The bold shelling of the city lasted two rounds before coming to an abrupt end.

Since it is useless, it is better to leave gunpowder and iron bullets so as not to waste them.

After the two-hour shift was over, the old sappers who had finished their rest stepped into the widened trench with their companions again and continued to dig forward.

He has dug this kind of trench no less than five times in actual combat, and since the beginning of the hegemony war between Qi and Yue Sishang, the siege tactics of parallel trench excavation in Sishang have reached the realm of perfection.

In the eyes of the veteran, everything is just a step-by-step process.

Just like those butchers who slaughter dogs in Sishang kill dogs, first hang the dogs up and strangle their necks to make it difficult to breathe, and then pour water on them when they are about to suffocate and choke them to death.

There are no surprises, and there can be no surprises.

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In the command post, Six Fingers held a clairtelescope and looked at the trench like a spider's web in the distance, observing the progress of the trench excavation.

He put away the clairvoyant mirror and said to the representative of the legion ink artist beside him: "I think the giant has given us a little too much time. Within fifteen days, it is enough to take Dangshan. ”

This statement was echoed by the representatives of the Ink Men of the Legion, and the General Staff had already thought of any possible means of counterattack by the enemy.

The representative of the legion said with a smile: "For example, when Solushen traveled west and saw those dramas in Greece, the giant commented that there are many so-called mechanical séances, but when the contradiction cannot be resolved, the gods descend from the sky, and everyone is happy." ”

"I see that in the siege of Dangshan today, the imperial father Yue Ling wants to win, and there is no other way unless he is a mechanical séance."

Six Fingers also laughed and said: "It's a pity that our Mo family pays attention to the people as the gods, that is, there is really a god, but if we want to help the unrighteous and unrighteous emperor Yue Ling, it will also be destroyed by the real god." ”

"The only thing that threatens us is to go out of the city to attack and counterattack, but can he beat us when we go out of the city?"

This is not arrogant, the ratio of elite infantry has reached at least five to one, and there is also the advantage of artillery, as well as the bonus of camp defense, there is no chance for those people in the city to go out of the city to counterattack.

When the war is fought to such a point, the outcome is already doomed, and it is destined that there will be no waves.

The cruelty of the real world is that there is no possibility of a mechanical séance, and there is no possibility of accidents under the premise that everything is calculated.

The legion representative thought for a moment, shook his head, and said, "The only thing to worry about is that the envoys of those princes will feel that even if they build such a city, it is useless, so that the strategy of the giant to draw countries into an arms race to build city defenses cannot be realized?" ”

"They are only afraid that they don't know the soldiers, and when the time comes, they can only see that Dangshan is so different from the previous Sifang cities, and they are still coming down in January, but they are afraid that they will feel that the gains outweigh the losses, so they will not build them."

The six commanders smiled freely: "The meaning of the giant is to kill chickens and make an example of monkeys, and the main purpose is to deter other countries. An arms race that can be dragged into the construction of fortresses is, of course, the problem is that if they don't...... Wouldn't it be better for us? ”

"When we build cities, we need to change and scrape the people, and internal contradictions will increase, which will be beneficial to us in the future."

"If we don't build cities, we don't need to change, we can get by, we come from the outside, and the rammed earth walls of the two and three construction methods can block our shelling?"

"It makes no difference. One is that the increase in internal contradictions is beneficial to us, but at the same time, we are people from all over the world, and we are also people from outside the vassal states, and we can solve many problems by force, and we do not necessarily have to stand in the perspective of the authorities and only consider the intensification of internal contradictions. ”

Six fingers pointed to Dangshan City in the distance and said: "When I fought with the Qi people, it was not easy for the copper cannon to operate, and the giant had to use the trench to approach the gunpowder to blow up the city. If Linzi is only 100 miles away from Pengcheng like Dangshan, the transportation is easy and the logistics are sufficient, why did the giant have to dig a pit back then? The copper cannons are lined up, and the rammed earth city wall can be blasted open in half a day. ”

"In my opinion, after this war, the countries will definitely have to spend a lot of money to build their capitals and border cities, and they have no choice."

The representative of the Ink Artist of the legion, like Six Fingers, had participated in the Battle of Qi Mo that year, and Six Fingers had just mentioned it slightly, and he understood.

After thinking for a while, he asked: "When our Mo family was in Zimozi, it was famous all over the world for defending the city. Do you think that if we are defensive, how can we hold such a siege method? ”

Six Fingers smiled and said: "Zi Mo Ziyan, there are three guards in the upper, middle and lower parts of the city. Defend it, go out of the city to fight in the field, and win the battle. As long as I am invincible in the field, who can force me to defend the city? Trapped in a lonely city, it was supposed to be guarded, so why do it? ”

The representative of the legion smiled: "You are secretly changing your concept, if the giant is here, I have to criticize you." What I asked was the situation of defending the field battle as a last resort, which was different from the 'three defenses' that Zi Mozi said, Zi Mozi talked about strategy, and I asked about tactics. If you don't understand, but you deliberately confuse, it seems that you will definitely not be able to defend. ”

Six Fingers nodded and smiled: "Yes, if I really replace the imperial father Yue Ling with me, I have no other way than to wait for the princes to interfere." If you can't fight in the field, the people's hearts are not obedient, and the morale is not high, how can you fight? ”

With the education and influence he has always received, he has always felt that war is just a helpless choice, and if there is a better way to solve all kinds of contradictions, of course war can not break out.

