Most of these grenadiers were not participating in siege warfare for the first time, most of them were selected from the foot soldiers, and had received the rigorous training of the Mo swordsmen in short sword combat and throwing, and could wear three layers of leather armor to launch two charges in thirty steps.

When they climb the city, they will choose to wear leather armor, and when they fight on foot, they will be equipped with iron armor, and the number of ink insiders in each company is about thirty percent, which is a sharp weapon for climbing the city.

Many people grew up in the environment after the Mo family occupied Sishang, and their years of military career also made them know a lot of words and know a lot of truths.

From the time Mozi founded the Mo family a few decades ago, the Mo family gave the world a consistent impression that "for the benefit of the world, the wind and rain will not be whirled, and the giant will have an order to go to the soup and fire."

Although they will carry out orders solidly, the internal organizational structure allows them to question and suggest their own tasks.

This kind of pre-war preparation method of the sand castle model can only be done by the Sishang Yishi today, because in addition to this, the princes and armies do not have such organizational strength and organizational structure.

The envoy of the State of Chu listened for a while, and couldn't help but shake his head gloomily, he understood that many of the practices of the Yishi of Sishang were very good and conducive to fighting, but the State of Chu couldn't learn them.

At this time, there was no concept of the "motherland".

These people of Sishang can dedicate themselves to "benefiting the world and themselves", and everyone is convinced that everything they do is for the people of the world and for themselves.

But what do the soldiers of the Chu State have to say to them to make them dedicate themselves?

At this time, there was no motherland, and some of the old aristocrats might be moved by the vague concept of "the world", but the common people who were the main force in the army could not understand the daring of those old aristocrats.

Especially with the rapid spread of the doctrines of Mojia and Yang Zhu, more and more people began to consider their own interests, telling them that for the sake of the king, I am afraid that they will ask back, does the king have anything to do with themselves? Is it his own son, and he has to die for it?

The envoy of Chu thought to himself, the gentleman is righteous, the villain is profitable, and the person who can rely on the righteousness and loyalty to the king and fight without sacrificing his life can only be a gentleman, and as for those ordinary people, they can only use profit.

The Mo family unifies righteousness and profit, so that everyone is for righteousness, and in the Sishang army, there are all gentlemen, how can this fight?

Outside of Sishang, how many gentlemen can spare their lives for righteousness?

The soldiers of Sishang are righteous, and the righteous army will win the advantageous army, and the advantageous army will win the unprofitable army.

After thinking about it, if the Chu State wants to gain a foothold in this troubled world, there is only one way to let the soldiers benefit, but if the soldiers benefit, the nobles will lose.

Today's Song State is in turmoil, who knows if tomorrow's Chu State will repeat the fate of today's Song State?

The envoy of Chu listened for a while and left, he came to observe the combat effectiveness of Sishang and learn some experiences that could be learned in the Sishang army, but some things were destined to be impossible to learn, so he left with interest.

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Two days later, the sky was still fine.

The grenadiers of the four companies of the advance battalion were resting in the widened trenches, and the artillery roared outside, but they were not affected in the slightest.

The officers were hiding in the trench with a simple tool that only needed two mirrors and could be seen outside without showing their heads by using the principle of reflection.

The continuous shelling has made the defenders of the city on the verge of collapse, yesterday's all-day shelling, the foot soldiers with soil, firewood and grass, filled the last moat of Dangshan City, the entire Dangshan City has nothing to hinder the footsteps of the siege soldiers, only the last city wall remains.

The mortars had been delivered to the trench a hundred paces ahead of Fort Lumphorn early this morning, and the sortie trench where the grenadiers were hiding was only forty or fifty paces away from the city wall.

The shelling that began early in the morning was carried out by means of intermittent lure, and the shelling stopped for two hours after one hour.

The first two times worked, and each time the shelling stopped, the city thought it was about to be attacked, and immediately sent the remaining foot soldiers to wait on the Horn Fort.

However, as soon as the deployment was completed, another round of shelling was carried out, and so on, the defenders at the head of the city had withdrawn to the rear.

The hot air balloon can clearly observe the movement in the city, but the soldiers in the city are helpless against the strange thing flying in the sky.

The position of the mortar artillery has also been adjusted, and once the siege begins, these mortar artillery will use curved fire to bypass the Boss Fort, and indirectly bombard the defenders gathered behind the Boss Fort.

Directly opposite, there were about a hundred or so soldiers left on the Boss Fort, who had been forced to defend in front, and could only pray incessantly not to be hit by the bullets that were bouncing around.

A large number of corpses and severed limbs were piled up on the Bulge Fort, and the constant shelling gave the city no chance of collecting the corpses.

