The commander-in-chief of the Han army also understood what the commander-in-chief of the Wei army meant.

In this situation, this gap that took several days to be bombarded with artillery is an embarrassing existence.

If you don't attack from here, choose another place, or you have to climb the ten-meter-high city wall directly and quickly occupy the high point of the city wall by means of ants attacking the city; Either that or just take the time to reopen the gap elsewhere with artillery.

The losses of the ants in the siege were too great, especially if the defending side had firearms and gunpowder mines.

If you take the time to open the gap with cannons, with the organizational skills that the Mo family in the city has shown before, it may be that the gap has just been opened, and a new section of city defense will be built inside.

Therefore, it is pointless to find other places to attack, and can only rely on this gap to open up the situation.

However, relying on the gap to open up the situation is exactly what the Mo family in the city wants.

According to the previous experience, the Wei and Han coalition forces used gaps to break the surface and directly break the city; The Mo family reversed this mentality, opening a net and waiting at the gap in the prediction of the possible.

Now there is a gap of twenty zhang, if there is no defense behind, this gap of twenty zhang is enough, and it can be solved by rushing in with elites.

If there is a defense in the back, it is necessary to widen the gap, tear down the walls that are still standing on both sides, and level the ground at the gap to make room for the artillery of the Wei and Han coalition forces.

How to clear the gap and expand the gap?

You have to rely on people to pile forward.

However, the Mo family built a new city defense in the back, and connected the city walls on both sides that had not collapsed into a system, and if the gap was expanded, it would have to face the defense of the Zheng soldiers on the city wall, and the loss would be great.

The old city defense system is a line, and if one point of the line is broken, then the line will be meaningless.

The new urban defense system is a surface, which is divided one after another, and attacking one place will be counterattacked from three sides; Conquering a point does not directly break through the defense.

If the gap is not expanded, the gap of twenty zhang wide to impact the new city defense organized by the Mo family is tantamount to sending, and the number of people who are put into it at one time is too small, even if it is all elite, it will not be able to escape the fate of collapse.

Xinzheng is the capital of the country of a thousand times, and its defense is quite strong when there is no artillery.

Historically, South Korea's destruction of Zheng was also a sneak attack when Wei Chu was in the midst of a war alliance, and there was no resistance in the city at that time.

Later, when Korea moved its capital, and when Qin destroyed Han, Korea had already declined at that time, and Xinzheng City was not breached, but Korea chose to face off in the Weishui Field Battle, but was defeated by the Qin State Field Battle, and the city chose to surrender.

For example, the battle of Daliang City when Qin destroyed Wei was not broken by normal siege methods, but the water of the Yellow River was used to irrigate the city.

This time, Wei Han's confidence in carving up Zheng Guo stemmed from Zheng Guo's unwillingness to resist, many people who wanted to surrender, and revenge, and copper cannons that could blast through the old-style rammed earth wall.

I don't want to think that several advantages have gone wrong, which makes it unrealistic to break the city in a short period of time.

Now that the situation is clear, the outer city wall has become an extremely disgusting existence for the Wei and Han coalition forces.

For the defenders, the collapse of the outer city wall does not affect the new city defense system inside: without artillery and gunpowder, the ten-meter-high city wall is difficult to capture, and if it is used, Wei Han has not many sappers and no sappers, and it is impossible to break the city quickly, and the city can be built by concentrating people's forces.

What is even more odious is that in this way, the artillery advantage of the siege does not exist.

Unless the gap is expanded, it cannot be countered with the new city defense inside.

Widening the gap, artillery is useless: now it is not to blast out the gap, but to clear the gap, to sort out the passage and to deploy the artillery and the positions where the non-commissioned men are assembled.

Fighting a war is not just a matter of rushing forward in a chaotic manner, but it is necessary to have enough space to deploy the attacking troops, deploy the formation, and take care of the left flank.

The commander of the Han army said: "In this way, we can only let the copper cannon continue to bombard the walls on both sides of the gap, and then occupy the gap with foot soldiers to clear the passage." ”

"It's just...... One hundred and fifty steps, the Zheng people's bronze cannon can bombard the gap, and the soldiers are afraid that it will be difficult to feel at ease. ”

"If you don't attack from the gap, it will take time, but I'm afraid that Zheng Ren will have to build a whole new line of defense inside."

The chief general of the Wei army said: "The attack can be captured, the Zheng people have no fighting spirit, and the soldiers are insufficient, even if the Mo family defended Shangqiu back then, it was the five-step alliance signed by the king of Chu who went out of the city to counterattack and captured the king of Chu to break the situation." In that battle roar, we will naturally be careful about going out of the city to fight back, and with 100,000 against 30,000, we will win in the long run. ”

"It's just...... The gains and losses of Xinzheng do not depend on whether you and I can capture it, but whether Qin, Chu, and Sishang interfere. Do not besiege the city for too long, otherwise it will be very disadvantageous to Wei Han. ”

"This matter needs to be reported quickly, just say that within half a month, I am afraid it will be difficult to break the city. Unless more artillery is delivered. ”

This time, because Zheng Guo was a sneak attack, he did not carry a lot of copper cannons, only some siege cannons used to blast through the city walls, and now the problem of insufficient numbers has been seriously exposed.