However, it has been nearly sixty or seventy years since Mozi began to preach non-aggression to help the weak, and the whole idea has been born and developed for nearly sixty or seventy years, and finally came to the conclusion that there is no way to benefit the world by only relying on lip service.

The victory or defeat of the war is often predestined outside the battlefield, the good fighter has no outstanding achievements, and the good strategist has no great name, and the battle of Dangshan is destined not to be a tragic battle, thinking that those things related to victory and defeat have been solved before the war.

At this point, there is no suspense about the outcome of this battle alone.

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In the distance, on the dirt slope where the envoys of the princes and envoys were observing, some people also expressed the same feelings.

An envoy of the Chu State put down the copper-shelled telescope in his hand, shook his head and sighed: "Dangshan will be broken within the month." The emperor's father Yue Ling was defeated. ”

These envoys were not ignorant of soldiers.

Not only did they know the soldiers, but many of them had studied the geometry of nine numbers and many of the knowledge of the Mohists.

At that time, the Mohists and the Yue Kingdom competed for hegemony in Sishang, and the first thing they did after capturing Tengcheng was to proclaim the world, and use the victory of the siege war to announce the victory of reason, nine numbers, geometry, and heavenly will.

At that time, no one paid attention to it, and it may be that except for the top figures of the era like Wu Qi, they did not realize the importance of the article that circulated in the big cities and towns.

However, more than ten years have passed, and the articles that no one cared about at that time have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

The Mohists turned the siege and defense of the city into a nine-digit geometry problem, making siege warfare a kind of calculation problem that was almost boring and had no wit to turn the overall situation around.

This spirit of rationality has gradually been valued by all countries because of the needs of war, because without paying attention to it, it is impossible to survive and defend one's own cities in this world of great strife.

But the spread of this spirit has also made the rules of the old era, which have long been broken and broken, more fragile, and the more people agree with reason, the more people will recognize the whole set of morals and inferences of the Mo family.

This is a dead end, a dead end that no one can solve, unless someone can rely on their own strength to drag the vigorous development of the entire Zhuxia into the point where all the horses are studying and deplorable, and those who can do this by themselves can be called gods.

The dense zigzag ditches, in the eyes of these envoys who knew some Mohist siege and defense methods, as well as nine numbers and geometry, meant that the time when Dangshan City was breached could be calculated.

You only need to calculate the excavation speed of Sishang every day to calculate the approximate time of the city breaking.

The envoy of the Chu State, who sighed, felt that he had seen the future in a month, and this was a battle without suspense.

The envoy of Wei Han next to him also understood that this was not a confession, and asked with some puzzlement: "The method of attacking and defending the city in Sishang has always liked to be made public to the world. In the past, it was suitable for attacking Teng, with great fanfare, and it was noisy in the city. Today's attack on Dangshan is the same, calling us to come and visit. Is there fraud in it? ”

"The city of Sishang is also similar to Dangshan, which is convex and concave, each with its own edges and corners. This kind of siege method can break through Dangshan, but also can break the cities on the city, the suitability of the shackle has always been cunning, what did he do? ”

The envoy of the Chu State who spoke before was a young man, who belonged to the taxi class that benefited from the reform of the Chu State, and his feelings for the Mo family were very complicated, not hatred and not ideal closeness.

Facing the doubts of the envoy of Wei Han, the young envoy of the State of Chu sneered: "Those who defend the city, they have to do it as a last resort. If you can defeat it, why defend the city? ”

"Tens of thousands of righteous divisions in Si, the army is neat, and they think that they uphold the will of heaven to help the world, and the field is so strong that all countries cannot control it. If it can be solved in the field, why do you need to defend the city? ”

"For example, today, regardless of Xiongchu, Wei and Han, the army of 50,000 can defeat 50,000 in a field battle, is there any?"

Although they stood together today to watch the siege of Dangshan, and there were even rumors that various countries might intervene in the Song Kingdom, this did not mean that the hatred of the countries had disappeared.

Chu and Wei Han fought for a hundred years, and there was a grudge against Wu Qi in the first battle to break through the Great Liang, capture many feudal monarchs, and behead the right Yin, so the envoys of the Chu State inevitably ridiculed Wei Han verbally.

In addition to this mapping of contradictions between the princes, there are some contradictions between the two sides.

The envoy of the Chu State was young, he was a descendant of the down-and-out scholar class, and he was considered a low-level nobleman, so he was not qualified to become an envoy.

Wei Han's side are all real aristocratic backgrounds, and unlike the descendants of the down-and-out taxi class, they themselves are a little despised.

This kind of resentment and contradiction is the resentment of the classes that transcend the boundaries of the vassal states, and they have looked down on each other before.

Orthodox aristocrats and noble-borns, who think that those down-and-out scholars are not nobles and have no aristocratic temperament, if it weren't for the "Shangxian" who was tossed by the Mo family in the world, they would have no chance to get ahead at all, how could they have the opportunity to talk to themselves on an equal footing?

Those who fell into the elite class, who started from the end of the tide of the times, think that most of the old nobles are some corpse vegetarian people, if these people are not capable and greedy, why would the world be in chaos?