Woo woo woo...

Accompanied by the whimpering horns of the Cochin people.

Twenty war elephants lined up neatly and moved forward with extremely majestic momentum.

The Cochin infantrymen who followed the war elephant also raised their shields.

Their formation became the Yanyue Formation.

This is a very ancient infantry formation, and it has always been a weapon for infantry to attack and break formations.

Throughout the ages, it has been used repeatedly by countless famous generals on battlefields.

The Crescent Moon Formation displayed by Li Changjie belongs to the Crescent Moon Formation commonly used by the armies of feudal towns during the Tang and Five Dynasties periods.

If there are planes hovering over the battlefield at this moment, it can be clearly seen that the Jiaozhi Chinese Army is divided into seven different offensive formations using war elephants as arrows.

And each attacking infantry group presented a figure-eight array of wild geese on the battlefield.

Typical military tactics of the Tang Dynasty.

However, the people in Cochin use it very unfamiliarly.

According to the rules of the Tang Dynasty, when attacking the Yanyue Formation, the basic organizational structure should be fifty people.

The people of Cochin are noisy.

There is a clear gap between the infantry in front and the infantry at the end.

This means that if they are attacked by a powerful cavalry while advancing,

Then, they would face the cavalry carving a big hole in the most vulnerable concave and convex part of the Yanyue Formation, leading to the overall collapse.

At the same time, the Cochin people still lacked enough crossbowmen in their array.

According to the system of the Tang Dynasty, when the Yanyue Formation was attacking, the crossbowmen should start shooting at the enemy formation when they were about a hundred paces away, and the archers should start shooting when they were about fifty paces away.

The infantry serving as arrows should provide good protection and cover for the crossbowmen at this time.

However, the Jiaozhi people lacked strong bows and crossbows.

Especially the former, this makes the Cochin people's bows and arrows almost unable to penetrate armor at a distance of fifty paces.

They need to get closer to about thirty steps in front of the Song army's formation to have a chance to threaten the Song army.

In the Tang Dynasty, a crossbowman at this distance should throw away the crossbow in his hand, pick up a short knife, and follow the forward into the enemy's formation to start hand-to-hand combat.

The most terrible thing is that the number of crossbowmen of the Cochin people is seriously insufficient.

As a result, when the two eight-character flying geese formations spread out on both wings were approaching a hundred paces away from the Song army's formation, they were hit by the long-distance fire of hundreds of divine arm bows from the Song army's formation on the flanks.

!

The Divine Arm Bow was a crossbow that was very successful in the Song and Xia wars.

It has many advantages such as long range, strong armor-breaking ability, and high accuracy.

Puff puff!

The Song army's crossbows, specially designed to deal with the iron kites of the party members, knocked the soldiers holding shields to the ground.

The arrowheads made of fine iron even penetrated the leather-covered shields used by the Cochin people.

The battlefield was filled with wailing and screaming sounds.

At a distance of one hundred to fifty steps, hundreds of soldiers fell in the two formations on both wings of the Cochins.

Almost all of them are the bravest and most daring soldiers.

The two formations on both wings were almost broken up.

The figure-eight formation completely collapsed and turned into a sparse one-character formation.

Before taking the battle, the two wings of the Cochins had effectively lost their ability to attack.

This is something that can't be helped.

More than ten years ago, the Song Army was not widely equipped with divine arm bows.

The Jiaozhi people had been turned into a hornet's nest by the Song army's crossbows.

Like the Battle of Juili Pass, the troops commanded by Yanda relied on strong bows and crossbows from the front to defeat tens of thousands of Jiaozhi soldiers and horses, including charging war elephants.

Today, more than ten years later, the equipment of the Song Army has been updated to a new generation.

Tactics and tactics have also been changed.

In the tug-of-war with the Dangxiang people along the border, the Song army had long been accustomed to fighting with strong bows and crossbows.

Li Changjie commanded his central army and looked at the two flying geese formations that had almost collapsed on both wings.

Although he had already anticipated this result.

But when he saw Song Jun swatting his wings to pieces again like swatting flies, he still couldn't help but stare angrily.

But he didn't have time to think, let alone reprimand.

He could only pretend not to know and loudly encouraged the Chinese army to move forward.

As long as the distance is within thirty steps, the war elephant can charge.

…

Di Yong set up his own general station at a commanding height on the battlefield.

This allowed him to have an overview of the whole situation.

At this moment, before his eyes, the Cochin soldiers were fully deployed on a frontal battlefield that stretched for more than ten miles from north to south.

However, except for the two wings of the central army, there was no structure at all.

It looks like just a chaotic mob.

They were trembling and timid.

Actions on the battlefield are like a turtle crawling.

It's almost like if the people behind you urge me, I'll take a few steps, and if I'm urged, I'll take a few steps.

Next to Di Yong, Xu Kenan looked at the Jiaozhi array and couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

"General manager, please let me attack!" Xu Kenan directly asked for a fight: "I guarantee that as long as three to five hundred cavalry, it will be enough to collapse the entire bandit army!"

Xu Kenan is old enough to fight.

Naturally, the big problem of the Cochin people can be seen at a glance.

Both wings were composed of mobs. Let alone cover the central army, they could not even attract firepower.

What a complete bunch of rabble!

Maybe they were not even as good as the soldiers in the prefectures and counties in the hinterland of the Song Dynasty!

The Xiang soldiers were recognized as the weak army of the Song Dynasty.

If a rioting farmer is beaten, he will probably be beaten with hoes and wooden sticks until the ground is full of teeth.

This kind of enemy is the favorite of all cavalry.

Just chase them away.

Di Yong raised his hand and stared closely at the advancing Jiaozhi Chinese Army on the battlefield.

At this moment, their forward war elephant cluster had entered within fifty steps of the Song army's formation.

"The cavalry cannot move!" Di Yong said directly without looking at Xu Kenan: "The traitor acted like this, it is extremely reckless, or there may be a trick!"

The precious cavalry unit is the only new force in his hands that can respond quickly.

Must be saved.

in case!

It not only prevents the thieves' war elephants from breaking into the array, or even shaking the array.

It is also necessary to prevent the thieves from having a back-up plan.

What's more, the leader of the bandit army is Li Changjie!

A general who is dearly remembered by the late emperor and today's officials.

There is no way he would be so reckless and risk everything.

He definitely has a backup plan!

Therefore, Di Yong knew very well that he had to leave a backup plan.

…

"Thirty steps!" Li Changjie raised his head and looked in front of him.

The war elephants wearing armors had already advanced thirty steps to the enemy's line, facing the rain of arrows from the Song army.

The elephant soldiers riding on the war elephants can probably see the soldiers in the first row of the Song army's array.
To be continued...