The apprentice who was the first to flee listened to the order of the king of Chu, and said in his heart: "Those people in the city once said that all princes and nobles must be masked and merciful, but they are like beast owls who like human blood the most!" Today's building a mountain is also death, and retreating is also death, if you don't make sense, it may make sense! ”

The rest of the apprentices were accustomed to being driven, and when the military ordered, everyone hesitated, but the apprentice thought about the truth of many ink people in the city, and stepped forward and said, "I ......"

He only said a word, and the leading Chu general said: "Those who retreat privately!" Die! ”

An arrow flew out and hit the man in the throat, and before he could say a word, he was shot to death.

Seeing this, the rest of the people didn't dare to stay any longer, so they had to carry the earthen basket and continue to build a high platform.

By noon, the platform had finally come close enough to fire, and the crossbow carts above the city seemed to have run out of bolts, or those who controlled them were tired and slow to fire one.

Seeing this, the king of Chu hurriedly ordered the archers to raise the platform and no longer push forward, but to shoot at the head of the city with the archers at a high level, suppress the archers at the head of the city, and cover the Chu army to fill the trenches.

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In the city, Mozi was still calm, and kept asking the ink man to give orders.

Shi asked: "Sir, it seems that the Chu people in the distance no longer pile up mountains of earth, should we continue to shoot with the crossbow carts?" ”

Mozi shook his head and said, "In everything, you must pay attention to the changes of the enemy. Piled up mountains of earth may be used to build bridges with elite swords and shields to charge the city's head, or they may be suppressed and filled in the trenches with archers in preparation for the siege of the city. ”

"The role of the ballista is only to slow down the speed at which the Chu people build the earth mountain. If it can't be delayed, the Chu people may be able to complete it before an hour and a half. ”

"The delay is now completed, and the Chu people can only attack for a while in the afternoon before they will collect their troops. Moreover, the Chu people no longer dare to continue to build earth mountains and attack with sword and shield elites, and they will inevitably shoot from a high place with archers. ”

"The role of the ballista has been completed, and the rest will depend on equipment such as the transfer machine and the car."

After that, he taught Yu Shi the art of defending the city, and only said: "If Lou Ruo Ling's ears, all make the powerful master enemy, and those who are good at shooting will be the main enemy, and they will be all powerful." ”

"Rule. Zhu Yanyan is six feet high, four feet wide, and all of them are simple crossbows. ”

"The machine is six feet long, and it is one foot long. The two materials are combined for the wheel, the length of the wheel is two feet, and the chisel is the road arm, and the arm is long to Huan. Twenty steps one, so that those who are good at shooting, Zuo alone, do not leave. ”

Shi recorded them one by one, Mozi pointed out some skills, and Shi also wrote them down in the vernacular at this time for future viewing.

At the head of the city, the person who fired the ballista was not without strength, nor was he without crossbow arrows, relying on the pulley lever and winch, although the launch speed of the ballista was slow, but the person who controlled it did not consume much strength.

Mozi had already issued an order, the Chu archers had already climbed the Tushan, and the crossbow cart was already too cumbersome, and he was afraid of damage, so he asked people to disassemble it and put it under the city and push it away.

The more than six-foot-long and simpler ramjet was transported from below to the city walls, and it was also a powerful crossbow that was closer and easier to maneuver, and only two people needed to wiggle with it.

One is responsible for steering, the other is responsible for shooting, and the difference with the bed crossbow is that the bed crossbow is a large-caliber gun, and this kind of transfer machine is more like a three-pounder gun or leather cannon in the gunpowder era, which is more suitable for close firing.

On the top of the battlements at the head of the city, crossbows were prepared, and rattan, planks, or mud were used to connect the battlements together to form a simple defense similar to a breastwork.

The outside is covered with mud, and there is wheat straw inside, which can be used to remove the enemy's feather arrows after being shot, and it can prevent the enemy from using rockets, and the mud can be used to set fire.

Every thirty paces on the city wall there was a large tank full of water, which was also designed to prevent the enemy from firing rockets.

All the elite archers in the city, the famous ones in the village archery, and the taxis who have been trained since childhood, are above the city.

