warring states careerist

Chapter 866

This is not a simple battle of impact and counter impact.

On one side are nobles, samurai, and slaves around nobles who have been trained since childhood; on the other side are cavalry from good families who are mainly members of owner farmers and co-cultivation cooperatives.

On the one hand, I used my own financial resources to buy iron armor bought at a high price from Sishang, and high-quality horses from merchants; military horse.

On one side are the nobles as the center, surrounded by slaves and domestic slaves, private soldiers and dead soldiers; on the other side are equal robes in the company.

On a certain level, this is a symbol, a symbolic battle no less than the symbolic battle between the Sishang Rebels and the Yue Kingdom Junzi Army.

Even so, the scale seems a bit small.

After the instigation of General Wei Han, both sides are full of confidence.

The nobles on Wei Han's side saw with their own eyes the reality that the left wing of the Mo-Chu coalition army was about to collapse, and they were convinced that they and the well-trained and well-equipped slaves around them were very powerful in fighting. Three is no problem.

They still have some aristocratic pride left - some pride that should have been blown to pieces by gunpowder, but that they once had, and a full-time worker can wash away the pride of a hundred apprentices.

In their eyes, Master Sishang is a heretic.

The military system should not be like that of Sishang volunteers, or even that of Xihe soldiers.The military system with the most aristocratic temperament should be chariots, out-of-production warriors, nobles in heavy armor, slaves with outstanding martial arts around them, scholars who took refuge in the nobles... and those who hold spears as an auxiliary to lower their morale. disciples.

In one effort, one rushes away, the drums are interlaced, the winner is already divided, and then the winner will not chase, and the nobles will still be friends when they meet in the future, and they can still get married.

It's been like this since ancient times, and it's always been like this.

Therefore, in addition to their confidence, they also had a lot of hatred for the Mohist cavalry on the opposite side.

On the Mohist side, the cavalry are also full of confidence.

Quite a few of them have fought in battles, and they know very well that one-on-one may not necessarily be the opponent of nobles, but wars are never one-on-one.

Many cavalry soldiers who were born in Zhao State had seen Hu people with excellent riding skills, but the Gaoliu stood for a long time, the Mohists won more than lost, even if it was a battle of more than a hundred people, those Hu people with excellent riding skills were not their opponents.

There are also some officers who have participated in the previous alignment wars, and have seen those well-equipped nobles, noble slaves, and full-time samurai, but in fact that is the case, the opposite side will collapse after only three hedges, and...they are more Relying on martial arts and instinct to fight, lacking tactical cooperation.

This is why a group of people knew that General Wei Han still had some strength around him, but they still thought that those were no more than chickens and dogs, and they were not enough to pose a threat at all, so they chose to go straight to the chief general of the Chinese army.

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at the same time.

The left wing of the Chu army.

The defense line of Chen Cai's division has collapsed. Except for a few infantry formations still standing firm, the infantry on the left has already fled.

Wei Han's cavalry was chasing the fleeing Chu people, and some of them were caught in a bitter battle with the phalanx.

The main force of the Wei-Han Allied Army's infantry had already approached, and they were about to complete the outflank at a slow pace. The Wei-Han Allied Army concentrated their main force on the right wing, aiming to use the advantage of the right wing to crush Chen Cai's division from where it was broken.

However, at this critical moment, the advantages of the new army of Chu State finally burst out the strength they should have.

The new army of Wang Shi, who was in the second-line reserve, had undergone far better disciplinary training than before. When the drums sounded, they quickly turned and maneuvered towards the left flank.

They were fighting for time with Wei Han's infantry phalanx. Wei Han's cavalry had been scattered and had no ability to attack again. Wei Han's greatest reliance was the formation of those infantry.

A thinner formation means faster speed. This needs to be tested by war, and more blood is needed to let Wei Han learn this lesson.

Under the leadership of General Chu, the Wang Shixin Army of the three brigades moved to the left at nearly twice the speed of the Wei and Han heavy formations, and the entire formation changed extremely quickly.

General Wei Han did not look at the cavalry battle that was close at hand, but calmed down, did not listen to the voices of the cavalry behind him at all, but stared at the left flank of the Chu army with a telescope.

The Wei Han army formation in the telescope moves like a turtle. There is no way, this kind of large formation can only go so fast.

Even though they were moving so slowly, the frontmost army formation was about to complete the outflank, and soon they could launch an attack and completely crush the Chu army with the phalanx.

However, there was a scene in the telescope that shocked him.

Some Chu troops quickly moved towards the left flank at a speed far superior to that of Wei and Han's heavy formation.

Commander Wei Han was secretly startled. With this speed, by the time his heavy infantry completed the outflank, these Chu troops would have already blocked the flanks.

In the battle between the central army and the left wing, Chu attacked and Wei defended. This time, Wei attacked and Chu defended. Can they hold it?

Can it hold the heavy rolling like a mountain moving?
All this is still unknown.

But General Wei Han understood that the Mohist cavalry behind him were annoying, but it didn't make him impossible to win.

The support of the Chu army is still those prepared infantry. Can these infantry be defended?How long can you keep it?
In the binoculars, he could see a total of three brigades of the Chu army maneuvering to the left flank, not many in number, that is, three horizontal formations, and they were approaching in batches, with only two horizontal formations at the front.

