warring states careerist

Chapter 791 The Siege of Dangshan ([-])
Most of these grenadier soldiers who entered the camp first participated in the siege battle for the first time. Most of them were selected from the infantry. Launch two charges within thirty steps.

They will choose to wear leather armor when ascending the city, and they will wear face armor when fighting on foot. The number of ink fighters in each company is about [-]%, which is a sharp weapon for ascending the city.

Many people grew up in the environment after the Mohist occupation of Sishang. Years of military career also made them know a lot of characters and understand a lot of truths.

The Mohist school has never lacked that kind of devotion of the scholars in the city who are not afraid of death and sacrifice their lives for righteousness. From the time when Mozi founded the Mohism by himself decades ago, the Mohism has always given the world the impression that "for the benefit of the world, we should fight against the wind and rain, and die without hesitation." , The giant has orders, go through fire and water."

Although they will carry out orders firmly, the internal organizational structure allows them to question and make suggestions about their tasks.

This kind of pre-war preparation method of the sandcastle model can only be done by Sishang volunteers in the world today, because other princes and armies do not have such organizational strength and organizational structure.

The envoy of the State of Chu listened for a while, and shook his head sadly. He understood that many of the practices of the righteous teacher Sishang were very good and beneficial to the battle, but the State of Chu could not learn them.

At this time, the concept of "motherland" did not yet exist.

These people in Sishang volunteers can dedicate their lives to "benefit the world and benefit themselves", and everyone is convinced that everything they do is for the sake of the world and for themselves.

But what should the soldiers of Chu state tell them so that they can sacrifice themselves?
There is no motherland at this time, some old nobles may be moved by the vague concept of "the world", but the common people who are the main force in the army can't understand the daring of those old nobles at all.

Especially with the rapid spread of Mohism, Yang Zhu and other theories, more and more people began to consider their own interests, telling them that they are for the king, I am afraid they will ask, what does the king have to do with themselves?Is it his own son, is he going to sacrifice himself for it?

The envoy of Chu State thought to himself that a gentleman is a metaphor for righteousness, and a villain is a metaphor for profit. Those who can rely on righteousness and loyalty to the king and fight at the expense of their own lives can only be gentlemen. As for the common people and villains, they can only use profit.

The Mohist unified righteousness and profit together, so that everyone is doing righteousness. In Sishang's army, all of them are gentlemen. How can we fight?

Outside of Sishang, how many gentlemen are there who can sacrifice their lives for righteousness?

The soldiers on Sishang have righteousness, the army with righteousness will win the army with advantages, and the army with advantages will defeat the army without advantages.

After thinking about it, the only way for Chu to gain a foothold in this chaotic world is to let the soldiers benefit. However, the nobles will lose if the soldiers benefit.

Song State is in chaos today, who knows whether Chu State will repeat the fate of Song State tomorrow?
The envoy of Chu State left after listening for a while. He came to observe Sishang's combat effectiveness and learn some experience that Sishang's army could learn.

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Two days later, the sky is still sunny.

The first battalion grenadiers of the four companies squatted to rest in the widened trench, and they were not affected by the rumble of artillery outside.

The officers are hiding in the trenches with simple tools to observe the movement on the city wall. That simple gadget only needs two mirrors, and using the principle of reflection, they can squat in the trenches and see the outside situation without showing their heads.

The continuous bombardment has put the defenders at the head of the city on the verge of collapse. During the whole day of yesterday's bombardment, the infantry filled up the last moat of Dangshan City with soil and firewood. The only thing that hinders the pace of the siege soldiers is the last city wall.

The mortars had been transported to the ditch a hundred paces ahead of the salient fort early this morning, and the attack trench where the grenadiers hid was only forty or fifty paces away from the city wall.

The bombardment that started early in the morning used intermittent lures, and the bombardment stopped for two moments every hour.

The first two times were effective. Every time the shelling stopped, the city thought it was about to attack the city, and immediately sent the remaining infantry to wait on the salient fort.

However, just after the deployment was completed, there was another round of ejection shelling, and so on, the defenders at the top of the city had already withdrawn to the rear.

The hot air balloon can clearly observe the movement in the city, but the soldiers in the city are helpless to the strange thing flying in the sky.

The position of the mortar deployment has also been adjusted at an angle. Once the siege begins, these mortars will use curved shots to bypass the salient fort and indirectly bombard the defenders gathered behind the salient fort.

On the protruding fort directly opposite, there are about 100 soldiers left. These people were forced to be sent to the front for defense, and they could only keep praying that they would not be hit by the bouncing iron bullets.

A large number of corpses and broken limbs were piled up on the salient fort, and the continuous shelling made it impossible for the city to collect the corpses.

