Fan Zhuoyuan's current arrangement is not a simple phalanx, but a three-fold array.

This is a formation invented by Wu Lan, a famous general of the Song army, which is dedicated to fighting against heavy cavalry on the plain.

The so-called three-fold array arrangement is to arrange the rejection of the horse at the front, and then the first spear formation is located ten steps after the rejection of the horse, maintaining a squatting posture and not getting up.

The second formation consisted of crossbowmen, half-kneeling, hiding behind pikemen and shooting enemy horsemen.

The third formation is a god arm bow or bed crossbow, which shoots the enemy at a distance of 100 paces.

Then there were cavalry roaming outside, not doing any hand-to-hand combat, only for the enemy cavalry to retreat and carry out the harvesting work.

Wu Xuan once widely promoted this method to deal with the Jin army, which was quite effective.

Fan Zhuoyuan's current formation has been greatly simplified, and there is no rejection of horses, let alone a divine arm bow and a bed crossbow.

But there is artillery, which is the kind of tiger squat cannon that is two and a half feet long, has a caliber of more than two inches, weighs forty pounds, and can be fixed on a horse and carried around.

This kind of artillery attack is not good, but it is really a sharp weapon for field warfare!

Fan Zhuoyuan was equipped with forty such tiger squat cannons on this trip, and at this time, the small cannons were hidden in the front of the spear phalanx lined up in five rows.

The spears used in the spear phalanx are all one and a half zhang super long spears, which are converted into metric units of four meters and five, although they are not exaggerated to five or six meters at every turn, but they are extremely rare in this era.

All the soldiers in the spear formation were also sitting on the ground, with sharpshooters half-crouching behind them, bows and crossbows pointing forward, just waiting for the golden army to gallop into the most effective range.

At this time, the golden cavalry trotted to about 100 paces, two hundred steps away from the Song army's main array, and could already see the state of the Song army, and saw that only the front row of spearmen were wearing heavy armor, and the rest of the soldiers only had leather armor, so they couldn't help but scream with excitement.

The Song army they defeated before, even the Hebei Forbidden Army, which had the lowest combat effectiveness, could basically ensure that every soldier wore heavy armor.

But the fact that this army had such a low armor rate showed that it should be similar to the civilian rebels who had fought in the previous two days, and that it would not take them to rush to fifty paces to frighten them?

Thinking of this, Gorihan laughed, clamped the horse's belly, and increased his speed to a fast run before he reached the sprint distance, which looked even more terrifying.

Entering a hundred steps, it was already within the most effective range of the Song army's bow and crossbow, and Fan Zhuoyuan gave an order.

The marksmen shoot crossbows at the same time!

The crossbowman is the crossbowman who changes the crossbow but does not change the person, and the crossbowman with the strongest archery skills aims at the front to shoot a salvo, and immediately hands the crossbow to the rear after firing, and the rear is lined up with a number of wounds, so that it can maintain a very high rate of fire and continuous volleys.

And the shooter has a separate number, which is not as lethal as a crossbow, but the rate of fire is faster!

Thousands of arrows flew towards the Jin army in the most powerful flat shooting attitude, and the Jin army hurriedly raised its shield during the sprint, and the cavalry formation was more scattered to reduce casualties.

This rain of arrows, they are enough to withstand it, and according to past experience, Song Jun's courage stops like this.

What they didn't expect, however, was that the rain of arrows seemed to be endless, and every twenty steps forward, they would encounter a wave of shots, which was surprisingly fast.

Soon, many of the cavalry of the Jin army were hit by arrows, and these arrows were surprisingly accurate, and the closer they ran, the more people and horses were hit by arrows, and hundreds of horses fell down all the way.

But instead of frightening the Jin army, it provoked their ferocity, and they galloped even more wildly, knowing that the more they faced such an attack, the more they had to close the distance as soon as possible, otherwise the casualties would only increase.

