Retreat and rout are not the same thing.

For example, today there are not many troops that can stabilize the formation at a distance of 120 paces from the enemy, and turn from offensive to defensive retreat, I dare not say that they are unique, but they can also be described as rare.

The order was given, and the drumbeat changed.

The three musketeers in the front row immediately stopped, flattened their muskets and waited for orders.

The three musketeers in the back, accompanied by the company commander's order, turned backwards in place, heeded the shouts of 121, retreated fifteen steps back and immediately stopped, and put the muskets in place.

When the musketeers in the front row, who were ready, heard the horn, they put away their muskets and retreated from both sides, retreating thirty paces before forming again.

The spearmen are also divided in half, but they do not cross and retreat like the musketeers, but the first in the back retreats for a distance and then ranks up, and the front row retreats again, still as the front team, regrouping and waiting for the musketeers to be ready, and then continue to retreat.

Just after retreating two rounds, the musketeers in the front row suddenly noticed several black shadows flying in the sky, and then saw iron balls flying on the artillery positions of the Qi people, and a bronze cannon of the Qi army was directly blown over.

This time the soldiers were no longer silent, but shouted in unison.

"It's our cannon!"

"! Has the turtle-like artillery finally been deployed? ”

"Hey! Fuck it! Let the Qi army also know what it is like to be shelled! ”

The brigade commander of the 13th Brigade turned around, and on the artillery position that was originally empty yesterday, two guns had already completed deployment, and the remaining ten were still busy.

The Qi people's artillery was originally aimed at the 13th Brigade, and at this time the steering still needed to readjust the angle, and there was no time to immediately return fire.

And with such a fast deployment speed, the gunners of the two guns must be the elite of the artillery, maybe the nine numbers and geometry can be called unparalleled in the world when they leave Sishang, and it is not known that with a little luck, they killed a copper cannon of Qi people for the first time.

While the soldiers of the 13th Brigade shouted, their steps in retreat were more steady and calm than before.

Qi Jun hadn't reacted yet.

It's not that the commander of the right army of the Qi army did not react, but the commander of the army reacted and then passed it to the army to react, which took an extremely long time, and the commander of the right army of the Qi army did not predict and had missed the opportunity.

On the hillside, the commander of the Right Army of Qi looked at the 13th Brigade that was slowly retreating in an orderly manner without the slightest rout and escape, closed his eyes and sighed, and said angrily: "It's really a strong army in the world!" If there are 50,000 righteous teachers, they will dominate the world. ”

"The application of the sword is nothing more than this, and the posture of the Chinese people only relies on the strength of the righteous teacher. If there is no such righteous teacher, how can he be able to shock the North East China Sea? ”

"After the two battles, the palace talked a lot about this person's use of soldiers...... In my opinion, if I have such righteous teachers, I can go to me! ”

The generals and colonels around him all nodded, thinking that this was indeed the case, if the soldiers of the countryside and peasants under us could do this, I could also go to the east and the north of the sea, and capture the king and behead the generals.

When the two armies fought, the difficulty was not to march with drums, but to retreat calmly.

It is possible not to turn the retreat into a rout, and the soldiers can still maintain the formation when they hear the order to retreat, and if there are thousands of such private soldiers in the Spring and Autumn Period, they can replace the king of a country.

In the past, he controlled the three capitals of Sui, Feiyi Zaigongshan did not disturb the soldiers of a city, avoided the real and the virtual, smashed Qufu, and forced Lu Dinggong to flee and hide; Ji Sun's initial tax per mu and 8,000 private soldiers were collected, so they could usurp the country and set up fees.

Those private soldiers may not have the discipline of the righteous teacher today, but they are enough to subvert a country, where have the generals of the Qi army seen such an army?

The sound of artillery is still there, the army is in front, knowing that it is easy to die on the back but marching silently, and automatically filling the line torn by the artillery is shocking enough.

And retreating in front of the formation, calmly and unhurriedly, the formation was not chaotic, which made the main general of the Qi Right Army break out in a cold sweat, and he was even more sure that this place must be the elite of the Mo family, and the Mo family must be the main attack on the hills.

Seeing that the 13th Brigade had already retreated thirty steps, the commander of the Right Army finally ordered: "Infantry attack!" The musketeers, crossbowmen, and crossbowmen were still in formation, in case the Mohs counterattacked. One brigade does not move, and then the brigade is like a tiger descending the mountain, rushing down! ”

It's not that he doesn't know that at this time, it is best to let the bow and crossbow musketeers come forward to shoot, but the Qi army's military formation is mainly a phalanx, and the bow and crossbow muskets are only auxiliary, and it is a large array, and the mobility is much worse, so it is impossible to change the formation in a hurry, so he can only choose to give way to the direct impact of the pawns, and use the mountain to defeat the Mo family's troops in one fell swoop.

