so complicated, it takes about seven or eight days."
"Seven or eight days is too long, I would have given you three days, and you have to come up with five finished products in three days."
"Yes, the last general commands" In three days, all the officers and men of the Xia army were mobilized, and the manufacturing process of the return cannon was very complicated, and the requirements for wood were very high, and all important connections needed to be fixed with nails, the reason for this was to prevent the return cannon from falling apart when firing; Fortunately, the Xia army had sufficient manpower, and there were ready-made timbers on Fangcheng Mountain, so they did not delay for too long, and five return guns were built in three days.
In order to facilitate the movement, wheels were also installed under the return artillery, and with the return artillery, Li Huer decided to try it once, if it didn't work at that time, he could only attack, and what kind of tough battle the Xia army had not fought, the big deal was that the losses were a little bigger, anyway, these losses would have to be recovered from the hands of the Song army sooner or later.
"Hey, hey," Song Jun shouted the slogan and pushed the return cannon outside Fangcheng.
The firing range of the return cannon is much farther than that of the ordinary catapult, so the position of the five return cannons is outside the attack of the Song army's bed crossbow and catapults, after the return cannon is stopped, several soldiers immediately use a few sticks to fix the return cannon, and the bottom line of the return cannon is padded with soil, and the base of the entire return cannon is buried in the ground.
After all this was prepared, Li Hu'er ordered: "Try it with a stone first, don't waste gunpowder then." ” "Yes; 100 pounds of stone preparation; Put" With an order, five large stones of more than 100 catties flew towards Fangcheng, three of which flew over the city wall, and two stones hit the city wall, and the entire city wall was smashed to the ground; Li Hu'er was overjoyed to see such a huge power and said: "Quick, change a big stone, two hundred catties" Two hundred pounds of boulders can still be thrown, and they can be thrown into position; With such a sharp weapon to attack Fang Cheng, it would be much easier to say, Li Hu'er immediately ordered: "Order to build thirty more such return guns, and also bring all the big bombs we dropped in hot air balloons to the general, and use the return guns to throw them at me." ” The first day of the attack is basically a test cannon, the Xia army has been trying until the evening to end the Ming Jin to collect the troops, the Song army defending the city is miserable, even the face of the Xia army has not been seen, this day lost three or four hundred people, in the next few days, the Xia army used the return artillery to attack every day, and it was only a long-range attack, and it was not a siege at all, if the Song army was guarding on the city wall, it was a target to be beaten, but if it was evacuated, it was worried that the Xia army would take the opportunity to attack.
"Damn Xia Jun."
The general of the Song army said: "Hurry up and ask the deputy marshal for help, let the deputy marshal send troops to reinforcements, and if the fight continues like this, it will be a matter of time before the Xia army breaks the city." ” The number of return cannons is increasing every day, because the previous foundation of the previous Great Xia thirty return cannons was completed in only three days, with these thirty-five back cannons, Li Hu'er decided to launch a fierce attack on the other city; Of the 50 return guns, 15 of them were bombs and explosive packs, and another 20 were huge stones, and the walls of the entire city were already crumbling under the continuous blow of the return guns.
On this day, the Xia army carried out an hour's preparation for a long attack before the attack, and under the cover of the return artillery, the Xia army launched a fierce attack on Fangcheng, returning artillery, catapults, bed crossbows, and crossbowmen; All the dense firepower was so dense that the Song army on the head of the city could not raise its head, and the soldiers of the Xia army pushed the rushing cart and the building car and set up the ladder to attack Fangcheng.
After the Xia army put the ladder on the head of the city, the blow of the return cannon began to extend to the city, and the rest of the long-range offensive weapons were stopped, and the tragic hand-to-hand combat began, although the Song army occupied this advantage in numbers, but in the face of the fierce attack of the Xia army, the Song army was almost a little unable to parry, and the Xia army successfully climbed the city wall on the first day, giving the Song army a great blow, and the Song army that properly defended the city suffered heavy losses.
Under the leadership of Li Hu'er, the Xia army launched a three-day onslaught on the first line of defense of Fangcheng, and finally took the first line of defense of Fangcheng, the Song army retreated to the second line of defense after suffering huge losses, in order not to give the Song army time to react, the Xia army immediately launched the most fierce attack on the Song army, in the third day, the Xia army miraculously took the three lines of defense of the Song military city, so far the Song army's city defense line was completely lost, 50,000 elite Song army, and finally less than 10,000 people escaped from Fangcheng, The Xia army lost nearly 20,000 people, which shows the tragic situation of the battle.
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