After a little deployment, he handed over the command to others, and returned to his tent to continue looking at the map and the various situations that the scouts had gathered.

He didn't take the enemy lightly, and even kept in mind from the beginning that he was told to pay attention to the enemy.

But he thought carefully about all the experience he knew, and the scout had already spread the battlefield information that controlled a radius of twenty miles; There was not even a single cannon on the opposite side, but they chose to form a circle to defend themselves; The apprentices are the eight-winged elite of the circle formation, and the crossbowmen are in front of the wings where the wings meet; On the opposite side, there are up to a hundred cavalry capable of attacking......

He couldn't imagine how he could possibly lose this battle, because Shi told him that the real world is hard to have many miracles, so he couldn't find a reason to lose.

According to what he thought, there was no artillery and he was still defending in a circle on the plains, and when he was marching, the scouts were not sent too far so that he didn't even have time to change the formation and choose a more suitable defense, and his own strength was still superior, and there were even thousands of cavalry divisions, so the battle should be resolved in two hours at most.

When the battle really started, Six Fingers realized that he still overestimated the combat effectiveness of the soldiers and peasants in Chu County.

It had only been two quarters of an hour since the shelling began, and Shen Gong's nearly 20,000 soldiers were already crumbling, so that the cavalry wandering beside them was a little dazed, not knowing whether to pursue or take the opportunity to break in.

The advent of gunpowder also brought about another change.

Before the appearance of the copper cannon, an appendage of gunpowder, the circular array with chariots and archers was indeed a near-invincible means of defense.

The concentration of the formation often means that it is difficult to break the formation.

But the Mohists attached great importance to the bronze cannon, and most of the content of the army officer study can be summed up in one sentence: cavalry can easily break down loose and weak formations, and in order to resist cavalry and infantry, it is necessary to form a dense formation; Knotted arrays are easily killed by artillery; The Phalanx could defend against cavalry, but it was difficult to defend against a salvo from the musketeers after they had unfurled; If the musketeers want to open a salvo, they should make the formation as weak as possible and widen the front to maximize their firepower; The wider the front, the thinner the front, the thinner the front, the less likely it is to be bombarded by artillery, and the casualties are too great; The wider the frontage, the easier it was to be scattered by cavalry......

This is a very basic thing, which is basically a compulsory course for all levels of the Mohist military academy, and as for the more advanced things, the more cumbersome formations, the transfer of the left and right wings, etc., they are basically based on this, and the more advanced thing is how to "use these basic things with one mind".

With 17,000 foot soldiers, relying on chariots to defend in formation, and muskets and crossbows to shoot outside, the cavalry on Sishang was fierce, but there was nothing to be done.

But the cavalry was helpless, which meant that for the artillerymen and the musketeers who unfolded, it was a training killing, and lighting the arquebus with their eyes closed could have knocked off four or five heads.

Two quarters of an hour of artillery bombardment was a devastating blow to Shen Gong's troops.

In fact, not many people died, but the formation has dispersed, people's hearts have been chaotic, and defeat is inevitable.

At this time, the infantry of the two divisions had not moved, they were still waiting for the artillery to continue the bombardment, and then let the cavalry try to rush, if the cavalry could not rush away, they would immediately follow up and spread the formation to make a salvo and break in.

Now it seems that there is no chance for these foot soldiers who have come from afar to march for a day.

In the Shen Gong formation, Shen Gong, who was still stroking his beard and talking about the method of the battle formation yesterday, couldn't laugh anymore, the formation couldn't hold it anymore, and he saw that the formation was about to be chaotic.

From the battle to the defeat, it may not even be an hour, and he didn't even see the opponent's foot soldiers attacking, and the more than 10,000 people he brought with him were about to be defeated.

It had already broken him completely.

He felt that he was not the kind of person who was extremely pedantic, and when the Mo family began to sell arquebuses, he managed to buy a lot of equipment from some merchants as an arsenal, and did not forget to form a unit of musketeers during the winter exercises.

For the sake of these muskets, the people in Shendi were in a rather difficult situation: the Mo family only collected grain, copper, gold, silver, mercury, cotton, dung and other things.

