warring states careerist

Chapter 378

With a lead bullet in his mouth, he would not put the lead bullet first and then the gunpowder if he held it in his mouth. This is how their companies load it.

The gaps between the Spearman companies were not large, and Yueren's formation was too loose to pose any threat to the Spearmen of each company.

The Musketeer's three short-range volleys basically hit the Yue people, and when they rushed over, they were already scattered.

He thought, if he could finish reloading quickly, he could shoot again. Now that the front is in chaos, he can hit anyone with just one shot.

Just as he was spitting out lead bullets and stuffing them into the muzzle, the small cannon in the distance roared again. He didn't care about it, and when he was about to fire after loading, he found that the Yue people had a tendency to retreat.

The order he gave was free loading, and his hard training was only slightly slower than the old musketeers like Yu Tu.

The moment the untidy second shot sounded, the Yueren's left wing, which had been hedged by the spearmen and was chaotic, completely collapsed and turned around and ran away.

The orderlies and fife players in the back have been delivering orders, no pursuit, no pursuit.

Only those musketeers who had finished loading took advantage of the situation to shoot a round, and then followed the spearmen to climb up the small mound.

The sound of the army drum signaled the whole team.

When King Shuqing climbed up, he suddenly felt that his eyes suddenly opened up, and the Yue people in the Chinese army in the distance could also see it.

The 25 small cannons of our own side were quickly pushed and pulled to the hill. The cavalry who had been patrolling chose to pursue this time, but they did not chase far. Instead, they trampled on the retreating Yue people and returned immediately.

But it was such an impact of chasing and defeating the soldiers that brought great shock to Yueren, especially the collapse of Yueren's left wing in a short period of time, which made Yueren panic.

King Shuqing thought, this is considered to have completed the task of luring the enemy, right?
But he didn't know that Shi of the Chinese Army was scolding his mother. It was the first time a messenger heard that Shi was passing the military order with swear words, and he thought that Shi was really anxious this time.

"Tell Meng Sheng, what to do if the fucking king of Yue runs away when he sees the situation is not going well? Tell him, take it easy and don't attack again! The Yue people will be scared away!"

After hearing the words, the messenger repeated it, stabbed the horse's belly with both feet, and galloped towards the right wing.

He overestimated the strength of the Yue people's flank, and underestimated the offensive capabilities of the elite six brigades. The Yue people's flank collapsed at the first touch, just like the Chen-Cai coalition army on the right wing of the Chu people during the Battle of Chengpu.

He was afraid that the king of Yue would panic, so he chose to retreat directly. In that case, he would not have a chance to wipe out the main force of the Yue people.

It's just picking soft persimmons. The Yue country is in a period of decline. In addition, the military system and military strength of the Yue country are actually far inferior to those in the Central Plains. Shi never thought that this battle would fail.

Failure is impossible, and the worst thing to do in this way is to defend the city, exhausting the Yue army and making the Yue people retreat. Anyway, Jin and Chu are busy fighting for hegemony. Jin has no time to intervene, and Qi is still watching Yue.

But in terms of strategy, it is already a failure to defend the city and fight back.

The current situation is completely different from what was expected.

According to his idea, it should be that the Chinese army was suppressed by the Yue people, so that King Yi of Yue saw the possibility of victory and felt that the volunteers were timid to fight, so that Wang Yi of Yue felt psychologically, "If you work harder, the Chinese army and the left wing will be defeated." It is possible to mobilize troops to withstand the right flank of the rebel army, and to support the Chinese army to complete the breakthrough."

Only in this way can King Yi of Yue take this kind of mentality, guard against the collapse of the flanks in the battle of Chengpu and lead to a big defeat, mobilize troops to withstand the offensive of the right wing, and at the same time attack the left wing of the volunteer army, hoping to break through the volunteer army before the right wing of the volunteer army wins The Chinese army divided the volunteers.

Now we are at the beginning of the revolution in the world. For example, Wu Qi’s military pawns can do more than one enemy and three. After Zhao Wuling King Hufu rode and shot, Zhao’s strength also increased greatly. After Qi’s reform, it attracted the five kingdoms to attack Qi... …

The tactics of the old era have no possibility of winning in the new era, but they never expected that the power of the right-wing attack is too strong, and the Yueren's left-wing is really about to collapse.

