The drums beat louder and louder, echoing over the "Thousand Steps Battlefield". Now the drummers on both sides of Song Liao are beating the drums with all their strength, and a tight drum beat is the order to attack!

The 900 iron horsemen under Wu Tian's command also began to run slowly. That's right, it's just running slowly, and there is no intention of gradually accelerating.

Because Wu Tian didn't intend to attack. He went to the battlefield with a telescope, so it could be clearly seen that the Khitan cavalry hundreds of paces away did not charge with guns, but held the stubborn horn bow in his hand.

This shows that the Khitan cavalry on the opposite side will avoid contact with the Song army's iron cavalry. Instead, they will run around the Song Army's iron cavalry, and if necessary, they may spread out of formation and run away. Wu Tian is actually a diviner, he grew up in the grassland, and he is very clear about the flexibility of the grassland cavalry. They are very difficult to catch, although if they do, they can be stabbed to death with a spear! But it's hard to catch until they run out of horsepower.

So Wu Tian simply used cavalry to deal with the Khitans!

Isn't it just riding and shooting! Although some of the newly enlisted heavy cavalry did not have this ability, the 900 cavalry who were brought to the battlefield by Wutian today were all veterans, skilled in bows and horses, and definitely not under the Khitan.

Moreover, they also have a trump card that the Khitans do not have! It's the 36 terrifying artifacts that have been laid out on the battlefield - ballistas!

Wu Tian, like Xiao Bodhisattva, led the team to the forefront. Because of the cavalry shooting, the nine phalanxes he led had become longitudinally arranged, one after the other, advancing westward at a brisk pace. However, instead of rushing to the large group of Khitan cavalry coming from west to east, they marched parallel to them. The distance between the two "parallel lines" is about thirty or forty paces.

I actually want to compete with our Khitans! Xiao Bodhisattva, who took the lead and ran in front of a thousand Khitan cavalry, could see it clearly, and his heart was full of ecstasy.

Compared with the gun rushing into battle, today's Khitan iron cavalry is a bit cowardly. But compared to riding and shooting, hehe, the men on the grassland have been shooting and riding horses since they were young!

As he was thinking, he suddenly saw something flying towards him out of the corner of his eye, it seemed to be a feather arrow, but it seemed to be much bigger than a feather arrow!

Xiao Bodhisattva Nu hurriedly knelt down on the horse's back, and he didn't know if there was a "large feather arrow" flying above his body, but there was a burst of screams and neighing of horses in his ears, and the sound of plopping objects smashing on the ground. He hurriedly looked back and found that a group of Khitan cavalry behind him was a little chaotic, as if someone had fallen from his horse, some horses fell to the ground, and several war horses without owners were colliding around.

It should be the Song people who are firing giant arrows with eight bull crossbows!

Xiao Bodhisattva immediately understood what was going on, but he didn't take it too seriously. It's just a crossbow, how many people can you shoot? I can bring 1,000 Khitan heroes with me!

Thinking of this, he didn't think much about the eight-ox crossbow, just carefully controlled the horse forward, and at the same time had to keep a good distance from the cavalry of the Song army......

Thundered! Thundered......

Seeing that he was about to engage in a bow and arrow exchange with the opponent's more than 1,000 horsemen, a thunderous sound suddenly came from behind Xiao Bodhisattva!

What's going on? Xiao Bodhisattva was stunned again, and he didn't care that he was about to enter the range of the opponent's horn bow, so he immediately turned around on the horseback and looked back. I found that in the cavalry group behind me, fireballs suddenly rose one after another! The horse team, which was already chaotic, is now a mess.

Is it a thunderbolt fireball? That's too much movement, isn't it?

Xiao Bodhisattva was not an uninformed Qarakhanid knight, and of course he knew that the fireball was not some kind of black magic, but a gunpowder weapon. It's just that the power of this explosion is a little scary no matter how you look at it!

Scary...... Not good!

Thinking of the scary, Xiao Bodhisattva suddenly remembered that he was leading his troops to fight with the Song knights! It's about to be shot, how can it be messed up like this? The thunderbolt fire of the Song people not only scares people, but also scares horses! Many horses were frightened and scurried around the battlefield, not only making it impossible for the knights riding on them to shoot arrows, but even the cavalry around them had to carefully control the horses to dodge.

When the cavalry led by Xiao Bounu was thrown into a mess by a burst of rockets, a team of 100 led by Wu Tianqin had already begun to shoot arrows.

Shooting arrows on a galloping horse is not a simple task, because when archery, you must take off the reins of your hands and control the horse with both legs.

Moreover, archery on horseback must be a continuous shot. Because the knight of the horse is actually a very large target, the effective range of the horse bow is usually not as good as the foot bow, and it is so risky to get close to the enemy (usually infantry, but it also takes the time of cavalry to shoot), and of course, the pursuit of shooting the most arrows in the shortest time. If you only shoot one arrow after rushing for a long time, you will die.

And for Wu Tian and his subordinates, now is the best fighter. Because of the disruption of the burst rockets, the enemy's cavalry was already in disarray, and there was definitely no way to make a strong counterattack.

