By the time Solu left, the Mo family's propaganda had already changed, and it had long ceased to propagate the rhetoric of helping the weak country defend and defeating the strong and warlike kings. Solushen certainly knows.

When the Mo family was weak, it needed to develop and grow in the gap between the contradictions of the aristocracy, and the slogan was: "The big will attack the small, the strong will insult the weak, the many will be thieves and widows, and the deceit will deceive and foolish, all of which are unrighteous and detrimental to the world."

So the Mo family acted as a-stirring stick in the Central Plains, from Shangqiu to Niuqiyi, and used this slogan as a reason to send troops, quietly expanding their strength, absorbing market figures to join, expanding their influence, and quietly developing.

When the Wei and Chu wars reached their most intense, the Mo family seized the opportunity of the powerlessness of the foreign powers to intervene, sold the Chu State and the Zheng State, and got rid of Sishang, and after the strength replaced the Yue State as a powerful force on one side, the propaganda caliber immediately changed to: "Yu attacks Sanmiao, Shang Tang fights the Ji, and King Wu fights the Zhou, and the ambition of the heavens and the benefits of the people are combined." This is a move that punishes the unjustified and benefits the world. The battle of righteousness and injustice depends on the three manifestations of profit and the three troubles of the people, and if it can be solved, it is a righteous war."

So the Mo family no longer acted as a-stirring stick, but ceded the cities of the Yue Kingdom, divided the Sishang land of the Yue Kingdom, and acted as the government of the Sishang countries. interfered with the Qi State to attack Lu, hindered Chen Chu's eastward advance, stationed in Gaoliu of Zhao State, and traveled west to the south of Zheng ......

These people have all experienced such a transformation, and as soon as Solu Shen said this, they immediately understood what Solu Shen meant.

He is a person who has crossed the Eurasian steppe, and he has seen a lot of things on the grassland, so he has naturally been thinking about ways to solve them.

The Mohists' policy in Takayanagi was to divide the Hu people, replace the tribe with class, and naturalize a large number of low-level members of the Hu people, and gain a firm foothold.

But just like the development route of the Mo family, when you have a firm foothold and can't control the grassland with all your strength for the time being, being a-stirring stick on the grassland is the best choice.

To be a-stirring stick, you need to have strength as support.

After the first battle of Shangqiu, the Mo family, the-stirring stick of the Central Plains, could be regarded as having a say in the princes of the Central Plains.

It's just that to be a-stirring stick in the Central Plains, what is needed is the Mo family's ability to defend the city.

And to be a-stirring stick on the grassland, what is needed is to show the offensive and defensive ability of the Mo family in front of the Hu people.

If these 600 people can lure the Hu people to attack, and then refuse to defend the mountains and cause huge casualties to the Hu people, then a brigade of the Mo family will be able to run rampant in the grassland in the future, and the tribe will not dare to provoke it, nor will it dare to move any crooked thoughts.

On the contrary, if these 600 people are wiped out by the Hu people, then the problem will be serious: if the Gaoliu side wants to go out to the grassland, at least 10,000 people must be prepared to dare to move, and the logistical pressure, mobilization time, and damage to agriculture of 10,000 people are dozens of times that of a brigade.

And if these Hu people besiege but do not attack, and wait until the army comes and it is estimated that they will not be able to defeat and withdraw, then the Hu people will not be impressed, let alone know how big the gap between iron, gunpowder, cannons, bone arrows, and wooden bows is.

He was not only giving advice, but also teaching these young people to think further, to teach these young people to have a better understanding of war.

After returning from the westward journey, he knew the tribes on the grassland best, and he also knew the rules of the grassland the most, and he had accumulated the experience of the western countries in governing the tribes on the grassland, which was greatly conducive to the development of the Mo family in the Gaoliu area.

After he explained it clearly, everyone agreed, and brainstormed how to make the Hu people think that these people were timid, timid, and could attack.

Twenty horsemen were selected to reconnoiter the perimeter to ensure the safety of the movement for several miles, and when the army had retreated near the hill, they were to retreat with all their horses.

The fewer the people, the faster they walked, and if there were more horses, the Hu people behind would not be able to catch up. With fewer horses, there is much less food consumption, water consumption, and a narrower defense, which allows you to gather more troops in the unit space.

As the army retreated towards the hill, it deliberately threw away some stirrups, iron pots, saddles, a few swords, and three or five spears, as if they had fled.

Before the sun set, hundreds of people had all evacuated to the hill.

The horses were gathered together, driven by the twenty men, and retreated towards Takayanagi first, without carrying the women and children, for once carried away they would be slower and more dangerous.

There was no water on the hill, and no one was called to dig it, but it was filled with water at the bottom of the hill in advance, with leather jars, etc., and there were no horses, so it was enough to save money for ten days.

At the top of the mountain, according to the Mo family's habit of guarding the city, the toilet was dug first.

The carts were joined together and laid across the mountainside, and the earth was dug to build up the fortifications, and the trees were cut down to make the horses.

By noon on the second day, hundreds of men had completed their basic defenses.

A few small cannons of dozens of pounds that could be placed on the carriage were concentrated in the direction where the Hu people were most likely to break through.

Two bronze cannons that can fire three catties of iron pellets are deployed in the position with the best view on the mountain.

The men who Solushen brought back, who knew how to use muskets, were all grouped, and the foot knights who came to meet them were divided into groups, and four companies of musketeers were organized, each assigned a guard position.

The rest were assigned spears, and those who were skilled in sword or combat were armed with swords and shields in case the Hu did rush up and fill the gap.

