The surviving Mo family officers on the hillside were secretly frightened, thinking that fortunately, the Qi army was equipped with old arquebuses, although they were powerful, but because the arquebuses were open flames, they could not be arranged in a denser formation.

If the opponent was all equipped with flint guns, he was afraid that this salvo impact from the anticline would cause the four companies on his side to be destroyed in an instant.

At this time, one company fled, and the remaining three companies also suffered dozens of casualties, but fortunately, because the opponent's arquebuses were not dense enough, the remaining formation was still complete, and there was still the strength to fight after the rapid formation of the team.

Thirty or forty paces behind them, there were four companies of second-wave attackers, and as long as they could hold on, they would have the strength to fight.

The Qi spearmen in a dense formation got closer and closer, and the Mo infantry who survived at the top of the hill also completed the formation and raised their guns, and when they were twenty paces apart, the surviving officers ordered a volley.

After a dense volley, the officer drew his sword, shouted the slogan of the charge, and took the lead in rushing down with the help of top-down power.

Just like the Mo family company on the hill was instantly broken up by a round of fire, the soldiers of the Mo family were not made of special materials, and the soldiers of the Qi army were not made of special materials, and the salvo of the denser flint gun formation could be compared to the salvo of the loose arquebus.

In the smoke of gunpowder, more than 200 Qi spearmen were hit, and several huge gaps appeared in the originally dense formation in an instant.

The Mo infantry follower officer at the top of the hill rushed into the already porous formation of the Qi army, and the arquebusiers behind the spearmen had not yet finished loading.

Almost instantly, the two companies of spearmen who had been completely broken up broke up, and their dispersal directly caused the arquebusiers who cooperated with them to be difficult to resist and retreated.

The remaining three spearman companies that had not yet escaped were also scattered, and the Qi officers did not expect that the Mojia company on the hill would be able to complete the whole team and counterattack in such a short time after withstanding a single shot.

Even if the balance of power and weight was achieved as much as possible, the flint spear with the short spear was still a little heavy, but fortunately, after firing a volley at the top of the mountain, the formation of the feint spearmen was broken up, and the Mo family still had the advantage.

During the battle ahead, the four companies of the second wave had also climbed the top ridge of the hillock, and after unfolding, they began to shoot at the arquebusiers on both sides who were still trying to reload.

After the Qi army was arrayed, the commander of the right army understood the importance of this hill, and also understood that he chose to line up behind the hill in order to avoid the Mo family's bronze cannons.

On his side, the light cavalry of the Mo family had already driven away the eight hundred cavalry in his hand, and he had to deploy his small number of troops on the side to guard against the Mo family's cavalry.

On the side of the hill near the Chinese army, the infantry of the Mo family was also storming, and there was also artillery support, and the two thousand or so people there had already endured the shelling for nearly an hour, and the formation was already crumbling.

Now the troops in his hands are really stretched, I thought that the Mo family would deploy a large number of troops on the left flank of the coalition army, who would have thought that the Mo family's forces on his side still have a great advantage, but the first wave of onslaught has already caused him to be a little difficult to support.

At this time, the commander of the right army of the coalition army has scolded Tian Ju to his grandfather's generation, but he has not scolded the eighteenth generation of his ancestors, not because he doesn't want to scold, but when he came to his grandfather's generation, they were all a family, and they couldn't scold, which is about a reason why the so-called aristocratic spirit is polite.

He thought to himself, the four words on paper that Si Shang passed on were simply too suitable for Tian Ju.

I want to assemble a counterattack on the right flank, but the troops on the right flank are so small, and if I don't hurry up to support now, I may not be able to hold out until the main force of the Mo family on the side of Sanliushe.

If he could hide from the Mo family and quietly transfer the main force to the right flank, in fact, there would indeed be a chance.

For example, now, even if the Mo family facing the right wing has already launched an offensive formation, if he has a cavalry of 6,000 people and 20,000 infantry in his hands, and counterattacks after the Mo family chooses to attack, it is really possible to directly collapse the Mo family on the right flank.

Because the formation is deployed as an attack, and there are too many troops deployed, once the counterattack is successful, it will be immediately defeated, and there is no chance to hold it firmly.

However, the hot air balloons rising from the Mojia position and the quality of the main forces of the coalition forces not being able to march quietly at night made this idea a utopian idea.

Tian Ju chose the most difficult path, or the one that was forced out of the way he had to do so.

He needed the right flank to withstand the width of the front in the early stage, and the first two attacks of the Mo family in the later stage, forcing the Mo family to deploy the main force and transfer the reserves of the Chinese army to the direction of the Sanliu Society, and then he could transfer the reserves of the coalition forces near the Sanliu Society to the right flank.

Any link is indispensable.

