It was almost ten o'clock in the morning, and after three hours, the personnel of both sides finally moved to the designated place.

It can be regarded as a safe distance of about nine miles, and they have set up a position with each other.

No way! Combined, there were nearly 800,000 men on both sides participating in the battle.

With so many people, after just lining up the formation, it naturally takes a considerable amount of time to fill a huge area.

During the whole process, the scene was quite chaotic.

The situation on the Song side was better, and under the long-term queue training, the soldiers of the new army operated like gears in various passwords.

That is, the 30,000 troops from all over the Great Song Dynasty who participated in the war, and 20,000 people were slightly weakened.

Let the whole scene, it looks like it's a bit messy.

However, compared to the Jin side, there were heralds whipped and galloping on war horses everywhere, and those officers who spoke Chinese, Khitan, and Jurchen languages, and could not even unify the language, roared loudly in their mouths.

Under the movement of a large number of war horses, the neighing sound from the mouth.

The overall quality between the two can be said to be judged immediately.

In short, after a period of busy work, the two sides still based on the fighting habits of the eastern army, in a huge area, roughly set up a traditional formation composed of left and right wings, plus the Chinese army.

The only difference was that the Great Song side placed two infantry divisions on the left and right flanks, plus 10,000 miscellaneous troops, and half a division, that is, two regiments of artillery.

In the position of the Chinese army, in addition to two infantry divisions, 10,000 miscellaneous troops, and a whole artillery division.

The remaining cavalry force of 7,000 people, plus 30,000 people of the Yue family army (omitted in the previous chapter and has been revised), was also arranged here.

The other rocket artillery division, plus 20,000 people's troops, was placed a little behind the Chinese army.

On the Jurchen side, the right flank put the remaining 120,000 people of the Changsheng army, of which except for the cavalry of 13,000 people, the rest were all infantry troops.

plus 10,000 Jurchens who supervised the war, a total of 130,000.

On the right flank, the army of 200,000 people of various ethnic groups recruited from all over the Jin country was put down, and there were 15,000 Jurchens as overseers.

Compared with the left wing, the right wing suddenly had so many more troops, completely because they still needed to divide a part of the personnel to deal with the war elephants and sharp sharp in the north of the battlefield, and the group of Yanshan Divine Army led by them.

Most of the Jin troops here are mainly infantry, and the number of cavalry is not much.

In the position of the Chinese army, the Jin people hoarded the largest and most elite group of troops.

Among the 280,000 troops, in addition to more than 80,000 Jurchens, including the 'Tiefutu', about 80,000 hardcore traitor troops, and as many as 120,000 cannon fodder.

even put out a formation of cannon fodder in front, hardcore traitor troops in the back, and Jurchens a little behind.

The reason why such an echelon was put up, Hu Biao thought maliciously that these Jurchens had learned well after suffering a big loss from rockets on the battlefield in Zhuxian Town.

Far out of the range of rockets, the question is whether they don't know that gunpowder weapons have been constantly improving since their inception.

Range and power are getting stronger all the time......

******

"Special! Wanyan Wu begged to buy this grandson, and it was quite orderly to start a war. ”

After putting down the binoculars in his hand and standing on a command vehicle that was eight meters high, Hu Biao muttered something like this.

In the original history, because the Jurchen side had a large number of outstanding generals such as Wanyan Zonghan, Wanyan Zongwang Wanyan Lou, Wanyan Xiyin, and Wanyan Yanmu.

After Yan Wu begged to buy this Jin Taizong, he didn't need to lead the army to fight at all.

So in terms of military exploits, there doesn't seem to be much worth talking about, so that people feel that the military capabilities of this product are not good.

But when a number of famous Jurchen generals died on the battlefield one after another, this product actually showed quite excellent military command ability.

I saw that on the current battlefield, a large number of cavalry troops were cruising around the battlefield.

Not only did the few cavalry on the Great Song side drive and compress them back one after another, so that the Jin side occupied the field of vision of the entire battlefield.

Even if the Jin people subsequently moved their troops, they could not be discovered in time.

