warring states careerist

Chapter 857

When the white flag was raised in the city, the allied forces of Wei and Han, who had assembled for the next attack, let out bursts of jubilant shouts.

Their morale has dropped to the extreme, and they have never seen a city whose walls have collapsed and can continue to hold on. The many attacks this month have paid a great price.

According to normal evolution, the emergence of gunpowder and the development of geometry must give priority to the attacking side, then develop the advantage of the defending side, and finally regain the advantage of the attacking side.

The Mohists have surpassed natural evolution, and Wei Han has never experienced this kind of city defense technique.

Each attack does not cost many lives, but as long as it reaches a certain level, the side that is attacking the city will retreat.

Many soldiers looked at the white flag raised on the city wall with lingering fear and couldn't even believe their eyes.

It wasn't until the white flag was waved several times that they were convinced that the people in the city really wanted to surrender. The white flag was raised during the Heze League, and no matter whether the countries wanted it or not, they already understood the meaning of the flag.

This siege battle made the soldiers of the Wei Han Lianjun even more convinced that the Mo family defended the city and it was difficult to break through.

The battle in the city is not over yet, the noble district and the palace district are still bleeding, but it is meaningless to attack and defend the entire Xinzheng City.

The Wei and Han coalition forces will not slaughter after entering the city. One is the bottom line set by the Mohists after the Heze Alliance: for this bottom line, the Mohists can fight off the Mohists to maintain this "naturalness".

Furthermore, it is also because the Wei State of South Korea is to occupy the Zheng State as its homeland. With the progress of the times and the spread of technology, the scale of the war has expanded, and the population is extremely important.

Since it wants to be a local country, and even prepares to move the capital here, it is natural not to engage in such things as massacres.

Gong Shucuo signaled Wei Guo not to kill people, so as to leave the "unruly people" in the city and cause trouble for South Korea.

South Korea wants to move the capital here, and it still needs to be done in some ways.

In the city, under the organization of the Mohists, the people did not disperse in an organized manner, but gathered together, waiting for the Wei and Han coalition forces to enter the city.

They are organized together to prevent any accidents, and to be able to resist them in case of accidents.

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The day when Xinzheng fell.

Jishui South Bank.

Several engineering officers from the Sishang Rebel Division are measuring the width of the river with some tools that can be called "instruments".

On a simple pillar like Wangshan, a square is fixed, and one end of Wangshan is aimed at a stone on the other side of the river.

A lead pendant hangs below the ruler. Use gravity to make the line on the lead pendant go straight down, and then adjust the angle of the Wangshan ruler to make it perpendicular to the ground.

At a distance of 30 meters, there is another tool that is exactly the same as that Wangshan.

The engineer in the distance squinted one eye, and asked the vice-watchman to adjust the angle of the square. There was a simple measuring square on the top of the vice-watchman.

This is a tool commonly used by Sishang engineers. It needs the cooperation of trigonometric function tables to quickly measure the width of the river and the distance of the enemy. This is a skill that both artillery and engineer officers need to master.

Those who use it to survey mountains, rivers and rivers are the most proficient in technology. In addition to using the satellite of Tai Sui to locate the longitude, this most basic triangulation method must also be proficient.

Since the Mohist admired Yu, these recent legends according to Sishang are the tools that Dayu used to control the floods, of course he must master them.

The officers looked at the angles on the protractor, flipped through the trigonometric function table that was revised just last year, and recorded it.

Now is the dry season of Jishui. Jishui is the nearest river to the north of Sishang, and its hydrological characteristics have already been mastered.

The engineers and soldiers received orders to build several pontoon bridges.

Such things as pontoon bridges have already appeared in Zhuxia. Dating back to the time of King Wen, there was a saying that "building a boat is a beam", and a beam is a bridge.

This time, the Mohists gathered all the "technical arms" in Sishang. Almost half of the artillery and most of the engineers will participate in the "punishment" battle against Wei and Han.

The Wei army on the opposite side chose to line up along the river, and did not dare to burn the bridges built before, because once they were burned, they would bear the reputation of "war crimes". The doctor dared not take risks.

In the south of Jishui, this is the place where the Mohists have been operating for 20 years. Not to mention the sufficient logistics supplies, because of the special economic status here, the road traffic is the best in the world.

Taoyi in the world, Sishang, the most developed handicraft industry in the world, the important channel connecting the north, and a large number of laborers converted from the fleeing population, all enable the Mohists to gather a Wei army in the internal battle. The huge logistical pressure is unimaginable. army.

This is one of the few places that seem to be the easiest to cross the river. Wei Jun chose to build camps along the river, and gathered about [-] peasants and soldiers in total. This is the entire strength of Wei Jun here.

If Qi Qi goes to war, the vassal Wei State can provide a certain amount of troops, but Wei State does not allow Wei State to participate in order to prevent the Mohists from finding excuses.

Fifteen thousand peasants and soldiers were simply difficult to guard, and it was impossible to win in a field battle. Especially the reputation of the Sishang volunteers who had never been defeated in these years brought great psychological pressure to the Wei army.

However, building fortifications along the river is also the best choice for the Wei army at this time, because the Mohists have demonstrated strong siege capabilities, so the idea of ​​​​defending the city has long been abandoned.

