warring states careerist

Chapter 381

His plan sounds a bit bold to some people, but it is really feasible when you think about it carefully.

Using the infantry to hide the cannons, and waiting for the Yueren to approach and suddenly firing a volley, in fact, these small cannons were used as muskets, and they were used to instantly collapse the formation of the Yueren to create a deterrent.

Eliminate the threat of the right wing, and then use infantry to defend the front, it can be supported.

The brigade commander of the Sixth Brigade pondered for a while, and said, "I originally thought that we should also form a thick formation here, as long as the left wing surrounds it."

Six Fingers said repeatedly: "Violent waste, violent waste! These brigades on our right wing were all above the lower armor during the assessment, why do we have to form a thick formation and lose our advantage of being undisturbed and marching like the wind? "

"Our formation is already dense. If we set up a thick formation, the Yue people may not be able to rush us away, but there will be enemies in all directions. If the formation is thick, the artillery will not be able to perform. After the musketeers shoot twice, they can only Covering the flanks of the infantry with short swords... We are different from the brigades on the left wing, we are [-]% musketeers."

He understands the role of these brigades suitable for the military reform. He has learned a lot before, and it can be said that it is all on paper.

But talking on paper is not necessarily useless, or a person talking on paper is far better than someone who has never talked about it, especially the composition of these brigades is unprecedented, and there is no such thing as actual combat experience crushing people on paper.

The battle was imminent, and after some discussion, these people agreed with Liuzhi's idea.

At this time, it can also be noticed that the central army of the volunteer division is also moving slightly to the right side slowly and undisturbed, in order to increase the defense of the joint between the right wing and the central army.

On the positive side, although Yueren's elite gentleman army has not yet fought against the volunteers, the psychological advantages they have accumulated before make it logical for these people to think that the volunteers are not afraid of any strong army in the world if they are just positive.

Then the only threat is the right side, and there will be danger after being detoured to the side.Liuzhi's proposal was also aimed at this matter, using offense as defense, and using one slam to remove the threat from the right.

Immediately, the seventh brigade where Liuzhi was located was arranged on the right side according to the agreed result.

Fifteen fully loaded small cannons were hidden behind the spearman company, and they did not participate in the bombardment of the Vietnamese army and the suppression of the archers.

The two spearman companies in front of the artillery were the two best spearman companies in the assessment of the Seventh Brigade. They formed a slightly sparse formation according to the order. Once the enemy approached, they must quickly gather to leave room for the small artillery behind. shooting angle.

The musketeer company where King Shuqing belonged was assigned to the left side of the seventh brigade. According to the plan, if the Yue people collapsed, they would follow the spearman company to pursue the musketeer company: this time the pursuit is to chase the broken Yue people There is no chance to regroup. Mozi attaches great importance to this in his city defense techniques. He also made it clear during his usual training that although there are many defeated troops, they are actually powerless. If you chase after them hard, the defeated troops that cannot regroup are just one If the sand is scattered, a dozen people can catch up to a hundred people.

This kind of thing was originally done by the cavalry, but there were five hundred cavalry in the righteous division, so this kind of thing could only be done by the only two types of infantry.

The Yue people's army drums sounded, and King Shuqing couldn't tell who these Yue people were, or which doctor they belonged to, or whether they were gentlemen's army or priests' disciples. In his opinion, there seemed to be no difference.

It is said that Yueren is brave, but in the previous offensive battle, it can be seen that Yueren's bravery is just like that.

Once this psychological advantage is established, the panic will disappear.

It was clearly stated before the war that they are just bait, and after they are successful in fishing, they will change from bait to an anvil in the blacksmith shop in Peixian County, and the volunteer's left wing is a sledgehammer for forging iron.

Since it is an anvil, it is naturally harder than a stone.

Take a look at your own company. In this offensive battle, only three of your own company were injured, which did not affect the battle.

The Spearman Company next to it also had fewer injuries, because there were not too many hand-to-hand battles at all. The previous six brigades had nearly 9000 people. The [-] Yue soldiers, with the support of muskets, cannons, and cavalry, are really like hot iron knives cutting the pickled lard in the soldiers' marching rations.

Now their task is to those Yue people on the right side. Since they said that the positive things have nothing to do with them for the time being, King Shuqing didn't think of a way to step up and see what happened in the place where the drums were shaking the sky.

He just stared at the Yue people in front of him.

Most of the Yue people were defeated in the previous battle. If the righteous division had enough cavalry, or if they wanted to break through on the right wing, these Yue people would have no chance to fight again.

But now the King of Yue regrouped them, and it seemed that there were a lot of people, and it was impossible to count how many there were.

Urged by the sound of the Yue people's drums, these Yue people began to approach, led by the nobles in front, riding in chariots or fighting on foot with swords, slowly approaching the position where King Shuqing was.

They didn't dare to rush ahead, so they were finally smarter.

Fortunately, the order issued by the Seventh Brigade was strictly prohibited to shoot in advance, but to wait until the Yueren approached about [-] steps, and then shoot in three rows at the same time, relying on artillery to defeat the Yueren in one fell swoop.