Looking back at the direction of the Chinese army, the troops who came to support were still four or five hundred paces away, if he could get closer, he could let all the remaining foot soldiers on the hillside rush down, attack in waves, and not let the Mo family gain a foothold at the bottom of the mountain.

As soon as the order was given, the phalanx of Qi people on the hill immediately urged the horn and launched an assault on the 13th Brigade, which was slowly retreating.

If it's really a tiger from the mountain, highlight a quick word.

But if it is fast, the formation will be chaotic; If the formation is slow and the formation is not chaotic, the 13th Brigade will calmly withdraw to the bottom of the mountain.

By this time, the 13th Brigade had already retreated about fifty paces, and there were still more than 200 paces away from the first barracks, and the next two brigades could not reach even if they wanted to support.

In the face of the counterattack of the Qi people, the brigade commander once again glanced back at the sappers and artillerymen who were busy in the barracks, as well as the two subsequent brigades that were forming after running closer, and said in his heart: "There is no hope for support, if you retreat again, you will be defeated." Since the establishment of the 13th Brigade, I have followed the commander from the company commander to fight in the water, and I have never been defeated with the public to save the most Lu. If it collapses today, the mountain will be in danger, and the name of the righteous teacher will rise from itself! ”

"Withdrawal will be defeated, but the battle will be won. The hill is narrow, and although the Qi people take advantage of the situation to descend like a tiger, the formation is not defended. The follow-up support of the Qi army cannot be deployed, as long as it can repel this wave of Qi army, it can retreat. ”

"It should be the time to put the place of death and then live, to live to die, to die to life."

Thinking of this, he drew his iron sword and shouted, "The whole brigade stops!" Musketeers ready! After the round, abandon the gun for melee combat. Spearmen lined up, ready to storm! ”

Immediately after the high drink, the musketeers formed a line, stood in the front row, stroked the dagger at their waist or the axe and fork used to support the musket, and watched the Qi army rushing down from the hill, and prepared for it.

The spearmen stand in place, their spears straight, and the front row of soldiers wearing iron armor or the inkmen who have already died in the front row to fill the vacancy in the front row stand on their own.

Qi people shouted and descended, the momentum was violent, but there was no formation.

When they approached about eighty paces, the musketeers began to shoot in turns, and then the musketeers who had finished shooting threw their muskets on the ground, drew their short swords, and approached the center to form a formation with the sound of Sima Chang's command.

From eighty to thirty paces, the musketeers fired in quick turns, all armed with short swords and daggers.

The brigade commander and the brigade representatives had already reached the front, the drums were beating rapidly, and the brigade commander drew his sword and shouted: "Charge!" ”

Before going out of the formation, he took the first step, and then the drums beat loudly, and the spearmen all held their spears and shouted, and stepped forward.

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In the rear of the Thirteenth Brigade, the two brigades, which had formed a whole near the barracks, panted and watched everything on the hills.

The two brigade commanders looked anxiously at the mountain, and kept looking back to see if there were any flags or orders for support from behind.

The brigade commander of the 14th Brigade called the third herald and said, "You go to the back and ask the division commander if you want to save it!" If you see a flag or a trumpet, turn back and tell me! ”

The herald hurriedly ran back, and the commander of the 14th Brigade also ran quickly to the 15th Brigade, and immediately said after seeing the brigade representative of the 15th Brigade: "The division commander's order is for us to defend here as a team, but the brother troops are in distress on the mountain, and if the order comes to the rescue, I am afraid that it will be too late." ”

"It's better to do this, our brigade will first form an offensive formation, you will defend here, and if there is an accident, you will defend. If we are ordered to come to the rescue, our brigade will meet us. ”

The brigade representative of the 15th Brigade also said: "This is also the case with our brigade, and we are about to discuss it with you." That's it! Why didn't the division commander let us support? ”

On their flank, slightly behind, were twelve guns deployed, and the gunners were also observing the situation on the hill.

But there was no time for them to make their own decisions, because a herald came running over on horseback and shouted: "The order of the division commander, let you not bombard the infantry of the Qi people, do not support the 13th brigade, just knock out the artillery of the Qi people first!" Execute the command! ”

As soon as the heralds had left, a second wave of heralds arrived, repeating the same order as before, and the commander of the artillery took one last look at the 13th Brigade, which was fighting on the hills, and ordered: "Target, the bronze cannon of the Qi people!" Prepare for each and shoot rapidly! ”

Further behind the artillery were the fifteen small bronze cannons of the brigade that were rushing towards the barracks, and further back was where the six fingers were.

