warring states careerist

Chapter 893 Array
Regarding this battle, the nobles of the Yue royal family were very pessimistic and disappointed, and they were all trying to find a way out for themselves.

What many people think is to let the fleet delay the time ahead, surrender to Chu State quickly, give up everything in Yue State while the road is still open, and flee to Chu State with gold, silver, pearls and jade.

We are all nobles, and we still have the same enemy after all, Chu State should accept it, and also gave Chu State a legal principle to occupy Yue State.

But King Yi of Yue didn't want to escape.

All his life, he has fallen from being ambitious to being a dog who guards the grave, all because of the rise of the Mo family in Sishang.

Although Yue State's dream of going north to seek hegemony from the Goujian era has long been shattered, although its strength has long been weak, and although its face has been swollen and fat, it has finally been revealed in his hands.

He hated, so he wanted to die for his country in World War I, nothing more than death.

When Fu Chai was captured, Gou Jian gave Fu Chai a chance, and he could also give him a hundred households, but Fu Chai still hanged himself.

Even though he didn't have the courageous plan of the former king Goujian, he didn't want to go to Chu to be a courtier.

Facing this feeling of failure and despair, Yue Wang Yi just waved his hands and said, "Do your best."

Xu Ting retreated, Yue Wang Yi wiped his bronze sword and sighed.

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Fifth day of May.

Yangtze Estuary.

The wind is slightly southeast, but the water is facing east.

There is no cloud in the thousands of miles, no fog on the river, and early in the morning, the drums are beating and shouting along the river.

The Mohists are the attackers, and the Yue Kingdom is the defenders.

The Mohist navy arranged the fleet into a formation with many on the right and many on the left.

Four of the seventeen large building ships were deployed on the right flank, that is, in the direction of the upper reaches of the river.

The four building ships on the right wing are not arranged in a plane line, but formed in columns to cover the right wing.

Various small boats cruise behind the four building boats.

The Chinese army has eight large boats, spread out in a line, keeping a safe distance, and the rest of the small sailing boats follow behind.

On the left flank are the remaining five building ships, three in front and two behind.

Arranging formations is not about knowing yourself and the enemy, it is at best making use of strengths and avoiding weaknesses.

This is an obvious formation of taking advantage of the wind and abandoning the water. As the main attacking side, it is difficult to grab the upper reaches of the hydrology in front of the Yue State Navy, because the Mohist ships are bigger and move a little slower.

Therefore, we gave up the upstream hydrology and strived for the windward direction.

Its purpose is also to fight against the Chinese army, defeating the right wing of the Yue Guozhou Division with the left wing, relying on the building boats on the left wing to seize the upper wind, cutting into the center of the Vietnamese army, and forming an outflank.

The big ship is in front, one is to take advantage of the artillery before engaging in the battle.

The other is that because the building boats are too large and have a collision angle, and are condescending, the Yue Kingdom either sends the building boats to fight, or can only send small sailing boats to avoid the collision of the building boats. cut into the back.

Take the building boat as a natural partition.

Therefore, the arrangement is that the big boat is in front, the small boat is behind, and the big boat is the center, which is a bit similar to the arrangement of the apprentices in the chariot battle formation: once the boat crosses in, the Mohists' small boats will fight around the big boat.

The intention of this kind of formation is obvious, but the more obvious the intention is, the easier it is to achieve. The tricks and tricks are used strategically, and the formation confrontation and the grasp of fleeting opportunities are relied on when approaching the battle.

In addition to these obvious intentions, the Mohists are preparing to wipe out the formation of Yue Guo's boat division, because in this case, Yue Guo must want to grab the upper reaches of hydrology.

The State of Yue must prevent the Mohist boat division with superior military strength from seizing the upper reaches on the right wing, thus forming a situation of going down the river.

In this case, once the left wing of the Mohist boat division seized the upper wind and completed the siege of the Yue Guo boat division, the Yue Guo boat division would not even have a way to defeat and flee.

This is also the purpose of the Mohists. This battle is not to destroy Yue at this time, but to completely destroy the navy of Yue, so as to completely control the Yangtze River and prepare for the next attack on Chu.

On the south side of the river.

On the upstairs boat, the doctor Xu Bing listened attentively to the faint sound of drums in the distance, and with his arms outstretched, he waited for his servants to dress him in the iron armor he had bought from his body at a huge price.

This is a very useful equipment for water battles, especially in melee battles, it can often save lives.Of course, the price is also very expensive. It is said that the price that the nobles paid for this set of armor is enough to train two knights, six light cavalry, or thirty phalanx musketeers with guns.

"Have you heard that? The drums sound very methodical."

The servants beside him were good at water combat, and after calming down to listen, they said, "Yes, very organized. They are slowly moving forward, and the oarsmen are conserving their energy."

"They eat very well, with sugar, lard, and fish. Our oarsmen can't row them for a long battle."

Xu Ting laughed and said, "You forgot, they still have bronze cannons. In water battles near the river, bows and crossbows used to be the best, but now it seems that they are not."

The scholar asked: "The gentleman thinks that we will win this battle?"

Xu Ting shook his head, and then said firmly: "The salary of eating the king is the thing of being loyal to the king. It's nothing but death."

After getting dressed, he and a few personal servants boarded the top of the tall ship, and the drums here also began to beat.

The beating of the drum is to direct the rhythm of the oarsmen, when it should be fast, it should be fast, and when it should be slow, it should be slow.

Taking out the expensive binoculars with copper and gold shells, Xu Bin looked at the Mohist fleet in the distance, observed for a long time, and murmured: "It's very organized, neither fast nor slow, and has been maintaining the formation."

