There was also opposition to this idea in the army of the princes.

Humanitarian: "In the battle of Yinyang, Wei Han and Mo Chu fought each other, but the tactics used by Wei Han were also the upper and lower horses. At that time, he saw that Chen Caizhi's division of the Chu army was weak, so he gathered the main force to storm the wing of Chen Cai's division. ”

"Heavy formation, trying to rotate and outflank after breaking through on one flank, but what is the final result?"

"Now that our army has few artillery and cavalry, even if we gather forces on the right flank, how can we break through the left flank of the Mo family before breaking through and capturing the Sanliu Society?"

"Moreover, the most difficult part of such tactics is mobilization, marching, concealment, and deception. It's not just like that. ”

"Directly arrange the formation like this, how can you not know that the sage is suitable and good at using soldiers? In addition, the Mojia army is equipped with hot air balloons, which can be lifted into the air to watch the battlefield, and if our army is deployed early, it will be detected. ”

"If you don't deploy early, you must first concentrate your forces on Sanliushe, induce the Mo family to storm Sanliushe, and then move to the right on the battlefield. Do you think anyone can do it? ”

This tactic is really difficult to use, and the difficulty lies in forcing the enemy to mobilize troops.

Either the opponent is mentally retarded and does not observe the deployment of troops at all before the start of the match; Either they rely on their own military qualities, change formations and march in chaos, and use their own mobility advantages to complete left and right adjustments on the battlefield.

But in terms of quality, training, mobility, pure team of the flower team, and thinness of the formation, the alliance of the princes is not as good as the Mo family, so some people feel that engaging in this kind of tactic in tomorrow's decisive battle is afraid that they will kill themselves.

Especially the Han general, who had experienced the Battle of Hidden Sun, was even more apprehensive.

At that time, the situation was already perfect, and the wing of Chen Cai's division was the weakness of the Mochu coalition army.

At that time, it was also on the other flank that the elongated line took the initiative to retreat to resist, while the wing facing Chen Cai's division concentrated Wei Han's heavy infantry formation, lined up in an extremely thick formation, intending to turn after breaking through there.

It's a bit like grabbing the T-prefix in naval warfare.

But the result was that the new army of the king division of the state of Chu quickly adjusted its deployment, completed the reconstruction of the front within a quarter of an hour, changed the direction of the front, and blocked the onslaught of the Wei and Han heavy infantry formations, and finally failed.

Now the alliance of princes is facing the Sishang Liberation Army, which is far superior to the new army of the Chu king's division in terms of training and discipline and the degree of courage to fight.

Tian Ju said: "I know it. However, if you hold on to the formation in a circle, you will be defeated; The division of forces is also a sure defeat. So since they are all defeated, why not survive in death? ”

"Now the Mo family has gathered a large number of troops at the Sanliu Society on the left wing......"

Before he finished speaking, the person who had refuted him just now said: "Even so, if you want to use it, you must march and deploy tonight, and transfer the troops on the left flank of our army to the right flank without the Mo family noticing before dawn." ”

"But when you march at night, who can control the army? Who in the army can guarantee that there will be no chaos? Who can guarantee that there will be no chaos in the army that will lead to flight? And what troops can march quietly at night? ”

"Even if it's a march, it's three or two thousand elites at most, what's the use?"

"This is the so-called talk on paper!"

Tian Ju shouted: "You will only say that I am talking on paper, let me ask you, in addition to saying that I can't succeed in doing this, do you have any ways and means to win?" ”

The man bowed his head and said, "No, but I know it won't work." ”

Seeing that the generals in the army began to quarrel again, the frowning Qi Hou and Han Hou came forward to dissuade them.

The final result can only be as Tian Ju said, dead horses do live horse doctors.

This is the guiding ideology for tomorrow's decisive battle, and as for whether or not we can seize the opportunity to deceive and mobilize, it depends on the level of command of tomorrow's decisive battle.

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The Mo family has already arranged its own tactical concept, and the Mo family's plan is to break through the central government and divide the coalition forces.

One is that the Mo family used two more flanks to outflank before, or one wing to defend the other and attack, I am afraid that the enemy will be aware of it.

Another is that the coalition forces did not choose the turtle formation to hold on, but also retained the battlefield control area that the field offensive needs to unfold, which led to their slightly longer battle line.

This is not to say that the choice of the coalition forces is wrong, because if the turtle formation is chosen to defend, then it is equivalent to losing the possibility of taking the initiative to attack, and the place is so small that it is impossible to deploy troops and mobilize troops.

But there are pros and cons to everything, and now that the coalition forces have chosen this way, the advantage is that there is the possibility of attacking and counterattacking; The disadvantage is that the elongated battle line has led to the fact that the Mo family can use the inherent impression of the princes' coalition army on the tactics of the two wings of the Mo family, storm the princes' wing, and force the princes' alliance to mobilize troops to support, and the most convenient way to support the two wings is the central direction.

The direction of Sanliushe is the direction of the Mo family's feint, that is, the left flank of the coalition army.

The location there was very important, so that the alliance of the princes could misjudge that the Mo family was going to capture the Sanliu Society, thus cutting off the last possibility of the coalition army retreating.

In fact, Shi didn't care much about cutting off the retreat of the coalition forces.

The Han army in the direction of Yangxia, if they don't give up Yangxia, they can't attack it at all.

