warring states careerist

Chapter 995 The Battle of the Two Sons ([-])
The aristocrats of the Qi State who fought desperately were extremely brave, and most of them had blood feuds with the Mo family.

There have been constant reports that the Mohists carried out land reform in the Jiaodong area after they entered the Jiaodong area. Their fiefs were deprived, and their parents, wives and daughters were inevitably affected.

Coupled with the actions of the Mohist family in the southwestern region of Qi after the Qi-Mo war, it was really a tyranny for these low-level nobles.

And Sishang has been carrying out cultural construction, which has led to the emergence of a large number of literate people who can completely replace the old scholars' control of the grassroots. The Mohists really have no good intentions for these low-level nobles.

Because of the value and needs, there is no need for compromise and united front, and the actions are much more vicious.

Some things cannot be stated clearly, but the implementation of policies is biased.Retaining these people is not only a factor of social instability, but also the inheritors of the cultural characters of the old cultural princes. If you want to unify, you must kill them all.

The lessons of the nobles of the Chu State are not far away. They were either arrested and sent to reform through labor in coal mines or iron mines, or they were exiled overseas to fend for themselves.Screening, censorship, forced migration, forced labor... In just one year, the possibility of Chu State's recovery has been completely eliminated.

These low-ranking aristocrats in Qi State are themselves beneficiaries of Qi State's reactionary reform policy, and their fighting spirit is still very high under the agitation.

With the spiritual pursuit of immortality after death, the noble warriors wearing purple turbans, shouting the slogan for Qi, marched forward bravely without avoiding bullets.

When they were about fifty paces away from the ridge, they were met with a salvo.

On the top of the hill, the company commanders or company representatives of the Mohist infantry company also chanted the slogan "For the benefit of the world, death will not turn around" after the volley, using another concept of spiritual immortality to inspire everyone's morale and mobilize counterattack.

On the top of a small hill, one party fought for Qi, for the king, for himself and immortality, and for the world, for all people, and for himself and immortality. They fought together with short spears, short swords, lead bullets, and iron thunder.

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The left wing of the coalition forces, Sanliu Club.

The news of the imminent collapse of the right wing stimulated the nerves of the emperor and princes.

Tian Ju knew that his side had no chance of winning. He remained calm and calm, and didn't feel that his failure in command was the result of this failure.

Facing the eyes of everyone, he wanted to explain a few words, but in the end he didn't say anything.

The hope of winning this battle was very slim. Under the confrontation on the front line, forcing the Mo family to deploy all their forces, and then mobilize the main force to the right wing to launch a counterattack, is the only possibility of victory.

To defend is to lose, and to support is to lose. It is a battle to survive, and no one can do better. Victory is luck, and defeat is inevitable. God does not help oneself, so what can we do?
For a moment, Tian Ju felt that maybe there is a destiny in this world, but this destiny is now in the hands of the Mo family.

If not, why didn't a bolt of lightning suddenly fall and hit the harness commanded by the Chinese army now?
Tian Ju was silent, but the princes and generals were restless, and said one after another: "The right army is about to collapse, why don't you deploy troops to stabilize the right wing?"

Tian Ju thought for a while, and finally said: "There is nothing I can do. I am weak in virtue and ability, and I am responsible for the crime."

"Now that the Mohist left army has broken our right army, the central army's reserve team has not been moved, and the elite warrior knights have not yet joined. If the troops are divided and go to the right, how will the central army respond to the assault?"

"For the current plan, only the cavalry and infantry after breaking the side of the Sanliu Society... the princes of the emperor retreat to their own country, or go north to Yanzhao, west to hunt in Qin, and wait for the future."

Han Hou heard the words and said angrily: "The two armies are fighting, and the battle must be consistent. If you escape, why not escape earlier?"

Tian Ju was not guilty, he felt that he had tried his best, and replied: "How to escape early? If you escape early, the army will surely die. If the army dies, Han and Qi will all perish."

"It's a game of death, defeat is inevitable, and victory is a matter of luck. Before the battle, I asked a lot, who has a plan to defeat the enemy? But there is no one. It's not because I am self-willed, but because I have no choice."

"Now that there is no chance of winning, we can only flee."

Han Hou took a deep breath and calmed down as much as possible. He also understood that Tian Ju's words were true. Before the war, no one had proposed a better way to defeat the enemy. Only Tian Ju's words from above and below wanted to turn the tide of the battle.

Thinking about it further, judging from today's battlefield, even if it was a rendezvous with Yang Xia's [-] Korean army back then to solve the combat power shown by the Xuan army today, even if the rendezvous is nothing more than holding on for one more day, sooner or later they will lose.

This defeat was doomed from the moment when South Korea promised Qi to send troops to Sishang, but in fact the main force of the Mohists was not in Laiwu.

Hanhou didn't have the guts to fight the Mo family one-on-one in the plains, but he just knew that if Qi was destroyed, Han would not be able to survive, so he fought desperately.

The collapse of the right army means that the collapse of the whole army is close at hand.

But if you want to escape at this time, once the army is defeated, no one will be able to escape.

Han Houdao: "Since this is the case, we can only stabilize the occupation first, and shrink the central army to stick to it. The Mohist cavalry and infantry in the rear need to be defeated. Only in this way can we escape the Mohist pursuit and escape."

