Poor Family Chapter 949

Chapter 949 The Battle to Destroy the Nation (3)

Sa Jin watched the two black thunderbolts coming, he suddenly remembered the explosion in the Qinggang military camp, his scalp exploded in shock, and he shouted: "Get down, get down!"

He hugged his head and lay down first, but the distance between the two thunderbolts was still a little bit too far. The thunderbolts grazed the top of the city and shot directly into the city. He only heard two earth-shattering explosions, and the city wall shook violently. Then there was a cloud of dust and black smoke.

The two thunderbolts happened to land among the soldiers carrying stones under the city. In an instant, flesh and blood flew everywhere. The casualties were extremely heavy. Hundreds of people were killed on the spot.

All the soldiers were terrified, and their legs trembled. This was a ferocious weapon they had never seen before.

In the distance, the soldiers of the Song Army were also secretly surprised. They couldn't figure out why this city-blasting thunderbolt was only twice the size of the thunderbolt used before, but its power was more than five times greater. Extensive use of this blasting city-shattering thunder to project.

Immediately after the second round, the two thunderbolts were thrown again. The craftsman made fine adjustments to weaken the power of the trebuchet a little bit. One of the two thunderbolts landed on the top of the city, and the other hit the city wall. , Exploded under the city wall, and there were two deafening explosions again, and a large pile of city wall bricks and stones '哗啦! 'It poured down, making a small gap in the top of the city, and another thunderbolt that exploded under the city wall also blasted a big hole in the city wall, which is impossible for ordinary thunderbolts to do. to the effect.

Li Yanqing immediately ordered: "Attack the city wall!"

The soldiers at the top of the city were still in extreme chaos. In the third round, the two thunderbolts roared again, only to hear 'Bang! boom! There were two muffled bangs, and the two thunderbolts hit the city wall. Just as the soldiers at the top of the city breathed a sigh of relief, they heard two earth-shattering explosions. A section of the city wall actually flew up and broke in the middle, and countless stones flew into the sky , fell down again.

The Zhentianlei from the north just fell into the big hole that was blasted before, causing it to explode inside the city wall. The huge shock wave blew up the entire city wall. before.

Li Yanqing drew out his saber and waved, "Kill!"

"Kill!"

The 30,000 Song Army shouted and began to rush towards the city. In front were 10,000 cavalry, and 10,000 horses were galloping.

The defenders at the top of the city had long been shocked by the huge power of the thunder, and when the Song army came to kill them, they dropped their weapons and ran down the city. The 10,000 defenders collapsed instantly, and even the slave soldiers threw away their helmets A, took the looted money and fled to the west city.

Sajin yelled and killed more than a dozen people, but still couldn't stop the soldiers from fleeing. At this time, the deputy general Wang Jian rushed over and shouted: "Commander, go! If you don't leave, it will be too late."

Sa Jin had no choice but to run down the city to get off his horse, and Wang Jian and dozens of cavalry ran towards the west gate.

The gate of the west city had been opened, and the slave soldiers in the city swarmed out and fled in all directions. At this time, a cavalry force of more than 10,000 men appeared in the west of Xiazhou City, like a huge net, cutting off the retreat of all soldiers.

General Cao Meng saw thousands of Xixia soldiers fleeing in panic, he snorted coldly and ordered: "Attack!"

"Woo—"

The low sound of antlers blew, and ten thousand cavalry suddenly mobilized, brandishing their spears, and charged at the fleeing Western Xia army.

The Song army easily captured the tall and strong Xiazhou City without using siege ladders. The army began to count the population in the city and searched for escaped soldiers from house to house.

Accompanied by dozens of generals, Li Yanqing carefully inspected the effect of Zhentianlei's bombing of the city. This time it really brought them surprises. Fighting spirit, preparing for the next siege of the city, did not expect Zhentianlei to blow up the city wall.

Li Yanqing turned around and asked an old craftsman, "Didn't this happen during your experiments?"

The old craftsman shook his head, "We have conducted countless experiments, and there is no record of blasting the city wall outside. It stands to reason that the sky-shattering thunder must be stuffed inside the city wall to blow it down, even the blasting-type sky-shattering thunder is no exception. , This time it was really an accident, but the villain probably has a problem with the city wall itself, it may be because of the age, the bonding viscosity between the stones has disappeared, so as long as one stone collapses, other stones will follow. "

Li Yanqing walked to the edge of the city wall, shook a big stone, and sure enough, it could be easily knocked down, and the mortar between the two big stones was completely crisp.

