warring states careerist

Chapter 831

Today, Uncle Cuo smiled and drank wine, talking about Mo Di’s past efforts to dissuade Duke Lu Yang, he was in a good mood, because the Wei and Han coalition forces had already besieged the capital of Zheng State, and the people in Zheng State’s capital were generally war-weary according to the scouts hiding in it. I'm afraid the city is only a few days away.

Zheng Guo used to be a country of two thousand times, with [-] people in the capital city and the main force of the country, and [-] soldiers from all over the country.

Fighting with South Korea for almost 50 years, plus the fact that the country is divided into three and now only one-third is left, the capital of Zheng State may only be able to gather less than [-] conscripts.

The lack of morale in the army, the spread of meticulous operations, the remaining party of Qimu hiding in the city, and Zheng Ren's unwillingness to fight any more, all these things made Gong Shucuo convinced that Zheng Du would be defeated within ten days at most.

Ten days, what can you do?
The Mo family can't do anything, and the Chu country can't do anything. After all, the Sishang righteous division has just started to withdraw from the Song country. In addition, this is a battle against injustice under the Mohist discourse power system. Uncle Gong is full of confidence.

In Gong Shucuo's view, dividing Zheng is a wonderful move.

If Wei State does not carve up, then Zheng State will be annexed by South Korea sooner or later, because Zheng State is the bargaining chip of Wei Han alliance: for example, if Wei Mo goes to war, then Wei State must acquiesce in South Korea's annexation of Zheng State if it wants to get the military support of South Korea.

Instead of letting South Korea swallow it, it is better to divide it with South Korea. This will strengthen Wei's power in Hedong, and at the same time continue to separate South Korea's enclave and directly threaten South Korea's capital.

The division of Wei and Han into Zheng will also make Zhao Guo nervous, mistakenly thinking that the alliance between Wei and Han is unbreakable, and thus trying to ease the internal relations between the three Jins.

At the same time, after Zheng Guo gained real benefits, he gave up the legal principles of Zhongshan State to Zhao State, as a sincere expression of the Sanjin alliance, jointly opposing Chu and Mo, and each taking care of its share.

The Zhongshan Kingdom has been restored, but now there are two Zhongshan Lords, one is the Zhongshan Lord who restored the country, and the other is Wei Gongzizhi.Zhongshan no longer belongs to Wei, but Zhongshan is still the legal king of Wei.

The key to the easing of the relationship between Wei and Zhao lies in the jurisprudence of the Zhongshan Kingdom. Gong Zizhi sent the declaration of Zhongshan Lord to Zhaohou, and at the same time gave Zhao the geographical map of Zhongshan's mountains and rivers.

This will reorganize the Three Jin Alliance, Zhao Xiangdongbei, Wei Hanxinanxian, so that there is not much conflict between their interests for the time being.

After dividing up Zheng Guo, South Korea can be pulled into the front line against Chu and Mexico.As long as the state of Chu is as rich as gold and jade, and as long as Sishang is aggressive, the relationship between Wei and Han alliance will be stable day by day.

Uncle Cuo didn't want to go to war with Sishang, especially after Shi arrived in Shangqiu and made a declaration that the Mohists would abide by the covenant and that the Mohists would shed the last Mohist blood for the credibility of the covenant.

Uncle Gong is sure that once the Song Dynasty and the Mohists go to war, they will never die, and then the Wei State will be weak to the point where it cannot be further weakened.

Once Wei State is weak, Zhao Guoguo, who could have been an ally, will immediately take a bite, and Qin State, which has the hatred of Xihe, will never give up this excellent opportunity.

What Gong Shucuo is afraid of is not the Mohist family, but what is afraid of the "friendly fisherman's profit" after the fire with the Mohist family.

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Xinzheng.

The capital of the State of Zheng, built at the confluence of the Wei River and the Qin River, is actually still called Zheng, but the original fiefdom of the State of Zheng was in Shaanxi.

In the past years, after the war with the princes, the whole country of Zheng moved to Henan, and later built a new city at the confluence of Wei and Qin rivers. Therefore, the people of Zheng still call it Zheng, and the outside world can call it Xinzheng.

