Two days later, the most violent field artillery bombardment since the advent of gunpowder began.

The camps built by the Wei army soon appeared one by one, and the camps built by ordinary soil could not resist the bombardment of those bronze cannons.

As for ideas such as digging trenches to avoid, the Wei army's chief general has not been fooled to that extent. With the pitiful number of projecting weapons of the Wei army's peasant soldiers, there is no difference between digging camps and infantry surrendering.

The copper cannons deployed at the riverbed exposed during the dry season on the other side of the Ji River were fired at an extremely slow speed.

Time is not urgent, so the artillery will follow the Cao Dian and wait until the hot copper cannon cools down before loading, instead of firing rapidly like in field battles.

The engineers used various woods and upstream trees transported by the civilians from the rear, as well as the ships recruited by Jishui to slowly build pontoon bridges.

The only copper cannons on the opposite side of the Wei army could not hit the water at all. Most of them were melee firearms such as tiger cannons, hemp rope cannons, leather cannons, etc.

The small number of musketeers and archers cannot form formations at all. Once they form formations, they will be violently attacked by the Mohist artillery, so they can only be dispersed and fired freely, with no hit rate at all.

The engineers and officers are proficient in carpenter skills, and there are also many carpenters in them, which can be regarded as the old skill of the Mohist school in technology.

After gradually becoming regularized over the years, engineers not only know how to dig holes, but also technology such as building blocks and building bridges has gradually matured.

In the smoke of gunpowder, they also built the pontoon bridge at a normal speed, just like those slow artillery soldiers.

However, the normal speed in their eyes became a situation that seemed to be full of strength in the eyes of Wei Jun.

The Wei army knew that field battles were invincible, so they wanted to attack them halfway, but according to their current situation, the idea of ​​attacking them halfway was unrealistic.

The floating bridge extended little by little, and Liu Finger also ordered the troops to be prepared to divide the troops and cross separately.

After repeatedly confirming the information, Liujie waited until the floating bridge was almost completed and ordered the troops who had divided the troops to move openly along the river.

After the infantry of the two divisions, most of the cavalry and the field artillery units were arranged, they went east along the Ji River in the form of a marching column.

There is no cover, no concealment.

After the division of troops, the number of Si Shang Yi troops here was enough to crush the Wei army on the other side. The tactic of fighting against the west was so upright that it was unprecedented.

In the Wei army camp, the Wei army chief Dr. Chengyang, holding the exquisite copper-shelled telescope, looked at the marching troops on the other side of the Jishui River, and the corners of his mouth twitched.

After thinking for a while, he ordered: "Tell the entire army to retreat and retreat into Chengyang."

The adviser below immediately said: "General, our army is not as good as the Mo family in the field. The battle in Dangshan proves that the Mo family can easily break the city. Only by attacking half a cross can you win. Why withdraw the troops?"

Doctor Chengyang shook his head and said distressedly: "If I had not surrendered to the emperor without fighting, I would have ordered the surrender. There is no need to fight this battle."

"When we cross halfway, we hit it? Why should we hit it halfway?"

His son in military uniform was young and energetic. He heard this and said, "Father, retreating without fighting, which is ridiculous. If it were okay in Chengpu back then, his father was afraid of the enemy like a tiger, this..."

Before he finished speaking, Dr. Chengyang slapped his son in the face and angrily shouted: "What do you know?"

"I ask you, now the opposite side has divided the troops, what are you going to do?"

The young man covered his hot face and gritted his teeth and said, "Even if he divides his troops, he will definitely choose a convenient place to cross the river. It is better to divide his troops to block and deploy defenses along the river."

Doctor Chengyang laughed and said, "This is what you think of? Look at the speed of the march opposite, you are not panic and orderly. Even if you march under our noses, can our army chase after you?"

"If you can't catch up, why should you attack halfway through? Why should you stop the opponent?"

"If you don't chase after those people cross the river and encircle them, our army will be defeated."

"If you chase me, let alone whether you can catch up, how can you stop me from crossing the river here?"

"Since you will definitely lose, what can you do if you don't retreat?"

The young man said, "But retreat into Chengyang, isn't it also impossible to resist? Since they can't resist, why not fight the decisive battle with him here?"

Doctor Chengyang angrily rebuked: "Silly! In this decisive battle, all the elite soldiers in the family will be lost. The Mo family was invincible before it reached ten thousand, but now there are 30,000 to 50,000 people, how can we fight?"

"It would be better to retreat to Chengyang and surrender when the city walls are broken. The Mo family neither killed prisoners nor talked about love. I have never been bad in the past few years, and I have heard that they have never burned the bridges, so there is no problem."

The military system model must be dominated by peasants and soldiers, but there is no reform, but it is still a feudal mission to recruit soldiers. The military system model must be dominated by a few elite soldiers.

Just like the previous era of chariot warfare, elite soldiers decided the outcome of the war. The role of the sting is to recharge the number and maintain the front line.

Now the well-field system has been basically destroyed, the land of the great nobles has increased, and the military system that is coordinated with the original patriarchal system has also begun to collapse.

Although there are many real masters, they cannot support the increasingly large-scale war. In the past, the era when dozens of chariots could dominate the victory or defeat was over by participating in the war.

