Qin Official

"General Wang, the enemy has moved their camp seven miles away. Scout Hou Wang has seen large wooden equipment arriving in the distance. He may be preparing to attack the city..."

When someone calls him "General Wang", Wang Li, standing at the top of Wuguan City, is usually slightly startled.

It didn't take long for him to realize that he had now inherited the title that was once his eldest father, his father's exclusive title.

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. People have no manners. People have no manners. What's the point of not dying? 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 into using them to transport food and crops, or to serve as soldiers.

Fortunately, His Majesty the Second Emperor was wise and wise and still trusted the Wang family. He immediately mobilized Wang Li and Shangjun soldiers to go south to put down 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 ascend to heaven will be controlled by the general. From now on, those who descend to the abyss will be controlled by the general!"

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 and his father. Ever since he was lost in the battle against the Xiongnu, 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 during the lifetime of Emperor Qin Shihuang, 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 succeeded Wuchenghou in his art of war."

Wang Li lived in such depression for seven or eight years. It was not until the Second Emperor succeeded 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!"

…

The bald craftsman standing in front of Wang Li is named Gong Shuyu, after Lu Ban.

The descendants of Lu Ban have been carpenters for generations and live in the land of Lu which was conquered by the Chu State. After Qin unified the world, Zheng Gongshu's craftsmen became the Shaofu's last trump card after Mo Zhe completely broke with the Qin government and was surrendered.

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 used as a ladder, and Mozi controlled it. Mozi used the belt as 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 non-offense. Ai Zhiyi has never paid much attention to the art of city siege, far less than my father-in-law Shu. But in the past ten years, the villain has been able to read all the chapters of Mo Zhai's "City Guard" in Shaofu, 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. It is bordered by Shaoxi in the north, Danshui in the south, Shangyu in the west, and only the enemy in the east. 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 into 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 attacker 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. Shooting an arrow with your eyes closed can kill a large number of people.

A ladder can accommodate at most three or five people on it at the same time. This also means that each batch of ants 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, always fighting against the few with more.

In this way, even if the Southern Army has a strength advantage, it cannot be reflected, let alone that its strength is still 20,000 less than that of the Northern Army. The two sides will take turns to attack and defend. In the end, it will be the attacker who exhausts his energy.

After talking about the strengths 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, Kongkong, Yifu, There are only thirteen kinds of weapons, including the carriage, the flying stone, 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 the Danshui and serve as a moat. At the top of the city there are canals, carriages, stacks, towers, cleats, tangerines, stiles, long axes, long vertebrae, long hoe, hooks, flying punches, hanging (beams), Piqu, crossbows and other equipment. , specially designed 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 from the rain of arrows to prevent the commander from being injured by the enemy and causing confusion in command. .

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 "jue's point", a hole 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. After burning, it is poured down from the "jue's hole", 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 the enemy's fire attack, and the other is to prevent the spontaneous combustion of the fodder. There is a tiled wooden water jar 5 steps above the city, which can hold 10 buckets of water. There are more than a thousand such water jars in the city.

Descending the city from the stone steps, 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.

"Gong Shuyu, 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, preparing for the worst. Once Wuguan was breached, they would serve as the last gantry of the Qin Dynasty. Push back the rebels.

"With such a complete defense method, even the black thieves also have Mo masters, but their siege skills are not necessarily better 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 keep one hundred thousand people waiting for work, I will definitely defeat them at 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 attacked the Yin Dynasty, attacked the returning beasts, learned about his political affairs, and wrote "Wu Cheng". A person who is successful in martial arts is one who has achieved great success in martial arts. My 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.

"Wuguan, city guard, is it God's will? Well, today, I will defend this Wuguan to prove..."

"Wang Li, I have never fallen into disgrace as my great father!"

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 of cattle and horses..."

"General Wang is like a wooden cow and a stray horse."

Sima Yang on the side coughed slightly and corrected.

Wang Li was a little unhappy after losing 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 ten people's food for a month, and only one person was needed to drive it. It can move around on its own. Without heavy exertion by humans and without water and food by cattle, it can move around day and night without interruption. It is as if it were walking on flat ground on the narrow path in the Danshui Mountains. It is really miraculous."

"Can the Gongshu family imitate such an ingenious Mohist device?"

…

ps: Chapter 2 is at night.