Meishan Su family, Su Yun is the most virtuous

Chapter 265: Surrounding Wei and rescuing Zhao?

“Woo!!!!!”

“Woo!!!!!”

“Woo!!!!!”

When the first ray of sunlight fell, the magnificent sound of the horn suddenly resounded through the heaven and earth.

The horn sounded, as if awakening the beast lurking on the earth.

The Xixia camp was suddenly filled with people, as if a wild animal had slightly turned over.

Then a large number of people poured out of the camp, some pushing the carts, while several or even dozens of people carried huge long logs, followed by more than a hundred people, lifting the things onto the piled-up earthen platform for installation. These were catapults.

Hundreds of tall catapults were installed on dozens of earthen platforms, and large amounts of stones were continuously transported in from afar.

The stones were all removed from nearby fortresses. There are few stones on the Loess Plateau, except for the deep gullies where stones are exposed. Only some fortresses will use some of them.

After a full hour, hundreds of tall catapults were finally built. By this time the sun was already quite strong. At a command, a gunner took aim and fifty or sixty gunners fired.

The catapult made a low and fierce sound, and large stones were suddenly thrown out. The stone bullets weighing thirty or forty kilograms flew over a hundred meters and hit Funing City like meteors!

The stone bullets hit the city wall, causing it to shake violently. Then sand and soil fell down, leaving a tiny trace.

If it fell on the city wall, a big hole would be smashed in it. The most terrifying thing is that it fell in the crowd, and the crowd would probably be rolled out in a bloody groove immediately.

However, the people on the Funing city wall were already quite accustomed to it. They had set up wooden frames on the turrets, hung cloth bags filled with wet horse manure on them, and built wet wooden sheds on the city wall to reduce the damage of the Jin army's artillery fire.

The soldiers hid behind the battlements, secretly observing the movements of the Dangxiang soldiers. They saw a large group of infantry struggling to push the ladders, trying to connect to the city wall. Suddenly, they heard a shout of order, and the soldiers hiding behind the battlements immediately stood up and shot arrows, completely ignoring the stone bullets whizzing past from above.

The Tangut soldiers below used their shields to block the arrows from above. Wang Shunchen remained calm and shouted, "Prepare the crossbows! Aim at the soldiers under the ladders! Prepare the fire balls! Burn the ladders! Prepare the ramming poles to destroy the ladders!"

All of a sudden, all the soldiers on the city wall became active, with hundreds of veterans giving orders and loudly encouraging their soldiers.

"Don't be afraid of the stone bullets. There's a shed above to support it. They won't fall down easily, and if they do, they may not hurt you. Even if they do, they will pass away in a flash. It's very fun!
The city cannot be broken, our parents, our brothers and sisters, our wives and children are right behind us..."

"bass!!!"

There was a creepy low sound of tendon being pulled and then suddenly bursting out, and the terrifying war machine, the crossbow, was started.

The crossbow arrows, each thick enough to nail a cow to the ground, turned into black light and shot directly at the Dangxiang soldiers under the ladders. They immediately pierced through the shields and nailed the Dangxiang soldiers to the ground. Some of them who were not killed temporarily let out terrifying screams.

"Squeak, squeak!"

A battering ram that was dozens of meters long and nearly a meter thick was raised high. Then, hundreds of soldiers who were pulling the rope at the tail suddenly let go, and the pole suddenly fell down. The huge iron head at the pole hit a ladder hard.

Suddenly, the soldiers around, including the Dangxiang soldiers and the Song soldiers on the wall, all felt a huge shock.

Then the ladder made a teeth-grinding sound, and the huge ladder suddenly shattered and fell down. The Dangxiang soldiers below screamed and howled, but it was too late for them to run. The ladder smashed into the ground, and about dozens of soldiers were turned into broken bones and mud.

There were also explosive fire balls, smoking smoke balls, and caltrop fire balls with broken porcelain pieces flying down from the top of the wall. Suddenly, the city wall was covered with smoke and flames shot into the sky.

The Tangut soldiers below could not bear it and many of them began to flee backwards.

Ye Beima, who was personally supervising the battle from a distance, had his eyes light up. He asked the deputy commander Mei Emai beside him, "Are their firearms weaker today? Are their crossbows also much less?"

Deputy Commander Mei Emei looked at it carefully for a while and said happily, "That's right! Compared to the beginning, it has been reduced by half!"

For the past ten days, Funing City has been under siege.

The reason is that the Song army soldiers are good at defense, and also because of these various strange weapons and equipment. Although the Western Xia has fought with the Song army for more than a hundred years and has learned siege tools such as ladders and catapults, it is sometimes still helpless in the face of these strange high-tech.

The city of Funing is located on a plain and has no strategic location to defend, but the Song army managed to use all these strange and bizarre things to stop his 100,000-strong army!
However, Funing City is a small city after all, and it cannot store a huge number of firearms. They will eventually run out. Is it really the end?

Ye Beima was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately gave the order: "Increase the intensity of the attack, and tell them that after they capture Funing City, except for the redistribution of food and fodder, they are allowed to plunder and massacre the city!"

