Today, Uncle Gong laughed and drank, talking about the old things that Mo Zhai dissuaded Lu Yanggong back then, and he was in a good mood, because the Wei and Han coalition forces had besieged the capital of Zheng Guo, and the people in Zheng Guoguo's capital were generally war-weary according to the scouts who hid in it, and they were afraid that the city would be broken in a few days.

Zheng Guo used to be a country of 2,000 times, with 60,000 capitals and cities, and 50,000 soldiers from all over the countryside.

After nearly fifty years of fighting with Korea, and now only one-third of the country is left after the country is divided into three, Zheng Guo's capital may only be able to gather less than 30,000 conscripts now.

The army's morale is sluggish, the meticulous work is everywhere, the Qimu Yu Party is hidden in the city, and the Zheng people do not want to fight again, all of which make Uncle Gong convinced that Zheng can be broken in ten days at most.

Ten days, what can you do?

The Mo family can't do anything, and the Chu State can't do anything, after all, the Sishang Yishi has just begun to withdraw from the Song State, and this is an unjust battle under the Mo family's discourse system, and he can't borrow the road from the Song State, which makes the uncle full of confidence.

In Uncle Acne's view, dividing Zheng is a clever move.

If Wei does not divide up, then Zheng will be annexed by Korea alone sooner or later, because Zheng is a bargaining chip for the Wei-Han alliance: if Wei Mo goes to war, then Wei must acquiesce to South Korea's annexation of Zheng if he wants to get the support of South Korea's troops.

Rather than let Korea swallow it by itself, it is better to divide it with Korea, so that Wei's power in Hedong can be strengthened, and at the same time, the Korean enclave can continue to be separated, and directly threaten the Korean capital.

The division of Wei and Han into Zheng would also make Zhao nervous, mistakenly believing that the alliance between Wei and Han was unbreakable, thus trying to ease the internal relations of the Three Jins.

At the same time, after Zheng Guo obtained real benefits, he ceded the jurisprudence of Zhongshan to Zhao Guo, as a sincere manifestation of the Three Jin Alliance, the common anti-Chu and anti-Moxi, and the fact that each was in charge of its own affairs.

Zhongshan has been restored, but now there are two Zhongshan Jun, one is the restored Zhongshan Jun, and the other is Wei Gongzizhi. Zhongshan no longer belongs to Wei, but the de jure Wei State Zhongshan Jun is still Zhongshan Jun.

The key to the easing of relations between Wei and Zhao lies in the jurisprudence of the Zhongshan Kingdom, in which Gongzi Zhi sent the claim of Zhongshan Jun to the Marquis of Zhao, and at the same time gave the Zhao State a geographical map of the mountains and rivers of the Zhongshan Kingdom.

This will reorganize the Three Jin Alliance, Zhao Xiang to the northeast and Wei Han to the southwest, so that there is no big conflict between their interests for the time being.

After carving up Zheng Guo, it can pull South Korea into the front line of Chu and Mexico. As long as the state of Chu is golden and jade, as long as Sishang is aggressive, then the relationship between the Wei and Han alliances will be stable one day.

Uncle Acne didn't want to start a war with Sishang, especially after arriving in Shangqiu and making a declaration that the Mo family would abide by the covenant and that the Mo would shed the blood of the last ink man for the credibility of the covenant.

Uncle Gong was convinced that once the Song State and the Mo family went to war, it would be unstoppable, and then the Wei State would be weakened to the point of no return, and the Wei State would no longer be able to withstand such a national war after experiencing the defeat of the Wei Dynasty.

Once the Wei State was weakened, the Zhao State, which could have been an ally, immediately took a bite, and the Qin State, which had the hatred of the West River, would never give up this excellent opportunity.

What Uncle Gong is afraid of is not the Mo family, but the "friendly fishermen who are profitable" after the merger with the Mo family.

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Xinzheng.

The capital of Zheng Guo, which was built at the confluence of Weishui and Qinshui, is actually still called Zheng, but Zheng's original fief is in Shaanxi.

