However, to the surprise of the Chu army, when the main force of the Song army replaced the Wu army into the battlefield, the Chu army, as expected, directly withdrew all the large armies outside, which made the Song army's sortie come to naught.

failed to have a direct decisive battle with the Chu army, and Le Yi was also a little surprised. Then he did not stay any longer, and directly led the army of the Song State towards the large camp of the Chu army outside Yunyang City.

Soon after the Song army arrived near the Chu army camp, Le Yi received a battle letter from Zhao Hua, and asked the two sides to have a decisive battle in three days!

For the challenge of the Chu army, Le Yi was a little surprised, in his opinion, the general situation on the battlefield now is that the Song army is surrounded by the Chu and Yue armies. Although he sent the Wu army and let the nobles of the East China Sea attack and harass the Yue land, he did not think that it would be able to contain the Yue army for long.

However, in a head-on decisive battle with the Chu army, even if the Song army was at a disadvantage in numbers, Le Yi did not have any fear. In his mind, the Song army's attack on the Jiangnan region of Chu was an offensive strategy. If you can't defeat your opponent head-on in a field battle, let alone be able to capture the well-defended cities of the Chu army; Moreover, in a frontal field battle, the casualties of the Song army will be much lower than those during the siege.

Since the Chu army was willing to fight a quick battle with the Song army, Le Yi naturally would not object, and immediately agreed to the Chu army's request.

Three days later, the Song-Wu coalition army, a total of 60,000 people, and the Chu army of 80,000 people, all walked out of the camp and set up a position in the field to conduct a decisive battle!

If such a battle were to be held in the Spring and Autumn Period, the two sides would inevitably send envoys to the army and hold various diplomatic activities. However, in today's Warring States Period, even if some diplomatic rules are retained among the nations, when it comes to the real battlefield, there is no longer any warmth at all, and there is only endless killing!

As soon as the two sides set up their formations on the battlefield, without giving each other any extra time, the battle quickly began.

Although there were only 40,000 Song troops who followed Le Yi to Wudi, these troops were all the elite of the Song army. Among them, in addition to the old army known as "the strongest army of the Song Kingdom", the other two armies are also the Tiger Army and the Longwei Army that have experienced the baptism of the Song Civil War; In addition to this, there is also a very special secret army, which is an army that has gathered the essence of the Song Kingdom, and it is the biggest hole card in Le Yi's hand.

Compared with the Song army, the Wu army that followed from Wucheng was stronger than the ordinary Chu army, but it could not be compared with the Song army. In order to prevent the Wu army from affecting the Song army's operations, Le Yi placed the Wu army on the flank of the Song army and organized it into a separate army.

The Song army fought with the enemy, and the basic formation was naturally a pattern in which the sword and shield soldiers were in front, the pikemen were in the center, and the crossbowmen were in the rear, while the bed crossbows and ballistas were protected by the army. Such a formation can fully exert the power of the long-range weapons in the rear row of the Song army, and it is the most basic combat formation of the Song army.

On the other side of the battlefield, seeing the familiar formation that Song Jun posed, the familiar one could not be more familiar, and the corners of Zhao's slippery mouth showed a hint of mockery. He has been studying this combat formation of the Song Army for many years, and he has to admit that this formation does have an extremely wide range of applications, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a kind of panacea formation.

It's a pity that after today, this array will be broken by me! With a strong sense of self-confidence, Zhao Slip immediately instructed the Chu army to begin an attack.

The attack of the Chu army was launched by the levies with the lowest combat power. These conscripts are not the regular army of the Chu army, and on the frontal battlefield, they can't even beat the Wu army on the opposite side, but Zhao Slip still brought them over, isn't it just for use at this time!

Thousands of conscripts followed Zhao Hua's order and began to walk slowly towards the large array of the Song army. It's not that the speed of their march is so slow, it's that these soldiers know that if they really rush in front of the Song army's big array and fall within the range of the Song army's sharp long-range weapons, they can only pray to the great commander if they can survive.

However, no matter how slow you travel, there will always be an end to the road. When they began to enter the strike range of the Song army's bed crossbow, these recruited soldiers, under the threat of life and death, finally began to break out all the belligerent character of the Chu people, who were not afraid of life and death, and they all rushed towards the direction of the Song army's large array!

The bed crossbows of the Song army and the crossbowmen in the back row unsurprisingly began to be launched. Faced with the tight weapons produced by the industrial process, coupled with the accurate shooting of soldiers who had been trained for many years, most of these recruited Chu soldiers did not even touch the formation of the Song army, and fell on the way to charge.

And after such a tight attack, even the long-range strike weapons in the rear began to use multi-stage shooting to maintain the coherence of the attack, and at this time it could no longer fire many crossbow arrows.