Xinmou, this is a typical colonial or migratory nomenclature.

Xinzheng's city defense was extremely solid by the standards before the advent of gunpowder.

The 12-meter-high city wall, the 20-meter-wide city wall base, even the upper city wall is still three meters wide.

Under the influence of Mozi's city defense technique, Xinzheng's city wall began to build "horse face" and "walking wall". However, due to financial and manpower problems, it was only built on the north side, because there is no water barrier there, and it is the easiest to be attacked. direction.

It's just that with the advent of gunpowder, Xinzheng's rammed earth city walls are no longer enough to look at, as long as a slightly larger copper cannon can be blasted away.

The banks of Weishui, where boys and girls sang love songs and bold girls sang songs to lure boys to swim, have already been filled with the troops of Wei and Han.

The bronze cannons were roaring, and iron bullets hit the rammed-earth city walls. Those joys were gone, and only the army drums of the soldiers remained in those places where love songs were sung.

The general offensive has not yet begun, and the Wei and Han coalition forces are building camps.

Fortunately, the Heze League five years ago stipulated that if the method of flooding the city is regarded as a war crime, the Wei and Han coalition forces did not consider the idea of ​​building dams to flood the New Deal.

A few iron bullets flew over and dug a deep hole in the rammed earth city wall. It seemed that Wei Han wanted to concentrate his artillery to attack one place in order to break through the city wall.

Copper cannons are not some advanced technology that is unattainable, but copper cannons that can still hit a house from 1000 meters away.

As long as it is a large-caliber thing that can use gunpowder to propel projectiles to fly out, it can be called a cannon. This is a technology that can be achieved in the Bronze Age. The only difference is gunpowder that was born 20 years ago.

Wei Han's copper cannon field combat ability is far inferior to Sishang, but the siege is also enough to deal with Zheng's city wall.

Crumbling and untenable, this is the situation facing the New Deal now.

On the city wall, Xu Ruo, the Mohist who was supposed to die in Yangcheng in the past two years and was the first to be martyred for the Mohism in history, now participated in the Fei Guo Uprising and is now the Mohist Xu Ruo of the military envoy to aid Zheng. The white gunpowder smoke billowing continuously below the city let out a long sigh.

"There is no line of walls, no earth barriers, no concave corners, and not enough artillery... Zheng can't hold it."

He muttered to himself, because he had already seen the intention of the Wei and Han coalition forces, which was extremely simple, but extremely effective: concentrate all the artillery, storm a point of the city wall, and make it collapse.

Once the city wall is broken, Xinzheng can declare its fall.

Another ink man with a telescope next to him wiped the dust on the lens, shook his head and said, "Unless we organize a night attack to counterattack and get rid of Wei Han's artillery."

Xu Ruo smiled wryly and said, "The people have no heart to fight. Who is willing to fight to the death? Besides, the Wei and Han coalition forces in the artillery positions are heavily guarded. A rash night attack can only lead to death."

While speaking, a few more iron bullets flew over, and soon left several deep holes in the rammed earth city wall.

Xu Ruo was not the envoy who came to negotiate with Zheng Guo this time to join the Non-Offensive Alliance after the reform, but a military envoy sent before.

He has been here for a long time, and he originally thought that the order from above was for them to serve as instructors to reorganize Zheng Guo's army and build a new type of city wall, but now it seems that this is not the case.

The Mohist organization in Zheng State did not give Xu Ruo and others an order to organize the defense. Even though Zheng Junyi had begged the Mohist to help defend the city, the Mohist did not take the tiger talisman to defend the city on the grounds that the order from the central government had not arrived.

And imitating Cao GUI's way of debating back then, he asked Zheng Jun a few words "why the war", but Zheng Jun could not answer silently.

Now Xu Ruo and the others have received orders to observe Wei Han's siege tactics on the city wall and write a report at night.

Xu Ruo felt that there was nothing to learn from Wei Han's siege tactics.

