Later, this formation was passed to Yue Fei, Yue Fei according to his many years of experience in fighting with the Jin army, it was changed into a mixed combat method of infantry and cavalry, used to fight against the iron cavalry of the Jin army in the field battle, in the Yancheng War of Shaoxing ten years (1160 years), Yue Yun led the Yuejia army to use the "Star Array", and the Jin army battled, and broke Yan Zongbi's iron floating map. Since then, the "Star Scattering Array" has also been as famous as the "Three Stacks Array" created by Wu Jue. It's just that the "three-fold array" is a purely defensive formation, while the "Star Scattering Array" is a formation dedicated to field battles and riding on foot.

From the defeat in the Battle of Ganyan City, Wanyan Zongbi left a very deep impression on the "Star Scattering Array", and had a detailed record of it. Wanyan Changzhi also learned about the "Star Scattering Array" from some letters and notes left by his father, and originally thought that after Yue Fei, no one in the Song Dynasty would "scatter the Star Array" again, and he didn't expect that he would be under the city of Longxing Mansion today, and he actually saw the Song Army using the "Star Scattering Array".

Yue Fei has detailed records and explanations in his book of war, but the "Star Array" has extremely high requirements for the quality of soldiers and the command ability of generals, requiring every soldier to have strong combat ability and comprehensive combat skills, long and short weapons, and supreme bows and short crossbows, all of which can be used freely, and can be used to replace the use of weapons according to the different conditions of the battlefield, and the generals need to adjust the formation according to the changes on the battlefield, not only to adjust the formation, or scatter or gather, or advance or retreat. In the Yuejia army that year, only the Beiwei army with the strongest combat effectiveness could use the "Star Scattering Array" to fight.

When Yang Yan exterminated the pirates in the south, because it was mainly a water war, among the three strongest armies, except for the Urging Front Army who went to Guangzhou with him, the Ma Jun Si Zhong Army and the Xuan Feng Army had no battle to fight and stayed in Jingjiang Mansion to station. Therefore, according to Yue Fei's records, Yang Yan asked them to train the "Star Scattering Array". In this way, after several months of training, the two armies basically mastered the combat method of the "Star Scattering Array." This is also an important reason why Cao Xun and Gao Zhen dared to fight the Jin army outside the city.

The so-called "scattering star array" is to disperse the army into a basically independent combat group, the number of each group is 80 to 100 people, including 20 to 30 cavalry and 60 to 70 infantry troops, mainly supporting long knives, spears, short knives, short crossbows, hard bows, etc. Carry out independent operations in groups, quickly assemble, and cooperate in small groups.

Once they meet the enemy's cavalry, they first fire bows and arrows from the ten Sheren, and the ten Shemen fire short crossbows, which are mainly used to shoot and wound the enemy's horses, and then the cavalry rushes up to confront the opponent's cavalry, while the infantry protects the cavalry on the left and right, and uses long knives and spears to cooperate with the cavalry to fight, mainly to kill and injure the opponent's horses, and quickly break through the enemy's cavalry formation, and then quickly assemble to hedge again. If you encounter an infantry army, you will immediately become an infantry army in the center, and engage the enemy army first, and the cavalry will be divided into two to disperse the enemy's position.

Sure enough, as soon as the two sides came into contact, dozens of arrows were immediately shot out in each squad of the Song army, because the distance between the two sides was too close, almost the arrows would not miss, and suddenly countless Jin Army's war horses fell with arrows, and the knights on horseback fell. Then the cavalry of the Song army took the lead and strangled with the cavalry of the Jin army. The other infantry troops were scattered around the cavalry, and under the cover of the cavalry, they waited to attack the horse's legs. Even Tiefutu is helpless in the face of such tactics.

Wei Jiao raised his broadsword and rushed to the front of the Song army, he had just joined, and it stands to reason that he should be assigned to the reserve army, but Cao Xun and Gao Zhen took into account his bravery, so they assigned him to the Xuanfeng army to fight for this first while. This time, he formed a combat group with Zhang Shuaiyan and Ling Xiang.

When the two sides were still three or four steps apart, I saw that the war horse of the Tiefutu cavalry was shot with a short crossbow by an infantry behind Wei Jiao, although the war horse was also wearing armor, but the distance was too close at this time, and the crossbow arrow penetrated the heavy armor and still shot into the body of the war horse. The tall horses let out a wail and fell to the ground. The heavily armored knight was thrown to the ground, unable to get up for a moment.

The other Jin Jun continued to rush towards Wei Jiao, raised the spear in his hand, and stabbed Wei Jiao fiercely. Wei Jiao turned on the side of the horse, dodged the spear, and slashed at the opponent with the big knife in his hand, blood immediately gushed out, and the dead body fell off the horse. Immediately afterwards, Wei Jiao raised his knife to hold the spear stabbed by the third Jin Jun, and at this time, four or five iron floats rushed to surround Wei Jiao. Five or six spear wheels stabbed towards Wei Jiao, and suddenly forced Wei Jiao to the left and right, and it was difficult to parry.

At this moment of crisis, suddenly a war horse let out a mournful "coo" and fell to the ground, revealing Ling Xiang's figure. It turned out that he had cut off the leg of a warhorse. As soon as Jin Jun saw that he had come to help, he immediately separated the two of them and raised his gun to stab at Ling Xiang.

