It was the Xixia people who had sent authoritative generals to the area overnight to organize these Fan cavalry.

In fact, Li Shifu drove his Fan cavalry forward and soon brought back the accurate answer. The banners of Liang Wang of Xixia and Li Qianshun's early reign of Weiming Anhui had appeared along the Tang Canal ahead.

Over there, countless fan cavalry were gathering.

On the other side, when the sky was bright, Yue Fei did something that many people couldn't figure out... You must know that this was the prime time to compete for distance and time. As a result, Yue Dutong began to take advantage of

At dawn, the marching formation was arranged in a big way.

All troops are divided into small groups according to their types of arms.

For example, the cavalry army was divided into the Fan cavalry led by Li Shifu and the armored cavalry led by Liu Qi, Zhang Xian and others. However, both the Fan cavalry and the armored cavalry were divided into twelve teams. Each team of the Fan cavalry was less than three hundred.

Each team of armored cavalry is five hundred;

At the same time, the infantry is roughly divided into three types: spearmen, crossbowmen, and sword and shield soldiers. There are twelve teams for each type, making a total of thirty-six teams. Each team is less than 300 to 500.

These troops, swordsmen, shield soldiers and spearmen formed a square formation on the outermost side, and the crossbowmen were slightly misaligned and marched on the inside. At the same time, the cavalry was scouting and wandering outside the infantry, and the armored cavalry stood behind the crossbowmen.

, the whole army is well organized.

Finally, Qu Duan led the last two thousand cavalry in the center, forming the central army and the general reserve force.

So far, the 30,000 soldiers who came out for this attack, except for the 6,000 soldiers of Wang De's army who were behind, and the few troops who stayed in Pingxia City and Xi'an Prefecture as defenders and suspects, the 20,000 soldiers who were here were

A thousand cavalrymen were all broken up and formed into formations.

The generals of each department, from Liu Qi on down, including the commander and deputy commander, were also named out. They were divided roughly according to their own troops and horses, and they were divided in order. Each of them commanded one group of spearmen and one group.

Sword and shield soldiers, a group of crossbowmen, a group of armored cavalry... Moreover, when the cavalry did not serve as scouts but instead faced the enemy, they were also divided into groups and assigned to these temporary governors.

As for the 6,000 civilians who accompanied the army, a very small number got on the raft to steer the ship, but most of them marched along the river under the cover of the large formation, either pushing wheelbarrows or assisting the raft in pulling fiber.

After struggling until the morning, the army maintained this strange formation, abandoned Tangqu, and then slowly moved forward leaning on the river.

However, by this time, Qu Duan and others all realized something, and there were no more arguments and doubts.

The army moved forward. In the afternoon, under the already hot weather, smoke and dust suddenly billowed in front of them. Without Li Shifu's cavalry team delivering the news, Yue Fei and others already knew that this must be the result of the Liang Wang who had hurriedly gathered some information.

Soldiers and horses, come quickly to harass.

"Ignore them, continue to maintain the formation and keep moving forward." Yue Fei immediately ordered. "Follow the previous arrangement and wait for him to attack!"

"Try it!" Weiming Anhui, who had been working hard all night, wore a golden crown on his head and looked tired. At this time, in the daylight, his face was full of wrinkles. "Remember, all tribes are ready, use bows and arrows,

Let’s leave after shooting, all the families and ministries haven’t arrived yet, we only have four to five thousand people, don’t be reluctant to fight!”

"All armored cavalry units must attack without orders!" Seeing the cavalry trampling on the young crops to adjust their ranks, the orderly soldiers from the Central Military Department also set off at the right time, conveying the most important military order on behalf of the commander. "Follow your own order and follow the command of your own marching commander.

, each governor will handle it according to the original plan!"

The military order of the Song Army has just been passed down here. On the other side, the Xixia tribal Fanqi, who lacked training, saw the Song Army marching in succession. They did not wait for the friendly troops to get into position, and then moved forward one after another... Of course they saw the spearmen and swordsmen on the outermost side.

The mixed military formation of shield soldiers also saw the armor on the outer soldiers, so of course they would not be stupid enough to collide with those formations. They would just run towards the gaps in the military formation, preparing to shoot arrows to harass, or look for those Song Junfan who were milling around the military formation.

Just riding.

However, when the first group of Fan cavalry wearing tattered blue cloth robes and shaved bird heads roared to the effective shooting range and prepared to draw their bows, suddenly, the Song Army Fan cavalry on the opposite side took the initiative to turn around and started from the same sequence as themselves.

The Song army withdrew from the gap on the side of the infantry formation and entered the army formation. However, the undisciplined Xixia Fanqi could not rein in their horses at all and directly took advantage of the situation to catch up, but they were preparing to scatter arrows into the Song army's infantry formation.

superior.

However, at this moment, when the Song army's cavalry moved into the infantry formation, a burst of arrows were fired from the gap between the Song army's continuous marching sword and gun infantry formations.

