The general of Wei Han knew very well in his heart that his defeat was a foregone conclusion, even if it seemed to ordinary people that the outcome was not yet known.

The most important thing in this battle was not the cavalry of the Mo family, but the foot soldiers of the Chu State.

In other words, it was the battle of the times between the military system of the new army system of the entire Chu State and the heavy infantry phalanx that Wei and Han had begun since the confrontation against Shanjung.

The bow and crossbow were replaced by heavy arquebuses, and there was no difference in the military system in essence, and the heavy step phalanx was the basis for the Wei state to be dominant.

The cavalry of the Mo family can only collapse their left flank, and it is the foot soldiers who really decide the victory, and the four or five thousand cavalry of the Mo family who finally complete the outflanking are not enough.

The Pythagorean array was a common tactic used by Wei and Han, and in the battle of Daliang City, Wu Qi used this tactic, with the martial knights with stirrups, to defeat the main force of Chu in one fell swoop, making the king of Chu die more.

And the use of this tactic requires three prerequisites.

First, the enemy's forces are evenly distributed.

Second, it is not possible to set up a formation at the beginning, but to quietly display it in the process of formation confrontation and concentrate forces on one wing.

Third, a certain flank of the enemy army is the weak point of the whole army, that is, the direction in which it is easiest to break through.

These three conditions were met by the initial formation of the Mochu coalition army.

The left flank is the fragile newly formed division of Chen Cai, and this is the weakness of the whole army.

The entire force was almost evenly distributed, and there was no concentration of forces in a certain direction.

In the formation confrontation, the Wei and Han generals completed the right flank engagement and the concentration of the main force through the alternating retreat of the left flank and the rotation of the entire battle line.

This tactic is well used; or famous generals such as Wu Qi, Wu Zixu, and Sun Wuzi can go down in history.

But if it is not used well, or if the general has a slightly worse grasp of the battle situation and the battlefield, it is likely to be laughed at and generous.

Use it well, win more with less, and annihilate the enemy army completely.

It was not used well, it was self-defeating, the main force was counter-surrounded, and the whole army was annihilated.

More than ten years ago, in the battle of Daliang City, Wu Qi used the Pythagorean array, won in one fell swoop, and shocked Chunan, because the formation of Chu at that time was still the original structure of the left, middle and right armies, and the main force was still the chariot soldiers and pawns.

Wu Qi used bronze cannons against the chariots, gathered the main phalanx on the flank, assisted by the martial knights to break through the flank of the Chu people in one fell swoop, and the main foot soldiers completed the outflanking from the flank.

The Chu army saw Wu Qi's plan at that time, but there was nothing to be done: the flank defense was broken through, the reserve was almost none, and the opposite flank of the flank could not break through the Wei army's large array, and in the end it could only watch tens of thousands of troops being wrapped in dumplings by the flank.

But now, it's very different from more than a decade ago.

The flank had already been broken through, but after the breakthrough, it only took a quarter of an hour for the reserve of the Chu army and the new army of the Wang Division to complete the deployment, and used a salvo to deter the momentum of the Wei and Han phalanx, so that the flank direction of the main force of Wei and Han could not see the possibility of breakthrough in a short time.

It's not that you can't break through, the numerical advantage is still the same, the problem is that it's not the same thing to break through now and break through after two hours.

The battlefield is changing rapidly, not to mention one or two hours, even a quarter of an hour, there may be a situation where victory or defeat may occur.

Indeed, now the Wei-Han coalition now has an advantage on the right flank, and even if the new army of the Chu army's Wang Division can plug the gap in the left flank, it will eventually be broken.

But it was also the same that the strength of the right flank of the Wei-Han coalition meant the weakness of the central army and the left flank.

The so-called right times are left outnumbered, and the front times are outnumbered, and the magic of the art of war lies in this.

The purpose of concentrating the main force on the right wing was to use the technique of outflanking and overwhelming the mountains and seas to instantly defeat the division of Chen Cai of the Chu people, complete the encirclement of the left flank of the Chu people, and make the Mochu coalition army flank on three sides through a roundabout flank.

