The Mohist school chose to build a fortification in the area north of Echeng to fight against the Chu State because of the special terrain here.

If the vassal kings of the Huaibei Central Plains of Chu wanted to support, it was impossible to cross the Dabie Mountains, and even if they crossed, they could not cross too many people.

If you don’t cross the Dabie Mountains, you have to capture the important Huaihe town occupied by the Mo family as a hub. The matters there are not under the control of Liuzhi people. I believe that the troops staying in the Si Shang Jianghuai will take good care of their flanks.

The reinforcement army of Shen Gong and Jiuzi Kingdom should be the last reinforcement army that the main force of Chu Kingdom can rely on in the short term.

The current strict defense of the Sixth Division, coupled with the shocked number of artillery guarding the Shazhou, and the Mohist family's behavior of breaking through Echeng Daye within a few days, all made the Chu State believe that the Mohist family moved its main force to the south bank of the Yangtze River.

In fact, the only sixth division was stationed in Shazhou. The combat engineering brigade that was stationed together was left with only two companies and was built in Jiangbei. The Chu people could not attack fiercely. According to past experience, there must be the main force of the Mo family there.

In this way, the positions of Shen Gong and Jiuzi Kingdom are no longer important. It is better to gather this force that covers the flanks towards the main force and defend here.

Since the scout of the Jiexuan Army had controlled the battlefield east of the Bashui River, the hydrological situation upstream of the Bashui River was known.

Liu Finger left a total of two divisions of troops and some new recruits and militias, logistics, etc. to support them, stationed in the camp and guarding the south bank.

After tricking the Chu people, the main force immediately gathered to go north.

He personally led the only cavalry division, two infantry divisions, and a formation artillery brigade to head north first. The main forces behind gathered to approach and crossed the river in batches.

There is a place that is not a torrential flow upstream of the Bashui River. After Liuzhi ordered the engineers to set up the floating bridge, the cavalry immediately crossed the Bashui River and headed straight for the place where Shengong marched.

He ordered that if Shen Gong was detained for defense, the soldiers would be quick and he would defeat the enemy when Shen Gong's troops were not deployed.

A cavalry division has more than 7,000 cavalry. If Shen Gong's troops are not deployed, it is likely that a single attack will completely defeat Shen Gong's troops.

But if Mr. Shen is prepared, the cavalry will patrol nearby and force Mr. Shen to turn to defense on the spot. The infantry and artillery he led will follow and encircle and annihilate the soldiers of Mr. Shen and the Jiuzi Kingdom.

The main force in the future should take steady steps, build formal floating bridges, occupy the mountains and camp in Anzhai, and prepare for the movement of the Chu army.

At the same time, an elite first camp company was sent to ride horses and rush to the direction of Zhucheng after crossing the river.

If you encounter a Chu people's baggage transportation team along the way, attack and kill if there are few people, and withdraw if there are many people. It will scare the Chu army to intimidate the logistics of grain storage and retreat.

Fifty miles away from the Chu State camp, the troops of Shen Gong and Jiuzi State were moving forward.

This is not the new army of the Chu State's royal army, but a local county and peasant soldier, with obvious remnants of the old era.

The chariots, baggage chariots, and the chariots were filled with food and grass, and the soldiers followed slowly.

The only difference from before is that some vassals are equipped with coercive guns. Compared with the number of previous archers, coercive guns, like crossbows, are the best choices for projectiles after the collapse of the township shooting system after the collapse of the Wellfield system.

Shen Gong only had so many troops to use. After the Mo family captured several cities in Huainan, Shen Gong immediately sent troops to rescue him, but he was led into a trap and destroyed all of them, making the Fengjun of Huainan no longer dared to use thousands of troops to rescue him.

If you dare not rescue thousands of troops, you can only wait for the monarchs to gather troops to organize a large army. It takes time to organize a large army. The nearby Mo family bought the most needed time for Si Shang.

Although only thousands of people were eliminated, their strategic significance was extremely important, which made Feng Jun believe that the Mo family's mobility was so good that the rapid support of thousands of people was to throw meat to beat the dog, and he did not dare to move lightly.

Now that the commander of Shen Gong has passed three passes and arrived in Hubei, stationed troops in Jiuzi, and recruited thousands of five soldiers from Jiuzi Kingdom to recruit and strengthened them. This is all the strength he can do.

In addition, the two divisions of his headquarters had only 17,800 soldiers, of which the most were 3,000 soldiers who dared to fight bravely, and the rest were recruited peasant soldiers.

As a major land of Chu, Shen Duke was also a veteran hereditary nobleman of Chu and still had some experience in the war.

The raid of the Jiexuan Army Cavalry Division was not successful. After being discovered by the scout, Shen Gong threw away about a thousand men with the courage of a hero cutting off his arm, and then surrounded the chariots and formed a formation to defend themselves. The Jiexuan Army Cavalry Division was difficult to break through and could only patrol and monitor nearby.

But Mr. Shen's reinforcements could no longer move.

If there is such a cavalry nearby, it will die if it moves. Only by forming a formation and waiting for the main force of Chu to come to rescue him will you have a chance.

He formed a formation at the water, so that the soldiers were not afraid of thirst after being cut off from the water source; there was also food on the baggage truck, so there would be no problem for the army to hold on for ten days.

