Yang Huaiyu's Southern Route Army and Yang Zhongxian's Western Route Army protected the flanks of the Central Army, which was the best way to protect the military formation.

The steel front cavalry of the Western Route Army has been asked to leave by Di Qing, and the same is true of the cavalry in the Southern Route Army, for them now, the cavalry is no longer an important existence, and their main task is to stabilize the military formation.

The infantry stabilized the army formation, and the role of the cavalry was obvious, Di Qing used them to form a sharp blade to deal with the soldiers encircled by Xingqing Mansion, once the Western Xia planned to encircle and attack the Great Song Dynasty inside and outside, the cavalry in Di Qing's hands would attack and defeat the strategy of not hiding Pang.

The cavalry of the Great Song Dynasty still adopted a composite model, not a single heavy cavalry, but a variety of cavalry mixed operations, and it was not resting on its laurels in terms of tactical thinking, absorbing the characteristics of cavalry combat in previous dynasties and applying it.

Of course, in this era when cavalry dominates the battlefield, the infantry is not without achievements, it mainly depends on how to use them, Zhao Zhen made the infantry to fight mainly in the corps, charge and use their stability, and confront the enemy in a solid manner, even if the army is not chaotic, even if it is invincible.

With Di Qing's order, the Eastern Route Army is also completely composed of cavalry in the Great Song Dynasty began to be busy, compared with the war of any era, the battle formation of the Great Song Dynasty is the strangest, the two wings are not the fastest moving cavalry, but the infantry known for its steady and steady fighting, but the cavalry that is as fast as thunder acts as the Chinese army in the military formation.

The unique tactics obviously even the Tangut people could not imagine, the ambush from the Great Trap Valley suddenly hit the flank of the Great Song Dynasty, with the cavalry should be the most restrained against the infantry, the cavalry has a strong impact force to pose a fatal threat to the foot soldiers, but if the siege of the city is obviously powerless.

Although the Great Song Dynasty army formation is on the flat ground, but it is still as difficult to capture as a walled city, iron thistles, trap horse pits, tripping horses, rejecting horse guns, ratchet crossbows, all form an invisible city wall danger, the Western Xia people crashed into the Great Song Dynasty army formation is a heavy casualties, the power of the thistle terrestris has been reflected, the war horse neighed and fell to the ground, more iron thistle terrestris pierced into the body of the war horse, making it unbearable to fight again.

Needless to say, the deep horse trap is often a person who suddenly falls into it, and the sharp wooden thorns pierce the body of the Tangut people under the strong inertia, and the miserable screams are endless, and for a time this horse pit is like a hell on earth.

Behind the four lines of defense, there is also a big Song Mo knife formation wearing heavy armor and holding a Mo knife, as well as an endless rain of arrows, the so-called cavalry restraining the infantry is also a matter of situation, for example, the fully prepared Song infantry has an advantage against the cavalry, and there is a rare hook and sickle team in the army, they are the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty infantry who specialize in dealing with cavalry.

A hook hammer is a spear with a barb on the tip of the spear. The gun was seven feet two inches long, and the head of the gun was eight inches. The tip of the gun is sharp, and its lower part has a sideways protruding barb, and the hook tip is curved inward.

The barrel of the spear was six feet long, four inches in diameter, made of wood, and had an iron hammer at the end of the shaft, which was four inches long. The head of the hook spear is the same as that of a normal spear, which serves as an assassination, and the side barbs can be used to slash enemies or cut the horse's legs on the ground, forcing the enemy to fall from their horses and create a fighter.

The Western Xia people did not take advantage of the flanks of the Great Song Dynasty, but were killed and injured countless by the Song army, the foot soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty are not like cavalry, this is a rare opportunity for them to obtain military merits, if they want to get ahead, they all rely on the bottom of the military merits, even if the commander of the army, Yu Hou, and the colonel have to rely on the opportunity to transfer the price of military merits.

The army defending the city in Xingqing Mansion also came out, obviously not hiding Pang Pang hoped to attack the Great Song Dynasty inside and outside, but this was also expected by Di Qing, the military flag was waved, and the cavalry who was already wearing armor turned over and got on the horse, or got on the horse with the help of his teammates, after all, the armor on the heavy armored cavalry weighed dozens of catties.

The cavalry of the Great Song Dynasty is divided into several types, plate cavalry with men and horses, cuirassiers with only cuirass and helmets, and crossbow cavalry with only simple iron armor, of course, even the cavalry of the unified arms is also diverse, some of the plate cavalry are armed with long riding spears, some directly use horse lances, or are the best at chopping sabers.

And the most special of this is the crossbow cavalry, the Great Song Dynasty moved the crossbow arrows with amazing power but not suitable for use on horseback to the war horse, the role of the crossbow cavalry is like this, they are dressed in thinner iron armor, which is the most conducive to flexible rotation, and the crossbow arrows are also modified ratchet crossbows, and the whole action of winding and riding arrows can be completed with one hand.

The long-range strike force on horseback is the most flexible, and the wandering crossbow cavalry can shoot the enemy to the maximum extent and make the enemy dodge in confusion, playing the role of disrupting the formation.

The cavalry of the Great Song Dynasty was led by eight thousand plate armor heavy cavalry steel fronts armed with cavalry spears, followed by the Beiwei army holding a horse lance, and the white army with a spear, these two armies had different tactics, but they cooperated tacitly, and the Beiwei army was known as the foot soldiers on the horse, not because their horsemanship was not good, but because they ordered and forbidden, and they were uniform.

Compared with the back of the army, the white army is superb in riding, and the kung fu is also good, and the cooperation between the two armies is seamless.

Under the leadership of 8,000 steel fronts, the Great Song Chinese army moved and rushed towards the cavalry of the Western Xia people, with the acceleration of the Great Song cavalry, a special sound sounded on the battlefield, and a unique rhythm spread throughout the battlefield, even the foot soldiers far away on the flanks could feel the vibration of the ground.

The two armies collided together, and at this moment, it seemed that the battlefield had fallen into silence, followed by the sound of countless broken cavalry spears, which also meant that countless Tanguts were killed on the spot...... For a while, the cavalry formation of the Western Xia people fell into a panic, and then it was the beginning of the killing moment of the Great Song cavalry.

The horse lance flashed through the Xixia cavalry, and it was easy to pick the Xixia people off the horse, once the horse fell in the dense military formation, it had the result of being trampled to death, and the Great Song cavalry after rushing into the military formation did not reduce its speed, and continued to rush forward to kill, and the cuirassier who followed quickly waved the sharp saber in its hand, the leather armor of the Xixia people was not vulnerable at all, and the heavy armor had its own back army holding a horse lance to deal with.

Relatively leisurely are the crossbow cavalry, they hold ratchet crossbows to quickly aim at the enemy and shoot one by one, if the enemy is close, they shoot their horses and walk to open the distance between the enemy, looking back to shoot, the Tangut people are often in the sound of crossbow strings have been dodged after the arrow.

The cavalry of the Chinese army of the Great Song Dynasty quickly defeated the Western Xia cavalry of Xingqing Mansion, and after the enemy left, they did not pursue, but tried to stay away from the city walls of Xingqing Mansion, and at this time their own soldiers came to clean up the battlefield......