The shelling used to foster courage in the city lasted for two rounds and then came to an abrupt end.

Since it is useless, it is better to leave gunpowder and iron bullets to avoid wasting.

After two hours of shift time passed, the old engineer and his friends stepped into the widened trench and continued to dig forward.

He has dug such trenches no less than five times in actual combat. Since the hegemony war between Qiyue and Si Shang, the siege tactics of parallel trenches such as Si Shang have reached the level of perfection.

In the eyes of veterans, everything is just a step-by-step process.

Just like the butchers who slaughter dogs in Si, they first hang the dog up and strangle their necks to make it difficult to breathe, and then pour water on them when they are about to suffocate. They must be amazed to those who don’t know how to do things, but to those who know how to do things, this is as simple and programmatic as a farmer weeding and craftsmen building houses.

There are no surprises, and there can be no accidents.

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In the command post, Liu Finger held a thousand-mile mirror and looked at the trench like a spider web in the distance, observing the progress of the trench excavation.

He put away the Qianli Miles Miles and said to the representative of the legion of the legion, "I think the Giant has given us a little more time. Within fifteen days, it is enough to take down Dangshan."

The representatives of the Mexican army of the Legion also agreed with this statement, and the General Staff had thought of any possible way of counterattack from the enemy.

The representative of the legion laughed and said, "For example, the dramas that Solukan saw in Greece when he was traveling west, the giant commented that there were many so-called mechanical slaughtering gods. Whenever the contradiction cannot be resolved, the gods will be deceased from heaven and will be happy."

"I see that in today's siege of Dangshan, the emperor's father Yue Ling wants to win, unless he mechanically subdues the gods, there is no other way."

Liu Finger also laughed and said, "It's a pity that our Mohist family emphasizes that the people are the masters of God. Even if there is a real god, they want to help the unrighteous emperor's father Yue Ling, and that will be destroyed by the real god."

"The only thing that lingers in the city is to rush to fight back when we go out of the city, but can he beat us when we go out of the city?"

This is not arrogant. The proportion of elite infantrymen has reached at least 5 to 1, and there is also the advantage of artillery and the bonus of camp defense. There is no chance for people in the city to go out of the city to counterattack.

When the war reaches this point, the ending is already destined and there will be no turmoil.

The cruelty of the real world is that there is no possibility of mechanical scattering, and there is no possibility of accidents under the premise that everything is calculated.

The legion representative thought for a moment and shook his head and said, "The only thing that is worried is that the envoys of the princes feel that even building such cities is useless, which makes the giant's strategy of pulling countries into the arms race to build cities and defenses cannot be realized?"

"They are afraid that they don't know the military. At that time, they can only see that Dangshan is so different from the previous four cities. They still go down for a month. They are afraid that they feel that the gains are not worth it, so they will not build them."

The sixth commander smiled freely and said, "The giant means killing the chicken to warn the monkey and intimidating the country as its main purpose. Of course, it is possible to drag into the arms race to build forts. The problem is that if they do not build it...will it be more beneficial to us?"

"Building cities requires reform and slaughtering the people. Internal conflicts increase, which will benefit us in the future."

"If we don't build cities, there is no need to change. We just need to live by it. We originate from the outside. The rammed earth walls of the two building methods and the three building methods can block our shelling?"

"There is no difference. One is that increasing internal contradictions is beneficial to us, but while we are all people in the world, we are also people outside the vassal states. We can solve many problems with force. We may not necessarily stand from the perspective of the authorities and only consider the intensification of internal contradictions."

Six fingers pointed at the city of Dangshan in the distance and said, "When fighting with the Qi people, the copper cannons were not easy to operate, so the giant had to break the city by using a trench close to gunpowder. If Linzi was just a hundred miles away from Pengcheng like Dangshan, transportation was easy and logistics was sufficient. Why did the giant have to dig a pit back then? The copper cannons would be able to blow up the rammed earth wall in half a day."

"In my opinion, after this war, all countries will definitely spend a lot of money to build cities on capitals and borders, and they have no choice."

The representatives of the Mo people in the legion, like Liu Finger, participated in the battle of Qi Mo that year. With a slight mention of Liu Finger, he understood.

After thinking for a while, he asked again: "Our Mo family was famous for defending the city when they were Zi Mozi. Do you think, if we defended, how could we defend such a siege?"

Liuzhi smiled and said, "Zi Mo Ziyan, there are three guards to defend the city, the upper and middle and the lower. The upper guard, go out of the city to fight and win. As long as I am invincible in the field, who can force me to defend the city? If you are trapped in the lonely city, it is the lower guard, so why should you do it?"

The legion representative smiled and said, "You are changing your concepts. If the giant is there, you have to criticize you. What I asked is the situation of defending the field without winning the battle. It is different from the "three defenses" mentioned by Zi Mozi. Zi Mozi talks about strategy, and I ask about tactics. You don't understand, but you deliberately confused it. It seems that you will definitely not defend."