Therefore, Wutian and the others did not save their strength, and they all tried their best to constantly launch arrows and buffalo horn bows! He didn't shoot people, but shot at the enemy's horses, and immediately shot over many Khitan knights.

"Blow the trumpet, retreat!"

Jerujunu was already on horseback by this time, and he could see it clearly! On the battlefield, the Song army not only cooperated well, first shooting huge arrows that would explode, and then taking advantage of the chaos of the Khitan cavalry to carry out mounted archery attacks, but also their cavalry and archery skills were superb, not under the Khitan warriors at all.

If it weren't for the Hebei battlefield, Yelu Zhangnu would have regarded those Song army knights as diviners......

In addition, Yelu Zhangnu has realized that the Song people must have a trick! But it's definitely too late to retreat now!

"Right Zhongcheng, Song Gou seems to have dispatched another team of cavalry!"

At this moment, someone had already noticed that something was wrong.

Yelu Zhangnu looked at the left front of Xiao Bodhisattva's horse team, and sure enough, there was a lot of smoke and dust, and it must have been another group of cavalry from the Song army that launched a surprise attack.

First, they lured the enemy with cavalry shooting, then bombarded and harassed the enemy with bursting rockets, then they killed and wounded with cavalry, and finally there was a wave of spear assaults...... This series of tactical coordination has really reached the point of perfection!

"Good! Well played! ”

Wu Haogu, who was standing on the north gate tower of Jiehe Hebei City to watch the battle, couldn't help but applaud at this time!

"What a cannon rider to work with...... Well played! Rewards! ”

Wu Haogu clapped his hands and applauded, and breathed a sigh of relief. It seems that my money has not been burned in vain! These thousands of cavalry alone are worth a small goal - if Zhao Ji in history can have such 6,000 iron cavalry, there will be no problem with the Xuanhe Northern Expedition. Yelu Dashi and Xiao Gan's cavalry will definitely not be able to defeat them.

If the Xuanhe Northern Expedition could win a big victory, I don't think there would be any later Jin soldiers going south!

"Bumped into it...... Breakthrough, good! ”

Brother Zhao Zhong also applauded loudly. It turned out to be a wall-like assault launched by 300 fully armored cavalry arranged by Ma Zheng, and hit Xiao Bodhisattva's department from the side, which had just been washed by Wutian's department with a rain of arrows. That's 300 fully armored riders! Pressing over like a humanoid tank, how could the cavalry of Xiao Bodhisattva's department, which had long been disrupted, be able to stop it? Immediately, he was rushed and overturned. I don't know how many Khitan cavalrymen were knocked to death, trampled to death, and stabbed to death by horses! And the dead fell to the ground, letting out bursts of heart-rending howls, which was really miserable to the extreme!

"Well played!" Zhao Zhongge couldn't help but praise again, "First use the burst rocket to disturb the enemy, then use the cavalry to hurt the enemy, and at the same time use the Wutian cavalry column to cover the three teams of armored cavalry to attack...... Impartially, just hit the flank of the Khitans!

This time, you can take at least 300 helmet-wearing heads! ”

According to the general order issued by the Hebei Xuanfu Division, the beheading must be done with a helmet! Otherwise, who knows if it is a good killing?

"Order the Great Eagle Army to charge with a certain one! Beat the drums! Beat the drums of war! ”

Yelu Zhangnu was not a coward, seeing that the more than 1,000 cavalry in front of him were in danger, he did not hesitate to order the remaining 1,500 cavalry of the Great Eagle Army to follow him into battle.

Only about one-third of the soldiers of the palace division army of the Liao State were equipped (Yelu Yanxi's royal tent army was all armored cavalry), and the Great Eagle Army was no exception. Among the 2,500 cavalry, less than 800 armored cavalry followed Xiao Bodhisattva into battle.

So there were only 1,500 light cavalry left for Jeruzhangnu. But Yelu Zhangnu didn't have time to mobilize the armored cavalry of the other three armies, so he directly led the remaining 1,500 horsemen of the Great Eagle Army to save the scene.

Although this move is brave, it is brainless to the extreme. Because the cavalry of the Wutian Division who released a burst of feather arrows were all carrying horse pistols on their backs! Now they have shot more than 20 arrows by themselves, and their strength has been consumed a little, but it is not yet time to go down and rest. So after completing a round of cavalry shooting, they circled around the battlefield again, regrouped their formations, took off their carbines, and prepared to launch a cavalry charge.

Seeing that another thousand or hundreds of Khitan cavalry had joined the battle group, Wu Tian suddenly became excited, waved his horse, and shouted loudly: "First team, follow me!" Watch to stay in formation! ”

The herald who followed him took out his whistle and blew it with all his strength. The lancers, who had long been eager to try, let out a burst of shouts and strange screams, and everyone urged the war horses under their hips, while carefully counting their steps, controlling the speed of their horses, and began to rush with Wu Tian.

First they walked in small steps, then they ran at a medium speed, and at last, the horses were raised at speed, and the phalanx of hundreds of horsemen galloped up, crashing into the chaotic and loose horse team of Yelu Zhangnu and Xiao Bodhisattva at great speed.