When the prisoners Mi and others arrived in Zhaoling, it was early November and the weather was already very cold.

The Chu army had already built a camp in front of Zhaoling, and the main force of the Wei and Han Allied Forces had arrived and built a camp.

The combat forces between the two sides have gathered together, and the number of field troops of the Wei and Han coalition forces is about the same as that of the Chu State.

Wei and Han gathered nearly 50,000 field troops. Although the Wei and Han coalition forces attacked Zheng this time, there were only so many who could really fight on the front line.

If there are too many, it will easily lead to loopholes in the front line and the Chu army seizes the opportunity to break through.

The Chu-Mo coalition forces are nearly 50,000, and the number of the two sides is not much different.

The advantage of the Wei and Han coalition was a group of heavy infantry. The Wei State was the first prince to use infantry as the main force of the battle. When the Wei family conquered the Northern Rong, they had already adopted infantry tactics before they were granted titles.

After Wu Qi trained in Xihe, the heavy infantry fighting in formation became the pillar of Wei's military strength.

The Wei and Han armies had a total of 36,000 infantry, twenty-six bronze cannons, two hundred chariots, three thousand elite martial knights, as well as some light cavalry and three thousand elite archers.

The spearmen are mainly used in infantry, and the contrailer is used as the auxiliary force of the spearmen, and uses dense square formations and moves slowly.

The Chu army was because the Mohist family helped to train the new army. The composition of the army was different from that of Wei and Han. The number of musketeers was larger. It also absorbed the experience of the Mo Yue and Qi Mo wars back then, and used musketeers as the main output force, while the spearmen mainly played the role of covering the musketeers.

The Chu-Mo coalition army had a total of 8,000 cavalry, including 2,000 elite chariots and cavalry, which belonged only to the King of Chu. 4,500 informal cavalry on Si, plus 500 infantry and knights.

With the artillery supported by the Mohist family, the number of artillery soldiers of the Chu-Mo coalition army was superior, with a total of forty-two bronze cannons, of which twenty-four were supported by the Mohist family, and eight were fast-moving small cannons that were riding and dragging.

The State of Chu also had two thousand elite archers and one hundred and twenty chariots.

The remaining ones were infantry, and some of the infantry were the royal divisions directly under the King of Chu, with a slightly more than 20,000. They were all based on the new army model helped by the Mohist school to train, with slightly more musketeers than spearmen.

Except for the King of Chu's direct subordinates, the rest were Chen Cai's troops, who followed the path of the Wei and Han Allied Forces, with heavy spears covering the musketeers.

Inadequate training, Chen Cai's army cannot form the same discipline as the king's army, and it is difficult to make tactical actions such as rapid turn and alternating progress, so it adopts a dense formation that is more bulky but more solid as long as it is not moved.

With the emergence of gunpowder, and the subsequent military reform and the emergence of semi-standing troops, the width of the battlefield became wider and wider.

Originally, when the war broke out, countries had to form formations because if they did not form formations, they could not control tens of thousands of troops at all. Moreover, the soldiers who were too loose were easy to break through and confusion.

The troops must be controlled by dense formations so that all units can hear the sound of drums.

Si Shang can build a slightly weaker front to increase the width of the battle and extend the width of the battle line, so as to maintain the equal length of the front line under the disadvantaged forces, which does not mean that the rest of the vassal states can do the same.

On the ninth day of November, the date of the two sides' appointment arrived, and they began to walk out of the camp to start troops and prepare for the battle.

Since it has been confirmed that this is a small-scale controllable war, the battlefield between both sides has also been fixed.

The direction of Luyang, Yecheng, Yuguan, and the opposite Weihan City are all defensive and will not be put into the battlefield, so there will be no strategic maneuvers and various plans.

After breakfast early, Chu took the lead in camping, and the formation unfolded at about nine o'clock in the morning.

The left wing of the Chu people was Chen Cai's army, the central army was the main force of the Chu King's Division and eighty chariots, as well as the elite chariots and knights of the Chu State.

The right wing of the Chu people was the Mo family's cavalry, and there were 4,000 infantrymen, equipped with twelve bronze cannons.

The remaining bronze cannons were concentrated in the Chu Central Army.

Because the Chen Cai army of the left wing of the Chu people adopted a dense formation, the width was the same as the opposite side, but it still left a reserve team of 3,000 people.

The width of the Chu people's central army's royal division is actually larger than that of the Wei and Han coalition forces, but each brigade has one-third of the reserve team, so the entire width is about the same as that of the Wei people.

In front of the central army, there were two thousand elite archers from the Chu State. After they lined up in the gaps in the artillery, they would use their rate of fire to cooperate with the artillery to open the gap opposite.

The Wei and Han Allied Forces on the opposite side spread all their troops. In addition to reserved a portion of their direct reserves, they arranged all infantry in a dense array of martial arts squares, arranged in an orderly manner.

This is a plain and there is no big terrain advantage, but the Wei and Han coalition forces have taken the upper hand, which is slightly better than the terrain.

Wei Han's bronze cannons were mainly concentrated in the central army, and the chariots were hidden in their right wing, which is the direction of the Chu people's Chen Cai army. At the same time, ten bronze cannons were deployed on their right wing.

The Wei and Han Allied Forces were on the defensive position, which was beneficial to them.

