When all this news - the news that the Three Jin and Chu Qi had no spare energy to interfere with the expansion of the Mohist family in the Sishui River Basin - was confirmed, an indescribable pre-war atmosphere was permeated throughout Pei County.

After seeing Ji Te from Teng's Kingdom being taken back to Pei County, some people with keen eyes realized that the Mohist family might attack Teng's Kingdom.

After completing the autumn harvest and autumn plowing, the charity master began to conduct large-scale exercises. Every day, there were sounds of ping-pong in the wild, and many curious or intentional eyes were quietly observing.

The Peixian Yishi, which had thousands of people, had already exceeded the limit that Peixian itself carried, but the Mohist iron and liquor industries sucked blood from other countries and raised such a full-time army that exceeded Peixian's endurance.

More than half of the local self-cultivated farmers in Pei County are the main force of this charity army. The landless helpers or entrusted people who come from various big cities or cities are supplementary.

The elite Mohist soldiers who used daggers and shields were completely separated and entered the righteous army as grassroots officers.

The chariot was completely cancelled, and instead used stirrup cavalry with only 300 people at the moment, about one-third of them were the old Mozhe who were elite in the city gate.

These three hundred people can only do reconnaissance and pursuit of the defeated army for the time being, and they cannot yet achieve difficult tactics such as flanking detours.

The army's organization follows the ancient system. The Book of Songs once said that "Wang Hess was angry and he punished his brigade." The military system of the military brigade has long existed.

According to the ancient brigade, there were 500 people in one brigade, but the Yi Shi's brigade was closer to the Qi-branch, but the organization was slightly smaller than the Qi-branch brigade, with less than two thousand people and only 1,500 people.

Excluding cannons and riders, there are three brigades of infantry.

The scale of the system was slightly reduced, with 200 people as a company, and 150 people as a company, with 100 companies in each brigade.

Eight of the companies were spearmen, and the remaining two were copes.

However, the number of mesh guns is still not large. There are 300 people in two companies, but in fact there are a total of 150 muskets.

Each musketeer has a deputy who is used to carry muskets, wooden forks, gunpowder, lead bullets and other weapons during the march, and in groups of two people.

During the battle, musketeers will take over the weapons, and their deputy will fight with daggers or daggers.

The spearmen of 1,200 people were arranged in a square formation of 60 people wide according to the configuration of twenty people leaping. All the soldiers in the front two rows were wearing leather armor, and the ones behind were temporarily without armor.

Considering that the quality of the convex gun is too poor, the quantity is insufficient, and the cavalry has not yet formed and they still have to be prepared for the enemy's tanks, etc., they can only give up their mobility and increase their defense.

Normal training is divided into offense and defense.

When defending, the musketeers will arrange the array about ten steps in front of the spearman, and then shoot in the first row and retreat back to the back row.

According to the slow loading speed at this time, if the defensive battle is carried out, the musketeer will complete two rounds of shooting, retreat to the spearman, and receive close protection from the spearman.

When attacking, the musketeers will be placed on both sides of the spearmen's phalanx and follow the sound of drums.

Each of the three brigades has a brigade commander, and each company also has at least two to three Mo people, who are company commanders or Sima commanders.

A series of due positions such as drummer, flute player, chief of staff, food committee of soldiers, secretary of the army, etc. are all well-off.

In addition to these three infantry brigades, there are also about a thousand elite spearmen and some elite soldiers who are proficient in fighting and fighting. They are not engaged in combat normally. They only serve as reserves and emergency forces to prevent raids on the flanks before the cavalry has grown up.

Among these thousand people, the proportion of the Mohists and the old Yishi Master who had experienced the Battle of Shangqiu was very high. Some of them had joined the Mohist family. They could move faster than the previous three brigades while maintaining their formation and withstand greater impacts.

In addition, there are some lightweight and mobile small copper cannons, which are not large in number and have a large caliber, which is very suitable for field combat and are controlled by the Inks.

In other words, the cost of this army is much more expensive than that of the martial arts soldiers in Wei Xihe.

Nowadays, iron tools are expensive, and each musket is fifteen or sixteen kilograms of cooked iron, but it also consumes a lot of craftsmen. Fortunately, the cost price of iron tools is different from the external selling price, so it is not so expensive.

