Smelting and Exploding the Heavens

Chapter 194
What Fan Zhuoyuan is currently arranging is not a simple square formation, but a triple formation.

This is a formation developed by Wu Lin, a famous general of the Song Army, which was specially used to fight against heavy cavalry on the plain.

The arrangement of the so-called three-fold array is to arrange the rejection of the horse at the front, and then the first spear formation is located ten steps behind the rejection of the horse, keeping a squatting posture and not getting up.

The second formation consisted of crossbowmen, half kneeling on the ground, hiding behind the pikemen and shooting the enemy cavalry.

The third formation is the god arm bow or bed crossbow, which shoots and kills the enemy from a hundred steps away.

Then there were cavalry cruising outside, not doing any hand-to-hand combat, only doing harvesting work for the enemy cavalry to retreat.

Wu Lin once widely promoted this method to deal with the Jin army, and it was quite effective.

Fan Zhuoyuan's current formation has been greatly simplified, without the use of repelling horses, and without the magic arm bow and bed crossbow.

But there are cannons, which are two and a half feet long, more than two inches in diameter, and weigh forty catties. They can be fixed on a horse and carried.

This kind of artillery is not good for attacking tough areas, but it is really a sharp weapon for field battles!
Fan Zhuoyuan was equipped with forty such tiger squat cannons for this trip. At this time, the small cannons were hidden in the front row of five rows of spear phalanxes.

The long spears used in the long spear square are all ultra-long spears of one and a half feet long, which is four meters five in metric units. Although it is not exaggerated to five or six meters, it is an extremely rare length in this era.

All the soldiers in the spear formation were also sitting on the ground, with the sharpshooter squatting behind them, with their crossbows pointing forward, waiting for the golden army to gallop into the most effective range.

Jin Qi trotted to about a hundred paces at this time, two hundred paces away from the Song army formation, and he could already see the state of the Song army clearly. Seeing that only the spearmen in the front line were wearing heavy armor, and the rest of the soldiers only had leather armor, they couldn't help screaming excitedly .

The Song Army they defeated before, even the Hebei Forbidden Army with the lowest combat effectiveness, can basically guarantee that every soldier wears heavy armor.

But the armor rate of this army is so low, it can be seen that it should be similar to the civil rebels who fought two days ago. Doesn't this mean that they can be scared to death without rushing to fifty paces?
Thinking of this, Gao Lihan laughed, clamped his horse's belly, and increased his speed to a fast run before he reached the sprint distance, so that his momentum looked even more terrifying.

Entering one hundred steps is already within the most effective range of the Song Army's bow and crossbow, Fan Zhuoyuan gave an order.

The sharpshooters draw their bows and crossbows at the same time!

The crossbowmen do not change the crossbowmen. The crossbowmen with the strongest shooting skills aim at the front and shoot a volley. Constant salvo.

The shooter has a separate number point, the lethality is not as great as the crossbow, but the rate of fire is faster!

Thousands of arrows flew towards the Jin army with the most powerful flat shooting posture. The Jin army hurriedly raised their shields during the sprint, and the cavalry spread out more widely to reduce casualties.

They were able to bear this rain of arrows. According to past experience, Song Jun's courage was limited to this.

However, what they didn't expect was that the rain of arrows seemed to be endless. Every twenty steps forward, they would encounter a wave of shooting, which was surprisingly fast.

Soon, many people and horses among the cavalry of the Golden Army were hit by arrows. These arrows were surprisingly accurate. The closer they ran, the more people and horses were hit by the arrows.

But this not only did not frighten the Jin army, but instead aroused their ferocity and galloped wildly. They knew that the more they faced such an attack, the more they had to close the distance as soon as possible, otherwise the casualties would only increase.

When the distance reached fifty steps, they had already seen hundreds of people holding dozens of iron bumps in the spear formation and fixing them at the horse-repelling place in front of the formation at eighty steps.

At fifty paces, these people lit the torches and looked at themselves with a sneer.

Gao Lihan felt very shocked. At such a short distance of fifty paces, this seemingly mob of the Song Army has not yet collapsed?

He decided to rush to a distance of thirty steps, immediately slow down and dismount, shoot down the Song army in front of him with a heavy arrow, and then rush in to break the formation according to the established tactics.

They actually caused such a large amount of damage to their own side, this time they must drive out this group of Song soldiers!
Otherwise, when they go back, they will definitely be scolded by the marshal.

The thought turned in his mind, and he had entered a distance of forty steps. At this time, the fire folder in Song Jun's hand had already pointed at the dozens of iron bumps.

Dong Ze, who was charging behind Gao Lihan, said strangely, "Why do these dozens of iron cylinders look so much like shrunken cannons?"

Gao Lihan's heart suddenly felt cold, but it was too late, forty tiger squatting guns roared at the same time.

The muzzle was flickering with fire, and countless lead bullets and rocks flew out of the muzzle, forming a vast barrage, sweeping the range of forty steps in front of it!
These forty steps can be regarded as a dead end. The cavalry of the Golden Army rushed in, as if they had hit an invisible curtain wall, bursts of blood burst out of the men and horses, and they fell to the ground with mournful groans.

After a round of volleys, there were only a few dozens of Jin soldiers left in front of them, and they were scattered on the wide battlefield. The golden soldier who refused to kill him immediately and fell to the ground was naturally pressed to the ground by several soldiers and beheaded.

The cavalry following the charge at the rear maintained a charging distance of dozens of steps from the front, which is conducive to acceleration. Seeing such a strange scene, they couldn't help but stop their horses, and looked at their own side struggling on the ground in shock and even fear. The cavalry, their war horses were also frightened, and they hesitated in place violently, and it was difficult to calm down even if they were appeased.

At this time, the chief general Gao Lihan and the deputy general Dong Ze, who led the charge, had already been pierced by lead bullets and stones, and died terribly, being pressed to the ground by the corpse of a horse.

The cavalry in the rear was equivalent to losing command for a short time, and fell into a daze of hesitation in advancing and retreating.

Fan Zhuoyuan drew his bow and set up an arrow, causing the crossbowmen to fire again. At present, most of the golden soldiers were within range, causing another burst of damage immediately.

At this time, someone in the golden army suddenly heard an inexplicable roar, which caused all the golden army to roar.

Instead of retreating, they stabbed their mounts fiercely, and dared to charge forward against the rain of arrows. Everyone's eyes were scarlet, as if they were determined to completely defeat the Song army in front of them.

However, during the period of their hesitation, the forty tiger squatting cannons had already completed several steps such as clearing the chambers, loading the medicine and delivering the guns.

Another round of death curtain!
The golden army charging at the front suddenly turned their backs, and hundreds of golden cavalry were engulfed in the rain of bullets.

The war horse heard the gunfire at close range, and could no longer be appeased. It jumped and neighed wildly, and spread out and ran wildly on both sides, not being controlled by the cavalry on horseback at all.

The enemy's cavalry was in complete chaos, Fan Zhuoyuan sent someone to fire a letter arrow, and a red firework rose into the air and exploded.

At this time, the two cavalry that had rounded back to their positions were ready to charge over!
Most of the two thousand golden cavalry who came here were wiped out by the Grand Canal, and Fan Zhuoyuan liked to force people to the water's edge to be strangled and wiped out.

Only dozens of riders escaped vigilantly before the three-sided encirclement was fully formed, and returned to the camp full of fear to report.

(End of this chapter)