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The horse's hooves roared, the tremors trembled, and the eardrums were filled with thunderous rumblings.

Twelve thousand horses' hooves rained down on the earth, and through the transmission of the ground, the sound of thunderous hooves seemed to knock on everyone's heart, making people's hearts involuntarily beat faster and faster with the rhythm of the hooves, as if they were about to jump out of their chests at any moment.

The soldiers of the Liangshan Army, who were standing in a formation of 8,000, watched the chain of horses that looked like 3,000 iron cans flowing like a black and red tide, and they were unstoppable and rushing towards them.

Rao had done many experiments and exercises when he was in Liangshan, but at this time, when he came to the battlefield and personally felt the indomitable power of thousands of horses, many officers and men of the Liangshan Army were still inevitably nervous and afraid.

Especially in the front of the hollow phalanx, because they had to face the impact of the heavy cavalry of the chain horses, these soldiers at this time had unconsciously opened their eyes one by one, their pupils were maximized, and cold sweat broke out.

"Steady! It's all steady! You must not be chaotic, don't be afraid, believe in yourself, believe in the ...... of the military master"

"Soldiers of the Liangshan Army! Believe the military master, these chain horses dare not hit the spear array! We've done a lot of experiments in the mountains......"

"Believe in the military master, as long as our military formation is not chaotic, they will not dare to collide! We won't die! But as long as we are in chaos, we will surely die, do you want to kill yourselves, kill your brothers......"

"Brothers! Believe me, they don't dare to bump into it...... Our Liangshan army is the strongest, and you are all the best soldiers...... No problem, we're going to win...... Steady, you can do it......"

Including Lin Chong, a famous (above the battalion level) instructors, (all) instructors, as well as Xu Guanzhong, Wang Yin, Lu Zhishen, Fan Rui and other officers at all levels also shouted loudly at this time, encouraging the morale of their subordinates, and restraining the sergeants to stand still, and they must not be chaotic.

At this moment, the vanguard of the three thousand chain horses finally ran to a place less than eighty paces away from the hollow phalanx, and as a trumpet sounded, these knights drew their cavalry bows one after another, ready to shoot a round of feathered arrows at the hollow phalanx of the Liangshan army.

Then, without waiting for them to shoot with their bows, they heard the sound of a loud and high-pitched swan, and the crossbowmen of the fourth column immediately rushed to shoot three rounds of arrows first, and the result was naturally useless.

The infantry bow with one stone and two buckets could not break through the iron armor of the armored rider at a distance of eighty paces, and suddenly only the sound of "ding ding ding ding" was heard non-stop, and the sparks flew everywhere but none of them hurt a single hair.

Hu Yanzhuo, who was running outside the three thousand chain horses, and the two leaders in front of him couldn't help but sneer, and a feeling of pride rose in their hearts.

At the same time, I saw a ball of smoke flying, and the white smoke instantly filled the entire field of vision in front of me, and soon a lot of dazzling firelight suddenly erupted from the white smoke, and then I heard a thunderbolt-like sound exploding.

"It's a thunderbolt, a thunderbolt fireball!"

Hu Yanzhuo couldn't help but be shocked, he didn't expect Liang Shanjun's thunderbolt bomb, thunderbolt fireball to be even more powerful than the imperial court's, and even more amazing.

All the war horses in the front row neighed almost at the same time, and some of the frightened war horses began to jump wildly, because it was thirty war horses connected together with iron cables, so a small number of war horses jumped wildly, or retreated, which immediately affected the other war horses, and the scene fell into chaos.

However, after a while, all the horses continued to move forward under the strong inertia, but in this way, the momentum of the three thousand chain horses was also stagnant, and the knights on the horses were in a hurry to control the horses, and at this time they did not care at all to shoot arrows with their bows open.

The smoke dissipated, and Hu Yanzhuo and the chain horses running in the front row were already less than fifty steps away from the hollow phalanx of the Liangshan Army in front of them.

At such a close distance, these armored horse riders could even see the incomparably frightened look in the eyes of the soldiers on the opposite side of Liangshan, and one could imagine how pale and frightened the faces behind the armor would be.

But even so, these Liangshan soldiers still stood motionless in front of them, countless densely packed, cold and bright spear blades blocking the front like hedgehogs.

Now it was Hu Yanzhuo's turn and the first few rows of horse knights to be frightened, even if they were armored horses, they didn't dare to run into this dense, hedgehog-like spear phalanx, which was almost to death.

"Turn, turn! Closer, closer......"

Almost subconsciously, without Hu Yanzhuo's order, the chain horse knights in the front row consciously chose to adjust their direction slightly, passing through the passage left in the middle of the four hollow phalanxes.

In fact, they didn't have to choose, the war horses under their crotches automatically helped them make a choice, and these intelligent animals were also afraid of sharp and sharp blades, so they instinctively ran towards the passage preset by the Liangshan army.

Out of fear, all the horses slowed down of their own accord and at the same time moved as close to the middle as possible, keeping themselves away from the bright spear tips on either side.

At this time, the knights of the Song army on the horse also forgot to release their arrows, not only because they found that the soldiers of the Liangshan Army standing in these dense formations were all fully armored, but also the crossbowmen in the fourth row also replaced their crossbows with armor-piercing cones and short spears at this time.

This is actually a threat, if you dare to release arrows, we will throw armor-piercing cones.

Moreover, surrounded by the spear phalanx of the Liangshan Army, this strong sense of oppression also made these knights with iron-clad horses lose their sharpness and become bottomless.

It didn't take long for the front rows of the three thousand ironclad chain horses to pass through the hollow phalanx of the Liangshan army, but in front of them was a row of shield carts, because the thirty chain horses were connected together, and they could not turn around, so they could only continue to run along the passage of the shield carts.

At this moment, I heard a trumpet sound, and the whistle in the shield cart kept sounding, and soon the shield cart opened, and from it came out of it countless hook and sickle gunners, and without saying a word, they lowered their heads and began to hook down the horses on both sides with hook and sickle guns.

The thirty horses of this iron-armored chain of horses were connected together, and only the two war horses on the left and right were hooked, and the other twenty-eight war horses were dragged down at once.

What made them even more desperate was that even if these armored horses discovered the changes ahead, because the armor on their bodies was too heavy, where could they contain it for a while? Only the energy continued to surge, and finally squeezed into three big bumps, and then all stopped.

However, the heavy cavalry lost its speed and was surrounded by the enemy's elite infantry, and the result was naturally needless to say.

"Lay down your arms, disarm or kill!"

"Lay down your arms, disarm or kill!"

The Song army's foot soldiers, who only heard 10,000 people, suddenly burst out into thunder and roared, and all of them took off their masks, their faces full of sweat and a little pale, and their faces were full of ecstasy.

Lin Chong was also ecstatic, in fact, with the hook and sickle spearmen trained by Xu Ning, Lin Chong could lead the three thousand chain horses to the reeds or weeds like in the original trajectory.

However, in the end, Lin Chong still decided to set up a hollow phalanx to resist a wave head-on, because this actual battle was held, and in the future, the Liangshan infantry army would have a psychological advantage in the face of the overwhelming Hu cavalry of the Liao State or the Jurchens.

The soldiers who have experienced the real test have always been the most precious, and fortunately, the four hollow phalanx of the Liangshan Army and the 8,000-foot army have withstood the test.

"Let's go, let's go to meet Hu Yanzhuo, presumably Brother Huyan has already seen his cousin at this moment."