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Chapter 998 The Battle of the Two Sons ([-])

Low-ranking officers, corporal sergeants, Sima Chang, volunteers, etc., are the cornerstone of the entire Sishang tactical system.

It's like the tactics of the concubine Mie as the first wave of cavalry attacking the coalition forces at this time. One brigade and four companies are the first wave of attack. The tactics are also very professional. .

This tactic requires eight companies to maintain a level, six companies as the flanks, and a formation change must be made under the circumstances of the entire team.

It is impossible for every soldier to know what he is going to do, and it is impossible for the division commander and deputy division commander to order that the soldiers can make corresponding actions if they are at forty or fifty degrees.

The coalition cavalry cannot turn the whole team, because this is a technical job.

It requires a large number of strict grassroots organizations, formation training, non-commissioned officers who know a certain mathematical foundation, and soldiers who can understand and decompose orders.

When it is necessary to turn to the flank at 45 degrees to outflank, the six companies on the flank will follow the order of the company commanders. They don't need to know what they are doing, they just need to complete each step according to the order.

The first company close to the central army will maintain a horizontal formation when turning around. The six Sima squads will maintain a horizontal formation. The first team will slow down and the sixth team will speed up, thus forming a standard slash .

When turning around, the second company should be led by non-commissioned officers or inkmen on the side of the company, and change the squad from horizontal to column, and after six squads into six columns, the front row of the flag bearer and company representative will be the leader. , at an angle of about [-] degrees to the direction of travel of the first company, after moving forward the distance on the maneuver, and then changing from a column to a horizontal team.

In this way, the second company's transformation from a horizontal team to a column provides space for the third company to directly change direction by a horizontal team, otherwise the third company will have no room for maneuver and cause confusion in the formation.

The third company will first turn into a column, then gather in the column, approach the direction of the second company, and then turn from the column to the horizontal team. The six teams will advance a certain distance along the space vacated by the second company in the formation of a horizontal team. Then the horizontal team turned into a column, and the veterans and corporals or Sima commanders on the two wings of the team who were now the leaders of the team led the team forward and separated, and then turned into a horizontal team with the leader as the axis.

Similarly, because the third company is close to the second company first, the fourth company has more space, and there is no need to turn into a column, but only need to change direction directly in a horizontal team.

The fourth company's horizontal team lined up, and the six teams lined up vertically. After quickly marching to the specified distance, each team turned directly in the huge space left by the third company, and directly deployed in a horizontal team.

What the fifth and sixth companies have to consider is not space, but speed, distance, and angle, so the fifth and sixth companies should use each other as references.

The fifth company should provide space for the fourth company's horizontal team to change direction, and at the same time, it should also serve as a reference for the sixth company. The vertical formation of the horizontal team is approaching the fifth company.

Then use two arcs that refer to each other to quickly run to the front and spread out, which will neither affect the space of the rest of the company nor cause confusion in the formation.

These complicated formations are not something the coalition cavalry can do.

Taking the [-]th company's turn on the flank as an example, the company commander needs to give about sixteen dismantling orders.

First, the bugle was to be blown, and the corporals on the right wing of each Sima squad stopped, and the chief Sima on the left led the team. With the corporals on the right wing not moving as a fixed axis, they circled an arc, turning the horizontal team of the team into a column.

Then, the order was changed again, the trumpeter blew the trumpet, the corporal on the right wing of the team became the leader, and the chief Sima on the left stood still. The entire column of the team turned again around the chief Sima on the left wing. become right-wing.

Changing from a column to a horizontal team, or from a horizontal team to a column, requires the corporals or Mohist veterans on the side as the axis. Only in this way can the formation be kept stable, and there must be an axis.

After turning into a horizontal team again, the fifth company next to it had also completed its change of formation, and the two sides referred to each other and began to run forward quickly.

After arriving at the fixed position, the first team stopped, and under the control of the officer's lock, turned the horizontal team into a column again, and then arrived at the designated position in a fixed batch, and then turned into a horizontal team with the Sima Chang as the axis.

In this way, the six companies can complete the turn of the whole team. At the same time, the position of the commander of each company is still in the middle of the company to maintain the formation, and the corporals and Mohist veterans are still on the side.

As a soldier, you don't need to know the big tactical 45-degree turn and outflank at all. You only need to understand the breakdown commands such as stop, follow, turn left, turn right, and turn.

More than a dozen or twenty dismantling orders are executed by non-commissioned officers as the core, so as to achieve the effect of the formation not being chaotic and the whole team changing.

The effect of this change of formation is the embodiment of combat effectiveness, and it is also the reason why cavalry officers like Shu Pu Mi who came back from Zhao must enter the military academy to re-study, and it is also why these cavalry with good riding skills are not as good as those who are disciplined The root cause of the stronger martial knight baby.

In terms of riding skills, these light cavalry are no worse than those martial knights; in terms of fighting, no one can take advantage of one-on-one.

The difference is the speed of change, the discipline of marching, the proportion of officers, and the time to execute feedback on orders.

