From 20 March, the Song army and the Western Xia army had a series of skirmishes, and the two sides attacked and defended each other. Because the Song army was very cautious, they all broke away immediately after the slightest contact and continued to approach Huaining Village, so that the idea of entangled the Song army with no hidden false Pang was once again frustrated. On the broken terrain of northern Shaanxi, the effect of large-scale cavalry impact was not ideal, and the Song army had been in strict formation, so that Wuzang Pang could not find a place to speak, so he had to wait for the infantry to follow up and prepare for a tough battle.

On 22 March, the infantry of the Shenyong Army Division of the Left Chamber, led by Wei Mingshan, and more than 20,000 infantry who came with Wu Zang Pang arrived and surrounded the Song army, which had a clear advantage in strength, but Wu Zang Pang still tried to mobilize the Song army to reduce casualties. He sent 10,000 cavalry to bluff to attack Suiping Village, and deliberately did not intercept the cavalry that came out of Suiping Village to report the news, in order to get the Song army out of the camp and annihilate the Song army in the field.

The problem was that Li Buqi had already taken precautions against the tactics of the Tanguts to encircle and send reinforcements, not only expanding the forts that were relatively far ahead, thickening and raising the walls, but also equipping them with ballistas, trebuchets and firearms. According to Li Buqi's calculations, even if a large village like Suiping Village is a dangerous terrain close to the mountains and rivers, even if the Xixia people besiege it with ten times the force, they will not be able to take it without ten days and half a month.

However, after receiving the urgent document of Suipingzhai, Li Buqi decided to plan according to the plan, and on the 23rd, he put on a posture of preparing to break through the encirclement and rescue Suipingzhai, and sent two militia brigades and a group of forbidden army crossbowmen to go out of the camp to attack the Western Xia army.

After 20,000 people left the camp and lined up, Qu Zhen followed Li Buqi to lead more than 10,000 people to suppress the formation, and Liu Shunqing, the commander of the first brigade, led 6,000 militiamen and 2,000 crossbowmen to divide into phalanxes with battalions and regiments as units, and slowly advanced westward along the river valley.

In this river valley, the large forces on both sides have no room for detours, and they can only fight hard if they do not hide the false Pang, and he can only hope to use the defense to increase the casualties of the Song army, weaken the Song army to a certain extent, and then attack Huaining Village. Therefore, he ordered the troops to retreat to a slightly open area, and ordered the Poxi army to command Li Qing to concentrate the ballistas and trebuchets in front of the Song army, in order to inflict maximum damage on the Song army. The Western Xia Poxi army received an order to immediately remove the light ballista and trebuchet components from the camel's back and assemble them on the battlefield.

Soon the Tanguts assembled the ballistas and trebuchets, and seeing the Song army slowly moving over, Li Qing immediately ordered the ballistas and trebuchets to be ready, as soon as the Song army entered the range of bows and arrows, the layer of cavalry in front of the ballistas and trebuchets that obscured the Song army's vision was fired on both sides - helpless, the trebuchets and ballistas that could be transported by camels were such a hard range.

The Song army did not rush over directly, and saw that two hundred meters away from the front line of the Western Xia army, suddenly there was a dense drum beat, and all the troops stopped advancing.

This distance of the Western Xia strong crossbow could not penetrate the armor of the Song army, and could only watch the Song army play tricks. Then the Tangut people saw the Song army push out many instruments from the queue and place them in front of the queue layer by layer.

According to the code of conduct formulated by Li Buqi, the Song army placed the artillery at the front, the ballista at the back, and the torsion trebuchet at the back. When all the weapons were put in place, Liu Shunqing gave an order, and four 4 mm guns and two 5.5 mm guns began to bombard, and the shells punched holes in the ranks of the Tanguts.

After the first shot, there was screaming and wailing in the Western Xia ranks, but under the pressure of the officer's bullets, silence quickly returned. The Tanguts were still waiting for the Song army to approach.

But Liu Shunqing was not in a hurry to move forward now, but ordered the artillery to be loaded on the spot and shoot on the spot. In this way, round after round of lead balls smashed into the ranks of the Tanguts, seemingly endlessly. After six or seven rounds, the Tangut ranks began to stir again, and the vast majority of Tanguts did not understand why they stood so stupidly and acted as targets for others. Hold your breath! Shouldn't you rush up and shoot arrows at this time? Could it be that the equipment that Po Xijun finally pulled over is all decoration?

Li Qing was also anxious, because the ballista and trebuchet were placed in front of the brigade, so he had already suffered losses. He saw with his own eyes an iron ball shatter a cavalryman standing in the way of the trebuchet and crash into the trebuchet, breaking it into a pile of rotten wood. The throwing rod, which was already ready to go, lost its restraint and spun under the tremendous torque of the twisted tendons, sweeping the surrounding guns, causing casualties on the spot. But now the range of his equipment is really not up to the Song army, but the "whirlwind cannon" originally equipped on the back of a camel may throw fist-sized stones into the Song people's array. But now the whirlwind cannons are in the rear, so he can't do anything at all.

The bombardment continued, although the casualties each time may not be covered by the Song people's strong crossbows, but they can't fight back just by being beaten, and the blow to morale is too great.

In the end, after half an hour, he couldn't stand this boring rhythm anymore, and he finally understood that the Song army was really not in a hurry, and he obviously couldn't wait for the Song army to storm his preset position. After some gnashing of teeth, he had to order the infantry to attack.

