Chapter 385: The Gentleman's Golden Drum (Twenty-six)
After these 700 people rushed into the Yue army, they immediately brought a certain amount of chaos to the Yue people, but also let Yue Wang Phong see the dawn of victory.
He boarded the car and looked into the distance, and could see the seven hundred people rushing to kill from afar, and said to the nobles around him: "The big thing is decided!" Those people should be the 'Che Guang' and 'gentlemen' of the righteous teacher, these people have already rushed into battle, and the righteous teacher has no choice, so he can only rely on these people to decide the victory! ”
The rest of the nobles also looked at that place, and they all believed Yue Wang's words.
The current situation, in the eyes of the Yue people, is actually extremely beneficial to themselves.
In the eyes of the Yue people, although their own Chinese army and right wing could not break through the righteous division that had "several formations", the righteous division was also unable to drive them away.
At least, until now, the righteous divisions faced by the Chinese army and the right flank have moved like turtles. When the main policy on the far right moved, the Yue people were indeed nervous, but after seeing the speed of the general guideline's movement, they were finally relieved.
The Yue people didn't know about the existence of the four brigades, and with the cover of the blind spot on the hillside, the only thing the Yue people were worried about was the cavalry of the five hundred people, but the Yue Wang still had some elites by his side.
Yue Wang Fei regarded the 700 people as the "Che Guang" of the righteous teacher, Che Guang was the name of the Janissary Army in the Chu State, which was similar to the Junzi Army to the Yue people, but it was not the same.
The number of the Yue Junzi army is large, about six or seven thousand, and it can often form an army alone, and it was popular before that when the three armies were facing each other, they could often assume the responsibility of the main force of the Chinese army.
The cars of the Chu people are often used when the battle situation is anxious or when the victory or defeat is on the front line, and the number of people is smaller, and it bears more of the finale role on the battlefield.
Now the situation faced by the main force of the Yue people is extremely hard, and the Yue nobles believe more and more in the judgment of Yue Wang Peng: the group of people facing the left wing is the elite of the righteous division who led them around in circles before.
The frontal fight was scorching, and it seemed that he had not yet broken through the defense line of the righteous division, but he felt that if he used a little more force, he could determine the victory or defeat.
The 900 people on the far left and the 15 cannons exposed in the back brought a certain amount of trouble to the Yue people, and also made the Yue people subconsciously expand to the right, and there were more and more troops on the front line, and even some people were already in contact with the far right side of the righteous division army, and the seven hundred rangers joined the battlefield from that position.
The Yue people also saw that as long as the phalanx formation of these righteous divisions did not disperse, it would be extremely difficult to break through, but the flank outflanking might have been blocked.
The 2,000 people led by the temple area on the left did not choose to outflank them in a mobile way, but directly threw themselves into the front to fight against the 900 men of the 7th Brigade of the Righteous Division at the closest distance, and their task was only to resist these 900 people, not to let them continue to squeeze their own space.
If it continues to squeeze in, the situation will be even more ugly, but Yue Wang Fei did not expect the 2,000 men in the temple area to defeat the Seventh Brigade, and only hoped that he could buy enough time.
With the cooperation of artillery, more than 2,000 people in the temple area have been crumbling.
But in the same way, the three brigades of the righteous division in the head-on confrontation were already a little unable to hold on, and the musketeers had no chance to fire a salvo at all, only huddled beside the spear array and fired a few shots occasionally, or they fought around the spear array with their swords.
Fortunately, the 7th Brigade drove away the group of people outflanked by the left flank of the Yue, so that the Yuens could not fully deploy, and on the front of the limited space, the three brigades could still maintain a certain numerical advantage at the same distance and maintain the phalanx.
The direction of the seven hundred rangers' impact, although it also brought a certain amount of confusion, but they rushed too fast, and the problem was soon exposed.
Since Yue Wang Fei guessed that these 700 people were the last hole cards of the righteous master, he was of course happy in his heart, so he ordered a part of the troops that had not yet been launched in the back to join the battle against these 700 people.
At this time, Shi is also doing the final "deception".
After the brigade-level phalanx on the left flank of the righteous division began to sweep and squeeze towards the center of the battlefield, the Chinese army and the left flank also began to beat the snare drum, moving forward at the slow speed characteristic of the phalanx while maintaining the formation.
Taking the brigade-level phalanx as the benchmark, the brigade-level phalanx moved forward thirty steps, and immediately beat the drum of the whole team, and the remaining phalanxes close to the brigade-level phalanx also followed behind and pushed forward, keeping them level.
The entire military formation is like a wave, moving forward little by little with the crest of the wave, such a movement is safe, and it is also impossible for the Yue people to break through, but it is ...... It's just too slow.
If the sixteen brigades of the Volunteer Division have all been reconstructed, the level of training and the proportion of veterans can reach the level of the six brigades deployed at the beginning of the right flank, and now there is no such trouble, and it can be changed to an offensive formation to advance.
This is a helpless move, and it is also to deceive the Yue people: the righteous master wants to rescue the right wing, but the right wing really can't hold on, and even the "Che Guang" at the bottom of the pressure box has been taken out.
Yue Wang Fei even thought that those 700 people were the elite who raided the King of Chu under Shangqiu City back then.
Looking at the movement of the overall front of the righteous division, Yue Wang Peng was finally relieved, looked at the most anxious place on the battlefield, and finally ordered: let all the remaining troops be invested, except for the guards around him who prevented the impact of the five hundred cavalry.