In the battle of Changshao back then, the premise was that in the Qianshi war, Qi won a big victory, and Lu was considered vulnerable.Without giving up his efforts, Bao Shuya believed that the Lu State was "cowardly to fight", and that the Lu State would definitely lose in another wave. As a result, Lu State's defensive counterattack strategy was successful.

The Battle of Chengpu was a feigned defeat by the Jin State, which made Ziyu see the possibility that the fucking right army would collapse, and our central army and left army could defeat the Jin people first, and then go to support the right army.

But the current situation is... don't dare to use any false defeat strategy, if the false defeat strategy is not done well, it will lead to the collapse of the entire army.

When they came up, they formed a formation with the two wings protruding and the Chinese army behind. Even if Wang Yi of Yue was a fool, he would not get in.

Relying on feigning defeat or giving up a part to take the initiative to retreat and form a flanking encirclement, but he didn't have the confidence. He didn't know how big the gap between the volunteer army and the current armies of other countries was. No bottom.

He didn't dare to take this risk. The Mohist family must also fight steadily. On the premise of fighting steadily, it is best not to take the risk of surprise soldiers and fight a war of annihilation.

If you lose, you will miss the best opportunity for Surabaya to dominate—once Chu and Jin win in the Central Plains, no matter who wins, they will not give up on Sishang, and will definitely find ways to interfere.

The Mohists performed too well before, from the battle of Shangqiu to the destruction of the city of Tengdi, and then led the Vietnamese army around Sishang countries in three months, all proved that the Mohist volunteers are a strong army.

The righteous division only had [-] cavalry in total. If there were [-] cavalry, this battle could be fought anyway. Anyway, Yue has no cavalry, and the Chinese army is anxiously defending the two wings to outflank it. It will also be a great battle of annihilation.

When setting up the formation, we were afraid of the number of Vietnamese troops. The left wing of the volunteer army was made into a purely defensive formation. There were only seven or eight brigades in the volunteer army that could make quick maneuvers, and they were basically concentrated on the right wing. Once the Yue people realized that something was wrong If you want to run, you can't even catch up.

The most perfect situation is that King Yi of Yue feels that if he tries harder, the volunteer army will be defeated, and then the right wing of the volunteer army can rely on the superiority of numbers to defend, so as to buy half an hour for the brigades and cavalry on the right wing to use the hillside from the rear The cover maneuvered to the left flank, relying on the mobility of those elite brigades to complete the outflanking of the infantry.

He never expected that the peasants and soldiers of the Yue people would be vulnerable in front of the most elite volunteer brigades.

If things go on like this, if Meng Sheng thinks this is an opportunity to continue to attack, the victory will be won, but the main force of Yueren will slip away, then this big victory will be meaningless in the long run.

The junction of the central army and the left wing has already been judged to be the main attack direction of the Yueren. The question is whether the Yueren will fight or follow the previous war pattern and rush to see the situation first.

But in the first wave of shock, with the cooperation of artillery and musketeers, there was no splash. More than 60 chariots were destroyed, and the rebel army stood still.

If the training level of each brigade of the volunteer division is similar, in fact, after a trial fight to know each other's level, you can spread out the brigade formation on the left wing, adopt the same formation as the left wing, and use the horizontal team to prepare for outflanking.

The problem is that the brigades on the left wing have insufficient defense, and once they move, they will have problems. In case Yue Wang Yi is another tactical master, he will seize the opportunity of the chaotic formation, and another wave may cause the left wing to collapse.

In other words, Shi, or all the top generals of the Mo family, can defend the city very well, but the field combat level of tens of thousands of people is still not enough.

Now that the first wave of the Yue people's attack has just retreated and reorganized, neither the central army nor the left wing of the righteous division pursued, but I am not afraid that the Yue people will outflank the protruding right wing. Anyway, there is a rush of water to block it, and due to the terrain restrictions, the Yue army cannot fully deploy. .

