Chapter 395: The administration and administration seek a thousand miles (8)
More than ten days later, the vast envoys and teams heading north and west set out from Peidi. Many people had just learned to ride horses and walked very slowly.
But Zhuxia is very big, and he always learned it from Pei to Qin.
Solu Chan wanted to lead the team to Wei State first, and enter Qin through the Xihe River. Before entering Qin, he would go to meet Shengchuo as a private friend.
When traveling west, the Mo family hoped that Mr. Qin could even send people to participate, even if it was just a few people who were symbolic. At the same time, they also had to find Yang Zhu and Lie Yuko in Wei and let their disciples participate. After all, it was time to verify it with reality after fighting for so long.
The envoys were not all the same, and bypassed the weak and unrestrained countries such as Wei, Lu, and had no sense of existence at all. They wanted to go to the Three Jins and Qi and Chu.
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On the north of Daliang City, on the north bank of the Pu River, 50,000 Jin troops have been confronting Chu across the river for a year.
This is a manifestation of national strength. For example, the Mohist charity commander has recruited more than 20,000 people with all efforts, and under logistical pressure, he only dares to fight in the inside, and it can only last for a few months.
But as the world's largest power at this time, the 50,000 Wei troops stationed here for another two or three years, the Wei State still took on the responsibility.
As Qin Junxin died, the relationship between Wei and Qin was temporarily eased, and the prince failed to succeed in the battle against Niu Lanyi, and other matters, Weis finally decided to take advantage of his chance to be alive and use Wu Qi as the commander of the battle against Chu.
We strive to resolve the problem of Chu before Weis's death, so that the Chu prince would split Chu with his inheritance rights and support from Chu.
In the army camp, Wei soldiers were practicing, or using wrestling to play Cuju. The army camped in an orderly manner and strict military laws. This was the result of Wu Qi being the general in the past year.
In the head coach's tent, Wu Qi, who was over 50 years old, no longer looked like he killed more than 30 people in the market when he was young and frivolous. He had white hair like vines outside the window and quietly climbed to his temples.
He knelt down next to the desk. Because of the emergence of the grass and silk in Pei County, the necessary bamboo slips on the desk more than ten years ago were gone, but there were only a few more books.
On the left side of the table table, there is a thick stack of paper, all of which are top-quality.
Next to the paper, there was a copper compass that had just appeared, from Peixian, which had just appeared; a copper ruler; and a wooden protractor.
Next to these tools is a book that is often read, and has some black finger marks.
At this time, Wu Qi was looking at the pictures on the table with relish.
One is Niu Lanyi's defensive picture, which is from the content of the book that introduces the relationship between rational thinking, geometry and city defense. It was copied and enlarged by the sorcerer in the military and placed here.
The next one is a very "interesting" picture, which is the city wall picture of Daliang City.
After the Battle of Shangqiu a few years ago, the late King of Chu Sheng only said that he was "willing" to stop the war in order to benefit the world, and hired the Mohist family to use brick-burning and brick-burning techniques to build and repair the two cities of Daliang and Yuguan.
Although Yu Pass was once sneak attacked by Zheng State, and although the current King of Chu saw hope and betrayed the alliance to stop the war because the three Jin monarchs died, the people sent by the Mohist family in the construction of the two cities have not stopped.
Now that the renovation has been completed, the Mohist family has drawn out the pictures of the city and spread it to the public.
It seems that it is just to illustrate the difference between the old city wall and the new defensive fortress, but it is a bit too fine.
According to the comparison with the fortress defense like Niu Lanyi, one by one, we use calculation methods to propose where there are loopholes in the old Daliang City, which is suitable for attacks, where there are shortcomings, and where it is convenient to deploy troops.
These things were written too clearly, but Daliang City has been repaired, and this picture is said to be only circulating in Pei County, but I don’t know why I ran into Wu Qi’s hand.
In recent years, as the Mohist family has done too much to attack and defend the city, Wu Qi has also begun to learn the Mohist characters, and even began to learn geometry with some sorcerers who have studied in Pei County.
A few years ago, I bought a few cannons from Pei County. This time, except for leaving a few in Xihe, the rest were also pulled here. Xihe has begun to form some stirrup cavalry.
Originally, there were cavalry without stirrups in Xihe. According to the Six Strategies, it was called a martial knight. This knight was not the other knight. From the perspective of the feudal system, the other knight was more like a small fiefdom at this time, and at this time it was mainly chariot warfare.
The original text said: King Wu asked Taigong, "What can I do if I choose a knight?" Taigong said: "The method of choosing a knight is to take the age of 40, over 7 feet and five inches long, strong and fast, and superbly capable of riding and shooting, circling forward and backward, moving forward and backward, crossing ditches, climbing hills, taking risks, storming, storming, strong enemies, and disrupting the masses, is called Wuqi, and must be thick."
Wei and Yue were different, and Yue were not suitable for cavalry because there were fewer horses in the country, so they were mostly infantry. Wu Qi was in Xihe and attached importance to war horses, so he had early configurations of martial knights, but they were all without stirrups.
The emergence of stirrups has directly increased the force of Xihe. The knights who were able to ride stirrupless horses to "cross the ditch, climb hills, take risks and block the vast siege, rush to strong enemies, and disrupt the masses" can free their hands and perform better.
This time, there were also five hundred martial knights in the attack on the Chu camp.
