After retreating, Li Buqi led the troops to continue to set off towards Suide the next day.

Zhao Sheng believes that this is the most correct choice. Because the cavalry of the Song army was not superior and could not fight a sports war with the Tanguts on an equal footing, the biggest advantage of the Song army was gunpowder weapons. Suide is a place that must be saved if there is no hidden deception.

Wei Mingshan later said that he did not hide the false Pang and did not expect that the Song army would continue to kill Ben Suide when they found that the Western Xia army had the advantage of strength. However, the Song army's killing of Xiang Suide was undoubtedly the most beneficial to Zhan Pang, because the Song army could not get the reinforcement of Huaining Village and Suiping Village with 20,000 combat strength when it left Huaining Village, and there were only more than 30,000 people at most, and the military advantage of Western Xia was even more obvious. After learning that the Song army continued to fight along the Huaining River towards Suide, he decided to meet the Song army in an open area south of Suide, so as to maximize the superiority of cavalry and numbers.

On the morning of 27 March, both armies met in anticipation of an encounter on a rare flat land south of Suide, northern Shaanxi.

The terrain was open, and Li Buqi commanded all the Song troops to divide into four large phalanxes in regiments, and reinforced a part of the crossbowmen with Liu Shunqing's infantry brigade and all the artillery to attack the Western Xia army formation.

The infantry brigade slowly advanced towards the Tangut infantry group with three phalanxes clustered with artillery, and when it reached the effective range of 5.5 mm artillery, it stopped advancing, methodically placed the artillery, and then bombarded the Tanguts. The 12 5.5mm guns and 3 7.5mm guns fired with incredible power, causing panic and confusion among the Tangut infantry at once.

Seeing that the battle had once again become a one-sided massacre, he had to send the most elite crossbowmen of Western Xia to advance in an attempt to suppress the Song artillery. The Western Xia crossbowmen of the brigade advanced forward with a dense barrage of shells, attempting to reach an effective range to fire crossbows at the Song army. The strong crossbowmen of Western Xia have always been elite troops under the direct control of the emperor, but the strong crossbows of Western Xia are still worse than those of the Great Song Dynasty because of the manufacturing process, the range is closer than that of the Song army's divine arm bow and the lack of curved shooting technology, and they were shot by the Song army's strong crossbows before entering the range, and suffered a lot of casualties. However, the elite troops were the elite troops, and although they suffered heavy casualties, they still insisted on advancing under the fierce sound of war drums, and shot at the Song army, which seemed to be a draw.

Seeing that the prominent Song army was attracted by the crossbowmen and scattered into several small phalanxes in order to reduce casualties, he immediately ordered the infantry to attack from the front, the cavalry flanks to charge, and the Poxi army to support, preparing to eat this part of the Song army that broke away from the brigade first.

As the horn sounded, the Western Xia cavalry of the brigade rolled towards Liu Shunqing's two wings like a dark cloud. Liu Shunqing immediately commanded the troops to form several hollow phalanxes and prepare to meet the enemy cavalry. Li Buqi also ordered the large array to move forward and shorten the distance with Liu Shunqing's brigade.

The impact of more than 10,000 cavalry made the earth tremble, and at the forefront was the most elite Iron Harrier cavalry in Western Xia. There are less than 10,000 people in total, and they are all composed of the sons and daughters of the Western Xia Xungui, needless to say, they are brave. In wartime, men and horses are wearing heavy armor, even the divine arm bow may not be able to do anything, and when charging men and horses together, although people die when impacting the enemy formation, they do not fall off their horses, and even people and horses rush into the enemy formation, this impact is extremely terrifying.

If it was before, the Iron Harrier was almost invincible, but now no matter how powerful the armor is, it is useless in front of the arquebus with a caliber of 2 meters and a barrel of 1.3 meters. Of course, the arquebus also has a big problem, the range is short, the reloading is slow, and there is almost only one chance to fire in the face of the cavalry, so the duel between the Iron Harrier and the arquebus is actually a duel of courage.

Seeing the essence of the problem, Li Buqi adopted a strict elimination system when training musketeers, and only the brave and tenacious could be selected, and he also specially let the cavalry and the musketeers train together, so that the musketeers were accustomed to endure the pressure of the cavalry rushing to him and then firing, and now it seems that his efforts have paid off. When the iron harriers rushed to less than fifty meters from the Song army's formation, the first row of arquebuses was fired together with the guns. At such a close distance, the hit rate of the arquebus increased sharply, and when the Song army was in front of the formation, a war horse neighed, and people turned on their backs.

The disadvantage of the heavy cavalry was that the horses could not run at full speed, and the Song army also had the opportunity to let the second row of musketeers fire freely, and knock down a group of cavalry, and then the spearmen rushed in front of the musketeers with a loud howl, and immediately someone was knocked upside down by the iron harrier's war horse that rushed through the triangular nail area, or was smashed to the ground by the tumbling horse.

The moment they traded their lives gave the musketeers time to aim. Most of the musketeers strictly followed the rules of the discipline - shoot horses and not men - and at the sound of the firing of firearms, the head of the Iron Harrier and the armor around the neck of the horse were easily pierced, and the galloping castration came to an abrupt end, and the broken horse rolled on the yellow earth with his master. Then the musketeers thrust the muskets into their waists, drew their axes, and rushed behind the spearmen to slash at the harriers.

