Shi Ben is one of the radicals of the Mo family, and has shown a lot of means, and now he has experienced the matter of the grass marquis borrowing arrows, and he can speak within the arms of the Mo.

This matter is not just a military issue, so this kind of matter has a right to speak as a radical.

This matter itself is consistent with the previous plan of the ink master, but the means of supervision are different.

Originally, he just hoped that the oath would be recognized by Song Gong, but Shi Ze thought that such a thing as ghosts and gods rewards and punishments was not credible, and it was better to balance it with more realistic forces.

In the previous conversation between Mozi and Gongzaoye and others, it was mentioned that the so-called "ghosts and gods" are not "ghosts and gods", but only a method of restraint.

Whether it is the sword of the world before, or the current way to create development space for the Mo family by relying on the tripartite balance, it is all with the help of the power of "another ghost and god".

Mozi seems to believe in ghosts and gods, but in fact he doesn't believe in it at all, he just hopes to make others believe, so as to restrain everyone's morality and the monarch's bottom line.

When Shi's words came out, Mozi hesitated for a moment and asked, "This matter is in danger." If you can't grasp it well, once the inside and outside should join forces to break the city, then there is no possibility that even the righteous teachers of Pei County will make meritorious contributions and seek the oath of autonomy. ”

Shi spread his hands and said: "Sir, even if there is chaos in the city, how many people can be agitated?" If there is not much agitation, will the gentleman defend with the people on the city wall now, will he be able to hold out for a day? ”

Mozi nodded and said: "Even if there is a fire in the city and it is burned out, it is not difficult to defend it for two days with the people at the head of the city." ”

Shi smiled and said, "Then there will be no chaos in the city." If they want to make trouble, they can only rely on their own armor, don't forget...... Now there is the Xuanyi Ministry, and the people are on our side. ”

Mozi thought about it for a while, and said with a smile: "I always forget the changes brought about by the Xuanyi Department, yes, you don't have to be afraid of the people in the city being bewitched and rioting." Then the private soldiers they can use are only hundreds, and we can still deal with it. ”

"As long as the people don't move, only those nobles, Shangqiu can't be chaotic."

Shi Ye said: "The Xuanyi Department can ensure that the people of the country follow the Mo, and the rest of the things are not something I can do." ”

Gong Zaoye said: "Sir, if it is really as Shi said, as long as the countrymen are on our side, the disciple can lead more than 100 people to suppress those armor soldiers." Between them and the city's streets, they can't stop us inkers. ”

The rest of the people also agreed with Shi's opinion, and Mozi said: "In this way, then you must also prepare in advance." ”

"I will go out of the city tomorrow and talk to the king of Chu about the alliance of sacrificial altars, which will also make the details of the final defeat of the Chu army more complete."

After everyone deliberated and reached a consensus, they discussed some more details and dispersed.

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A month later, the king of Chu was in the tent, looking at a strawman with feathered arrows, his face gloomy.

A month ago, Mo Zhai came to the Chu camp and formed a three-year alliance with the king of Chu, saying that the Mo people were willing to promote the third military meeting, and built an altar and lit a bonfire that could pass through the gods according to the sacrifice method of the Mo people.

The original wooden tower camp was near the big tent of the king of Chu, and the king of Chu did not doubt him, so he agreed with Mozi's statement, and used grease as a dye on the top of the tower, so that the large brazier above would not be extinguished for a month.

When Mozi entered Chu alone, the public loss class thought that the key to breaking Shangqiu was to kill Mo Zhai, but Mozi said at the time that there was still an organization behind him, and it was useless to kill him.

This time he entered the Chu camp alone, and he was even more fearless, and the king of Chu had someone who asked for ink, so he treated him with courtesy.

The ink master was generous this time, bringing enough vegetable oil from the city, enough for the bonfire on the tower of Chuying to be lit for a long time, which can be regarded as showing sincerity.

The Chu people had never seen vegetable oil, and because of the novelty, they were even more convinced that the ink man's methods were superb.

The ink was originally heavy on ghosts and gods, and there were many people who were good at witchcraft sacrifices inside, and the whole process was similar, no less than Chu Zhitaizhu, and it seemed to have a sense of ritual to make people believe.

