warring states careerist

Chapter 628

Sometimes, war is boring like a game of chess. Winning and Pingyang are both cities, and they are also cities that both sides must save and attack.

If Pingyang is broken first before Yingyi is broken, then the Mohists will win.If Pingyang is defeated before Yingyi is defeated, then the Qi army will win.

This is a simple truth, but it cannot be changed.

Under the city of Pingyang, more than [-] troops led by Shi have already gathered outside the city.

Sun Wuzi said: Therefore, the law of using troops is to encircle them if they are ten, attack them if they are five times, divide them if they are twice as many, fight them if they are few, escape them if they are few, and evade them if they are not strong.

In Pingyang City, about [-] troops can be pieced together to defend the city, and the army in hand is twice as large, but they chose to attack.

Winning Pingyang within five days is a matter decided by the military meeting before the war, and it is also related to the battle situation.

Although Yingyi is well-defended, the longer the delay, the greater the possibility of something going wrong. The sooner Pingyang is captured, the sooner the Linzi Army will be destroyed.

Although the wars and chaos of the world by the princes gave the Mohists enough time to delay, but they can continue to stay here after defeating the Linzi Army, and wait for the grassroots to be stable before leaving.

As for Pingyang City, Shi didn't take it too seriously. Now the Qi army's morale has been disturbed, and Pingyang City is a very old city. After months of emergency repairs, that's about it.

As soon as gunpowder came out, the fortification and defense systems of the Spring and Autumn Period were outdated.

Although the rammed earth wall is tall, the rammed earth wall is straight up and down, only slightly inclined, and cannot resist shelling.

There is no outer defense, and a lonely city allows the army to quickly occupy all the advantages outside the city.

On the watchtower built of wood, Shi held a crystal-polished binoculars to look at the situation in the city. Officers, staff officers, and messengers were waiting on the left and right.

More than ten years ago, he spread the siege technique to the world, because that kind of siege technique seemed simple, but actually required many prerequisites. He was not afraid at all, but it was better to use it to declare the victory of rationality in the world.

Now facing the rammed-earth city wall that was not prepared for the gunpowder era, I am full of confidence.

The staff officers had already measured the soil quality under the city in advance, and it was yellow sandy soil that was very suitable for digging. Although it rained, it only moistened the surface.

Pingyang is not the main city of the vassals. According to the ritual system, it is not possible to build too high a city wall, and it is not possible to play around the edge of the ritual system like Shangqiu and Yingdu. In addition, there is no need to build such a wide city wall. The thickness of the city wall is also Just three meters.

The city wall uses the two-panel wall construction method, sandwiching the two sides with the panels, and filling the inside with soil. This kind of city wall has great shortcomings. Once one part is blasted away, both sides will collapse from the blasted position.

The walls at the city gates are thicker, and the gates also use huge wooden doors.

Pointing to the ditch under the city wall, Shi said, "No matter what method you use to attack the city, you can't just use infantry or artillery. When the artillery bombards, the infantry can't just wait; the reverse is also the same."

"Let the two brigades of the [-]th Division prepare the soil and cut down firewood and trees. When the shelling began to suppress, the soldiers first filled the trenches."

"I took a look. There are only three or four cannons in the city. This saves a lot of work. It doesn't have to be too deep to dig parallel zigzag trenches, and the angle of inclination can be larger, and it doesn't have to be too sharp."

The staff officers wrote it down, and turned around and said: "People in the staff department, calculate the distance between the city wall and the trench, calculate the angle between the height of the city wall and the distance, and calculate the depth and width of the excavation."

"Based on the fact that the city cannot be attacked into the trench, just dig two feet further down."

In the previous observation, I had already selected a location to break the city, and said conveniently: "It is up to you to open an assault opening there and how many parallel trenches need to be prepared to prepare soldiers. You decide and calculate it. That's what you have to do."

These young staff officers are all from a professional background. They have learned Mohist tactics, nine numbers, geometry, etc. over the years. They don't really understand the significance of the existence of a staff officer. I also hope that they can continue to learn during the war.

These young people were unavoidably a little nervous, and one of them smiled a little embarrassedly: "Didn't you say that it's just talking on paper? It's about the lives of thousands of people..."

Shi laughed loudly and said, "What's so scary about this? Nine numbers and geometry can't deceive people. The angle is right, but the ones in the city can't be hit, as long as the calculation is correct."

"I have already said roughly, is it possible that each division, each brigade, each company needs one person to do how to fight, how to dig holes, how to bury gunpowder, and how to arrange artillery? Each has a division of labor, so let's do it. it is good."

A sentence of nine numbers and geometry will not deceive people, allowing these young staff officers to overcome their previous panic. This simple, seemingly nonsense principle is what was preached after the siege of the city in the Battle of Lishui more than ten years ago. "Triumph of reason".

When the staff officers went to prepare the homework on the map, the chief officers of several divisions gathered around. This time the first division was the main attack, and the rest of the divisions cooperated.

