The 18th Battalion of Infantry led by Wu Songdu, with the phalanx as a unit, shouted "Kill the enemy!" in a tight sound of military drums! Fight the enemy! When the slogan slammed into the left flank of the Khitan coalition battalion.

The brigade of the brigade of the collision commander Lang and the negative support army have been driven by the garrison, and the hedgehogs gathered together in chaos, staring blankly at the enemy army under the moonlight, shouting slogans like thunder, like a wall. Everyone was dumbfounded, and the arm that got the sword, shield, bow and arrow trembled unconsciously. Most of them were on the battlefield for the first time and must have been scared!

In fact, like them, most of the 18th battalion of Xinfu soldiers who are advancing in formation are also recruits who are entering the battle for the first time. But it is possible to form a battle formation of more than 100 soldiers with more than 100 stubborn and stubborn soldiers, and the establishment of the new government army is reasonable, and it also has a large number of professional officers who are considered to be the best in this era, as well as "non-commissioned officers" (miscellaneous military ministers) who have been on the battlefield - officers are assigned to the battalion level, and non-commissioned officers are assigned to the level (equivalent to the squad). Now the first level is pressed against the first level, and it is very good to twist the troops into a ball, shouting slogans, and marching in unison.

Moreover, the previous "water breaking performance" and the heavy reward standard of exchanging a thief's head for 100 acres of land have made these soldiers who have just entered the battlefield full of courage...... All of them know that only by winning can they survive and become the landlord class!

On the party side, the situation is very bad. The garrisons were just warriors selected from the party tribes, and although they were good at martial arts, they were not trained as officers, and most of them did not even know how to control a fire.

When the Song army was advancing like a wall, the sound of discussion gradually sounded among the party troops, and it was mixed with the sound of wailing.

"Song Dog, Song Dog is up!"

"My God, Song Dog's soldiers are so strict!"

"Didn't you say that Song Gou's soldiers were weak and vulnerable? This is the vulnerable Song Army? ”

"It's all killed in front of Xingqing Mansion, how can it be vulnerable?"

"Song Dog is strong, strong! We can't go back! ”

"When I crossed the Yellow River, I knew that I couldn't go back this time. So many fields and villages on the east bank of the Yellow River are gone, even the trees have been cut down, and the fishing boats on the Yellow River are gone......"

"Is this going to abandon Hedong and Song Dog to row the river and rule?"

"I'm afraid, I'm afraid I'm going to ......"

"No noise! No noise! Violators will be killed! ”

"Array! Bow and arrow preparation ......"

The generals of the garrison who came from the party and the country finally reacted and loudly reprimanded to maintain order. However, order can be maintained, but the morale of those who are forced to be cannon fodder and the morale of the rebels and the commanders cannot be boosted.

Because Western Xia was not their country in the first place! Most of their "outsiders" are still Han Chinese. On the Western Xia side, it was also a third- and fourth-class pariah. Even if they are used to fill the army, there is no good armor and good weapons for them to use. It's nothing more than a cloth coat, a blunt knife, a wooden shield, a wooden gun, plus an inferior bow and arrow, just barely being cannon fodder.

However, such a configuration was also enough against the previous Song army. Because the Song army didn't fight much hand-to-hand, there were not many times when they took the initiative to attack. Fighting is nothing more than forming a formation and releasing arrows, using the flesh and blood of the negative soldiers and the flesh and blood of the Linglang to consume the strength of the Song army's crossbowmen, which is also a good way to play.

Tonight, the party generals in charge of the command will still follow this old method. When the Song army marched in formation, they began to force the soldiers and the bells to march in rows behind the defensive line composed of wooden fences and side signs and sand, and prepared to meet the enemy.

The first to be put on the bowstring was a rocket wrapped in sackcloth and soaked in grease, and the arrows had been removed. Before launching, a soldier in charge of ignition ignites all the rockets with torches. Then it shot out in a row, and landed on the sand in a clear layer. Because there were no arrows, a considerable part of the rockets did not plunge into the sand, but fell to the ground, and the flames were not extinguished, still emitting a sparkling light. This marks the maximum range of the bow and arrow, which is not very far, but only sixty or seventy paces.

If it was daytime, this range would not be able to threaten the Song army with the Divine Arm Bow (in fact, the Xinfu soldiers did not have the Divine Arm Bow), but it was night...... Dozens of steps away, it is dark and pressed, and it is not a problem to see clearly, and all short ranges are not a problem.

The leading officers at all levels of the party members were holding a cold sweat in their palms at this time, and they looked at the strict brigade of the Song army, which gradually approached their own range.

The infantry of the Song people was too many and too dense, so many that it could form a human wall. With such a high density, aren't you afraid of being shot down by arrows piece by piece? By the way, they must be hoplites! They're all in armor, right?

It's painful to fight with such an enemy!

