Zhang Jun's Song army rushed forward desperately on the official road leading to Lin'an.
Along the way, they encountered another attack from the Han army's chariot convoy.
This time, the Song army ignored it and continued to advance regardless of bullets and casualties.
There were corpses and wounded soldiers left along the official road.
Of course, there were also a large number of soldiers who found opportunities to sneak away.
When the forward of the Song Army arrived less than ten miles away from Lin'an City, the Song Army's team had stretched back and forth for more than ten miles and was in chaos.
At this time, not only the Han army's chariot convoys harassed the Song army from a distance, but also small groups of winged cavalry took advantage of the chaos to launch surprise attacks on the Song army from both sides of the official road and passed through the formation.
The soldiers of the Song army were killed and wounded, and those who fled were in vain.
Zhang Jun once again received a report from the front reconnaissance cavalry, saying that more than 2,000 enemy troops were waiting in formation outside Lin'an City.
Zhang Jun gritted his teeth and said with a smile: "Okay, okay, Yue Fei, the time has come for us to fight to the death."
He then ordered the front army to stop advancing, stay in defensive formation, and wait for the rear army to rendezvous before marching to Lin'an City.
After the Song army's soldiers and horses were reunited, the number of people was counted again, and only more than 16,000 people were left.
This was much better than Zhang Jun's expectation.
Zhang Jun ordered all the generals to form military formations.
It took half an hour for the entire army to be in formation.
Zhang Jun made the last mobilization for the Song army.
He rode his horse slowly in front of the military formation, pointed at the Lin'an city wall that was vaguely visible in the distance, and said: "As long as you work hard to kill the thieves, capture Lin'an, and be promoted to officials." , There is no need to talk about the future wealth, as for the gold and silver treasures in Lin'an City, women can let you take advantage of them. " After Zhang Jun finished speaking, he waved his big hand, and the sound of drums and trumpets suddenly sounded loudly.
The Song army marched towards Lin'an City in a complete military formation.
There, two thousand Han troops were lined up and waiting for them.
Xia Yue looked through the telescope at the Song army that appeared on the distant horizon, overwhelming like locusts.
At the forefront are the invulnerable heavy infantry, wearing the heaviest armor in the world, and holding a long iron sword that can last for a battle and weigh dozens of kilograms.
Such heavy infantry cannot march normally and can only be temporarily equipped in this way during a formal confrontation.
Otherwise, Zhang Jun will let them go into battle when they are harassed by the Han army.
The next few columns of heavy infantry are light infantry armed with spears, spears, swords and shields, and finally are the crossbowmen, many of whom are divine arm crossbowmen.
The Song army now has no cavalry, and only a small number of reconnaissance cavalry patrolling and guarding on both sides of the military formation a few miles away.
Relying on his absolute advantage in strength, Zhang Jun formed a large formation with a frontal width of several miles to prevent the opponent's attempt to use cavalry to outflank his wings.
In this way, unless the opponent has already laid an ambush, it will take a long time for the cavalry to circle around to your flank.
This time is enough for your own military formation to crush the enemy's military formation.
He had previously ordered the reconnaissance cavalry to conduct repeated reconnaissance, and was convinced that there was no enemy ambush near the battlefield where the battle was about to take place, and there was no suitable place for an ambush.
The Song Army's military formation came fiercely.
The heavy infantry carried broadswords and deliberately stepped on the ground, making a thumping sound, as if they had the potential to tear apart the mountains and split the city.
The crossbowmen had their arrows ready, waiting for the general's order.
The swords, guns, spears and halberds of the light infantry lit up the sky like a forest, and their flags were like the sea.
At this time, Xia Yue put away his telescope and calmly ordered: "Make a hollow square array."
As the Song army's formation approached, Zhang Jun discovered that the opponent's equipment was strange.
Those spearmen held extremely long spears that were more than two feet long.
Looking from a distance, they looked as dense as a bamboo forest.
The helmets and armor they wore were as if they were made of solid iron, they were integrated and extremely bright.
At this time, the mountain pikemen were uniformly equipped with Gothic plate armor.
Although this reduced their mobility and speed, they were now protected by heavy armor and arquebusiers and no longer needed to use speed and mobility to evade.
The enemy's long-range strikes and side and rear assaults.
Zhang Jun saw that the two rows of soldiers in front of these pikemen and the soldiers at the four corners of the square were only holding an iron rod with a handle.
The iron rod was not very long, only more than four feet.
These soldiers were not wearing heavy armor, but everyone seemed to be carrying a large shield.
Zhang Jun secretly wondered: This thing doesn't look like a blunt instrument, let alone a sword or gun, so what use can it have?
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The two armies were getting closer and closer, and they were less than eighty battles apart.
An order came from the Han army formation.
The Han soldiers at the forefront, holding "iron rods", suddenly squatted on the ground under the order.
At the same time, they took off the big shields on their backs and opened the shields behind the big shields.
Stand in front of you.
There was a gap on the upper edge of the big shield.
They put the "iron rods" in their hands on the gap, and then lit the match and adjusted the position.
Only then did Zhang Jun realize that this might be a projectile weapon, but he couldn't understand it.
There was no bowstring or arrows on it.
How could it be projected?
At this time, it was still more than a hundred years before the musket made of bamboo tubes came out.
Zhang Jun couldn't understand it for a while.
There will be no awareness of muskets.
When the two armies were less than sixty battles away, the crossbowmen of the Song Army's divine arm crossbows loosened their strings and fired arrows at the general's command.
The musketeers squatting behind the large shields could not be hurt by these arrows.
Shaking the gun lever, the arrows shot into the array were knocked down one after another.
The arrows that were not knocked down were shot on the long and hard plate armor.
Often, the arrow clusters made a white scratch on the smooth metal, and finally bounced.
Fall to the ground.
Very few can penetrate into the seams of nail plates and then get stuck.
The Han army's military formation was filled with the sound of clanging metal and metal, and the collision of metal and wood.
The longbowmen and twenty ballistae of the hollow phalanx began to counterattack.
At a distance of fifty or sixty battles, the heavy arrows of the longbowmen were helpless against the Song army's heavy infantry wearing heavy armor.
They were all stabbed by arrows like hedgehogs, but in fact they were unscathed.
Zhang Jun's only worry was the opponent's "Shaking Thunder".
He had actually seen this thing a long time ago, and it was in the Song Army's arsenal.
The difference is that he doesn't understand why Yue Feijun's "Shocking Thunder" can hit so accurately, and why all of them can hit the ground before exploding.
The Song Army's thunderbolts were operated in the same way as firecrackers.
They first lit the fuse and then projected it with bare hands or a trebuchet.
Naturally, there is no accurate head, and the burning speed of the fuse cannot be controlled.
Many of them explode in mid-air in advance, or they explode after a long delay after landing.
Some even caused duds because the fuse went out due to moisture or other reasons.
Therefore, Zhentian Lei was not widely used by the Song Army.
Zhang Jun made a mistake again here.
The Han army used thunderbolts, not thunderbolts.
There was a big difference between the two.
Now dozens of thunderbolt bullets roared in and landed in the Song Army's formation.
In the dozens of fireworks that instantly rose into the sky, hundreds of Song Army soldiers were pushed to the ground by the shock wave, and their faces were covered with blood after the iron fragments of the bullets collapsed. , suffered several injuries.
But this had no effect on those heavy infantry.
Only one heavy infantry was knocked to the ground by the shock wave and fell behind.
He was then pulled down with the help of the soldiers behind him before he stood up again
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