"General Wang, the enemy has moved their camp seven miles away. Scout Hou Wang saw large wooden equipment arriving in the distance. He may be preparing to attack the city..."
When Wang Li, standing at the top of Wuguan City, was called "General Wang", he would usually be slightly startled.
It didn't take long for him to realize that he had now inherited the title of father.
From the moment the news of his father's death came, the former "Little General Wang" and "Little General Wang" were gone. Wang Li had to shoulder the burden of the family and the country and continue the unfinished business of Tong Wuhou!
He nodded and looked at the stacks of enemy camps in the distance. This group of rebels actually hung black Qin flags majestically, and even had two plain banners, which were said to be for the funeral of the First Emperor and Wang Ben...
"A rat has skin. Humans have no manners. People have no manners. What's the use of immortality? There are shameless people like Hei Fu in this world!"
Wang Li hated Hei Fu very much. He had received much kindness from his father when he was young, but he repaid his kindness with evil. Not only did his father die of illness in Nanyang, but he also made people spread heart-breaking words, saying that Wang Ben suddenly woke up before his death and wanted to
He joined forces with Heifu and died before he could make it. He only had time to make Nanyang fall into darkness. Before his death, he shouted "Enter the Pass" three times to the west...
"Confusing right and wrong!"
When he heard about this, Wang Li was so angry that he was shaking all over.
The black thieves want to ruin Marquis Tongwu's posthumous reputation and ruin the Wang family through rumors!
What is even more distressing is that by relying on such remarks, the gangsters actually deceived tens of thousands of prisoners of Wang Ben's army and used them to transport grain and fodder, or to serve as soldiers.
Fortunately, His Majesty the Second Emperor was wise and wise, and still trusted the Wang family. He immediately dispatched Wang Li and Shangjun soldiers to go south to quell the rebellion. After Wang Li arrived in Xianyang, the Second Emperor and the Queen, Wang Li's sister, entertained him in Wangyi Palace and handed him an axe.
Hu Fu, with tears in his eyes, said that Da Qin Sheji relied on Wang Li...
"From now on, those who go up to the sky, the general will control them. From now on, if they go down to the abyss, the generals will control them!"
With the emperor's ax and ax in hand, a new commander-in-chief has been appointed. Wang Li led 50,000 Shangjun soldiers south to Wuguan to join Wang Ben's old troops and the Wuguan captain.
In the past thirty years, Wang Li has been living in the shadow of his eldest father. Ever since he was lost in the battle against the Huns, there has been a saying in the army of "tiger father and dog son", even though he succeeded "Wuchenghou"
He became the Marquis of Che, but when Qin Shihuang was still alive, Wang Li was never reused, and even more troublesome people gave him the title of "Lost Marquis", and even said:
"Compared to Lost Lord, Heifu is more like the person who inherited Wuchenghou's art of war."
Wang Li lived in such depression for seven or eight years, and it was not until the Second Emperor came to the throne that he was given the opportunity to take charge of the military.
Wang Li cherished this opportunity, and his opponent was Heifu, which made Wang Li want to prove himself even more.
"Destroy the spirit of the black thieves, restore the reputation of the Wang family, and help the country's danger. This is the battle!"
With this in mind, Wang Li tried his best to show off the majesty he had shown when he saw his father as a general when he was young. He kept a straight face, and after giving some orders, he solemnly said:
"Let Gong Shuyu come to see me!"
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The bald craftsman standing in front of Wang Li is named Gong Shuyu, after Lu Ban.
Descendants of Lu Ban have been carpenters for generations and lived in the land of Lu conquered by Chu. After Qin unified the world, the Zhengongshu family was brought to the Shaofu as work officials. After Mo Zhe completely broke with the Qin government and was cleared, the Gongshu family was
The craftsman became the Shaofu’s final trump card.
Wang Li looked like a commander of an army and asked the bald craftsman:
"I heard that hundreds of years ago, Mozi had a duel with Gongshu Ban in front of the King of Chu. Gongshu Ban was a ladder for Mozi to control. Mozi used the belt to build a city, and used ultimatums as weapons. Gongshu Panjiu set up siege towers.
