Is “Xu Ning taught the Liangshan soldiers the hook sickle spear technique, thereby greatly defeating Huyan Zhuo's linked cavalry army.” true?

The 《宋史》 contains no record of the court dispatching Huyan Zhuo to lead a large army against Liangshan, nor any account of the Song army widely employing the "linked cavalry" tactic of chaining war horses together, let alone the battle in which Xu Ning used hook sickle spears to break the linked cavalry. Chapter 056 of 《水浒传》 states: "这徐宁的金枪法、钩镰枪法，端的是天下独步。" The confrontation of hook sickle spears breaking linked cavalry is a literary fiction created by the novel absorbing military legends from various dynasties, and has nothing to do with actual historical battles.