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Chapter One Hundred and Thirty Seven

The brigade commander of the 13th Brigade laughed when he heard the scattered gunshots of Qi people and saw the bow and arrows that were shot by Qi people.

The shooting was in a mess and unremitting manner. It was obvious that the Qi people were extremely nervous. With the bombardment of the Yishi artillery, they could no longer bear it.

The shooting accuracy of the musket, a distance of hundreds of steps, is equivalent to shooting blindly with your eyes closed.

For a crossbow, there is no lethality at a distance of a hundred steps. The so-called person who passes through the Yang in a hundred steps is truly unparalleled in the world. He must be a brave general of a country. How could he shoot arrows in the mixed military formations?

The nine cannons on the hillside did not cause much damage. The Qi people fired guns and shot arrows like this, which did not cause much damage.

When the 13th Brigade had advanced to sixty steps from the Qi people's camp, the brigade commander finally ordered the musketeers to shoot in turn, covering the spear forward, and creating gaps in the Qi people's military formation before the spearmen's hand-to-hand combat.

The rhythm of the drums began to get slower, and the spearmen marched more slowly. After the musketeers fired, they quickly retreated to both sides to continue loading. The spearmen's slowed marching speed allowed them to keep up with the spearmen very quickly.

Half of the musketeers in the brigade began to shoot rhythmically, and the artillery behind them also supported as much as possible. The entire front began to attack and took care of both sides of each brigade. The entire front of the Yishi Division was like a long rope, which began to tighten towards the Qi army bit by bit.

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Qi Jun’s main business.

Doctor Pingyin frowned again when he looked at the battle on the front line through the smoke of the battlefield.

There was no smoke from the battlefield in the past. Since more than ten years ago, gunpowder has finally begun to appear on the battlefield, and it has become increasingly dense over the years.

From the appearance of a weapon to familiar use and the appearance of a military formation that is tacitly matched with it, it may take hundreds of years of experience in blood and fire, but gunpowder is different.

Since its appearance, the Mohist family has developed sufficiently mature formations and tactics for such new things.

All countries are learning, but few people have truly learned the essence.

Gunpowder can be bought, but soldiers cannot.

The bronze cannon can be imitated, but the cannon gunner can not imitate it.

Even muskets, tactics, and queues, like outside the Mohist school today, you can truly see through the spearmen of the Mohist school now only helps, and the killing is mainly based on muskets, and you may be able to count it with one hand.

Doctor Pingyin was not in it, and he was just using muskets as a substitute for crossbows.

Before today's formation, the Mo family's righteous master taught him a lesson.

After the entire row of musketeers fired in turn, the gap in the Qi army formation appeared.

Hand-to-hand combat requires a complete formation, otherwise there will be unfair courage for thousands of men and will not survive with the cooperation of the military formation.

The neatness of the Mohist charity master after the action made Doctor Pingyin sigh and envious. It was like a row of woods, a small hill, and the waves of the East China Sea... they were approaching little by little, and they could not help.

The battle under the smoke of gunpowder is still not clear enough even in the Qianli Milestone, but the shaky Qi army camp has already shown the outcome of continuing to fight like this.

He put down the Qianli Mile Mile Mile, shook his head, and said with a sense of fatigue: "I heard that the Mohist righteous teacher is good at fighting. When I saw him today, I realized that what those words describe are far inferior."

"Come like a mountain, go like a tide, stretching for several miles, neatly and as one. How many powerful troops can be in the world? It seems that it is correct not to fight against it."

Standing in the distance, although not bystanders, it is clearer than watching on the front line.

In the eyes of Doctor Pingyin, the Mohist methods of fighting were really "stupid" or "scarce", and had no novelty.

The cannons first hit, and after the defensive formation loosened due to the shelling, the infantry beat the drum and walked forward slowly.

When approaching about fifty or sixty steps, the musketeers began to shoot in turn, constantly attacking the defensive square formation, and continuously killing to cause gaps in the square formation. After the spearman began to assault at about twenty steps away, the musketeers retreated and continued to load, took time to shoot, and continued to expand the gap.

It's very stupid and looks very simple, so simple that Dr. Pingyin had already seen the trick for the first time he saw it.

But it's that simple, but it can't be stopped at all.

The Qi State had two thousand people in one brigade, and the archers, crossbowmen and musketeers were removed, and about a thousand people remained.

Thousands of people formed a formation, integrated into rows, and the artillery bombarded, and four or five could be knocked down in one go.

After several bombardment, not many people died, but the morale of the army had reached its peak: the friend who was with him day and night was killed by the iron ball flying out of his sight, and the huge pressure on the iron ball would fall on him at some point, so it was already difficult to continue maintaining the array.

After approaching the war, the musketeers of the Yishi Division concentrated in one direction to shoot, and a group of more than a thousand men were about to fall down, and a gap had already appeared.

If all the partners around you die, you will not be able to stop the opponent's impact.

The spearmen of the Yishi Division often attacked after several rounds of fire from the musketeers to cause gaps. If there were gaps in the front row of the Qi army, if a warrior was killed by the cooperation of several spears of the Yishi Division; if a coward turned around and fled, the formation with gaps would become more chaotic, and even more people would run backwards.

Since the righteous master started to launch an attack, in just half an hour, four fronts had collapsed and thousands of people fled backwards.

Fortunately, the subsequent troops went to support and stabilized the front line, otherwise the entire line would have collapsed now. The fleeing soldiers could not run away elsewhere, and at most retreated to the riverside, and were killed to stabilize their morale and could still be maintained.

After observing for so long, Doctor Pingyin felt that it was actually not difficult to crack the warriors of the Mo family, and it was even quite simple.

In the early stage, as long as there are enough artillery, you can suppress the cannons of the Yishi.

