In the upcoming war, the coalition of princes is not as relaxed as that of the Mo family. The huge gap in strength, the previous temple calculation mistakes and strategic mistakes, all of which combined make the princes filled the atmosphere of despair.

The effect of the military reforms over the past thirty years is somewhat useful. Without the forced military reforms over the past thirty years, tens of thousands of troops would have to choose the turtle formation at this time.

The improvement of military technology and tactical system has enabled the coalition of princes to abandon the original formation and adopt a longer and wider frontal and coordinated tactical system.

Originally, forty or fifty thousand people could only maintain a one or two-mile front line, and they also needed to use formations to cooperate, because if they did not use formations, they would be unable to command smoothly and it would be difficult to fight.

Now that the coalition forces can expand a front about eight miles wide, it has been a great progress. Otherwise, they can only form a round formation to defend. Only when the main general leads some elite troops to be placed in key areas of the battlefield can they fight.

The Zhou Emperor, the Duke of Qi, Han Hou and others who secretly sent people to contact the Mo family were all in a village called Sanliu Society. This village was named because there were three extremely large willow trees at the entrance of the village.

This village is on the left wing of the coalition forces and is a key road. If you want to withdraw, you must defend it here.

Now the Korean army in Yangxia is unknown when it will be able to arrive here, and the troops of the doctors elsewhere will not be able to come to support. Faced with the strong oppression of the Mo family, the chief generals of the coalition of the princes were already desperate.

After the Mo family had stuck to them before, they began to gather troops to form a siege.

Originally, this time the coalition of princes dared to go deep into Si Shang because they thought that the main force of the Mo family was in the direction of Laiwu, and the princes did not have the courage to fight with the Mo family, and they were already scared.

As a result, the Mohist school adhered to the concept of losing land and losing land. It did not have much desire for Linzi at all, but was always on guard against the last field mobile force of Qi and Han.

The flaws of the empty city deliberately exposed by the right wing led to the advance of the main force of the central army, and were eventually besieged here and unable to move.

The Mohist family has stuck with them, and it is not so easy to run away.

The one who blocked the southwest of Sanliu Society was the partial army that the Mohist family had broken Daicheng and inherited the siege of Kuang, with more than 10,000 people, and they were already connected with the main force of the Mohist family.

If you want to break through, you have to block the attack of the main force of the Mo family from the side and back, and then break through the blockade of more than 10,000 people. It is obvious that this is unrealistic and can easily be attacked in front and back. Once the formation collapses, the plain terrain and the Mo family's cavalry advantage will be a unilateral massacre.

Originally, the princes wanted to set up a turtle formation, but several soldiers were opposed, believing that setting up a turtle formation was a way to die.

Qi Xiangtian Ju said: "Now the main forces of the Mo family are all around, with more than a hundred cannons and tens of thousands of elite cavalry. If we set up a round formation, our army will be defeated."

"Everything is twice as many, there are fewer everywhere. If you run a round formation, the Mo family will attack three sides and attack one side, which means that our army will block all the main forces of the Mo family with one quarter of its strength."

"With the cannon, the round formation cannot be held."

The rest of the people also mean this. The premise of setting up a circular array is to abandon their last field ability.

The characteristic of the circular formation is that it can make the troops dense, which makes it difficult for the Mohist family to capture for a while.

But there are many disadvantages.

Especially when the Mohist family had a large number of bronze cannons, abandoning the front line and using a circular array to defend, is equivalent to using the Mohist family artillery as a target.

Furthermore, he gave up the front and contracted into a group, and the troops could not be expanded into an offensive formation at all.

For 50,000 people to form a circular formation, it only takes about two miles to reach a range.

But if you want to have the ability to attack and counterattack and retreat, you need at least eight miles to face the front of the battlefield so that you can unfold the formation of the troops, whether to fight, retreat or defend, and there is still room for choice.

If a circular formation is formed, the soldiers will have to lean against each other in the two miles and cannot develop an attacking formation at all. That will be really waiting to die.

The only hope for the circular formation is that the Han army in Yangxia and the Qi and Wei army in Yongqiu are coming.

The Mohist family is best at field maneuvers, surrounded the points and attacked the reinforcements, and defeated them one by one. At that time, the round formation cannot be fought, and the reinforcements will be defeated, and they will have to be trapped here and starved to death.

The coalition's food is still enough for eight days now. If it forms a round formation, it will give up the opportunity to voluntarily withdraw and take the initiative to fight. Save some food, at most twelve or thirteen days. If the reinforcements from the direction of Yongqiu cannot arrive in the twelve or thirteen days, it will be equivalent to starving yourself to death.

Even if you want to fight back, you can only gather about five or six thousand elite troops on the limited battlefield, and fight back to death without the cooperation of the flanks, and the winning chance is too small.

Several veterans who knew the soldiers agreed with Tian Ju's statement, and some people knew that Tian Ju must have a planner in his hands to plan for him.

Emperor Zhou remained silent. He had secretly contacted the Mo family, and on the condition of identifying with the Mo family, he only hoped to continue to maintain his identity as the emperor.

However, no matter how much the Duke of Qi and Han could retreat, the Mo family was obviously going to kill them, and they didn't even have the chance to surrender.