Among those cannon fodder troops, Hu Biao could see that there were an astonishing number of shield carts and eight-bull crossbows mounted on the carts.

The shield carts were all made of logs with thick bowl mouths, although they could not completely block the bullets of the firearms.

But at a distance of fifty paces, even if the firebolt penetrated these shield carts, the power would have consumed most of it, and it would not be enough to penetrate the iron armor on their bodies.

The eight-ox crossbow, or three-bow bed crossbow, has a maximum range of more than three miles, and it can almost catch up with the 12-pound Napoleonic field gun.

In addition, Hu Biao can faintly see that some Jin people don't even have weapons in their hands.

Just holding a large package in one hand and a pine oil torch in the other; At first glance, it is the war elephant in the information they transmitted, the Jin people's own dead soldiers.

Based on all of the above, it should be said that Yan Wu begged to buy this goods, completely on the basis of the existing conditions, and made the greatest preparation.

It's just that when Hu Biao opened his mouth and muttered the opening sentence in his mouth, the tone was quite relaxed.

It shows that he is a little confident in everything in front of him.

In fact, after the battle of Zhuxian Town, before the Northern Expedition army set off, they made too many preparations.

Many of these things have been pressed in his hands, even when he was harassed by Wanyan Yan's mother all the way, he didn't take them out.

In order to take it out now, take it out and surprise these golden people.

Let them feel the power of science.

For example, now, the Jin side has a large number of cavalry, almost obscuring the vision of the Song army on the entire battlefield, so what can it do?

Faced with this, Hu Biao shouted the first order out of his mouth: "Raise the hot ball......"

Yes! It's a hot air balloon.

Among the tens of thousands of time-traveling themes at a certain point, whether it is traveling to ancient times, or traveling to other worlds to the bigwigs and salted fish, the plot of creating a hot air balloon is basically the standard.

This thing is used for sightseeing, transporting supplies, and even for military purposes, which are relatively normal operations.

There are even a few, directly using this thing to pretend that the immortals have soared in the daytime.

Hu Biao and the others naturally thought of such an item a long time ago, and planned to develop it for military reconnaissance purposes.

It's just that when it comes to actual development, I realize that this thing is actually not so easy.

One of the biggest difficulties involved in this thing is to find a material that is lightweight, heat-resistant, can withstand a certain amount of high pressure, and can seal gases to make a balloon.

On the contrary, it is easier to provide fuel as a heat source to ensure a sufficient lifting force for the balloon.

You must know that in the 17th century, the Montgerfer brothers made the most primitive hot air balloon, which was still burned with straw, and some damp cloth and carrion made it emit billowing black smoke.

Now Hu Biao and they are burning some wood and coal, but it is just a shorter time to take off.

Fortunately, the difficulties of the above balloon materials are cooperated by a group of the best silk weavers in Suzhou and the best lacquer craftsmen in Dingzhou.

The method of repeatedly painting on fine silk is a reluctant solution, but it is not so durable.

That's it, under this order of Hu Biao.

One after another, the hot air balloons that had been kept strictly secret before, dragging a long rope, slowly rose into the air in front of the 800,000 troops on both sides.

The role of the rope is to prevent these balloons from being blown away.

In addition, these balloons have to land for refueling after about an hour of liftoff.

And a thin soldier with a telescope on it could only wave the flag with a flag and pass some relatively simple orders.

However, from this moment on, the actions of the Jin people to cover the battlefield have no meaning.

But more importantly, on the balloons of these balloons are depicted dragons, the image of the Han people, a totem of the Han people.

Under the bright golden sunlight today, a total of twelve balloons slowly rose, and the twelve golden dragons on it seemed to be flying in the air.

Where have the natives in the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty seen such a scene?

For a time, on the huge battlefield, I don't know how many people, how many Han, Liao, Xi, Bohai, and even Jurchen.

At this moment, they all fell to their knees between their weak legs, kowtowing like pounding garlic.

To put it mildly: the appearance of these twelve hot air balloons alone is worth 100,000 soldiers and horses......

(End of chapter)