As soon as this order was issued, the offensive of the Dangxiang people suddenly became more than ten times stronger.

The Song army on the Funing city wall suddenly felt a lot of pressure!
Not only did the number of stone bullets increase, but ladders were also placed on the top of the wall. Some Dangxiang soldiers climbed up the ladders and engaged in close combat with the Song army. Wang Shunchen rode a horse and led dozens of cavalrymen to support them on the top of the wall, but the Dangxiang people's offensive became more and more fierce!
"Don't retreat! You are not allowed to retreat! The battle has come to this point. If you retreat, you will die. The Tanguts will definitely massacre the city. They will definitely massacre the city. We must stop them, stop them!"

Wang Shunchen shouted back and forth, and suddenly a soldier pulled him down and threw himself on him to protect him. Before Wang Shunchen could scold him, his mount was smashed by a whistling stone bullet, and its intestines were pierced.

Wang Shunchen overturned the soldiers at once, then stood up and continued to command the battle. He had to let the soldiers see him immediately. If the soldiers thought he was killed, it would cause morale to collapse and lead to a great defeat! The situation was now shaky, and he had to persist!

Wait for Su Jinglie to arrive!

On that day, the two sides fought from morning until nightfall. Both the attacking and defending sides suffered heavy casualties and were exhausted.

Today, soldiers climbed up the city wall more than a dozen times. Funing City was already shaky, but it was still taken down!

Ye Bei Ma made a count at night and found that more than a thousand people were killed today, which was much more than in the previous days, but he gained some confidence.

"We will definitely capture Funing City tomorrow!"

This is what Ye Beima said to the deputy commander-in-chief.

Deputy Commander-in-Chief Mei Emai didn't know what to say. Ye Bei Ma had been saying this for four or five days, but every night when it got dark, the figure of Funing City was still lurking in the darkness, just like Fengdu City, constantly devouring the lives of the Dangxiang soldiers.

"Report!"

At this time a messenger arrived.

"Come in!" Deputy Commander-in-Chief Mei Emei called out quickly.

The messenger entered the tent, and Mie Emai asked quickly, "What's the matter?"

The messenger hurriedly said, "The Song army suddenly sent troops to besiege Luowu City and is attacking the city vigorously. General He asked Marshal Ye Beima to return to help as soon as possible."

Ye Beima frowned when he heard this and asked, "How many people are there in the Song army?"

The messenger hurriedly said, "The Song army is the garrison of Mizhi Village and Qingbian Village, and there are about several thousand people."

Ye Beima sneered upon hearing this, "Luowu City is built on a rocky mountain, with a very broad view. The Wuding River flows, and the mountain is flat below the city. It is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Let alone thousands of people, even if there are tens of thousands, how can they shake Luowu City in the slightest? Go back and tell Helian Jun that he has no reinforcements, he has no reinforcements!"

The messenger left in disgrace.

However, early the next morning, another messenger arrived.

Ye Beima asked gloomily, "What's the matter?"

The messenger said cautiously: "The Song army cut off the water source of Luowu City and prevented us from getting water. We have been without water for two days."

Ye Bei Ma said angrily: "If you can come down, why can't you get water?"

The messenger hurriedly said, "I came down secretly from the back mountain. To get water, I have to go to the Wuding River. There are Song soldiers guarding there, so I can't pass through."

Ye Beima suddenly remembered their siege of Yongle City. Yongle City also had no water source, so it could not be defended for long.

Ye Bei Mahjong blasted the messenger out and said, "Tell Helian Jun to hold on for three days, no, two days! I will come back to help as soon as I take Funing City!"

The messenger left in disgrace again.

Deputy Commander Mei E frowned and said, "Why did the Song army suddenly dare to send out troops? They had been hiding in the fortress before."

Ye Beima snorted and said, "It's just a trick of besieging Wei to save Zhao. They don't dare to let Funing City be taken by us, so they besieged Luowu City and wanted to lure me over. After a while, our food supply will not be able to hold out, and we will have to retreat."

Deputy Commander Mie Emai shook his head and said, "I don't think it's that simple. What if the Song army really wants to take down Luowu City?"

Ye Bei Ma thought for a moment and said, "They can't do it in a short period of time."

Deputy Commander Mei E stared at Ye Bei Ma and asked, "What if you do it?"

Ye Beima suddenly felt extremely irritated and said angrily: "How can we conquer Luowu City with only a few thousand Song soldiers! Don't mess up the morale of the army here!"

Mie Emai whispered, "The young Su Jinglie has broken the city like a piece of torn paper. What if he comes back?"

Ye Beima was suddenly paralyzed. It went without saying how important Luowu City was. If Yinzhou City had not been broken, Luowu City would not have been so important.

However, Yinzhou City, Xiacheng City, and Youzhou City were all broken. Now only Luowu City has some food, and it is also the last fortress to block the Song army. If Luowu City is broken, they will have no support at all!
Luowu City must not be broken!
But Ye Beima still didn't want to give up Funing City.

Under the current situation, if he manages to keep Luowu City but fails to capture Funing City, he will still be punished!

(End of this chapter)