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Li Qianshun and the soldiers around him, who had just entered the east city gate, heard the shouts of the Song army's cavalry approaching.

Li Qianshun was so frightened that he shouted: "Raise the suspension bridge quickly and close the East City Gate!"

"Follow the order!"

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"Your Majesty, the suspension bridge on the moat is crowded with the defeated troops of Li Liangfu's army, and the suspension bridge cannot be raised or pulled now!"

Emperor Xia Li Qianshun heard the report and said angrily: "Li Liangfu and his subordinates have failed more than succeeded and failed!"

"To pass on my imperial edict, we must first close the east city gate. The soldiers guarding the city will hold fast to the city, shoot arrows and throw stones at the Song army! Shout to the defeated troops of Li Liangfu's department and not allow them to enter the city. Quickly return to the other side from the suspension bridge and fight back the invading troops on the spot. Anyone in the Song Army who disobeys orders will be punished without mercy and killed!"

"The general will obey the order..."

"Send His Majesty's decree and close the city gate quickly!"

"Follow orders..."

A team of Xia troops guarding the city gate obeyed the order and hurriedly sent out twenty burly men, each in groups of ten, hiding behind the gate, and worked together to push the two tall and thick wooden gates open at the city gate.

"Squeak..." The two tall and heavy city gates slowly rotated around the axes in the door hinges. The squeaking sound was mixed with the screams of Xia Jun on the bank of the moat outside the city, making it particularly special. Harsh and miserable.

The Xingqing Mansion of the Xia Kingdom was built a hundred years ago after the Bianjing City of the Song Dynasty, and its city gate was also built after the city gate of Bianjing during the Song Dynasty.

This city gate is made of wood. If it is open to the outside for a long time, it will be eroded by rainwater, causing the wood to swell or even rot. Therefore, the city gate of Xingqing Mansion is opened inward to avoid direct erosion by rainwater and extend the service life of the city gate. In addition, , opening the city gate inward can also help protect the defending soldiers when closing the door. Because when the enemy attacks the city, the city gate opening inward can allow soldiers to hide behind the door and push forward to close the city gate.

At this time, ten Xia soldiers were ordered to push down the wall of the city gate. Although they were very nervous when they heard the shouts of killing from the Song army outside the city and the screams of the remnants of the Xia army, they were glad that they were guarding the city gate.

Yes, it must be very safe to be able to hide behind such a tall and thick city gate and push it shut. You will not be attacked by Song cavalry with swords and arrows like the Xia army brothers on the bank of the moat outside the city.

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Several crossbow arrows from the Song Army came and drove into the thick city gate that was slowly closing.

"ah?!"

"ah?!"

Several Xia soldiers who were hiding behind the tall and thick city gate and went to push the gate closed had their palms pierced by clusters of arrows and screamed in agony.

The soldiers guarding the city gate of the Xia army were shocked. They couldn't believe how the penetrating power of the Song army's crossbows could be so strong.

The general guarding the city gate quickly mobilized his troops and increased his manpower before closing the city gate.

As for the defeated Xixia troops crowded on the moat suspension bridge below the city, they saw the city gate of Xingqing Mansion right in front of them, and there were pursuers not far behind them. They all pushed forward desperately for their lives, but they were not willing to listen to the calls from the city.

How about returning to the other side from the suspension bridge that you finally squeezed onto, and then risking your life to fight against the powerful Song army?

The garrison on the east city ordered the archers and stone cannons to fire arrows with bows and arrows and throw stones with trebuchets at the defeated generals of Li Liangfu's army who disobeyed the imperial edict on the suspension bridge...

"Ahhhh..."

The numerous Xia army generals who retreated onto the suspension bridge never imagined that the defenders on the east wall of Xingqing Mansion would mercilessly shoot and kill their own people...

The lower suspension bridge in the east city was filled with Xia Jun's corpses, and many large rocks fell down, causing the wooden suspension bridge to be overwhelmed.

