Temujin was secretly thinking in his heart that if he and the Mongol army were replaced on the other side, then he would definitely not let the Western Xia reinforcements approach the edge of Lingwu City so easily. When the Western Xia army just set off from the Xiangqing army, it would continue to send small groups of cavalry to attack and disturb the Western Xia army, so that when the Western Xia army arrived at Lingwu, the veteran soldiers of the division were tired, and then attacked with all their strength to defeat the Western Xia army in one go. And at this time, I can only fight hard with the Western Xia army. Even if he defeated the Western Xia army, his losses would not be small.

However, through the analysis and discussion with the Mongol generals in the past few days, as well as the Yelu Ahai and Yelu Tohua brothers, Temujin also understood that the mountains of earth piled up by the Song army, the trenches dug by the Song army, etc., were all for the defense of the Western Xia army. It's just that Temujin had never seen such a defensive battle before, and he didn't know how effective it could be, so he had to see it with his own eyes.

Although the Yelu Ahai and Yelu Dehua brothers have always had a very hostile attitude towards the Song Dynasty, they also want to see how capable Yang Yan, who is very valued by the Jin State and the Mongols.

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The two sides have been fighting for a long time, but Gao Shan has gradually become a little anxious in his heart, because the Western Xia army is here to rescue Lingwu, although now Yijing is very close to Lingwu City, but after all, it has not yet converged with the Western Xia in the city, and the Song army is still surrounding Lingwu City, if it does not move, the time will drag on too long, I am afraid it will not be good. But if the attack is launched now, with the current strength of the Western Xia army, will it be able to break through the defense line of the Song army? For a while, Gao Shan thought about it repeatedly, but he still couldn't make up his mind.

However, at this moment, only the sound of killing in the circle was heard, and it was obvious that the Song army had begun to attack Lingwu City again.

Because the line of sight was blocked by the earth mountain, the high mountains could not see the scene of the Song army attacking the city in the inner circle, and could only hear the shouts and killings inside for a while, obviously the battle was quite fierce. As a result, Takayama was even more uncomplacent, and he didn't know if the defenders in the city would be able to hold on.

However, Gao Shan thought about it, if the Song army in the inner circle began to attack the city now, then it would inevitably involve part of the Song army's troops, and maybe he would have a chance. Whatever if, give it a try.

About half of the 80,000 troops who came to the rescue of Lingwu this time were cavalry, and there were 1,500 "Iron Harriers" among them. Of course, the damage of this kind of battle was extremely great, and it was impossible for the "Iron Harrier" to take on such a costly task, so Gao Shan first sent 5,000 cavalry troops to fight the first formation, and first tested the defensive strength of the Song army.

With Gao Shandu's order, the 5,000 cavalry of the Western Xia army urged their horses together and rushed towards the front of the Song army. The battlefield suddenly shouted horses, and the momentum was not small.

The movements of the Western Xia army Yang Yan had already seen clearly in Tushan. As early as when he began to send troops to attack Lingwu, he thought that the Western Xia army would use a large army to rescue Lingwu. In this way, it will undoubtedly be the main decisive battle between the Song army and the Western Xia army, so when the fortifications were built outside Lingwu City, Yang Yan also built fortifications on the periphery, just to prepare for the reinforcements of the Western Xia army.

And after the reinforcements of the Western Xia Army arrived, Yang Yan also saw that the Western Xia Army was coming from a long distance and was good for a quick battle, so he ordered the Song Army to put on a stubborn appearance and drag the Western Xia Army step by step into the Song Army's most desired mode: let the Western Xia Army attack the defense line built by the Song Army on the basis of fortifications. Now that the Western Xia army obviously thought that it was difficult to ride a tiger, it finally took the initiative to attack, and it was the time for the Song army to show its skills.

The bed crossbows of more than 20 nearby earth mountains have already been turned around, and as the standard-bearers passed Yang Yan's orders to other mountains, the bed crossbows of each earth mountain were fired in turn, and the crossbow guns as thick as arms, ** a chilling whistling sound, flew over a distance of nearly four hundred steps, and shot into the cavalry formation of the Western Xia army.

Although the Western Xia cavalry who took the lead were not "iron harriers", they were all wearing armor to protect the vital parts of the body, and everyone was equipped with a shield, but in the face of the terrifying strength of the bed crossbow, the shield and armor were as vulnerable as paper paste. The sound of screams immediately resounded in the cavalry array, and many Western Xia soldiers and war horses were used to crossbow guns piercing their bodies and fell into the dust.

However, the cavalry knew that once the whole team rushed up, let alone turn back, even if it stopped, it would be immediately knocked down and trampled by the companions behind, so no matter what they encountered, they could only rush forward with all their might. Moreover, although the power of the Song army's bed crossbow is terrifying, the number is limited, and after each launch, it is necessary to reopen the crossbow string, which takes a lot of time, so the blow to the Western Xia army is very limited. It could not completely stop the charge of the Western Xia army.

As the distance between the two sides narrowed to two hundred steps, behind the wooden fence of the Song army, another 2,000 divine arm archers and 1,000 repeating crossbowmen began to fire crossbow arrows at the Western Xia army. The long-range attack on the Western Xia army also increased sharply by dozens of times.