It is not appropriate to use methods such as encircling three and missing one, and only a small number of troops are arranged on the remaining three sides.

"Pingyang is not Lucheng. If Lucheng is destroyed, the soldiers and nobles of Lucheng may flee to Linzi and gather troops, so we must encircle and annihilate them."

"We don't need a full siege in Pingyang, but we are strategically surrounded on all sides. Even if the nobles flee, they will at most flee to Dongmou and Yingyi. The soldiers are not interested in fighting. As long as the city is broken, they will not resist. .”

"All the arrangements of the various ministries have been discussed. The strategy and tactics have also been settled. How to break through the city as quickly as possible is your business."

"Let's go, let's get ready."

The chief officers saluted and left separately. As the most elite first division of the Mo family, they took on the task of breaking the city this time. All they were responsible for was the main direction of attack. They were full of trust in their teammates and friendly forces. On the flanks, you only need to consider how to capture the city as quickly as possible.

After the division commander and division representatives returned, they first assigned tasks with the brigade commanders of each brigade, and the brigade commanders of each brigade discussed the tasks at the brigade meeting and subdivided them into each company.

Each company is assigned to the smallest combat unit, the 25-man Sima.

Although all countries have military units like Sima Chiefs, and even corporal chiefs and ten chiefs, in fact the smallest tactical unit that really fights is the brigade, and it is difficult to command further down.

At this time, it is necessary to form an formation and use formations. It is not because they do not know that formations are sometimes cumbersome, but because only relying on formations can the soldiers be kept in order. Those who can assign combat tasks to the company level are considered at this time. A strong army in the world.

The main attackers in the first division were two tall grenadier companies. They were the elite selected from the army, and they were unparalleled in courage. They were trained by the elite Beichengmen of the original Mohist school.

Beicheng Menshi was no longer formed and was divided into two divisions. One remained in the army to continue training grenadiers, and the other part went to Xiliu Boat Division to train sword and shield soldiers on board. At this time, sword and shield soldiers were fighting on battleships. The main force, at least for a long time, cannot be replaced.

The grenadier company of the two companies is the elite of the first division. When defending the city, it is used for a decisive counterattack in case the city gate is breached in the melee. When attacking the city, it is used as the first part of the city, or infantry fighting When anxious, it is used to tear apart the opponent's phalanx.

It is called the Grenadier internally, but among the external princes, it is mostly called "First Encampment", "First Entrance", etc. This is more in line with the title of the era without gunpowder, and it is more direct.

The proportion of Mohist in the two companies is very high. After the company commander and company representative returned from the brigade meeting, they began to worry about the Mohist and Chief Sima in the company, deploying their respective tasks.

At the level of company commander, they only need to know the general outline and their specific details.

More than 40 people gathered together, and a simple illustration was drawn on the ground. The company commander said: "At that time, the artillery will bombard the city wall, and the engineers will concentrate on excavating the gunpowder buried in the city wall. Once the city wall is blasted, we need to start from Go through the gap."

"There is a second low wall in the city, and the Qi people may organize defenses there. We just need to break through by throwing iron mines and close-handed swordsmanship, occupy the second wall, and climb along the collapsed city wall to the main city to control it. high place."

He roughly compared the width of the attack that their two companies were responsible for. The width was based on the wall that was blasted by the shelling and gunpowder.

Divide the responsible directions of each Sima, some are responsible for the main attack, and some are responsible for climbing the city, leaving a part as a backup.

A chief of horses asked: "When the time comes, it will be our brigade who will cover us?"

"Well, the musketeers of the other companies will concentrate on covering us. The spearmen need us to control the gap before going up. They will line up in the trench behind."

After the company commander explained, he said again: "What the brigade commander means is that once the city is broken, when the spearmen go up, the gap has nothing to do with us. The city wall has nothing to do with us either. We stabilize the gap and wait for the spearmen to follow up. Once the gunmen are on the wall, they are about to charge."

Draw a position on the simple map on the ground and say: "It's just a main street. There are no earth barriers in the city. Let's remember one thing after we go in: rush in, use Sima as a team to rush in, rush to the market, palace , When encountering a small group of enemies, leave them behind, and the people behind will be responsible. We just want to rush to the innermost, force the nobles to flee, and just stop organizing."

They are familiar with this method of warfare. An army has a soul inheritance. In the early years, those Mozi took in and served the soldiers who served the city gate from all over the world. When the city side retreats, they will rush into the enemy camp to kill the enemy generals and break the flag, causing even greater chaos.

They also don't need to think about how the engineers dig and how the artillery fights, they just need to make a clear arrangement of their one-acre three-point land.

This is determined by the special military system of the Mohist school, with layers of responsibility and layers of distribution.

After the company commander finished speaking, he stroked his iron sword, and a line of words was engraved crookedly on the hilt.

"The Mohist seeks to benefit the people of the world, and he does not seek his own benefit."

(End of this chapter)