The so-called slashing soldiers were not the main arms of the Western Xia, but the auxiliary troops of the garrison defending the Xingqing Mansion, the capital of the Western Xia, and nearby strategic places, with a total of more than 70,000 people.

As an auxiliary force, these soldiers are actually not high in equipment and combat effectiveness, and they are not as strong as the patrol battalions of the Imperial Army, but their combat effectiveness is extremely special at the moment.

Kress and Pang Wanchun, who were soon watching the battle, discovered the combat intentions and strangeness of the Western Xia commander.

It is absolutely not normal to let the elite cavalry and mountain infantry charge forward, and use the lives of these Western Xia warriors holding iron shields as cover, just so that the soldiers behind can reach the front of the Second Legion of the Empire.

What the enemy wanted must not let him succeed, so although he did not know what tricks the Tanguts were playing, Kress still ordered the artillery to bombard the inconspicuous soldiers.

When a detonator exploded in the charging soldiers, triggering a series of explosions, and after seeing this scene, all the soldiers of the empire understood the true plan of the Tanguts.

When the Imperial Army fought against the powerful Jin Kingdom in the north, a similar tactic appeared, that is, soldiers carried a large amount of explosives to blow up the enemy's fortified cities.

Of course, this kind of warfare is not advocated by the empire, and this is completely due to the soldier's personal desire to win, and it has not appeared a few times in total.

And the Western Xia army obviously forced these soldiers to do this, after all, there would not be so many soldiers who would voluntarily beg for death to do this kind of mortal charge.

After discovering the terrifying tactics of the Tanguts, even the fearless Imperial soldiers shuddered and quickly focused their attacks on these suicide soldiers who were armed with a large amount of gunpowder.

War has existed since ancient times, and it can even be said that there is war when there are people, and human beings are very fond of this method of resolving disputes.

The earlier it was, the less intense the war, because our ancestors fought with sticks, and then with bows and swords, and this way of fighting continued for many years.

Gunpowder originated in an earlier era, and the Song dynasty had firearms, but the countries did not pay attention to this invention, and the empire carried it forward and became the strongest means of attack in the army.

After the empire's gunpowder became famous all over the world, the Song State was the first to imitate it, and the Song people, who had no secrecy system, also spread the formula of gunpowder and the production method of firearms.

Now the Tangut people use gunpowder to deal with the imperial legion, I have to say that this has epoch-making significance, which shows that all countries have begun to follow suit after seeing the combat capability of the empire, it is estimated that if the Xixia and other countries develop for a few more years, then the future battle is estimated to become a battlefield for hot weapons to fight against each other.

With the cover of the Western Xia cavalry and mountain infantry, although the Imperial army tried their best to attack these self-detonating soldiers, some of them still rushed into the imperial army formation and detonated the gunpowder on their bodies.

"Boom, boom, boom......" A series of violent explosions appeared one after another in the camp of the Imperial Army.

Although the ratio of gunpowder in Western Xia has not yet reached perfection, the power of the explosion is still not small, and each explosion will injure and kill several Imperial soldiers around them, and also bring the largest casualties to the Empire since the beginning of the war.

Looking at the self-detonating troops that were still swarming towards the Second Legion of the Empire, Pang Wanchun couldn't help but sigh, in the face of the Western Xia people's tactics that were not as good as losses, he couldn't do anything.

After a few hours, the fighting finally stopped, and the corpses and wreckage of humans and horses were littered between the two armies, and the Imperial front was blown up in disarray, but the Second Army finally survived the attack.

The Tangut side inflicted huge losses on the Imperial Army, and this war was only the beginning, because with the sound of war drums, the Tanguts began to attack again.

This time it was the five troops of Western Xia that appeared, in addition to the previous self-detonating soldiers and mountain infantry, there were also three thousand real iron cavalry.

They were covered with heavy armor even for men and horses, and this was the most elite Iron Harrier Legion in Western Xia.

The real Iron Harrier Legion is still very different from the imitation formed by Tuoba Ning, their armor is more sophisticated, and their combat experience is more abundant, so it can be said that each of them is a war machine that is difficult to compete with.

If the Iron Harrier troops alone appeared, then the Imperial Army could still use terrifying phosphorus bombs to defend, but a special army soon appeared on the Western Xia side.

When Chongzong was in order, his younger brother Chage suggested that a strong crossbow army should be placed to deal with the Song army, he said: "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. "Qianshun is its strategy, and build a strong crossbow army.

The strong crossbow army of Western Xia is actually an army that mainly consists of long-range strike forces, and they belong to a special force with extremely strong attacks but extremely weak defenses.

And when the strong crossbow army that is good at long-range attacks is paired with the iron harriers who are surrounded by strong attacks and runs, this is an invincible combination.

These crossbow armies belonged to the regular army of Western Xia, and they had rich combat experience, extremely accurate targets, and more importantly, their previous strong crossbows had also been improved, and now they had begun to use rockets.

The rockets of the Western Xia crossbow army are very similar to the kind of rockets invented by the Jin people, and there is basically no difference, both of which tie gunpowder to the arrows, which can make them burn and explode.

The Imperial Army uses gunpowder weapons, so there are a lot of ammo boxes in the array that can be replenished by placing them in the outer tentacles, and if these things are hit by rockets, it will cause a series of explosions.

In addition, the rocket burning explosion will also inflict additional damage on the Imperial soldiers, so this ranged unit of Western Xia deserves the attention of the Imperial Army.

When the Western Xia crossbowmen came out of range of the Imperial muskets, they immediately ignited the rockets and pointed diagonally at the sky to shoot the first round of arrows.

A little fire fell on the Imperial army, and in order to defend against the arrows, the soldiers could only raise their shields in front of them.

It is said that the soldiers of the crossbow army can shoot more than 20 arrows in a battle, and there is no need to hide their strength at this time, and five rounds of arrow rain immediately cover the position of the second army of the empire.

With the damage and cover brought by these five rounds of rockets, a large number of self-detonating soldiers and mountain infantry charged first, attracting the firepower of the imperial army, and the 3,000 Iron Harrier heavy armored cavalry who were ready to attack also began to slowly increase their speed.

The arrows shot by the crossbow army were actually not very lethal in the face of the highly defensive Imperial soldiers, but the chaos caused by flames and explosions was unavoidable, and this was what the Tanguts wanted.

As long as the crossbow army, self-detonating soldiers and mountain infantry can cover the iron harriers to rush into the imperial army's formation, then taking advantage of the chaos of the imperial army, the other Western Xia cavalry will rush up and quickly eat the second army of the empire.