warring states careerist

Chapter 237 Spear Penetrating the Five-Step Alliance ([-])
Although the night was dark, Chu Sima could still feel the aura of these people opposite him.

Just the two points of neat and consistent steps, and the ability to stop the whole team when they hear the order, can be regarded as the elite of the world at this time, and whoever can do this can be called a strong teacher.

When encountering on foot, courage is the most important thing. If you can break through the enemy in one go, you can often turn into a one-sided massacre.

Especially in the Chu army formation, as long as they can stick to these people, then the Chu army will have the opportunity to organize the team and encircle them.

Chu Sima is also a brave general. He has been trained since he was a child, and he is proficient in chariot and foot combat. But when he saw the opposing team, he knew that the battle tonight should not be chaotic.

After ordering, I knew that the distance between the two sides was only a few dozen steps. In the past, these warriors around me would often attack without obeying the order.

But today it was quiet here, and no one rushed ahead, instead they kept approaching and crowding the people around them. Obviously, the queue of those people on the opposite side caused the palpitations here.

The whole formation makes the army strong. This is the truth that everyone who knows soldiers in the world knows, but it is difficult to train, especially since most of the Chu people are farmers and soldiers, even if they know it, they cannot be trained.

Wu Qi once commented that the Chu people's formation was not long.

It seems to be a very fair evaluation, but in fact it is only because of Fu Bixing's habit of fighting.

The formation is complete and not long, but in fact it means that there is no formation.

The formation can be maintained before the battle, and the formation will be completely loose once the battle begins, which is no different from no formation.

Because the formation is not for viewing, but for fighting.

But if it looks like the formation is not neat, then it will definitely not be neat when fighting. This is something that children know.

Therefore, when Chu Sima saw the formation on the opposite side, he also had concerns in his heart, and even felt a little uneasy.

At this time, the distance between the two sides was only fifty steps.

Car battles are completely different from foot battles, although at this time they are all in one go.

But the impact distance of the chariot battle is about two hundred steps, so that the horses can exert the greatest impact, and the archers on the chariot can shoot with crossbows, this is the most perfect distance.

However, the impact distance in infantry combat can only be within thirty or fifty paces. If the impact is too early, the formation will be scattered, and the formation will be vulnerable to a single blow.

Chu Sima is not just fighting in chariots, he also knows how to fight on foot, and understands that the best offensive method requires some archers who have been trained since childhood for such a short distance.

Use heavy arrows or powerful crossbows to resist gunfire, and shoot the opponent's formation out of the gap, causing it to loosen, so as to break through in one fell swoop and completely defeat the opponent.

However, this is night, and those who can approach at night and shoot with heavy arrows and crossbows must be warriors, and a certain number of hand-to-hand assault infantry is required to follow up.

The people of Chu do not have such conditions at this time, so the only thing they can do is to get close and launch an impact, and launch an impact at the same time as the opponent's impact, to see who can't hold it first.

At a distance of fifty steps, both sides did not stop, and both slowed down and approached gradually, as if they were waiting for an opportunity to strike in one fell swoop.

Chu Sima thought so.

He was right in thinking, in the current world, it is absolutely correct to think so.

It's just that these people on the opposite side have some weapons that far surpass this era.

One or two weapons cannot determine the outcome of a war, but when the training and organization of both sides are similar, the weapon can become the last weight on the balance.

Holding a heavy iron lump in his hand, Gongzaoye walked slowly forward listening to the slow beating of drums behind him.

He hid behind the shield hand, even if the opponent didn't have a crossbow, even if the opponent chose to attack directly.

He visually measured the distance between the two sides, counted his own steps, and calculated the throwing distance between himself and his comrades and juniors.

The distance of fifty steps was constantly being shortened, and there were still not many voices from Mo Zhe's side.

Gong Zaoye secretly counted his steps, when he walked from fifty steps to thirty steps, Gong Zaoye knew that there were less than ten steps left, both sides had to launch an attack, using the power of running to disperse the enemy formation.

The victory or defeat, if the number of the two sides is about the same, if both sides are forming an formation, it depends on who can win the opponent at the moment of impact.

Only, times have changed.

When Gong Zaoye stepped on the ground again with his left foot, he bulged his cheeks and blew his whistle, temporarily stopping the advancing team.

Then he yelled, "Fire! Throw!"

With a cry and a sharp whistle, he brought the iron knot in his hand closer to the matchlock around his waist.

The sound of chi chi and the smoke of gunpowder with the bitter taste of sulfur filled the ranks in an instant, and five or sixty people ignited the gunpowder mines in their hands at the same time.

Almost instantly, dozens of gunpowder mines, which appeared in the battle formation for the first time, were thrown out at the same time, with flickering sparks, drawing a beautiful and deathly arc in the air.

This is not a rainbow, but a meteor of death flickering.

Dozens of fuses from gunpowder mines rolled in the air, turning into colorful and attractive lines with hissing sounds.

