The defeated army who broke the bankruptcy of the Song Dynasty arrived at Shunning Village, and the Song army behind the butt followed. It was only half a day before and after. Although this marching speed was indeed due to the spiritual factor of victory and pursuit, the Dangxiang people helped a lot. After they were defeated, most of the horses were thrown to the Song army behind. The Song army also replaced cannons at this time. After getting so many horses, although the Song army did not dare to praise the skill of riding horses, the four-legged running was much faster than walking on two legs. Moreover, some siege equipment was transported much faster than before due to many horses. The crossbow guarding the city was relatively huge, so it followed behind, but the crossbow cannon was small. As long as two wheels were placed on the frame and dragged behind the two horses, it could move quickly.

After more than 40,000 Dangxiang defeated soldiers and joined General Wei, the general of the Dangxiang guard in Shunning Village, there were nearly 45,000 troops in total. However, you should know that although Shunning Village was in a dangerous terrain, the Song army's defenders here never exceeded 2,000, and the residents were only 5,000. In such a small place, 45,000 people were stuffed into it. It is conceivable how sad the Dangxiang people were in the village, but the most fatal thing was food. Although Shunning Village was also a logistics transfer station for the attack on the Song Dynasty Dangxiang Army, the food transported from Xixia could not meet the needs of the Dangxiang Army at all, and was often harassed by the Song army, so the food was even more lacking.

When the famous general in Shunning Village saw more than 40,000 people coming here, he knew that the front had been defeated.

Originally, he wrote a letter asking Liang Gewei to send troops to support him to deal with the siege of Song troops outside the city. At this time, more than 40,000 defeated soldiers in the Dangxiang army suddenly poured in, and his strength increased a lot, but he was not happy - the five thousand people in Shunning Village were already hungry and full, plus so many people. The food in Shunning Village could last for up to two days. But the most fatal thing was the water source problem. When the Song army left, they filled the wells in the village to death or threw them into dead cats and dogs. Now the water source in the village is mainly due to getting water from outside the village, and now they can't get out. It's better not to come!

Now the Dangxiang army in Shunning Village has gone from generals to soldiers. Everyone is in a pessimistic mood. The army of more than 100,000 has only been less than 50,000 left. Such a defeat is unique in the impression of the Dangxiang people. The Song army camps outside are densely packed with tents. After seeing the morale comparison between the two sides and the lack of the cavalry advantage they rely on, the Dangxiang people finally gave up the temptation to break through.

There were a total of 100,000 Song troops under Shunning Village, which were divided into two directions, surrounded Shunning Village. The Song army's local commander flag in the north was a big "wang". It was Wang Shao who was excavated in front of Wang Anshi based on history as known, and the commander flag in the south was still led by Lu Shi.

Wang Shao had blocked General Weiming for four days. Although Weimingxi saw the Song army's strong momentum during the siege, he still sent troops to attack Wang Shao's camp at night, trying to make a profit when Wang Shao's army was not yet stable. As a result, the cavalry sent stepped on the mines arranged by Wang Shao in advance and exposed the target. As a result, he fought back. The two sides suffered casualties and wounded each other, which was a draw. However, in the following days, Weimingxi could not defend the Song army due to its strict defense.

Wang Shao and Lu Yuan were separated by Shunning Village and Dashan. Communication was inconvenient and could not communicate with each other. However, Wang Shao knew from the sound of the explosion of the firearms in the south gate of Shunning Village that the Dangxiang people's plan in the security army had gone bankrupt. The vanguard attack on the other side had just ended, and Wang Shao used firearms to test the attack on Shunning Village. He told Lu Yuan that the north gate of Shunning Village had been blocked by him.

Although the two sides are inconvenient to contact each other, both sides could hear the explosion of firearms used by the other party when siege. For a moment, the sound of firearms explosions on both sides of Shunning Village came one after another. However, in terms of the effect, Lu Shi's battle results were brilliant. The crossbow cannon was pushed to the position where it could directly shoot the target of the city wall under the cover of the crossbow. After jumping high to calculate the firing time of the fuse, it exploded violently on the city wall.

