warring states careerist

Chapter 979

A few who were far away from the two wings had no time to run, and were stabbed by the wooden spears brought up by the horses. The cavalry let go of the wooden spears in their hands, not only because they were afraid that they would be dismounted by the shock of the impact, but also worried that their comrades behind them would stab them. .

The flanking musketeers were completely dispersed, and instead of chasing and killing, the cavalry put on iron swords and regrouped behind under the order of the company commander.

The cavalry who were attacking the spearmen head-on were stabbed more than a dozen by the Qi army's spears, but they also rushed away the infantry in the front row.

The cavalrymen who fell off their horses were lucky enough not to break their cervical vertebrae, so they took out their daggers or their own short guns and fought chaotically.

I don't know who dropped the spear first and ran back. One person led dozens of people, and the Qi army's formation quickly fell into disarray. When they were far away, they heard the sound of the horn, and turned back to regroup one after another.

The defeat of this team of Qi army immediately attracted the attention of the chief general of the Qi army in the camp.

Since the reform of the military system and tactics, there are actually not many qualified generals, and there are not many who can command thousands of people to fight in an orderly manner.

The Qi general who stayed here to defend and procrastinate was regarded as one, but if he was asked to command the main force of the coalition with tens of thousands of people, he would be at a loss and could only choose to form a tortoise formation to defend to the death.

Putting it here can be regarded as making the best use of it.

Although he is capable, but the situation is pressing, and he has nothing to do.

There are more than 1000 Mohist forwards, and he is only [-].

The Mohist vanguard had at least 500 cavalry, and he had only 300.

Not to mention the number of copper cannons.

If he wants to stick to it here, it cannot be done by him having the will to die.

In fact, he felt that he had done a good job, stuck in a key position, and avoided the artillery of the Mohists so as to form a local counterattack. If the main force was built by the river, it would collapse once it was broken through the river bank.

It can be imagined that it will eventually become a reality, but it still depends on the fight between the double and reverse.

The frontal cavalry diverted away the light cavalry that had entangled the Mo family crossing the river first, and he immediately organized a counterattack after the Mo family's vanguard infantry crossed the river, but the effect was minimal.

The number of counterattacks cannot be too large, because he needs to stick to the camp to defend the flanks. The Mohists have a lot of troops and can divide troops from the flanks to support them.

If there is a counterattack across the board and there is no cavalry cover on the flanks, the cavalry on the flanks of the Mohists who irritated him will seize the opportunity to rush them.

In fact, after the Mohist Qingqi on the left wing crossed the river, he had already noticed, so he deployed 800 troops on the left wing, but accidentally exposed a gap.

A company of infantry can't stop the cavalry on the other side, and now he needs to guess or predict what those cavalry want to do?
Is it to take advantage of the defeat of the company and continue to charge towards the camp to create opportunities head-on?Or is there another picture?
The cavalry of the three companies may play a very important role. For example, if the Mohist troops crossing the river in the front have launched artillery and are ready to attack, once the cavalry behind the side rushes to the center, it will create a huge disaster. confusion.

If he had a cavalry in his hand, he would naturally use the cavalry in his hand to drive away the flanking cavalry, but he didn't.

He didn't know the real purpose of the Mo family's cavalry, so he could only rely on guessing. Whether he guessed right or not was the talent of a general.

And the deputy brigade commander of the Mohist cavalry of the three companies on the opposite side chose the flaw perfectly, especially after the Qi army company was scattered with one blow, he even took the initiative.

The rout broke up the company, which meant that the cavalry would pose a great threat if they seized the opportunity to make a flank surprise.

Occupied the active position, many choices.

You can take the opportunity to surprise the main general and cause chaos during the frontal melee; you can also force the Qi army to mobilize flank troops for support during the frontal melee.

However, the purpose of the deputy brigade commander of the cavalry at that time was only the four bronze cannons.

General Qi needs to consider the overall situation. He is the weak side, and he needs to consider how to hold on until the end and win the last time. Before that, there cannot be a large-scale rout.

The deputy brigade commander of the Mohist cavalry does not need to consider the overall situation. Their main task is to provide support. With superior military strength, they can win by crossing the river head-on. What he has to consider is more military exploits on the premise of completing the task.

The two sides have different levels of consideration. The general of the Qi army finally gave an order for the overall situation to let the infantry of several companies on the side approach there, make a gesture of cutting off the siege, and drive away these hateful Qingqi.

As soon as the order was issued, the attention of the chief general of the Qi army was attracted by the frontal battle situation.

The front was not going well, and the Mohist infantry counterattacked successfully after a volley, and the formation had been consolidated.

Those copper cannons were passing the pontoon bridge, and the mouse-like Mohist engineers had already dug a simple camp.

Once those bronze cannons successfully crossed the river and started on this side of the river, then the battle would be lost, and it would be impossible to persist until night anyway.

Now I can only do my best and fight back again.If you stick to it, without the advantage of artillery and cavalry, the Mohists will completely blast his camp and besiege it from all sides.

Now it is only possible to keep some people behind, and at the same time cooperate from the side to drive away the cavalry on the flanks, and gather troops to counterattack from the front.

If the Mohist artillery has not yet deployed and the infantry is not enough to counterattack, then once the Mohist main force crosses the river to expand its forces, there will be no chance.

side rear.

