In front of the simple pontoon bridge, the two companies that were the vanguard had already mounted their short spears, and they had to deal with possible contingencies after crossing the river.

It is mainly to prepare for the scattered hand-to-hand combat of some swordsmen and skilled fighters of the Qi army, and to buy time for the follow-up company formation.

The four companies that followed them did not take their spears, as that would greatly affect the speed of reloading.

The company representatives took the lead in crossing the river first, and before the two companies that crossed the river first were in formation, some technical fighters who were good at fighting alone rushed over in a loose formation, intending to attack and disturb.

Originally, the cavalry had to drive them away, but the cavalry could not be deployed in such a small place, and the two cavalry companies that crossed the river first were fighting with the cavalry of the Qi army on the flanks.

The company that crossed the river first, under the leadership of the company representative, immediately organized a counter-assault to cover the sappers who were still digging the pit and the follow-up troops who were on the pontoon bridge.

Sima Qiong had already walked to the center of the bridge, and their company was going to line up on the north side of the bridge, so they were in the fifth position to cross the river.

The third and fourth companies that crossed the river were to form a formation immediately after crossing the river, advancing about sixty paces forward, leaving room for the formation of the following troops.

At this time, a Qi artillery shell fell near the pontoon bridge, and one of Sima Qiong's companions was startled into the river.

Sima Qiong was just about to stop to look at his partner, when the person behind shouted loudly: "Hurry up, don't stop." ”

The people behind pushed him, and Sima Qiong was pushed forward, and there was no way to stop.

Taking advantage of the gap to look back, the partner seemed to be fine, poofed in the river a few times and climbed up again, but the gun and gunpowder were wet.

That's not necessarily a bad thing, so he doesn't need to be in the first row when he's lined up.

By the time their company had crossed the river, the two companies that had crossed the river first had already driven away the stragglers on the opposite side with their short spears stuck in muskets, and were retreating.

Sima Qiong observed the situation around him, and his body mechanically followed the drum beat and the officer's command, turning to the right.

After marching to the established position, the column turned directly to a horizontal formation after standing firm.

"Raise your gun!"

As soon as he stood firm, the officer's order was given.

He raised the flint gun in his hand, took a few deep breaths, calmed down, and aimed it at the front.

Perhaps the speed of the column turning to the horizontal line was too fast, and the reaction of the Qi army on the opposite side was obviously slower.

In front of Sima Qiong's company, soon there were also Qi troops in formation, using very standard training methods and formation combinations of the Mo family during the Qi-Mo War.

Unlike Han and Wei's heavy infantry formations, Han Wei's heavy infantry formations are difficult to attack because the phalanx is too thick, and the formation is neat, which is both difficult to attack and difficult to attack.

The thickness of the formation determined that Wei Han's step formation wanted to widen the front, and he could only use the staggered character formation, one front and one behind.

The military system of Qi is the same as the Mohist system during the Qi-Mo War, and the front is wider and thinner.

The musketeers were on the sides, the spearmen were in the middle, the musketeers fired alternately, and the spearmen advanced slowly.

If this formation is fought on the plains, it needs to be coordinated by strong cavalry, otherwise it is easy for the cavalry to break through or tear the wings, but the terrain here is slightly narrow, and the cavalry of the Mo family is difficult to deploy.

The drums were beating, Sima Qiong stared at the Qi army formation opposite, and his partner next to him whispered: "After a while, the smoke of gunpowder is filled, and nothing can be seen." ”

Sima Qiong's head was not biased, and he also replied in a low voice: "Isn't that better, and you don't always have to look at the opposite side of the loading." ”

While the two of them were muttering, the company commander ordered: "The first two columns, prepare!" ”

At this time, the Qi army was still about 100 steps away from here, and the copper cannons behind the river bank had begun to bombard, but the effect was not good.

The front was thin, and the cavalry was prone to breaking through, but it was not so easy for the artillery to inflict effective damage.