At the front of the line, there were piles of wood, stones, and excavated dirt. In the highest places, several warriors were also arranged, which were used to throw iron thunder.

Most of the women and children were behind, but the gentleman was the only one who was holding some measuring tools next to the two cannons.

In his hand is a table of functions, a ruler for measuring angles, a set of copper rulers for measuring distances easily, and a mind that can calculate numbers.

When several gunners saw this set of tools, they originally wanted her to retreat to the back, but naturally they held back in their stomachs and didn't say anything.

The prisoner was in front of the battle, holding a musket, and was communicating with Solushen.

Solushen talked about the nomadic tactics he had seen, javelin cavalry was popular in the West, and there were some mounted archers in the steppe, but the only tactics that could win for infantry with projectile weapons were similar.

It is nothing more than a projection after approaching, luring the infantry into pursuit, thus opening up the infantry line and creating an opportunity for the two flanks to outflank and encircle.

Once the infantry is loosened, if the infantry cannot withstand the projection and pursues it, or if the enemy is too light and pursues, the infantry will be in danger.

However, if the infantry had muskets, the projection fire was sufficient and the range was far better than that of a cavalry bow; If the infantry phalanx has artillery and the nomadic tribes have no artillery and cannot bombard the infantry in formation, then these nomadic tribes will not be able to break through the infantry defenses even if they rack their brains.

Field battles require cavalry cooperation, but if you hold on, cavalry is not necessary, there is no danger of being wrapped on both wings to defend the mountain, and the hillside also makes it impossible for the Hu people to deploy too many troops.

After roughly estimating the space, the number of Hu people who can be expanded at one time is at most a thousand.

Even if there are more than 10,000 Hu people, on the front of the battlefield, in fact, the number of both sides is about the same.

Except for the few condor archers of the Hu people, the range of the bows and arrows of the rest of the Hu people is not at all beyond that of muskets: if they are thrown, the arrows of stones and bones are fired upward, and they are basically not lethal.

The prisoner listened to some war stories told by Suo Lushen in the far west, listened to some of Suo Lushen's own summaries, recalled the things he learned in the academy, and asked with a smile: "If you say so, the Hu people will not be able to break through our defenses at all?" ”

Soluzan smiled: "Yes, there is no chance. And even if it is a field battle, they have no chance. Can their cavalry bow shoot the musketeers who are separated by spears? Can you beat those cannons? ”

"If you can't shoot anything, why lure the infantry out of your own formation and thus mess up the formation? Besides, we're not in the field yet, they don't have a chance. ”

The prisoner asked again: "That...... What if one day they also learned to use cannons and muskets? ”

Solushen laughed even more: "They don't even have stirrups now, why use cannons and muskets?" Besides, the musket should use the military system of the Mo family, and the Hu people have no arable land, can they use our military system? If they don't farm, they will never have such an opportunity. ”

"When you plough, you use muskets and cannons...... That's more than anyone. There are more people than people, do you think they are better than the Central Plains? Besides, once cultivated, there will be a city that must be defended, a place that must be defended, when it comes to siege cities, who in the world can defend the siege of our Mo family? ”

"We know the will of the sky, and the technology can be continuously improved. When the Hu people replaced the bone arrows with bronze arrowheads, maybe we all had the kind of muskets that could be lit by flint. ”

"Hu people, there is no chance. Since then, the Hu people have no chance to go south to herd horses. ”

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A few miles away from the hills, a few warriors of the Hu people snatched a full set of saddle stirrups thrown on the ground, and were excited.

A complete set of stirrups is both a valuable asset and a status symbol in the tribe.

A few days ago, these people of the tribe ate a meal of mutton cooked in an iron pot, and the taste was far better than roasted. After the meal, according to the method from Takayanagi, I drank tea and milk.

Nomads rarely ate meat, except for noble chiefs and the like, and most of the time they fed on milk and some wild vegetables from the grasslands.

Nomads who eat meat every day can't afford it, and the fat in the milk with the taste of tea is indeed extremely suitable, and it has become a luxury for the leaders of the steppe nobility in recent years.

The iron pots exchanged made these people finally know the wealth of the Central Plains, and also knew how many things could be robbed, and occasionally enjoyed the greed after that, so that they were very supportive of the order of the tribal leader to return to intercept and kill these people and then extort them.

After chasing after them, they felt that the tribe that had withdrawn out of fear was really cowardly: when the southerners fled, they threw away many iron pots, saddles, stirrups, clothes, and even a few iron swords.

These tribes thought to themselves, that timid tribe is really cowardly, what is there to be afraid of such a person? They threw away their weapons and fled, and stood on the hills, fearing that the warriors of the tribe would capture them all in one attack, and then exchange them for more iron pots, tea, cloth, and even iron swords.

Several tribal warriors or condor archers put on the set of stirrups they had picked up, and spun around in front of everyone, which attracted bursts of cheers and strengthened the confidence of these people to conquer the hill.

The trumpets sounded, and thousands of people rushed towards the hills miles away, brave archers with bows in hand and stone axes at their waists, ready to rush up and grab an iron sword.

The Condor Archer shook his spirits and pulled out a long arrow with a sharp black stone arrow in front of it, hoping to capture some bronze arrowheads.

Tribal members dressed in animal skins rushed forward and could pick up a cotton garment......

All the Hu people thought that this battle would be won, and they could get a lot of good things, so they asked the southerners to exchange more iron pots, stirrups, and iron swords in exchange, and let them give more in the future.