If such a thing happened in Sishang, Xu Miao would definitely be angry.

But it happened here, and then listening to such words, Xu Miao couldn't get angry, thinking that what these people said seemed to have some truth.

What are the common people at the head of the city defending?

He didn't know, and neither did the Zheng people who sang love songs in the midst of the cannons.

Not long after, someone came to the head of the city and called Xu Qiao on the city wall to the side.

"Is there an order from above?"

The man who came to call him nodded and said, "So I told you to go back and have a meeting." ”

Xu Miao hurried back to the Mo family's stronghold in Xinzheng, and the main figures of the Mo family active in Zhengcheng had already gathered.

Xu Wan asked, "What do you mean?" Do we keep it or not? ”

The person in charge of the organization of the Ink Scholars in Zheng Di and the person in charge of the Ink Scholars who came up from Si this time asked him: "You have been in the city for a long time to watch, and you have also participated in the Feidi Rebellion of that year. In your opinion, can it be kept? ”

Xu Wan shook his head and said, "If you don't say how far you can keep it, I can't say whether you can keep it." If there is no external force to help, sooner or later it will fall. But if it is held for a month or two, it can be done militarily alone, provided that the Zheng people know why they are fighting. ”

In other words, if you want to stay on guard for a month or two until the situation in the world changes, then the priority is politics rather than military. The Zheng people don't want to fight at all, so no matter how good the weapons are and how high the means of defending the city are, I'm afraid it's useless. ”

Everyone present also nodded, since he was in charge of the Xuanyi Department more than ten years ago, he has been emphasizing that the military serves politics, and politics reacts on the military, and they know this very well.

Zheng people don't want to fight at all, and they can't find a reason to fight this battle, if this problem is not solved, even if Tianzong Wizard and Taigong hope that Sun Wuzi will be resurrected, there is no way.

The ink man who presided over the meeting said: "That's true, but there is no news on whether the superiors will fight or not." However, if Zheng Cheng is in hand once we want to fight in the future, then the initiative is on our side. ”

"Let's not talk about the issues of changing politics, just say that if the Zheng people are willing to defend it, purely from a military point of view, how can they hold it for a month or two?"

From a military point of view alone, Xinzheng is not easy to defend.

According to the experience of previous battles, the city wall is the key to the victory or defeat of the city, and once the city wall is breached, the defense of the entire city is finished.

In the era of bows and crossbows, the ten-meter-high city wall of Xinzheng was the biggest advantage, which would bring great damage to the besieging side.

However, with the advent of gunpowder, this advantage turned into a disadvantage, and the rammed earth wall could not block the bombardment of iron bullets, let alone the explosion of the base with gunpowder after the excavation.

Wei Han's artillery is not too much, the caliber is not too large, and the technology is very average.

But even so, at the current rate of bombardment, the walls will be blown down in seven days at most.

Once the city wall was blown down, it crashed into the gap, and Xinzheng fell in only one day.

So far, gunpowder has not been used to break through the capital of any country, once Xinzheng is destroyed by gunpowder, the entire Zhuxia city defense system and siege and defense tactics will change, and the fall of Xinzheng will announce the end of the old city defense.

Now it seems that breaking the city is not difficult.

Xu Miao had thought about this issue, and many people present had thought about it, so when Xu Miao said that he could actually hold on for a month or two, everyone had many doubts in their hearts.

However, this was a discussion meeting, and everyone looked at Xu Weak, and Xu Weak said: "If you really want to stay for a month or two to wait for the situation in the world to change, it is not impossible." ”

"If the walls are a weakness, why do we have to hold on to them?"

"Abandon the walls, pretend to hold on, and buy us seven days."

"Organize the people, take a hundred steps back, demolish the houses, and build a simple concave fort defense line according to the means of Peiyi Pengcheng or Dangshan. It doesn't need to be too tall and it doesn't need to be too strong. ”

"In this way, even if the city wall collapses, we can still retreat to the city defense system we are familiar with, and dissipate Wei Han's artillery advantage, even if they capture the city wall, it will still be useless."

"Since you have to defend it, you know that this rammed earth, high but not thick city wall can't hold it, why do you have to put your mind on the city wall?"

"Moreover, everywhere is everywhere, and it is necessary for Wei Han to attack in one direction. Since they have chosen to concentrate the bronze cannons in one place, then we only need to deploy another line of defense behind the direction of their attack. ”

It was a word that woke up the people in the dream, and this time Sishang sent to Zheng Guo, there were originally some people who were good at building the city wall defense, or called Moshou, who were mainly responsible for building the city wall defense, and they were all those who had refined geometry and nine numbers and some architecture.

Originally, the reason why the Mohists said that they would let Zheng Guo and the Mohists come into contact was that Xinzheng had to hold on to it before it could wait for the mediation of various countries.

It's just that what Zheng people didn't expect was that it was not only South Korea that attacked Zheng this time, but also Wei State, which Zheng Junchen had imagined as foreign aid, also joined South Korea.

Xu Miao just put forward a suggestion and idea, how to arrange the second line of defense and abandon the city wall, this is not something he needs to consider.

But the value of the idea itself is sufficient.