But now it seems that not to mention whether the Sanliushe side can force the Mo family to deploy all the main forces without moving the strength of the reserves, let's just say that the right wing at this time is about to be unable to hold under the first wave of attacks by the Mo family.

If he still had 4,000 cavalry in his hands, as long as he could drive away the Mo family's cavalry, he would be able to mobilize more troops in the direction of the hill, forming a repeated battle to delay time.

But the problem is that there are only 6,000 cavalry in the entire coalition army, and the 800 cavalry on his side has collapsed, and the main force is still staring at the main cavalry of the Mo family, and it is simply impossible to transfer even a single cavalry.

Tian Ju asked him to resist, but now he was in a hurry to send heralds to ask Tian Ju to transfer at least two more brigades, otherwise he would not be able to hold on.

The battle on the hill continued, and the counterattack of the three companies of the first wave of the Mo family bought time and space for the companies of the subsequent waves.

If the hillock has not been recaptured within two quarters of an hour, then with the speed of digging the pit of the Mo family's combat sappers, who are mostly lowly miners, I am afraid that it will not take half an hour for the fortifications to be repaired and the copper cannons to be pulled up, and then their side will completely collapse.

Now that the infantry of the second counterattack had been launched, he also impatiently ordered the third wave of repeatedly contested infantry to deploy, close to the knoll, under which the arquebusiers were supporting.

Fortunately, the anticline battlefield he chose, so that the Mo family's copper cannon could not bombard, and the main force on his side was still complete, and the soldiers could still hold it if they fired at each other, and at the same time, they could avoid the demoralization caused by the copper cannon.

The other side of the hill.

The third wave of the Mo family's infantry companies supporting the hill was also unfolding, followed by the battle sappers.

And after the troops assembled under the hillock, two more brigades of infantry waited in a dense column formation.

The intention of the commander-in-chief of the left flank of the Mo family was to attract the attention of the Qi army in the direction of the hill, but in fact, he had to rely on the superiority of the cavalry, and use the cavalry and infantry artillery to directly launch a general attack on the flank, and directly defeat the main force of the right army of the Qi army.

Although Xiaoqiu is important, the Qi army must also know that it will definitely fight for it repeatedly, and it will be difficult to stabilize it for an hour or two.

Moreover, the Qi army relied on the disgusting anticline ridge line, so that the artillery advantage of the Mo family could not be brought into play at all, and they could only choose to shoot and hedge, which narrowed the gap between the Qi army and the Jiehang army, and the casualty ratio was very ugly.

That being the case, the main generals on the left naturally want to attack the short with the long.

Now the ridge line of the hill is on its side, and this hill blocks the view of the Mo artillery, and also the line of sight of the Qi army.

The flank cavalry had driven away the 800 cavalry, and the herald reported that the Qi army had chosen an extremely dense formation on the flank to guard against a cavalry surprise attack—a message that translated into another meaning, that is, the Qi army had chosen a dense formation to meet the volley of artillery and horizontal infantry.

Under the cover of the ridge line of the hill, the two brigades behind plus a brigade as a reserve, fourteen brigade small guns, six cavalry guns, and two companies of elite grenadiers began to maneuver rapidly to the side.

There will be a lot of blood on the hillock, but it will always be a necessary price to pay relative to the entire battlefield, otherwise it will have to be shed more.

When the main general of the left flank looked up at the knoll, the three companies of the first wave had retreated to the ridgeline, and the four companies of the second wave were firing, and it seemed that they were preparing for hand-to-hand counterattack.

The internal guard cavalry of the Supervision and Inspection Department is collecting the soldiers of the company that broke down in the first wave, and the company commander and the representative of the company are all killed, so there is nothing to punish, they only need to be collected and cannot be used on the battlefield for the time being.

"Let the four companies of the fourth wave unfold and prepare to climb the hill."

For the sake of the hill, he had already deployed sixteen companies, nearly two brigades of troops, and even left only a small reserve.

And all this is just a feint.

The infantry of the two brigades, which were in a dense column, had already begun to maneuver towards the flanks, and without the cooperation of infantry and artillery, the cavalry alone could not open the gap.

However, a formation that is conducive to defending against cavalry charges is inevitably not conducive to defending against artillery bombardment and infantry, which is inevitable due to weapons and equipment.

The Qi army's mixed formation of hot and cold weapons, and the slow loading of arquebuses that were too heavy to insert short spears, all made the Qi army want to defend against cavalry without cavalry cover, and can only defend in dense formations. And this is the favorite target of artillery and horizontal troops.

In the state of dense column marching, the speed of the troops was about 700 paces per quarter of an hour, in other words, the repeated battle for the hillock here would take at least two quarters of an hour before the flank attack could be launched.

The copper cannon can only support the side close to the Chinese army, and can do nothing behind the hillock, and if the deployment is adjusted, the Qi army will also choose to adjust the deployment, and only rely on the feint of human life to create opportunities.