warring states careerist

Chapter 376

After he finished reloading and mechanically carried out the order to regroup like those battle-hardened veterans, he found that the first wave of Yueren in front had collapsed.

After a burst of fire from the musketeers, the spearmen slowly approached, and the Yue people on the opposite side were already flustered.

And when the cavalry appeared from the flanks and launched the first wave of stirrup cavalry charge in the world at this time, this wave of Yue people had no ability to resist at all.

The cavalry went around from the side and used their spears to pierce the Yueren peasant soldiers with spears or short swords who had no ability to resist the cavalry. Many people were knocked into the air.

King Shuqing saw that the cavalry had dispersed the Yue people.Instead of chasing, the whole team left quickly, and the team was strict.

Among the cavalry, the proportion of ink fighters is higher, and there are also many knight-errant characters who are famous in every county and town. They have never ridden horses with saddles and stirrups, but after training, they can easily keep fighting on horseback.

The most important thing is that these people are very obedient to orders. The creed of the Mohists has always been "death does not follow", but in addition to death, there is a more important "respect the orders of the giants, advance and retreat with restraint".

After the first wave of Yue people broke up, the drumming continued, and each company moved forward slowly according to the established speed.

Neither chasing nor rushing forward, anyway, you have guns and muskets, so you don't need to worry about the few archers on the opposite side. The formation is as neat as usual training.

When he stopped at fifty steps and regrouped, King Shuqing looked forward and found that the cavalry appearing from behind had caused great panic to the Yue people.

The Yue people on the opposite side did not expect the existence of this cavalry at all, because the chariots could only be placed in front of the formation to charge, and there was no condition for a roundabout charge, but these cavalry with stirrups and saddles could circle around and attack from the flanks .

It can be seen that the Yue people on the opposite side are extremely flustered, with flags scattered, and they are strengthening their flanks. They probably did not expect that the volunteers would take the initiative to attack, and they were even more worried that the cavalry would cut directly to their flanks.

However, after the cavalry charged once, they quickly left, but kept a similar distance from the infantry on the flanks, and did not charge immediately.

King Shuqing adjusted his footsteps, waiting for the sound of the second drumbeat to advance, but found that the sound of the drum had not sounded for a long time.

Glancing back, the artillerymen of the small guns were arranging their men, as if to follow the infantry forward.These cannons are very light. Of course, the disadvantage is that they are not very powerful. Compared with the cannons of the Chinese army, they are indeed not very powerful, but they are still much larger than the bows and crossbows, and they can shoot farther.

"Those cannons keep up. Let's fire a few cannons before we charge. It should be easy to disperse the Yue people."

As he thought, he felt more at ease, as long as he did his own thing well, it was in line with the words that Spearmen shouted all day long: "Everyone is for me, and I am for everyone."

Spearmen line up to fight, isn't it like this, everyone for one, and one for everyone.

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Chinese Army.

Compared with the active attack of the right wing, what the Chinese army has to do is to defend and hold on. All the pressure must be absorbed and shared by the right wing, and holding on here is the only feasible way to not need to hold on so desperately in the future.

The nine cannons brought a lot of panic to the Yue people, but in fact the damage was not that great. The Yue people's archers moved forward and fired three rounds at the guns and cannons here.

Archers can only choose to throw at a distance of a hundred steps, and muskets at a distance of a hundred steps are only based on God's will. If you want to achieve the effect of a gentleman's army charging into the formation, you need archers to approach and shoot with heavy arrows to shoot out the infantry who formed the formation. The gap is convenient for the gentleman's army to attack.

The two sides shot at each other, and the morale and bravery of their respective armies could not be seen at all. Even a trash army made out of paper could shoot at each other for a while within a hundred paces. The real discipline and morale still depended on the time of charge.

The formation of the musketeers of the Chinese army is completely different from that of the right wing, and the Chinese army does not seem to have any idea of ​​attacking at all. The musketeers are only in front of the formation, and once the enemy rushes close, they will retreat behind the continuous spearmen behind, and they are not sandwiched by each other. Attacking formation.

After the right wing had defeated the first wave of Yueren's attacking troops, the Chinese army had just begun to engage in battle. After the musketeers finished shooting, they retreated to the rear of the spearmen when the Yueren were still thirty steps away.

