After a little deployment, I handed over the command to others, returned to the account, and continued to look at the map here and the various situations gathered by the scouts.

He did not underestimate the enemy, and even kept in mind what Shi told him to pay attention to the enemy from the beginning.

But he thought about all his known experiences carefully. The scout had already spread out battlefield information that had controlled twenty miles; the opposite side had no gun but chose to form a round formation to defend itself; the disciples were the eight-wing elites of the round formation, and the crossbowmen were in front of the wings where the wings were junction; the opposite side had at most 100 cavalry that could attack...

He couldn't think of how he could lose this battle, because Shi told him that it was difficult for many miracles in the real world, so he couldn't find a reason to lose.

According to his thoughts, he still had no artillery to defend the plains without guns. When he marched, the scouts were not sent too far to even have time to choose a more suitable defense. He also had the advantage of his troops and even had thousands of cavalrymen in a cavalry division, and the battle should be resolved in at most two hours.

When the battle really started, Liuzhi realized that he had overestimated the combat effectiveness of the soldiers, peasants and soldiers in Chu County.

The artillery bombardment had only started for two quarters of an hour, and the nearly 20,000 soldiers of Shen Gong were already shaking, so that the cavalry cruising beside him were a little confused, not knowing whether to chase or take the opportunity to break in.

The emergence of gunpowder has also brought about another change.

Before the copper cannon, the gunpowder appendage, appeared, the circular formation, combined with the chariot and the archer, was indeed an almost invincible defensive method.

The formation is concentrated and dense, which often means it is difficult to break the formation.

But the Mohist school attaches great importance to copper cannons, and most of the contents of the army officers' studies are summed up in one sentence: cavalry can easily break down loose and weak formations. In order to fight against cavalry and infantry, dense formations must be formed; dense formations can easily be killed by artillery; dense formations can resist cavalry but it is difficult to resist the volleys after the musketeers are deployed; musketeers want to launch volleys, they must make the formation weak and widen the front to exert the maximum firepower; the wider the front to pull the line, the thinner the line, the less likely it is to be bombarded by artillery soldiers; the wider the front, the easier it is to be dispersed by cavalry...

This is a very basic thing. It basically belongs to the compulsory courses of officer schools of all levels of the Mohist school. As for more advanced things, more complicated formations, left and right wing mobilization, it is basically based on this. The more profound thing is how to "use these basic things in one mind".

Tens of thousands of infantrymen rely on chariots to form formations to defend, and there are muskets and crossbows shooting outside. Although the cavalry on Si are fierce, they can do nothing.

But the cavalry had no choice but to do anything, which means that for artillery and the unfolded musketeers, this was a killing like training. Even if you light a fuse with your eyes closed, you might smash four or five heads.

The two-quarters of annulment bombardment was a devastating blow to Shen Gong's troops.

In fact, not many people died, but the formation has been dispersed, people’s hearts have become chaotic, and failure is inevitable.

At this time, the infantry of the two divisions had not moved. They were still waiting for the artillery to continue bombardment, and then asked the cavalry to try to rush. If the cavalry could not escape, they would immediately follow up and launch a formation to shoot a volley and break in.

Now it seems that there is no chance for these infantrymen who come from afar to march for a day to perform.

In the Shen Gong formation, Shen Gong, who was still talking about the method of fighting formation yesterday, could no longer laugh out loud, and the formation could no longer hold on, and the formation was about to become messy.

From fighting to failure, it may take less than an hour, and I have not even seen the opponent's infantry attack, and the more than 10,000 people I brought will be defeated.

This has completely broken him.

He felt that he was not the kind of extremely pedantic person. When the Mohist family started selling mudroops, he found a way to buy a lot of equipment from some merchants as arsenal, and did not forget to form a musketeer unit when performing martial arts in winter.

For these muskets, Shendi was quite a bit miserable: the Mohist family only collected food, copper, gold, silver, mercury, cotton, manure, and other things.

