please make me king

Chapter 894 Hollow Square Array

Shaanxi Commander-in-Chief Zuo Guangxian was indeed a man of false fame, although there were many cavalry under his command, they did not rush forward in a daze.

After the cavalry who went to clean up Juma and Tribulus were repelled by the rebels, he immediately ordered the second cavalry to go to clean up.

The rebels immediately used firecrackers and artillery to shoot and suppress.

The five hollow phalanxes of the rebel army were laid out in a plum blossom shape, but to the officers and soldiers in front of them, it was a three-talent formation with Bai Guangen as the core and the left and right wings as the wings.

Therefore, the officers, soldiers and cavalry first cleared the two wings, and then cleared the obstacles in front of the central division.

However, when the officers and soldiers tried to clean up the Zhongsi's rejection of horses and caltrops, Bai Guangen ordered the Zhongsi to stand up in time, let the left and right wings cross fire, and shoot the officers and soldiers.

The cavalry who came to clear the obstacles in front of the Central Division for a while suffered heavy losses and had to be defeated again.

"General, the enemy's guns and cannons are too fierce, brothers can't stand it!" The general who had returned from the defeat scrambled to Zuo Guangxian, howling involuntarily.

"Trash!" Zuo Guang kicked him away with a cold face, and took two steps forward to carefully examine the formation of the rebel army.

Then he smiled and said: "Thieves really don't know soldiers. Their formation is solid on the outside and empty on the inside. It is really a good way to defend against artillery. But when they meet my three-sided cavalry, they are really vulnerable!"

"Pass my order, order one, three, seven, three formations of cavalry to advance along the city wall, and take turns attacking the right formation of the thieves; order two, four, five, three formations of cavalry to harass and advance one after another, waiting for an opportunity to attack the left formation of the thieves. Six formations, eight formations Formation, sweeping formation for it."

"As for the bandit Zhongjun, don't worry about him for now. I want to see if he saves the left or the right!"

The method of using soldiers is to harm people but not to others!
Don't look at Zhang Shun and Zuo Guangxian who have just fought each other. In fact, the two have already been fighting wits and courage in the air for many rounds.

Before Zuo Guang led the defeated troops to occupy Tongguan, blocking the only way for the rebels to enter Shaanxi.

As a result, while Zhang Shun built the ten-thousand-jin Hongyi cannon, he asked his soldiers to detour through the forbidden ditch, attacking Tongguan back and forth, and regained the initiative from Zuo Guangxian.

Then, Zuo Guang first retreated to Huayin and Huazhou, using Huayin's defense of the city as a shield, and Huazhou's iron cavalry as a sword, once again delaying the attack of the rebels.

By the way, Zhang opened the way with a [-]-jin Hongyi cannon and stormed Huayin City, attracting Zuo Guang to lead the cavalry to attack first, and the initiative of the two sides changed hands again.

After Zuo Guang, the general soldier of Shaanxi, first arrived outside Huayin City, he occupied the higher terrain in the south of the city and launched an attack on the flanks of the rebels, also preparing to seize the lost initiative from the rebels.

why is it like this?Those who can make the enemy come to him will benefit him; those who can prevent the enemy from coming to him will harm him!
This is a typical Go thinking, neither fighting for a city or pool, nor caring about the gains and losses of one victory and one defeat.Instead, try to weaken the enemy, strengthen yourself, and finally achieve your goal in one fell swoop.

Soldiers, the country's major events, the place of death and life, the way of survival, must be observed.

As the commander-in-chief of the three armies, you must not be able to face each other face-to-face at every turn, and fight to the death with the opponent!
To put it mildly, this kind of behavior is called recklessness, and to put it more elegantly, it is called "the defeated soldiers fight first, and then seek victory."

In this process of intrigue between the two sides, the disadvantaged party had to use human lives to fill the disadvantage, so as to prevent the entire army from falling into a passive situation and causing the three armies to overthrow.

Like before Zuo Guang occupied Tongguan first, the rebels had to gnaw at the natural dangers of Tongguan; when officers and soldiers occupied Huayin City, the rebels had to gnaw at Huayin City, that's the reason.

Now that the rebel army has taken the initiative, if Zuo Guangxian, the general soldier of Shaanxi, wants to ensure that Huayin is not lost and his "shield and sword defense system" is not broken, he has to take the initiative to launch an attack and force the rebel army to retreat.

