The sound of hooves was like thunder, and the cavalry of the Western Xia army rushed closer and closer, 1,000 steps, 800 steps, 600 steps, 500 steps, and 300 steps...... It was already approaching the range of the Divine Arm Crossbow.

The effective killing distance of the Divine Arm Crossbow is 150 paces, but the total range can reach 250 paces.

"Shoot!" Li Yanqing gave an order, with the waving of the red order flag, the sound of bangzi suddenly sounded, and the 10,000 divine arm crossbows of the Song army were launched at the same time, and the soldiers lit the fire rope one after another, and the 10,000 arrows rose into the air, forming a dense rain of arrows in the air, making a strange sound, as if the locust plague was coming, and it was overwhelming to shoot at the cavalry of the Western Xia army two hundred steps away.

The cavalry of the Western Xia army raised their shields one after another, and the rain of arrows whistled and fired, crackling on the shields, but before the cavalry could react, the crossbow arrows exploded with a bang.

There was a crackling explosion in the team, the shields were blown up, the horses were frightened, lost order, and began to rampage in the ranks, constantly making the cavalry in the team turn over on their backs, trampled by the horses, and suddenly the flesh and blood were blurred, and a rain of arrows directly caused more than 500 cavalrymen to fall off their horses and die miserably.

But this is by no means the real effect of the bursting arrow, the real effect is that the shields of more than 4,000 Western Xia cavalry are blown up.

The cavalry of the Western Xia army ran to one hundred and fifty steps, the second round of arrow array of the Song army was launched, a drum sounded, four thousand divine arm crossbows were the first to fire, and a dense rain of arrows rose into the air, forming a long black arrow cloud in the air, which instantly turned into black dots, overwhelmingly shooting at the soldiers of the Western Xia army, and the Western Xia cavalry raised their shields to meet each other.

The Song army's crossbow dominates the world, not only with a long range, but also with strong strength, especially when thrown from the air, and when the arrows fall, they have their own gravity, making the shields of the Western Xia cavalry have become ornaments.

The powerful and heavy crossbow arrows pierced the cavalry's shields and pierced the iron armor, and the cavalry fell from their horses one after another, wailing all over the field, and then the second and third waves of crossbow arrows roared like raindrops, so dense that people could not breathe, and the long arrows sneered and fell, piercing the shields and shooting through the faces and chests of the enemy.

The Western Xia cavalry seemed to be the crops destroyed by the storm, falling one by one, blood splashing, one by one in the wailing tragic death, the morale of the enemy died sharply, their confidence began to waver, the murderous spirit subsided, the attack of the cavalry of the Western Xia army was dealt a heavy blow, the Song army only fired two rounds of arrows, 20,000 cavalry was reduced by one and a half, more than 3,000 people died under the crossbow arrows.

Brother Richard, who was watching the battle in the back, gasped, when he saw the explosion and fire, he realized that something was wrong, when a piece of cavalry fell with arrows, he suddenly felt heartache like a knife, this is a tragic phenomenon that has never been seen before, if it is an ordinary cavalry, he is not distressed, these 20,000 cavalry are the elite of the elite!

But now he had no choice, he had to grit his teeth and say: "Blow the trumpet, charge!" ”

'Woo-woo-'

The sound of the horn continued to sound, this was the horn of the charge, the Western Xia cavalry was worthy of the elite, inspired by the sound of the horn, they quickly adjusted their slightly weak formation, and launched an attack on the 10,000 crossbowmen of the Song army from sixty paces away.

The Divine Arm Crossbow Army still did not show weakness, 10,000 people fired the last round of crossbow arrows at the same time, they used two feet and four inches of armor-piercing iron arrows, the arrows were like elongated spindles, streamlined, made of fine iron, extremely sharp, can shoot through any armor, with a bang sound, 10,000 crossbow arrows like a black cloud towards the cavalry that had rushed to sixty paces.

The Western Xia cavalry also seemed to feel the strength of this round of arrow array, they raised their shields at the same time, only to hear a click, the shield was pierced by the crossbow arrows, and they were shattered, but the shield also removed half of the strong force of the crossbow arrows, 10,000 iron arrows did not cause much damage to people, but the war horses could not withstand the strong penetrating power of the crossbow arrows, more than 1,000 war horses in the first row fell to the ground with arrows, neighing to the ground, many cavalry were tripped behind, and the cavalry appeared a slight chaos again.

At this time, Li Yanqing ordered, "Crossbowmen retreat, heavy infantry up!" ”

10,000 crossbowmen quickly retreated, and behind them appeared 3,000 heavy infantry, this was the first time that the heavy infantry was put into actual combat, and they trained for four months, whether they could succeed or not, it was a matter of one move.

