The black clouds, which were regarded as the most elite by both the enemy and us, remained on the gentle hillside as a reserve, which was also the agreement between Wu Yingying and Yu Yan. "Cavalry is the most precious treasure of the Jiangnan army, and it cannot be easily lost as a last resort. This is one of the key statements that when Wu Yingying persuaded Yu Yan, he let the miserly Black Cloud Commander finally make up his mind to join the war.

When there were still about 800 paces away from the enemy, a crossbow arrow of Wu Yuejun's crossbow fell in front of the slowly advancing Tang army. Although they wore a full suit of armor, there were always people who were pierced by arrows in the gap of the armor, and snorted on the ground, temporarily making the marching queue appear a little ripple, and the phalanx on both wings even showed a little panic, but the infantry of the central phalanx still walked forward with unhurried steps, and they looked ahead, as if they were not marching on the battlefield under the rain of arrows, but marching on the streets of Jinling, receiving the cheers of the people. The calmness of the central phalanx affected the two wings, and most of the Tiande army was the old pawn of the famous Southern Tang Dynasty general Liu Renzhen, and at this moment he saw that the main army was as strong as this, and he did not want to be left behind, and after a slight panic, he calmly advanced forward with the central phalanx.

It was not until they approached the enemy line at 300 paces that the crossbowmen in front stopped and fired a continuous stream of crossbow arrows at the enemy. The strong crossbow showed amazing penetrating power at this distance, and many Wu Yuejun and Song soldiers in the front row were directly pierced by the crossbow arrows, and the armor and even helmets on their chests fell to the ground. As the crossbowmen fired, they gradually narrowed the spacing of the horizontal rows, and finally gathered into two dense crossbowmen phalanxes, which happened to be in the gap between the three large phalanxes that were firmly advancing, and the soldiers armed with spears, swords, and shields overtook the crossbowmen, forming an assault line full of guns and knives under their cover and fire.

The crossbow arrows in Wu Yue's army also showed strong lethality when they were in close contact at this time, and many Tang soldiers in the front row were also shot and fell to the ground. However, in terms of the overall effect, the Tang army's crossbow and arrow offensive and white-knuckle assault are combined as a whole, and Wu Yingying believes that the crossbow is essentially an extended spear and should be used for attack. In contrast, Wu Yuejun's bow and crossbow, although also very strong, were only passive counterattacks.

The calmness of the Tang army in the face of the rain of arrows at the expense of life and death greatly shocked the enemy on the opposite side. Many Wu Yuejun began to recall that Tang Jun once cooked cannibalism in the city, and began to secretly regret how he chased such a group of man-eating devils all the way to such a place.

Volume 36 is like a dream, and the bird cries in the air, and Chapter 53 is a great victory

"The Tang army in the central phalanx didn't care about the crossbow arrows that could easily penetrate the armor, they were approaching us neatly with two feet long, everyone looked so terrible, they were as terrible as the demons in hell, and they rushed towards us like this. Many years later, Liu Changxian, the military academy of the Song Guoxiong Army, told Xinding, who had just joined the forbidden army, about the battle of Changzhou in his memory. Time washes away the shame in the hearts of the losers, but as the legend of the victor increases, they are defeated by famous figures in history, and those who have been defeated will also have a sense of honor to participate in the historical process.

However, during the battle that took place in April of the eighth year of Kaibao of the Great Song Dynasty, the hearts of most of the soldiers of the Song army and the Wu Yue army were always firmly engulfed in fear, and they did not feel any shame or honor. For the battle-hardened Cloud Cavalry Army, they are accustomed to seeing enemies who are not afraid of death, but they have never seen an opponent who is so indifferent to death. The Divine Guard marched forward in a neat pace, and although the central phalanx did not make any sound, it put tremendous psychological pressure on the Wu Yue and Song soldiers on the front line, which was increased by the concentrated and continuous arrow rain attacks of the Tang army's crossbow phalanx. Many Wu Yue soldiers screamed and fell to the ground as they were penetrated by crossbow arrows, and the dense and continuous rain of arrows from the strong crossbows had terrifying lethality at close range. In contrast, the composure of the enemy on the other side under the same rain of arrows is striking.

It was only when the enemy army was still fifty paces away that the Tang army's formation shouted "kill" in a neat voice, and all the non-commissioned officers accelerated and ran under the leadership of the officers, pressing down on the other side like a moving hill.

