When the prisoners and others arrived at Zhaoling, it was already the beginning of November, and the weather was already very cold.

The Chu army had already built a camp in front of Zhaoling, and the main force of the Wei and Han coalition forces had also arrived and built a camp.

The fighting forces of the two sides have been gathered, and the number of field troops of the Wei-Han coalition army is about the same as that of Chu.

The Wei and Han side gathered nearly 50,000 field troops, although this time the Wei and Han coalition forces attacked Zheng in large numbers, but there were only so many who could really fight on the front line.

If there are more, it will be easy for the battle line to have loopholes, and the Chu army will seize the opportunity to break through.

The Chu-Mo coalition army was nearly 50,000, and there was not much difference in the number of the two sides.

The advantage of the Wei and Han coalition forces was a group of heavy infantry, and Wei was the first prince to use infantry as the main force of the campaign.

After Wu Qi trained his troops in Xihe, the heavy infantry who fought in formation became the pillar of Wei's military strength.

The Wei and Han armies had a total of 36,000 infantry, 26 bronze cannons, 200 chariots, 3,000 elite warrior knights, some light cavalry, and 3,000 elite archers.

The infantry was dominated by spearmen, and arquebusiers were used as auxiliary forces for spearmen, using dense phalanxes and moving slowly.

The Chu army was because the Mo family had helped train the new army, and the composition of the army was not the same as that of Wei Han, with a larger number of musketeers, and learned from the experience of the Mo-Yue and Qi-Mo wars of that year, using musketeers as the main output force, while spearmen mainly played the role of covering arquebusiers.

The Chu-Mo coalition army had a total of 8,000 cavalry, including 2,000 elite Cheguang cavalry that belonged only to the king of Chu. 4,500 irregular cavalry from Sishang, plus 500 foot knights.

Coupled with the artillery supported by the Mo family, the number of artillery of the Chu-Mo coalition army was superior, with a total of forty-two bronze cannons, of which twenty-four were supported by the Mo family, and eight of them were mounted and dragged quickly mobile small cannons.

The state of Chu also had two thousand elite archers, as well as one hundred and twenty chariots.

The rest were infantry, and some of the infantry were the royal divisions under the direct jurisdiction of the King of Chu, with a little more than 20,000 in number, all according to the new army model that the Mo family helped to train, and the number of musketeers was slightly more than that of spearmen.

Except for the direct Wang division of the King of Chu, the rest were Chen Cai's division, which followed the path of the Wei and Han coalition forces, and the thick Ge spear phalanx formation covered the musketeers.

Lacking training, Chen Caizhi's division could not form the same discipline as Wang's division, and it was difficult to make tactical moves such as quick turning and alternating advances, so it adopted a denser formation that was more cumbersome but stronger to defend as long as it did not move.

With the advent of gunpowder, and the consequent reform of the military system and the advent of semi-standing armies, the width of the battlefield became wider and wider.

Originally, the wars were fought and the countries had to form formations, because without formation, it was impossible to control tens of thousands of troops, and the soldiers were too loose to be easily broken through and prone to confusion.

It was necessary to rely on dense formations to control the troops, so that all units could hear the call of the drums.

Sishang can create a slightly weaker front to increase the width of the battle, extend the width of the line, and thus maintain the same length of the battle line under the inferior forces, but it does not mean that the rest of the vassal states can do the same.

On the ninth day of November, when the date of the battle between the two sides arrived, they began to move out of the camp and prepare for battle.

Now that it is certain that this is a small-scale and controllable war, the battlefields of both sides have been fixed.

The Luyang direction, the Yecheng direction, the Yuguan direction, and the Wei and Han Chengyi on the opposite side are all on the defensive and will not be put into the battlefield, so there is no strategic maneuver and various schemes.

After breakfast early, the Chu side took the lead in the camp, and the formation was launched at about nine o'clock in the morning.

The left flank of the Chu people was Chen Cai's division, and the Chinese army was the main force of the Chu king's division and eighty chariots, as well as the elite Cheguang knights of the Chu state.

On the right flank of the Chu people was the cavalry of the Mo family, as well as 4,000 infantry, equipped with twelve bronze cannons.

The remaining copper cannons were concentrated in the central army of the Chu State.

Chen Caizhi's division on the left flank of the Chu people was in the same width as the opposite side because of its dense formation, but it still left a reserve of 3,000 men.

The width of the Wang division of the Chu people's Chinese army was actually larger than that of the Wei and Han coalition forces, but each brigade had one-third as a reserve, so the entire width was similar to that of the Wei people.

In front of the Chinese army, there were also 2,000 elite archers of the Chu State, who lined up behind the gap in the artillery, and when the time came, they would use their rate of fire advantage to cooperate with the artillery to open the gap on the opposite side.

On the opposite side, the Wei and Han coalition forces deployed all their forces, except for reserving a part of the reserves directly under them, and arranged all the infantry in a dense phalanx of soldiers, which was staggered.

It is a plain here, and there is not much terrain advantage, but the Wei and Han coalition forces occupy the upper wind direction, which is a slight geographical advantage.

Wei Han's bronze cannons were mainly concentrated in the Chinese army, and the chariot soldiers were hidden in the direction of their right flank, that is, the division of Chen Cai of Chu, and ten copper cannons were also deployed on their right flank.

The Wei-Han coalition was on the defensive, which was in their favor.

