Chapter 466: This is a dimensionality reduction blow
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The original army's trebuchet was the first to attack, and then the bed crossbow and the powerful crossbow also joined the attack sequence, making the "Xinzheng" defenders think that the original army was about to start siege.
The Chu army and the Zheng army thought that there was nothing wrong in thinking that, but the original army did not send troops to climb the city wall, but only used long-range weapons to continuously attack.
Does this kind of attack count as a siege?
Not every one of the one hundred and ten vehicles was put into the attack sequence. On the east side of the main target, fifty riprap trucks were pulled onto the artificial mound; the other three sides were twenty on the north, eighteen on the south, and 18 on the west.
Fifteen; the remaining seventeen trebuchets serve as reserves.
The distribution method depends on which direction has the most artificial soil mounds.
The artificial mounds are divided into heights ranging from 28 meters to 35 meters, with four on the east, two on the north, and one on the south and west.
It's not that the original army didn't want to make more artificial mounds, it was mainly because the enemy troops were outside the "Xinzheng" city, and the difficulty of making them was different in different directions.
The Yuan army has been trying to lure the enemy troops outside the "Xinzheng" city to leave the city wall. The Zheng army did not dare to leave at all. The Chu army learned the lesson after several lessons. They have been staying near the city wall to protect the city wall.
Use the range advantage brought by the height of the city wall to counter the original army.
Stand high and shoot far is basic common sense.
The emergence of artificial mounds allows the former army to better control the movements in the city of "Xinzheng". It is also intended to increase the reach of trebuchets, crossbows and other long-range weapons.
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"Your Majesty." Sima Ranju came to Zhiyao suddenly, as if something unexpected had happened.
At that time, Zhiyao was watching the trebuchets dropping stone bombs to bombard the city of Xinzheng.
Sima Ranju handed over an opened box, which contained a battle report from Chu State, and said: "Sikou entered Chu, swept through the old land, Cai Jiu land, crossed the Huai River and encountered more than 100,000 Chu troops."
When the original country talks about some geographical locations outside its own country, it usually calls the name of the original vassal state.
The Chen State was destroyed by the Chu State, and later the Tian family reestablished the Chen State. They no longer have the jurisdiction to rule the mainland and moved to the Korean Peninsula to start new development.
The Cai State was supposed to be destroyed. Later, due to the inappropriate current situation, the Chu State moved Cai Jun across the country and moved to the Shashui area in the south of the Song State. They are currently one of the puppet states of the Chu State.
The Huai River is a natural barrier used by Chen and Cai to resist the Chu army. Now it almost separates the Chu State in the middle. The north is called the New Chu Land, and the south is the Old Chu Land. There are also the New Chu people and the Old Chu Land.
The difference between Chu people.
To put it bluntly, there was a temporal succession under the central governance of the Chu State. Not only were places given names, but people were also distinguished by their high and low status.
Regarding this point, all the vassal states except the original state have the same problem, and they have to artificially distinguish the new, the old, the close and the alienated.
Zhiyao strictly prohibits the creation of artificial divisions. It emphasizes the distinction between high and low based on contribution. Those who have not made meritorious service will be ordinary people as long as they stay in the original country. People who have newly returned to the original country's rule can become new rich if they can make meritorious service.
This is of course part of Zhiyao’s thinking of “taking history as a mirror”.
Historically, the State of Qin continued to expand, and there were two different groups, the New Qin people and the Old Qin people. The New Qin people continued to contribute to the expansion of the Qin State, while the Old Qin people did not admit that they had declined, and gave Qin the
How many crises and conflicts?
How fierce was the struggle between the New Qin people and the Old Qin people? At one point, Ying Zheng almost lost his throne! As the support of the Old Qin people, the Wang family took the opportunity to make great achievements, which prevented the Old Qin people from completely disappearing from the top of the Qin State.
on the stage.
The Zhi family is an ancient family, but the re-established Yuan Kingdom is very young.
The difference between just a few years cannot catch up with the excessive distinction between old and new. Why bother artificially creating a distinction between old and new and sowing the seeds of disaster in the future?
Zhiyao had already read the battle report and said, "Is the Zhao family one of the new nobles of Chu?"
Among Qu, Jing, and Zhao, who is the latest Zhao family to appear? They evolved from the descendants of King Zhao of Chu. The history of the Zhao family is not that long. If King Chu Hui had not died, the head of the Zhao family and King Chu Hui would be considered the same generation.
people.
Sima Rangju replied: "Zhaogu is the uncle of the King of Chu. He did not follow him north this time, but stayed in the country to monitor the king."
Zhiyao's knowledge of Zhaogu is limited to limited information.
This Zhaogu is now Zuo Yin of the Chu State, equivalent to the third in command of the Chu State, and is considered to be a high-ranking official.
