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

Under the feudal system, nobles above the sage relied on the full production of their fiefdoms and could be trained through full production while eating meat. This is the basis for the different levels of rank and inferiority.

And now, everything is different.

Before the autumn wind came, the emperor's father Yue Ling, who was on the front line of anti-Mo, was the first to realize 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 elderly and weak are queuing up to enter, and the people from the Xuanyi tribe are promoting it there.

As the emperor's father Yue Ling thought, if the emperor's father Yue Ling did not release these people and let them leave Dangshan today, the Mo family would still fight, but the propaganda guise of Xuanyi's tribe would be different from today.

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

After appeased the people, the old and weak were arranged to a place two miles away from the camp.

Dangshan is close to Pengcheng and there is no logistical pressure. This is also the basis for the siege to withdraw the elderly and weak in the city using the concept of "humanitarianism".

The siege of Dangshan cannot be a long siege, but a tragic attack. There is no difference between these people in the city and outside the city.

But to the morality of the whole world, the thousands of people withdrawn are of great significance. As long as they are well promoted, the people in the world will always think that the lives of the people are also fate, which is a kind of subtle propaganda.

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

The army is just an army after all, and needs to obey political needs. Their opinions are not enough to dominate the strategy of the decision-making level in Sishang.

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In the enemy's front command post, various opportunities for the staff members have been presented to Liuzhi and his comrades.

The artillery commander faced these opinions but put forward different suggestions.

"The terrain and city defense of Dangshan are not suitable for cave attacks. The biggest disadvantage of Dangshan City is that the corners of the outer periphery are all brick and stone structures, which is where we can use them."

"If the outer layer is covered with soil and the iron bomb is hit, it is likely to be deeply trapped in the soil, but there is no killing."

"But if it is bricks and stones, concentrate gunpowder, attack a corner hard, and adjust the elevation angle of the shooting, the iron bullets can hit the stone and fly around, causing significant damage to the enemy."

"Now Dangshan has been surrounded, with swamps from north to south. The most suitable direction for our attack is the east. It is better to make a big splash, and to attack the east side, so that the soldiers in the city can concentrate on the east wall."

"We have a big fanfare, so they dare not send more people."

"If there are more people, the crowd will be dense. If the iron bullet hits the brick and stone wall, it will jump up, which will cause great damage."

"Attached the zigzag trenches, artillery soldiers cut down the enemy troops on the wall, and then approached the camp and attacked fiercely. As long as you break a corner, Dangshan will be destroyed."

This plan coincides with what Liuzhi thought. Liuzhi looked at the acupoint attack plan and found that the success rate was really not high, and if it failed, it would have a huge blow to the morale of the army.

The surrounding trenches and canals, as well as the extended outer defense, all made the plan to dig the crypt to the foundation half the result with twice the effort.

He also considered the artillery advantages of the Yi Division. How to use this advantage and play to its strengths and avoid its weaknesses is the issue that the commander of one side needs to consider.

After looking at the draft plan of the artillery commander, he nodded six fingers to show his approval.

The overall idea of ​​the Si Shang City Siege has never changed, it is to rely on the zigzag civil and engineering trenches, which are close to the city wall.

Take advantage of the artillery, attack hard, attack hiddenly, and take a corner in one fell swoop, and then the defense line of the entire city will collapse.

Because this is Dangshan City, not Dangshan Fortress, there is no secondary fortress built in the city, so the edges and corners are the biggest weakness.

The zigzag trench tactics were fully demonstrated in the previous siege battles, and it was impossible for the city to be without precautions.

But the rogue thing about this tactic is that as long as the artillery on the siege is superior and there are skilled engineers, even if the city knows the tactics outside, there is no way to do anything.

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

Taking the city wall as the point, the shortest distance must be the perpendicular line perpendicular to the city wall.

However, this vertical line will be shrouded by the artillery guarding the city and will cause great losses to the siege.

The advantage of a zigzag trench is to use a trench with an acute angle parallel to the city wall, and slowly approach the city wall with the sine of the trench.

The artillery on the city did not threaten the soldiers moving in the trench because they were at sharp angles to the city wall. To the artillery on the city wall, it looked like a line parallel to the city wall, and the copper cannon could not attack people in the trench.

However, because of the existence of acute zigzag angles, the entire trench is actually constantly approaching the city wall. Once it approaches within thirty or fifty steps of the city wall, it can be sent to attack first, making the most dangerous distance between 200 and 50 steps of the city wall a false sense.

The first to climb the camp is called by the princes of various countries and the Si Shang, some called grenadiers, or in the past, they were called the city gates in the Mohist system, but they were actually similar.

