The Song army's black brigade slowly drove from north to south.

The wide valley outside the Alai Mountain Pass has been filled with a large group of infantry, forming square arrays. The flags are flying in front of the formation, covering the sky and the sun. The Education Group uses the Wan-character flag as its own flag. The background of the flag is white, and there is a bright red Wan-character character on it, dazzling and seems to contain some mysterious power.

As the infantry brigade arrived at the battlefield, the Xiliang cavalry that had driven out the armed refugees of Karakhan before was divided into two teams, retreated to both sides of the infantry brigade, forming two dense impact formations. Because the terrain could not be spread, the array was not very neat. However, the deterrence brought to the armed refugees of the Karakhan Dynasty was even larger than the seven ministerial phalanxes formed by the eight or nine thousand infantry!

With these 2,000 people, the Xiliang cavalry, who had been trapped in the army for half a morning, had already been struggling to fight. As the main force of the attack, the infantry of the Education Regiment formed a formation with crossbow soldiers in front, spear soldiers, and swords and shields behind.

Unlike the Song army, which traditionally uses crossbow soldiers as the main force, the current new army of the Education Regiment does not have archers, but each battalion is equipped with a team of crossbow soldiers, two teams of slingers and a team of sword and shield soldiers. In other words, the projection force accounts for only one-quarter of the total force. It is not equipped with a bow with a high rate of fire, and only equipped with a Border River crossbow with a high accuracy and lethality. It is the kind of crossbow that is easy to aim with a butt stock. It emphasizes accurate killing at long distances or armor-breaking killing at medium distances, and does not play with cover strikes.

Of course, reducing the projection firepower of infantry does not mean that the Hexi coalition of the Education Regiment will suffer from the crossbow shooting. Because all cavalry, including auxiliary cavalry, are equipped with horn bows and can dismount and shoot when necessary and act as archers. And under the cover of so many armored and semi-armored cavalry, where is the opportunity for enemy archers to exert their power?

The two educational regiments had a total of six subordinates and eighteen battalions. Each battalion drew a team of crossbow soldiers, a total of eighteen teams of crossbow soldiers, forming a temporary ministerial crossbow soldiers formation, which was placed in front of the other six ministerial phalanxes with only spearmen and swords and shield soldiers. About 1,500 crossbow soldiers (due to the plateau reaction, the crossbow troops also suffered a major reduction in personnel) listed a three-row horizontal formation, holding strong crossbows, and slowly pressed towards the armed refugees of the Karakhan Dynasty who were squeezed into a group.

This scene fell into Aslan Khan's eyes. Even this Lion Khan, who had no war experience, knew that something was wrong. Sanjar, the god of war in the Tianfang Sect, miscalculated, and the enemy on the Peach Blossom Stone was stronger than expected. The strict formation of tens of thousands of people alone could not even be used to the most elite Gulam warrior.

Moreover, the enemy's infantry and cavalry cooperation and command and dispatch were also in order. A series of tactical actions such as yaks, cavalry driving, infantry assault, and cavalry cover were all like flowing water, without any delay or delay. The Gulam warriors who rely on their personal bravery had no way to compete with such an enemy!

Aslan Khan sat on the horse's back with a blue and white face, his eyes just staring blankly ahead, his lips trembling, and he couldn't say a word.

Behind the slowly approaching infantry formation of the Education Regiment, there were three generals, nearly 9,000 Hexi cavalry, all of which were semi-armored lancers. Xiao Heda took the Yemili Grassland and Balashaguen to do a large circle of the main cavalry of the Hexi Army. Some of them were also drawn from the seven infantry generals of the Hexi Army to supplement the reduction of troops in the previous plateau marches. Therefore, all three cavalry generals are now fully equipped.

Xiao Heda lost weight, surrounded by his Khitan guards. Today, he was wearing a half-body war armor, wrapped in a black wool cloak, and a silver croaker that shone in the sun. He rode a tall Persian war horse seized in Balashaguen, and looked forward with a serious look.

There is not much joy in the sight of victory, but only deep worries.

He knew that the infantry general of the Education Regiment was actually a replica of the infantry general of the Song army's new army! This new army changed the characteristics of the Song army's past emphasis on defense and equipped with many crossbows, greatly reducing the number of crossbow soldiers, and even canceling lunges, and at the same time increased the number of hand-to-hand combat soldiers from more than ten percent to three quarters.

The assault of the siege captain's spearmen became the main combat method of the new infantry of the Song Dynasty. The role of crossbow soldiers and sword and shield soldiers is ultimately used to cover the spearmen who account for half of the war soldiers to enter the impact position.

Similarly, the cavalry tactics of the Song army also changed from fragmentary range tactics to heavy cavalry groups to charge as the main force. The heavy cavalry groups took turns to charge as a decisive means of victory on the battlefield.