If they carry more artillery, they can blast through the gap within three days, even if those people in the Mo family have the talent to cry, it is impossible to build a new defensive line within three days.

On the other hand, this sneak attack in such a hurry was precisely because of the contact between the Mo family and Zheng Guo that South Korea was very uneasy.

Once Zheng Guo and the Mo family cooperated, the Mo family sent those who were proficient in the geometry of the nine numbers to rebuild the Xinzheng city defense according to the level of Sishang, and with the siege ability of Korea, they would have to be ready to besiege for more than half a year.

The problem is that the problem of Zheng is not the problem of Han and Zheng, but the problem surrounding Wei, Han, Chu and Qin, who are behind Wei, and it is impossible to choose the means of siege.

This sneak attack is exactly like this, if Wei Han concentrates the strength of the whole country, in fact, even if the Mo family comes early, it is useless, and Xinzheng will be captured; However, it was impossible to concentrate the strength of the whole country to prepare in advance, so he could only choose a sneak attack, which made it difficult to attack the city once it did not develop according to the expected situation.

Before the expedition, Han Hou, Wei Hou, Han Xiang, and Uncle Gong were all full of confidence, thinking that Xinzheng could be captured in half a month at most and at least one day.

All plans revolve around this premise, because this is the premise of everything: if you can prepare for the capture in two or three months, then you don't have to think about a sneak attack and partition, you have to be ready for a full-scale war, and two or three months is enough for Chu to complete the mobilization preparations of Chen Cai's division.

The words of the commander of the Wei army could not be clearer, now it is not a problem to capture Xinzheng tactically, with more people and more time, Xinzheng will definitely be able to attack.

However, it has already failed strategically, and it cannot be carried out in one fell swoop so that Xinzheng can hold on, so it is necessary to prepare Wei Hou and Han Hou for how to carry out diplomatic mediation and deal with the questioning of Chu.

The transfer of Wei Han's army told the Chu people that this was to prepare for interfering in the Song State so that the Chu people could relax their vigilance, and tricked the Chu people into coming to the alliance, and as a result, the alliance was halfway through, and Wei Han divided the buffer state of Chu, Zheng State...... If the state of Chu is not angry, it will be a ghost.

It is good to learn from the Mojia to interfere with the Song State and stabilize the situation quickly, but I am afraid that the troops will not be able to eat under the fortified city, and the Chu State will send troops to rescue, which will be troublesome.

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When the news from the front was delivered to Uncle Acne, Uncle Acne was stunned and didn't speak for a long time.

After reflecting for a long time, he shook his head and said with a wry smile: "The Mo family's technique of defending the city is really unparalleled. There is no Zheng who can defend it, but he can also survive in death. ”

His subordinate officials also knew the news and couldn't help but say: "The Chu people are already angry, and Chu Da Sima has repeatedly talked about this...... The king of Chu was in Chendi again, and he was afraid that the Chu people would send troops to rescue Zheng. ”

Uncle Gong said: "It will take time to send troops, the Mo family and Zheng Shang have no alliance to attack, whether to send troops or not is not yet known, even if the troops are not allowed to go to the Song Land, I sent someone to ask the guards to come forward to tell that the Mo family can not borrow the road to the guard, the Mo family must abide by morality, and the Mo family can be worry-free." ”

"On the side of the Chu State, it will take two months to send troops, our army still has a strong army in Daliang, and the Chu people are afraid that we will take the opportunity to seize Yuguan and cut off its back road, so it is necessary to be fully prepared."

"One month...... There is only one month, and within a month, the city must be broken. ”

One month is a safe time for Uncle Gong, as long as Xinzheng can be solved within a month, then you can talk with Chu State, and Chu State can only admit this situation.

Uncle Acne just didn't expect that the Mo family seemed to really have the ability to come back to life, obviously Xinzheng was no longer defendable, they were able to come up with a way to defend it, just like the classic city defense battles when Mo Zhai was alive, the name of the Mo family to defend the city is indeed worthy of its reputation.

This also strengthened Gongshu's determination not to interfere in the Song State, and he also agreed more with the signing of a regional defense treaty in the Central Plains with the Chu State, and built a border city defense between Daliang, Yangxia, Lankao and Weiguo, which was completely different from the Great Wall defense line and relied on a new type of city defense.

Xinzheng, who is like a frightened bird, can encounter such trouble, and Uncle Gong can't imagine how tragic it will be to attack Peiyi Pengcheng and the Heze and Dayozawa Chengyi districts that have been repaired for more than ten years.

