When all this news was confirmed—that the three Jin and Chuqi had no strength to interfere with the Mo family's expansion in the Surabaya Valley—there was an indescribable pre-war atmosphere throughout Pei County.

Some sharp-eyed people had already sensed that the Mo family might do something to Teng Guo after seeing that Teng Guo's Ji Te was brought back to Pei County.

After the autumn harvest and autumn ploughing, the volunteer master began to carry out large-scale exercises, and every day there was the sound of ping-pong in the field, and there were many curious or intentional eyes quietly observing.

The thousands of Peixian volunteers had already exceeded the limit of Peixian's own bearing, but the Mo family's iron and liquor industries sucked blood from the rest of the countries and raised such a demobilized army beyond Peixian's bearing.

More than half of the local yeoman farmers in Pei County are the main force of this volunteer group, and they are supplemented by landless cultivators or migrant servants who are deceived or lured from various big cities.

The elite of the Mo family, who were good at using short swords and shields, were completely dismantled and entered the righteous division as grassroots officers.

The Yishi completely abolished the configuration of the chariot, and replaced them with stirrup cavalry, which had only 300 men for the time being, about one-third of whom were elite veterans who prepared the city gates.

For the time being, these 300 people can only be used for reconnaissance and pursuit of the router, and they are not yet able to achieve such difficult tactics as flanking and charging into formation.

The establishment of the army follows the ancient system, and it is said in the "Book of Songs" that "Wang Hesi is angry and reorganizes his brigade", and the military system of military divisions and brigades has long existed.

According to the ancient system, the brigade of 500 people is a brigade, but the brigade of the righteous division is closer to the brigade of the Qi system, but it is slightly smaller than the establishment of the brigade of the Qi system, less than 2,000 people, only 1,500 people.

Not counting the artillery and cavalry, there were three brigades of infantry in total.

The scale of the Qi system was slightly reduced, with 200 people as a company, and here 150 people as a company, and each brigade had a total of 10 companies.

Eight of the companies were spearmen, and the remaining two were arquebuses.

But the number of arquebuses was still small, and the two companies had a total of 300 men, but in fact they were equipped with a total of 150 muskets.

Each musketeer had a deputy who was used to carry muskets, wooden forks, gunpowder, buckshot and other ordnance on the march in pairs.

During battle, the musketeer will take over the weapon, and the off-hand will fight with a short sword or dagger.

The spearmen of 1,200 men were arranged in a phalanx of 60 men in a column of 20 men, and the soldiers in the first two rows were all wearing leather armor, and the rear were temporarily unarmoured.

Considering the poor quality and quantity of arquebuses at this time, as well as the fact that the cavalry had not yet formed and had to guard against the enemy's chariots, etc., it was necessary to abandon mobility to increase defense.

Peacetime training, divided into offensive and defensive.

When defending, the musketeers would line up about ten paces in front of the spearmen, and the first row would shoot and then retreat back to the back row.

At this time, if there is a defensive battle, after the locals approach, the musketeers will complete two rounds of fire and retreat to the spearman's side, receiving close protection from the spearman.

When attacking, the musketeers would be placed on either side of the spearmen's phalanx, following the drums.

Each of the three brigades has a brigade commander, and each company also has at least two or three ink commanders who are company commanders or Sima commanders.

A series of due positions, such as drummer, fluteer, secretary general, non-commissioned soldier food committee, and secretary of the army, can also be regarded as complete.

In addition to these three infantry brigades, there were about a thousand elite spearmen and a part of the elite who were proficient in combat combat, and normally did not engage in battle, but only served as a reserve and an emergency force to prevent flanks from being raided until the cavalry had grown up.

Among these 1,000 people, there is a high proportion of Mo people and old righteous teachers who have experienced the battle of Shangqiu, and there are also some travelers who defected to the Mo family. They can move faster than the first three brigades while maintaining a formation, and they are also able to withstand greater impacts.

In addition, there are some light and mobile small copper cannons, which are not many in number and have a small caliber, which are very suitable for field combat, and they are all controlled by ink makers.

In terms of consumption, the cost of this army is much more expensive than that of the soldiers of Wei Xihe.

Nowadays, iron tools are expensive, and each musket is fifteen or sixteen catties of wrought iron, not to mention, it also consumes a lot of craftsmen. Fortunately, the cost price of ironware is different from the external selling price, so it is not ridiculously expensive.

The firearms equipped by the Mo family are about the length of a person's chest, the caliber is very large, the lead bullet is about one or two, the loading speed is very slow, and the fastest trained person can only fire it once in nearly a minute and a half.

Fortunately, the ignition device has been modified, and it is no longer the original fire door gun that pokes the fire rope in one hand, but uses copper and iron to make a simple snake hook, which can clamp the fire rope.

There is a small groove near the fire door, which is filled with some fast-burning gunpowder, and the fire rope is driven into the groove to ignite the fast gunpowder, which in turn ignites the propellant in the chamber from the fire door.

The disadvantage is that there can be no rain, even if there is a strong wind, the gunpowder in the groove will be blown open, and the chamber will not be ignited.

But this is enough progress compared to the short and thick stuff that the Mo family sold to the Chu State to defend the city, with a wooden stick stuck in the back, and it needs to be held in one hand and pinched with the other hand to win the fire door.