Part of it was put into the front, and the other part had to resist the squeeze of the middle army and the left wing of the righteous division, so as to buy time for the annihilation of the right wing of the righteous division.
Shi looked at it from a high place, and saw that the Yue people had added thousands of people to the side of the Chinese army, not only did they not get nervous, but they were finally relieved.
What he is looking forward to most now is the attack of the Yue people, and the attack of the Yue people with all their forces.
Once the battle begins, it's not so easy to run again, the two sides are stuck together, and it takes more time to slip away, and it's chaotic, and you can't distinguish things when you run.
Now Yue Wang Phong was excited, let the remaining troops deploy, resist the middle army and the left flank of the righteous division with weak troops, and put two thousand gentlemen into the front of the right flank of the righteous division.
Tell people to beat drums to help the battle, and use their strong voice to win a decisive victory.
Shi was also excited, and asked the four brigades and cavalry that had already moved to the left flank to prepare to outflank, and once the Yue people's forces could not be withdrawn from the order, they would immediately attack.
He rubbed his fingers, listened to the faint sound of the Yue people's drums and the fighting on the right flank, and waited for the last wave of the Yue people's attack.
When the Yue people who came like a tide had already engaged the spearmen of the Chinese army, Shi Shi said to the herald next to him in an almost trembling voice: "Raise the smoke!" Trumpet! ”
The herald quickly lit a pile of hay that had been prepared, and when the flames began to rise, he covered it with rotten straw that had been kept moist with water.
Thick black smoke rose into the sky, and the long horn also passed along the military formation.
Gong Zaoye and Meng Sheng, who had been waiting on the left wing, had been waiting impatiently for this thick smoke, and jumped up at the same time.
They have been waiting for this puff of black smoke for too long, and they can't do it early, otherwise the Yue people have not yet fully unfolded and can still retreat as an organization; It can't be too late, otherwise the right flank may not be able to hold on, and even lead to the handicapping of those elite brigades being crippled by the Vietnamese.
When the two got up, they looked at each other, and there were smiles in their eyebrows.
Thinking about the previous plan, having come this far, means that the idea has become a reality.
Before the two got on the horse, Gongzaoye laughed and said: "After this battle, the Yue people did not dare to peep into Surabaya for 20 years, no one in the world dared not invite the giant, and no one dared to ignore the righteousness of the Mo family!" ”
With that, he rode his horse to the side of the troops hidden in the distance, and shouted the order: "Attack! ”
The four brigades and cavalry that had already maneuvered to the left flank also heard the horn, and the brigade commanders and representatives of each brigade passed on the order that had just been given: the column charged, arrived at the battlefield, and spread out behind the Vietnamese flank.
There are not many Yue people on the left flank, and those who are fighting can only maintain a seemingly anxious posture, and the main battlefield is on the right flank.
The Yue people here did not have many troops, and the cavalry rushed from the side, and the Yue people, who were already unable to gnaw at the bottom of the battle, suddenly collapsed.
Unlike the previous rout, which had dispersed to the rear and could regroup forward, this time the cavalry quickly charged, and the four brigades formed eight columns and quickly moved forward along the gap in the flanks that the cavalry had broken through.
The Yue people spread out too few troops on the left flank, the front was too thin, and there was basically no follow-up front, and most of the Yue people were already concentrated in the middle army and the right flank of the righteous division.
Coupled with the exhausting battle with the phalanx before, although the phalanx did not have the speed of pursuit and impact, the process of confrontation was still miserable.
The brigade-level phalanx had already moved fifty paces in the direction of the water, and there was already a gap in the attack.
Three of the four brigades would quickly penetrate the flanks of the Viet Nam, while one of them would choose to start a counterattack from the left flank, squeeze the Viet into the most intense spots, and rely on the rest of the slow-moving phalanx as shields to squeeze the Viet in a small space.
After breaking up the front line of the left flank of the Yue, the cavalry quickly advanced towards the angle of the retreat route of the Yuens according to the established plan, and the Yuens had no cavalry anyway. A cavalry company of one hundred and fifty men was left behind to crush the small groups of Viet that might have approached the infantry.
When the Yue people realized that something was wrong, the cavalry brigade had to ensure that they could fall into the Yue nobles who fled.
If you want to gather your troops and retreat in formation, it is no longer possible, and the cavalry does not need to worry about being unable to fight. And even if Yue Wang Phong is a genius, he can still gather the troops and retreat in a formed way when the troops have basically started fighting...... That would also take time, and if that were the case, three brigades of infantry would be able to participate in the interception and pursuit.
This possibility was completely negligible, and the infantry of the three brigades marched in eight columns, at an angle of sixty degrees to the line of the righteous division, and they did not need to think about the safety of the flanks, nor did they need to think about the skirmishes before the outflanking, and the cavalry company that remained would be solved.
Leading the way in front was the brigade that was completely subordinate to the Mo family itself, which was the elite of the elite of the righteous divisions, and had not participated in the battle as a reserve.
But the ratio of ink and veterans is extremely high, the training is the best, and the fastest on the battlefield.
Compared with the Seventh Brigade that brought a lot of trouble to the Yue people on the right flank, and compared with the 700 rangers who were considered by Yue Wang Fei to be the bottom of the box, this brigade is the real "Che Guang" of the Mo family.