As soon as the Jin army moved, the sentry on the Song army looked at the car and immediately found that Zhao Ta also immediately changed the formation, and a team of shield players immediately stepped forward to erect a large shield more than half a person high, forming a row of bunkers, and the Mo Dao team stepped forward under the leadership of Gao Chong, and lined up four horizontal columns to form a phalanx. The crossbowmen also stepped on the crossbow, loaded their crossbow arrows, and knelt on one knee ready to fire. The archer sticks five arrows into the ground, adjusts the bowstring and places the arrows on the string.

Gao Zhong loudly issued the password and adjusted the formation, this team of only 1,000 people can be said to be his hard work for several years, from the selection of troops to the training is from his own hands. And the reason why he trained such an army came from his two years of actual combat experience in the northwest, and he had his own sharp firearms to deal with the cavalry of the party members in the loyal army, and he was able to achieve absolute superiority.

The most lacking thing for the forbidden army of the Song Dynasty was horses, and it could not form a strong cavalry to confront the iron cavalry of the invading Khitan and Dangxiang people, and could only fight the enemy's cavalry with flesh and blood or fortified cities. Gao Zhong and the prince and the teacher He Qufei discussed this issue, and there were armies that could fight against cavalry in history. During the Warring States period, the Qin army used a kind of extra-long spear to form a spear phalanx against the enemy cavalry. The other is the Mo knife array that appeared in the Tang Dynasty, the soldiers wore heavy armor and used the Mo knife to advance and kill the enemy army like a wall, which was similar to the stone wall charge of the cavalry trained by the prince, and they all relied on the strength of the close formation of the collective...

The battlefield command of the former army has been handed over to Gao Chong, and Zhao Ta, as a bystander, looks at this army that only appears in legends with a cautious gaze. The soldiers wore armor weighing 60 catties, which was the standard infantry armor of the Song army. It is made of iron nails and leaves connected with leather strips or nails, which can protect almost the whole body. The protection is top-notch, but it's too heavy.

Zhao Ta gave up the heavy armor because of the weight and chose the leather armor. Now even these selected soldiers with excellent physique will not wear them on their bodies in normal times, and they are also standing and sitting to maintain their physical strength, and they will only be dressed neatly when they are on the field, so this kind of heavy infantry lacks mobility, cannot effectively pursue the enemy in victory, cannot retreat in time when defeated, cannot fight independently, and must cooperate with other arms to achieve major results.

The Jin army began to attack. They did not first send a small group of cavalry to charge in turn as usual, but came up with several thousand troops to attack together, which may be based on the experience gained from the battle against the Song army, because in the battle with the Song army, it was rare to encounter an army that dared to fight with them, and most of them were a charging Song army and scattered in all directions.

With the sound of the password, the soldiers of the Mo Dao Formation held the Mo Dao in front of them, and their arms were bent. The long handle leans against the waist to leave room for forward stabbing, and the bright, wide, and sharp blade brings people a deterrent that is far from being comparable to the narrow spear head and spear tip, which makes people feel frightened at first sight.

"Shoot!" When the enemy approached quickly, the crossbowmen stood up and estimated the next distance. Shoot a crossbow bolt and land right in front of the enemy's horse, giving the command to shoot at once. The distance of the crossbow was about one hundred and fifty paces, and this was the time when the cavalry was again jogging towards the fast run.

With the sound of the password. Thousands of crossbows were thrown together, and the scene was truly spectacular. It is enough to describe it as covering the sky and the sun, the knights of the golden army have raised their shields to cover them, raising the speed of their horses to the highest, they know that as long as they rush through this distance, the victory is theirs, and from time to time there are unlucky eggs who are shot by stray arrows and fall off their horses.

The power of the crossbow is great, but the slow reloading is its biggest shortcoming, when the second shot is ready, the enemy has rushed to within 100 steps, the projectile will be changed to flat fire, at this time the power of the crossbow reaches the maximum, the general iron armor can not block the power of the crossbow arrow, the Jin army was shot off the horse like a dumpling, but once their charge is launched, it can not be stopped, can only let the horse run faster.

When the cavalry of the Jin army entered sixty steps, the archers also joined the ranks of shooting, the shooting speed of the bow was much faster than the crossbow, but the most skilled archers could only shoot five arrows, and at this time the Jin army also began to use the cavalry bow to counterattack, the arrows shot by both sides flew all over the sky, and people continued to fall down from the arrows, and the crossbow army also shot the last arrow at this time, they threw down the bow and crossbow at this time, picked up the big stick around them and prepared to participate in the next battle...

Zhao Ta looked at Nie Shan and Wang Yun who were pressing the formation on the left and right, they were even more nervous at this time, their eyes wide open as they looked at the approaching enemy army, trembling all over their bodies and unable to speak, "Don't be afraid, two adults, the Jin army can't rush to us!" Zhao Ta comforted them, but he still admired them, it was good to be able to stand here without being scared of a heart attack when he first entered the battlefield.

In fact, Zhao Ta's psychology is also quite contradictory at this moment, that is, he wants these old men who have been sitting in the court for a long time to see what the real battlefield is, and experience the harshness of the battlefield, so that they will not talk nonsense in the future, thinking that the battlefield is as romantic and lyrical as depicted in the poem. At the same time, I hope that they will not be frightened by the tragedy of the war and become real capitulators.

"It's okay, it's just the first time on the battlefield, and I'm just a little excited!" Nie Shan tried his best to control his trembling body, trying to maintain his image.

"The prince is very bold, I can't wait!" Wang Yun laughed bitterly at self-deprecation.

"This king is just used to it, when he first arrived in the northwest, he caught up with the Western Xia invasion, I am a local guard, and I have the responsibility to defend the land, my father is looking at me, and the people are also looking at me, think about what else they have to fear!" Zhao Ta said leisurely, "After such an experience, nothing can make you feel scared from then on, and death is not so daunting!" Zhao Ta said slowly, it is not only these two adults who have just entered the battlefield, but also those volunteers and village soldiers, at this moment, I don't know how many people in Ludao have peed their pants, if it weren't for the soldiers of the Guards Brigade who were holding knives to supervise the battle, it was likely that they would have collapsed.

"Great Song is mighty!" A loud shout drew everyone's attention to the battlefield again. I saw that the shield hand in the front had been withdrawn, revealing the Mo knife team wearing heavy armor and advancing with a knife, they faced the galloping Jin cavalry like a wall, the long knife advanced, rushed to the front of the enemy cavalry in the knife fell to the ground, the flying long knife chopped down, even the war horse wearing a vest is difficult to defeat the sharp long knife, the blood splashed at the landing place, screaming again and again, people and horses on the ground, for a time they set off a bloody storm, the most tragic battle prelude was opened by the Mo knife hand... (To be continued......)