Several officers said with impatient faces: "Our opinion, even if the artillery continues to bombard the bronze artillery of the Qi army, the 14th Brigade should be allowed to support the 13th Brigade on the mountain now." The Qi people took advantage of the mountain to go down, and there were many people, and the 13th Brigade was afraid that it would be difficult to support it. ”

Six Fingers shook his head and said, "Whether it can be supported or not, it is already useless in the overall situation." I'm against going to support. The 13th Brigade is the elite, the righteous division was built from Shangqiu, and the brigade-level confrontation has not tasted defeat, I know that if the 13th Brigade is defeated, the name of the first worship of the righteous division brigade will fall on our division. ”

"But does it matter? You have to understand what the task of our division is. ”

"Now let the 14th Brigade respond, under the chaos of the battle, the Qi people will also support, and fight a war of attrition on the hillside to fight repeatedly? Where the artillery could not be directly supported, and the cavalry could hardly threaten the flanks, what was the use of throwing the 14th Brigade into the past? ”

"Throw it over, the 14th Brigade catches up, if the 13th Brigade is not defeated and not won, the Qi people will also increase their troops, and our division will be anxious with the Qi people, and no one will be able to retreat. At that time, if the 14th Brigade is also endangered, will the 15th Brigade also be sent there? ”

He pointed to the hill and said: "Now, the Qi people have been mobilized by us, but the 13th Brigade is difficult to capture the hill without artillery support before, and if the Qi people want to recapture the mountain, we also need to put more pressure on the Qi people." ”

"If the 13th Brigade can finally retreat, it will be the first merit of today's battle, the advance and retreat are well-founded, the danger is not chaotic, and the counterattack is calm, it will definitely become famous all over the world, and it will not be weak The Seventh Brigade that captured the King of Yue in Lushui back then."

"If we lose, we will retreat, and the reputation of our division will be damaged, but the overall situation has been decided. The 14th Brigade and the 15th Brigade and the artillery are deployed, do a good job of defense, and the Qi people can't recapture the camp at the foot of the mountain, we can make a situation of outflanking the two wings, so that the Qi people can concentrate all their forces on the right flank, and the Shishuai side can win a big victory in one fell swoop. ”

"The big picture counts!"

"If it's reinforcements, how can the Qi people be under pressure? The 14th Brigade went up, did the 15th Brigade dare to sweep the two wings? The 15th Brigade will be dead by then, and can only defend in place to prepare for the men to take advantage of the situation. ”

"The 15th Brigade is dead in the same place, and the 11th and 12th Brigades on both flanks can only continue to be anxious with the Qi people, and they are also dead. When the reinforcements of the Qi people come, we will fight with the Qi people on the hills, and continue to increase our troops. What is the use of reinforcements, neither to threaten the lower part of the hill, nor to take the hill with the effective cooperation of artillery? ”

"On the contrary, the 13th Brigade engaged in the battle in the hills and chose to counterattack, even if it was collapsed, even if it was annihilated...... The camp is stable, the two brigades hold on, the artillery cooperates, and the Qi people can't take the barracks, so we can sweep the flanks, directly relieve the pressure on the 11th and 12th brigades, and directly let the Qi people in front of them retreat. In this way, all four brigades are alive, and four brigades are under the mountain, can the Qi people not be afraid? The commander of the Qi army must send the last elite of the private soldiers at the bottom of the box to this side! ”

"If there is support, all five brigades will be dead, and all of them will not be able to move. Without support, even if the 13th Brigade is defeated, we still have four brigades alive! Only when you can move at any time, Qi people are under pressure. are all sticky, what are Qi people afraid of? Keep adding troops to stick to us, so that our artillery can't play to the advantage, so that the musketeers can't play to the advantage, and our casualties will be even greater! ”

The division representative, who had been silent, nodded and said, "I agree with the division commander's opinion. The 14th Brigade did not move, and the artillery continued to deploy the bronze cannons that bombarded the Qi army first. The overall situation is important, and the honor and disgrace of the first division are not enough. ”

"Moreover, there are a lot of ink in the Thirteenth Brigade, and they may not be defeated if they make a decision on the spot, live to the death, and do not retreat and counterattack. As long as you can suppress the momentum of Qi people going down the mountain in one go, you may not be able to retreat with your whole body. ”