The military formations of the Wei and Han coalition forces were originally slightly staggered, in order to give full play to the defensive advantages of the infantry formation.

Chu Dasima wanted to use the movement of the formation to quietly move the second-line troops deployed by the Chinese army to the right flank of the coalition army, and chose to break through on the left flank of the Wei and Han coalition forces, which actually coincided with the idea of the chief general of the Wei and Han coalition forces.

The commander-in-chief of the Wei-Han coalition army also wanted to use the mobilization of the formation to concentrate the main force on his right flank and form a superiority in strength on the right flank.

Both sides understand that it is extremely difficult to choose a breakthrough of the Chinese army, and it is likely to be a war of attrition, which is a scenario that both sides that want to demand victory do not want to see.

Indeed, now the two sides are only fighting a decisive battle north of the hidden water, and it seems that the battlefield is a frontal several miles wide.

This is not the case.

The fact that the rest of the troops on both sides of the front line of Luyang, Yangzhai, Yuguan, and Daliang did not choose to participate in this battle does not mean that they do not exist.

Because of the presence and assembly of those troops, the Battle of Hidden Sun was crucial.

If Chu won a great victory, the south of Xinzheng would continue to Xu, and the Wei and Han coalition forces would no longer be able to launch an offensive, and they could also form a stable front with Luyang and Yuguan on both flanks.

A great victory for Wei and Han would make it impossible for the state of Chu to be touched for at least a few years, and it would also be able to reach Zhaoling with troops, thus forcing the state of Chu to withdraw and accept the conditions of Wei and Han and the established fact that the state of Zheng had been divided.

In fact, there are only so many mobile field forces that the two sides can invest, and the troops of those aristocratic cities on both flanks of the strategic battlefield are okay for defense and deterrence, but field battles are not good after all.

The stalemate between the Chinese forces made no sense on either side, so both sides chose the left flank of the other side as a breakthrough.

Chu Da Sima chose to break through on the left flank because Chu was in the south and Wei Han was in the north, and he wanted to take advantage of the direction of the wind to turn the unfavorable land into heavenly time.

The main general of Wei Han chose to break through on the left flank, because the Sishang Yishi in the previous two battles of Moyue and Moqi had made a reputation, he did not want to choose the Chinese army, and felt that the Sishang army on the right flank was not easy to deal with, so he had to choose the newly formed Chen Cai's division after the Wang Ziding Rebellion.

At the same time that the Mochu coalition began to move and change formations, the left flank of the Wei and Han coalition forces also began to staggered and retreated to the left rear.

Take each foot square as a unit, form a zigzag with each other, when retreating, the foot phalanx protruding in front of the phalanx is first backward, and the two sides are in the concave part of the pinzig, and wait until the first batch retreats, the original concave and convex phalanx retreats again.

On the whole, the Wei-Han coalition army was based on the right flank, and the entire front was slightly shortened.

It not only widened the distance between it and the right flank of the Mochu coalition army on the left flank, but also concentrated its forces on the right flank. The commander-in-chief of the Wei-Han coalition army believed that just relying on those cavalry, he might not be able to completely tear apart Chen Cai's division that had defeated the Chu State.

So he chose to shorten the battle line, concentrate his troops on his right flank, and give way to the phalanx on the right flank to form a formation similar to a right triangle.

That is, several infantry phalanxes are deployed on the far right, with the greatest thickness, and they are successively reduced to the center and the left flank, as if a formation with a hook on the front and a strand on the edge of the left flank.

Such an advantage is that once the division of Chen Cai of Chu collapses, the Wei-Han coalition army can quickly insert into the left flank of the Mo-Chu coalition army, forming an outflanking encirclement.

At that time, the Chinese army of Chu would have to readjust its defense, and the superior cavalry of the Mochu coalition army on the right flank would also have to give up the attack and use the advantage of mobility to quickly return to the left flank, so as to relieve the pressure on the left flank of the Wei and Han coalition forces.

The drums sounded, and tens of thousands of soldiers on both sides began to move according to the consciousness of the main generals of both sides, which was the most important formation confrontation link before the decisive battle between the two sides.

The right flank of the combined forces of the Mechu Army.

The artillery was still constantly bombarding the phalanx of the infantry of the Wei and Han coalition forces that were staggering and retreating, and there was obvious confusion on the opposite side.

The previous insistence was imposed by the officers, otherwise the formation would have dispersed long ago under the bombardment of the copper cannon.

Now the left flank of the Wei and Han coalition forces chose to stagger and retreat to the right rear, and when the formation did not move, it was still able to maintain no chaos, but once it began to move, there was chaos.

The commander of the right wing of the Mochu coalition army was the people of the Mo family, and before the war, the Chu Da Sima was in charge of the Chinese army as the main general, and the command of the right army was handed over to the division-level officers sent by the Mo family.

If there is no news from the main general, the overall fight is still around the goal set at the beginning, and it is not easy to communicate at this time, and it is also difficult to change the formation, and the things determined before the war will generally not change.

The commander of the Mo family on the right flank was keenly aware of the chaos that appeared when the Wei and Han coalition forces moved, and knew that this was an opportunity.

As for whether it can break through, it needs to be tried, but at least it can't make it so easy for the left flank of the Wei-Han coalition to retreat.

Of course, it is impossible to fully believe in the friendly army of the Chu army, and it is impossible to launch a full-scale attack at the beginning.

One is that he does not trust the Chu people, and the other is that the cavalry division commander of the Mo family is sure that the speed of his attack is faster, and the Chu people's Chinese army moves slowly, and if it attacks too fast, it will be easy to expose the cavalry's flanks.

So he ordered the cavalry brigade, which was equipped with three short guns, and the cavalry brigade of the prisoners, to launch a tentative attack first.