To be fair, this round of reflection is still a bit less powerful than the Xixia people's bows and arrows.

But the problem is that the infantry bow has a longer range than the cavalry bow. The Song Army’s traditional crossbows such as the Divine Arm Bow and the Enemy Bow are far superior to the opposing Fan Cavalry... More importantly, the Song Army’s Fan Cavalry basically has leather armor.

The officers were basically fully armored, and the armored cavalry and peripheral infantry all wore iron armor. This kind of temporarily recruited Xixia Fan cavalry basically had no armor.

Therefore, the arrows were shot from the military formation which had slowed down a little, and immediately knocked the people who had rushed forward to shoot at the Tibetan cavalry, causing them to fall on their backs, causing blood to flow all over the ground.

Without any command, the Xixia Fan cavalry scattered backwards, while the Song army Fan cavalry wearing leather armor poured out from another opening in the military formation, chasing the Xixia Fan cavalry who were out of formation. Many of the Xixia Fan cavalry were caught off guard and gathered their formation.

In the process, they were shot down a lot by the Song Army's Qingqi.

And unlike the Xixia Fan cavalry, with the shouts behind them, most of the Song army Fan cavalry were not eager to fight, but quickly cleaned the battlefield next to the marching column, gathered the usable horses, slaughtered the injured horses and Xixia people, and then

Carry the arrows and dead horses on the ground back to the marching column.

In the distance, Weiming Anhui, the king of Liang Dynasty in Xixia, who found a small slope to watch the battle, stared at it for a long time, but he was horrified... He was not shaken by this loss. In fact, this was a test, and he did not

It was expected that this hastily gathered tribal light cavalry would achieve something, but the problem was that during the battle just now, the Song army did not stop at all!

Yes, although the Song army slowed down, during the entire battle, the military formation moved forward calmly!

This is the most terrible thing!

"Today we have to travel forty miles." Under the banner of loyal service to the country, Yue Fei, who was riding slowly, looked at the sun, then at the smoke and dust swirling around Weiming Anhui in the distance, and calmly turned back to look at Qu Duan.

"Travel fifty miles tomorrow"

Qu Duan, who was riding alongside Yue Fei, did not respond directly, but instead was a little unbelievable: "It can actually be done?"

"These are the soldiers and horses of the imperial camp, with outstanding military discipline." Hu Hongxiu looked at him with a flushed face. "With such military discipline and the proper arrangement of the military formation, why can't it be done? And the key is Jiedu's foresight and foresight, leaving the Tang Canal behind and letting the army rely on it.

Marching along the river, the river not only covered the baggage and civilians, but more importantly, covered half of the military formation, so that the Xixia people could not go around to find loopholes, and also allowed us to spread out. Otherwise, how could we use that kind of emergency response?

The military formation covers the entire army?"

Qu Duan nodded again.

However, after he nodded for a moment, he saw that Yue Fei was still looking at him, and Hu Hongxiu was also looking at him, but he finally woke up and shook his head directly: "I know, the commander of the armored cavalry who pursued without permission is my subordinate.

You should end it yourself and maintain military discipline!"

After saying this, Qu Da rode out and led the bodyguard behind him straight ahead.

A moment later, the commander of the imperial camp cavalry who violated military discipline and went out with armor without authorization was hanged in public. In the process, more than 20,000 soldiers of the imperial camp of the Song Army were still standing in the distance. Weiming Anhui was almost numb.

Keep moving forward in fear.

It was the seventh day of April. Although they set out very late, the Song army actually marched for more than forty miles before stopping in the dark, and then stationed themselves on the spot according to their formation.

It is conceivable that if they set off directly with this formation tomorrow morning, the Song army can completely cover more distances. For example, fifty miles should be no problem. But the problem is... of course it is a problem for the Xixia people... That's it.

, the direct distance between this Song Imperial Army and Xingqing Mansion was only about a hundred miles.

At the same time, they only had temporarily recruited tribal light cavalry, but even with this kind of cavalry, the sooner the Song army arrived in front of Xingqing Mansion, the less they could invest.

"Send the King of Yue back." On the eighth day of April, it was already dawn. Weiming Anhui, who was wearing a golden crown, had not slept all night, but compared to a golden-armored warrior beside him. "Tell your majesty, that Yue Fei did not leave Tangqu

, but came by relying on the river, and the King of Yue did not have time to send it to the other side... Then I told your Majesty the predicament here, saying that I was incompetent and would wait for the decree."

The golden-armored warrior said nothing, turned around and mounted his horse with a child who was only three or four years old in his arms, and headed straight for Xingqing Mansion... It was not a march of a large army. If he kept changing horses, he would arrive in the afternoon.

PS: Thank you to classmate Xue Luofeng for being cute for the 130th time, and thank you to classmate mousex for being cute for the second time.
Chapter completed!