The emergence of stirrups has further improved the combat effectiveness of the cavalry.

At this time, some nobles began to raise soldiers. During the war, they relied on raising soldiers, slaves, and elite private soldiers as the main force.

These trained soldiers, private soldiers, and slaves often act as cavalrymen, becoming the most important card for the nobles to win and the cornerstone of the nobles' strength.

Even if the fiefdom is gone, as long as the raising of the soldiers, slaves, and private soldiers are still there, a new fiefdom can be quickly organized to form an army that can fight for power and profit.

But if all these slaves are gone, the entire family will soon decline.

Normally, in the fiefdom of a doctor, only twenty chariots and accompanying disciples were required to provide them during war.

On the basis that the well-field system was not destroyed, scholars had fiefs. They trained themselves in full force and fulfilled their feudal obligations when necessary.

But now the scale of the war has expanded. With the emergence of iron tools, the development of Sishang industry and commerce, and the promotion of new crops and planting technologies, the only remaining patriarchal remnants in the Chengyang generation have been destroyed on an economic basis.

The food prices are getting cheaper, industry and commerce are becoming more and more developed, the scholar class is becoming more and more depressed, and even goes bankrupt, making it difficult to maintain its original life.

Even if there is still a little fiefdom, accompanied by the impact of various handicraft products and the helplessness of low grain prices, the little land that was enfeoffed is not enough to maintain their complete production.

The great nobles continued to annex the land, and the scholars at the bottom were constantly falling out. The number of self-cultivated farmers was not large, and a large number of vassals were farmers bound to the land on the fiefdom. In this case, aristocrats had no other way to maintain a field force except relying on slaves and private soldiers to maintain combat effectiveness.

However, Doctor Chengyang knew very well that such a unit with slaves and private soldiers was fighting against land and power among the nobles. He went to war with the Si Shang Yishi, which was mainly composed of self-cultivation farmers, and was seeking death.

Si Shang is a regular military service system, with regular military training, which is not comparable to the three-year winter exercise of the peasant soldiers.

In the past, the level of productivity was insufficient. Whether it was Qin Chu or Yan Jin, everyone was almost the same. They all had the same military system and there was no big difference, but now they are different.

Whoever can reform the law first, who can create more farmer who can give birth to a standing army, whose agricultural production can support the logistics of the standing army, whose political system transitions from the feudal patriarchy to the centralized bureaucracy... who can win.

Si Shang took the lead, which was caused by the violent change from the bottom to the top, and had a literate population and a reserve army of officials under the new system that had nothing to do with the nobles. The greater the power of the nobles in other countries, the more difficult the reforms were, because that was to remove the nobles.

Doctor Chengyang did not know these strategic things at the one country, but he knew very clearly what his interests were, and he knew that he could not win this battle.

Retreat directly and wait for the city wall to be broken before surrendering is the most favorable choice for him.

The Mo family did not like to kill people, and he was obedient and did not burn bridges, so he was not a war criminal.

If you retreat without fighting, you will surrender directly, and it will be difficult to explain to the monarch in the future.

It is very likely that my own private soldiers and elite soldiers will suffer too much loss in the field.

It would be better to retreat to Chengyang. At that time, it would not be that you would not defend yourself, but because the city wall was broken and I could not defend it anymore, and the king would not punish him.

No one can win this battle.

Doctor Chengyang thought to himself, even if Wu Qi didn't go far to Western Qin, with this little force, he would not think about winning.

After all, when Wu Qi was in Lu, the gap in military strength between Qi and Lu was not as big as that between Chengyang and Si Shang now, and Shengchuo still got a draw. Besides, now?

He is not worried about anything else now, but he is worried that the Mo family will not leave here, and divide his land and then send him back to Wei State, which will be a big problem.

He also raised a lot of scholars, but he knew very well what these down-and-out scholars are. When they have fiefdoms, money and power, they will naturally come over to make a living; when they have no money and power, these scholars will leave, and not many will feel embarrassed, at most, there are only a few scholars who have "loyalty and righteousness" in their hearts.

By then, the fief is gone, and it will be completely over.

If the Mo family occupied Chengyang and refused to leave, even if he was released, where would the king find him a fiefdom?

After the restoration of Zhongshan Kingdom, some Wei nobles held empty titles, but they still had no actual fiefs. Prince Zhi of Zhongshan Jun of Wei now has the title of Zhongshan Jun, but he still doesn’t even have a fief?

Now that all countries are centralizing power, how can there be extra fiefs for him?

However, when Doctor Chengyang thought of the Mo family withdrawing troops from southwest Qi, he comforted himself: "The Mo family is just known as the unjust battle of the emperor, and will mostly withdraw their troops as they were in the same order as they were in the past."

But then I thought about it that the Mohist family did withdraw their troops in southwest Qi, but in a short period of time, they carried out land reforms such as clearing fields in southwest Qi.

Thinking of this, I felt cold again. If I did that, I still had no way out.

If you fight, you will lose. If you don’t fight, you will be punished by the king and you will be punished by the emperor. If the city is broken, you may be divided into the Mo family. This really forces him to a dead end.
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