It was almost ten o'clock in the morning, and after three hours of work, the personnel from both sides finally moved to the designated location.
They were separated by a safe distance of about nine miles, and they set up positions with each other.
There is no way! Combined, there are nearly 800,000 personnel from both sides participating in the war.
With so many people, just arranging the formation to cover a huge area naturally takes a lot of time.
During the whole process, the scene was quite chaotic.
The situation on the side of the Song Dynasty was better. Under the long-term formation training, the new army soldiers were operating accurately like gears in various passwords.
In other words, the 30,000 troops from various places in the Song Dynasty participated in the war, and the 20,000 civilians were slightly defeated.
The overall scene looked a bit messy.
However, in contrast to the Jin side, there were messengers whipping their horses galloping everywhere, and officers who spoke Chinese, Khitan, and Jurchen languages, and couldn't even speak the same language, were roaring loudly.
The neighing sounds coming from the mouths of a large number of war horses in motion.
The overall quality between the two can be said to be immediately comparable.
In short, after a while of busy work, the two sides based on the fighting habits of the Eastern army, roughly set up a traditional formation consisting of the left and right wings and the central army in a large area.
The only difference is that the Song Dynasty placed two infantry divisions on the left and right wings, plus 10,000 miscellaneous troops, and half a division, that is, two regiments of artillery.
In the position of the central army, in addition to two infantry divisions, 10,000 miscellaneous troops, and an entire artillery division.
The remaining 7,000 cavalry troops, plus the 30,000 Yue Family Army (which was omitted in the previous chapter and has been revised), were also arranged here.
The other rocket launcher division, together with the civilian troops of 20,000 people, was placed a little behind the Chinese army.
As for the Jurchens, the remaining 120,000 people of the Ever Victorious Army were placed on the right wing. Except for the 13,000 cavalry, the rest were all infantry.
In addition to the 10,000 Jurchens who supervise the war, the total number is 130,000.
On the right wing, 200,000 troops of various ethnic groups recruited from all over the Jin Kingdom were put down, and there were also 15,000 Jurchens to supervise the battle.
The right wing suddenly had so many more troops than the left wing. This was entirely because they needed to dedicate some personnel to deal with the Yanshan Divine Army led by Zhan Xiang and Fengrui in the north of the battlefield.
Most of the Jin troops here are mainly infantry, with a small number of cavalry.
In the position of the central army, the Jin people have accumulated the largest and most elite troops.
Among the 280,000-strong army, in addition to more than 80,000 Jurchens including the "Iron Buddha", about 80,000 hard-core traitor troops, and as many as 120,000 cannon fodder.
They even set up a formation with cannon fodder in front, hardcore traitor troops behind, and Jurchens a little further back.
The reason why such a hierarchy was set up, Hu Biao thought with some malice, was that these Jurchens learned their skills after suffering huge losses from rockets washing the ground on the battlefield in Zhuxian Town.
Hiding far out of the range of rockets, the question is, don't they know that gunpowder weapons have been making continuous progress since their birth.
Are the range and power getting stronger all the time...
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"What the heck! Wanyan Wu begged to buy this grandson. He is quite methodical when it comes to fighting."
After putting down the telescope in his hand and standing on a command vehicle that was eight meters high, Hu Biao muttered something like this.
In the original history, the Jurchens had a large number of outstanding generals such as Wanyan Zonghan, Wanyan Zongwang, Wanyan Loushi, Wanyan Xiyin, and Wanyan Yanmu.
Wanyan Wu begged to buy this Jin Taizong, and there was no need to lead the army in battle.
So in terms of military exploits, there doesn't seem to be much worth mentioning, which makes people think that this guy's military capabilities are not very good.
But when all the famous Jurchen generals died on the battlefield, this guy actually showed quite excellent military command capabilities.
On the current battlefield, a large number of cavalry troops were seen cruising around the battlefield.
Not only did they drive back and compress the few cavalry on the Song Dynasty's side, they allowed the Jin side to occupy the entire battlefield.
Even if the Jin people mobilized their troops later, they would not be able to detect it in time.