Although it is not as good as the more disciplined martial arts knights, it is not a problem to hit the coalition cavalry.

The coalition cavalry has no way to make the whole team turn, which means that once they turn, there will be gaps and confusion, and a single cavalry cannot fight against the whole team of cavalry.

The formation and the configuration of the officers allowed the cavalry on Sishang to maintain their formation at all times, unless the corporals on both wings were all dead, it would be difficult for the formation to be scattered and difficult to regroup.

The company commanders and company representatives arranged before and after can also quickly reorganize the team in the chaos, with themselves as the center and Corporal Sima Changmo as the core, quickly reorganizing the formation.

On the battlefield, what a division or brigade-level officer like the concubine prisoner Mi has to do is to issue orders that can be done in the drill code, and then choose the central breakthrough.

It is the training and grassroots officers who maintain the combat effectiveness of these cavalry.

This time, the first wave of attack by the concubine was a standard 45-degree flanking tactic for the entire team to change direction and outflank.

Sishang's martial arts knights can charge at about [-] paces, and they can also maintain a relatively reliable formation.

And these light cavalry can only charge quickly when they are about [-] paces away, and the formation will be chaotic if they are farther away.

The first wave of impact of more than [-] cavalry was far more shocking than the impact of the coalition cavalry, because the disciplined formation made the momentum of the two thousand cavalry far better than that of four or five thousand cavalry.

When the first wave of cavalry reached about [-] paces at a slow pace, the prisoner ordered the flank to turn, the trumpeter sounded the horn to deliver the message, the brigade commander in the flank commanded in the center, and the company commanders of each company issued orders for the disintegration of their respective companies. When they were about [-] paces away from the enemy, the flanks had already adjusted their direction in full formation.

At about two hundred paces, Shu Pu Mi brandished an iron sword, and the trumpeter beside him blew the charge horn.

The cavalry in the front row held wooden spears, followed by the corporals on the two wings, and began to accelerate.

The distance of [-] steps was reached in an instant, and when the concubine Mi rushed to the position, the company in the center had already opened the gap and rushed in.

There were broken wooden spears and the corpses of fallen horses, and the loose coalition cavalry tried to fight back, but to no avail.

Every company can at least make the squad complete. Every coalition cavalry feels that it needs to face four or five opposing iron swords at the same time. Still holding on to the infantry phalanx that had not yet been dispersed, it took almost a quarter of an hour for the last elite force of the coalition cavalry and chariots to completely collapse.

The concubine Mi did not choose to regroup, but let the trumpeter blow the trumpet, each company raised the flag, and chased the escaped coalition cavalry, not giving them a chance to regroup, and drove them out of the battlefield completely.

Judging whether a cavalry meets one of the signs of the gunpowder age is not the so-called intensive charge, but whether it can quickly regroup in melee.Those who can do the latter must be able to do the former, even if they can't do an intensive charge of hundreds of steps, it is enough to jog and turn to speed up within [-] steps.

If the cavalry of both sides only look at equestrianism, there is actually not much difference.

However, a whole team can divide a dozen decomposed rules to continue to maintain the integrity of the formation during the turn; another turn depends on the tactical instinct of the soldiers. Even if they can maintain the formation for a while, they will eventually disperse during the charge.

This gap is usually difficult to see, but on the battlefield this gap is fatal.

After the last force of the coalition forces that could reverse the local occupation was defeated by this tactic of luring the infantry and cavalry flanking charge, the coalition forces had actually completely lost the opportunity to retreat organically.

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On the other side of the battlefield, the battle of Xiaoqiu, which determined the survival of the coalition right wing and the central army, was also coming to an end.

The two brigades serving as the reserve team quickly replenished the force for the battle for the hill, and the two most elite grenadier companies that entered the battalion first were also sent to the hill as a means of suppressing the bottom of the box.

The desperate charge of the nobles of the Qi state did not have much effect. On the contrary, after a large number of nobles were shot, the remaining companies of the Qi army had completely lost their courage to fight.

After the first camp grenadiers climbed the hill, they used intensive iron thunder throwing and counterattack as a signal that the Mohists had captured the hill.

After the black flag was planted on the top of the hill, several small cannons were quickly pushed from the bottom of the hill to the top of the hill.

A large number of bronze cannons on the left wing of the Mohists also began to gather. Although the battle for the hill was not over yet, after the first few small cannons mounted the hill and started steadily, the battle could actually be declared over.

The right flank of the coalition army, which was flanked by the cavalry and two brigades of infantry, the grenadiers and infantry on the hill, and the shelling, had no resistance anymore and began to flee in disorder.

The capture of the hill meant that the Mohists' left wing could not be divided by the hill after breaking through, thus forming a cohesive force.

At this time, the left wing of the Mohists occupied the small hill, and would completely destroy the right wing of the coalition army in a quarter of an hour at most; The defense line of the coalition forces was compressed from the side to the rear; the military knights and some infantry as the general reserve support had also moved along the side of the Sanliu Society to the vicinity of the cavalry battle that broke out just now, and completed the encirclement of the coalition forces.

(End of this chapter)