Even if the people in the city are fools, they know the main attack direction of the Mo family, but in the face of such intensive shelling, it is impossible to deploy all their troops on the front line.

Fortunately, they were sure that once the infantry began to attack the city, the artillery would not be able to bombard it. Their hiding positions could avoid the artillery attack and they could make up for it when the siege began.

After another round of shelling, several orderlies passed through the trench and came to the position of the grenadiers who had been waiting here for a day.

The brigade representative who boarded the camp first had to command on the front line, and the order was passed directly to him.

"After the next round of shelling is over, attack the city immediately."

After receiving the order, the soldiers who boarded the camp first got busy immediately. The first wave of commandos, all composed of inkmen, checked the ladders of their own team repeatedly, and automatically divided into two groups, squatting on both sides of the attack port.

Except for the sound of iron bullets smashing against the stones in the distance, there was no other movement, and everything was extremely quiet.

I don't know how long I waited, the rumbling guns just stopped, and a sharp whistle came out immediately, and the drums were loud.

Accompanied by the whistle, was the muffled bombardment of the mortars. More than a dozen mortars passed the fort and smashed the iron bullets at the defenders hiding behind.

Under the operation of the gunner, the flat-firing copper cannon that bombarded the city wall quickly adjusted its angle and aimed at the two sides of the salient fort.

The engineers are also waiting in the rear hiding trenches. Once the siege begins, they will quickly pile up a small mound about two or three steps high, so that the artillery can be deployed on the mound to support after the salient fort is captured. .

The soldiers of the First Division, carrying sacks of soil or firewood behind them, were also waiting for orders.

At the moment when the whistle sounded, the mortar shells bombarded, and the flat-fire guns stopped, the commandos who boarded the camp first, according to the plan set before, six teams carried the ladders and quickly approached along the six predetermined directions.

The soldiers who followed behind were armed with muskets or iron mines as cover, crossed the ditch that had been filled yesterday, and approached the slope that had been shelled for several days so that it was fragmented and full of gravel. The soldiers who did not climb up the ladder Immediately divided into two teams.

Those in the front were armed with muskets, and instead of firing salvos, they each relied on their own abilities, and only shot freely when someone showed up at the top of the city.

The latter ignited the iron mine with a match, and threw it upwards when the fuse was burning to the point of exploding with extremely bold and careful techniques.

The six assault teams were in front, and the soldiers following behind formed a character-shaped structure, covering each other.

Ladders and improved ladders, the best technology in the world is from the disciples of the Mohists and Gongshuban. Back then, they played around the ladders and fought with soldiers, so they naturally learned the essence of them.

The ladder with two small wheels in front does not need to be lifted up directly, but can be pushed up easily by the rolling of the wheels. Four people hold the ladder. Mo Zhe, follow me!"

The hats of the soldiers who entered the camp first were different from the rest of the infantry. They looked a bit like the leather bezels of the scholars, but they were taller than the samurai’s leather bezels, with some pheasant feathers on them. One was as an honor for being selected, and the other was One is also for identification: when ascending the city, the more obvious the clothing is, the easier it is to boost morale.

When the representative of the brigade spoke, the feathers on the leather bean kept shaking.

In another group's position in the distance, the ramp wall had already collapsed, so they didn't use the ladder step by step, but a combination of three people, and two people joined hands to lift the other person's feet and threw it up.

The soldiers at the top of the city who had been bombarded for a long time had already lost the will to resist. There were not many of them. When the representatives of the brigade rushed up, they killed a few and yelled a few words in the dialect of the Song Dynasty. After death and other words, most of the defenders on the protruding horn fort chose to surrender.

They couldn't take it anymore. Those elite soldiers who had righteousness in their hearts and sacrificed their lives for righteousness basically died in the charge that created tragedy and staged it for all countries to intervene in revenge. The remaining soldiers were terrified and terrified for several days The bombardment caused severed limbs and wreckage to be everywhere on the salient fortress, and there were war supervisors behind them who forbade them to retreat. They had long expected the Mo family to attack the city as soon as possible.

With perfect preparations, the four companies that boarded the camp first captured the Rabbit Fort with only the loss of seven people. The defenders behind the fort are still in a panic.

The sudden bombardment from the mortars caused them heavy losses, and their formation was thrown into chaos. Suddenly, they could not form an effective formation at all. This was fatal to the defenders whose morale had been broken.

After the first battalion soldiers of the four companies boarded the Fort, the flag bearer chose the highest place to raise the flag, and the brigade representative immediately organized defense according to the established plan to prevent the enemy from counterattacking.

They only need to last for about two quarters of an hour, and as long as they can last for two quarters of an hour, the follow-up infantry of the first division will follow up; the artillery has also completed the transfer and redeployment of the muzzle by then.

(End of this chapter)