The crypt is approaching, and the inkers in the cave are well prepared, and they are confident and have their own spirit.

Having said so, the person at the head thought that at this time, let the Chu people dig for a while, and it would still be victorious, and there would be no difference.

I also thought that even if the Chu people heard the movement here and suddenly changed direction, even if they attacked, it would be difficult to penetrate through the tunnel.

So he fulfilled Shi's wish, and after a few whispers with Shi, he waited silently.

After a few moments, he shouted.

A person behind him suddenly pulled the rope that connected the copper bell outside, and the inkman, who had been waiting for a long time to hold the tool in his hand, immediately moved forward, digging the earth with great speed.

The transporter behind him silently loaded the earth from the ground into earthen baskets, passed it back at intervals, and temporarily piled it up in the big houses.

The speed is far faster than when digging mines in Pei County, after all, Shangqiu is good soil, and it is not better than the gravel on the mine.

The Chu soldiers who were digging the cave suddenly heard a huge movement, and their hearts were greatly disturbed, and the lighting was not bright underground, and they couldn't help but panic.

The cave was dug open, and the inkman with a short soldier rushed in first, and the pottery pipe behind the smoke was also hurriedly connected.

The five of them held huge wooden shields and knocked away those overwhelmed Chu pawns, dividing the Chu people in the ground into two.

The five-sided wooden shield is stuck at the entrance of the cave, supported by the chief spear, there is a gap in the middle of the wooden shield, several Yi spears are stabbed outward, and the Chu people outside are forced to retreat, and the hole on the wooden shield is immediately blocked with the blended yellow mud to stretch out the spear, and the pottery pipe is connected, and the smoke is billowing when it lands.

The wooden shield is covered with yellow mud, which can block the smoke from pouring in, but it can't stop the coughing sound on the other side.

The ink master, who is proficient in the dialect, said loudly: "I want to teach you to know the means of the ink master to defend the city, and go back to inform the king of Chu that the crypt will attack the city, and the giant can deal with it fifty years ago, and you know and dare to do so, just spare your lives, go back and tell you!" Tell the bear not to do useless work! ”

He shouted several times, the smoke from the burning of wormwood and chili pepper peels had already made the opposite side unbearable, and the opposite side was in chaos, and there was no eye-washing potion specifically referred to by the Mo family, the hole was pitch black, and he crawled out with a rolling belt.

The other half of the people who were divided by the ink man were all apprentices, and it was dark here, and they were already frightened, and the ink man only shouted a few times, and these people threw down the tools in their hands and surrendered together.

Forty or fifty Chu people, who were digging and transporting earthworks, were captured in an instant. Crypt combat, the Chu people are not good at it, where are the opponents of these ink masters who have practiced countless times.

Moreover, the ink man's side is mentally calculated or unintentional, and the location of the tunnel is extremely close, which is a situation that the Chu people did not expect at all.

After listening to the movement on the other side, Shi knew that the Chu people on the other side had fled, and he didn't know if it was possible to suffocate inside under the thick smoke.

There is a big house on his own side to store soldiers, but he can use the cave of the Chu people to sneak attack the sheep, so he left more than 20 people to garrison, and the rest escorted the frightened Chu people back.

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A few days later, the king of Chu looked at a letter sent from the city, and his heart was not only convinced, but also a little angry.

Originally, he wanted to use the tunnel attack to create some chaos and pressure on the defenders of Shangqiu, so that the defenders of the city could be nervous and uneasy, so as to cope with the coming wheat harvest season.

But I didn't want the people in the city, like ghosts, to dig tunnels for counterattacks more than fifty steps away from the city wall, which was extremely surprising.

In the barracks, there are many soldiers who have fled back who have been choked by the thick smoke to talk about this, and they are even more associated with ghosts and gods, or some people speculate that the ink can communicate with the gods of the underground, otherwise how could they be able to dig through dozens of steps together?

In addition to ghosts and gods, it seems difficult to explain, and I thought of the previous rumors that the ink master valued ghosts and gods and was good at sacrifice, and I couldn't help but spread rumors all over the sky.

Originally, there was a ban on singing "Bustard Feather", and now there is a ban on mentioning this matter, but what the Japanese ink man said in the city that everything that is not allowed to be mentioned is the truth, and there are inevitably some different thoughts or fears in the military camp.

The Moji first relied on the feather arrows to shoot at each other, and then sent elite soldiers to take advantage of the exhaustion of digging to attack the sheep, splashing some strange liquid grease, burning the wood that was easy to transport from thirty miles away, and capturing more than 100 archers and soldiers.

Defeated like this, the Chu people could only try to launch a counterattack, even if it brought a little chaos to the city, in order to boost morale.

He used the ladder made by the public transport squad to attack from the sheep's nest, but the ink man hit it with a rush, and it was difficult to get close at all.

The two sides went back and forth for several days, but the city was as safe as ever.

By the way, the city also sent a letter to the king of Chu, which wrote down the various means of the ink man to defend the city one by one, and clearly told the Chu people that our means are these, you can know, but you have no way to break through Shangqiu.

The letter was written on paper in two copies, one for Chu Seal and the other for the Ink Writer's internal use of the Cheap Script.

The first sentence of the opening sentence on the paper is full of confidence and ridicule of the Chu people.

"Those who are sheep and those who attack are clumsy are enough to work hard, not enough to harm the city. The government of the sheep mound, if you attack from afar, you will be harmed from afar, and if you are near the city, you will not reach the city. The arrows and stones are endless, the left and right are interesting, and the orchid is behind the pillar, looking at the solid. Sharp and sharp, cautious and careless, the defenders are heavy, and the attackers are light. Raise courage and hard work, the people's hearts are 100 times, more and less, and the pawn is not slack. ”

The latter is a way to guard against the tunnels.

