Retreat and escape are not the same thing.

Today, there are not many troops who can still stabilize the formation at 100 steps away from the enemy. They are not many from attack to defense and retreat. I dare not say that there are unique ones, but they can also be said to be rare.

The command was issued, and the drum sound changed.

The three-row musketeers in the front row immediately stopped and put the muskets flat and waited for the order.

The three rows of musketeers behind followed the company commander's order and turned backwards on the spot. Following the shouts of one, two, one, and then retreated fifteen steps before stopping immediately, and clearing the musket.

After hearing the horn, the musketeers who were ready in the front row heard the horn, put away the muskets, lined up the array and retreated from both sides, and then lined up the array after thirty steps.

The spearmen also cut in half, but they did not cross and retreat like the musketeers. Instead, the one behind retreated for a distance and then lined up. The one in the front row retreated again, and the one in the front line continued to reorganize and waited for the musketeers to be ready before continuing to retreat.

Just after two rounds of retreat, the musketeers in the front row suddenly found several black shadows flying in the sky. Then they saw iron balls flying on the Qi people's artillery position, and a Qi army's bronze cannon was blown up.

This time the soldiers no longer remained silent, but shouted in unison.

"It's our cannon!"

"Damn it! Are those turtle-like artillery finally deployed?"

"Hey! Bang the bastard! Let Qi Jun know the feeling of being bombarded!"

The brigade coach of the 13th Brigade turned around. Two guns had been completed on the artillery position that had been excavated yesterday, and the remaining ten were still busy.

The Qi people's artillery was originally aimed at the 13th Brigade. At this time, the steering still needed to be adjusted, and there was no time to fight back immediately.

Moreover, with such a fast expansion speed, the gunners of the two cannons must be the elite of the artillery. It is unknown whether nine numbers and geometry can be called unparalleled in the world if they leave Si Shang. With some luck, they killed a bronze cannon from Qi for the first time.

While the soldiers of the 13th Brigade shouted, their retreating steps were more stable and calmer than before.

Qi Jun hadn't reacted yet.

It was not that the commander of the right army of Qi army did not react, but that the commander reacted and then passed it to the army to react. It took a very long time. The commander of the right army of Qi army did not predict and had missed the opportunity.

On the hillside, the commander of Qi's Right Army looked at the 13th Brigade, which was retreating slowly in an orderly manner without any slightest escape, closed his eyes and sighed, "A truly strong army in the world! If Qi has 50,000 righteous troops, he will dominate the world."

"The only thing that is suitable for military forces is that, and the ability of a middle-aged man is only the strength of a righteous army. Without such a righteous army, how could he be able to shock the East China Sea?"

"Shishui, after the last two battles, the palace often talked about this person not inferior to Sima Rangju... From my perspective, if I have such a righteous army, I can do it!"

The generals and schoolmen around him nodded, thinking that this is true. If the rural peasants under our command could do this, I could also go to me, and I could also be intimidated by the East China Sea and Huaibei, capturing the king and killing the generals.

When two armies fight, the difficulty is not to advance by beating drums, or the difficulty is to retreat calmly.

If retreat is not turned into defeat, the soldiers will still maintain their formation when they hear the order to retreat. If there are thousands of such private soldiers in the Spring and Autumn Period, they can take the king of a country and replace it.

In the past, he controlled the three capitals, and Feiyiyi Zai Gongshan did not disturb the soldiers of a city, and avoided the real and went to the weak, and directly attacked Qufu, forcing Duke Ding of Lu to escape and hide. Ji Sun's family first taxed acres and collected 8,000 private soldiers, so they could transcend the country and establish money.

Those private soldiers may not have the discipline of the righteous army now, but they are enough to subvert a country. Where have the generals and generals of the Qi army seen such an army?

The sound of artillery was still there, and the army was ahead. He knew that the attack was easy to die, but he marched silently, and automatically filled the line torn apart by the artillery. This was shocking enough.

Retreat in front of the formation, calm and unremitting formation, which made the commander of the Qi Right Army frightened and sweated coldly, and it was even more certain that this place must be the elite of the Mohist school, and the Mohist school must be the main attack on the hills.

Seeing that the 13th Brigade had already retreated thirty steps, the commander of the Qi Right Army finally ordered: "Infantry attack! Musketeers and crossbowmen are still in line to prepare for the Mohist counterattack. If the brigade does not move, the brigade will then go down the mountain like a tiger, and rush down!"

