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Chapter 558 The Battle of Nanji Water ([-])
When the thirteenth brigade, which fought hard to keep the flag down and retreated, arrived at the camp, thousands of soldiers shouted praises in unison, and the wounded soldiers were immediately taken away by the army doctors behind the artillery positions for medical treatment.

The brigade commander of the Thirteenth Brigade walked up to Liuzhi who had come to greet him, stopped, and said with high spirits: "Fortunately, life is not disgraceful!"

Liuzhi shook hands with him, and danced in a voice that everyone around him could hear: "Shi Shuai once said that an army that knows why to fight is invincible, and those who know why to fight are the most courageous. "

"In the past, Kong Kui caused chaos, refused to follow his path, was attacked by stone beggars, and faced with swords and axes, he had a calm face, and he went to death calmly with his crown and tassels, in order to be a gentleman."

"Today, my Mohists fought in Nanjishui for righteousness. The Qi people are powerful. We can still take it easy in order to benefit the world. The sound of the drums does not disperse, the sound of the flute does not flutter, and the steps are in order, just because everyone knows this. The First World War is a fight for righteousness and for the benefit of the world! And if you live in the world, it is in your own interest to benefit the world."

"The Qi people don't know why they are fighting, how can they win? Today our army will definitely defeat the Qi army! Today the Thirteenth Brigade has the power of a strong Mohist and the courage of a common people!"

He took off his helmet and bowed solemnly to the soldiers of the Thirteenth Brigade. Everyone behind him took off their hats and saluted like him.

This is what they deserve.

Not only did they buy time for the deployment of artillery, but they also completely reversed the situation on the left wing of the Mohists in less than a quarter of an hour, and their attack was outstanding.

After the ceremony, the Thirteenth Brigade retreated to the end for repairs.

Liuzhi looked at the army formation where the Qi people were marching from the central army in the distance, and laughed loudly: "The handsome plan has already worked. It's just that the fire is not hot enough, and we need to add another fire!"

His gaze turned to the right side where the battle was still going on, that is, the direction where the Qi You Army was closer to the Central Army, which was the direction of No.12 Brigade's attack.

The Qi people's brigade company on the hill was supporting that side, and there was also a brigade supporting the No. 11 Brigade on the left to attack the position, which was closer to the river.

But because it is close to the river, if you can't take down the hills, breaking through there will not help the overall situation, but it will be easier to capture the hills.

Liuzhi originally thought that he would go all out and turn the feint into the main attack with the strength of a division, but now he has changed his mind, because he found that it was still difficult for him to grasp the delicate timing in the previous attempt, and the casualties might be too great.

So he is now observing the direction of No.12 Brigade's attack, which is closer to the position of the Chinese army.

Changing hands there is equivalent to doubling the threat of the Mohist left-wing alignment army: you can attack the hills from here, and you can also make a threat to the central army from the current position of the No.12 Brigade, and it will not be like the No.11 Brigade The direction of the attack can only affect the left flank, and finally there are hills as the last obstacle.

This is roughly what he thought of when he galloped from the rear to the front to unify the command to create a better opportunity. At this time, the bronze cannons of the four brigades had begun to re-fold.

The troops he can mobilize now include the No. 13 brigade that has just been withdrawn, the 15th and [-]th brigades that are fully staffed, a company of infantry knights, and some guards who are good at sword fighting.

The general of the Qi You Army judged that if he wanted to keep the right wing of the Qi people from collapsing, at least eight brigades would need to be put into the battle to form a situation of repeated fighting.

This is similar to Liuzhi's judgment after seeing the No. 13 brigade face-to-face attacking the people and resolutely counterattacking, seeing the 45th and [-]th brigade unfolding, and seeing the artillery defeating the artillery of the Qi army.

But he is not satisfied, the eight brigades, plus those seventy-eight troops, that is 2 people, he wants to suppress all the troops that Doctor Pingyin was holding up at the end: the fewer people holding up However, as long as there is a breakthrough over there, the Qi army will collapse more quickly.

Continuing to observe the situation on the right, Liuzhi ordered to deploy three Spearman companies from the 45th and [-]th brigades, and ordered to turn around in front of the formation, changing from a horizontal team to a column, and the two companies were closely merged.

The infantry company was in front, and a company of musketeers and elite guards were scattered in front of the three spearman companies and behind the infantry knights.

The four small guns that had been retracted followed closely behind the musketeer company, on the left and right wings of the four spearman companies.

He got on his horse himself, and he was going to command the approximately six or seven hundred men to directly attack the right side where the Qi people's reinforcements were marching while the battle was still going on.

Turning back to the brigade commander of the No.14 [-]th Brigade, he said: "The artillery has been deployed, and your formation has been completed. The Qi people are going to charge. As long as you hold on, there will be no problem."

"Once I bring people close to the place where the twelve brigades on the right are fighting fiercely, I will let the No. 11 brigade withdraw and stick to you."

There is no problem in defending, but the right side that Liu Zhi wants to attack is not to support No. 12 brigade to join forces with it, but to outflank it directly.

This is a dangerous move, as long as it succeeds, the Qi people on the right will be defeated in an instant.

But if the Qi people's reinforcements catch up and go straight to the flank where the Qi people are fighting now, they will also be attacked by the Qi people's reinforcements, and it will be dangerous if they lose their footing.

