Chapter 371: The Gentleman's Golden Drum (12)
Yue Wang Fei vaguely felt the difference between the Mo family's righteous division and the princes' army, and this difference stemmed from the terrifying speed of breaking the city, which made the model of "defending the city" and "three armies arraying and fighting" in the Spring and Autumn Period become an outdated experience.
It seems useless to take down Ni and Wucheng without defending them, but in the eyes of Yue Wang Peng, this is more like a declaration: Yishi can take down any city in the Surabaya Valley.
Yue Wang Peng could not save Wucheng or Ni, but he had to save those capitals with greater political significance.
The army of more than 40,000 people is like the ploughing cattle of Pei County, led by the nose of the righteous master to circle between the princes and small countries, and every time they feel that they are about to catch up, but they are always a few days apart.
From time to time, scouts of the righteous masters appeared around the Yue people, riding horses with saddles and stirrups, and using the most rudimentary muskets, often approaching suddenly while they were resting, lighting a musket from a distance, and then running away.
They couldn't catch up with them, because the Yue people had no cavalry, only heavy chariots.
Although the chaotic weapons could only be heard at times, the soldiers were often too nervous to rest.
On this day, Yue Wang Phong and the nobles observed the camp traces left by the righteous master a few days ago, observed the camp traces for a while, and secretly praised.
I saw that the camp was squarely arranged, next to a small river next to a hillside that could be defended and withdrawn at any time.
There are signs of ground breaking around, and some bamboo or sharpened wood is arranged underneath as an obstacle.
This is not the first time I have seen it, the Vietnamese army has been chasing these camps, but what they see every day is basically the same, which has to make Yue Wang Phong sigh.
After seeing all this, the temple area praised: "The world knows that in the first battle of Shangqiu, the Mo family Yishi attacked the Chu camp at night, and it was 800 to 50,000, and he took advantage of the chaos to capture the king of Chu. Now it seems that they attach great importance to the matter of night raids and garrisons. β
"As I saw for a few days, the camp was in good order, and it was really a strong army."
This is not entirely true, and the well-prepared campsite may not be a peerless force. However, if the camp is in disarray, it is bound to be a force that will collapse at the touch of a button.
Yue Wang Peng counted the bonfires and stove pits left by the righteous master, and said strangely: "It is said that there are ten thousand righteous masters, but the number of stove pits is a little small. β
Someone said: "The people of Wucheng have said that these righteous teachers use things called 'iron pots' to make rice, which is different from the clay pots of their partners. β
Yue Wang Fei was stunned, nodded and said: "Back then, the prince met the first king and told the Mo family's skills and machinery. At that time, the Duke of Chu lost the class to change the hook to reject the warship, and built a ladder, the Chu people had a strong boat division, and the first king had already had the heart to recruit. It's a pity that Mo Zhai refused to come in the name of the injustice of the previous king, and abandoned the land of 500 miles...... If this happened back then, what is happening today? β
"Under the whole world, before the righteous teacher, how can there be a few days to break the city? That gunpowder, combined with the Mo family's method of guarding the acupuncture points, used it, is so powerful? β
"If he can't break the city, what if he wanders from nation to nation?"
"In the past, Mo Zhai once discouraged the public loss class and taught it righteousness, and the public loss class has never made siege machinery since then, and now if the public loss class is resurrected, how will Mo Zhai face him?"
Everyone knew that the king was complaining, and they all thought: Mo Zhai's dialectics is also right in the world, and he can say that he can not use siege machinery in the public losing class back then, but now even if the public losing class is resurrected, I am afraid that he also has rhetoric.
After complaining, I had to stay here to rest and chase after him tomorrow.
A few days later, when I looked at the pot stove where I was camping, it was divided into four and went away from four paths.
Asked along the way, it turned out that the righteous master bought food in the villages along the way, but it was not the paper money used in Wucheng, but the real gold.
