warring states careerist

Chapter 225

After the Pei County Volunteer Team was assembled, Shi Ye began to mobilize the representatives of the people.

Everything that should be said has been said, and the only thing left is to bargain.

These people are willing to use the defense of the city in exchange for their own interests, but the price must be clearly stated.

They respect the Mohists, but they respect their own lives even more, and they don't want to defend the city to the point of changing their sons and eating them.

The people present stared at Shi, since Shi had already opened their hearts to fight for their own interests, they no longer twitched when it came to bargaining.

After Shi finished reading the conditions that the people were concerned about, everyone was quite satisfied, but they had to ask: "Shi, what your Mohist said is very good, but how far should the city be defended?"

"There is not much food in the city. We believe in your ability to defend the city, and the Chu people also believe it. If the Chu people retreat and besiege the city, what should we do?"

"Even if you don't starve to death and delay farming, what will you eat next year?"

This is what everyone is most concerned about, so he said conveniently: "Don't worry about this, Jin people will definitely send troops."

Someone asked: "The time when the Jin people send troops is unknown. If the Jin people can't send troops immediately, then before the Jin people send troops, we may have starved to death."

Some things have become known to everyone in the city, and it is no longer a secret.

There is only two or three months of grain in the city, so it is difficult to sustain it for a long time, and the Chu people learned from the situation of King Zhuang's siege, not only harvesting wheat, but also preparing to ask the nearby Song people to help them plant it.

In addition, the conscripted farmers and soldiers are farmers themselves, and they can also farm nearby, so it is not impossible to make a long-term siege.

Shi stretched out two fingers and said: "You have also heard that the food stored in the city can last for two or three months. The Mohists agreed that it would be limited to three months. No troops were sent..."

He said suddenly, and swore to Tianmeng: "At that time, my Mo family will give up defending the city for the people of Shangqiu!"

As soon as the words came out, the crowd no longer had any doubts, and said loudly: "If that's the case, then we are willing to defend the city! As for who is the king, that doesn't matter, whoever agrees to our conditions, we will publicly elect whoever is the king! Zitian is fine too , Uncle Cen Xi!"

Seeing that everyone has agreed, Shi nodded to the Mohists behind, and began to distribute spears and spears to let these people participate in the coup d'état.

The volunteers from Peixian County walked in the front to the rhythm of the snare drum, advancing along the road towards the palace.

The people who followed up to defend the city organized into a rough formation according to their respective teams, and followed behind the volunteers in Peixian County in a loose manner.

On Mo Zhe's arms, there are special signs for identification, as if they were defending the city at night.

They were not to participate in the coup in name, but as mediators of the three parties involved in the coup, but in fact they were behind the scenes of the third party.

The monarch and Emperor Sicheng, the uncle Cen Xi and Liu Qing, the volunteers of Peixian County and the people of Shangqiu, these three conveniences are the layout of the city at this time.

The monarch naturally had conflicts with Si Chenghuang, but at this moment they were standing together.

The volunteers in Peixian County and the people in Shangqiu seemed to be organized spontaneously, but in fact there were Mohists behind the scenes, there were craftsmen associations, and there were other grassroots organizations.

There are also many conflicts between the uncle Cen Xi and Liu Qing, but they must stand together for the time being.

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Outside the city, King Chu also noticed the changes in the city.

On the watchtower, you can see the chaos in the city, and you can also notice that the number of defenders on the city wall has decreased a lot.

The king of Chu should not be cheated. I have never heard that the defenders deliberately withdrew their soldiers to let the attackers attack the city quickly.

Zuo Yin said: "Your Majesty, it seems that there is chaos in the wall of Shangqiu City. From this point of view, if we attack for a while, we can wait for the city to form an alliance with us?"

You Yin also persuaded: "Zuo Yin's words are reasonable. The soldiers have suffered a lot of setbacks in attacking the city these days, and they are quite resentful. If they continue to attack the city, they will be afraid that people will be unstable and the soldiers will be exhausted. Once the Jin people attack, they may not be able to win. "

These Chu nobles all knew that the purpose of the siege in the past few days was only to attract the attention of the city defenders, thereby creating conditions for the coup in the city.

It's just that Mo Zhe's technique of defending the city is indeed superior.

It seems that there have been no machines similar to the ballista of the transfer machine tool in the past few days, but Shangqiu City still remains motionless.

Every time they attacked within a hundred feet, the nobles of Chu felt as if they could break through the city with a little more effort, but it was extremely difficult to cross the last hundred feet, and the attack on the city was frustrated for several days.

And even with all kinds of means, the defenders in the city still have endless strategies.

The lime, boiling oil, dung, etc. left a huge shadow on the attacking soldiers. Once they found that the city was being sprinkled, it was impossible to attack, and they could only scatter and retreat.

Once they retreat, they will expose the elite wings of the real siege.

One is that feathered arrows shoot from both sides of the city head, and the other is that the Mohists often organize warriors to attack from the small door dog hole to counterattack the flanks of the Chu people's attacking elite.

In the past few days, the morale of the Chu people was not high, and those rumors that were strictly forbidden to be mentioned were spread everywhere.The nobles don't care about the death of those pawns, but they are very concerned about those pawns being bewitched by proclamations full of sedition and hatred.

The king of Chu also understood the real purpose of going north this time.

After forming an alliance with the Song people, they used the manpower and force of the Song State to go northward to Yuguan Liang to strengthen the defense there, thereby stabilizing Chu's support points and protrusions in the Central Plains.

To the west of Yuguan Daliang is Zheng State, and to the east is Song Wei. As long as Yuguan Daliang is not lost, it is impossible for these three kingdoms to fully guide the people of Jin.

