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Chapter 148 The Battle of Nanji Water (9)

Today's battle is not just about the Mohist family and Qi.

The complex situation in Qi, the continuation of the dispute between the Tian brothers, and the confrontation between centralization and feudalism will make Qi depressed for a long time.

The sluggish Qi State, the Wei State, which was ambushed by five sides, and the Zhao State, who had to lick his wounds after the Three Jins turned against each other, could finally take a breath outside and start a more intense centralized reform within the Chu State...

All of this converges together, and an extremely strange situation will appear in the Central Plains. The location of Si Shang is too important, and the Central Plains will not be in chaos, and Si Shang will have no chance to breathe and develop.

Shi knew in his heart that after this battle, the honeymoon period between the Mo family and the Chu State would end. This battle was crucial, and it determined whether the Mo family and the Chu State were about to turn against each other or the declined Qi Wei.

As he said to the Mo family officers before, if he only cared about Qi, then this battle could be fought steadily, and the Pingyin Legion could be destroyed directly with Qi.

But to worry about the situation in the world, you must use the smallest casualties to annihilate the Pingyin Legion and then defeat the Qi Linzi Legion.

The First Division and the Cavalry, who had not appeared since yesterday, were now going to launch a final attack to annihilate the Pingyin Legion.

Yesterday, today's formation was decided. In an abnormal manner, the tactic of centering the two wings of the cavalry did not adopt the tactic of infantry centering on both wings, but instead adopted the method of infantry clamping cavalry.

It is precisely because the soldiers are indefinitely powerful and the water is indefinitely powerful. Using this formation is also the result of careful consideration.

Now the Six Fingers have mobilized the reserve force of the Qi people. Although the entire southern line of the Qi army is still stable, it is just a golden and jade that is inside, with an extremely empty depth.

As long as the Qi people's follow-up troops are insufficient and it is difficult to organize effective defense, they can take advantage of the situation to completely collapse the Qi people's left wing, thus leading to a collapse on the entire line.

The cavalry's mission in this attack was not to break through the front line of the Qi people, but to break through the front line, and to break into the rear of the Qi people's central army with a lightning speed, completely disrupting the remaining team of Qi people who still maintain the formation.

In short, it is to highlight the word "fast". The faster the assault, the shorter the reaction time of Qiren. If the formation is chaotic and the entire line of attacks, Qiren's failure will be faster.

Now, in addition to leaving a brigade as a reserve, the First Division also has half a brigade bluff in the central army and the north forest, all of which are here.

Two thousand cavalrymen were concentrated and wave attacks were adopted. The selected attack direction was the junction between the two brigades of Qi and the people.

The infantry of the First Division is based on company units, shortening the front and increasing the depth.

The musketeers and small horses pulled the artillery that could be deployed quickly and directly in front of the infantry. When they approached the enemy's 150 steps, they immediately launched. After the rapid bombardment, the infantry launched a direct attack. After tearing open the Qi people's line, the infantry was firmly steadily and swept from south to north. The cavalry inserted into the Qi people's formation, causing chaos and rushing straight to the central army.

This is a tactic of advancing but not retreating. If the Qi people have artillery, if the Qi people still have cavalry, if the Qi people's front line has not yet shaken, if the Qi people have a certain reserve force on the south side to be able to stick to the assault infantry and cavalry, I definitely dare not use this kind of inconsistent formation.

He rode his horse to a Gaogang, and finally observed the Qi people's military formation with a thousand-mile mirror, which added a little more confidence.

The six-finger feint attack was quite successful. The Qi people now concentrated the last few troops on the central army and the right wing, and many were still on the way.

When you are arrayed with backs, the important thing is to look at each other from the beginning to the end.

This is a formation that cannot move. Not only can the front edge not move, but the troops in the depth behind cannot move either.

Once you move, you will be in chaos.

Originally, we could have gathered the remaining troops and resisted step by step. The subsequent units of the array also looked at each other from beginning to end. Even if we made a breakthrough, we would face a deep formation blockade in the form of Qi people.

Six fingers fought on the right wing of the Qi army all day long. In the end, the simplest and most direct effect was that the Qi people's deep square formation gave up the turtle guard formation and was forced to support the Right Army to the north.

Then as long as the left wing breaks through the front formation, Qi Ren’s backwater formation will be broken.

I thought to myself that Doctor Pingyin did not understand the principle that the backwater formation should not move, but he was forced by Liuzhi, and was forced by the artillery of the Mo family: if the Right Army did not support the Right Army, the Right Army was in a hurry. If the Right Army did not support them, they would retreat, the central army and the left wing would have to give up the front and retreat; but if the front formation was abandoned, they would all be huddled by the river. Dozens of Mo family's gunfire last day, and the musketeers lined up and launched their rounds of fire, which would inevitably lead to blood flow into the river and the river.

The decisive victory of this battle was on the left wing of the Qi army on the south side, but the key was on the right wing of the Qi army.

Shi looked up at the sky, waved his hand to call the messenger, and said, "Transfer the news of the victory of Nanjishui back to Pengcheng first. Don't worry everyone."

The commander galloped away with joy. The commander of the First Division rode his horse to Shi, looked at the flags and dust raised in the distance, and said with a little concern: "The attack on the Liuzhi side must be very fierce."

Shi nodded, but said nothing. He looked to the north and was silent for a long time, and slowly said, "Wait a little longer."

The commander of the First Division understood that it was useless to worry now. The only thing he could do was to seize the fighter jets created by Liu Finger for the entire army and break through the Qi people's military formation as fast as possible, that was the greatest assistance.

