Today, if we talk about the most types of weapons, the most exquisite ones are the first in the Song Dynasty, the second in the Liao Kingdom, and the second in the Western Xia Dynasty. In this era, the Dangxiang people had not yet mastered the most important siege weapons such as cloud cars and trenchers. Yesterday, the Dangxiang people were eager to achieve success and wanted to take down the security army in one go. In addition to hanging Yang Ding's head on the flagpole in front of the formation to shock the Song army, they also used all the siege weapons they could raise at one time.

However, what made Liang Gewei and his generals difficult to solve was that after putting the heads of Yang Ding, the Dangxiang people went to surrender. What shocked them on the city of the Security Army was that an old man with a white beard but energetic was holding Huang Ling in his hand - the imperial edict of the Emperor of the Song Dynasty - the Quanzhi Security Army Lu Sheng!

The emperor's imperial edict of the Song Dynasty made the Dangxiang people want to use Yang Ding's head to shake the defenders and even persuade them to surrender, but it was nothing in the eyes of others, but in Liang Gewei, who knew the plan to attack Song, it was a very serious matter - he and his family got into the trap of the Song Dynasty! It was only a few days since he killed Yang Ding. It was logical that the Song people knew that Yang Ding was killed should have been the first time when the Dangxiang people attacked Shunning Village. From time to time, the Emperor of Song Dynasty probably did not know the news of Yang Ding's death, but what was the imperial edict in Lu Shi's hands?! In the next four hours, the overwhelming firearm offensive of the Song army greatly opened Liang Gewei's eyes - his only siege weapons were gone - the Song Dynasty was fully prepared!

Although Liang Gewei knew that he had been trapped, he could no longer be allowed at this time - it was easy to come and it was difficult to leave. What should I do if I had 100,000 mouths around me?! The grain that the Jianing Military Command had hoarded for many years was not only related to the logistics of his army's eastern expedition, but also the logistics supply of various military commands and regions bordering the Song Dynasty in the entire southeast of Xixia. Now almost most of the grain transported from Xingqing Prefecture to the Jianing Military Command is given priority, but it is still far from the amount he needs, it is simply a drop in the bucket. I originally expected to break through the city of Song Dynasty in a short time to obtain supplies, but now it seems that this is completely a trap for the Song people. I don't have to think about fighting to support the war!

Liang Gewei wrote a letter to the Jianing Military Office and hoped that they could be responsible for the extermination of the Song army where the sneak attacked the food route. After the letter was sent out, he thought that Liang Yimeng, the prime minister who was in charge of the battle in the Jianing Military Office, was now seriously ill, and probably would not have any effect at this time. So he directly wrote a secret letter to submit it to the Empress Dowager Liang of Xixia, explaining all the processes since the attack on the Song Dynasty in detail, and attached his own suggestions - on the one hand, it raised a large amount of grain and grass in Xixia to transfer the Jianing Military Office to the Jianing Military Office; on the other hand, he hoped to send the elite Xixia troops to the Jianing Military Office to quickly move to the Jianing Military Office so that he could immediately retreat to Xixia in the situation that was extremely unfavorable and block the Song army's pursuit.

Liang Gewei had already retreated in the Battle of Baoancheng on the first day. However, although the Song army's defense was sharp, it was not far away to the point where he could helplessly. It was just this time to attack Song. The Dangxiang Army faced too many difficulties at the beginning. Now he just suspected that all of this was the trap that the Song army had already arranged, which made him retreat. A one-day attack failure was not enough to keep him from moving forward. Liang Gewei still mobilized all the forces he could control during the attack on the next day to attack Baoancheng. If the city was broken, the situation of attacking Song this time was not completely decayed. If the city did not break the city for five days, then he would leave and rely on Shunning Village to hold on until reinforcements and food arrive.

