warring states careerist

Chapter 618 Advance
The nobles of the Qi State are no strangers to Jizi North Korea. Most of the Qi State imports Wenpi and Wufu from North Korea, and maritime trade has also appeared. The essence of the Jizi North Korea is near the Liaohe Plain in later generations, and many merchants in the State of Qi transfer from there. goods for profit.

As for the Korean peninsula, some merchants from the Qi State are no strangers. They passed through Laidi to Long Island, followed Long Island to Liaodong, and then along the coastline from Liaodong to the southern part of the Korean Peninsula for trade.

Tian Wu knew that this was the last way the counselor found for himself, and it seemed to be the only feasible way after failure.

After bowing and thanking him, Tian Wu thought: If you go to a bitter and cold place to hide your name, although the family knowledge of the nobles is enough to become an official, the ancestors of your family have accumulated more than a hundred years in Qi after the fall of Chen. Are you working hard?

If it is really forced to that step, this is the only way to go.

The dead soldiers around him also expressed their willingness to follow when the time comes, and they would never abandon him throughout their lives. As for the nobles who wanted to rebel with him for more benefits, it was obviously impossible to take this path.

It was impossible for Tian Wu, who was still young, to understand what the sorrow of Mi Li was.

But when the counselor talked about fleeing to Jizi North Korea today if things failed, Tian Wu could feel the mood of Jizi singing Mi Li when he passed the palace.

Thinking that there might really be such a day, Tian Wu couldn't help shaking and let out a long sigh.

"Youyou heaven! Who is this?"

Heavenly Emperor, who is forcing himself to think about leaving his hometown?
After singing, everyone mourned, Tian Wu stopped the uncontrollable emotions, and after weeping, he began to think about the future again.

A few days later, the army assembled and began to spread out in this narrow area.

Tian Wu only said that he had a rash and could not see the wind, so he hid in the car to command, and the generals could only talk to him through the car window.

The main force is concentrated in Pingyang, with Pingyang as the starting point of the attack and the assembly point of troops, as the bridgehead for attacking Yingyi.

The troops of Fei Guo's nobles and some Qi troops stationed in Dongmou, guarding against the outflanking of the Ministry of Public Works and Metallurgy.

Some of the elite Linzi soldiers and Tian Wu's elite private soldiers were dispatched to the vicinity of Dongmou on the grounds of guarding against outflanking behind Gongzaoye's back. It is his advisers who command the army.

Once the great war surrounding Yingyi breaks out, Prince Wu in Dongmou can quietly leave Dongmou, take advantage of the situation where the great war attracts the attention of the Mohists, flee eastward, cross Yishui, and gather troops in Linzi Preparing for a coup, calling on the nobles to defend Linzi.

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Yingyi has been repairing the city defense since it was seized by the Mohists. The two previous probing attacks of the Qi army were easily defeated.

The more violent land reform and the land vacated by a large number of fleeing nobles made it easy for the Mohists to gain a firm foothold here.

Within [-] miles around the city, the support of the people can be regarded as a pan-food pot.

Most of the people in the cities are farmers, which is convenient for organization and publicity. Although the villages in the distance are still difficult to control, the urban population can be regarded as the foundation of a country at this time, because countries cannot control the countryside, nor can they be controlled from the countryside. The countryside gets enough taxes and soldiers.

Located along the Wenshui River, it is convenient enough to transport grain and grass from the downstream.

The territory of Qi State occupied by the Mohists today is roughly a triangle.

With Mount Tai as the base, Lucheng, Pingyin, and Yingyi were not very far apart from each other. In addition, the water system was developed at this time and ships were transported, so that Yingyi had accumulated enough food and grass for defense.

Especially in Liangfu and other places, as the storage place for the logistics supply of the Linzi Army when it went south, there is enough grain in the granary not only to meet the needs of the volunteers, but also to produce millet like the Nangong Shiju Bridge in those days, and enough to raise people to build it with grain as wages. The city walls, get enough of a good name, and don't enforce hard labor.

Even if the city wall is built in the short term, it is impossible to dig enough cushion soil to prevent shelling and densely cover the walls like Pengcheng or Peixian.

However, the Mohists are skilled at defending the city and have their own system. Combined with geometry and the summary and development of these years, it is enough to turn Yingcheng into a city that is difficult to break in a short period of time.

At the head of Yingyi City, the commander of the Second Division is using a telescope to observe the winding and sharp-angled city wall, and there are many local farmers busy on the city wall.

The messenger ran over and said, "Master, the engineers are here. Shishuai has sent over all the cannons that were used to attack Pingyin. There are more than 20 heavy bronze cannons in total. The engineers are in a hurry to build the fort."

The commander of the second division nodded, thinking of the order he had conveyed before, he thought to himself: "Shi Shuai means let us defend first and see what the people of Qi are going to do. Zimozi thought that such a city was enough to defend [-] people Dajun, now that I have artillery and have refurbished the city, there is no problem in defending it."

He was also puzzled, and couldn't figure out why the Qi army would put all their eggs in one basket to fight this inevitable battle, but then he thought again, if he was Tian Qing Tianwu, the matter had come to this point, and there was really no way to break the situation.

The Mo family has defended many cities over the years, and they are good at attacking and defending cities. It is precisely because Mozi is good at attacking cities that they are able to defend cities. Nowadays, the methods of attacking cities are constantly changing, but there is always a way to crack them.

With enough confidence, the whole division of the second division is not worried about the upcoming battle of defending the city. The third division became famous in the first battle of Nanjishui, and now all divisions are suffocating in their hearts.