The king of Chu immediately swore that after three years, he would abide by the covenant with the Mo and never fight another unrighteous war.

Mozi also said that although this cannot be regarded as the king of the world, if the Chu people really do this and the Jin people cannot abide by it, then when the Jin people attack the Chu land, the Mo people will definitely help the Chu people defend the city.

He also said that if the king of Chu can really obey the morality of the Mo family, and is considered by the ink to be beneficial to the world, then it may not be impossible for the ink to come out of the Chu palace to help the Chu people set the world in one.

The king of Chu was overjoyed, no matter how you look at this kind of thing, the Chu people took advantage of it.

If there is an advantage within three years, complete the deployment of Song and Zheng, gain the advantage against Jin, and then do not raise an unjust war, then the Chu people will be greatly advantaged.

There is no advantage in three years, and when the time comes, you can only defend, and you can just use the power of the ink to defend the city.

Xiong Dang thinks that three years is enough, enough for him to gain prestige, so as to start domestic reform after three years.

When the time comes, with the help of the power of the ink man, it can balance the nobles in the country, as for whether it is beneficial to the heart of the world, it can be disguised.

So the two sides formed an alliance and sacrificed to heaven and earth.

During the whole process, the king of Chu did not ask about the night attack of the ink man out of the city, it was the covenant that came into effect three years later, and the king of Chu felt that he had an advantage, and the alliance would return to the alliance, and the war would be war, and the two would not affect each other.

It is said that the mood of the king of Chu should be happy, especially when the weather was good before, when the wheat was cut thirty miles away, there was a Song farmer named Sangsheng who offered the method of cutting wheat and stacking wheat stacks to prevent rain, and it was even more worry-free.

The farmer was rewarded, and because he was familiar with some cropping methods, Chen Diyang was in Huaibei in the summer, and he could grow wheat, so he had to use it.

The wheat harvest went smoothly, the grain and grass were piled up, even if the city was broken, it could have the name of benevolence and righteousness, and there would still be enough food to resist the possible intervention of the Three Jins.

It's just that in the past few days, the city has been attacking and harassing the city night and night, and the soldiers in the front of the Chu people's fortress are unbearable and tired.

During the day, the Chu army had to beat the drum to guard against the propaganda of those ink people, and the soldiers could not rest.

At night, it seems that the city will send people out of the city to attack and harass every night, and every day there will be drums and drums, and at night I don't know how much, and I can only use bows and crossbows to defend it.

For more than half a month, the Chu people's bows and arrows have been consumed very much, not to mention the Chu people who camped in front of them, and there have been a lot of complaints, and the remarks of those ink people have been circulated on a large scale in the Chu camp.

The scholars are dissatisfied, the peasants are dissatisfied, the industry and commerce are dissatisfied, and the servants are dissatisfied, and the morale of the army before the general is extremely low, and it is necessary to change the guard to rest in the back.

When the people moved back and forth, the ink people in the city took more than 100 elites to attack and harass again during the day, taking advantage of the chaos of the handover of the Chu army, capturing more than 100 people and capturing several Chu generals, resulting in lower morale.

This time, the king of Chu could see that it should be the ink man who personally came forward to attack and harass, the team was neat, the march was extremely fast, and the discipline was strict, and he quickly withdrew when the Chu people were moving in formation.

Soon after the raid, two days after the handover of the Chu people, it rained again, and the newly advanced soldiers were tired, and the city head kept sending people down to the city at night to harass them, complaining everywhere.

The king of Chu knew that if he continued like this, if he didn't attack the city, he could only continue to retreat hundreds of steps away.

The siege is not really a siege, just to prepare the city, so that the city will be in chaos first and take Shangqiu.

But even a pretentious siege requires morale, and with the fatigue and morale of the Chu people now, this siege must not be well organized.

The key is that this siege must be like that, otherwise it will be impossible to mobilize the attention of the ink people, and it will be impossible to give the Song people in the city a chance to launch a coup d'état.

But the ink can still often go out of the city to attack and harass, which shows that the city is stable, and if you want to create opportunities for the city, you must boost the morale of the Chu people in order to complete a fake siege, otherwise the ink person may not need to use all his strength to defend.

