Outside the East City of Xingqing Prefecture, Zhong Shidao ordered the artillery troops of the headquarters to be prepared to fire at the Xia Emperor Li Ganshun on the enemy city...

At the same time, Li Ganshun was summoning the deserter representatives who had retreated from Li Liangfu's troops on the city tower.

"Don't panic, I forgive you for your crime of losing and running away, and you will be equal."

"Thank you Lord Long's kindness, long live my emperor..."

After hearing the words of Emperor Xia, the hundred deserters and defeated generals of Li Liangfu's army who climbed the city felt relieved and realized that Emperor Xia did not want to kill them on the top of the city to punish their deserters.

They stood up in their hearts according to Emperor Xia's will, feeling very grateful.

Li Ganshun asked anxiously: "I summoned you and then to climb the city to ask if you have seen the Song army landing on the defense line along the Yellow River, when they carried those thick furnace tubes made of steel with them?"

"You will follow me to the battlement and look at the Song enemy camp with me."

Li Ganshun walked to the battlement of the city wall, pointed his hand at the artillery squad of the Song Military Division more than two miles away, and asked curiously:

"What are the thick steel drums made of steel in the Song army used to make? Are they the chimneys used by the Song army to bury pots and make rice after marching and camping?"

The representatives of the defeated deserters followed the orders and dared to follow the guards next to Emperor Xia, and they automatically kept a few steps away from Emperor Xia, walked to the battlement of the city wall next to them, stood on tiptoe, and looked at the second group of Song troops who were coming more than two miles ahead...

They were horrified to see that many Song soldiers were pushing down a strange object with thick steel "furnace" from the iron plates placed behind ten large carts of livestock.

At this time, ten artillery pieces had been arranged in front of the Song army camp, more than two miles away.

It doesn't matter if they don't look at it. They were shocked when they saw it, and immediately screamed in tears and howls:

"Ah, it's not good!"

"Ah, the Song army actually moved the mysterious magic weapon that can attract thunder to outside the east city of Xingqing Prefecture, our capital?!"

"Your Majesty, run!"

"Your Majesty, run away! Our army is setting up a strict formation along the Yellow River. It was because the mysterious magic weapon that attracted the sky thunder that caused us to be defeated and fled!"

"Your Majesty, that magic weapon is facing us. If we don't run away, we will die without a burial place! Your Majesty quickly run, it will be too late if we don't run away!"

“…”

These defeated generals of Li Liangfu's army who had seen the power of the Song army's cannon along the Yellow River and were scared to death. When they saw the mysterious weapon - artillery that caused serious trauma to their hearts, they cried and cried, and their bodies were frightened and trembled all over, like a frightened bird, with legs trembling and retreating involuntarily, regardless of whether the Emperor of Daxia was on the city tower or the strict military laws of the Daxia Kingdom.

"Run, run quickly, if you run slowly, you will be killed by the thunder!"

"Yes! It is said that those who are bombed by heavenly thunder will immediately lose their souls and will not enter the six realms of reincarnation after death!"

One hundred defeated representatives of Li Liangfu's troops who were summoned to the city retreated one after another, rushed towards the corridor ladder on the city, and ran towards the downtown...

Emperor Xia Li Ganshun was stunned by the sudden situation and stood there.

King Shu Li Renli, who was half behind Li Ganshun, was furious when he saw this. He hated the most about deserters sending troops when defending the city. He thought of his brother King Pu Li Renzhong. If deserters appeared when defending the city of Xijing, perhaps his brother Li Renzhong would not have committed suicide at the top of the city after the Song army quickly attacked the city of Xijing.

Li Renli shouted angrily: "The enemy is in front of you, and you have not received the will of Your Majesty. Those who have abandoned the city without authorization will be killed without permission!"

"Shalls are on the way..."

The Xia army guards guarding the passageway at the lower city pulled out their swords and rushed toward the hundreds of soldiers and generals of Li Liangfu's troops who had confiscated their weapons and became unarmed before the city.