The Mo family is now rich, this is also known to the world, many utensils are from Pei County, Yue Wang still has two sets of cotton cloth and a few strange "porcelain", not to mention those iron gunpowder.
Gold is easy to carry, and there is not much surplus food between the villages, but it is enough gold to pay.
I asked the people of the villages along the way, and I only said that the righteous teacher had the style of a gentleman and did not disturb the people along the way.
At this time, the people of the village community are not good people. It is really appalling that the nobles who have eaten the horses of the Duke of Qin, sent the land of the Duke of Jin Wen, and robbed the nobles who passed by, can be praised by the people of these villages.
Yue Wang was surprised not only by this, but also because at this time, there was no division of troops in the world.
Obviously, the Mo family Yishi was worried about the lack of food along the way, so he divided his troops into two advances, and it seemed that he was going to meet somewhere.
It's just that the army that can do this must be a strong army in the world, and Yue Wang Phong is more and more worried in his heart.
What worries him is not about the field war, he has the Junzi Army in hand, thinking that this is the number one pawn in the world, and the problem of winning the field battle is a matter of consciousness.
What he was worried about was that since the Mo family Yishi was also a strong army in the world, he had to be more prepared for them to capture the city.
It is now the end of May, and more than 40,000 troops have circled between these small countries, and the soldiers are tired, but the righteous teachers who are being chased are cunning so that the Yue people cannot catch up at all.
The horsemen of the righteous division scouted in four directions, in groups of three or five, and the chariots could not chase, and the foot soldiers could not chase.
As for where the Mo family righteous master is going, it can only be known in a few days, but it seems that the Mo family righteous master knows their whereabouts well.
Ten years later, the camp of the righteous teachers who were divided into four roads was merged into one, and Yue Wang Fei counted the pots and stoves, and found that there was no decrease, and his heart was even more shocked.
The fact that a large army can attack separately and attack without committing any crime in the autumn will result in a meeting ten days later and after is not just terrifying, but simply beyond the world's understanding of war and the army at this time.
Soon after this righteous teacher meeting, soon Yue Wang Peng knew what the righteous teacher meeting and queen had done.
A team of 8,000 people carrying grain from the Yue people was ambushed by the righteous master, and the 8,000 people could not resist and scattered as birds and beasts.
The righteous master intercepted a lot of rice transported from Hangou from Yuedi, and immediately captured a nearby small town of 5,000 households, and after capturing enough rice for his own consumption, he actually distributed these rice to the people in the city, and preached the truth that "an unjust war is not advisable" and "the princes of Surabaya are not attacking the alliance" and "opening a strange and breaking the well field", and then fled away and went straight to the city.
This time, Yue Wang Peng didn't have to be a "cruel king", because the ruler of the 5,000-household small town that was attacked was a "benevolent and righteous person".
This Yizai is not only a native of Fei Guo, but also very much agrees with the art of Confucianism, and also appreciates the truth of Mizi's humble rule of single father.
At that time, Mi Zi was cheap to govern a single father, and the army of Qi crossed the border, and Mi Zi was not allowed to harvest food from the people in the city, because it was beneficial to the people in the short term, but in the long run, it may affect education, causing the people to want to get something for nothing, and even have a psychological confrontation with the well field system...... Because the wheat outside the city of Shan Father was public land in those days, although the people worked, the ownership had nothing to do with the people.
Recently, the righteous master distributed the rice of the Yue people, and the Yi Zai also thought that this was "taking other people's things", which could not be collected, and after receiving it, it would affect and educate the people, so that the heart of getting something for nothing would be born, and the foundation of the Lutian system would be destroyed.
As soon as the righteous master left, Yi Zai took the initiative to collect all the rice from each family, and offered it when the Yue army came, to show that he did not take "things that are not his own".
The resentment of the people was the slaughter of the city, although Yue Wang Fei did not order compulsory collection like Wucheng, but since he took the grain, he had to bear this resentment.
