"Son of a b * tch, where are you? Come out, I will definitely kill you … "Ren Baqian was at the corner of the city wall. He quietly poked his head out and carefully looked into the darkness in the distance.
He didn't notice that the antenna on his head had completely exposed him.
This was the corner between the east and south walls, and it was one of the few relatively peaceful places.
The battle cries came from a dozen meters away from him, but he pretended not to hear them.
"Pay attention to the direction of the arrow and where exactly it was shot from." Ren Baqian exhorted Shi Hu. Shi Hu also had a night vision device on his head and was looking outside curiously. He didn't expect to see people in this way with this device, and it was very novel to him.
"Inform the others to fire!" Ren Baqian said to the people behind him. He had already adjusted the angle of the mortar just now, and the people who stayed there only needed to put the shell in.
After a while, a "bang" sound was heard from inside the city. Ren Baqian stared at the sea of people below. Although he couldn't see the person clearly, he could more or less see some movements. He just needed to find the person who drew the bow and nocked the arrow at that time. The movement of the bowstring wasn't small, and it was very likely that he would be found.
"Boom!" The shell directly exploded outside the city wall, and a corner of the night vision device was dyed red.
At that moment, he saw at least three people do the same action, but none of them hit the target.
"Could it be one of them?" Ren Baqian thought to himself and resisted the urge to shoot.
He quietly slipped down the city wall, adjusted the angle of the mortar, hid on top of the city wall, and fired.
"Bang!"
Ren Baqian carefully looked at the figure in the darkness and cursed in his heart. This time, at least ten people did the same action.
Great Xia didn't only have one godly archer, so it was impossible to find the person.
When Ren Baqian thought of this, he moved the gun rack to a position, held the trigger, and fired.
It didn't matter if it was the person or not, he would just shoot first.
The first two archers didn't even have time to react and were shot into rags.
The third archer fiercely leapt backwards, then broke into a run.
"An expert! An expert must die! " It was as if Ren Baqian had found the person he was looking for. He didn't care about the others at all as he fired a long metal dragon at the figure with the machine gun.
However, there were too many people outside in the dark. Ren Baqian could only see the color blocks formed by the heat emitted by the human body. With just a few flashes, it was difficult for him to find him among the crowd.
After emptying a chain of ammunition in the general direction, Ren Baqian allowed Shi Hu to carry his spear and descend the city wall.
There were still many things to do at night. She couldn't keep wasting time with him.
After Ren Baqian fired a few artillery shells, there were a few gaps in the attacks outside the eastern city wall. This allowed the soldiers on this side of the wall to more or less take a breather.
Moreover, most of the scaling ladders had been destroyed, so the intensity of the attack was still acceptable. Some of the soldiers could even take turns to rest.
Ren Baqian used this opportunity to fire eight consecutive cannons in the direction of the north gate. Two of the cannons were hit, and one of them collided with the wall before falling to the ground and exploding. The other one was directly hung on the wall like the two on the east side.
After these few cannons were fired, the Great Xia soldiers outside the city wall were immediately wiped out. More than half of the scaling ladders had also disappeared.
After going through all three directions, Great Xia's attack finally weakened. After another hour, they finally sounded the gong to withdraw. Without the scaling ladders as a siege weapon, it was useless even if they had a large number of people. They could only speed up cutting down the trees outside to make more equipment in order to organize the next wave of attack.
When the Great Xia army withdrew, many of the soldiers directly sat in a pool of blood, leaned against the wall, and fell into a deep sleep.
After fighting continuously for so long, even a man made of iron couldn't withstand it.
Ren Baqian once again led the guards up the city wall.
"Take that down." Ren Baqian pointed at the artillery shell that was nailed to the wall below and said to Shi Hu.
"It won't explode, right?" Shi Hu knew the power of this thing as he had seen it too many times in the past two days.
"Just be careful not to touch the front." Ren Baqian waved his hand.
He had already asked about this thing. This kind of artillery shell had two safeties. One was opened when the bottom was fired, and the other was the fuse at the top. A certain amount of force had to be exerted before the fuse would explode.
As long as one of the conditions wasn't met, it would be safe.
Not to mention being pierced by an arrow, even if it was hit by a tracer bullet, it wouldn't explode so easily.
Ren Baqian asked someone to find a few pieces of cloth, cut the arrow shaft, and pulled it out. Then, he wrapped the artillery shell and asked someone to carefully put it aside. The next time Great Xia attacked, they would directly throw it down.
Under such circumstances, he didn't know whether it could still explode or not.
Even if it couldn't explode, it could still smash someone to death.
Then, he carefully sized up the long arrow that was cut off from the artillery shell. It was made of wood, had a white feather tail, and a fine iron arrowhead at the front.
After looking at it for a long time, he still couldn't figure out anything. Then, he passed the two short arrows to Shi Hu.
"Sir, these are arrows from the same person," Shi Hu said after sizing them up.
"How do you know?" Ren Baqian asked curiously.
"Some archers will leave a mark on the arrow, which means that this person was killed by himself. Here, there is a carving mark on both arrows, "Shi Hu explained as he passed the tail of the arrow to Ren Baqian and pointed at the tail.
"As expected!" Ren Baqian looked in the direction that Shi Hu pointed. Indeed, there was a small pattern at the bottom of the arrow shaft. It looked like a simple flower.
"Alright, if he didn't die, he can be considered lucky." Ren Baqian waved his hand and no longer cared about the archer. He returned to the city commander's residence and moved out the box containing the landmines. Then, he hurriedly led his men out of the city and buried ten landmines in an area that was about 100 to 200 meters away from the city.
Type-72 Anti-infantry Bouncing Mine. After being stepped on, the grenade would jump one to two meters before exploding. The explosive power was not strong, but it contained 650 shrapnel fragments that could cause a large number of casualties within a radius of 14 meters.
