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Chapter 930 Terrible Bangguo Meaning

This is exactly why Shi Shi needs to lead his own troops to fight this battle. This is not a victory or defeat on a tactical battlefield, but is related to future strategies.

If South Korea does not send troops, the biggest achievement the Mohists can achieve is to connect Sishang Song State and Nanyang, forming a situation where the east and west lines are horns of each other.

This situation is very beautiful, but it cannot reverse the situation where the princes will work together in the future. It can only be said that this is the best result achieved under the worst plan.

The key to this is that once the Grand Sima of Chu is lured to flee northward and the interception is successful, it is not necessarily necessary to go to bed, go to Cai and Xianghe immediately, but to go northward and make a threat to South Korea.

When to go north and when to go west is very important, and you need to make a decision close to the front line, so as not to miss the opportunity.

Use an oppressive method to force South Korea to send troops, thereby increasing the chance of South Korea sending troops.

If South Korea really has a person like "Yue Zongchang" in later generations, then it can only be prepared for the final decisive battle.

South Korea is not strong, not even stronger than Qi at this time, but Mohism's internal defense and counterattack is a kind of strength, and South Korea, which has entered the field for hundreds of miles and has not been destroyed, is another kind of strength.

In fact, as long as South Korea recognizes the situation clearly, it is like a cowardly waiting for all countries to form an alliance. The Mohists have no choice at this time.

The main force cannot go too far for fear of being stolen by Qi; the west cannot support the center for fear that Qin will seize Danyang; the northward Wei and Han cannot garrison troops when the Korean field army is still alive. With cumbersome counterweight trebuchets and a lot of artillery, it made it impossible to fight fast.

But all of this is achievable.

If the attack on the fortress near Yangxia can shake the princes again, it will give South Korea the illusion that "if Yangxia can't hold it, the cities of South Korea will also fall in an instant".

Once this illusion occurs, the possibility of South Korea sending troops will increase a lot.

Once South Korea sends troops, the situation of the alliance of princes working together and cooperating with each other will disintegrate. There are three months left to annihilate South Korea's field army. Marching into Wei and Wei, he chose to make peace with the Mohists.

The South Korean Field Army is immortal for a day, but actually does not have the guts to attack South Korea when the western front needs to divide troops and the eastern front needs local Qi.

Conversely, if South Korea thinks that the Mohists are likely to go north to attack South Korea after defeating the remaining lords of Chu and can break through the city in an instant, and let the field army go out to attack and defend, then they can use their own advantages to take out South Korea in field battles. The field legion, so entering South Korea is like entering no one's land.

If you save land and lose people, all people and land will be lost; if you save people and lose land, there is still something to do.

It's a very simple sixteen characters, but I don't know if there are any talents in Korea who can understand these sixteen characters.

In order to achieve the purpose of deceiving South Korea to send troops to choose a battle, Shi did not wait until the engineers dug the zigzag trenches, but waited until the artillery suppressed several bronze cannons of the Chu army on the fortress, and then ordered these counterweight catapults to attack.

It can be clearly seen that the defensive forces of the Chu army are concentrated on the fortress, because after learning the lessons of the Dangshan battle, the Chu people did not use a lot of stones to build in front, so as not to produce a lot of bouncing iron bullets.

Instead, I chose to use rammed earth to cover the front with a thick layer. The advantage of rammed earth is that as long as the thickness is sufficient, it is not easy for the iron bullets of the copper cannon to jump up, and it can also absorb a certain amount of energy—if it is stone, The smashed gravel can also cause huge damage.

This spirit of progress in the war is commendable. It can be said that Zhu Xia has never been short of talents, and each princely country has enough smart people.

But limited by the times, it is impossible for them to think so long.

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On the fortress, the guard of the state of Chu looked at the zig-zag trenches that began to spread below the city, with a serious expression on his face.

He was born in a low-ranking aristocrat, and he was also a member of the faction sent by the King of Chu to "study abroad" in Sishang, so he was very aware of Sishang's tactics.

Although there was a coup in Chu State, it was not a regicide after all. The kings loyal to these "students" died of illness normally, and they did not have the ability to participate in the coup, so they chose to continue to be loyal to the King of Chu.

Strange to say, those who have studied in Sishang for many years and instilled the love of Kyushu for many years are the group of people who are most likely to develop "national consciousness".

The nobles from various countries who went to Sishang to study were basically divided into two factions.

After studying for a long time, Yipai developed a feeling of "identity with Kyushu".

Because the Mohists' universal love, non-aggression, synonymous, and benefiting the people are essentially beyond the concepts of princes and states.

A few years ago, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Fengchi meeting to end without a problem, after taking the opportunity to clean up the "non-aggressive nationalist faction", the "nationalism" consciousness that had just emerged in Sishang was extinguished. One", rather than the non-offensive politics of each country.

Therefore, after a large number of aristocratic children studying in this way have undergone such indoctrination, and the Mohists have always regarded Dayu as a saint, they naturally developed a consciousness that "struggling for hegemony in the world actually harms the people".

Their identity is the descendants of Yan and Huang, the descendants of Yao and Shun, not the people of Chu, Wei, and Qi. These are the three views brought about by the theory of universal love.

Even if this group of people returns to the country, they belong to the part that can be united. They have no interest in war, and even think it is "the king's bloodthirsty murder."

For the other part, it's just the opposite.

After they learned a lot of knowledge in Sishang, they developed the national identity of "Chu people", "Wei people" and "Qi people", thinking that they were not the so-called people of the world in Sishang, but belonged to Chu people.