Pengcheng is not Xinzheng. If the Wei and Han coalition forces choose this tactic to attack Pengcheng or Peiyi, it will be courting death.

The new city defense system and Sishang's arrogant artillery can turn the artillery positions that are full of holes in Xu Ruo's eyes into powder. If you don't have the advantage of artillery and want to capture a city like Pengcheng or Peiyi, you will have to fill it in for four or five years. It is possible to kill twice as many defenders.

Beside Xu Ruo, there were several Zheng people's defenders who had been conscripted. Some of them were holding matchlock guns that were obviously produced and sold in Sishang, some were even extremely backward hand cannons that had been completely eliminated, and some were holding crossbows and bows.

Xu Ruo bent over and walked to those people under the cover of the battlements. The people looked at the red scarf tied around Xu Ruo's arms and the Mozhe's unique military uniform, and said hello politely.

A soldier from Zheng said: "This Mohist, do you think Zheng Cheng can hold it?"

Xu Ruo said: "It is human beings who use weapons. Whether you can defend it or not does not depend on the danger of the city wall, but on whether you are willing to defend it."

The Zheng man spat and cursed: "The devil is willing to guard it. To whom is it not to pay taxes? To whom to plow the public land is not to be plowed?"

Another city defender who is obviously a downcast class next to him also sighed: "In the past, Wei Yigong loved cranes, and those who rode on cranes would go to war, and all the people of the country who received armor would say: Make cranes, and cranes really have a salary." , how can I fight!"

"Since Duke Yi of Wei let the crane benefit, then the state of Wei should let the crane protect it. Isn't that the same reason?"

"The Qimu dispute has been fought over and over again, but there is no one like Zichan anymore. The land is divided by the Qimu Gong clan. If we have little land and no land, then naturally we will let those who have land and land fight."

"We didn't have us when fighting for the land, but let us bleed when defending the city. What's the difference between this and the guards letting the cranes defend the city?"

"Didn't your Mohist always say that the world belongs to the world? The princes have the country, the officials have the family, and we are the common people, who have no family and no country. If you don't go to the city, you will be punished. Who will fight?"

Xu Ruo nodded. This is the morality of the Mohist school. The Mohist school will never advocate the concept of a nation before the world is unified, so it is necessary to recognize and spread the rhetoric of the Zheng people.

Another person next to him said: "Since the king pretends that we are Chinese, let's also pretend to guard the city. When the city wall is broken, we will scatter like birds and beasts. If I die, no one will take care of my wife and children, and the family tax will have to be paid." , The public land still needs to be cultivated, and I apologize that my wife and children have to repay the interest debt every year, so I can't die."

"The Wei people came, the Koreans came, it was nothing more than taxation and service, the meat eaters surrendered and still ate meat, and the cheap food like me still ate corn, there was no difference."

"If both Wei and Han call for tax exemption, tax exemption, and all usury interest to be voided, I'm afraid I will have opened the city gate to welcome them."

Several Zheng people beside them laughed. The siege had not yet started, and the sound of the artillery below could not affect their jokes.

Amidst the laughter, some people sang "popular songs" to the Zheng people who were hiding behind the city wall, taking the sound of cannons for fun and the army drums as the rhyme.

"The female is called cock crowing, and the scholar is called ignorant day. Zi Xing sees the night, and the star dies. They will fly and fly, Yi Fu and geese."

In the song is the simplest and most common scene of life.

The woman said the rooster is crowing, so get up quickly.My husband said that I would sleep a little longer before dawn.

My wife said if I don’t believe you, look, the morning star has come out, don’t be lazy, hurry up and pack up your bow and arrow to catch birds, otherwise it will be difficult to shoot later.

As soon as he sang, several people whistled and booed.

Someone jokingly shouted: "You can't die. If you die, your wife will remarry, and you will have to wake up others. Maybe you will complain that you were not good enough in bed before, and you are far worse than others, so that the person will wake up after hearing this." Waking up happily."

Amidst the sound of cannonballs, everyone laughed, and there was a burst of joy on the city wall.

(End of this chapter)