Under the blow of the Song army's dense arrow rain, the casualties of the Western Xia army also increased sharply. Countless men and horses fell from arrows and lay dead on the battlefield. Blood and dust, trampled by the men and horses behind, showed a tragic scene. Before the 5,000 cavalry of the Western Xia army rushed to the front of the Song army, more than half of them suffered casualties.

Although in the process of attacking, the Western Xia cavalry also used bows and arrows to fight back like the Song army, but the arrows shot were far inferior to the Song army in terms of strength and density, and the Song army also had a wooden fence to cover, so the number of Song soldiers killed was only a few dozen.

And even if the Western Xia cavalry dodged the rain of arrows, it did not mean that they were lucky, and the bad luck just came a little later. Because the wooden fence that was waiting for them suddenly fell, revealing a row of horses, and the sharp spikes pointed diagonally forward, aimed at the Western Xia cavalry. The crossbowmen of the Song army had already collected their bows and crossbows, retreated backwards, and left the defensive position to the pikemen.

The cavalry of Western Xia hurriedly reined in their horses, but the distance was so close that many of the cavalry could not hold their feet at all, and as a result, they all hit the horse headlong and were pierced through the body by sharp spikes, even if they were lucky not to die, they would be pierced by the pikemen of the Song army with spears. The few cavalrymen who stopped their footsteps could not take a single step forward in the face of the Song army's rejected horses, and after taking two steps, they had to pull out their horses' heads and retreat. The crossbowmen of the Song army took the opportunity to chase after them with arrows, and shot many Western Xia troops.

The whole offensive was over in less than two quarters of an hour, and less than 1,000 of the 5,000 cavalry of the Western Xia army fled back. The Song army took the opportunity to erect the wooden fence again, and the archers, crossbowmen, and archers were immediately in place, and each regained its defensive position.

The first round of the Western Xia army's tentative Xing attack came to an end, Gao Shan could see it clearly behind the formation, and couldn't help frowning, although he didn't expect to break through the Song army's defense line in the first round of attack, but he didn't expect it to end like this, it seems that the Song army's defense line is far stronger than he expected. But at this point, it is too late to collect the troops, so I can only fight hard.

Although this was only a test of Xing's attack, Temujin and the Mongol generals on the other side of the Yellow River were stunned, and no one thought that the fortifications built by the Song army and the weapons used by the Song army would be so powerful. Although the combat effectiveness of the Western Xia army was not as good as that of the Mongol army, this offensive method of relying on cavalry shock was the same as that of the Mongol army. Temujin secretly compared in his heart, what would happen if it was the Mongol army that attacked this line of defense?

In the past, if you were facing this kind of strong defense line, you could use the superb cavalry and archery ability of the Mongolian soldiers to use bows and arrows as the main means of attack, because the Mongolian army was in rapid movement, and the defense line was stationary, so the two sides shot at each other, and the Mongolian army naturally took advantage of it, and did not have to fight hard with the enemy. But from just now, the range of the Song army's bow and crossbow is obviously much higher than that of the Western Xia army and the Mongolian army itself, and it is a bed crossbow set up in Tushan, which is simply a terrible monster, and can shoot a crossbow gun at such a long distance, if you don't see it with your own eyes, I'm afraid you won't believe it anyway.

Therefore, in this way, the advantage of the Mongolian army in cavalry and archery will also be greatly reduced, even if the Mongolian army is changed to attack the Song army's defense line, the result may not be much better than the Western Xia army.

In fact, in the face of such a tight defense line of the Song army, the best way is to feint in the middle and make a roundabout way from both sides. It's a pity that one side of the battlefield is the Yellow River, and on the other side, it is around to Dongcheng, and there are still fortifications built by the Song army, so it will not work, and you can only attack hard from the middle.

Moreover, Gao Shan also knew that if he could not destroy the Song army's rejection of horses by attacking hard from the middle, it would obviously be a waste of troops to use cavalry to attack and resist horses, and he could only use infantry to rush to destroy the Song army's rejection of horses before he could break through the Song army's defense line.

Therefore, Gao Shandu mobilized 30,000 infantry troops this time and launched a second attack on the Song army.

The 30,000-foot army lined up and advanced towards the Song army's defensive line. Although the movement was much smaller than a cavalry attack, after the whole team was deployed horizontally, the momentum and scale were much larger than the one. Moreover, the Western Xia army in the first few rows all raised shields to block arrows.

The Song army remained the same as before, and after the Western Xia army entered the firing range, the bed crossbow began to fire first.

Since this time the Western Xia army was all infantry troops, and the formation was much denser, the hit rate of the bed crossbow was much higher, and five or six of the ten crossbow guns would often hit. Moreover, the infantry army also advanced much slower than the cavalry, which also gave the bed crossbow the opportunity to fire multiple rounds.

Moreover, the shields of the Western Xia army basically did not have much protective effect on the ballistas, and the vast majority of the ballistas could penetrate the shield. Therefore, as the Western Xia army advanced, one soldier after another's body was pierced by the crossbow gun, and they fell to the ground screaming, and sometimes even a crossbow gun could shoot through the body of two or three Western Xia soldiers in succession. In the face of such a terrible weapon, the soldiers of Western Xia could only resign themselves to fate, and whoever shot should be unlucky.

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