The Dangxiang people on the city wall did not expect that the feng shui would take turns. So soon they would turn from siege to the city guards. However, they were not as well-equipped as the Song army's defense tools and equipment. Originally, when the Song army evacuated Shunning Village, they destroyed all the city guards that they could rely on. In the city and the city walls, they burned them. When the Dangxiang people entered Shunning Village, they had nothing but ruins. The only houses in the city were built by the Dangxiang soldiers who entered the city and went into the mountains to log wood. They were used by the generals, and there were no rolling wood to defend the city. The firearms on the Song army exploded on the city wall. The Dangxiang soldiers who wanted to rely on manpower to prevent the Song army's siege were really blown away by the Song Dynasty firearms. For a time, the city wall on the south side of Shunning Village was blood flowing into a river and became a hell on earth.

Although the South Gate was extremely hot, the first one was Wang Shao from the North Gate. Before the war, the north wall of Shunning Village was attacked by the invading Dangxiang army for two days. Although the city wall was not as bad as it was, in order to enter the city from the North Gate, the Dangxiang people used big wood to hit the north gate. Unexpectedly, the Song army actually filled the hole in the North Gate with bricks and stones. After the continuous impact failed, they discovered this. However, the North Gate and its wall had been destroyed. Later, the Dangxiang people stationed at the Dangxiang people did not repair it in time, but this happened to be cheaper for Wang Shao.

Wang Shao focused on attacking the North Gate. The explosive pack he used was fired with a catapult, but the accuracy was extremely poor, so he simply replaced it with a stone bomb. After several shootings, our army found that a crack had occurred in the Beimen city. After informing Wang Shao, Wang Shao stopped the launch of the firearm and transported all the catapults to the front of the North Gate to attack the wall of the Beimen city tower. The wall, which was not very strong, collapsed under the bombardment of several huge stone bombs!

After the collapse of the north gate wall, Wang Shao did not rush to attack. In his opinion, the Dangxiang soldiers in the city had lost their last support - after the collapse of the city gate, a very high pile of rubble was formed, completely blocking the fast exit passage of the remaining cavalry in the Dangxiang army. If the Dangxiang army in the city wanted to break through, it would have to pass through the rubble pile on the city tower. Although the rubble pile was not high, it was impossible to turn over in a short time. What's more, all the catapults on the northern defense line of the Song army were hit directly in front of the rubble pile, and the crossbow behind would be concentrated in it. With so much firepower aimed at this place, Wang Shao believed that unless the Dangxiang people were all bronze and iron bones, they would be ready to die here!

Wei Mingxi, the temporary leader of the Dangxiang Army in the city, was Wei Mingxi, the other Dangxiang Army generals higher than him, either died in battle or were captured when they fled Baoan City. The rest were still shocked, so they could only let the "landlord" Wei Mingxi be responsible for the command of the army. After learning that the wall of the North Gate collapsed, Wei Mingxi personally brought people to the North Gate to welcome the remaining Song army's fierce siege. In fact, there were Dangxiang soldiers everywhere in the city, so there was no need to summon them at all. They even crossed the city wall and lost their correctness and smashed them into the city. Maybe they still hit the Dangxiang soldiers. More than 40,000 soldiers were concentrated in the small Shunning Village, with an astonishing density!

However, Wei Mingxi did not wait for the Song army's attack, but waited for the letter of persuasion from the Song army soldiers. This was a letter of persuasion from Wang Shao, who wrote by himself. Although Wang Shao did not know how many Dangxiang soldiers were in the city, there were quite a few people defending the city, and he did not want to do the thing of killing one thousand enemies and hurting himself by himself. Although most of the city were defeated soldiers, if they were forced to force the rabbit and biting people, let alone the Dangxiang soldiers who have always fought fiercely? As long as he used a catapult cart and a crossbow to guard the only way back, he could starve the defeated soldiers to death even if he was hungry!