At this time, Liang Gewei's army was completely committed to the battlefield, with only more than 10,000 people in its headquarters. Each of the three walls of Bao'an City had to bear the fierce attacks of at least 30,000 people. The Song people did not use firearms that had already scared the Dangxiang people. This greatly encouraged the morale of the Dangxiang soldiers. Although the lethality of the large city guard bed crossbows was far higher than that of the firearms, they were not so hot in visual sense. In addition, the Song army could not use the bed crossbows without restraint. The war finally slowly began to tilt towards the Dangxiang army, and the Song army began to suffer a large number of casualties.

Although Lu Shi was a civil servant for a year, he had fought with the Dangxiang people in the northwest for many years. The baptism above this battle formation had long made him indifferent to the blood under his feet. At this moment, he was more concerned about how to attract the Dangxiang people to the Baoan City and to hold on to the city.

Although Baoan City is a major area in the northwest, its scale is far from comparable to Dashun City, which was fought a few years ago. The troops stationed here were only 20,000. Although there were initially increased troops before the war, at that time, they were afraid that the spies here would be alarmed and leaked the news. They were afraid that the Dangxiang people would not dare to attack. Therefore, there were not many new defenders. Now there are only more than 30,000 defenders in the city, but the Dangxiang army outside has more than 100,000. The pressure on the Song army to defend the city is still very high.

The Dangxiang people hung up Yang Ding's head and caused a commotion from the Song army defending the city, but it was immediately calmed down by the imperial edict of the Song emperor in Lu Shi's hands, which made the Song army feel like they had found their backbone. In addition, they have not been idle these days and have been constantly strengthening the city defense, so that they can withstand the Dangxiang people's storm-like offensive.

Yesterday, a large number of firearms used greatly shocked the Dangxiang people, so that when the Song army did not have firearms today, the Dangxiang army actually cheered, which really made Lu Sheng feel a little amused. Although it was a huge momentum, in addition to the great miraculous effects of the enemy's siege equipment, the killing efficiency was still not as good as a crossbow.

"Although firearms are good, they are too expensive. It is said that a thunderclap can be sold for more than a few hundred silos in Goryeo, which can also prove that the firearms are expensive. Otherwise, there will be tens of thousands of thunderclap reserves, and I'm afraid that the Dangxiang people will not want to make in next year!" Lu Shi looked at the Dangxiang army gathering outside the city and thought silently in his heart.

In order to save the crossbows and maintain the strength of defending the city, the crossbows visited on the top of the city have been removed by one-third, and the number of crossbows has made up for this gap. I didn't know that the new crossbows will have such a great effect, so the stone bullets were not prepared. Fortunately, the crossbows are not picky about ammunition and are almost all the same size. In order to meet the supply of ammunition for the crossbows, Lu Shi has asked someone to demolish the houses near the city wall in the city and use their bricks and stones to act as crossbows. Although the crossbows fired stone bullets as firearms, and are not as straightforward as bed crossbows to kill people. But if they were hit by the stone bullets they fired, the body looked very bloody, and even if they were fierce and cruel, the Dangxiang cavalry would have nightmares at night when they saw it.

On the third day of the war, Liang Gewei and Lu Shi were already feeling a little exhausted.

Originally, the siege war would have to be stalemate for more than ten days or even more than a month, but for their own purposes, the scene was very hot as soon as they started fighting. They were all fighting against each other. The Dangxiang people occupied a large number of people. The soldiers had high archery accuracy. Although they were at a disadvantage, the 30,000 Song troops defending the city were still killed more than 4,000 people under such a large advantage. The Dangxiang people were much more miserable than the Song troops. Liang Gewei's more than 100,000 troops changed from six digits to five digits.

Lu Shi was also really cruel. After a few days of fighting, he did not think that the Dangxiang army could break through Baoan City with more than 100,000 people. As long as he had food, there were enough arrows and stones. Although the battle today was fierce, and the number of more than 4,000 deaths was almost all produced today, he still had enough arrows in his hands to come to Xixia when the ammunition and food were exhausted. It was difficult for more than 20,000 soldiers to defend the city. But don’t forget that there were more than 70,000 residents in Baoan City. He didn’t know how long it took for Han Qi’s reinforcements to be in place, but there was no doubt that this trap was Han Qi’s subordinates, and its purpose seemed very obvious today - more than half of Liang Gewei’s more than 100,000 generals could not return to Xixia!

