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Chapter 274 The Battle of the Two Sons (11)

When the coalition forces thought of escaping, the lonely army became a thorn in the eyes of the coalition commander. They must be pulled out so that they can be opened to open a passage for the withdrawal of some of the troops.

The coalition forces assembled all the remaining 5,000 cavalry and 800 fighting chariots, preparing to make a desperate bet, first breaking away the encircled infantry, and then gathering forces to block the Mohist cavalry on the flanks.

The assembly of the coalition cavalry was soon discovered by the marching infantry.

The cavalry on his own also discovered the movement of the coalition cavalry. The cavalry of the coalition was huddled behind the infantry, which made the Mohist cavalry who had originally wanted to attack and drive them away never find a chance to take action.

The four brigades had not participated in the battle for a total of 6,000 light cavalry. At this time, the officers were relieved to see the cavalry of the coalition forces preparing to attack.

But soon the actions of the coalition cavalry and chariots made the officers of this cavalry unable to understand.

"What do they want to do? Without the cooperation of infantry, we are on the side. How dare they rush to the infantry directly?"

Almost all brigade-level officers looked at the preparations of the coalition cavalry and chariots, and felt that such an officer was going to the military court.

There were no artillery and the infantry were still gathering behind. The most important thing was that the six thousand cavalry were on the flanks. They actually dared to make the decision to attack the infantry, which was really unreasonable.

But the reason they thought it was unreasonable was that they learned the experience accumulated with countless failures and blood in another time and space, and the coalition forces had only been moving from chariots to stirrup cavalry for only a few decades, and they had not yet figured out how to use cavalry.

The puzzled cavalry officer discussed and made a decision not to intercept the cavalry of the coalition forces. Instead, wait until the coalition cavalry and combat chariots attacked the infantry of the side were frustrated, and then support it from the flanks, so that the infantry of the side would stick to the other side's cavalry, thus annihilation of the last cavalry of the coalition forces in one fell swoop.

"Find a few horses to pass the message."

Soon, several scouts with excellent horses and very fast horses were found and quickly galloped towards the location of their infantry.

The marching infantry had chosen to stop, there were no small hills nearby to seize, and no uneven ground to occupy the defense.

The coalition cavalry and combat vehicles on the opposite side have begun to assemble and unfold, and the deputy infantry division commander led the team has issued an order to end the formation.

The three companies are formed into a group, and the nearby combination is formed into a square array. The small cannons of the brigade who are following the advance also unfold in the gap between the square arrays.

The company commanders shouted loudly, the drummers beat the snare drums that changed formations, and the soldiers hurriedly stood together according to the usual training movements.

"On the short spear!"

The company commander's order covered up the chaotic footsteps, and the infantry that had already formed a formation quickly pulled out the short spear from their waists and inserted it into the flint rifle.

The three brigades gathered ten square formations, and they were staggered by about eighty steps between each other, which happened to be the gap between the original three companies.

The small cannons of each brigade were unfolding in the gaps in the square array, and the gunner hurriedly filled with gravel and iron filings.

It took only half a quarter of an hour for the entire army to stop moving to unfolding into a square formation.

"Squat down in the first row!"

The deputy brigade commander or brigade representatives at the center of the phalanx issued orders, and the low-level officers repeated the orders loudly. Although the soldiers were well-trained, they were actually panicked.

There has always been only their cavalry to attack others, and there are almost no enemy cavalry to attack themselves. Although they have been trained to deal with cavalry, it is still scary enough to only look at the momentum of thousands of cavalry after they are deployed.

The tactics are determined by the giants, but no one knows whether they can block the cavalry because they have never had any actual combat.

The soldiers were confident in the tactical system of the giants, which was a slowly growing impression. However, when they really saw the dense cavalry unfolding in the distance, the soldiers were still panicked.

On the coalition side, several nobles of doctor-level chariots boarded the chariots. They did not ride horses because they felt that riding horses would undermine the rules of the nobles, so they chose chariots.

The first wave of 100 chariots were the army of the emperor, which was the elite force brought by the Emperor Zhou from Luoyi.

Behind the chariot, the infantry conscripted by the emperor was followed. Unlike Qi, Wei and Han, who had been fighting and learning from Si Shang for a long time, the emperor's troops still retained the orthodox organization, but the organization had also shrunk greatly.

Behind each chariot, thirty disciples followed the chariots in a loose formation, relied on the chariot to open the gap and then fought hand in hand.

These orthodox nobles still retained the combat methods of the nobles. There were no musketeers on the chariots, but were equipped with elite aristocratic archers. The way of fighting was not to directly rush to the formation, but would shoot arrows from the side, and after the gap was shot, then rotate the chariot to get close to the hand-to-hand combat.

A nobleman from Luoyi boarded the car and looked into the distance. He looked at the Mohist infantry who had changed from marching to phalanx in a short time. He walked with the car beside him: "If you are not in a state of chaos, you will change the formation in an instant, and you may not be able to win."

