At the military meeting before the dispatch of troops, Emperor Li Nan, cabinet ministers, and the imperial military all formulated the basic strategy for this war.

No matter where Li Qianshun of Western Xia placed the main force, the northern and southern armies of the empire were confident that they would defeat it, so this suspicious plan made by Western Xia had no effect on the imperial army at all.

Emperor Li Nan and other generals were very confident, and the Western Xia put the main force on the south road, so they faced the four major army corps of the empire and 200,000 patrol soldiers.

And the Western Xia put all the troops on the northern route, so the northern route army composed of three imperial legions and 150,000 patrol troops could also confront it.

Of course, if the Western Xia soldiers were divided into two ways, it would be simpler, as long as they were broken individually.

According to the established plan, no matter which of the imperial armies on the north and south roads encountered the main army of the Western Xia, then the army of the other side that did not encounter the enemy directly advanced to the hinterland of the Western Xia, capturing and sweeping all the areas along the way, so that the Western Xia people had no place to stay.

The empire is very determined to destroy the Western Xia Kingdom, and from now on, there will no longer be a party member in this land, and even the Western Xia people who are willing to submit to the empire will be relocated to other parts of the empire in the future.

As for the Tangut people who still wanted to resist the imperial army, in the eyes of all the soldiers, there was no need for them to exist.

Just when the four major armies of the Imperial Southern Route Army found nothing and slowly swept into the interior of Western Xia, the Imperial Northern Route Army finally arrived at the important town of Xiazhou.

Hundreds of thousands of troops naturally could not advance and retreat together, so the first to arrive was the Second Legion of the Empire led by Kress.

Spartacus died in the last adventure world, and after losing its commander, the first legion was more or less affected, so in this attack on the Western Xia Kingdom, only seven legions attacked, and his first legion stayed in the north to defend the Jin Kingdom and Mongolia.

In addition to the First Legion, Kress's Second Legion was the oldest army in the Empire, and he was also a warrior from the Roman world along with Spartacus, Ashur and others.

After so many years of fighting, the former brave gladiator champion Kress has slowly changed his personality, and he got married and had children in the empire, living a stable life.

It stands to reason that Kress, who has the most combat experience, should be in the middle army as the commander of the Northern Route Army, but he insisted on refusing, and this became the former vanguard of the group army.

In this kind of battle between the two countries, there is actually no way to take tricks, and it is useless to use any strategy, and the main theme of the war is that the two sides set up a position and fight directly.

There was no nonsense between the two sides, and the Western Xia people would not give the imperial army time to rest and reorganize, so the battle outside Xiazhou City, when the Second Army of the Empire arrived, began directly......

Naturally, the Tanguts still used their strongest cavalry to charge, and since this was the chosen battle location of the Tanguts, the terrain here was very suitable for cavalry to gallop.

The Second Legion reacted equally quickly, quickly setting up in place, and when the cavalry troops of Western Xia Hei came to the front, the sound of fire rang out one after another, followed by countless grenades thrown out.

The Tangut people had long understood the combat methods of the imperial army, so in order to prevent the sound of the explosion from affecting the horses, they blocked the ears of the horses in advance.

Unfortunately, the sound could be blocked, but the splashes of shrapnel and shock waves after the explosion could not be dodged, and the flying bullets and the ubiquitous explosions turned the front of the positions of the Second Army into a hell full of death.

If the Western Xia cavalry wanted to break through this blockade of bullets and grenades, they would have to invest a large number of men and horses, so much that the firepower of the imperial soldiers could not keep up, but it was a pity that the number of Western Xia cavalry in front of them was not enough.

After the first wave of tentative attacks, the Western Xia generals who commanded the battle also realized this, so they sent several times more cavalry troops than before, and the troops were divided into three routes, attacking the front and left and right flanks of the second army at the same time.

The Tanguts thought well and dealt with it well, but when the Tanguts attacked in the first wave, the artillery of the Second Legion of the Empire was finally assembled.

As an integrated army of 10,000 people, the Second Army has an artillery regiment with hundreds of artillery pieces.

When these powerful cannons were fired, patches of grape bullets flew away, and it was really like harvesting wheat, and the Western Xia cavalry fell one by one.

The division was unfavorable, and tens of thousands of cavalry fell in front of him in a short period of time, which made the hearts of the Western Xia, who originally relied on the number of troops and the confidence to resist the imperial army, feel cold.

The battle went on and on, simply put, the Imperial Army's own lives, bullets and grenades, the lives of the Reapers, the lives of the Tanguts, everything was so cruel, but the war was like this, without any mercy.

The imperial army has approached the city, and the Tanguts have no other way but to continuously throw various troops into this huge life mill, and soldiers on both sides die here every minute.

At this time, the Fourth Army led by Pang Wanchun, who was the Chinese army, had come to a distance of thirty miles from the battlefield in Xiazhou.

Although it was far away from the battlefield in front, Pang Wanchun and all the soldiers of the Fourth Legion could still hear the sound of guns and cannons and the roars of the Tangut people in front of them.

After coming to a high ground and raising his binoculars to observe the battle situation for a while, Pang Wanchun found that the Western Xia people who knew what the empire wanted to do and were ready to fight against the tide were really crazy.

At this time, the Western Xia side did not simply send cavalry troops to charge, but sent a large number of infantry to charge in unison.

It sounds like the added infantry may not be as effective as a full cavalry, but it depends on what class it is, and how effective they are.

Most of these infantry were Western Xia soldiers, and the rest were mountain soldiers.

Although the Western Xia produced horses, they were not all cavalry, and the mountain infantry was the main component of the Western Xia army, and their number was also the largest.

The most elite infantry in Western Xia was composed of Ding Nan, a "mountain tribe", called "Bubazi". History of the Song Dynasty? The fourth record of the Soldier's Chronicles: "There are mountain tribes, called 'Bu Baozhi', up and down the hillside, in and out of the stream, the most able to exceed the high and far distance, light feet and good walking", when the Western Xia fought with the Song Dynasty, in the "valley deep and dangerous place to meet the enemy, then use the 'Bu Baozi' for the purpose of stabbing and covering".

"Bubazi" endured hardships and endured war, especially by the Hengshan Dangxiang Qiang, known as the "mountain" is the most famous, agile, over the mountains and streams as if walking on the flat ground, long-range attack as fast as the wind, the ability to fight in complex terrain is very strong, "Pingxia soldiers are not as good as the army", is the elite of the party's border troops.

These mountain infantry ran extremely fast, literally faster than galloping horses, and were very suitable for charging the enemy's line.