warring states careerist

Chapter 548

The Qi army's desperate attack this time had no results except for leaving some sword marks on the brigade's bronze cannons at the front of the volunteer army.

After being repelled, it was already the day.

Riyue Zhongtian will be in the west, which is called Riyi, that is, between one and three o'clock in the afternoon in later generations. If this time is on weekdays, it is time to eat.

As the saying goes, it is wheat when it is eaten at dawn, and it is millet when it is eaten at the end of the day.

In the army, they don’t pay so much attention. This time, volunteers marched rapidly from Onozawa, leaving aside the logistics. They have been eating fried noodles or fried rice. At night, they can boil water and drink some rationed Haiyang tea. A pinch of sucrose will be served.

There is really no such precedent for eating before the battle, at least in the eyes of Qi Jun, it is extremely weird.

In the past, in wars, people always ate early, when the battle was over and when they ate, except for siege battles, ordinary field battles would be decided within an hour, sometimes it was the time of a chariot attack .

Moreover, there is no special configuration such as a chief of staff or a cooking corps in the armies of the vassal states. It is delusional to eat during the confrontation, and it is easy to mess up the formation.

Seeing that the Qi army on the opposite side had retreated, Liuzhi discussed with the representative of the Mohists in the division: "I don't think we can fight for the time being, should we send some water to the back so that the troops can eat some fried rice. The confrontation will continue this afternoon."

The division representative looked at the troops who had marched ten miles at the front and had been confronting the Qi people for a long time, and felt distressed.

But looking up at the sun again, he frowned and said, "What Shishuai means is not to wait for the heavy artillery from Chengyang, but to buy time to destroy Qi's Pingyin Army as soon as possible."

"Since our master made a feint, it was to create an opportunity for him... It's already dark, and there will be two more hours at most, and the sky will be dark. In case Shishuai comes to order, we don't want to Lack of preparation."

Liuzhi smiled and said: "You still don't understand what Shishuai means. He spread out the troops and scattered the cannons... You know, he likes to use the cannons together. Now they are scattered, what is this for? That is In order to make Qi people mistakenly think that we will slowly oppress and compress their front until they win. If you are the commander of the Qi army, this attempt to seize the cannon will fail. When our artillery bombards, the front camps and army formations will be chaotic. Come on, what can you do?"

The division representative said: "Naturally, it is necessary to divide the troops, deploy the follow-up troops, and be ready to support at any time, or to invest in some places where the defense line is unstable. Didn't Shi Shuai say that they look at each other head to tail, so there will be leaders everywhere. It’s the tail, you can’t lose any of it.”

Liuzhi laughed and said: "That's the key. Shishuai is the main attacker. He has not moved, leaving the initiative to initiate a feint attack to our division. Now, the whole line has not yet begun to approach the shelling, and the Qi people's mobilization It hasn't unfolded yet."

"It will take half an hour to start the mobilization, so that the whole line will not be chaotic."

"Wait until they spread out, and our side will start storming the hillside. What will the commander of the Qi army think?"

The representative of the division had already understood it, and said, "The commander of the Qi army will be panicked at that time. If the hillside is lost, the Qi people's right wing will collapse. Because of our artillery, they will not be able to move within [-] steps below the hillside." Formation, when the right wing has been lost, and they retreat three hundred steps, their space will be even smaller, and it will be difficult to maintain a formation of tens of thousands of people. Once he finds that our division is storming the hillside, he will definitely think he has been tricked and will move again."

Six Fingers nodded and said, "That's right, once they move again, it will take another half an hour. During this period, we will have to face our repeated fights against the flat land under the hillside."

"Only by attracting the Qi army's attention to this hillside, can Shishuai break through the Qi army's line of defense with minimal casualties. The first division and cavalry are there, and the artillery attached to the remaining legions are also there. Over there. As long as the Qi army is mobilized, there will be some confusion, and then it will be his time to attack."

"It will take more than an hour to transfer people back and forth. Even if we start preparations here, it will take at least half an hour."

"When the opportunity arises, it will be dark soon. There is not much time left for Shishuai. The night battle is too chaotic. We have the advantage. There is no need to win at night like in the city of Shangqiu."

"So, I think this afternoon is to let the Qi people confirm that we are going to fight steadily and compress their front a little bit."

"The real decisive victory will have to wait until tomorrow. In the evening, the cavalry and infantry from Shishuai's side can also slowly approach from behind the forest without being noticed by the people of Qi."

Speaking of this, Liuzhi smiled and said: "Just wait, Shishuai will order us to eat first. I think we should prepare first, that's right. If time permits, the soldiers can take turns to rest in place one time."

"I'm staring here, you go and squint for a while. In the evening, you are busy over there, maybe you have to sing a few songs of "Qi Feng" and ask if there are any people who were captured in the war to aid the enemy. Qi people die."

