The Mo artillerymen, who had been shelled for an hour, were packing up their artillery, as if they were usually trained, redeploying on the flank of the infantry in the direction where they were preparing to attack, and continuing to bombard.

The small cannons attached to the brigade level are lighter, and those that fire five-pound iron shells are much heavier, and the pack horses, who have long been accustomed to the sound of cannons and the smell of gunpowder, are quiet, and from time to time they raise their heads to look at the smoke of gunpowder in the distance.

Because of the existence of the cavalry on the Mo family's side, the Zhao army on the opposite side chose the Pinzi array at the beginning, so that the artillery could kill them well.

If they deployed the formation wider, but it was easy for the cavalry to break through, the Zhao people still chose a defensive formation born from the circle formation with the experience of fighting Zhongshan and the Hu people.

The infantry of the Mo family had already begun to assemble and march, and had just finished checking the loading of gunpowder and lead bullets.

They need to advance to a position just outside the firing range at this point, but also wait for the artillery to maneuver to the flanks and redeploy.

Gunpowder is not human life, and the Mo commander in charge of this battle is very clear about the consistent style of the Mo family siege, sweating more and digging pits and less bloodshed, using more gunpowder and less human life.

Offensive warfare is about the same, as long as the artillery has an advantage, try to maximize the advantage.

The scout reported that it was impossible for the main force of the Han army to arrive today, so the time was on the Mo family's side, and he could wear down the morale of the other Zhao army as much as possible.

The blow to the morale of the copper cannon is huge, especially the formation of the Zhao army on the opposite side is too dense, and this kind of car-fort tactics is okay to fight the nomads without artillery, or it is okay to have an artillery advantage.

Neither, I am afraid that if the shelling continues for a while, the morale of the army will be completely dispersed.

The Mo family master looked at the situation of the Zhao army on the opposite side with a telescope, and decided to choose a frontal breakthrough, and at the same time let the army pass the order to notify the cavalry to approach the rear.

If the remaining two camps of the Zhao people choose to change formations to support, the cavalry will charge.

Or a tentative attack, don't let the Zhao people change formations.

These are the contents of ordinary training, compulsory courses for cavalry commanders, and the main general only needs to convey his intentions.

The four companies in the front were the main attack, the platoon was in a dense formation, the short spears were stuck after loading with gunpowder, and after approaching 30 paces, they fired a salvo and charged directly into the enemy formation.

On the left were three companies approaching in a horizontal formation, providing fire support.

On the right side was artillery side fire, and there was also a company of infantry responsible for covering the artillery.

Two companies were left as reserves.

In such cases, the military commander at the division level is not allowed to take the lead in the charge, and the political commander is required to take the lead in the charge on such occasions.

The main general shook hands with the representative of the master and ink, and didn't say much, just nodded at him.

The mortality rate of the spearhead shock is still very high.

The division representative didn't say anything, but silently put on a hat with high pheasant feathers, which was the spirit and morale of the army, and the tall and bright feathers needed to be able to be seen by the soldiers.

Officers basically have such hats.

The young drummers beat the drum song called "Carry the World to the End" and stood on the side of the procession with the representatives of the division.

"All! Card Short Spear. ”

As the order was given, the drum beat quickly changed the rhythm, and the company commander repeated the order loudly to convey it downward, Sima Chang followed up and repeated, and Wu Chang followed up again.

The soldiers took out a short spear about a foot long from their waists and stuck it at the front of the musket through the special machine, which would greatly affect the loading, and basically once the short spear was mounted in advance, there was only one chance to shoot.

The soldiers of the four companies were almost half a man apart from each other according to the density of flint guns, and the four companies were regrouped to form a dense formation of eight columns.

The division representative drew his sword from his waist and motioned for the drummer to start beating the drum.

The company on the left flank was already ahead of the curve, as they were in a horizontal formation, moving more slowly, and the wider formation meant it was harder to stay in a straight line.

According to experience and calculations, after the company on the left flank had advanced about eighty paces, the four companies that broke through in the center began to advance slowly.

The sound of neat and dense footsteps is like having the power to make the earth tremble.

When they advanced to a hundred and fifty steps away from Zhao Jun, the sound of uneven gunfire had already sounded in Zhao Jun's car formation, and someone could not bear the pressure and took the lead in shooting.

But a distance of one hundred and fifty paces was really difficult to hit anything, and since the company was an elite and not a second-line garrison, this kind of gunfire could not confuse them.

The artillery maneuvering to the right flank had already opened fire first, and the horizontal column on the left had also approached about 120 paces because it was one step ahead.

The Zhao army on the opposite side has no artillery, and it has been suppressed in the previous bombardment, and the remaining small iron cannons weighing twenty or thirty pounds that are suitable for melee combat to block nomadic cavalry fire are not many, and the Zhao army on the opposite side can only wait for the Mo family to come forward.

Despite the aristocracy's efforts to stop the early shooting, some people could not resist the intense pressure.

The four companies, which were approaching in a dense formation, began to suffer casualties when they advanced about sixty paces, and more than a dozen people were hit.

However, the distance of sixty paces meant that it was no longer possible for the Zhao Army musketeers within the formation to reload before approaching.

The march before the frontal onslaught was silent and merciless.

You need to silently and mercilessly watch as your partner is hit and lie on the ground, and then silently and mercilessly step through your partner's body to fill the gap in front of you.

You need to watch silently and mercilessly as Ichigo's partner gets shot in the head with lead bullets, and then silently and mercilessly wipe away the blood that has been splashed on his face, listening to the drum beat to see if he should take his left or right foot.

Therefore, in this era, in addition to the troops with faith bonuses and ideals and ideals, the best soldiers are serfs who only know the world within thirty miles for the rest of their lives, and only such soldiers can endure this silence and ruthlessness without ideas and beliefs.

