The king of Chu said in his heart: "If I am a farmer and pay for industry and commerce, I am afraid that I have been persuaded by the ink man." Fortunately, the peasants were stupid, but they were only shaken, and they were able to stabilize the morale of the army. ”

"I heard that in the past, Candle Zhiwu withdrew Qin Bo with his tongue, Shen Baoxu begged Qin Shi to recover Chu with his tongue, and Cao Mo forced Qi Hou Menglu with his tongue...... But he didn't want to take advantage of the ink man's tongue, so he tried to move the army! ”

The king of Chu looked at Shi who had been protected by a big shield on the head of the city again, and appreciated in his heart that these words were very good, but on the surface, he wanted to make an angry look.

The greatest enemy of the monarchy is the aristocracy.

The yeoman farmer could accept an enlightened and authoritarian monarch than a chaotic feudal monarch.

The king was more willing to accept a group of small peasants who owned their own land and paid taxes directly to the king than a feudal lord with countless constraints.

A lot of things about the Moshi are not as explicit as they are said, leaving enough gaps - it seems that the monarch can be the best system of synonymology between the upper and lower levels, at least for now it seems that this point is still theoretically possible, and has not been completely sealed.

Thus, before the struggle with the monarchy, the greatest enemies of the Moshi were the feudal nobles, which seemed to be exploitable by the king because of their temporary weakness.

The king of Chu was not a fool, but on the contrary, he was ambitious, so he inevitably thought that those "silverfish" were indeed as the ink man said.

However, there are too many "silverfish" in the Chu State, and the silverfish are literate, silverfish, and silverfish, and there are not enough classes that are not "silverfish" to replace them.

Therefore, the king of Chu ordered the elite archers beside him to shoot at the head of the city to suppress the voices that were still buzzing and shouting on the city walls.

The king of Chu didn't understand it very well, but he could guess from the attitude of the farmers that these ink artists did not necessarily say anything incendiary.

After a few rounds of feathered arrows, the sound of the city was muffled, but no one was shot.

The Chu troops outside the city began to retreat, and when the archers stopped, the ink man changed to a Yangxia accent, a Fangcheng accent, and a Chu Ying accent and kept shouting, not to let people hear, but to let the Chu people retreat a certain distance.

He is a shoemaker, and a bear is king; He didn't know the Chu language and Yayin, and the king of Chu couldn't understand the appropriate dialect.

The two were separated by more than 100 steps, but the king of Chu understood the meaning of suitability, which was to make the Chu people retreat a hundred steps to a place where they could not hear the preaching of the ink man.

This is not a retreat, but it is a taboo in besieging the city, leaving 200 steps, there is any emergency in the city, and the outside of the city can not be supported in time.

The besieging side needs to keep the city tense at all times and create the illusion that they don't know when to attack the city, so as to deplete the morale of the city.

The besieging side needs to have enough soldiers close to the city walls to deal with the surprise attacks of soldiers leaving the city, to deal with those who flee and rescue, to receive those who run down from the city to surrender, and to deliver the news of the spies in the city.

Mozi's first priority in defending the siege was to send elite troops to attack the enemy troops placed outside the city walls, so that they could retreat to a hundred paces away.

The distance of 100 steps has exceeded the effective range of the bow and arrow, and one step on the left and right feet is one step at this time, and the distance is very long.

If there are few people who listen, you only need to kill all the people who have heard it, and it will not have an impact in the barracks.

But today's song "Bustard Feather" caused homesickness and dissatisfaction, and then those bloody words instigated not dozens of people, but hundreds of people and more than a thousand people.

These people can't all be killed, so they can only strictly prevent these words from spreading, and they can only sort out the interior first.

The wheat harvest is about to be harvested, and if it is really not possible, these people can only be replaced by changing the guard to cut the wheat, but the new ones cannot be too close.

The besiegers who were originally safe and secure under the city began to be chaotic, and the elite of the Chu army dispatched to cover the change of formation, cover the retreat of those cannon fodder soldiers in the front row for a certain distance, and seize the time to restrain discipline, strictly investigate the discussion in the barracks, kill a group of people to set an example, and hang a group as a warning......

It's just a tune and a few words, and it has achieved the effect that requires hundreds of elite soldiers to go out of the city to fight to the death.

Gongsun Ze, who was on the city wall, thought of the previous contempt, and knew that he was humiliated again today.

If it was just such a humiliation, it was nothing, and he felt that some of Shi's words seemed to be insinuating about himself—according to Shi's words, wasn't he also the so-called "silverfish" of the Moshi?

This is unacceptable to him, and he wanted to argue with Shi, but found that Shi didn't even look at him, and Shi Shiran went down to the city.

Gongsun Ze didn't know that the silverfish in Shi's eyes was the nobles of the whole world, and as for his Gongsun Ze, Shi didn't have the heart to insinuate at all.

Seeing that the Chu army outside the city had retreated for a distance, and the elite Wang Shi and chariots were waiting for him, Gongsun Ze sighed, and could only look at Shi's back and look up to the sky and sigh.

"Troublemaker! It must be the Mo family! In this way, how can the world not be chaotic? How can the heart be at peace? How can the people be loyal to the king? ”

He seemed to want to sigh and listen to him, even if he turned back and argued with him for a few words, it was better than not saying a word, and even bothered to leave with joy and joy for the victory just now.

However, Shi left like this, and he didn't even bother to waste the strength to tell Gongsun Ze to let him see what his tongue could do, just like ...... Forget that on the city wall, there is a Gongsun Ze who had a gambling contract with him a few years ago, had a grudge, and was even afraid of being frightened.