It would take at least four days to abandon the entire army of Yang Xia, and that didn't include the time it took them to break through and stop them halfway.

In the decisive battle, he has a huge cavalry advantage in his hands, and if the coalition forces dare to withdraw, it will immediately turn into a rout.

He just wanted the rebels to misjudge.

Once the alliance of the princes miscalculated, the Mo family was under the onslaught of the Sanliushe, and it was necessary to mobilize troops from the Chinese army to support.

At that time, the middle direction will be weak, and it will be possible to divide it by dense assault in columns of infantry, supplemented by cavalry.

In the direction of Sanliushe, there was the right flank of the Mo family, where fifty bronze cannons, six thousand light cavalry, and twelve thousand infantry were deployed.

The Chinese army was the main force of the Mo family, and forty bronze cannons were deployed in the direction of the right flank, which could not only support the right flank but also attack the center of the coalition army when it turned to the center to break through. In front of the Chinese army were twenty bronze cannons.

The Warrior Knight Division that charges into battle is in the rear of the Chinese army, and it needs to be selected when it needs to be put into the battlefield.

The strength of one division was deployed as a reserve at the junction of the center army and the right flank of the second line.

The left flank adopted a more defensive-friendly deployment.

Every two brigades were combined, with the first brigade spread out in the front, the second brigade divided into three parts, two of which were deployed slightly densely in the rear of the left and right flanks of the first brigade, and the remaining one was in reserve in the rear.

Each two brigades are equipped with two companies of light cavalry, which are used for small pursuits after the enemy retreats after engagement.

There were three thousand light horsemen on the flanks for cover.

Tomorrow at dawn, the artillery will begin to bombard, and while waiting for the bombardment, it will be necessary to mobilize troops, complete preparations for the attack, or readjust to the deployment of the coalition forces.

This decisive battle is no longer the battle of the previous alignment against Vietnam, and both sides have stretched the front in order to open up their forces so that they can deploy their forces.

As the main attacking party, it is no longer possible to act in complete unison on a battlefield nearly six or seven kilometers wide, and the three armies have their own commanders, and they will proceed according to the predetermined plan, and the mutual support strategy should not only depend on the grasp of the battlefield by the commanders of the three armies, but also lie in the fact that these reserves on the side of the main force of the Chinese army are under the appropriate control to carry out a series of battlefield arrangements.

The next morning, before the sun had risen, the sleepy-eyed observers had already finished washing.

They have to prepare themselves before the sun rises, and the giant hot air balloon needs to be inflated with a large leather loat in advance.

When the sun has just risen, it is the best time to raise the balloon, the air flow is smooth, and the weather is still a little cold.

Several auxiliary soldiers took off their cotton clothes, only wore a single coat, and pulled a heavy leather rope in a group of three, which was the "standard equipment" of the Mo family in the early years of defending the city to prevent the enemy army from digging tunnels, mainly used to pour smoke into the tunnels, and later began to burn sulfur, but the core idea remained the same, but the people who dug holes and attacked died more miserably.

The heavy leather rafts are encased in a large wooden shell so that sufficient wind pressure can be generated.

Pi Lu snorted and panted, like a cow plowing in the mud after the rain.

A huge balloon made of oil-tissue paper was sandwiched between the cotton cloth and gradually began to swell with the wheezing of the leather loather.

At this time, there are no high-grade materials, and the cheapest is a cotton cloth with thin oiled paper as a shell, which can fly hundreds of meters high, but the army generally does not need to fly so high.

Inside the wicker-woven spider plant, a heating furnace is made of a mixture of various oils, and the extremely expensive tung oil and whale oil are used.

As the balloon gradually expanded, it began to heat up, and the auxiliary next to it pulled it with a rope to make the balloon stand upright.

Two observers in charge of observation and recording stepped into the gondola, and in the toolbox strapped to the gondola, there were various basic drawing tools, graphite pens for sketching, telescopes, etc.

One is responsible for observing the dictation, and the other sketches the specific content on a piece of paper, and then throws it on the ground for the auxiliary soldiers to summarize and report.

In the First Battle of Mo-Yue, the Mo family used the cover of small hills to mobilize troops, because the Mo family attached great importance to battlefield observation.

Fortunately, there is a large plain here, and there is only a hill tens of meters high, and as long as the balloon is raised, it is easy to detect any movement of the enemy army, so as to prepare in advance.

If a hillock is used well, it may turn the tide of the battlefield, such as a feint on the left flank, but the main force uses the knoll's obscuration of the line of sight to maneuver to the right flank and suddenly counterattack.

Now the Mo family soldiers are strong and strong, so we must avoid doing this on the weak side as much as possible, and the role of the observer soldiers is extremely important.

On the long front, a total of five balloons were raised, two on the right flank, that is, in the direction of Sanyanagisha, two in the middle army, and one on the left flank.

The observers on the gondola have all served as staff officers, and they are all from professional backgrounds, and being able to draw drawings and simple surveying and mapping are the most basic requirements.

In addition, they also need to make their own judgment on it when necessary, but this is not the case in general, most of the time they are only responsible for describing and not summarizing.

Now the weather is cold, there is no fog today, there is a slight wind, now the vision is good, when the fight is full of gunsmoke, as long as there is a breeze then the vision will not be very bad.

On the balloon opposite the Sanyanagi Society, the observers used binoculars to observe the formation of the allied forces of the princes and look for the location of the artillery.