Tigers and sheep can never be equal, and the premise of equality is that sheep can kill tigers.

Under the feudal system, the nobles above the rank of scholar relied on the off-duty production of the fiefdom, and they could eat meat and train at the same time, which was the basis for the difference between respect and inferiority.

And now, everything is different.

Before the autumn wind arrived, the imperial father Yue Ling, who was on the front line of anti-ink, was the first to notice this change, but he was powerless.

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At the small gate of the camp on the west side of Dangshan City, thousands of old and weak people are queuing up to enter, and people from the Xuanyi Department are propagandizing there.

Just as the imperial father Yue Ling thought, if the imperial father Yue Ling did not release these people today and let them leave Dangshan, the Mo family would still fight, but at that time, the propaganda caliber of the Xuanyi Department would be different from today.

Many people wanted to kneel down with gratitude, but they were stopped by the people of the Xuanyi Ministry, who said that some of them did not clean up those who harmed the world in time.

After pacifying the people, they were placed two miles behind the barracks.

Dangshan is close to Pengcheng and does not have any logistical pressure, which is also the basis for this siege to use the concept of "humanitarianism" to evacuate the old and weak in the city.

The siege of Dangshan could not be a long-term siege, but a tragic siege, and there was no difference between these people in the city and outside the city.

But for the morality of the whole world, the thousands of people who have been evacuated are of great significance, as long as they are well publicized, the people of the world will always think that the lives of the people are also their lives, which is a kind of subtle propaganda.

This kind of propaganda is meaningless for the siege of Dangshan, but it is meaningful for the world.

After all, the army is only an army, and it needs to be subordinated to the needs of politics, and their opinions are not enough to dominate the strategy of the decision-making level in Sishang.

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In the command post in front of the enemy, all kinds of opportunities for the staff officers have been presented to Six Fingers and his comrades.

In the face of these opinions, the commander of the artillery made a different proposal.

"The terrain and city defense of Dangshan are not suitable for cave attack. The biggest disadvantage of Dangshan Castle is that the corners of the perimeter are all brick and stone structures, which is where we can take advantage of it. ”

"If the outer layer is covered with soil, the iron bullet will probably sink deep into the soil, but it will not kill."

"But if it is masonry, concentrate gunpowder, storm a corner, and adjust the elevation angle of the shot, you can let the iron bullets fly around on the stones, and inflict heavy damage on the enemy."

"Now that Dangshan has been surrounded, there are swamps in the north and south, and the most suitable direction for our attack is to the east. If there is no fanfare, it is to storm the east side, so that the soldiers of the city are concentrated on the east wall. ”

"If we make a big fanfare, they won't dare to send more people."

"If you send more people, the crowd will be dense, and you can jump up when the iron bullet hits the masonry wall, which is extremely lethal."

"Approach with zigzag trenches and tunnels, cut down the enemy troops on the wall with artillery, and then attack with the first camp after approaching, as long as one corner is broken, the mountain will be broken."

This plan coincides with what Six Fingers thought, Six Fingers looked at the plan of attacking the hole, the success rate is really not high, and once it fails, it will be a great blow to the morale of the army.

The surrounding trenches and canals, as well as the extended outer layer of defences, made the plan to dig the crypt to the foundation twice as successful.

He also took into account the artillery advantage of the righteous division, how to give full play to this advantage, and make use of his strengths and avoid weaknesses, which is the problem that the coach of one side has to consider.

Looking at the artillery commander's draft plan, Six Fingers nodded in agreement.

The overall idea of the siege method has never changed, that is, it relies on a zigzag civil engineering trench, which is close to the city wall.

Take advantage of the artillery, storm a little, stealthily attack, and take a convex corner in one fell swoop, then the defense line of the entire city will collapse.

Because this is Dangshan Castle, not Dangshan Fortress, and there is no double fortress built in the city, the corners are the biggest weakness.

The zigzag trench tactics have been vividly played in the previous siege battles, and it is impossible for the city to be defenseless.

But the rogue thing about this tactic is that as long as the besieging side has superior artillery and skilled engineers, even if the city knows the tactics outside, there is nothing to be done.

It is said to be a zigzag trench tactic, but in fact it can also be called a parallel trench tactic.

The shortest distance from the city wall must be perpendicular to the city wall.

However, such a perpendicular line would be shrouded in artillery on the defending side, and would inflict great losses on the besieging side.

The advantage of the zigzag trench is that it uses a trench with an acute angle parallel to the city wall, and the sine of this trench slowly approaches the city wall.

The artillery on the city was no threat to the soldiers moving in the trenches, because they were at an acute angle to the city walls, and the artillery on the walls seemed to them to be a line parallel to the walls, and the brass cannons could not strike the people in the trenches.

But because of the existence of zigzag-shaped acute angles, in fact the whole trench is constantly approaching the city wall, and once it is within thirty or fifty paces of the city wall, it can send the first battalion to attack, so that the most dangerous distance from the city wall is two hundred to fifty paces away.

