The Liao cavalry, which had penetrated into the Song army's large array, saw that they were surrounded on all sides and immediately made a judgment. The infantry gun formation that is not as good as the hundreds of people who are not in the group is to find death, and the Song cavalry who rushed over also has more than 1,000 people, and the number is obviously superior, and hard work is also a dead end. In their opinion, perhaps rushing out before the opening between the Song convoy and the infantry was the most likely way to survive.

So there was almost no hesitation, and the cavalry quickly divided into two directions and sprinted in two directions, east and west. But they immediately discovered that their options weren't necessarily much stronger.

Arrows rained down from behind the walls, and hail javelins and balls of mud took away lives in the ranks of the cavalry. The cavalry officer subconsciously wanted to stay away from the car wall, but was forced to get close to the Song infantry array. Because it was actually very difficult to shoot laterally moving targets with bows and crossbows, they wanted to block the Song infantry's shots that were less lethal than the rain of arrows that came head-on.

However, this time the Song people relied on a large number of people to fire crossbows regardless of the cost, and although the Liao people crouched tightly on the saddle to reduce the possibility of being shot by the crossbows, it was still difficult to dodge the arrows like dense rain. Many of the horses fell to the ground with a hedgehog as they shot at the side of the Song army's infantry formation, throwing their riders into the snow and being trampled by the horses behind them.

After all, the Liao people had not seen such a dense rain of arrows for more than forty years, and many less timid cavalrymen screamed and turned around in an attempt to get away from the blow of the rain of arrows. However, it was very dangerous to turn in the midst of a galloping herd, and the rash turn caused a series of collisions and stumbles, forcing the cavalry running behind to slow down. This made the Liao people exposed to the rain of arrows even longer, and more people were shot to death.

Such a desperate charge requires a lot of energy, as long as you are a little timid, the momentum of the charge will not work. The Liao cavalry running behind began to hesitate again, but the gun array of the Song infantry had already squeezed over, and arrows were constantly thrown from behind the horse pistols to cause casualties to the Liao, and the cavalry from Baozhou and Gaoyang Pass on the other side also swarmed in.

Some fierce Liao people howled and brandished maces, bones, broadswords and spears and rushed towards the Song cavalry in an attempt to fight to the death, but there were also many Liao people who were already at a loss for what to do, because in the legends of the Liao country, the Song people were the representatives of weakness, and they never thought that the Song people they faced not only had better equipment than the Tangut people, but also had the same will to fight as the Tangut people.

The cavalry of the Liao army on the periphery saw that the convoy was slowly approaching the infantry main formation, and cut off some of their own people in the Song army formation, and immediately went crazy.

There were many fathers and sons, brothers, and friends in the Liao army, and when they saw their relatives and friends being wrapped up in the Song army's formation, how could they let it go, and immediately attacked the Song army desperately. But the Song people's chariot formation formed an arc, and all the crossbow arrows and javelins continued to be fired as if they didn't want money. The infantry of the Song army also divided into a square to strengthen the part of the gap, and the crossbow was fired like a splash of water, forming a cross fire with the crossbow fired by the car formation.

In the gaps, the arrows are so dense that there are often cross-flying arrows colliding together. And the light trebuchet that hit the van also threw dozens of triangular nails in front of the gap. Under such a dense attack, the corpses of people and horses were gradually piled up in front of the two gaps that seemed to be the way to escape, but none of the horses were able to rush into the gaps.

Manjushri was already red-eyed. The brother-in-law, who had a good relationship with him, was trapped in the Song army. Judging from the situation on the outside, the people trapped in the formation are definitely more dangerous. Seeing that he could not tear the hole through the gap, Manjushri ordered his subordinates: "Order! Attacking the Song people's car wall and the Song army's infantry, you must tear apart the Song people's formation! ”

The order was soon heard, and the Liao cavalry began to turn the direction of the attack to the chariot formation and the Song infantry phalanx outside the protruding formation. Sure enough, in order to protect themselves, the infantry of the Song army turned more to shoot at the approaching Liao, but there was almost no dispersion of fire on the side of the car formation.

