warring states careerist

Chapter 964
The Mohist artillerymen, who had been shelling for an hour, were packing up the artillery, just like they usually trained, and re-deployed on the side where the infantry was preparing to attack, and continued to bombard.

The small cannons attached to the first brigade were lighter, and those that fired five-pound iron bullets were much heavier. The pack horses, who had long been accustomed to the sound of cannons and the smell of gunpowder, were quiet and looked up from time to time to see the gunpowder smoke in the distance.

Because of the existence of the cavalry on the Mohist side, Zhao Jun on the opposite side chose the Pinzi array from the beginning, so the artillery can kill them well.

If they deployed a wider formation, but it was easy to be broken by the cavalry, the Zhao people still chose a defensive formation born out of a circular formation based on their experience in fighting Zhongshan and the Hu people.

The Mohists' infantry had already begun to gather and move in, and they had just finished checking the loading of gunpowder and lead bullets.

They would need to advance to a position just out of range at this point, but also wait for the artillery to maneuver to the flanks to re-deploy.

Gunpowder is not human life. The Mohist commander in charge of this battle is well aware of the consistent style of Mohist siege, more sweat and less bloodshed, more gunpowder and less human life.

Offensive warfare is similar, as long as the artillery has an advantage, try to maximize the advantage as much as possible.

The scout reported that the main force of the Han army could not arrive today, so the time was on the Mo family's side, and he could kill the morale of the opposing Zhao army as much as possible.

The blow to the morale of the copper cannon was huge, especially because Zhao Jun's formation on the opposite side was too dense. This kind of car fort tactic was fine against nomads who did not have artillery, or they had the advantage of artillery.

Neither, I am afraid that if the shelling continues for a while, the morale of the army will be completely lost.

The chief general of the Mo family used a telescope to look at the situation of Zhao Jun on the opposite side, and decided to choose a frontal breakthrough, and at the same time ordered the order to inform the cavalry to approach the rear.

If the remaining two camps of the Zhao people choose to change formations for support, the cavalry will charge.

Or a tentative attack, don't let the Zhao people change their formation.

These are the contents of usual training, a compulsory course for cavalry commanders, and the general only needs to convey his intentions.

The four companies on the front are the main attack, lined up in a dense formation, loaded with gunpowder and stuck the short spears, and after approaching thirty steps, they fired a volley and rushed directly into the enemy's formation.

On the left are three companies approaching in horizontal formation to provide fire support.

On the right is artillery flanking, and a company of infantry is responsible for covering the artillery.

Two companies were left in reserve.

In this case, the military chief at the division level is not allowed to take the lead in the charge, but the political chief needs to take the lead in the charge on this occasion.

The chief general shook hands with the representative of Shi Mozhe, and didn't say much, just nodded at him.

The death rate for head-on strikes is still high.

The division representative didn't say anything, but silently put on a hat with tall pheasant feathers. This is the morale of the army, and tall and bright feathers are needed for the soldiers to see.

Officers basically wear hats like this.

The young drummers were beating the drumming military song called "Carrying the Benefits to the End" and standing on the side of the team with the division representatives.

"All! Card short spears."

As the order was issued, the rhythm of the drums changed rapidly. The company captain repeated the order loudly to pass down, Sima Chief followed up and repeated, and the corporal chief followed up again.

The soldiers took out short spears about one foot long from their waists, and stuck them to the front end of the muskets through the special machine width, which would greatly affect the loading. Basically, once the short spears were loaded in advance, there was only one chance to shoot.

According to the density of the flint guns, the soldiers of the four companies were almost half a person next to each other. The four companies re-formed to form a dense formation of eight rows.

The division representative pulled out his sword from his waist and motioned for the drummer to start beating the drums.

The covering company on the left wing had already moved forward, because they were in a horizontal line, and their speed was slower, and the wider formation meant that it was more difficult to maintain a straight line.

According to experience and calculated results, after the company on the left flank advanced about eighty steps, the four companies breaking through in the center began to advance at a slow pace.

The orderly and dense footsteps seem to have the power to make the ground tremble.

When they were 150 steps away from Zhao Jun, there were already irregular gunshots in Zhao Jun's chariot formation, and some people couldn't bear the pressure and fired first.

But it was really hard to hit anything at a distance of 150 paces. Since the company was an elite rather than a second-line garrison, this kind of gunfire could not confuse them.

The artillery that maneuvered to the right had already fired first, and the horizontal team on the left had also approached to about a hundred and twenty steps because it was one step ahead.

The Zhao army on the opposite side has no artillery. It has been suppressed in the previous confrontation. Waiting for the Mo family to come forward.

Although the nobles tried their best to stop the behavior of shooting in advance, under the tremendous pressure, some people still couldn't help it.

When the four companies approaching in a dense formation advanced to about sixty steps, casualties began to appear, and more than a dozen people were hit.

However, the distance of sixty paces meant that it was no longer possible for the Zhao Jun musketeers within the chariot formation to finish reloading before approaching.

The march before the frontal assault was silent and relentless.

It is necessary to silently and ruthlessly watch Yiwu's partner being hit and lying on the ground, and then to silently and mercilessly step over his partner's body to make up for the gap in front of him.

It is necessary to silently and ruthlessly watch Yiwu's partner's head being hit by lead bullets, and then to silently and ruthlessly wipe off the blood splashed on his face, and to listen to the drumbeat whether it is time to step left foot or right foot.

Therefore, in this era, apart from troops with faith bonuses and ideas and ideals, the best soldiers are serfs who live in a closed and enfeoffed village community and only know the world within thirty miles. Only such soldiers can survive without ideas and ideals. Faith endures this silence and callousness.

Every step closer is a gamble.

