The Jin army behind the palace was very miserable after Yan Zonghan's department, and the Song army under Lu Junyi fought several battles yesterday, and after only hurriedly using some dry food, he retreated overnight in the middle of the night, and then was chased and killed by the Song army.

At noon the next day, when there were still more than 40 miles away from Zhongmu, the remnants of the Jin army of more than 30,000 were already in distress, and Wanyan Zonghan had to order all the troops to rest on the spot, use some dry food, and then march westward.

But he never thought that when he was eating dry food, there was a lot of smoke and dust in the distance, and he reported back to the horses, saying that there were tens of thousands of military horses of the Zhongmu Song army rushing straight to him, and Zong Han was not panicked, he also expected that after returning with the words yesterday, Zongwang's troops would definitely make a detour to the west, and the Zhongmu Song army would definitely turn back and attack the tens of thousands of gold troops behind his palace.

After eating the last piece of bread, Zong Han got up, pulled out the long knife at his waist and said loudly: "The warriors of the Dajin Kingdom, now there are chasing soldiers behind and strong enemies in front, if you want to live, you must rush to the death, and break through the current enemy in one go, so that you can survive!" When the Jin army first heard that there was an enemy army in front of them, they were also panicked, but after listening to Zong Han's encouragement, they gradually quieted down, and when people are in a desperate situation, the instinct to survive may be the biggest motivation.

At that moment, the Jin people screamed and screamed, and the sluggish morale rose again, and they got on their horses one after another, prepared their blades, arranged the formation, and waited for Zong Han's order, and the 30,000 remnants of the Jin army rushed straight to the Mou Song army.

However, it was said that Sanniang waved the army there to intercept the Jin army of Zonghan's department, and after leaving Zhongmu for more than 30 miles, the front Tanma had already detected the movement of the Jin army, and Sanniang ordered all the troops to stop arranging. Sun Andao, under his command: "Our army is in a sharp momentum, when the enemy is broken in one go, why did the lord order the army to stop?" ”

Sanniang was on the lion horse in the Yuzhao night, and with a wave of the horsewhip in her hand, she said lightly: "The art of war is cloudy, and the death is the battle. The Jin army is still fighting in a trap of beasts, and it is not easy for our army's elite military horses to drill, so why bother to fight with them? I will use bows and crossbows and firearms to destroy them in front of the formation! ”

The military order was handed down, and the Song army began to arrange the formation, only to see the Song army a school team of 1,000 people, arranged into a huge phalanx, all called the zigzag arrangement, with a hollow middle. At the front of this hollow phalanx are shield soldiers tied to the shield wall, behind is a row of spearmen, three spears pointing straight ahead, behind are yellow birch bows and divine arm archers, and in the center are grenadiers, rockets, and artillerymen. The finished word structure is scattered between each phalanx, and the distance between them is fifty steps, which is the hollow phalanx under the mixed use of hot and cold weapons after Sanniang's intensive research and reform.

In later generations, this hollow phalanx was the best formation against cavalry, and the lobster soldiers of later generations used this formation to defeat many of the most elite cavalry in the world at that time, including the Arab Mamluk cavalry, the Mongol cavalry and the Eight Banners cavalry.

Now the hollow phalanx of the Song army is facing one of the most elite heavy armored cavalry in the Middle Ages, the Jin cavalry, although they are covered with heavy armor, but the lethality of the divine arm bow within fifty steps is also extremely amazing, and there are grenades thrown by the grenadiers in the formation to kill, there are rockets at a long distance, and the shield and spear are the nightmare of the heavy armored cavalry, and this battle is already doomed to the doom of the Jin army's defeat at the beginning.

More than 30,000 Jin troops roared in, Zong Han saw the Song army from a distance to discharge a strange phalanx, like fish scales scattered and caused, Zong Han saw the big is strange, before the field battle with the Song army, the Song army is at the mercy of the formation is lined up, and then the heavy armor infantry army is in front, the bow and crossbow in the back, often the Jin army is roundabout the flank or around and attack the weak point, in one fell swoop, the formation is broken, today the Song army laid down this formation There is a gap in the middle, but not just what it means.

At the moment, Zong Han is not allowed to think about it, and only by breaking through the current Song army as soon as possible in the shortest possible time and rushing out before the chasing troops of Lu Junyi's department arrive behind him, can there be a glimmer of life. So Zong Han gave an order, and ordered more than 10,000 cavalry in the front to rush forward, followed by light cavalry and infantry behind.

The forward cavalry rushed straight forward, and when they reached more than 100 steps, they could already see that the shield wall and spears in front of the phalanx in front of them had decorated the Song military array like a hedgehog, and the Jin army could not speak, so it was natural to ride their horses into the gap between the Song army's array and the phalanx. When the cavalry of the Jin army broke into the first phalanx of the word structure, the crossbowmen of the Song army on both sides of the word began to cast the crossbow, the strong bow and crossbow at a close distance of less than fifty steps, can penetrate two layers of heavy armor, the cavalry of the Jin army suddenly fell to the ground with an arrow, and the Song grenadiers in the center of the phalanx began to throw grenades, so the gap in the aisle in the middle of the phalanx became a road of no return to death.

After 10,000 cavalry troops broke into the formation, an order was issued in the hollow phalanx of the Song army, and the rockets and artillery men in the formation began to use rockets and artillery.