The drums of the Qi army were already very close, and when they were about eighty paces, the musketeers of the Qi country began to shoot.

The company on this side did not choose to get close and shoot later.

The partner who was chatting quietly with Sima Qiong just now had a bad life, and was hit by Qi Jun's lead bullet, and the person who was still alive and able to chat just now disappeared in an instant.

The soldiers in the back row subconsciously took a step forward to fill the vacant position.

"The first two rows! Shoot! ”

After the company commander's order was issued, all Sima commanders also repeated, and Sima Qiong couldn't care to lament the pathetic life on the battlefield and hooked the musket.

Bang......

The sparks drawn by the charged leaf springs ignited the gunpowder, and the pungent gunpowder smoke filled in front of the eyes, and it was completely impossible to see how many Qi troops on the opposite side were hit.

After firing, Sima Qiong subconsciously squatted down to the beat of the drum, and after the soldiers in the two rows behind opened fire, he stood up again.

Take out the gunpowder from the paper bag from your waist and put the lead bullet in your mouth according to the drill rules, because if you don't do this, someone will always be nervous to put the lead bullet in first, so that the whole battle can only be seen.

Lead had a strange sweet smell, and Sima Qiong had long been used to it.

The gunpowder in the paper bag is torn open and thrown into the chamber of the gun, compacted with a strip, pressed into the lead bullet, and then filled the medicine pot with the primer......

Countless training sessions have turned these movements into mechanical reactions, like those hired hands working in a workshop, even with their heads still drowsy and sleeping hands.

While loading, two more screams were heard in his ears, and two more people in the same company were shot by the musketeers of Qi and fell to the ground.

A person was very close to Sima Qiong, and blood sprayed directly onto his eyes.

He just reached out and wiped his eyes so as not to be obscured, looked sideways to see who had been hit, and continued to reload.

Instead of paying attention to whether everyone is reloaded, the officers will give the order to shoot within the allotted time.

If you don't reload or pretend to reload, you will harm yourself, and the truth that you can win with Mojia power is that if you don't shoot the enemy, one more person will be able to hit you.

Sima Qiong didn't need to know if the Qi army was preparing to charge at this time, or if they were shooting at the same place.

This is something that the officer observes in order to give different orders.

All he has to do is to give up some of his thoughts, including fear, fear, worry, wisdom, speculation, judgment, etc., and become a puppet-like person. The beat of the drum and the officer's order are the strings behind the puppets.

All he had to know was to understand and execute commands such as forward, spear, load, crouch, shoot, turn, turn, and act.

In this kind of battlefield, all people are equal, and the equality of the Mohists is vividly displayed on this battlefield.

It doesn't matter if you are a farmer who has been conscripted for three months, or a taxi who has been trained in a fief since childhood, or a noble doctor who has read poetry and books, or a young man who loves astronomical stars...... In the face of lead bullets, everyone is equal.

A samurai who has been out of work since childhood will not shoot faster than a farmer who has been working for three months; A doctor who reads poetry and books will not dodge lead bullets more easily than the illiterate Linong.

There is no such thing as a challenge to a teacher in the world, in fact, the nobles in the gentlemen's army in the Battle of Mo Yue drove to challenge the teacher, which was already the last glory of the nobles' bravery.

Many years passed from that war, shattering the pride of the nobility and breaking the backbone of the nobility - when a samurai class who fought professionally no longer possessed the ability to fight one-size-fits-all, they existed only as silverfish, and silverfish were destined to have no place in the world.

Just like the Qi Kingdom, today's nobles are no longer riding chariots to drive peerless tactics among soldiers, but shrinking into arrays to maintain discipline and formation.

The military system of Sishang is close to the Qi system rather than the Zhou system in terms of the number of people, with a company of 200 people in Qi and a company of 150 people in Sishang.

But this time, with a distance of eighty paces, Qi Guo lost much more.

Dense pikemen were hit the most, while arquebusiers who needed to be spaced at least one person apart were relatively few.

