warring states careerist

Chapter 547
These scholars who rushed out of the camp shouting the different slogans of attack did not wait for the order to attack, but acted first in anger.

Dozens of people crossed the barracks and rushed towards the direction of the Mohist army. There was no cover, no formation, and some were only infinitely tragic.

When these dozens of people rushed out first, the assembled soldiers and fighters also launched an attack on the Mohist army formation in all directions.

Behind them, there are still hundreds of disciples following them. Although there is no chariot, the assault disciples still have to follow.

It's just that Qi's military formation has not moved as a whole, and the Pingyin doctor dare not move. Once the large formation is activated, it will easily become chaotic.

Seeing those soldiers rushing towards the Mohist army formation, Doctor Pingyin praised: "Excellent! Warrior! If you can destroy the Mohist bronze cannon, you will all be rewarded!"

All his hopes were pinned on this desperate attack.

If not, the Mohists' artillery kept bombarding, but they couldn't fight back, and the morale of the army would collapse sooner or later, and a gap was inevitable.

On the north side of the entire battlefield, the fifteen front cannons on the side of Liuzhi became the first to bear the brunt.

Liu Zhi was on the hillside, looking helplessly at Qi Ren who was attacking in the distance, and frowned, "Is this asking for death?"

He knew that the target of these people was his own bronze cannon, because it was too obvious.

However, he was not nervous at all. When Cong Shi ordered the two divisions to fully deploy into a thin lineup, it was already doomed that the possible counterattack of the Qi people could only be dominated by infantry.

It's not because the Qi people must follow the proper plan, but because the Qi people will not concentrate their chariots on the attack, so they choose this formation.

The chariot needs too much space to deploy, and the chain reaction caused by a rout is unbearable for Qi people. Too much space for deployment means that the front line is weaker and there are loopholes everywhere.

It is correct to use chariots as a camp, rely on crossbowmen, musketeers and archers to defend, and reduce the area of ​​defense.

The only mistake is that the Qi army's artillery can't bombard the Yishi's side, otherwise this is a clever trick, a trick that can last five days and ten days and turn the heavy ground into a deadly ground.

Liuzhi didn't know that those Qi people who attacked were all blood fighters or fighters with abilities.

In his eyes, these shocking people are just elite fighters.

Put it on the side of the volunteers, that is, the soldiers of Beichengmen who used swords and shields for melee combat before; or the cavalry who now send some iron wedges to destroy the opponent's copper cannons before attacking.

This way of coping has already been practiced.

So he ordered: "Everything is as usual, let the artillery continue to deploy. The musketeers stepped forward to prepare, and when the Qi army approached eighty paces, they shot in turn. Six rows jumped up, and after six rounds of shooting, the gunners and musketeers retreated to the side of the spearmen. The spearmen strike and drive them away."

"Remember, no chasing is allowed! Don't mess up the formation, as long as they retreat."

The messenger repeated the order and passed the order to the front, and the brigade commanders of each brigade issued the order to each company again.

The gunners did not raise their heads to look at the Qi army attacking in front. There was no artillery on the other side to harass them, and it was not the musketeers approaching to shoot. It just sounded scary, but they knew it would not cause them much harm.

The commanders and company commanders of the artillery ordered the deployment of the bronze cannons step by step, listening to the horns of the infantry behind them. If the horns did not sound, they would not retreat.

The drums sounded, and the musketeers stepped forward and quickly formed a line of six, leaving enough space to prevent the matchlocks on their bodies from igniting the gunpowder of their partners, and leaving a passage for them to penetrate backwards.

The order has been conveyed: after six bursts of fire, retreat one by one and reload freely.

At the beginning of the formation, they have already finished loading, and now they just need to wait.

The wooden fork used to stabilize the musket or the fork ax that can be used for melee combat after approaching is inserted at the front. The musketeers in the first row have already checked and won. They put the heavy musket on the wooden fork and waited quietly.

The veterans wearing buckskin hats that symbolized extended service even had some free time, chewing their beards leisurely, and occasionally took a piece of cane sugar covered with sand from their arms and stuffed it into their mouths.

