Over there, Tong Guan led most of the Western Army to storm Shunning Village, and the situation was very good. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 The troops led by Liu Fa and Wang Yu encountered most of the Western Xia Jin King Li Chage, and fell into a bitter battle for a while.

Now the Western Xia is Li Qianshun reigning, the powerful minister Liang Yi is ambushed, the Empress Dowager Liang has been poisoned by the Liao State, and the famous Ah Wu and Ren Duo Baozhong have also died one after another. Li Qianshun cultivated virtue and morality, practiced military equipment, and monopolized power in the country. Ten years ago, during the reign of Emperor Tianzuo of Liao, Qianshun sent envoys to Liao twice to ask for marriage. Xia envoy Li Zhizhong and others repeatedly praised Emperor Tianzuo for being smooth: "Wise temperament, cautious in handling things, and abiding by the order." "The lord of Liao agreed to the marriage, and the daughter of the clan, Nanxian, was named the princess of Cheng'an and married Qianshun. With the support of the Liao State, Qianshun's prestige rose sharply, and the national strength of Western Xia was also boosted.

And this time, the commander of the Xia army, Brother Cha, is the younger brother of the Western Xia Emperor Li Qianshun. Resourceful, courageous, and repeatedly feathered. Eight years ago, he was canonized as the king of Jin and was in charge of the country's soldiers and horses, which can be called one person and more than 10,000 people.

In the past 100 years of the Song and Xia wars, from Li Yuanhao to Li Qianshun, in order to capture Shaanxi, they have been trying by all means to seize the Great Song Hehuang area, so as to implement the strategy of attacking from east to west. This time, Brother Cha sent troops to Tiandu Mountain, also to achieve the purpose of attacking Shaanxi, and extracted 50,000 soldiers and horses from various military supervision divisions in Western Xia.

The garrison of the Supervision Department was the largest in the Western Xia army, and it was also the main force of the Western Xia army. When Li Yuanhao, a party member, was not proclaimed emperor, he "placed the 12 superintendent military divisions, and commissioned Hao to the right to control his people".

The 12 superintendents of the left and right compartments: said the left chamber Shenyong, said Shizhou Xiangyou, said Youzhou Jianing, said Weizhou Jingsai, said Xishou Baotai, said Zhuoluo and Nan, said right chamber Chaoshun, said Ganzhou Gansu, said Guazhou Xiping, said Heishui Zhenyan, said Baimaqiang Town, said Montenegro Weifu. The total number of soldiers is more than 500,000.

Its troop distribution and garrison tasks are: 70,000 people from Hebei to Wulayu Mountain to prepare for the Khitan; 50,000 people in Hongzhou, Baibao, Anyanzhou, Luoluo, Tiandu, Weijingshan, etc., in Henan Province, to prepare for Huan (now Huanxian County, Gansu), Qing (now Qingyang), Zhenrong (now Guyuan, Ningxia), and Yuan (now Zhenyuan, Gansu) Prefecture; 50,000 people on Youzhou Road in the left chamber to prepare for Dun (now Fuxian, Shaanxi), Yan (now Yan'an), Lin (now Shenmubei), and Fu (now Fugu); 30,000 people on Ganzhou Road in the right chamber to prepare for Xifan and Hui; Helan (now northwest of Yinchuan, Ningxia) garrisoned 50,000 troops, Lingzhou (now southwest of Lingwu) 50,000, and Xingzhou Xingqing Mansion (now Yinchuan) 70,000 people, with a total of more than 500,000.

Wansheng Fort, the king of the Western Xia and Jin Dynasty, Li Chage, was fighting against Liu Fa, the envoy of Zhixi Prefecture, who was pacified by the Great Song Xihe Road.

Brother Cha was hidden in the battle array, surrounded by an army of 20,000 Iron Harriers and Bubazi, and he was not afraid to face the famous generals of the Great Song Dynasty.

Su Zhili was a close confidant of the Western Xia Emperor Li Qianshun, and he was also the staff officer of the Western Xia Army. From the detailed work, it has long been known that Liu Fa only has 5,000 elite Western Army and 10,000 Fan Han soldiers in his hands. And their own troops are superior, and the cavalry is the majority, so they feel that this battle is confident. So he complimented Brother Cha: "This time, His Royal Highness the King of Jin swept Liu Thief and smashed the hinterland of Yan'an, I'm afraid it won't be just around the corner!" ”

The Liu thief mentioned by Su Zhili is Liu Fa, and Liu Fa is a general of the Western Army. Brother Cha fought with it, and he also lost more than he won. The party members hated him to the bone and called him a thief.

"When two armies fight, it's not all about winning by force!" Brother Cha is old in the army and knows that the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly and cannot be taken lightly. What's more, he also knew that the Dao of the Planter was thirty miles away from here.

