The Xiao Cavalry is the best soldier, the strongest in combat effectiveness, and the most well-equipped men and horses in the horse army division. The whole army not only had 2,000 armored cavalry, but also was equipped with 2,000 repeating crossbows. With Yang Yan's order, the soldiers of the Song army urged the war horses together, with the armored cavalry in the center, and the light cavalry as the two wings, spreading horizontally, rushing down the embankment, killing the Western Xia army, the bow and the bow were fired together, and the first to greet the Western Xia army was a dense rain of arrows.

With the sound of sharp arrows breaking through the air, countless Western Xia troops were shot to the ground by the rain of arrows in the sky, and the entire riverbank was also screaming. Because the Western Xia army was unprepared, when the Song army's cavalry rushed into the crowd of the Western Xia army, they received little decent resistance, allowing the Song army to shoot arrows, stab with guns, slash with knives, slash horses, and kill and poke as much as they want. In the blink of an eye, countless people fell.

At this time, on the south bank of the Yellow River, the generals who had not yet crossed the river to Wei Ming Jizhong and Wuzang Anhuan, Wei Mu Yanping, Dong Mingzhao, and Wuqian Dage were all stunned, but there was nothing they could do.

Brother Wu said: "Ling Gong, let's cross the Yellow River quickly and support them." ”

Wei Ming Jizhong only sobered up a little at this time, smiled bitterly, and said: "It's useless, now we cross the Yellow River, and we will die in vain." The order went down, and all the horses stopped crossing the river. ”

In fact, there is no need for him to say, the other generals also understand that there are only three pontoon bridges on the Yellow River, and a river crossing can only send hundreds of people at most, and when they are in the river, there is almost no shelter, so crossing the river at this time not only can't help the people and horses on the other side, but can only give away their own lives. It's just that the Western Xia army on the other side is all his companions, how can he sit idly by?

Dong Ming summoned and said: "Ling Gong, then what should we do now, are we just here watching them die under the sword of the Song army?" ”

Wei Ming Jizhong took a deep breath and said, "Naturally not." He turned around, pointed ahead, and said, "Behind us, there is not still a Song army, now we will kill it, fight the Song army to the death, defeat them, and avenge the brothers on the other side." ”

The generals then woke up to the fact that now the Western Xia army on the north bank of the Yellow River is bound to be defeated, once the Song army on the north bank wins and kills the south bank, they will fall into the predicament of being attacked by the enemy on their backs, so only by defeating the Song army on the south bank can this battle have room to redeem the defeat.

At present, there are more than 50,000 Western Xia troops on the south bank of the Yellow River, including more than 20,000 cavalry troops, and 1,500 "iron harriers". The number of Song troops on the opposite side was never more than 40,000, and the cavalry army was only four or five thousand, even if the Song army fled again, the Western Xia army could catch up with the Song army. And the day is almost over, the Song army has not used the firearm of the last time, it seems that it has either not been brought, or can no longer be used, so the two sides will fight a decisive battle, and the Western Xia army still has a great chance of winning.

So all the generals promised in unison that they would fight to the death with the Song army. At this time, the Song army on the opposite side obviously expected that the Western Xia army would have this move, and at this time, they also lined up the formation with the scriptures and served in a strict formation.

Although he knew that the battle situation was similar to fighting after entering the Song army's best position, Wei Ming Jizhong obviously had no choice but to make a desperate bet, and immediately ordered to leave 3,000 men and horses to hold the pontoon bridge to prevent the Song army on the north bank from crossing the south bank of the Yellow River. Then ordered Dong Mingzhao and Wu Yi Da Ge to be the left and right wings, each with 10,000 horses, from the left and right sides of the Song army's flanks, Wei Mu Yanping led the "Iron Harrier" to attack the Song army head-on, behind the "Iron Harrier", followed by 3,000 cavalry, and did not hide Anhuan to lead the infantry army as the rear team.

Because the Song army had lined up the formation, Wei Ming Jizhong sent the strongest "Iron Harrier" of the Western Xia Army out of the field at the beginning, hoping to use the heavy armor and impact power of the "Iron Harrier" to attack the Song army's infantry formation in a good formation, and break through the gap for the men and horses advancing behind, so as to defeat the Song army in one fell swoop.

The sound of horses' hooves sounded like thunder, and the knights of the Western Xia army urged their horses, raised their weapons in their hands, rushed down the embankment, and killed the array of the Song army. Because everyone knew the importance of this battle, the fact that the friendly troops on the opposite side of the river were attacked by the Song army, but could not be rescued, also stimulated the fighting spirit in their hearts, and the brave and warlike spirit of Jingzong Li Yuanhao's era seemed to return to everyone, and at this time it was even more passionate and full of indomitable momentum.

