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Chapter 135: Jishui Bank

When the white flag was raised in the city, the Wei and Han coalition forces, who had already gathered to prepare for the next attack, let out a burst of jubilant screams.

Their morale has fallen to the extreme. They have never seen a city where the walls collapse and can continue to hold on. Their many attacks have paid a huge price for them over the past month.

According to normal evolution, the emergence of gunpowder and the development of geometry must be the first priority of the attacking side, and then the advantage of the defending side is developed, and ultimately the advantage of the attacking side is new.

The Mohist school has gone through natural evolution, and this kind of city-guarding technology has never experienced before.

Every attack does not cost much life, but as long as it reaches a certain level, the other side of the siege will retreat.

Many soldiers looked at the white flags raised on the city walls, and were still scared and could not even believe their eyes.

It was not until the white flag was waving several times that they were sure that the people in the city really wanted to surrender. Raising the white flag was an opinion put forward during the Heze League. Whether countries want to recognize it or not, they already understood the meaning of the flag.

This siege battle made the soldiers of the Wei and Han Allied Forces more convinced that the Mo family was difficult to break through.

The battle in the city has not yet ended, and blood is still bleeding in the nobles and palaces, but it has no meaning for the offense and defense of the entire Xinzheng City.

The Wei and Han coalition forces would not massacre after entering the city. One is the bottom line set by the Mo family after the Heze Alliance: For this bottom line, the Mo family can spell the Mo people cleanly to maintain this "taken for granted".

Furthermore, it is because the Wei Kingdom of South Korea was to occupy Zheng Kingdom as its homeland. With the progress of the times and the spread of technology, the scale of the war expanded and the population was extremely important.

Since we have to be a local area, we are even preparing to move the capital here, we will naturally not engage in a massacre.

Gongshuzhu signaled Wei State not to kill people, so as to leave behind the "troubled people" in the city to cause trouble for South Korea.

South Korea wants to move the capital here, but it still has to do some things.

In the city, the people did not collapse in an organized manner under the organization of the Mo family, but gathered together, waiting for the Wei and Han alliance troops to enter the city.

They organized together to prevent any accidents, and they could resist them if they had any accidents.

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The day when Xinzheng fell.

The south bank of Jishui.

Several engineers from the Si Shang Yishi were measuring the width of the river by the river using some tools that could be called "instruments".

A simple pillar that looks like a mountain is fixed with a right-angle ruler, and one end of the mountain is aimed at a stone on the other side of the river.

There is a lead sinker hanging down below the ruler. Use gravity to make the line on the lead sinker straight down, and then adjust the angle of the ruler to make it perpendicular to the ground.

There is also a tool that is exactly the same as the one who looks at the mountain at a distance of thirty meters away.

The engineer in the distance narrowed one eye and asked the deputy Wangshan to adjust the angle to the right-angle ruler. There was also a simple protractor ruler above the deputy Wangshan.

This is a commonly used tool for engineers on the Si Shang. It requires the combination of a trigonometric function table to quickly measure the width of the river and the distance of the enemy. This is a skill that both artillery and engineer officers need to master.

Those who use them to map mountains, rivers and rivers are the most skilled. In addition to using the satellites of Taisui Star to locate longitude, this most basic triangulation method must be mastered.

Since the Mohist school was Mu Yu, according to the recent legend of Si, these tools used by Dayu to control floods in the past must be mastered.

The officers looked at the angle on the protractor, looked at the trigonometric function table that had just been corrected last year, and recorded it.

Now is the dry season of Jishui River. Jishui is the closest river to the north side of Si Shang, and the hydrological characteristics have long been mastered.

The engineers received the order to build several floating bridges.

The floating bridge has already appeared in Xia. From the time of King Wen, there was a saying that "building boats to make beams" and beams are bridges.

This time, the Mohist family gathered all the "technical troops" in the entire Si Shang. Almost most of the artillery and most of the engineers had to participate in this battle of "punishment" against Wei and Han.

The Wei army opposite chose to line up along the river, and did not dare to burn several bridges built before, because once burned, it would be a reputation for "war crimes". The Mohist school had long stated that such crimes would be issued an order for punishment, and local nobles and doctors dared not take risks.

South of the Jishui River, this is the place where the Mohist family has operated for 20 years. Not to mention sufficient logistics supply, because of its special economic status, road traffic is also the best in the world.

Taoyi in the world, Sishang, the most developed handicraft industry in the world, the important channel connecting the north, and the large number of labor force transformed by the fugitive population, all enabled the Mohists to gather an army of huge logistical pressure that the Wei army could not imagine in the internal battle.

This is one of the few places that seem to be the easiest to cross the river. The Wei army chose to build camps along the river and gathered about 15,000 peasant soldiers in total. This is the entire force of the Wei army here.

If war was launched in aligned with each other, the vassal Wei State could provide a certain amount of troops, but now Wei State does not allow Wei State to participate, so as not to find excuses from the Mohist family.

It is difficult to guard 15,000 peasant soldiers and it is impossible to win the field battle. Especially the reputation of Si Shang Yishi's reputation for not losing in recent years has brought great psychological pressure to the Wei army.