The brigade commander of the [-]th Brigade put forward his opinion, saying: "I'm afraid I don't have enough time to support the past."

Six Fingers shook his head and said, "I don't form a line to attack, but I want to use a column like on the training ground, go straight to the flanks of the Qi people, and smash the Qi people in one fell swoop before the Qi people's reinforcements arrive, and fight with the [-]th Brigade Let's join forces and fight again with reinforcements from the Qi people."

"I calculated it. Not only is there enough time, but there is still room to spare."

The Commander of the Fourteenth Brigade said in surprise, "Are you going to march in a column?"

Liuzhi smiled and said: "I used it once when I was in Lushui, and it wasn't very good that time, but after summarizing, I have understood the key point."

"The horizontal team is unfolded, that is the battle formation. A brigade of 500 people, 200 people are in the front, drumming forward, and the speed is extremely slow to keep them level."

"Marching in a column is three times faster than marching in a row. The people of Qi are already on the verge of collapse. I will use the cavaliers in the front, approaching the rear artillery bombardment, and quickly turn the column into a horizontal formation. The spearmen will attack intensively, and the Qi people will be broken in an instant."

"The people of Qi have no artillery, so they can't attack; the people of Qi don't have cavalry, so they can't attack my column from the flank; why should I be afraid of it?"

"Besides, the volunteers trained hard, practiced formations once every three days, turned left and right, and lined up in columns... These are just for actual combat. Qi people want to use them, but they can't use them!"

The brigade commander of the [-]th Brigade knew that Liuzhi had a plan, so after careful consideration, he no longer refuted, nodded and said: "Then, sir, you should be careful."

Liu Zhi nodded and said: "A master general should have commanded from the back of the formation. It's just that this matter is very beneficial, and I can't succeed if I have to. As long as you keep here, the people of Qi will be defeated today."

After a few more words of advice, he rode forward with only two guards by his side.

The spearmen of the three companies formed an eight-column formation, followed closely behind the swordsman guards and infantry knights in front of the formation, and followed the six fingers at an angle inclined to the acute angle of the front line. The flank of the brigade on the right side of the Qi people went straight through.

In the battle between yesterday and this morning, the Qi people's artillery had completely lost their frontier, and the Qi people did not have regular cavalry at all, and it was even more impossible to harass this team that marched in columns boldly before the battle.

For a distance of 10 steps, it would take at least [-] minutes or even more time to march in a horizontal line, because the more people there are, the more people need to keep stopping to form a line.

But if you march in a file, it may only take four to five minutes.

Liuzhi understood that if he had cavalry in his hands, he only needed three to five hundred cavalry to directly cooperate with the [-]th brigade to defeat the Qi army.

But he also understands that if the cavalry is deployed in a scattered manner, even if they break through the camp, they cannot break through the army formation behind the Qi people in one fell swoop after all. .

He used the classic tactic of outflanking the flanks with cavalry this time, but he didn't have cavalry in hand. He relied on the discipline of volunteers and the training of horizontal and column columns on the daily march, and used the infantry of these companies as soldiers to outflank the flanks. .

Qi people's reinforcements are not far away, but they need to advance as a team, and the worse the discipline, the more dense the phalanx is, otherwise it will be difficult to go into battle.

Liuzhi immediately calculated the distance he traveled and the distance of the Qi people's reinforcements, and he had already reached a conclusion: when he reached the Qi people's front flank, the Qi people's reinforcements would still have a distance of [-] steps, and it would take half a quarter of an hour. It is enough to defeat the Qi brigade that is already crumbling.

The [-]-step march passed in a flash, and the Qi people's reinforcements over there realized that the situation was wrong, and accelerated their pace, but the formation did not change.Because it takes longer for them to complete the team, they can only speed up while maintaining the original formation, but this speed is far less than that of the Six Fingers marching in column.

The anxious Qi brigade who fought against the No.12 brigade also discovered Liuzhi's actions, but they did not collapse immediately, because the reinforcements seemed to be close at hand, which was the strength they could still sustain.

It's just that Liuzhi didn't give them the time to realize their expectations.

After the infantry knights in the front row formed a team, they waited for the musketeers and elite guards behind them, and Liuzhi ordered them to attack first.

The infantry knights rushed to the front of the formation with their horses, and the formation formed an inclined plane, turning to the right like a chariot rushing into the formation.

The chariot turned to the right so that the samurai on the left of the chariot could shoot at the enemy with bows and arrows on the chariot, thus opening the gap.

The chariot turned to the left, so that the samurai on the right of the chariot could use Ge to attack the enemy phalanx that had been shot open by the chariot from the left.

And these step knights turned to the right, choosing to use the arquebus in their hands to ride and shoot in the carriage, which had the same effect as the left side of the carriage.

The Qi people's projectile troops were all fighting against the No.12 Brigade in front, and the follow-up defensive companies had almost no projectile weapons. When the infantry knights approached about thirty steps, they turned back sharply and shot at will.

The matchlock gun was slow to reload, and the infantry could only fire one shot at a time, but this shot was enough to open a gap in the Qi army formation.

The infantry knights didn't charge, and they weren't good at charging either. After galloping to the right, they put their muskets in their saddle bags, and instead of loading them on their horses, they took out their iron swords from under their saddles and circled back to the pawns.

(End of this chapter)