If you continue to fight like this, you won't win, and you can't go to the trouble of the forbidden cavalry first, its commander is very thief, and he is always cowering in the infantry formation, and he can't come out to fight no matter how he teases.

The 20,000 Liao army fought and retreated, and soon there was no way to retreat. At the critical moment, the reinforcements sent by Yelu Hongji finally arrived, and more than 70,000 Song troops and more than 50,000 Liao troops set up positions on the great plain fifteen miles south of the city of Xijin Prefecture.

To the south were one Song army formation after another, interspersed with groups of cavalry. To the north and east were the cavalry of the Liao army, who kept circling around the Song army, looking for the weakness that was easiest to strike.

"Wang Zuotou, this rope must not be loosened, otherwise the child will be blown away by the wind."

Can you see a hot air balloon in fifteen miles? Wang XII felt a bit far away, but he could try. This time, the hot air balloon was fixed on several box cars brought by Wang Hao, and the Khitan heads and various belongings in the carriages were ballast.

"Don't worry, if I wasn't afraid of heights, I would like to go up and have a look......" At this time, Wang Hao still had the mind to get on the hot air balloon, and his liver was a little trembling.

I have never seen so many military confrontations, and the original pride immediately returned to reality, and it must be false to say that I have no regrets. But no matter how much you regret it, you have to go to the top, if you win, you get rich, and if you lose...... If you lose, you will lose all the profits with your capital.

"Wang Shuai, this thing is ......" The hot air balloon is not too unfamiliar to Wang Shao and Zhang Ji, at least they know that it is an object that Wang Shu plays, so they won't think much about it. But Li Xian didn't do it, it was the first time he saw a big black ball that could fly so high, and he would inevitably have some thoughts in his heart, and his words were about to fall.

"Don't be afraid, it's a toy that Wang Shu made for the children, and I didn't expect to use it at this time. Beat the drum to advance, as long as Wang Shu can see this big black ball, the Liao army will lose! ”

Wang Shao's prestige in the army is extremely high, coupled with the fact that Zhang Wei, the nominal commander, is 100% trusted, as if he has become the commander of the first army, and he has to make the decision to arrange the troops, whether Li Xian is happy or not, he has to obey orders.

"There is not much disparity between the forces of the enemy and us, and the other side has not shown defeat, why did Wang Shuai say this?"

Li Xianchong waved his hand behind him, and the drum beat suddenly became loud, and the foot soldier phalanx immediately moved forward slowly when he heard the sound. But Li Xian did not agree with this order, the initiative of infantry and cavalry combat is usually grasped by the cavalry, and it is too rash to use infantry to attack cavalry.

"In the past, unlike today, the Liao people can't retreat, and they can't cut off the back road and slowly besiege the grain and grass, so they must fight to the death with us. I just don't know if Wang Shu can see this thing, if the inside and the outside are combined, maybe they can catch their emperor, hehehe......"

Li Xian is also a good general, and his combat experience is not much different from Wang Shao, but he has flaws in his strategic vision. He usually decided the direction of the battle according to the emperor's orders, and only grasped the details and tactics by himself, and in the long run, he developed the problem of dependence, and did not see the problem so comprehensively.

It is true that infantry and cavalry do not have much initiative, but that is theoretical, and the specific situation has to be analyzed in detail. For the time being, Wang Shao felt that the initiative was in the hands of the infantry, because the Liao army could not retreat and detour, and lost its tactical room for maneuver.

As long as the infantry advances, they have to fight head-on, no matter whether they can fight or not, whether the loss is large, they must desperately intercept. Fighting face-to-face with the infantry, no cavalry in the world can do it.

In fact, just as Wang Shao judged, Yelu Hongji, the poetic emperor, became a burden to the Liao army. Seeing that the Song army was moving north step by step, and could not find suitable terrain to use on the Great Plains, the Liao army could only launch a decisive charge, trying to fight with the Song army without fear of life and death.

But what they didn't expect was that these Song armies were different from the previous Song armies, in addition to maintaining the original tactics, they also added a weapon that was very unfavorable for dense charges, rockets.

Thousands of cavalry were already gritting their teeth in the face of the infantry phalanx full of spears, and rushed desperately to within 100 meters, when they were suddenly disrupted by a burst of rockets. It was fired endlessly, without any rest or interval, and it was not something that human beings could resist.

Fortunately, Li Xian and Zhang Jian did not carry a lot of rockets, and they were not very skilled in playing, sometimes the enemy launched before entering the best range, and sometimes the enemy was shot down and did not know how to stop in time, and a lot of waste was wasted. After several charges, the Liao army finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the Song army had fewer and fewer rockets.

It's a pity that without rockets, this Song army is also very difficult to bite, their bows and crossbows are fast and ruthless, and for the tribal army where light cavalry accounts for the vast majority, it is impossible to cover it at all.

The battle was fought from noon to dark, and the Liao army stopped the Song army's northward march, but it also paid tens of thousands of casualties, and the Song army's casualties were much less than that of the Liao army.

But at this time, Wang Shao was a little desperate, and the Liao people launched an overnight attack. He had seen this great plain during the day, and the most rugged place was the ridge, and there was nothing else to obstruct it, even if there was no moon in the sky, it would not affect the horseback running.

However, the lack of vision is very disadvantageous for the foot soldiers, and it is impossible to predict the enemy's movements in advance, and after seeing clearly, they can fire at most two rounds of crossbow arrows, and the rest will have to fight with real knives and guns.

I knew that those rockets might as well be kept for use at night, but there was no if on the battlefield, so I could only see the move. Now that the enemy has found a way to restrain the steel plate crossbow, the next step is not just to expect the crossbow arrows to be sharp, or the old way, let's fight. Anyway, the forbidden army used to fight when they didn't have steel crossbows, and there was nothing surprising.

But if the new army in Xijin Mansion does not come out in time, the forbidden army will not be able to bear it after all. The Liao army adopted a wheel tactic, they had time to rest and adjust, but the forbidden army had to rotate continuously, and they could withstand it for one night, would they be able to resist it during the day tomorrow?

So Wang Shao made a last move, setting fire to all the grain and grass carried by the forbidden army, wanting to use the firelight in the dark night to remind Wang Shu in the Xijin Mansion. Don't hesitate to come out quickly, in case tomorrow the emperor of Liao State figured it out and led the army to pull out the camp and avoid the front of the attack, these tens of thousands of foot soldiers would be miserable.

In fact, Wang Shao didn't need to light the fire, Hong Tao also knew that there was a Song army outside the city, it was probably Wang Shao, Wang Twelve's hot air balloon had just risen and was seen with a telescope by the lookout hand on the hot air balloon in the city.

So why didn't he send troops right away? Because the Liao army was prepared, they sent heavy troops to block the three city walls in the south and east and attacked wildly, and the new army could not spare manpower out of the city at all.

In addition, tens of thousands of horses and horses cannot just leave, equipment supplies must be loaded, each has what tasks to arrange, and once the expected results are not achieved after the attack, other plans must be formulated. Hong Tao was not idle at all, and a group of new army generals were about to break the map.