Those recruits who have served for a short time are somewhat nervous, but they have been training hard in the barracks for a long time, and they can still keep their mouths saliva, palms without sweat, and bodies without shaking.

The bitter taste of the burning matchstick is a bit irritating to the eyes, and the hemp rope soaked in vinegar and salt salt consumes very slowly. In fact, there is no need to look down from time to time to see if the matchlock on the snake hook is not long enough, but these recruits are always used to it. Sexually lowered his head to have a look, or fiddled with it.

On the opposite side, the Qi army wearing fur hats was getting closer and closer, and their formation had already loosened up. When they saw eighty paces, the drums on the side of the volunteers suddenly started to rush, and a sharp whistle sounded, it was the gunners in the musket company. Chief Sima shouted at the top of his voice to fire.

The artillerymen continued to be busy there, not caring what was shouting here.

The musketeers in the front row aimed at the Qi army on the opposite side. After pulling the trigger, they retreated from both sides with their muskets in both hands, retreated to line up beside the spearmen, and continued to reload.

The musketeers in the second row took two steps forward, stood in the position of the first row, put the muskets that had been prepared on the wooden fork, and fired a second shot at the attacking Qi people in the smoke.

In this way, many Qi soldiers fell to the ground before they approached.

Many of the apprentices who were fighting with someone have chosen to turn around and run back, and those warriors are more professional after all year-round off-duty training. They can still maintain their morale despite the death of their companions, shouting slogans such as "prosperity for the world" dash.

It's just that they generally can't afford the Sishang iron armor that doctors can afford, and the leather armor on their bodies can't stop the smaller caliber muskets that began to be installed after the First Battle of Lushui.

People keep falling to the ground, and people keep running away, but there are still people who have overcome their own cowardice, the fear of their partners being killed, and those irregular lead bullets...

When they rushed to thirty steps away from the Rebel Army formation, the trumpets sounded violently.

Those gunners who were still busy in front immediately dropped the things in their hands. Anyway, the gunpowder hadn't been brought over yet, and there was really nothing to throw away except those copper cannons.

The trumpet was about to fall, and the gunners, who had gone through hundreds of drills, ran to the spearman and squatted down as mechanically as a turning watermill.

The spearmen around them shouted loudly under the increasingly sharp drumbeat, and slowly walked towards the Qi army rushing towards them with their spears.

The musketeers who retreated to the back and continued to reload were allowed to shoot freely, but it was such a short distance that even the musketeers who withdrew in the first row still hadn't finished reloading.

In front of the eight bronze cannons that have not yet been deployed, the more than 40 surviving soldiers of the Qi people were full of excitement. Half of their partners died, and half of the disciples behind also ran away, but they finally approached these cannons.

A dozen or so paces away, the righteous teacher's spearman was moving forward, slowly but forcefully.

These Qi people knew that they were not the opponents of the spearmen, and they also knew that they might be shot to death by muskets if they delayed here, so they only wanted to destroy these cannons quickly.

However, the first few soldiers who approached fiercely slashed at the copper cannons with their swords. These copper cannons, which would explode from time to time and were always complained by the artillerymen that they were not strong enough, were surprisingly hard under the sword.

After a few strikes, the cannon was fine, but the copper swords of several people were broken.

With just a few sword strikes, the spearmen of the Mo family were already approaching and were about to engage in battle. These soldiers desperately held the broken swords and slashed at the bronze cannons like crazy, as if they couldn't see the advancing spear points at all.

At the end of the cut, he sat on the ground in despair, letting the spear stab through his chest.

When he was dying, a sergeant scolded loudly: "How can this be destroyed?"

This shout was heard by a volunteer gunner not far away. The gunner felt a little strange and thought it was a very simple matter... He remembered that when he was learning how to operate the gun, those officers said: An iron wedge is required, inserted into the fire door, and given a slam with a hammer.

Either, the fire door is blocked; or, the wedge will expand near the fire door, and the explosion caused by the crack cannot be seen or seen...

The gunner looked at the desperate Qiren swordsmen fighting with their swords to the death, and muttered: "You don't even have hammers and iron wedges, why are you rushing to the artillery positions? Those blacksmiths use very cheap things, but they are cheaper than yours. Expensive copper swords are better to use..."

(End of this chapter)