It was not that he knew that the crossbow and musketeers were the best at this time to get the crossbow and musketeers to shoot, but the Qi army's military formation was mainly square formations. The crossbow and musketes were only auxiliary, and they were large formations. The mobility was much worse. It was impossible to change the formation in a hurry. He could only choose to give way to the infantry to directly attack and defeat the Mo family's troops in one fell swoop with the help of the mountain.

After looking back at the direction of the Central Army, the troops coming to support were still four or five hundred steps away. If they could get closer, they could let all the remaining infantrymen on the hillside rush down, and attacked in waves, so that the Mo family could not gain a foothold at the foot of the mountain.

After the order was given, the Qi people on the hill immediately activated the horn and launched an attack on the 13th Brigade, which was slowly retreating.

When it is really a tiger falling down the mountain, the word "fast" is highlighted.

But if it is fast, the formation will be chaotic; if it is slow, the formation will not be chaotic, the 13th Brigade will retreat calmly to the foot of the mountain.

At this time, the 13th Brigade had retreated about fifty steps, and was still more than 200 steps away from the first camp. The two subsequent brigades could not arrive even if they wanted to support them.

Faced with the counterattack of the Qi people, the brigade commander looked back at the busy engineers and artillery soldiers in the camp, as well as the two subsequent brigades who were running close to the whole team, and thought to himself: "There is no hope for support. If you retreat again, you will be defeated. Since the founding of the 13th Brigade, I have followed Shi Shuai to fight in Yanshui as the company commander, and I have followed the public to save Lu, and I have never been defeated. If I collapse today, the mountain will be in danger, and the name of the righteous army's invincible rises up on my own!"

"Retreat will lead to defeat, and fight will lead to victory. The hills are narrow, and the Qi people take advantage of the situation and go down like tigers, but they do not defend their formation. The Qi army that will be supported in the future cannot be launched. As long as they can repel this wave of Qi army, they can retreat."

"If you put it to death, you will live, and if you live to die, you will live to die, and if you live to die, you should make this decision."

Thinking of this, he pulled out the iron sword and shouted: "The whole brigade stopped! The musketeers were ready! After the round-trip shooting, abandon the gun and fight in close combat. The spearmen lined up and prepared to attack!"

After drinking loudly, the musketeers immediately stood in front, stroking the dagger on their waists or the axe forks used to support the musket, looking at the Qi army rushing down from the hills, each preparing.

The spearmen stood in place, straightening the spear. The front row of soldiers wearing iron armor or the Mo people who had already reached the vacancy of the front row stood up.

The clans rushed down with great momentum, but they had no formation.

When they approached about eighty steps, the musketeers began to shoot in turn. Then the musketeers who had finished shooting threw the musketeers on the ground, drew out the daggers, and accompanied by Sima Chang's command, they moved closer to the middle to form a formation.

From eighty to thirty steps, the musketeers completed quick turn-by-shot shooting, all holding daggers.

The brigade coach and the brigade representatives had already arrived in front. The drums were heard quickly. The brigade coach drew his sword and shouted: "Charge!"

Before leaving the formation, take a step forward, and then the drums were loud, and the spearmen all held their spears and shouted loudly, and stood up.

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Behind the Thirteenth Brigade, two brigades, who were already in the camp near the camp, were panting and watching everything on the hill.

The two brigade coaches looked anxiously at the mountain and kept looking back to see if there were any support flags or orders coming from behind.

The commander of the 14th Brigade called the third messenger and said, "You go back and ask the division commander if you want to rescue him or not! If you see the flag activates or there is a sound of a horn, turn back and tell me immediately!"

The messenger rushed backwards, and the brigade commander of the 14th Brigade also ran to the 15th Brigade. After seeing the brigade representative of the 15th Brigade, he immediately said: "The commander's order allows us to defend the whole team here, but the brothers are in danger on the mountain. If they order to rescue them, it is probably too late to go."

"It's better to do this. Our brigade will first build the offensive formation. You are defending here. If something goes wrong, you will hold on. If we order us to rescue, our brigade will come forward."

The brigade representative of the 15th Brigade also said: "Our brigade is also so determined, and we are about to discuss it with you. Then that's it! Why don't the division commander ask us to support us?"

On the side slightly behind them were the twelve guns that were being unfolded, and the gunners were also observing the situation on the hills.

