This decisive attack of the Qi army was fruitless except for leaving some sword marks on the bronze cannons of the brigade at the front of the righteous division.

After being repulsed, it was already sunset.

The day will be in the west, called the sun, that is, between one and three o'clock in the afternoon in the later generations, if it is on weekdays, it is the time to eat.

As the so-called Dan to eat, it is wheat; Eclipse to the sun, for the grass.

In the army, there is not so much exquisiteness, the volunteer division this expedition, starting from Onozawa to march rapidly, aside from logistics, has been eating fried noodles or fried rice, but at night you can boil water to drink some rations of Haiyang tea, each soldier will also be handed a pinch of cane sugar.

There is really no such precedent for eating in front of the battle, at least in the eyes of Qi Jun, it is extremely strange.

In the past, when fighting a war, we all ate early, when the battle was over, when to eat, in addition to siege warfare, the general field battle can be decided within an hour, and sometimes it is the time of a chariot impact.

Moreover, there is no special division chief and cooking team in the army of the vassal states, so it is delusional to eat during the confrontation, and it is easy to mess up the formation.

Seeing that the Qi army on the opposite side had retreated, Six Fingers discussed with the representative of the ink master in the division: "I don't think it can be fought for the time being, why don't you let the back boil some water and send it over, and prepare for the troops to eat some fried rice." The confrontation will continue in the afternoon. ”

The division representatives looked at the troops who had marched ten miles on the front line and had been confronting the Qi people for a long time, and they were also quite distressed.

Ke looked up at the sun again, frowned, and said: "Shi Shuai means not to wait for the heavy artillery on the Chengyang side, and to gain time to eliminate the Pingyin Army of Qi as soon as possible." ”

"Since our division is making a feint, it is to create opportunities for his side...... It is now sunset, and in two hours at most, it will be dark. In case an order comes from Shi Shuai, let's not be unprepared. ”

Six Fingers smiled: "You still haven't understood the meaning of being handsome." He had his troops spread out and spread out the artillery...... You know, he likes to use the cannons together. Now scattered, what is this for? That was to make the Qi people mistakenly think that we were going to slowly press and compress their front until we won. If you are the commander of the Qi army, this time the attempt to seize the artillery fails, our artillery bombardment, the forward camp and the army formation will be chaotic, and the infantry will rush again, what can you do? ”

The division representative said: "Then it is natural to divide the troops, deploy the follow-up troops, and be ready to support at any time, or put in some places where the defense line is unstable." Didn't Shi Shuai say it, they take care of each other, so they are the first everywhere, the tail everywhere, and none of them can be lost. ”

Six Fingers laughed: "The key is here." Shishuai's side is the main attack, he has not moved, leaving the initiative of the feint attack to our division. Now, the whole line has not yet begun to approach the artillery bombardment, and the mobilization of Qi people has not yet begun. ”

"It will take half an hour to carry out the transfer, so that the whole line will not be chaotic."

"Wait until they unfold, and our side will start storming the hillside, what will the commander of the Qi army think?"

The division representative has already understood, quite a little suddenly realized, said: "At that time, the commander of the Qi army will inevitably panic, if the hillside is lost, the right wing of the Qi people will collapse, hindered by our artillery, they will not be able to line up within 300 steps below the hillside, by then the right wing has been lost, and if they retreat another 300 steps, their space will be even smaller, and it will be difficult to maintain a formation of tens of thousands of people." As soon as he found out that our division was storming the hillside, he would definitely think that it was a plan and would have to move again. ”

Six Fingers nodded and said, "Yes, once they move again, it will take another half an hour, and during this time, we will have to face our repeated battles on the flat land under the hillside." ”

"Only by attracting the attention of the Qi army to this hillside, can the Shishuai side break through the Qi army's defense line with minimal casualties. The 1st Division and the cavalry were on that side, as were the artillery attached to the rest of the corps. As long as the Qi army is mobilized, there will inevitably be some chaos, and then it will be the time for him to attack. ”

"It takes more than an hour to move people back and forth. Even if we start to prepare, it will take at least half an hour. ”

"By the time the opportunity presented itself, it was already getting dark. There is not much time left for Shi Shuai, the night battle is too chaotic, we have the advantage, there is no need to have to fight at night to win like Shangqiu City did back then. ”

"So, I think this afternoon, it's to let the Qi people make sure that we just want to fight steadily and compress their front a little bit."

"The real win will have to wait until tomorrow. In the evening, the cavalry and infantry on the Shishuai side can also slowly approach from behind the mountains and forests without being detected by the Qi people. ”

Speaking of this, Six Fingers smiled and said, "You wait, soon Shishuai will order us to eat first." I think let's get ready first, yes, and if time permits, we can let the soldiers take turns to rest in place. ”

"I'm staring here, you go squint for a moment. At night, some of you are busy, maybe you have to sing a few songs of "Qi Feng", shouting whether there are any Qi soldiers who were captured in the battle of the most aid on the other side. ”

As soon as the words fell, the herald who came from behind came the order to eat in turn, and the division representative smiled at the six fingers, and the nervous mood became relaxed with the herald's call to eat in turn, and said, "Okay, I'll go squint for a while." ”

Six Fingers waved at him and continued to watch from the hillside with a clairvoyant.

