warring states careerist

Chapter 395
More than ten days later, the mighty envoys and the northbound and westbound teams set off from Peidi. Many of them had just learned how to ride horses and walked very slowly.

But Zhuxia is very big, from Peidi to Qindi, he always learned it.

Suo Lucan will lead the team to Wei State first, and enter Qin from Wei State via Xihe. Before entering Qin, he will go to see Sheng Chuo as a personal friend.

For the westward journey, the Mo family hoped that Young Master Qin could also send people to participate, even if it was just a few people who were symbolic.At the same time, we have to go to Weidi to find Yang Zhu and Lie Yukou, and let their disciples also participate. After all, we have been fighting with each other for so long, and it is time to verify it with reality.

The envoys did not all travel the same way. They bypassed Wei, Lu and other countries that were weak and had no sense of existence at all, and went to Sanjin and Qichu.

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In the north of Daliang City, on the north bank of the Pushui River, fifty thousand Jin troops have confronted Chu across the river for a year.

This is a manifestation of national power. For example, the Mohist volunteers recruited more than [-] people with all their strength, but they only dared to fight inside due to logistical pressure, and they could only last for a few months.

But as the most powerful country in the world at this time, [-] Wei troops will be stationed here for another two or three years, and Wei Guo can still afford it.

With Qin Jun's new death, Wei Qin's relationship temporarily eased, and the prince's battle against Niu Lanyi failed to win the prince's order, etc., Weiss finally decided to use Wu Qi as the coach of the battle against Chu while he was still alive.

Strive to solve the problem of Chu State before Weiss' death, and let the prince of Chu decide to split Chu State with the right of inheritance and the support of Chu State.

In the army camp, the Wei soldiers are practicing, or wrestling and kicking as a play.The army camped in an orderly manner, and the military law was strict. This is the result of Wu Qi's one-year leadership.

In the coach's tent, Wu Qi, who is in his fifties, no longer looks like he killed more than [-] people in a row in the market when he was young and frivolous. He has white hair like vines outside the window, creeping to his temples.

He knelt down beside the case table, because of the appearance of Pei County grass and silk, the bamboo slips that were necessary on the case table more than ten years ago have disappeared, only a few more books have been added.

On the left side of the table, there is a thick stack of paper, all of which are top grade.

Next to the paper, there is a copper compasses from Peixian County, a copper ruler, and a wooden protractor.

Next to these tools, there is a copy of "Simple Nine Numbers and Geometry" that has been read frequently and has some black finger marks.

At this moment, Wu Qi was looking at the pictures on the table with relish.

One is the defensive map of Niu Lanyi, which is exactly the content from the book that introduces the relationship between rational thinking, geometry and city defense. It was transcribed and enlarged by military warlocks and placed here.

The one next to it is a very "interesting" picture, which is the city wall map of Daliang City.

After the First World War in Shangqiu a few years ago, the late King Sheng of Chu only said "willing" to withdraw troops for the benefit of the world, and hired the Mohists to build and repair the two cities of Daliang and Yuguan with the technique of wrapping bricks and burning bricks.

Although Yuguan was once attacked by Zheng Guo, and although the current king of Chu saw hope and abandoned the covenant to eliminate soldiers because of the death of the three Jin monarchs, the people sent by the Mohists who built the two cities never stopped.

Now that it has been repaired, the Mohists have drawn a picture of the city and spread it outside.

It seems that it is just to illustrate the difference between the old city wall and the new defensive fortress, but it is a bit too detailed.

According to the method of comparing with the fortress defense like Niu Lanyi, the above uses the calculation method one by one to propose where there are loopholes in the old Daliang City, where it is suitable for attack, where it is insufficient, and where it is convenient to deploy troops.

These things are written too clearly, but Daliang City has already been repaired, and this picture is said to have only been circulated within Pei County, but "I don't know" why it ran into Wu Qi's hand.

In the past few years, as the Mohists had done too much to attack and defend the city, Wu Qi also began to learn the characters of the Mohism, and even began to learn geometry from some warlocks who had studied in Pei County.

A few years ago, I bought a few cannons from Pei County. This time, except for keeping a few in Xihe, the rest were also brought here. Xihe has already begun to form some stirrup cavalry.

Originally there were cavalry without stirrups in Xihe, according to "Six Secret Teachings", they were called martial knights.This knight is not that knight. Judging from the feudal system, the other knight is more like a knight with a small fief at this time. At this time, he mainly fights in chariots.

The original text says: King Wu asked Tai Gong: "What is the choice of knights?" Those who circle back and forth, advance and retreat, cross ditches, climb hills, take risks, overcome great marshes, gallop over powerful enemies, and disrupt the masses are called warriors, and they must be honored."

Wei is different from Yue, Yue has few horses and is not suitable for cavalry, so most of them are infantry.As for Wu Qi in Xihe, he attached great importance to war horses, so he had the configuration of martial knights early on, but they were all without stirrups.

The appearance of stirrups directly raised Xihe's military power to a new level. Those knights who could ride horses without stirrups to "cross ditches, climb hills, take risks, overcome great swamps, ride powerful enemies, and disrupt the masses" could liberate their hands. Play better.

This time, there were also five hundred martial arts knights in the Chu camp.