In fact, from the introduction of gunpowder into Europe to the appearance of the first batch of copper fire cannon in Italy, but more than ten years, this thing is a principle to put it bluntly, and there is no technical difficulty in not pursuing refinement at this technical level.

The only advantage is the correct proportioning equation of gunpowder, not taking the detour of the short gun of the hand cannon, awakening the structure of the arquebus, and not taking the evil path of the bowl cannon, which is the experience of nearly 200 years of war.

Even so, the arquebus at this time was a little worse than the bow, but the bow and crossbow did not have much room for improvement, and the arquebus was indeed easier to practice.

The 300 people who were brought back from Niu Langyi were also incorporated into the army to practice muskets, and they could choose to become professional soldiers after they retired, or they could choose to organize a farming society to reclaim wasteland after retiring.

Although the soldier's salary is not much, he can still make ends meet. The cattle and iron tools of Pei County have been promoted, and a large number of people who have fled here from all over the area have continued to expand the cultivated area, and the local iron spirits, grain and seeds exported in exchange for gold and copper have ensured the reserves of precious metals, and the increasing number of handicraftsmen with the development of agriculture has also allowed Pei County to have enough goods to exchange.

Compared to other places, life here is excellent, and it is visible to the naked eye that the good days are increasing day by day.

On the one hand, open up the abandoned well fields, popularize private fields, five households and ten households cultivate together, divide cattle and horses, and take one out of fifteen taxes.

New tools, new planting techniques, and the spread of new compost varieties have all led to a significant increase in food production.

While maintaining the fifteenth tax and one one, the Mo family monopolized the iron tools with technology, which is equivalent to the people paying another tax, but this tax is hidden in the iron, and everyone will not oppose it if they can't see it.

The Mo family's food is also sufficient, enough to support the expenses of this army.

At the same time, a series of goods such as cotton cloth have begun to be mass-produced, replacing the original linen cloth, eliminating the link of soaking linen and stripping linen, and the production efficiency of cloth has been greatly increased, and even that kind of intensive textile workshop has been opened.

Women were organized to accumulate capital by taking advantage of the extremely lucrative sales of cotton cloth to the outside world, and to spread the system of division of labor and cooperation like the previous Mohist workshops, and to reward technological change.

Technological innovations such as ox farming and iron tools, which were promoted to the Song Kingdom with Peixian as the center, also allowed the Mo family's "money" to buy more sufficient goods.

The farmers of the Song Kingdom improved their production efficiency, deducting what they ate, and twice as much grain as before entered the circulation field.

At this time, transportation was inconvenient, and the Song Kingdom did not fight for the time being, and the price of grain fell sharply in recent years, and many Song farmers fled to this place to become handicraftsmen.

In this case, the Mo family has money, materials, people, ideas, organization, and a stable development of the rear, as well as the Song State, which has begun agricultural reform, as a stable market and blood-sucking direction, there is no problem in winning a small Teng State.

Shi even felt that even if the Yue Kingdom knew afterwards, as long as the number of counterattackers did not exceed 50,000, his side could win, after all, there must be a large number of peasant soldiers and baggage soldiers among the 50,000 Vietnamese army, and they would be counted together, and there would not be too many field elites.

In this case, Shi wanted to seek command this time, so as to enhance his status and prestige within the Mo family.

In fact, he was the best person to command.

The Mo family is good at defending the city, and those who have really commanded the field battle are actually the victorious ones who defected, and the remaining living ones rarely have the opportunity to command the field battles.

Those disciples who were the first to be accepted by Mozi back then, the old ones who died, and the old ones, who had been high-ranking officials such as Shangqing, basically died of illness before they joined the Mo family.

It is impossible for Mozi to command this battle at the age of seventy, Gongzaoye is very busy in Pengcheng, and Yu Huali is not young and is good at defending the city and not good at field warfare.

Shi put forward a lot of ideas for impromptu response during the first battle of Shangqiu, and the first battle of Niu Qiyi also proved his ability to command thousands of people to defend the city alone.

The use of firearms such as stirrups and a whole set of tactics were summed up by him, although it can be regarded as "on paper", but it is still better than those who can't talk about it.

After returning from Tengdi, Shi Yi wrote a battle plan and sent it to Mozi in October, convening the high-level Mo family who had already learned the news to discuss.

To capture Tengdi, it was decided to dig a tunnel close to the city wall, and dig a tunnel to bury gunpowder and blow up the city gate after approaching the city wall.

But in order to reduce casualties, he hopes to use the terrain of Tengdi to fight an ambush of annihilation.

On the southwest side, there is the most open place in Tengcheng, which is also the most suitable place for siege.

On the north and south sides, the Jing River and the Xiaojing River are surrounded, which is not conducive to the siege.

On the northeast side, the Xiaojing River and the Jing River have the narrowest approach, forming a pass, if the southwest corner is surrounded and attacked, and the city gate is blown open with gunpowder, the Yue people will be panicked.

There is still an inner city in Teng, and when the Yue people see that the city gate is bombed, they must know that the inner city cannot be defended, and they will definitely flee from the northeast.

This can be regarded as encircling three and missing one, forcing the Yue people not to coerce the Tengdi peasants to flee on their own, and ambushing a brigade at the pass of the Jing River and the Xiaojing River in the northeast corner, which is enough to completely annihilate the Yue people in Tengdi, and can also reduce the casualties of the Tengdi people.