Dingchuan walled wall is one zhang two feet high, the radius is less than a thousand steps, except for the lower part of the walled wall that has been abandoned for a long time was once the rammed earth base stone when it was first built, the entire upper part is a few days ago Weizhou people came to build in a hurry, and the rammed earth plywood has not yet had time to dismantle.

The three thousand Song troops led by Ge Huaimin were stationed in Dingchuan Village, and in the middle of the night, the sentry sent by Ge Huaimin reported that the vanguard of the Xia army was about to arrive, and Ge Huaimin had already prepared, he ordered the soldiers to kick three meals of dry food into their arms, and each person brought a large pot of water by his side, because he knew that once the enemy began to attack, there was not even a chance to eat and drink, so it was better to prepare early.

The width of the wall was only three feet, and the battlements did not have time to be repaired, but it was not difficult for Ge Huaimin, who ordered the sharp corners under the shield to be inserted into the rammed earth to serve as the battlements, and the soldiers hid behind the shields to defend; At the gate of the wall, Ge Huaimin ordered people to fill the vehicles with earth and stones, and the layers of high blocked the gate of the walled gate.

When he ordered the gate to be blocked, he clearly saw that the soldiers were a little hesitant, because the gate was blocked, and the way for his 3,000 people was also cut off, and the soldiers understood this, but Ge Huaimin gave a strict order, and no one dared to disobey.

In the morning light, the eastern horizon shows a touch of gold, thousands of rays of light erupt out and sprinkle to the earth, the three thousand Song soldiers who are waiting with bated breath on the wall of Dingchuan Zhai are like crossing a layer of golden light, on the slope of the north, the dense Xixia cavalry rushes in the form of a straggler formation, the strange screams, shouts, and horses' hooves fill the ear drums, and the scimitars of the Xixia cavalry are dazzling and dazzling in the sun, and the momentum is terrifying.

The enemy approached quickly, the small hillside was not steep, and the slope in the north was particularly gentle, which was why the Western Xia army chose to charge on horseback; Such a slope has little effect on the speed of the horses, just rush to the wall, into the dead corner of the arrows, the cavalry's own grabbing rope will be useful, not only can build a low wall to climb at night, but also can use the sharp hook to pull the Song army down the city.

Yuan Dezhong, who commanded the battle, was originally worried that the hillside would be full of horse pits, and he would see a series of people turning on their backs, but the result was that there was no obstacle to Pingchuan, and it seemed that the Song army did not set up any obstacles on the hillside at all.

Ge Huaimin pressed his sword to the top of the wall, looking at the surging enemy soldiers in front of him with expressionless faces, just like the habit he had developed in countless battles, Ge Huaimin lightly adjusted his armor, and his powerful hand slowly stretched out behind his back and pulled out an iron arm bow; The guard standing on the side holding a quiver handed over a carved iron-headed arrow, Ge Huaimin took the arrow, shook his wrist and slowly put on the bowstring.

Every ten steps of the enemy's advance, the bowstring in Ge Huaimin's hand was tightened, and when the Western Xia cavalry rushed up the hill to within 100 steps of the wall, Ge Huaimin's bowstring had been pulled like a full moon, and the bowstring ate strongly, making a slight creaking sound.

"Shoot the arrows!" As soon as the words came out, the arrow in Ge Huaimin's hand drew a perfect curve like a meteor, and the arrow shot by the powerful iron arm bow was terrifying, penetrating the soldier and the horse, and rolling down the hillside.

For a while, bows and arrows poked out from behind the shields, and the arrows poured down on the hillside like rain, and most of the arrows missed, but there were still seventy or eighty cavalrymen who fell from their horses with arrows and rolled down the hillside in blood.

"Shoot the arrows!" Someone shouted hoarsely.

After shooting the arrows, the soldiers of the first row of the Song army quickly retreated, and the soldiers in the second row of arrows leaned out to carry out the second round of attacks, and then the cycle continued, and the Song army had already shot seven or eight rounds of arrows in a few breaths.

Although the accuracy was not high, although the northern wall could only accommodate more than 700 archers, and although the Song soldiers did not aim at all, such a carpet-like overwhelming arrow still caused a lot of casualties to the Western Xia cavalry who entered within a hundred paces; After a few rounds, more than 300 riders had fallen under the rain of arrows, and the hillside was densely packed with arrows, and the whole hillside looked like a big porcupine crawling there.

The Western Xia cavalry that entered the firing range suffered heavy casualties, but the cavalry behind rushed up fearlessly under the supervision of Yuan Dezhong, and wanted to take advantage of the gap between the Song army's archery to rush to the dead corner of the wall, but the Song army did not care about the head at all and blindly poured the arrows on the hillside.

