warring states careerist

Chapter 560 The Battle of Nanji Water ([-])
Today's battle is concerned with the whole world, and it is not just concerned with Sishang Mo family and Qi country.

The complicated situation within the Qi State, the continuation of the dispute between the Tian brothers, and the confrontation between centralization and enfeoffment will make Qi State sluggish for a while.

The sluggish state of Qi, the state of Wei that was ambushed from all sides, the state of Zhao that needed to lick its wounds after the fall of the Three Jin Dynasties, and the state of Chu that could finally take a breather from the outside and start a more intense centralization reform internally...

When all these things come together, an extremely strange situation will emerge in the Central Plains.Sishang's position is too important, and if the Central Plains is not in chaos, Sishang will not have a chance to breathe and develop.

Shi knew in his heart that after this battle, the honeymoon period between the Mohist family and the Chu state would also end. This battle was crucial, and it would determine whether the Mohist family and the Chu state were about to turn their backs on a powerful Qi Wei or a declining state. Qi Wei.

As he said to the officers of the Mo family before, if you only worry about Qi, then this battle can be fought steadily, and if the Pingyin Legion is destroyed, you can directly negotiate peace with Qi.

But to worry about the situation in the world, it is necessary to annihilate the Pingyin Army with the least casualties, and then defeat the Qi Linzi Army.

The First Division and the cavalry, who have not shown up since yesterday and have been hiding in the forest, are now about to launch the final attack to annihilate the Pingyin Army.

Today's formation has been set yesterday, and instead of adopting the tactic of cavalry flanking infantry in the center, it adopts the method of infantry sandwiching cavalry.

It is precisely because soldiers are impermanent and water is impermanent, the adoption of this formation is also the result of careful consideration.

Now Liuzhi has mobilized the Qi people's reserve forces. Although the entire southern line of the Qi army is still stable, it is just a golden jade and a ruined one, and the depth is extremely empty.

As long as they break through the frontier, the Qi people's follow-up troops are insufficient to organize an effective defense, and they can take advantage of the situation to completely collapse the Qi people's left wing in one fell swoop, leading to the collapse of the whole line.

The task of the cavalry in this attack is not to break through the front formation of the Qi people, but to rush into the rear of the Qi people's central army with lightning speed after breaking through the front formation, completely disrupting the Qi people's remaining remaining forces. Formation of teams.

All in all, it is to highlight a fast word, the faster the assault, the shorter the reaction time of Qi people.When there was chaos in the formation and an assault across the board, the failure of the Qi people would be even faster.

Now the First Division has left a brigade as a reserve team, and half of the brigade is bluffing in the central army and the forest on the north side, all of them are here.

Appropriately gathered [-] cavalry, and adopted the method of attacking in waves, the selected attack direction was the joint between the two brigades of the Qi people.

The infantry of the [-]st Division took the company as a unit, shortened the front and increased the depth.

The musketeers and those small horses pull the artillery that can be quickly deployed directly in front of the infantry, and deploy it when they approach the enemy a hundred or fifty steps away. After the rapid bombardment, the infantry directly launches an impact. , Sweeping from south to north, while the cavalry inserted into the formation of Qi people, causing chaos, and went straight to the central army.

This is a tactic of advancing without retreating. If the Qi people have artillery, if the Qi people still have cavalry, if the Qi people's front line has not been shaken, if the Qi people still have a certain reserve force on the south side that can stick to the assault infantry and cavalry, Shi categorically did not dare to use this unusual formation.

He rode his horse to a high hill, and used a binoculars to observe the Qi people's army formation for the last time, adding a bit of confidence.

Liuzhi's feint attack was quite successful, and the Qi people now concentrated the last few troops on the center and right flank, many of which were still on their way.

Backwater array, the most important thing is to look at the array head to tail.

This is an immovable formation, not only the front cannot move, but also the troops in the depths behind cannot move.

