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Chapter 782 Dangshan Siege Battle ([-])

The bombardment in the city for courage lasted for two rounds and then came to an abrupt end.

Since it is useless, it is better to keep gunpowder and iron bullets so as not to waste them.

After the two-hour shift time passed, the veteran engineers who had finished their rest stepped into the widened trench with their partners again and continued to dig forward.

He has dug this kind of trench no less than five times in actual combat. Since the beginning of the Qiyue Sishang hegemony war, the Sishang siege tactic of parallel trench digging has reached a state of proficiency.

From the perspective of veterans, everything is just step by step.

Just like the butchers who slaughtered dogs in Sishang, they first hung the dogs up and strangled their necks to make it difficult to breathe, and then poured water on them when they were about to suffocate and choked to death. People who don’t know how to do this must be surprised , but in the eyes of a knowledgeable person, this is as simple and procedural as a farmer weeding and a craftsman building a house.

There were no surprises, and there could be no surprises.

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In the command post, Liuzhi held a binoculars and looked at the cobweb-like ditch in the distance, observing the progress of the ditch excavation.

Putting away the binoculars, he said to the representative of the legion beside him: "I think the time given to us by the giant is a little too much. Within fifteen days, it is enough to take Dangshan."

The Mohist representative of the legion also agreed with this statement, and the staff department had already thought of any possible counterattack methods of the enemy.

The representative of the legion laughed and said, "Just like the dramas that Solucan saw in Greece when he traveled west, the giant commented that there are many so-called mechanical gods. Whenever the conflict cannot be resolved, the gods will descend from the sky. Everyone is happy."

"I see that in today's siege of Dangshan, the emperor's father Yueling wants to win, and there is no other way unless the machine descends the gods."

Liuzhi also laughed and said: "It's a pity that our Mohists value the people as gods. Even if there is a god, but if you want to help the unrighteous and immoral father Yueling, you will be wiped out by the real god."

"Living in the city, the only thing that threatens us is going out of the city to harass and counterattack, but can he beat us when he goes out of the city?"

This is not arrogant, the ratio of elite infantry is at least five to one, and with the advantage of artillery, and the bonus of camp defense, there is no chance for those in the city to go out of the city to fight back.

When the war has reached such a point, the ending is already doomed, and it is also doomed that there will be no disturbances.

The cruelty of the real world is that there is no possibility of mechanical descending, and there is no possibility of accidents under the premise of everything being counted.

The legion representative thought for a while, then shook his head and said: "The only worry is that the envoys of the princes will think that it is useless to build such a city, so that the strategy of the giants to pull countries into the arms race of building city defenses is wrong. Can be achieved?"

"I'm afraid they don't know about soldiers. At that time, they will only see that Dangshan is so different from the previous Sifang towns, and it will still fall in one month. I'm afraid they will not build it if they feel that the gain is not worth the loss."

The six commanders smiled casually: "The giant means to kill chickens to scare monkeys and deter other countries as the main purpose. It is of course possible to drag them into the arms race of building fortresses. The problem is that if they don't build... Wouldn't it be more beneficial to us?"

"To build a city, we need to reform and destroy the people. Internal conflicts will increase, which will benefit us in the future."

"If you don't build a city, you don't need to change it. We just pass by. We come from the outside. The rammed earth wall of the two-building method and the three-building method can stop our bombardment?"

"There is no difference. One is that the increase in internal conflicts is beneficial to us, but while we are the people of the world, we are also outsiders outside the various vassal states. We can solve many problems by force, not necessarily from the perspective of the authorities. Only consider the intensification of internal conflicts."

Six fingers pointed to the Dangshan city road in the distance: "When we fought against the Qi people, the copper cannons were not easy to operate, so the giant had no choice but to use trenches close to the gunpowder to blow up the city. If Linzi is the same as Dangshan, it is only a hundred miles away from Pengcheng, and transportation is easy. The logistics are sufficient, so why did the giant have to dig a hole back then? With the copper cannons lined up, the rammed-earth city wall can be blasted away in half a day."

"In my opinion, after this battle, countries must spend a lot of money to build capitals and border towns. They have no choice."

Like Liuzhi, the ink representative of the legion had participated in the Qimo battle that year, and he understood it when Liuzhi mentioned it a little.

After thinking for a while, he asked again: "When our Mo family was in Zimozi, we were famous for defending the city. Do you think, if we defend, how can we defend such a means of attacking the city?"

Six Fingers smiled and said: "Zi Mozi said that there are three guards in the top, middle and bottom. The top guards, go out to fight in the field, and win the battle. As long as I am invincible in field battles, who can force me to defend the city? The purpose of defending the isolated city is to defend the city. Why do you need to do it?"

The legion representative smiled and said: "You are changing the concept secretly. If the giant is here, I will criticize you. What I am asking is about the situation where you have to defend in a field battle. It is different from the 'three defenses' mentioned by Zi Mozi. What Zimozi talked about was strategy, and I was asking about tactics. You don’t understand it, but you deliberately confuse it. It seems that you certainly don’t know how to defend.”

Liuzhi nodded and smiled: "Yes, if I were to replace the emperor's father Yueling, I would have no other choice but to stand firm and wait for the princes to intervene. Not high, how to fight?"

