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As soon as he finished speaking, the Song Army's horn sounded, echoing in the vast northwest land.

The vanguard of the Song Army began to advance quickly, with the left and right wings stretched out to both sides, listing the offensive, and rushed towards the Xixia people.

Chapter 365 Why Don't Men Wear Wu Hooks! (third change)

The Song army marched towards the Xixia army neatly.

Tens of thousands of people moved at the same time, and the sound of countless footsteps shook the ground.

Gusts of wind and waves rolled in from the north bank of the Yellow River, blowing the banners and flags.

The soldiers drew their knives, held shields, and wore light armor, and moved quickly.

The Qin army is aggressive, tough and hard-working, as it has been since ancient times.

In the Song Dynasty in the past, the most powerful was the Northwest Forbidden Army.

They are not afraid of hardship, fatigue, or bloodshed when fighting.

Many places are well-known widow villages, where men do not live past thirty.

Otherwise, how could Xixia, who had beaten all the people into soldiers, almost destroyed the country?

Although the Song Army with tens of thousands of people cannot achieve unified dispatch and coordination, don't forget that the army has another valuable quality: bravery!

At this time, the morale of the Song army was slowly rising.

Following this, the distance between Atuhan's Xixia army quickly narrowed.

"These damn Song dogs, dare to play me!" A Tuhan cursed, and then ordered, "Attack!"

The horns of the Xixia army's attack also sounded.

Li Liangfu was furious immediately: "Who told that idiot to attack! Hurry up! The whole army advances, and the cavalry on the left and right flanks spread out!"

In the morning, Atuhan was sent to recruit 1 people to surrender to him, which means that the 3 people brought by Li Liangfu were divided into two parts.

When the main force did not move, the front troops sent to surrender acted without authorization, and a feeling of loss of control swept over Li Liangfu.

The confrontation between the two armies is about tactics.

For example, the forward troops generally send the bravest group of people.

Morale is very important in the era of cold weapons, which means that the results of the forward team are very important to the entire battle situation.

If the forward is suppressed, or even the battle loss rate rises rapidly, it will easily cause the army's morale to shake and the army to collapse.

Once the vanguard army collapses, the entire army formation will be thrown into chaos by the defeated people.

The military formation is the product of group cooperation, and what is fought is cohesion.

Therefore, when the two armies are at war, the military formation is particularly important.

Once this thing is destroyed, it is easy to show flaws and give the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of it.

For example, the Jin army fought the Liao army. In a very classic tactic, most of the kidnappers continued to charge back and forth, breaking up the Liao army's formation.

In the era of cold weapons, the dispersed army has almost no combat effectiveness.

Then the infantry elite pressed up and began to crush and completely wipe out the enemy's vital forces, preventing the defeated enemy from escaping and then regrouping.

When Li Liangfu supported the Liao Kingdom, facing the Jin army, he was charged back and forth by Wanyan Loushi's cavalry.

He has an indelible shadow on the rout of the army.

At this time, A Tuhan acted without authorization, undoubtedly directly stabbing him in the heart.

Atuhan's former Xixia army was not elite, but he was eager to perform.

The distance between the two sides quickly narrowed, and they had already indented by hundreds of meters.

The crossbowmen of the Song Army began to fire crossbow arrows.

The sky full of crossbow arrows is like a large black cloud rising from the ground, drawing an arc, and pressing towards the Xixia forward army.

The Xixia people's armor rate is not as high as that of the Jin people.

The crossbow arrows were pressed down, and the Xixia forward team in front immediately collapsed.

A shout came from the direction of the Song Army: "Long live the Great Song! Long live the Great Song!"

The sound was like thunder, echoing between heaven and earth together with the charging horn.

Even Lanzhou City, twenty miles away, could faintly hear it.

"It's reinforcements!" He Yu, who was counting the soldiers, yelled out after hearing this.

The thousands of defenders in Lanzhou City have all heard the voices from the south.

The whole city is shaken!

At this time, the [-] Xixia army that continued to trap Lanzhou outside Lanzhou City also heard.

The generals of Xixia turned their eyes to the south in unison.

After coming out from the foot of the mountain, Li Yanxian, who was in a quick detour, also heard the voice.

Liu He could only feel the blood in his body scalding, and the wind blew the red tassels on his helmet flying. He said excitedly and anxiously: "Li Zhizhou, the war has begun!"

The war has begun.

The Song Army had 5000 people, plus the [-] in Lanzhou City, a total of [-].

Xixia has a total force of [-].

The two sides launched a head-to-head confrontation outside Lanzhou City.

After the first wave of Song Jun's crossbow arrows, the second wave began immediately.

This is the most common method used by the Northwest Forbidden Army to deal with the Xixia people.

In the past era, [-]% of the Western Army were crossbowmen, who specialized in attacking the Xixia people in the mountains.

Therefore, the Western Army is also known as the elite mountain warfare force.

However, since the Battle of Chang'an, Northwest began to change some tactics.

Why in the first year of Jingkang, the Western Army was transferred to Hebei and Hedong for support, but it collapsed after being beaten by the Jin Army?

High-level blind command is very important.

However, the configuration of the Western Army is also not suitable for fighting the Jin Army.

The armor rate of the Jin army is too high, and the mobility is too strong, and ordinary crossbows can't deal with it at all.

Unless it is a god arm crossbow, but the god arm crossbow must be stepped on to open the bow, so the speed of soldiers opening the crossbow is greatly slowed down, and the requirements for soldiers' arms are also extremely high.

The crossbow tactic proved to be effective against the Xixia people in mountainous areas, but it was useless against the Jin people in the plains.