In the military camp, Mr. Shen was not panicked, and gently stroked his beard and said to the generals: "As a general, one must not ignore the formation. Those who know the formation must not ignore the formation, and those who know the formation must not ignore the formation. Only by knowing attack can one know the defense."

"If our army is marching, the enemy will attack quickly, and we will form a round formation."

"The round formation is the group. The chariots are cities, the shafts are walls, and they are divided into eight directions. The elite soldiers are arranged in the gaps in the eight directions, the soldiers surround the chariots, and the bows, crossbows and muskets are arranged in front of the array."

"If you encounter an enemy attack, you will be headed everywhere and tailed everywhere."

In the past, this was the secret of the nobles. If you can master these principles, you can worship the general.

The generals and soldiers from the school immediately lowered their heads and listened. After the formation was formed, the Mo family cavalry could not break the formation, so they were amazed.

Shen Gong also said: "Those who guard the formation must know the method of breaking the formation."

"If I make a round formation and all the food is enough, I will use the round formation to slap it. Because I think it is solid, the enemy wants to attack it, the people of the three armies will be divided into four or five, or they will show their fear. If I see the enemy afraid, I will divide it and ignore it. Therefore, I will destroy the solid formation by destroying my formation, and the formation will be in danger. The enemy will be promoted together, and the five armies will be promoted together, and the three armies will be promoted together, so that the round formation can be broken."

"Therefore, the method of guarding the round formation must be solid and wait for the enemy to be tired. Do not chase after it lightly or loosen the formation."

He said so much, but in fact, it is just one sentence to sum up.

Once you suddenly encounter an enemy, it is safest to form a round formation. If the enemy wants to break the formation, there is only one way, which is to disperse the troops, attack from all sides, and then pretend to retreat. Once the round formation kicks, it will be a chance to pursue, and turn the attack into the head, causing the entire round formation to disperse. Then the attacker will suddenly attack again during the chaos period of changing the formation, and the round formation will be broken.

Therefore, if you want to defend the round formation, you should not take the initiative to attack, nor do you pursue the enemy when you see it retreat. Instead, you should hold on for several days and make sure that the enemy is really tired, then change the formation and counterattack.

For peasant soldiers with extremely poor discipline, only formation is the way to ensure combat. Once the formation is broken, it is easy to have an unparalleled move of killing a hundred with one.

Judging from the experience of Shen Gong, the generals and generals around him have the ability to fight against a hundred.

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Outside the round formation, the cavalry division that did not attack under the state of Shen Gong's marching was resting, but only allowed several companies to continue to harassment in front.

The commander of the Cavalry Division looked at the circular formation under Shen Gong from a high place, shook his head and laughed, and said to the representative of the division mo masters around him: "As the giant said, most of the nobles of blood are now dry bones in the tombs, and they have no ability to fight. There is really no need for them to exist."

"The dry bones in the tomb are so old that they can't bear it. They will be broken with one blow, but they don't know how to adapt. They will definitely be captured by later generations."

The representative of the Shimozhe looked at the circular formation published by Shen and smiled and said, "Yes, the dry bones in the tomb. When we were in the high willows, we often borrowed cars to set up circular formations. But what is our relying on to set up circular formations?"

"With our copper gun guns, there is a cavalry that can strike at any time and tear the enemy apart once we seize the opportunity."

"This old nobleman wants artillery but no artillery, cavalry but no cavalry, and set up a round formation. Are he waiting to die here?"

He pointed to the distance and said, "There is a water terrain to the west of this place. If I do this for him, I must work hard to form a formation and retreat slowly, and retreat eight miles to change the formation at the water terrain."

The commander of the Cavalry Division smiled and said, "Shen Gong's troops are not our first division. They form formations and fight and retreat eight miles away under the cavalry. If these soldiers with dry bones in the tomb are really so capable, they can't even encounter some decent resistance by us all pushing from Hongze all the way here?"

"He shouldn't have set up a round formation, but he's dead. The era they are familiar with has passed."

After mocking the opponent's stupidity, the commander of the cavalry division circled a few more times, allowing the soldiers to rest on the spot, and the brigades took turns to alert, test the attack, and lure them to see if the opponent would rush out.

This made me teasing for most of the day. In the afternoon, Liuzhi arrived with two brigade infantry and an artillery brigade, resting on the spot to choose a decisive battle tomorrow morning.

Liu Finger's view is similar to that of the commander of the cavalry division. The consensus conclusion is that he is facing a group of dead bones in a tomb.

The material is too wide, but the material is a bit too wide.

In such a place, I have no artillery, no advantage of projection force, and no elite cavalry, and the moment I formed a round formation, I was defeated.

Pressing the six fingers to think, if you encounter such a situation, there seems to be no better way.

But the problem is... the Mo family's set of things are there, but the nobles dare not learn, refuse to learn, cannot learn, and refuse to give up their feudal rights. Then these people should be eliminated. They really can't keep up with the times when they even fight, so they really have no use except to catch Si Shang and sing and dancing.

The next morning.

Liu Finger did not use various strategies, but instead formed a formation that might be the simplest since he fought these wars.

The two infantry divisions left three brigades as reserves, and the rest of the infantry were deployed in stairs.

The artillery brigade built artillery positions on both wings of the front line, forming cross-side firepower. The cavalry division divided two brigades to detour back, and the rest were deployed on both wings.
Chapter completed!