No jade, no beads, no various exquisite utensils.

Merchants generally do not want these things, because some merchants of unknown origin told Shen Gong that what merchants now need now are real gold and copper that can be exchanged for currency on Si, not that pearls and jade are not valuable. The merchants said that he believed that they would definitely be valuable in the future, but many chambers of commerce on Si did not accept these things as equity capital.

Some chambers of commerce go to the south of Chu to trade, and they make a lot of profits and dividends every year. They invest ten gold today. If they are lucky, they will get three gold and hardware next year. At this time, everyone is thinking of changing the things in their hands to things that can be exchanged for money on Si. Even if they know the value of pearls and jade, even if they can be sold for a hundred gold coins in the future, when will they be sold? If they cannot be sold within twenty years, if some of the very profitable chambers of commerce specialized in Si, they will eventually lose money.

Duke Shen had no choice but to find a way to find a way to dig out money from the farmers and fiefdoms to buy arms and weapons, not only for the State of Chu, but also for himself and for the family.

Besides, it is not the money for firearms. The nobles like pottery on Si, so they have to spend money to buy it, and they can't live without it; the nobles all installed small and translucent windows, and they can't live without it; the nobles all wore the mulberry forests of Song Dynasty, and they can't live without it; the nobles bought some hulinzhu and other things traded from far west as burial objects, and they were not prepared, and they didn't believe in the principle of the Mohist burial...

There is neither copper or gold ore in Shendi, and he does not know how to do business and does not want to engage in such a low-key business. Besides using orthodox aristocratic means to get money from farmers tied to the land, where can he do it?

Many profiteers came forward and said: It is better to hand over the local salt and iron benefits to our franchise, and pay how much gold and copper every year. The public orders to prohibit others from selling them here, and I can smuggle several muskets for you every year.

Not only did he say it, but he did it, and immediately took out a lot of money. How could Mr. Shen not accept it?

The lakes, rivers, mountains and lakes belong to him, and they must be taxed or specialized, and they accumulated about three thousand muskets.

For these three thousand muskets, everyone in the fiefdom has already complained. Those profiteers raised the salt price extremely high; the food price was extremely low, and the people felt that they were suffering for a day, and they were full of resentment, so they could not complain about the excess profit hundreds of miles away from them, but they sent witches to treat the people who spread drugs from time to time. They only resented the unkind, unrighteous, and the king of the fiefdom.

And these three thousand coercion guns, Yu Shen Gongyan, is already at the limit.

Before the last King of Chu died, he was not allowed to enfeoff the king to have a cannon. The Mo family was strict with this, but he didn't have a cannon in his hand and he couldn't cast it. - a real bell-caster would either go to the kings of various countries or go to Si Shang, one could give land fiefs and aristocrats, and the other could give money, morality and spiritual material double satisfaction. What could he, a little Shen Gong give?

Si Shang thought that he could sell a gun, so Shen Gong could buy it; Si Shang thought that he could not sell cannons, after all, it was not enough to expand his army, so Shen Gong couldn't buy it.

If such an army was pieced together, if there was no Mo family rebellion, he might have continued to maintain his position with those vassal partners in the tide of centralized reform.

But at this moment, Mr. Shen found that all the things he did seemed to be meaningless in the tide of this era.

He is also a person with a family background, and he has mastered many secrets of the nobles.

According to what he thought, from yesterday when he saw the cavalry of the Mo family suddenly appearing, his hero cut off his arm and round formation, defending himself until two quarters of an hour ago, he did nothing wrong, and he felt that he could be a famous general.

But why is the battle over in less than two quarters of an hour?

Crossed copper cannons formed on the opposite side, and each bombardment would make the already shaky formation more fragile and could disperse at any time.

This is at most what he has done and what he has done. I can still sigh that the Mohist school is just sharp in firearms. After all, gunpowder was invented first.

But from the early morning when the Mo family was preparing to attack, to the infantry lined up like neatly woods, and then spreading like a rushing river, he knew that he would never be the opponent of the strong army on the other side.

