The Mohist artillery soldiers who had been bombarding for an hour were packing up the artillery, just like they were usually trained, and they re-expanded on the side of the infantry's preparation for attack and continued bombardment.

The small cannons of the first-class brigade are lighter, and those cannons that fire five kilograms of iron bombs are much heavier. The pack horses that have long been accustomed to the sound of cannons and the smell of gunpowder are quiet and quiet. From time to time, they look up at the smoke filled the distance.

Because of the existence of cavalry on the Mo family, the Zhao army on the opposite side chose the Pin-Character formation from the beginning, so the artillery can kill and injure them well.

If they deployed their formation wider but were easily broken by cavalry, the Zhao people still chose the defensive formation derived from the circular formation based on their experience in fighting Zhongshan and Hu people.

The infantry of the Mohist family had begun to gather and had just checked the loading of gunpowder and lead bullets.

At this time, they need to advance to a position just outside the range, but they have to wait for artillery maneuvering to the flank to re-deploy.

Gunpowder is not a life. The Mo family commander in charge of this battle is very clear about the Mo family's usual style of siege. He sweats more and digs less and bleeds less, and uses more gunpowder more and less to live.

Offensive battles are similar. As long as the artillery has an advantage, the advantage should be maximized.

The scout reported that the main force of the Korean army could not arrive today, so time was with the Mo family, so he could wipe out the morale of the other party Zhao army as much as possible.

The bronze cannon has a huge blow to morale, especially the formation of the Zhao army on the opposite side is too dense. This kind of car castle tactic is okay to fight against nomads without artillery, or to have the advantage of artillery.

Neither there is, I am afraid that the shelling will last for a while and the morale of the army will completely disperse.

The head of the Mo family used a telescope to look at the situation of the Zhao army opposite, and decided to choose a frontal breakthrough, and at the same time, the transmission order notified the cavalry to approach the rear.

If the other two camps of the Zhao people choose to change their formations to support them, the cavalry will launch a charge.

Or try to attack and don’t let Zhao change the formation.

These are the contents of daily training, and are compulsory courses for cavalry commanders. The general only needs to convey his intentions.

The four companies on the front are the main attackers, platoon the dense formation, load the gunpowder and block the short spear. After approaching thirty steps, they fired a volley and rushed directly into the enemy formation.

On the left are three companies approaching horizontally to provide fire support.

On the right is the artillery side fire, and there is also a company of infantry responsible for covering the artillery.

Leave two companies as reserves.

In this case, military chief officers at the division level are not allowed to take the lead in charge, while political chief officers need to take the lead in charge in such occasions.

The main general shook hands with the representative of Shi Mozhe, and did not say much, but just nodded at him.

The mortality rate of leading the impact is still very high.

The division representative didn't say anything, but just silently put on a hat with tall pheasant feathers in it. This is the morale of the army and morale. It is necessary to have high and bright feathers that can be seen by the soldiers.

The officers basically have this kind of hat.

The young drummers beat the military song "Persist the World to the End" and stood with the division representative on the side of the team.

"All! Snap spear."

As the order was issued, the drum sound quickly changed the rhythm. The company captain repeated the order downwards. Chief Sima followed up and repeated the sergeant, and the commander followed up again.

The soldiers took out a short spear about one foot long from their waists and stuck it on the front end of the musket through their characteristic wide-ranging machine, which will greatly affect the loading. Basically, once the short spear is mounted in advance, there is only one chance to shoot.

According to the density of flint rifles, the soldiers of the four companies were almost half a person separated by the people. The four companies re-formed, forming an eight-row dense formation.

The teacher representative pulled out his waist and gestured to the drummer to start beating the drum beats.

The left wing's company responsible for cover has already advanced first because the horizontal lines they lined up would be slower, and a wider formation would mean it would be harder to maintain a straight line.

According to experience and calculation results, after the left wing company advanced about eighty steps, the four companies that broke through the central government began to move forward slowly.

The neat and dense footsteps are like having the power that can make the earth tremble.

When they advanced one hundred and fifty steps away from the Zhao army, untidy gunfire sounded in the Zhao army's vehicle formation, and some people could not withstand this pressure and fired the first shot.

But it is really difficult to hit anything at a distance of 150 steps. Since the company is an elite rather than a second-line garrison, this kind of gunfire cannot confuse them.

The artillery that moved to the right wing had already opened fire first, and the horizontal team on the left had approached about 120 steps because of taking one step ahead.

The Zhao army on the opposite side had no artillery, and had been suppressed in the previous bombing. The remaining 20 to 30 kilograms of small iron cannons suitable for melee combat to block nomadic cavalry shooting were not large. The Zhao army on the opposite side could only wait for the Mohist family to move forward.

Although the nobles tried their best to stop shooting in advance, under tremendous pressure, some people still couldn't help it.

When the four companies that were in dense formations advanced to about sixty steps, casualties began to occur, and more than a dozen people were hit.

However, the distance of sixty steps means that the Zhao army musketeers in the vehicle array can no longer be loaded before getting close.

The march before the frontal impact was silent and ruthless.

You need to watch your partner being hit and lying on the ground silently and ruthlessly, and then you have to walk through your partner's body silently and ruthlessly to make up for the gap in front.

You need to watch Yiwu's partner's head being hit by a lead bullet in silence and ruthlessly wipe off the blood splashing on his face in silence and ruthlessly, and listen to whether the drum beat should be taken to the left or right.