With a "click" sound, the wooden suspension bridge broke, and the people on the bridge fell into the wide and deep moat.

At this time, Song Army pioneers Zhang Jun and Yang Xinzhong led the cavalry to kill the remaining Xia Army troops who could not cross Hejing City in the future.

On the bank of the moat under the east city of Xingqing Prefecture, Xia soldiers suffered many casualties. Their bodies lay horizontally and vertically, and the moat was dyed red with blood.

During the chaotic battle, the Song army also suffered casualties, but the number was small.

Yang Xinzhong, who was riding a war horse and fighting hard to kill the enemy, was hit in the chest by two feather arrows secretly shot by the enemy. Because of his excellent armor, the injury from the arrows was not serious, and the arrow clusters only penetrated his skin for more than an inch.

Yang Xinzhong broke the shafts of the two arrows on his chest, and continued to lead the charge, leading his troops to the bank of the moat under the east city of Qingfu. He happened to see the suspension bridge on the moat of the east city in front of him, which broke due to excessive load and fell into the river.

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"Oops!" Yang Xinzhong shouted regretfully:

"If our army kills the enemy blocking the road faster, we can rush through the Xia enemy's suspension bridge and break into the east city of Xingqing Mansion!"

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh..."

The Xia army generals on the east city of Xingqing Mansion, in compliance with Emperor Xia's imperial edict, began to use their bows and arrows to attack the Song army and Xia army who were fighting together on the bank of the moat, shooting hundreds of arrows at once.

"Bang bang bang..." The defenders on the east city, in accordance with Emperor Xia's imperial edict, used the cyclone cannon they had stolen from the Han and Song dynasties to throw down a large number of weapons at the melee between the Song and Xia armies.

stone.

(The cyclone gun was originally invented by Ma Jun during the Three Kingdoms period. It looks like a windmill, but is actually a centrifugal trebuchet. It uses centrifugal force to throw stones and kill enemy troops.)

In fact, the Song army has long been equipped with this kind of cyclone cannon. Over the past hundred years, during the long-term battle between the Xia army and the Song army, they also captured the artillerymen and craftsmen of the Song army. Some Song people even took the initiative to defect to Xia for glory and wealth. Xixia party members had already

Learn how to make and use a cyclone cannon.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh..."

"Bang bang bang..."

Now on the bank of the moat under the city, there are not only the front cavalry of the Song Army, but also a large number of defeated soldiers of the Xia Army Li Liangfu who wanted to return to the city. They were hit by arrows and stones fired from the east city of Xingqing Mansion.

Before the blink of an eye, the Song and Xia armies on the bank of the moat in the east city of Xingqing Mansion had no time to fight anymore. They looked at the river and sighed. In order to avoid the indiscriminate attack of the Xia army on the city, they had to retreat three to four hundred steps away from the city.

The Shang Xia army attacked with arrows and stones.

At this time, the seven or eight hundred soldiers of Li Liangfu's army who survived by chance saw the unstoppable power of the Song army's cavalry. They also saw that after the Emperor of Daxia fled into the capital, he not only kept them out of the city, but even treated them as a loyalist.

Emperor Xia's men attacked and killed them, which chilled them to the extreme.

Therefore, after they were once again surrounded by the Song Army's cavalry, they all took the initiative to surrender...

After the battle situation in the east city of Xingqing Mansion was slightly stabilized, Xia Emperor Li Qianshun boarded the east city tower surrounded by Li Renli and other generals.

Li Qianshun's hands were trembling. He held the city wall and looked down. He saw that the water in the moat below the city had been dyed red with blood. There were thousands of corpses of Xia soldiers lying on the bank. The corpses of Song soldiers among them were only a mere hundred in total.

This not only made him heartbroken, but also made him feel very pessimistic and disappointed, with a vague feeling that the country was in decline and the country could not be saved...

"Report!"

"Your Majesty, what's wrong, I looked at the lookout soldiers on the high platform in the east city and saw a large number of Song troops rushing towards here in the distance..."
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