warring states careerist

Chapter 985

In the upcoming battle, the allied forces of the princes are not as easy as the Mohist side. The disparity in strength, the mistakes in the previous temple calculations, and the strategic mistakes, all of which add up to make an atmosphere of despair permeate the princes.

The effect of these 30 years of military reforms is still somewhat useful. Without the forced military reforms of these 30 years, tens of thousands of troops can only choose the tortoise formation at this time.

The improvement of military technology and tactical system allowed the coalition of princes to abandon the original formation and adopt a longer and wider front and a coordinated tactical system.

Originally, 5 to [-] people could only maintain a front line of one or two miles, and formations were needed to cooperate, because without formations, command would not be smooth at all, and it would be difficult to fight at all.

Now the coalition forces can spread out a front about eight miles wide, which is already a great improvement. Otherwise, they can only form a round formation to stick to it. Only the main general can lead some elites to the key points of the battlefield to fight.

Zhou Tianzi, Qihou Hanhou and others who secretly sent people to contact the Mohists were all in a village called Sanliushe. This village got its name because there were three huge willow trees at the entrance of the village.

This village is on the left flank of the coalition forces, and it is an important road. If you want to withdraw, you must defend this place.

Now the Han army in Yangxia doesn't know when they will be able to arrive here for a rendezvous, and the soldiers from other places don't know when they will be able to come to support them. Facing the strong oppression of the Mohists, the leaders of the coalition of princes are in despair.

After the Mo family stuck with them before, they began to gather troops to form a siege.

Originally, the coalition forces of the princes dared to go deep into Sishang this time because they thought that the main force of the Mo family was in the direction of Laiwu, and the princes did not have the courage to fight the Mo family. They were already frightened.

As a result, the Mohist adhered to the idea that if the land is lost, everyone will lose the land, and they have no great desire for Linzi at all, but have been wary of Qi Han, the last field mobile force.

The flaws in the empty city deliberately exposed by the right wing led to the aggressive advance of the main force of the Chinese army, and they were finally besieged here again, unable to move.

The Mo family has already stuck to them, and it is not so easy to escape.

Standing in the southwest of Sanliu Society, it was the Mohist's partisan who had relieved the siege of Daicheng and Chengkuang at the beginning, more than [-] people, and they had already joined the main force of the Mohist.

If you want to break through, you have to block the attack of the main force of the Mohists from behind, and then break through the block of more than ten thousand people. Obviously this is unrealistic, and it is easy to be beaten into a front and rear flanking situation. Under the superiority of the cavalry, it would be a one-sided massacre.

Originally, the princes wanted to form a tortoise formation, but several figures who knew the soldiers objected one after another, thinking that setting up a tortoise formation in a round formation was a dead end.

Qi Xiang Tianju said: "Now the main force of the Mohist school is all around, with more than a hundred cannons and five thousand horses. If we form a circular formation, our army will be defeated."

"Double everywhere, you will be few everywhere. If you form a circular formation, the Mohist feigns to attack three sides, and the main attack is on one side, which means that our army will block the entire main force of the Mohist with a quarter of our troops."

"Under the fierce bombardment of its cannons, the circle cannot hold on."

The rest of the people also have the same meaning. The premise of forming a round formation is to give up their last field combat capabilities.

The characteristic of the circular array is that it can make the troops dense, which makes it difficult for the Mohists to capture it for a while.

But there are also many shortcomings.

Especially when the Mo family has a large number of copper cannons, abandoning the battle line and using a circular formation to defend is tantamount to using the Mo family's artillery as a target.

Furthermore, they gave up the front line and shrunk into a group, and the troops could not be deployed into an offensive formation at all.

For 5 people to form a circle, only about two miles is enough.

But if you want to have the ability to attack, counterattack and retreat, you need at least an eight-mile-square front of the battlefield, so that you can spread out the formation of the troops, and there is still room for choice whether to fight, retreat or defend.

If you set up a circular formation, with a radius of two miles, the soldiers will be close together, and you can't launch an offensive formation at all, then you are really waiting for death.

The only hope for the circular formation is the Han army from Yangxia direction and the Qi Wei army from Yongqiu direction to come over.

And what the Mohist is best at is maneuvering in field battles, encircling points to fight for reinforcements, and defeating them one by one. When the round formation cannot fight and the reinforcements are defeated, they can only be trapped here and starve to death.

Now the coalition forces still have enough food for eight days. If they form a circle, give up the opportunity to voluntarily withdraw and take the initiative to fight, and save some food. At most, it will take twelve or three days. If the reinforcements from Qiu's direction couldn't arrive, it would be tantamount to starving himself to death.

At that time, even if they want to fight back, they can only gather about 6000 elites on the front of the limited battlefield. If there is no flank cooperation, they will fight back desperately, and the chances of winning are too small.

Several veteran generals who knew the soldiers all agreed with Tian Ju's statement, and some people knew that there must be a good planner in Tian Ju's hands to plan for him.

Zhou Tianzi remained calm, he secretly contacted the Mohists on the condition of agreeing with the Mohism, and only hoped to continue to maintain his status as the emperor.

Qihou and Hanhou had no choice but to retreat. The Mo family was clearly trying to kill them, and they didn't even have a chance to surrender.

A few days ago, people from Korea and Qi blamed each other.