Even if the people in the city are fools, they know the direction of the Mo family's main attack, but in the face of this kind of intensive artillery bombardment, it is impossible to deploy all their troops on the front line.

Fortunately, they were sure that once the infantry began to attack the city, it would be impossible for the artillery to bombard, and they could hide from the shelling and fill it up when the siege began.

Another round of shelling, and several heralds passed through the trench to the position of the grenadiers, who had been waiting here for a day.

The brigade representative who arrived in the battalion first was to command in the front line, and the order was passed directly to him.

"After the next round of shelling, immediately attack the city."

After receiving the order, the soldiers who had ascended to the camp immediately got busy, and the first wave of commandos, composed of all ink men, repeatedly checked the ladders of their own team, and automatically divided into two groups, squatting on both sides of the attack port.

Except for the sound of iron bullets flying on stones in the distance, there was no other movement, and everything was extremely quiet.

I don't know how long I waited, but as soon as the rumbling cannon stopped, a sharp whistle was heard immediately, and the drums beat loudly.

The whistle was accompanied by the dull bombardment of mortar cannons, and more than a dozen mortar cannons crossed the convex fort and smashed iron bullets at the defenders hiding behind.

The flat-firing bronze cannons that originally bombarded the city wall quickly adjusted their angles under the operation of the gunners and aimed at both sides of the convex fort.

The sappers were also in the rear trenches, and once the siege began, they quickly piled up a small mound about two or three paces high, so that the artillery could climb the mound to support it when the Boss Forts were captured.

The soldiers of the 1st Division, who carried sacks of earth or firewood and grass on their backs, were also waiting for orders.

At the moment when the whistle sounded, the mortar bombardment, and the flat-fire artillery stopped, according to the plan set before, the six groups carried the ladder and quickly approached in the predetermined six directions.

The soldiers of the first battalion, who followed behind, armed with muskets or iron mines, crossed the trench that had been filled in yesterday, and approached the slope that had been shelled for several days and was broken and full of rubble, and the soldiers of the first battalion who did not go up the ladder immediately divided into two groups.

The muskets in front of them did not fire volleys, but each according to his ability, and only when someone appeared at the head of the city did he shoot freely.

The latter one lit the iron thunder with a fire rope, and with great courage and careful skill, threw it upwards when the lead burned to the point of exploding.

Six assault groups in front and the soldiers following behind formed a zigzag structure, covering each other.

The cloud ladder and the improved cloud ladder, the best technology in the world, that is, in the disciples of the Mo family and the public loss class, around the cloud ladder fighting model deduction, naturally learned the essence of it.

The ladder with two small wheels in front does not need to be lifted up directly, but can be pushed up by the rolling of the wheels, and the four people hold the ladder, and the brigade representative takes the lead and takes the lead in stepping on the ladder, shouting: "The ink man who benefits the world, follow me!" ”

The hat of the first soldier was different from the rest of the footmen, a bit like the skin of the warrior, but it was higher than that of the samurai, and there were some pheasant feathers chasing on it, one as an honor for passing the selection, and the other for identification: the more obvious the costume when ascending the city, the easier it was to boost morale.

When the brigade representative shouted, the feathers on the leather were trembling.

In the distance, the other group was in a position where the sloping wall had collapsed, so they did not use the ladder in a step-by-step manner, but worked in groups of three, two people holding the other's feet hand in hand and throwing it up.

After the soldiers who had endured the shelling for a long time at the head of the city had already lost the heart to resist, and the number was not large, and after the brigade representatives rushed forward and shouted a few words in the Song dialect to surrender and not kill, and do not give their lives to the unjust, most of the defenders on the Horn Fort chose to surrender.

They can't bear it anymore, those elite, righteous and righteous soldiers, who sacrifice their lives for righteousness, basically died in the charge that created a tragic show for all countries to see in order to interfere with revenge, the remaining soldiers were terrified, and the shelling for several days made the salient fort full of severed limbs and wreckage, and there were those who supervised the war behind them and did not allow them to retreat, and they had long hoped that the Mo family would attack the city as soon as possible.

With perfect preparations, the four companies of the first battalion captured the Bulge Fort, with only seven men lost, and the defenders behind the fort were still in a panic.

The sudden bombardment of the mortar artillery caused them heavy losses, the formation was chaotic, and suddenly they could not form an effective formation at all, which was fatal to the defending side of the city whose military spirit had been broken.

After all the soldiers of the first battalion of the four companies had ascended to the fort of Bulgehorn, the standard-bearer chose the highest place to raise the flag, and the brigade representatives immediately organized a defense according to the established plan to prevent the enemy's counterattack.

They only need to hold out for about two quarters of an hour, and as long as they can hold out for two quarters of an hour, the infantry of the first division will follow; By then, the artillery had also completed the transfer and redeployment of the muzzles.