The two armies of Wuyue, Zhenguo, and Zhenwu formed the main formation, and almost instantly, a huge depression was carved out by the central phalanx of the Tang army, which had a huge impact force. Accompanied by the elite of the Tang State holding shields and horizontal knives on both sides of the central phalanx, they took the opportunity to rush to the depths of the Wu Yue army formation that were torn apart, and they were trained in three formations in rotation according to the requirements of Wu Heroes before the battle. What's more, the Wu Yue soldiers who chased here had already been overdrawn in terms of physical strength, and the hand-to-hand combat at this time was even more inferior.

The selected horizontal knife hand played the role of connecting the central phalanx and the two wings of the Tiande military formation. Witnessing the middle part of the battle formation being killed by the Tang army and retreating step by step, the formation of the Wu Yue army on both flanks could not help but loosen a little. Qian Jiao, the king of Wuyue, originally ordered the armies on both wings to squeeze the small number of Tang troops in the middle, and even tried to cut out the Tang spearmen who had rushed deep into the large array of the Wu Yue army, squeezing them in a small space and strangling them. However, the battle of the junction was the Tang army's great advantage, and the torn front soon became a huge ulcer under the attack of the Tang State's horizontal knife hand, and many people who thought they were in the depths of the big array and were not ready to go into battle to engage Wu Yue's sergeants and soldiers suffered heavy casualties under the hasty response to the battle, and the voices of crying fathers and mothers were everywhere.

The Song general Ding Deyu originally led more than 2,000 forbidden troops to form another formation outside the large array of the Wu and Yue army, but because the black clouds were watching on the side, Ding Deyu did not dare to invest in cavalry to attack the flank and back of the Tang army. After the frontal battle began, the battle situation in which Wu Yue's army retreated one after another. Seeing that Ding Deyu's face was getting more and more gloomy, Zhang Gao, the captain of the Xiongjie Military Academy, stepped forward and said: "General Ding, I'm afraid that Wu Yuejun can't stand it, if I don't see the opportunity to act, once the black clouds are thrown into the battlefield, I'm afraid I won't even have a chance to retreat." ”

Ding Deyu turned his head and didn't speak for a long time, as if he was still hesitating. Zhang Gao said again: "After this battle, if the imperial court is to blame, we can all testify that it was King Wu Yue's greed for merit that fell into the enemy's ambush.

Ding Deyufang nodded, and sighed: "The defeat is like a mountain, and the more than a thousand weak soldiers of our department are useless, so it is better to surrender to Changzhou." After saying that, he ordered the whole army to turn around and retreat to the south. After retreating from the flanks to the large array of Wu Yue's army, which was fighting hard with the Song army, he quickly abandoned the Wu Yue army that was struggling and fled south. During this period, Heiyundu sent 500 cavalry troops to follow the Song army not far away, monitoring them from a distance out of the battlefield before returning. At this time, the Tang army on the battlefield shouted loudly under the command of the officer: "Look, the Great Song Army has fled!"

Wu Yuejun, who was still fighting the trapped beasts, was immediately in turmoil, except for the central front supervised by King Qian himself, which was still struggling to support, the two wings collapsed almost instantly, and the fleeing soldiers began to roll backwards like an avalanche, and many Wu Yue soldiers had not even seen the face of the Tang army, so they were disrupted by the defeated soldiers in front, and then fled south together. But at this time, it is not easy to escape, most of the elite of the Wu Yue army have been involved in the white-knuckle fight with the Tang army, once they turn around and run away, they will sell their backs to the Tang army. After the Tiande army on both flanks felt that the enemy resistance in front of them was suddenly weakened, the speed of advance was greatly accelerated, and the ground front of the Tang and Wu armies gradually changed from the central phalanx of the Tang army to the large array of the Wu army, and became the nearly 20,000 Chinese troops of Wu and Yue were slowly surrounded and squeezed by the Tang army, and the panic in the hearts of the Wu Yue soldiers who felt that there were enemies in all directions became stronger and stronger, and the resistance to the Tang army became more and more panicked and disorderly.

Qian Jiao, the king of Wuyue, watched his army collapse little by little with an unkind face, and many brave soldiers were no longer fighting for victory, but for a few more pads before dying. Sun Chengyou, the general in charge of the front, was no longer in the formation, and he didn't even snatch the body back. Identifying the location of Wu Yuejun's flag, the Tang army is more and more concentrated to attack here, the east head worship officer Xu Jing has gone into battle shirtless, like a mad tiger to resist wave after wave of Tang army offensive, and the tooth army around him is also fighting less and less, and the last Wu Yue army often has to resist the siege of several Tang troops and the random arrows shot from afar at the same time.