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Chapter 327 Is it as good as before to restore the country with strength ([-])
When all the news—the news that the three Jins, Chu and Qi had no spare power to interfere with the expansion of the Mohists in the Sishui River Basin—was confirmed, there was an indescribable pre-war atmosphere in Pei County.

Some sharp-eyed people have already noticed that the Mo family may attack Teng country after seeing Ji Te from Teng country brought back to Pei County.

After completing the autumn harvest and plowing, the volunteers began to carry out large-scale drills. Every day, the sound of ping-pong-pong was heard in the field, and many curious or intentional eyes were quietly observing.

The thousands of volunteers in Pei County have already exceeded the limit of Pei County itself, but the iron and spirits industries of the Mo family have sucked blood from other countries to raise such a full-time army that exceeds Pei County's burden.

More than half of the local farmers in Peixian County are the main force of this volunteer army, supplemented by landless farm helpers or migrant servants tricked or lured from various big cities and giant towns.

The elite Mohists who were good at using daggers and shields at the Beicheng Gate were completely dismantled and entered the volunteer army as grassroots officers.

The righteous division completely canceled the configuration of the chariot, and replaced it with a stirrup cavalry with only 300 people for the time being, about one-third of which were the elite old inkmen of Beichengmen.

For the time being, these 300 people can only do reconnaissance and chase down the defeated army, and they are still unable to do such difficult tactics as flanking and detouring.

The establishment of the army follows the ancient system. It was said in the "Book of Songs" that "Wang Hesi was angry and ordered his brigade to be organized." The military system of the military division brigade has long existed.

According to the ancient system, a brigade of 500 people is a brigade, but the volunteer brigade is closer to the Qi system brigade, but slightly smaller than the Qi system brigade, with less than 2000 people and only 500 people.

Excluding guns and riders, there are three brigades of infantry in total.

Following the example of the Qi system, the scale is slightly reduced, Qi uses 200 people as a company, here a hundred and 50 people make a company, and each brigade has a total of ten companies.

Eight of these companies were spearmen, and the remaining two were arquebuses.

However, the number of matchlock guns is still small. The two companies have a total of 300 people, but they are actually equipped with a total of 150 muskets.

Each musketeer has a deputy, which is used to carry muskets, wooden forks, gunpowder, lead bullets and other ordnance during the march, in groups of two.

In battle, musketeers will take over their weapons, and their off-hands will fight with short swords or daggers.

One thousand and 200 spearmen, according to the configuration of 20 people vertically, lined up in a square formation of 60 people wide. The soldiers in the first two rows all wore leather armor, and the soldiers in the back had no armor for the time being.

Considering the poor quality and insufficient quantity of matchlock guns at this time, and the fact that the cavalry has not yet formed and needs to guard against enemy chariots, etc., they can only give up mobility to increase defense.

Usually training is divided into offense and defense.

When defending, the musketeers will line up about ten steps in front of the spearmen, and retreat to the back row after shooting in the first row.

According to the slow loading speed at this time, if a defensive battle is carried out, after the locals approach, the musketeer just completes two rounds of shooting, retreats to the spearman's side, and accepts the close protection of the spearman.

When attacking, the musketeers will be arranged on both sides of the spearmen's phalanx and advance with the sound of drums.

Each of the three brigades has a brigade commander, and each company also has at least two to three Mohists who serve as company commanders or Sima commanders.

A series of due positions such as drummer, flute player, chief secretary, soldier catering committee, and military secretary are also complete.

In addition to these three infantry brigades, there are about 1000 elite spearmen and some elite fighters who are proficient in fighting and fighting. They are not normally engaged in combat. They are only used as a reserve team and to prevent the flanks from being raided before the cavalry has grown up. emergency forces.

Among the 1000 people, a high proportion of Mohists and veteran volunteers who had experienced the battle of Shangqiu, and some wanderers who defected to Mohism.They can move faster than the previous three brigades while maintaining formation, and they can also withstand greater shocks.

In addition, there are some small copper cannons that are light and mobile. They are not many in number and have a small caliber.

In theory, the cost of this army is much more expensive than that of Wei Xihe's pawns.

Nowadays, iron is expensive, and each musket is fifteen or six catties of wrought iron, which also consumes a lot of craftsmen.Fortunately, the cost price of ironware is different from the external selling price, so it is not too expensive.

The firearms equipped by the Mohists are as long as a person's chest, have a large caliber, and have about one or two lead bullets. The reloading speed is very slow, and the fastest trained person can fire it for nearly one and a half minutes.

Fortunately, the ignition device has been modified. It is no longer the original fire door gun that holds a matchlock in one hand, but uses copper and iron to make a simple snake hook, which can clamp the matchlock.

There is a small groove near the fire door, which is filled with some fast-burning gunpowder. The matchlock is driven into the groove to ignite the fast-fire powder, and the gunpowder then ignites the propellant in the powder chamber from the fire door.

The disadvantage is not to say that there can be no rain, even if there is a strong wind, the gunpowder in the groove will be blown away, and the powder chamber cannot be ignited.

But compared to the stubby stick that the Mohists sold to the city guards of the Chu State, it was a piece of crap that needed to be held with one hand and used to pinch the victory with the other hand to insert the fire door.