Among those cannon fodder troops, Hu Biao could see that at the front, there were an astonishing number of shield vehicles, with equipment such as the Eight Bull Crossbows mounted on the vehicles.
Those shield carts were all made of logs as thick as a bowl, although they couldn't completely block the bullets of fire cannons.
But at a distance of fifty steps, even if the fire cannon penetrated these shield vehicles, most of its power was consumed, and it was not enough to penetrate their armor.
The Eight Ox Crossbow, also known as the Three-Bow Crossbow, has a maximum range of more than three miles, and can almost catch up with the 12-pound Napoleon field cannon.
In addition, Hu Biao could vaguely see that some Jin men did not even have weapons in their hands.
He was just holding a big package in one hand and holding a pine oil torch in the other. At first glance, he looked like the self-death warrior of the Jin people in the information sent by Zhan Xiang and others.
Based on the above, it should be said that Wanyan Wu's begging to buy this product was entirely based on the existing conditions and made the greatest preparation.
But when Hu Biao opened his mouth and muttered the first sentence, his tone was quite relaxed.
It shows that he is quite confident about everything in front of him.
This is also the fact. After the Battle of Zhuxian Town and before the Northern Expedition set off, they made too many preparations.
Many of them were kept in my hands all the time. Even when I was being harassed by Wanyan's mother all the way and the most difficult time, I kept them in my hands and didn't take them out.
The reason is just now, take it out to give these golden people a surprise.
Let them feel the power of science.
For example, now, the Jin side relies on a large number of cavalry, almost blocking the view of the Song army on the entire battlefield, so what can be done?
Faced with this, Hu Biao shouted the first command: "Raise the hot ball..."
Yes! It’s a hot air balloon.
Among the tens of thousands of time-travel-themed novels at some point, whether it is time-travel to ancient times or time-travel to the bosses and salted fish in another world, the plot of creating a hot air balloon is basically a standard feature.
This thing is used for sightseeing, transporting supplies, and even military functions, which are all relatively normal operations.
There are even a lot of people who just use this thing to pretend that the immortals ascended during the day.
Hu Biao and others had naturally thought of such an item for a long time and planned to develop it for military reconnaissance.
It was only when it came to actual research and development that I discovered that this thing is actually not that easy.
This thing involves one of the biggest difficulties, which is to find a material that is light in weight, can withstand heat, withstand a certain high pressure, and can seal gas to make a balloon.
On the contrary, it provides fuel as a heat source to ensure sufficient lifting force for the balloon, which is easier to solve.
You must know that in the seventeenth century, the most primitive hot air balloon made by the Montgolfier brothers was made of straw, plus some wet cloth and rotten meat, so as to emit billowing black smoke.
Now Hu Biao and the others are burning some wood, coal, etc., just to shorten the lift-off time.
Fortunately, the above difficulties in making balloon materials were solved with the cooperation of a group of the best silk weavers in Suzhou and the best group of painters in Dingzhou.
The method of repeatedly painting on fine silk was barely solved, but it was just not that durable.
Just like that, under Hu Biao's order.
One after another, the hot air balloons that had been kept strictly confidential, dragged a long rope, and slowly took off in front of 800,000 troops from both sides.
The purpose of the rope is to prevent these balloons from being blown away.
In addition, these balloons must land and refuel about an hour after they take off.
Moreover, the thin soldier above with a telescope could only wave flags and semaphores to convey some relatively simple orders.
But from this moment on, the actions of the Jin people to cover up the battlefield had no meaning at all.
But more importantly, dragons are depicted on the balloons, which is the image of the Han people as a national totem.
Under the bright golden sunshine today, after a total of twelve balloons slowly rose, the twelve golden dragons on them seemed to be flying in the air.
How had any of the natives in the late Northern Song Dynasty seen such a scene?
At that time, there were countless people on the huge battlefield, including Han Chinese, Liao people, Xi people, Bohai people, and even Jurchens.
At this moment, their legs were weak and they knelt down on the ground, kowtowing like pounding garlic.
To say something that is not modest at all: the appearance of these twelve hot air balloons alone can be worth a hundred thousand soldiers and horses...
