After the Pei County Volunteer Division was completed, the representatives of the people began to mobilize.

All the things to be said have been said, but the only thing left is bargaining.

These people are willing to defend the city and exchange their own interests, but the price must be explained clearly.

They respect Mo people, but they respect their own lives more, and do not want to defend the city to the point where they can eat with their sons.

The people present stared at Shi with bright eyes. Since Shi had opened their hearts to fight for their own interests, they would no longer be hesitant when it comes to bargaining.

After reading the many conditions that the people were concerned about, everyone was quite satisfied, but they had to ask: "Shi, what your Mo family said is very good, but how much should the city be kept?"

"There are not much food in the city. We believe your ability to defend the city, and the Chu people also believe that if the Chu people retreat to the besiege of 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, and said: "Don't worry about this matter, the people of Jin will definitely send troops."

Someone asked: "The time is unknown for the Jin people to send troops. If the Jin people cannot send troops immediately, then we may have starved to death before the Jin people sent troops."

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

The city had only two or three months of grain storage, which was difficult to support it for a long time. The Chu people learned from the situation of King Zhuang's besieging the city, not only cutting wheat, but also preparing to ask nearby Song people to help them plant.

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

Shi stretched out two fingers and said, "You have heard that the city's food can last for two or three months. The Mo family agreed to limit it to three months. If the siege cannot be rescued in three months, or the Jin people have not sent troops at that time..."

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

As soon as this was said, everyone had no doubts and said loudly: "Since that's the case, then we are willing to defend the city! As for who is the monarch, that doesn't matter. Whoever agrees to our conditions will be elected as the monarch! Whether it is Zitian or Gongshu Cen Xi!"

Seeing that everyone had agreed, Shi nodded at the Mozhe behind and began to distribute spear weapons to allow these people to participate in the coup.

Peixian Yishi walked in front with a small drum as the rhythm, and advanced along the road towards the direction of the palace.

The people who followed the city guarded the city in a rough queue according to their respective teams, followed behind the Yi Shishi of Pei County in a loose manner.

The arms of the Mozhe were all tied with special signs for identification as if they were guarding the city at night.

In name, they did not participate in the coup, but were mediators of the three parties in the coup, but in fact they were behind the third party.

The king and the emperor of Sicheng, Gongshu Cen Xi and Liuqing, Peixian Yishi and Shangqiu people, these three conveniences are the pattern in the city at this time.

The king naturally had conflicts with the Sicheng Emperor, but at this time they stood together.

The Yishi of Pei County and the Shangqiu people seemed to have just organized themselves, but in fact, there were people behind the scenes, craftsmen associations, and some other grassroots organizations.

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

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

Looking up the building, you can see a change 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 a fraud. I have never heard that the defender of the city deliberately withdraws the soldiers and asks the siege to attack the city quickly.

Zuo Yin said, "Your Majesty, it seems that the Xiao Wall in Shangqiu City is in chaos. In this way, we can attack for a while and we can all form an alliance with us in the city?"

You Yin also advised: "The Zuo Yin's words are reasonable. In the past few days of attacking the city, the soldiers have suffered many setbacks and are quite resentful. If they continue to attack the city, they are afraid that the people will be unstable and the soldiers will be exhausted. Once the Jin people attack, they are afraid that they will not be able to win."

These Chu nobles all knew that the purpose of siege in the past few days was to attract the attention of the defenders and thus create conditions for coups within the city.

However, Mo's art of defending the city is indeed outstanding.

It seems that there have been no more machinery like a redirecting machine tool crossbow truck in the past few days, but Shangqiu City is still unmoved.

Every time the attack reached within a hundred feet, the Chu nobles felt that they could break the city by working harder, but the last hundred feet was extremely difficult to cross, and the siege for several consecutive days was frustrated.

Even though various means were used, the Mozhe who defended the city still had endless strategies.

The lime, boiling oil, manure and the like left a huge shadow on the siege soldiers. Once they found that the city began to throw, it was impossible to attack, so they could only scatter and retreat.

Once they retreat, they will expose the two wings of the elite siege who are truly siegeing the city.

First, the feather arrows on the top of the city were shot from both sides, and second, the Mo people often organized warriors to attack from the small door dog hole to counterattack the elite wings of the Chu people siege the city.

The morale of the Chu people in recent days is not high, and the rumors that are strictly prohibited to mention are spread everywhere. The nobles do not care about the death of the soldiers, but they care about the instigation and hatred of those soldiers.

The King of Chu also understood the real purpose of this expedition to the north.

After forming an alliance with the Song people, he used the human and military force of the Song State to go north to Daliang of Yuguan to strengthen the defense there, thereby stabilizing the support points and protrusions of the Chu State in the Central Plains.

The west of Yuguan Daliang is Zheng State and the east is Song Wei State. As long as Yuguan Daliang is not lost, these three kingdoms will not be able to fully guide the Jin people.