When the distance reached fifty paces, they had already seen hundreds of people in the gun array holding dozens of iron lumps fixed in front of the formation.

At fifty paces, the men lit the fire and looked at themselves with a sneer.

Gao Lihan was very shocked, at such a close distance of fifty steps, this group of Song troops who seemed to be a rabble had not collapsed yet?

After deciding to rush to a distance of thirty paces, he immediately slowed down and dismounted, shot down the Song army in front of him with heavy arrows, and then rushed in to break the formation according to the established tactics.

They actually caused so much damage to their own side, they had to kill this group of Song troops this time!

Otherwise, when he goes back, he will definitely be scolded by the marshal.

The thought in his mind turned around, and he had entered a distance of forty steps, and at this time, the fire fold in Song Jun's hand had already pointed at the dozens of iron bumps.

Dong Ze, who was following the charge beside Gao Lihan, said strangely, "Why do these dozens of iron cylinders look so much like shrunken artillery?" ”

Gao Lihan's heart suddenly cooled, but it was too late, and forty tiger squatting cannons roared at the same time.

The muzzle of the cannon flickered with fire, and countless lead bullets and stones flew out of the muzzle, forming a vast barrage that swept the range of forty paces in front of it!

These forty steps can be called the Death Domain, and the cavalry of the Jin Army who broke in was like crashing into an invisible curtain wall, and bursts of blood splashed from the bodies of the people and horses, and they fell to the ground with a sad roar.

After a round of roaring volleys, there were only a few dozen remnants of the Jin army in front of them, scattered on the wide battlefield, the knights were at a loss, the war horses were frightened by the sound of artillery and ran uncontrollably, and even the Jin soldiers who fell to the ground and fell to the ground naturally pinned several soldiers to the ground and cut off their heads.

The cavalry that followed the charge in the rear, because they maintained a charge distance of dozens of paces from the front that was conducive to acceleration, and when they saw such a strange scene, they couldn't help but stop their horses, and looked at their own cavalry struggling on the ground in front of them with shock and even fear.

At this time, the main general Gao Lihan and the deputy general Dong Ze who led the charge were both pierced by lead bullets and stones, and died a miserable death, and were crushed to the ground by the corpse of a horse.

The cavalry in the rear was tantamount to saying that they lost command for a short time and fell into a state of hesitation.

Fan Zhuoyuan drew his bow and arrows, causing the crossbowmen to fire another volley, and most of the golden soldiers were currently within range, which immediately caused another wave of casualties.

At this time, I suddenly heard an unexplained roar and howl from someone in the Jin army, which caused a group of Jin soldiers to also roar and be filial.

They didn't retreat, stabbed their mounts in their hips, and dared to charge under the rain of arrows, everyone's eyes were scarlet, and they seemed to have made up their minds to completely defeat the Song army in front of them.

However, during the time they hesitated, the forty Tiger Squat Cannon had already completed several steps such as clearing the chamber and feeding the medicine, and the gunner who controlled the Tiger Squat Cannon adjusted its angle slightly, and lit the fire fold again.

It's another curtain of death!

The Jin army that was charging at the forefront suddenly turned on their backs, and hundreds of golden horses were swallowed up in the rain of bullets.

When the horses heard the cannon at close range, they could no longer be appeased, jumped and neighed wildly, and scattered on their own to the sides and galloped wildly, not controlled by the cavalry on horseback at all.

The enemy's cavalry formation was completely chaotic, and Fan Zhuoyuan made people shoot letter arrows, and a red firework rose into the air and exploded.

At this time, the two cavalry that had already detoured into position were ready to charge!

Most of the two thousand golden horsemen were annihilated on the banks of the Grand Canal, and Fan Zhuoyuan liked to force people to the water's edge to strangle and annihilate.

Only a few dozen horsemen fled smartly before the three-sided encirclement was fully formed, and returned to the camp full of fear to report the news.

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