However, neither quantity nor quality can be done.

In the middle stage, musketeers and crossbowmen are like the righteous masters. They will never fire and shoot without waiting for orders. They will shoot more accurately after getting close, so that they will also kill the spearmen of the righteous masters.

However, this sounds simple, but if you really want to do it, it is simply a dream to expect these soldiers selected by the township shooting.

I thought of the method of cracking, but I had no ability to implement it at all. This is despair.

The morning's artillery counterattack was meaningless. Many elite soldiers and martial artists under Dr. Pingyin were killed or injured, and they would never dare to launch such a counterattack again.

Now the Mo family is attacking the entire line, and there are dangers everywhere. It seems that as long as the troops are concentrated, it may not be impossible to attack the Mo family's front, but he dare not.

Once a large number of troops are concentrated to counterattack, the subsequent troops of the Mohist family can be quickly mobilized. Once there is a mistake in any link, it will be equivalent to creating an excellent opportunity for the Mohist family to encircle and annihilate.

He was determined to be a turtle, and he would not move for three or five days, so how could the Mo family retreat? Not to mention the reinforcements around, even the Linzi army in the direction of Wucheng would force the Mo family to retreat hundreds of miles away.

Although he was frowning, the Mohist attack today was not very determined, and in fact it was not fully launched. Therefore, although it was a little troublesome, it seemed that it was not impossible to defend.

The capture of artillery failed in the morning, but judging from the Mo family's attack in the afternoon, the casualties caused by the bronze artillery were not very large, but more of the consequences of the military's morale, the decline of morale, and the panic of the soldiers.

Moreover, the artillery from the Mo family seemed to be used to support infantry, and the Qi army formation was bombarded before the infantry attacked, creating opportunities for infantry.

There are now crises everywhere. Doctor Pingyin has filled in four brigades with more than 8,000 people. It has only been less than an hour. If you fill in this way, these 60,000 people will not be able to become too long.

It takes 30,000 people to maintain the front line. Only 20,000 people can continue to support them in the future. Although those who fled back could not escape elsewhere due to the obstacles of the Jishui River, it is difficult to fight immediately after being put together.

But...now, the sun is about to set.

I don’t know how tomorrow will be, but today, I finally got through it and was not completely broken by the Mo family before the sun sets.

He looked at the sunset in the distance and exclaimed: "I have never thought this sunset is so beautiful. I will continue to defend myself, just saying that the sky will soon be dark. When the sky is dark, the Mo family will withdraw their troops!"

The people around him sighed, "Today we can say that the sunset is dancing with morale, what will we say tomorrow? If we continue like this, we will last for up to three or four days, and we are afraid that there will be no preparations for the journey. At that time, as long as the front line is broken, we will have no way to defend it."

Doctor Pingyin also sighed bitterly: "I also know that the sunset can be said today, but I don't know what to say tomorrow. But it is a blessing to be able to guard for one day. If it weren't for the round formation of the water and fighting against the Mo family in the field, I'm afraid I'll be in prison at this time."

While speaking, another flag shook, and he couldn't see it. Doctor Pingyin said helplessly: "Actually, if the Mo family attacked with all their might, we might have been defeated now."

"It's just that the army of Chengyang was in a heavy place, and the army of Chengyang was behind him, and the army of Gua, and the army of Linzi of Tian Qing and Gongziwu were still there. The army of Linzi was in his hands. "

"The Mo family is not only me, but also the Linzi army and the Chengyang army. So if he only defeats me, it is not a victory; unless the loss is very small, it can be considered a victory. Only in this way can he have the spare energy to fight against the Chengyang army and the Linzi army."

"Fortunately, I am not the head coach of a country, but just a partial teacher. If this battle was like Makino's decisive victory, I would have been defeated long ago."

Before, he said that he could not defeat the righteous army in the field, or some people laughed in their hearts and complained that they were afraid of the enemy like a tiger. However, when they were in battle today, those who had thought like this would never dare to think like this again, so they felt that not fighting in the wild was the only way.

Doctor Pingyin’s inference on appropriate tactics is also a decision made after various considerations.

If the troops are lined up with the backs of water, the soldiers are killed and have no choice but to retreat. If they really attack with all their might, the Mohist school may suffer great losses.

Since the Mo family had artillery, it was impossible for them to concentrate all their troops in the narrow space by the river so much that they were so ruthless.

In this case, if the Mohist family wants to win with the minimum casualties, they must make use of these two points: slowly compress the space so that the Qi people will not face the panic of diving when they escape, so that they can finally complete the compression and win calmly.

So Dr. Pingyin felt that the Mo family must want to tighten the entire line, and this afternoon's attack also proved this point.

Doctor Pingyin pointed to the white smoke from the bronze cannon that could be seen in the distance and said, "Fortunately, fortunately, Kazushi dared not attack with all his might. He just wanted to rely on their bronze cannons to minimize their casualties."

"Although I have seen through it, I can do nothing. The only thing I can do is to divide the left, center and right armies, each with reserve, and then ask someone to suppress the formation behind the army. Anyone who retreats privately will be killed. If one place is broken, the left, center and right armies will send the brigade company to support and maintain the front."

"As for how long it can last... I don't know."

He really didn't know, so he looked up at the sun that was already red in the sky, and smiled bitterly: "At least, today has been over. I have also left time to distribute troops to deal with appropriate tactics."

"Once the sky darkens the troops, I will send all the left and right parts of the army. If I can't hold on, I will push up. I will lead the elite troops in the army. If the Mo family attacks one place, I will go to rescue."

Even though he knew that from the moment he looked up at the sun and after he finished speaking these few words, it might only take a few breaths, and the sun could not set so quickly.
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