In fact, from the introduction of gunpowder to Europe and the appearance of the first batch of copper fire door hand cannons in Italy, but it took more than ten years, this thing is a principle, and it is not necessary to not pursue refinement at the current technical level technical difficulty.

The advantage of being suitable is only the correct ratio of gunpowder, the balance of the formula, the detour of the hand cannon and the short gun, the structure of the matchlock hook, and the evil path of the bowl-mouth gun. This is the experience of nearly 200 years of war. .

Even so, the arquebus at this time is worse than the crossbow, but there is not much room for improvement in the crossbow, and the arquebus is indeed easier to practice.

The 300 people who were brought back from Niu Lanyi were also incorporated into the army and practiced musketry. They could choose to become professional soldiers afterward, or they could choose to organize a joint farming society to reclaim wasteland after retirement.

Although the soldiers' salaries are not high, they can still maintain their lives.The ox farming and iron tools in Pei County have been popularized, and a large number of people who have fled here from the surrounding area continue to expand the cultivated land area. The gold and copper exchanged for the local iron tools, spirits, grain seeds and seeds ensure the reserve of precious metals. At the same time, with the development of agriculture The increase in handicraftsmen also allowed Pei County to have enough commodities to exchange.

Compared with other places, life here is excellent, and this good life is visible to the naked eye.

On the one hand, the well fields were abandoned, and private fields were popularized. Five households and ten households worked together to cultivate one cow and one horse, and the tax rate was one out of fifteen.

The popularity of new tools, new planting techniques, and new species of compost has all increased food production by a large margin.

While maintaining the one-fifth tax, the Mohist monopolizes ironware with technology, which is equivalent to the public paying another tax, but this tax is hidden in the iron, and no one can see it, so they will not object.

The food of the Mo family is also sufficient, enough to support the expenses of this army.

At the same time, a series of goods such as cotton cloth have begun mass production, replacing the original linen, eliminating the need for soaking and peeling the hemp, the production efficiency of cloth has greatly increased, and even that kind of intensive textile workshop has been opened.

Organize women, take advantage of the extremely high profits of cotton cloth sales, accumulate capital, spread the division of labor and cooperation system like the Mohist workshops, and reward technological changes.

Technological innovations such as Niugeng ironware, which was promoted to the Song Dynasty with Peixian as the center, also allowed the "money" of the Mohists to buy more sufficient goods.

Farmers in the Song Dynasty improved their production efficiency, deducting what they ate, and twice as much grain as before entered the circulation field.

At this time, transportation was inconvenient, and the Song Kingdom was not fighting for the time being, and the price of grain had dropped sharply in the past few years. Many farmers in the Song Kingdom fled here and became handicraftsmen.

In this case, the Mohist family has money, materials, people, ideas, organization, and a stable development rear, and the country of Song, which has already begun agricultural reform, has taken a small Teng Guo has no problem.

Shi even felt that even if the Yue Kingdom knew afterwards, as long as the number of counterattacks did not exceed [-], his side could win. After all, there must be a large number of peasant soldiers and heavy soldiers in the [-] Vietnamese army. Not too much.

In this case, Shi wanted to seek the command this time, so as to enhance his status and prestige within the Mohist school.

In fact, he was the perfect man to direct.

The Mohists are good at defending the city, and the one who really commanded field battles was actually the only one who defected, and the remaining survivors rarely had the opportunity to command field battles.

The first group of disciples that Mozi accepted back then died of old age. Those who had been senior officials such as Shangqing basically died of illness before joining the Mohism.

It is impossible for Mozi to command this battle at the age of 70. Gong Zaoye is very busy in Pengcheng, Qin Huali is not young and is good at defending the city but not good at field battles.

During the Battle of Shangqiu, he had put forward a lot of improvised ideas, and the Battle of Niu Lanyi also proved his ability to command thousands of people to defend the city on his own.

The use of firearms and stirrups and a whole set of tactics were summed up by him. Although it can be regarded as "talking on paper", it is still better than those who cannot talk.

After returning from Tengdi, he wrote a battle plan and sent it to Mozi in October to convene high-level Mohists who had known the news for discussion.

To capture Tengdi, Shi decided to dig a tunnel close to the city wall, and dig a tunnel to bury gunpowder after approaching the city wall to blow up the city gate.

But in order to reduce casualties, he hoped to use the terrain of Tengdi to fight an ambush annihilation battle.

The southwest side is the most open place in Tengcheng, and it is also the most suitable place to attack the city.

On the north and south sides, the Jinghe River and the Xiaojing River are surrounded, which is not conducive to siege.

On the northeast side, the Xiaojing River and the Jing River have the narrowest approach, forming a pass. If they surround the southwest corner and attack the city gate with gunpowder, the Yue people will panic.

There is still an inner city in Teng, and when the people of Yue saw the city gate being bombed, they must have known that the inner city could not be defended, and they would flee from the northeast.

This is considered to be surrounded by three and one missing, forcing the Yue people not to flee on their own without coercing the peasants and soldiers of Tengdi, but to ambush a brigade at the pass of Jinghe and Xiaojinghe in the northeast corner, which is enough to wipe out all the Yueren in Tengdi, and it can also Reduce the casualties of the common people in Tengdi.

(End of this chapter)