Seeing that Brother Cha was worried about the soldiers and horses of the other way, Su Zhili said with relief: "The 30,000 troops of the commander of the unified army Liang Duoling besieged more than 10,000 soldiers and horses of the Seed Division, even if they did not win, they were not defeated!" His Royal Highness King Jin is not worried! ”

Brother Cha also knew that it was useless to worry now, it was important to win the battle in front of him, and he could also go to besiege and kill the people of the Seed Master Dao at that time. Hearing the news of Tong Guan's division of troops, Brother Cha's strategy was to watch the seed master Dao, eat Liu Fa, and then encircle and annihilate Tong Guan. At that time, the western army was defeated, and the land of Shaanxi was left to him to gallop.

"Boom! Boom! "Suddenly, the drums of war rumbled and shook the heavens and the earth. As soon as Brother Cha said a few words to Su Zhili, the Song army began to prepare for an attack.

The Song army each had a thousand-man team, guarding the left and right flanks. The other 3,000 elite Western Army were the Chinese army, and 10,000 Han soldiers followed. The soldiers held a large shield as high as one hand and a spear in the other to form a formation.

"Drink!"

The five thousand elite soldiers shouted violently, slammed the big shield in their hands into the ground, shrank sideways behind the shield, and pressed their shoulders against the shield, forming a moving Great Wall in the blink of an eye.

"Mighty! Mighty! ”

As soon as the shield formation was formed, crossbowmen appeared behind the formation, shouting loudly in their mouths, pushing out the eight-bull crossbows. In the blink of an eye, more than thirty eight-bull crossbows appeared in the battle array. In front of each heavy crossbow, three crossbow guns flashed with cold light, which was extremely terrifying. The eight-ox crossbow is a sharp weapon in the army, with three arrows and three shots, and the force penetrates the heavy armor. Because of the power of eight bulls, it was named. A single arrow can kill more than a dozen people, and even during the siege, soldiers can climb up with crossbow guns nailed to the city walls.

The Song army lacked horses, and the bow and crossbow had always been a sharp weapon for the Song army against the Western Xia. It is also with these eight-bull crossbows that Liu Fa has the confidence to fight with Brother Cha.

Liu Fa's face was solemn, looking at the direction of the Western Xia army's formation, looking for the weakness of the Western Xia army's battle formation. Liu Zhongwu and Wang Yu led the Fanhan soldiers to guard against the Western Xia cavalry.

"A lot of heavy crossbows!"

Seeing the formation of the Song army in front of him, Su Zhili's face was extremely shocked. To know that it is not easy to manufacture heavy crossbows, it is difficult to maintain, and it takes thirty or forty people to use one crossbow, how can this Liu Fa have so many.

"King ...... Jin" Su Zhili swallowed his saliva and screamed softly.

"It's okay!" Chago was not surprised by this, it was only thirty bed crossbows. Although it was troublesome, it could not affect the war. As soon as Brother Cha waved the command flag, his own army also changed its position.

Liu Fa always paid attention to the movements of the army on the Western Front, and when he looked at it, he couldn't help but look drastic! I saw a huge dragon, winding and circling! There are about fifty people in a row, in a neat formation and in unison. They also held a large shield as high as one man in their hands, advancing steadily and covering their own men and horses.

"It's broken! Shield! The fourth general of Xihe Road slammed his palm on the flagpole and shouted.

At this time, the Western Xia advance was only about two hundred steps away from the Song army's battle array. I saw that every soldier was holding a knife in one hand and a shield in the other! Things are not good, the Song army has few soldiers, and they rely on bed crossbows and bows and arrows to defend against danger! Now that the Xia army is coming with a shield, it is difficult for the ordinary bows and arrows of the Song army to pose a threat to it!

"Bang! Syllable! Syllable! In an instant, the sonorous sound was loud! The Xia army struck the shield with the blade of the sword, and the momentum was monstrous!

Seeing that all the soldiers had changed their "color" and their morale had faded, Liu Fa knew that he could not delay. The cheeks agitated and shouted: "Eight bull crossbows!" Launch! ”

The herald waved the flag, and the crossbowmen were up to speed. In front of each heavy crossbow, soldiers with sledgehammers in their hands knocked down their crossbows fiercely.

"Stretch!"

The sound of the bowstring shaking the air covered out all the sounds of heaven and earth, and the thick crossbow spear was like a black cloud, enveloping the Xia army.

For a time, countless crossbow guns shot and pierced the Western Xia soldiers one by one, and nailed them to the ground. Even some crossbow spears directly split the body of a Xia soldier, and the shield in Xia Jun's hand was also torn apart and could not be resisted.