If you can't break through, then harass it, slow down the other party's retreat, and disrupt the order of the Wei and Han coalition forces.

The drums beat and the trumpets began to echo across the battlefield.

The artillerymen heard the order and began to twist the muzzle slightly, bombarding the left flank of the Wei-Han coalition near the side of the center, making room for the cavalry to attack in a roundabout way.

Like many cavalrymen, according to the superstitious customs of the army, the prisoner held the horseshoe nail that many cavalrymen tried to be mascots in the palm of his hand, bowed forward with a fist, and then drew his iron sword.

"Jog!"

He shouted, and the heralds around him waved their flags and whistles, and most of the cavalry brigades involved in this tentative attack lined up, gently urged their horses, and followed behind the brigade in front.

The cavalry attacked, which was the most panicked thing on the left flank of the Wei-Han coalition army.

Originally, there was no copper artillery support on their side, and the shelling for nearly an hour made the morale of the Wei and Han troops fall to a low point.

When the formation was maintained, it was still possible to form a formation under the constraints of the noble officers, but now the order received was to retreat alternately backwards, and once it moved, the formation was a little loose.

The distance between the two sides was not very close, but it was not too far either, and as soon as the cavalry approached with a sortie, they could not retreat.

The staggered arrangement, in the shape of a zigzag with each other, was originally intended to guard against cavalry. If the cavalry still retreats when it charges, it is equivalent to exposing the flanks.

If discipline is sufficient, in fact, during the period when the cavalry charge is approaching, it is enough to complete the retreat that has been carried out and then adjust the formation.

It is best to have cavalry cover on your own side, and hedge against the cavalry of the Mo family to buy time for the infantry to defend in formation, but there are not many cavalry on this side.

There were only more than 300 horsemen on the left flank of the Wei-Han coalition army, and seeing that the opposite side had attacked, the main general could only let these more than 300 horsemen attack.

The archers and musketeers in Wei Han's infantry clinged to the large array of spears, nervously looking at the cavalry that had raised dust in the distance, and silently prayed.

Shu Prisoner Mi saw the three hundred cavalry of the Wei and Han coalition forces, all of which were light cavalry, and the number was too small, and he felt that these light cavalry would not be able to resist for long at all.

After the three hundred cavalry rushed closer, there was a burst of gunfire from the cavalry brigade in front of the prisoner.

Those active Mojia cavalry were like the regulations in the code, and after the cavalry on the opposite side approached, they pulled out the short guns that had already been loaded, fired a shot, and put the unloadable muskets back, and quickly turned the horse's head.

Like a straight line suspended in the air suddenly cut in the middle, after the first shot, the cavalry of the first platoon quickly turned towards the two wings.

Then the cavalry of the second row also had room to shoot.

Bang bang......

After a series of gunfire, only half of Wei Han's three hundred horsemen remained, and the two wings were clearly about to be surrounded.

Almost before the battle was engaged, the remaining Wei and Han cavalry chose to retreat.

One is frightened, and the other is that rushing over is simply sending to death, and even if it rushes again, it needs to retreat and regroup.

The Wei and Han cavalry that fled ran towards the right rear of the Shu prisoner, and the Shu prisoner did not call the company to pursue.

Not long after those cavalry retreated, the cavalry of the Mochu coalition army also suffered casualties, and the archers and musketeers of the Wei and Han coalition forces on the opposite side began to shoot, and more than ten cavalrymen in the front row fell from their horses.

The prisoner pulled the reins slightly, and the herald next to him also signaled that each company was moving forward to the right.

At the time of the engagement, the archers had to shoot three shots, while the arquebusiers had even fewer shots, and most of them could only choose one shot.

At this time, the distance between the two sides was already very close, and the short-shot cavalry in front began to shoot in a company unit, towards the military formation of the Wei and Han coalition forces.

After the first company finished shooting, it turned to the right and broke away and continued to reload, while the latter company followed and fired again.

If this is the case repeatedly, there has been a gap in the large array of foot soldiers on the far left of the Wei and Han coalition forces.

The smoke of gunpowder was filled, and the prisoners could already see the frightened musketeers and archers retreating behind the foot soldiers, and they could also see the restless panic of Wei Han's foot soldiers in the places where they were shot out of the gap.

Raising his iron sword, he selected a gap, towards which the company that followed him rushed towards it.

This gap was chosen very cleverly, not only out of instinctive talent, but also out of years of experience in the army and the lessons learned by others in exchange for blood.

This is almost the far left of the Wei and Han coalition forces, and the position of the gap can not only rush in, but also avoid the attacks of the archers and musketeers of the Wei and Han army formations on the right, which have not yet been attacked.

A young Wei soldier waved his spear indifferently, his hands trembling a little as his eyes grew louder and louder as he approached, and the sound of horses' hooves trembling a little.

One hour earlier, six of his companions had been hit by the iron pellets of the copper cannon right under his nose and had died beside him.

At that time, there were other people to fill the vacancy, and he could safely raise his weapon as he usually practiced, even if he was afraid, but no one had run, and he could not run.

Now, however, the flanks that had just been filled were vacant again, and the companion, who had only been familiar for a quarter of an hour, had died in the fire of the short-shot cavalry just now.

Looking at the war horse that was getting closer and closer, this Wei pawn subconsciously stabbed towards the chest of the war horse.

However, without the help of the flanks, the heavy spear was too slow to stab after all.

The captive also turned the horse's head almost subconsciously, and the war horse under his crotch jumped slightly to the left, and the spear grazed his leather boots.

Fighting for one's life can sometimes be the result of life and death in an instant.

The captive thought to himself, I survived again.

Then, bending down slightly, the iron sword in his right hand swung down, cutting off the place where the trembling Wei pawn's neck kept beating.

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