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After returning to the house where Mo Zhai was stationed, Mo Zhai and the others were there to prepare liquor, which was a special potion, a secret configuration method of the ink man, which could be used to clean the eyes injured by smoke, and was a necessary thing to deal with the siege of the tunnel.

Outside a high-rise building for a lookout, wells were dug every few steps, either five or three steps, and the top of the well was covered with cowhide, and the whole well was like a drum.

Some blind men lay on the cowhides at the mouth of the well, listening intently to the movement in the distance.

Shi walked over cautiously, and Mo Zhai said: "This is a way to listen to the enemy's possible excavation of tunnels to attack. Remember, if you look up and see that the water in the moat is a little muddy, or if the enemy looks like they're digging into the wall, but there's too much dirt piled up, it's probably going to be digging a tunnel to attack. ”

"You learn these skills quickly, but you also have to know them all. You know the general idea, but you can't ignore these tricks. ”

Nodding his head, Mo Zhai said again: "You came just in time, I have seen the situation in the city just now." Now defending the city, your Xuanyi Department will make a meritorious contribution first. ”

"Whoever defends the city, must find a way to prevent the enemy from living in peace within a hundred steps."

"In the past, you used to kill cattle and sheep to boost the morale of the defenders, but you used them to reduce the morale of the besiegers. One increases and one decreases, no different. ”

"I think that in the past few days, the Chu people are afraid that they have no intention of attacking the city, but they have to clean up the interior first."

After thinking for a while, he said, "Sir, that's not necessarily. I'm afraid that the Chu people may try to attack the city. Whoever attacks a city will have dead and wounded, but if there are dead and wounded, those words will be of little use. ”

"Although the farmer of Shangqiu and the farmer of Chu are both farmers, they are close to each other. How can a man who is in his accomplices die without resentment? ”

"Furthermore, attacking the city can also let those who hear these preaching attack first, so that they can die quickly, and then how can the Mo Scholar kill the farmer of Chu at that time?"

"Moreover, the siege of the city can also make the Chu people think the same thing, and we can't shout and shout, so Mr. still has to be careful."

Mo Zhai smiled: "That's right, the defenders of the city should not be careless. Although I think that if I come to defend the city, I will definitely make the besieging side unable to find a place to attack, but if I am careless, it may still be breached. ”

"You're right, but I can crack everything they can do."

With such a confident answer, Shi Ye felt that there was no problem, and said: "Sir, the wheat harvest is about to begin, and I estimate that the Chu people will attack the city once to make the city tired, and then prepare to harvest the wheat thirty miles away." ”

"When the wheat is harvested, we have to attack once, thinking that we will prepare for it later. This time the sortie ...... Or don't use all ink. If there is damage......"

Shi didn't finish speaking, but Mozi understood what he meant. The number of ink writers is too small, one less one dies, it is too difficult to join the ink masters, and the selection criteria are too high.

Mozi said with a smile: "This time it's just for the sake of reality in the future, there is no need to be strict with the law, and naturally all the ink masters don't need to be dispatched." Those who have been detained by their wives and children, their parents, can go to war. ”

Shi pondered for a while, and felt that this matter was still related to the Xuanyi Department, and said: "In this way, I am afraid that those scholars will have resentment, saying that the ink is favoritism, and they will not let the ink go to war but let them fight." ”

"I've heard that the promotion of Mien and the fight of Mien. Mo is a person from the world, but not a Song person, defending the city is originally for the benefit of the world, and the Song Duke has never given us a fief. However, if we don't fight, they feel favoritism......"

"I need to find a way to avoid having them insult us first."

Mozi waved his hand and said, "Don't care about them, let them go." There are still people in the Xuanyi Department who can do these things, and fifty-four can also do them, you come here first, and there are other important things to do. ”

"We must do a good job this time, if we don't do it well, the ink will be seriously damaged."

When he heard that the matter was urgent, he hurriedly took out a small notebook, and was about to write it down with a thin pen, Mozi smiled: "No need to remember, no need to remember, things are very small to say, but it is extremely difficult to do." ”

Taking back the small book, Mozi said: "You are a book secretary, and you have also copied my chapter on defending the city, what do you think is the biggest difference from other articles?" ”

This is really compared, Sun Tzu's Art of War and the like all pay attention to strategy.

The Mozi city defense technique focuses on technology.

In the transcription of records, you can see precise numbers everywhere, every centimeter,

Whoever kills the attacker with a hole, twenty steps to a hole, the hole is ten feet high, ten feet is chiseled, chisel as before, step down three feet, ten steps to embrace the hole, left and right horizontally, ten feet high and wide.

In a passage like this, a bunch of numbers and rulers abound, and it's a general technical guide.

So Shi said: "The details are complete and the figures are detailed, which should be the difference in Mr.'s article." ”

Mozi nodded yes, and said with a pleased smile: "This is also the foundation of defending the city. The book of soldiers only talks about how to motivate and how to arrange the formation, but does not say in detail. As long as I am literate and counting, I can learn the same way. ”

"It's different, and that's what I like. Therefore, as for the plan you said about sending troops through the formation in the future to force Chu to be allied, it must be detailed, perfect, and the figures are clear. ”

Mozi said something more and asked, "Sir, did you ask me to take advantage of the feint attack of the first wave of city soldiers to see the movement of the Chu people clearly?" Calculate the distance to their tents? Determine how long they support each other? Exact number, write it down? ”