At this time, the Chu army had already arrived in front of the Song army's formation, but at this moment, from the Chu army's large array, the voice of Ming Jin suddenly came! Is this the Chu army retreating? All the Song soldiers on the battlefield asked in their hearts.

And those Chu soldiers who survived and were still charging were indeed a little stunned when they heard this voice. Then they no longer cared about the Song army, and immediately ran to the rear in ecstasy, lest they ran slowly, and the Song army's crossbow arrows would attack them again!

Such a change made Song Jun immediately a little uncertain. Le Yi, who was in the big array, also wondered what Chu Jun's intention was when he acted like this, and a surprised side appeared.

Just when the surviving soldiers of the Chu army retreated, from the large array of the Chu army, there was a group of soldiers who rushed towards the large array of the Song army in the opposite direction to the retreating soldiers! And for this group of soldiers, the Song army was completely unable to attack them.

First of all, not to mention the previous charge of the Chu army, a large number of crossbow arrows of the Song army soldiers were consumed, making the Song army's attack weak. Even now in front of the Song army are the retreating Chu army, and the Song army wants to attack, but it can't attack this group of soldiers.

Relying on the cover of these Chu army conscripts, the newly arrived Chu army quickly got rid of the attack of the Song army's bed crossbow and pressed up. When these soldiers passed by the retreating Chu soldiers, the Song soldiers standing in the first row of the large array saw this Chu army clearly.

This Chu army is completely different from the ordinary Chu army. This army is full of armor, helmets, and heavy weapons such as swords and axes. Even with such a heavy item on their bodies, they came with an incredible speed of impact.

These soldiers are the heavy infantry that Zhao Slip spent several years training to finally complete, and they are specially used to attack the heavy infantry that breaks the formation! These heavy infantry continued the way of carefully selecting from ordinary soldiers like Wei Wushu, and their selection was even stricter than that of the Chu king's Chu Wushu!

And the armor used by this army almost consumed nearly half of the wealth accumulated by the Zhao clan over the years. And their weapons are all made of iron produced by craftsmen who plundered from the Song State after Zhaohua attacked the Xiangyi Industrial Zone and re-established the Industrial Zone in the Chu State. Even though these iron tools are relatively coarse pig iron, they are all the iron tools that the Zhao clan has accumulated over the years!

This Chu army had a total of tens of thousands of people, and before Fang Yi arrived at the Song army's main array, without saying a word, he directly picked up the big sword and giant axe in his hand and attacked the Song soldiers in the front row. Under the previous rapid impact, coupled with the powerful heavy weapons in the hands of these troops, as soon as Fang hit the front of the Song army's formation, it was like a heavy hammer, hitting the strong defense line at the forefront of the Song army!

Le Yi, who was in the Song army's large array, saw with his own eyes that in addition to the arrows fired by the bed crossbows, the crossbow arrows fired by the Song army's crossbowmen shot at these Chu soldiers, and they were completely unable to shoot through the multiple armor they were wearing. The soldiers of the Song army who stood at the forefront to resist the attack of this army, everyone fought bravely, and very few took a step back, fully showing the elite characteristics that they had only trained for many years, but they were also completely unable to compete with the Chu army that came from the onslaught.

Even these soldiers of the Song Army are wearing armor, and even everyone has a special wooden shield in their hands as a defense, but in the face of these Chu soldiers, not only most of the shields were directly cut in half by these Chu soldiers with big swords, they were draped in the armor they were on, except for the part with metal protection, other places were also directly smashed by the heavy weapons of the Chu army!

And even if a small number of Song soldiers with metal plate armor as a defense can block the slashing of the big sword, they can't completely neutralize the attack brought by the heavy axe!

In this kind of face-to-face hand-to-hand combat, facing the heavy infantry carefully trained by Zhaohua and specially used to break the formation, even the Xuanniao Army, which had the strongest combat effectiveness of the Song army, was also at an all-round disadvantage! The battle between the two sides took place in less than a quarter of an hour, and the Song army suffered thousands more casualties on the battlefield!

When the Chu army was in full swing, Zhao Hua immediately began to order the Chu army to launch a general attack.

Such a battle situation is extremely unfavorable for the Song army. Le Yi knew that if at this time, he could not save the defeat of the soldiers of the Song army at the forefront, then the Song army's strategy in Jiangnan would fall into a complete failure!

At such a time, his heart calmed down. Subsequently, he began to order the soldiers who were at the forefront of the battle against the Chu army to continue to resist, and at the same time, he began to order the secret troops used to suppress the formation, ready for battle!

The Song army had a total of 40,000 people, and the three armies of Xuanniao, Huben, and Longwei were all regular armies, each army was a full strength of 12,500 people, and the remaining 2,500 people in the end were a complete full division.

And the army similar to this secret army has only two divisions in the Song State, and these two divisions, in the Song State army, do not belong to any army, but like the cavalry of the Song State, they belong to a special formation that is self-contained.