The Yueren who attacked in the first wave were beaten sparsely. After fighting with the spearmen, they couldn't break through the dense spear formation at all. It can be seen that this is not an elite, it should be a consumable, used to cover the Yueren's elite charge a group of people.

It is suitable to watch the situation on the battlefield from a high place. Now the central army is still stable, the right wing is attacking, and it is walking very slowly.

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Left wing, close to the center.

This is the breakthrough point chosen by King Yi of Yue this time. The elite chariot soldiers and the gentleman army will rush in this direction, so as to achieve his plan, split the righteous army into two halves, force one half to retreat to the fortress, and the other half to surround and annihilate the river bank.

There were eleven small guns on the left flank of the volunteers, and a musketeer equipped with many old-fashioned muskets weighing fifteen or six pounds.

On the far left of the left wing is a brigade-level phalanx, with musketeers defending at the four corners, completely giving up mobility.

The outermost brigade-level phalanx was slightly set back, shortening the distance from the fort to prevent the Yue people from raiding the flanks with infantry.

Whether it was the Battle of Rocroix or the Bloody Battle of Hunhe in later generations, it proved that if the opponent did not have cannons, it would be difficult to encircle and wipe out the dense infantry phalanx.

The Yueren had no cavalry, which determined that the phalanx would cooperate with musketeers and artillery to defend to the death. Coupled with the specific terrain and the fort behind as a support point, the Yueren had no possibility of outflanking from the left.

"Sun Bin's Art of War" states that there are ten general formations: there are square formations, circular formations, sparse formations, number formations, cone formations, geese formations, hook formations, Xuanxiang formations, and Xuanxiang formations. There are fire formations and water formations.

The ones that are suitable for display now seem to belong to "number formations", and the number formations are for defense, and the various ministries cannot be chased at will, so they are suitable for staunch defense.The disadvantage is that if there is insufficient discipline and the troops attack and attack, the entire front will be messed up. The main point of arranging a number of formations is "the formation is long and long."

And subdividing it from the collocation of muskets and spearmen, it belongs to the Xuanxiang formation, and the arms are mixed with each other.

Simply judging from the fact that the brigade-level phalanx on the left wing is slightly behind, it is also a hook formation, and the infantry forms a large phalanx and is arranged slightly behind to prevent the enemy from outflanking and raiding.

But in the end, if you want to encircle and wipe out the Yue people, you actually have to change from a few formations to a single-winged goose-shaped formation, and the other wing is the water.

And it was to make the king of Yue mistakenly think that one wing of this single-winged wild goose formation was close to Lushui.

In fact, it depends on the mobility of the cavalry and infantry marching ranks, taking the risk to turn from the rear to the left wing. The single wing of the wild goose formation is on the left side instead of the water.

This is basically the meaning of ancient military masters changing formations at every turn. It is not a way to ask God or say that once the formation is invincible, it will be invincible.Instead, the constant changes in tactical concepts are accomplished through the maneuvering of soldiers in the army.

The left wing's hook formation was also to confuse the Yue people, or let the Yue king understand the uselessness of flanking detours, so that he consciously shortened his own front.

The shortening of the front means that there are more soldiers within the same distance, the impact force is stronger, and the threat at the breakthrough point is greater.

But correspondingly, volunteers can give full play to the advantages of all firepower, and in the confrontation stage, the fronts of both sides are equal in length, so the effect of projection and confrontation with the same weapons is similar.

And volunteer teachers have more firearms, which can be regarded as a way to play their own strengths.

It's just that if the most dangerous chariot cooperates with the attack of the Gentlemen's Army, if it can't hold up, Yue Wangyi's tactical concept will be realized, and the righteous army will be divided into two halves.

Chariots charge, unlike cavalry, which can outflank and turn around. Chariots need the protection of the pawns behind them, and they also need pawns to expand the results of the battle. The role of the chariot is to break through the army formation and create conditions for the infantry to fight.

The scene of a hundred and twenty chariots charging was very scary, but the commander of the chariots charging the left wing, Gong Zaoye, had seen a lot and was not panicked.

It's just that the pawns in front will still worry and panic.

