Chapter 122: The Verge
When he arrived at Liang's father, the merchant went to a shop in the city that sold food, and after a few words of conversation, he handed over the note he had written to a man in the dark room.
When he left, like the rest of the merchants, he still drove the ox cart, which was reloaded with goods, and followed behind the army of Qi.
Either like this, or that, all kinds of ways and channels, from Linzi to Pingyin to Chengyang, bright or dark, are like a huge spider web, and the center of this spider web is Tengdi.
The situation is now clear.
Outside of Qi, the army of the southern front of Wei came out of Liang and attacked Yangxia of Chu, and the king of Chu immediately returned to his division and chose to confront the Wei people, and Wei and the Chu army faced each other in Yangxia, and no one attacked first.
South Korea hoarded heavy troops in Yingshui, made a posture of threatening the border pass of Chu State, and at the same time concentrated part of the main force in Yangzhai, preparing to take the opportunity to crusade against Zheng State, taking advantage of the opportunity of Wei State to ask for Han, intending to take the opportunity to swallow part of Zheng State's land.
The battle for the restoration of Zhongshan was in full swing, Gongzi Zhi only concentrated his forces in some cities to guard, with the help of the power of those merchants and the contradictions between Wei and Zhao, Zhongshan had already gained a foothold in some cities on the tributaries of the Yellow River and was recruiting large armies.
Handan of Zhao was besieged, the Wei Xihe army went north to Zhao State, and Zhao Gongzichao and the rebels were also assembling to make a posture of threatening Zhongmu.
All kinds of external information, after analysis and summary, are presented to the appropriate person one by one.
Judging from the external environment, in this intervention war, Wei has no strength to provide more troops, and there is also news from Pengcheng that Wei has secretly sent envoys to talk to the Mo family about "reasoning", in fact, this is a signal: I hope that the Mo family will not participate in the dispute between Wei and Chu.
The external conditions are ripe, and the internal opportunities have come.
In February, Lu Hou voted for Qi with Fei Guo's doctor, which was a domestic political matter of Qi, and agreed to borrow the road from Qi State.
The Mo family immediately sent an envoy to express their anger, but Lu Hou Jixian avoided it on the grounds of illness, and only let Gongzi come forward to meet the envoy of the Mo family.
When Luhou Ji Xian was a son, Mozi once suggested that he should carefully investigate and see clearly who they were, and Ji Xian's ability to be Luhou also has some relevance to Mozi's words back then.
Gongzi said that his father really couldn't understand the meaning of non-attack, and he understood the anger of the Mo family, but after all, he was a minister and a son, and he could only persuade but not make his father change his mind, and his father was sick, so no one bothered Yunyun.
In fact, it was Lu Hou who also sent someone to secretly contact the Qi side, saying that Lu did not agree with the rebellion in Fei and was worried that it would endanger the territory of Lu State.
Ji Xian is old, so if Qi wins, then Lu can still choose to be a semi-vassal state of Qi; And if the Mo family wins, Gongzi Fen can also be supported by the Mo family at that time, and he will not turn his face.
On the day that the 20,000 troops led by Qi Liang's father entered the territory of Lu, the Mo family announced in a high-profile manner that Qi had entered the border of the non-offensive alliance, and strongly demanded that the Qi people retreat.
If it is repeatedly, the Qi people should only not hear it, and still "fight according to reason", which means that those doctors in the Fei country voted for Qi, then this is the land of the Qi country, and the Qi people passed through the Lu country, which was a borrowed road, not an invasion.
Then the Qi State kicked the ball to the side of the Mo family, and the envoys of the Qi people spread the word from the cities of various countries along the road of the Lu State, only saying: Whether those doctors are the government of the Fei State or the government of the Qi State, this is the dispute between the Mo family and the Qi State. However, Lu is innocent, and now it is the spring planting season, and if the innocent people of Lu suffer from the military disaster, it is really unbearable.
Therefore, I hope that if the Mo family believes that it is a matter of the Fei country, they will not prevent war in the Fei country, and do not let the innocent Lu people be implicated.
The news spread all the way, and everyone knew it along the way.
The Mo family was silent at first, and after a few days, they finally sent envoys along the road to declare: Although Qi's invasion of Fei was unreasonable and selfish, Lu's innocent words were still right after all.
Since the Mo family takes the benefit of the world as its own responsibility, it cannot ignore the pain of the people of Lu in the spring planting season, so they announced that they will not send troops to fight Qi in the territory of Lu.