In order to achieve this goal, the forces of the Chinese army and the left wing must be weak.

What is fighting for is time, and the left-wing deliberately retreated from the beginning to fight for the time difference. The right wing cannot win before the left wing collapses, and that is a defeat.

The military strength of the two sides is almost the same, and the strength of the right flank means the weakness of the left flank and the center army.

The infantry of the Chu army is now fighting the central army and the right flank for the time being, and it seems that they are on a par with the left flank of the Wei and Han coalition forces, but it is clear that the Chu people have the advantage.

According to the time it took for the Chu people to readjust their deployment on the left flank, and the deterrence of the thunderous blow just displayed, the opportunity for the Wei-Han coalition army to make a big move has been lost.

It takes an hour to make a complete breakthrough: it takes more than half an hour to continue to maneuver and outflank, and if it is only a frontal assault and cannot unfold the superiority of troops, it will form a refueling, so an hour is at least an hour.

However, the artillery advantage of the Mochu coalition army was still there, and the heavy infantry formation of the Wei and Han coalition forces was most afraid of artillery, because the phalanx was too heavy, too deep, and the projection force was obviously insufficient.

The breakthrough of the Chu people on the right flank and the Chinese army, as far as it is concerned, even if the cavalry of the Mo family does not sneak attack, it will break through in half an hour at most, after all, the strength is superior.

Therefore, when the new army of the Chu people adjusted its deployment and stabilized the left flank defense line in a quarter of an hour, the chief general of the Wei and Han coalition forces understood that he had failed.

It is nothing more than the difference between a big defeat, a small defeat or the annihilation of a whole army.

If there is a small defeat, abandon the left flank, gather the Chinese army, and hold out until dark, you can always find an opportunity to retreat.

Retreat to Xu Di, after repairing, and refuse to defend the city, then Wei Han still has the initiative.

Did you choose to give up some of your interests and negotiate peace with the state of Chu? Or do you not hesitate to launch a full-scale war in Daliang, Xinzheng, Yangzhai and other places in World War I? The choice is in the hands of Wei Han.

If the whole army is destroyed, then Xu Di can not be defended, the Chu army will reach Xinzheng, and the Wei and Han coalition forces will no longer have a main field force within 300 miles, and the Chu people will say whether to fight or not, and whether to fight or not, and whether to fight or not.

In this battle, it was planned for Xu, for the Chu State to have the strength to dominate the Central Plains within 20 years, and for the time for the Wei State to get a respite to reorganize the Three Jin Alliances against the Western Qin, which had already achieved results in the reform.

If from the very beginning, Wei Zhen, Gongshu Acne, and Han You pulled the Chu people into the gang, and the Three Kingdoms divided Zheng State, this battle would not be fought, and the situation of the Mo family in Sishang would be ugly.

However, the feud between Wei, Han and Chu has lasted for hundreds of years, fought for a long time, and the dispute between Jin and Chu lasted for the entire Spring and Autumn Period, and how many fierce battles and diplomatic crossings were waged around Zheng Guo?

How could Wei Han choose to seek skin with the tiger and carve up Zheng with the state of Chu? Besides, even if it was said to be carved up at the beginning, how could the State of Chu agree?

In the end, what the Chu State wanted, Wei Han didn't want to give, so he could only see him on the battlefield.

But now it seems that it is better to directly choose the few cities that Chu State wants, and not eat alone.

Because after this battle, not only did Xu Di and others inevitably belong to the Chu State, but Wei Han's main force in the Central Plains also suffered heavy losses, and there was no southward strength in the Central Plains for at least a few years, so they could only choose to defend.

But there is no regret medicine in the world, it is meaningless to know that it is meaningless to regret today, before this battle, Wei Han of course hoped to defeat the Chu army in a war so that the Chu State would not be able to touch the land of Zheng State for several years, and once it was stabilized, the Chu State would have no chance.

This was not Wei Han's original intention, but it was a helpless choice forced out by the Mo family.