In the past, after the princes of the Beacon Fire Opera, Zheng Guo moved to Henan, and later built a new city at the intersection of Weishui and Qinshui, so the Zheng people are still called Zheng, and the outside can be called Xinzheng.

This is a typical nomenclature for colonies or places of migration.

Xinzheng's city defense, before the advent of gunpowder, was extremely strong.

The twelve-meter-high wall, the twenty-meter-wide base of the wall, and even the upper part of the wall is still three meters wide.

Under the influence of Mozi's city defense technique, the city wall of Xinzheng began to build "horse face" and "walking wall", but due to financial and manpower problems, it was only built in the north, because there was no water barrier there, and it was the most vulnerable direction.

It's just that with the advent of gunpowder, the rammed earth city wall of Xinzheng is no longer enough, and only a slightly larger copper cannon can be blasted open.

The banks of the Weishui and Qinshui rivers, where young boys and girls sang love songs and boldly sang songs and took the initiative to lure boys to swim, were already filled with the armies of Wei and Han.

The brass cannons roared, and the iron bullets crashed against the rammed earth walls, and the joy was gone, and the only thing left in the places where love songs had been sung was the snare drums of the soldiers.

Before the general offensive began, the Wei-Han coalition army was building a barracks.

Fortunately, five years ago, the Heze Huimeng stipulated that if the siege of the city was carried out by irrigation, it would be regarded as a war criminal, and the Wei and Han coalition forces did not consider the idea of piling up dams to flood the new policy.

Several iron bullets flew in, making a deep pit in the rammed earth wall, and it seemed that Wei Han was going to concentrate his artillery on one place in order to break through the wall.

Copper cannons are not advanced to the point of being unattainable, but they can still hit a house from a distance of a thousand meters.

As long as it is a large-caliber thing that can use gunpowder to propel a projectile to fly, it can be called a cannon, which is a technology that can be done in the Bronze Age, and the difference is only gunpowder that has been around for twenty years.

Wei Han's bronze cannon field combat ability was far inferior to Sishang's, but the siege was enough to deal with Zheng Guo's city walls.

Crumbling and untenable, that's what the New Deal is facing right now.

On the city wall, Xu Weak, who should have died in Yangcheng in the past two years in history and was the first martyr for the Mo family in history, and Xu Weak, who has now participated in the Fei State Uprising and is now a military envoy to aid Zheng, looked at the white gunpowder smoke that was constantly rising under the city, and sighed.

"There are no row walls, no ramparts, no concave corners, not enough artillery...... Zheng couldn't hold it. ”

He muttered to himself, for he had already seen the intention of the Wei and Han coalition forces, simple but extremely effective: to concentrate all the artillery and storm one point of the city wall to collapse it.

As soon as the city wall is broken, Xinzheng can be declared to have fallen.

Another inkman with a telescope next to him wiped the dust on the lens, shook his head and said, "Unless you organize a night attack to counterattack and get rid of Wei Han's artillery." ”

Xu Miao smiled bitterly: "The people have no desire to fight, who is willing to fight to the death?" Moreover, the artillery positions of the Wei and Han coalition forces were heavily protected, and a rash night attack could only kill themselves. ”

As he spoke, several more iron bullets flew in, and soon left several deep pits in the rammed earth walls.

Xu Xiao was not the envoy who came to negotiate with Zheng Guo to reform and change the law this time and joined the non-offensive alliance, but a military envoy sent before.

He had been here for a long time, and he had thought that the order from above was to let them act as instructors to reorganize Zheng Guo's army and build new walls, but now it seems that this is not the case.

The Mo family organization in Zheng Guo did not give Xu Wan and others an order to organize defense, even though Zheng Junyi had already cried and begged the Mo family to help defend the city, but the Mo family did not take over the tiger talisman to defend the city on the grounds that the order from the central government had not arrived.

and also learned from Cao Di's polemic back then, and asked Zheng Jun a few words of "why fight", but Zheng Jun couldn't answer silently.

Now Xu Qiao and the others received an order to observe Wei Han's siege tactics on the city wall, and to write a report at night.

Regarding Wei Han's siege tactics, Xu Miao felt that there was nothing to learn from.