Something even more painful has happened! Song Jun didn't stop in front of the sporadic fire, but did not hesitate to step into the "forbidden area" marked by the rockets of Ling Lang and the negative support army!

Are they crazy?

Forgot to bring a bow and arrows?

All the soldiers of the Western Xia army were stunned, and even forgot to shoot the arrow for a while, until the general who led the garrison reacted and gave a loud order. I heard a clanging bowstring sound in the air, and countless feather arrows burst out, rushing straight towards the Song army's incoming brigade!

Because Wu Song had confirmed that the Western Thieves did not dare to go out of the camp to fight, he adjusted the queue before the brigade pounced forward.

Eighteen battalions were divided into three columns, each of which was six battalions side by side. However, the teams under each battalion were adjusted, and the first six battalions were composed of sword and shield men, the six battalions of the second column were made up of archers, and the third column was pikemen.

Therefore, the first to step into the bow and arrow strike range of the Western Xia army was 18 sword and shield teams, a total of 2,880 sword and shield soldiers, each team was a separate sword and shield array, discharging a dense rectangular formation of ten by sixteen, braving the sharp arrows that rained down. The sword and shield bearers who walked in the front row of the line covered themselves with shields against arrows flying from the front. The sword and shield bearers in the eleven rows behind raised the round shields in their hands above their heads to block the feathered arrows falling from the sky. At first glance, it looks like a Roman shield. However, the Song army used a small round shield, and following the route of the small shield long sword (knife), it could only cover the vital points, and it was impossible to be "immune" to the bow and arrow. But they all wore a full set of armor, plus shields to cover the vital points, and they could basically ignore the bow and arrow.

Just when the 18 sword and shield teams rushed against the arrows shot down like the rain of Western thieves, the 18 bow teams followed by the sword and shield team all formed four horizontal formations, followed the sword and shield teams in front, and stepped into the range of the bows and arrows of the Western Xia army. He then stopped his advance and began to throw feathered arrows at the camp of the Western Xia army. Last, followed by 18 pikemen, who continued in four columns through the gap between the 18 archers.

The activities of the archers and pikemen of the Song army, no one on the side of the western thieves noticed, even the waves of arrows falling from the sky, because of the lack of accuracy, people ignored (the archers of the Song army could not see the target at all), and everyone's attention was attracted by the 18 approaching, hazy phalanxes.

Although it was not clear what kind of warriors the phalanx in the haze was made of, everyone knew that they were here for hand-to-hand combat!

There are 18 phalanxes of hand-to-hand combat! How many strong men must want to play white knives in and red knives out? Not to mention the negative guards and crashing commanders who have never fought much, even the soldiers of the garrison who have been on the battlefield are also frightened - the 18 hand-to-hand combat phalanxes look very large, how can there be two or three thousand people, right? And it's useless to shoot arrows over, most of them are batch iron armor!

I saw two or three thousand armor-clad sword and shield soldiers or pikemen at once! Can you not be afraid? You must know that on the Western Xia side, because the battle line is too long, thirty miles long, and the total strength is only 80,000 people, so the average strength is still relatively weak in each mile - after deducting the six direct troops and iron harriers who guard Qianshun, as well as some of the guarding supplies, horses and the other three sides of the camp. The ones that were used by Qianshun for the frontal thirty-mile defense line were 5,000 garrisons, 6,000 bells and less than 30,000 negative troops, a total of 40,000 people. On average, there were more than 1,300 people on the defense line for one mile.

The front of the 18th battalion commanded by Wu Song was less than three miles. That is to say, on this section of the front, there are only about 4,000 Western Xia soldiers who resist the 18 Song army battle battalions, and most of them are still not much combat effectiveness of the Ling Lang and the negative support soldiers, how can they withstand the impact of two or three thousand Song army soldiers!?

Seeing that the black pressure of the Song army was pressed up, the commander who was in charge of commanding and defending several Western Xia sent people to ask for help from the Chinese army where Qianshun was, and at the same time shouted the order and shot an unknown number of sharp arrows, and now all of them had sore arms and smashed Ling Lang and the negative soldiers forward with money knives and spears - no matter what, the Song army could not be allowed to knock down the fence and the chest wall!

Wooden spears protruded from behind the sparse wooden fence and rested on the soft sand, and some archers were still firing feathered arrows desperately. The officers and men of the garrison who came from the party and the country were already in a horizontal line to supervise the battle. Everyone has a sword and spear in their hands, and leather armor in their bodies!

I don't know how long it took, but the sword and shield phalanx that rushed to the front had slammed into the fence, the breastwork, and the few wooden guns.

"Kill! Kill ......"

The Song soldiers shouted wildly, using all their strength, first slamming into it, and then pushing hard. It's not one person pushing, it's a group of people working together. If the Western Xia military camp had built a strong camp wall, such a collision and pushing might not be of much use.

However, the hastily built fences and camp walls were too thin, and when they were bumped, pushed, and squeezed, they fell inward one after another!