warring states careerist

Chapter 375

Right wing of volunteers.

The sound of artillery from the central army did not mean that the right wing was about to attack.

The seventh brigade is arranged on the far right. Unlike the formation of the Chinese army, the formation of infantry here is thinner than that of the Chinese army.

The musketeers were waiting in front of the formation, and in the gaps between the companies, the small and mobile cannons, which were dubbed "big guns" by the volunteers, were also waiting for orders.

The brigade commanders of Six Fingers and Seventh Brigade waited boredly behind for orders.

The brigade commander is an old ink man who participated in many city defense battles and was killed in a sea of ​​blood.Although Liuzhi was not very old, he was also the master who had killed many people during Pengcheng's suppression of the rebellion. The two of them were not nervous about the upcoming battle.

The sound of the cannon was rumbling, and the brigade commander asked: "As I said yesterday, the formation is followed by the battle, the art of war is common; the skill of using it is all in one mind... How much do you understand? You followed him first, and you also learned from him." Most of all, in today's world, who do you hear him say can be regarded as using the magic of one mind?"

Six fingers tapped on the iron-plated armored helmet that is only available to officers of the rank of brigade commander. He thought of a name and said, "Wu Qi of Wei Xihe was often mentioned before Shi Shi, so he should be counted."

"Actually, I kind of understand what it means to fight after the formation, and the art of war. At the beginning of the formation, it was static. But once it is fought, if you want to win, you need to move. This is the change." formation."

"As in our plan, it is obvious that we are going to gather the Yue people by the river and compress them together. But if we set up a formation with the left wing at the front and the central army at the back, no matter how stupid Yue Wang Yi is, he It is also impossible to deploy heavy troops on the side of the river for us to surround."

Lu Shuai thought for a while, and said for a while: "That's the case."

Liuzhi laughed and said: "Actually, I think it's appropriate. It's also using the strategy of 'learning from history' to make it easier for Yue people to fall into the trap."

This was what he came up with after thinking for a long time last night. After thinking about all the war-related things he had learned and heard in the past few years, he felt itchy before the war, so he said something.

"Back then, when Jin and Chu fought for hegemony, they fought in Chengpu. Don't forget, when you told us about it, why did the people of Chu lose?"

This has been mentioned before, and the brigade commander said: "Because Ziyu saw the collapse of the right wing, he still wanted to rely on the central army and the left army to break through the Jin people, and did not care about the collapse of the right wing."

Six fingers patted the helmet and said: "Yes, we already know, how can the King of Yue not know about this battle in Chengpu? If he sees that his left wing is about to collapse, he will definitely think about what happened in Chengpu back then, and he doesn't want to repeat the same mistakes. It will support the left wing. That mobilizes them."

The Lu Shuai thought about it for a while, and then asked: "Then you said, the more people there are, the less likely they are to win?"

Liuzhi smiled and said, "I thought about it for a long time last night, and I didn't sleep in the middle of the night, so I figured something out."

The Commander-in-Chief looked at it, the order hadn't been issued yet, and he was bored, so he said, "Tell me."

Six fingers pointed to the water one mile away on the right, then pointed to the fort behind and said: "Our volunteers have two support points. The right wing is protected by the river, and the left wing is protected by the fort to prevent the Yue people from outflanking."

"As long as the Yue people find a way to mobilize us and turn the two support points into one, they may become anxious and lose at most."

"If I were the King of Yue, I would deploy a deep line by the river, with weak soldiers at the first line, and after they were dispersed, once the volunteers pursued and left the support point, the flanks would be exposed, and it would be possible to win."

"If you catch up to the front, you will break away from the army, and you may encircle and wipe out a part of it. This is a small victory."

"The chasing is not moving forward, and the army is also moving forward to maintain the formation. Then I will shrink the left wing and gradually draw an acute angle with the right wing as the axis. In this way, the right wing of the righteous army will be far away from the river, leaving only the fortress as a support point."

He habitually used a lot of words he learned from Shi to explain, saying: "It's like our front line is perpendicular to the water, but if the Yue people shrink the left wing and we go forward, it is equivalent to using a fortress. For the center of the circle, we slide with a radius, so that it is no longer perpendicular to the water. If the Yue people continue to lure us, let us use the fort as the center of the circle, but the front line is parallel to the water, then we will lose."

"In this way, there is one less support point, and the more people and soldiers at the same time, the possibility of victory. But... this is just a talk, the more people and more peasants and soldiers, relying on them to feign defeat and retreat... I'm afraid they will be coaxed If it is scattered, it becomes a real defeat. Moreover, slowly turning the line around the axis is not something that Yueren's pawns can do."

He thought for a while, and smiled: "The only possibility of being undefeated is not to fight this battle. But Shi has already forced him to fight, and he dare not besiege the city, let alone avoid the battle. So it is still useless."

Hearing this, the brigade commander joked, "Your idea is only based on the same number of infantry forces. We are far superior to the Yue people."

Liuzhi also laughed and said: "If it weren't for that, there are more than [-] people in Yue, and we only have more than [-], so what's the point of fighting?" , that obviously means that our pawns are stronger, and we can win more with less without famous generals."

Just as he was talking, an orderly galloped over from behind and shouted, "Ready to attack."

This was an order from Meng Sheng. Liuzhi and the brigade commander put on their helmets without speaking, and Liuzhi went out to the musketeers to command all the musketeers in the brigade.The brigade commander freely commands the spearmen of each company from behind.