In addition, Wei Han mainly used heavy infantry as the main force and the formation was dense, although it was slow to move in wartime and needed to cooperate with each other to avoid loopholes, it was advantageous to stand in the formation.

The commander of the Wei-Han coalition army only understood the weaknesses and advantages of the Wei-Han coalition army, and also knew the strengths and weaknesses of the Chu-Mo coalition army, and he formulated an extremely targeted response method.

The most capable troops of the Chu were the Chinese army and the Mojia cavalry on the right flank, and the marching speed of these two armies was far faster than the Wei and Han heavy infantry in the dense phalanx.

This is an advantage, but if you can seize the opportunity, it is not a point that can be taken advantage of.

Because the left flank of the Chu people is the newly formed division of Chen Cai, it is still a dense phalanx formation, and it cannot be compared with the right flank of the Chinese army in terms of morale and combat effectiveness.

The most important thing is that the march speed of Chen Caizhi's division on the left flank of the Chu people is much slower than that of the Chinese army and the right flank, and if the Wei and Han coalition forces can take advantage of the fact that the central army of the Chu people and the left flank attack have different marching speeds, it is possible to complete the breakthrough on the left flank of the Chu people.

Once Chen Caizhi's division collapsed, the Wei-Han coalition army could quickly assault with all its might from the combined left flank of the Chu army and the Chinese army, forming an outflank.

Therefore, the key to this battle is in the eyes of the Wei and Han coalition forces, which lies on their right flank.

Therefore, when the commander of the Wei-Han coalition army set up the formation, he deliberately weakened his left flank and strengthened the central army and the right flank.

Relying on the form of the Chu people's initiative to attack, using space in exchange for time, let their left flank take the initiative to retreat, inducing the right flank and the Chinese army of the Mochu coalition army to rush to make meritorious contributions, and the excessive speed of the assault and the gap between Chen Cai's division on the left flank.

At the same time, if the left flank of the Wei and Han coalition forces can take the initiative to retreat, they can use the point of the Chinese army close to the right flank as the axis to rotate slowly, so that the Chinese army does not need to be mobilized on a large scale, and the forces are pressed on the left flank of the Chu people, forming a local superiority in strength.

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The commander of the Chu-Mo coalition army is Chu Da Sima, who died at the hands of the Mo family twenty years ago, but now he is cooperating.

If the Wei and Han coalition forces wanted to take advantage of the geographical advantage, then Chu Da Sima wanted to take advantage of the time.

Unlike the idea that the Wei-Han coalition would take the center and the right flank to break through, the Chu-Han Grand Sima cleverly wanted to turn the geographical advantage of the Wei-Han coalition into a natural time for himself.

The Wei-Han coalition army occupied the upper wind, and at this time it was already November, and it was the north wind blowing, and the Chu people were in the south, which was unfavorable.

But Chu Da Sima saw another kind of fighter.

Once the war starts, after the copper cannons and muskets of the two sides are bombarded for a while, there will inevitably be a lot of gunsmoke, and the Chu-Mo coalition army in the downwind direction will be unfavorable.

However, if the Chinese army and the right flank can take the initiative to attack, then once the wind blows, these gunpowder smoke can easily obscure the southeast of the battlefield.

At that time, the cavalry of the Mo family, those mounted artillerymen, and foot knights could quickly maneuver to the flank and rear of the Wei and Han coalition forces with the help of the cover of gunsmoke.

If it can break through in one fell swoop, it is good, even if it can't break through, the Wei-Han coalition army will inevitably panic, and when the time comes, it will have to mobilize troops to support the left flank of the Wei-Han coalition army.

Once the Wei-Han coalition army is mobilized, then the Chu army has a chance to win, because the phalanx of the Wei-Han coalition army is very strong when it is not moving, but once it moves, there will be flaws.

At that time, if the cavalry outflanking the sneak attack on the right flank could not open the situation, then the Chinese army would take advantage of the chaotic opportunity of the Wei-Han coalition army to launch an attack, quickly break through the Wei-Han Chinese army, and defeat the Wei-Han coalition army.

Of course, the battlefield is ever-changing, but the good fighters will often pre-book their plans before the battle, and whether they can realize it is one thing, and it is another thing to not grasp the opportunity that changes rapidly on the battlefield but continue to follow the original plan.

It is quite a coincidence that both sides set the breakthrough point on the left flank of the other, but there are also some reasons for deliberately luring each other.

At this time, whoever attacks is in a weak position, and it is better not to attack easily, but to play defensive counterattacks.

However, someone must attack first, and the Chu-Mo coalition army seems to have an advantage, so although the Wei and Han coalition forces also set the breakthrough on the opposite left flank, they are ready to use defensive counterattacks to mobilize tactics.

On the other hand, the Chu people hope to take the initiative to attack, use the offensive to move the formation, so as to complete the transformation of the geographical location, and borrow the cold north wind and the gunpowder smoke of the battlefield to have a big detour.

Both sides put the breakthrough point on the left wing of the other side, in fact, the essence of this battle is that whoever collapses first and whose left wing collapses and can delay the opponent's outflanking will have a greater chance of winning.

Of course, the rapidly changing battlefield cannot always develop towards the idea of the commanders of both sides, and there will be all kinds of surprises, that is, the so-called ability to make decisions on the spot.

Whoever can grasp the opportunity when it appears can often turn the tide or win in one fell swoop.

A moment in the corner.

The first cannon sound on the battlefield came from the position of the Mochu coalition army, and the battle that broke out in the Hidden Water Sun officially began.