Chapter 146 The Battle of Nanji Water (7)
When the 13th Brigade, which had been fighting hard to retreat without falling, arrived at the camp, thousands of soldiers shouted praises in unison, and the wounded soldiers were immediately taken away by the military doctors behind the artillery positions for treatment.
The commander of the 13th Brigade walked in front of the six fingers that came to meet him, paused, and said with great enthusiasm: "Fortunately, I have not been humiliated!"
Liuzhi shook hands with him, and danced in a voice that everyone next to him could hear: "Shishuai Zengyan, the army that knows why is fighting is invincible, and the people who knows why are fighting are the most courageous."
"In the past, Kong Jue was in chaos, but Zilu refused to obey. He was attacked by Shi Qi. He was faced with swords and axes. He was calm in color. He was calm in the crown and tassel to die calmly in order to seek the aura of a gentleman."
"Today, my Mo family fought for righteousness in the Nanji River. Qi people are powerful, so we can still be calm in order to benefit the world. The drum sounds are not dispersed, the flute sounds are not chaotic, and the steps are neat, just because everyone knows that this battle is fighting for righteousness and fighting for the world! And if you live in the world, benefiting the world is beneficial to yourself."
"How can the Qi people win if they fight for no reason? Today our army will definitely defeat the Qi army! The 13th Brigade today is worthy of the might of the Mo and the bravery of the common people!"
He took off his helmet and bowed solemnly to the soldiers of the Thirteenth Brigade. Everyone behind him was like him taking off his hat and bowing. The soldiers of the Thirteenth Brigade accepted calmly, and at the same time held their heads and chests.
This is what they deserve.
They not only bought time for the deployment of artillery troops, but also took less than a quarter of an hour to completely reverse the situation of the Mohist left wing and their attacks were outstanding.
After the ceremony, the 13th Brigade retreated to the end for renovation.
Six fingers looked at the army formation that was marching towards the Central Army from a distance, and laughed and said, "Shishen's plan has worked. But the fire is not hot enough, so we need another fire!"
His eyes turned to the right side where he was still fighting, which was the direction where the Qi Right Army was closer to the central army, which was the direction of the attack of the 12th Brigade.
The Qi people's brigade company on the hill was supporting there, and a brigade was supporting the attack of the 11th Brigade on the left, which was closer to the river.
But because it is close to the river, if you can't get down the hill, it will be useless to break through there, and it will be more convenient to capture the hill.
Liu Finger originally thought that he would do his best to fight the feint as the main attack with the power of a division, but now he has changed his mind because he found that it was still difficult for him to grasp the subtle opportunity in his previous attempts, and the casualties may be too great.
So he is now observing the direction of the attack of the 12th Brigade, which is closer to the central army.
The change of hands there is equivalent to the threat of the left wing of the Mohist family to the Qi army doubled: you can capture the hills from here, or you can make a threat to the central army from the current position of the 12th Brigade, and it will not be like the direction of the attack of the 11th Brigade that can only affect the left wing and the hills will eventually be used as the final obstacle.
This was the general idea that he thought of when he was galloping from the rear to the frontier, unified command, and thought that he would create better opportunities. At this time, the four brigade bronze cannons had begun to re-collapse.
The troops he could mobilize now include the 13th Brigade that had just been withdrawn, the 14th and 15th Brigades full of staff, the infantry and knights of a company, and some guards around him who were good at sword fighting.
The commander of the Qi Right Army judged that if he wanted to maintain the right wing of Qi people, at least eight brigades would need to be invested in the battle situation to create a situation of repeated fighting.
This is similar to the judgment of Six Fingers after seeing the 13th Brigade decisively counterattack against the Qi people, seeing the 145th Brigade unfolding, and seeing the artillery defeated the Qi army's artillery.
But he was not satisfied. The eight brigades, plus those 70,800 troops, were only 20,000. He wanted to suppress the last soldiers of Doctor Pingyin to this side: the fewer the troops were pressing the formation, and as long as the breakthrough was made, the entire Qi army would collapse faster.
Continuing to observe the situation on the right, the Six-Secret Command ordered the transfer of three spearmen companies from the 145th brigades, and ordered the order to turn in front of the formation, from a horizontal team to a column, and the two companies were closely together.
The infantry and knights company was in front, with a company of musketeers and elite guards scattered in front of the three spearmen companies and behind the infantry and knights.
The four small cannons that had been closed were immediately behind the Musketeers' company, on the left and right wings of the four spearmen's companies.
He got on the horse himself and wanted to command the approximately six or seven hundred men to attack directly, and the reinforcements of the Qi people were marching on the right side.
He turned around and said to the brigade commander of the 145th Brigade: "The artillery has been launched, and your formation has been completed. All the people are going to rush. You just need to keep it."
"Once I bring people to the place where the 12th Brigade on the right side is fighting, let the 11th Brigade retreat and connect with you to defend."
There is no problem in defending it, but the right side of the Six Fingers is not to support the 12th Brigade to join forces with it, but to encircle it directly.
This is a dangerous move. As long as it succeeds, the Qi people on the right will collapse instantly.
