Since the day of its birth, the tactics of the Mongol army have been studied by the vast number of military strategists, who have pondered why they can defeat powerful opponents every time. ** In terms of strength, the cavalry of the Mongol army could not defeat the European heavy armored cavalry one-on-one at any time, and the spears and heavy swords of the European heavy armored cavalry were far more lethal than the sabers, spears or maces in the hands of the Mongolian cavalry, and the European horses were far taller than the Mongolian horses, but they were difficult to defeat the Mongol army. After years of contention, not to mention anything else, only in terms of strategy and tactics, it is far inferior to the European cavalry, and the Song army lost the support of the city, and rarely won in the case of field battles, which are proud of their advanced tactical literacy, and at this time Mongolia was still a vassal of the Western Xia and Liao, enslaved by them, and the formation of its tactics was born from them.

It is said that 'not afraid of thieves stealing, just afraid of thieves', Zhao Ta does not say what he learned in his previous life, that is, after arriving in this world, the first thing he studied was the two opponents of Xia and Liao who would be faced, because it was related to his life, so he collected the battle information related to Western Xia that he could find, and found out their usual strategies and tactics and came up with countermeasures, so Zhao Ta was no stranger to their tactics, and all he lacked was the opportunity to practice.

Zhao Ta watched the changes on the battlefield, and saw the Xia army charging in formation, and in addition, a large number of rangers seemed to be doing the same movement on the surface. He knew that this was another tactic commonly used by the Xia army, the two horizontal teams in front were men and horses wearing iron armor, and ordinary bows and crossbows could not cause damage to them, which could be called heavy cavalry, but they were not the main force of the attack, but a feint to attract the attention of the Song army.

Once the two sides are close. The light cavalry hidden behind the heavy cavalry of the Xia army would suddenly accelerate. Rushing out of the wide gap between the heavy cavalry columns at great speed, he fired arrows, spears, and flying stones at the Song army. This attack often lasted several rounds, and the large array of the Song army was on the march, unable to make an effective counterattack, if the formation was not chaotic, the light cavalry of the Xia army would quickly retreat under the cover of heavy cavalry, and then regroup and attack again. This tactic is very effective against large formations on the move. Generally, as long as two or three rounds, it will shake the opponent's military morale, and the formation will be chaotic, if the opponent retreats at this time. The heavy cavalry of the Xia army on the wide front will quickly turn into an outflanking formation, slash and kill the enemy at close range, and the scattered rangers will decisively join the battle, tearing the breakthrough open and covering it, and the consequences are often devastating.

"Stop, raise your shield, defend!" Zhao Ta ordered the advance to be halted and the whole army defended. ^//^

As soon as the commander gave the order, the Chinese army drum sounded, and the shield hand who was walking in the front rushed forward ten steps. Raise the shield and smash it on the ground, hold it with your shoulder, bury the man behind the shield, and the shields of the same height as the man are combined into a column, and immediately form a low wall, blocking the arrows and the right to resist the horse. His accomplice sergeants, four of them used knives, four spears, and four swords to protect behind them, ready to kill the Xia soldiers who broke into the battle. Layered into a defensive formation.

The archers behind them quickly unfurled, and the archers drew five arrows from their quivers and stuck them in front of them, half-kneeling on the ground, ready to shoot, followed by four crossbowmen with two crossbows. Wound up the crossbow and mount the crossbow arrows; The bed crossbow is in charge of three people. Six people as a group, spread out the crossbow machine to pull the winch to wind, hang the arrow pocket, which holds 30 small arrows, and the current multi-arrow missile is the same, although the launch is slow, but the arrow shot is widely dispersed, can make up for the defect in the rate of fire.

"Order Qu Ru to retreat to the right flank and stand by!"

"Order the machine gun team to prepare to attack and meet the front army!" You can't skip the snacks delivered to the door, and Zhao Ta sent several orders in a row to prepare to meet the enemy.

After the cavalry of the Xia army entered 300 steps, the light cavalry of the army suddenly accelerated, quickly advanced, adjusted the formation, and rushed towards the Chinese army in several waves like sharp arrows, and after entering 200 steps, the archers of the front army began to release arrows to block the shooting. Under the dense rain of arrows, although the Xia army was loosely formed, it was still injured by stray arrows from time to time and fell off the horse. The second wave took advantage of the rain of arrows to break for a while, and rushed into a hundred paces by taking advantage of the situation, and picked up their bows and fired arrows one after another. …,

The way the cavalry and the infantry hold the bow is different, in order to quickly send arrows, the hand holding the bow often holds two or three arrows, one arrow shoots, and the other arrow is caught on the hand, reducing the time to draw arrows from the quiver, and the rate of fire is much higher than that of the infantry army.

"Defense!" The former army escort gave an order, and all the sergeants immediately raised the round shield in their hands to cover it, but the arrow is pervasive, and the gap with the size of the fist can be drilled into, and the shield in the soldier's hand is to block the head and not block the buttocks, and cover the front chest and not take care of the back, from time to time someone is shot by the arrow and falls, and the screams of the arrow are heard one after another, endlessly, but no one dares to move under the shouting of the head of the army who supervises the battle, and can only support it hard.

