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Chapter 541 Eight Mile Bridge ([-])
It was almost ten o'clock in the morning. After three hours, the personnel from both sides finally moved to the designated place.

It can be regarded as separated by a safe distance of about nine miles, and they set up battles with each other.

no way!Adding up the two sides, a total of nearly 80 people participated in the battle.

With so many people, it will naturally take a considerable amount of time to cover such a huge area after just lining up the formation.

Throughout the process, the scene was quite chaotic.

The situation on the Song side was better. Under the long-term queue training, the soldiers of the new army were operating precisely like gears in various passwords.

That is to say, the [-] troops participating in the war from all over the Song Dynasty, and the [-] civilian husbands were a little bit broken.

Let the overall scene look a bit messy.

However, in contrast to the Jinren side, there are messengers whipping their horses and galloping everywhere, and those officers who speak Chinese, Khitan, and Jurchen languages, who can't even unify their language, roar loudly.

Under the movement of a large number of war horses, there was a neighing sound from the mouth.

The overall quality between the two can be said to be judged immediately.

In short, after a while of busy work, the two sides still based on the fighting habits of the eastern army, and in a huge area, roughly formed a traditional formation composed of left and right wings, plus the central army.

The only difference is that the Song Dynasty placed two infantry divisions on the left and right flanks, plus 1 miscellaneous troops, and half a division, that is, two regiments of artillery.

In the position of the Chinese army, in addition to two infantry divisions, [-] miscellaneous troops, and an entire artillery division.

The remaining 7000 cavalry troops, plus the 3 Yue Family Army (the last chapter was omitted and revised), were also arranged here.

The other rocket launcher division, plus 2 civilian troops, was placed a little behind the Chinese army.

As for the Jurchen side, the right wing released the remaining 12 soldiers of the Ever Victorious Army, of which, except for the 3000 cavalry, the rest were all infantry.

Plus 13 Jurchens who served as supervisors, a total of [-] people.

On the right wing, 20 troops of various ethnic groups were recruited from all over the Kingdom of Jin, and there were also 5000 Jurchens as supervisors.

Compared with the left wing, the right wing has so many more troops all of a sudden, it is entirely because they still need to allocate some personnel to deal with the group of Yanshan Divine Army led by the war elephants and Fengrui in the north of the battlefield.

Most of the Jinren troops here are mainly infantry, and there are not many cavalry.

In the position of the central army, the Jin people have hoarded the largest and most elite group of troops.

Among the 28 troops, in addition to the 8 Jurchens including the 'Iron Buddha', about 12 hardcore traitor troops, and [-] cannon fodder.

They even set up a formation with cannon fodder in front, hardcore traitor troops in the back, and Jurchens a little behind.

The reason for setting up such an echelon, Hu Biao thought maliciously, was that these Jurchens learned their skills after suffering a lot from rocket bombs washing the ground on the battlefield in Zhuxian Town.

Hiding far away from the range of rockets, the question is, don't they know that gunpowder weapons have been constantly improving since their birth.

The range and power are getting stronger and stronger all the time...

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"What the hell! Wanyan Wu is begging to buy this grandson, and he is quite methodical when it comes to fighting."

After putting down the binoculars in his hand, and standing on an eight-meter-high command vehicle, Hu Biao muttered something like this.

In the original history, because the Jurchen side had a large number of outstanding generals such as Wanyan Zonghan, Wanyan Zongwang, Wanyan Loushi, Wanyan Xiyin, and Wanyan Jiamu.

Wanyan Wu begged to buy this Jin Taizong, so he didn't have to lead the army to fight at all.

So in terms of military exploits, there doesn't seem to be much to say, so that people feel that this guy's military capabilities are not good.

But when all the famous Jurchen generals died on the battlefield one after another, this guy actually showed a very good military command ability.

I saw that on the current battlefield, a large number of cavalry troops were cruising around the battlefield.

Not only was the few cavalry on the Song side driven and compressed back one after another, but the Jin side occupied the entire battlefield's field of vision.

