The Qin Wangchuan battlefield was a vast open land with flat horses. The Song army's brigades continued to emerge from the camp and unfolded opposite the Xixia army. The entire formation process was very rapid and well-organized. The Song army unfolded in units of the troops, and each unit was in a group, covering each other and moving forward alternately. Behind it, there was a tactic of holding the divine arm bow and supporting the camp to cover it.

The so-called divine arm bow is actually a heavy crossbow with a maximum range of astonishing 300 steps! And the distance that can penetrate armor and pierce armor is not as far as 300 steps. Depending on the quality of the armor, it is about the lethality within a few dozen steps.

After each unit reached its position, it arranged a square formation of hundreds of people in battalions to meet the enemy. Unlike what later generations imagined, the Song army did not stand to meet the enemy after setting up the square formation, but to meet the enemy in a kneeling posture!

That is, "If you are in front of the spear, you cannot sit; the strongest bow is the strongest bow, the second most powerful bow is the divine arm bow, kneel and wait. If you make an enemy fight within 150 steps or within 100 steps, the divine arm will start first, and the enemy will reach 70 steps, and the strong bow will be launched simultaneously..."

In other words, the authentic Song army tactics are completely different from the Sanzhi Imperial Army and the New Mansion Army. The warriors of the Sanzhi Army were completely the standards of the elite infantry of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties. Murong Wangyou and Zhao Zhongge were both Han nobles from the Liao Dynasty. The tactics of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties were originally inherited, so the warrior infantry required to "prepare three battles" and could also undertake the tasks of swords, shields, bows and sprites.

The new mansion soldiers were "simplified" based on the warriors. In fact, it was also the route between the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, and paid more attention to offensive and hand-to-hand combat. It was probably the Tang Dynasty. The level of the second-class elite soldiers or cannon fodder soldiers of the Five Dynasties depends on the training and equipment of the new mansion soldiers.

As for the Song army infantry in the late Northern Song Dynasty, they paid too much attention to bows and crossbows and ignored hand-to-hand combat, so their ability to attack was very weak.

One of them is a team, and without a vacancy, there are more than 20 spearmen or swords and shields, and they will not exceed 30 who can fight hand-to-hand combat. The rest are all archers and crossbowmen. The crossbowmen who usually use the divine arm bows account for one-third of the crossbowmen, and the rest are strong and second-strong bows, that is, harder or softer bows. The former can break armor, while the latter can provide denser firepower.

Song Jun really thought about how to use crossbows!

Therefore, in the battle between the Northern Song army and the enemy, the scene of men fighting with each other with passion is rarely seen. The Song army likes to shoot arrows, while their enemies are usually afraid of the Song army's crossbows and dare not launch a frontal attack when facing the "arrow formation". The Khitans walked around the Song army's arrow formation, and the most powerful iron kite of the Dangxiang people often cannot break through the Song army's arrow formation, which only has a few spears as support...

In today's Battle of Qin Wangchuan, the situation was similar. The Song army used arrow formation to fight against the enemy, while the Western thieves responded with side cards and archers.

Both sides seemed to have made up their minds to use bows and arrows to decide the outcome.

After the two sides formed a formation, uh, they confronted each other first.

Big eyes wait for small eyes, waiting for the opponent to attack first!

Waiting and waiting, waiting in the sun for a long time, Gao Yongnian finally couldn't hold back his anger.

"Beat the drum! The whole team is pressing forward and approach the Western thief a hundred and fifty steps!"

"Here!"

With a rapid drumming, the Song soldiers kneeling and sitting were all standing in the urging sound of the team and the urging of the team. Then they began to move forward slowly, and they had to stop after taking a few steps. This was to maintain the rigor of formation like the new mansion soldiers or the straight cavalry of the horse, and to maintain the formation while constantly advancing, which the traditional Song army did not have.

Because they are not soldiers who eat, live and train together all day long, but archers on the edge of the farmer and half-soldiers or professional soldiers who live at home. The time for concentrated training is actually very limited, so most of the training is related to martial arts, which requires them to voluntarily complete it, and there are not enough excellent grassroots officers and non-commissioned officers to practice formation and tactics.

Because the formation cannot be maintained and there are too few hand-to-hand soldiers, the Song army's "arrow formation" is not very capable of charging, and can only approach the opponent at a slow speed.

Of course, the Song army did not have the ability to charge and stalk. It was just that ordinary infantry were not capable of stalk, but had to rely on selected fronts to attack.

The 500 black armored front-strike cavalry selected by Gao Qiu from the Hedong Army are such elites.

In front of the Qin Wangchuan Army, Gao Yongnian and Zhong Shiji did not have a "short selection" unit, such as the "short selection" unit, looked a bit like the fang soldiers of the Five Dynasties Tang Ji! It was still a bit taboo. Therefore, although the generals and sects of the Western Army had power troops who charged and surrounded the battlefield, their functions were not much, and they would not form troops for training in normal times. Only in wartime, they would be concentrated as needed.