After the king of Chu saw it, he sighed, showed it left and right, and passed it on to the nobles.

For a long time, the ministers were speechless.

The king of Chu said: "The art of the ink man guarding the city, unparalleled in the world, lies in this." Their letter says, "Therefore the enemy does not know what he is defending; Those who defend well, the enemy does not know what they are attacking. ”

"Now the ink man has written down the means of defending the city one by one, the way you can break it?"

Originally, the most radical advocate of attacking the city, Gong Stable Yin, was silent at this time, and the mysterious method he could think of was completely cracked by this paper letter.

After a while, the palace stable Yin said: "In the past, Uncle Yang's archery skills were not right in the world, and the world knew that he was good at archery, but no one dared to compare with archery, I'm afraid this is the style, right?" ”

Yang Youji is a Chu person, the essence of archery is known to the world, and the palace stable Yin will guard the city to the ink, saying that archery is to raise Youji, that is, he has been convinced.

The king of Chu smiled, he didn't want to attack the city, because he knew that he couldn't attack it, so he chose to besiege the city and wait for something to happen in the city.

The old ministers have all seen Mozi, and many of them have seen the offensive and defensive battle that was compared to the belt more than 30 years ago, so they are not opposed to besieging but not attacking.

Gong Stable Yin, as the main attacking faction, has been convinced, and the rest can be regarded as stable.

After a few days of attack and defense, the ink man captured a lot of Chu people, a lot of apprentices from the tunnels, a lot of archers from the sheep's mound, and some small nobles and warriors.

In his letters, the Moji made it clear that everyone was a minister of the Emperor of Heaven and that everyone was equal, so he would return the nobles, scholars, and ordinary apprentices, and would send someone to meet the King of Chu.

The Chu people knew that the Mo man was good at arguing, but if he avoided it at this time, he was afraid that he would be humiliated by his reputation, and if he could redeem those low-level nobles and soldiers, it would be more convenient for the army to be at ease.

Now that we want to besiege the city for a long time, we can't help but consider the stability of the army's morale, and now there are quite a lot of strange sayings in the camp, and I am afraid that it will take a long time to wait for the change in the city.

And after the king of Chu read the letters of the ink man and heard about the ink man's methods, he also had some heart for the ink man, and this meeting was also imperative.

In this era, envoys were often intimidated, and they were often ready to go to the oil pot Dading, or to fry or cook and kill, and even the Marquis of Qi had been fried by Zhou Tianzi back then, so at this time, there were often ministers invited to the Ding Wok and other arrogances.

The king of Chu said: "I heard that the ink man does not turn his heel, and if he has to meet face-to-face, there is no need to prepare some means." Back then, Mozi went to Chu alone, and he was fearless, and at this time, if he used those means, he was afraid that he would be ridiculed by the Mozi. ”

The ministers all thought it was reasonable, and the king of Chu asked again: "Look at this letter, it seems that the ink man wants to send lobbyists to give up the siege of the city, but he can't." It's just that if the Mo's words are fiercely occupied, even if you don't give up the siege, it's not good. ”

"Who of you can argue with that?"

The ministers were speechless, and there were some wise people among them, but after listening to some stories of the Mo family, no one wanted to lose face in front of everyone.

It's okay to win, although he has a great reputation, but the chance of winning is very small, even if Mo Zhai is old and can't come forward in person, if he meets someone who makes a lot of nonsense in the city that day, it will be difficult to support.

The king of Chu looked around at the ministers, but he was not angry, and said with a straight smile: "I'm afraid that when the time comes, I can only say that their words are reasonable, but if they make sense, they may not necessarily do it." ”

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In the city, the captured Chu people were not insulted, but just used a carriage to pull around the city to boost the morale of the city.

Subsequently, these people were distinguished according to their respective identities.

Farmers, slaves, nobles, craftsmen, nobles with fiefdoms, and down-and-out people who are not directly related to the clan...... According to their different identities, they are detained.

Those nobles are treated a little better, and the better here is not because of their special diet, but because they don't need to be nagged by the ink man every day.

And those who are better than, including those who are down-and-out, are subjected to the propaganda of the inkers on a daily basis.

Different people have to tell different truths, and the Xuanyi Department can be said to have implemented this sentence to the extreme, and it is also busy to the extreme.

For those down-and-out aristocratic taxis, the propaganda strategy given by the Xuanyi Department is to promote Shangxian.

These down-and-out taxis like to listen to Shangxian's teachings the most.

Because they belong to the ability, and although this ability also comes from the full-time study of the arrival of the bloodline, they are still dissatisfied that the power is controlled by the big nobles and the big clans, so Shang Xian's reason is almost as soon as they say it, they applaud it even after saying it.

In their opinion, the world designed by the ink artist is excellent: if there is ability, it will go up, and if it is incompetent, it will go down, and everyone will do what he can.

Because of their productive forces, these scholars are the least powerful of the literate class, and they are the most eager for change.

As for the peasants, Xu Mi and the like, they had the rest of the truth to tell them, and they used a dialect that they could understand.

In less than half a month, the vast majority of these captives, except for the sons and nobles of the orthodox great sects, had already quite appreciated the truth of the Mo.

The scholars longed for Shangxian, the bottom longed for equality, the farmers longed for the private mu system, and the craftsmen who had no wives and daughters even chose to stay in Shangqiu directly.