Irritable and worried, the king of Chu said: "When the city goes out of the city to attack and disturb, he only shoots with bows and crossbows, although he is not allowed to approach, but he is not at peace at night. ”

"If there are warriors in the city, will there be no brave warriors in my Chu people? Prepare for a counterattack tonight, once the city is here to attack at night, choose brave people, defeat the Song people, and boost morale! ”

He was angry, because it was impossible to send his Che Guang to do this in person, and the methods of those who went out of the city to attack at night last time had also been seen by the Chu people, which was extraordinary.

The rest of the nobles were unwilling to use their own personal subordinates to do this, and passed the buck to each other, and if they sent soldiers, they would definitely not be able to defeat them, so no one agreed.

The night battle is already dangerous, and it has to be close to the city, and when the time comes, if the city fires feathers and arrows together, it may not be able to take advantage of anything.

Fortunately, the big nobles were reluctant to go, but the small nobles were willing to make meritorious contributions, looking for good warriors in the camp, and selected a young general surnamed Pan to lead the team, and ambushed in the front army base that night, only to wait for the drum beat again at the city at night, and then approached the city wall to fight.

That night, the drum beat at the head of the city again, and the shadows were full of shadows and seemed to be someone going down the city, so the young general surnamed Pan boosted his morale, first let the military base release arrows, and after three rounds, he led people to rush out.

When he rushed to the vicinity of the city wall, he released arrows on the city again, but the young general surnamed Pan saw it clearly, and saw that there were some straw men on the city wall, falling from the city with ropes.

He secretly scolded the Song people for being cunning, but he knew that he had to get this thing in order to get the reward, so he relied on his own bravery, approached the city wall, cut the rope, and returned with a straw man on his back to offer it to the king of Chu.

This is the reason why the king of Chu is angry.

Looking at this straw man who was snatched back, the king of Chu said angrily: "The camp is restless this month, it is just some straw men? ”

Looking at the feather arrows on the straw man, I knew that the people in the city must have used this means to borrow many feather arrows from the Chu people, and this month I shot a lot of feather arrows, each of which was the military endowment of the craftsman, and the Song people could still shoot with these feather arrows.

I thought about counterattacking tonight, killing a few Song people who went out of the city, and capturing a few more, so as to boost the morale of the army, but I didn't want to be just some straw men.

If it spreads out tomorrow, not only will it not boost morale, but it will also make morale drop even more: the ink man's technique of defending the city is so cunning that only a few straw men can borrow arrows and make Chu Ying uneasy, but he is afraid that he will be even more afraid of attacking the city.

Seeing this straw man, the king of Chu knew that the ink man's technique of defending the city was endless, and he was afraid that it would be difficult to break through simply attacking the city and besieging the city.

Now that the wheat harvest is inevitable, the morale has fallen a little because of the long-term siege, and the matter of such a straw man borrowing arrows has made the king of Chu determined that he can only rely on the changes in the city to complete the destruction of Shangqiu.

Morale can certainly be motivated by winning, but it can also be courageous by some insults.

The king of Chu immediately summoned many Chu generals and elite people of the Chu people to show this straw man to everyone, and only said: "The Song people insult me like this, this is unbearable!" Tomorrow's siege and revenge! ”

More than a month ago, the king of Chu personally led a team to counterattack the night attack, and one prisoner shot two people.

Listening to what the king of Chu said, even if there is humanity: "In the past, the Yue people once said: Those who are ministers are worried about the ministers, and the kings are humiliated and the ministers die." The Yue people are still like this, why can't Chu Chen? The Song people humiliated each other with the grass marquis, and tomorrow they will break the city and let the Song Duke be the king! ”

When all the soldiers heard this, they all swore to fight to the death to avenge this disgrace. The king of Chu immediately praised: "Strong! Slaughter sheep and cattle today to feed the warriors, and siege the city tomorrow to repay this humiliation! ”

After that, he asked people to prepare wine buffalo and sheep, and ordered the three armies to cook early, eat well in the morning, and attack Shangqiu tomorrow.