There were also some Iron Harriers who fired their handguns, but because of the scarcity, some of them were busy with guns in one hand and arquebuses in the other on bumpy horses, and they didn't know where to hit the irons.

The ground was full of dead horses, and the Iron Harrier had to slow down to avoid tripping over the corpse. When a tall target loses speed in front of the musketeer, it is the best target. The musketeers and musketeers looked for their targets behind the spearmen and axemen, and fired at the targets on the heads of the spearmen and axemen, especially the arquebusiers, who fired almost with the muzzle of their guns on the enemy's helmets, and with each shot, almost a head was shattered.

Some Iron Harriers and Western Xia cavalry galloped along the sides of the Song army, looking for an opportunity to assault. Soon they realized that this was not a good idea, and lead and crossbow arrows were constantly flying out of the unattacked phalanx of the Song army to reap their lives. The cavalry of the Song army also appeared on the flank of the Western Xia cavalry, and these Song cavalry also used handcuffs, but they did not need to hold the guns in one hand and light the fire with the other, and it was more convenient to put the guns, and many people in the Western Xia were knocked off their horses with a single look.

The success of the blow temporarily curbed the speed of the impact of the Western Xia cavalry, and the cavalry of the Song army did not like to fight, and immediately turned back to the big formation.

After seeing the Song cavalry dispatching, he immediately sent cavalry to intercept it, trying to entangle the Song cavalry. But I didn't expect that the cavalry of the Song army did not have much contact with the battle at all, and withdrew after a round of guns, and the Western Xia cavalry had no time to intercept it. However, the general who led this cavalry saw that the Song army was using crossbow arrows to help the Song army in front intercept the cavalry that was attacking the Song army, and immediately chased the Song army cavalry and rushed to the Song army's large array, trying to fish in troubled waters.

The cavalry of the Song army did not enter the large array of the Song army, and the cavalry of the Western Xia army was less than a hundred steps away from the large array of the Song army, and the Song army had not yet turned the strong crossbow to them, which made the Western Xia general think that his speculation was about to succeed. Then he saw the soldiers at the front of the Song army running backwards, revealing a row of instruments in the rear. Sensing the great danger, his eyes widened at once, but it was not easy to restrain the galloping horse, and in the blink of an eye he had rushed forward a few dozen paces. From so far away, he could hear the continuous sound of bangs, and then he saw black shadows flying towards him almost in a line. Then there was a bang and smoke, and the warriors who rushed to the front fell off their horses as if they had hit a wall.

This time, all the ballistas and torsion trebuchets were three-kilogram mud balls fired, and when they hit people and horses, they must be flesh and blood, and those that did not hit people and horses would fall to the ground and shatter into more than a dozen mud balls and splash around, enough to cause injuries to people and horses. Under the attack of this array of mud balls and the Zhankou gun, the 2,000 Western Xia cavalry in a wide frontal column formation landed on the battlefield with more than 200 blood.

suffered such heavy casualties, but it did not make the Western Xia cavalry hesitate. Because the momentum of the impact has been achieved, whoever dares to stop will inevitably be trampled into flesh by the war horses rushing behind. They screamed and rushed towards the Song army.

A rain of arrows rose from the front of the Song army, and many riders were hit. They were not iron harriers, they had only light armor, and the Song archers were all greeting their unarmored horses, and these cavalry were out of business in the way of attack.

rushed over in the face of the rain of arrows, but in front of him were the instruments of the Song people, blocking in front of the Song people like rejecting horses. Fortunately, there was a gap in the middle of the Song array, and the cavalry at the front rushed in without hesitation, brandishing bones and iron rods in an attempt to disrupt the Song army's formation from the side. But unlike what they imagined the Song people would panic as they rushed into the formation, the Song phalanx was full of horse repellents and axemen, and the musketeers waited for an opportunity to shoot at them, and the gap in this phalanx was a trap, and most of the Western Xia cavalry who had penetrated into this gap failed to escape.

Yao Lin, who joined the army, reported: "Nine trebuchets and ballistas were damaged, and it is estimated that less than half cannot be repaired. ”

Li Buqi just nodded lightly: "Get the trebuchet and ballista ready, and continue to attack!" ”

After having artillery, ballistas and trebuchets are weapons that have slow firing speed, low efficiency, and require a lot of manpower to Li Buqi, so Li Buqi is no longer distressed to use them as a rejector.

Repelling the attack of the Western Xia cavalry, Li Buqi ordered to continue advancing.

Liu Shunqing's troops were like boats in the storm, and the phalanxes on the left and right flanks were crushed, but in the end they were still pushed down, and the officers and soldiers who fled back from the broken phalanx were again grouped up in the middle phalanx to supplement the phalanx to continue fighting.

didn't hide it, Pang's face was ugly. Iron Harrier didn't completely break the Song army's formation, even if he suffered heavy losses, he estimated that it would be good if the charging Iron Harrier could come back a third. The strong crossbowmen who were the first to be sent out were finally unable to withstand the rain of arrows from the Song army and retreated, but he still had a big move. He didn't believe that Song Jun would be able to catch his big move.

In order to ensure that Liu Shunqing's troops were defeated first, he once again mobilized infantry and cavalry to attack Li Buqi's main formation, in an attempt to entangle Li Buqi.