Originally, Wu Qi had confidence in defeating the Chu people, but now he was more confident, but he was still exploring the tactical mastery of stirrup cavalry and a small number of copper cannons. Because the previous military strategy did not have these contents, he could only rely on himself to think about it or rely on the news from the Mo family.
At this time, I was just looking at it, so I took the bronze compass, dipped one end with ink, and a ruler as a line, and drew the range of infantry that could be expanded by the attack point chosen by Daliang City.
The straight ruler ink line was about to come out. Wu Qi couldn't help but think that when he first came into contact with the book "Simplified Nine Numbers Geometry" a year ago, he was quite puzzled by the sentence "The line segment has no width but only length". He thought that even if it was very thin, if it was measured with a thinner ruler, how could it have no width?
Even though this question was a question, he thought for two months, and finally figured out the joints and smiled at the sky. He was extremely smart and learned from one example and understood many things that seemed extremely "unreasonable".
While planning, suddenly, someone's footsteps and notification sounds came from outside the big tent. It was his confidant, who was in a hurry and seemed to have an urgent matter.
Although it was quiet just now, it was suddenly a little confused, but the ruler in Wu Qi's hand did not move, which was the wind of a general.
Hearing his confidant's rush, he put down the ruler in his hand and asked, "But the Mo family and Yue Kingdom have a winner?"
A few months ago, news came that when King Yi of Yue was about to retake Teng, the Mo family and the Yue Kingdom would have a battle. Now, I think about this news.
The confidant couldn't help but feel surprised on his face and shouted: "The Mo family's righteous army was on the banks of the river and wiped out nearly 50,000 Yue troops, and only two thousand of them died. Yue Wang Yi was captured! The Yue Junzi Army was completely destroyed!"
Even though he was as calm as Wu Qi, he immediately stood up when he heard the news, and asked in a move: "Be serious about this?"
The confidant nodded and said, "The Mo family envoy went north and the news came."
No matter how many there are, there is no need to say. The Mo family never lies. When Wu Qi was young, he recognized the characters of the Mo family. If he said that they were personally told by the Mo family envoy, he would definitely not be wrong.
But the news was too shocking. The Yue people's Gentleman Army was also considered the top of infantry, and it was all right. It was only by relying on those thousands of Gentleman Army that the Yue Kingdom could stand firm in the hegemony.
But the Gentleman Army was completely destroyed?
The 50,000 Vietnamese troops were wiped out, and only two thousand of the righteous troops died?
Almost instantly, Wu Qi guessed a rough idea.
It wasn't that an ambush was fought in the valley like the Battle of Go, and the Yue people won while they did not start.
It was the Yue people's wings were wrapped by the Mo family's stirrup cavalry, otherwise how could they be completely wiped out?
Although I thought about it, I was still shocked. The Mo family has been too active in recent years. The Battle of Shangqiu said to the outside world that it was an alliance with the King of Chu, but in fact everyone knew that it was a surprise attack on the King of Chu camp and captured the King of Chu.
Now he has captured King Yi of Yue, and there is not a single 50,000 troops left in Yue Kingdom, which is a bit terrifying.
Previously, there were news from spies from Pei County that the charity lords combined were only 30,000, and they might not be there.
Shocked, Wu Qi asked anxiously: "Who is the head coach? Is it suitable for you? Or is it a public smuggling?"
The close confidant said: "It is the right fit for the corpse."
The name of the charity is the name of the charity of these people. The charity is also used to make shoes. At this time, the titles are mostly in this way. Because the names may be repeated, the occupation, identity or surname will be added in front to distinguish them.
After the confidant said that, he took out a few more pieces of paper from his arms and said, "The Mo family has drawn a picture of this battle..."
Wu Qi was overjoyed and said repeatedly: "Come on it quickly, why don't you say it earlier?"
The confidant frowned and said, "I'm afraid I don't know the truth or falsehood. The method of military formation is a secret that is not passed on. If the Mohist school writes it like this, aren't you afraid that the world will learn it?"
Wu Qi laughed and said, "Da Miu! Since Yan Huang fought against Chiyou in Zhuolu for two thousand years, there have been only ten formations, only twelve techniques for siege, and only chariots, horses, cavalry, bows... The mistakes made on the battlefield have been made in two thousand years. Could it be that no one has made any mistakes again?"
"Military arts are dead, people live. Everyone learns the same military arts, and they all have the same chariots and infantry. Why are there wins and losses? The battlefield is broken when the opportunity is right, how can the military arts be taught?"
The confidant was convinced and sent the picture to him.
Wu Qi unfolded it, and when he saw this picture, it was written by the Mohist school. It marked the north and south and the "scale bar". The rivers, waters and hills were all described. The front lines were drawn by the ruler. Each picture also wrote about the approximate time.
The cannons are like crosses, displayed on the picture. Infantry is like a ruler, while cavalry is replaced by triangles, while the Yue chariots and soldiers are replaced by circles.
There were eight pictures in total, and Wu Qi quickly read them to the end. It was almost the same as he expected, and it was a standard battle of flanking and annihilation.
After reading it, he did not think immediately, but quickly took the ruler and read the fifth and sixth picture of the key battle, which is the two pictures that the right wing of the Yishi Division started to maneuver on the battlefield. He looked at the time above and measured the distance of the mobile march on the battlefield with the ruler, and shook his head a little incredible.
Chapter completed!