"After checking clearly, the Song army only has a few thousand people in total, never more than 6,000!"

"As I expected, if you want to penetrate deep into the hinterland of our country from Jiaozhi, there will never be too many people!" Gao Liangcheng sneered, "Inform the forward battalion and the cavalry on both wings to cooperate with the action!"

"Got the order!"

Gao Liangcheng arranged armored elites in the forward camp, about 3,000 people, all of whom were strong and strong warriors.

There were two thousand cavalry on each wing.

Although the Dali horse is short, it has great endurance.

Soon, the vanguard of the Dali army began to move, followed closely by the archers.

"Yan Pei, do you know how to fight?"

"Don't worry, Commander Wu!" Yan Pei ran down.

The Song army's military formation was neat and tidy, as if it had been measured with a ruler, exuding a murderous aura that had been on the battlefield for a long time.

Gusts of wind and waves blowing in from the distant valley, mixed with water vapor and the fragrance of vegetation, are refreshing.

As the Dali Army advanced into the range of the Song Army's crossbows, the Song Army's crossbowmen began to fire crossbows.

Dense arrows shot up from the ground, floating in the air like a huge black carpet, covering the moving Dali Army formation.

Suddenly the sound of arrows hitting the armor was heard, as dense as a metal rainstorm hitting hard stone.

Some of them were pierced into the leather, but not pierced.

But some of them shot on the face and neck.

The sharp arrows immediately tore open the skin, penetrated into the flesh, and shattered the blood vessels inside.

The screams of Dali soldiers also sounded, one after another.

The forwards of the Dali Army were not greatly affected and continued to charge forward.

Archers followed closely behind.

The distance between the two sides is still closing rapidly.

When they reached about 150 meters, the Song Army's second wave of crossbow arrows had already come.

This time, due to the shortened distance, the leather armor of some Dali soldiers was pierced by the terrifying power of the crossbow arrows.

But at least part of it, and the penetration depth is extremely limited, only one or two centimeters at most.

Some soldiers who were shot through their leather armor even felt no pain for a while because of the rush of adrenaline, and they continued to rush forward crazily.

Finally, when the distance shortened to 120 meters, the archers of the Dali Army began to draw their bows and shoot arrows.

Suddenly, the Dali army's arrows counterattacked.

Generally, the effective shooting range of the most powerful archers in ancient times could reach 120 meters.

But for the Song Army who was wearing iron armor, this was undoubtedly scratching an itch.

The Dali army's arrows fell on the Song army's armor and were all bounced away.

And at a distance of one hundred and twenty meters, for a strong crossbow, it can already pierce leather armor.

When the Song Army's third wave of powerful crossbow arrows flew in, the sharp arrows pierced their leather armor, tore their flesh and blood, and penetrated into their bones. The Dali Army soldiers fell to the ground in pieces.

At such a distance, the two sides rained arrows on each other.

Which one is better and which one is worse is clear at a glance.

Moreover, as the Dali army closed the distance, the Song army had replaced its powerful crossbows.

What is a crossbow?

What is another crossbow?

The effective killing range of the crossbow is 150 meters away.

If the opponent has leather armor, it will be difficult to kill the opponent within 150 meters.

The effective killing range of the sub-strong crossbow is approximately 120 meters.

A strong crossbow requires a lot of arm strength to use, while a sub-strong crossbow requires much less strength to operate.

In view of the gap between each soldier, it is necessary to arrange strong crossbows, sub-strong crossbows, strong bows and sub-strong bows.

This is Wu Lin’s stacking formation method.

Historically, the stacked formation method was also invented by Wu Lin, and was specifically used to deal with the Jin Army. Even the Jin Army could not defeat the defensive force, let alone the current Dali Army.

At present, the Dali Army has entered the distance where the powerful crossbows can break armor, which is within 90 meters.

Groups of Dali soldiers fell to the ground, like rice in a rice field blown to the ground by strong winds, falling backward one by one.

On the Song Army's side, due to the large number of armored defenses, bows and arrows could not penetrate at this distance.

This scene directly subverted the perceptions of Dali people.

The combat effectiveness of Dali soldiers is actually not weak. They traveled long distances and started wars with surrounding countries.

But we have to admit that with the same courage, the role of armaments in war cannot be ignored.

For example, in the Western Army of the Song Dynasty, the ratio of crossbows and infantry was about seven to three. This was to fight the mountain warfare with the Xixia people.

Because the Xixia people don’t wear armor very well.

Later, when they encountered the highly mobile Guaizima, ordinary crossbows suddenly lost their effect. The Western Army, which made Xixia cry for their fathers and mothers, was stunned.

Similarly, the Dali army was also at a loss at this time.

You must know that the Dali army did not intend to engage in hand-to-hand combat immediately. They would first use crossbowmen to defeat the Song army, and then the cavalry on both wings quickly attacked the Song army.

No one expected that as soon as the forwards came up and there was no close combat, so many people would die, and they were even armored elites.

Even so, the Dali army still did not withdraw its troops.

They moved forward quickly.

The fourth wave of crossbow arrows from the Song Army came.

Another group of people fell.

The Dali army suffered as many as 800 casualties.

When the distance was within fifty meters, the archers of the Song Army began to take action.

Not only that, rows of infantrymen holding spears came to the front in an orderly manner, forming a dense formation of spears.

When Dali Jun saw this, he was immediately stunned.

This stacked formation method is simply to use offense instead of defense to prevent solid defense.

No wonder the Jin army was also afraid in history.

The scout rushed away and truthfully reported the situation of the battle ahead to Gao Liangcheng.

Gao Liangcheng's face was livid, and he said unwillingly: "Ming Jin withdraws the troops!"

The Dali army had not yet reached the Song army and began to withdraw its troops with gold orders.

While retreating, some people also took the opportunity to rescue their comrades who fell on the ground.

However, the rain of arrows from the Song army did not stop, and they fell one after another.

Gao Liangcheng felt his heart bleed.

"Cavalry! The cavalry attacks from both wings. I don't believe the Song army has so many powerful crossbows!" Gao Liangcheng roared angrily.

Dali's cavalry received the order and began to advance steadily towards the two wings of the Song army.

There are two thousand cavalry on one side, which adds up to four thousand.

You know, the Song army only had 5,000 people in total, and the Dali cavalry came with 4,000.

"Report! Commander Wu, the enemy has launched cavalry."

"You came just in time." Wu Lin looked at the military formations on both wings and said with a smile, "I really want to see the cavalry of Dali Kingdom."

The Dali cavalry also wore armor, the same armor as the forward infantry.

Like the Jin cavalry, they also carried bows and arrows.

They rushed toward the Song army like two torrents.

As soon as the cavalry appeared, the atmosphere on the battlefield changed.

Gao Liangcheng could only use cavalry to defeat the Song army's formation, and then the main infantry could charge forward.

However, the Song army's defense on the left and right wings was also very rogue.
Chapter completed!