When it moves, it becomes chaotic.

Originally, the remnant soldiers could be gathered together and resisted step by step, but all the ministries in the follow-up formation also looked at each other head to tail. Even if they broke through a little, they would face a formation that was as deep as the people.

Six Fingers fought on the right wing of the Qi army for a whole day, and in the end the most simple and direct effect was that the Qi people's deep phalanx abandoned the turtle guard formation and was forced to go north to support the right army.

Then as long as the left wing breaks through the front formation, the Qi people's backwater formation will be broken.

Shi Xin thought, it's not that Dr. Pingyin doesn't understand the principle that the formation of backwaters should not be moved, but he was forced to do nothing by Liuzhi, and he was also forced by the Mohists' artillery: if you don't support the right army, the right army is in a hurry, and the right army is in a hurry. If there is no support and let them retreat, the central army and the left wing will have to give up the front line and retreat; but if they give up the front line, they will all huddle by the river. Dozens of Mohist cannons bombarded the previous day, and the musketeers fired in rows. It flows into a river and dyes miscellaneous water.

The decisive victory in this battle was on the left wing of the Qi army on the south side, but the key point was on the right wing of the Qi army.

Shi raised his head to look at the sky, waved his hand to summon the messenger, and said, "Send the news of the Nanji Water Victory back to Pengcheng first. Don't worry everyone."

The messenger galloped away with joy on his face, and the commander of the first division rode his horse to Shi's side. Looking at the flags of Qiren and the dust raised in the distance, he said with a little worry: "The six fingers have to bear it." The attack must be very violent."

Shi nodded, but didn't say anything, looked to the north and remained silent for a long time, then said slowly, "Wait a little longer."

The commander of the first division understands that it is useless to worry now, the only thing he can do is to seize the opportunity created by Liuzhi for the whole army, and break through the formation of Qi people at the fastest speed, that is the greatest assistance.

It is appropriate to wait, that is to say, to launch an attack now, and the troops of the Qi people who are supporting the north may turn to fight fiercely here. In that case, the pressure on Liuzhi's side is indeed small, but with the smallest casualties A winning strategy is tantamount to not fully executing.

About half an hour later, the officers and teachers around Shihe nodded almost at the same time, and ordered: "Blow the horn, beat the drum!"

The drum that had been silent for a long time finally sounded on the southern line. The anxious soldiers who had been waiting listened to the drum, quickly left the covered woods, reeds, and hills, and suddenly appeared on the battlefield.

The first brigade, the most elite of the first division, was in front, and the warriors selected from the whole division carried muskets and short swords, and acted as the vanguard of skirmishers, followed by musketeers, and the line of spearmen and infantry followed. The dense formation formed columns, and the interval between each company was less than forty paces.

The [-] cavalrymen were the first wave of attacks and were responsible for breaking through the passage for the subsequent cavalrymen. There were no infantry knights among these cavalrymen, only warrior knights in leather armor.

The cavalry of the first company used spears, and they were cheap Zhe wood spears, which were regarded as one-time shock weapons.

After the impact, they would drop the spear directly, or let the spear penetrate the enemy's body, and then they would switch to the iron sword.

The iron swords used by the subsequent cavalry companies are only about a hundred paces away from the front row companies.

The rest of the cavalry were further behind, because the battlefield where the battle was fought could not deploy so many troops, they needed to rush into the formation after the defeat of the front formation.

All the small horses here can pull the fast and maneuverable small copper cannons and place them in the front row or flank of the infantry. When they get close to the distance, they will directly launch a rapid support for the impact of the cavalry and infantry.

Shi Shi did not follow the cavalry to charge, but stood near the infantry formation.

With the beating of the drums, the infantry advanced first, and the elite ink fighters who acted as skirmishers in front spread out, because they did not have to worry about the counterattack of the Qi people and the non-existent cavalry, so there was no need to form a dense formation.

