The next evening Liang Yongneng led the rear army to finally arrive, the Khwarazm army defending the city has been on guard against the Xia army to attack the city, but the Xia army has no intention of attacking the city all day, after Liang Yongneng came, Li Bingchang's heart also has the bottom, after all, if there is no artillery and other heavy weapons to help, I am afraid that the Xia army will have a lot of losses if you want to take this strong city, but any loss is unbearable for Li Bingchang in the early stage of entrepreneurship.
"Lord Wang, now that the artillery, return artillery, bed crossbows, building carts and other heavy siege equipment have arrived, when will we attack the city?"
Liang Yongneng asked Li Bingchang.
"Don't worry, it's not time yet."
Li Bingchang said: "In addition to artillery and bed crossbows, the rest of our siege equipment needs to be assembled, which takes time, we take our time, the army marches for days is hard enough, rest for three days first, and attack the city after three days." ” "Yes, the last general commands" Three days is not too long, and it is not too short; In the three days when Li Bingchang was preparing ordnance, Li Hao, the king of Yue, led 50,000 Xia army iron cavalry to Li'an, which was a small city, with only tens of thousands of people and thousands of defenders in the city, and the city walls were low and the defense was very weak.
Therefore, after killing the city, Li Hao ordered the siege of the city without saying a word; The iron cavalry of the Xia army led by Li Hao was a long-distance march and did not carry heavy siege equipment, so it was necessary to be fast if you wanted to take the city, once the Khorezm army defending the city was prepared, it was not so easy to capture the city.
"Lord Wang, our army has no siege equipment, and if we attack the city rashly, I am afraid that we will suffer heavy losses."
A general said to Li Hao.
"This is simple, didn't we bring a lot of earth-shattering thunder and explosives bags" Li Hao said to General Xia: "You send a few people to rush to the city gate and use gunpowder to blow up the city gate for this king." ” "Yes, the last general commands" Soon a bunch of explosives bags were prepared, more than a dozen Xia army dead soldiers each held a shield and went to the city gate, although the Khwarazm army defending the city did not stop the room, but it could not stop the advance of the Xia army, not to mention that the Xia army outside the city also had archers to cover, 50,000 Xia army knights are excellent archers, 50,000 people to cover more than a dozen people, such a way of fighting is probably the first time in the world, the Khorezm army defending the city is not able to lift its head at all by the Xia army's arrow rain.
The explosives bag was quickly put away, and the Khorezm army was still in a daze at this time, and after igniting the powder twist, the dozen or so Xia army warriors immediately hid away from the city gate and hid under the city wall, and used their shields to protect themselves tightly; It didn't take long to hear a loud "boom", and the entire city gate was blown away.
When the smoke of gunpowder had not yet dispersed, Li Hao, the king of Yue, immediately ordered: "Order the army to enter the city" As soon as the city gate was broken, it meant that the city of Li'an was lost, after the 50,000 Xia army entered the city, a tragic massacre was carried out immediately, the Khorezm people and the Xia people look different, they are the color of the people, in the eyes of the Xia army they are alien, there is an ancient Chinese saying called non-my race, its heart must be different; For the Great Xia Empire, these people with colored eyes are different races from themselves, and it is impossible for them to become the subjects of the Great Xia Empire.
Of course, not all the people were killed, all the men in the city were killed except for the craftsmen, the old people and children were also not spared, only those women between the ages of fourteen and thirty survived, the total number of people was only a few thousand, these women who could give birth were also a resource for Xia Jun, although the children they gave birth to, there was also a part of the blood of the Semu people, but as long as their father was a Xia person, they would also be recognized as Xia people.
It only took an hour for the Xia army to take this city, and the entire city was basically not damaged, and the Khorezm people also stored a large amount of grain, cattle and sheep and other livestock in the city, which have now become the combat weapons of the Xia army; The Xia army was originally far away from the territory of the country, and the logistics resources that could be used were limited, so the Xia army's westward expedition could only be used to support the war, and if it relied on the rear to supply, it would be starved to death sooner or later.
"General, now that we have taken this city, what should we do next?"
a Xia general asked Li Hao.
"When my father went on his first expedition to the west, you should have followed," Li Hao asked General Xia.
"Yes, the last general was still a pawn back then, and it was the honor of the last general to have the honor to fight with His Majesty."
Xia Jiang said proudly.
"Then how did my father do it back then," Li Hao then asked.
"At that time, every time our army occupied a city, it would use the city as a base to sweep around, exterminate the surrounding foreign tribes, and then occupy more cities, and then connect the city line, and then from the line to the surface, and then achieve the purpose of controlling an area in the future, and then move the people here, so that they successfully occupied this place."
Xia Jiang briefly introduced to Li Hao.
"Since that's the case, then we can't just do what our father did back then."
Li Hao, the king of Yue, said with a smile: "The herald army will rest in the city for three days today, and then take three thousand people as a town, and take turns to go out of the city to sweep the surrounding tribes, and at most ten towns can go out of the city every day."
"Yes, the last general commands" The tribes around this time are unlucky, the tribes around Rian are located on the north bank of the Amu Darya River, which is surrounded by grasslands and has now become a desert There are many nomadic tribes, most of them are Khorezmians, and there are also Seljuk Turks, the sweep of the Xia army They are unlucky, basically they are all killed, all the cattle, sheep and horses can be robbed, and they are burned if they can't be taken away, and women are also one of the important trophies of the Xia army; Of course, some escaped, and those who escaped quickly reported to the king of Khorezm, Galga.
Just when Li Hao was killing in the local area, the battle of Puhualuo also began, and Li Bingchang, the king of Jin, personally commanded the battle; Li Bingchang said to the generals: "According to our intelligence, the weakest point in this city is the northern city, then we will take the northern city as the main direction of attack, and transport our thirty artillery, forty return guns, bed crossbows, and building carts to the north city for this king, and first use the return artillery and artillery to carry out long-range strikes, and it is best to collapse the city wall for this king." ” "Yes, follow the orders of the prince" The Xia army's attack soon began, and the return artillery threw large stones, each of which was more than 300 catties, and the artillery fired solid projectiles made of iron was specially used to attack the city wall.
"Open the gun" "Boom, boom, boom, boom" Thirty cannons emitted a thunderous rage, this is the first time that human beings have used artillery to attack the city, the entire city wall is crumbling under the blow of artillery and return artillery, Li Bingchang is not in a hurry to attack at all, and has been using artillery and return artillery to attack, which has brought heavy casualties to the Khorezm army defending the city, especially the huge sound of artillery, which frightened the Khorezm army.
"Lord Wang, the artillery is too hot, I'm afraid it will explode if it continues."
The artillery general reported to Li Bingchang.
"Order the artillery to stop attacking, and return the cannon stones to increase the weight of the wall, and blow up the city wall for the king."
"Yes, the last general commands" Under the blow of the boulder, it didn't take long for a large part of the wall of the northern city to collapse directly, and with this gap, it was much easier for the Xia army to attack the city
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