And Yang Changpeng and Cao Xun had already commanded the Song army and set up the array. The cavalry was divided into two wings, and 5,000 heavily armored linen sword soldiers were lined up in front of the formation, and the blades pointed at the swarming Western Xia cavalry, shining under the reflection of the setting sun, emitting a snowy light, quietly waiting for the Western Xia army to approach.

The sound of hooves rose and fell rapidly, the two sides were still and moving, and the distance was constantly narrowing.

"Shoot the arrows."

With an order, just when the Western Xia army was still more than two hundred steps away from the Song army's array, countless feather arrows flew out of the Song army's array, bringing out a terrible whistling sound, and flew towards the Western Xia army.

After the improvement, the god arm bow is really extraordinary, the speed of firing arrows is almost the same as that of ordinary bows and arrows, but the range has been slightly reduced, the Song army in the formation of 2,000 god arm bows fired in turn, the Western Xia army did not get close to the Song army, and was immediately shot on the back of the horse.

The arrows pierced through the armor and into the flesh, and the soldiers who were hit by the arrows let out a scream, the horses let out a mournful roar, and the sound of the flesh reaching the ground rang out one after another. And in such a scene of ten thousand horses galloping, once an arrow falls to the ground, either they trip the knights behind one after another, or they are trampled into a pulp by the galloping war horses, mixed in the dirt, and do not distinguish each other.

However, almost all of the arrows hit the ground were ordinary cavalry, and the 1,500 "Iron Harriers" were almost undamaged because they were protected by heavy armor, and even if the knight was killed by an arrow, as long as the horse did not die, it could still be fixed on the horse's back and rush forward. Moreover, each war horse has two long blades fixed on both sides of the belly, which extend more than four feet from the horse's body, and even if the knight can no longer fight, he can still inflict damage on the enemy.

After three or four consecutive rounds of arrow fire, the losses of the Western Xia army were close to two cavalry cadres, but they also narrowed the distance between the two sides to about a hundred paces.

At this time, hundreds of black shadows flew out of the Song army's formation and fell into the formation of the Western Xia army. Before the Western Xia army could understand, the explosions of "boom, boom" continued to sound, and countless men and horses were injured by the iron horns that flew out with the explosion, and many war horses were startled by the huge roar, and threw the knight off their backs and galloped wildly. And this time, even the "Iron Harrier" was not spared, dozens of war horses fell to the ground in fright, and the fallen men and horses tripped over many of their companions behind, and lost more than 200 horses at once.

Unexpectedly, before he could make contact with the Song army, he caused such a large casualty, and Wei Ming Jizhong, who was watching the battle on the embankment, couldn't help but feel a burst of heart, these are all elite people in the Western Xia Kingdom, so they died in battle in this way. However, Wei Ming Jizhong was also comforting himself in his heart, no matter what, now that the cavalry rushed to the front of the Song army, the Song army would soon taste the taste of being trampled by the impact of the "Iron Harrier". Therefore, Wei Ming Jizhong immediately went down to the present day, and let Wuzang Anhuan lead the infantry army to start attacking, just waiting for the "Iron Harrier" to impulse the Song army's position, and immediately rushed up to give the Song army a second wave of blows.

At this moment, I saw that the Chinese army of the Song army suddenly changed its formation, and as soon as the door flag was closed, countless monsters with strange shapes and huge bodies rushed out. With a strange cry of "Ang, Ang", the "Iron Harrier" who met the Western Xia army rushed up.

"This ...... What kind of monster is this? Wei Ming Jizhong couldn't help but shout, "How can there be such a monster in the Song army?" ”

This is exactly the Song army's 300 elephant army. As early as when Yang Yan entered Sichuan, he had long heard that the Western Xia Army also had an armored cavalry army similar to the "Tiefutu", called the "Iron Harrier", the thickness of the iron armor was better than the "Tiefutu", so he specially brought the 300 elephant army, just to deal with the "Iron Harrier". Sure enough, in this battle, it came in handy.

Although Wei Ming Jizhong did not know what kind of army the Song army used, the Song army immediately used him to meet the "Iron Harrier", so naturally he could not be taken lightly, and from the perspective of the size of the individual soldiers, he knew that this army was definitely not easy to deal with. But now that the "Iron Harrier" has been released, it is too late to stop, so he can only resign himself to fate.

In fact, at this time, the Western Xia army didn't have time to think about it at all, and it was too late to even feel terrifying, and the few "iron harriers" who rushed to the front collided with the elephant army headlong with a warp.