But if the reinforcements of the Qi people catch up and directly strode the flanks of the Qi people where they are fighting now, they will be attacked by the reinforcements of the Qi people, and if they are unstable, they will be dangerous.
The brigade commander of the 14th Brigade made an opinion and said, "I am afraid that there will be not enough time to support the past."
Liu Finger shook his head and said, "I will not line up to attack horizontally, but will use the column to penetrate the Qi people's flanks as if on the training ground, and defeat the Qi people's reinforcements in one fell swoop before the Qi people arrived, and join forces with the 12th Brigade to fight again with the Qi people's reinforcements."
"I've forgotten it. Not only is the time enough, but there is also surplus."
The coach of the 14th Brigade said in surprise: "Are you going to march in a column?"
Liuzhi smiled and said, "I used it once in the past. The one I didn't use was very good, but after summarizing it, I already understood the key."
"The horizontal line is unfolding, and that is the formation. A brigade of 1,500 people, 200 people are in front, and the drum is beating forward, and the speed of travel is extremely slow to maintain a level."
"The speed of the column marching is no less than that of a horizontal marching. The Qi people are now shaking. I use infantry and knights in front and approach the artillery to bombard the rear. I quickly turn the column into the horizontal marching. The spearmen are intensively attacking, and the Qi people can break in an instant."
"The Qi people have no artillery and cannot harass them; the Qi people have no cavalry and cannot assault my column from the flanks; why am I afraid of?"
"Besides, the righteous teacher trained hard, and he performed formations every three days, turning left and right, horizontal columns... These are for actual combat. If the Qi people want to use them, they can't use them!"
The commander of the 14th Brigade Zhiliuzhi was quite planning. After thinking carefully, he stopped refuting and nodded, "Then commander, be careful, you should be careful."
Liu Finger nodded and said, "A division commander should have commanded behind the formation. But this matter is very profitable, and I cannot succeed. As long as you keep it here, the people of Qi will be defeated today."
After a few more words of advice, he rode his horse forward, with only two guards following him.
The spearmen of the three companies followed the formation of eight columns in a marching posture, followed the swordsman guards and infantry knights in front of the formation, and followed the six fingers toward the flank of the brigade on the right side of the Qi people at an angle that was inclined toward the acute angle of the line.
In the battle with this morning yesterday, the artillery of the Qi people had completely lost its frontlines, and there was no regular cavalry at all, and it was even more impossible to harass this team that was boldly marching in columns in front of the formation.
A distance of three hundred steps, if you march in a spreading strait, it will take at least ten minutes or even more, because the more people there are, you need to stop and complete the team while keeping flush.
But if you move in a column, it may only take four or five minutes.
Six points understand that if you have cavalry, you only need three or five hundred cavalry to directly cooperate with the 12th Brigade to defeat the Qi army.
But he also understood that if the cavalry was used in dispersed form, even if they broke through the camp, they could not penetrate the military formation behind Qi people in one fell swoop under the dispersed form, which would really become the most anxious battle that Shi didn't want to see.
This time he was on the danger, he used the classic tactics of cavalry surrounding the flanks, but he did not have cavalry. He relied on the discipline of the Yi Division and the training of the marching and cross-columns on weekdays, and used the infantry of these companies as uprisings that surrounded the flanks.
The reinforcements of the Qi people were not far away, but they needed a whole team to advance, and the worse their discipline, the more dense the square formation, otherwise it would be difficult to enter the battle.
Liu Finger immediately calculated the distance he was marching and the distance between the Qi people's reinforcements, and had already concluded that when he arrived at the flank of the Qi people's frontier, the Qi people's reinforcements would have to be 200 steps away, and half a quarter of an hour was enough to defeat the already shaky Qi brigade.
The three hundred steps march passed in a flash. The reinforcements from Qi people there discovered that something was wrong and also accelerated their pace, but the formation did not change. Because they took longer to complete the team and could only accelerate while maintaining the original formation, but this acceleration was far less than the six fingers of the column's marching.
The Qi Brigade, who was in a desperate battle with the 12th Brigade, also discovered Liu Finger's action, but they did not collapse immediately because reinforcements seemed to be close, which was the force they could still support.
But Liu Fingers did not give them the time to realize this expectation.
After the infantry and knights in the front row were slightly formed, they waited for a moment for the musketeers and elite guards behind them, and then ordered them to attack first.
The infantry and knights rushed to the front of the Qi people formation, and the formation formed a slope, turning to the right like a chariot rushing to the formation.
The chariot turns to the right so that the samurai on the left can shoot the enemy with bow and arrow on the chariot, thereby shooting the gap.
The chariot turned to the left, so that the samurai of the right chariot could use a spear to attack the enemy phalanx that was shot through the gap by the left chariot.
These infantry and knights turn to the right and choose to use the comb in their hands to ride and shoot in the carriage, which has the same effect as the left side of the car.
The projection troops of the Qi people were all fighting against the 12th Brigade in front. The subsequent companies had almost no projection weapons. When the infantry and knights approached about thirty steps, they turned back and shot at will.
The combroach gun was slowly loaded, and the infantry and knights could only fire one shot at a time, but this shot was enough to open a gap in the Qi army formation.
Chapter completed!