But what he was afraid of now was that the king of Yue saw that something was wrong and chose to retreat directly, so he would turn a "battle of Wei" into a "battle of Liangtang" and turn the expected annihilation into a sheep-hunting battle.

When the time comes when the Jin State cleans up the Chu State, and then stretches out its hand to Sishang, and the Yue State's vitality is not damaged and the whole army fights again, then it will be troublesome.

However, this is really not the fault of Meng Sheng. Meng Sheng has completely carried out his order. The right wing initially attacked fiercely, but he did not expect the attack to be too fierce. It was so fierce that I was extremely worried that the King of Yue would choose to slip away...

In fact, this is a matter of fitness. He is too concerned about stability, and he wants to fight a war of annihilation at the same time. It is too difficult, especially when the number of cavalry is seriously insufficient.

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Yue people in the army.

Yue Wang Yi's face was livid.

Before the start of the battle, he watched the formation of the righteous army, and commented: "The Mohists welcome me with several formations, and count the formations, the snake of winter stiffness, if you break it a little, the whole army will be destroyed."

He can be regarded as a person who has fought several battles. He also cooperated with the Jin State to bully the Qi State during the civil strife, and he has received military education from the nobles, so he can see the problem at a glance.

From the formation point of view, he was right.The weakness of several arrays is like this, if one point is broken, the whole army collapses.

The volunteers seem to be only 2 people, because the formation is too dense, so it looks like there are fewer people than they actually are.So King Yi of Yue didn't plan to use any trick to lure the righteous army into a gap.

Yue Wangyi's choice was very simple, he only needed to seize the best position to attack fiercely, as long as he broke through, the righteous army would be defeated.

The main attack direction he chose was also the fatal spot of the righteous teacher.As long as the junction of the central army and the left wing is breached, most of the volunteers will be surrounded by the Lushui River, and the Lushui, which is used to protect the flanks, will become a paradise for restricting the escape of the volunteers.

The attack method he chose is also the mainstream of the times. First, the chariots will attack, followed by the infantry, and the most elite gentleman army of the Yue people will not be dispatched for the time being.

When the priests and apprentices exhausted the vigor of the volunteers and the chariots rushed out of the gap, the army of gentlemen rushed forward to break through.

But the problem is that from the very beginning, something was wrong.

With a distance of one mile between the two sides, the volunteers' artillery began to bombard them. In fact, not many people were killed, but it was inevitable to make the soldiers panic.

To challenge the teacher, before he got close to the army formation, a volley of muskets killed the selected warriors, and there was another doctor.

After the chariots charged and approached, the volunteers actually withstood the impact of the chariots with their infantry, and lost more than half of the chariots in the first wave of impact.

What was even more frightening was that his left wing collapsed in an instant. During the time when the chariot retreated, he saw his own soldiers on the left wing rushing backward like a tide.

It is true that the righteous teachers formed a number of formations like dead snakes, but the situation on the left side was different. Yue Wangyi immediately thought of the more than ten thousand righteous teachers who had been "chased" by him for two or three months. He suspected that what happened to his left wing It is the strong army.

The direction of the impact of the chariot on the right also confirmed Yue Wangyi's judgment. The several formations put up by the volunteers were more than sufficient for defense, but not enough for counterattack.Otherwise, the chariot would not be able to escape so easily. If the volunteers also had chariots, they would definitely choose to counterattack and pursue, and basically they would lose.

He also really thought of the lesson of the Battle of Chengpu.

But the problem is that in the Battle of Chengpu, the right wing of Chu State did collapse, but Ziyu is not a fool. Seeing the hope of victory-with the collapse of the right wing of the servant army and the collapse of the upper army of the Jin people, Chu will still win.

But now, the righteous division has not shown any signs of defeat, but the left wing of our side has almost collapsed. Is it necessary to continue this battle?Is it necessary to put the gentleman army at the bottom of the box into battle?
Should we choose to increase the left wing, continue to attack the righteous division, and open the gap before the left wing collapses again?Or just retreat the whole army?Or the left wing will continue to retreat, let the righteous division's right wing continue to move forward, and the anti-justice division's left wing will move slowly, or you can try your best to annihilate the righteous division's right wing first...

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