In addition, Wei and Han mainly use heavy infantry as their main force and have dense formations. Although they move slowly during wartime and need to cooperate with each other to avoid loopholes, they have an advantage in standing in formation.

The commander of the Wei-Han coalition army only understood the weaknesses and advantages of the Wei-Han coalition army, and also knew the advantages and weaknesses of the Chu-Mo coalition army. He formulated an extremely targeted response method.

The Chu people's most capable troops were the central army and the Mo family cavalry on the right wing, and the marching speed of these two troops was very fast, far better than the Wei Han heavy infantry on the dense phalanx.

This is both an advantage, but if you can seize the opportunity, it may not be a point that can be used.

Because the left wing of the Chu people was the newly formed Chen Cai army, and it was still a dense formation, and its morale and combat effectiveness were incomparable to the right wing of the central army.

The most important thing is that the marching speed of Chen Cai's army on the left wing of the Chu people was much slower than that of the central and right wings. If the Wei and Han Allied Forces could take advantage of the different attack speed of the Chu people's central and left wings, they might have a breakthrough on the left wing of the Chu people.

Once Chen and Cai's army collapsed, the Wei and Han coalition forces could quickly attack from the junction of the left wing of the Chu army and the central army to form an encirclement.

Therefore, the key to this battle was in the eyes of the Wei and Han coalition forces, and it was on its right wing.

Therefore, when the Wei and Han Alliance Army was deploying the formation, the chief general deliberately weakened his left wing and strengthened the central and right wings.

Relying on the form of the Chu people's active attack, using space for time, allowing his left wing to retreat actively, inducing the right wing and the central army of the Mo-Chu coalition to be eager to achieve success in battle, and the assault was too fast and there was a gap in the left wing Chen Cai's army.

At the same time, if the left wing of the Wei and Han Allied Forces could take the initiative to retreat, the point near the right wing of the central army could be used as the axis to rotate slowly, so that when the central army did not need large-scale mobilization, it would press all its troops on the left wing of the Chu people, forming a local military advantage.

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The head of the Chu-Mo coalition army was the Grand Sima of Chu. Twenty years ago, the Grand Sima of Chu died at the hands of the Mo family, but now they are working together.

If the Wei and Han coalition forces wanted to make use of the geographical advantage, then the Grand Sima of Chu wanted to make use of the time.

Unlike the idea that the Chu Mo coalition forces would adopt the central and right wing breakthroughs that the Wei and Han coalition forces thought, the Chu State Grand Marshal cleverly wanted to transform the Wei and Han coalition forces' geographical advantages into their own time.

The Wei and Han Allied Forces had the upper hand. It was already November, and the north wind was blowing. The Chu people were in the south, which was not good.

But Grand Sima Chu saw another kind of fighter opportunity.

Once war begins, the bronze cannons and muskets of both sides will be bombarded for a while, and the Chu-Mo coalition forces, which are in the lower direction, are originally unfavorable.

However, if the central army and the right wing can take the initiative to attack, once the wind blows, the smoke will easily cover the southeast of the battlefield.

At that time, the Mo family's cavalry, the riding artillery, and infantry and knights can quickly maneuver to the side of the Wei and Han Allied Forces with the help of the cover of the smoke.

If we can make a breakthrough in one fell swoop, that's great. Even if we cannot make a breakthrough, the Wei and Han coalition forces will inevitably be in a panic. At that time, we will have to mobilize troops to support the left wing of the Wei and Han coalition forces.

Once the Wei and Han coalition forces are mobilized, the Chu army will have a chance to win, because the Wei and Han coalition forces are very powerful when they are still, but once they move, they will have flaws.

If the right wing encircled cavalry and attacked by sneak attacks cannot open up the situation, the central army will take advantage of the chaos of the Wei and Han coalition forces to launch an attack, quickly break through the Wei and Han central army, and defeat the Wei and Han coalition forces.

Of course, the battlefield is changing rapidly, but the good fighters will make their own plans before the matchup. Whether it can be realized is one thing. It is another thing to have the opportunity to change rapidly in the battlefield but not grasp it but continue to follow the original plan.

Both sides set the breakthrough point on the other side's left wing, which is quite coincidental, but there are also some reasons for deliberately seducing each other.

At this time, whoever attacks is at a disadvantage, it is best not to attack easily, but to fight a defensive counterattack.

But there must be someone to attack first. The Chu Mo coalition seems to have an advantage, so although the Wei and Han coalition also set the breakthrough to the opposite left wing, it is ready to use defensive counterattack to mobilize tactics.

On the other hand, the Chu people hoped to take the initiative to attack and use the offensive to move the formation to complete the transformation of the right time, and use the cold north wind and the smoke of the battlefield to make a big detour.

Both sides put the breakthrough point on the other side's left wing. In fact, this battle is essentially the one whose left wing collapses first, and whose left wing can delay the other side's encirclement after it collapses, and whoever has a greater chance of winning.

Of course, the ever-changing battlefield cannot always develop towards the idea of ​​the commanders of both sides. Various accidents will arise, that is, the so-called ability to make decisions on the spot.

Whoever can grasp the fighter when the warplane appears can often turn the defeat or win in one fell swoop.

A moment in the corner.
Chapter completed!