Gansu military city is located in the east of the entire Hexi corridor, nature is blessed with a special plain landform, and around it Qilian Mountain stands in the south, Yanzhi Mountain is located in the east, Longshou Mountain barrier in the north, hills and mountains, ravines and ravines.

Here is the ideal place for heavy cavalry charge, the flat terrain does not have many ups and downs, Shi Hu led the steel front iron cavalry in a large maneuver at the same time, the cavalry picked up the saddle of the prepared ratchet crossbow to the Western Xia cavalry to shoot, in order to maximize the killing of the enemy, the ratchet crossbow of the Great Song Dynasty has been changed several times, this is a horse ratchet crossbow designed for the cavalry, although the range is reduced but also small and convenient, and one hand can complete the winding action.

Experienced knights can even spread the reins with both hands, and the strap can be wrapped around the standing collar of the plate armor to stabilize the crossbow arrows, the arrows are in the quiver within reach, winded, arrows, fired, the sound of cracking silk suddenly sounded, and the cavalry of 8,000 people did not even need precise aiming to tie the crossbow arrows that made the locusts rain down among the tens of thousands of Western Xia cavalry.

The horn of the Tangut people sounded, and all the cavalry, except for those who delayed the main formation of the Western Route Army of the Great Song Dynasty, all rushed towards the cavalry of 8,000 people after hearing the horn, and they had regarded the cavalry of 8,000 people as the biggest enemy, and they were bound to encircle and exterminate them, otherwise they would cause them more damage.

The Tangut people are not stupid, the feeling of choking in their throats makes their numerical advantage unable to be exerted, and the momentum of the Song army and the Qingtang coalition army is getting higher and higher, once the battle is long, it will affect morale, and the most important point is that they are all frightened by the amazing lethality of the steel blade iron weapon.

Once people encounter the biggest threat, they often try their best to eliminate it, the Western Xia reinforcements are like this, in their eyes, the 8,000-strong Song cavalry is their biggest threat, the Qingtang coalition army is the defeated general of the Western Xia people, and the threat brought by the Western Route Army, which is mostly foot soldiers, is far less than the 8,000 people.

So a spectacular scene appeared, tens of thousands of Western Xia cavalry began to encircle and suppress the 8,000-strong steel front iron cavalry, Shi Hu was not only intimidated when he saw this, but the fighting spirit in his chest was even higher, and he shouted: "Hold the lance!" ”

A simple and clear military order was repeated loudly in the cavalry, and the steel torrent of eight thousand men abandoned the ratchet crossbow in their hands, and picked up the lance on the victory hook as they plunged into the saddle.

Although the cavalry spear can cause a lot of damage to the enemy in the moment of engagement, it is not a weapon for long-term combat after all, but it has been completely consumed in a single charge, and can only be used to charge and break the formation.

The steel blade iron horse equipped with a good horse lance, the combat effectiveness soared instantly, the horse lance and the riding lance are different, although the length is similar, but the excellent flexibility and hardness of the horse lance is incomparable to the riding lance.

The raw material of the crossbow arm of a ratchet crossbow is generally mulberry wood, while the raw material of a horse lance is Zhemu. Also known as mulberry wood, it is a precious kind of mulberry wood, which is regarded as the first choice of lance, and its hardness and flexibility are extremely excellent.

Horse lance in the Great Song Dynasty after a rather tortuous journey, and finally in Zhao Zhen's efforts again became the trump card weapon of the cavalry, in the Zhenzong Dynasty, the Great Song Dynasty lacked horses, cavalry was scarce, the wood to make a horse lance was enough to make ten strong crossbows, and the production cost of the horse lance was too high, this cavalry weapon became the emperor's ceremonial weapon in the ceremonial weapon.

When Zhao Zhen found the horse lance, it was seen by chance in the extravagant honor guard of up to 5,000 people, and only the eight horse lances held by General Jinwu as the forerunner, and then sad at the same time, Zhao Zhen once again gave the horse lance a new life.

When Shi Hu's horse lance easily passed through the enemy's body, it only took a little bit of skillful force to turn the huge impact into kinetic energy, ejecting the enemy who was stuck in the groove on the lance, and in the hands of the experienced cavalry, the horse lance swung extremely fast, stabbing out like a rainstorm pear blossom, sweeping and swinging like a long sword out of the sheath to easily cut off the leather armor of the party members.

High-intensity combat will make people extremely excited, the rise of killing will also quickly consume their own physical strength, which is a great test of the physical strength of the cavalry, not only to wave the weapon with the arm, but also to clamp the saddle with both legs, and firmly step on the horse, otherwise once the horse falls, you will definitely die......

There are very few people and troops who can really do three in and three out on the battlefield, which means that they have to repeatedly kill the enemy's military formation three times, which also means a full six round-trips, and after three times in and out, the enemy is basically no longer capable of fighting, not because they have been killed and injured, but because the morale has been completely gone, the rout began to appear constantly, and the panicked people will even accidentally injure their comrades and cause infighting.

When Shi Hu once again saw the military flag of the Great Song cavalry flying high not far away, he knew that his task had been completed.

The 50,000 Beiwei troops arrived in time, and the military flag was erected high like a cloud in the sky...... At this time, Yang Zhongxian also commanded the Western Route Army to begin to change its formation, from the original defensive formation to an offensive and even encircled formation.

Although there were hundreds of thousands of reinforcements in Western Xia, they were killed by the Great Song Ka, and the Tuoba Hao defenders in the Gansu military city were also surrounded by the Qingtang coalition army with greatly increased morale.

The tactics of the Great Song Dynasty continued from the Han Dynasty for thousands of years, and many of the officers and soldiers in the army came from the military academy founded by Zhao Zhen.

The most classic is to use the military formation to divide and encircle the enemy, this is the art of the battlefield, but also the main general, Yu Hou, captain, and even the commander of the feast to complete with each other, the Western Route Army under the command of Yang Zhongxian slowly and steadily began to deploy, the war is not a group fight, as long as the West Route Army maintains a good formation can play a role.

Moreover, the Western Route Army, which has nearly 100,000 people, cannot move quickly, and it will take a while to pass the order.

The general trend has been completely biased towards the Great Song Dynasty, the Qingtang Coalition Army, the Western Route Army, and the Beiwei Army, slowly forming a triangle with the Gansu military city, and the Tuoba Hao and Western Xia reinforcements, who had no hope of breaking through, have become turtles in the urn.

Did the Eight Thousand Steel Blade Iron Riders work? They succeeded in holding back the Western Xia reinforcements, and at the same time gave the friendly troops the most precious thing on the battlefield, courage. They are worthy of the name of steel and heroes.

At this time, when Tuoba Hao saw that the reinforcements actually wanted to move the military city and wanted to enter the city, he looked up to the sky and sighed: "The Gansu military division is finished......