The Song army regrouped and lined up neatly.

A cold moon rising in the eastern sky illuminated the Song army's armor, making it gleam.

Every face was filled with determination, and their eyes showed a willingness to die for their cause.

They put away their sabers and uniformly took up long spears.

Their movements were fluid and graceful, showing that they had practiced each simple movement countless times.

The red tassels on the phoenix-winged helmet fluttered in the night wind, and the warhorse exhaled hot air as its forehooves pounded the ground.

His calloused hands gripped the long spear tightly, veins bulging, as he charged forward alongside Yao Xiong.

This heavily armed Song army displayed formidable fighting spirit in a very short time.

The blood in everyone's body seemed to be boiling, and the whole team was like molten lava surging and roaring!

Chen Gou looked at Zhan Du, who laughed wildly twice: "Brother Chen, in the first year of Jingkang, Wanyan Zongwang besieged Zhongshan. The Jin bandits climbed the city walls, and I led my men in a three-day, three-night battle against them. I had thirty-five wounds, but I didn't even flinch. The doctor said I wouldn't live more than five years, but I've already lived four years longer! What a win!"

He added, "Brother Chen, your whole family of 76 is waiting for you to come back. Go back, I'll clear the way for you! And remember to pour me a few jars of wine every year around this time!"

Chen Gou said, "We are grateful for the Emperor's grace in guarding the northern border. Now that the war has turned out this badly, I have no face to go back and see the Emperor!"

"Only by fighting to the death can we repay the Holy Grace!"

After saying that, Chen Gou also pulled hard on the reins. The warhorse neighed and, without waiting for Zhan Du to say anything, led his men to rush over with Yao Xiong.

Zhan Du cursed, "Damn it! Let's kill each other to our hearts' content today!"

A Song army of 3,000 men charged head-on into a Jin army of 10,000 men.

They were also surrounded by Jin troops from both sides.

They have no other choice but to concentrate their superior forces and attack in the same direction.

The grass on the ground was trampled, and the earth rumbled.

The Song army, like a sharp sword, thrust forward at the Jin army.

The Song soldiers at the very front, wielding long spears in both hands, clashed with the Jin soldiers at the very front.

The long spears pierced the necks or faces of the Jin soldiers, their hard and sharp blades tearing through the flesh and shattering the facial bones.

Bone fragments and the blade entered his brain together, and the long spear pierced through his head in an instant, emerging from the back of his skull, splattering red and white brain matter.

Everything happened so fast that the Jin soldier even heard the sound of the bones between his eyes and nose cracking, and his vision went completely red.

In an instant, he went from a living person to a corpse.

The long spear was not drawn out, but continued forward with the cavalry charge, pushing the corpse forward and embedding it into the armor of the Jin soldiers behind, making a metallic clanging sound.

The Jin soldiers in the back ranks were also sent flying by the Song army's terrifying charge.

In just a moment, the Song army overwhelmed the two front cavalry units of the Jin army.

However, when they reached the third and fourth rows, they encountered strong resistance.

The Jin cavalry were lined up in dense formations, and they were also wearing armor. Although it was not as heavy as the Iron Pagoda's armor, its defensive capabilities were still quite strong.

Furthermore, their simultaneous charge was terrifying in its power.

Some people held a round shield in their left hand and an iron mace in their right, while others held a battle axe.

Unlike the uniform configuration of each battalion in the Song army, the Jin army had a variety of weapons, each with its own strengths.

The armor and weapons clashed together with a metallic clang, and in an instant all formations were thrown into chaos, leaving only the individual charging forward.

They charged wildly, relying entirely on brute force!

The Jin soldiers swung their iron maces, smashing them onto the Song soldiers' phoenix-winged helmets.

Clang...

Some used battle axes to chop the Song soldiers' arms, severing the entire arm diagonally to expose the bone, from which blood gushed out.

Some Song soldiers had their chests slashed open, and their internal organs were torn apart by the axe blade.

More Song soldiers surrounded Yao Xiong, protecting their commander tightly, and charged forward together.

The cruelty of war lies in the fact that human flesh is used to charge into a forest of swords and spears.

This Song army was fully prepared to fight to the death, and thus unleashed unprecedented fighting power.

They used their flesh and blood as swords to charge into battle!

Those at the very front suffered horrific injuries; men and horses were thrown about, crashing to the ground and instantly trampled into a bloody pulp.

We are all human beings, born and raised by the same parents.

Some are born into wealth and honor, some live a carefree life, and some are born into peace yet feel empty and helpless, lamenting their pain even without illness.

Some of them were only eighteen years old when they were called up to fight the enemy and defend the borders. They threw their flesh and blood into the forest of swords and spears and were buried in the wilderness.

Even the youngest soldiers in the Song army blushed, their minds blank with confusion.

The last image that flashed through his mind as his vulnerable chest was cleaved in two by the enemy's axe was the big yellow dog that used to play with him at the edge of the village.

I wonder if anyone took pity on that big yellow dog or fed it during the two years I was in the army.

Does it crawl at the village entrance day and night, waiting for me to return?

And the people in the village, the childhood friends I grew up playing in the mud with.

Half of his body detached from his original body and fell down, engulfed by the chaotic horses.

His name was enshrined in the Martyrs' Shrine, but how many people actually remember it?

When people in peacetime gather around a hot pot to eat mutton, and when storytellers describe the magnificent battlefield of the emperor's northern expedition to destroy the Jin dynasty, they use an epic tone to describe the glorious invincibility of the imperial army.

After his death, only his comrades who fought alongside him and were eating meat with him just yesterday cried out his name with heartbreaking grief, but their voices were drowned out by the shouts of battle.

His comrade was filled with extreme grief and indignation at that moment.

Holding a long spear, he thrust it at a Jin soldier in front of him, piercing the soldier's chest. But the next moment, his own head was chopped off by another Jin soldier and rolled down.

Even as their comrades fell one by one in battle, the morale of the Song army did not falter.

On the contrary, they became more courageous in battle.

Zhan Du gripped his battle axe with both hands and swept across the battlefield, killing more than twenty Jin soldiers.

His shoulders were shaved flat, but he still didn't feel any pain.

They fight harder and harder!

With a powerful sweep of his spear, Yao Xiong knocked a Jin soldier charging towards him off his horse, then spurred his horse forward to charge.

Yao Xiong was completely bloodthirsty, leading his men through the Jin army's ranks as if tearing apart pieces of steel.

With every inch torn, blood and flesh splattered out.

Wanyan Zonggan realized something was wrong; this Song army was too fierce!

They were completely different from the Song army he knew!

Nine years ago, a thousand Jin soldiers could withstand ten thousand Song soldiers.

Five years ago, a thousand Jin soldiers could defeat six thousand Song soldiers.

Two years ago, a thousand Jin soldiers could defeat three thousand Song soldiers.

But now, these three thousand Song soldiers charged forward and tore a gap in the middle of his ten thousand troops in one go. With blood and flesh flying everywhere, they were reckless and unstoppable, and they smashed the Jin army in the middle into a bloody mess with corpses strewn all over the field!