Originally, Wu Qi had confidence in defeating the Chu people, but now he is even more confident. The only thing he has to do is to grasp the tactics of stirrup cavalry and a small amount of bronze cannons, which is still being explored, because the previous art of war did not have these contents, and he can only figure it out by himself. , or rely on the news from the Mo family.

At this time, he had some insight, so he took the bronze compass, dipped one end of it in ink, and used the ruler as a line to draw the range of pawns that the attack point he selected in Daliang City could expand.

The ink line of the ruler is about to come out. Wu Qi couldn't help thinking that when he first came across the book "Simple Nine Numbers Geometry" a year ago, he was quite puzzled by the sentence "A line segment has no width but only length". It's very thin, but if you measure it with an even thinner ruler, how can there be no width?

Rao was this question, he thought about it for two full months, and finally figured out the joints, he looked up to the sky and smiled.He is also extremely intelligent, and by drawing inferences from one instance, he actually mastered many seemingly extremely "unreasonable" contents.

While planning, suddenly there was a person's footsteps and an announcement from outside the big tent, it was his cronies, the footsteps were in a hurry, and there was something urgent.

Although it was quiet just now, there was a sudden confusion at this moment, but the ruler in Wu Qi's hand didn't move, which was just like a general.

Hearing the hasty footsteps of his confidant, he put down the ruler in his hand and asked, "But is there a winner between the Mo family and the Yue country?"

A few months ago, there was news that King Yi of Yue wanted to take back Teng land, and there would be a battle between the Mo family and the country of Yue. Now that the news should come, it should be.

The confidant couldn't bear the astonishment on his face, and said loudly: "The volunteers of the Mo family wiped out nearly [-] Yue troops by the river, and only [-] of our own died. King Yi of Yue was captured! The Junzi army of Yue was wiped out!"

Rao was as calm as Wu Qi, when he heard the news, he got up immediately, and asked with emotion: "Is this really true?"

The confidant nodded and said: "The Mohist envoy went north, and the news came."

Needless to say, the Mohists never lie, Wu Qi knew the people of the Mohism when he was young, and since he said it was the Mohist envoy himself, he must be right.

But this news is really shocking. The Yue people's army of gentlemen can be regarded as the pinnacle of infantry, and they are invincible. It is only by relying on the thousands of gentlemen's army that the Yue Kingdom can gain a firm foothold in hegemony.

But the Gentleman Army was completely wiped out?

The entire [-] Vietnamese army was wiped out, and only [-] volunteers died?

Almost instantly, Wu Qi had a rough guess.

It wasn't like fighting an ambush in the valley like the Battle of Wei, and won while the Yue people didn't start.

That is, the two wings of the Yue people were covered by the stirrup cavalry of the Mo family, otherwise how could they be wiped out?

Though thinking about it, I was still shocked. The Mo family had been too active in the past few years. The Battle of Shangqiu was said to be an alliance with the King of Chu, but in fact, everyone knew that it was a surprise attack on the camp of the King of Chu and the King of Chu was captured.

Now King Yi of Yue has been captured again, and none of the [-] troops of the Yue Kingdom is left, which can't help but be a little frightening.

The spies in Pei County also sent news before that the total number of volunteers was only 3, so they might not arrive yet.

Shocked, Wu Qi anxiously asked: "Who is the commander in chief? He Zhishi? Or Gongzaoye?"

The relative said: "It's just the right one."

Shi Shi is what these people call Shi.Shoemakers and shoemakers are often called in this way at this time. Because the name may be repeated, occupation, identity or surname will be added in front to distinguish it.

After the confidant finished speaking, he took out a few pieces of paper in his arms and said: "Everyone in the Mohist family drew a map of this battle..."

Wu Qi was overjoyed, and said repeatedly: "Bring it quickly, why didn't you tell me earlier?"

The confidant frowned and said: "I'm afraid I don't know the truth. The law of the military formation is a secret that is not passed on. If the Mohist wrote it like this, isn't it afraid that the world will learn it?"

Wu Qi laughed and said: "Da Miao! Since Yanhuang fought against Chiyou in Zhuolu, it has been 2000 years. It is said that there are no more than ten formations, no more than twelve siege techniques, and no more than chariots, pawns, cavalry, and bows... Some people have made mistakes in 2000, so is it possible that no one will make mistakes anymore?"

"The art of war is dead, but people are alive. They all learn the same art of war, and they all have the same chariots and infantry. Why do they win and lose? How can the art of war be taught when the battlefield is cut off at the moment?"

The confidant bowed down and sent the picture.

Wu Qi unfolded it, and at a glance, the picture was made by the Mohists.The superscript is north and south, and the subscript is "scale". The rivers and hills are all described.

The cannon is like a cross, shown on the map.The infantry is like a square, while the cavalry is replaced by a triangle, and the Yueren chariot is replaced by a circle.

There are a total of eight pictures, and Wu Qi quickly flipped through them to the end. It was almost as he expected, it was a standard battle of outflanking and complete annihilation.

But after flipping through it, he didn't think about it right away, but quickly took the ruler, and flipped through the fifth and sixth pictures that were key to the battle, that is, the two pictures where the righteous division's right wing started to maneuver on the battlefield, and looked at the time on it. , After measuring the distance of the mobile march on the battlefield with a ruler, I shook my head in disbelief.

But then he put the ruler on the table, tapped the table with his fingers, and exclaimed: "It's really a strong army! If I have this [-] troops, I can conquer all of the nine states and be invincible!"

(End of this chapter)