Baozhou is only more than 20 kilometers away from the Guangxin Army, and there is not even a big river in the middle, which is the most suitable for the movement of large cavalry groups. After Xia Xingmei gathered troops and horses, he commanded the cavalry to move eastward first, made a big circle, and then turned westward.

Although the Liao army has not fought with the Song army on a large scale for more than 40 years, the characteristics of the Song army are still fresh in their memory. Everyone knows that once the Song army forms a prison formation, then even if it uses heavy cavalry, the Tielin army will be difficult to crush, but will be seriously injured. In the sixth year of Xianping, during the Battle of Wangdu, Xiao Dalin waved his army to attack the Song army's infantry array, not only did not break the Song army's formation, but was beheaded by 2,000 heads, and the commander of the Tielin Army, Tielin Xianggong, was also shot to death by the Song army. Although Xia Xingmei did not catch up with that war, she would not have made such a mistake.

The Liao army's best ability to fight the Song army was to use the advantage of mobility to cut off the Song army's grain route, or surround the Song army and torture it slowly, and then pounce on the Song army to tear through the Song army's group defense. is also the battle of Wangdu, Xiao Dalin copied the Song army's grain transportation team after failing to defend the Song army, attracting the Song general Wang Jizhong to rescue, first dividing Wang Jizhong from the Song army's brigade, destroying the overall defensive posture of the Song army, and causing the Song army's defeat. These are all the successful experiences of the Liao army, and a senior general like Xia Xingmei naturally knows it in his chest.

For the Liao army, which has a large number of horses, even if it is a circle, the distance of more than 40 miles is in a blink of an eye, not to mention that the two armies are still moving in the opposite direction. Even if he had been paying attention to saving horsepower, around the end of the day, the Liao army vanguard saw the Song army brigade from a distance.

The Liao army's barricades and the Song army's scouts fought together, covering the Song army's reconnaissance. The Liao general Yelu Sorcerer, who led the leading cavalry, saw that he was in the northwest of the tail of the Song army's marching procession, and could clearly see that hundreds of thousands of carts were slowly moving in a long line, and there were only very thin cavalry guarding them on both sides.

The marching and unsuspecting baggage team was not only a send-off but also a fat meat for the Liao cavalry, and the sorcerer couldn't help but laugh loudly at the Song people for having no combat experience. Several officers laughed and echoed the sorcerer's point of view, and the sorcerer sneered and raised a finger to the slow-moving convoy and ordered, "Go!" Grab all the baggage of Song Dog for me! Wu Gutu, you take people to contain the Song brigade, don't let them come to the rescue. ”

The officers immediately whistled and greeted their subordinates, but only Wu Gutu looked unexpected. There was no need to deliberately adjust the formation, and the large group of cavalry rushed towards the Song army brigade like arrows off the string.

The scouts of the Zhenwu army found that a large number of cavalry suddenly rushed wildly, and they were so shocked that they whistled again and again, and someone took out an arrow and shot it into the sky, and the terrible sound of the hammer soon made the brigade pay attention to the Liao cavalry that was approaching quickly.

Guo Kui's eyes sparkled and asked Li Buqi: "The Liao people want to attack the side van." I wonder if the car camp can carry it? ”

Li Buqi looked at the black cavalry in the distance and smiled: "Just look at it." Fight according to the plan we have agreed on in advance. It's only ten kilometers away from Baozhou. The Liao people are too anxious. Now I'll go to the camp to command, and you will command the large formation. ”

Guo Kui hurriedly agreed. Li Buqi waved his whip at Gao Zunyu, who was colorless on the opposite side: "Let's go, let's go and give the Liao people some color." ”

As Li Buqi ordered to blow the trumpet and erect the flag, the formation of the Song army began to change. The forward began to retreat gradually, the marching formation began to shrink, and the chariot battalion at the end of the line also began to turn and set up a formation, forming a circle before the Liao cavalry rushed to it.

The sorcerer grinned widely, as if he saw victory imminently within reach. In his eyes, the Song people reacted quickly, but they were probably dizzy, and the carriages were crowded together, and they were separated from the phalanx of the infantry by more than a stone's throw away. Don't look at such a small distance, the cavalry can use the advantage of mobility to isolate the two parts of the Song army, so that the Song infantry can watch the baggage team being killed.

Seeing a group of Song cavalry rushing out of the front brigade in a hurry, and thrust towards the back of the Liao cavalry that was rushing away, as if they were going to surround Wei to rescue Zhao's rescue baggage team, they couldn't help but stand up straight on the saddle. When he saw that Wu Gutu led a cavalry of the same number as the Song army to meet him, he relaxed and turned his head to look at the cavalry that had stormed the convoy.