Lu Sheng and Wang Shao had similar thoughts, because most of his troops were infantry, it would be fine if they blocked the Dangxiang people in a dead place like this. If they attacked and attacked hard, they would have suffered heavy losses. Therefore, using firearms to bombard the city, it was also to shock the Dangxiang soldiers. The Dangxiang soldiers are now frightened. If they can use the fierce attack of the firearms to deter their final desperate intentions and turn to forcibly landing, it would be the most perfect ending for the Song army.

After Wang Shao finished the bombardment of firearms, Lu Shi ended the offensive in a good manner. Lu Shi also shot the letter of persuasion he wrote in person into the village. However, he was not so polite - he aimed the crossbow at the Dangxiang soldier and directly nailed a Dangxiang who was still looking around and the letter to the stone wall of the city tower behind him. This action almost scared the Dangxiang soldier on the city wall.

As a general of Dangxiang, Wei Mingxi was also a staunch of the Dangxiang royal family. His uncle was Wei Minglang, the representative of the Dangxiang nobles. Empress Dowager Liang and his sister conspired to kill his uncle. He never forgot such a great revenge. He wanted to make military achievements in this attack on Song, but Liang Gewei defended him everywhere and asked him to defend the city. This clearly took away his due military achievements. He remembered all of this in his heart. However, although Wei Mingxi hated Liang's clan to the core, it was very difficult to do if he wanted him to surrender. Until now, Wei Mingxi was still lucky and hoped that Dangxiang's reinforcements could come in time. There was no need to do much. As long as he could defeat Wang Shao's troops in the north, he could escape and ascend to heaven.

Wei Mingxi was not scared by two letters of persuasion, but he was not a person who was waiting to die. He also knew that the Jianing Army Division only maintained basic defense. The main force of the former garrison was almost pulled out by Liang Gewei. Even if the person who reported the news could successfully send the news to the Jianing Army Division, he could only ask Xiangqing Army or Xiangyou Army Division for help and help to rescue the siege. But in time, he would never be able to hold on to that time. He didn't know that the messenger he sent had worked hard to climb over the cliff. After crossing the Song army's defense line, he was intercepted by the unintentional cavalry near Hongzhou. Until now, the Dangxiang people still didn't know that his attack on the Song army was almost wiped out.

Wei Mingxi went to the army to stabilize the morale of the army. However, the army was short of food and water. In fact, water shortage was more threatening to soldiers Dangxiang than food shortage. After returning to his tent, he summoned the major officials and generals at all levels who survived the entire army to discuss matters. Seeing General Dangxiang who was arrogant a few days ago becoming like this, Wei Mingxi felt very sad, but he still expressed his thoughts - breaking through at night!

"The food in the city is not enough to last for four days. The most important thing is that the water is short of water in the city. If you stick to it, this kind of Jedi must be your and my burial place. Therefore, only breaking through is a good way to survive!"

Wei Mingxi talked freely in the tent. After inspecting the entire army, he knew that so many people were stationed in Shunning Village, which would make this place a veritable death. Therefore, it was only reasonable to break through the siege of the Song army as soon as possible. Fortunately, the terrain of Shunning Village was difficult and dangerous. Although the Song army surrounded him here, due to the obstruction of the slope, the Song army on both sides could not be coordinated. This gave Wei Mingxi a chance. Wei Mingxi's plan was very good, but the collapse of the North Gate Tower blocked his way forward. After the nightfall, the Dangxiang people led the horses and infantry and gently flew over the rubble, they quietly prepared to launch an attack on the Song army's defense line.

All the actions of the Dangxiang people fell into the eyes of the Song army soldiers. In the past few days, whenever night falls, the Song army team will use the night to press a small team to the edge of the city wall. The purpose is to be afraid that the Dangxiang people will break through in the night. After the investigation team returned silently, they told Wang Shao about the situation where the Dangxiang people gathered to make a breakthrough in the city wall. After Wang Shao had estimated the time, he replaced the stone bomb on the catapult and replaced it with an explosive pack, and shot a fierce shot at the gap in the north gate. He could not see clearly in the night, but the screams that came one after another could estimate that the Dangxiang people were bombed badly before they set off.