Pity more than 10,000 elite Jin army Tiefutu, passing through the passage between the phalanx, was either shot by a bow and crossbow, or killed by a grenade, and many cavalry rushed to the front of the formation angrily, but was blocked by the shield wall, and then was nailed alive by the spear. There were also cavalrymen who wanted to jump into the hollow phalanx, but unfortunately the armor on their bodies and the armor on the horses were too heavy, and no matter how they charged, it was difficult for the horses under their crotch to cross the hedgehog wall composed of the shield wall and the three-zhang spear.

In just half an hour, more than 10,000 Jin cavalry were swallowed up by the hollow phalanx group arranged with fish scales, and the grenadiers in the phalanx swarmed out, they held heavy axes and heavy knives, and killed the Jin cavalry who fell and did not die in the passage outside the formation, and even the injured Jin army also mended their knives, and they did not leave a prisoner.

Then the horn sounded, the Song army began to change formations, after the phalanx gathered, let go of the two wings, the Song army's rear of the dragoons and hussars had already been gearing up galloped out, straight to the light cavalry and infantry of the Jin army behind.

Zong Han looked at the tragedy in the Song army's formation on the opposite side with a dull gaze, he was helpless, and when he saw the Song army's cavalry roaring, he could only pull out his long knife and shout: "All the armies fight to the death!" He knew that the Jin light cavalry and infantry army behind him could not stop the heavy armored dragoons of the Song army on the opposite side no matter what, and the dragoons on the Shandong Road were comparable to the heavy armored cavalry of the Jin people.

Soon the light cavalry of the Jin army was defeated by the heavy armored cavalry, and the scale armor on their bodies was easily cut by the heavy axes and heavy knives of the dragoons, and it was also easy to be shot through by the horse crossbows of the dragoons, while the light bows and fast knives in their hands were difficult to kill the double heavy armor of the dragoons. The light cavalry of the Jin army was quickly routed and fled in all directions, and soon the hussars of the Song army pursued them.

The Song army hussars are generally also wearing scale armor, and the horses have no armor, but they are covered with a layer of cotton armor against arrows, and the ability to prevent arrows is better than that of the Jin cavalry.

The hussars chased and killed the Jin cavalry, but the heavy cavalry did not stop, and the war horses under their crotches were still galloping, with huge momentum, and rushed straight to the Jin army's infantry formation. The Jin people are arranged in a common infantry army in this era, and the general one is also a front row shield array, with spears in the middle and crossbowmen in the back, in a row.

This formation is not difficult for the cavalry to break, just because it is arranged in a straight line, and the intelligent cavalry commander will only concentrate his forces to attack three or five places, as long as the sacrifice of more than ten cavalry in front, he will definitely be able to break through a hole, and then the cavalry will swarm in from the breakthrough, and the enemy's position will be broken immediately.

When the Jin Army's Tiefutu attacked the Song Army's hollow phalanx, the Jin Army's generals of the Forward Army did not think of this move, but the Song Army's phalanx was a group of fish scale formations, and each small hollow phalanx was only a thousand people, even if it could break through a phalanx, it could not break its large army formation, not to mention that when the Jin Army cavalry was preparing to gather troops to attack one place, the Song Army's grenadiers would definitely throw grenades at the most dense place of the Jin Army cavalry, blowing up the dense Jin Army cavalry. Therefore, the cavalry of the Jin army was not able to organize an effective impact formation, and could only be three or five cavalry alone to attack the shield wall of the phalanx, and the result was naturally scattered and killed, even if it was accidentally broken through one or two openings, but there was no follow-up cavalry, these openings were quickly filled by other Song soldiers in the phalanx, and they could continue to maintain the integrity of the phalanx.

But now the Jin army's infantry stacking formation is not so lucky, they have no grenades, and they have not been trained how to arrange hollow phalanxes, they will only arrange the rejecting horse stacking formation, in order to ensure the safety of the two wings, they can only arrange the formation in an arc, try to avoid cavalry detours, but arranging the arc formation, which means that the formation will be very weak, because the more close to the center of the arc, the fewer people can stand.

So the dragoons concentrated on the Jin army's stacked array of several weak points, the first dragoons regardless of their own safety, against the enemy's spear rushed straight over, soon even people and horses died under the spear, the cavalry followed immediately followed, at this time the spear has been difficult to recover, the Song cavalry with a heavy axe to cut the shield wall. Such repeated impacts, at several impact points, after killing and wounding more than ten dragoons, finally broke through the position of the Jin army, and the Jin infantry did not have time to fill the gap, and the subsequent swarming cavalry took advantage of the situation to expand the gap.

The Song dragoons swung their axes through the gap, slashed the Jin troops on both sides, and then rushed straight to the rear. As the gap in the infantry formation appeared, and it grew larger and larger, the other intact Jin infantry in the formation began to waver, and as more and more dragoons poured in, the entire formation began to collapse.

Then the infantry troops in the rear of the Song army covered up and followed the dragoons and began to kill the Jin army. Seeing this, Zong Han knew that the defeat was decided, and maybe his fate was also decided, but he would not kill himself like a coward, he wanted to be like the warriors of the Jin Kingdom, who could die under the enemy's sword, which was the best destination for a warrior. So Zong Han drew his long knife and led the last hundreds of guards to join the battle group.