"Shoot the arrows."

With this order, thousands of arrows flew towards the approaching Jin army like dense raindrops.

The Jin army attacking this time was still infantry, and they had already prepared for the tactics of the Song army, and as soon as they entered the range of bows and arrows, they immediately raised their shields to form a shield wall to resist the Song army's bows and crossbows. At the same time, the archers in the ranks also shot arrows at the Song army's array. At this time, Bi Zaiyu retreated to the rear formation, and the soldiers in the first row each held a tower shield and erected a shield wall to block the bows and arrows of the Jin army.

However, the Song army did not only have bows and arrows on the city walls, but also equipped with twenty-four trebuchets and fifty small bed crossbows. Dozens of pounds of boulders roared down, and crossbow arrows as thick as arms swept sharply, mixed with firearms such as thunderbolts and fierce oil bombs, and no shield could resist them. Before the Jin army could rush to the front of the Song army, it paid the price of nearly a thousand deaths.

However, the Jin army's offensive did not retreat, and still rapidly advanced towards the Song army's array.

At this time, the three thousand heavily armored soldiers holding hemp stabbing knives in front of the Song army array were divided into ten columns, each column of 300 people, only one step apart, and between each column, they stood staggeredly, forming a knife formation with a width of 300 steps. At this time, the soldiers in the front row threw down the tower shield with a warp, clenched the linen knife with both hands, and pointed in the direction where the opponent was rushing.

Since Shaoxing ten years (1140) Shunchang, Yancheng two wars, the hemp knife has been a necessary weapon for the Song Dynasty infantry army, a hemp knife is nearly eight feet long, the handle is three feet four inches, the length of the blade is usually about five feet, and it is a blade on both sides, and the weight is about 20 catties. When using it, the soldier needs to hold the hilt of the sword with both hands and swing the knife to slash. On the battlefield, they are lined up in a dense formation, slashing and killing the enemy together, advancing together, no matter what kind of enemy army they are, they will be urged by the blade, and all the men and horses will be broken.

Therefore, in the face of the Song army's dense Ma Za knife formation, the Jin army had almost nothing to do, using a single knife, which was obviously not long enough to get close to the Song soldiers. If it was a spear, it would be difficult to penetrate the heavy armor of the Song soldiers. And even if they were able to break through the first row of the Song army, but in the second row and the third row behind, there were still Ma Za knives waiting for them, and as a result, the Jin soldiers who rushed to the Ma Za Knife Formation could only fall in a row under the Ma Za knives of the Song soldiers.

Despite this, the Jin soldiers still rushed desperately to the Mazha knife formation as if they didn't want to die, on the one hand, because the army was extremely strict, if there was a violation of the order, they would be beheaded on the spot, and on the other hand, because there was a rejection horse in the rear team of the Jin army, as long as the Jin army rushed forward, the Jin soldiers who supervised the formation behind would push the rejection horse forward a step further, so that the Jin army had no way back and could only rush forward desperately.

In the Song army formation, even if someone died in the front row, the Song army immediately made up for it in the back row, and if the whole row was disrupted, it would immediately retreat from both sides to the back row and re-form the array. A neat queue is maintained at all times. And slowly pushed forward, although the speed of the advance was not fast, but the golden soldiers could not stop it, and could only retreat step by step.

However, although the mighty sword of the Mazha Knife Formation is strong, it is not without weaknesses, one is that the soldiers are wearing heavy armor, the burden is too heavy, and the physical consumption is extremely great, and the other is that the defense of the two wings of the Mazha Knife Formation is weak, once it is attacked by the Jin army from both wings, the formation will be chaotic. In this regard, Bi Zaiyu could only maintain the physical strength of the soldiers through constant rotation, and at the same time, he did not dare to let the Mazha Knife Formation rush too far forward and break away from the protection of the two wings. Therefore, after the Mazha knife formation rushed out for a certain distance, the rear of the Song army immediately sounded the trumpet and beckoned them to withdraw.

In this regard, the retreat also changed the tactics of the morning, divided the men and horses into several batches, each batch of 10,000 people, and took turns to attack the Song army's formation, without stopping for a moment, so that the Song army did not have the slightest chance of **, because when the Song army rotated the swordsman, there would often be a brief chaos, and the Jin army took advantage of this short opportunity to launch a fierce attack on the Song army. Even ignoring the threat of bows and arrows in the city, he sent a light cavalry army to attack the two wings of the Song army constantly to reduce the losses in the middle.

The battle continued for more than two hours, and was more intense than in the morning, with the number of wounded on both sides increasing.

Although they were able to rotate, under the non-stop attacks of the Jin army, the soldiers of the Song army were also dragged out of exhaustion. The casualties of the heavily armored infantry were more than two thousand people. But even so. The Song army still withstood the attack of the Jin army. The formation is immovable.

At this time, the red sun was sinking in the west, and the sky was approaching dusk. I only heard a long horn in the Jin army's array, and the Jin army that was attacking retreated one after another, and countless black-armored cavalry soldiers came out of the formation and rushed towards the array of the Song army.

The Jin Army is finally going to start using the Iron Float Chart.

This time, the Jin army dispatched 5,000 Tiefutu, which was lined up horizontally, and the intention of Po Sa was very clear, that is, to take advantage of the exhaustion of the Song army now, and use the powerful impact of Tiefutu to rush across the Song army's Mazha knife formation in one fell swoop.

Bi Zaiyu could see clearly from the command platform that the final decisive moment was finally coming, and immediately ordered that the soldiers resting in the city also go out to reinforce the Song army outside the city. Then he said to Liu Fuwu: "Liu Tong, now the last move of the Jin army is finally going to be used, and it is time to choose the front army to attack." I will fight with you, and the success or failure of this battle depends on your choice of the vanguard. ”

Liu Fuwu was already impatient to wait, and immediately said: "General Bi, don't worry, our selection of the front army will never disappoint." ”

As he spoke, the two got down from the podium, each turned on his horse, picked up his weapons, and prepared to fight. There were 2,000 cavalry troops in the selection army, Yang Yan took away 1,000 people in Sichuan, and there were 1,000 people left at this time.

"Woo-woo-woo-" The horn of the Song army also sounded on the walls of Shinshu. When the heavily armored soldiers of the Mazha Knife Formation heard the sound of the trumpet, they immediately moved away from the sides, dividing a gap twenty paces wide, allowing the cavalry to rush out.

Bi Zaiyu took the lead, raised his axe, and shouted: "Brothers, the success or failure of this battle depends on me. Kill. ”

"Kill." He was followed by Liu Fuwu and the Song army's armored cavalry also shouted in unison, rushing out together to meet Tiefutu, who had been killed for the first time.

Bi Zai met the horse's belly with his legs, and the black horse under the seat let out a roar, and the ground picked up his speed, and the battle axe in his hand met the spear of the Tiefutu soldier who rushed at the front. With a "whew", the big axe rolled up a black storm, bringing out a sharp and powerful force, and with a "ge" sound, the Tiefutu soldier was knocked down from his warhorse.

The black horse continued to gallop forward, and Bi Zaiyu brandished a big axe, slashing left and right in the Jin army's array, and every blow of the battle axe would be answered. ,Wonderful unlimited.26dd./