Since the war has been fought, Lu Shen is even more looking forward to Liang Gewei being able to stay under Baoan City for a few more days. If Liang Gewei knows that he will never have the chance to break Baoan City, he will quickly retreat to Shunning Village before Han Shuai surrounds him. If this is the case, the security defense battle is a victory, but it is very difficult to retain most of the Dangxiang soldiers. After all, only by letting the Dangxiang people siege the city can damage Dangxiang's vitality to the greatest extent. If a pursuit war begins, even if the already tired Xixia weak brigade, the Song army will pay an unimaginable price.

Lu Shi stood at the city wall and watched the battlefield under the setting sun. Whether at the city wall or under the city, there were corpses of soldiers from both Song and Xia countries. Some Dangxiang soldiers were seriously injured and not dead. They were wailing there, and finally there was no sound. Unlike Dangxiang's soldiers, the injured soldiers of the Song army were well taken care of. The medical students from Huaying Academy of Biandu set up more than a dozen medical points near the city wall, and even had three or four medical points on the front-line city wall.

Lu Shi looked back at the busy doctors behind him, and couldn't help feeling a little warm. This was the first time that the Song Dynasty brought the doctor so close to the front line. Although the doctor on the top of the city was only responsible for simple bandaging and applying medicine, and then transported it to the top of the city to the doctor in the rear for treatment, these students won the respect of all the security soldiers in terms of their methods of treating injuries and their courage.

"I'm just playing with fire here!" Lu Shi couldn't help feeling sad. Today's battle and yesterday's deaths were almost tiny. The Dangxiang army suffered an almost devastating blow; but today's casualties were no less than 6,000 casualties, almost one-third of its own strength!

Several of the commanders under his command had looked for Lu Shen, hoping that he would not restrict the use of bed crossbows, and even brought the small firearms equipped in the heavy infantry in the city to the top of the city for use. However, Lu Shen was firmly opposed by Lu Shen, and the leaders were about to explode on the spot, but Lu Shen used the emperor's imperial edict and Han Shuai's hand order to suppress them.

At this time, Lu Sheng was also very bitter in his heart. It was not that he could not take the advice of his generals. He knew that the food supply in Xixia was extremely difficult, and the Dangxiang people could not besiege the security guards for a long time. At most one month was the most amazing time. Using a crossbow to defend the city can maximize the attack on the Dangxiang people's arrogant arrogance, but he was afraid of beating the Dangxiang people. If the opponent could not afford such a huge loss, he might immediately leave - this was also a victory, but in this way, the Dangxiang people's vitality was still there, and his own security guards would still be harassed at any time.

Lu Shi clenched his fists tightly, as if he had a sharp sword in his hand. He was determined to use the tactics of consuming the strength of the Dangxiang people bit by bit by bit, so that they could see that their security city was about to break the city, but they would never be able to break the city! There were 5,000 Song soldiers who died directly today! Lu Shi felt that he seemed to be an executioner, and he personally sent his soldiers to Huangquan Road. If he did not restrict the use of the bed crossbow, the casualties of the Song army today would not be so great. Lu Shi was not wrong. If he used the bed crossbow today, he would have caused the same battle results as yesterday. I am afraid that Liang Gewei would be immediately scared away - the Song army guards had enough bed crossbows and sufficient reserves in their hands. It would be a disaster for the Dangxiang soldiers to siege the city, otherwise Dashun City would not have been surrounded for several years without breaking the precedent.

At this time, the Dangxiang camp also had a rebellion - withdrew troops and attacks, and General Dangxiang and the Chuhe Han boundaries were divided into two factions. The reason for withdrawing troops was very simple. The food supply was no longer enough. Now the soldiers could only eat one-third of the food rations when they set out in Hongzhou. They had little chance of winning - unfortunately, this faction had a relatively small number of people. If Liang Gewei had not been very concerned and inclined to this faction, then the generals of Dangxiang who held such a view would be thrown out by another faction.