These elite inkmen approved three layers of leather armor, or a set of expensive iron armor, and under the leadership of the officers, they crossed the open space in front of the formation and moved towards the direction of the Qi people's formation.

The movement of the entire array was like being in a martial arts arena, with drums pounding at the waist and at an extremely fast pace.

The sudden appearance of the real main force of the righteous army obviously brought panic to the Qi army.

Right now, I thought Dr. Pingyin would be able to scold my mother at this time, but it was too late for him to mobilize.It depends on what he is going to do.

It was nothing more than a plan to gather all the troops to the right army, break through the defense on the side of Liuzhi and escape;

But both are meaningless. The only thing that can save the Pingyin Legion at this time is a reinforcement army of Qi people suddenly appearing on the horizon, but this is obviously impossible.

On the battlefield, the two-step cavalry formation gradually approached from 20 steps to [-] steps. Those light cavalry guns had already been deployed under the cover of the Mohist elite skirmishers, and more than [-] small copper cannons were fighting against each other. The artillery began firing at extremely close range.

The Qi army's front line, which had been fighting fiercely for a long time, was already loose. Facing the sudden attack of the volunteers, they regrouped under the command of the general, but it was of no avail.

The main force of the infantry gradually approached, and after the scattered soldiers were convinced that the Qi people were unable to launch a counterattack, they began to advance to a place about forty steps away from the Qi people's main formation.

They didn't form an formation, and they couldn't exert the power of musket salvo. They used the shorter matchlock guns used by the infantry knights in their hands, and used the skills they had practiced hard on weekdays, and chose to approach and shoot after approaching.

The javelins of the Romans in later generations, and the approaching white armor of the Qing Dynasty and the heavy arrows, are actually similar.Just like the approaching volley after the development of the musket, or the artillery blasting the gap in the phalanx, they are all ready for the assault of the infantry and cavalry.

There are also some crossbowmen or musketeers in the Qi army formation. Under the formation, facing the loose elite ink masters, the effect they can exert is limited.

Behind the elite skirmishers were more than ten rows of musketeers. After approaching, the front company remained still, and the rear company quickly spread out to the left and right wings, waiting for the order to fire.

Musketeers continued to be shot and fell to the ground by Qi people's crossbows or muskets, but the posture of the musketeers was not affected at all, as if they were on the training ground, they calmly unfolded the marching army into a battle line.

If the Qi people had a cavalry at this time, even chariot soldiers, these musketeers would be dealt a devastating blow.

Since Keshi could choose to deploy in this way, it was precisely because the Qi people had no cavalry and available chariot soldiers.

After the rapidly deployed musketeers lined up and waited about half a minute to make sure that the spearmen behind had advanced to level with them, the officer gave the order to begin firing.

White smoke rises up, and the shooting method in rows is like forming a piece of lead grains, the warp and weft woven by women, overwhelmingly projecting the numerical superiority of the troops on the narrow front, tearing apart the Qi army in an instant. formation.

Those bold Mohist squads who were closest to the distance of about thirty steps from the Qi people raised their muskets, aimed at the Qi army who was close at hand, and pulled the trigger.

The moment the gunshots sounded, these Mohists dropped their matchlock guns, drew out their daggers, and rushed into the already loose Qi army formation with gaps everywhere in groups of four or five.

The follow-up spearmen marched at a brisk pace, following closely behind.

The cavalry, about [-] paces wide, between the infantry also held their spears under their armpits, and the trained horses, which would not be frightened by the sound of gunfire, followed the movements of the riders and tacitly began to walk in small steps. Go for a jog to warm up for the final blast.

The cavalry officers shouted: "Pikes ready, slow trot..."

The horses rattled forward, the riders were almost knee-to-knee, and the slow pace kept the formation between the horses.

It's like a wall, a wall full of speed and spikes, raising countless dust, approaching the Qi army that has been scattered by artillery and muskets like a fallen mountain.

(End of this chapter)