warring states careerist

Chapter 986 The Battle of the Two Sons ([-])

Some people in the armies of the princes also opposed this idea.

Someone said: "In the battle of Yinyang, Wei Han fought against Mo Chu, but Wei Han's tactics were also fighting against each other. At that time, seeing that the Chen Cai division of the Chu army was weak, they gathered the main force to attack Chen Cai's division. .”

"Regroup to meet the enemy, and try to rotate and outflank after breaking through with one wing, but what is the final result?"

"Now that our army has few guns and cavalry, even if we gather our forces on the right wing, how can we possibly break through the left wing of the Mo family before the Mo family breaks through and captures Sanliu Society?"

"Besides, the most difficult part of this kind of tactics is mobilization, marching, concealment, and deception. It doesn't mean that you can just deploy like this when you come up."

"Just deploying the formation like this, how can you not know that it is suitable to use soldiers well? Moreover, the Mohist army is equipped with hot air balloons, which can be lifted into the air to observe the battlefield. If our army deploys early, it will definitely be noticed."

"If we don't deploy early, we must first concentrate our forces on Sanliu Society, induce the Mohists to attack Sanliu Society, and then move to the right on the battlefield. Do you think anyone can do it?"

This tactic is really difficult to use, the difficulty lies in forcing the enemy to mobilize troops.

Either the opponent is mentally retarded and does not observe the deployment of troops at all before the start of the battle; or they rely on their excellent military quality to change formations and march in chaos, and use their own mobility advantages to complete left and right adjustments on the battlefield.

However, in terms of quality, training, mobility, pure flower team, and thin formation, the coalition forces of the princes are not as good as the Mohists, so some people think that if they engage in such tactics in the decisive battle tomorrow, they may be seeking their own death.

Especially General Han, who had experienced the Battle of Yinyang, was even more terrified.

The situation at that time was considered perfect, and the wing of Chen Cai's division was the weakness of the Mo-Chu coalition forces.

At that time, the front was also stretched on the other wing, and it took the initiative to retreat to resist, while the wing facing Chen Cai's division concentrated Wei Han's heavy step formation, forming an extremely thick formation, intending to break through there. turn.

It's a bit like grabbing the T prefix in a naval battle.

But the result was that Chu's Wang Shixin army quickly adjusted its deployment, completed the reconstruction of the front line within a quarter of an hour, changed the direction of the front line, blocked the onslaught of Wei Han's heavy step formation, and finally failed.

What the coalition forces of the princes are now facing is the Sishang Jiexuan army, which is far superior in training, discipline, and daring to fight. Using this tactic may not only fail to work, but may also be bitten back.

Tian Ju said: "I know it well. However, if you stick to a round formation, you will lose; if you divide your troops evenly, you will lose. So since they are all defeated, why don't you try to survive?"

"Now the Mohists have assembled a large number of troops at the Sanliu Society on the left..."

Before he finished speaking, the person who refuted him just now said: "Even so, if you want to use it, you must march and deploy tonight. Before the Mohist didn't notice it before dawn, transfer the soldiers from the left wing of our army to the right wing."

"But marching at night, who can control the army? Who can guarantee that there will be no chaos in the army? Who can guarantee that there will be no chaos in the army and cause people to flee? Which troops can march quietly at night?"

"Even if it's a march, there are at most three or two thousand elites from each family. What's the use?"

"This is the so-called talk on paper!"

Tian Ju shouted: "You will only say that I am talking on paper, let me ask you, besides saying that I cannot succeed in doing so, do you have any means to win?"

The man bowed his head and said, "I can't, but I know it can't be done."

Seeing that the generals in the army started to quarrel again, the frowning Hou Qi and Han Hou came forward to dissuade them.

The final result can only be as Tian Ju said, a dead horse can be a living horse doctor.

This is the guiding ideology of tomorrow's decisive battle. As for whether they can seize the opportunity to lure and mobilize, it depends on the level of tomorrow's decisive battle command.

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The Mo family has already arranged their own tactical concept. The Mo family's concept is to break through the central government and divide the coalition forces.

One is that the previous Mohist used the tactics of outflanking with two wings, or defending with one wing and attacking with the other. I am afraid that the enemy will be aware of it.

Another one is that the coalition forces did not choose the tortoise formation to stick to it, but retained the battlefield control range that the field attack needed to expand, which led to their slightly longer front line.

This is not to say that the choice of the coalition forces was wrong, because if they chose to defend in the tortoise array, it would be tantamount to losing the possibility of taking the initiative to attack, and the narrow place would not be able to deploy and mobilize troops at all.

But everything has advantages and disadvantages. Now that the coalition forces choose this way, the advantage is that they can attack and counterattack; the disadvantage is that the stretching of the battle line has led to the fact that the Mohists can use the inherent impression of the Mohist two-wing tactics by the princes' coalition forces to storm the princes' wing, forcing the princes' coalition forces to mobilize Troop support, and the most convenient way to support the two wings is the central direction. Once the mobilization is weak, it may be pierced by the Mohists from the center, dividing the main force of the coalition forces into two halves.

The direction of Sanliu Society is the direction of the Mohist's feint attack, which is the left wing of the coalition forces.

The position there is very important, so that the coalition forces of the princes must misjudge that the Mohists are going to capture Sanliu Society, thus cutting off the last possibility of the coalition forces retreating.