Liu Fa knew that the time on the battlefield was urgent, so he took a sip, turned his head and said to Qu Duan: "You take the heavy armor infantry of the headquarters to the front line, just in case!" ”

Qu Duan's expression was hideous, and he clenched his fists and led his life to go. Liu Fa grabbed it and said solemnly: "Remember! Without a military order, even if you are the only one left, you must not take half a step back! ”

Qu Duan is also a ruthless character, gritting his teeth and saying fiercely: "General rest assured!" Either the summer thieves withdraw their troops today, or you collect the corpse for me! With that, he strode away.

Liu froze his mind, and said to Liu Zhongwu, the defense envoy of Rongzhou: "Brother Liu, you take the officers and soldiers of your headquarters, list them behind my heavy infantry, and attack them with thunderbolts and divine arm bows!" ”

"It's terrifying!" Su Zhili was stunned when he saw the power of the bed crossbow for the first time, he didn't expect the effect of these nearly a hundred crossbow guns to be so amazing.

"His Royal Highness King Jin! A large number of heavy crossbows appeared in the Song army, killing hundreds of my warriors with a single shot! ”

Without having to report to his subordinates, Chago also observed the outcome of the battle. He has been in the army for a long time, and he is also familiar with the Song army's eight-bull crossbow. "Blow the trumpet! Order the strikers to charge with all their might! Although the crossbow is powerful, the arrow speed is too slow. Let the soldiers evacuate in formation, and when the hand-to-hand combat is not to be feared. ”

The Xia army, which received the order, immediately changed from a dense formation to a sparse formation, and accelerated the pace of the charge.

Seeing that his side was at a loss, Brother Cha sighed and had to send out the strong crossbow army in his hand. The Capture Army and the Crossbow Army were both special forces in Western Xia and were tasked with special combat missions. The Western Xia army had 100,000 prisoners, and they were auxiliary soldiers who cooperated with the regular combat troops to take on the role of capturing and plundering in battle.

When Cha Ge first took charge of the army, Cha Ge suggested that a strong crossbow army should be placed to deal with the Song army, and he said to Li Qianshun: "The country uses iron harriers to gallop across the plains, and uses foot treks to chase dangerous valleys. If you encounter a god arm bow, you will collapse yourself. The cover can be regular, and it can not be changed. The husband and soldiers are in the trial machine, the law is fickle, the bow of the Qiang department is weak and the arrow is short, the technique is not fine, it is advisable to choose the strong Han Dynasty to be brave, teach a strong crossbow, and use the sign, Pingju is with a bow and hoe, Linrong is divided into two times, with the short of our country, the long of China, so, invincible in the world. So Li Qianshun adopted Chage's suggestion and established a strong crossbow army.

"Shoot!" With the roar of the Western Xia generals, thousands of feather arrows shot out, covering the sky and the sun.

"Shoot! Shoot again! While the flag was waving, the Western Xia crossbowmen pulled the bows and arrows in their hands again and again.

Suddenly, the sonorous sound suddenly stopped, and the swishing sound was loud, and Liu Fa saw a rain of arrows flying out of the Western Xia army. After glancing at Liu Zhongwu, Liu Fa said in his heart that he didn't want the Xia thief to also have this bow and crossbow elite. I was a little more nervous about this battle, after all, the cavalry of the Xia army had not yet started.

The soldiers of the forward unit of the Western Army, with the assistance of crossbowmen, advanced faster. One by one, the shields were raised above their heads, and they were connected to each other, as if they were on a smooth road! The frontal shooting of the Song army was unexpectedly ineffective.

Liu Fa is the general of the Western Army, and he has been fighting on the battlefield for many years, so he immediately suggested to Liu Zhongwu: "General Liu! The summer thief uses a shield to protect his head, and he can send an archer to adjust the angle and shoot him in the side! ”

Liu Zhongwu obeyed his words and immediately ordered the archers to disperse and shoot at will. The arrows of the Song army are piled up, but they don't have to worry about having bows and no arrows!

In an instant, the bowstring rattled, and the arrows were like locusts!

After all, the Xia soldiers used shields to protect the top of their heads, and the front and back were connected to protect their torsos, and they were well defended. Arrows rained down, and only the sound of "snatching" was heard, but it had little effect.

At a distance of two hundred paces, the Xia army finally rushed in front of the Song army when they paid nearly a thousand casualties.

"Kill! Kill! The two armies collided together, the twisted hands were wielding Mo knives, one spinning, and the two Western Xia soldiers were split in half.

However, more Western Xia soldiers poured up, and Qu Duan killed one after another. Over there, Liu Fa saw that the war was anxious, and there was nothing he could do.

Farther away, the Western Xia position! The Pingxia Iron Harrier, who had been waiting for a long time, turned over and was about to charge the Song army!