The chariot is also a nobleman, and he only thought that such a fast array change speed meant that it was difficult to defeat. At this time, he could only say: "The world is in chaos, only death."

The two knew each other tacitly and nodded to encourage each other.

The drum sounded, and the hundreds of chariots under the emperor took the lead in launching the impact on the side.

The soldiers controlled the four horses, and the heavy chariots whistled and could run very quickly on the flat land. When the distance was about three hundred steps, the chariots began to accelerate, and the scattered soldiers behind also began to run with the chariots.

On their front, the Mohist infantry who had already formed a formation and waited, felt that the earth was shaking with the chariots, and the chariots that were galloping towards them were visually shocking.

Many soldiers were panicked, as if they were about to jump out of their throats. The veterans squatting in front pushed the flint rifle to the ground. They were actually panicked when they were half-squatting.

In addition to the howling of the chariots, the shouts of the officers were in my ears.

"Stay! Stay!"

The meaning of stabilization is to stabilize the formation, and to not be allowed to shoot without obeying orders.

The first wave of scattered shots must be after the enemy approaches, otherwise the opponent cannot be cut into a gap and will be easily washed away.

The officers remained as calm as possible, while some backbone mobs were concentrated in the formation. Once the periphery of the square formation was washed away, they needed to push up as soon as possible.

Those small cannons only have one chance to fire, and they can only fire after the enemy approaches, and then they must quickly hide in the formation.

The distance of hundreds of steps is very fast for a chariot that does not have formation to hit. On the front chariot, an orthodox nobleman with all kinds of skills holds a bow and arrow, calmly holding a calm mind, with the arrow pouch hanging at his waist, and the white tail feather was pinched in his hand.

The groove of the exquisite jade ring is stuck on the bowstring. The bow used on the chariot is more powerful than the bow of the nomadic riding shooting, because it is more convenient to use on the chariot.

This nobleman is very confident in his archery skills and is famous for his quick arrows in Luoyi.

This nobleman was very orthodox. His family was not allowed to engage in business. He never rode a horse with stirrups. His private soldiers and relatives were not worthy of buying muskets. He never used luxury goods such as glass and porcelain on the Si River.

He is also considered a maverick in Luoyi, but many people also admire him for his interactions with him and think that he is the real aristocrat. He also thinks that such a person is the backbone of the world.

He has not seen a musket before, but he was quite disdainful when he saw the speed of the musket being recharged for a long time.

With his own hand, even the fast arrow can shoot four arrows in extreme times, and can hit the bull's eye within forty steps. A musketeer can only reload at most two shots, but he can reach twenty shots between two shots of the musket.

He also debated with others, believing that the root cause of the chaos today is that people's hearts do not abide by etiquette and law.

Just like a simple musket, countries are starting to use muskets. Why?

Because there are not enough shooters to be selected.

Why can't enough shooters be selected?

Because the rural shooting system was destroyed.

Why is the rural shooting system destroyed?

Because many people do not abide by the rules, open up private land and sell private land, the original village community's land-based system was destroyed. Many village community people became poor due to land enclosure or land transactions, which made them have no time to ejaculate in the village. How could they practice ejaculation in the village if they were not full?

The basis of the rural archery system is the village and community-based field system. The farmer's land is changed every ten or twenty years, and it cannot be bought or sold or transferred. Only one season of grain is planted every year. After cultivating public fields, he has time to practice archery skills.

In other words, it is the ownership of aristocratic land in the village and community, but the aristocratic land is not allowed to be bought and sold, ensuring that each family has a hundred acres of land. This way, the rural shooting system can be maintained, so that muskets can be used at all.

Therefore, he believes that, in the final analysis, it is because of the collapse of the world's system that makes people feel confused, which leads to various situations that he cannot accept in the world.

Therefore, he forbids the farmers in the fiefdom from using iron tools; he was not enthusiastic when he saw others gaining money by catching land, but continued to maintain the rules of planting one season a year in his fiefdom and performing martial arts in winter; he strictly prohibited the farmers in his fiefdom from reclaiming land privately; in addition to the necessary public land work, he was kind to govern and polite to the people's strength.

And he believed that if every noble scholar and doctor were like himself, the world would definitely return to stability.

Such orthodox nobles were extinct in Si 20 years ago.

But there are still many in Luoyi.

Today, some of the most orthodox real nobles and gentlemen in the world gathered here and launched the most heroic charge against the Mohist infantry formation.

The chariot started to turn when it was 40 steps away from the square formation. The nobleman with superb archery clamped a feather arrow and shot it out. He thought that today we would let people all over the world know that bows and arrows will never go out of date, but because you can't use them, they will all be suitable for muskets.

The Mohist infantry who had a dense array of armor was like a huge target. He shot an arrow and someone fell down in response.

With a trembling wrist, three more feather arrows were clamped between the fingers. The index finger moved flexibly, and once again hooked the bowstring with his thumb and tiger's mouth to clamp the feather arrows, quickly pulling them open.

Bang……
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