In the camp to the south of Jishui, flags and banners were flying.

Looking at the map, Liuzhi said with emotion to the people around him, "I've been following Juzi for so long, and now I can finally fight a few battles with many versus few."

Everyone laughed, thinking it was true.

After 20 years of development, it was the first time that the Mohists were able to surpass the opponent in terms of overall strength in the Dangshan siege.

This time, the main force was concentrated, and there was no logistical pressure. Most of the bronze cannons arrived here. Some officers who had not participated in the siege of Dangshan felt the thrill of being crushed by military force for the first time.

Some of them participated in the Moyue Sishang hegemony struggle back then, and more participated in the Qi-Mo war back then, but the Mohist army was always small in number.

The root of victory in war is to use mobilization to fight more and less in some areas, and the fewer troops there are, the more places need to be mobilized by generals and soldiers.

There are now [-] peasants and soldiers of the Wei State on the opposite side of Jishui, and they are not the elite of the Wei State at all.

On the Mohist side, there were [-] infantry, [-] regular military knights, and a large number of engineers and artillery, as well as the order that "use gunpowder casually, use more gunpowder and less bloodshed" before the war.

In this way, the Six Fingers can skillfully use many war techniques, such as the means of attacking east and west.

This time, the place where Wei Jun was tempted to form a fortification was not the place where Liuzhi really wanted to break through.

He now has enough troops and enough time, and it is the dry season of Jishui. Six Fingers knows that even if they forcefully attack and cross the Wei army, they will not be able to defend, but he still does not want to shed too much blood of the volunteers.

Now the artillery is assembled here, seemingly to force the crossing, but in fact it is just to lure the enemy.

Liuzhi decided to divide the troops and cross the river fifteen miles away, using the most powerful mobile marching ability of the Sishang Rebel Division to cross the river quickly.

In addition to carrying some small field artillery, the troops crossing the river will not carry heavy siege bronze artillery.

Anyway, there was plenty of time, and Liuzhi wanted to let the fifteen thousand Wei soldiers retreat to the city in a hurry after hearing the news of crossing the river.

This is different from Xinzheng, and it is impossible to create a new city wall defense system like Xinzheng. With the copper cannon completely restraining the rammed earth wall, the casualties of the attacking side in the siege battle may be less than that in the field battle, and it is also the easiest to fight. Into an annihilation war.

For Liuzhi, his task is to capture all the cities of Wei State in the enclave north of Jishui, threaten Wei State and create friction with Qi State to intimidate them.

In one of the camps, Gou Bian of the Wei Guo Mission looked calmly at the rows of bronze or expensive brass guns being deployed.

In fact, my heart was already extremely uneasy.

He is familiar with many elders of the Mohist family, and they met each other when they were young.

He became an official and was recommended by Kong Zhongni's grandson Zisi.

When he became an official, the Mo family was active in Weiguo at that time, and Gao Shizi had already become the Minister of Weiguo at that time.

At that time, Gou Bian was still a small official. Although he was talented, he was never used by Wei Jun because he ate two eggs from others.

Later, Gao Shizi resigned in anger because Wei Jun did not use the righteousness of the Mohist school, and was praised by Mozi. After Gao Shizi passed away, Gou Bian went to mourn.

The activities of the Mohists in the Wei State are not infrequent, and Gou Bian is well aware of some of the morals of the Mohist School. After the expansion of the Mohist School, the Wei State is too close to Sishang, so it is impossible for Gou Bian not to pay attention to the military reforms in Sishang.

It's not that he didn't think of a way to free Weiguo from being a vassal state of Weiguo through Sishang, but the influence of Mohists in Weiguo is mainly concentrated in the folk; while Weiguo's influence in Weiguo is all nobles, Coupled with the Mohism's radical policy of "punishing injustice" compared to the previous "non-aggression and love" that was harmless to humans and animals, the people in power in Weiguo are more wary of Mohism.

Gou Bian knew that Weiguo was not Sishang's opponent at all, and he strongly supported Weiguo's neutrality this time.

Because the state of Wei is a vassal and buffer state of the state of Wei, once the country is involved in the war between the Mohists and the state of Wei, the end will be unimaginable, and it will inevitably be a disaster for the country.

This time the Mohist still became "Song Xianggong", but before that, the Mohist had solemnly warned Gou Bian: neutrality is fine, but if the Wei army uses the road to defend the country, it is equivalent to giving up the neutrality and getting involved in the war.

This time he came with the army, and Gou Bian also knew that it was the Mo family who "dance with relatives".

The aristocrats of Wei State were dissatisfied with the morality of the Mohist School of equality and love for the people, but they also knew that the Mohist School was still reasonable and allowed neutrality.

When something happened in Song State, Wei State was the most nervous one. Fortunately, Wei State allowed Wei State to be neutral in order to block Mohists like Song Xianggong with morality. Otherwise, the nobles of Wei State might collapse.

Gou Bian, as the general of the defending country, has been in the army for many years. Before that, he only heard about it. Now that he has seen everything in the camp with his own eyes, he has already made a judgment on the outcome of this war.

"If the Wei country gets involved in this war, it will only take a month to destroy the country, and the Wei people will not be able to gather to help."

(End of this chapter)