"...In one day, more than a dozen fortresses including Shentang Fort, Jiuyang Fort, Huaiwei Fort, Shunning Village were captured. Are they all pigs?"

Han Jiang was furious and kept cursing the incompetent general, but Zhong Yan felt something was wrong.

"How did the Xixia army use to break through the fortress? If it is a strong attack, it is impossible to break through more than a dozen fortresses in one day!"

Zhong Yan grabbed the person who reported the news and asked loudly.

The person who reported the news looked a little excited and his pupils were a little distracted, and he looked quite scary.

The informant reported the news for a moment before saying, "The little man doesn't know. I am the guardian of Roushun Fort. That day, when I saw the Xixia army attacking in the brigade, I was shocked. I heard that the battle ahead was lively, but I didn't expect them to come so quickly, but I was not particularly anxious, because even if they came, they would not be able to break through the fortress for a while..."

Zhong Yan nodded. According to general circumstances, the fortress cannot be defeated by the number of people. It has to be washed by time, otherwise it would be too sorry for the fortress.

"...So I arranged to defend the city in an orderly manner, and even prepared to face the attack for a long time, but what I didn't expect was..."

When Zhong Yan saw the shock, confusion, confusion and fear on the face of the young general, he couldn't help but be surprised. This young general was a young man from the Zhe family, known for his bravery, but now he showed a look of fear on his face. It can be seen how much shock this incident caused him?

"...I went up to the high place to observe that day, and the Western Xia army had no special place, but when I saw the Western Xia army sending out a few small square arrays with shields, there were probably only a dozen people.

They held their shields, and then under the cover of the shield, they went to the base of the fortress wall to dig.

We all laughed at that time because it seemed that they were going to dig the corners of the fortress. Is it necessary to dig the fortress? If the fortress could be so easy to dig, what is the meaning of the fortress?"

Zhong Yan nodded again.

The Zhe family is right. Not to mention the fortress poured with concrete now, even the fortress in the past can’t be dug by hoes.

"... But they only dug for about two quarters of an hour, then carried a wooden barrel-like thing, buried it, and released a long line, which was hiding far away. At that time, I thought something was wrong, so I quickly asked someone to shoot an arrow, but it was useless, and then I saw that they seemed to light the thread head with a torch, and then..."

Zhe Jiazi's face showed a look of fear again.

"And what happened?"

Han Jiang asked anxiously.

“…and then, I flew up with the fortress. Such a large fortress, the walls first bounced up, and when they landed, the entire fortress collapsed!

I was lucky, but I was confused, but some of my subordinates were buried, some of them flew to different places, and some didn't even know where they were.

Of course, more people were shocked, just like a toad struck by lightning. The Xixia army rushed in. I saw that the fortress was broken, so I could only take the horse and run..."

The Zhe family told the difficult story that in this season when autumn was already in full swing, she was sweating all over her back.

Zhong Yan and Han Jiang were also in a cold hands.

If what the Zhe family said was true, then the fortresses and cities were no longer available to rely on, and then it would be impossible to defend the city.

Zhong Yan thought more. If this matter was true, then the form of war had changed. The future war may not be the familiar pattern he was familiar with. This discovery made him feel stuffy in his chest.

Because there were already many heroic cities in his mind, the terrifying scene of the Western Xia army surging south like a flood!

Just as Zhong Yan and Han Jiang were terrified, a rumbling drum sounded at the city wall.

——The Xixia Army, attacked!

Zhong Yan was as crazy as if he was crazy, and didn't care about Han Jiang. He ran out like crazy, and then rode his horse toward the city gate defense line.

Han Jiang was slower, but he was also following Zhong Yan far behind.

When Han Jiang rushed to the city panting, he found Zhong Yan lying on the wall with a shield and looking at the Xixia army below.

Han Jiang said anxiously: "Let me tell you that General Zhong will bring him back, this is too dangerous!"

When Zhong Yan heard his voice, he protected himself with a shield and retreated.

Han Jiang's face was very bad when he saw Zhong Yan.

"how?"

Han Jiang asked.

Zhong Yan said solemnly: "They are already burying that thing. I looked at it and it should be explosives. The explosives used to be not very powerful, but in the past few years, I heard that I was using an explosive to open mountains and crack rocks when paving bridges and roads. I thought it was a rumor, and it seemed to be true."

Han Jiang said: "Our Suide City is much stronger than the fortress, and there is also the defense of the urn city, so it shouldn't be so easy to explode, right?"

Zhong Yan shook his head: "I don't know, although the city is thicker than the fortress, it is a new thing. I don't know, let's take a look first."

Han Jiang said anxiously: "How about sending troops out and dispersing them, and not allowing them to get close to bury explosives?"

Zhong Yan turned around and looked at the cavalry that was eyeing the Western Xia army, as well as the wide moat under Suide City... Well, the moat has no water, and people in this place have no water to drink. How could there be so luxurious that it could fill the moat!