Therefore, after the Battle of Chang'an, the Song Army reduced the proportion of crossbowmen and began to vigorously train armored elite infantry and highly mobile cavalry.

Of course, a considerable number of crossbowmen were also retained, just to deal with the Xixia people.

Every time a wave of crossbow arrows fell, dozens of Xixia soldiers fell to the ground.

Some were even shot through and nailed to the ground.

In the tide of the Xixia army, there was a partial collapse.

But the Xixia people were also extremely tough in combat, and the stormtroopers did not collapse because of this, but instead became crazy like they had been beaten with chicken blood.

When the forward army of the Song army approached the Xixia army, the crossbowmen stopped shooting. They quickly formed a fortress for self-defense. Even if the forward army was pierced by the Xixia army, they could defend themselves and continue to destroy the enemy.

However, due to the lack of a large-scale specialized headquarters, the overall cooperation between the Song army appeared to be very stiff, and there were even hip-pulls advancing from the left and right wings.

The vanguard army held shields, drew their knives, and met the Xixia people head-on.

A Xixia soldier slashed at the shoulder of a Song soldier, and the blade slipped on the armor.

After a short stay, the Song soldier quickly stabbed forward, and the knife directly pierced the Xixia soldier's left eye and came out from the back of the head.

At the same time, another Xixia soldier held a mace and slashed at the Song soldier's arm.

The Song Army soldier didn't have time to take it back, his arm was broken like a dead tree branch, and his screams were drowned in the sound of fighting.

The two sides collided head-on in an extremely brutal and brutal manner.

Everyone's blood was surging, and they even lost consciousness after being cut by a knife.

The situation changed quickly, and the field strength of the armored Song army clearly surpassed the Xixia army.

The forwards began to push forward like a torrent.

Soon, the situation in front of the battle was reported to Li Liangfu.

Li Liangfu was furious and scolded A Tuhan for being stupid.

At the same time, he ordered the left and right cavalry to start sending troops to attack the left and right wings of the Song army.

Chapter 366 Xixia Cavalry (Part [-])

When the Xixia cavalry entered the field, it meant that the war had already begun in full swing.

The Xixia people have a large number of war horses.

The total population of Xixia is about 250 million to 300 million.

However, according to relevant literature, there are 80 war horses in total, which is more than that of the Jin Kingdom.

why?

Because Xixia completely controls the Hexi Corridor, where there is Zhangye's Danshan Army Horse Farm.

It can be traced back to the era of Huo Qubing, and later, it became the largest military horse farm in the world.

When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty attacked the Hexi Corridor, the purpose was to cut off the right arm of the Huns, and also to expand the source of horses, but he did not expect that the conditions of the horse farm in Hexi were unique.

This is thanks to the moisture of the Qilian Mountain ice and snow on the grassland.

During the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, Emperor Taiwu Tuobatao of the Northern Wei Dynasty expanded his horse camp there, raising 200 million horses, 100 million camels, and countless cattle and sheep for more than ten years.

However, this data should be watery, but it is enough to prove the development of animal husbandry in the Hexi Corridor.

Since then, Zhangye has become the royal horse farm of all dynasties.

However, the Song Dynasty did not control the Hexi Corridor. Under the pressure of powerful foreign enemies, the Xixia people paid special attention to the horse herding industry.

Of course, it doesn't mean that Xixia has 80 horses and can form hundreds of thousands of cavalry.

For things like war horses, there is only one word: cost money!

In ancient times, the cost of feeding a cavalry was roughly equivalent to about six infantrymen.

If it is heavy cavalry, it is equivalent to sixteen to twenty light infantry and eight infantry armor.

The cavalry is always the most money-burning, and the heavy cavalry directly piles up the money and pours oil into it to burn it.

In the Han Dynasty at the beginning, Emperor Wu founded a state-owned enterprise, printed money, and sold officials. Finally, in the Battle of Mobei, he raised a total of 40 cavalry for Wei Qing and Huo Qubing, but he had to rely on [-] infantry for logistics.

Zhao Ning also read the accounts after time travelling, only to realize that the hundreds of thousands of cavalry in the TV series are all nonsense.

Xixia's most elite heavy cavalry "Iron Harrier (yao)" has a total strength of only [-].

It is rumored that the iron floating map of Jin Wushu was adapted from the iron kite.

Even though there are only [-] of them, they are like the ancient tank army, unable to resist when they charge.

During the Shenzong period, the five-way campaign against Xia, and the battle of Yongle City, Xixia used iron kites to open the way for the army. The Western Army of the Song Dynasty must be strong, but they were still scattered by the iron kites.

Yongle City killed as many as 2000 Song soldiers in the First World War.

When Li Yuanhao founded Iron Harrier, he also crushed it back and forth in the northwest with its terrifying impact, and the Song army had no way to do it.

Not only did the Song Dynasty suffer from headaches when encountering iron kites, but in the Liao Kingdom, which was extremely powerful at the time, a Liao cavalry with three horses fought against iron kites, and they won less and lost more.

And in fact, the god arm crossbow was also invented by the Xixia people, and it was later passed on to the Song Dynasty.

However, the cavalry dispatched by Li Liangfu were not "iron kites".

The iron harrier is the strongest fighting force in Xixia. Everyone wears armor, and people are connected to horses, like an iron floating map. How could Li Qianshun hand over the iron harrier to Li Liangfu?

Most of the Xixia cavalry on the left and right wings wore light armor and leather armor, and held bows and long knives.

The cavalry charge is also particular.

It is mentioned in the military encyclopedia "Wu Jing Zong Yao" of the Song Dynasty.

The cavalry is a team of five, and each cavalry is separated by [-] steps to the left and right. This is to leave a buffer space, and each cavalry may have two to three horses.