This type of landmine wasn't meant to kill, but to injure. After all, an injured person needed two people to carry him away and also needed someone to take care of him. Compared to killing him directly, it was more of a burden to the other party.
Furthermore, the injured still needed to eat rations.
This was also the reason why Ren Baqian brought the landmines back to Earth.
Did the other party want to trade? In that case, Ren Baqian would create a large number of injured people. They couldn't fight, had to send people to take care of them, and had to consume rations.
"Be careful not to step on it. If anyone steps on it, they will probably be buried in the ground." Ren Baqian placed the landmines into the pit, covered it with soil from both sides, and emphasized again and again.
After hearing this, the guards and winged cavalry warriors around him immediately kept quiet out of fear.
Even an Earth Wheel expert would be seriously injured and die if they weren't careful with these things that Ren Baqian used.
Each and every one of the strong men walked like cats and didn't even breathe loudly.
In fact, this type of landmine would only start operating after being buried for a period of time. This was to prevent the people who laid the landmines from accidentally stepping on them.
At the same time, the so-called landmines weren't like those that wouldn't jump out and explode if one stepped on or was pressed down by something. As long as one stepped on it, the fuse would be ignited. Even if one didn't move, it would explode in a short period of time, but the damage to the surroundings would be smaller.
Following which, he also buried ten landmines in the north and west of the city. Ren Baqian then brought his men back to the city and got them to find more than ten pieces of white cloth. He used chicken claws to write on them: "Be careful where you step!"
"Sir, aren't we reminding them? What if they find out? "Shi Hu rubbed his head and asked.
"How far can we see this cloth?" Ren Baqian squinted at him and asked.
Upon hearing this, Shi Hu turned around and ran into the distance. He used the light from the lantern to take a closer look before running back and saying, "During the day, it should be about 30 to 40 meters, right? Now, it can't be seen clearly from about 30 meters away. "
"How far have we buried it?" Ren Baqian was exasperated that Shi Hu didn't meet his expectations.
"About 50 to 60 meters." Shi Hu counted with his fingers.
"Isn't that enough? The other party will first step on the landmines and kill and injure a lot of people. Then, when they see the cloth on the city wall, won't they pay more attention to where they step? Even if they don't pay attention, they won't be able to stop their imagination from running wild, right? "
"Then? We didn't bury it under the city wall, and they will find out soon! "Shi Hu continued to ask. He still didn't understand Ren Baqian's intention.
Ren Baqian crossed his arms and said with a serious face, "I'm just scaring them!"
Shi Hu was speechless.
…
The next day, Great Xia rested for an entire day. On the third day, they carried a bunch of scaling ladders out to continue attacking the city.
At present, the large scaling ladders that looked like moving buildings were no longer there. Instead, they were all scaling ladders that looked like ladders that could be carried directly up the city wall by a few people.
The army first lined up in a formation and approached Liao City with a murderous aura.
When Ren Baqian heard that the Great Xia army had left their barracks, he hurriedly rushed to the city wall with the empress, Li Qianqiu, and the others. They only saw the neat army nearing Liao City after leaving the barracks.
At the very front were the soldiers with shields, and behind them were the archers and the spearmen.
Between the two rows of soldiers, there were a few people carrying scaling ladders.
As far as the eye could see, there were at least 40 scaling ladders, and there were even more scaling ladders coming out from the barracks.
"Are they cutting down our trees to make these scaling ladders?" Ren Baqian suddenly thought of this.
"They are also cutting down our trees to make fires and cook!" Li Qianqiu said faintly.
"Does this count as eating, using, and even attacking us?" Ren Baqian asked again.
Li Qianqiu's expression froze as he had never considered this question before. After hearing what Ren Baqian said, it seemed to be the case!
All of a sudden, he was in a bad mood.
"We are almost there!" Ren Baqian and Li Qianqiu chatted for a while and saw that the Great Xia army was already nearing the farthest mine that was buried yesterday.
Li Qianqiu knew that Ren Baqian ran out to bury something at night, but he didn't know what it was. At this moment, after hearing what Ren Baqian said, Li Qianqiu focused his attention and observed carefully.
When a row of soldiers stepped over the first mine, the second row also stepped over it. Miraculously, they didn't step on it.
However, an archer in the third row made a slight "click" sound when he stepped on it.
A second later, when he lifted his foot, the mine directly bounced off the ground.
Boom!
Along with flames, countless steel balls and shrapnel were shot in all directions.
In addition to the people who were closest to the mine being blown up and turned into sieves, many people were also injured by the random shrapnel. The Great Xia army's battle formation suddenly became chaotic.
Then, the second mine, the third mine …
Everyone at the top of the city wall looked at the gradually chaotic Great Xia army and immediately felt refreshed.
"Principal Ren, what kind of treasure is it this time?" Li Qianqiu turned his head and asked.
"Jumping mine!" Ren Baqian replied with two words.
He just realized something very interesting. The Great Xia army's shield soldiers were in front while the crossbowmen and archers were in the back. This was to prevent the aboriginal army from attacking and to cover them with a rain of arrows at the first instance.
However, at this time, almost all the mines exploded within the crossbowmen and archers, causing the greatest damage to the crossbowmen and archers who didn't have much protection.
Although the number of casualties wasn't too high, there were still about 300 to 400 people. Most of them were injured, especially in the lower three parts of the army, which were below the waist …
The Great Xia army fell into chaos before they even reached the bottom of the city wall.
After a full two hours, the Great Xia army continued to advance. At this time, the people at the front with good eyesight could clearly see what was written on the white cloth on the city wall.
However, something that Ren Baqian didn't expect happened. The Great Xia army didn't seem to see it and didn't panic at all.
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