On the right wing of the Mo Chu coalition, Mi, the slander captain, looked at the smoke rising from his position, took out his telescope to observe the gaps in the dense formation of the Wei and Han coalition forces opposite.

Several officers laughed and said, "The artillery comrades are getting more and more accurate in fighting. I remember that when we fought against the Tian family a few years ago, the artillery was not so accurate in shooting. At that time, I was afraid that the shells would fall on my head."

The rumbling sound of cannons could not conceal the cavalry's ridicule of artillery a few years ago.

The artillery today is still using very simple protractors, using lead sinkers and ropes as reference lines to insert simple protractors into the gun hole, and then calculate the angle of the muzzle after the lead sinkers and vertical lines are stable.

They don't need to calculate too much. The number of artillery officers is very good at counting, but ordinary artillery soldiers mainly check tables, such as a rote memorization method to determine the angle of the muzzle and the distance of the attack.

Relying solely on the charge and adjustment angle, although it is very simple, it is still better than the opposite artillery who relies on feelings and experience.

What's more, there was no bronze cannon on the opposite side of the right wing of the Mochu coalition.

After the copper cannon appears, the battle is usually fired by the bronze cannons of both sides.

With the experience of capturing Mi, at the first time, both sides will choose to bombard and slowly adjust their formations, waiting for one side to attack if they can't withstand the shelling, or waiting for the other side to attack if they feel that the opportunity is coming.

Generally speaking, after the shelling, their cavalry will soon launch a tentative attack.

But the first tentative attack would not be them, but another active cavalry brigade.

This time, two active cavalry brigades and the recruited cavalry brigade of the silence captive Mi participated in the battle. The three brigades were "cavalry not the martial knights" in the Si Shang Yishi sequence.

Although they are not cavalrymen, the three brigades are different.

The cavalry of the brigade in front might be able to be supported by Si Shang, but other princes would definitely not be able to support them.

Each of the cavalrymen in that brigade was equipped with three short guns. Because it was difficult for cavalrymen to load when they were about to fight, they could only rely on early loading and then replenishing.

These short guns are very expensive, and a brigade needs to be equipped with nearly five thousand, which is a huge expense.

Of course, this configuration is not based on the infantry of the Si Shang Yi Division as the imaginary enemy, but it is obvious that the vassal states such as Wei and Han who value phalanx and infantry are imaginary enemies.

The emergence of muskets and gunpowder has caused countries to try new formations, and many old formations are no longer suitable for the times.

Wei Han chose to rely on the already existing advantages of heavy infantry in the phalanx and use musketeers to cooperate with the phalanx operations.

The cavalry attacked the heavy infantry phalanx, which was basically a dead end. If the elite trained martial knights were fine, it would be impossible for these cavalry to rush straight.

So the brigade was equipped with short guns, taking advantage of the maneuverability, and when approaching the enemy's infantry phalanx, he was close to the enemy's infantry formation, of course he had no chance to load them after the shooting, so he inserted the short gun into his waist and took out an iron sword and attacked the iron sword.

If you can open the gap, you can rush in, and just rush in and the step formation will disperse.

If all three short guns were shot, there was still no gap in the enemy's stair formation, but continued to maintain high morale, then you could retreat...

In front of infantry archers and infantry musketeers, cavalry shooting is a life to the infantry.

The other brigade is not as generous as that brigade. Each person is equipped with only one short gun, and there is only one chance to go to the battle.

However, they had the cooperation of infantry and knights, and usually they had infantry and knights sandwiched on both wings. After using their maneuver advantage to quickly detour, the infantry and knights dismounted the horse and fired their guns, and the cavalry brigades on both wings immediately made up for the gap and attacked once.

During the attack, infantry and knights will quickly load, and if the cavalry opens the gap, they will support them with fire; if they do not rush out of the opponent but retreat, they will need to shoot a volley to cover the cavalry's retreat.

When it was the turn of the police captain Mi and other re-conscripted cavalrymen, their equipment was much worse, and they were covered in leather armor and an iron sword, and nothing else was left.

The martial knights were not as good as the martial knights, and they were all iron armor; they were not as good as the cavalry of these regular non-martial knights.

Therefore, there are always people complaining and joke that they are all cavalrymen, and the martial knights are the eldest sons; the remaining cavalrymen in service are the youngest sons; the re-suming cavalrymen are the concubines, and they are not born of dowry concubines, but of the nobles who are drunk and slaves.

The sanctioned prisoner Mi heard a lot about this kind of complaint, but he also heard some rumors, and it was said that there were some differences in what to do with the cavalry.

Needless to say, the martial knights are too difficult to train and too few. The huge group of good family members of the farmer who have horses can ensure a sufficient number of informal cavalry.

What kind of way should these cavalry fight? The senior military leaders have different opinions.

Some say that it should cost a lot of money, and each person should be equipped with three short guns; some say that it should be given up on short guns and only swords; some say that it should be equipped with two short guns, like infantrymen, using the formation to switch and shoot and then run to the back to load; some say that it should be equipped with spears and swords. The spears are all one-time, and they are used when rushing to the formation, and after impact, they will be thrown away and replaced...

What everyone said seemed to make sense, and they all agreed and argued endlessly, so the three cavalry brigades sent here were different this time.

