Chapter 608: Steady
There are many ways to attack, and in the face of different offensive methods, we need to adopt different defensive formations, and in the end, I decided to take a gamble and return to my own spearmen's position, and let them use shovels to divide the mound on the west side of the trench in half to the east side, so that the height of both sides is the same, so that although the overall height of the trench is reduced, it can also be used with the average height of the Yin soldiers, slightly bend the legs, or lie forward a little.
The advantage of this is that we can turn our guns at any time and shoot at the front and rear - I expect that the enemy will adopt the "Trident" tactic, that is, first use cavalry, detour from both flanks of the hill to the rear of our position, and at the same time charge with infantry frontal to form an encirclement of us, I just don't know which of these three waves of the enemy will arrive first.
If the cavalry arrives first, the spearmen must shoot at the rear first, and if the infantry rushes first, the spearmen must shoot at the front slope first.
After setting up a two-way position, I told those cavalry, the enemy is coming, don't rush up to fight, after the two sides fight at close range, our gunmen will lose their effect, gunmen and archers are different, archers can be behind the cavalry or infantry, through the parabola, shoot the enemy in front, but also be protected by their own front deployment, but the trajectory of the rifle is straight, there is no such function, there is no cover problem, the gunmen are the front line, they cover the cavalry.
As soon as he finished explaining, a small horse came running from the side of the moon: "Lord Wu, the enemy army is pouring out!"
I returned to the hillside, and out came the infantry from the main gate, and I guess the cavalry would still come out from both sides, but a little later.
Sure enough, after the infantry went out of the city and lined up in formation, the city gates on both sides opened, and the two cavalry came out quickly, without a queue, and directly formed a column and began to detour behind the hill, but the infantry at the main gate did not begin to advance, then I understand, the enemy commander is still more cautious, and wants to use the cavalry of about 1,000 people on the left and right to test it first, and strive to solve the battle directly.
Because the cavalry on both sides is the home of their rebels, many of the infantry in the middle are our soldiers, and their combat effectiveness will not be too high.
She ran back and asked me what to do, and she was a little frightened by the enemy's very obvious encirclement tactics.
"Just stand on the hillside, and keep the infantry from attacking, and you don't need to fight." I say.
Soon, 800 cavalry, all brushed and brushed on the top of the slope, ignoring the cavalry on both sides.
The generals have been released, the information is not smooth, and it is difficult to take it back, even if the enemy commander is confused now, it is too late.
Soon, the enemy's two cavalry detachments had completed a roundabout outflanking and were rushing towards our hill from a position of about a kilometer behind, and the target was the eight hundred cavalry on the hillside—the spearmen were all cowered in the trenches, and their heads were not outcropped, and they could be seen from the perspective of my hillside, but the enemy in the distance could not see them, only a pile of dirt.
The enemy's two cavalry, in the process of attacking, completed the integration of the team, 2,000 men divided into four rows, each row of about 500 people, closely arranged, this formation is to be able to penetrate our cavalry formation in one fell swoop, but at the same time, it is also more convenient for our side to shoot.
The cavalry was too fast to get too close, and when the enemy had gathered in formation and was still seven hundred meters from the trenches below, I raised my hand.
Four hundred spearmen immediately came out of the trenches, clamped their guns to the newly turned mounds of earth, took aim, fired.
Using this old-fashioned long rifle, standing shooting and shooting in the trench, the accuracy can be ten times worse than that, plus these four hundred spearmen, because they are in the trench, they will not panic, and the trench also has a little advantage that it can make the soldiers face the impact of the cavalry, the sense of security is bursting, the cavalry is close, they only need to shrink at the bottom of the trench, the cavalry's saber can not reach them, unless they dismount to fight, dismount, the power of the cavalry is gone, if the enemy dares to jump into the trench, then, the power of the saber in the narrow trench, It is certainly not as short and sharp as the bayonets of the spearmen, and I have already told them this before, so they do not panic.
Don't panic, it's trench shooting again, the gun is steady, the heart is steady, the hand is steady, and the hit rate is naturally very high.