There are more than 600 people in the first echelon of 1,000 cavalry or rushed up the hillside, and then more than 20 steps forward into the dead corner under the wall, but suddenly the dust was heavy, and the more than 600 horsemen who rushed up the hillside suddenly found that there was a huge trench in front of them, but unfortunately the momentum was in a hurry and could not restrain the horses, so they heard the screams of the earth and the neighing of the horses accompanied by smoke and dust, and more than 100 people rushed directly into the pit, and the remaining soldiers quickly turned their horses' heads and ran down, and were knocked down by the Song army more than 100 along the way.

After going back and forth, there were only 500 left in 1,000 soldiers, and Yuan Dezhong scolded angrily: "Turn around and rush up, those who retreat will not be killed." ”

One of the cavalry soldiers who rushed back shouted: "There is a moat, damn it, it is wide and deep, and it can't be crossed at all, and many brothers have fallen." ”

Yuan Dezhong was a little confused, this small Dingchuan village also has a moat? That's.

But this is the case, there is indeed a moat on the northern slope, but there is not a drop of water in this moat, and it is not a specially dug moat, but just a deep pit dug by the people when they took soil to build the wall a few days ago.

Ge Huaimin saw that these pits were large and deep and felt that they could be used, so he ordered all the people to take soil on the northern slope, dig and connect the deep pits for more than one person, and then threw some thorns and spikes and other things inside to become a barrier; In fact, these big pits are only found on the north slope, not on the other three sides, but the enemy is coming from the north, and the northern slope is the most gentle and conducive to impact, and the fool will also know that it is better to charge from the north slope, which just comes in handy.

Ge Huaimin laughed loudly, watching the hundreds of Western Xia cavalry who fell into the pit struggling, aiming and shooting a high-ranking man with his hands and shouting, "Send them to see Lord Yama." ”

This time it was not a targetless shooting, the Song army on the wall of the wall regarded the Xia Jun in the pit as a live target, and one by one they took time to aim and launch, and shot and killed all the desperate more than 100 people, but in this way, the trench also lost its effect, and hundreds of horse corpses and human corpses have filled in several deep pits, and you can come by stepping on the corpses, but Ge Huaimin doesn't care, it is worth killing more than 100 thieves in the pit.

Yuan Dezhong's face turned pale after understanding all this, he didn't dare to look back at the back, he knew that there must be a pair of angry eyes staring at him, and more than a dozen pairs of gloating eyes staring at him; It's too careless, it's just too careless, I thought that the small Dingchuan Village must not have many Song troops to guard, even if it encounters resistance, there will be no such big losses, but I didn't expect the firepower of Dingchuan Village to be so fierce, obviously there are at least a thousand Song troops inside.

"General Yuan, what should I do?" The faceless subordinates hurriedly came to ask for instructions, and the four thousand cavalry were shot and killed by five hundred, how to fight this battle.

But Yuan Dezhong knew that he couldn't turn back, unless he took this village today, otherwise he would be finished, "immediately ordered five hundred cavalry ironclad shield army to attack, the formation scattered as far as possible, to induce the Song army to release arrows, the enemy army is nothing more than bows and arrows, Lao Tzu does not believe that the bows and arrows in this small Dingchuan village are inexhaustible, I estimate that after ten rounds at most, the Song army will inevitably have no arrows." ”

"The general has a good plan, and his subordinates will immediately give orders." The retinue immediately went to give the order, and after a while, five hundred cavalrymen focused on their armor, and even the horses put on their head armor and rushed up again.

The Song army was really fooled, regardless of the rain of arrows poured down, but this time because the formation was too scattered, and there were armor and shields to cover it, after a few rounds of shooting, only more than 20 horsemen were hit, and the bow and arrow were consumed a lot.

Ge Huaimin saw the enemy's intentions and ordered: "Shoot its head, face, hands and feet, or horses' legs, there is no heavy helmet to cover it." ”

The Song army aimed according to the words, although the accuracy was not good, but after the deliberate action was quite effective, after leaving seventy or eighty corpses, the ironclad cavalry could not withstand too much attrition, and had to retreat again.

But after several tosses, the arrows of the Song army were gradually exhausted, and seeing that the feathered arrows of the Song army were becoming more and more sparse, Yuan Dezhong saw the dawn of victory.

"Sons, the time has come; Listen to my order to attack the whole army, the ironclad cavalry is in the lead, and the rest follow in a straggler formation, this time they are not allowed to retreat, and those who violate it will be killed immediately. ”

The remaining more than 3,000 soldiers and horses swarmed up, and the Song army had to pour out all the remaining arrows again, but the sparse arrows could not stop the Xia army's advance, and after paying the price of more than 100 cavalry casualties, the cavalry finally attacked under the wall.

As soon as they arrived at the wall, they did not wait for the general to give an order, the Xixia soldiers consciously took out the hook rope from their arms one by one and threw it up, hooked what they dragged down hard, the place on the wall was too narrow, they could always hook something, hundreds of long ropes rose one after another, the Song soldiers under the hook were cut into several pieces before they landed, the flesh and blood were splashed everywhere, the screams were endless, and more than 200 people of the Song army died under the hook for a while, and the disadvantages of the wall was not high or wide finally brought disaster to the Song army.