In fact, Shi didn't care much about cutting off the retreat of the coalition forces.

If the Han army in Yangxia's direction does not abandon Yangxia, they will not be able to attack at all.

It will take at least four days to abandon Yang Xia's entire army, and this does not include the time for them to break through and stop them halfway.

On the battlefield of the decisive battle, he has a huge cavalry advantage in his hands. If the coalition forces dare to withdraw, they will immediately become defeated.

He just wanted the chaos army to misjudge.

Once the allied forces of the princes misjudged it, the Mo family must mobilize troops from the Chinese army to support it under the onslaught of Sanliu Society.

At that time, the middle direction will be weak, and the infantry will form a column for intensive assault, supplemented by cavalry, and it may be divided.

The direction of Sanliu Club is the right wing of the Mo family, where fifty bronze cannons, six thousand light cavalry, and 1 infantry are deployed.

The central army is the main force of the Mohists. Forty bronze cannons are deployed near the right wing, which can not only support the right wing but also attack the center of the coalition army when it turns to the center to break through.In front of the Chinese army are twenty bronze cannons.

The martial knight divisions who charge into the battle are behind the central army, and they can choose when they need to go into the battlefield.

The strength of a division is used as a reserve force and is deployed at the junction of the second line of the center and the right wing.

The left flank adopted a more defensive deployment.

Every two brigades are combined, the first brigade is deployed on the front, the second brigade is divided into three parts, two parts are deployed slightly behind the left and right sides of the first brigade, and the remaining part is used as a reserve in the rear.

Every two brigades are equipped with two companies of light cavalry, which are used for small-scale pursuit and killing after the enemy retreats after the battle.

There are three thousand light cavalry on the flanks to cover.

At dawn tomorrow, the artillery will start to bombard. While waiting for the bombardment, it is necessary to mobilize troops, complete preparations for the attack, or readjust to the deployment of the coalition forces.

This decisive battle is no longer the battle of alignment and Vietnam in the past. In order to expand the front, the two sides have stretched their troops so that they can deploy their troops.

As the main attacking side of the Mohists, it is impossible to act in unison on a battlefield nearly six to seven kilometers wide. The three armies each have their own generals, and they proceed according to the predetermined plan. The mutual support depends on the three army generals' respective grasp of the battlefield. , It also lies in the fact that these reserve teams on the main side of the Chinese army are properly controlled to conduct a series of battlefield dispatches.

Early the next morning, before the sun rose, the sleepy observers had already finished washing.

They have to make their preparations before the sun rises, and the huge hot air balloon needs to be inflated with big leather sticks in advance.

When the sun has just risen, it is the most suitable time for ballooning. The airflow is stable and the weather is still a bit cold.

Several auxiliary soldiers took off their cotton-padded clothes and only wore a single piece of clothing. A group of three pulled the heavy leather sticks. Smoke was poured into the tunnel, and then sulfur was burned, but the core idea remained the same, except that those who dug holes and attacked died even worse.

The heavy leather is wrapped in a huge wooden shell, so that it can generate enough wind pressure.

Pi Luan was wheezing, like a cow plowing in the muddy field just after it rained.

The huge balloon made of oil-thin paper sandwiched in the cotton cloth gradually began to inflate with Pi Luan's panting.

At this time, there were no high-end materials, and the cheapest one was cotton cloth sandwiched with thin oiled paper to make the shell, which could fly hundreds of meters high, but the military generally did not need to fly so high.

Inside the wicker-woven Chlorophytum, there is a heating furnace made of various oils, and extremely expensive tung oil and whale oil are used in this way.

After the balloon gradually inflated, it began to heat up, and the auxiliary soldier next to it pulled it with a rope to make the balloon stand upright.

Two observers responsible for observation and recording stepped onto the gondola, and in the toolbox tied to the gondola, there were various basic drawing tools, graphite pens for sketching, binoculars, etc.

One was responsible for observing and dictating, and the other sketched the specific content on paper, and then threw it on the ground for the auxiliary soldiers to summarize and report.

During the battle between Moyue and Moyue, the Mohists used small hills to cover and mobilize troops, so the Mohists attached great importance to battlefield observation.

Fortunately, here is a large plain, with only a small hill tens of meters high. As long as the balloon rises, any movement of the enemy army can be easily spotted, so that preparations can be made in advance.

If a small hill is used well, it may reverse the situation on the battlefield. For example, a feint attack on the left wing, but the main force uses the hill's cover to the line of sight to maneuver to suddenly counterattack on the right wing.

Now the Mohist army is strong and strong, so it is necessary to avoid the weaker side from doing this as much as possible, and the role of observing soldiers is extremely important.

On the long front, a total of five balloons rose up, two on the right wing, that is, in the direction of Sanliu Club, two on the central army, and one on the left wing.

The observers on the hanging basket have all been staff officers, and they are all from professional backgrounds. The most basic requirement is to be able to draw pictures and simple surveying and mapping.

In addition, when necessary, they also need to make their own judgments on it, but this is not the case in general. Most of the time they are only responsible for describing, not summarizing.

The weather is cold today, there is no fog today, and there is a slight wind. Now the vision is good. When the fight starts, the smoke will fill the air. As long as there is a breeze, the vision will not be bad.

On the balloon opposite the Sanliu Society, the observers used binoculars to observe the formation of the coalition forces of the princes and look for the position of the artillery after they took off.

(End of this chapter)