Two days later, perhaps the heaviest field artillery bombardment since the advent of gunpowder began.

The barracks built by the Wei army soon appeared one after another, and the barracks built of ordinary mud could not resist the bombardment of those bronze cannons.

And ideas such as digging trenches to evade, the Wei army commander was not stupid enough to do that, with the pitiful number of projection weapons of the Wei army's peasant soldiers, there was no difference between digging a camp and a foot soldier raising his hands to surrender.

The bronze cannons deployed on the riverbed exposed during the dry period on the other side of the river were fired at an extremely slow speed.

Time is not rushed, so the artillery will wait until the hot copper cannon has cooled down before reloading, instead of firing as quickly as in the field.

The sappers slowly built the pontoon bridge with the help of all kinds of timber and trees transported by the people in the rear, as well as the ships that were requisitioned to help the water.

The only few bronze cannons of the Wei army on the opposite side could not hit the water at all, and most of them were some melee firearms similar to Huzun cannons, hemp rope cannons, and leather cannons.

The small number of musketeers and archers could not form a formation at all, and once they formed a formation, they would be fiercely attacked by the Mo artillery, so they could only disperse and shoot freely, with no hit rate at all.

The engineer officers are proficient in carpenter technology, and there are many carpenters in it, which can be regarded as the old skill of the Mo family in technology.

After the gradual regularization over the years, the sappers not only dug holes and pits, but also gradually matured in techniques such as building fortifications and building bridges.

In the smoke of gunfire, they were also like those slow artillerymen, repairing the pontoon bridge at a very normal speed.

It's just that the normal speed in their eyes has become a situation like full force in the eyes of Wei Jun.

The Wei army knew that the field battle was invincible, so it wanted to attack it halfway, but according to the current situation, the idea of attacking halfway was very unrealistic.

The pontoon bridge was extended little by little, and Six Fingers also ordered the troops to prepare for the division of troops and separate crossings.

After confirming the information repeatedly, Liuzhi waited until the pontoon bridge was almost repaired, and then ordered the troops to divide and move along the river in a bright light.

The infantry of the two divisions, most of the cavalry, and the field artillery units, after forming a line, marched along Jishui to the east in a marching column.

There is no cover-up, and there is no cover-up.

After the division of troops, the number of Sishang righteous divisions here was enough to crush the Wei army on the other side, and the tactics of attacking the east and the west were so bright and bright that they could be said to have never been done before.

In the Wei military camp, Dr. Cheng Yang, the chief general of the Wei army, held a telescope with a delicate copper shell, looking at the Yishi troops marching on the other side of Jishui, and the corners of his mouth twitched.

After thinking for a while, he ordered: "Send an order to the whole army, prepare to retreat, and withdraw into Chengyang." ”

His subordinate strategists immediately said: "General, our army is not as good as the Mo family in field battles, and the battle of Dangshan proves that the Mo family can easily break the city." Only the half-crossed side is likely to win, so why withdraw the troops? ”

Doctor Chengyang shook his head and said in distress: "If it weren't for the fact that the king would have to punish him without a fight, I would have ordered to surrender." There is no need to fight this battle. ”

"Half-crossing? Why do we attack half-crossing? ”

His son, dressed in military uniform, was in his prime when he heard the words: "Father, retreating without a fight is a shame to make people laugh." If Chengpu was fine back then, but his father was afraid of the enemy like a tiger, this ......"

Before he finished speaking, Dr. Cheng Yang slapped his son in the face and scolded angrily: "What do you know? ”

"Let me ask you, now that the other side has divided the troops, what are you going to do?"

The young man covered his hot face, gritted his teeth and said: "He divides his troops, and he must choose a place that is convenient for crossing the river, so it is better to divide the troops to intercept and deploy defenses along the river." ”

Dr. Cheng Yang laughed and said, "That's what you want?" Look at the speed of the march on the opposite side, not panicked, orderly, even if it is marching under our noses, our army can catch up? ”

"If you can't catch up, why should you attack halfway, and why should you stop the other party?"

"If you don't chase it, when those people cross the river and outflank it, our army will also be defeated."

"Chasing, not to mention whether you can catch up, how can you stop crossing the river directly here?"

"If you are bound to lose, what can you do if you don't retreat?"

The young man said: "But if you retreat into Chengyang, won't you be able to resist it?" Since they can't be resisted, why not fight it here? ”

Doctor Chengyang angrily rebuked: "Stupid! In this decisive battle, the elite of the private soldiers in the family will be lost. In the past, the Mo family was invincible before it was full of 10,000, but now it is 350,000 people, how can it fight? ”

"If you retreat into Chengyang, you can surrender when the city wall is broken. The Mo family does not kill prisoners, but also talks about love, I have no bad deeds over the years, and I listen to their failure to burn the bridge, so naturally nothing happens. ”

The peasant soldiers are the mainstay, and there is no change in the law, and they are still conscripts of feudal obligations, and the military model is inevitably dominated by a small number of elites.

Just like in the previous era of chariot and chariot warfare, the victory or defeat of the war was decided by elite taxis, and the role of the valet was to replenish the number and maintain the battle line.

Now the well field system has been basically destroyed, the land of the big nobles has increased, and the military system that the original patriarchal system has cooperated with has begun to collapse.

Although there were a large number of real out-of-duty soldiers, they could not support the larger and larger wars, and the era of a few dozen chariots participating in the battle could dominate the victory and defeat was over.