In an hour, the Tanguts had already suffered more than five hundred casualties, and the strikers had already changed. After receiving the order to attack, the Tanguts cheered happily, and the infantry formation immediately beat the war drums and rushed towards the Song army.

Soon, the Song army's divine arm bow began to shoot, although the Tangut people were constantly shot down, but the rest of the people still strode forward and continued to rush forward. It was too aggrieved that they couldn't fight back just after being beaten just now, and now they are eager to retaliate, and they don't care about casualties at all. When they were close to the Song army a hundred meters, a lot of javelins and stones suddenly flew out of the Song army's queue like a torrential rain, causing the Xixia people to stagnate.

But now these Tanguts understood that it would take a long time for the ballistas and trebuchets to be reactivated after firing them once, and for the time being they would not be hit by the ballistas and trebuchets again. So they stepped past the bloody corpse and quickened their pace again.

Something strange flew from the riverbank, some like birds, but with a few feathered arrows on their buttocks, and some in the shape of dragons. This made some of the people walking behind look up. Suddenly, the birds either burst into flames and fell into the crowd, or exploded, and the dragon spat out a string of feathered arrows dragging the tail of the fire, causing no casualties, but causing a burst of screams and confusion.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Song artillery stopped firing and raised the elevation angle to replace the shells without wooden feeders. Small drums and shrill brass whistles sounded, and three rows of hand-to-hand fighters with brute cards and tomahawks, three rows of tall musketeers, and three rows of musketeers, all dressed in heavy armor, came from the gap between the guns and stood thirty meters in front of the guns. The hand-to-hand combatants put up the brute cards and squatted behind the brute cards, and the musketeers stuck the tail end of the long-handled axe on the ground, and then put the heavy musket on the axe, aiming at the black and crushed Tanguts.

The Tangut clanged their feathered arrows against their armor leaves, but it was difficult to break through their armor, and only the unlucky ones occasionally let out a muffled snort. A long and short sharp whistle sounded, and all the musketeers pulled the trigger almost simultaneously, and when they saw the smoke coming from the muzzle of the gun, they picked up the arquebus, turned and walked to the back of the line.

The second column of musketeers walked to the axe to the sound of the snare drum, rested their guns on the axe, and waited for the order to fire again.

Although heavy arquebuses are many times heavier than bows and arrows, and their range is short, as long as they hit the target within a distance of fifty meters, armor or anything is not a problem, and the target will definitely lose its combat effectiveness. With each round of gunfire, the Tangut forwards would fall down a layer, and the road where the Tanguts charged was paved with corpses, which made them feel chills, and their footsteps couldn't help but get faster and faster, hoping to close the distance with the Song army as soon as possible to avoid this one-sided massacre. Soon the formation was chaotic, and the crowd rushed forward.

Seeing that the Tangut people in the front still had more than 20 meters to rush to the shield wall of the hand-to-hand fighters, the musketeer battalion commander blew three rapid whistles, the musketeers no longer stepped forward, loaded on the spot, and the three rows of musketeers ran through the gap between the musketeers, came to the back of the shield wall, and lit the bombardment against the Tanguts who were close at hand.

After a burst of explosions that were almost completed, there were suddenly many fewer Tangut people who were about to come into contact with the Song army. Just after the sound of the bell, a whistle sounded like the whistling of an eagle, and the hand-to-hand fighters suddenly stood up, raising their shields and battle axes.

When they rushed to the Song army, because they were alone, there would always be two or three battle axes chopped from the left and right, the so-called two fists are hard to beat four hands, and no matter how strong the warrior encounters this situation, it is a matter of a few more rounds and a few fewer rounds.

The attack wave of the Tangut people had been crippled by artillery and muskets, and they had lost their strict formation, and the people behind saw that the people in front of them were constantly falling in front of the shield wall where the Song army was moving, but they were unable to break through the shield wall at all, and finally lost the last bit of courage, and began to scream and turn around and flee.

Liu Shunqing waved to give a signal to stop advancing, and the drummer immediately conveyed the order. Hearing the order, the hand-to-hand combatants crouched on the ground, and the musketeers stuck their small axes into the ground again and fired at the backs of the fleeing Tanguts.

When the smoke cleared and the Song army sorted out the formation, the artillery was still in front and the muskets were behind, and they slowly advanced towards the Western Xia army again. He had already realized that the army in front of him might be the elite of the Song army, so he had to send a strong crossbow, hoping to give this Song army a blow to the head. What he didn't expect was that after both sides used strong crossbows to shoot at each other for a while, the Song army immediately took the initiative to retreat.

What's going on? Aren't you going to save Suiping Village? I didn't hide that Pang was puzzled, but there was another Song army out of the camp, but this time it was going east, and they were actually going to attack Weiming Mountain. Now he didn't hide it, Pang understood that Song Jun was humiliating him, and he clearly told him that he would not go to save Suipingzhai according to his arrangement.

Since in this river valley, he could not give full play to the superiority of troops and cavalry, so there was no need to hesitate, he ordered the whole army to withdraw from the Huaining River that night, and quietly waited for the next move of the Song army.

According to Zhao Sheng's point of view, the battle of Huainingzhai was just a test of the two sides to pave the way for the real war a few days later.