The opportunity changed, and Zimozi was nine miles away. Gongshu Pan's attack weapons were exhausted, but Zimozi had more than enough to defend..."
"Now the black thieves also have Mo people under their command. They are already making siege equipment. They will attack soon. Gongshu, can you resist it?"
In the past, Mo defended and Lu attacked, but today, history has made a big joke. The positions of both sides changed easily, and it became Mo attacked and Lu defended.
Gongshu said confidently: "People often say that Mohists are good at defense, and Gongshu is good at attacking. It is true, but that was two hundred years ago. Although Mohists entered Qin and helped Qin unify the world, he was always limited to both offense and attack.
Ai Zhiyi has never paid much attention to the art of siege, far less than my father-in-law Shu. But in the past ten years, the villain has been in Shaofu and has been able to read all the chapters of Mo Zhai's "City Guard", and Mo Zhai's art of defense.
I already know everything!”
Then Gong Shuyu led Wang Li and pointed out the preparations he had made in Wuguan for the past month to defend against the enemy.
"Hangu Pass is a dangerous place with a hundred and two dangers. If two people guard the pass, it will be difficult for a hundred people to cross it. Although Wuguan Pass is not as good as Hangu Pass, it is still a dangerous place with twelve dangers!"
"General, please see, the valley of Danshui becomes narrower towards the northwest, and Wuguan is located at the narrowest point, bordering Shaoxi to the north, Danshui to the south, Shangyu to the west, and only the east to defend against enemies. Guancheng has
The foundation was made of big stone, and five years ago, it was rebuilt with Sanhe soil. The wall is two miles long, five feet high, three feet thick at the bottom, and two feet thick at the top. There is only one mile of flat land, and the other mile winds along the mountainside.
The side cliffs are high and the valley is deep, narrow and difficult to navigate, completely blocking the road to the pass!"
According to Mo Zhai's city defense method, if a hundred thousand enemy troops line up to attack, the width of the line will be no more than 500 steps, the medium width will be 300 steps, and the short width will be 50 steps.
The current narrow terrain in front of Wuguan determines that the attackers cannot spread out too wide. Not counting climbing the mountains to attack from above, the front is at most more than 300 steps. If more people are invested, the front and rear will be congested and the siege will be ineffective.
You can kill a large number of people by firing arrows with your eyes closed.
A ladder can accommodate at most three or five people on it at the same time. This also means that each group of people climbing up the ladder can only be more than a thousand people. However, with a few watchtowers on the top of the city, the top of the mountain and the wall, it can stand
Thousands of people will always fight against the few with more.
In this way, even if the Southern Army had a strength advantage, it would not be able to show it, not to mention that its strength was still 20,000 less than that of the Northern Army. Both sides would alternate attacks and defenses, and in the end it would be the attacker who would run out of energy.
After talking about the strength of both sides on paper, Gong Shuyu began to introduce details to Wang Li: "In today's world, attackers often use: Lin, Hook, Chong, Ladder, Hu, ***, Tu, Kong, Yifu,
There are only thirteen types of hoops, chariots, and flying stones, and the villain is fully prepared."
Gong Shuyu is not bragging. He has indeed learned the Mohist art of city defense. There are corresponding imperial laws for different siege techniques: Bei City Gate, Bei Gaolin, Bei Ladder, Bei Water, and Bei Sudden.
, prepare points, prepare moth Fu, etc.
In front of the pass, there are trenches and thorns dug long ago to divert Danshui and serve as a moat. At the head of the city, there are canals, carriages, stacks, towers, trestles, tangerines, stiles, long axes, long vertebrae, and long
Hoes, hooks, flying punches, hanging (beam), crutches, crossbows and other instruments are specially used to deal with various attack methods.
Another example is that the most vulnerable city gate has been directly blocked with earth and rocks and supported by huge trees to prevent enemies from breaking in.
There is a pavilion every 100 steps at the top of the city. The pavilion is commanded by a pavilion on-site. It is equipped with a "roof", which is similar to a nest car. There are huge wooden boards on it to shield the enemy's arrow rain to prevent the commander from being injured by the enemy, leading to command confusion.
