warring states careerist

Chapter 554 The Battle of Nanji Water ([-])
Doctor Pingyin still has troops that can be mobilized, the truly elite private soldiers around him have not been mobilized, and there are still many remaining brigades that have not been mobilized.

As Shi said before, he looked at each other head to tail with his back to the water, but in fact there were heads and tails everywhere, and there were easy breakthrough points everywhere.

Doctor Pingyin didn't even think about the idea of ​​making a decisive counterattack and winning at the moment, all he wanted was to resist the deadly situation brought about by relying on Jishui layer by layer, and last until the fifth day or more.

Not all the soldiers in the first camp were deployed, because if all the troops were deployed on the front line, once a point was breached, it would mean the defeat of the entire defense line.

This tactic of layer-by-layer resistance and rotation of garrison support is also the reason why Shishi wants to mobilize the reserve force of Qiren, so as to create opportunities to break through at one point.

Doctor Pingyin decided that the Mohist attack on all fronts was false and the main attack on the right wing was real, so he had to start mobilizing troops to support the right wing.

This is also determined by the fighting strength of the Mohists' volunteers. If the Mohists hadn't pushed too hard across the board in the First World War yesterday, Doctor Pingyin would not have divided his troops to various places.

It is precisely because of the division of troops to the left, middle and right armies that the Mohists concentrated on the right wing to break through is even more deadly. If the right wing is broken through the hills and captured, then the reserve forces scattered in the central and left armies are equivalent to non-existence and have not played their part. any sense.

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The right wing of the Qi army and the left wing of the righteous division.

The No.13 brigade gathered the spearman companies supported by the brigades on the two wings, and formed a whole team at the dilapidated camp, bearing the shelling of the nine cannons and maintaining the formation.

People were constantly being carried out of the battlefield, and shells were constantly falling into the army formation, but the process of forming the team never stopped.

When the whole team was completed, the flute and drummer urged the military music, and the reinforced No.13 brigade was still about [-] paces away from the two follow-up brigades, and the attack began.

The crossbowmen, archers and musketeers of the Qi army are occupying the ground and are forming a team. Now the artillery of the Mo family can't threaten them.

The fifteen bronze cannons belonging to the brigade are too far away and the range is too short to directly bombard the Qi army on the hill where they were originally deployed.

The twelve heavy copper cannons belonging to the legion have not yet been launched, and they have not been directly put into battle yet.

Without the harassment of artillery fire, the crossbowmen and archers of the Qi army were much more at ease than yesterday, and it was easier to maintain their formation.

They formed an inverted figure-of-eight formation, with crossbowmen and musketeers lined up on both sides, leaving a passage for the infantry on the hillside to attack in the middle.

The commander of the Qi You Army still has three brigades that can be used, all of which are on the hillside. Facing the attack of the No. 13 Brigade of the Righteous Division, his plan is to use artillery and musket crossbowmen to kill, and then take advantage of the loosening of the Mohist army. At the right time, the pawns on the hillside took advantage of the tiger's downhill momentum to launch a counterattack.

If the counterattack is successful and the righteous army retreats, there will be chaos, and then they can take advantage of the situation to take back the camp under the hillside, thus winning a situation of repeated competition for refueling and consumption.

The reinforcements on Doctor Pingyin's side were only used after repeated fights for refueling and consumption, or after the first counterattack failed.

He had exhausted all his strength, he really did not hold back, and pinned all his hopes on the support of the Pingyin doctor's army.

The shelling continued, and the No.13 Brigade continued to move forward against the artillery.

Qi people's crossbowmen, archers and musketeers are also adjusting their formation. Now there are still two to three hundred steps between the two sides. Neither bows nor muskets can kill them. Only the nine cannons can pose a threat. They want to slow down the pace of the volunteers' attack.

At the foot of the mountain, on the artillery position that was built yesterday, the gunners of the twelve long-barreled copper cannons of the Volunteer Division, with the assistance of engineers, are deploying at the fastest speed.

After all, this is a long-barreled copper cannon, not a small copper cannon that can be pulled by two horses and can quickly support infantry. The deployment speed is very slow.

Through the binoculars, Liu Zhi could see the flags moving in the direction of the Qi army's central army, and he was sure that the Qi people had been mobilized by him.

So he ordered: "Let the thirteenth brigade continue to advance. When it is close to a distance of a hundred steps, the musketeers will shoot in turn and cover the infantry to retreat. The flags must not be disordered, the drums must not stop, and retreat slowly. As soon as the brigade arrived at the camp, it immediately assumed a defensive position."

"Make an attack impossible, stick to the camp, and outflank the left and right."

After the messenger received the order, four or five people rode fast horses together and galloped towards the advancing No.13 Brigade.

Liuzhi didn't expect him to dominate the battle situation, at least not now, he understood that his task was to mobilize Qi people and create opportunities for launching a general offensive on the southern front.

If the general attack is launched over there, and the hills are captured by oneself, casualties can be reduced, and great achievements can also be made.

Qiren's movements on the hill were too obvious, and they were preparing to use crossbows and muskets to shoot a volley and then the infantry counterattacked.