They were equipped with muskets and iron thunder. Some people were not even qualified to have muskets and only daggers and iron thunder. They were the most elite troops among infantrymen, and most of them were selected strong men.

As long as they can approach the city wall, they can reach the city with one or two fierce attacks.

To deal with this "despicable and rogue" siege, it is actually very simple: send field troops out of the city and destroy the trenches that have been dug through hard; or the artillery will have the advantage and destroy the artillery of the siege troops.

But the method is simple, but it is difficult to do.

If you can win the field battle, why do you have to rely on defending the city?

Therefore, under the siege system of this era, the opportunity can be considered as invincible. Moreover, after "scientific" calculations, as long as the number of infantry is five times that of the defending city and twice that of the defending city, it can ensure that a angular fortress in the Gunpowder Age can be captured within one month.

When the situation in the world has developed to this point, it is no longer the courage of the warriors on both sides, but the level of governance of both sides.

Who can have the money to build more bronze cannons?

Who can have the ability to mobilize more troops while ensuring that the country does not collapse?

Who has a large literacy population?

Whose math is better than nine geometry?

Who has stronger mobilization ability?

Who can have the money to build more of such fortresses?

Basically, whoever stands on the winning side.

For any country in the world, Si Shang has the advantage in these comparisons, and what he is afraid of is to use the power of one state to fight against the other eight states.

Liuzhi knew the advantages of Si Shang and knew very well what Si Shang was afraid of. Therefore, he agreed with the above request to capture Dangshan within one month and was convinced that he could complete it.

After several votes, the artillery commander's opinion was recognized, and soon the plan based on this tactical concept was formulated by the staff.

The main attack direction is the east side of Dangshan, with the two convex angles of the east gate as the main attack direction, and abandon the attack method of acupuncture and ant support.

With two lobe angles as the target, two zigzag trenches are dug at the same time to approach, with the width of the trenches being about six meters.

Every fifty steps, a trench trench parallel to the city wall is dug to prevent the soldiers in the city from leaving the city to fight back, and can also make the soldiers on the siege hide in the trench trench and fight back at any time.

All artillery soldiers were used in a concentrated manner, and the initial task was to prevent the city from attacking from the city and block the open space between the city gate on the east side and the trenches.

When the zigzag trench approached three hundred steps to the city wall, the engineers began to dig artillery positions near the trench and used the night to deploy artillery positions in trench positions close to the city wall.

As soon as the sky dawns, adjust the angle immediately and shoot the city.

Using the slope of the brick and stone structure of Dangshan, a large number of iron bombs were shot out at an angle close to the parallel ground, causing the iron bombs to jump on the slope of the brick and stone structure. They did not aim to open the city wall, but to kill the soldiers guarding the city and destroy the equipment to protect the excavation under the city.

Normally, starting from four hundred steps to dig, it is the longest distance that a blind artillery cat on the cityside can cause losses to the siege when it encounters a dead mouse.

Start digging at four hundred steps, and every fifty to eighty steps, a parallel trench is dug for garrison and serve as a transit station. A total of three parallel trenches need to be dug to get close to the city wall.

In the direction closest to the city wall, using artillery cover to dig out the attack port, so that two first-camped battalion companies can be attacked at one time, even if the task is completed.

Because the copper cannons at this time fired solid iron bombs, the biggest threat to artillery lies in longitudinal shooting. If you attack directly, the threat of longitudinal shelling is extremely great.

Zigzag digging makes the artillery guarding the city equivalent to being destroyed, because iron bullets cannot roll in trenches that are almost parallel to the city wall, and it is impossible to kill and injure the soldiers of the city.

The archers, crossbowmen, and musketeers on the city wall cannot kill those who move along the zigzag trench. As long as the height, width and depth of the city wall and angle to the city wall are calculated, they can be approached without loss.

The top priority of this tactic is to be neither arrogant nor impatient, not impatient, and use the slowest speed to achieve the greatest result.

As long as artillery has the advantage, as long as the zigzag trench is close to the corner of the city wall, and as long as it can defend the counterattack in the city, the distance is only one step away.

The last few dozen or hundreds of steps were about whether to concentrate copper cannons to open the gap or send people to dig a hole and use thousands of kilograms of gunpowder to bury the city wall. The meaning was almost the same.

The order given above is for one month. With the mobilization speed and mobilization ability of various countries at this time, reinforcements will not appear within a month.

One month later is the important end of autumn harvest and the maize planting period in the Central Plains region, and it is also the deadline for whether countries will send troops and interfere.

If the situation in the Song State is stable without sending troops, it will be meaningless to send troops again.

Sending troops and siege of the city in Dangshan will also make all countries think repeatedly.
Chapter completed!