Every step closer requires the commander to silently calculate the opponent's loading speed in his heart. It is the most perfect to shoot at the last moment when the opponent has not finished loading at the shortest distance.

And this kind of perfection, there is no shortcut except to complete the dozens of steps with human life.

The representative of the division silently counted the number of steps and the distance, and the particularly dull sound of Zhao Jun's matchlock gun kept ringing in front of him. Finally, when he was about thirty steps closer, he suddenly pulled out the sword at his waist and shouted: "Stand still, turn around!" shoot!"

The advancing company finally waited for the order to shoot, and stopped quickly with the drumbeat. The commander in the front row shouted one after another, and the soldiers in the first two rows raised their muskets to shoot, and then squatted down to give space to those behind. Soldier.

After four volleys of guns, the drumbeat changed again, the horn of the charge came, and the infantry who got up and lined up launched a dense charge.

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In the morning of the next day, several Zhao nobles who escaped by chance told about what happened yesterday.

That charge directly disintegrated the Zhao army whose morale had been extremely low. Eight hundred of the three thousand Zhao troops were killed, most of them were captured, and the entire army was wiped out.

Duan Duan, the chief general of the Han army, looked at the panicked Zhao nobles and secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

Although the [-] Zhao troops were gone, they kept their main force. I guessed it right, the Mo family really wanted to lure him into aggressively to encircle and annihilate them.

Obviously, the ones fighting Zhao Jun must be the forwards of the main force of the Mo family. Their mission is to attack Yang Xia in a sneak attack, and then cut off his retreat to Yang Xia.

Fortunately, I pretended to go in first and then turned back, otherwise, if I went forward for dozens of miles, I would definitely be surrounded.

These Zhao people were not incompetent, they had meritorious service and dared to fight. Even so, they were still wiped out by the Mohist vanguard with less than 3000 people. It can be seen that the Mohist field is as powerful as before.

If you are surrounded, you must be unlucky.

He comforted those Zhao people with a few words, and immediately led the army into Yangxia, using the fort built by the Chu people to deploy defenses, and at the same time sent someone to report to the main force of the central army of the coalition army, saying that he had met the main force of the Mohist Sishang left-behind army .

After the news reached the Central Army of the Allied Army, the princes and important ministers were overjoyed. This is really a godsend.

The Mohists don't have many troops in Sishang, if they are all near Yangxia, then Shangqiu must be empty.

In this way, some of the previous situations also make sense.

A small number of Mohist troops in Chengkuang and other places are still defending, which is obviously delaying the time for the main coalition forces to besiege Shangqiu, thus creating a time gap for the left-behind legions in Sishang to annihilate the right flank of the coalition forces.

Fortunately, Duan Duan knew the soldiers and did not advance rashly, otherwise something serious would happen.

The field combat ability of the Mohists should not be underestimated. Even though the main force may not be the elite staying behind, it is terrifying to be able to break through the Zhao people's car camp in only one afternoon in the field battle.

If the Han army on the right side of the road ventured into Kuxian, two hundred miles away from the main force, then the Mohists would have enough space to encircle and wipe them out.

Once the right road is wiped out, there will be huge loopholes in the right road from Kuxian to Hongshui, and then to Yangxia and Daliang.

If the Mohists sent an army to attack Daliang and burn food and grass at that time, the army would be trapped under the city of Shangqiu.

The more the princes thought about it, the more reasonable it became. The root cause was that they never thought that Shi's appetite was too great, and they were going to directly eat the main force of more than [-] people from the princes' coalition army, not the mere [-] on the right wing.

According to the calculations of the princes, if the Mohist army is outside, then there will be at most [-] to [-] troops in Sishang.

The Mohist army is indeed capable of fighting, and the military system of conscription and training is also different, but even if Sun and Wu Fusheng are on the battlefield today, it may be difficult to be one against two.

So all this is very reasonable, because it is impossible for the Mohists to encircle and wipe out the main force of the Chinese army, so there is only one reason for the Mohism to gather in Yangxia and other places on a large scale, and that is to eat the right-wing Han army that can be eaten, thereby forcing the princes to retreat .

Obviously, the main force of the Mohists was not to attack Linzi, but to pacify Qi with grain from Jiaodong after conquering Linzi, and then go down to Linzi to Pingyin, so as to completely destroy the flanks of the vassal states.

If Sishang could not force the main force of the Mohists to retreat, but instead was forced to retreat by the troops left behind on Sishang, then all the vassal states would be in jeopardy.

The Mohists already have Nanyang, Lushan, Huaixi, and Sishui, and they have already managed to attack in all directions so that the princes cannot look at each other. If Pingyin threatens Juye, Wei, etc., Han and Wei will face three directions at that time oppression.

According to the princes' thinking, this should be the case, so Duan Duan's news made them inexplicably excited. This is an excellent opportunity to shock the world and force the main force of the Mohist family to come back.

The princes don't expect to be able to attack Pengcheng, they just need to force the Mo family to come back to help, so if they can capture Shangqiu, it is possible.

Before the attack, there can be no offense in order to prevent fierce resistance in the city.Once conquered, if the main force of the Mo family does not return to help, they will be slaughtered and forced to come back.

So, the princes made a decision.

Divide troops to encircle Chengkuang, Ningling, and Dai, but do not attack.

The main force bypassed Ningling and Chengkuang, and went straight to Shangqiu.

When the left-behind troops on Sishang of the Mo family came back to help, Duan Duan was sent out from Yangxia to Hongshui, and together with nearly [-] troops, they surrounded the city to fight for reinforcements, encircled and wiped out the Mo family's field troops on Sishang, and then broke Shangqiu to break the situation.

(End of this chapter)