The first camp is the name of the princes of various countries and Sishang, and it is also called a grenadier, or in the past in the Mojia system, it is called the person who prepares the city gate, in fact, it is almost the same.

Armed with muskets and iron mines, some of them did not even deserve muskets and only short swords and iron mines, and they were the most elite of the infantry, most of them were selected strong men.

As long as they can get close to the walls, one or two onslaughts can take the city.

To deal with this "obscene and rogue" siege method, it is actually very simple: send field troops out of the city and destroy the trenches that have been painstakingly dug; Either the artillery has the upper hand and destroys the artillery of the besieging forces.

It's easy to do, but it's hard to do.

If the field battle can be won, why rely on defending the city?

Therefore, under the siege system of this era, this tactic can be regarded as an invincible attack, and after "scientific" calculations, as long as the number of foot soldiers is five times that of the defender and the artillery is twice that of the defender, it can be guaranteed to be able to capture a corner fortress of the gunpowder age within a month.

The situation in the world has developed to this point, and the competition is no longer about the bravery of the warriors on both sides, but about the level of governance of the two sides.

Who can afford to make more copper cannons.

Who can afford to mobilize more troops without collapsing in the country.

Who has the most literate population.

Who's better at math nine numbers geometry.

Who's more capable of mobilizing.

Who can afford to build more such fortresses.

Basically, whoever is on the winning side.

For any country in the world, Sishang has an advantage in these comparisons, and what he fears is only to use the power of one state against the other eight states.

Six Fingers is very aware of the advantages of Sishang's side, and he also understands what Sishang's side is afraid of, so he agrees with and believes that he can complete the above request to capture Dangshan within a month.

The opinion of the artillery commander was approved by several votes, and soon a plan based on this tactical concept was drawn up by the people of the General Staff.

The direction of the main attack is the east side of Dangshan, with the two convex angles of the east gate as the main direction of attack, and the siege method of cave attack and ant attachment is abandoned.

Aiming at the two convex corners, two zigzag-shaped trenches were dug at the same time, and the width of the trenches was about six meters.

Every fifty steps, dig a trench parallel to the city wall to prevent the soldiers in the city from going out of the city to counterattack, and also to make the soldiers of the besieging side hide in the trenches and can counterattack at any time.

All the artillery was used intensively, and the initial task was to prepare for a counterattack from the city and block the open space between the east gate and the moat.

When the zigzag trench approached 300 paces of the city wall, the sappers began to dig artillery positions near the trenches, and used the night to deploy artillery in the trench positions close to the city walls 2 or 300 paces.

As soon as the morning dawned, the angle was immediately adjusted and the head of the city was shelled.

Using the slope of the masonry structure of Dangshan, a large number of iron bullets were shot at an angle close to parallel to the ground, causing the iron bullets to jump on the slope of the masonry structure, not for the purpose of blasting open the city wall, but for the purpose of killing and injuring the soldiers defending the city and destroying the equipment of the city defense, covering the excavation under the city.

Normally, digging from 400 paces is the farthest distance that a blind cat at the head of the city can inflict damage on the besieger.

Start digging at 400 paces, every 50 to 80 steps, dig a parallel trench for garrisoning troops and as a transit station, a total of about three parallel trenches need to be dug to approach the city wall.

In the direction closest to the city wall, using the cover of artillery, the firing openings were dug so that the attack of two companies of the first battalion could be launched at once, which was considered a complete success.

Because the copper cannons at this time fired solid iron bullets, the biggest threat to the artillery was the longitudinal shooting, and if it was a direct attack, the longitudinal shelling threat was extremely great.

The zigzag excavation made the artillery of the defending side equal to obolition, because it was impossible for the iron bullets to roll in the trenches almost parallel to the city walls, and thus it was impossible to kill and wound the soldiers of the besieging side.

Neither the archers, crossbowmen, nor musketeers at the head of the city could inflict damage on the people moving along the zigzag trench, and as long as the height of the head of the city was calculated, the width and depth of the ditch, and the angle to the head of the city, they could approach without damage.

The most important thing in this tactic is not to be arrogant, not to be impatient, not to be impatient, and to achieve the greatest results with the speed that seems to be the slowest.

As long as the artillery has the upper hand, as long as the zigzag trench is close to two hundred steps before the convex corner of the wall, as long as it can defend against the counterattack in the city, then the distance is only one step.

The last dozens of steps and more than 100 steps, whether to concentrate the copper cannon to open the gap, or send people to dig a pit and bury it with thousands of catties of gunpowder to blow up the city wall, the meaning is almost the same.

The order given above is for a month, and with the speed and ability of the countries to mobilize at this time, it is impossible for reinforcements to appear within a month.

One month later is the end of the important autumn harvest and the soy-growing period in the Central Plains, and it is also the deadline for whether or not to send troops or intervene.

If the situation in the Song State is stable, it will not make much sense to send troops again.

Sending troops, the siege of Dangshan will also make countries think twice.

However, Six Fingers didn't think much of the one-month deadline given above, and he calculated a little, in fact, fifteen days was enough time to conquer Dangshan.