They were moved by the community of "Chu State" they imagined, because they themselves are the ruling class of Chu State, so it is difficult for them to understand the insensitivity of the people at the bottom of Chu State, and it is difficult for them to understand why the people at the bottom of Chu State choose to accept The idea of ​​synonymous Kyushu unified.

When these people were studying in Sishang, their performance was obvious.

They wear the unique high crowns of the Chu State that have been inherited from witchcraft priests, and the short swords of the Chu State. They try to be different from others as much as possible to show their identity as Chu people.

A few years ago, when Sishang began to purge the non-aggressive national faction, they were also affected, because they and some people in Sishang gathered together to "speak strange things".

For example, it is said that Mozi's thought is that all countries are equal in sovereignty, non-aggression, non-interference, etc., and the idea of ​​thinking appropriate is to revise Mozi's theory.

For example, it is said that Sishang is rich and prosperous now, but he still wants to export Mohism's morality for the Mohism's ridiculous idea of ​​benefiting the world, causing chaos in the world.

Regarding the explanation given by Lu Yanggong who wanted to attack Zheng Mozi to stop it, they connected in private, saying that Shi’s interpretation was wrong, because Shih derived the concept of equality for everyone from it, and in fact Mozi is the equality of nations. original intention and so on.

Regarding Sishang's prosperous life today, it is wrong to think that "only the great benefits of the world can continue to benefit oneself", and it is not worthwhile for the people of Sishang to be tied up by the Mohists to die for the benefit of the world.

All kinds of these, and so on.

When Sishang began to clean up and purge the idea of ​​establishing a country without attacking, these people were sent by the king of Chu, so the Mohists had no way to deal with them. At that time, they had to continue to deceive the state of Chu so that the state of Chu believed that the Mohists wanted to go north instead of going south, so they had to They were expelled from Sishang.

Not long after this group of people returned to Chu State, some of the students who believed in the universal love of the world stayed in Sishang, and some returned to Chu State. Those who returned to Chu State were excluded by them.

Those who are now commanding the fortress are those who have begun to have a vague identity as Chu people.

Since these people have studied in Sishang, of course they cannot escape the intelligence of the inspection department.

In fact, there is a batch of lists within the Supervision Department. For the people on the list in the city, once they are captured, they will not even have the chance to be sent to reform. They will all be shipped and exiled overseas.

The commander on the city didn't know that the Mohist under the city knew his information like the back of his hand, and he didn't know that if he was captured, he would face the fate of exile. Now all he thinks about is to be loyal to his monarch and fight for the country.

Looking at the trenches being dug below the city, the Chu commander on the city was nervous but calm.

He knew the Mohist's siege tactics, and even understood why zigzag trenches were dug instead of direct assaults.

He doesn't even know geometry, and he can even judge the level of the Mohist engineers digging holes on it, and he admires it again and again, and he admires the zigzag corners.

He knew that the tactics of the Mohists' siege and siege were very rigid, so rigid that the military academy even had regulations on how many people would be sent to dig each time, how many people would be sent to weave baskets each time, and so on.

But he also knew that this very rigid tactic was extremely effective.

After the artillery was suppressed, once the engineers dug the trench to the front, the edge advantage of the defenders would be lost.

The advantage of the advantage of edges and corners lies in the fact that the angles are concave to each other, so that in any direction, the front of the attacking side always faces three times the number of defenders.

After the trenches were dug and suppressed by the artillery, the concave corners actually became a face-to-face parallel plane. When the Mohists sent a hundred men to attack the city, he could only use a hundred men to fight back.

Fortunately, there is always an advantage in defending the city. After learning the lessons of the attack and defense of Dangshan City back then, the rammed earth on the front was thickened, so that the copper cannons of the Mo family could only suppress the artillery on the city, but there was no way to rely on gravel and jumping. The fired iron bullets killed and wounded the defenders on the reverse slope.

As long as the defenders are still able to organize effectively, the Mohists will have to pay a one-to-one price for attacking the city.

There are a total of 2000 soldiers in this city. If they can stick to it, the Mo family will have to pay at least [-] elites.

From the beginning of the Mohist siege with gunpowder to the present, they have never paid a price of more than a thousand people. The Chu people who guarded the city thought that even if they die, they will be famous in history, loyal to the king, and die for the country, and will break the Mohist attack. The myth that the city lost less than a hundred.

He has confidence in this fortress, in his own charisma, and even more in his knowledge.

He made preparations for the place where the gunpowder was dug; he had anticipated the situation of the bombardment suppression, and knew that this force would not be able to counterattack, so he withdrew the copper cannons to the second fortress, gave up counter-suppression, and waited When the Mohists attacked the city, they bombarded the breaches; the irrigation ditches under the city determined the direction of the Mohist attacks; the thick rammed earth determined that the superior artillery of the Mohists could only suppress but not kill.

Under the disparity of troops, death is nothing more than death, but the fact that they can die has shocked the world—someone can kill and injure more than a thousand people of the Mohist family under the advantage of the Mohist main force to attack the city!

However, just when he thought he was about to make history, he saw some packages falling from the sky.

These weird things crossed the rammed earth slope that could be protected from shelling, and fell behind the Tibetan soldiers on the rammed earth slope with a very high trajectory.

Behind these things that fell from the sky, dragged some slender, sparkling tails.

Like... that comet that passed through the sky last year.

(End of this chapter)