Sima Qiong's company suffered six casualties in this confrontation, and the Qi army on the opposite side suffered twenty-seven casualties, and the density of the muskets and the density of the formation determined the result of this confrontation.

After the counterfire, the spearmen of the Qi army were already somewhat confused, and the speed of their advance slowed down significantly.

But the nobles in the army restrained them from regrouping their ranks and moving on.

When they were fifty paces apart, Sima Qiong and the others had already finished loading, but the officer did not give the order to shoot.

The Qi army on the opposite side has also been loaded.

A breeze blew, sweeping away the smoke in front of the position, Sima Qiong held the loaded musket, stared at the Qi army arquebusiers who had also been loaded on the opposite side, and quietly waited for the order.

But what he was waiting for was an order to put on a short spear.

Fifty paces away, it was so close that you could see the beard on the face of the Qi army on the opposite side.

Sima Qiong looked at a musketeer on the opposite side who had already pressed the arquebus, and there was no superfluous distraction in his heart, so under the aim of the arquebus on the opposite side, he pulled out the short spear at his waist and loaded it on the musket.

Like those criminals who were about to be executed for a serious crime, the enemy forty paces away had already raised their muskets, but nothing could be done on this side without orders.

Everyone knew that the order of the company commander meant himself and his partner, who needed to silently endure a single shot from the opposite side.

You can't complain, you can't panic, you can't fight back without following orders.

Like a pig and sheep bound to the slaughter, waiting for the judgment of fate.

Victory belongs to the company, and waiting means victory.

But life and death belong to the individual, and waiting also means that the individual may not see victory.

Sima Qiong saw the arm of the musketeer on the other side move, and then he felt that his mind was gray and his chest was extremely dull.

Like every unlucky man, a heavy buckshot hit his chest with rhino armor that couldn't stop it.

He fell backwards, his hands trying to cover his chest, but he couldn't lift them at all.

The people behind him did not help him, but let him fall down, and took a step forward to fill his position.

Before he died, Sima Qiong felt that his companions around him had glanced at him, and it seemed that they had not seen it at all.

The shot that led to Sima Qiong's death was the last shot at the Qi army company on the opposite side.

After this shot, the arquebus continued to be reloaded, and the spearmen continued after this shot.

By the time the front reached thirty paces, the arquebusiers on either side were still some time away from being reloaded.

The Mo family soldiers, who had silently endured the previous shooting like lambs to be slaughtered, finally heard the order of the company commander and Sima Commander to let them shoot.

Many breathed a long sigh of relief, and these veterans knew that shooting now meant that they were likely to survive this short battle.

So many people finally got in the mood to mourn their fallen comrades, silently grieved, and then pulled the trigger.

Along the long river, thousands of people stood firm and fired at a distance where they could almost see the beard of the enemy on the opposite side.

Seeing that the head of the colleague and fellow countryman was smashed by buckshot, who can hold his hand and not shake, who can stop his hand from shaking when he sees that the opposite side is struggling to reload but can wipe off the blood, and who can lower his head without being distracted, and who can resist the urge to pull the trigger without listening to the order, will win.

Later Zhuang Zhou Yan, later Zhuang Ziyan, Ji Yuzi raised cockfighting cocks for the king. Ten days and asked, "The chickens are gone?" He said: "No, Fang is weak and angry." On the 10th, he asked again, saying, "No, you should still be facing the scene." On the 10th, he asked again, saying, "No, I am still angry and angry." On the 10th, he asked again, "How many?" Although the chicken has a song, there is no change, looking like a wooden chicken, its virtue is complete, and the different chicken does not dare to respond, but it goes away".

Hearing that his comrades are not sad when he dies, and when he hears that the general is not afraid of death, he will be the strongest army in the world, and he will be stunned. The advantage of the Qi army is those fiefdoms and subordinate peasant soldiers who are extremely numb, while the advantage of Sishang is three years of full-time training, the purpose of which is to make the soldiers stay like puppets in front of the battle.

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