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In order to cope with the enemy's fierce attack at night, 20 torches were stored every 2 steps at the top of the city to facilitate night battles. They could easily take fire to burn the enemy and insert them next to the hole "Jue's Point" under the female wall.
There is also a stove every 5 steps to facilitate the burning of fire. It is equipped with sand and stones, which can be poured down from the "jue's hole" after being heated, which can kill the enemies crowded under the city on a large scale.
If there is fire, there must be water. One is to prevent enemy fire attacks, and the other is to prevent spontaneous combustion of fodder. There is a wooden water jar with a tile of 5 steps on the city, which can hold 10 buckets of water. There are more than a thousand such water jars in the city.
After descending from the stone steps to the top of the city, Gong Shuyu pointed to the underground ditches behind the walls. Some of them were equipped with deep earth pits and buried earthen jars, which could accommodate a "point master" with good ears.
"This is a secluded ditch. To prevent thieves from attacking, they dig tunnels to attack the city. No matter where they dig, they will be blocked by the secluded ditch and immediately blocked, or the enemy troops in the tunnel will be set on fire to death..."
In addition, there are also flying stones that can fire two hundred steps, as well as a massive formation of crossbow officers, which can ensure that the firepower is not inferior to that of the attacker. This is the reinforcement Wang Li brought from the Xianyang arsenal.
"Gongshu Yu, if you don't tell me just by looking at the city's defense laws, I will think that you are a Mohist tycoon."
Wang Li nodded with satisfaction. With such complete preparations and the advantage of the terrain, he only needed 20,000 people to take turns climbing the city to guard the pass, which would be enough to defend against 100,000 thieves.
The remaining 100,000 troops were placed a few miles behind the pass, rotating exhausted soldiers at any time, and at the same time waiting in formation to prepare for the worst. Once Wuguan was breached, they would serve as the last garrison of Qin.
Push back the rebels.
"With such a complete defensive method, even the black thieves also have Mo masters, but their siege skills are not necessarily stronger than Gongshu's. Therefore, even if the thieves struggle to break through, they will have suffered heavy losses and their morale will be greatly reduced."
, if I use one hundred thousand people to wait for work, I will definitely defeat Wuguan!"
The Gongshu family wanted to prove that they or the Mohists were the most skilled in the world.
And Wang Li wants to prove who is the true successor to Wang Jian's military skills!
"King Wu conquered the Yin Dynasty, attacked the returning beasts, understood its political affairs, and wrote "Wu Cheng". Those who succeeded in Wu had great achievements in martial arts. The great father received this title as a marquis, which is truly worthy of his name."
That was Wang's most glorious moment.
"But the late Emperor thought that I was not worthy of the title of 'Wucheng', so I changed it to 'Wucheng'."
This was Wang Li's heart knot, but today, for the first time, he smiled at the title.
"Is it God's will to guard the Wuguan and the city? Well, today, I will prove it by guarding this Wuguan..."
"Wang Li, I have never fallen into the trap of my great father, and my father has a great reputation!"
After everything was ready, Wang Li remembered something again and asked Gong Shuyu:
"Recently, scouts came to report that the black thieves ordered the ink master to build a large ship and sail upstream, and then made a wooden stream to make cattle and horses..."
"General Wang, you are like a wooden cow and a stray horse."
Sima Yang on the side coughed slightly and corrected.
Wang Li was a little unhappy because he lost the clown. He glared at Sima Yang and continued:
"According to what the scouts saw from a distance, those wooden oxen and wooden horses had square bellies and curved heads, and only one leg. The head was inserted into the collar, and the tongue was stuck in the belly. Each oxen carried a month's worth of food for ten people, and only one person was needed to drive it.
It can move around on its own. People don't have to work hard, and cattle don't need water and food. They can move around day and night without stopping. They can walk on the narrow road in the Danshui Mountains as if they were walking on flat ground. It's really miraculous."
"Can the Gongshu family imitate such an ingenious Mohist device?"