As soon as the words fell, the orderling who came running from behind came with the order to eat in order. The division representative smiled at Liuzhi, and his nervous mood became more relaxed as the orderer ordered to eat in order, and said: "Okay, I'll take a nap for a while."

Liu Zhi waved at him, and continued to watch on the hillside with the binoculars.

Soon, there was a burst of fireworks from behind, and the boiled water was sent to the company in front, and some tea leaves and some salt were added to it.

The musketeers were divided into two halves, and the rows behind sat down and drank water. They took out some fried rice from the dry food bag on their bodies, and replenished their strength with salty tea.

The spearmen also stood in the front row, and those in the back rows followed orders, sat on the ground, had meals and rest, and were allowed to chat.

The gunners are more leisurely, unless they need rapid fire orders that may explode the barrel and reduce the service life of the copper cannon, as long as they are shooting normally, they have a lot of free time and can eat and drink at any time.

The Qi army probably had never seen such a scene. The two armies were only two or three hundred steps apart, but they did not attack, but stared at each other.

From standing in the morning to now, the Qi army must be hungry, but they can't eat now, and they can only wait until night comes before they can gather around the campfire with more than a dozen people and cook some meals together.

And every once in a while, a few iron balls flew out of the bronze cannons in front of the righteous division's formation, and hit the Qi army defending in formation, dripping with blood, creating a gap in the general's formation.

The army that can withstand such bombardment and casualties of its partners must be elite, but the Qi army obviously does not have such qualities. After seven or eight rounds of bombardment, the front line of the Qi army has loosened a bit, and its morale has plummeted.

Liuzhi looked at the sun, estimated the time, and finally waited for the order: launch a tentative attack across the board, and the time was set in about a quarter of an hour.

The officer next to him took out a sundial and determined the time to launch the attack. Six Fingers hastily ordered: the front line is in line, follow-up preparations, and the artillery prepares for a round of rapid fire.

Give an order, and the sound of the trumpets and drums will continue to play, which not only makes the righteous teacher excited, but also makes the people of Qi feel a little angry.

Instead of being attacked by artillery that cannot fight back like this, it is better to fight each other, at least knowing how you died.

In fact, it is rare for the people of Qi to withstand the bombardment for such a long time without launching an attack against orders.

It is also possible that the Mohists have hidden all the strength of the artillery, and it has not been used intensively today. It is just scattered to each brigade and division to fire at will, and there is no situation where the Qi people cannot bear the shelling and collapse.

As the order was transmitted to the front line, when all the ministries were preparing for the whole team, Six Fingers talked with the engineer side: "The position you mentioned before, I will take advantage of the battle ahead to build and excavate it later. Let’s finish it before dark, it’s so chaotic, it’s hard for Qi people to notice it. Even if they notice it, they don’t know what to do.”

The people on the engineer side said that they were already ready, and they would be in position immediately as long as they fought ahead.

Liuzhi smiled and said, "I'm not as good as you in digging holes. You have specialization in art. Calculate the time yourself, don't go too early and be noticed by Qi people; but don't go too late, so that it is not finished before dark." .”

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On the front line, the volunteers and soldiers who had rested for a long time got ready one after another, moving their hands and feet, and the whole team lined up.

The brigade commander of the No.13 brigade knew that the attack on his side might be the most troublesome. Now the Qi people's cannons had basically been destroyed, leaving only the nine on the hillside. If they attacked by themselves, those cannons would be able to hit him.

However, he is very confident in his brigade and understands his position in the division. It is precisely because they are the elite of the division that they can attack this place.

The brigade's bronze cannons that had been deployed were rapidly bombarding the Qi army's formation. After the brigade commander of the [-]th brigade heard the order to attack, he asked the flute and drummer to play the drum and flute.

More than a thousand people lined up in a line according to the company, marching on the beat of drums, and with the support of their own artillery fire, they aimed at the Qi army's formation and launched an attack.

The Qi people on the opposite side also arrayed crossbowmen, archers and musketeers to meet them, but shells kept coming, tearing a gap in the army formation just formed.

When the No.13 brigade advanced a hundred steps away from the Qi army, the Qi army's artillery on the hillside also began to fire, and several shells flew into the crowd, killing several people.

But the person next to him just paused for a moment, and immediately filled up the original position, looking forward, listening to the beat of the flute and drummer next to him, moving forward slowly and firmly as usual in training, and moving forward. There was no need to strike at such a distance because of wanting to escape those cannons.

Just after entering the distance of a hundred paces, the crossbows and muskets of Qiren on the opposite side began to shoot randomly.

The spearmen's front row were all wearing iron armor, so they couldn't do much damage at such a long distance.

The advance speed of the entire brigade was still very slow, and the musketeers only marched slowly. Before receiving an order, they could not fire even if they fired from the opposite side.

(End of this chapter)