Each elite archer is accompanied by a scher, similar to a knight's servant, who is responsible for taking feathered arrows, delivering feathered arrows, observing the enemy, and so on.

These good archers will not shoot at the city, but use their own skills to deal with the Chu archers on the dirt mountain.

On Gongsun Ze's side, the attendants he had cultivated in the contract with Shi Gambling were preparing feather arrows for him on the side, observing the situation on the opposite side of the earth mountain.

Twenty steps away, several ink masters were urging some people to pull the transfer machine below to the city, Gongsun Zexin said: "The ink master is not good at shooting, so he can only use machinery. It's just that the machine is ruthless, how can there be etiquette? I will let the inkman know today that man is better than machine. ”

His archery skills are already excellent, and archery is a gentleman's art, and he is even more studied, and his arrows are also famous far and wide.

The servant who delivered the feather arrow next to him was familiar with him, and the distance was good enough, so it was the time to show his means.

He removed his curved bow and hooked his thumb on the bowstring with a wrench, waiting for his chance.

The servant on the side said: "Gentleman, the Chu people are already in the column, but they haven't seen the leader of the leader." ”

Gongsun Ze only stared into the distance, waiting for this gust of wind to stop, and he was about to show his means.

At this time, the two ink masters twenty paces away had already installed the light transigrapher, one squatted on top of the transigrapher, and the other used the lookout mountain to control the direction of the transigraph.

The lever tension was already taut, and the man adjusted his direction, waiting for orders from the head of the city.

More than 20 shooting machines are located at the head of the city, one every twenty paces, and a total of more than 40 ink masters are controlled, these crossbow arrows are more powerful than bows and arrows, the trajectory is straighter, and the speed is faster.

The messenger shouted at the head of the city, and as soon as the breeze stopped, more than twenty transigraphers were launched together.

The power is smaller than the previous repeater beds, but for the Chu archers who have just prepared to suppress the city, they are all dead, but they are not as shocking as those repeater beds just now.

At the moment when dozens of crossbow arrows flew out together, Gongsun Ze also found an enemy, taking advantage of the moment when the breeze just stopped, hooked the bowstring, caught the feather arrow in the tiger's mouth, and quickly pulled it away, not waiting for his arm to tremble slightly, and quickly flicked his fingers away.

Sou......

The moment he shot the arrow, it bent into a terrifying arc the moment it flew out, which showed the power contained in his bow.

The feather arrow straightened up twenty paces in the air and flew towards the Chu people opposite.

The servant praised: "Gentleman, in the middle! ”

As he spoke, he quickly delivered a feather arrow to Gongsun Ze, who did not look at the person he shot, but quickly looked for the next target.

But he didn't want to, he only saw the crossbow arrows thrown by the ink man's retort machine, which completely broke the front line of the Chu people, and the formation of the Chu people who had just formed the team was chaotic again.

Gongsun Ze was secretly surprised, and he couldn't imagine that more than 20 transfer planes that he despised were launched at the same time, and the power was like this: shooting one person was naturally a superb skill, but the ink man's transfer machine completely broke up the front line of the Chu people, leaving many gaps.

Once there is a gap, the power of the projectile will be greatly reduced, and there are many good archers among the Chu people, but those who are good at archery may not be willing to confront the Mo man's projectile on the earth mountain.

Gongsun Ze sighed, knowing that today he was only afraid that archery would not be better than the ink machine, so he had to give up his mind of comparison, and only bury himself in his own work to calm his mind.

Under the city, the king of Chu was no longer surprised by the various machinery of the ink man, but only ordered the archers to continue to take the stage, with twenty arrows in a round, and then retreat to rest after shooting, maintaining the suppression of the city.

Then another former soldier will prepare firewood, earthen baskets, etc., to fill the moat, and the follow-up elite soldiers will prepare the ladder made by the public transport squad that year, once the moat is filled, they will be attached to the siege.

The elite soldiers in the back are lining up in the whole team, preparing their respective weapons, divided into four teams, this is the real elite, you can't rush over in a swarm, you must attack in a whole team.