Even if the Jinren subsequently mobilized their troops, they could not be discovered in time.

Among those cannon fodder troops, Hu Biao could see that at the forefront, there were an astonishing number of shield vehicles, eight-ox crossbows mounted on the vehicles and other equipment.

Those shield chariots were all made of thick logs, although they couldn't completely block the bullets of the musket.

But at a distance of fifty steps, even if the firecrackers penetrated these shield vehicles, most of their power was consumed, and it was not enough to penetrate their iron armor.

The eight-ox crossbow, or the three-bow bed crossbow, has a maximum range of more than three miles, and can quickly catch up with the 12-pound Napoleon field gun.

In addition, Hu Biao could vaguely see that some golden men didn't even have weapons in their hands.

Just holding a big package in one hand, and holding a pine oil torch in the other; at first glance, it looks like a dead soldier like the Jin people in the information sent by the war elephants.

Based on all the above, it should be said that Wanyan Wu begged to buy this product because he made the greatest preparation based on the existing conditions.

It's just that when Hu Biao opened his mouth and muttered the opening sentence, his tone was quite relaxed.

It shows that he has a little confidence in everything in front of him.

The fact is also the same. After the battle of Zhuxian Town and before the Northern Expeditionary Army set off, they made too much preparation work,

Many of these things have been kept in his hands all the time, even when he was being harassed by Wanyan's mother all the way and was the most difficult time, he kept them in his hands and didn't take them out.

The purpose is to take it out to surprise these golden men now.

Let them feel the power of science.

For example, now, the Jin people rely on the large number of cavalry, which almost obscures the field of view of the Song army on the entire battlefield, so what can be done?

Facing this, Hu Biao yelled out the first order: "Raise the hot ball..."

Yes!It's a hot air balloon.

At a certain point, among the tens of thousands of time-traveling novels, whether it is traveling to ancient times, or traveling to a different world with bosses and salted fish, the plot of creating a hot air balloon is basically standard.

It is a relatively normal operation for this thing to be used for sightseeing, transporting materials, and even for military purposes.

There are even better ones, just use this thing to pretend to be a fairy and ascend in the daytime.

Hu Biao and the others naturally thought of such an item long ago, intending to develop it for military reconnaissance purposes.

It was only when it came to the actual research and development that I realized 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, heat-resistant, withstands a certain high pressure, and can seal gas to make a balloon.

On the contrary, it is the fuel that provides the heat source to ensure a sufficient lift 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 still made of straw, with some wet cloth and carrion added, so that it could emit billowing black smoke.

Now Hu Biao and the others burn some wood, coal, etc., just because the time to lift off is shorter.

Fortunately, the difficulty of the above-mentioned balloon materials was made possible by the cooperation of a group of the best silk weaving craftsmen in Suzhou and a group of the best lacquer craftsmen in Dingzhou.

The method of repeatedly painting on the fine silk is barely solved, but it is not so durable.

In this way, under this order of Hu Biao.

One after another, the hot air balloons that had been strictly kept secret before, dragged a long rope, and slowly lifted off in front of 80 troops from both sides.

The function of the rope is to prevent these balloons from being blown away.

In addition, these balloons have been in the air for about an hour, and they must land to refuel.

Moreover, a thin soldier with a binoculars on it could only use the flag to wave the semaphore and pass on some relatively simple orders.

However, from this moment on, the actions of the Jin people to cover up the battlefield have no meaning at all.

But more importantly, on the sacs of these balloons are depicted a series of dragons, the image of a national totem of the Han people.

Under the bright golden sun today, after a total of twelve balloons rose slowly, the twelve golden dragons on them seemed to be flying in the air.

Where have all the aboriginals in the late Northern Song Dynasty seen such a scene?
For a time on the huge battlefield, I don't know how many people, how many Han people, Liao people, Xi people, Bohai people, and even Jurchens.

At this moment, they all fell to their knees between their legs and kowtowed like pounding garlic.

To put it bluntly: just the appearance of these twelve hot air balloons can be worth a hundred thousand soldiers...

(End of this chapter)