Since the Mojia Yishi was able to ambush the logistical baggage, it was obviously the cavalry scouts who controlled the field of vision, and the Yue Wang Peng also broke off the mind of "dividing the troops into three ways and encircling" that he had briefly born, for fear that the Yishi would ambush him all the way and cause the army to collapse.
At this time, the righteous master left a message, the next step is to go straight to the Yuecheng of the Yue Kingdom, the Yue Wang Peng can't argue the truth or falsehood, so he can only advance towards the Zhangcheng with all his strength.
Because, the righteous master of the Mo family is not only able to say empty words, but can really break through the city, and everything he has done before is to endorse this cruel sentence now.
The city is the territory of the Yue Kingdom, and the geographical location is extremely important, so the Yue Wang Phong has to guard against the righteous master who can do what he says.
It was the transit place where the rice transported from Hangou was transported to Nicheng Tengdi, and once the city was breached and the grain was burned, it would be impossible to think about the attack on Tengdi in the short term.
Moreover, the situation in Zhangcheng is extremely special, although it belongs to the Yue Kingdom, the situation inside is extremely complicated, and the situation is even more suitable for the infiltration of the Mo family than Tengdi.
The nobles of the state of Xuan either died or fled to the state of Lu, and Zeng Shen was the great-grandson of the last marquis.
And the people of the country have no sense of belonging to the country, and they don't even have a sense of belonging to the country, they only care about whether they benefit or not, because the country is meaningless to them.
At that time, the Ju State was still there, and in order to compete with the Lu State for the Jin State, the lower body method that was not commonly used by the nobles of the Central Plains was used.
The last marquis first married a woman from Juguo, and after giving birth to a son-in-law, his wife died, and he married his sister-in-law.
This sister-in-law is naturally also from Juguo, and after giving birth to a girl, she married a branch of Juguo, and the girl's mother is actually cousins with her husband's father, completely ignoring any etiquette, and gave birth to another son.
This son is a Ju man from the paternal bloodline. But from the maternal bloodline, he is the grandson of the Marquis.
The Marquis has only one son, Gongzi Wu, as long as Gongzi Wu flees or dies, then the succession will be the turn of the grandson of the Marquis, which is regarded as a change of surname.
At this time, Gongzi Wu and Lu Hou were cousins, and Lu Guo had always wanted to annex the State of Jin, but the Ju people made the first move, and forced away Gongzi Wu with assassination and intimidation, so that the inheritance fell into the hands of that grandson.
From this, even if the Ju country is destroyed, at least within the scope of Zhou Li, it is considered a dead country, the so-called non-extinction, the heir of the foreign surname, the way to perish.
And the state of Lu later regained the silk, and then it was taken away by the state of Chu, and then the state of Qi was snatched back, and the state of Wu went north to help it restore the country.
After this round of rotation, the deep-rooted local aristocracy is basically gone, and the people have a very weak concept of "country", as the so-called whoever can let them live a good life is the monarch.
As for the division of princes and the sacredness of bloodline, it has become a joke in the eyes of the people in that ridiculous battle for the inheritance of the lower half of the bodyβfor the sake of inheritance, the nobles can do incest with their cousins for the sake of that little blood inheritance.
It was none other than the nobles themselves who destroyed the sacredness of the nobility. They have destroyed the sacredness of the ceremony, in fact, they have also destroyed their own sacredness, but the general trend of the world is not something that one or two sober people can decide.
Yue Wang Fei knew some things of the Mo family, and knew that if the Mo family captured Xuan, it would not be as simple as Wucheng and Nicheng, but would directly drive away the Yue nobles like Teng Guo, and even distribute the land of the Yue nobles, these things the Mo family had already done once in Tengdi.
Elsewhere, it is necessary to take into account the attitude of the local nobles, so that the alliance of "the princes of Surabaya will not attack" will not be so resolute, but in Zhangcheng, there is no need to worry about this at all.