Chapter 273: The Battle of the Two Sons (10)

The nobles of the Qi Kingdom who fought to the death were extremely brave, and most of them had a blood feud with the Mo family.

There was constant news that the Mo family carried out land reform in the Jiaodong area after entering the Jiaodong area, and their fiefdom was deprived, and their parents, wives and daughters were inevitably affected.

Coupled with what the Mo family did in the southwest of Qi after the Qi-Mo War, it was really tyranny for these low-level nobles.

and Sishang has been carrying out cultural construction, which has led to the emergence of a large number of literate population, which can completely replace the control of the old scholars over the grassroots, and the Mo family does have bad intentions towards these low-level nobles.

Because of the value and demand, there is no need for compromise and united front, and it is much more ferocious to start.

There are some things that cannot be said explicitly, but the implementation of the policy is biased. Leaving these people behind is not only a factor of social instability, but also the inheritors of the culture and writing of the old culture vassal states, and if you want to unify them, you will definitely kill them all by all means.

Yin Jian of the nobles of the Chu State was not far away, and they were either arrested and sent to coal mines and iron mines to dig and labor reform, or they were exiled overseas to fend for themselves. Screening, censorship, forced migration, forced labor...... In just one year, the state of Chu has completely lost the possibility of recovering the country.

These low-level aristocrats of Qi were themselves beneficiaries of Qi's reactionary reform policy, and their fighting spirit was still very high under the agitation.

With such a spiritual pursuit of immortality when they die, the noble warriors wearing purple turbans chanted slogans for the Qi country, did not avoid bullets, and moved forward bravely.

They were about fifty paces away from the ridge when they were fired into a volley.

At the top of the hill, the company commander or company representative of the Mojia infantry company also shouted the slogan "For the benefit of the world, death will not spin" after the salvo, using another concept of spiritual immortality to boost the morale of everyone and launch a counterattack.

On the top of the small hill, one side fought together with short spears, short swords, lead bullets, and iron thunder for the sake of the Qi country, for the king, for themselves and immortals, and for the sake of the world, for the people, and for themselves and immortals.

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Left flank of the coalition forces, Sanyanagisha.

The news of the imminent collapse of the right wing stimulated the nerves of the princes of the Son of Heaven.

Tian Ju knew that his side had no chance of winning, but his face did not change, and he was calm, not thinking that it was because of his command mistake that led to this defeat.

In the face of everyone's eyes, he wanted to explain a few words, but in the end he didn't say anything.

The only possibility of winning this battle was very slim, and the only possibility of victory was to force the Mo family to deploy all their forces and then mobilize the main force to the right flank to launch a counterattack.

Defending is defeat, support is defeat, it is a battle to survive in death, no matter who commands it, it is impossible to do better, victory is lucky, defeat is inevitable, God does not help himself, what can I do about it?

For a moment, Tian Ju felt that maybe there was really a mandate of heaven in this world, but this mandate of heaven was now in the hands of the Mo family.

If not, why not now suddenly a bolt of lightning struck the commander of the Chinese army?

Tian Ju was silent, but the princes and generals were impatient, and they all said: "The right army is about to collapse, don't you still transfer troops to stabilize the right wing?" ”

Tian Ju thought for a while, and finally said, "It's impossible to do anything." I am weak in virtue and weak, and the blame lies with me. ”

"Now that the left army of the Mo family has broken our right army, the reserve of the army has not moved, and the elite warrior knights have not yet been invested, if the troops are divided to the right, how will the Chinese army attack respond?"

"For now, the only way to do this is to break through the cavalry and infantry behind the Sanyanagi Society...... The princes of the Son of Heaven retreated to their own country or went north to Yan Zhao and hunted west to Qin for the future. ”

Hearing this, Han Hou said angrily: "The two armies are fighting, and the battle formation must be consistent. If you do, why not run early? ”

Tian Ju didn't feel guilty, he felt that he had done his best, and replied: "How can I escape early?" If you flee early, the army will perish. If the army dies, Han Qi will fall. ”

"It was originally a game of death, defeat was inevitable, and victory was fortunate. Before the war, I also asked a lot, who has the plan to destroy the enemy? However, there was none, not because I was stubborn, but helpless. ”

"Now there is no chance of victory, so I can only flee."

Han Hou took a deep breath and calmed down as much as possible, he also understood that Tian Ju's words were indeed true, no one really proposed a better way to break the enemy before the war, only Tian Ju wanted to turn the tide of the battle.

Thinking about it further, judging from today's battlefield, even if it was to rendezvous with the 30,000 Korean army in Yangxia at the beginning, in order to relieve the combat effectiveness shown by the hanging army today, even if the rendezvous is nothing more than holding on for one more day, sooner or later it will be defeated.

This defeat was doomed from the moment when South Korea promised Qi to send troops to Sishang, but in fact, the main force of the Mo family was not in Laiwu.

Han Hou didn't have the courage to fight one-on-one with the Mo family in the plains, but he just understood that if the Qi State destroyed Han, he would not be able to survive, so he fought to the death.

The collapse of the right army means that the collapse of the whole army is close at hand.

But at this time, if you want to escape, once the rout is triggered, then no one can escape.