Do not collect jade, do not collect beads, and do not accept all kinds of delicate utensils.

Merchants generally don't want these things, because some unknown merchants told Shen Gong that what merchants need now is real gold and copper, which can be exchanged for currency in Si, not that the pearl and jade are not valuable, the merchant said that he believes that it will be worth in the future, but many chambers of commerce in Sishang do not accept these things as share capital.

Some chambers of commerce go to the south of Chu to trade, every year profit dividends are very large, today to invest ten gold, if the luck is good next year can get three gold hardware, at this time everyone wants to try their best to change their hands for something that can be exchanged for currency in Si, even if they know the value of the pearl jade, but even if the hundred gold can be sold in the future, then when can it be sold? If it can't be sold within 20 years, if the shares of some big-money chambers of commerce in Sishang are raised during the period, it will still be lost after all.

Shen Gong had no choice but to find a way to pick up money from the farmers and fiefs to buy arms and weapons, not only for the Chu State, but also for himself and his family.

Moreover, it is not the money for firearms, the nobles like the pottery of Sishang, so they have to spend money to buy it, and they can't do without it; The nobles have installed small and translucent windows, and they can't do without them; The nobles all wore the embroidery of the Song Dynasty mulberry forest, and they could not do without it; The nobles bought some Xuan Linzhu from the far west to keep as funeral goods, and they didn't want to prepare, and they didn't believe in the Mo family's thin burial......

There were no copper mines or gold mines in Shendi, and he would not and did not bother to engage in such a menial occupation, and where could he get money from the peasants tied to the land by orthodox aristocratic means?

Many profiteers came forward and said: If you give us the profits of local salt and iron, pay the amount of gold and copper every year, and order that others are forbidden to sell here, I can smuggle you a number of muskets every year.

Not only said, but also did, immediately took out a lot of money, how could Shen Gong not accept it?

The lakes and mountains and rivers of all that belonged to him had to be taxed or franchised, and in this way about three thousand muskets were accumulated.

For these three thousand muskets, no one in the fiefdom was complaining, and those profiteers raised the price of salt extremely high; The price of food was kept extremely low, and the people only felt that they were suffering every day, and they were full of resentment, and they could not complain about Sishang, who was hundreds of miles away from them, and sucked excess profits but sent witches to treat the people from time to time, and spread medicines, and only resented the unkind and unrighteous profiteers and fiefdom kings who only knew their own interests.

And these 3,000 arquebuses, Yu Shen Gongyan is already the limit.

Before the previous king of Chu died, he was not allowed to have a cannon by himself, and the Mo family was also strict about this, but he didn't have a cannon in his hand, and he couldn't cast it himself - the caster who really knew how to cast the bell either went to the kings of various countries, or went to Sishang, one can give land fiefdom and nobility, and the other can give money to morality and spiritual and material double satisfaction, what can he give a small Shen Gong?

Sishang thought he could sell arquebuses, so Shen Gong could buy them; Sishang felt that he couldn't sell artillery, after all, he didn't have enough copper to expand the army, so Shen Gong couldn't buy it.

Cobbled together such an army, if there was no rebellion of the Mo family, he might still be able to continue to maintain his position with those feudal partners in the tide of the era of centralization and reform.

But at this moment, Shen Gong found that all that he had done seemed to be meaningless in the tide of the times.

He is also a person with family roots, and he has mastered many secrets of the nobility.

According to what he thought, from yesterday when he saw the cavalry of the Mo family suddenly appear, his strong man broke his wrist and formed a circle to defend himself until two quarters of an hour ago, what he did was not wrong, and he felt that he could be a famous general.

But how could the battle be over in less than two quarters of an hour?

The roar of the copper cannons that formed a cross on the opposite side, each bombardment would make the already crumbling formation more fragile, and it could disperse at any time.

This is at most what he is good at, and what he is short of, he can still sigh that the Mo family is not sharp firearms, after all, gunpowder was invented first.

But from the early morning when the Mo family was preparing to attack, to the foot soldiers lining up like neat woods, and then spreading out like rushing rivers, he knew that he would never be the opponent of this strong army on the other side.