The fundamental reason is that the Xixia people's city-building technology is relatively backward. Unlike the Song Dynasty, they used rice slurry and lime to mix, and it was very strong after solidification, comparable to the cement of later generations. Here, lime slurry is directly used to build the city. The bond between the dashi will disappear.

Wang Gui suddenly said from the side: "I heard that the Xixia people's city walls were built with the help of Liao artisans."

Everyone's eyes lit up, and everyone understood Wang Gui's meaning. Since Xixia's city-building technology came from the Liao Kingdom, the city walls of the Liao Kingdom should also be the same. Tianlei can blow down the city wall directly outside the city wall. This is a huge discovery, which is equivalent to opening a new door for the Song Army's siege tactics.

Li Yanqing smiled slightly, "This is not only an opportunity to shake the sky, it is also the same with hitting the city wall with a battering ram. We can completely design a new set of siege tactics, which will never be harmful to our attack."

Everyone is gearing up, full of confidence in the foreign war.

At this time, a general rushed to report: "Report to Dutong, General Liu has completed the investigation of the city, please come to the city!"

Li Yanqing nodded, then got on his horse and led the crowd towards the city.

Xiazhou City is the most important Xixia city occupied by the Song army. Although there are only 13,000 households and a population of just over 80,000, it is the second largest city in Xixia, second only to the capital Xingqing Mansion. It means that Xixia lost nearly half of its land.

After the Kingdom of Jin occupied Taiyuan Mansion, Xixia also canceled a large number of military forts and garrisons on the border of Song and Xia, which saved a lot of financial expenditure. However, after the Song army completely recaptured Hedong Road at the beginning of last year, Xixia also planned to resume the border garrison. Due to the shortage of troops and financial constraints, it has not been restored for a long time, and Xiazhou City has become the easternmost city of Xixia where troops are stationed.

Although there is no army in the east of Xiazhou, there are dozens of tribes, large and small, living in this area. They are all border tribes of Xixia, but they do not have a strong sense of belonging to Xixia, and Xixia spends a lot of money every year. Subsidize them. Once Xixia cuts off their financial support, and the Song Dynasty uses trade and food to make up for the gap in time, they will most likely become border residents of the Song Dynasty.

The task of Zhang Shuye and Xu Huiyan in this Northern Expedition is this. They are responsible for conquering the various small tribes east of Xiazhou, and conquering them with force and food.

At this time, the chaos in Xiazhou City had been brought under control. Every household was required to stay behind closed doors, and corpses could be seen everywhere on the street. Liu Kai explained: "These people were not killed by the Song army, but by the local residents." It is said that last night the Xixia army forcibly recruited strong men, raped and looted at the same time, which made the residents of the city hate them, so when these soldiers fled into the residential area, they were killed by the angry residents without exception, and their bodies were thrown out. More than nine hundred people were killed."

Li Yanqing suddenly found that these soldiers who were killed were almost all Han Chinese, and couldn't help but startled, "Are they all Han Chinese?"

"It should be said that their ancestors were Han people. They were slaves in Xixia, and they were called slave soldiers when they joined the army in Xixia. Don't think they are Han people and feel pity. They don't think they are Song people, and they can't speak Chinese. Killing Song Min is more ruthless than party members, so that they can become Xixia civilians."

Li Yanqing nodded. This is indeed a troublesome matter. They have encountered it before. Last time they brought hundreds of thousands of Han people from Weizhou and Xiping Mansions back to Shaanxi Road and Qinfeng Road, they found that there were many people who did not understand Speaking Chinese, they only speak Dangxiang language. Later, many people returned to Xixia with their families because they had difficulty adapting to the language and living habits. Li Yanqing did not stop them and let them go back.

In fact, this kind of phenomenon is not uncommon in history. The Sui Dynasty unified China geographically, but the huge gap between the people of the North and the South still existed. The imperial examination system was created by attracting southern scholars, so that southern scholars also had the opportunity to enter the ruling class.

The same is true for Liao, Song, Jin, and Xixia. There are a large number of Han people living in these four countries. The national blood is the same, but the national identity is different.

There are two ways to solve this contradiction. One way is to replace the residents, break up the Xixia people and move them to the inland, let them slowly integrate into the Song people, and the Xixia people will move into the inland residents.

Another way is to forget with time and use Song Dynasty officials to manage them. After a hundred years, they will gradually forget that they belonged to the Xixia Kingdom. After disappearing for hundreds of years, they still never forget to restore their country.

(end of this chapter)

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