diskusbooks Chapter 681: The Qian Army's Great Attack
Chapter 681: The Qian Army's Great Attack
The Tianyu Army fought against the Chu Army.
Shen Changgong and his men also began fighting with the Qian army.
Unlike the Tianyu Army, the Yan Army in the west maintained a concave-shaped military formation, with the two wings moving forward and the middle remaining motionless. After the Qian Army came in, they began to advance towards the center.
Gongyang Ge, the commander of the Qian army, was a smart man. He knew that the Yan army had set up a pocket formation and wanted to attack him from three sides, which was very dangerous for him. The way to deal with this formation was to set up a sharp arrow formation, pierce the bottom of the bag in one breath, and rush to their commander.
However, his scouts clearly detected the strength of the Yan army.
The central army of the Yan army has a total of 300,000 people!
There are 100,000 on each side.
Unless he was crazy, he would not let his 300,000 troops form a spearhead formation to pierce the enemy's 300,000-strong central army.
The sharp arrow formation relied on its unstoppable momentum to advance forward, using its elite troops to attack the enemy's weak points and tear open the formation. However, the enemy's central army was not weak and its strength was equal to theirs.
The result of his attack in the spearhead formation was that the front army, which served as the spearhead, was trapped in the enemy formation, and the rear army was surrounded by the enemy on both wings.
Faced with the Yan army's pocket tactics, Gongyang Ge had no good way to deal with it for a while. He could only form a square formation and fight steadily, facing the enemy on three sides.
Originally, in his idea, the Yan army would send half of its troops to fight against the Qian army and the Chu army respectively, so as to balance the battlefield, or send a small part of the army to delay the Qian army, and send the main force to destroy the weaker Chu army first.
But he never expected that the Yan army would at least send its main force to attack their Qian army.
Based on the intelligence continuously sent by the scouts, Gongyang Ge calculated the strength of the Yan army on his side.
There are 200,000 Shenfeng Army, 100,000 Pingnan Army, 100,000 Zhengnan Army, 100,000 Tianying Army, and 50,000 Zhennan Army who are lurking behind the main army.
The flag of the Yuying Army is on the top of the city wall, most likely to protect the empress.
In other words, the troops fighting against the Chu army were at most 150,000 Tianyu troops and 50,000 Zhennan troops.
He held back 550,000 people, while the Chu army had at most one and a half legions.
After learning the result, Gongyang Ge was so angry that he almost vomited blood.
The Yan army really treated his Qian army as a soft persimmon and actually wanted to swallow up their entire Qian army in one breath. It was really stupid!
The Qian army has fought and won with fewer troops before. Each of them is an elite force. If you want to defeat the Qian army, you have to see if you, the Yan army, have the appetite for it.
Gong Yang Ge shouted coldly,
"Pass on our military orders: the First Corps will be the front, responsible for defense; the Second Corps will be the left, responsible for attack; the Third Corps will be the right, responsible for attack.
Form a square formation, attack left and right, and engage in battle in front!"
"As ordered!"
Gongyang Ge must be used to attack.
If they don't attack, there will still be a distance between them and the Yan army. If they don't attack, the Yan army won't attack either. The Yan army will bombard them, and they won't be able to hit the Yan army, so they will suffer losses no matter what.
So we must attack.
But it was not an all-out attack. The most elite First Legion was used in the front to block the main force of the Yan army's center, and then buy time for the left and right legions, trying to defeat the left and right armies of the Yan army and cause casualties to the Yan army.
Gongyang Ge's series of orders were quickly conveyed, and the Qian army began to redeploy their troops. According to his method, they arranged the battle formation and continued to move forward.
Soon, the Qian army also entered the Yan army's pocket formation.
The Yan troops on the left, right and center fired at the Qian army together.
One shell after another fell on the heads of the Qian army, blowing them to pieces. Each shell claimed a large number of lives.
Gong Yang Ge was sitting on his horse. Seeing that the Yan army's artillery shells were so powerful, his face gradually became gloomy.
"Charge! Charge! The left and right armies quickly engage the enemy. The center army ignores everything else and quickly advances to engage the enemy. Charge!"
Gongyang Ge also made the same choice as the Chu army and quickly engaged in battle with the Yan army.
He still used a safe style of play and did not make any mistakes.
But he didn't know that his choice to fight against the Yan army was his biggest mistake!
The Yan army's artillery fired in unison, bombarding the enemy. The left and right armies of the Western Army were only ten miles apart, and the battlefield was extremely wide.
Gongyang Ge's army rushed towards the Yan army quickly. The Qian army moved forward, and the left and right armies charged diagonally forward, ensuring that the formations were connected while also ensuring a quick engagement.
The Yan army surrounded them and bombarded them continuously, causing heavy casualties to the Qian army before the battle even started.
Gongyang Ge's heart gradually sank. The power of the Yan army's artillery was far beyond his imagination. He was still too optimistic about the situation.
But now that things have come to this, he has no choice but to fight. He can only hope that the Yan army is not strong in close combat.
Soon, the Qian army rushed to a position several hundred steps away from the Yan army.
The Yan army's Shenjiying musketeers also picked up their muskets, formed three rows of guns, and continuously fired at the enemy, while the artillery retreated.
As the guns fired, the Qian army went from falling in groups to falling in rows, in an orderly manner. Every time a gunshot was fired, a row of soldiers fell down at the same time.
When Gong Yangge saw this scene, his face turned from gloomy to ashen.
What kind of strange weapon is this? Are the Yan army’s weapon inventions really unconstrained?
How come there are both melee and ranged combat?
He gave orders again, beating the drum hard, urging the Qian army to charge.
The Qian army increased its speed again and rushed towards the Yan army.
The Yan army's archery formation also began to shoot arrows, but the Qian army was unable to shoot.
Because you need to stop to shoot the arrow, but you cannot stop attacking the enemy. Once you stop, everything behind you will be in chaos.
A legion of 100,000 people will be in tatters if any one move affects the entire body. Once it gets into chaos, it will be a disaster.
They charged forward desperately under a hail of bullets and arrows, and finally succeeded in engaging the Yan army and starting a battle.
But at this time, the front-line formation of the Qian army was also in chaos, and many gaps appeared. The Yan army took the opportunity to move forward and attack from the gaps, leaving no time for the Qian army to fill them.
The battle between the two sides began.
Gong Yang Ge breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that although the Yan army's firearms were powerful, their number was not large enough to play a decisive role. They could only play a supporting role. Ultimately, it would depend on the combat effectiveness of the melee infantry.
This statement is correct. The firearms of the Yan army were indeed powerful, but due to time constraints and imperfect industrialization, the production speed was very slow. This was due to the backwardness of the times and it was impossible to achieve success in a short period of time.
It is impossible for an agricultural country to transform into an industrial country overnight. It requires many years of hard work.
The battle between the two sides began, and all three armies of the Qian army engaged in battle with the Yan army, and the two sides fought hard.
The Qian army, filled with anger, stabbed the weapons in their hands into the bodies of the Yan army with all their might, and the archers behind them also shot arrows at the Yan army.