The cavalry of the Liao army, which was at the forefront, had already begun to throw feather arrows with their horse bows, but none of the arrows were fired in the circle of the Song people's vehicles. This made the sorcerer happy again - could it be that there were no crossbowmen in the Song people's baggage team to arrange escorts? That was a one-sided slaughter.

The Liao people approaching the convoy obviously also discovered this, they did not hesitate at all, they continued to run towards the convoy, shooting feather arrows at the vehicle, howling, more people had already drawn steel knives, took out the bones, just waiting for the Song people's convoy to be in chaos They controlled the horses to gallop through the gaps in the vehicles, and harvested life with steel knives and bones.

The cavalry on both wings began to flash to both sides and prepare to outflank, but the cavalry who were facing the convoy had to slow down or try to turn around, because the convoy of the Song people did not move at all, just one by one, one after another, and there was not even a gap in the middle, let alone rushing over on horseback, it was impossible to jump over the horse. Moreover, facing them, the cold iron nails on the board of the carriage made them feel that it must be painful to hit them directly.

So the momentum of the impact slowed down all of a sudden, and even a little chaotic. But at this moment, only a sound of bangbang was heard, and countless crossbow arrows shot out from the back of the carriage, splashing clouds of blood in the crowded cavalry.

The people at the front of the Liao cavalry were only twenty or thirty meters away from the chariot of the Zhenwu army. At this distance, the crossbow can shoot directly through the horse's body, and the javelin fired by the vehicle-mounted ballista is even more unstoppable to split the body of a human horse, and the mud balls fired by the ballista not only smashed the horse's head to pieces, but also cracked out a dozen stones and mud blocks, causing damage to the surrounding people and horses.

The sorcerer watched in amazement as his men turned on their backs as if they had hit a wall, screaming all over the field.

The hundreds of cavalry who rounded around from both sides were equally unlucky, and crossbow arrows fired from the back of the vehicles caught up with them, leaving behind dead bodies. When they desperately crouched over the two "chariot walls" on the saddle and turned their horses' heads to prepare to slash and slaughter, they found that there was still a "chariot wall" in front of them, and they had no way to get out of the way.

At this time, I saw the style of the Liao cavalry. Faced with the situation that they could not break through, they did not hesitate to ride their horses away from the chariot formation, without any delay.

The crossbows in the chariot formation rained arrows on the backs of these cavalrymen, leaving corpses of men and horses on the retreating route of the Liao cavalry.

If there is no absolute certainty or huge interests, the Liao cavalry will not attack the solid military formation. This is a basic rule used by the cavalry of the Liao army. The sorcerer naturally commanded at this time: "Blow the trumpet!" Let them withdraw it! ”

Although some of the clever Liao cavalry had begun to turn away, some were still hesitating, and at this time they heard the sound of the horn and hurriedly turned their horses' heads. At this moment, two openings suddenly opened in the direction of the sorcerer, and two small groups of cavalry rushed out of these two openings.

When the cavalry of the Liao army was in chaos, and completely lost its speed, if the opponent rushed to him, he would hardly be able to fight back. The sorcerer, who grew up on horseback since childhood, naturally understood this truth, and he couldn't help but stand up straight again in shock, and put his hands on the pergola to watch.

I saw that the two small groups of cavalry were only 200 people at most, and they should be the cavalry that guarded both sides of the convoy at the beginning. At first, they had just started and were just trotting, but the tall horses under their crotches quickly accelerated, and the faster they ran, they rushed towards the Liao cavalry who had just trotted up.

The horse has the habit of "loving the group", and when he sees the same kind in front of him, he will desperately catch up, and in the blink of an eye, he crashes into the middle of the Liao army. Even if the five-meter-long spear of the cavalry of the police division could not break through the iron armor of the Liao people at high speed, this heavy blow would knock the Liao people off their horses, and the Liao cavalry would turn over on their backs.

It's not a question of who has the courage or the skill of killing, it's purely a matter of physics.

In this kind of high-speed running, although the Liao cavalry was two or three times more than the two groups of Song troops, they had no chance to turn around and fight under the pressure of the cold and shining spears, and could only desperately beat the horses in an attempt to get out of the killing range of the spears. However, the cavalry of the police division rode all high-headed horses bought from the northwest, and the long-distance maneuver may not be as good as the Mongolian horses ridden by the Liao army, but the short-distance sprint is slightly better. Therefore, the cavalry of the Liao army not only could not get rid of the Song army, but was chased by the Song army, and some people died under the spear one after another.