Han Hou said: "In this case, we can only stabilize the occupation first, and shrink the Chinese army to hold on." The Mo cavalry and infantry in the rear of the flank need to be broken. Only in this way can we get rid of the pursuit of the Mo family and still escape. ”

"It's just that he is very good at using soldiers, and when he sees us storming the Mo family behind the side of Sanliushe, he must know that our army wants to retreat, and he must storm it......"

Tian Ju said: "There is only a way to shrink the forces and hold on to the front." Don't tell the army about the escape, or the morale will collapse. ”

"The side and back of the horse are difficult to break through without a large onslaught. With a large-scale onslaught, it is necessary to know that our army wants to flee, which cannot be concealed. Only our shield pierced the Mo family's shield before our spear pierced. ”

After the princes of the Son of Heaven discussed, they finally determined that the general trend had gone to prepare for the idea of fleeing, and the news was still in the blockade for the time being, and only a few cronies and nobles knew about it.

The Son of Heaven thought to himself that the military array that Tian Ju had displayed could be regarded as a blessing in disguise. If you support the right army early, even if you want to escape, it will be difficult to hold out until the front line is broken through.

Fortunately, there is still an unused reserve, as well as 5,000 cavalry, 800 chariots, and some elite warriors, who can be organized to defeat the Mo family cavalry that intercepts the flank.

In the Mojia array, Shi Zheng celebrated the victory of the left wing with everyone, and they all breathed a sigh of relief, and they all said that the general trend had been decided.

Before the attack on the left flank was extremely smooth, Shi had already let the infantry of the three brigades on the right flank and the cavalry cut into the flank of Sanyanagi to intercept it.

Since the left flank had won an unexpected victory, and the coalition flank collapsed so quickly, the whole tactic had changed from the original lure of splitting the enemy into two flanks and hitting the chest, to turning from the left and rolling to the right.

The battle for the hill continued, and as long as the hill was taken, the coalition forces would either be shelled and collapsed, or shrink their forces and retreat to the vicinity of Sanyanagisha.

Once the forces shrink too much to deploy, the coalition forces can only be beaten passively.

On the hot air balloon in the formation, the observers watched through the smoke of gunpowder on the battlefield and watched the situation on the coalition positions with wide eyes.

The movement of the coalition companies, which had not yet been deployed, aroused the alarm of the observers, and he patted the partner who was in charge of recording beside him, handed over the binoculars, pointed to the distance, and said, "Look, they have moved." ”

The partner next to him glanced at it a few times, and hurriedly said, "You continue to observe." ”

He quickly wrote down the situation on a piece of paper, waved the red flag in his hand, and then threw down the paper embellished with lead, and the auxiliaries below immediately put away the paper and sent it to the headquarters.

After handing it over, Shi glanced at it, and the observer could only say that the enemy's reserves had moved, but he could not judge the specific movement of the enemy, and only gave an early warning to make preparations.

Shi picked up the telescope and looked at it, but now it is difficult to decide.

The coalition forces had at least two options, either to let the reserves advance to defend and let the Chinese retreat and shrink the defensive line; Or just prepare to escape.

As for supporting the right wing now, it doesn't make sense.

There are still enough reserves in the hands of the hand, which have not yet launched an offensive formation, and can be ready to support and enter the battle.

He was not afraid of the enemy fleeing, because if he did, it would be a rout, and having enough cavalry on his side would turn the rout into a battle of annihilation, not a crush.

Han Hou Qi Hou and even Zhou Tianzi, it doesn't matter much whether to flee or not, Zhou Tianzi does not have such a high appeal, after the battle of Qi and Han, the field troops are lost, and the land of Qi and Han can be entered in an instant.

After a short time, the observer delivered a second piece of information, nodded appropriately, and made a judgment.

Part of the coalition's reserves moved forward, apparently to defend, while the other moved directly to the flanks and rear, clearly preparing to hold up in front and open a way for the rear to escape.

At this time, the battle for the flank knoll was not over, but the right flank of the coalition army had basically collapsed, the Chinese army was still dead, and the reinforcements behind did not march too far, but organized a second line of defense with the left flank of the coalition army as the axis.

The plan before the war was to force the coalition forces to divide the coalition forces by attacking on the left flank, relying on the martial knights and infantry columns to break through from the center to divide the coalition forces.

Now that the right flank of the coalition forces has collapsed, and there are only more than 10,000 people in reserve force with combat effectiveness, it is simply impossible to organize an effective counterattack.

Shi ordered the warrior knights, who had not moved, and the reserve of a division to march towards the flank of the Sanyanagi Society to intercept and outflank the coalition forces.

The reserves of the four brigades deployed in the second line near the direction of the hill on the left fully supported the direction of the hill, cooperated with the left flank to quickly take the knoll, and integrated forces to outflank it from the left flank.

The Chinese army began to appropriately shrink its forces, test the offensive, and mainly focus on artillery bombardment, withdrawing some troops deployed on the front line to organize defenses to prevent an unexpected counterattack by the Chinese army.

Although it is unlikely that the coalition forces will organize a counterattack now, Shi still cautiously made some preparations.

The rear of the Sanyanagi Shrine side.

The infantry of more than 4,000 men in the three brigades that had been maneuvering here had approached the cavalry, who had been flanking, and their task was to fight with the cavalry, not to defend, but to attack.

By the time the offensive on the left flank was going well, the three brigades had already begun to move, and were now in the rear direction of the Sanyanagi Society, about two miles from their own cavalry, and about one and a half miles from the flank of their own army, which was in a sense a lone army.