Crossbow arrows rained down, piercing the sky, but also piercing the earth and people's bodies, this is the main step of the Great Song Dynasty to receive the enemy, first use crossbow arrows to shoot, and then line up against the enemy, in the face of the enemy's attack, will not needlessly consume vital force to impact the enemy formation.

Zhao Zhen's imperial tent had already been armed to the teeth, sharp rejection of horses, deep horse pits, tall oars and shields, and of course, there was an armored carriage around the imperial tent...... A royal tent on the grassland is like a small fortress.

Such a defensive lineup can be regarded as quite complete, which is already the greatest extent of Bao Zheng, as if a city is rising from the ground. In the face of the Liao charge, Zhao Zhen's guards around him shot in an orderly and unhurried manner, and the crossbow arrows were basically never broken, covering the "black clouds" pressed towards the south in waves.

Peng Qi stood in front of the gate with a Mo knife in his hand, his body was already covered with heavy plate armor, and behind him was a veteran of the Guards Division who was exactly the same as him, with heavy black plate armor, such as Lin Ban's Mo knife, and resolute eyes, all revealing their sharp edge.

The hundred-man team gives people thousands of feelings. Zhao Zhen's imperial tent camp naturally couldn't be only eight hundred people, but even if there were carriages, there weren't many more people, it was just doubled.

More than 1,600 people did not have much difference from 800 people in the face of the overwhelming heavy cavalry of the Liao Dynasty, and the black cavalry of the Liao Dynasty charged towards the imperial tent of the Great Song Dynasty, and the earth turned over like a dragon under the charge of thousands of cavalry, and the team of 3,000 people also seemed to be more.

Peng Qi's hands tightly grasped the handle of the knife wrapped around the hemp rope, and the rough feel could increase the friction and make the Mo knife not so easy to get rid of, don't look at this small detail, but it was quite practical on the battlefield, and the veterans of the Guards Division behind him were also the same.

There are six thousand soldiers in the Great Song Dynasty, and the foot soldiers are blocked by Mo knives and long Ke axes, such as the wall, and they are unstoppable, and the Mo knife hand is the backbone of the army to deal with the cavalry melee combat, since it is a defensive operation, Zhao Zhen gave up all the cavalry to fight, focusing on fighting with the infantry against the cavalry, which was once the specialty of the Great Song Dynasty Forbidden Army.

When there was no horse breeding land and good breed horses, the Great Song Dynasty has always pursued the strategy of riding on foot, although it could not chase and kill the rout army in the war and even would be counterattacked, but this tactic was surprisingly good in defensive operations.

I'm afraid that's why Da Song was originally the best at fighting defense......

Learn from each other's strengths, Zhao Zhen will never be defeated with a stick from the product of failure, even when the Great Song Dynasty had excellent cavalry, Zhao Zhen did not give up the old Zhao family's tradition of riding on foot, but just changed it from strategic to tactical.

The crossbow bolts are still being fired, but the frequency is getting higher and higher, and the improved ratchet crossbow of the Great Song Dynasty can already achieve the speed of three breaths and one crossbow arrow, even the hairy boy who enters and leaves the barracks can use it to achieve five breaths and one crossbow arrow.

Although this thing is easy to use and has amazing lethality, it has also become an official weapon, and no one is allowed to have this kind of thing except the army of the Great Song Dynasty, even the pro-army of Jiangmen is not allowed to use it, and violators will be punished as rebellion.

When the speed of the crossbow arrows gradually slowed down, the veterans of the Guards Division knew that the Mo knife in their hands was about to usher in fresh blood, and the tremor of the earth had become more and more intense, and they could even clearly feel the enemy's movements on horseback, and the proximity was also the reason why the crossbow archers reduced their rate of fire, and they wanted to kill and injure the enemy as effectively as possible.

The charging Liao Dynasty cavalry roared excitedly, they found that the cold forging armor on their bodies was quite strong, and they had to sacrifice many people before rushing to the Song army's formation in the past, but today they only began to suffer huge casualties when they were a hundred steps away from the Song army's formation.

This shows that the Song people's divine arm crossbow does not have much advantage in long distance, how can the Liao people not be excited, the "black cloud" is getting closer and closer to the imperial tent of the Great Song Emperor, and most of the Liao Dynasty warriors seem to feel that victory is already in sight.

The closer he got to the imperial tent camp of the Great Song Emperor, the more nervous Yelu Zongzhen became, and the situation in front of him was slightly wrong, especially the Great Song Emperor's past methods and what he did today made him suspicious.

Even if this is already ready to be issued, the cavalry who gave the order had already sent the order to the army when he led the three thousand Tielin Army to break through, this war has begun, and no one can stop it!

Rustling...... Rustling...... People are neighing, horses are wailing, the sudden sound interrupted Yelu Zongzhen's thinking, looking up, the cavalry of Da Liao seemed to have encountered a cliff in a flood, and the stream was quickly cut off, a moat appeared on the ground, and the cavalry who charged in the front fell into the ground, and was penetrated by countless bamboo spears, wailing and bleeding weakly in the pit......

"Trapped!"

Yelu Zongzhen instantly understood what this was, but it had no effect, the speed of the cavalry was too fast, and the equipment on the Tielin Army was too heavy, and the Tielin Army under the full charge could not stop even if it knew that there was a horse trap in front of it.

However, the Tielin army was indeed the elite of the elite, although it could not let the horses stop, but it could control the direction, and the galloping army quickly contracted, and began to concentrate in the center, so as to avoid more casualties, and stepped on the corpses of their comrades to continue the attack.

The battlefield is always like this, it's too late to sympathize with others, you have to fight for your life, otherwise you will become the object of sympathy for others.

Trapping horses, stumbling horses, rejecting horses, the effect of the Great Song Dynasty riding on foot is still obvious, and various means of dealing with cavalry emerge in endlessly, as if they are playing tricks, but what really affects the victory or defeat of the war is hand-to-hand combat.

Zhao Zhen looked at Peng Qi and Zhao Li standing in front of the military formation like the gods of war, and he was envious, the black and oppressive enemy cavalry rushed to his face, but these two goods could have the courage to collapse in front of them without changing color, it was really difficult.

The enemy cavalry finally approached, Peng Qi and Zhao Li knelt on one knee almost at the same time and put their knives on the ground with their hands in their hands, and after their movements, the sword wall of Rulin was erected, and the cavalry of the Liao Dynasty let out a frightened roar and tried to control the horses to change direction, but their mouths still hit the knife wall.

The sharp long knives passed through the horses' bodies, and some directly cut off the horses' legs, and the viscous blood gushed out with the screams of fear, and the speed of the Tielin Army had slowed down a lot after the horse traps and tripping ropes and the slowdown of the horses.

Facing the cavalry of the Liao Dynasty, the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty began to retract their formation, because they had no cavalry to attack, but there was one exception, Peng Qi and Zhao Li, with the veterans of the Guards Division, rushed into the cavalry of the Liao Dynasty like a group of human meat harvesters......

The Great Song infantry resisted the cavalry, but in fact, they were not afraid that they would not be able to stop the opposing cavalry. Instead, they were afraid that the opponent's cavalry would launch the unique mobility advantage of the cavalry, and the cavalry of the Liao Dynasty could always retreat and adjust to attack again in the case of a rush.

Under the constant impact, the foot soldiers can block it once, but they can't block the opponent's successive impacts, and the most variant of the Mo knife hand drags the cavalry in the place, so that they can't form a charge that comes and goes freely.