Guan Sheng shouted, and the three thousand heavy armored infantry Huo Di listed the formation, they were divided into two rows in front and back, about five feet apart, they were half-kneeling on the ground, and the long handle of the horse sword was pressed against the ground, and the long blade pierced into the air.

At this time, 15,000 cavalry came in a dense column of arrows, their speed became faster and faster, the sound of horses' hooves was like thunder, and the momentum was like a stormy wave, destroying everything, invincible everything, and rushing towards the densely defended Song soldiers with an unstoppable ferocity.

The three thousand heavily armored infantry were like a needle that fixed the sea, no matter how raging the waves were, they still stood still.

The cavalry rushed ten paces away in an instant, and the cavalry in the front row had clearly seen the two rows of cold and shining thorns, and they were all terrified in their hearts, but the cavalry in front had nowhere to flee for their lives, let alone retreat, and were surrounded by the cavalry behind, so they had to raise their spears, close their eyes, and scream in despair.

"Boom!"

The war horse rushed into the bayonet group, suddenly the blood splashed, neighing all over the ground, the cavalry of the first row was pierced by the horse sword, the cavalry behind continued to rush up, the war horse fell down one after another, the huge inertia swept many cavalry out, and even flew over the head of the heavy infantry and fell into the Song army's large array, the cavalry inertia was huge, it was difficult to stop, and a wall of flesh more than ten zhang wide was quickly formed in front of the Song army's formation.

Li Yanqing saw it clearly, and he sneered and ordered: "Throw thunder!" ”

The drums sounded loudly, more than 100 small trebuchets appeared behind the heavy armored infantry, they fired together, hundreds of throwing sky-shaking thunderbolts flew over the top of the heavy armored infantry, and exploded one after another in the cavalry group 100 steps away, the war horses screamed, the soldiers screamed, and the cavalry was blown down, and the Western Xia cavalry was in a dilemma, and suddenly there was chaos.

The explosion of the earth-shattering thunder was the signal, and the 3,000 heavy infantry changed formation, they stood up, raised their swords high, and prepared to meet the cavalry that was about to be killed, at the same time, 60,000 soldiers on the east and west flanks rushed towards the enemy cavalry, surrounding the cavalry from both sides, while 20,000 Song cavalry rushed to 10,000 Western Xia infantry three miles away from both sides.

This is a set of serial warfare methods, from the launch of the divine arm crossbow, the attack of the heavy infantry to the earth-shaking thunder throw, to the encirclement on both sides, and then to the attack of 20,000 cavalry, once launched, there is no pause in the middle, almost in one go, and the Western Xia cavalry does not even have time to retreat.

When Richard realized that it was too late, the 60,000 troops converged from both sides, of which 10,000 cavalry were the fastest, like the sealing of a bag, cutting off the retreat of the Western Xia cavalry, and the remaining 50,000 troops quickly contracted, compressing more than 10,000 Western Xia cavalry into a small space with a radius of only one mile.

This is the biggest weakness of the attacking Chinese army, once the Chinese army formation can not be quickly broken, it is very likely to be surrounded by the other side, both sides are calculating, just see who takes out the capital is thicker, obviously the Western Xia cavalry lost, but lost this chip but became a disaster.

Richard was flustered and shouted, "Blow the trumpet, withdraw the troops!" ”

"Woo! Woo! ”

The horn of the hurried retreat sounded, and the surrounded Western Xia cavalry wanted to turn around and break through, but it was impossible to achieve it, and the 80,000 army surrounded the 15,000 cavalry in dense layers, so dense that even a fly could not even dare to fly out.

At the same time, 20,000 cavalry, one on the left and one on the right, outflanked and killed 10,000 Western Xia infantry from the north and south.

This is the most powerful tactical cooperation of the Song army so far, 100,000 troops launched at the same time, interlocking, which must be tempered and tempered to be done, full of embodiment of the excellent quality of the Jingzhao Song army.

Richard was almost desperate, he had no choice but to divide the 10,000 infantry into two ways to meet the Song cavalry killed on both sides, and the two sides fought together fiercely in an instant.

The biggest advantage of cavalry is that it is mobile, it can run at high speed, so that the infantry cannot catch up, and it can quickly kill, and the infantry is caught off guard.

But if the cavalry loses its maneuver, like a tied elephant, its huge body is dragged down by it, and in a small space, the cavalry is not necessarily an opponent for the infantry.

The dense infantry held spears, forming a sea of guns, spears stabbed at the cavalry from all sides, and there were 10,000 crossbows on the periphery to shoot arrows to the middle, and the Western Xia cavalry continued to attrition, and after an hour, the 15,000 cavalry originally surrounded by the interior was sharply reduced to 6,000 people, but the trend of attrition did not stop, and the Song army continued to compress the enemy's space.

At this moment, the horn of attack of the Song cavalry sounded continuously, and the Western Xia infantry finally collapsed.