With the roars of Yang Yizhong and hundreds of officers lined up in this wall of armor and forest of axes, this army of 24,000 armored heavy infantry, which brought together the elite of the entire empire, finally demonstrated a visible dominance on the battlefield in front of everyone.
Wherever the iron dragon went, the chaotic battlefield was immediately as if it was 'swept'. The Jin army completely collapsed and turned around and left; while the Song army was all jubilant, either chasing hard in front of the iron wall, or following in formation behind the iron wall... What's more, because of the withdrawal, heavy armored long axe soldiers were rarely seen in other parts of the battlefield, but there were countless scattered spears and heavy armored warriors. These imperial camp soldiers followed directly from the rear and joined the formation at the call of the army officers.
That's right, after the battlefield was swept, the Jin army was completely defeated, and the Song army joined in without hesitation and merged into this long army formation that was like a wall and a forest, becoming a part of the formation.
As the Song army swept and advanced, the Song troops along the way almost immediately filled up and thickened the iron dragon that originally seemed a little thin. In Balisu's eyes, the biggest weakness of this heavy infantry formation that was like a wall and a forest was disappearing rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.
When the two sides were about three miles apart, they had already swept through half of the eastern battlefield. The Song army formation had gathered at least half of Li Qiong's troops and the commanding departments of the two imperial camps' rear armies. The formation was also twice as thick, and it was absorbing and reorganizing all the eastern front Song army forces at an increasingly faster speed.
At the same time, Balisu suddenly realized completely... he had been wrong from the beginning.
The reason why the Song army adopted this seemingly weak formation that left loopholes was because they never expected to use a mere four-row formation to sweep away everything and take on everything. This "last throw" was simply a means to transform the Song army's previous overall battlefield advantage into a winning advantage.
Including the previous marching route of the Zhao Song officials, starting from the stone bridge and gathering the people in front to rush to the high ground, they are essentially the same meaning - in the eyes of the Song army commander, the one who decides the outcome is always the entire Song army on the battlefield! They want to gather everyone's strength to crush the Jin army!
Only by combining the strength of all the Song troops could they crush the fourteen Jin army commanders and six Heza Meng'ans on the battlefield.
In sharp contrast to this was his speed. He actually placed all his hopes on the mighty charge of just over 20,000 cavalrymen!
This is a war that will destroy a nation. What on earth is he thinking?
Why didn't he help Yelu Mawu and Wanyan Wulun first? Why didn't he go to join Erlubu?
Why did we realize this only now?
The surrounding Jin cavalry had also vaguely realized something, but it was too late. With a Hezhamengan in the front defeating a small formation of Song infantry of only a few hundred people, a path leading directly to the armored wall and axe forest suddenly appeared in front of Balisu, who was still ashamed and angry.
This is an opportunity, but it may also be a point of no return.
Balisu moved forward slowly, his heart beginning to beat nervously again. He could not help but glance towards the high ground to the west. There, the two commanding heights were still in the hands of the Song army, especially the highest point further west. The dragon flag was still swaying slightly in the rain, which meant that Wanyan Poshu and Huo Nu had not reached them at all.
Of course, this is normal. It has only been a short time. It would be strange if they rushed up. Moreover, to break through the dragon flag is tantamount to breaking through more than 100,000 high ground and the Song army on the western front.
At this moment, even if Lou Shi came, he couldn't charge! Unless the entire Jin army cheered up and charged together.
Can we work together?
If we turn around at this time, won't the Eastern Front be destroyed even faster?
"All the troops, follow me, go forward to meet them, go forward to meet them!"
Under the five-colored sun-holding flag, Bali quickly withdrew his gaze from the dragon banner and looked back without any hesitation... or rather, at this point, he had no other choice but to defeat the enemy in front of him first and then think about other things. "The enemy is right in front of us!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Balisu jumped out on his horse, leading the five-colored sun-holding flag and speeding towards the north.
Once this flag representing the commander of the Jin army was activated and fired first, all the Jin cavalry on the eastern battlefield no longer had any extra thoughts.
At the same time, the surrounding Song army showed a completely different situation.
To the north, the Song army's long axe and heavy infantry formation quickly stopped and formed up, and the Song army formation following behind began to quickly gather towards the exposed gap to serve as a defensive reserve for the attack.
On the eastern front, Li Qiong's troops suddenly stopped integrating into the battle formation behind them and tried to maintain their formation. The battle with Yelu Mawu and Wanyan Wulun also became fierce, and both sides gritted their teeth for a while. And further east, Erlubu, who was almost next to the camp, did not hesitate, regardless of the heavy Song army formation on his side, and directly increased his speed to exert pressure, obviously to echo the speed of Bali.
Looking west, that is, in the vicinity east of the two commanding heights on the high ground, the exposed troops of Zhang Qi and Niu Gao of the Imperial Camp Central Army maintained a solemn silence, obviously preparing their forces. And behind these two armies, in the middle of the two commanding heights, the Imperial Camp Left Army Beiwei Army, which had rested for half an hour, also began to deploy on the high ground again, apparently preparing to come to support when necessary.
As for the south, some of the heavy cavalry and light cavalry that had previously attacked as part of the cavalry formation also suddenly accelerated, and almost followed non-stop under the orders of Liu Qi, Zhang Xian, and Li Shifu.
Speeding up and approaching, Hezhameng'an in front, urged by the five-colored sun-holding flags behind, suddenly started at full speed. One of them rushed forward and turned into a vanguard, while the other turned upwards and turned into a barrier, trying to resist the pincer attack from the high ground.
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