Therefore, although these personal abilities have outstanding personal abilities, they are not strong in team combat. Otherwise, the Western Army in history would not be beaten by the end of the Liao army.

On today's battlefield, Gao Yongnian and Zong Shiji selected 1,000 utility soldiers from the army to select the attack, and were personally led by Zong Shiji's younger brother Zong Shiji. They were not armored cavalry, but heavy infantrymen, each equipped with heavy armor, using spears or swords and shields to kill the enemy.

Now these thousand people are still on standby near Gao Yongnian and Zhong Shiji's central army. In order to save physical strength, they are not wearing strong and strong stalkers.

They have to wait until the "arrow formation" has almost consumed the enemy's morale before launching the assault.

...

The sound of war drums like thunder suddenly disappeared from the sky above the Qin Wangchuan. In place of it, there were extremely crisp sounds of chums.

After the sound of the clapper, the crossbow strings connected into a group of "bang bang bang bang bang bang bang" sounded! Countless divine arm bows shot out arrows, flew rapidly over the Xixia army's side cards, and rushed straight to Xixia, who was 150 steps away, with the soldiers.

The soldiers standing in the front row seemed to have known that they were going to be shot by crossbow arrows, and all raised their wooden shields. However, because the cover was not reliable enough, they were shot down a lot. The screams suddenly sounded in the Xixia army formation, but they quickly covered the sound of the horn.

The horn is a signal of the advance of the Western Xia army.

The officers of the Party Xiang who were responsible for the formation immediately urged loudly, forcing the unwilling soldiers to move forward in chaos. Today, these cannon fodders also carried bows, arrows, shields and swords.

However, their bows and arrows could not reach the targets 150 steps away, and they had to advance forward a few dozen steps away from the Song army's arrow formation before they could counterattack.

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

If they do not advance forward, then the volleys of the Divine Arm Bow will quickly reduce their already sluggish morale...

If you directly throw yourself into the cavalry attack, because the range of the Divine Arm Bow is too long and the armor-breaking ability is too strong. Before the Dangxiang people's iron kite approaches, it is enough to fire four to five times, and at least two rounds of bow and arrow strikes. Under this dense rain of arrows, even the iron kite is shot into an iron hedgehog. Even if they can withstand it, Yu Yong will no longer break through the defense of the Song army's spearmen.

This is probably the most troublesome thing about the Song army's crossbow formation.

Xixia, who had fought with the Song army for so many years, also found a way to deal with the arrow formation, which was to fight against cannon fodder! Use "foreign soldiers" such as bear soldiers or collides to consume the strength of the Song army's archers, and then invest the elite rushing forward.

This is also the reason why elites like Iron Harrier and the garrison must be equipped with three times their own responsibilities. They are not just baggage troops, but also cannon fodder that consumes the strength of the Song army's archers.

In the Battle of Tongwan, the disastrous defeat of Chago's army was actually related to the fact that the Lu Han army could not fight against the assaults of the spearmen, fierce soldiers and cavalrymen.

However, in the Battle of Qin Wangchuan, Chage's cannon fodder tactics were still useful. At least his soldiers could last for a while in the rain of arrows in the Song army, and at the same time they could counterattack with their own bows and arrows. However, the crossbowmen and gunmen of the Song army, and the sword and shield hands were all wearing strong armor. How much damage can the bows and arrows of the Xixia soldiers cause to them?

"Select the striker and wear armor!"

Gao Yongnian made a loud order. At the same time, he had already stood up from the stirrups and stretched his neck to watch the weak links on the Xixia army's front.

Using a striker to assault is also a science!

Assaults are short and fierce! Because the Western thieves will dispatch cavalry to counter-assault... so they must stop when they are good. Therefore, they have to choose a good place to start!

Just as Gao Yongnian's eyes suddenly swept into the distant sky, and smoke and dust filled the sky!

This is……

Gao Yongnian looked closely and was stunned.

Is this the reinforcements of the Western thieves approaching?

"Taiwei, the brothers who selected the attack have all finished wearing armor," Zhong Shiji asked Gao Yongnian at this time, "Where should we charge?"

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

"That's..." Zhong Shiji was also stunned, "The Western thief actually had reinforcements! There are still a lot of them!"

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

"What should I do?" Master Zong asked.

"I'm so afraid!" Gao Yongnian smiled, "There are only such elite Western thieves. Qin Wangchuan is all complete. If you come, you will be a mob. Unless they really don't care about Lingxia, they may be able to gather some people. But even if they all come, can we just retreat into the camp?"

As he spoke, Gao Yongnian withdrew his gaze and then kept a corner of the Xixia Army formation, "It's there... I'll retreat after a while, don't delay too much!"

"good!"

At the same time, Brother Cha was also looking back and looking at the smoke and dust in the sky, and smiled at Xiao Heda, "Can you arrive in the evening? We have to calculate the time and give Song Gou a ruthless one!"
Chapter completed!