The light of the sword is like the moon reflecting on Kyushu

The Khitan heavy cavalry launched another charge!

The distance is getting closer and the speed is getting faster!

The Song army in the middle suddenly changed their formation, and countless human stumbling blocks instantly turned into countless rows of low wall obstacles!

Thousands of soldiers huddled together to form a long low wall at each obstacle. Each soldier half-knelt on one knee, carrying rattan armor on his shoulders. The rattan armor was closely connected, and the edges overlapped like fish scales, forming an airtight barrier. From the perspective of the Khitan cavalry, it looked like rows of three-foot-high vines and grass piles appeared on the ground in front of them. For the war horses, this was just a small obstacle. They had been trained in similar ways and could easily jump over obstacles as high as seven feet, so the cavalry did not take it seriously.

What disgusted them was that the obstacles were so densely packed that they were indistinguishable! The horses had to jump constantly to rush over them, which not only affected their speed, but also caused the horses to be injured easily due to the frequent bumps. After all, the burden was heavy on both the horse and the rider! All cavalrymen knew that in open plains, charging with the horses horizontally would be the most powerful, consume the least physical strength, and cause the least damage to the horses. If the horses were on rough terrain, they would not be able to run at all. If they were forced to run, the horses would not be able to hold on for too long!
Many clever Khitan cavalrymen even noticed this sudden "speed bump", which would seriously disrupt their plan of "withstanding one wave of arrow rain and taking the general and flag in one go"! The appearance of the speed bump meant that they might suffer two waves of arrow rain!

So both armies knew what was going to happen next!
Yelu Xizhen's eyes were like those of an eagle, his battle robe fluttering like a raging flame, and he pointed his lance at the Song army's chariot. "Heroes of Khitan, the time has come to prove your worth, charge!"

The torrent of iron cavalry was like a river bursting its banks, millions of iron hooves crushed the earth, and raised smoke and dust like a yellow cloud covering the sun!
The soldiers' roars merged into a thunderstorm, and horse spears poured out like a forest following the commander's sharp points. The army was like a raging sea, unstoppable and ready to devour everything!
The long-awaited rain of arrows arrived as expected!

The Khitan war horses would instinctively avoid obstacles by jumping over them, but just as they had crossed one low wall, another one would appear, forcing the horses to jump continuously. What drove the Khitan cavalry most crazy was that the distances between the low walls were not uniform, sometimes close and sometimes far, with no regular pattern at all. The speed of the war horses slowed down unknowingly!

In this case, the hit rate of the first wave of arrow rain is naturally extremely high!
Two hundred arrows from the divine arm bows killed two hundred and forty cavalrymen, and ten three-bow crossbows shot and killed fifty-seven people!

But the Khitan cavalry was so excited about killing at this time that they completely forgot about life and death!

The army charges forward, fearless!

As fast as lightning, invincible!
Just when the cavalry was about to rush to within ten feet of the Song army commander's chariot, the second wave of arrows hit!

At the same time, the commander-in-chief of the Song army and several of his entourage actually fled on horseback!
The direction they fled was actually the battlefield in the east! There, the Song cavalry was fighting fiercely with the Xixia cavalry, and the Song infantry kept harassing the periphery!
Yelu Xiexin thought: Pan Mei actually ran away!

At this time he had two choices, one was to hunt down the main general of the Song army, the other was to destroy the Song army's main weapon, the three-bow crossbow!

Killing the general can directly destroy the decision-making center of the Song army, causing the Song army to fall into a command vacuum and chaos! The death of the Song army's main general will cause the Song army soldiers to lose their fighting faith and collapse at the first touch!
Destroy the triple-bow crossbow and directly paralyze the opponent's most lethal weapon, leaving the opponent without their greatest reliance and allowing them to be slaughtered by you!
Which is more important, bear's paw or fish?
Between destroying the three-bow crossbow and eliminating Pan Mei, which one should he choose? Not only Pan Mei is concerned, but Liu Miezhou is also concerned!

Zhao Guangyi is also concerned!
To everyone's surprise, Yelu Xizhen pointed in the direction of Zhao Guangyi and shouted angrily: "Kill the Emperor of Song!"

Zhao Guangyi was shocked!
Eunuch Li cursed angrily: "How dare Pan Mei make such a stupid move and put the emperor in danger! He should be executed!" He grabbed Zhao Guangyi's wrist and prepared to take him away, then turned around and shouted: "You cover our retreat!"

Dozens of imperial guards behind him shouted at the same time: "Yes!"

A young general in a white robe, riding a white horse and holding a silver spear said, "Listen to my orders!"

Three thousand imperial guards said in unison: "Yes!"

The young general, the commander of the imperial guards, Lin Yongpeng, looked at the Khitan cavalry charging towards him and said calmly, "Form a battle array!"

The 3,000 imperial guards he led were armed to the teeth, a level that even Luoyang Tiger at his peak could not match!

The full-body infantry armor combines all the advantages of the Han Dynasty's iron lamellar armor, the Wei and Jin Dynasty's tube-sleeved armor, and the Tang Dynasty's Ming Guang armor, making it unique!
It is made of 1,825 iron leaves, covering the vital parts of the body, such as the neck, shoulders, arms, and legs. The armor plates are arranged in a "stacked" way, forming a defensive gradient similar to fish scales, which can effectively disperse the impact force. It is one and a half centimeters thick and can withstand the hard-core impact of the lance and mace of the heavy cavalry!
Each person is equipped with a crossbow, a moon-covering sword, a hook-and-sickle spear, and a tiger-head bronze shield!
The enemy-killing crossbow has five boxes of crossbows! Each box has twelve crossbows! Each person can shoot sixty arrows continuously!
The Moon-covering Blade is three feet and nine inches long and weighs ninety-two pounds. It has thirty-six chopping techniques that are specially designed to break through heavy armor! It can form a sword formation!
The hook-and-sickle spear is seven feet and two inches long, with the spear head eight inches long. The spear head is sharp, with a barb protruding laterally at the bottom, and the hook tip is bent inward. If it is not bent inward, it is the same as the divination halberd. The spear shaft is six feet long, with a thick round diameter of four inches, made of wood, and has an iron spike at the end of the shaft, four inches long. It is also called the "Ma Zha Dao"! It is specially used to defeat cavalry!

The bronze shield with a tiger head is made of bronze and gilded on the surface. It uses multi-layer composite casting technology. The thickness of the shield is two to three centimeters and the weight is about 80 kilograms! It can withstand the impact of ordinary arrows, and only leave shallow marks when cut by spears and bayonets! The shield is cast with a three-dimensional tiger head relief, and the fangs are gilded. It can be seen from a distance of 200 steps on the battlefield, which can effectively deter the enemy!
In addition, everyone was equipped with a lasso, lime powder, and caltrops!
The battle array was deployed, and the three thousand Song imperial guards were arranged in a staggered formation of fifty people. Each infantryman pointed his blade at the ground, forming a continuous metal wave. Everyone threw "iron caltrops" thirty steps away. These "iron caltrops" glowed with a cold blue light in the sun!

The Khitan heavy armored Iron Forest Army cavalry had divided into three waves and charged in a cone formation! The 200 Shenbi crossbows of the Song Army's crossbow battalion had been loaded with arrows and fired at the cavalry formation at an oblique angle! The specially made three-edged arrows instantly killed more than 200 cavalrymen!

But the dead cavalrymen still did not fall off their horses, and the overall formation was not disrupted at all!

Lin Yongpeng was as steady as a rock, not moving an inch, waiting for the right opportunity to strike!

boom!
boom!
boom!
Another wave of fire bombs hit the cavalry formation! This time, it didn't hit the leading cavalry, but directly hit the center of the formation!
No matter how strong the cavalry's heavy armor is, how can it be stronger than the huge bullets fired by the catapult? The power is enough to break monuments and crack rocks, collapse mountains and stop rivers!
With a loud bang, dozens of cavalrymen were blown into pulp by the burning stone bullets. The remaining force of the stone bullets was so strong that they hit other horses, causing them to fall to the ground! The cavalrymen behind adjusted their routes in time to avoid being tripped, and their formation was somewhat deformed!

At this moment, ten arrows, one spear and three swords, pierced through the bodies of dozens of cavalrymen!
But the Khitan cavalry came rushing in with an invincible force, and the casualties of a hundred or so people could not cause much of a wave!
The army's iron hoof is imminent!

Suddenly, the warhorse that was in the front let out a neigh, lost its front hoof, and fell down instantly. Hundreds of warhorses fell down in rows! The cavalry on horseback were also thrown off!
The cavalrymen at the back knew they couldn't stop the charge, so they simply ignored the lives of their comrades and continued charging, reaching the Imperial Guards formation in an instant!
The Song imperial army's sword formation immediately transformed into a "wave formation". The first row of soldiers squatted and used hook sickle spears to chop the horse's legs horizontally, the second row stood up and chopped the rider's waist diagonally, and the third row used backhands to finish the attack! The specially made curved blade of the moon-covering sword can generate an impact force of 200 kilograms in a single swing, which can break heavy armor! In the blink of an eye, the Song army had chopped off the front hooves of nearly a war horse!