Last year, more than 100,000 defeated soldiers from Chu State fled back to Chu State.
This year, there are only about 80,000 Chu troops heading north again.
So, it is somewhat reasonable that Chu State was able to assemble an army of about 100,000 to resist when the mainland of Chu was invaded.
Zhiyao asked: "What is this person's reputation in Chu State?"
Sima Ranju immediately guessed Zhiyao's thoughts and said: "Although the Qu family and the Jing family are ancient, the contemporary Zhao family is respected, and they have seen Zhao Gu's ability. He is different from Gongsun Ning and rejects the idea of becoming a monarch.
, many people from the public clan followed him."
Zhiyao nodded and said: "To disrupt the hinterland of Chu will only make it go through wars. If Zhaogu can replace it, it will bring disaster to the country."
In terms of territorial area, Chu State is really quite large, and it is difficult to fully occupy it in one military operation.
In recent years, the Chu State has suffered heavy blows. The internal chaos is caused by the struggle between the central government and the local governments. In short, it seems that it is not chaotic enough.
Sima Ranju knew what to do, but he still should ask for instructions, and asked: "If Sikou fakes defeat, retreat to Zheng, or should he find another way to invade Chu?"
For a long time, the Chu State was defeated again and again against the Yuan State.
If Zhaogu can lead his army to defeat the original army, even if it is 100,000 to 40,000, I believe Zhaogu will gain great fame.
Currently, the Chu kings and a large number of Chu ministers are trapped in the "Xinzheng" city, which means it is difficult for them to exert influence on the Chu mainland.
Zhaogu's reputation greatly increased due to his victory over the original army. On the contrary, after Chu Junzhong ascended to the throne, he suffered repeated defeats and lost his prestige. Will Zhaogu develop the ambition to replace Chu Junzhong?
"Return to Zheng Di, rest and recuperate, then move to the west of Zheng Di and fight to bring them all under my control," Zhiyao said.
The reason for not moving to the eastern part of Zheng State is that there is a Song army there.
Zhi Xuwu only has one legion under his command. Even if he can capture the southern part of Zheng, the Chu army will definitely move northward in the future. While the troops are not strong enough to control the southern part of Zheng, they will also have to fight the Chu army again and again.
So, the Yuan Kingdom now wants to take advantage of the situation of surrounding "Xinzheng" to start conquering other areas of the Zheng Kingdom, and then bring them under its rule.
Sima Ranju was about to leave, but he noticed Zhiyao's intention, thought for a moment and asked, "How long will your Majesty be using troops in Xinzheng?"
Zhiyao cannot give an answer to this question yet.
If we attack the city regardless of the cost, the "Xinzheng" city defenses will definitely cause a lot of casualties, so a forceful attack is of course a bad idea.
Zhiyao planned to take his time, and was already planning to dig a large number of ditches outside "Xinzheng" and even build a walled city, trying to use fewer troops to trap "Xinzheng" and use more troops in other areas.
Conquer the city and plunder the land.
"Even if it takes four or five years, I will be the one who benefits. If it takes four or five years, there will be only one city left in the Zheng Kingdom." Zhiyao said.
Sima Ranju was stunned.
In fact, it is the gap in vision, or that Zhiyao has too many examples to learn from in terms of military thinking, and he has used a dimensionality reduction attack.
"Your Majesty's military skills are unparalleled in the world." Sima Ranju suddenly felt that his military skills could be improved to perfection.
Zhiyao's face didn't turn red, her heart didn't beat, she just smiled reservedly.
No one has put forward similar concepts, let alone used the same tricks. As an "ancestor", Zhiyao is not an "original".
Who is dissatisfied? Travel to an era more ancient than Zhiyao and do it.
It will take some time to convey the new order to Zhi Xuwu. I hope that Zhaogu's ability is not so strong that Zhaogu will win before Zhi Xuwu gets the order.
Zhiyao decided to attack "Xinzheng" without losing lives for a long time. His next step was to order a large number of prisoners of war to be escorted. The original army would supervise the work. The prisoners of war would dig trenches and collect materials for building a walled city.
Of course, the long-range weapons of the former army are still attacking "Xinzheng". At least six to seven hundred boulders are smashed into the city of "Xinzheng" every day. The bed crossbow only occasionally fires a shot at the first city wall of "Xinzheng". The Jinnu
The number of coverages gradually decreases.
Prisoners of war were being escorted over one after another, and most of them seemed to belong to the Chu people. They did not appear docile at first, and it took several groups of prisoners to suppress their resistance.
No one asked Zhiyao, for example, why he didn't capture the nearby Zheng people to come over and participate in the labor.
Although it has entered the Warring States Period, the armies of various princes will not deliberately avoid Li Shu to attack. There is only one army that will specifically target Li Shu, that is, the Qin Army.