A few people who were proficient in such knowledge thought for a moment, and then praised: "What a brilliant idea." ”

"If the Wei and Han armies separate the artillery, they will not be able to open the city wall; If they separate and do not bombard the city wall and use cannons as crossbows, then the city wall can be defended, and their means of attacking the city are still the same as before; If they are used intensively, we can predict the direction of their main attack, and order a fort to be built, and the earth defense cannons will be thickened, and their muskets, bows, and crossbows and copper cannons in the city will be difficult to break. ”

Xu weak also means this.

Defending the walls, that was a tactic before the Gunpowder Age.

It's not that rammed earth can't defend against artillery, but with the advent of copper cannons, the city wall should go in the direction of thicker slope buffers, more geometric angles, and larger wall surfaces.

The old city wall could not block the artillery, and the rammed earth layer of the plate structure was easily blasted open, and how to avoid the artillery of the Wei and Han coalition forces was the key to defending the city.

Xu Miao thought that if he wanted to hold it, it was impossible to rely on Xinzheng's strength, and it would always be a dead end to trap the lonely city, and there must be external reinforcements to relieve the siege.

But if you can't support it for a month or two, there is no way to wait for reinforcements, and if you want to support it for a month or two, the attitude of whether the Zheng people are willing to fight is very important, and if the Zheng people are willing to fight, you need to consider tactics.

His tactic was to use the Mo family's organizational skills behind the old city wall to quickly build a new type of simple city defense.

It is impossible for this kind of simple city defense to be defended for too long, but Xu Miao believes that if the problem of the people daring to fight can be solved, there should be no problem in defending for a month or two.

But the crux of the matter is...... Why did the Zheng people defend the city? Why do you want to defend the city?

The old clan and national system has collapsed, the new common national religion has not yet been established, the Zheng people do not have the concept of the motherland that moved them, and the scholars are loyal to the master who gave them fiefdoms, but the war in the new era is no longer dominated by the scholar class but the vast common people, and the war of hundreds of ten scholars and tens of thousands of soldiers in the Spring and Autumn Period has become a formation confrontation of tens of thousands of people, in this case, what can be used to persuade the Zheng people to defend the city?

The ink man who presided over the meeting did not talk about this issue for the time being, and only let everyone discuss whether Xu Qiao's suggestion was feasible.

Many people have been trained on the battlefield, and many of them are also from professional classes, and after a little discussion, they all agreed with Xu Xiao's idea.

Mo Shi, who presided over the meeting, said: "In this way, if the problem of Zheng Ren's desire to fight can be solved, then it is possible to defend for a month or two until the situation in the world changes?" ”

Everyone thought it was possible, and the ink man said, "Before you sent us, you made it very clear about this mission. ”

"It is righteous not to attack, and it is unrighteous to fight without declaring it. That's right. But not all wars are unjust? ”

"What is the purpose of our non-attack? That's something we have to be clear. ”

"It's like there's a mountain of gold on the edge of the East China Sea, and somebody knows the direction and tells us to go east, so we go east. But after walking, there is no way to go east, and after asking, I know that there is a road that needs to go west and then east, so should we go west first? ”

"Or some people say that it is wrong to go west, and that we should go east, and this is within us, and we call it 'in', or it is called an ancient dogma."

"Just like Zi Mozi said, Shun's government was good governance at that time, but it was not at this time; Ruyu's water control was the first priority in the world at that time, but it was not at this time. ”

The speculation in this lies in what our purpose is. Non-offensive is the purpose? Or is it a means? We must make it clear that our purpose is to benefit the people and the world, and non-aggression is just a means. ”

"You also know that the giants and the non-attacking and non-attacking factions have been fighting for a long time, and this is a major issue of right and wrong, and it should not be taken lightly."

Speaking of which, the issue of the program for this time in Jeongkook's activities has actually been raised.

The internal struggle of the Mo family was semi-open, and the debate over whether the non-offensive was an end or a means had been debated since Mozi's death, and it was not until two or three years after he became a giant that the controversy came to an end.

The non-offensive faction has basically stepped aside, and the purely non-offensive faction that is more non-offensive and has basically faded out of the political activities of the Mohists.

This time, Zheng Guo's non-offensive declaration must be made clear to everyone involved, so that there will be no doubts and confusion on the issue of the line.

The Mo scholar who presided over the meeting continued: "In the past, the central government sent people to Zheng to discuss joining the non-offensive alliance, and the premise was that Zheng Guo must carry out reforms to benefit the people, only in this way can our Mo family assist Zheng Guo, and non-offensive and stop wars are beneficial to the people. ”

"If the attack is the end rather than the means, then there is no need for Zheng Jun to change the law."

"It is precisely because non-offensive is one of the means to benefit the people and the world, so we did not accept Zheng Jun's tiger talisman to defend the city before."

"Is Zheng Guo guarding or not guarding now? It's not us, it's Zheng Jun and the nobles. ”

"What kind of attitude should we take to deal with this? Comrades, we need to think about the things of Zi Mozi, Zi Fowl, and Shizi Shou Shangqiu in the past, and what we can do to benefit the people of Zheng to the greatest extent, and this is not a problem that is difficult to solve and overwhelmed. ”