For nothing else, it only took two quarters of an hour for the simple time for the scholastic soldiers to expand from the dense array to the two wings.

And if it were his Shin Master, it would take at least one hour to gather and unfold the same action.

As a general, this truth can be seen clearly. In the Battle of Yinyang seven years ago, the Chu Mo coalition defeated the Wei and Han coalition forces. It was because the Chu King's Division, who was the reserve team at the last moment, used a speed that made the Wei and Han coalition forces dumbfounded. He knew very well what this kind of formation speed meant.

He even thought that the Mo family's elite formation and expansion speed were at least not less than that of the King of Chu that day, but he did not expect it to be so fast.

If the troops are the same, then what else can I fight?

However, as a nobleman, he still has the spirit of drawing a sword when facing the enemy!

Thinking of this, he called on the servants and nobles around him and said loudly: "Today, things will be defeated, and death will be dead."

"But the king grants us land and people, and will raise our wealth to replace me with low-ranking careers. This is how the fostering of men should be used today. At this time when the country is in danger, people without a king or a father in the Mo family need to know what loyalty is! What courage is it!"

He drew his sword and shouted loudly, got out of the car and fought in the middle. More than fifty scholars around him followed him, all wishing to repay the king with death.

At that time, the battle formation was defeated, and Shen Gong was the first to take the lead. Many defeated soldiers fled from him in panic. Shen Gong took a sword and killed more than ten people angrily, shouting: "When the country was in danger, it was ineffective and wanted to survive. As a result, the Mo family, who had no king or father, went straight into Jianghan from the Huai River, could not stop it. This is the crime of the people's refusal to die and seek profit! All the people can be killed!"

More than fifty people around him showed their might and immediately killed more than 300 defeated soldiers. The rest of the defeated soldiers did not dare to move forward and rushed to flee elsewhere.

At that time, Mr. Shen's beard and hair were open, his battle robe was red, and blood marks were ticking on his two-foot sword. More than a hundred corpses were piled up around him. He was guarding him. Mr. Shen was like a god of war, stepping on the corpse of a broken soldier, and he had an unparalleled power.

Then he led more than fifty soldiers out of the chaotic crowd and rushed towards thousands of soldiers of the Jiexuan Army holding guns.

Three hundred steps away, the company commanders of each company of the Jiexuan Army looked at the crowd who was rushing towards him in a fearless manner, and shouted in a mechanical tone: "Rise up the gun!"

The sound of drums and slogans were accompanied by slogans, and the selected rosters silently raised the loaded muskets and pointed them at the dozens of people rushing towards them.

On the hillside, the commander of the army was pointing at the nobles who launched the decisive attack to remind Liu Finger.

Liuzhi spat and smiled and said, "It's the easiest to die. There are many incompetent people. They can do better when they are alive, but they don't do it. When things come, they die, and suddenly they feel that everything they haven't done before is covered by their fearlessness of death. In fact, this is the most cowardly thing."

"We have risen from Si Shang to thirty years. We have been there since Heze League to thirteen or fourteen years. We have been there since Fengchihui to 7 years. What have they done? They have not done anything for so long, but they want to be heroes after they are about to come?"

"If you really have the so-called loyalty and courage to serve the country, give up interests, transfer land to land, train new troops, centralize power, build artillery and train troops... If you use your mind to fight the coup, why should you use it today?"

Liu Finger looked at the charge figures and felt more ridiculous. He shook his head and said, "Send the order, after the battle, identify the nobles among the captured prisoners, let them dig pits, and organize the captured recruited farmers to visit the nobles to dig pits. If the dig is not good, please laugh at me. I suggest that the Xuanyi tribe send a few eloquent and well-versed in Chu language. If those nobles cannot speak nonsense and say nonsense, they will scold them and ask them what else can they do be a sycat? The bodies of all the nobles and soldiers are buried together and must not be separated."
Chapter completed!