Liu Jie nodded and smiled, "Yes, if I really want to replace my father Yue Ling with me, I have no other way except to stick to the princes to interfere. I can't beat the field battle, people's hearts are not surrendered, and morale is not high. How can I fight?"

With the education and influence he has always received, he has always felt that war is just a helpless choice. If there is a better way to resolve various contradictions, war will certainly not have to break out.

However, the Mohist school started to promote non-aggression and support for weak people, and has been around for nearly sixty or seventy years since the beginning of the entire idea. The final conclusion was that it would be impossible to benefit the world by just talking and speaking.

The victory or defeat of a war is often destined outside the battlefield. Those who are good at fighting have no great achievements, and those who are good at planning have no great reputation. The battle in Dangshan is destined to be a tragic battle. I thought that the things that are related to victory or defeat have been resolved before the war begins.

At this point, as far as this battle is concerned, there is no doubt about the outcome.

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Some people expressed the same emotion on the slope where the missions of the princes and envoys were located in the distance.

An envoy of Chu put down the telescope with the copper shell in his hand, shook his head and sighed: "Dangshan will be broken within the moon. The emperor's father Yue Ling is defeated."

These envoys are not ignorant of soldiers.

Not only did they know about military affairs, but many people also studied the nine-magnitude geometry and many of the Mohist abilities.

When the Mohist and Yue Kingdom competed for supremacy, the first thing that happened after conquering Teng City was to promote the world and use the victory of the siege to declare rationality, nine numbers, geometry, and the victory of Tianzhi.

At that time, no one may have paid attention to it, or it may be that the top figures of the era like Wu Qi did not realize the importance of the article circulating in the Great City and Juyi.

However, more than ten years have passed, and the articles that no one cares about at that time have become deeply rooted in people's hearts.

The Mohist school turned siege and defending the city into a nine-digit geometry problem, making the siege battle a nearly boring calculation problem that could not be used to reverse the overall situation.

This rational spirit is gradually valued by all countries because of the need for war. If it is not taken seriously, it cannot survive and defend its own city in this great struggle.

However, the spread of this spirit also made the old rules of the era, which had long been broken and broken, more fragile. The more people recognized rationality, the more people recognized the complete set of morality and inferences of the Mohist school.

This is a dead end, and no one can solve it. Unless someone can use his own strength to drag the flourishing hundreds of schools of thought that the whole summer is full of sadness, and those who can do this with their own strength can be called gods.

The dense zigzag trenches, in the eyes of these envoys who knew some of the Mohist siege and defending cities, as well as the nine numbers and geometry, meant that the time when Dangshan City was captured could be calculated.

Just calculate the excavation speed on Si Shang every day to calculate the approximate time of the city breaking.

The Chu envoy who expressed his feelings felt that he had seen the future a month later, and it was a battle without any suspense.

The envoy of Wei Han next to him also understood that this was not a silence, and asked in confusion: "The method of attacking cities and defending cities on Si has always liked to be made public to the world. In the past, the horse was suitable for attacking Teng, and it was very popular and hustle and bustle in the city. Today, the same is true for attacking Dangshan, and we were asked to visit. Is there any fraud?"

"The city on Si Shang is similar to Dangshan, both of which are connected by concave and concave, each with edges and corners. This kind of attack method can break Dangshan and the cities on Si Shangshan. The situation of the harem has always been cunning, so what he did?"

The Chu envoy who spoke before was a young man, who belonged to the scholastic class who benefited from the reform of the Chu State. His feelings for the Mo family were very complicated, not hatred or ideal closeness.

Faced with the doubts of the envoys of Wei and Han, the young envoy of Chu sneered: "Those who guard the city have to do it. If they can defeat it in a wild way, why should they defend the city?"

"There are tens of thousands of righteous troops in Si, and the army is intact. I think I am upholding the will of heaven to support the world. The strength of field battles is uncontrollable. Since it can be solved by field battles, how can I defend the city?"

"If today, no matter how many troops are in the field, whether they are in the Chu, Wei and Han, can there be any one who can defeat 50,000 in Si? "

Although they stood together to visit the siege of Dangshan today, there were even rumors that countries might interfere with the State of Song, but this does not mean that the hatred of each country has disappeared.

The Chu State fought with Wei and Han for a hundred years, and in a battle, Wu Qi captured Daliang, captured many vassals, and killed Youyin. The envoys of Chu State would inevitably mock Wei and Han in words.

In addition to this kind of contradiction between the princes, there are still some contradictions between the two sides.

This Chu State envoy is young and is a descendant of the down-and-out scholar class. He is considered a low-level nobleman and is not qualified to become an envoy.

Wei Han was born in some real aristocratic origins, unlike the descendants of the down-and-out scholar class, and they looked down upon them.

This kind of resentment and contradiction is the class resentment that transcends the boundaries of the vassal states, and they have looked down on each other before.

Orthodox aristocrats and noble families believe that those down-and-out scholars cannot be considered nobles and have no aristocratic temperament. If it weren’t for the “shangxian” who was tortured by the Mo family, they would have no chance to stand out at all. How could they have the opportunity to have an equal dialogue with themselves?
Chapter completed!