A few days ago, people from South Korea and Qi blamed each other.

The Koreans believe that it is the reckless advance of the Qi people, which has led to the current encirclement.

The people of Qi believed that it was the fear of the Korean army in the direction of Yangxia that led to the coalition forces making a wrong judgment. If Duan Duan was not afraid of the Mo family and did not dare to enter the empty city, at most Duan Duan was annihilated. Why did the main force of the coalition forces be trapped here?

The Koreans scolded the Duke of Qi for being ungrateful and did not know his kindness. This time, the Qi people sent troops to save Linzi. As a result, the Qi people bite him back and blamed the Han army.

The Qi people sneered and thought that if Linzi was gone, South Korea would not survive alone. They said that saving Qi was actually saving himself.

After cursing for a long time, the main force of the Mo family caught up and stuck them, they began to unite sincerely, knowing that if the fight continues, there is no way out.

For tomorrow's decisive battle, the princes still had "martial virtues" and did not think about waiting for death without any struggle. Or they knew that the Mo family was good at defending the city and sieging the city and breaking the formation, so they would die if they defended to death, and they had to find a way to reverse the disadvantage.

Qi Xiangtian Ju talked about the idea given by his adviser, and said: "In Linzi, the young masters are very good at racing horses. There are horses with upper, middle, and lower horses. There have been people racing horses, with lower horses facing the upper, upper horses facing the middle, and middle horses facing the lower horses, and then they will never win."

"There is a way in the world, and all things are in harmony. In the battle tomorrow, the three armies will be like horses. Our army's upper horses are not as good as the upper horses of the Mo family, the middle horses are not as good as the middle horses of the Mo family, and the lower horses are not as good as the lower horses of the Mo family, so we will die."

"But with the methods of Linzi horse racing master, there is still a glimmer of hope."

Everyone easily understood the meaning of this horse racing, and also understood the so-called comparison between the three fours of the upper, middle and lower in comparison with war.

Some people said: "In the battle of Yinyang in the past, the Chu and Mo coalition forces were like this, using the upper wing of the right wing against the lower wing of Wei Han; using the lower wing of the left wing against the upper wing of Wei Han."

"The same was true in the Battle of Mo Yue in the past. The left attack and right defense or the left defense and right attack, now it seems that there is a deep meaning in it."

Some veterans who have studied tactics of that year can easily understand what Tian Ju means.

Tian Ju said: "My objective method of the Mohist war formation is quite reasonable. He believes that the average expansion of troops on the front line is the stupidest. The left wing is lengthened and weak, and the right wing is strengthened and heavy. It is more effective to hit less and break one wing with more and more.

"The difficulty lies in our need to know where the upper horses of the Mohist family are? Where the lower horses are?"

“But it wasn’t difficult at that time.”

After he was inspired, the attendants immediately thought of the Sanliu Club where they are now and nodded.

"Sanliu Club!"

Someone said the name of the village club, and Tian Ju said: "It's Sanliu Club."

"Sanliu Society is the left wing of our army, and it is also the only way to connect Yangxia. If the Mohist family wants to cut off our retreat, they must attack our army's left wing, that is, Sanliu Society."

"If we take over Sanliu Society, our army will have to reverse the front line, shrink the defense, and stagger the road, so that it will be blocked more severely and there is no possibility of retreating."

"Chengkuang's partial army is also behind Sanliu Society. The Mo family has been digging artillery towers opposite Sanliu Society in the past two days, and they will be ready to attack Sanliu."

"This is the so-called four above the Mohist school."

"If our army is here to defend and gather troops, its guns will be inferior to people, its cannons will be inferior to people, and its morale will be inferior to people, and its morale will be inferior to people, which will be exactly what the Mohist family wishes."

"Since my superiors cannot compete with the enemy's superiors, I can defend it here."

"Our army gathered forces on the right wing, and the left wing took the initiative to retreat, and even gave up Sanliu Society."

"The right wing gathered troops and attacked the lower horses of the Mo family, quickly defeated the left wing of the Mo family, and turned the front line to make a diagonal line."

"In this way, the left-wing partial division was abandoned, but the right-wing main force was retained."

"If you cannot win, you can still retain your troops to defend; if you can win, there will be a glimmer of hope."

"If we win, the Mohist school adjusts its tactics. It will take another three or two days before our army can hold on, or gather elite troops to retreat from the northeast."

"One is the case where our army has fewer cavalry, and two is the case where our army's formation is heavier and slower to move, so we can only use heavy formations to suppress one of its wings."

His ideas, or the ideas his counselor gave him, were reasonable.

The analogy between the three fours on the upper, middle and lower is actually the diagonal array. This is the only tactical method in which the coalition forces may win with less.

That is, the deployment of chief and thin troops on the front line of Sanliu Society, relying on retreat to drag down the main attack of the Mo family, abandoning the Sanliu Society, which has an extremely important geographical location, and deploying its main force on the right wing.

When the total force is less than the Mohist family, a situation of fighting less is formed in the local area. Although the left-wing Mohist family is also fighting less, if the coalition forces have the calculations but the Mohist family is incompetent and deliberately abandoning the left-wing layout of the Sanliu Society, it can give the right wing of the coalition forces more time.
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