Perhaps it was determined that Yue Fei and Zhao Gou, the enemies in their previous lives, would finally end up on the battlefield in this life.
The time was June 16, the third year of Hongwu in the Song Dynasty, and the location was on the south bank of the Yellow River, less than 80 miles away from Wu Lahai City at the foot of Black Mountain.
The 14,000 soldiers of the Northern Song Dynasty led by Yue Fei faced the 12,000 gold soldiers led by Zhao Gou and Wanyan Xiebao, who had been renamed Wanyan Zonggo, on the unusually open prairie. Yue Fei did not lead him All the troops were pulled out, except for the entire Tiance Yuzhang Army and one general from the Tiance Yulin Army. The remaining troops are on standby in the camp 20 miles away.
The reason why we only bring so many people is, of course, because we don’t want to scare Jin Bing... It would be bad if they were scared away!
The armies of the Jin and Song Dynasties knew each other's existence yesterday. After Wanyan Xiebao and Wanyan Zonggou led the cavalry to the Song army crossing the river to observe the formation, Yue Fei and Li Shifu also led two thousand cavalry across the river, followed Xiebao and Zonggou all the way, and found the Jin army, and The cavalry of both sides also had a small-scale contact battle outside the Jin soldiers' camp.
After figuring out the number of Jin soldiers and the location of the camp, Yue Fei decided to lead 14,000 men to challenge outside the Jin army's camp the next day.
This number is similar to the number of Jin soldiers (Yue Fei does not know the specific number of Jin soldiers, he only knows that the number of Jin soldiers will not exceed 15,000), and there is a fortress behind the Jin soldiers to rely on. So most of the time he will fight when the Song army comes to challenge... If the Jin soldiers see that the Song soldiers who are about the same number as themselves are shrinking to avoid fighting, then Yue Fei will bypass the Jin soldiers' camp and attack them at the Jin soldiers' camp. They formed a formation between the battalion and Wu Lahai City, cutting off their retreat, and at the same time mobilized the remaining troops.
When the soldiers arrived, they served "casserole", "hot pot" and "fried pot" together, cooking up more than 10,000 gold soldiers in one pot!
Wanyan Xiebao and Wanyan Zonggou were originally here to explore the truth. Seeing that Yue Fei only brought over 10,000 people, of course they couldn't avoid fighting. Even if the Wanyan sect wanted to evade, the supervisor Wanyan Xiebao would not allow him to evade the battle.
So at noon on June 16, the Song and Jin armies set up their battle formations three to four meters west of the Jin army's camp.
Both sides set up a mixed formation of infantry and cavalry.
On the Song Army's side, Yue Fei first arranged sixteen infantry battalion-level solid square formations (affiliated to four infantry generals) in a line to form the front of the battle line.
He also split a cavalry general belonging to the Yulin Army into four battalion-level formations and placed them on the right wing of the battle line.
As for the left wing of the battle line, the North River of the Yellow River was used to blockade it. In order to prevent the Jin cavalry from wading into the water and launching a charge, some anti-horse guns were also placed.
Most of the cavalry generals of the Royal Account Army and the generals directly under the Imperial Accountant Army led by Yue Fei were placed behind the sixteen infantry battalion-level square formations to form a reserve team.
Finally, Yue Fei lined up sixteen 5-pound casserole cannons in the middle of the front of the battle formation composed of sixteen infantry battalion-level squares. The sixteen 25-pound hotpot cannons still maintained their marching status and did not deploy.
As for the formation of the Jin army, eight thousand Han infantry were placed in a hollow square in front, and five thousand Jurchen cavalry were scattered in the back in units of Meng'an Thousand People. Inside the hollow phalanx placed in front, twenty medium-sized tip cannons for projecting explosive pots were assembled.
The front lines of the two armies' battle formations were more than three hundred steps apart, which was about a mile or so apart. At this distance, the God's Arm Bow cannot hit it, and the tip cannon cannot hit it. Only the Eight Ox Crossbow can reach it... Oh, and now there is a black technology weapon called the "Casserole Cannon"!
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"Gou Zong Yan Wan Wang Song..."
Yue Fei held up a telescope that could be regarded as a "black magic", looked at an "inverted" identification flag, and read out a few words with difficulty - this inverted Chinese character was really not used to it!
Immediately next to Yue Fei was Li Qiong, a student from Xiangzhou Prefecture who had joined the imperial army. He heard the words reported by Yue Fei and immediately corrected him: "Lieutenant, you read it wrong. It should be Wanyan Zonggou, King of Song Dynasty."
"It's all because of this telescope, everything is upside down..." Yue Fei put down the telescope, "This Song King Wanyan clan should be the clan of the Jin Kingdom, right?"
Li Qiong nodded, "Yes, he is from the Zong generation. He is the same generation as the second prince Wanyan Yibu and the fourth prince Wanyan Wushu."
"Humph, it's still a big gold thief..." Yue Fei raised the telescope again and began to look for an inverted big gold thief above the inverted recognition flag. He soon found one, " He is quite young, he looks to be in his twenties, and surrounded by a large group of people, he must be Wanyan Zonggou!"
