Zhang Jun's Song army rushed forward desperately on the official road leading to Lin'an. Along the way, he encountered an attack from the Han army's combat chariot convoy. This time, the Song army ignored it, braved the arrows, fought against casualties, and continued to bury their heads forward regardless of the matter. The bodies and wounded soldiers all the way were left on the official road, and of course a large number of soldiers also found an opportunity to sneak away.

When the Song army vanguard arrived less than ten miles away from Lin'an City, the Song army had already stretched for more than ten miles long, and was in chaos. At this time, not only did the Han army's combat chariots launch harassment at the Song army from a distance, but even the small winged cavalry took advantage of the chaos to launch raids on the Song army from both sides of the official road from time to time, passing through the formation. The Song army soldiers were killed and injured, and there were no fugitives.

Zhang Jun received the scout cavalry in front again, saying that more than 2,000 enemy troops were standing in front of Lin'an City. Zhang Jun gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, OK, Yue Fei, it's time for us to decide our lives and death." Then he ordered the front army to stop advancing, form defensive formations on site, and wait for the rear army to meet before advancing to the Lin'an City.

When the Song army and horses gathered together, the number of people was counted again, and only more than 16,000 people were left, which was much better than Zhang Jun expected.

Zhang Jun ordered the generals and generals to form a military formation. It took half an hour for the entire army to be arranged. Zhang Jun made the last mobilization of the Song army. He rode his horse slowly past the army, pointing to the Lin'an city wall that was already vaguely visible in the distance and said, "As long as you fight hard to kill the thieves, capture Lin'an, and be granted official titles, you need not say much about wealth in the future, just the gold, silver and treasures in Lin'an city, and women let you use them."

After Zhang Jun finished speaking, he waved his hand and the sound of drums and whistles suddenly became loud. The Song army rushed to Lin'an City in full form. There, two thousand Han soldiers were already lined up and waiting for them.

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Xia Yue looked at the Song army who appeared on the distant horizon from the Qianli Mile Mile Mile, covering the sky and like locusts.

The forefront were heavy infantrymen who were invulnerable to swords and guns. They were wearing the heaviest armor in the world, holding a large iron sword that weighed dozens of kilograms. Such heavy infantrymen cannot march normally and can only be temporarily equipped in this way during formal battles. Otherwise, Zhang Jun would let them go to battle when they were attacked by the Han army.

The rear rows of heavy infantry were light infantry holding guns, spears, swords and shields, and finally crossbowmen, many of them were divine arm crossbowmen. The Song army now had no cavalry, and only a small number of reconnaissance cavalry were patrolling and guarding the two sides of the military formation several miles away.

Relying on his absolute advantage in military strength, Zhang Jun arranged the general formation into a large formation with a front width of several miles to prevent the opponent's attempt to use cavalry to encircle his wings.

In this way, unless the opponent has already ambushed, it will take a long time for the cavalry to surround their flanks. This time is enough for their own military formation to crush the enemy's military formation.

He had ordered the reconnaissance cavalry to conduct repeated reconnaissance, believing that there were no pre-dated enemy ambush near the battlefield where the battle was about to take place, and there was no suitable place to ambush.

The Song army came in fierce formations. Heavy infantry carried big swords and deliberately stepped on the ground, making a sound of thrust the earth, as if it was breaking mountains and cracking the city. The crossbowmen were all arrows on the strings, just waiting for the general to give orders. The light infantry soldiers' swords, spears, spears, halberds, candles are like forests, and flags are like seas.

At this time, Xia Yue put away the Qianli Miles Miles and ordered calmly: "Ran the hollow square array."

The Song army was approaching, and Zhang Jun discovered that the other party was equipped with strange equipment. The spearmen held super long spears more than two feet in a row. From a distance, they looked densely packed like bamboo forests. The helmets and armor on their bodies were as if they were made of iron, integrated and extremely shiny.

At this time, the mountain spearmen were equipped with Gothic plate armor. Although this reduced their mobility and speed, they now have heavy armor and convex gunmen to protect them no longer need to use speed and mobility to evade enemy long-range strikes and side-back assaults.

Zhang Jun saw the two rows of soldiers in front of these spearmen and the soldiers above the four corners of the square formation holding an iron rod with a handle. The iron rod was not very long, only more than four feet long. These soldiers did not wear heavy armor, but everyone seemed to be carrying a big shield. Zhang Jun secretly wondered, "This thing is not like a blunt weapon, and it is even worse for swords and guns. What's the use?"

The two armies were getting closer and closer, and when there was less than eighty battles apart, an order came from the Han army formation. The Han soldiers in the forefront, holding "iron sticks" suddenly squatted on the ground under the command, and at the same time took off the big shield on their backs, opened the bracket behind the big shield, and put it in front of them. The upper edge of the big shield also had a gap. They put the "iron sticks" in their hands on the gap, and lit the fuse and adjusted the position.

Only then did Zhang Jun realize that this might be a projection weapon, but he couldn't understand it. There were no bowstrings and arrows on it. How to project it? At this time, it was more than a hundred years before the storm made of bamboo tube was released, and Zhang Jun would not have the recognition of a musket for a while.

When the two armies were less than 60 battles, the crossbowmen of the Song army's god-arm crossbows were slackened and shot arrows under the command of the general. The musketeers who were squatting behind the big shield could not be injured by these arrows. The spearmen all shook their guns and knocked down the arrows shot into the array one after another. The arrows that were not knocked down were shot on the long and strong plate armor. Often, the arrows were clustered with a white scratch on the smooth metal, and finally the bullet fell to the ground. A very few could pierce into the joints of the armor and then be stuck.

The Han army formation was filled with the sound of metal and metal collision between metal and wood. The longbowmen in the hollow square formation and twenty crossbows began to fight back. At a distance of fifty or sixty battles, the heavy arrows of the longbowmen were helpless against the heavy infantrymen in the heavy armor of the Song army. They were all inserted like hedgehogs by arrows, but in fact they were unscathed.

The only thing Zhang Jun was worried about was the other party's "Sky Thunder". He had actually seen this thing for a long time. The Song army's military warehouse had this thing. The difference was that he did not understand why Yue Fei's "Sky Thunder" could be so accurate, and they could only explode after landing. The Song army's Shisha thunder operation was like igniting firecrackers, first igniting the fuse and then projecting it out with bare hands or with a catapult. There was naturally no accurate head, and the burning speed of the fuse could not be grasped. Many of them exploded in mid-air in advance, or delayed for a long time after landing. Some even caused duds because the fuse was damp or other reasons. Therefore, Shisha thunder was not widely used by the Song army.
Chapter completed!