Sometimes, war is boring like Duizi in chess. Yingyi and Pingyang are both cities and cities, and they are cities that must be rescued and attacked by both sides.

If you defeat Pingyang before you defeat the front, then the Mo family will win. If you defeat Pingyang before you defeat the front, then the Qi army will win.

This is a simple truth, but it cannot be changed.

Under Pingyang City, more than 30,000 troops led by Shi have been concentrated outside the city.

Sun Wuzi said: Therefore, when using troops, the method of using ten is to surround it, the attack it is five is to attack it, the division is divided, the enemy can fight it, the enemy can escape it, and the worse is, the better is to avoid it.

The city of Pingyang can piece together about 20,000 troops to defend the city, which is only twice as powerful as the army, but chooses to attack.

Taking Pingyang within five days was decided by the military conference before the war, and it also concerns the situation.

Although Yingyi is strictly guarding, the longer the time delays, the greater the possibility of a mistake. The faster the attack on Pingyang, the earlier the Linzi Legion will be destroyed.

Although the war between the princes gave the Mo family enough time to delay, if they defeated the Linzi Legion, they could still stay here and wait for the grassroots level to stabilize before leaving.

I didn't care much about Pingyang City. Now the morale of the Qi army is in chaos. Pingyang City is another very old city. It was once on the border of Qilu and had been through war for a long time, but its geographical location is no longer on the border of Qilu. Although it has been emergency repairs for several months, it is just that.

As soon as gunpowder came out, the city-building techniques and defense systems in the Spring and Autumn Period were outdated.

Although the rammed earth wall is tall, the rammed earth wall is straight up and down, with only a slight tilt and cannot resist artillery attacks.

Without external defense, a lonely city allows the army to quickly occupy all the territory outside the city.

On the wooden watchtower, he looked at the situation in the city with a crystal-milled thousand-mile mirror. The officers, staff officers and commanders were waiting left and right.

More than ten years ago, he spread the siege technique all over the world because the siege technique seemed simple, but actually required many prerequisites. He was not afraid at all, but rather used it to declare the victory of rationality in the world.

Now facing the city walls that have not been prepared for the gunpowder era are full of confidence.

The staff officers had measured the soil under the city in advance, which was very suitable for excavation of yellow sand. Although it rained, it only moistened the surface.

Pingyang is not the main city of the princes. According to the etiquette system, it is impossible to build too high city walls, and it cannot play the ritual edge like the cities such as Shangqiu and Yingdu. In addition, there is no need to build such a wide city wall, and the thickness of the city wall is only three meters.

The city wall uses the method of building two-panel walls. The panel is sandwiched on both sides and filled with soil and tamped inside. This kind of city wall has great disadvantages. Once one place is blown away, both sides will collapse from the beginning of the blowout position.

The city wall at the city gate is thicker, and the city gate also uses huge wooden doors.

He pointed to the trench under the city wall: "Whenever attacking the city, no matter what method is used, you cannot just use infantry or artillery. When artillery bombardment, infantry cannot wait; the same goes for the other way around."

"Let the two brigades of the Fourth Division prepare soil and cut down firewood and trees. When the shelling begins to suppress, the soldiers fill the trenches first."

"I looked at it and there were only three or four cannons in the city, which saved a lot of trouble. If you dig a trench close to the parallel font, you don't have to be too deep, and the inclination angle can be larger, and you don't have to be too sharp."

The staff officers wrote down and turned around and said, "The staff members, calculate the distance between the city wall and the trench, calculate the angle between the height and distance of the city wall, and calculate the depth and width of the excavation."

"It is up to the fact that the city cannot attack into the trench, just dig two more feet down."

In my previous observation, I have selected a little location to break the city and said in a convenient way: "When you open an assault entrance there, you need to prepare how many parallel trenches to prepare soldiers, this is your business. You decide and calculate it correctly, this is what you are going to do."

These young staff officers are all from professional schools. They have learned the tactics of the Mohist school, nine numbers, geometry, etc. in recent years. They do not understand the significance of the staff officers very well, and they also hope that they can continue to learn in war.

These young people were inevitably a little nervous, and one of them smiled embarrassedly and said, "Didn't you say that you are talking about war on paper? This is related to the lives of thousands of people..."

Shi laughed and said, "What's so scary about this? Nine numbers and geometry won't cheat people. If you dig the right angle, you can't hit the city. As long as you calculate it correctly, you'll be fine."

"I've already said it briefly. Could it be that each division, brigade and company will fight, dig pits, bury gunpowder, and arrange artillery, all of them need to be done by one person? Each has its own division of labor, just do it, just do it right."

The sentence "Nine numbers and geometry" will not deceive people, which allowed these young staff officers to overcome the previous panic. This simple truth, like nonsense, is the "victory of rationality" promoted after the siege of the Hanshui battle more than ten years ago.

When the staff officers went to prepare for the homework on the map, the chief officers of several divisions surrounded him. This time the first division fought the main attack, and the rest of the divisions cooperated.

In the meantime, there was no use of means such as three circumferences and one circumference, and only a few troops were arranged on the other three sides.

"Pingyang is not Lucheng. If Lucheng is broken, the soldiers and nobles in Lucheng may flee to Linzi and gather their military strength, so they must encircle and annihilate them."

"We don't need to have a full siege on Pingyang, but we are strategically surrounded by all sides. Even if the nobles flee, they will at most flee to Dongmu and Yingyi. The soldiers are not interested in fighting. As long as the city is broken, they will not resist much."

"The matters arranged by each department have also been discussed. The strategies and tactics have been decided. How to break the city as fast as possible is your business."

"It's apart, go and prepare."

The chief officials saluted and left. As the most elite first division of the Mo family, they were responsible for the task of breaking the city this time. All they had to do was to take charge of the main attack direction and were full of trust in their teammates and friendly forces. They did not need to consider the flanks, but only how to capture the city as quickly as possible.

After the division commander and the division representative returned, they first assigned tasks to the brigade commanders of each brigade. The brigade commanders of each brigade then discussed the tasks at the brigade meeting and subdivided them into various companies.

Each company is assigned to the smallest combat unit, Sima of twenty-five people.

Although there are military units like Sima Chang and even sergeant ten chiefs, the smallest tactical unit that really fights is the brigade, and it is difficult to command further down.

At this time, the formation must be formed and the formation is used. It is not that they do not know that the formation is sometimes bulky, but because only by relying on the formation can the soldiers be kept in chaos and being able to assign combat tasks to a company level is considered a strong army in the world.

This was decided by the Mohist school's special military system, with responsibility and distribution at all levels.

After the company commander finished speaking, he stroked his iron sword, and a line of words were engraved on the hilt of the sword.
Chapter completed!