In the era when flintlocks and bayonets had not yet appeared, the formation of projectile arms and hand-to-hand arms could easily determine what the opponent would do next.

Because the discipline and training of the Qi army is not enough to support the musket as the main output, the spearman as the auxiliary, can deploy a wide front and thin front, and can attack and defend, so they can only choose to separate the hand-to-hand phalanx from the crossbowmen mode, prepare for subsequent counterattacks by reserving access.

The hills are very important, so attacking the hills can mobilize the reserve force of the Qi army.But the importance of the hill determines the importance of the open space below the hill.

If the Mo family had no artillery, the open space under the hill would not be very important.

But because of the artillery, which can exceed the shooting distance of [-] steps, the open space under the hill that was broken by the [-]th Brigade is extremely important.

If he took the posture of standing under the hill, using artillery to counterattack the artillery of the Qi army, and using the breached camp below the mountain as a support point to outflank the two wings, the Qi army on the hill would also be nervous, and it may not be necessary for the [-]th Brigade to fight to the death. Attack the hills.

The current attack of the [-]th Brigade is only to mobilize the bombardment direction of Qi people's artillery and buy time for the deployment of artillery... To put it another way, the elite [-]th Brigade is now cannon fodder, and it is elite cannon fodder. The effect of attracting the Qi army.

Now the two wings behind the Thirteenth Brigade are still fighting anxiously. The Thirteenth Brigade is still more than 150 steps away from the attack range of the Qi people's muskets, bows and crossbows. Pass the command to before.

Looking at the messengers under him, Liuzhi gave another order.

"Let the No.11 and Twelfth Brigades on the two wings continue to fight against the Qi people, not retreat, and continue to be anxious. The fifteen cannons belonging to the brigade are ready to transfer. Once the No.14 and Fifteen Brigades reach the position of the first camp, Follow immediately."

"Order No. 14 and the Fifteenth Brigade to speed up their pace and reorganize their defense at the camp without maintaining a battle formation."

"Let those infantry knights attack and make a threat to the two wings."

The messenger left quickly, and Liu Zhi stared at the messenger on a fast horse that had galloped more than a hundred paces in the distance, feeling a little anxious in his heart.

The Thirteenth Brigade is the elite of the division. If you really want to use them to consider the overall situation, let alone the Thirteenth Brigade, the entire division can be used.

But the appropriate order now is only to attract the attention of the Qi army, and to attract the attention of the Qi army does not necessarily require the Thirteenth Brigade to die.

Even if they are elite enough to attack the hills, they are likely to fail and retreat without artillery support and the follow-up brigade fails to keep up. Not good.

By observing the flag, Liuzhi was sure that the people of Qi had started to support the right wing, but how strong was the support?Whether a fighter was created for the southern front is uncertain.

On the hill, the reinforced No.13 brigade marched silently to the beat of drums.

The brigade representatives stood in the first row holding swords. The armor on their bodies and the towering pheasant feathers on their iron helmets were not to show their status, but to set an example for the whole brigade to boost morale.

Also, this will be the most likely feature to focus on as muskets become more common.

There are nobles in the Mo family, but they are all nobles who have abandoned their original identities, so it is impossible for the enemy on the opposite side to emphasize any noble spirit, and thus make a noble move to face the enemy coach because he has a higher title than himself.

The drums sounded, and the whole brigade saw the situation on the hillside. From time to time, shells fell into the formation. Most of the young people in the army were literate, and they all understood how dangerous their attack would be this time.

However, the military order is like a mountain, and the Mohists stress discipline, and there is no clarion call to retreat, so they must "go through fire and water, and die without hesitation". It is also a necessary condition for becoming a Mohist.

It is already a consensus that the higher the proportion of ink fighters in the army, the stronger the combat effectiveness, the more disciplined, and the less likely to collapse.

The No.13 brigade has lost more than a hundred people in the previous fights and the bombardment of the advance. It has not yet collapsed, and it can automatically fill in the gaps in the army formation that were blasted by the artillery of the Qi people during the march. Knowing that there are many dangers on the mountain Still have no intention of quitting, just based on these points, he is already regarded as the world's elite.

The brigade commander is at the back, the brigade representative is at the front, and the soldiers move forward silently without saying a word, which makes the people of Qi feel more oppressed.

Getting closer and closer, when they were a hundred and twenty steps away from the crossbowmen of the Qi army, the messenger finally passed the order out of breath.

The brigade commander closed his eyes, let out a long breath, and immediately opened his eyes and shouted: "All the brigade! Stop! The musketeers move forward, alternately cover and retreat!"

The flute and drummer beside him quickly changed the rhythm of playing, and the drum beat was rapid for a while, and the soldiers who had been marching silently like a mountain before immediately stamped their feet, shouted loudly, and stood about a hundred and twenty steps away from the people of Qi.

It was another round of cannon fire, this time the distance was close enough that more than 40 people were directly killed by the shells, but they did not flee because of the sudden stop and the sound of alternately retreating horns.

(End of this chapter)