When the second round of arrow rain fell on the Song army, these Xia troops did not like to fight, and they shook a shot and swept past the front of the formation with a whistling, and for the infantry phalanx, a charge was basically ineffective. Therefore, when there are enough cavalry, the method of multiple waves will be used to launch a charge one after another. The first wave attracts enemy fire and causes a certain amount of confusion, and then changes direction and returns through the gap between enemy phalanxes. At this time, the enemy infantry was preparing for a second shot, individual "weak points" that appeared on the phalanx did not recover, and the second wave of cavalry, which arrived on horseback, was often able to form a breakthrough. However, this required close cooperation between two waves of cavalry. Moreover, it is not easy to achieve the desired effect by charging in multiple waves in the face of determined, well-trained infantry. Therefore, breaking through the infantry phalanx in most cases is by no means an easy task.

The third wave of the Xia army has been killed again, this time the distance is closer, some of the Xia army riders who rushed to thirty or forty paces, they threw the spears in their hands, this thing is much heavier than the weight of the arrow, people use horsepower to throw the power naturally increases several times, and the damage caused is also greater, and even the heavy and thick board is difficult to beat, and is penetrated by the huge implementation force, and the soldiers hiding behind are nailed to death on the spot. But at this time, everyone understands that the Xia army has arrived in front of the formation, and once the formation is broken, no one can run, so they can only resist it to the death.

"Raise your gun!" Seeing that the Xia army was approaching, the commander of the front army gave an order, and the pikemen immediately stepped forward and put the spear on the shoulder of the shield hand, the blade protruded more than three feet, and the back was tightly resisted, forming a forest of guns.

Xia Jun is not a fool, seeing that the Song army's formation is not chaotic, and rushing up can only be sent to death, they reined in their horses one after another, turned to run back to the main formation to assemble, and prepared to do it again, but at this time they found that something was wrong. A group of Song troops took advantage of their U-turn and slowed down to suddenly attack them from behind. The Xia army riders couldn't help but curse, these Song soldiers came at a really good time, if they turned around to meet the enemy, everyone was running and either bumped into each other, or they were knocked off the horse by their companions and trampled into flesh, and the only way was to run back to the formation quickly.

Brother Cha, who was watching the formation, was taken aback, this fucking kid is too good at mastering the heat, he didn't be a cook in his last life, if his soldiers ran back to the main formation, they would definitely disrupt their big formation, but they could follow up and break into the formation. Brother Cha was not a vegetarian either, so he hurriedly dispatched an army to respond, and mobilized other rangers scattered on the battlefield to intercept the Song army.

This kind of battle of 100,000 people has never been seen by Zhao Ta and the two generations together, and this kind of face-to-face battle scene of 10,000 people in modern warfare is extremely rare! Thousands of horses galloping, dust and smoke covering the sun, soldiers coming and going, for him it was both exciting and exciting, "Attack!" As soon as the Xia army moved, Zhao Ta saw it clearly in the telescope, and with a wave of his hand, more than a dozen motorcycles immediately rushed out of the formation to meet the Xia army rangers who had just gathered in one place and were ready to intercept Qu Ru's department. These wheelers were invincible in several battles, and Zhao simply formed them into an army and formed a team as a surprise army. …,

More than a dozen motorcycles rushed forward with fire, the dense rain of bullets swept like a violent wind, the ground was covered with a layer of fallen leaves, the rangers who had just gathered became geismans again, and the wounded and undead horses ran around on the battlefield, disrupting their own ranks, and it was impossible to assemble again, so they could only scatter to escape the rain of bullets like locusts.

The motorwheel convoy routed the Xia army rangers, turned into a column and plunged horizontally into the pursued Xia army, galloping back and forth, sowing death, whether they were hiding in stirrups or playing upside down with a big top, it was difficult to break through this death line, and a dozen cars isolated them from the battlefield, and answering friendly troops became empty words.

Qu Ru's side was also very easy to fight, they attacked from the flank and back with more blows, and took a big advantage, he sent a team of light horses and fast horses to stop the Xia army who was eager to return to the battle, forcing them to turn again, and once again rushed to the Song army's large array, and that side was also in strict formation, ready to wait for them with crossbow arrows, and could only turn again. Now it's okay, Qu Ru led the army to wrap them in his team layer by layer like rolling a big cake, until he couldn't run anymore, and he didn't need to ask about it, just two, either to die or to be a prisoner.

Song Jun's side was thunderous, but Xia Jun's side was depressed, and the tried and tested tactics made people roll up the pie this time. Brother Cha was even more pale, although he only lost less than 2,000 people, but the blow to morale was very great, he knew very well in his heart that the main responsibility for losing this battle was him. This tactic is very effective, but it must also be used in the right place, first, to form a four-sided encirclement of the enemy's army, and second, to be large in depth, so that the cavalry can go back and forth, but these two conditions are not available now.

Brother Cha's decision was a last resort, and it was also a fluke. He was surrounded, the Song army forced the formation, the depth of his own defense was shallow, and one side was facing the river, and then it was compressed, so there was no room for cavalry to take a detour, and he lost mobility. In addition, the one who was pinned on the opposite side was inexperienced and panicked, and he couldn't command the whole army, but Zhao Tan's performance disappointed him again... (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )