The battlefield of Qinwangchuan is an open land with a flat river. The brigade of the Song army continued to drive out of the camp and spread out opposite the Western Xia army. The whole process of arranging the formation was carried out very quickly and in a very orderly manner. The Song army was deployed in units, and each division was in a formation, covering each other and advancing alternately. Behind it, there is a tactical support for the camp with a divine arm bow.

The so-called Divine Arm Bow is actually a heavy tension crossbow with a maximum range of up to an astonishing 300 steps! And it can pierce the armor - the distance of piercing the armor is of course not as far as 300 steps, depending on the quality of the armor, it is about a dozen steps to have lethality.

After the various units arrived at the positions, they lined up in battalions to meet the enemy in phalanxes of hundreds of people. Contrary to what later generations imagined, the Song army did not stand to meet the enemy after setting up the phalanx. Instead, they meet the enemy in a kneeling position!

That is, "with a spear in front, you cannot sit up; The second strongest bow, the second strongest bow, the second god arm bow, kneel to the knees. If the enemy fights within 150 steps or 100 steps, the divine arm will strike first, and the enemy will reach 70 steps, and the strong bow will be fired concurrently......"

In other words, the tactics of the authentic Song army are completely different from those of the Sanzhi Forbidden Army and the Xinfu soldiers. The warriors of the Three Straight Army are completely the standard of the elite infantry of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties. Murong Wangwu and Zhao Zhongge are both Han nobles of the Liao State, and they inherited the tactics of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, so the warrior infantry is required to be "equipped for three battles", and at the same time can undertake the tasks of swords, shields, bows and arrows, and pikemen.

In fact, it is also the route of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, which pays more attention to attack and hand-to-hand combat, which is about the level of the second-class elite soldiers or cannon fodder soldiers of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties - it depends on the training and equipment of the Xinfu soldiers.

As for the infantry of the Song army at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, it paid too much attention to the bow and crossbow and neglected hand-to-hand combat, so the ability to attack was very weak.

A capital or team, in the absence of vacancies, that is, a dozen or twenty pikemen or sword and shield men, will not survive more than thirty who can fight hand-to-hand. The rest were all archers and crossbowmen, with a third of the crossbowmen usually using the Divine Arm Bow and the rest being strong and sub-strong bows - that is, harder or softer bows. The former can pierce armor, while the latter can provide more intensive firepower.

On the issue of how to use the bow and crossbow, Song Jun really used his brains!

Therefore, in the battle between the Northern Song Dynasty army and the enemy, the scene of hand-to-hand combat between the men who are still boiling with blood is rarely seen. The Song army liked to shoot arrows, while their enemies were usually afraid of the Song army's bows and crossbows, and did not dare to launch a frontal attack in the face of the "arrow array". The Khitans walked around when they saw the Song army's arrow array, and the most powerful iron harriers of the party often could not break through the Song army's arrow array, which was supported by only a few spears......

In today's Battle of Qinwangchuan, the situation is similar. The Song army faced the enemy with an array of arrows, while the western thieves responded with side cards and archers.

Both sides seem to have made up their minds to decide the winner with bows and arrows.

After the two sides set up their formations, uh, first confronted each other.

Big eyes are waiting for small eyes, all waiting for the other party to attack first!

Waiting, waiting, waiting under the sun for a long time, Gao Yongnian finally couldn't hold his breath first.

"Drums! The whole team pressed up, and approached the western thief one hundred and fifty steps! ”

"Whoa!"

With a rapid drum beat, the soldiers of the Song Army, who were kneeling and sitting, all stood up in the urging of the team and the team. Then start moving slowly, stopping after a few steps. This is to keep the formation tight - like the Xinfu soldiers or the Imperial Horse Cavalry, the ability to maintain the formation in the continuous advance is not available in the traditional Song army.

Because they are not soldiers who eat and live together all day long, but are half-peasants and half-soldiers, border archers or professional soldiers who live at home. The time for intensive training is actually very limited, so most of the training is related to martial arts, which is to be completed consciously and voluntarily, and there are not enough excellent grassroots officers and non-commissioned officers to practice formations and tactics.

Due to the inability to maintain a formation and the fact that there were too few hand-to-hand combatants, the Song army's "arrow array" was not able to charge, and could only approach the opponent at a slow pace.

Of course, the Song army was not completely incapable of charging into battle. It's just that ordinary infantry is not very capable of getting into battle, but relying on selected strikers to attack.

Gao Yu's 500 black-armored front cavalry selected from the Hedong Army is such an elite.

In front of the Qin Wangchuan Army, Gao Yongnian and the Seed Master did not form a "Selection" unit - such a "Selection" unit looked a bit like the tooth soldiers of the Tang Dynasty of the Five Dynasties! It's still a bit of a taboo. Therefore, although the generals of the Western Army have raised utility soldiers who charge into battle, they are not very effective, and they will not form a team for training in peacetime. It is only in wartime that they are used in a concentrated manner as needed.

Therefore, although the individual abilities of these utilities are outstanding, the ability to fight in a team is not strong, otherwise the Western Army in history would not have been beaten by the desperate Liao soldiers.

On today's battlefield, Gao Yongnian and Seed Master Ji selected 1,000 utility soldiers from the army to serve as the front, and the younger brother of Seed Master Ji was led by the seed master. They were not armoured cavalry, but heavy infantry, all heavily armoured, and used spears or swords and shields to kill enemies.

Now these thousand utilities are still on standby near Gao Yongnian and the Chinese army of the Seed Master, and in order to save physical strength, they are not stubborn.

They had to wait until the "arrow array" had almost exhausted the enemy's morale before launching a surprise attack.

……

By the thunderous sound of war drums, it suddenly disappeared from the sky above Qin Wangchuan. Instead, there was a crisp bang.

After the sound of the bangzi sounded, it was the sound of the crossbow strings that were connected together! Countless divine arm bows shot arrowheads, flying rapidly over the side cards of the Western Xia army, and rushed straight to the Western Xia troops one hundred and fifty steps away.

The bearers standing in the front row seemed to know that they were going to be shot by crossbow arrows, and they all raised their wooden shields. However, because the cover was not strong enough, he was shot down a lot. The sound of screams suddenly sounded in the formation of the Western Xia army, but it was quickly covered by the sound of the horn.

The horn was a signal for the Western Xia army to advance.

The party officer in charge of pressing the formation immediately urged loudly, forcing the reluctant support soldiers to rush forward one after another. Today, these cannon fodders also carry bows and arrows, shields and swords.

However, their bows and arrows could not reach the target 150 steps away, and they had to advance dozens of steps away from the Song army's arrow array before they could counterattack.

And as they advance, the already scattered formation will become more chaotic, making it difficult for the wooden shield and the side cards (of course, the side cards have to be carried forward together) to cover them, and casualties will inevitably increase.

If they don't push forward, then a volley of Divine Arm Bows will quickly reduce their already low morale......

If it is directly thrown into the cavalry impact, because the range of the Divine Arm Bow is too long, and the armor-piercing ability is too strong. Before the Iron Harrier of the Party approached, it was enough to fire four or five times, and at least two or more rounds of bow and arrow strikes at the same time. Under this dense rain of arrows, even the iron harrier was shot into an iron hedgehog. Even if they could carry it, there would be no more Yu Yong to break through the defenses of the Song army's spearmen.

This is probably the most troublesome place for the enemy of the Song army's bow and crossbow array.

And the Western Xia, who had been fighting with the Song army for so many years, also figured out a way to deal with the arrow array - that is, to fight cannon fodder! Use the "extra-clan soldiers" such as the Negative Support Soldier or the Collision Linglang to consume the strength of the Song Army's archers, and then put them into the elite charge.

This is also the reason why elites such as the Iron Harrier and the garrison should be equipped with three times the amount of their own negative support army - they are not simply baggage soldiers, but also cannon fodder that consumes the strength of the Song army's archers.

In the Battle of Tongwan, the crushing defeat of the Chago army was actually related to the fact that the negative army was unable to resist the surprise attack of pikemen, fierce soldiers and royal horse direct cavalry.

However, in the battle of Qin Wangchuan, Chage's cannon fodder tactics were still somewhat useful, at least his negative soldiers could hold out in the rain of arrows of the Song army for a while, and at the same time, they could also counterattack with the bows and arrows of the attached army. It's just that the crossbowmen and gunners, sword and shield bearers of the Song army are all wearing strong armor, and how much damage can the bows and arrows of the Western Xia army do to them?

"Pick the front and put on the armor!"

Gao Yongnian ordered loudly. At the same time, he had already stood up from his stirrup, stretching his neck to look at the weak links on the front of the Western Xia army.

Using the Strike Strike is also a science!

The assaults are all short and violent! Because the western thieves will send out cavalry for counter-assault...... Therefore, it must be accepted when it is good. So it's time to choose a good place to start!

Just out of the corner of Gao Yongnian's eyes, he suddenly swept into the distant sky, and the air was filled with smoke and dust!

This is......

Gao Yongnian looked at it fixedly, and was stunned for a moment.

Is this the reinforcements of the Western Thieves approaching?

"Captain, the brothers have all finished putting on their armor," the seed master asked Gao Yongnian at this time, "Where should you charge from?" ”

"Uncle Yi, look over there!" Gao Yongnian raised his hand and pointed to the northern sky.

"That's ......" The seed master was also stunned, "The western thief actually has reinforcements!" And no less! ”

Gao Yongnian nodded: "I'm afraid there are tens of thousands of people!" ”

"What should I do?" The planter asked.

"I'm scared!" Gao Yongnian smiled, "The western thief is so elite, Qin Wangchuan's side is complete, and any more will be a rabble." Unless they really don't care about Ling Xia anymore, maybe they can make up some people. But even if they all come, why don't we just retreat to the camp? ”

As he spoke, Gao Yongnian withdrew his gaze, and then went all the way to a corner of the Western Xia military array, "That's it...... Kill for a while and retreat, don't delay too much! ”

"Good!"

At the same time, Brother Cha was also looking back, looking at the smoke and dust in the sky, and said to Xiao Heda with a smile: "Can you arrive in the evening?" We have to calculate the time and give Song Gou a hard time! ”

Xiao Heda smiled: "Just leave it to the last general!" Custody and killing Song Dog was caught off guard! ”