At the same time, the ultimatum hopes that Qi Hou can reflect that this is an unjust war, and if he can retreat at the border, then it can be regarded as a wake-up, otherwise the Mo family will have to fulfill the obligation of non-attacking alliances, which is not to say that it is unpredictable.
When Qi Lusi was on the ground, everyone praised the benevolence and righteousness of the Mo family, and cursed the Qi people for pretending, many people said that the Mo family had achieved the extreme, but the greed of the Tian family was endless, and they were afraid that the Qi people would definitely cross the border.
Some scholars also sighed when they heard this: "The Mo family is the benevolence of women, not great benevolence, but they are bound by their own righteousness." Now the heart of the Qi people is known to the whole world, but the Mo family still strictly adheres to the righteousness of non-attack, and does not gather a large army to eliminate the Qi army led by Liang's father in the territory of the Lu State, and when the Qi people enter Wucheng and make peace with the nobles of the Fei State, the casualties will be greater......"
By the beginning of March, the Mo family announced that they would not send troops to Lu to fight Qi and fight Qi, and hoped that Qi would be able to rein in the precipice, and the news spread all over Qilu Si, and kicked the ball back to Qi's side.
However, in the end, the Qi State still did not "restrain the precipice", or the Mo family never expected to make the Qi State rein in the precipice just by reasoning, and in early March, the reinforcements of the Liang father of the Qi State entered Wucheng.
On the same day, Ji Sunluan, the new monarch of the Fei Kingdom, invited the Mo family to fulfill the obligation of non-offensive alliance and expel the Qi people based on the results of the deliberation of the sages elected by the people of the Fei State, hoping that the Mo family would not forget the original promise.
At the same time, it was announced that in order to facilitate the non-offensive alliance to better defend against the invasion of the unrighteous king, Fei handed over military power to the Mo family, and the Mo family led the army, and part of each other in the future.
Almost at the same time, the Mo family announced that it would fulfill its obligations to non-attack the alliance, and counted several major crimes of Qi State's injustice.
It seems that the Mo family gave up the opportunity to annihilate Liang's father in the Lu country, so that Liang's father's reinforcements and the Fei nobles in Wucheng reconciled, but they won the trust and respect of the people in the world, thinking that the Mo family kept its promises and was benevolent and righteous, and there was really no stain on this matter.
And the Mo family's propaganda machine was also fully launched, using the way of punishing the heart, saying that Qi Guo said that Lu was innocent at the beginning, but in fact, he did not have the people of Lu in his heart, but used the benevolence and righteousness of the Mo family to escape the fate of Liang's father and doctor being annihilated by the righteous teacher.
This kind of heart-wrenching words is too easy to be believed: just a few years ago, the Qi State had just attacked the most part of the Lu State, and the Qi Hou who had not seen it at that time had any unbearable heart to love the people of the Lu State.
On the surface, both sides of this encounter got what they wanted, and they also made choices after weighing the pros and cons.
The state of Qi lost its credibility as a great power and became the target of criticism by many people in the market, confirming the notoriety of the unrighteous monarch under the three views of the Mohists.
However, the most precious opportunity was obtained, so that the Mo family Yishi gathered into the Lu country, and the defeat of Liang's father and doctor in the Lu country came to naught, and the successful meeting with the Fei nobles in Wucheng made it seem that the defense force of Wucheng could block the three-month siege of the Mo family Yishi.
The reverse is also true, the Mo family seems to have lost the possibility of defeating the Qi State intervention army in the territory of the Lu State, and has won the trust and appreciation of the world, making the people of the world believe that the Mo family gave up this rare opportunity for the sake of the innocent Lu people, and would rather kill and injure themselves than hurt the innocent.
Although there are some sighs of kindness from some women and some emotions in the army, they are generally stable.
In fact, the Mo family actually did not intend to annihilate the 20,000 reinforcements of Liang's father in the territory of Lu State, or that the appetite was too great, and in view of the opportunity to completely solve the problem of Huaibei's ownership in view of the opportunity of the Yue State to withdraw south and turn his face, he deliberately gave up this opportunity and publicized it.
Just after this confrontation, when the Mo family announced a declaration of war on Qi, Doctor Chengyang of Wei State said that he had to take care of the affairs of the Fei State and could not let the land of Wei State fall into the hands of others.
