Three days later, the Song army's gunpowder arrived as scheduled, and the attack on the Xia army's Mangdangshan Camp began. The southern defense line of the Xia army's Mangdangshan Camp was a key area for the Song army's attack. Xia general Lu He was personally responsible for guarding it. At the same time, two-thirds of the troops of the Mangdangshan Camp were put into this place.

"Take the stone cart, the gunpowder pack attack begins, release..." General Song ordered.

"Swoosh, swosh, swosh..."

"Boom, boom, boom..."

A huge explosion sounded on the Xia army's city wall, but it did not hurt the Xia army guarding the city. The first line of defense in the entire Mangdang Mountain was either a steep cliff or a towering city wall. All the city walls were about four zhang high and about one zhang five feet wide at the top. All the city walls had a dome at the top, and the entire city wall was double-layered structure, and there was a shooting port every distance. As for the thunderstone rolling wood, they were all used, and large thunder and lightning. As for the large-scale projectile weapons such as Huihui cannons were placed in the city.

As the top priority of the Xia army, although there are only 30,000 troops, these people are elite. Moreover, the weapons and equipment they use are the best among the entire Xuzhou army and are also top-notch in the entire Xia army. Among these 30,000 of the 30,000 troops are firearms. King Li Ke of Qi placed his only firearms battalion like his trump card in the Mangdang mountain camp; a standard firearms battalion of the Xia army had 10,000 firearms equipped with thirty to thirty-five cannons at the same time.

Lu He stood in a mercedes and took out a single-tube telescope. This kind of telescope has only been equipped with the Xia army in the past two years. Needless to say, this kind of thing was invented by Emperor Xia Li Liangzuo. It was made of crystal at first. Later, Li Liangzuo specially asked Longtai Trading Company to buy a batch of glass from Europa. Now every battalion leader of the Xia army will be equipped with a single-tube telescope. This kind of thing is called "Qianliyan" by the Xia generals. They are usually very precious, for fear of breaking it.

Lu He saw the location of the Song army's heavy catapult through the telescope. Lu He asked the captain of the artillery team: "Did you see the Song army's heavy catapult? Can you get your artillery?"

The artillery captain picked up his single-barrel telescope and looked at it, saying, "General, the new heavy stone caster used by the Song army is similar to the Huihuan we used, but the distance of the projection is not as far away as ours. The thirty-five cannons in Beiyi's hand can only destroy them with more than five heavy cannons of more than 2,000 kilograms. Although other light cannons can shoot so far, their power has been greatly reduced."

"It's enough to have five gates. Go and transport all your cannons to the top of the city. Go and aim and shoot me. I'm going to see if there are no such catapults, the Song army will attack." Lu He sneered.

"Yes, the last general takes the order..."

After the captain of the artillery left, Lu He ordered: "Listen to all the musket soldiers, don't care about ammunition. We have ammunition. You just need to call me all these ammunition on the head of the Song army. All the crossbows and crossbowmen, shoot arrows in turn. As long as the Song army attacks the arrow rain, it cannot stop."

The crossbowman has obvious disadvantages compared with the musketeer. The experienced and systematically trained archers can draw bows at most fifteen times. The bows and arrows at this period have no help. As long as the crossbowman is much better, it only reaches its limit for more than fifty times. This battle is a physical job. Often, all the participants will be exhausted after each battle. Without two or three days of rest, they will not be able to reach the best condition again. Even if they continue to participate in the battle the next day, their combat effectiveness will not be as good as the first day.

It took a lot of effort to transport the artillery. After the artillery was transported, the artillery captain immediately ordered: "Please pay attention to each artillery, the target Song army's catapult array, one load, five volleys...prepare...release..."

"Boom, boom, boom..."

With five loud bangs, five big iron eggs burned red flying towards the Song army's large array of stone catapults. There were dozens of stone catapults in the Song army, and there was one at a distance. Although the Xia army's artillery was sharp, it was still quite difficult to hit one shot. In the first round of shooting, the Xia army only hit one of the stone catapults.

The artillery captain ordered again: "Please be careful with each artillery, aim at me and shoot hard. If anyone who fails to hit me, wait to get hit on the board after going back!"

Not to mention the amount of artillery statements, this really works. Next, the heavy artillery of the Xia army began to name the Song army's stone catapults one by one. In addition, the Song army's siege army was already at the city. The Xia army began to throw thunder and large explosive packs down. Many Song army were directly blown into a pile of minced meat, and the Song army's ladder could not be installed on the city wall at all. In addition, there was no way to get it, because the top of the Xia army's city wall was round and very slippery and could not climb up at all. In addition, some large city wall squadrons were OK, but there were heavy troops here to guard the Xia army and wanted to get in from it. It was basically impossible.

After an hour of attack, the Song army suffered huge casualties under the attack of Xia army artillery, Hui artillery, bird guns, crossbowmen, and bed crossbows. However, they had no choice but to be beaten when facing the Xia army's wall. As a result, the casualties of the Song army increased dramatically.

General Song reported to Zhong Shidao: "Master, the defense of the Xia army is too strong. Our army cannot attack the city at all. Our ladder cannot play any role. In addition, the Xia army used thunder and gunpowder packs to strike the army under our city. Our army suffered heavy casualties. Please tell us..."

Zhong Shidao looked at the battlefield where war was endless and the sky said: "Send the order to Mingjin to withdraw his troops..."

"Clang, Clang, Clang..."

As soon as the sound of gold sounded, the Song army retreated like a tide, leaving only the corpses all over the ground; General Xia said to Lu He: "General, look, the Song army retreated..."

"I saw it, they will come back again, but I don't know where they attacked this time." Lu He said sighing.

"General, the Song army has retreated, why are you sighing?" General Xia asked in confusion.

"If the Song army continues to attack, we can also carry out greater damage to the Song army, which will be more conducive to our subsequent defense of the city." Lu He said: "Forget it, let the brothers hurry up and rest. It may not be possible that the Song army's attack will begin again soon."

After the Song army withdrew from the camp, Zhong Shidao summoned the generals and asked: "Generals, what do you think of today's tough battle?"

"Reported to the Grand Commander, the last general thought that our army's failure this time was not only because the Xia army used the so-called new weapon artillery, but more importantly, the Xia army's city wall. The Xia army actually built a round roof on the top of the city wall. In this way, our army's offensive forces could not put a ladder on the city wall. In addition, even if it was installed, it would be difficult for our soldiers to climb the dome;

Therefore, I thought that if we wanted to break the city, we must find a way to solve the problem of this round roof. If we cannot solve the problem of unjustly no order amount, our army will not be able to attack the city even if it pays a great price for casualties. In addition, the Xia army's firearms are much sharper than ours, so fighting hard is not a solution..."

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