Wang Shao's firearms are very expensive. After a concentrated launch, they will be replaced with stone bullets. At the same time, they use archers to guard this gap. As long as someone and horse sound, they will use a crossbow and crossbow arrows to shoot intensively. Although Wang Shao's army could not see clearly in the night, such rigorous defense made Wei Mingxi feel frightened. In order to accelerate Wei Mingxi's surrender, the Song army fired firearms and stone bullets into the city in both directions during the day. Finally, in the afternoon, the Dangxiang people erected white chess on the top of the city...

Wang Jinghui had already made an appointment with Wang Anshi, Sima Guang, Wen Yanbo, Guo Kui and others to go to the palace to meet the saint this afternoon, and they all agreed. These people were not so enthusiastic about the war, and Guo Kui, the only one who hoped to fight, knew the situation in the northwest. It was not easy for Han Shuai to defeat all the Dangxiang people who attacked Song. If he went down to counterattack, he could fight. However, the big problem of logistics and supplies would limit the pace of the Song army's attack, so even Guo Kui was unwilling to launch revenge on Xixia at this time.

"Change it, do you know what this is?" Manager Li went to Wang Jinghui's mansion to report shipping affairs today. Now both the Northern route and the Southern route have been back and forth once in the first half of the year. Thanks to Xu's care, there are no major mistakes. Now the trade volume of Northern routes has decreased, but the newly opened Southern route business is at the bottom. The combined profits of the two are higher than last year's gains in the first half of this year. After reporting on the shipping business, Manager Li took out a black wooden stick from his sleeve and handed it to Wang Jinghui.

Wang Jinghui was also very curious. During this period, Manager Li also sent some rare and interesting things to the prince-consort's mansion to the prince-consort's mansion. After all, Wang Jinghui and his wife, as important members of the royal family, often welcomed and sent them. Although no one dared to wink at Wang Jinghui, he was happy to stay in the mansion and did not want to show up in various social occasions, but the eldest princess of Shu was famous for being easy to talk to. In addition, the eldest princess of Shu deliberately maintained the relationship between the queen mother, the queen mother and others and the prince-consort's mansion. Every time he went to the palace, he went empty-handedly? The palace was filled with small gifts given by the eldest princess of Shu. Manager Li naturally searched for novel tricks to give to Wang Jinghui, but in fact, it was given to the eldest princess of Shu.

After Wang Jinghui took the small stick, he didn't expect that the stick was quite heavy, and it was as heavy as the iron rod. But he knew that the feeling from his hands told him that this stick was definitely not an iron rod. It looked a bit like a wooden stick, but how could the wooden stick be so heavy?! Wang Jinghui looked at Manager Li in confusion.

Manager Li smiled and said, "This is brought back by the fleet from Goryeo. You said that the fleet would collect the properties that were not available in the local Song Dynasty whenever they arrived. When the crew saw this wooden stick, they thought it was an iron stick. As a result, the Goryeo people told them that it was actually a wooden stick! The crew was curious and bought this thing from the Goryeo people and also bought the seeds of this tree.

This kind of tree sinks when it enters the water. The wooden stick made of it is not afraid of being cut by a knife, and it is really as strong as an iron stick!"

After listening to Manager Li's introduction, Wang Jinghui played with the small stick in his hand, constantly recalling what tree was like an iron stick. Manager Li's words made him feel moved, knowing that he must have had an impression of this kind of tree before, but he just couldn't remember it for a moment.

"According to the crew back, the trees are all black and look like birch trees except for their different colors..." Manager Li was still talking to himself, but Wang Jinghui interrupted his words loudly.

"Iron birch! There is actually such a tree!" Wang Jinghui finally recalled what this tree was. In a newspaper tofu block introducing the industry of the former Soviet Union in a later generation, Wang Jinghui once read about this tree. The Soviets once used to latte birch as bearing balls. This tree was distributed in North Korea and the former Soviet Union. Its density was amazing and it was the hardest plant in the world.

"A tree that can be used as bearings?!" Wang Jinghui's mind was rumbling. This kind of tree was simply priceless in his eyes. With it, things that were restricted by the production of steel in the Song Dynasty could be tried to make, such as lathes, bearings and even gun barrels!
Chapter completed!