Qingqi's deputy brigade commander assembled three well-organized companies, and was not far from the battle where a large number of Qi troops were killed, observing the movements of the Qi army.

He had to pretend to continue to go deep into the flank of the Qi army, and then he could effectively mobilize the infantry on the flank of the Qi army, thus creating a gap for him to raid the Qi army's artillery.

This requires some calculations.

The depth of penetration, the speed of the enemy's advance, the speed of one's own withdrawal, jumping out before the enemy's encirclement but not too early to avoid the enemy's detection.

These are not only the accumulation of daily training, but also the teaching of professional education, plus some actual combat experience.

Whether it is infantry or cavalry, if the distance and speed are miscalculated, big things may happen.

During the Battle of Yinyang in the past, Wei Han miscalculated the deployment speed of the Chu army's new army, which led to the failure of all plans for flank breakthroughs. This deployment speed is closely related to training.

This does not require too much troublesome calculation, there will be summed up experience and formulas, which are things that an officer at the deputy brigade level can master.In short, it is easier than the artillery officers who need to understand the geometry of nine numbers and look up function tables.

About two quarters of an hour later, the deputy brigade commander of the light cavalry finally had the chance.

The two companies he wanted to mobilize were coming this way, intending to block the gap and cut off the rear, and the time was just long enough for the cavalry he led to jump out of the blockage.

The cavalry of the three companies turned quickly, cut out from the junction of the two infantry companies of the Qi army, and quickly moved towards the small hill where the four cannons of the Qi State were located.

With an almost perfect time difference, three cavalry companies took down the small hill in one charge, and the commander of the Qi army's artillery was hacked to death.

While the cavalry were chasing those artillerymen, a Qi State artilleryman yelled in Qi language mixed with a strong Song dialect: "Same meaning! Equality! Universal love! Non-aggression! Appreciate the virtuous..."

He yelled several times, and finally closed his eyes. The cavalryman holding the iron sword hesitated for a moment, but did not slash.

After riding around the man for a few times, the cavalry also laughed, walked up to him and kicked the man on the shoulder, saying, "You're very skillful, I almost thought it wasn't on the battlefield."

The Qi soldier whose shoulders were already trembling also squeezed out a smile and said: "I have listened to the lectures of the Mohist School in Qianling. The princes and marquises have to come, so I have to come, that is, to make a living. I believe in synonymousness, equality and harmony. Both love."

"Although I am a member of Qi, I am also a member of the world. People in the world love and benefit each other. The Mo family does not kill prisoners. I know this."

The cavalryman put away his iron sword and nodded at him, and the deputy brigade commander in the distance shouted, "What's going on?"

The cavalry hurriedly ran over and said, "Comrade deputy brigade commander, there is an artilleryman from the state of Qi who said that he loves equality and is not offensive. He has heard our lectures, Qianling."

When the deputy brigade commander heard it, he also came over, without asking anything else, and asked: "Can you fire? Is it the gunner or the loader?"

The Qi army soldier hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, yes, can fire, and can also load. I listened to your lectures before, and I learned some later."

What he said is not the same thing, Qianling is the great city of Qi, and the Mohists did give lectures there, but when it comes to the operation of artillery, they must not have heard it while listening to the lectures.

At this time, many captured Qi people were driven over, and the deputy brigade commander pointed to those people and asked, "Are there any nobles in there?"

The people of Qi shook their heads, pointed to a corpse whose scalp had been chopped off in the distance, and said, "That's a nobleman. The rest are city dwellers who are similar to me."

Several cavalrymen took out hammers and nails from their saddlebags, and prepared to block the fire doors of several guns on the position.

Each light cavalry squad will be equipped with hammers and nails. Stones are not enough to destroy these copper cannons, and light cavalry often take the opportunity to raid artillery positions on the battlefield. If the enemy does not have enough time to counterattack, they need to destroy the copper cannons. Wedging nails into fire doors is the most common and effective method.

The deputy brigade commander took a look at the situation on the battlefield. Now the remaining troops of the Qi army are preparing to counterattack the front, and the formation has been deployed.

He looked at the iron balls and gunpowder barrels scattered on the ground, and turned around and shouted, "Don't wedge the nails first!"

The cavalry stopped, and the deputy brigade commander walked up to the artilleryman of the Qi army who had shouted equality, synonymousness, and love, and said, "Will you do your part for the benefit of the world?"

The man was also a wonderful person, and hurriedly replied: "Everyone is responsible for the pros and cons of the world. Only by benefiting the world can we benefit ourselves in the end. I am a member of the world, and I am inseparable from the pros and cons of the world. I am a unified whole. To benefit the world, I am willing. It was a last resort before, and there are always families, wives and daughters..."

The deputy brigade commander smiled and said: "Okay, then I will give you a chance to benefit the world. Tell your comrades that the Mo family does not kill prisoners, but also loves the world. Tell them, turn the bronze cannon and bombard the infantry over there."

The man nodded quickly, and after murmuring a few words with his companions, he turned around and asked, "It's okay if you want to bombard the camp where the general is. Do you want to bombard them?"

The deputy brigade commander looked at the position of the general of the Qi army, and there were still many soldiers there, so he shook his head and said: "The dead bones in the tomb will be captured sooner or later. His life is not as good as our comrades who are attacking head-on. Let's bombard the army." .”

(End of this chapter)