Fortunately, the first volley of the artillery killed seven or eight chariots, boosted morale, and finally convinced the infantry that they could hold on.

The palms of the spearmen were sweating, and the musketeers didn't care to wipe the sweat that was about to fall into their eyes. They listened to the rumble of the chariot and waited quietly.

Each chariot is a heavy compound cavalry.

With the speed and quality of the chariot, it can easily hit flying disciples.

The chariot holds a bow on the left side, which is used to shoot heavy arrows to disperse the army formation after the chariot approaches.

Holding a spear or a halberd behind the chariot, it can strike from the gap opened by the shot and cut the lives of the infantry.

Of course, Yushou would not choose to drive directly into the infantry phalanx, but would choose to turn when approaching the infantry formation, so that the right side of the car would have enough room to display.

Each chariot is followed by varying infantry. Chu State has 150 soldiers, while the number of Yue State is slightly less. After the chariots cause chaos, the Junzi Army will enter the formation with short swords and shields. .

Gong Zaoye knew the tactics of the chariot battle, and also knew that the direction of the chariot assault was generally the direction the Yue people wanted to open the gap, and the chariot could not make a single impact, so he could quickly retreat to regroup and attack again.

As the saying goes, one effort, another decline, and three exhaustions, if the chariot finds that the enemy's formation is still standing still, it will not choose to charge hard, but will choose to retreat temporarily and regroup the team.

In the era when the nobles were at war, when the infantry had not yet become the protagonist of the battlefield, every impact of the chariot battle would not bring too many casualties, and most of them were rout battles.

For example, in the battle of Chengpu, when the left and right wings of the Chu army were exposed and defeated, most of them could escape.

For example, in the Battle of Liangtang, when the Jin people retreated, the Chu people still politely told the Jin people to take off the carriage boards and put them on the mat in the mud to escape.

But now that civilians have entered the arena of war and gradually began to become the protagonists, this kind of game among nobles is no longer so polite.

Just like when the Yue people challenged the teacher before, I thought that the era of the nobility should be over.And what Gong Zaoye thinks now is also relying on this battle, telling the volunteers that infantry can also defeat chariots, and completely proclaiming to the world materially that there is no need for chariots to fight nobles.

Not long after realizing the main attack direction of the Yueren chariot, Shi immediately ordered the most elite Mohist brigade to maneuver to the left, which was equivalent to the reserve team mobilized just after the war started. The whole army will be in a bitter battle.

Now the most elite infantry brigade of the Mo family is still in the back, and has not yet been deployed on the front line, nor can it be deployed. They can only wait for something to go wrong immediately.

Gong Zaoye calmed down and ordered the artillerymen to replace them with gravel and iron balls, wait until the chariot reached fifty paces and shoot again, then retreated behind the infantry.

The chariot will not come up and charge at full speed. It needs to wait for the pawns behind to catch up. It starts to accelerate at about a hundred steps, and it happens to be at the limit speed when it rushes to the front of the formation.

When the chariot was about a hundred steps away from the righteous division and was about to speed up, Gong Zaoye ordered the musketeers to start shooting.

Most of these musketeers are equipped with heavy muskets, and their offensive capabilities are very weak. The infantry and spearmen here are also thicker, and the musketeers are only for defense.

Gong Zaoye was convinced that it was appropriate to say that as long as there were no cavalry on the flanks, the spear array would be enough to withstand the attack of the frontal chariot, and the Yue people did not have cavalry in the first place.

The heavy musketeers in the front row were already a little nervous. After all, they were facing the impact of chariots. Although they had been trained at ordinary times, how could they not panic when they actually went to the battlefield?

When the first round of gunfire sounded, the nervousness was suppressed a lot, but now that the sound of the chariot was getting closer, many people couldn't help but want to shoot.

If it wasn't for the Mohists of each company shouting to stop it, it might have caused a chain of chaos.

In anticipation, finally when Gongzaoye gave the order to fire, the heavy musketeer in the front row pulled the copper hook with his sweaty fingers, wiped his sweat in the smoke, and quickly stepped back to reload.

　The formation is almost like this.Not that amazing, but not enough without it.Formation is not a turn-based system. If you play a long snake, I will quickly place a Yuli to see who wins with more cards, more formations, more multi-phase restraints...

　　
　
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