There was no artillery bombardment, and no musket fire. These Yue people looked much more orderly than before, and they kept approaching the long formation of the Seventh Brigade amidst the rumbling of drums.

King Shuqing calculated the distance, and finally waited for the sound of his own flute, and shouted at the same time as Yu Tu one left one right one front one back: "Raise the gun!"

While shouting, he also lifted the musket vigorously, checked the matchlock carefully, and then squatted halfway on the ground.

This time, the Seventh Brigade made a huge gamble in order to defeat the Yue people at once. The musketeers were all arranged in three rows, and they defeated the Yue people in one fell swoop by firing a round of volleys and the artillery hidden behind the spearmen.

After King Shuqing squatted down, the soldiers in the second row stood in place and raised their guns, and the soldiers in the third row moved back a little, just to take advantage of the "shortcoming" that the matchlock gunners must have a large gap, so that they can hit the enemy and fight less than myself.

In the short battle before, these musketeers have also adapted to the atmosphere of the battlefield, and their accumulated psychological advantages have also convinced them of what they have learned in ordinary times: to live to death, it seems that the closer you are, the more dangerous it is, but the closer you hit the enemy, the more dangerous it is. The greater the opportunity, the more dangerous the enemy is. It depends on who is more willing to sacrifice his life and who is ultimately willing to sacrifice his life.

As the people got closer and closer, King Shuqing's musket was raised more and more resolutely.

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The Yue people on the opposite side felt a little lucky.

They were terrified by the righteous teacher before.

In the previous offensive battle, the artillery salvo, the musket salvo, and then the spearmen charged, and the cavalry flanked and then pursued...

The six brigades of the volunteers on the opposite side used the most extravagant equipment to attack the weakest wing of the Yue people, and they collapsed immediately after the battle.

Many Yue people didn't know why they ran away before.

I saw my partner around me collapsed in an instant, the dead people were too horrible to look at, and the ones who survived were terrified. I didn't know who would turn around and flee first, which caused more people to flee. I just wanted to get away from this group of people. farther away.

Stay away from weird things that fly out iron pellets.

But now, luckier.

Those things that can fly iron balls are bombarding other places, and the righteous teacher he is facing is dead, and there is no movement.

Many people in Yue thought, let those iron balls not hit me, as long as they don't hit me.

They had walked timidly for a while before, and there was no danger.

When they were only seventy or eighty steps away, the righteous teacher's line was still dead silent, as if the fighting on the other side hadn't affected these people at all.

When they finally advanced to fifty or sixty steps, the people of Yue were relieved at last, and the courage that had been lost was gradually revived. The nobles shouted with their swords and waved their flags, ready to attack.

After the first few Yue people ran up, they suddenly realized that something was wrong.

The distance of fifty or sixty steps, once you start to rush and run, will actually be there very quickly.

The first few Yue people found that the volunteer spearmen opposite them were originally loose, but suddenly there was a strange horn sound from the opposite side, and those loose spearmen quickly moved to one side, revealing a whole row of black hole muzzles behind them .

Under the sun, the small copper cannons reflected a greenish luster, the torches held by the gunners of the volunteers, and the braziers placed behind the cannons to burn the red iron braziers pierced the eyes of these Yue people with burning pain.

"It's over!"

The Yue people who rushed to the front saw the black hole aiming at their muzzle, and immediately thought of the fear of the previous battle. He once saw his partner's head was directly smashed by this thing.

The courage to attack this time stems from the fact that they thought that these terrifying weapons were bombarding other places, but they did not expect to appear in front of their own eyes now.

And so close, so much.

The Yueren in the front almost subconsciously lay on the ground, covering his head with his hands. He was easily trampled to death during the impact, but he would rather be trampled to death than have his head smashed off by an iron ball.

And the people beside him turned their heads and ran away, shouting, "Run! Run!"

At the moment when the subconscious Yueren lay down on the ground with his head in his arms, fifteen cannons filled with gravel and small iron pellets fired at the same time.

The sound of the artillery was also a signal for the musketeers to fire, and the three musketeers in a row also pulled the copper hooks at the same time.

Lead bullets, crushed stones, iron pellets... All these burning things brought out by gunpowder, with a speed that can harvest life, form a rain that cannot be washed away.A rain of lead and iron pellets.

At a distance of thirty steps, you can hit someone even with your eyes closed.

With one volley, Yue Ren knocked down more than 500 people in an instant, many of whom were within the fan of the fifteen small cannons.

The death of 500 people may not be too much compared to the battlefield of 500 people, but if these [-] people die at the same time, the shock brought by it will be indescribable.

There was a huge gap in the Yueren army formation, which was still somewhat formed, and it was looser than before.

Fighting requires formation, without the support of formation, it is just a group of scattered sand.

Fighting requires morale, and even nobles are no match for a soldier with high morale when they are frightened.

But this volley made the Yue people lose these two points.

(End of this chapter)