If Liang Gewei could hold a post-war meeting yesterday, today's format would be completely reversed. The losses of the Dangxiang army yesterday were too serious, and today's gains were really that the Dangxiang people could not touch their minds. Even Liang Gewei was the same. Although the city on the opposite side that was smaller than Dashun City had not yet been broken, from today's results, the Song Dynasty had at least 4,000 people killed on the spot and more injured people on the spot. According to previous experience, such a small city would definitely not exceed 15,000 troops. If this continues, the battle situation would be very optimistic. The short-term breakthrough of Baoan City is almost in front of you!

The results of the past two days are so different, which made Liang Gewei wonder in his heart - was he too careful?! It was precisely because of this that he intended to protect the withdrawal faction today, but his generals were all red-eyed - the 120,000 troops in two days became more than 90,000. This result was almost catching up with the defeat of Dashun City, Xixia three years ago. Moreover, this afternoon, the soldiers under his command had attacked the city several times, which even showed that the Song army was weak. What's the matter with insufficient food? As long as you can endure these two days, there will be food and other necessary supplies in the Baoan City. The most important thing is that one of its main forces is to maintain the life-capturing army by selling prisoners of war. Not to mention the heavy losses this time, there is no spoil. Seeing that the city was broken and the army was about to withdraw, several of its generals almost wanted to tear the bugs.

Liang Gewei walked a few steps in front of his generals and said, "Let his subordinates approach the city, shoot a letter in, telling the Song army that if they do not surrender, the general will massacre the city when the city is broken, and no one in the old or young will stay!" Then he walked out of the general's tent alone, leaving a bunch of generals with different expressions on their faces there.

"Yesterday and today, who is the real strength of the Song army?!" Liang Gewei was very confused. After inspecting the situation of the camp, he returned to his camp to rest, but this question has been wandering in his mind, causing him tossing and turning...

Liang Gewei's letters threatening the massacre of the city completely angered all the Song army, and even Lu Shen could not suppress the anger in his heart. In the meeting hall, facing the excited generals and the culprits of his subordinates, Lu Shen knew that he could no longer hide anything, so he immediately set up a map and threw the combat strategy that made him feel guilty to his subordinates. At this time, he could no longer hesitate. If there was no letter from Liang Gewei's massacre of the city, he could still bear it himself. But since the letter was coming, the generals of the Song army were all so popular as if they were robbed medicine. If he kept it hidden, he might have his own head on the city tomorrow, and at the same time, he could unify his combat thoughts.

Lu Shi's crazy combat strategy stunned all the generals - using his 30,000 defenders to exchange for Dangxiang's army into the possession of the Song Dynasty, they could also understand Lu Shi's difficulties. They had fought with Dangxiang people for most of their lives, so they naturally had a deep understanding of their opponents. Only by using this kind of bitter trick can they keep Dangxiang people stuck in the security city.

"I just hope that after death, I can climb Lingyan Pavilion, and it will not be in vain for a walk in this life!" A man in his forties said silently, but he brought up the voices of everyone present. Song Xia had been fighting for decades. Except for Fan Zhongyan and Di Wuxiang, the Song Dynasty could still gain a little advantage in that era, the other things that permeated the Song army were all shame and defeat! Yesterday, there was a victory in Dashun City, and it seemed that God gave the Song Dynasty another chance. If Liang Gewei's army was left behind today, the Dangxiang barbarians might really be seriously injured this time!

"Damn! I'll just stack these 100 kilograms in this security city!" A bearded general said in a hatred. His shoulders were still covered with blood-thread gauze, which was obviously the color was hung during the daytime battle today.

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After seeing that all the people in the convention hall had unified their thoughts at this moment, Lu Shi bowed deeply to everyone and said, "I have reached the twilight years of Fengzhu. I have fought with Dangxiang Barbarians for half a lifetime. I have always regretted that I have no courage as Di Wuxiang and no strategy as Han Shuai. Since I have the opportunity to severely damage Dangxiang Barbarians today, even if I die on the battlefield, I will have to try my wish!"
Chapter completed!