The pawns on the left wing of the Yueren had already advanced within three hundred steps, and the small cannons nicknamed "big guns" were within reach.

In the front row of the musketeers, King Shuqing wiped the sweat from his brow, and a few annoying flies circled around him, their buzzing sound could not tell the annoyance.

The filling has already ended, and the slightly bitter smell of the matchstick makes people sober.

He glanced sideways and saw that Liuzhi with pheasant feathers on the top of his helmet was on the left side of the queue, and the military drummer and the young man playing the flute were beside Liuzhi.

King Shuqing and Yu Tu also considered the depth configuration of the company.

Because of the rotation of shooting, the front row is full of inkmen and veterans, and the back row is also full of original infantry who have been working for two or three years and are still in service.

Only the middle row are some recruits, as long as the front row does not collapse, they will follow the steps.

During the rotation, the back row is also the group of people who can withstand the closest distance from the enemy, but the middle row is considered the safest.

Recruits panic and tend to mess up while reloading.

Things like stuffing lead bullets first and gunpowder last, forgetting the cleaning rod after loading, or burning your own gunpowder with the matchlock when you are nervous can all happen.

The seventh brigade consisted of four companies of musketeers, each company sandwiched between two companies of spearmen, and a company of musketeers and spearmen on the flanks.

This is an offensive formation. The current formation is called "Xuanxiang formation". Various arms are mixed to facilitate the attack.

The right wing was not for defense from the beginning. The six brigades plus cavalry artillery were all on the right wing, just to quickly pose a threat to Yueren's left wing.

After breakfast in the morning, the company captains and representatives of each company talked with the brigade commander Liu Zhi and others, so that they could roughly understand how this battle should be fought.

In fact, it is not very useful. The company cannot act alone. It must obey the orders of the brigade commander and fight in an even state.

Most of the time I practice is how to keep the front line even and how to make up for any loopholes.

The reason why I talked to them is mainly to let them understand what war is all about, and to let them know that the so-called military formations used by nobles to fight are actually not so mysterious and untouchable.

The "big gun" artillerymen next to them had already aimed their cannons at the first wave of Yue people who were gathering to attack. King Shuqing heard the commanders of the artillerymen shouting loudly: "Two wedges..."

That was adjusting the angle of the cannon. He is not an artilleryman, but someone he knows is an artilleryman. I heard that everyone has to hand out a weird nine-number table.How far to stand on tiptoe with a few wedges, etc., are clearly written, and many people recite that kind of sleep talk.

"It's about to fire."

King Shuqing thought to himself, the artillerymen next to him seemed to hear what he was thinking, and 25 small cannons concentrated on the right wing fired at the same time.

With a strange laugh, the black iron ball smashed into the Yue army.

After the Yue people were bombarded, the formation had disbanded and chaos had appeared. There were a lot of gaps in the originally dense formation, and it was able to survive until now. It seemed that the Yue people were a strong army.

At this time, the army drums in the brigade sounded, and King Shuqing ordered subconsciously: "Musketeers, prepare!"

The sound of the snare drum has a completely different meaning as the rhythm changes.

The sound of the army drum was the military order to prepare to attack and shoot, and the spearmen of the company next to them also gave their own orders, so King Shuqing felt at ease.

As long as the spearmen stay together, your company is safe.

Since he was in the front row, he re-checked the musket and re-clamped the matchlock a little. The Yueren in the front had rushed a hundred paces away.

The second shelling rang out again, and the formation of the Yue people, who had already had a large number of gaps, became more scattered.

King Shuqing thought, it seems that this side is not the main attack direction of the Yue people. The Yue people have chariots and some kind of gentlemen's army. Looking at the Yue people rushing ahead, they seem to be among the Yue people who heard Shi's talk before. prisoners or slaves.

As long as these people can kill, they can be exempted from the status of slaves.King Shuqing also heard that when Goujian destroyed Wu, some people committed suicide in front of the battle to intimidate the Wu people, taking advantage of the panic of the Wu people and the Junzi army broke through the Wu people's army in one fell swoop.

He didn't know if these people were going to commit suicide, but he thought that these people might have no chance of committing suicide.

With the sound of a sharp whistle, King Shuqing shouted the slogan of aiming for the last time, and pulled the trigger.

The copper hook carried a match, and ignited the fine gunpowder in the ignition powder storehouse. As the white smoke rose, King Shuqing didn't care about killing a few, but quickly picked up the musket and moved to the sides, for the second Platoons of musketeers fired to make room.

The musketeers in the second row took two steps forward after they retreated, maintaining a line basically level with the spearmen array, and also retreated from both sides to the rear to reload after shooting.

The loading of the first row of musketeers does not need to be withdrawn to the back of the musketeers, but directly on both sides of the musketeers, next to the spearmen to load, wait for five rounds of shooting, and then re-shoot in the first row.

Drums thump, flutes hinted at the beat, and the spearmen began to move slowly forward, King Shuqing took one last look to the sides before reloading.

There were two companies of his own brigade covering on the right, and the rest of the companies that could not be seen on the left, and then there was a slight sound of horseshoes that made the ground tremble under their feet.

He thought that this was the cavalry attacking from the right side, and it seemed that they were preparing to attack the enemy's rear.

(End of this chapter)