warring states careerist

Chapter 282
These five reasons are all reasonable.

It is not easy to cultivate archers. The rural archery and winter martial arts systems that were originally adapted to the Tongshi agriculture and the village communal enfeoffment system will lose their foundation with the promotion of new planting techniques and ironware.

A full-time doctor must be able to shoot, but it is too expensive to raise a doctor.

Decades later, archers are still rare, so that countries began to use three-finger tactics to train archers. When Pang Juan died at the hands of Sun Bin, what was recorded in the history books was "thousands of crossbows" instead of "thousands of arrows."

The Mohists can make crossbows, but crossbows may not be as fast as the original muskets, and crossbow bolts are not easy to make, and it takes enough strength to open the crossbow, so these reasons sound acceptable.

The most important reason, however, is the fifth one.

Shi once again brought out the two wives who did not exist.

At this time, the two wives were moved out, which is not the past.

Because Shi Shi came up with a lot of things that sound strange but are very effective, so the two masters who didn't exist became confused.

There are many hermits at this time, and no one dares to say that these two people do not exist, or that they never existed.

It is said that both of them died, burned to ashes in a fire, and the elder brother of the only classmate floated in the sea to chase the stars, there is no way to prove it.

With the help of the bones of the two non-existent people, Shi's words made people believe a little more: Shi said that he had seen a firearm with a firing speed comparable to that of a crossbow bolt and more powerful, and everyone believed it in their hearts.

The device of the snake hooking the matchlock is not too difficult to make, it is not suitable, but if the concept and principle are explained clearly, the first-class craftsmen of the Mo family can always make it in time.

After listening to Shi's five reasons, Mo Zi walked over and gripped the heavy primitive gun, picked up the broken pieces of wood, and sighed for some reason.

All the disciples asked for some reason.

Mozi glanced at Shi, smiled wryly and said, "The five reasons you mentioned are the reasons why this kind of firearm can be used."

"But to my ears, I saw that after my death... If the world is still uncertain, the disputes will be even more chaotic."

"In March, farmers and soldiers can gather and shoot lead pellets. For this matter alone, all countries will recruit troops on a large scale."

"I'm not saying that this thing can't be used, but to use this thing, it must be done within 50 to [-] years to make the world stable, otherwise it will only create a century of disasters and all countries will fight each other."

"The more peasants and soldiers participate in the war, the hatred among the countries will not be the hatred between princes and nobles, but the people of Wei will hate the people of Qin, the people of Qi will hate the people of Wei, and the people of Chu will hate the people of Han... At that time, the disputes in the world It’s hard to calm down.”

All the people present are outstanding people for a while, so outstanding that even the traveler can't just bow down to him, how can he not hear Mozi's overtones?

Mozi is old.

He has already begun to think about his own affairs after death, and consider the matter of benefiting the world and loving non-aggression and equality after death.

Since it is said that this thing can be used, it means that it agrees with what Shi has always advocated that "the Mohists must hold a weapon in their hands, whether it is beneficial to the world to eliminate soldiers and restraints, or to eliminate the world's tyrants, it is not enough to rely on reasoning alone."

Otherwise, the Mohist school has always followed the elite route, there are hundreds of Mohist archers and crossbowmen everywhere, and those who are proficient in swordsmanship are even better in the world.

This time, many tourists from all over the world came to Peiyi, except partly to seek the origin and knowledge of the world, and the rest were for the dream of "benefiting the world and eradicating troops in the Central Plains", and also because of the legend created by the Mohists in the first battle of Shangqiu.

In the first battle of Shangqiu, Song State was betrayed, Duke Song was miserable, King Chu was destroyed, and the conflict between the nobility and royal power of Chu State was planted, and the situation of the world after that became elusive.

Originally, in history, the people of Chu succeeded in besieging the city this time. The people of Song dynasty hired, and Song Gongtian and Zheng Gongdai all courted in Chu. The leader killed Lu Yanggong, Yangcheng Lord, and Pingye Lord before they were lost.

But now, the salient part of the Central Plains of Chu State has not been strengthened. This time, the Zheng people sent troops to quickly break through Yuguan.

The result of the betrayal and destruction is that everyone in the world knows that the King of Chu was captured and the Mohists called for the removal of soldiers.

Scholars with the heart of benefiting the world gathered in Peiyi, which also brought a fusion of Mohist ideas.

country?That's not as good as the world.

Otherwise, those tourists who come here are from Qi, Chu and Three Jins, so which country are they?And what can they rely on to make them persist and die?

All we can rely on is the concept of "the world".They are from Kyushu, not from Qi, from Chu, from Wei, from Zhao.

The Mohists want to expand their army and power in order to restrain the world in the future.

Shi also understands that his time must be seized. If gunpowder weapons appear, and they still cannot be unified within a hundred years, then the disputes in the world will continue forever, and the concept of nation-states may also come out ahead of time due to factors such as the decline of Zhou Tianzi and technological progress. , then the matter will become a big mess.

Then come up with the story of Qin Wei fighting for Xihe for hundreds of years to stage the last lesson, I feel that I really have nothing to redeem.