But there was no time for them to make a decision on their own, because a messenger came over on a horse and shouted: "The commander of the division commander, please do not bombard the infantry of the Qi people, and do not need to support the 13th Brigade. Just knock off the artillery of the Qi people first! Execute the order!"

As soon as the messenger left, the second wave of messengers arrived again and recounted the same order before. The artillery commander finally glanced at the 13th Brigade fighting on the hills and ordered: "Target, Qi people's bronze cannons! Each of them prepares and fires quickly!"

Behind the artillery were the fifteen small bronze cannons of brigades that were rushing towards the camp, and further backwards were where the Six Fingers were located.

Several officers said with an impatient expression: "Our opinion is that even if the artillery continues to bombard the Qi army's bronze artillery, the 14th Brigade should now be asked to support the 13th Brigade on the mountain. The Qi people took advantage of the mountain and were in large numbers, so the 13th Brigade may not be able to support it."

Liu Finger shook his head and said, "Whether it can be supported or not is of no help to the overall situation. I oppose to support it. The 13th Brigade is an elite force. The righteous army was built from Shangqiu. The brigade level confrontation has never been defeated. I know that if the 13th Brigade is defeated, the title of the first-level first-class brigade of the brigade will fall on our teacher."

"But is this important? You must understand what our teacher's mission is."

"Now let the 14th Brigade be supported. In the chaos, the Qi people will also support it. They will fight on the hillside into a war of attrition and repeatedly compete? The artillery cannot directly support it, and the cavalry will find it difficult to threaten the flanks. What's the use of putting the 14th Brigade into the past?"

"Submit it, and the 14th Brigade catches up. If the 13th Brigade is not defeated or won, the Qi people will also increase its troops. Our division will be anxious with the Qi people, and no one will retreat. If the 14th Brigade is in danger, will the 15th Brigade be sent up?"

He pointed to the hill and said, "Now, the Qi people have been mobilized by us, but it is difficult to capture the hill without the support of artillery before the 13th Brigade. If the Qi people want to retake the mountain, we also need to put more pressure on the Qi people."

"If the Thirteenth Brigade can finally retreat, it will definitely be the first achievement of today's battle. If you advance and retreat well, you will remain calm in the face of danger and fight back calmly, you will surely become famous all over the world, and you will not be weak in the Seventh Brigade, which captured the King of Yue in the Shui River, back then."

"If you lose, you will retreat. The reputation of our division will be damaged, but the overall situation has been decided. The 14th Brigade, the 15th Brigade and the artillery will be launched to defend themselves. The Qi people cannot win back the camp at the foot of the mountain. We can make a wing of two wings, so that the Qi people can concentrate all their strength on the right wing, so that the Shishuai side can win in one fell swoop."

"The overall situation is the most important thing!"

"If it is reinforcements, how can the Qi people be under pressure? When the 14th Brigade goes up, will the 15th Brigade dare to sweep the wings? The 15th Brigade will die at that time, and can only defend on the spot to prepare the Qi people to go down with the situation."

"The 15th Brigade was dead on the spot. The 11th and 12th Brigade on both wings could only continue to be anxious with the Qi people, and they were also dead. When the reinforcements of the Qi people came, we would fight with the Qi people on the hills and continue to increase troops. We could neither threaten the foot of the mountain nor take down the hills with the effective cooperation of artillery. What's the use of reinforcements?"

"On the contrary, the 13th Brigade fought on the hills and chose to counterattack. Even if it was broken or annihilated... The camp was stable, the two brigades were firm and the artillery cooperated. If the Qi people could not take the camp, we could sweep the flanks, directly alleviate the pressure of the 11th and 12th Brigades, and directly let the Qi people in front of them retreat. In this way, all four brigades were alive, and four brigades were at the foot of the mountain. How could the Qi people not be afraid? The Qi army commander must send all the elite private soldiers who were finally in the box to this side!"

"If you support, all five brigades will die and all cannot move. If you don't support, even if the 13th brigade is defeated, we still have four brigades who are alive! Only when you can move at any time can Qi people be under pressure. All of them are stuck. What are Qi people afraid of? Continuously adding troops to stick to us, making our artillery unable to play its advantages, and the musketeers cannot play their advantages, and we will suffer greater casualties!"

The representative of the division who had not made any noise nodded and said, "I agree with the division commander. The 14th Brigade did not move, and the artillery continued to launch the bronze cannons that bombed the Qi army first. The overall situation is the most important, and the honor and disgrace of the first division are not enough to discuss."
Chapter completed!