He shook his head: "You can't let them go out and die. If you don't have any effect, you will die if you go out."

Han Jiang couldn't help but sigh.

Are the Song army weak in field battles?

It is hard to say that if you are prepared, the Song army's field combat capabilities are OK, but then it is either a cavalry or an established army, with various types of troops that can specifically deal with cavalry. If it is an encounter, it may not be enough to kill.

This kind of person who opens the door and sends people out is no different from the attack on the half-five. The people have just gone out and are still noisy. They are directly dispersed by cavalry as soon as they are attacked by people, and they are just massacred.

Han Jiang wanted to say something, but a side general on the wall suddenly said: "Shishou, general, the Xixia army sent someone here!"

Zhong Yan and Han Jiang looked down and found that someone was riding a horse alone.

The man shouted, "Don't shoot arrows, my boss has a letter to you."

Han Jiang and Zhong Yan looked at each other, why do you still want to persuade them to surrender?

But no matter what, it should be a look.

Han Jiang asked someone to put down the hanging basket and hung the letter up.

In order to avoid suspicion, Han Jiang opened the letter in public, but after reading it, his expression was very strange.

Zhong Yan took the letter and saw the first sentence, his head buzzed.

The envelope clearly states - Good luck to the second brother, Yi brother is here to worship him.

Zhong Yan was stunned for a while and quickly read the main text. He was a little unbelievable, but his handwriting and tone were indeed the younger brother Zhong Yi. The younger brother suddenly lost the news a few years ago. He thought that the younger brother had an accident, and the old mother at home was still heartbroken. Unexpectedly, Zhong Yi seemed to be of a low level in the Western Xia army.

In the article, Zhong Yi expressed his guilt towards his mother at home, and his longing for his brothers and his nieces and nieces. However, Zhong Yan did not care about these words. He wanted to see that the purpose of Zhong Yi's writing this letter was not that his brother was cold-blooded, but that it was of great importance. If you are not careful, the Zong family might be exterminated.

Sure enough, I found it below. Zhong Yi said that he served as the marshal in the Western Xia army and was the first in the Western Xia army's military. He also introduced that Xixia is now a country of Han people. Xixia will become the communist ruler of the world in the future. The roughly means that he hopes that his second brother Zhong Yan can participate in the feat, and that the Zong family will go to the next level in the future.

Zhong Yan scoffed at this. After all, the Zhong family was also a top family in the Song Dynasty. Although it had the tradition of using culture to build martial arts, Zhao Song had to rely on these families. It was not funny to have a strong backer, but instead go to a barbarian country like Xixia.

However, before Zhong Yan could think too much, what was below made him hesitate.

Zhong Yi said behind, if the second brother planned to go all the way to the dark, it would be nothing. When the explosives exploded, even if the second brother could still survive, it would still be the end of defeat.

However, after the second brother suffered such a big defeat, the status of the Zhong family in Zhao Song would plummet. Moreover, once Zhao Song lost the Sixth Road in Shaanxi, he would be just a cattle and sheep to be slaughtered.

I hope that my second brother will work hard for the prosperity of Daxia in order to build a family plan, for the people of China, and work together for the prosperity of Daxia. In this way, the family, country and the world can be taken into account, and our brotherly feelings can be taken into account. Isn’t it beautiful?

Zhong Yan's face turned pale and he looked up at Han Jiang. Han Jiang had already looked alert, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Han Jiang had already doubted him.

Zhong Yan shouted: "It's really ridiculous. Preparing for combat is the enemy's plan to disagree. There is no need to worry too much, shoot arrows!"

Archery naturally cannot harm the Xixia army, but this expresses Zhong Yan's attitude.

Since Zhong Yan expressed his attitude, the Western Xia army naturally shocked him.

Arrows were like rain, and they were planted in front of the Xixia Army's horse formation. Zhong Yan looked over from a distance, and the cavalry in front walked to both sides, revealing the large flag in the middle.

A man in the armor of the general under the banner of Daqi took off the helmet from his head. Zhong Yan squinted his eyes and couldn't help but feel shocked - it was indeed his younger brother Zhong Yi!

Zhong Yi looked at the arrow cluster in front of the horse's legs, smiled, raised his hand to signal, waved it down fiercely, and immediately someone lit the line of fire with a torch.

Zhong Yan squinted his eyes and looked at the rapidly burning fire line. Neither he nor Han Jiang retreated because they were in the front wall, but had retreated to the wall behind the urn, and were still a distance away.

The fire line quickly burned under the explosives, and Zhong Yan and Han Jiang saw the most shocking scene in their lives.

A few loud sounds like thunder sounded one after another, and the solid city wall suddenly jumped up. Huge white smoke mixed with large pieces of gravel flew around. Even though they were separated by Xu Yuan, they still felt that the city wall under their feet was dancing.

The next moment, the wall of the urn city collapsed like a mud wall soaked by rain. The soldiers on the urn city were pressed under the wall, and the smoke and dust did not dissipate for a long time.
Chapter completed!