Every step you take is a gamble.

Every time you get closer, you need the commander to silently calculate the opponent's reloading speed in his mind, and shoot at the last moment when the opponent has not finished reloading at the nearest distance, which is the most perfect.

And this kind of perfection, except for the dozens of steps that require human lives, there is no shortcut.

The division representative silently counted the number of steps and distances, and the particularly dull voice of Zhao's arquebus kept sounding in front of him, and when he finally got close to about thirty steps, he suddenly pulled out the matching sword at his waist and shouted: "Stand, take turns!" ”

The advancing company finally waited for the order to shoot, and quickly stopped with the beat of the drums, and the shouts of the Sima Commander in the front row came and went, and the soldiers in the first two rows raised their muskets to shoot, and then crouched down to give space to the soldiers behind.

After four rounds of gunning, the drum beat changed again, the horn of the charge was heard, and the infantry who stood up in formation launched a dense charge.

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The next morning, several Zhao nobles who had escaped by chance told about what had happened yesterday.

That charge directly disintegrated the Zhao army, whose morale had been extremely low, and the 3,000 Zhao army was killed, 800 were killed, most of them were captured, and the whole army was annihilated.

Duan Duan, the chief general of the Han army, looked at these panicked Zhao nobles and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Although the three thousand Zhao troops were gone, they kept their main force, and their guesses were right, the Mo family really wanted to lure him into attacking so as to encircle and annihilate him.

Obviously, it must be the vanguard of the main force of the Mo family who is engaged with the Zhao army, and their task is to sneak attack Yangxia and then cut off his way to retreat to Yangxia.

Fortunately, he first pretended to venture in and then turned back, otherwise if he walked dozens of miles, he would definitely be surrounded.

These Zhao people are not incompetent, they have many meritorious deeds and dare to fight, even so, they were still annihilated by less than 3,000 Mo family forwards, which shows that the power of the Mo family's field battle is the same as before.

If you are besieged, you will not be lucky.

He comforted those Zhao people with a few words, and immediately led the army into Yangxia, using the fortress built by the Chu people before, deploying the guard, and at the same time sending someone to report the main force of the Chinese army of the coalition army, saying that he had encountered the main force of the left-behind army on Mojia Si.

When the news reached the coalition army, the princes and important ministers were overjoyed, and this was a godsend.

The Mo family did not have many troops in Sishang, and if they were all near Yangxia, then Shangqiu would be empty.

In this way, some of the previous situations make sense.

A small number of troops of the Mo family in Chengkuang and other places are still holding on, which is obviously delaying the time for the main force of the coalition army to besiege Shangqiu, thus creating a time lag for the legions left behind in Sishang to annihilate the right flank of the coalition army.

Fortunately, Duan Duan knew the soldiers and did not rush forward, otherwise there would really be a big incident.

The Mo family's field combat ability is still not to be underestimated, even if the remaining ones may not be the main elite, but being able to break through the Zhao people's car camp in only one afternoon in the field battle is terrifying.

If the Han army at the end of the right section of the road ventured into Kuxian County, two hundred miles away from the main force, then the Mo family would have enough space to encircle and annihilate it.

Once the right side is annihilated, then there will be huge loopholes in the right side from Kuxian to Hongshui, then to Yangxia and Daliang.

If the Mo family sends an army to attack Daliang and burn grain and grass at that time, I am afraid that the army will be trapped under Shangqiu City.

The more the princes thought about it, the more reasonable it became, and the root cause was because they didn't expect that Shi had too much appetite, and they were ready to directly eat the main force of the princes' coalition army of the Son of Heaven's army of more than 60,000 people, not the 30,000 on the right flank.

In the calculation of the princes, if the Mo family's army is outside, then there will be a maximum of thirty or forty thousand troops in Sishang.

The Mo family's army can indeed fight, and the military system of recruitment and training is also different, but even if Sun and Wu are resurrected on the battlefield today, it is difficult to achieve one enemy and two enemies.

So all this is very reasonable, because it is impossible for the Mo family to encircle and annihilate the main force of the Chinese army, so there is only one reason why the Mo family is massing in Yangxia and other places on a large scale, that is, to eat the Korean army on the right that can be eaten, so as to force the princes to retreat.

The main force of the Mo family is obviously not to fight a Linzi, but to capture Linzi and use the grain of Jiaodong to pacify the land, and go down to Linzi through Pingyin, so as to completely break the flank of the vassal states.

If the main force of the Mo family cannot be forced to retreat in Sishang, but is forced to retreat by the troops left behind in Sishang, then the various vassal states will also be in danger.

The Mo family already has Nanyang, Lushan, Huaixi, and Surabaya, and it has already been able to attack in all directions so that the princes can not take care of each other.

According to what the princes thought, so Duan Duan's news made them inexplicably excited, this was an excellent opportunity to alarm the world and force the main force of the Mo family to come back.

The princes did not expect to be able to attack Pengcheng, but they only needed to force the Mo family to come back for reinforcements, so if they could capture Shangqiu, it would be possible.

Before the attack, it can be done without offense, preventing fierce resistance in the city. Once captured, if the main force of the Mo family does not return to help, it will be slaughtered and forced to come back.

So, the princes made a decision.

Divide the troops to surround Chengkuang, Ningling, and Dai, and besiege but not attack.

The main force bypassed Ningling and Chengkuang and went straight to Shangqiu.

When the left-behind troops on Mojia Si came back to help, Duan Duan was sent out of Hongshui from Yangxia, and the combined army besieged the city with nearly 100,000 troops to help, encircled and annihilated the field troops of the Mojia family in Si, and then broke Shangqiu, which could break the situation.