In order to oppose Mexico and be pro-Korean, Wei did not dare to guarantee the independence of Zheng; In order to prevent Xinzheng from building a new type of city defense like Dangshan Pengcheng, South Korea had to start in advance, and if it didn't do it, Zheng Guo could hold out until other countries intervened; With the threat of Mo, Chu, and Qin coming after Korea moved in advance, Wei had to take advantage of the situation to acquire territory and carve up Zheng; Daliang City lost to Wei more than ten years ago, making Song no longer so important to Chu, and Zheng, which was originally important alongside Song, became the bottom line of Chu's buffer of the Central Plains; The Mo family fueled the flames and instigated the Chu State to go to war, and the Battle of Yinyang finally broke out......

For the state of Chu, perhaps the choice of today's coup d'état in the Song State was already doomed when Wu Qi captured Daliang City more than ten years ago.

The Song State is very important, and the Chu people have shed too much blood for this, and it seems that the Chu State will shed blood again for this.

But in fact, the situation of Chu at this time is not too important. Because the girder was lost, and because the state of Chu chose strategic contraction to become stronger.

At this moment, the battle of Yinyang seemed to be at its most intense, but the main general of Wei Han understood that the key to a big defeat or a small defeat was now on the roundabout cavalry of the Mo family.

The nobles counterattacked, and the last two foot soldiers could form a defensive formation, and the rout of the left wing was inevitable, but the main force of the right wing was able to form a formation to hold itself until dark, so as to retreat.

The nobles failed to counterattack, the Mo cavalry could go straight to the place where the Chinese army and the main general were, and within a quarter of an hour the entire left wing of the Chinese army would collapse, and there would be no time to adjust the deployment at all, and then the main force of the right wing would be harassed by the Mo family's cavalry and could not be moved lightly, and the Chinese army and the right wing of the Mochu coalition army could use the marching speed they had just shown to complete the outflanking, and a battle of annihilation was inevitable.

You can't run, the heavy infantry formation does not adjust the deployment in advance and cooperate with each other, as long as you run, it will reveal flaws, and the cavalry will be defeated when it seizes the opportunity to rush; If you don't run to guard against a cavalry raid, then the infantry of Chu State can calmly complete the outflanking and encirclement.

Other than that, there is no third possibility, including miracles...... Even if the Great Sima of Chu suddenly dies now, it is still the Mochu coalition army that wins.

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On the plain on the north side, the cavalry of the Mo family was rapidly deploying under the command of the officer, adopting a formation that was different from the one used before.

The eight small cannons that moved with the cavalry were also deployed at a speed that made the nobles of the Wei State jaw-dropping.

The officers of the artillery shouted passwords, each of which was a standard set of movements, and those gunners did not know how many times they had honed and had formed mechanical habits.

More than 100 elite cavalry infantrymen covering the artillery quickly formed formations on both sides of the artillery, forming a three-platoon queue.

These elite mounted infantrymen were armed with flint-inspired muskets, and they looked so calm that they did not look at the movements of the artillery they were covering, but mechanically raised their muskets at the command.

Bang......

Bang bang......

The first soldier at the head of the platoon fired the musket, then quickly lowered his head and did not look at the situation in front of him, quickly took out a paper bag of gunpowder from his pocket, put the lead bullet on it in his mouth, loaded the gunpowder from the front of the muzzle, spit out the lead bullet and stuffed it into the muzzle.

Every movement is trained hundreds of times, and each package of gunpowder is quantitatively proportioned, just like the workshops that made crossbow arrows in the later Qin State.

The moment the first man fired, his comrades behind him also shot, reloading with a movement of half a breath slower than him, the third man did the same, and then it was the turn of the second man in the first row......

The guns rang out, and they continued to form a patch, as if this were not a group of soldiers armed with very primitive muskets with wrought tin rolls, but several soldiers with firearms that never needed to be loaded.

The continuous sound of gunfire was not only an intimidation, but also a deterrent, and a kind of cover for the artillery.

When needed, they would be divided into squads with Sima as a unit, alternately covering the retreat or covering the transfer of artillery.

But now, all they had to do was keep firing and wait for the onslaught of the cavalry.

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