I don't know his confidant, and I can't be defeated in a hundred battles; Knowing oneself without knowing the other, one wins and one loses; I don't know who I am, I don't know myself, I will die in every battle.

- The Art of War

After the start of the battle of Yaojiang.

The king of Jiaozhi, Chen Rixuan, saw his army pursuing the left flank of the Song army.

The king of Jiaozhi, Chen Rixuan, saw his army occupy the pontoon bridge end of the left flank of the Song army.

Seeing his army, Chen Rixuan, the king of Jiaozhi, began to pursue the fleeing left flank of the Song army.

The king of Jiaozhi, Chen Rixuan, saw the Song army in front of him pass through the pontoon bridge at an astonishing speed and complete the formation.

The king of Jiaozhi, Chen Rixuan, saw the Song army in front of him begin to advance, and at a distance of 50 meters from his array, they set up strange weapons.

Chen Rixuan, the king of Jiaozhi, heard a loud noise. It was an indescribable voice, and the first sound sounded the old king, and he only felt a sudden irritation in his heart. The loud noise rang out more than a dozen times in a row, and before anyone could see if they were injured, the roars of elephants rang out one after another from inside the Cochin military formation. The mahout noticed that these obedient men suddenly went crazy and stopped obeying any orders at all. The big fan-like ears rang up and roared loudly. The herd strode away from the loud noise, knocking it headlong into the air or flattening it with its thick thighs.

The mahouts tried to control the elephants, and the frightened elephants initially tried to swing their bodies and shake off the nasty things on their backs. Some elephants succeeded, and those that didn't simply stood up like war horses and dumped the weight on their backs like garbage.

King Chen Rixuan watched in amazement as his army collapsed under the onslaught of his own herd, and he could barely establish a logical relationship between the loud noise he had never heard before and the disturbance of the elephant herd, but the neurons connecting the two events were too few and too weak, so other habitual ideas instantly prevailed. The strongest part of this neuronal connection, also known as the 'worldview', has the upper hand. The word 'witchcraft' came out of King Chen Rixuan's heart.

Song Jun, who carried out the sonic attack, did not have the slightest concept of 'witchcraft' in his heart. An army without culture is incapable of fighting power. The commanders and fighters of the Seafaring Guild were educated, and these people may not be able to understand materialism and therefore become 'intellectuals'. However, cultural and scientific education can at least make them 'knowers'. In the Battle of Xiangyang, the commanders and fighters who participated in this battle knew that the war horses would be frightened by loud noises without being trained, and they would deviate from the normal war horse's action mode. Now the elephants have also proved what the teachers said that loud noises can send wild animals into a panic. Animals in this state have little effect on the attacking side.

As 'knowers', the enemy's embarrassment puts the commanders and fighters into fighting mode. The fourth battalion is the one to the right of the two phalanxes on the left and right of the Chinese army. Seeing that the loud noise made the elephant soldiers of the Jiaozhi people proud collapse, Song Jie, the commander of the fourth battalion, shouted without hesitation: "All of them, ready to move forward!" ”

With this order, the flag, which had been holding the flagpole with his left hand to make the military flag stand straight, held the flagpole high with both hands and waved the flagpole, waving the flag in the air in a beautiful movement. As soon as the military flag moved, the waist drummers in the first row neatly cocked their waist drums. Almost subconsciously, the soldiers who were ready to march began to raise their legs high and step.

Each soldier wore calfskin leather boots from Jeju Island on his feet, and the sound of his steps became more and more neat with the sound of a neat waist drum. Just as the infantry was in formation, the artillerymen dragged their artillery to the front of the formation, and with only a slight correction, they began to fire fiercely at the Cochin army formation in front of them at the fastest rate of fire.

Gray iron is wear-resistant, and has good cutting and casting properties. Guns cast from gray iron were thinner and easier to dissipate heat. Of course, it's also more susceptible to rust. So the artillery began to emit an unpleasant mushy smell of rust-proof grease being burnt at high temperatures. However, these smells did not make the artillerymen resist in the slightest. Compared to these smells, those thick gunpowder smoke are the most pungent existence.

The shelling made the Jiaozhi army's formation, which had been scattered by elephants, a little more chaotic, and it was only a little. Seeing that the shelling did not produce the desired effect, the commanders of the 4th and 6th battalions, which were located on both sides of the Chinese army, issued a new order almost at the same time, "All of them, advance!" ”

The military flag raised high changed from a vertical posture to a posture of pointing diagonally forward, and the silky red military flag first unfolded due to inertia, and then floated forward, like a red giant blade swinging down. The flag strode forward, the drummers followed, and the entire army naturally began to march with the flag.