Under the circumstance of "righteous indignation without the permission of the Marquis of Wei", part of Wei Han's forces were assembled in Chengyang, about 20,000.
Almost at the same time, more than 500 grassroots officials of the Mo family quickly entered the southern part of the Fei country and began to check the fiefdoms, properties, and manors of the fugitive nobles, count the population, distribute iron tools for cultivating cattle, carry out land reform, and organize spring ploughing.
After the 7th Division of the Righteous Division stationed in Tandi swore an oath, he quickly entered the Fei Kingdom, made peace with the Righteous Divisions composed of the people of the capital of the Fei Kingdom, and defeated a small coalition of Qi and nobles in a field battle near Wucheng, causing them to retreat into Wucheng to defend. The Seventh Division began to clear out the various small walled cities laid out by those who had learned the art of defending the city from the hands of the Mo family.
After several days of fierce siege, the city could not be breached, so they stationed a siege outside the city, dug trenches, and built strongholds. A long-term siege was made.
At the beginning of April, the main force of the Mo family began to frequently send scouts to the direction of Fei Guo, and a large number of people transported grain and straw to Fei Guo along Tengdi, and the main force of the Yi Division made preparations to aid Fei Guo in the east to capture Wucheng, and the third division stationed in Taoqiu retreated to Fang He, as if it wanted to make peace with the main force, and did not want to face the Wei and Han coalition forces in the direction of Chengyang.
At the same time, the main force in the direction of Linzi of Qi State had crossed Mount Tai and Wenshui and marched towards the border of Qilu to support Wucheng.
The Qi army in the direction of Pingyin was also assembled, and marched along Jishui in the direction of Chengyang, intending to make peace with the Wei and Han coalition forces in the direction of Chengyang.
At this point, the world has been in chaos.
The eyes of the people in the world are focused on the current Wei Zhao turning his face and the battle of Sishang, and many people have made judgments about the situation in Sishang.
After the third division retreated to Fanghe along Taoqiu, those who could know the news made a judgment: the seventh division of the Mo family and the people's righteous division of the Fei country could not capture Wucheng, and the Mo family regarded the secret of defending the city as the result of the spread of the will of heaven to the world, which was to ask for hardship.
The third division retreated from Taoqiu, which was to make peace with the main force of the Mo family in Tengdi, preparing to besiege Wucheng with all its might, abandoning the direction of Surabaya on its left flank, and striving to capture Wucheng before Chengyang's army attacked Surabaya.
Because what the Mo family is proud of and known to the world is their city defense skills, based on the most normal judgment, the Mo family is ready to rely on the main force to break through Wucheng, and then quickly repair it, leaving a small number of troops in Wucheng to block the Linzi army of Qi.
After the main force broke through Wucheng, it retreated to Tengdi and prepared for a decisive battle with the Qi, Wei and Han coalition forces in the direction of Chengyang and Pingyin, so as to rely on the defense of Wucheng and the victory of Surabaya to make Qi retreat.
For a time, Wucheng of Fei Kingdom became the focus of the Battle of Sishang, and those who paid attention to this matter wanted to know: Can Wucheng support the arrival of the Linzi army of Qi State under the attack of the main force of the Mojia Yishi?
If it can be supported, then the situation of the Mo family will be completely dangerous. At that time, the main force of the Qi army was in Wucheng, and the righteous division was exhausted due to the defense of Wucheng, and once defeated, then the Three Kingdoms Alliance army in the direction of Chengyang could drive straight along Heshui and Surabaya to threaten the hinterland of the Mo family.
Even if it can't be defeated, but drawn, and each collects its troops, then the situation of the Mo family is just as dangerous.
When the time comes, the advance in the direction of Chengyang, the Mo family must divide troops to defend; Once the troops are divided, the main force of the Qi army in the direction of Wucheng can gain an advantage again, and the Mo family can only retreat step by step, and the strength equivalent to the Mo family will be divided into two at that time.
If the Mo family wants to win, there is only one possibility: that is, before the Linzi army of Qi State arrives in Wucheng, break through Wucheng, and organize and complete the defense of Wucheng, and at the same time, they must retreat the main force to the confluence of Heshui and Surabaya to find an opportunity to defeat the Three Kingdoms Alliance army in Chengyang, and also ensure that the small number of troops left in Wucheng can withstand the siege of the main force of Qi State.
This situation seemed to be doomed at the moment when the Mo family gave up the reinforcements to annihilate Liang's father in the Lu State with the kindness of a woman.