Zuo Guang's first attack point was the right wing of Bai Guangen's battalion, that is, a group of troops close to Huayin City.

It must be said that Zuo Guangxian had a vicious vision. If the officers and soldiers easily repelled this group of troops, then not only would Zhongsi Bai Guangen be exposed to the officers and soldiers' iron cavalry, but there would also be only one division between the officers and soldiers and the rebel siege team.

Once the last division is also defeated by the officers and soldiers, the soldiers climbing the city will be directly exposed to the front of the officers and soldiers, and they are likely to be cut into two sections, and the officers and soldiers who climbed the city will have no way to retreat.

"Let me go!" The leader of the first group of officers and soldiers raised his sword high, pointed at Bai Guangen's right wing, and ordered loudly.

The barriers between the two sides have already been cleared away, only a simple layer of repelling horses and barbed wire near the soldiers is better than nothing.

"Gunners get ready, load double shots!" The director of the right wing of the rebel army also shouted loudly.

If you dare to come, I will kill you!

"Seventy paces, sixty paces, fifty paces!" The observation gunner loudly reported the enemy's distance, "Let go!"

The deafening sound of cannons rang out, and medium-sized artillery such as Seven or Eight Second Generals and Mielu Cannon fired a large amount of shotgun.Immediately, more than ten riders fell off their horses in response, fell to the ground, and were immediately covered by dense horseshoes.

"Pull the string!" After the artillery was fired, under the huge recoil, it retreated to the front of the hollow phalanx, and the soldiers quickly dragged it into the formation, quickly cleaned the barrel, and continued to load ammunition.At the same time, the rebel army was still not idle, and the director quickly ordered the soldiers to sound the last mine.

It turned out that the landmines carried by the rebel army this time included not only tripping mines, but also some of them pulling mines.

The reason why the rebel army remained for so long was to disrupt the formation of officers and soldiers charging.

Sure enough, a loud noise suddenly sounded from the officers, soldiers and cavalry, and a few unlucky ones were blown to the ground on the spot.The others were also frightened, and some of them carried the soldiers on their backs and scrambled back and forth, causing the charge formation to be messed up.

"Fire the arrows! Fire the blunderbuss!" The officers and soldiers rode closer and closer, the ground trembled, and the sound of the huge hooves frightened the minds of the rebels.The faces of the soldiers standing in the front row turned pale.After all, is a human body of flesh and blood, so how can it resist the collision of a thousand catties?

The commander issued an order at the right time, and the archers, musketeers, and small Francophones mechanically released the bowstring, pulled the trigger, or ignited the burning line according to the order, and projected the arrows to the enemy in front of them. middle.

Although they repeated the movements of their hands dumbly, as if they had no emotion, their trembling hands had already exposed the fear in their hearts.

However, none of these soldiers dared to turn around and flee.Because as long as you turn around, you will be executed on the spot by the knife and axe behind you.

It's too late, it's too soon.

The distance between the officers, soldiers, cavalry and the rebels quickly shortened from fifty steps to forty, thirty, twenty, or even more than ten steps!

"On top of the spearmen, the archers, musketeers and small Francophones retreat into the formation!" The voice of the commander who gave the command also trembled.

The cavalry of officers and soldiers is actually divided into many squads to reduce the damage caused by firepower.

However, for a hollow phalanx like theirs, it is still enough to kill.

In fact, what Zuo Guang said first was correct. For an infantry formation to resist cavalry charges, it is natural that the formation is dense and thick to withstand enough impact.

However, a sufficiently dense and thick formation is the best target for artillery damage.

For infantry formations, resisting cavalry and resisting artillery are completely contradictory requirements.

Therefore, the hollow phalanx came into being. It not only has some advantages of the original phalanx, but also minimizes the damage caused by the artillery to the soldiers.

Of course, sugar cane is not as sweet as the two ends.

Since the hollow phalanx has so many advantages, its ability to resist the impact of cavalry is lower than most conventional solid phalanxes.

It's a pity that Zhang Shun didn't have enough time to practice the new formation used by Bai Guangen and He Renlong's second battalion, and change it at will.

In this battle, whether the rebel army's new hollow phalanx resisted the officers and soldiers' three-sided fine cavalry, or the three-sided fine cavalry defeated the rebel army's hollow phalanx.

(End of this chapter)