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

If South Korea does not send troops, the greatest victory that the Mohist family can achieve is to connect the Si Shang Song State and Nanyang, forming a situation where the east and west lines are mutually supporting each other.

This situation is very good, but it cannot reverse the situation of the joint efforts of the princes 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 was tempted to flee north and intercept him successfully, he might not have to go to bed immediately. Shangcai and Xianghe could go north and make a threat to South Korea.

When to go north and when to go west is crucial. You need to make a decision when you approach the front line, for fear of missing opportunities.

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

If there is a person like "Appointment" in South Korea, then you can only be prepared for the final decisive battle. There is nothing you can do about it, and you cannot put all your hopes on the other party being a fool.

South Korea is not strong, even better than Qi at this time, but the Mohist counterattack in the interior is a kind of force, and South Korea, which has not been destroyed by hundreds of miles into the field legion, is another force.

In fact, as long as South Korea understands the situation, it is just learning to shrink its head and wait for the countries to form an alliance, and the Mohist family has no choice at this time.

The main force cannot go too far and fear that the country of Qi will steal the family; the western front cannot support the central front and fear that Qin will seize Danyang; the northward Wei and Han cannot station troops under the strong city without the Han field army being destroyed, and they can only choose to attack quickly, and the attack must have a bulky counterweight stone throwing machine and a large number of artillery soldiers, which makes it impossible to speed up the troops.

But all this is something that can be fought for.

If the battle of the fortress near Yangxia can once again shock the princes, it will give South Korea the illusion that "Yangxia cannot defend, and Korean cities will also fall in an instant."

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

Once South Korea sends troops, the situation where the princes and alliances work together will collapse, leaving three months to annihilate the field legion of South Korea. Within three months, Qi will seize the opportunity to return to Si Shang, and Qi will be timid and then march into the Guards and Wei, and choose to make peace with the Mo family.

The Korean field army will never be destroyed, but actually does not have the courage to attack South Korea when it needs division of troops on the Western Front and the Eastern Front needs local Qi.

On the other hand, if South Korea believes that after the Mohist family defeated the remaining monarchs of Chu, it is likely that they will attack South Korea and can break the city in an instant, and let the field legion attack with attack as defense, then they can use their advantages to destroy the Korean field legion, and entering South Korea will be like entering a no-man's land.

If the land is left and the land is lost, the land will be lost; if the land is left and the land is lost, there is still something to do.

The very simple sixteen words are not clear whether there are talented people in South Korea who can understand these sixteen words.

In order to achieve the purpose of luring South Korea to choose a battle, the engineers did not wait until the zigzag trench was dug, but after the artillery suppressed several bronze cannons of the Chu army on the fortress, they ordered these counterweight stone throwers to launch an attack.

It is obvious that the Chu army's defensive forces are concentrated on the fortress. Because they learned from the lessons of the Battle of Dangshan, the Chu people did not use a large number of stones to build them in front to avoid generating a large number of bounced iron bullets.

Instead, we chose to cover a thick layer of rammed earth with rammed earth. The advantage of rammed earth is that as long as the thickness is enough, it will not easily make the copper cannon's iron jump up, and it can also absorb a certain amount of energy - if it is a stone, crushed gravel will also cause huge damage.

This spirit of progress in war is worthy of praise. It can be said that Zhuxia has never lacked talents, and each vassal state has people who are smart enough.

But due to the limitations of the times, they cannot think so long.

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On the fortress, the Chu State guard looked at the zigzag trench that began to spread under the city, and his face was solemn.

He was from a low-level nobleman and was also a person sent by the King of Chu to Si Shang to "study abroad" in Si Shang. He was very clear about Si Shang's tactics.

Although a coup occurred in the Chu State, it was not a monarch after all. The kings loyal to them, such as the "study abroad school" 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.

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

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

After a long period of study, a feeling of "Kyushu identification" emerged.

Because the Mohist school's dual love, non-aggression, synonym, and benefiting the people are essentially a concept that transcends the vassal states.

A few years ago, after taking advantage of the opportunity of the death of the Fengchihui, the "non-aggressive and founding faction", the "nationalism" consciousness that had just emerged in Si Shang was extinguished. Si Shang's current political correctness is "the unity of nine provinces", rather than the non-aggressive and political policies of various countries.

Therefore, after this indoctrination of a large number of noble children who were studying, and the Mo family always regarded Dayu as a saint, they naturally developed a sense of "the world fights for hegemony and harms the people."

Their identity is the descendants of Yan and Huang, the descendants of Yao and Shun, rather than those of Chu, Wei, and Qi. This is the three views brought by the theory of mutual love.

Even if this group of people returns to China, they are still the ones who can unite. They have no interest in war and even think that this is "the king's bloodthirsty murder."

And the other part is exactly the opposite.