If you want to wait, that is to say, now that the attack is launched, the troops of Qi who are supporting the north may turn to fight here. In that case, the pressure on the six fingers will be less, but the strategy of winning with the smallest casualties is equivalent to not being fully implemented.

About half a quarter of an hour later, Shi and the officers and commanders around him nodded almost at the same time and ordered: "Blow the trumpet and beat the drum!"

The sound of drums that had been silent finally rang on the southern line. The anxious soldiers who had been waiting listened to the sound of drums and quickly left the covered woods, reeds and hills, and suddenly appeared on the battlefield.

The most elite First Brigade of the First Division was in front. The warlike men selected from the entire division held muskets and daggers as stragglers, followed by musketeers. The rows of spearmen and infantry formed columns in dense formations, with less than forty steps between each company.

As the first wave of attacks, six hundred cavalrymen were responsible for opening roads for subsequent cavalrymen. Among these cavalry, there were no infantry and knights, only martial knights, wearing armor.

The cavalry in the front company used spears, and the cheap zhemu spears, which were considered to be a one-time impact weapon.

After the impact, they will throw away the spear directly, or let the spear penetrate the enemy's body, and then use an iron sword.

The iron swords used by subsequent cavalry companies were about a hundred steps away from the front line.

The remaining cavalry were further behind. Because the battlefield where they were fighting could not be deployed, they needed to follow the Qi army immediately after the Qi army was defeated.

All small horses here can pull the fast-mobile small copper cannons and place them in the front or flanks of the infantry. After getting close to the distance, they can directly launch a rapid impact to support the cavalry and infantry.

Shi did not follow the cavalry to attack, but stood near the infantry formation.

The sound of drums pounded, and the infantry advanced first, and the elite men who acted as stragglers in front of them were scattered, because they did not have to worry about the counterattack of the Qi people and the non-existent cavalry, so there was no need to form a secret formation.

These elite ink masters approved three-layer armor or an expensive iron armor, led by officers, and moved towards the direction of the Qi army formation.

The movement of the entire array is like in a martial arts field, with a waist drum and a very fast pace.

The real main force of the Yishi Master who suddenly appeared obviously caused panic to the Qi army.

It's right away, and I thought that Doctor Pingyin should be cursing at this time, but he didn't have time to transfer it. It depends on what he was going to do.

It is nothing more than either using the trick to concentrate all the troops on the Right Army, breaking through the defense of the Liujie side and then running away; or it is a change that will change the formation at the last minute, and then mobilizing the mobilized Qi people back.

However, both are meaningless. The only one who can save the Pingyin Legion at this time was that a reinforcement from Qi suddenly appeared on the horizon, but it was obviously impossible.

On the battlefield, the two-step cavalry formation gradually approached from four hundred steps to a hundred and fifty steps. The light cavalry cannons had already unfolded under the cover of the elite Mohist soldiers who were ahead of the Mohist army. More than 20 small copper cannons began to shoot at a very close distance for the artillery.

The Qi army's front, which had been fighting for a long time, was already loose. Facing the sudden attack of the righteous army, it became denser again under the command of the chief general, but to no avail.

The main infantry force gradually approached, and the scattered soldiers were convinced that the Qi people were unable to launch a counterattack, so they began to advance forward about forty steps away from the Qi people's main formation.

They did not form a formation, nor could they exert the power of musket volleys. They used the shorter mesh guns used by infantry and knights in their hands to choose close-up shooting with their skills they had practiced on weekdays.

The formation javelins of later Romans, and those who were in front of the Qing Dynasty, were similar to those of heavy arrows when the mangroves approached. Just like the approaching salvos after the development of muskets, or the artillery bombarded the gap in the square formation, they were all prepared for the assault of infantry and cavalry.

There are also some crossbowmen or musketeers in the Qi army formation. Under the formation, they face loose elite ink masters, and the effects they can play are limited.

Behind the elite scattered soldiers were musketeers lined up in more than ten rows. After approaching, the company in front remained motionless. The company behind quickly spread to the left and right wings, waiting for the order to fire volleys.

Musketeers were constantly shot by Qi's crossbow or musket, but the musketeers' unfolding posture was not affected at all, and they calmly unfolded the marching formation into combat lines on the training ground.

If the Qi people had a cavalry at this time, even if they were chariot soldiers, these musketeers would be hit by a devastating blow.

Since he could choose to unfold this way, it was precisely because the Qi people had no cavalry and available chariots.

After the rapid expansion of the musketeers lined up, they waited for about half a minute to confirm that the spearmen behind had advanced to a position flush with them, and the officer ordered the shooting to begin.

The white smoke rose up, and the shooting method was like forming a piece of lead pellets. The warp and weaving of the woman, overwhelmingly projecting the number of troops on the narrow front, instantly tearing the Qi army's formation.

The brave teams of Ink Masters, who were close to about thirty steps away from Qi people, raised their muskets and pointed them at Qi Jun, who was considered close to them, and pulled the trigger.

The moment the gunfire sounded, the ink-men threw down the mezzanine and drew out the daggers. Four or five people rushed into the already loose army of Qi people, which was full of gaps everywhere.

The subsequent spearmen and infantry marched quickly and followed closely behind.

The cavalrymen, about 200 steps wide between infantrymen, also clamped their spears under their armpits. The trained horses who were not frightened by the sound of gunfire began to jog in tacit understanding with the rider's movements, warming up for the final impact.

The cavalry officers shouted: "Play ready, run slowly..."

The horses stumble forward, and the riders were almost knee-to-knee, and the slow pace allowed the formation between the horses to be maintained.
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