In the next 20 minutes, Song Jie, the commander of the fourth battalion, fell into a tense work.

In the first minute, he moved forward with the army of the first platoon.

In the second minute, the pikemen of the Song army approached the bewildered Jiaozhi soldiers, and Song Jie ordered the four platoons of the fourth battalion and one company to move forward, and the Qingqi and drummers temporarily retreated behind the four platoons of pikemen.

Zhao Jiaren's army was composed of squads, platoons, companies, battalions, regiments, brigades, and divisions. There are ten people in a class, and the class leader is ten people long. A platoon of four squads can just stand in a row in the military formation. A company of four platoons, they were arranged in four consecutive rows. There is a certain gap between each company. Make it easier for troops to command.

Under the onslaught of the elephant herd, those Jiaozhi people on the battlefield have lost their organization. Seeing the dense array of spears coming towards them, some of the cross-toed soldiers were so frightened that they turned their heads and ran, and some were so frightened that they didn't know what to do at all. The dense spears are four meters long, and when they encounter those Jiaozhi people who are blocking the path, they will be stabbed to death with a single spear.

The musketeer companies on both flanks formed a four-column formation and adopted a four-stage strike pattern. Three rows of infantry reloaded as they advanced, and the outermost platoon paused briefly to shoot outside their formation. Although this kind of shooting is no longer accurate, as long as the shooting density is sufficient, it is also lethal enough.

In the fifth minute, the marching ranks began to loosen. Song Jie ran into the military formation and ordered the company commanders to adjust the marching speed of the troops.

In the sixth minute, there was a slight problem with the adjustment. Someone in the second platoon of a company probably didn't raise his leg when he was walking, and tripped over a pothole in the ground. The row of people in the back was still able to bypass this guy, and the one in the back accidentally stepped on the soldier's calf, stepping on the soldier who was about to get up again.

When the platoon commander saw that the situation was wrong, he immediately rushed into the line and dragged the guy out. For the soldier who was almost trampled to death by his own people, the angry platoon commander went up and punched the soldier in the chest. Song Jie, who was next to him, rushed in and grabbed the platoon commander and shouted, "What kind of majesty!" Keep an eye on your own troops! ”

Zhao Jiaren's troops were not allowed to beat soldiers, and the platoon commander was also inexperienced, so he was dizzy at the same time. Hearing the battalion commander drink this, he hurriedly pulled out a new spear from the transporter in the military formation and stuffed it into the soldier's hand. Lead him back to the military position.

In the eighth minute, a crowd of cochins appeared in front of the military formation. Song Jie ordered the military formation to stop temporarily, and the musket company following behind the pikemen company was transferred to the front, and opened heavy fire on the crowded Jiaozhi people in front with four shots. With a shot of muskets at close range, the Cochins were completely scattered, and the dead and wounded they left on the ground fled.

In the fourteenth minute, the pikes were again sent to the front, and they advanced slowly, stabbing the enemy on the ground with their spears. Having eliminated the enemy, the troops continued to move forward.

In the eighteenth minute, the troops stepped over the corpse-strewn area and began to enter a relatively empty position.

Song Jie turned his head to look and saw the flag of the Chinese army flying high in the distance. However, there seems to be no other markers other than the various Cochin people around. As he looked up, he saw the flag of the King of Cochin flying high in front of him. Song Jie called the battalion staff and asked loudly, "Does the Taiwei have an order for us to capture King Jiaozhi if possible?" ”

In addition to the battalion commander being responsible for the problems encountered during the march, the battalion staff officer is also responsible for this work. When Song Jie asked him this, the battalion staff officer first looked surprised, and then he nodded vigorously as if he was in a dream, and replied loudly: "There is such a thing. ”

On the boiling battlefield, the two shouted at the top of their throats, so that they could hear each other clearly. Sure that he was not mistaken, Song Jie shouted: "Troops, continue to move forward." ”

This order was passed on to the commander of the sixth company of the battalion, and at this time the troops were deeply entrenched in the enemy's heart, and they were really uneasy. As the order was delivered, they obeyed the order, even though the fear in their hearts was still there. The soldiers gasped for breath and continued to move forward with steps that they already felt a little heavy.

Barely controlled himself, allowing himself to command the army in the way he had learned in training and training. The anger caused by the uneasiness, nervousness, and sudden chaos caused by the situation, Song Jie felt all kinds of negative emotions in twenty minutes. He felt his mouth dry, and his chest seemed to burn with a sense of panic that made him want to explode, but it was clearly lacking in stamina.