If the Chu people want to go out of the Central Plains, they can only choose this direction.The struggle for Huaisi is just to connect Qi State to suppress Yue State.In the direction of Yiluo, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but it is also very difficult to counterattack when troops have been sent north.

The King of Chu knew very well that the ultimate enemy was the San Jin, and the little Song State was just a gesture of declaring hegemony.

Therefore, if the coup can be turned into an alliance in the city, the Chu army will be able to rest and welcome the arrival of the Jin people.

In this way, the hatred of the battle of Huangchi and Yongqiu 20 years ago can be recovered, and the Jin people can completely lose their buffer.

Both Qin and Qi have enmity with the Three Jins now. If the Chu people can control the Central Plains, then the situation of the Three Jins will be even more ugly-Qi, Qin, and Chu can't threaten the Zhao people, and the Zhao people will definitely take the opportunity to intervene in Wei A man with a sword, without the Three Jins of the Zhao Wei Alliance, there is no worry at all.

The words of Zuo Yin and You Yin are all old-fashioned words, and one less death of a Chu person can add strength to the future decisive battle between Jin and Chu.

Delaying the siege, just besieging the city, can reduce the resentment of the Song people, so that the Song people will not resent the Chu people.

It's just that the king of Chu has his own ideas.

He looked at the minister and said, "Today we will not only attack the city, but also use our best talents! Taking advantage of the disaster of Shangqiu's wall, we will do our best to take down Shangqiu!"

"Since the city is in chaos, there must be few defenders at the top of the city, and people are panicking. Even if the Mohists have the means to defend the city, but the city is already in chaos, how can they hold it?"

"We conquered Shangqiu and formed an alliance with Shangqiu's six ministers. How can it be the same?"

If the king of Chu wants to take Shangqiu with all his strength, he has to obtain the support of the nobles. Without the full support of the nobles, it is impossible to gather all the elite forces for attack.

The nobles were puzzled, and the King of Chu explained.

If you wait for the Song people to surrender and form an alliance, then the turmoil in the city must have subsided.

Zitian will die, and Sichenghuang's family will also be exterminated, because they are still in the stage of siege, and they don't even have a chance to escape.

However, even if a new monarch and nobles of the Song Dynasty without Zitian and Sichenghuang were restrained, they would not be able to achieve long-term control even if they were fully guided to the Chu people.

The king of Chu needs to be the arbiter of Shangqiu City and retain some opponents, so that the pro-Chu faction allows the Chu people to garrison troops to interfere in Song's internal affairs and other conditions.

Moreover, only by breaking the city can the situation of the Song State be fully controlled... This situation is not controlled by the nobles of the Song State, but by the people of Chu.

Moreover, only in this way can we negotiate with the Mohists to sell part of the benefits in exchange for the Mohism's help in building the two cities of Daliang and Yuguan, improving the defense of the city in the northern direction, and obtaining a better support point for the Jin-Chu struggle for hegemony.

The King of Chu has formed an alliance with the Mohist, and there are only three years left for him. He must gain prestige and strength to the greatest extent within these three years, and allow the Chu people to gain sufficient hegemony when the three-year period comes. Advantage.

The state of Song is too big for the people of Chu to eat by themselves. It is impossible to follow the example of Chen Cai and destroy the country and set up counties. Then we can only rely on the disputes among the people of Song to gradually control the internal affairs of the people of Song.

If it is an alliance without breaking the city, it will be extremely difficult to control, and it will be difficult to last.

Back then, because of the power of Emperor Sicheng, Duke Song asked the King of Chu to come forward to secure the palace. In fact, that was the best opportunity for Chu people to control Song.

However, Weiss led the three Jins to defeat the Chu people, not to mention the total defeat in the two battles, which also caused the contempt of the Song people, and made the pro-Jin faction inside the Song country stronger.

After he finished explaining the reason, he pointed to Shangqiu city and said, "Shangqiu city has been destroyed so far. If we can break through Shangqiu, wouldn't Zheng Renwei be terrified?"

"Besides, there is still Shangqiu City defended by Mo Di himself. If it wasn't for the chaos in Shangqiu City, where would we have a chance?"

"The destruction of Shangqiu this time not only destroys Shangqiu, but also destroys Shangqiu defended by the Mohists. The world will be shaken! Qin and Qi are willing to form an alliance! Wei and Zheng are bound to hire!"

All the nobles felt that what the King of Chu said was reasonable.

Shangqiu is a powerful city in the world at this time. The three-foot-high city wall has been repaired for hundreds of years. Not to mention it is tall and strong. Almost every time the Jin and Chu fought for hegemony, the people of Chu never broke through Shangqiu.

Neither the capital of the Zheng people nor the capital of the Wei people was as strong as Shangqiu.When it comes to defense, it can't be compared with Shangqiu, where Mohists participated in the defense of the city.

When King Zhuang besieged the city, it had been proved that the transportation and logistics of the Chu people could support a long-term battle such as the siege of the city in October.

If Shangqiu can be defeated again this time, and it can prove the ability of the Chu people to attack the city, it can be regarded as a declaration: Even if Gongshuban dies, even if he does not contribute to the unjust war after arguing with Mozi last time, the Chu people's siege ability will still be strong. The siege ability is still there, and it can even be said to be far better than before!
At that time, which of those small countries will not be afraid?Apart from being hired by the court in Chu and being a vassal state where the people of Chu and the people of Jin are fighting for hegemony, what other choice is there?
Deterrence is also an important purpose of besieging Shangqiu this time.

(End of this chapter)