But the heavy cavalry's momentum was already built, and the inherent suppression advantage made the infantry pay a heavy price! Many phalanxes were directly broken, and once the formation collapsed, the infantry was like meat on the chopping board, cut at will!

The deeper the Khitan cavalry penetrated into the Song army, the more attacks from hook and sickle spears they encountered!
Countless hook-and-sickle spears pierced through the gaps in the shield wall, aiming to take out the hooves of the Khitan cavalry. Before the cavalry torrent could completely submerge the imperial guards, nearly eight hundred corpses of men and horses were left behind!
The three thousand imperial guards were also attacked by the iron-hoofed army, with nearly a thousand casualties! Their combat effectiveness was reduced by nearly one third!

At the critical moment, there was a sudden series of intensive explosions, as if firecrackers were being set off!

But starting from the first row of the Khitan cavalry, the cavalryman's head suddenly tilted back and the whole person fell on the horse's back. Although he did not fall off the horse, it was obvious at a glance that he was dead!
There were constant bang sounds and cavalrymen falling down continuously!
Then suddenly the cavalrymen in the front row were blown into the sky in a burst of flames!
The horses that were charging were startled and stopped forcibly. Some cavalrymen reacted quickly and turned their horses to the sides. Unfortunately, there were horses charging forward on both sides, so they could only stop forcibly. The horses in front slowed down, but the horses behind could not stop. They crashed into each other and fell down in groups! The central army, which was disguised as a low wall, and the remaining less than 2,000 imperial guards suddenly counterattacked the Khitan cavalry! The 50,000 central army charged the Khitan cavalry, while the Song army's crossbows, catapults, three-bow crossbows, divine arm bows and longbowmen concentrated their firepower to attack the Khitan cavalry!

The momentum of the cavalry formation had been broken, and they became the target of the infantry!
Countless war horses were now left with nothing but fear. They stood up from time to time and tried to flee in all directions, but their fellow horses were huddled together in panic everywhere and no one could escape for a while.

A gap was finally forced through in the chaos, and countless cavalrymen stepped on their compatriots to break out. The Khitan warriors who were squeezed down angrily cursed their comrades for their shamelessness, but unfortunately the curses were soon drowned out by the sound of iron hooves. They did not die at the hands of the Song army, but were trampled to death by their own horses!

The cavalry who had just rushed out were attacked by fierce musket fire and were shot dead one after another!

Yelu Xizhen shouted in the cavalry formation: "Keep calm! Break out from the siege!"

He had already discovered that a group of special forces had arrived at the edge of the battlefield. They were not numerous, but their killing power was amazing! Each of them held up a long spear, and with a flash of fire, a cavalryman fell down! The heavy armor was so vulnerable in front of them!
There were also more than forty crossbow carts that he recognized. The arrows shot by that guy had gunpowder on them. Who could withstand the power of gunpowder?
While he was shocked, he was thinking about preserving his strength!

It is not easy to train 30,000 heavily armored cavalrymen, we cannot let them be defeated like this!
With Yelu Xizhen's order, all the cavalrymen gradually steadied their horses and retreated in the same direction.

Once the cavalry starts running, the infantry can't catch up at all.

Soon the Khitan led more than 20,000 cavalry to evacuate!

Yelu Xizhen didn't know how many musketeers the Song army had sent, but he didn't dare to gamble! He couldn't afford to lose!

If Empress Dowager Xiao knew that his entire army was annihilated in this battle, he would surely die! Save most of the troops, so that even if they are defeated, they will not be killed!
He looked back and saw another Kongming lantern rising, indicating that reinforcements of the Song army had arrived!

He shouted, "Retreat!" Retreat to the base camp first!
Lin Yongpeng shouted at this time: "Brothers, follow me!"

One thousand imperial guards, tens of thousands of central troops and eastern troops gathered together in an instant, and followed Lin Yongpeng to charge towards the eastern battlefield!