“Ahhhh…”

On the east city of Xingqing Prefecture, before the battle was met, the sword flashed, blood splattered, killing each other, screaming in pain...

The Emperor of Xia Li Ganshun, who had originally retreated to the east city of Xingqing Prefecture, had a sudden change in his psychology and became somewhat despised by the Song army's "siege of the city" in the military taboo. Of course, in order to encourage the morale of his subordinates, he also pretended to be full of confidence in defending the capital of the Great Xia Kingdom.

Just before Li Liangfu's desertion representatives had entered the city, Li Ganshun talked loudly to the soldiers guarding the city and the guards around him:

‘The Emperor of Song Dog, who was personally conquering the northwest, commanded only tens of thousands of Song troops. He went deep into our Daxia country alone and committed a military taboo. He would inevitably have difficulty in replenishing food and grass. What's more, the Song army did not have the strength to "surround him ten times", but he insisted on attacking our Daxia country for a hundred years, with a high city and a deep ditch, and easy to defend and difficult to attack. Isn't this hitting a stone with an egg?’

‘Hahaha… It’s really a man who is shaking a big tree, he is overestimating his own abilities!’

At that time, with Emperor Xia's confidence laughing, the Xia army generals guarding the city agreed with Emperor Xia and laughed loudly, mocking the Song army for being so small that they were about to attack the impoverished Xingqing Mansion of the Daxia Kingdom. It was really overestimating their ability!

However, when Li Gan Shun followed the deserters of Li Liangfu's troops who were recruited and defeated by the Song army, he learned that he mistakenly believed that the Song army was a mobile stove used to bury pots and make rice and those thick steel stoves, which were actually the mysterious magic weapon that the Song army had caused heavy damage to the Xixia army recently!

Suddenly, Li Ganshun was so scared that he was trembling and was indifferent.

When Li Ganshun saw the auxiliary soldiers of Li Liang who were summoned to the city fleeing, and were killed by the soldiers guarding the city, blood was flowing in his heart...

Although he was shocked and scared by King Shu, Li Renli, who was beside Emperor Xia, his and his mission did not allow him to take into account his personal safety and gains and losses. Protecting His Majesty is the primary responsibility of his newly promoted to the commander of the Sixth Class of the Imperial Siege.

He shouted: "Come here, come forward quickly, raise your shield, list the defensive formation, protect your Majesty, go down to the city quickly and protect your car back to the palace!"

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! Dozens of shield players stepped forward and protected Li Ganshun with shields.

In the inherent impression of these guards, the defense power of using dozens of shields to defend the formation is already very strong and should be foolproof.

However, at this moment, the Song army outside the East City fired.

"boom!"

The shield hand flipped over and protected Li Ganshun with the shield.

In his inherent impression of these Chinese shifts, their defense power with dozens of shields is already very strong.

However, at this moment, the Song army outside the East City fired.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The Song army fired several shells and landed on the East City. One of them was landing in the shield formation protecting Li Ganshun and exploded.

"Bang!"

The powerful impact force knocked the shield away, fragments splashed everywhere, and wailing sounds one after another.

"Ahhhhhhhhhh..."

The explosion was deafening, the fire was rising into the sky, the smoke of gunpowder was filled with huge shock waves, the bricks, broken shields, dead bodies, and residual limbs were blown away, and the east city of Xingqing Prefecture was instantly in chaos, shocking, and screams continued.

"Ah?! Your Majesty..."

"His Majesty……"

"Protect the car! Protect the car!" The guards and soldiers guarding the city shouted and rushed to the shield formation that protected Emperor Xia, shrouded in gunpowder.

Now, there is no shield formation, only piles of broken flesh and blood corpses, all over the ground...

Under such fierce artillery fire from the Song army, the shield formation supported by the efforts of the Xia army's guards seemed small and powerless.

The soldiers guarding the city who had arrived to rescue the chariot who had not been bombarded for the time being, were rummaged to find Emperor Xia Li Ganshun in the sea of ​​blood...

They took off the broken shields, lifted up the broken corpses of guards, and then pulled away the dying King Shu Li Renli who was lying on Emperor Xia. Finally, they saw Emperor Xia Li Ganshun, who had turned pale as paper due to excessive blood loss.