If the Chu people wanted to go forward to the Central Plains, they could only choose this direction. The competition between Huai and Si was only connected with Qi to suppress Yue. The direction of Yiluo was easy to defend but difficult to attack, but it was difficult to send troops north to counterattack.

The King of Chu knew very well that the ultimate enemy was the Three Jins, and the small Song State was just a gesture of declaring hegemony.

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

This will restore the hatred of the Battle of Yongqiu in Huangchi twenty years ago, and it will completely lose the buffering ground for the Jin people.

Qin and Qi now have grudges against the Three Jins. If the Chu people can control the Central Plains, the situation of the Three Jins will become even more ugly. Qi, Qin and Chu will not threaten the Zhao people. At that time, the Zhao people will definitely take the opportunity to intervene in the Wei people's sword. Without the Zhao-Wei alliance, there will be no worries at all.

Zuo Yin and Youyin's words are all mature words. If you die a less Chu person, you can add more strength to the future decisive battle between Jin and Chu.

Delaying the siege of the city can only siege the city, and thus reducing the resentment of the Song people, so that the Song people will not resent the Chu people.

But the King of Chu had his own ideas.

He looked at the important minister and said, "Today, not only will we attack the city, but we will also have all the elites! Take advantage of the disaster of Shangqiu Xiaomeng and do our best to take Shangqiu!"

"As soon as the city is in chaos, there will be fewer guards on the city, and people are in panic. Even if Mo has the means to defend the city, how can he defend it?"

"When we conquered Shangqiu, we formed an alliance with the six ministers of Shangqiu, how could we be the same?"

If the King of Chu wanted to take Shangqiu with all his strength, he would have to obtain the support of the nobles. Without the full support of the nobles, he could not bring up all the elite forces to attack.

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

If the Song people were waiting for the surrender and alliance, the chaos in the city would have been quelled.

Zitian will die, and the Sicheng Emperor will also be exterminated, because they are fashionable and in the siege stage, they don’t even have the chance to escape.

However, even if a new king without Zitian or Sichenghuang and other constrained by the nobles of Song State were fully guided by the people of Chu, they would not be able to achieve long-term control.

The King of Chu needed to be an arbitrator in Shangqiu City, retaining some of his opponents, so that pro-Chu factions allowed the Chu people to interfere in the internal affairs of Song and other conditions.

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

Moreover, in this way, we can negotiate with the Mohists to give up some of the benefits in exchange for the Mohists to help them build the two cities of Daliang and Yuguan, improve the city defense in the prominent direction in the north, and obtain better support points for the battle for hegemony in Jin and Chu.

The King of Chu has formed an alliance with Mozhe, and the time left for him is only three years. He must gain the greatest prestige and strength within these three years, and allow the Chu people to gain sufficient hegemony when the three-year period arrives.

The Song State was too big, and the Chu people could not afford it themselves, so they could not learn from Chen and Cai to destroy the country and establish counties. Then they could only rely on the internal disputes of the Song people to gradually control the internal affairs of the Song people.

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

Because of the strong power of Sicheng Emperor, Duke Song asked the King of Chu to come forward to settle the palace. In fact, at that time, the Chu people had the best opportunity to control the State of Song.

However, Weiss led the Three Jins to defeat the Chu people, and not only lost both battles, but also attracted the contempt of the Song people and made the pro-Jin faction stronger in the Song Dynasty.

He finished speaking the reason and pointed at Shangqiu City and said, "Shangqiu City has only a handful of broken cities. If we can break through Shangqiu, will the Zhengrenwei people be frightened?"

"Besides, there is Shangqiu City that Mo Zhai personally guards. If it weren't for the rebellion in Shangqiu City, how could we have a chance?"

"This time, the destruction of Shangqiu is not only the destruction of Shangqiu, but also the destruction of the Mozhe. Everyone in the world is shocked! Qin Qi must be willing to form an alliance! Wei Zheng will inevitably hire him!"

All the nobles felt that the words of the King of Chu were reasonable.

As a majestic city in the world at this time, Shangqiu was repaired for hundreds of years, not only tall and strong, but almost every time the Jin and Chu competed for hegemony, and the Chu people never broke Shangqiu.

The capitals of the Zheng people and the capitals of the Wei people are not as strong as Shangqiu. When it comes to defense, it cannot be compared with Shangqiu where Mo people participate in defending the city.

When King Zhuang besieged the city, it was proved that the transportation logistics of the Chu people could support a long-term battle like the siege of the city in October.

If it can defeat Shangqiu again this time and prove the Chu people's ability to siege the city, it is also a declaration: Even if the Gongshu Ban passed away and even if he did not contribute to the unjust battle after arguing with Mo Zi last time, the Chu people's ability to siege the city is still there, and it can be said that it is far better than that of the past!

At that time, which small countries can be not afraid? How could there be any other choice besides hiring from Chu and becoming a vassal for the Chu people and the Jin people to compete for hegemony?
Chapter completed!