warring states careerist

Chapter 382

Many people ran as soon as they ran, turned their heads and ran into people who were still rushing forward, and passed on this panic to others.

Many people heard the rapid sound of drums coming from the righteous teacher, as well as the frightening sound of orderly footsteps.

Three companies of spearmen, and one company of musketeers, launched the attack simultaneously as ordered.

The Yue people were already in chaos, so even if the number of people attacked at this time was small, it could still create an overwhelming aura.

King Shuqing shouted, and the musketeers of the company threw away their muskets, took out their daggers from their waists, followed the center of the two spearmen companies, and charged towards the collapsed Yue people.

The Yueren had lost their will to fight. The task of these four companies was to take advantage of the chaos of the Yueren and rush into the formation, so that the Yueren would continue to retreat and have no chance to gather.

The musket was useless.

All they could use were daggers and short swords, or some people picked up the spears thrown down by the Yue people.

Four companies, but only 600 people, but the Yue people on the opposite side have been defeated. These 600 people chased the more than 3000 people who were fleeing backward, like tigers into a flock of sheep.

The more determined the pursuit, the more people will have no chance to gather at all.

The assembly requires nobles, but the nobles are already on the run, who will stand up and assemble the team?Why does a small apprentice have such ability?Why do you have such thoughts?Whoever runs fast wins death. Those nobles have martial arts skills when attacking, but when they run, everyone is different, and they may not be able to outrun the nobles.

Gathering needs space, otherwise it will be a mess, and everyone will not know each other, so how can it be possible to re-arrange?How can they fight if they don't line up and form a mess?

The company of the four volunteers who rushed out knew their mission very well. After throwing away the musket, King Shuqing quickly killed a Yueren and stabbed a fleeing Yueren in the back from behind.

The spearmen of the three companies still maintained the most basic formation and began to trot to pursue, but the formation also began to be scattered, but this is not important, as long as they charge down, Yueren will have no chance to fight back.

After the four companies rushed out, the fifteen cannons hidden behind them immediately began to adjust their direction. The sight originally blocked by their own soldiers was completely vacated, and they could participate in the frontal battle.

The remaining six companies of the [-]th Brigade, after being convinced that the threat on the right had been lifted, quickly assembled and began to turn around, heading towards the front where the battle was most intense.

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The frontal battle is much more tragic and anxious than the one-shot decisive victory on the right.

The Yue people gathered the archers first, and fired at the artillery and musketeers here, but the archers did not take advantage, and the volunteers also lost a lot.

Then some prisoners of Yueren launched an attack, and after being hit by muskets for a round, they scattered and fought with the formed spearmen.

The elite gentleman army has also joined the battle. Relying on their ability to train out of production since childhood, they are the absolute elite and main force of the Vietnamese army.

However, among the volunteers they faced, there were also many people who had undergone three years of off-the-job training. As long as the formation of the dense spear formation remained intact, it would be difficult to rush into it.

The musketeers of the volunteers had no chance to fire a volley.

Those in the front row took out their daggers to participate in the battle of the spearmen, and the substitute spearman company behind them was also blocking those gaps.

Those in the back row retreated to the back, continued to load, and fired at will.

The Yue people rushing over were like rising autumn waters.The formation of volunteers is like a dam.It seems that as long as the water is bigger, it will be able to overflow the dam, at least the hope of victory can be seen.

Yue Wangyi also had a new understanding of the tenacity of the volunteers, and he was even more convinced that the team he had chosen was the elite of the volunteers who could maneuver in the field.

Now that the two sides are fighting together, King Yi of Yue has also observed the movement of the volunteer army's left wing and the central army. It seems that the volunteer army's left wing and central army are also preparing to support this side.

It's just that the speed of movement was too slow. Yue Wangyi felt that his judgment was correct. The left wing and the central army of the righteous division had more than enough defense and insufficient attack.

The brigade-level phalanx on the far left of the volunteer division was indeed moving, moving forward slowly.But in the eyes of Yue Wangyi, the speed of the big square formation is like a tortoise on land. According to this speed, it will be dark when it moves here.

Before dark, of course the battle must be over, as soon as it gets dark, neither side can fight, and if the Mohist righteous teacher in front of him cannot be eaten before dark, Yue Wangyi also understands that there is no need to fight this battle.

But the level of combat ability of the elite volunteers in front of him really made Yue Wang Yi sigh and envy.

In the past several wars, as long as the Junzi army started to attack and fight, the opponents were often defeated in an instant, and it was rare for accidents.

But now, I have gathered more than 8000 people, and it looks like there are [-] to [-] people on the other side. left wing.

King Yi of Yue looked at the fleeing soldiers on the left wing, and cursed in his heart.

The left wing was originally outflanking the right side of the righteous army, but he didn't want to be defeated by a partial army. Not only did he fail to outflank the enemy, but was threatened by the righteous army to his left wing.

The battlefield was originally selected by the volunteers to be too narrow, and it was impossible to fully expand it, or because of the insignificance of the two support points, the Yue people who wanted to attack at the beginning did not have the need to expand the front - more than [-] people were deployed in the fortress. It's meaningless, if you can't get around the fort, you can't attack the side of the righteous army, and you can't join the frontal battle, it is tantamount to death.

King Yi of Yue was always on guard against the cavalry that appeared in the previous battle.

