Qi Qitao put down his telescope and said to the staff officer: "Do you see his tactics?"

The staff officer nodded with a heavy expression and said, "I can see it! It's very vicious, but it's also very effective! It fully utilizes their advantage of being crowded! It seems that this kid is preparing to fill it with his life!"

Qi Qitao said: "Yes! Fight at this rate of fire. At most, defeat two more batches of the Western Army, and they can rush to us."

The staff officer said, "What should we do? Do we retreat? We have practiced such a large corps retreat, but we have never used it! And it is a blow to the morale of the army!"

Qi Qitao said with a straight face: "We can't retreat, I have a way to deal with them!"

After saying that, he called out three staff officers in charge of the rank of lieutenant and said to them: "Leave three phalanxes on the front line to block the enemy. You go and send supplies and assist command. Bring more swords, shield soldiers and spearmen to strengthen the phalanxes. In addition, bring enough infantry artillery and grenades, and pull the medicine truck into the middle of the phalanx! Tell them that I need them to nail them firmly before the battle is over! Remember, be sure to nail them firmly to the place! Either defeat or you will die there in battle!"

The three staff officers did not give it for free, and immediately understood Qi Qitao’s thoughts! When they saw Qi Qitao’s ashen face and tightly pursed lips, they knew that the time was coming! But as soldiers, they had no choice, so the three of them saluted Qitao in a tragic way and rode away.

Then Qi Qitao called two more staff officers and said, "You two are the same as the three of them, and go to the front line, but you go to the second row of square formations. The position of your square formation is a hundred meters behind the first row of three square formations. The square formation must face the interval between the three square formations in front. I also ask you to nail it firmly and resist the Western Army that rushed over from the gap between the two square formations in front!"

As soon as the two officers left, the staff officer grabbed Qi Qitao's arm with a pale face and said, "Your arrangement is equivalent to letting the soldiers die!"

Qi Qitao shook off the arm of the staff officer and said, "I have no choice! Do you think there will be no death when retreating? We still want to leave people to cut off the rear!

Under the impact of hundreds of thousands of people, who can survive! Instead of letting them die in retreat, letting them die in the pursuit of victory!"

The staff officer said: "But in this case, maybe our casualties will be greater!"

Qi Qitao said heavily: "Now I can only trust my soldiers!"

The staff officer sat upright when he heard this, straightened his military cap and said, "What you said makes sense. But I can't watch the soldiers go to die without being indifferent! How many square formations are you going to arrange in the third row?"

Qi Qitao squinted his eyes and said, "Three."

The staff officer said, "Very good, I'll go to the middle one."

Qi Qitao said coldly: "Whatever you do! But I have to remind you that the position of the third row is not so stable. Just bring as many infantry cannons and grenades as possible."

The staff officer said, "I hope you are right!"

Qi Qitao said: "I must be right! Because once we retreat, we will be untenable! And if Zhang Xianzhong wins this battle, his morale will rise, and it will be difficult to fight them again! The war between the two sides will be dragged down. Not to mention the plan that affects the general, there will be more fourth-class people at that time!"

The staff officer did not speak and asked the two men to leave. Qi Qitao continued to dispatch troops. Now Qi Qitao has insight into Zhang Xianzhong's plan, so his solution is to arrange his own military formations to welcome the charge of the Western Army!

Each row of square formations is a row of reefs. No matter which direction the Western Army rushed over, it would exhaust its impact power in the layer by layer of square formations! When they were exhausted, it would be the time for Qi Qitao to counterattack!

Qi Qitao quickly settled the formation, and then ordered: "Order half of the artillery to retreat, and the other artillery fire speeds to half! Alternate shooting cover every three hundred meters."

Then he gathered the soldiers who were not arranged in front of the formation and retreated with cavalry protection. Just as Qi Qitao finished all this response, the artillery had dispersed the third batch of troops of the Western Army! But they had approached about 150 steps in front of the formation!

Qi Qitao's heart

It is clear that next time they will enter the shooting range of the siege. The ones that are under the greatest pressure will be the three square arrays in the front row. The key to victory is how long they can last!

After Qi Qitao took the reserve team to retreat for a distance, he raised his telescope and looked at the first row. No one knew what kind of anxious mentality was under his stern face? Because everyone didn't know that among the first three staff officers he sent to the front line, a young staff officer named Qi Baiming was his eldest son!

Qi Qitao got married earlier than Liu Pei, so he had a child earlier. Liu Pijiang had a very good relationship with the children of several other important officials, and he was considered an inseparable partner.

Until Liu Pijiang went to Hyundai, Qi Baiming entered the military academy. He graduated from the military academy with excellent grades a year ago. Qi Qi Tao originally wanted to arrange him to others, but finally came to Qi Qi Tao with the intervention of Liu Pei. After all, everyone is aristocrat, so it's nothing great to have a little privilege!

Moreover, because Qi Baiming's appearance is relatively fair with his mother, and Qi Qitao's military appearance has become much older, and Qi Qitao always has a good attitude when he is in business with his son on weekdays, it has dispelled some people's associations.

At most, they thought Qi Baiming was a relative of Qi Qi Tao. After all, the clan's power was relatively strong at this time. Once a person was developed, it was inevitable that he would come to join his relatives. So until now, no one in the entire legion knew that these two people were father and son.

After Qi Baiming left Qi Qi Tao, he left their father-son relationship behind. Now he was thinking about how to survive! He knew his father's temperament best. His father said that if he couldn't win, he would die in battle, which means that Qi Qi Taoju would never send troops to save him. So he had to find a way to win this battle, or to find a way to survive!

Soon, Qi Baiming made up his mind. Instead of evenly selecting troops as Qi Qitao said, he replaced all the reinforcements with spearmen.
Chapter completed!