The soldiers who were good at shooting at the head of the city and the famous ones who were selected to shoot from the countryside confronted the Chu people on the dirt mountain, while the archers who were better than the others shot arrows at the moats.

People who kept approaching were shot, or stepped on the "dog walk" prepared by the ink artist in advance, or stepped on the pit dug in advance, and from time to time someone screamed.

The moat was far less efficient than wood, because wood was lighter and more to take, and the Chu people kept moving forward and put the firewood prepared in advance into the moat.

Seeing this, the king of Chu said in his heart: "Attacking the city with ants will definitely make the ink defenders of the city go all out." ”

It's just that he saw that the disciple of the public loss class who was accompanying the army next to him was shaking his head, and he couldn't help asking: "You once followed the public loss class, when Mo Zhai entered Chu alone, he must have talked about the means of guarding against ants attacking the city." ”

"Now that the four elite teams are gathered to siege the city, how many people do the ink men at the head of the city need to be able to resist?"

The disciple of the public loss class sighed and said, "I'm afraid that only four thousand people are needed." ”

The rest of the Chu generals didn't believe it, and said angrily: "Nonsense! These four teams of elites, does the ink only need 4,000 people to defend? ”

The disciple of the public losing class smiled bitterly and said: "In the past, Mr. couldn't think of a way to crack it, do you think that when it comes to siege, you can match Mr. back then?" ”

He bowed to the king of Chu again and said, "Of the four thousand, only a thousand are light and strong, and the rest are only old men and their women." ”

Where are the rest of the Chu people willing to believe, they can't help but take a breath of cool air, only to feel that this person is afraid that he is crazy.

The king of Chu knew that the Mo man could be famous in the world, and he must have something extraordinary, and the king of Chu was not a mediocre talent, and the public loss class improved the boat division of the Chu people with the strength of one person, so that the Chu people and the Yue people won a big victory in the competition for Huaibei.

He also knew that it was impossible to capture Shangqiu today, but the four teams of ant elite he had prepared were actually told by the disciples of the public defeat class that only 4,000 people were needed and there were 3,000 old and weak people in it to defend, so he couldn't help but be surprised, so he asked how it was back then.

The disciple of the public loss class said: "Mr. once said that Mo Zhai will not only defend the city, but also attack the city. This person once said that if a 100,000-strong army attacks the city indiscriminately, it will have no effect at all. Therefore, if you want to attack the city, you must cooperate with many parties. ”

"Needless to say, the archers of Yangtuo Tushan suppressed, filled the moat and prepared for the impact, etc. And the crowd of 100,000 people, the whole team can attack the city, at most four teams, any more will be no focus, but more convenient to defend. If there are more than four teams, the siege force will be lost, and the starting force will not be able to be used, and the archers behind will not be able to concentrate on covering. Even in a big city like Shangqiu, there can only be four queues. ”

"The largest row is five hundred steps. A detachment of five hundred paces wide required 1,000 men, 2,000 adult women, and 1,000 young and old, a total of 4,000 men, and it was enough to cope with it, so that the young and the old could not do anything to defend the city where there was no road. ”

Chu Wangqi said: "What's the use of women guarding the city? Could it be that the ink man guards the city, and the woman also goes up to the city wall? ”

The disciple of the public loss class said: "Women can also defend the city." It's just that Mr. had sworn that since that incident, he would never start an unjust war again, and never make any weapons for an unjust war, so Mo Zhai did not teach him the means of guarding against the ant-annexed siege back then. ”

"But Mr. was obedient back then, thinking that Mo Zhai would use this thousand men, two thousand women, and one thousand old and young to defend against a team of five hundred steps."

The king of Chu sighed, and said in his heart that today he was about to see how a thousand men and two thousand women could defend an elite siege team.

The rest of the Chu nobles didn't believe it, they just sneered.

At this moment, a strange sound was suddenly heard in the distance, and some strange wooden barrels flew out from behind the city wall, as if they had been thrown by someone.

The disciple of the public loss class said: "This must be the fire shovel thrown by the chariot made by Mo Zhai." The gentleman knew about it, but he couldn't break it, and he didn't tell us how it was made. ”