Pengcheng is not Xinzheng, if the Wei and Han coalition forces choose this tactic to attack Pengcheng or Peiyi, it is simply looking for death.

The new city defense system and the world-class artillery in Sishang can make the artillery positions full of holes in Xu Qiao's eyes turn into powder, and if you want to capture a city like Pengcheng or Peiyi without artillery advantage, you are afraid that it will only be possible to fill in four or five times the lives of the defenders.

Xu Qiao's side were several Zheng defenders who had been recruited, some of them armed with arquebuses that were obviously produced and sold in Sishang, some of them were even extremely backward and had been completely eliminated, and some were armed with crossbows and bows and arrows.

Xu Miao bent down and walked to the side of those people under the cover of the battlement, and those people looked at Xu Wan's red silk tied to his arm and the unique military uniform of the ink man, and said hello very politely.

As soon as Zheng was killed, he said: "This ink man, do you think Zheng Cheng can hold it?" ”

Xu said weakly: "Those who use weapons are people after all. Whether you can defend it or not depends not on the danger of the city wall, but on whether you are willing to defend it. ”

The Zheng people snorted and scolded: "Ghosts are willing to guard." To whom is the tax not paid? To whom is ploughing a public field not ploughing? ”

Another defender of the city, who was obviously a down-and-out class, also sighed: "In the past, Wei Yigong was a good crane, and the crane had a Xuanxuan person, and he would fight, and the people of the country who received the armor all said: Make the crane, the crane really has a position, and Yu Yan can fight!" ”

"Since Wei Yigong let the crane benefit, then Wei Guo should let the crane protect it. Isn't that the same thing? ”

"The dispute between Qimu and the struggle has come and gone, but there is no such character as Zichan. The land is divided by the Qimu clan, and we have little land and no land, so it is natural to let the people with land and land go to fight. ”

"What is the difference between fighting for the land without us, and letting us bleed when defending the city, and letting the guards let the cranes defend the city?"

"Aren't you Mo people often saying that the world is the world of the people of the world? The princes have a country, the doctors have a family, and we are the common people, who have no home and no country, if they don't go to the city, they will be punished, who is willing to fight? ”

Xu Wei nodded, this is the morality of the Mo family, and the Mo family will never advocate the concept of the nation before the unification of the world, so it must be recognized and spread the rhetoric of the Zheng people.

Another person next to him said: "Since the monarch pretends that we are countrymen, then we also pretend to guard the city." As soon as the city wall is broken, the birds and beasts will be scattered. If I die, and there is no one to support my wife and children, I still have to pay taxes at home, and I have to cultivate the public land, and I apologize that my wife and children will have to pay the interest debt every year, so I can't die. ”

"The Wei people are coming, the Koreans are coming, it's nothing more than collecting taxes and serving, the meat eaters surrender and still eat meat, and we and the people who eat cheap food still eat corn, there is no difference."

"If Wei Han shouts that the city is exempt from taxation, exemption, and all usury interest is invalid, I'm afraid that I will already open the city gate to welcome him."

Several Zheng people next to them all laughed, at this time the siege had not yet begun, and the sound of artillery below could not affect their jokes.

In the midst of laughter, some people sang "pop songs" to the Zheng people hiding behind the city wall with the sound of cannons and the rhyming of military drums.

"The woman said that the rooster crowed, and the scholar said that it was ambiguous. Zixing looks at the night, and the stars are rotten. Will soar, and the geese will fly. ”

The song is a scene of life that is the most simple and common.

The woman said that the rooster crowed, and she should get up quickly. My husband said I'll sleep before dawn.

The wife said believe it or not, the stars are all out, don't be lazy, hurry up and pack up your bow and arrows to catch birds as soon as possible, if it's too late, it's not easy to shoot.

As soon as he sang like this, several people whistled and heckled.

Someone jokingly shouted: "You can't die, if you die, your wife will remarry, but you will urge others to get up, maybe you will complain that you used to be far inferior to others in bed, so that the person can get up happily after hearing it." ”

In the sound of cannons, everyone laughed, and a cheerful atmosphere rose on the city wall.