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

They were moved by the community of "Chu State" that they imagined, because they were the ruling class of Chu State, so it was difficult for them to understand the insensitiveness of the people at the bottom of Chu State, and it was difficult for them to understand why the people at the bottom of Chu State chose to accept the idea of ​​synonymous with the same love and the same as the Nine Provinces.

These people were very obvious when they were studying in Sishang.

They wore the tall crown unique to Chu State, which was continued from the witchcraft priest, and the short sword with the Chu State's characteristics, as different as possible from others to show their identity as Chu State.

When Si Shang began to purge the non-aggressive founding factions a few years ago, they were also affected because they gathered with some people in Si Shang to "speak strange things".

For example, Mozi's idea was originally sovereignty and equality among countries, non-aggression, non-interference with each other, etc., and the idea that it was appropriate was to correct Mozi's theory.

For example, if Si Shang is now rich, he still has to export the morality of the Mohist school for the ridiculous idea of ​​benefiting the world, leading to chaos in the world.

Regarding the explanation given by Duke Yang of Luyang to stop him, they privately connected and said that Shi's interpretation was wrong, because Shi extended the concept of equality for everyone, and in fact, equality of the state was Mozi's original intention, etc.

Regarding Si Shang's current wealthy days, the saying that "only the world's wealth can continue to make profits" is wrong, and it is not worth it for the people of Si Shang to be bound by the Mo family to die for the sake of the Mo family's benefit.

All kinds of these are different.

When Si Shang began to clean up and purify those ideas of not attacking and establishing a country, these people were sent by the King of Chu, so the Mo family had no way to deal with it. At that time, they still needed to continue to deceive the Chu State so that the Chu State believed that the Mo family wanted to fight north rather than south, so they had to expel them from Si Shang.

Shortly after this group of people returned to Chu, some of the classmates who recognized the love of the world stayed in Si Shang, and some returned to Chu. The people who returned to Chu were excluded by them.

Now the people who commanded on the fortress were the ones who began to produce the hazy Chu people.

Since these people have studied in Si Shang, of course they cannot escape the information from the Supervision and Inspection Department.

In fact, there is a list of people in the Supervision and Inspection Department. For those on the list in the city, if they are captured, they don’t even have the chance to be sent for transformation. They will be shipped and exiled overseas, and they will never be allowed to stay in Jiuzhou.

The commander on the city did not know that the Mozhe under the city knew his intelligence well, nor did he know that he would face the fate of exile once he was captured. What he thought about now was just to be loyal to his king and fight for the country.

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

He knew the Mohist siege tactics, and even understood why he had to dig a zigzag trench instead of directly impacting.

Even if he didn't even count the geometry, he could even judge the level of digging pits by the Mohist engineers and admired them repeatedly, and admired the corners of the zigzag.

He knew that the Mo family's tactics of siege were very rigid. They were old-fashioned and even the number of people sent to dig and how many people sent to build baskets in the military academy was stipulated.

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

After the artillery was suppressed, once the engineer dug the trench in front of him, there would be no edge advantage on the side of the defending city.

The advantage of edge and angular advantages lies in the fact that they are concave angles, so that in any direction, the front of the siege always faces three times the defenders.

After the artillery was dug in close proximity to the trench, the concave corner actually became a face-to-face parallel. The Mohist school sent a hundred people to attack the city, so he could only use a hundred people to fight back.

Fortunately, defending the city always has advantages. After learning from the lessons of the offensive and defensive battle in Dangshan City, the rammed earth on the front was thickened, so that the Mohist bronze cannons could only suppress the cannons on the city, but they could not rely on gravel and jumping iron bullets to kill the defenders on the back slope.

As long as the defenders are still in effective organization, the Mohist family will have to pay a one-to-one price to attack the city.

There are a total of 2,500 soldiers in this city. If they can hold on, the Mohist family will have to pay at least 2,000 elite soldiers.

From the beginning of the Mo family siege with gunpowder to the present, they have never paid 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 myth of the Mo family siege that only a hundred losses will be lost.

He has confidence in this fortress, his personal charm, and his knowledge.

He prepared for the place where gunpowder was buried; he had expected the situation of artillery suppression, and knew that this force could not counterattack, so he retreated the copper cannon to the second fortress and gave up counter-suppression. Instead, he waited for the Mo family to start siege to bombard the breakthrough when the Mo family began to attack the city; the irrigation trench under the city determined the direction of the Mo family's attack; the thick rammed earth determined the Mo family's advantage of artillery can only suppress but not kill.

Under the gap in military strength, it is nothing more than death, but it can be killed to shock the world - someone can actually kill more than a thousand Mo family members under the advantage of the Mo family's main force!

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

These strange things crossed the rammed earth incline that could be protected from artillery bombardment, and fell behind the rammed earth inclined surface with an extremely high ballistic.

Behind these things falling from the sky, some slender, spark-like tails were dragged.
Chapter completed!