Coupled with the brilliance of the Battle of Nanji Water, it brought arrogance to morale, but for senior officers, they still cautiously followed the attitude of generally contemptuous and not to underestimate the enemy in front of the battle.

He is proficient at defending the city, and various laws and regulations for defending the city have been promulgated. There are special people in charge, so that everyone can perform their duties, and the general will be much more relaxed.

This is the first time in the past few years that the Mohists have deployed city defenses in a formal war according to the city defense techniques accumulated by the Mohists since the time of Mozi.

The Mohist city defense technique is systematic. In the time of Mozi, there was a certain subconscious geometric foundation. After 20 years of development, this systematic city defense has become more and more perfect.

Zimozi said: Lead thousands of families and the city is three miles away, so it is appropriate to guard.

Yingyi is also the city of ten thousand households, with a city of three li, which is most suitable for defending against the enemy's attack.

Zimozi said: "When a guest attack is successful, if there are hundreds of thousands of creatures and no one can attack more than four teams, the upper skill is [-] steps wide, the middle skill is [-] steps, and the lower skill is [-] steps."Those who do not complete a hundred or five steps will benefit the host and sicken the guest.

That is to say, if the siege side, plus a nearly 500 army such as logistics and auxiliary soldiers, can only deploy four teams at most if they want to attack the city, and these four teams are at most [-] paces wide, about one The front of about [-] people forms waves, and it is impossible to rush forward. This kind of siege can be regarded as the command of a famous general, but in view of the narrowness of the battlefield, only four teams can be deployed, and it will be chaotic.

Therefore, the defending side does not need to consider how many people are on the other side. It only needs to allocate the number of people according to the established countermeasures.

Zimozi said: All heretics can make a fortress to make it difficult for them to invade. What is more harmful is to build three pavilions, three corners of the pavilion, and the Weaver Girl, so that they can save each other.

The so-called Vega means to deploy the Acropolis fortress according to the shape of Vega in the sky.As we all know, Vega and two nearby bright stars form a summer triangle. What Mozi means is that the Acropolis fortress should be arranged in a triangle, that is, in the shape of a character, so that they can support each other.

Coupled with the concept of "walking walls" proposed by Shang Mozi, the actual basis of geometric rational defense already exists. Once the gunpowder comes out, it is easy to form a professional fortress defense system.

Zimozi said: The upper part of the city is Jue Cave, the lower part is three feet wide, and the outer part is five steps apart.Jue acupoints have a large volume, the highest one is six feet, and the lower one is three feet.People are good at lettuce, and they grow five knots.Kou is at the bottom of the city, hearing the sound of the drum, burnt the lettuce, and the drum again, in the inner lettuce hole, and shines outside.

As the optical No.1 in history, Mo Di naturally used optical knowledge in the city defense technique. The problem of small hole imaging made Mo Di sure that light travels along a straight line, so he built the "Grand Cave" at the top of the city. ".

The so-called jue cave is to make a hole under the battlements, and the hole is aimed at the city, because the light travels along a straight line, so when the enemy attacks the city at night, light the firewood in the jue cave, because the hole faces outside , so these fire lights will shine outside.

And lighting torches at the top of the city is strictly prohibited by Mo Di's order. Lighting torches at the top of the city is tantamount to making living targets for the people under the city.

With the design of the Jue Cave, it can be ensured that the enemy cannot see the layout of the top of the city, but the people on the city can see the deployment of the night attack by the attacking party below the city with the help of the fire that spreads in a straight line.

As far as the so-called defense machines such as qujiao, borrowing carts, rowing stacks, rowing buildings, Jiegao, stiles, long axes, long vertebrae, long zi, distance, Feichong, county guns, batches, and transfer machines, etc., Some of them were replaced directly by powder mines and artillery without delay, and the rest were improved.

Today, Yingyi, which stands east of Mount Tai, south of Linzi, and west of Yishui Yimeng Mountain, although not well-built, is the first time in these years that the princes of various countries have to face the city defense system completely in accordance with the Mohist and the real Mohist. The city guarded by the volunteers.

The confidence of the commander of the Second Division also stems from this.

The city wall with a radius of three miles has been refurbished to form a stacked star-shaped structure.

The moat and trench outside are within the range of the artillery attack of the star-shaped structure, and the two sides of the trench are just under the fort.

The concepts of "Row Wall" and "Weaver Girl" are both to strengthen the side-firing firepower, so that the trench cannot be used as a cover for the attacker, because there are turrets at both ends of the trench that can shoot sideways, directly attacking the trench. Geometric calculations make it virtually free of dead zones.

Within three hundred steps in front of the main entrance, there are two simple garrison fortresses, forming a large triangle with the main city behind.

It seems that these two garrison forts are separated from the main city, but in fact it is not, because if the two garrison forts are not captured, there is no way to approach the main city.

Insufficient artillery forces make it difficult to capture the two garrison fortresses that fully follow the principles of the gunpowder era. If you just besiege but not attack the city directly, it is tantamount to suicide: the triangular intersection formed by two forts and one city will completely kill the Qi army in this triangular structure.

In addition to relying on teeth, or capturing Yingyi, the two garrison fortresses cannot be cut off for support: because there are cannons in the city, they can block the distance of [-] steps between the garrison fort and some heavy bronze cannons. Three hundred steps away directly before attacking the fortress.

The moat near the city wall is also densely covered with bamboo sticks according to Mozi’s experience in defending the city, and as Mozi said, the front ones are tilted forward and the rear ones are tilted backwards to ensure that they will definitely be stepped on when attacking or retreating.

(End of this chapter)