At this time, everyone saw that even under the protection of multiple layers of human shields, Emperor Xia was seriously injured.

Li Ganshun's right little foot was blown away by a shell, and his right leg was covered in blood and flesh!

"Your Majesty!! I am late to save the Lord, and I will die for all my crimes..."

"Follow the military medical officer, come quickly to treat His Majesty..."

"Come here, quickly carry Your Majesty down the city to prevent the Song enemy from using magic again to draw out the second wave of heavenly thunder to harm Your Majesty..."

"Your Majesty, wake up!!!"

“Woo woo woo woo…”

...

At the same time, the guards and generals of other cities in Xingqing Prefecture, Xixia, and even civil and military officials, peddlers and civilians in the capital heard the stunning series of loud thunder sounds coming from the east city, which scared them to tremble, but because of the time difference and their own vision problems, they did not know what was going on.

At the Yellow River Ferry far away from the outskirts of Dongcheng, Xingqing Prefecture, Emperor Zhao Ji, who had just got off the boat and landed ashore, also heard the rumbling cannons several miles away.

Zhao Ji's face was filled with a confident smile and asserted:

"I heard the sound of this cannon, which should be from the east city of Xingqing Prefecture. If I follow the combat plan of the general attack on Xingqing Prefecture in Lingzhou, the first cannon against the enemy Xia Jingcheng should be the officers and soldiers of my old master, Zong Shidao!"

"Father, the wise and wise..."

"My son admires it very much..."

"The official is wise and powerful, and the ministers admire him very much!"

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

The Zhao Guan family's King Zhao Kai, King Kang Zhao Gou, and many imperial officials, heard that the Zhao Guan family had such ability to distinguish positions by listening to the voice, which made them admire them and their admiration was beyond words.

Zhao Ji smiled slightly, as if everything was under control, and he said casually:

"I read history and know that more than a hundred years ago, after Li Jiqian, the founder of Xixia, seized Lingzhou in the Song Dynasty, changed Lingzhou to Xiping Prefecture as its ruling center. After his son Li Deming succeeded to the throne, he believed that Xiping Prefecture was located in the four subway areas, which was not conducive to defense, and it was not as good as Huaiyuan's situation."

"Li Deming sent his minister He Chengzhen to lead his husband to cross the Yellow River to build a city. He was here in Huaiyuan, imitating the capital of Kaifeng Prefecture, our capital of the Song Dynasty, to build a city palace and a ancestral land, and to establish a capital here, named Xingzhou."

"After Li Deming's son Li Yuanhao succeeded to the throne, he built a palace in his capital of Xingzhou to build a palace, and promoted Xingzhou to Xingqing Prefecture. At this point, all the lords of the Western Xia Dynasty regarded this as their capital."

"However, the national strength of Xixia is limited. They imitated me, the capital of Xingqing Prefecture, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, but it is much smaller than that of the Great Song Dynasty Kaifeng Prefecture."

"As far as I know, the capital of Xia State Xingqing Prefecture is only 18 miles away, and the east and west are twice as high as the north and south. The city wall is three feet high and about eight feet thick, so horses can be run on the city; the city is made of bricks and stones, and the surroundings are cut, so the Western Xia soldiers and civilians mistakenly believe that their capital can be easy to defend but difficult to attack!"

"Officials are well-informed and remembered, and know themselves and enemies, and they will definitely be able to win a hundred battles!"

"..." The ministers and military generals around Zhao Ji praised him.

"Hahaha..." Zhao Ji laughed happily. He knew that his subordinates were flattering his words, but when the war was at this time and he was about to give confidence to his subordinates and generals, he whispered:

"The Emperor Xia and all the civil and military officials all believe that the Xia capital Xingqing Prefecture is an excellent defense place. It has the solidarity of Helan Mountain in the west, the natural danger of the Yellow River in the east, the desert in the north, and the Xiaoguan in the south. However, in my opinion, they are all short-sighted people!"
To be continued...