This is the first time this beautiful thing that can be used as fireworks appears on the battlefield.

So sudden, so brilliant, so alluring.

So much so that the Chu people on the opposite side stopped and paused, looking at the shining brilliance in the sky, recalling the meteors they saw when they were young, and forgot to take a step forward.

Chu Sima sensed that something was wrong when Gong Zaoye stopped the team for a while.

No one would choose to regroup when they were dozens of steps away, and the opposite team had never dispersed, and had always been extremely neat.

There was a sudden pause at this time, and Chu Sima really couldn't figure out why.

He knew Mo Zhe was good at fighting, and it was because he knew that the other party was good at fighting that it was impossible for such an unreasonable situation to occur.

Stop the team at a distance of dozens of steps. Once the opponent launches an attack first, your side will be passive, because many people may not obey orders or be unresponsive due to panic.

Either way, it may cause a gap in the team.

During the foot battle, if there are gaps or scatter in the team, that is a big taboo in the battle.

Chu Sima's doubts only stayed for a moment, because then he heard a business with a lot of air and shouted two words.

He couldn't understand, because the speaker was speaking in the dialect of the Song people.It's neither Chu dialect nor Yayin, it's Song dialect, which can't be more rustic, but it's the language of communication among Mohists.

Afterwards, Chu Sima saw many strange things thrown from behind the opposite shield array.

The night sky was very dark, and it could be seen that there were some strange things that were black and about the size of a fist.

The weirdest thing about these things is that there is a flickering tail behind them, just like the comet that flew by that year.

Chu Sima felt a little uneasy. Comets always bring bad news. When Uncle Qin died, comets appeared in the sky.

Thinking of the rumors that the Mohists value ghosts and gods and are good at offering sacrifices, Chu Sima thought, is this another method similar to the temple to welcome the enemy?Or is this asking for help from some gods and gods?
It was difficult to guess, and it was impossible to know, but the anxiety in his heart and the restlessness like a comet made Chu Sima panic.

boom……

A black pimple whose tail was no longer flaming, but which started to emit strange smoke, landed at Chu Sima's feet.

This thing is round, much larger than the stone thrown by the sling head, and it looks much heavier.

But when it comes to the damage, it doesn't seem to be very big, only a few people were hit and cried out in pain.

If you hit the head, your face may bleed; if you hit the foot, you will jump around and scream.

It's just that there is a strange smell in the air, so strange that I can't smell it at all.

Slightly bitter and pungent.

Chu Sima thought to himself, what is this?What are these Mohist disciples doing?
He just thought for a moment, and then subconsciously wanted to kick something under his feet.

However, the moment his feet just stretched out, there was a sound like thunder in his ears. It wasn't from his feet, but a few bombs beside him.

Fuchsia flashes like thunder at night.

The roaring sound was like a monstrous river tide.

"not good!"

This was the last thought of Chu Sima, the ruler of the state of Chu, and he didn't know anything after that.

Because the black lump under his feet exploded when he thought something bad was going on.

Fifty or sixty gunpowder mines thrown into the Chu people's formation exploded almost instantly. This was the first time they roared in the military formation in the world, and it was also the first time they looked at the world.

So the Chu people didn't know what it was, and they didn't know how to defend it. Some even wanted to kick it.

boom……

bang bang...

If someone who knows Gunpowder, as long as this thing is ten feet away from him, he will block his ears at most, and laugh lightly: "Gunpowder! Worry-free!"

However, for those who have never seen gunpowder, even if this thing is a hundred feet away, they can only think that it is thunder from the sky, it is the punishment of the emperor of heaven, and it is ghosts and gods standing on the side of Mo Zhe.

Loud noise, roar, thunder, and thick smoke.

All these things that will eventually appear on the battlefield appeared on the battlefield a thousand years earlier than they should have appeared.

The first time is always different.

The dense formation of the Chu people brought the power of these weapons to the extreme.

The secrecy that lasted for months, the sudden intimidation of these weapons was brought to the extreme when they were never used.

On the one hand, they have heard dozens of times and even know that it is called gunpowder, and on the other hand, they have never seen or heard of it. The two people's wrong understanding of the news makes these weapons shocking to the extreme.

Some Chu people who wanted to surround them were so shocked that their ears were ringing, and they dropped their weapons and fled back without even thinking about it.

Some Chu people thought of the previous rumors, thought that Mo Zhe had dug the direction of the burrow dozens of steps away, thought of the theory of ghosts and gods, and wondered how manpower could fight ghosts and gods?So I no longer want to fight, just want to escape.

The flames and sounds of those explosions, as well as the shock of dozens of explosions at the same time, made the Chu army around them startled and at a loss.

"ghost!"

"No, it's the Heavenly Emperor Thunder God!"

"This is the punishment for an unjust war!"

"The words of the Mohists are correct. Unjust wars are disliked by the gods and ghosts!"

(End of this chapter)