Coupled with the sudden exposure of the fifteen cannons just now, which knocked down the current left wing, King Yi of Yue was always worried about where the righteous soldiers on horseback were hiding, and waited for the opportunity to give him a full blow, so his side was still guarded. many people.

The Mohists had a history of raiding the King of Chu with hundreds of dead soldiers from the city of Shangqiu, so King Yi of Yue was worried that those cavalry were just waiting for an opportunity to surprise him.

There were still two thousand elite troops of gentlemen and many disciples and priests left beside him, and they remained motionless.

Now that the left wing collapsed again, King Yi of Yue did not dare to move the elite around him, but ordered the temple district to lead two thousand disciples and priests to join the battle on the left wing.

The sudden exposure of fifteen artillery pieces and the remaining six companies of the Seventh Brigade brought great pressure to King Yi of Yue.

He really didn't expect that this group of volunteers still dared to take risks when their own numbers were superior. After taking the initiative to counterattack and destroying his left wing with tricks and plots, he sent hundreds of people to pursue it, and the rest were outflanked.

As for those defeated soldiers, King Yi of Yue no longer had the mind and energy to take care of them, and now he was fighting for time, trying to figure out when the main force of this volunteer army would collapse.

It seemed that it was really on the verge of collapse, but the battle situation on the left wing brought too many turning points. Once the fifteen gates and the 900 people outflanked them, the outcome was still unknown.

As for the Seventh Brigade, Liuzhi and the brigade commander were very clear about their tasks and advantages.

Yueren's formation needs space to maintain, Yueren's left wing was smashed again, and 600 people were sent to pursue it so that it could not regroup, so that Yueren's flank was exposed.

After the remaining six companies were assembled, they would cooperate with the fifteen artillery pieces to outflank the Yueren's flanks, which was equivalent to reducing the pressure on the front.

It is impossible to rely on these 900 people to defeat the main force of Yueren, but these 900 people can seriously reduce the combat power of Yueren.

The battlefield needs space. Even if there are 10 Yue people, if the two wings cannot be deployed, only soldiers with the same number as the volunteers can be squeezed down from the front.

If the left wing does not collapse, the more people there are, the more troops they can deploy, and the situation for volunteers will be even worse.

But the left wing collapsed, and the Seventh Brigade passed by. While the Yue people's flank was threatened, they could only squeeze out a place against the 900 people of the Seventh Brigade from the already limited battlefield space.

The harder you squeeze, the more difficult it is to maintain the formation of more people, and you can't use it.Expand to the right, and the right side is where the volunteer army's central army is located, and there is no space.

Now the task of the Seventh Brigade is to cover the fifteen guns, take advantage of the musketeers who are still in the system, and enough distance space to cause the greatest panic to the left wing of the Yueren and squeeze the space for the Yueren.

So after the six companies regrouped, they quickly pressed on the Yueren from the side, taking advantage of their own maneuvering speed, forcing the Yueren to be unable to make changes to continue to expand on the left wing.

King Yi of Yue was worried about the existence of the [-] cavalry, and he did not dare to let the front continue to expand to the left, because the original left wing had collapsed, and if his side expanded to the left, there would be loopholes everywhere, and the cavalry of the rebels would probably attack from behind.

At the same time, if the 2000 people in the temple area continue to fight against each other, it will take too much time.The battlefield is already in chaos, the mobility of the disciples is far behind those of the volunteers, if they really go around to the left and continue threatening, it may take half an hour, who knows what accidents will happen in half an hour.

Instead of this, it is better to maintain the existing battlefield space. The 2000 people in the temple area will not continue to move to the left to continue to create flanks, but directly join the battlefield in the middle to withstand the 900 people of the Seventh Brigade.

Otherwise, move to the left wing to re-deploy, equivalent to half an hour, the 900 volunteers can directly join the battlefield, and the 2000 people in the temple area are equivalent to non-existent within half an hour.

The battlefield, which was already very dense, became even denser with the addition of 2000 people from the temple area, but Yueren's battle formation was not as dense as the Yishi spear formation, and the routines of the two army formations were completely different.

Those who hold swords and shields need twice the space of spearmen to use them. If they are really pressed into the human body, it will be difficult to give full play to their advantages.

But now King Yi of Yue has no other choice, he can only hope to wipe out this volunteer army as soon as possible, withdraw from the battlefield as soon as possible, and slowly besiege the city in the future.

Liuzhi and the brigade commander commanded the six companies of the [-]th Brigade to approach the left side of the Yueren Central Army, but they did not start a hand-to-hand fight immediately. Instead, they ordered the musketeers to line up in five rows and shoot in turn. strike.

Because at the beginning of the modification of these brigades that strengthened musketeers, when Liuzhi was assigned to the seventh brigade as a brigade representative, Shi Shi told him: These brigades rely on musketeers to kill people, while spearmen It exists only to cover the musketeers.

Now, with the three spearmen companies chasing the rout on the left wing of the Yue people, the ratio of musketeers to spearmen in the remaining formations of the [-]th Brigade has reached one to one, and there is no advantage in rushing into hand-to-hand combat.

So, at a distance of fifty paces from Yueren, the six companies of the Seventh Brigade stopped, and the musketeers began to shoot one by one.

The fifteen turned artillery also began to bombard the more and more dense Chinese army where the Yue people were squeezed.

However, the situation on the front of the battlefield is also quite unfavorable to the volunteers. Half of the musketeers in the front are fighting with daggers to cover the sides of the spearmen, and the rest just retreat to the back and shoot freely.

(End of this chapter)