Military expansion is never easy.The military system must be adapted to the level of productivity.

The enfeoffment of Zhou Li was the military system that was most in line with the productivity level of the previous era. It was the best choice when the productivity did not improve.

The agricultural productivity around Pei County has surpassed that of other places by a large margin.Iron ox plowing and horse plowing, fine-grained composting in mills, rotation of cotton, oil, soybeans and wheat... With all these technological advances, it would be ridiculous to adopt the original military system.

Ruopei, as a big man town, even if it does not expand its army now, Pei County is still the best in the world in terms of big man towns.

It's just that in the troubled times of the Warring States Period that is about to come, all countries send tens of thousands of troops at every turn. The route of Mohist elite soldiers can only defend the city, and it is impossible to fight in the field.

Everyone present has considered the topic of the sword of the world, the key to this problem is that the Mohists want to be the sword of the world, not the shield of the soldiers!

You can only defend the city, so how to punish those warlike kings?
In the battle of Shangqiu, the answer was given: to defeat it in the field.

Everyone already knew Mozi's inner thoughts at this time. Some people who were originally on Shi's side were naturally happy, while others were in the minority. Seeing that Mozi already agreed, they just kept quiet for now. And after listening.

Gong Zaoye walked up to Shi and asked, "If you invite a warlike king in the world, you must fight in the field. The night attack in the first battle of Shangqiu can no longer be repeated. If the Mohist can defeat the army of one county in Chu in a decisive battle between the three armies in the plains, then it will be fine." Let the warlike king of the world have scruples."

"Well, although this firearm can be used, it can also form an army, but... what my Mohist is good at is infantry combat and city defense."

"If the enemy raids with chariots and the battlefield is plain in daylight, how should we deal with it?"

"You have never seen the scene of the chariot rushing. The real four-horse chariot is coming at a gallop. Unless I, the Mohist, prepare the city gate elite, the infantry will flee in panic, and they may not be able to kill the horses with this firearm."

He supports the faction that expands the army and prepares for war to strengthen the strength of the Mohists, but he must also consider the future of the Mohists.

Is it dedicated to raising chariot soldiers?Or is the Mo family continuing to walk on the road of fighting?
The last time Shangqiu allyed with Chu, they chose to attack and fight at night. Apart from the purpose of surprise, they also knew that infantry on the plains would not be able to defeat chariot soldiers.

After the first battle in Shangqiu, all countries must be wary of the night attack of the Mohists. This kind of opportunity is no longer available.

It cannot solve the technical problem of fighting against chariots in the decisive battle on the plain. The sword of Mohism can only be turned into a shield to eliminate soldiers, and it can be used as a weight for the balance of specimens.

Shi nodded at Gong Zaoye's younger brother, and Gong Zaozhu brought two horses from a distance, with a heavy cart behind them.

Two people opened those wooden boards, and a strange-looking thing was displayed in front of everyone.

The bronze one is also a round pipe, but it is bigger and thicker than the iron pipe just now, slightly thicker at the back and thinner at the front.

In Shi's opinion, this thing can be called a "cannon". Anyway, the most primitive cannon can even be made of pine wood. Cannons are still available.

Gong Zao Zhu pointed at the primitive simple cannon and said with a smile: "This thing is somewhat similar to Zhu Zhong, but the technique is a little different."

He was originally a caster, and his grandfather once contributed to the chime bells made by the King of Chu for Marquis Zeng, with a very high level.

Casting bells and cannons did not separate families when gunpowder weapons were just starting out. As long as gunpowder appeared in a good caster, it would take less than five years to transform into a cannon-casting master.

However, the caliber of this gun is small, and the outer wall is thick enough for the experiment. Later, according to the appropriate points, the effect of preventing the chamber pressure from being too large and gradually thickening is adopted.

At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, at the peak of China's bronze civilization, copper is the most suitable raw material for making cannons, and with the technical support of Chu Zhuzhong and Ke Ke as the Mohist, this simple cannon appeared in front of everyone.

There is no bolt to adjust the angle, and the elevation angle can only be adjusted by wooden wedges.

There is no special gun carriage, and the most primitive heavy gun carriage can only be used to fix it.

But anyway, it's a cannon.

A target has been built with wood in the distance, about eighty steps away from the cannon, which is the highest speed distance for the chariot to hit.

Compared with the original musket, this time the display finally brought shock.

The scorching stone ball flew out at high speed, and scattered the pile of wood.

In the shocked eyes of everyone, he cleared his slightly buzzing ears and asked loudly: "Maybe the four-horse chariot can withstand the bombardment of this thing?"

The Mohists have chariots and trebuchets, but they can only be used to defend or attack the city, and the accuracy cannot be used for field battles.

Mechanisms such as transfer machines are slower to load than this simple artillery, and their power is far inferior. As for close-range shooting, they are definitely not as good as this thing.

Gong Zaoye was about to praise that this thing can be used in field battles, and it can also be used to defend the city instead of the reflex machine to break the enemy's siege, when he didn't want to take out another weird thing from the carriage.

This time, it has nothing to do with gunpowder.

Just a saddle, and two weird iron frames.

(End of this chapter)