In water combat, it is easy to observe the formation on the opposite side. This is not a secret thing.

On the opposite side, the big ships of the Mo family's boats were in front, and the small boats were behind, densely packed, keeping the formation forward as much as possible at a not too fast speed.

Xu Ting observed for a long time, pointed to the left wing of the Mohist fleet in the distance and said: "Our only hope of victory is to rely on their left wing to make mistakes."

"That's the only way to win, lure their left wing out of the center, open up, eat their left wing."

The counselor beside him asked, "What if they didn't make mistakes?"

Xu Ting was silent and did not answer.

If the other party does not make mistakes, naturally there is no chance at all, only failure.

The intention of the Mo family to set up this formation is obvious, but even if it is so obvious, he can only pin his hope on the possibility of his opponent making a mistake.

The so-called famous generals are just seizing the opportunity on the battlefield to break the surface with points and fight more with less, but the current situation is that the strength of the three armies of the Mohists is not something he can easily eat, and no amount of planning is meaningful.

The only possibility is to keep a fleet behind the east side, so that the right wing of the Mohists and the left wing of the Mohists in the lower hydrology will be defeated in battle, and the left wing of the Mohist boat divisions will be lured away from the brigade, revealing a gap, making it impossible for the Chinese army to support.

Once the gap is exposed, the part of the ambushed fleet rushes up with the help of the wind direction, and his own army penetrates through the gap, defeating the left wing of the Mohist fleet, thus revealing the gap, outflanking from the side and rear, and destroying the Mohist fleet by taking advantage of the chaotic battle The little galleys withdrew from the battlefield.

If the opposite side learns from the tortoise and the turtle, that is, keeps the formation in order, does not chase, and does not seek merit, then he has no chance at all.

There are not many troops he can mobilize.

The Mohists deployed four buildings on the right flank, not in a line but in a file, obviously to protect their own flank.

But Xu Ju couldn't ignore the right wing of the Mohists.

If you don't care, the Mohist's right wing can be used as a flank defense, or it can be converted into an offensive formation. If you seize the upper reaches of the hydrology, and go down the river, you will lose yourself.

Therefore, it is necessary to divide the troops and rely on the oarsmen and the wind to seize the upper reaches of the hydrology, that is, to appear on the right wing of the Mohist fleet, threatening its right wing, and not to let them quickly turn into an offensive formation to occupy the upper reaches, and go down the river directly into his side rear.

As far as the Chinese army is concerned, the difference in strength is quite a bit. The number of high-rise ships in the Chinese army alone is more than the number of high-rise ships in the current fleet of Yue State.

The left wing wants to hope that the Mo family will make mistakes, but it also needs to find a way to lure them to make mistakes, and find a way to make them pursue, so as to tear the gap between the left wing and the central army so that they can outflank.

In fact, in this way, even if they win, it must be a miserable victory.

But there is one advantage, abandoning the flanks upstream of the hydrology, the remaining fleet can escape downstream.

If enough small sailing boats of the Mohists can be destroyed, then the Mohism will not launch an attack in a short time. The big boats need the protection of the small boats. According to experience, this is the case.

Because he deployed two buildings on his left flank, and one-fifth of the remaining ships, to quickly seize the upper reaches, so as to fight with the Mohist right flank, and not let them seize the upper reaches and pack his own rear.

The deployment of the Chinese army is relatively weak, but the thickness is larger, it is to entangle the Chinese army of the Mohist boat division after the war.

Once the right wing successfully lures the enemy, once the left wing of the Mohist boat division begins to pursue and reveals a gap, then the rear forces of the Chinese army can use all their strength to cut in through the gap and eat the Mohist left wing that protruded due to the pursuit.

"Beat the drums, march!"

He shouted orders, the horn was melodious, the brawny man was bare-chested, showing the tattoos on his body, and beating the war drum.

The oarsmen in the bilge listened to the order, shook the heavy oars, and shouted the chant.

They don't know what's going on outside, so they are the most obedient group of people, they just need to follow orders and concentrate on doing their own thing.

As for the outcome outside, they can't see it, and they don't know it. This is the biggest advantage of the Yue Kingdom in the water battle: if the strategy of luring the enemy is not played well in the land battle, it is easy for people to take the opportunity to break through, and the oarsman in the water battle can't see the outside In the current situation, this is easy to do.

After the building boats, a large number of small paddle boats are also paddling forward. These small boats are battleships, and they are all simple double-deckers.

Paddle below, and there is a partition above, and the sailors responsible for hand-to-hand combat are on top of the partition. Once they get close to the enemy, they will shoot a few bows and crossbows angrily, and slash and kill each other when they get close.

The space for this kind of water battle is small, so it is particularly cruel, there is no way out, you must die, surrender, or win.

After the melee, broken hands and short feet are commonplace.

Although you can survive if you fall into the water, only those who win and control the battlefield in the end are qualified to deal with those who fell into the water and fled.

On the building boat, a group of swordsmen in heavy armor surrounded Xu Ting.

On the upper deck of the cabin, there are archers and musketeers, as well as two large crossbows.

These archers wore leather armor, some of which were ancestral rhinoceros armor, and carried daggers or hatchets at their waists. They were elites, mostly gentlemen.

On the deck below are some spearmen and archers, as well as hooks and wooden ladders responsible for hooking the opponent's ships.Further down are the oarsmen who just listen to the orders and shake the oars.

Yue people are good at sailing boats, and the waves capsize like walking on flat ground.

(End of this chapter)