With the education and influence he has been receiving, he has always felt that war is just a helpless choice. If there is a better way to resolve various conflicts, of course war does not need to break out.

However, it has been nearly 70 to [-] years since Mozi began to preach non-attacking and assisting the weak, and now the whole idea has been born and developed. The final conclusion is that there is no way to benefit the world by just relying on lip service.

The outcome of a war is often determined outside the battlefield. A good fighter has no great achievements, and a good planner has no great name. The Battle of Dangshan is not destined to be a tragic battle. It was all settled before the war started.

Up to this point, as far as this battle is concerned, there is no suspense about the outcome.

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In the distance, on the soil slope where the observation groups of the princes' envoys were located, some people also expressed the same emotion.

An envoy from the Chu State put down his copper binoculars, shook his head and sighed, "Dangshan Mountain will be broken within a month. The emperor's father's feathers have been defeated."

These envoys are not ignorant of soldiers.

They not only know soldiers, but also many of them have studied Jiushu geometry and many knowledge of Mohism.

When the Mohists and the Yue State were fighting for hegemony in Sishang, the first thing Shi Shi did after capturing Tengcheng was to publicize the world, using the victory in the siege battle to announce the victory of reason, nine numbers, geometry, and the will of heaven.

At that time, no one may have paid attention to it, and it may be that the top figures of the era except Wu Qi did not realize the importance of the article that was circulated in Dacheng Juyi.

However, more than ten years have passed, and the articles that no one cares about at that time have become popular among the people.

The Mohists turned siege and defense into a nine-number geometry problem, making the siege war an almost boring calculation problem that can be used to reverse the overall situation without resourcefulness.

Because of the needs of war, this rational spirit has gradually been valued by all countries, because if you don't pay attention, you can't survive and defend your city in this world of great controversy.

But the spread of this spirit has also made the rules of the old era, which have already been broken and broken, more fragile. The more people agree with reason, the more people agree with the whole set of morals and inferences of Mohism.

This is a deadlock, a deadlock that no one can solve, unless someone can single-handedly drag the thriving contention of a hundred schools of thought throughout Zhuxia to the point where all horses are silent and sad, and can do this with his own strength A little bit, it can be called a god.

The dense zigzag trenches, in the eyes of these messengers who knew some Mohist siege and defense methods, as well as nine numbers and geometry, meant that the time when Dangshan City was breached could be calculated.

You only need to calculate the excavation speed on the side of Sishang every day, and you can calculate the approximate time when the city will be broken.

The Chu State envoy who expressed emotion felt that he had seen the future one month later, and that this was a battle without any suspense.

The Wei and Han envoys next to him also understood that this was not just talking about it, and asked a little puzzled: "The method of attacking and defending the city on Sishang has always liked to be publicized to the world. The same is true for attacking Dangshan, asking us to come and visit. Could there be fraud in it?"

"The city on Sishang is also similar to Dangshan Mountain. It is connected by convex and concave, and each has edges and corners. This kind of siege method can break through Dangshan Mountain, and it can also break down the cities on Sishang. Lai Zhishi has always been cunning. What did he do?"

The envoy of the Chu State who spoke before was a young man who belonged to the taxi class who benefited from the reform of the Chu State. He had complicated feelings for the Mohists, neither hatred nor ideal closeness.

Facing the doubts of the envoys of Wei and Han, the young envoy of Chu State sneered and said, "The city defenders have no choice but to do so. If you can defeat them wildly, why bother to defend the city?"

"There are tens of thousands of volunteers on Sishang, with a well-organized army. They think that they will uphold the will of heaven to help the world. The strength of field battles is unstoppable by all countries. Since they can be solved by field battles, why do they need to defend the city?"

"In today's world, regardless of the strengths of Chu, Wei, and Han, if a [-]-strong army can defeat a [-]-strong army in a field battle, is there any?"

Although they stood together today to watch the siege of Dangshan, and there were even rumors that the countries might form an alliance to interfere with Song, but this does not mean that the hatred between the countries has disappeared.

Chu State and Wei Han fought for a hundred years, and there was even such enmity that Wu Qi defeated Daliang, captured many lords, and killed You Yin in the first battle. The envoys of Chu State would inevitably ridicule Wei Han in words.

In addition to this mapping of contradictions between princes, there are also some contradictions between the two parties.

The envoy of the Chu State was young, and he was a descendant of the down-and-out scholar class. He was considered a low-ranking nobleman, so he was not qualified to be an envoy.

On Wei Han's side, they are all from real aristocratic backgrounds, which are different from the descendants of the down-and-out gentry class, and they are somewhat looked down upon.

This kind of resentment and contradiction is a class resentment that transcends the borders of the vassal states, and they looked down on each other before.

Orthodox aristocrats and those of noble origin think that those down-and-out gentry class are not considered nobles and have no aristocratic temperament. If it weren't for the "respecting the virtuous" that the Mohists tossed the world, they would have no chance to stand out at all, and how could they have the opportunity to be equal to themselves dialogue?
Those of the downcast class, who started from a humble beginning under the tide of the times, think that most of the old nobles are people who eat vegetarian food in their corpses. If it weren't for these people's incompetence and greed, why would the world be in chaos?
(End of this chapter)