After thinking about it, there is actually no way to break the game.

You can immediately mobilize the support of soldiers in the Xingyang area of South Korea, concentrate the copper cannons in the Hedong area, transport them to the city of Xinzheng, and recruit a part of the Hedong soldiers, so as to quickly solve Xinzheng with the momentum of ten thousand pounds.

If the troops are insufficient, they will not be able to choose to refuel, but will go all out, and the longer it drags on, the more likely it is to have accidents.

After considering this, he quickly wrote to the Marquis of Wei, and began to mobilize Wei's forces in the Central Plains in the name of Xiangbang and the power to negotiate with Chu and this time divide Zheng State.

It was necessary to support both the Xinzheng battlefield and the deterrence of Chu, which made it take Chu longer to prepare: longer time to prepare meant that the more time Wei had to capture Xinzheng, the less likely it was that Chu would send troops.

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When the news of Wei Han's dispatch of troops to carve up Zheng Guo reached the Mo family, he was still in Shangqiu, and he was not too surprised by this.

Zheng Guo's situation was forced out by him, and without his interference, Zheng Guo would have been able to survive for a while, and there would be no problem for four or five years.

It was he who took advantage of the situation of winning the Battle of Dangshan to oppress South Korea: Our Mo family is going to stretch out Zheng Guo, if you don't fight again, we will make Zheng Guo a city defense like Dangshan, and if we can't attack it for a long time, how can Wei Chu easily annex Zheng Guo? If you want to do it, hurry up, it's too late.

Not surprisingly, Sishang Yishi had already begun to withdraw troops from the Song State in batches before, and it was obvious that Shi Shi did not want to interfere with Zheng Guo at all.

Anyway, Zheng Guo is not a buffer state in Sishang, and it is Chu State that is most anxious about Zheng Guo being divided, which is to take this opportunity to divide the relationship between Wei and Chu, which has gradually eased due to the rise of the Mo family and the choice of strategic contraction.

The reason for not sending troops has already been found: it's not that the Mo family doesn't want to preside over justice, but the non-offensive alliance only fulfills the non-offensive righteousness, Zheng Guo and the Mo family have not officially signed a non-offensive alliance, so if the Mo family sends troops, it will be unjust.

You can't take the land of the non-offensive alliance, so the Mo family is really powerless. If the Song State can't get by, if you go north, Weiguo is a small country, and you will send people to implore the Mo family not to involve the military disaster in Weiguo, and if you go south, it will be too late, and even if the time is in time, then will the Mo family agree or not to agree to the Mo family's request to pass through and station in Chu State?

Originally, he did not send troops to push the Mo family, who had always appealed for morality, to the forefront, but Shi had already prepared and pushed the accusations of public opinion to Wei Han and Chu.

Fit to be a troop or not.

But pretend that you really want to send troops.

Therefore, he wants to send people to the state of Chu to meet the king of Chu: Wei Han is an unrighteous king, attacking the small with the big, and we want to attack Wei Han to show the justice of Tianzhi. Not only to attack Wei and Han, so the previously agreed terms of non-offensive warfare require the Chu State to make a statement: Song State is a non-offensive neutral country, can the Mo family borrow the road?

You don't have to think about it, it is impossible for the Chu State to kill the morality that the Mo family can borrow the way in a neutral country, and opening this opening will be extremely unfavorable to the Chu State in the future, and the king of Chu still has this foresight.

Not allowing the Mo family to borrow from the neutral country is the Mo family's fulfillment of morality, so can we borrow the road from the Chu country? Moreover, the battle needs logistics, food, supplies, is it possible for the Mo family to build a camp in the Chu State?

Apparently it is also impossible.

When the time comes, everyone in the world will know three things.

First, Wei Han was unrighteous and attacked Zheng Guo.

Second, the Mo family wanted to rescue, and the Chu family was worried that the Mo family's influence in the Chu country would increase and rejected the Mo family's conditions, and the Mo family had to abide by the rules they set in order to truly be able to kill soldiers in the world.

Third, the Mo family really wants to fulfill morality and is a humble gentleman. However, the gentleman is too restricted to be unable to send troops, which is not the crime of the Mo family.

If the State of Chu is willing to fight, it will definitely be supported, there is no money to lend to the King of Chu, and there is a shortage of weapons and food to lend to the State of Chu, but it is impossible to let the Mo family send troops.

Anyway, Wei Han carved up Zheng State, like a sharp knife directly inserted into the vulnerable place where the left and right wings of Chu State meet, Nanyang in the west, Chen Cai in the east, and control the upper reaches of Yingshui, a tributary of the Huai River, Chu State is not in a hurry.

However, it is estimated that Chu may also howl a few times, pretend to send troops to make a threat, find a way to sit down and negotiate, and pull out the two Zheng Guocheng cities from Wei Han's mouth to connect Fencheng and Yuguan, and it is unlikely that he will start a war with Wei Han.