On the opposite side of them is his Pythagorean formation of five pawns, with an advantage in numbers.

According to his experience, under the impact of such a heavy formation, it is difficult for the enemy to defend, especially in this chaotic situation.

General Wei Han still didn't look back to watch the results of the battle, he only needed a quarter of an hour.

In a quarter of an hour, a heavy infantry formation closest to him can form a defensive formation, and those pesky Mohist cavalry cannot win.

For a quarter of an hour, he defeated Chen Cai's division's heavy-step phalanx to complete the outflank, and besieged the central army of the Chu army from the front, right, and rear.

According to his cognition, the pawn's movement speed will not be so fast. If it is too fast, the formation will be scattered and difficult to fight.

But the new army of Chu State showed the role of formation and discipline right in front of his eyes, and completed the adjustment and deployment before the most precious quarter of an hour.

At this time, the slow-moving Wei Han army phalanx had just completed the outflank, but was blocked by the three brigades of the new army of the King of Chu, making their outflank meaningless.

The musketeers of the new army of Chu State heard the officer's order.

"Six changes to three, prepare for salvo!"

After the order was issued, the matchlock gunners who were originally lined up in six rows quickly changed their formation, replacing their thinking with a mechanical movement that had been trained many times.

Just like the transformation of four columns into eight columns in the physical education class of junior high school students in later generations, it is a kind of life-saving and bloody lessons learned on the battlefield, and it is also a very formal military training.

If you can do this, you can call it a strong army.

After changing the six-row line into a three-row line, the first row squatted on the ground, the second row stood up, and the third row stood in the gap between the second row.

The spearman in the middle tapped the spear and held it flat.

The regrouped Che Guang cavalry began to drive away the Wei and Han cavalry who had been scattered because of chasing the rout and attacking the army formation, and maintained the safety of the flanks under the leadership of the deputy general of Chu.

The Wei Han formation on the far right was approaching, and the musketeers in the Wei Han army had already started shooting, but the Chu State's new army stood still, waiting for orders.

Wei Han's heavy-stepping phalanx approached step by step, and General Wei Han's eyes were fixed on that battlefield.

If...the Chu army can't defend, then the previous cover and the detour of the cavalry will be meaningless.

The distance was very far, and no sound could be heard through the telescope, but General Wei Han seemed to hear the cries of Wei Han's death.

Sixty steps, fifty steps...

As they approached step by step, the musketeers of Chu State who were ready to go were hit and fell by the musketeers in the gap between Wei Han's heavy formation, but the Chu people still did not move, and the formation was still not scattered.

At this moment, General Wei Han saw a continuous piece of white smoke floating up at the same time, and everything in the telescope was covered.

General Wei Han waited anxiously. When another gust of north wind blew by and everything there was clear again through the expensive telescope, he saw an unbelievable scene.

The two most flanking Wei and Han heavy step phalanxes had collapsed, and the spearmen deployed in the hands of the Chu army's musketeers launched a counterattack.

It was obviously close at hand, and it only needed those heavy infantry to advance a few dozen steps to kill the musketeers, but it didn't.

The Wei and Han heavy infantry who suffered the thunderous blow just now seemed to be frightened, gave up the last thirty steps, and began to collapse.

Master Wei Han dropped the binoculars in his hands to the ground, covered his chest with his hands, his face was pale, he was breathing heavily, and he half closed his eyes.

"Defeated. Everything is useless. They can defend. Even if those Mohist cavalry are defeated, as long as the left wing can still defend, our army has been defeated. It's just the difference between defeat now or an hour later."

"I lost... I lost."

He knew exactly what the thunder and smoke in the distance meant.

It means that the left wing of Chu State can last at least another hour, it means that the left wing of Chu State can still persist even when Chen Cai's division is defeated, it means that the Mo Chu coalition army still has a reserve team...

It means that even if the Mohist cavalry behind them are driven away, they can calmly attack and disintegrate their disadvantaged left wing.

It means that with the speed of the Chu army and the support of those cavalry, the Mo-Chu coalition army will complete the anti-outflanking of him before he readjusts his deployment.

It means that the artillery advantage of the Mo-Chu Allied Forces can bombard the deeper and denser formations of the Wei and Han heavy infantry formations, while the advantages of the Mo-Chu Allied Army's central and right wings will continue to be expanded by these copper cannons, breaking through Chu's heavy infantry formations and Pythagorean formations. Before the left wing of the Chu army, his central army and left wing will collapse, and an anti-encirclement will soon be formed, because the formation of the Chu army moves faster.

It means that if it takes an hour to break through the newly deployed left wing of the Chu army, then in an hour, the Chu people's central army and right wing, which have the advantages of cavalry and artillery, will inevitably break through their own defense line with insufficient troops.

And if it was not the scene in the telescope just now, but the heavy formation of Wei Han and the thin formation of the Chu army's new army fighting together, everything would be different; going back for a quarter of an hour, if the second-line reserve team of the Chu army did not With such a fast marching speed, everything is different.

The defeat is set.

General Wei Han finally turned his head to see the outcome of the Mohist cavalry and his noble slaves and private warriors.

This has nothing to do with the outcome of the battle.

And it's only related to... Can he bring half of the people back to Xu?Or the whole army is wiped out...

(End of this chapter)