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Chapter 144: It's Easy to Win in a Moment (1)

This is not a simple shock and counterattack battle.

On one hand, there are nobles, warriors and servants around the nobles who have been trained from childhood; on the other hand, there are good-family cavalrymen who mainly cultivate their own farming farmers and members of the joint farming club.

While using his own financial resources, he bought high-quality horses from merchants who were bought with high prices in Si Shang; while wearing standard leather armor, riding on the horse farm to train or transport similar military horses from Zhongshan Country.

On the one hand, the various nobles were centered on each other, and the slaves and private soldiers surrounded the left and right; on the other hand, the equal comrades were based on the company.

On a certain level, this is a symbolic battle, no less than that of the Si Shang Yishi's battle against the Yue Kingdom's Junior Army.

Even though, the scale seems to be a little small.

After the instigation of Wei and Han generals, both sides were full of confidence.

The nobles on Wei Han saw with their own eyes that the left wing of the Mo Chu coalition was about to collapse, and they were also convinced that they and the well-equipped slaves around them had strong combat power since childhood. Although they dare not say that they had to fight ten, there was no problem with one against three.

They still retain the pride of some nobles—some that should have been crushed by gunpowder, and that they did have, and a full-time man was enough to disperse the pride of hundreds of disciples.

In their eyes, Si Shang Yishi was a heresy.

The military system should not be like the Si Shang Yishi, or even the Xihe martial arts. The military system with the most aristocratic temperament should be chariots, full-time warriors, nobles wearing heavy armor, slaves with outstanding martial arts around them, scholars who defected to the nobles... and those disciples who were depressed with the morale of the Ghost as a support.

The drums are made, and they disperse. The drums are intertwined, and the winners are divided. Then the winners are not chased. In the future, they will still be friends with the nobles and can still make marriages.

This has been like this since ancient times, and has always been like this.

Therefore, in addition to their confidence, they also had a lot of hatred for the Mohist cavalry opposite.

The cavalrymen on the Mohist side were also full of confidence.

Many of them have fought wars and are very clear that one-on-one themselves may not be the opponent of the nobles, but war is never a one-on-one thing.

Many cavalrymen who were born in Zhao State had seen the Hu people with outstanding riding skills, but Gao Liu stood for a long time. The Mo family won more than defeated less. Even if it was a battle between more than a hundred people, the Hu people with outstanding riding skills were not their opponents.

Some officers also participated in previous wars of alignment and saw those well-equipped nobles, noble slaves and proprietors, but in fact they were just that. They would collapse if they had hedged three times, and... they relied more on martial arts and instincts to fight, lacking tactical cooperation.

This is why the crowd knew that the general Han of Wei still had some power around him, but still believed that those who were just native chickens and tiles were not enough to form a threat and chose to rush directly to the chief general of the central army.

…………

at the same time.

The left wing of the Chu army.

The defense line of Chen Cai's army has collapsed. Except for a few infantry formations that are still holding on, the infantry on the left has already fled.

The cavalry of Wei and Han were chasing the fleeing Chu people, and some of them were trapped in a bitter battle with the square formation.

The main infantry of the Wei and Han Allied Forces had approached and were about to complete the encirclement at a slow speed. The Wei and Han Allied Forces concentrated their main force on the right wing, in order to use the advantages of the right wing to crush the Chen Cai army from the collapse of the Chen Cai army.

However, the advantages of the Chu New Army finally burst out with the strength they should have at this critical moment.

The new army of the Wangshi, who was on the second line, had undergone discipline training far superior to the past. When the drums sounded, they turned quickly and quickly maneuvered towards the left wing.

They were competing for time with the infantry formation of Wei Han. Wei Han's cavalry was already scattered and had no ability to attack again. Wei Han's biggest reliance was those infantry formations.

A thinner formation means faster speed, which needs to be tested by war, and blood is needed to allow Wei Han to learn this lesson.

Under the leadership of General Chu, the new army of the Wangshi of the three brigades moved to the left with a speed of nearly twice that of the Wei Han heavy formation, and the entire formation changed very quickly.

The eyes of the chief general of Wei Han did not look at the cavalry battle that was close to him, but calmed down and did not listen to the voices of the cavalry behind him. Instead, he stared at the left wing of the Chu army with a telescope.

The Wei Han army formation in the telescope moved like a turtle. There was no way to do this, this kind of formation could only move so fast.

Even though the march was so slow, the front military formation was almost overthrown, and the attack could be launched soon and completely crushed the Chu army with the square formation.

However, a scene that shocked him appeared in the telescope.

Some Chu troops moved quickly towards the left wing with speed far superior to Wei and Han's heavy formation.

The general of Wei Han was secretly shocked. At this speed of movement, he was afraid that by the time his heavy infantry completed the encirclement, these Chu troops would have blocked their flanks.

The battle between the central army and the left wing was both Chu attacking Wei’s defense. This time, Wei attacking Chu’s defense. Can they defend it?

Can you defend the heavy formation crushing like a mountain moving?

All this is still unknown.

But the general of Wei Han understood that the Mo family cavalry behind him were very annoying, but it did not make him completely unable to win.

The Chu army was still the reserved infantry. Can these infantry defend it? How long can they last?