Its sorties are different from ordinary armies and require a certain amount of time to prepare. When the soldiers of the Song Army who were at the forefront used the lives of hundreds of Song soldiers to block the attack of the heavy infantry of the Chu army, such a secret force was finally ready for battle.

Subsequently, under Le Yi's orders, the drummers and standard-bearers of the Song army immediately began to interrogate the Song soldiers. With such information, the soldiers of the Song Army who were in the preface immediately began to slowly retreat and give way to the battlefield.

By this time, the main force of the Chu army had all been pressed up. Soon, all the Chu soldiers on the battlefield began to hear a heavy sound of step-by-step.

Everyone began to look at the large array of the Song army, only to see rows of soldiers with the same peculiar shape coming out of the large array of the Song army. These soldiers were somewhat similar to the heavy infantry of the Chu army, and all of them wore exquisite armor with a metallic sheen; The weapon in his hand was a long knife with a strange shape.

This kind of knife was about seven feet long, and its blade was three feet long, and its handle was four feet long, and there was an iron drill under the handle. Such a delicate long knife, coupled with the shining metal armor of the Song army, makes this army like a heavenly soldier descending to earth!

All the soldiers of the Chu army were shocked by the heroic appearance of this Song army! Even the heavy infantry of the Chu army, which had just established the Mo War, compared with it, was like an ugly duckling seeing a white swan, and he couldn't help but feel ashamed!

The Song Army's army is naturally not purely for the sake of good looks! Especially in the current situation on the battlefield, which is still unfavorable to the Song army, Le Yi ignored the shocked expression of the Chu army and directly instructed this army to attack!

Subsequently, all the Song, Chu, and Wu armies on the battlefield immediately saw that the handsome army, like a thick wall, marched directly in front of the heavy infantry of the Chu army.

The heavy infantry of the Chu army, with tens of thousands of people, had just defeated the Song army's array, and its spirit was at its peak, and in the face of the opponent's attack, it was fearless and directly greeted!

"Bang bang bang!!" Only a continuous and crisp sound could be heard on the battlefield, and then all the soldiers saw that the soldiers of the Chu army who had just defeated the soldiers of the Song army were directly broken by the army marching like a wall!

Most of the heavy infantry of the Chu army were either cut in half by the long knives in the hands of the Song army, or they were directly cut to different places. Under the impact of this kind of Song army with a long knife and marching like a wall, no Chu soldier could still remain intact after being stabbed!

The layers of leather armor they wore were like paper paste, and they were broken by the Song army with a single blow!

After defeating the first group of soldiers, the Song army did not stop and continued to advance! This time, Chu Jun learned to be obedient and did not come to fight against Song Jun in a frontal one-on-one way like before. In their minds, the Song army was just a weapon in his hand that was longer than the Chu army, so he could achieve such a result! The heavy infantry of the Chu army was four times larger than that of the Song army, could it not be defeated?

These heavy infantry gathered together to fight the Song army in a dense way, and indeed achieved certain results, and their attacks also hit the Song army. However, to their surprise, whether it was a long sword or a heavy axe, it slashed at the Song soldiers, but there was no damage!

On the contrary, under the frontal impact of the Song army, the casualties suffered by these heavy infantry of the Chu army were even greater because they were concentrated to fight against the Song army. In just a while, this Song army caused tens of thousands of heavy infantry to the Chu army, far exceeding the casualties caused by the Chu army to the Song army before!

Looking at such a picture, Zhao Slip, who was commanding in the great array of the Chu army, was full of disbelief, and he muttered in his mouth: "Impossible, this is absolutely impossible!" ”

On the other side, Le Yi, who saw this battle situation, was relieved. He was very clear about the origin of this army, and the soldiers who formed this army were all the strongest and most loyal soldiers selected from the more than 200,000 soldiers of the Song State; And the armor on their bodies was pressed from the steel produced by the Taoqiu military factory for several years; The long knife in his hand was named Mo Dao by Song Jun Dai Yan himself, and it was also made of the best steel in the Song Kingdom!

That's right, such an army is Dai Yan's consumption of the industrial essence of the Song Kingdom and specially created it to achieve absolute superiority in land warfare to suppress the opponent's Mo Dao Formation.

The generals of the Song State were very dissatisfied with the establishment of the Modao Formation at first, and they all thought that such an army consumed too many resources of the Song State. If the resources of arming this army are used in the hands of other armies of the Song State, the Song State can at least cultivate several armies with the same combat power as the Xuanniao Army! However, after they had seen the exercises of the Mo Dao Formation, they all kept silent, and there were no more superfluous words after that it had consumed too many resources!

In this way, such an army with a small number of people can become the overwhelming army of the Southern Expeditionary Army!