The Koreans believe that it was the aggressive advance of the Qi people that led to the current siege.

The people of Qi believed that it was the fear of the Han army in the direction of Yangxia that caused the coalition forces to make a wrong judgment. If Duan Duan hadn't feared the Mo family like a tiger and dared not enter the empty city, at most Duan Duan would be wiped out. Why was the main force of the coalition forces trapped in this?
The Koreans retorted that Marquis Qi was ignorant of kindness, and this time they sent troops to save Linzi, but now the Qi people bit back and blamed Han Jun.

The Qi people sneered and thought that if Linzi disappeared, South Korea would not be able to survive alone, saying that saving Qi in righteousness is actually saving oneself.

The two sides scolded for a long time, and finally after the main force of the Mo family caught up with them, they began to unite sincerely, knowing that if they continued to fight, there would be no way out.

For tomorrow's decisive battle, the princes still have "wude", and they haven't thought about sitting still and not making any struggles, or they know that the Mo family is good at defending the city and breaking the formation, so they must die if they stick to it, so they have to find a way to reverse the disadvantage.

Qi Xiang Tianju talked about the idea given by his counselor, and he said: "Qi's Linzi, my son is so good at horse racing. There are different types of horses: upper, middle, and lower. There have been people who raced horses. If the si is against the middle si, if the middle si is against the low si, then everything will be invincible."

"There is a way in the world, and all things are in harmony. Tomorrow's battle, the three armies are like si, the si in our army is not as good as the si on top of the Mo family, the si in the middle are not as good as the si in the Mo family, and the si in the bottom are not as good as the si in the Mo family. This is a deadly situation."

"However, with the method of Linzi Horse Race Master, there is still a glimmer of hope."

It was easy for everyone to understand the meaning of this horse race, and also understood what Tian Ju meant by comparing the three horses in the upper, middle, lower, and the war.

Someone said: "In the past year when Yinyang was fought, the combined forces of Chu and Mo were like this. The horses above the right wing faced the horses under the Wei and Han's left wings; the horses under the left wing fought against the horses above Wei and Han."

"It was the same in the Moyue battle in the past. Left attack and right defense or left defense and right attack, now it seems that there is a lot of meaning in it."

Some veterans who have studied the tactics of the year can easily understand what Tian Ju means.

Tian Judao: "My school is objective about the Mohist battle formation method, which is quite reasonable. It is the most stupid to think that it is most stupid to spread out the troops evenly on the front line. The left wing is elongated and weak, and the right wing is strengthened and thick. More hits and less will break one wing. , which is more effective than an even deployment of troops."

"The difficulty lies in the fact that we need to know where the Mo family's upper si is and where is the lower si?"

"But it wasn't difficult at the time."

As soon as he inspired this, the veterans present immediately thought of the Sanliu Club where they were now, and nodded their heads one after another.

"Sanliu Club!"

Someone mentioned the name of the village, Tian Ju said: "It is the Sanliu Society."

"Sanliu Society is the left wing of our army, and it is the only way to connect Yangxia. The Mohists want to cut off our retreat, they must attack the left wing of our army, which is Sanliu Society."

"To capture the Sanliu Society, our army will have to reverse the front, shrink the defense, and stagger the road, so that the blockage will be more serious, and there is no possibility of retreating at all."

"Cheng Kuang's partial teacher is also behind the Sanliu Society. The Mo family has been digging fortresses on the opposite side of the Sanliu Society in the past two days, and they must die to prepare to attack Sanliu Society."

"This is the so-called top Si of the Mohists."

"If our army sticks here and gathers troops, the guns will be inferior to human beings, the artillery will be inferior to human beings, and the morale training will be inferior to human beings. This will be exactly what the Mohists wished."

"Since my top horse is no match for the enemy's top horse, I can stay here with my bottom horse."

"Our army gathered forces on the right wing, and the left wing took the initiative to retreat, and even abandoned Sanliu Society."

"The right wing gathers forces, storms the Mohist's cavalry, quickly defeats the Mohist left wing, reverses the battle line, and uses it as a slash."

"In this way, the left-wing division is abandoned, but the right-wing main force is retained."

"If you can't win, you can still keep your troops and stick to it; if you can win, then you have a chance."

"If we win, it will take another three or two days for the Mohists to adjust their tactics, and our army can stand firm, or we can gather elite troops and withdraw from the northeast."

"One is that our army has few cavalry, and the other is that our army formation is heavier and moves slower. We can only suppress one wing with a heavy formation."

His ideas, or the ideas given to him by his advisers, were reasonable.

The analogy of the upper, middle and lower three fours is actually a diagonal formation. This is the only tactical method for the coalition forces to win more with less at this time.

That is to deploy a long and thin force on the front line of the Sanliu Society, relying on retreat to hold back the main attack of the Mohists, abandoning the extremely important Sanliu Society, and deploying the main force on the right wing.

When the total force is less than that of the Mohists, a situation of fighting more and fighting less is formed locally.Of course, the left-wing Mohists are also fighting more with less, but if the coalition forces have a plan but the Mohists don't, and deliberately abandon the left-wing layout of the Sanliu Society, it can buy more time for the right-wing coalition forces.

Even if it is defeated, the main force is still there, and there is still capital to stick to it.If you win, you may come back to death.

(End of this chapter)