For nothing else, it took only two quarters of an hour to simply spread the time of those foot soldiers from the phalanx to the flanks.

And if it is his Shen Zhishi, he is afraid that the same assembly to unfold the action will take at least an hour.

For generals, this truth is still clear. Seven years ago, in the Battle of Yinyang, the Chu-Mo coalition army defeated the Wei-Han coalition army, relying on the Chu King's division, which was the reserve at the last moment, to complete the formation change with a speed that made the Wei-Han coalition army jaw-dropping, and he knew very well what this change of formation speed meant.

He even thought that the Mo family's elite formation change and deployment speed was at least no less than that of the Chu King Division that day, but he didn't expect it to be so fast.

If the forces are the same, then what else is there to fight?

However, as a nobleman, he still has the spirit, and the spirit of the sword in the face of the enemy!

Thinking of this, he called out to the servants and nobles around him, and said in a loud voice: "Today things are bound to fail, and death is death." ”

"But the king has divided our land, and will support us enough to take advantage of my lowly inheritance. This is how it should be used today. At this time when the society is in danger, it is necessary to let the Mo family know that there is no king and no father, how to be loyal! What is bravery! ”

He drew his sword and drank, got out of the car and fought on foot, and more than 50 soldiers around him followed, all willing to repay the king with death.

At that time, the battle array had collapsed, Shen Gong took the lead, many rout soldiers fled from him in panic, Shen Gong raised his sword and slashed it, killed more than ten people in anger, and shouted: "When Sheji was in danger, he did not serve to die but wanted to live, so that the Mo family without a king and father went straight from Huaishui to Jianghan, and could not be stopped, this is the crime of the people who refuse to die and want to profit!" Everyone can be killed! ”

More than 50 people around him showed great might, and immediately hacked to death more than 300 defeated soldiers, and the rest of the defeated soldiers did not dare to move forward, scrambling to flee from other places.

At that time, Shen Gong had to be hairy, his battle robe was red, the blood marks on the two-foot sword were ticking, and more than 100 corpses were piled up around him.

He immediately led more than 50 soldiers to rush out of the chaotic crowd and rushed towards thousands of soldiers who raised their guns.

Three hundred paces away, the company commanders of the various companies of the Liberation Army looked at the crowd in the distance who were not afraid of death, and shouted in a tone like a machine: "Raise your gun!" ”

The sound of drums accompanied by slogans reached the ears of every soldier, and the selected first platoon silently raised the muskets that had already been loaded and aimed them at the dozens of people who rushed in.

On the hillside, the herald was pointing at the nobles who had launched a decisive assault to remind Six Fingers.

Six fingers took a sip and said with a smile: "Death is the easiest." There are many incompetent people, when they are alive, they can do better but don't do it, and when things come, they die, and suddenly feel that everything they haven't done before is covered up by their own fearless death. In fact, this is the most cowardly thing. ”

"We have been rising since Sishang for 30 years. It has been thirteen or fourteen years since Hezemeng. It has been seven years since the Fengchi meeting. What did they do? After so long, I haven't done anything, but I want to be a hero? ”

"If you really have the so-called loyalty and courage for the community, hand over your interests, land reform and grant land, organize and train a new army, centralize power and unify it, and cast artillery and train troops...... If you put your mind on coup d'état and counter-change to do so, why bother today? ”

Six Fingers looked at those charging figures, felt more and more ridiculous, shook his head and said: "Order, after the battle, screen the nobles among the captured captives, let them dig pits, and organize captured conscription farmers to visit the nobles to dig pits." If the diggings are not good, they will not hesitate to ridicule, and it is recommended that the Xuanyi Department send a few more people who can speak well and understand the Chu language, if those nobles can't say anything nonsense like not being cheap, they will scold them back and ask them what else they can do besides being silverfish? The bodies of all nobles and soldiers were buried together and were not to be separated. ”

"Clean up the battlefield as soon as possible, and let the prisoners set up their own camps to spread our policies. Those who are willing to run will run, and those who are not willing to run will stay here, and wait for me to break through the Chu army and capture the king of Chu, and then solve them. It is good to leave two companies here to guard the prisoners, assemble as soon as possible, march south, and rest until the main camp. ”