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Chapter 855 The Enemy Is Inside the Xiao Wall
As soon as the smoke rose, Wei Hanjun, who had already ambushed outside the city, yelled, and then marched towards the city gate with the elite soldiers as the pioneers.

In Xinzheng City, which is separated by a section of the city wall from the palace area, some people also saw the smoke here.

"Did Simon fall?"

Many people who had just repelled an attack by the Wei and Han coalition forces looked behind them, and the morale of the army, which had been stabilized by the victory for nearly a month, began to panic.

The northwest direction has not been the main direction of Wei and Han's attack. There are elite soldiers guarding there, and there is Xinzheng's earliest city defense system with walls and horses. It is said that it is the strongest there.

The Wei and Han coalition forces relied on cannons, but the cannons were all deployed to the east, because the number was too small to blast through the city walls.

And it is extremely troublesome to transfer the bronze cannon that can blast the city wall, and it is impossible for the city not to pay attention.

Time was running out, and it was impossible to build a second system of concave-convex angle defense lines in the city. We could only concentrate our manpower on building in the direction where the Wei and Han coalition forces were most likely to attack.

Moreover, the Wei and Han coalition forces have been attacking fiercely in the east in the past few days. After the increase in troops, the number of copper cannons has also increased, making it more difficult to defend.

If the palace area is breached, the allied forces of Wei and Han will soon attack to the rear of the defending army and civilians, and the defense there will not be systematic at all.

Xinzheng City is the capital city of Yuli System Examination and Engineering. The big city and the small city are separated by a wall.

Even if it is to organize city defense, it is impossible to use the already stretched strength to defend the palace area. This is the most basic common sense.

If the west is breached, it is equivalent to the breach of the most vulnerable part of the entire city defense, which will directly lead to the collapse of the entire city defense system.

The panic of the soldiers and civilians defending the city was not unreasonable, and some Mohists who were commanding on the front line also raised their heads one after another.

Xu Ruo stepped forward to tell everyone not to panic, to stabilize the situation here, and then sent someone to inquire.

Some of the nobles guarding here were also panicked. After the leaders of the guards met, the Mo family heard an unexpected but reasonable news.

The nobleman said, Your Majesty is going to inspect the city defense today to boost morale, to tell the people the news that the Chu-Mo coalition forces are about to rescue Zheng, so as to inspire everyone's confidence in defending the city.

Almost instantly, several members of the Si Clan suddenly said: "The enemy is within the Xiao Wall! The enemy is in the palace!"

They have come to their senses, if Wei and Han's siege happens, someone will definitely summon them.

But no one sent a message. Even if the soldiers guarding there were a group of pigs, it was impossible to say that the Wei-Han coalition army had just rushed in and caused the city gate to be breached.

That must be the people there hooking up with Wei Han!

Almost instantly, the faces of Si Ziyang's remaining members were all ashen, and everything that supported them before seemed to be emptied in an instant.

Xinzheng is over, the fall is inevitable, and they are mortal.

Once that side is released, there is no way to defend it, even those who have just learned how to defend the city know this.

There is only one layer of defense there, which is the city wall. The city walls in the palace area and the civilian area do not have much defensive power at all.

And that is precisely the vest of the entire city defense system. A knife was stabbed there, not to mention that the morale of the people collapsed instantly, and even if it did not collapse, there was no time to make adjustments.

At this moment, the drums sounded again, and the Wei and Han coalition forces launched another attack after they had just retreated, contrary to common sense.

Obviously, this is to cooperate with the actions over there, making this side even more chaotic and unable to provide support.

The inkmen are very calm.

Because Xinzheng City does not belong to them, at least it does not belong to the people they are guarding now. The ending of dog-eat-dog was beyond their expectations, but it can be regarded as a sad loss.

As long as the main force coming to support is not Sishang volunteers, then there is no need for them to hold on.

Their calmness stems from the fact that they don't care about the gains and losses of the city.

But in Si Ziyang Yu Dang's view, the Mohist is so calm, and maybe there is a way to stick to it.

The few nobles who were still sober thought to themselves that the Mo family was good at defending the city during Mo Di's time, and the good defense made the attackers invulnerable, and they were able to kill unexpectedly in adversity every time.

These inkmen are so indifferent one by one, do they still have the means of guarding?

Immediately, those few people saluted and said: "Men, the city is at stake. If there is a way to hold on, please tell me. Not only our soldiers and private soldiers, but also ourselves, obey orders!"

Several Mohists glanced at each other, and the Mohist who has been hosting Xinzheng's activities said: "Our rules need to be discussed."

The few nobles immediately heard a feeling as if a drowning person heard a raft from these words, and they agreed repeatedly, only if the Mohist were so calm, there must be a means.

It is not yet known what is going on in the west. At this time, we can only send people to investigate immediately. It will take a while.

It is said that if it is a famous general, it must be necessary to make an immediate decision at this time.

However, war is for politics. If the purpose is not clear, how can we fight?
These few Mohists quickly got together in a place where no one was there, and they didn't have the cumbersome conversations of the usual meetings, so they made a judgment on the current situation.

There must have been an accident in the palace area to the west, but as for what happened in the end, there are nine out of ten that it is the treason of Zheng Guojun.

Xu Ruo asked bluntly: "Should I keep it? Or not?"

According to the original plan of the Mohists, in fact, at this point, it doesn't matter whether you keep it or not.

Keep it down and fight against the king of Chu and the nobles and ministers of the state of Zheng.

If you don't keep it, you have to fight Wei Han.

For the public, there really isn't much of a difference.

The situation at this moment at this moment is completely different from the situation at the end of the Warring States period where hundreds of thousands were beheaded at every turn to kill people in order to weaken the war potential of various countries.

At the end of the Warring States period, all countries basically implemented reforms, and a large number of self-cultivating farmers or farmers who granted land became the main military force of each country.

There are only a few big countries left in the disputes among the nations. The beheading weakens the strength of the main hostile countries not only because of the helplessness of logistics, but also to completely make the hostile countries lose their war potential.

Moreover, by that time, all countries had already had a little bit of national consciousness. This was certainly the awakening of nationalism caused by the long war, and it was also because after the reform, the main population of each country changed from land closure farmers to self-cultivation farmers and land grant farmers.

But now, the population is still small, and the laws of various countries have not yet been reformed. All kinds of labor always need people to do it.

It is impossible for South Korea to slaughter the people of Zheng Guo. It is unnecessary and harmful. Moreover, the Heze Covenant of the year and the powerful force of the Mohists are maintaining this covenant that is completely different from the previous era.

That being the case, in the eyes of the Mohists, there is actually no essential difference between fighting with Zheng Junchen from Chu and fighting with Wei and Han.

Under the premise that the concept of people in the world includes all the countries of Xia, in fact, there is only a dispute between "common people" and "nobles" within the Mohist school.

Under this premise, the Mohists who participated in the discussion almost agreed: "If you can't keep it, you won't keep it."

Xu Ruo was the one who raised this question, and he also replied: "I have exactly the same intention. Our goal of defending the city has basically been achieved. The people have learned a lot during this period, and they have understood a lot, and they are already inclined to It's up to us."

"How should this matter be settled? We still need to discuss it."

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A quarter of an hour later, the Mohists who participated in the discussion came back one after another, their faces still indifferent, and it seemed that they had obviously reached a conclusion.

This kind of indifference makes the nobles very happy, thinking that this is the performance of "keeping it, and there is still a way to keep it".

However, after getting closer, I heard Mo Zhe say in that extremely indifferent voice: "I can't keep it, I can't save it, just give up."

(End of this chapter)