Therefore, in this era, except for the troops with belief bonuses and ideals, the best soldiers were instead of being blocked and sealed villages and communities, only knowing about the serfs within thirty miles of the world. Only such soldiers could endure this silence and ruthlessness without ideas and beliefs.

Every step closer is a bet on life.

Whenever you get closer, the commander needs to calculate the other party's loading speed in his mind. At the closest distance, shoot at the last moment when the other party has not yet loaded. That is the most perfect.

And this kind of perfection has no shortcut except for those dozens of steps that require life to fill.

The division representative silently calculated the number of steps and distances. The particularly dull sound of Zhao Jun's grenade gun kept ringing in front of him. Finally, when he was about thirty steps, he suddenly pulled out the sword from his waist and shouted: "Stand up, shoot with a wheel!"

The company that was advancing finally waited for the order to shoot, and quickly stopped with the drum beat. Sima Chang's shouts from the front row came one after another. The soldiers in the front two rows raised their muskets to shoot, then squatted down and gave the space to the soldiers behind.

After four gun roars, the drum beats changed again, and the sound of the horn of the charge came, and the infantry who stood up and lined up launched a intensive charge.

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The next morning, several Zhao nobles who escaped by chance told about what happened yesterday.

That charge directly disintegrated the Zhao army, whose morale was already extremely low. Three thousand Zhao army was killed 800, most of which were captured and wiped out.

The Han army chief Duan Duan looked at the panicked Zhao nobles and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Although these three thousand Zhao troops were gone, they saved their main force. They were right in their guess. The Mo family really wanted to lure him into a rash way and encircle and annihilate him.

It is obvious that the one who fought with the Zhao army must be the main striker of the Mo family. Their mission is to sneak attack Yang Xia and then cut off his way to Yang Xia.

Fortunately, I pretended to make a move first and then turned back. Otherwise, if I walked dozens of miles forward, I would definitely be surrounded.

These Zhao people are not incompetent people. They dare to fight with merits. Even so, they were still annihilated by the Mo family vanguards of less than 3,000 people. It can be seen that the Mo family's power of field battles is the same as before.

If you are surrounded, you will definitely be unlucky.

He comforted the Zhao people and immediately led the army into Yangxia, used the fortress built by the Chu people to deploy defense, and sent people to report to the main force of the coalition's central army, saying that he had met the main force of the Mo family's Si Shang Legion.

After the news reached the central army of the coalition, the princes and important officials were overjoyed. This was a great opportunity.

The Mohist family had not many troops on Si Shang. If they were all near Yangxia, then Shangqiu would have been empty.

In this way, some of the previous situations make sense.

A small number of Mohist troops in Chengkuang and other places were still defending the dead, which was obviously delaying the time when the main force of the coalition forces besieged Shangqiu, thus creating a time difference for the legions left on the Si Shang to annihilate the coalition's right-hand side.

Fortunately, Duan Duan Zhibing did not advance rashly, otherwise something big would really happen.

The Mohist family's field combat ability cannot be underestimated. Even if the one who stays behind may not be the main elite, it is terrible to be able to break through the Zhao people's car camp in the field only in one afternoon.

If the Korean army at the end of the right section advances to Ku County and is 200 miles away from the main force, then the Mo family will have enough space to surround and annihilate it.

Once the right road is annihilated, there will be huge loopholes in Daliang from Kuxian to Hongshui, and then to Yangxia.

If the Mo family sent an army to attack Daliang and burn food and grass at that time, they would be afraid that the army would be trapped under Shangqiu City.

The more the princes thought, the more reasonable it became. The root cause was because they didn't expect that they had too much appetite. They were planning to directly eat more than 60,000 of the main forces of the princes' coalition forces of the emperor's army, rather than just 30,000 from the right wing.

As for the princes, if the Mo family army was outside, there would be at most 30,000 to 40,000 troops in Si.

The Mohist army can indeed fight, and the military system of conscription and training is also unique, but even Sun and Wu Fusheng on the battlefield today will be difficult to fight two.

So all this is very reasonable, because the Mohist family could not encircle and annihilate the main force of the central army, so there is only one reason why the Mohist family gathered in Yangxia and other places on a large scale, that is, eating the right-wing Korean army that could be eaten, thus forcing the princes to retreat.

The main force of the Mo family obviously did not want to attack Linzi, but to conquer Linzi and pacify Qi with Jiaodong grain, and go to Linzi to pass through Pingyin, thereby completely breaking the flanks of the vassal states.

If the main force of the Mo family cannot force the retreating troops in Si Shang, but is forced to retreat by the troops left behind in Si Shang, then the various vassal states will be in danger.

The Mohist families already had Nanyang, Lushan, Huaixi, and Sishui, which had already achieved the ability to attack in all directions so that the princes could not look after each other. If Pingyin threatened Juye, Wei, etc., Han and Wei would face oppression in three directions at that time.

According to what the princes thought, this should be so exciting that Duan Duan’s news made them inexplicably. This was an excellent opportunity to shock the world and force the main force of the Mo family to come back.

The princes did not expect to invade Pengcheng, but they just needed to force the Mo family to return to help, so if they could conquer Shangqiu, it would be possible.

Before attacking, you can prevent the city from resisting fiercely. Once captured, if the main force of the Mo family does not return to help, they will slaughter them all and force the Mo family to come back.

So the princes made a decision.

The troops were divided into encirclement Chengkuang, Ningling, Dai, and surrounded but did not attack.

The main force bypassed Ningling, Chengkuang, and headed straight to Shangqiu.
Chapter completed!