In the telescope, he could see that the Chu army had moved to the left wing in a total of three brigades, with a small number, that is, three horizontal formations, and there were only two horizontal formations in front.

Opposite them was his five infantry heavy formations of Pythagorean formation, with the number of advantages.

According to his experience, under such heavy attacks, it is difficult for the enemy to defend, especially in such a chaotic situation.

The general of Wei Han still did not look back to watch the results of the battle. It only took him a quarter of an hour.

In a quarter of an hour, the closest heavy stance formation can form a formation to defend, and those annoying Mohist cavalry will not be able to win.

In a quarter of an hour, he defeated the heavy stance formation of Chen Cai's army and could complete the encirclement, and besiege the Chu army's central army in the front, right and back directions.

According to his perception, the infantry's movement speed will not be so fast. If it is too fast, the formation will be scattered and difficult to fight.

But the Chu State New Army showed the role of formation and discipline at the moment, and completed adjustments and deployments before the arrival of the most precious quarter of an hour.

At this time, the Wei and Han military formation, which had slow heavy formation, had just completed the encirclement, but was blocked by the three brigades of the new army of the King of Chu Division, making their encirclement meaningless.

The musketeers of the Chu New Army heard the officer's order.

"Six changes to three, prepare for volleys!"

After the order was issued, the originally six rows of the mezzanine gunmen quickly changed their formation and replaced their thinking with a mechanical movement that had been trained many times.

Just like the four columns of the four columns of junior high school students in physical education classes in later generations, they are a kind of lessons and experience gained from fighting on the battlefield and blood, and it is also an extremely formal military training.

If you can do this, you can call it a strong army at this time.

After changing the six-row line to three-row line, the first row squatted on the ground, the second row stood, and the third row stood between the gaps in the second row.

The spearman in the middle knocked on the spear and raised it horizontally.

The reassembled Che Guang cavalry began to drive away the Wei and Han cavalry who were loosely laid down due to the pursuit of defeated soldiers and the attack on the army formation, and maintained the safety of the flanks under the leadership of the deputy general of the State of Chu.

The Wei Han heavy formation on the far right was approaching, and the musketeers in the Wei Han army had already started shooting, but the Chu New Army remained motionless and was waiting for the order.

Wei Han's heavy step formation approached step by step, and the eyes of the chief general Wei Han also stared at the battlefield.

If... the Chu army cannot defend it, then the previous cover and the cavalry's detour will be meaningless.

The distance was very far, and there was no sound in the telescope, but the general of Wei Han seemed to hear the shouts of Wei Han's heavy soldiers.

Sixty steps, fifty steps...

As they approached step by step, the Chu musketeers who were ready to go were hit by the musketeers in the gap between Wei Hanzhong's formation, but the Chu people still did not move and the formation was not scattered.

At this moment, General Wei Han saw a series of white smoke floating up at the same time, and everything in the telescope was covered.

General Wei Han was waiting anxiously. When another gust of north wind blew and everything there was clear again in the expensive telescope, he saw an incredible scene.

The two most flank Wei Han heavy step formations had collapsed, and the spearmen deployed among the Chu army's musketeers launched a counterattack.

It was clearly close to you, and only those heavy infantrymen needed to advance dozens of steps to kill the musketeers, but it didn't.

The heavy infantrymen of Wei Han who suffered the thunder attack just now seemed frightened, gave up their last thirty steps and began to disintegrate.

Master Wei Han landed the telescope in his hand to the ground, covered his chest with his hands, his face pale, breathing heavily, and half-closing his eyes.

"If you lose, everything is useless. They can defend it. Even if the Mo family cavalry retreated, as long as the left wing can still defend it, our army has been defeated. It's just the difference between defeat now or defeating within an hour."

"Defeated...defeated."

He knew very well what the thunder smoke that happened in the distance meant.

It means that the left wing of Chu can last at least one hour, which means that the left wing of Chu can still persist even when Chen and Cai's army are defeated, which means that the Mo and Chu coalition forces have reserves...

This means that even if the Mo family cavalry behind them are driven away, they can calmly attack and dismantle the left wing that is at a disadvantage.

It means that with the speed of the Chu army's march and the support of those cavalry, the Mochu coalition will complete the anti-encirclement of him before he can re-adjust the deployment.

This means that the artillery advantage of the Mo-Chu coalition can bombard the Weihan heavy insurgent formation with deeper depths, while the advantages of the Mo-Chu coalition's central and right wing will be continued to be expanded by these bronze cannons. Before the Pythagorean formation of its own heavy insurgent formation breaks through the left wing of the Chu army, its central and left wing will collapse and will soon form a counter-encirclement because the Chu army's formation will move faster.

This means that if one hour can break through the newly arranged left wing of the Chu army, then in a matter of one hour, the Chu people's central and right wings with advantages in cavalry and artillery will inevitably break through the defense line of its own side with insufficient troops.

But if this was not the scene in the telescope just now, but the heavy formation of Wei Han and the thin formation of the Chu army's new army were fighting together, everything would be different; if the Chu army's second-line reserve team did not have such a fast march speed, everything would be different.

The defeat has been decided.

The general of Wei Han finally turned his head and went to see the victory or defeat of the Mo family cavalry and his nobles' private soldiers and warriors.

This no longer concerns the outcome of the battle.
Chapter completed!
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