The Liao people once again attacked the car formation and had begun to try new tactics. Some of the cavalrymen led three horses connected together with ropes and rushed straight towards the side van, and when they got closer, they let the horses rush towards the side van, causing the horses to crash heavily into the side van.

When Li Buqi designed these partial vans, he was prepared for the enemy to overturn the partial vans, so the chassis is relatively heavy, the center of gravity is very low, and the width of the car is more than one meter five, so it is not easy to knock over. In the end, only one car was knocked over, but the wooden pillars of several cars were broken and the side car collapsed.

A part of the Liao cavalry rushed to the front of the car formation and jumped onto the car that had been knocked into the side car in an attempt to rush into the car formation. But a group of pikemen rushed out from behind the car, and a bunch of spears stabbed to block them. Behind the pikemen, the crossbowmen desperately fired their arrows. There was no way to dodge in the narrow carriage, and many Liao people were killed by random arrows.

The rest of the Liao people faced a wall more than two meters high, and they used knives and axes, stabbed with guns, and smashed with maces, but they were of no use at all. The side compartments of these vehicles are made of rough wood, covered with old rattan woven guards, and covered with raw cowhide, which is completely immune to these human blows.

When these cavalrymen were doing their useless work, crossbow arrows were shot from the perforations of the side compartments, or spears were pierced to kill them. Of course, the Liao people also shot a few Song soldiers who shot from the compartment, but there was a compartment blocking them from seeing if they had killed these Song people. Liao, who had nowhere to speak, developed a deep sense of powerlessness, which soon developed into a huge sense of fear, and finally scattered in a hurry and ran out of the killing range of the van.

However, the efforts of the Liao people were not all fruitless. During the fierce battle, the rain of arrows on the side of the van was greatly dispersed. In the end, the Liao cavalry who were surrounded by the Song army still escaped, but only a few of you. Some of the besieged Liao people completely lost hope of escaping and had to dismount and capture.

Li Buqi ordered the cavalry to shout in the military formation: "Kill 3,000 Liao troops!" This caused an earth-shattering cheer from the soldiers, and the morale of the soldiers was greatly boosted for a while.

At this time, it did not matter how many Liao people were killed, it was most urgent to eliminate the soldiers' fear of the Liao people and maintain their confidence in victory.

Xia Xingmei heard the earth-shattering cheers of the Song people, and looked at the corpses of people and horses spread in front of the Song army, and she was already gritting her teeth in anger. If it was to attack the military formation of the Song people, he would not blink an eye no matter how many people were killed or wounded, because that was the price that had to be paid, but hundreds of cavalry were made dumplings by others, which was a rare miracle in the history of the war between the Liao State and the Southern Dynasties. But this kind of strange thing happened in the battle he commanded, so where did his old face go?

However, the anger did not make him lose his mind, and he first ordered: "Go and see how the Song people's thistle is cleaned up?" ”

After a while, someone ran back and reported: "Report, the Song people have too many thistles, and some Song cavalry continue to harass our people who clean up the thistles, and the cleanup is very slow, and it has not been cleaned up yet." ”

"Well, the Song people retreated much faster." Xia Xingmei looked at the Song people's military formation: "Go and tell King Kong Nu that if you let the Song people go forward for a maximum of five miles, you can't let the Song people take a step forward." ”

Then he looked at the generals and said, "Although the Song people are scheming and difficult to fight, if we let these Song people flee back to Baozhou, we will have to capture Baozhou or send tens of thousands of people to watch Baozhou." Otherwise, we must always be on guard against this Song army, and this battle will be difficult to fight in the future. Therefore, under the city of Baozhou, this Song army must be annihilated. In a while, when the attack comes, you will surely move forward! ”