From a purely physiological point of view, stress accelerates human physiological activities and allows nutrients to be depleted quickly, resulting in a similar feeling of detachment. Of course, this is the correct judgment of researchers who did not feel distracted. For those who have experienced these depletions firsthand, what they feel strongly at this time is the signal from their body, and without adequate training, they are unable to associate these with the invisible and intangible consumption of nutrients in any way.

Even as a battalion commander, Song Jie suddenly lost his sharpness when he was advancing. He began to wonder how long he could hold out on the battlefield and if his troops would suddenly crumble. But no matter how many thoughts he had in his head, Song Jie's muscle memory allowed him to keep moving forward. Like Song Jie, everyone in the military formation continued to advance. Muscle memory does not depend on the command of the brain, as long as it is trained enough, it can be executed.

If even Zhao Jiaren's army can't fully control his own body, the Jiaozhi army on the opposite side can't do it.

20 minutes is 1200 seconds. When the amount of information received from the outside world is very small, 20 minutes is often very difficult. However, Chen Rixuan, the king of Cochin at a high place, used the optic nerve, the auditory nerve, the olfactory nerve, and even the tactile nerve to feel the unprecedented information.

The confusion of the elephant herd made it take King Chen Rixuan three minutes to understand, two minutes to order, and another eight minutes to wait. In the end, he understood by just looking at the herd that it was no longer possible to contain the herd.

The number of Chinese troops in the Song army that had completed the crossing of the river was about 4,000, and two of them began to attack in about 1,000 units. From King Chen Rixuan's point of view, these two terrifying troops are like sharp knives, constantly killing and injuring the Jiaozhi army. The troops led by the nobles were crushed at a touch before them. As a last resort, His Majesty King Chen Rixuan sent his own direct troops to stop it. The elites of these Jiaozhi troops barely blocked the Song army for a moment. It was really just a moment.

The Song army transferred those troops who could spew white smoke and magic to the front row, and with a few spells, the king's direct troops were scattered. Such fierce fighting did not stop the pace of these people, they still continued to advance without hesitation, and at this time no Jiaozhi army dared to stand in front of them.

The appearance of the rout of the army, the shouts of the rout, the smell of gunpowder smoke wafting in the wind, and the neat pace of the Song army and the shaking ground of the waist drum. The king found that the current battlefield was completely beyond all his previous experience, and the 20,000 Jiaozhi troops were completely crushed by the 10,000 Song troops. Now all he can command is the more than 800 elites of the headquarters.

This is not to say that only 800 of the 20,000 Jiaozhi troops were killed by the Song army, but even if the king saw all the Jiaozhi troops on the battlefield, no matter whether he was angry or pleading now, he could not get those Jiaozhi troops to obey his orders, let alone let them effectively carry out the battle orders.

The war was more than expected, and His Majesty's experience was still working, and he knew that there was no possibility of another war at this time. The choice to make is probably a safe retreat. War is like this, no matter how many soldiers there are, if they cannot be effectively organized and used, it is the same as if there is none. So His Majesty led his last 800 or so soldiers to retreat.

Ten rules surround it. If the Song army had ten times as many troops as the Jiaozhi army, it would probably be able to complete a complete encirclement. Now the Song army is only half of the number of the Jiaozhi army, and they can only fight a crushing battle. Therefore, the king did not feel the slightest shame because of his escape, and according to experience, when he escaped the river behind him and returned to the royal capital, these defeated soldiers would probably return to the royal capital. Like the king, the defeated soldiers actually made the choice of fleeing back to the royal capital.

His Majesty's imagination of the rout is probably correct, but his imagination of the Song army is wrong. The Song army, which was on his left and right flanks, was not so exhausted that they could not move because they had crossed the Yao River and fought for more than twenty minutes. And they're still moving on.

So the king's own soldiers, who had descended the high slope, suddenly found themselves sandwiched between the two Song armies, and the three marched in unison towards the river where the Jiaozhi army ships were parked. By the time the king's own soldiers realized that raising the king's banner might have been a mistake, the two Song armies had already begun to move towards the king's troops in advance.

In this brisk comparison, the two Song armies won the final victory. Only two minutes earlier, they arrived at the ferry where the boats were parked. Then choose to turn back and surround the enemy. Ignoring the thoughts of the Jiaozhi King's army, the battle broke out again.

After another four hours, the king of Jiaozhi, Chen Rixuan, was dragged to Zhao Jiaren with a rope tied and unkempt, and his face was covered with blood. It was not Zhao Jiaren who stepped forward to speak, the envoy sent by Zhao Jiaren before walked over and looked at Chen Rixuan carefully, and then said happily: "King Chen, don't come unharmed." We're meeting again so soon. ”