As Yue Fei spoke, his face became darker and darker, and murderous aura surged up, covering his entire face... I don't know why, but when Yue Fei saw Wanyan Zonggou's sinister face, , just full of anger, as if he had met an enemy in his previous life.
Since they were enemies in the previous life, Yue Fei is not polite!
Now Yue Fei is very powerful. He has sixteen black-tech "clay pot cannons" in his hand. The enemy Wanyan Zonggou from his previous life is within the range of the casserole cannon!
Yue Fei thought to himself: You Wanyan Zonggou doesn't look like a good person, and you have killed many anti-Jin people. Today is the day to eliminate harm for the country...
"Send the order!" Yue Fei shouted.
Hearing Yue Fei's shout, Li Qiong quickly took the brush dipped in ink and a notebook clamped on a wooden board from a soldier beside him, preparing to record it.
A group of soldiers responsible for delivering orders also ran up with their horses.
Seeing that they were all ready, Yue Fei said loudly: "Instruct all the casserole cannons to load five kilograms of iron bullets, aim at the white flag in the Jin army's formation and fire...fire ten bullets in salvo! The salvo is completed After that, they immediately moved to the right wing and joined the third general of the Yulin Cavalry. Then they circled towards the left wing of the Golden Thieves until they were one mile away from the Golden Thieves Cavalry, where they repositioned the artillery array and waited for orders.
The infantry battalions were ordered to prepare their rifles and explosive pots. After the bombardment, they marched into formation and attacked the front of the gold thief.
Send an order to the third general of the Yulin Cavalry to wait for the artillery team to arrive and then cover it to make a detour towards the gold thief's left..."
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Seeing the Song army suddenly busy around the dozen large tubes more than a mile away, a rather ominous premonition came to Wanyan Zonggou's mind: What are they busy with? Why are the mouths of those big tubes facing me? No, I have to move back...
As soon as he thought of this, he saw the sixteen large tubes shaking violently at the same time. Fire spit out first, followed by a thunderous roar...
When Wanyan Zonggou heard a roar in his ears, he had been thrown off his horse by a strong wind that came from nowhere. He fell heavily to the ground and fell on all fours. , the back of his head landed on the ground, and there were stars popping out in front of his eyes!
Before he could react, the war horse under his crotch started, first let out a long roar, then turned its head sideways and tried to run away. This horse was the same, it just ran, without even looking to see if there was anything on the ground, it just stepped on Wanyan Zonggou with one hoof. But fortunately, he did not step on Wanyan Zonggou, but fell between Zonggou's spread legs. He just rubbed Wanyan Zonggou's lifeblood... just scratched Wanyan Zonggou's life. He couldn't stand it anymore. He only felt a sharp pain coming from his crotch, and then his vision went black and he lost consciousness.
There are several Jurchen veterans arranged by Wanyan Yan around him, and their performance at this time is quite reliable. When they saw Zong Gou dismounted and being picked up by the horse, they knew something was wrong. They rushed forward, picked up Zong Gou who had fainted, and ran to the back of the formation... He always said that he saved Wanyan Zonggou's life.
When Wanyan Zonggou was injured and carried off the battlefield, his eight thousand Han soldiers were completely in panic. Although they have all seen the danger of exploding pots, they have never seen the power of the "clay pot cannon", so they are not mentally prepared at all!
When the sixteen casserole cannons roared, spitting out a deadly iron bullet, whistling and carrying a strange wind, it fell among them, and then bounced up again, flying in unpredictable directions, bringing with it pieces of blood and taking away the blood. When you risk your life one by one and beat the traitor soldiers wearing heavy armor to pieces. The infantry under Wanyan Zonggou were completely frightened... What kind of weapon is this? Why so cruel? Could it be a witchcraft? The Song Army's evil spells are so brutal, can everyone still have a way to survive?
Boom, boom, boom...
The sound of cannons shook the earth and the mountains one after another, as if there was no time to stop. And every round of earth-shaking roars was accompanied by more than a dozen iron balls flying everywhere and falling into the formation of these Dajin Han soldiers!
To be honest, the accuracy of the 5-pound bullet fired by the short-barreled "casserole cannon" is not high, but it is not difficult to hit an infantry square composed of 8,000 people at a distance of about a mile. Moreover, these 5-pound iron bullets have a high chance of bouncing up after landing, forming a terrifying ricochet!
Ricochets were flying everywhere, and if there happened to be Jin soldiers standing somewhere, it would be bloody... Not to mention that the Han'er army couldn't hold it, even the Jurchen cavalry holding down the formation behind. I can't stand it! Some of the iron bullets flew far away, so they landed near the Jurchen cavalry formation. After bouncing off the ground, they went straight to the Jurchens riding horses! Wherever he passed, there was suddenly a scene of people falling on their backs and a bloody storm!
Wanyan Xiebao was also frightened by the sudden bombardment. He had actually heard the story of the "copper pot demon method" and the "white-clothed demon girl", but because of the appearance of the bombing pot, he, like everyone else, ignored it. Instead of "copper pot" and "witch", all the attention was put on the easier-to-understand fried pot.
As a result, now that I have seen the "power of the pot", I am just dumbfounded and have an extremely bad premonition - the Song Dynasty actually has such a sharp weapon, and Dajin is in danger!