The Qin army was indeed the first army to kill non-combatants during the Ji and Zhou era, and it was a planned massacre by high-level officials.
Therefore, the fact that the Qin people were called barbarians was really not a frame-up; the fact that the country was considered a barbarian country was actually the fault of the Qin senior officials themselves.
Zhiyao did not capture ordinary Zheng people. Firstly, he had lived in the contemporary world for more than forty years and his thoughts had been assimilated to some extent. Secondly, the practical reason was that the number of prisoners of war was already enough, so why let ordinary Zheng people deepen their hatred for the original country?
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The original army will not leave after wreaking havoc. What they need to do is to occupy the land and implement rule. The Zheng people will soon become the original people, and not surprisingly, future generations will also be part of the original country.
Therefore, the Zhi family did not deliberately bully the Wei, Chidi, Qi, and Lu people before, and they will not push the Zheng people out now.
On the contrary, what Yuan Guo should do is to let Zheng people experience the treatment of becoming Yuan Guo people, what new changes will occur after becoming Yuan Guo people, and what changes the new changes will have on their lives.
The besieged Zheng State's senior officials were able to gradually learn about some external situations until now. The original army waiting to besiege "Xin Zheng" tightened the encirclement, and gradually became difficult to receive news from the outside, until it completely lost contact with the outside world.
Therefore, the senior officials of the Zheng State only knew that the situation was getting worse, and did not know that the original army was already attacking more cities and villages, or that they were rushing to occupy the existing rule.
Here, Zhiyao taught the world another lesson. It is not necessary to completely destroy a country before starting to transform the country's common people. The country's top leaders lost their command over the local area and were actually able to start occupying and implementing rule.
Due to poor information, the senior officials of Zheng and Chu who were trapped in the city of "Xinzheng" mistakenly believed that the original army was under military pressure from other areas, which resulted in no large-scale siege of "Xinzheng" for a long time.
Whether there was a new Chu army moving northward that increased the pressure on the original army, or whether the pressure came from the Song army, the top leaders of Chu and Zheng could only guess.
The top leaders of the two countries discussed and spread the news that reinforcements were about to arrive to save their declining morale, and decided to launch a new round of counterattack against the original troops surrounding them.
Did the coalition make a new move? Of course Zhiyao wanted to take the opportunity to make a plan. Unfortunately, the other party was too cautious and did not dare to let the army leave the city too far. The enemy troops on the periphery did not dare to enter the original army's encirclement of "Xinzheng".
"Reinforcements? Zhaogu stopped at the Huaihe River. The Song army retreated to Changge. Where did you get the reinforcements?" Of course Zhiyao would not inform the top officials of Zheng and Chu.
The Song army was not that cowardly. They once crossed "Tushi" and marched towards "Xinzheng", and a big battle broke out with the original army at "Zhitian".
In this battle, 80,000 Song troops and 30,000 original troops fought in the plains. The two sides fought for sixteen days and it was difficult to determine the outcome.
The top leaders of the Song State repeatedly tried to get in touch with their allies in "Xinzheng". After many attempts failed, the Song army suffered nearly 20,000 casualties. Considering that there had been no new Chu troops from the south of Zheng State to come to the rescue, only the Song army
The army fought all the way to the gates of "Xinzheng" but it was of little use, so they took the initiative to retreat.
The battle that broke out in the "Tian Control" really made the senior officials of the Yuan Dynasty look at the Song Dynasty in a new light.
As a native of the Jin Dynasty, it must be said that the Jin State had never had high demands on the Song State, otherwise it would not have given up on the closer Song State and chosen to support the farther away Wu State.
"In the battle of 'Zhitian', our army suffered more than 10,000 casualties, and the Song army suffered about 30,000 casualties. The Song army was defeated but not collapsed. It still has the ability to fight. This alone is far better than the Chu army and the Zheng army."
Obviously, the original army misjudged the casualties of the Song army.
However, it is normal to misjudge enemy casualties. It not only happened in the cold weapon age, but the same situation is still common in the information age.
Sima Ranju said: "If the Song Dynasty does not mobilize anymore, will it be difficult for the Song army to take action this year?"
For the coalition forces, the most embarrassing part is that their main force is under siege and cannot cooperate with the reinforcements rushing in from the outside to force the reinforcements to withdraw from the siege. The number of reinforcements arriving by the coalition forces is too small, and being too close to "Xinzheng" will only increase the number of trapped troops.
Cheng Shuo said: "I once led my army to retreat, but the Song army did not directly drive towards Xinzheng."
The battle in "Zhi Tian" was commanded by Cheng Shuo. As the prince, Zhi Kai also participated in the battle. In terms of results, of course he won, but the real intention was to fail.
Zhiyao looked at Zhikai and asked, "Would you like to go to 'Qufu'?"
Everyone couldn't help but guess: Is this something happening on the Yue side?