Ling Xiang was short and dodged the spear, he was not good at riding a horse when he came, so this time he simply fought under the foot. The body is like a swimming fish, shuttling among the war horses, dodging left and right, and swimming with ease. The long sword in his hand was swung out, and the feet of the two war horses were cut off in succession. The Jin army on horseback fell to the ground, and because the Jin army was wearing heavy armor, after falling off the horse, he couldn't struggle for a while. He was immediately assassinated by the Song army, who followed him.

With his help, Wei Jiao's pressure was greatly reduced, and he struggled to cut down the two Tiefutu cavalrymen with his sword. At this time, Zhang Shiyan also led the Song army forward, their group not only had fierce generals like Wei Jiao, martial arts masters like Ling Xiang, and the soldiers were the elite of the elite selected from a hundred, plus there was an excellent commander like Zhang Shiyan, so the combat effectiveness was extremely strong, and in a short period of time, more than 100 Jin soldiers were killed in a row.

Moreover, it was the first time for the Jin army to encounter such tactics of the Song army, and it was extremely unsuitable, and the Song army took the lead in investing more troops than the Jin army.

Fortunately, at this time, the men and horses who followed behind the Jin army also followed, but this was the neatly arranged formation of the Jin army, and they were also scattered, and they could only fight separately. The cavalry and infantry armies of the Song and Jin sides immediately began to fight. In fact, the Jin army's ability to fight alone was not weaker than that of the Song army, and it had also trained small groups of men and horses to cooperate with each other in peacetime, but it had always been trained separately on foot and horse, and had never undergone mixed training on foot and horse. In the face of the Song army, which had been specially trained to fight in small groups of infantry and cavalry, the Jin army was far less skilled than the Song army in terms of mutual cooperation and cooperation, so although the brigade kept up, and the two sides still attacked and defended each other, and the strength was evenly matched, the Jin army was obviously inferior to the Song army in the middle and retreated.

Wan Yan Changzhi couldn't help but admire, the "Star Scattering Array" was really powerful, and what Wan Yan Changzhi didn't expect was that Song Jun actually had such an outstanding performance without Yang Yan. If an army leaves the main general, it will become unwilling to strike, then even if the main general's ability is strong, such an army is obviously limited, and now it seems that this Song army can still maintain considerable combat effectiveness after losing the main general, which shows that this is a well-trained force, and from another side it also reflects Yang Yan's terrible, he trained this strong team.

However, this does not mean that the Jin army will definitely lose this battle, and now the troops invested by both sides on the battlefield are roughly the same, but Wanyan Changzhi still has a thousand iron floating figures, three thousand broken arrow troops and three thousand foot troops by his side. At this time, only the 2,000 infantry troops of the Guangxi Army and the 1,000 cavalry troops of the Xuanfeng Army were left in the Song army. Although the "Star Scattering Array" is powerful, Wanyan Changzhi still has enough capital to change the situation on the battlefield.

Sure enough, Wanyan Changzhi immediately ordered to transfer a thousand iron floats to the left and storm the right team of the Song army. Because now although the middle of the Jin army is at a disadvantage, it can still support for a period of time, and the two wings of the two armies are basically evenly matched, and now Wanyan Changzhi concentrates his forces and storms the right side of the Song army, hoping to use the impact of Tiefutu to quickly defeat the right side of the Song army, from reversing the situation that is now unfavorable to the Jin army, and at the same time, it is also a test to see what kind of countermeasures the commander of the Song army will have.

Cao Xun and Gao Zhen saw it on the bucket and immediately ordered the remaining 1,000 Xuan Feng troops to attack in armor to support the right side. The armoured cavalry of both sides faced each other on the right flank, and immediately became entangled, and for a time they were inseparable.

Wanyan Changzhi nodded, and immediately sent the remaining 3,000 infantry troops to support his right flank and attack the left flank of the Song army. Cao Xun and Gao Zhen also sent the remaining 2,000 infantry troops to support the left flank and resist the Jin army.

At this time, the two armies fought for more than an hour, and the archers and divine arm archers on the city wall of Longxing Mansion stopped shooting arrows, so as not to injure their own people by mistake, but the one hundred and twenty cowhide drums on the city wall all rang out, making an earth-shaking roar, and even the city wall seemed to be trembling. The morale of the Song army was greatly boosted, but the Jin army did not show weakness, the soldiers on both sides were very brave, there were casualties on each other, more and more soldiers fell, and the land was gradually covered with blood. But the situation remained unchanged, the two flanks were still evenly matched, and the Song army in the middle had a slight upper hand. However, the commanders of both sides were racking their brains to think about the next tactical arrangements of the other side

"What is this guy going to do? How to increase the number of troops little by little? Cao Xun muttered to himself.

Gao Zhen said: "I understand, he is using 'refueling tactics', we are too back, we can't be led by the nose like this, he can add troops, we can also add troops." ”

Cao Xun's body was shocked, and he also understood. The so-called "refueling tactic" is to increase the number of troops on the battlefield little by little, and at the same time force the opponent to increase the number of troops little by little. Just like playing chess, each move forces the opponent to respond, and you can virtually occupy the main power on the battlefield, constantly mobilize the opponent, and disrupt the opponent's tactical arrangement.

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