The Song Dynasty's heavy cavalry had lost more than 5,000 soldiers, while the Western Xia cavalry had lost 3,000!
The two sides still fought against each other by charging and killing each other!
The Song army knew clearly that there was a gap in manpower, equipment and tactics, but they were not afraid at all!
The worst case scenario is death!
What is the joy of life, what is the fear of death?
A man should die on the frontier, and be buried wrapped in a horsehide!
"Kill!" The sound shook the sky!
Some Song army soldiers were covered in blood, but they refused to retreat!

The Khitan cavalry, including the Xixia Iron Harriers, tied their soldiers to the backs of horses so that they could not fall off even if they died, and used this method to intimidate their opponents! But the Song army disdained this!

A small captain among the Western Xia Iron Harriers was looking at the Song cavalry from afar across the river with admiration in his heart!

The armor of the Song army was not as strong as that of the Xia army. After several impacts, the armor of some soldiers had broken, revealing flesh and blood. In addition, the attack power of the opponent's weapons was also relatively weak. They used maces, which were very powerful. Even if they blocked it with their guns, the violent vibration could still injure their internal organs! He killed three Song soldiers with the shock!

In addition, two Song soldiers were seriously injured, but they did not go offline to heal their wounds and kept their formation in place! Their morale was still so high at this time!
The dense gunfire brought him back to reality from his thoughts.

The sudden departure of the Khitan cavalry made him feel a sense of crisis!

He glanced around and finally discovered that there were several special teams in the Song army camp!
At this time, the Song army's heavy cavalry had already formed up and launched a charge!

The front line on my side has already started moving, so I have no choice but to keep up with the surrounding cavalry!
Although he had an ominous premonition, he didn't know what the crisis was!
The Xixia warriors around them waved maces and shouted wildly. They only had eyes for the Song cavalry! After several rounds of clashes just now, they found the weakness of the Song army! They became more and more confident! Many Xixia cavalry believed that with three more rounds of clashes, they could completely annihilate the Song army!
There is a blazing flame in their eyes!
The Song Dynasty is just like this! How can it be as powerful as the king says? Their cavalry is only at this level, why should we ask Daxia to pay tribute to the Song Dynasty?

After we destroy the Song army this time, our Great Xia Kingdom can establish the Great Xia Dynasty, and the ruler can be crowned emperor!
When the two large cavalry streams were ten feet apart, they suddenly saw flashes of fire, followed by a burst of intensive firecracker sounds, followed by flashes of fire in the Western Xia Iron Harrier Cavalry formation, and countless cavalry were blown into the sky, followed by a loud bang, like thunder exploding on the ground, deafening!
what's the situation?
Where did the gunpowder come from?
Many team leaders only realized the crisis at this time! They finally noticed the Song army's killer weapon!
"withdraw!"

"withdraw!"

Many team leaders shouted!
The Iron Harriers were divided into teams of 300 men each. The entire team had 100 team leaders. The highest leader of the entire army was the state leader Li Deming!

And Li Deming does not need to participate in the battle personally.

The most amazing thing about the Iron Harriers is the perfect coordination between the individual soldiers!
The main benefit lies in the army's own rules!
For example, if the squad leader dies, who will take over? If the replacement dies, who will take over? There is a plan for this! What should we do when the formation is disturbed by a strong external force and becomes chaotic? Who will fill in when a comrade around us dies? What should we do when we lose contact with the chief officer? Everything has a plan!
So the Iron Harriers were suddenly bombed, and the horses were frightened, causing their formation to become chaotic, but they quickly regrouped!
Since all the team leaders had seen the secret weapons used by the Song army, they reached a consensus in just a few words: retreat!

Because they, like the Khitans, dare not gamble!

Who can be sure how many people there are in the musket team? Who can be sure how much explosives the Song army has? Would they risk the lives of their own soldiers to test the enemy's strength?
If you know yourself but not your enemy, you will win or lose! Don’t act rashly when you are unsure!
Besides, this isn't Yinchuan, and the king isn't around. What's the point of playing with your life? Retreat! Retreat to a safe place to recuperate! It won't be too late to come back when the situation becomes clear!

There was a rumbling sound of iron hooves hitting the ground like thunder, and in an instant the large group of horses and soldiers disappeared in the east like a gust of wind, sweeping up a sky full of dust!
At this time, there were only 40,000 soldiers left on the left wing of the Song army, and most of them were injured!

The central army and the right army basically preserved their organization!

Pan Mei returned to the commander's chariot!

He looked at the corpses on the ground, and then at Liu Miezhou, who was wearing a purple robe and a golden crown on the top of the city wall. He stood like a spear and said calmly: "All troops assemble!" (End of this chapter)