"It's just that Kai Zhishi is very good at using troops. When he saw us attacking the Mohist cavalry behind Sanliushe, he must know that our army wants to retreat and must attack..."

Tian Ju said: "The only way is to shrink the troops and stand firm in the front. Don't tell the army that you want to flee, otherwise the morale will definitely collapse."

"Riding on the side and rear, it is difficult to break through without a large-scale fierce attack. With a large-scale fierce attack, Kai Zhishi must know that our army wants to flee, which cannot be concealed. Only our shields can be pierced by Mohist spears before our spears are pierced. The shield of the Mo family."

After discussing with the emperor and princes, they finally decided that the situation is over and they are ready to flee. This news is still under lockdown for the time being, and only a few trusted nobles know about it.

The emperor thought to himself that Tian Ju's military formation was a blessing in disguise.If they supported the right army early, even if they wanted to escape, it would be difficult to survive until the front line was broken through.

Fortunately, there is still an unused reserve team, [-] cavalry, [-] chariots, and some elite warriors, who can be organized to defeat the Mohist cavalry intercepted from the side.

In the Mohist formation, Shi Shi was celebrating the victory of the left wing with everyone, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, saying that the general situation has been settled.

Before the attack on the left wing was extremely smooth, Shi had already let the infantry of the three brigades on the right wing cooperate with the cavalry to cut into the side of Sanliu Society and intercept it.

Now that the left wing had won an unexpected victory and collapsed the coalition's flank so quickly, the entire tactic changed from the original strategy of luring the enemy into two wings and hitting the chest, to roll from left to right.

The battle for Xiaoqiu was still going on. As long as Xiaoqiu was captured, the central army of the allied forces would either be bombarded and collapsed, or shrink and retreat to the vicinity of Sanliu Society.

Once the force shrinks so much that it cannot be deployed, the coalition forces can only be beaten passively.

On the hot air balloon in the formation, the observer soldiers watched the situation on the coalition positions with wide eyes through the smoke of the battlefield.

The movement of the undeployed companies of the coalition forces aroused the vigilance of the observers. He patted the partner who was in charge of recording beside him, handed over the binoculars, pointed to the distance and said, "Look, they moved."

The partner beside him took a few glances and said quickly, "You continue to observe."

He quickly wrote down the situation on a piece of paper, waved the red flag in his hand, and then threw down the piece of paper covered with lead blocks. The auxiliary soldiers below immediately collected the paper and sent it to the command post.

After handing it over, he glanced at it. The observers can only say that the enemy's reserve team has moved, but they can't judge the specific movement of the enemy. They just warn in advance to prepare.

I picked up the binoculars and looked at it, but now it is difficult to make a decision.

There are at least two choices for the coalition forces, either to let the reserve team go forward to defend and let the Chinese army retreat to shrink the defense line; or it is to prepare to flee.

As for going to support the right wing now, that is meaningless.

There are still enough reserve teams in Shizuo who have not yet launched an offensive formation, and can support them into battle at any time.

He is not afraid of the enemy fleeing, because if he tries to flee, it will be a rout, and enough cavalry on his own side will turn the rout into a battle of annihilation, not a battle of defeat.

Hanhou, Qihou and even Zhou Tianzi, it doesn't matter whether they flee or not. Zhou Tianzi doesn't have such a high appeal. After the battle between Qi and Han, all the field troops were lost, and the land of Qi and Han can be entered in an instant.

Not long after, the observer delivered a second piece of information, Shi nodded and made a judgment.

Part of the coalition reserve team deployed forward, apparently to defend, while the other part moved directly to the side and rear, obviously preparing to hold up in front and open a passage for the rear to escape.

At this time, the battle for the side hills was not over yet, but the right wing of the coalition forces had basically collapsed, the central army was still dead, and the reinforcements behind did not advance too far, but organized a second line of defense around the left wing of the coalition forces.

The plan before the war was to force the coalition forces to split up with a left wing attack, relying on knights and infantry columns to break through from the center to divide the coalition forces. Never thought that the difference in combat power between the two sides was too great, and the left wing that was making a feint attack was advancing too fast, and it turned into a two-wing outflank. situation.

Now that the right wing of the coalition forces has collapsed, and there are only more than [-] reserve troops still fighting, it is impossible to organize an effective counterattack.

It was appropriate to order the warrior knights who had not moved and a reserve team of a division to march towards the side of Sanliu Society in order to intercept and outflank the coalition forces.

The reserves of the four brigades deployed in the second line near the hill on the left fully supported the hill, cooperated with the left wing to quickly take down the hill, and integrated forces to outflank the left wing.

The Chinese army began to shrink its forces appropriately, and tried to attack, focusing on shelling, and withdrew some troops deployed on the front line to organize defenses to prevent unexpected Chinese army counterattacks.

Although looking at it now, it is unlikely that the coalition forces will organize a counterattack, but Shi still made some preparations cautiously.

The side and rear of Sanliu Club.

More than 4000 infantry from the three brigades that have maneuvered here have approached the cavalry that has been on the side. Their task is to cooperate with the cavalry to fight, not for defense, but for offense.

When the offensive on the left flank went smoothly, the three brigades had already started to move, and they were now in the direction behind Sanliu Society, about two miles away from our own cavalry, and about one and a half miles away from our army's flank. In a sense, they were considered a lone army .

(End of this chapter)