warring states careerist

Chapter 180 Infinite Changes and New Strategies ([-])
The king of Chu said in his heart: "If I were a farmer, a taxpayer, and a businessman, I'm afraid I would have been persuaded by the Mohists. Fortunately, the farmers are stupid, but they are only shaken, and they can still stabilize the morale of the army."

"I heard that in the past, Zhu Zhiwu retreated from Uncle Qin with his words, Shen Baoxu begged Qin Shi to restore Chu with his words, and Cao Mo forced Qihou to join Lu with his words... But he didn't want the Mohist's words to try to persuade the Wanjun !"

The King of Chu looked at Shi Shi, who was already protected by a large shield on the top of the city, and praised the excellent words in his heart, but on the surface he wanted to show an angry expression.

The greatest enemy of monarchy is the nobility.

Self-cultivating farmers can accept an enlightened and authoritarian monarch, rather than those who are messy.

The king is willing to accept a group of small farmers who own their own land and pay taxes directly to the king, rather than a prince with countless constraints.

Many things about the Mohists are not as explicit as what they said, leaving enough gaps - it seems that the monarch can be the best system of synonymous upper and lower synonymous, at least now it seems that this is still theoretically possible, not yet completely blocked.

Therefore, before competing with the monarchy, the biggest enemies of the Mohists are those enfeoffment nobles, which seems to be exploited by the king because the Mohists are temporarily weak.

The king of Chu was not a fool, but on the contrary he was ambitious, so he inevitably believed that those "fish" were indeed as Mo Zhe said.

However, there are too many "fish beetles" in Chu, and beetles can read, learn literature, and shoot, but there are not enough classes that are not "beetles" to replace them.

Therefore, the King of Chu ordered the elite archers beside him to shoot towards the city wall to suppress the buzzing voices on the city wall.

The king of Chu didn't quite understand it, but he could guess from the attitude of the farmers that these Mohists might not have said anything provocative.

After a few rounds of feather arrows, the voices in the city were muffled, but no one was hit.

The Chu troops outside the city began to retreat, and when the archers stopped, Mo Zhe changed into Yangxia accent, Fangcheng accent, and Chuying accent to keep shouting, not for people to hear, but for Chu people Back off some distance.

Shi is a shoemaker, and Xiong Dang is a king; Shi does not know Chu dialect and Yayin, and the king of Chu cannot understand Shi's dialect.

The two were separated by more than a hundred steps, but the king of Chu understood the meaning of Shi, which was to make the people of Chu retreat a hundred steps to a place where they could not hear the preaching of Mohist.

This is not a retreat, but it is a big taboo for besieging the city. If you leave two hundred steps, if there is any emergency in the city, you will not be able to provide timely support from outside the city.

The siege party needs to keep the city tense at all times, creating an illusion that they don't know when to attack the city, so as to drain the morale in the city.

The besieging party needs to have enough soldiers close to the city wall to deal with the raids of soldiers leaving the city, those who flee for rescue, those who run down from the city and surrender, and pass on the news of the spies in the city.

Mozi's first priority in defending the siege is to send elite soldiers to attack the enemy troops deployed outside the city wall and make them retreat a hundred paces away.

The distance of a hundred steps has already exceeded the effective range of the bow and arrow. One step with the left and right feet is only one step at this time, and the distance is very long.

If there are few people who have heard it, all you need to do is to kill everyone who has heard it, and it will not cause any influence in the military camp.

But today's song "Buddha Feather" aroused homesickness and dissatisfaction, and those bloody words after that incited not dozens of people, but hundreds of people.

These people can't be killed, so we can only strictly prevent these words from spreading, and we can only clean up the internal affairs first.

The wheat harvest is about to come, and if it doesn't work, these people can only be replaced by changing defenses to harvest the wheat, but the new recruits can't get too close.

The besiegers who were originally safe and sound under the city began to appear chaotic. The elite of the Chu army dispatched to cover the change of formation and cover the cannon fodder in the front row to retreat for a certain distance. They must seize the time to restrain discipline and strictly investigate the discussions in the barracks , kill a group of people to warn others, hang up a group as a warning...

Just a piece of music and a few words have achieved the effect that requires hundreds of elite soldiers to go out of the city to fight to the death.

Gongsun Ze on the city wall thought of the previous contempt, and knew that he was humiliated again today.

If it's just such a humiliation, it's nothing. He felt that some of Shi's words seemed to be insinuating about himself-according to Shi's words, isn't he also what the Mohist called "a silverfish"?

This was unacceptable to him, and he wanted to argue with Shi, but found that Shi didn't even look at him, so Shi Shiran went down the city.

Gongsun Ze didn't know that the silverfish in Shi's eyes was the enfeoffed nobles of the whole world. As for him, Gongsun Ze, Shi didn't have the heart to insinuate at all.

Seeing the Chu army retreating a certain distance outside the city, and the elite kings and chariots waiting in full force, Gongsun Ze sighed and could only look up to the sky and sigh at Shi's back.

"The one who messes up the world! It must be the Mohists! With such logic, how can the world not be in chaos? How can the hearts of the people be stable? How can the subordinates be loyal to the emperor?"

He seemed to want to lament to Shi, even if Shi turned around and argued with him, it was better than leaving without saying a word, not even bothering to be happy about the victory just now.

But Shi left just like that, and didn't even bother to waste the effort to tell Gongsun Ze to let him see what the tongue can do, just like... forgetting the city wall, there was a person who had a bet with him a few years ago, had a Grudges, and even fear of Gongsun Ze who was terrified.