No matter how strong the impact of the war horse is, no matter how big the body is, it can't be compared with the elephant, not to mention that the elephant is also heavily armoured, and not only the front end also has a sharp blade, and even the sharp blade is more than three feet long on both sides of the elephant's body, so as long as it is the "iron harrier" that collides with the elephant, it will either be killed by the sharp blade through the heavy armor, or it will be shocked and made to retreat several steps again and again, and cut to the ground.

Burdened by the heavy armor on his body, as long as he is an "iron harrier" who has fallen to the ground, without the help of miscellaneous people, even people and horses can no longer stand up. He could only watch as the elephant's giant paws trampled over his body, or he just waited for the soldiers who followed the elephant to come up and end his life.

The elephant army, which once gave the "Tiefutu" of the Jin Kingdom a headache on the battlefield of Song and Jin, made the "Iron Harrier" of Western Xia suffer a lot this time. This is the first time that the "Iron Harrier" has encountered an opponent who can face up to him, and in the face of the opponent's huge body and the power to press the sex, the impact power that the "Iron Harrier" used to be proud of is not worth mentioning, and the heavy armor restricts the speed and flexibility of the war horse, so it can be said that in the face of the elephant army, the "Iron Harrier" has almost no advantage at all, and can only be beaten to the ground by the elephant army.

However, with their strong strength, huge size, and infantry protection on both sides, the elephants can rampage through the enemy formation, completely using a very unreasonable way of fighting. It's like a huge grinding disc, ruthlessly running over the battlefield, only to kill the "Iron Harrier" people on their backs and lose everything. In less than a quarter of an hour, the front team of the "Iron Harrier" was dashed by the elephant army.

In the face of such a monster, the remaining "Iron Harriers" still have fighting spirit, and even the main general Wei Mu Yanping lost the courage to fight again, and together with the soldiers, they pulled out their horses' heads and fled in all directions. The elephant army lined up in a neat queue, and under the cover of the infantry, followed the Western Xia infantry army that followed behind.

The Western Xia army was originally based on the cavalry army, and the infantry army was only responsible for some auxiliary combat work on the battlefield, and its combat effectiveness was not strong, and even the "Iron Harrier" was not defeated by the monsters of the Song army, not to mention that they dared to engage in battle. Therefore, as soon as the two armies came into contact, the Western Xia army was defeated by the Song army, and they all turned their heads and fled.

In fact, although the "Iron Harrier" was defeated, but the elephant army of the Song army was only 300 after all, and the subsequent Xixia infantry army had nearly 30,000, if it fought to the death, it was not that there was no chance, but the Western Xia army had not fought any decent big battles for decades, although it still retained a bit of the martial spirit of the party, but it lacked the experience of dealing with various war situations, and it lacked the will to persist in the unfavorable situation, just with the courage of blood and blood for a while, if it was won, it was natural that everyone was brave and competed for the first; As soon as they are frustrated, they will immediately lose their morale.

And now it is the first time to fight with the elephant army, and I don't even know what the name of this monster used by the Song army is, I was afraid of seeing such a huge thing, and I saw that the "Iron Harrier" was defeated, and I was immediately frightened by the elephant, and I only felt that I could not win with the original, and immediately had no fighting spirit, and there was no fighting spirit, and the people and horses were immediately defeated.

Most of the soldiers in the Song army participated in the battle of Song and Jin two years ago, although they are not experienced in a hundred battles, but they do have considerable combat experience, and most of them have fought a lot of tough battles and vicious battles, so when this battle is fought until now, the difference between the two armies is immediately visible.

Although Yang Changpeng had heard that Yang Yan had used elephants to fight and defeated the Jin Army's "Tiefutu", after all, he had not seen it with his own eyes, and the strength of the target army was still a little doubtful. Hurriedly ordered Cao Xun to lead the Chinese army to rush up.

A great victory for the Song army in the middle was imminent, and on both flanks, although the Song army did not have such an overwhelming advantage as the Xiang army, the situation was also good. Facing the heavy armor and hemp sword formation laid by the Song army, the cavalry of the Western Xia army was like hitting a copper wall and iron wall, after thousands of snow-bright broadswords were chopped down together, even people and horses were cut by the Song army, and they continued to fall. In the blink of an eye, thousands of cavalry troops were killed.

And the cavalry of the Song army also began to attack from both flanks. The morale of the Western Xia cavalry army, which had been severely damaged in front of the heavily armored hemp sword formation, was exhausted, and at this time, they also saw that the middle route army with the "Iron Harrier" was defeated by the Song army, so the courage to fight there again was immediately defeated. The cavalry on both wings took the opportunity to pursue, only to kill the corpses of the Western Xia army all over the field.

When Yang Changpeng saw it, he knew that the battle situation was decided, and immediately ordered the drum to be beaten, and ordered the whole army to attack and defeat the Western Xia army in one go.