Soon, bursts of fireworks rose from behind, and boiling water was sent to the front company, to which some tea leaves and some salt were added.

The musketeers were divided in half, and the next few rows sat down to drink water, took out some fried rice from the dry food bag on their bodies, and replenished their strength with salty tea.

The spearmen also stood in the front row, and the back rows sat on the ground according to the order, ate and rested, and were allowed to make small talk.

The gunners were more laid-back, except for rapid-fire orders that might not hesitate to explode and reduce the useful life of the cannons, as long as they fired normally, they had a lot of free time and could eat and drink at any time.

The Qi army probably had never seen such a scene, the two armies were only two or three hundred steps apart, but they did not attack, but stared at each other wide-eyed.

From the morning to now, the Qi army must have been hungry, but they could not eat now, and could only wait until night came, when a dozen people could gather around the campfire and cook some food with their accomplices.

And every once in a while, a few iron pellets flew out of the copper cannons in front of the righteous division's formation, smashing into the Qi army defending in formation, drenched in blood, and creating a gap in the general's formation.

The army that can withstand such artillery bombardment and partner casualties must be elite, but the Qi army obviously does not have such qualities, and after seven or eight rounds of bombardment, the front line of the Qi army has been somewhat loosened, and the morale has plummeted.

Six Fingers looked at the sun, estimated the time, and finally waited for the order: a tentative attack on all fronts, set for about a quarter of an hour.

The officer next to him took out the sundial, determined the time to launch the attack, and the six fingers hurriedly ordered: the front platoon is in formation, the follow-up preparation, and the artillery is ready for a round of rapid fire.

The order, the sound of trumpets and drums continued to play, which not only made the righteous teacher's side excited, but also made the Qi people feel a little angry.

Rather than endure an artillery attack that can't be fired back, it's better to catch and fight, at least know how you died.

In fact, it is already rare that the Qi people can withstand such a long artillery bombardment without attacking without obeying orders.

It is also possible that the Mo family has hidden the full strength of the artillery, and it has not been used intensively today, but it is only scattered to various brigades and divisions to fire at will, and it has not allowed the Qi people to collapse because they can't withstand the shelling.

As the order was passed to the front line, when all the departments were preparing in the whole team, Six Fingers talked to the people on the engineer side: "The position you mentioned before, I will take advantage of the battle in front of me to seize the time to build and excavate there." It's done before dark, it's so chaotic that it's generally hard for Qi people to notice. Even if they noticed, they didn't know what it was going to do. ”

The people on the sapper's side said that they were ready for a long time, and as long as the front engaged, they would be in position immediately.

Six Fingers smiled: "I'm not as good as you in digging pits, I have a specialization in the art industry." Calculate the time yourself, and don't go too early to be noticed by the Qi people; But don't go too late so late that it's not done yet. ”

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On the front line, the volunteers who had been resting for a while were ready one after another, moving their hands and feet, and the whole team was on par.

The commander of the 13th Brigade knew that his attack on his side might be the most troublesome, and now the Qi people's artillery had basically been destroyed, leaving only the nine guns on the hillside, and if he attacked by himself, those artillery would be able to hit him.

However, he was very confident in his brigade, and he also understood his position in the division, and he was able to let them attack this place precisely because they were the elite of the division.

The bronze artillery of the brigade that had been deployed was rapidly bombarding the Qi army's military formation, and when the commander of the 13th Brigade heard the order to attack, he called the flute and drummer to beat the drum and blow the flute.

More than 1,000 people lined up in a line according to the company, stepping on the drum, and with the support of their own artillery fire, they launched an attack on the Qi army's military formation.

The Qi people on the opposite side also lined up crossbowmen, archers, and musketeers to meet them, but shells kept coming, tearing a gap in the formation that had just been formed.

When the 13th Brigade advanced to a hundred paces away from the Qi army, the Qi artillery on the hillside also began to fire, and several shells flew into the crowd and killed several people.

But the man next to him only paused slightly, and immediately filled up his original position, his eyes looked forward, and his ears listened to the drummer next to him, and moved forward slowly but firmly, as he usually practiced, and did not attack at such a distance because he wanted to escape the cannons.

As soon as they entered the distance of a hundred paces, the crossbows and muskets of the Qi people on the opposite side began to shoot scatteredly.

The front row of the spearmen were all wearing iron armor, and at such a distance, they couldn't do much damage.

The advance of the brigade was still very slow, and the musketeers were only marching slowly, and they could not open fire even if they opened fire from the opposite side without receiving orders.