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After Shi Shi returned to the house where Mo Di was stationed, Mo Di and others were preparing spirit wine there. A must for dealing with tunnel sieges.

Outside a high-rise building for observation, wells of five steps or three steps were dug every few steps. The top of the well was covered with cowhide, and the whole well was like a drum.

Some blind men were lying on the cowhide at the mouth of the well, listening to the movement in the distance.

Shi walked over cautiously, Mo Di said: "This is a way to listen to the enemy's possible attack by digging tunnels. Shi, you have to remember that if you look from a high place and see that the water in the moat is a bit muddy, or the enemy looks like We are digging to cover the wall, but the soil has accumulated too much, it may be to dig a tunnel to attack."

"You learn these skills quickly, but you have to know them all. You know the basics, but you have to understand these tricks."

Shi nodded, and Mo Di said again: "You came just in time, I have seen the situation under the city just now. Now defending the city, you Xuanyi Department will make a contribution first."

"Whoever guards the city must find a way to prevent the enemy from living within a hundred steps."

"In the past, you used to kill cattle and goats to boost the morale of those who defended the city, but you used it instead to reduce the morale of those who attacked the city. One increase and one decrease make no difference."

"I think the Chu people are afraid that they have no intention of attacking the city these days, but they want to clean up the interior first."

Shi thought about it for a while and said, "Sir, that's not necessarily the case. I'm afraid that the Chu people might try to attack the city. Every attack on the city will result in casualties, but if there are casualties, those words will be of little use."

"Although the peasants of Shangqiu and the peasants of Chu are both peasants, they are not related. How can one not resent the death of a fellow farmer?"

"Furthermore, the siege can also let those who hear these preachings attack first and let them die quickly. Then how can the Mohists kill the farmers of Chu when the farmers of Shangqiu are there?"

"Besides, attacking the city can also make Chu people have the same mind, and we can't shout, so sir, we still have to be careful."

Mo Di laughed and said, "That's right, the city defenders should not be careless. Although I think that if I come to defend the city, the attackers will not be able to find a place to attack, but if they are careless, they may still be breached."

"You're right, but I can crack all the methods they can use."

With such a confident answer, Shi also felt that there was no problem, and said: "Sir, the wheat harvest is coming soon. I estimate that the Chu people will attack the city once to exhaust the city, and then prepare to harvest the wheat thirty miles away."

"When the wheat is harvested, we will attack once, thinking that we will be prepared for the future. This attack... don't use all ink. If there is any damage..."

Shi didn't finish speaking, but Mozi understood what he meant.The number of Mohists is too small, one dies less than one, it is too difficult to join Mohism, and the selection standard is too high.

Mozi laughed and said, "This time it's just for the future. There is no need to strictly enforce the rules. Naturally, there is no need for all the Mohists to go out. Those who have their wives, children, and parents detained can fight."

After thinking about it for a while, he felt that this matter was still related to the Xuanyi Department, and said: "In this way, I am afraid that those scholars will have resentment, saying that the Mohists are playing for selfishness, and instead of letting the Mohists fight, they will be called to fight."

"I once heard that promoting Mi En and fighting Mi Qiu. Mohist is a member of the world, but not from Song Dynasty. The purpose of guarding the city is to benefit the world, and the Duke of Song never gave us land and salary. But since we defended it, we will not fight when the time comes. , but they feel favoritism..."

"I need to figure out a way to avoid asking them to insult us first."

Mozi waved his hand and said, "Don't worry about them, let them talk. There are still people in the Xuanyi Department who can do these things, and 54 can also do them. You come here first, and there are other important things to do."

"This time, we must do it well. If we don't do it well, the Mohists will be seriously injured."

As soon as Shi heard that the matter was urgent, he hurriedly took out a small notebook and was about to write it down with a thin pen. Mozi smiled and said: "Don't write it down, don't write it down, it's very small to say, but it's extremely difficult to do."

Taking back the small book, Mozi said: "You are a book secretary, and you have also copied my chapters on defending the city. What do you think is the biggest difference from other articles?"

This is really a comparison. Sun Tzu's Art of War and the like all pay attention to strategy.

Mozi's city defense technique, on the other hand, pays attention to technology.

In the recording and transcription, precise numbers and every inch can be seen everywhere,
Anyone who kills with acupoints, set up acupoints every twenty steps, the acupoints are ten feet high, dig ten feet, dig like before, step down three feet, embrace the acupoints in ten steps, run horizontally from left to right, ten feet high and wide.

In such a passage, a bunch of numbers and rulers can be found everywhere, and it is completely a general technical guide.

So Shi said: "The details are complete and the figures are detailed. This should be the difference in Mr.'s article."

Mozi nodded in agreement, and said with a relieved smile: "This is also the foundation of defending the city. Fanshu only talks about how to motivate and how to deploy formations, but not the details. My city defense skills, as long as you can read and count, you can rely on it." Learn by example."

"It's different, and I like it too. So for the plan you said about sending troops to force Chu to form an alliance in the future, it must be detailed, perfect, and the numbers are clear."

Mozi made some generalizations, and then asked, "Sir, did you want me to take advantage of the first wave of urban soldiers' feint to see clearly the movement of the Chu people? Calculate the distance between their camps? Judge the time when they will support each other? The exact number is the number." ,write down?"

　PS: The current apprentices are very thoughtful.A few years later when the Chu people attacked Zheng, the soldiers of the Zheng army provoked the Chu people because they were dissatisfied that the nobles had nothing to do. 4 people ran away without fighting the Chu people. They were all captured voluntarily and refused to fight.

　　
　
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