The sanctioned captain Mi didn't like cavalry with short guns, because he thought that this was like the Hu cavalry he had often dealt with in Gaoliu.

However, the Hu cavalry used bows, and Si Shang replaced it with a short gun, which he felt that the effect was not good.

Although the short bow cannot shoot very far, the same is true for a short gun. It is bumpy immediately and it is difficult to shoot, and it is easy for the cavalry to dare not fight in hand-to-hand combat.

He always felt that the cavalry should encircle, detour, rush forward or when there is a gap, and use impact and hand-to-hand combat to open the gap and defeat the opponent.

Besides, he felt that when the cavalry gave up the impact and hand-to-hand combat choice and infantry shooting, wouldn’t it be a death for the cavalry to give up the attack and hand-to-hand combat?

However, reality is so helpless. If you choose to confront the military formation system of Si Shang, the cavalry and shooting tactics will definitely not work, and you will be directly shot by the infantry of Si Shang.

But if we fight against the infantry phalanx of Wei Han who lacks musketeers, it seems that such cavalry who holds a short gun and finds opportunities to open the gap is still useful.

Thinking of this, the captain Mi looked at the Chu soldiers in the Central Army, shook her head in his heart, and said to himself: "According to the rules of Si, it is always the cooperation of infantry, cavalry and cannons. The cavalry first rushed to force the opponent to form a formation, then bombarded with cannons or shot with infantry. After the shooting was dispersed, then rushed and shot again after forming a formation... But if these Chu soldiers cooperated, it would be impossible."

In addition, he also felt that the Chu people had too few artillery soldiers.

These artillery companies supported by the Mohist school were basically deployed in front of the formation by the coalition commander. In the Si Shang Yi Division, almost every regular infantry brigade would be equipped with three small cannons to follow the infantry. Unless it was a special situation, it was not affiliated with a separate artillery command.

There was a saying in the world before that the so-called commander of the three armies refers to the three armies on the left, center and right, while on Si there is a saying that the commander of the five armies is the commander of the army, the so-called infantry, cavalry, cannon, craftsman, boat, and each of them is a group of troops.

After muttering in his heart, the prisoner Mi was bored.

Now the first hour of the war is boring and bloody, and neither side can launch an attack immediately, but let the bronze cannons bombard it for a while.

The soldiers on both sides endured the sound of cannons, watching the bodies of their comrades fall to the ground, and fill the gaps in the formation under the urging of drums to maintain the neat formation.

It can be said that the first time of fighting was to compete for discipline.

Whoever has insufficient discipline cannot withstand artillery attacks, whoever has insufficient patience will be the first to launch an impact, and whose military formation moves first and has a gap, will be passive.

Fortunately, the enemy troops facing the right wing of the Mo Chu coalition where the gang captive Mi was located did not have artillery, and there was no other weapon to attack except artillery at such a long distance.

Both sides have bronze cannons, and the direction is the Central Army, but obviously the artillery quality of the Mo and Chu coalition forces is better. There are few artillery on Wei and Han, so they can't have any advantage at all.

At one moment in the middle of the day, the shelling that lasted for an hour continued.

The central troops on both sides had gaps of various sizes, some were leveled by subsequent soldiers, while others were still empty.

The extremely bored captain Mi finally waited for a long time to wait for the drum sound. This was the drum sound of the whole army moving forward. It seemed that the Grand Sima of Chu was ready to try to approach the Wei and Han army formation.

In fact, the Grand Marshal of Chu State not only prepared the entire army to move forward, but instead used the advantage of artillery to create the illusion of attacking on the whole line, using forward advance as cover, and moved some of the infantry deployed on the second line to move to the right wing.

Because the formation of the new army of Chu was a bit like the formation that lasted for a period of time after the Mo-Vietnam War in Si Shang, there were more musketeers, so the line was longer.

Now that the length is equal, part of the Mo Chu coalition forces are actually deployed behind.

The plan of the Grand Sima of Chu State did not change, taking advantage of the characteristics of more cavalry and fewer infantry on the right wing - this determined that the right wing would move faster, so it was easy to move forward from the central army, causing the Mo-Chu coalition's front to tilt to the right front.

Under this feature, some of the central army infantry on the second line can be mobilized to move to the right wing, thereby replenishing the troops on the right wing at the back and prevailing troops in the right wing form.

Once the opportunity comes, the cavalry starts to circle around with the cover of north wind and gunpowder smoke, and the right wing can launch an attack, which makes the left wing of the Wei and Han coalition forces no chance to adjust its formation.

If the detour was fast enough, there would be no time for the Central Army to support or adjust the deployment when the Wei and Han coalition forces discovered it. The only thing they could use was the elite martial knights of Wei and Han to support their left wing.

As long as the Wu Knight of Wei Han was mobilized to the left wing, the only concern of Chu Sima's left wing would be guaranteed.

If the infantry can also gain an advantage in the right wing force, as long as a small breakthrough can be achieved, it can continue to expand to create combat aircraft.

If Wei and Han were guarding against frontal infantry, they would not have extra strength to guard against roundabout cavalry; if they were guarding against roundabout cavalry, then head-on infantry would be easily broken by the Chu army.

The movement speed of the Wei and Han military formation is the biggest disadvantage, and it is also the disadvantage that Sima Chu wanted to take advantage of.
Chapter completed!