But building a fortification along the river was also the best choice for the Wei army at this time, because the powerful siege ability demonstrated by the Mohist school made the idea of ​​defending the city long ago abandoned.

In the camp south of the Ji River, flags flutter.

Liu Finger looked at the map and sighed to the people around him: "After the giant for so long, I can finally fight a few battles between the more and the less."

Everyone laughed, and they thought it was indeed the case.

After twenty years of development, it was the first time that the Mohist family was able to surpass the opponent in overall siege in the siege of Dangshan.

This time, the main force was concentrated, and there was no logistical pressure. Most of the copper cannons came here. Some officers who had not participated in the siege of Dangshan felt the pleasure of military crushing for the first time.

Some of them participated in the hegemony of Moyue and Si Shang in that year, and more people participated in the Qi-Mo War that year, but the number of the Mo family troops was always small at that time.

The fundamental reason for victory in the war is to mobilize more to fight less in local areas. The less troops the more, the more places they need to mobilize generals and soldiers to move.

There are now 15,000 peasant soldiers of Wei State on the opposite side of Jishui, and they are not the elites of Wei State at all.

On the Mohist side, there were 30,000 infantrymen, 3,000 regular martial knights, a large number of engineers and artillery soldiers, and the order that "use gunpowder at will, use more gunpowder and less bleeding" had been clearly stated before the war.

In this way, many war skills can be skillfully used, such as making a sound like a fight against the west.

This time, the place where the Wei army was tempted to form a formation was not the place where Liu Fingers really wanted to break through.

He is now in sufficient force and time, and is in the dry season of Jishui. Liuzhi knows that even if he attacks and crosses the Wei army, he still doesn't want to shed too much blood from the righteous army.

Now artillery soldiers gather here, seemingly trying to force the enemy, but in fact they are just luring the enemy.

The six fingers decided to divide the troops into a group of troops and cross the river fifteen miles away, and use the most powerful mobile marching capabilities of the Si Shangyi Division to cross the river quickly.

In addition to carrying some small field cannons, the crossing forces will not carry heavy siege copper cannons.

Anyway, there are some time. Liu Finger wants to let the five thousand Wei troops retreat into the city in a hurry after hearing the news of crossing the river.

This place is different from Xinzheng, and it is impossible to create a new city wall defense system like Xinzheng. When the copper cannon completely restrains the rammed earth wall, the casualties of the attacking side in the siege war may be less than those in the field battle, and it is also the easiest to fight an annihilation war.

For Liufing, his mission was to seize all the cities and towns of Wei's enclave north of the Jishui River, threaten Wei's country to create friction with Qi's country to intimidate them.

In one of the camps, the embassy of the State of Defense was not surprised when he looked at the rows of bronze cannons or expensive brass cannons being deployed.

In fact, I was extremely uneasy.

He is familiar with many elderly people in the Mo family and has met when he was young.

He became an official and was recommended by Confucius' grandson Zisi.

When he became an official, the Mo family was active in the defense of the country, and Gao Shizi had already become the minister of the defense of the country.

At that time, Gou Bian was still a minor official. Although he was talented, he was not used by Wei Jun because he ate two eggs.

Later, Gao Shizi resigned because Wei Jun did not use the Mo family's righteousness and was praised by Mo Zi. Later, after Gao Shizi passed away, he went to pay his respects to mourn.

The Mohist family had very many activities in Weiguo. Gou Bian also knew some of the morals of the Mohist family. After the Mohist family began to expand, the Weiguo was too close to Si Shang, so Gou Bian could not not pay attention to the military changes in Si Shang.

It was not that he had thought of a way to free the Wei State from his identity as a vassal state of Wei State through Si Shang, but the influence of the Mohist country in Wei State was mainly concentrated among the people; while the influence of the Wei State in Wei State was all aristocrats, and the Mohist country turned to "punishing unjustly" compared to the harmless "non-aggression and love" of humans and animals, which made the power of the Wei State more guarded against the Mohist country.

Gou Bian knew that Wei Guo was not the opponent of Si Shang at all, and he was extremely supportive of Wei Guo's neutrality this time.

Because Wei State is a vassal and buffer state of Wei State, once the primary school is involved in the war between the Mo family and Wei State, the outcome will be unimaginable, and it will inevitably be a disaster for the destruction of the country.

This time, the Mo family still became "Duke Xiang of Song", but before that, the Mo family had solemnly warned Gou Bian: neutrality is OK, but if the Wei army borrowed the road to defend the country, it would be equivalent to the Wei country giving up neutrality and getting involved in the war.

This time, he came with the army, and Gou Bian also knew that this was the Mohist school "danced with the Gan Qi".

The nobles of Wei State were dissatisfied with the morality of equality and love for the people, but they also knew that the Mohist family was still reasonable and allowed to be neutral. If they really participated in this muddy water, they were afraid that Wei State would be forced to "reform".

When something happened to Song State before, the most nervous thing was Wei State. Fortunately, in order to use morality to block the Mo family like Duke Xiang of Song, the Mo family allowed Wei State to be neutral, otherwise the nobles of Wei State would probably collapse.

As a general who defended the country, Gou Bian had been in war for many years. He used to only hear about it, but now he has seen everything in the camp with his own eyes. His judgment on the outcome of this war has been decided.
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