The appearance of stirrups increased the combat effectiveness of the cavalry.

At this time, some nobles began to raise soldiers, and during the war, they relied on raising soldiers, slaves, and elite private soldiers as the main force.

These soldiers, private soldiers, and slaves often served as cavalry, becoming the most important card in the hands of the nobles who wanted to win, and they were also the cornerstone of the nobles' power.

Even if the fief is gone, as long as the soldiers, slaves, and private servants are still there, then changing a fief will soon be able to organize an army that can compete for power and profit.

But if these slaves are gone, then the whole family will soon decline.

In a normal doctor's fiefdom, in the event of a war, only twenty chariots and accompanying apprentices need to be provided.

On the basis that the Ida system was not destroyed, the shishi had fiefdoms, and they trained on a full-time basis to fulfill their feudal obligations when necessary.

But now that the scale of the war had expanded, with the advent of iron tools, the development of industry and commerce in Sishang, and the spread of new crops and cultivation techniques, the only remnants of the patriarchal system of the Chengyang generation had been destroyed on an economic basis.

Grain prices are getting cheaper, industry and commerce are becoming more and more developed, and the gentry class is becoming more and more depressed and even bankrupt, making it difficult to maintain their original livelihood.

Even if there were still a few fiefs, with the impact of various handicrafts and the helplessness of low food prices, the little land that was divided was not enough to maintain their complete production.

The great nobles continued to annex the land, the lowest scholars continued to fall, the number of yeoman farmers was not much, and a large number of apprentices were farmers on the fiefdom and bound to the land.

However, Dr. Chengyang knew very well that such a force, with slaves and private soldiers as the main force, was okay to fight a civil war between nobles for land and power, and to start a war with Sishang Yishi, who had yeoman farmers as the main soldiers, would be self-defeating.

Sishang is a standing army with a service system, and regular military training is not comparable to the three-year winter military exercises of peasant soldiers.

In the past, the level of productivity was insufficient, whether it was Qin Chu or Yan Jin, everyone was similar, they were all the same military system, and there was no big difference, but now it is different.

Whoever can change the law first, who can get more farmers to give land, who can raise a standing army, whose agricultural production can support the logistics of the standing army, whose political system will first transition from a feudal patriarchal system to a centralized bureaucracy...... Whoever wins.

Sishang was one step ahead because Sishang was a violent bottom-up change, with a literate population and a reserve army of officials who had nothing to do with the aristocracy under the new system. The more powerful the nobles of the rest of the countries are, the more difficult it is to change the law, because that is the fate of the nobles.

Dr. Cheng Yang didn't know these things at the strategic level of a country, but he knew very clearly where his interests were, and he knew that he couldn't win this battle.

Surrendering directly and waiting for the walls to be broken is the most advantageous option for him.

The Mo family doesn't like to kill people, and he is very obedient and did not burn bridges, so he is not a war criminal.

Surrender directly without a fight, and it will be difficult to explain to the monarch in the future.

In the field, it is likely that the loss of one's own private servants from the slave elite is too great.

It is better to retreat to Chengyang, and then it will not be because you don't defend it, but because the city wall is broken, you can't hold it, and the monarch won't punish him if he wants to.

No one can win this battle.

Doctor Chengyang thought to himself, even if Wu Qi didn't go far to Western Qin, with this little force, don't think about winning.

After all, when Wu Qi was in Lu State, the gap in military strength between Qilu and Qilu was not as big as the gap between Chengyang and Sishang now, and he was still beaten to a draw by Shengqiu, and now?

He didn't worry about anything else now, he was worried that the Mo family would not leave here, and it would be very bad to divide his land and send him back to Wei.

He also raised a lot of taxis, but he knew too well what the virtues of these down-and-out scholars were. When there is a fief, money and power, it will naturally be posted to make a living; When there is no money and no power, these scholars will leave, and not many people will feel embarrassed, at most there are only a few taxis left with "loyalty" in their hearts.

When the fiefdom is gone, it will be all over.

If the Mo family occupies Chengyang and doesn't leave, even if he is put back, where will the monarch go to find him a fief?

After the restoration of Zhongshan, some Wei nobles held empty titles, but they did not have actual fiefs, and the son of Zhongshan Jun of Wei still has the title of Zhongshan Jun, but he doesn't even have a fief?

Now that all countries are centralizing power, where will there be extra fiefs for him?

However, Doctor Chengyang thought of the Mo family's withdrawal from southwest Qi back then, and comforted himself in his heart: "The Mo family is just known as punishing the unjust war of the king, and it will be like the alignment of the year, and the army will be withdrawn after punishment." ”

But after thinking about it, the Mo family did withdraw its troops in southwest Qi, but in a short period of time, they made a land reform such as Qingtianwei in southwest Qi.

Thinking of this, I felt a chill in my heart, if I did that, I still had no way out.

If he fights, he will lose, and if he doesn't fight, he will be punished by the monarch and take over the land under the pretext of being punished, and the Mo family may divide the land if the city is broken and surrendered, which really drove him to a dead end.

For the nobles of various countries, not only the nobles of Zheng Guo feel that "the enemy is within the Xiao Wall", but most of the nobles also feel that "the enemy is within the Xiao Wall", and the centralization of royal power and the equality of the Mo family are all swords hanging over their heads, and it is not necessarily better which one is better.