For example, today's battle is a very typical new army tactic. The previous yak attack, light cavalry expelling, and the crossbowmen shooting that was about to start was all prepared for the launch of a spear assault. The spear assault was for the subsequent 30 heavy cavalry to take turns to open the charge channel... Such attack tactics of multiple armies cooperated are many times more skillful than the silly arrow formation tactics of the Song army before, and are not many times more complicated in cooperation and command, and the requirements for soldiers have also been significantly improved.

In short, once the Song army's reform is completed, the Daliao Heavenly Soldier who is now eating vegetarian food and chanting Buddha's name will probably face a catastrophe.

But how do we deal with the new army and new tactics of the Song army?

Xiao Heda's brows became tighter and tighter. Because he knew that the complex tactics adopted by the new Song army are based on a large number of Yuntai officers. In Xiao Heda's view, the education received by these officers has reached an incredible level. If they want to complete the Yuntai officer course, students need to receive militarized training from elementary school, and then there will be four years of Knight Academy education. Adding up to eight or nine years of long study. Some of the courses they need to learn are so complicated that Xiao Heda can't even understand.

The same officer education cannot be carried out in the Liao Kingdom at all! Even after it is greatly simplified, it is unlikely to be carried out in the Liao Kingdom. Because who in the Liao Kingdom would think that the military of their country is not good? The great Liao Dynasty oppressed the Song Dynasty for more than a hundred years, and now it is learned from the Song Dynasty? It is possible for some noble families to learn, but learning at the national level is impossible.

What should I do in the future of the Great Liao Kingdom?

"Thousands of victory! Thousands of victory! Thousands of victory..."

The cheers interrupted Xiao Heda's thoughts. He quickly took out a treasure telescope wrapped in black satin, and stood up on the stirrup to watch.

It turned out that the enemy crowded in front of the Alaya Pass was driven away by crossbow arrows and began to roll and retreat south again. It seemed that it would not take long before the mountain pass would fall into the hands of the infantry of the Education Regiment.

I don’t know how many elite Gulams were there at the Yamaguchi? How did they set up their formation?

At this time, Aslan Khan was already dead and was swept up by the armed refugees who were swarming in. He could have relied on more than 3,000 Ikta to prevent the armed refugees from escaping the way, but when the crossbowmen of the infantry of the Education Corps began to take turns to shoot crossbow arrows, nearly 100,000 refugees crowded at the mountain pass finally broke out, rushing towards the Ikta Knights like a tide, instantly submerging the 3,000 masters and knights. Even Aslan Khan himself was swept up by the tide and retreated southeastward...

When Aslan Khan was carried by his people and retreated southeast, Sanjar was also retreating. He retreated southwest, that is, he moved his position to the open grass west of Lake Kala. On one side, he leaned against Lake Kala and on the other side, he leaned against the mountains, and made a defensive posture. He formed an infantry formation with 4,000 Persian mercenaries. The coalition forces, mainly Sitajik knights, Gur Knights and Garzni knights, were on the right, and were commanded by Emir Mohamed Amad of Sitajik. With 5,000 Gulam knights on the left, and was commanded by Sanjar's most trusted general Kumaji. Sanjar himself led the most elite 5,000 Gulam tactics to line up behind the Persian infantry.

In front of the entire battle formation, Sanjar also asked someone to connect with his accompanying carriages to form a chariot array to block the enemy's cavalry's charge.

In addition, including Persian infantry, Sitajik knights, Gur Knights and Garzni knights, as well as the Gulam warriors commanded by the general Kumaji, all of them were archers in front of them and formed a formation that was strictly guarded and defensive!

"Haha, I'm still a little self-aware!"

Xiao Heda, who entered the Alaya Pass surrounded by crowds, saw the deployment of the Sanjar army from afar.

"Xiao Junji, it seems that the thieves want to compete with us for physical strength!" Liu Long, the deputy general army officer who was advancing with Xiao Heda, had guessed Sanjar's intention.

Sanjar's soldiers rested near Kala Lake for four days, while the Song army had been marching and fighting. It was better than Sanjar's physical fitness, so they are now conducive to long-lasting.

"They're only 20,000," Xiao Heda glanced at him and knew that he was sure to win. "And the formation was light and uneven, and the infantry in the middle looked a little messy. The only support was the chariot formation! As long as you break the chariot formation and use 9,000 cavalry to attack in turn, you can definitely destroy it."

"You can call up thousands of infantry archers from Hexi Army to shoot arrows in turn, use archers and crossbow arrows to destroy the enemy... and then transfer the eight-niu crossbow and burst arrows from the two engineer battalions to raise them. Blast a few rounds before the infantry rushes to the formation, which will definitely disturb their formation."
Chapter completed!