The firearms equipped by the Mohist school are about the length of a person's chest, with a large diameter, with about one or two lead bullets, and the loading speed is very slow, so the fastest trainer can only fire at nearly one and a half minutes.

Fortunately, the ignition device has been modified. It is no longer the original fire door gun that holds the fuse rope in one hand, but uses copper and iron to make a simple snake hook to clamp the fuse rope.

There is a small groove near the fire door, which is filled with some fast-burning gunpowder. The fuse rope is inserted into the groove and ignites these fast gunpowders. These gunpowders then ignite the emitters from the medicine room from the fire door.

Don’t say that there is no rain, even strong winds, the gunpowder in the groove will be blown away and the medicine room will not be ignited.

But this is enough to improve compared to the short and thick type sold by the Mohist family to the Chu State to guard the city, which is a broken thing that needs to be held in one hand and pinched with the other hand to win and insert the fire door.

In fact, the first batch of copper fire door hand cannons appeared from gunpowder to Europe and then to Italy. In just over a decade, this thing is a principle. It is actually not technically difficult to pursue exquisiteness at this time.

The advantage is that the correct proportional formula of gunpowder is the matching, and the detour of hand cannons and short guns, the structure of the fuse hook is awakened, and the evil paths such as bowl cannons are not taken. This is the experience found in nearly two hundred years of war.

Even so, the mesh can be worse than the crossbow at this time, but there is no room for much improvement in the crossbow, and the mesh can be practiced more easily.

The three hundred people brought back from Niu Lanyi were also incorporated into the army and trained muskets. They could choose to become professional soldiers or choose to organize a joint farm to reclaim wasteland after retirement.

Although the soldiers' military pay is not large, they can also support their lives. Pei County's ox-piercing ironware has been promoted, and a large number of people who fled from all over the country have continuously expanded the arable land area. The local ironware, spirits, grain seeds, and gold and copper exchanged for export, ensure the reserve of precious metals. At the same time, with the increasing number of handicraftsmen, which have also made Pei County have enough goods to exchange.

Compared to other places, the days here are very good, and these good days are visible to the naked eye.

On the one hand, the fields were opened and abandoned, and private fields were popularized. Five households and ten households were ploughed together, and one cattle and horse was divided into 15 tax rates.

New tools, new planting technologies, and the popularity of new compost seeds have all increased grain output a lot.

While maintaining the 15th tax, the Mohist school monopolized iron tools with technology, which was equivalent to the public paying another tax, but this tax was hidden in the iron and people could not see it, so they would not object.

The Mohist family also had sufficient food, which was enough to support the expenses of this army.

At the same time, a series of goods such as cotton cloth have begun mass production, replacing the original linen cloth, eliminating the process of soaking and peeling the line. The production efficiency of the cloth has increased greatly, and even an intensive textile workshop has been opened.

Organize women, take advantage of the opportunity of extremely high profits in cotton sales to accumulate capital, spread this division of labor and cooperation system like the Mohist workshop before, and reward technological changes.

The technological innovations such as oxen plowing ironware promoted to the Song Dynasty with Pei County as the center also allowed the Mohist "money" to buy more abundant goods.

The farmers in the State of Song improved their productivity and deducted what they had eaten, and entered the circulation field twice as much grain as before.

At this time, transportation was inconvenient, and the State of Song did not fight for the time being. The price of grain has dropped significantly in recent years. Many farmers in Song fled and turned into handicraftsmen.

In this case, the Mo family had money, materials, some people, ideas, organizations, and stable development. There was also the Song State, which had begun agricultural changes, as a stable market and blood-sucking direction, and there was no problem in winning a small Teng State.

Shi even felt that even if the Yue Kingdom knew about it later, as long as the number of counterattacks did not exceed 50,000, he would win. After all, there must be a large number of peasant soldiers and baggage soldiers in the 50,000 Yue army, and they just made up the numbers, and there would not be too many elite soldiers in the field.

In this case, Shi wanted to seek command this time, thereby enhancing his status and prestige within the Mohist school.

In fact, he is the best candidate for command.

The Mohist family was good at defending the city. The one who had truly commanded the field battle was actually the defector Shengchuo, and the remaining living people had few opportunities to command the field battle.

Those first batch of disciples Mozi accepted at that time, those who died of death and those who had been senior officials like Shangqing had basically died of illness before joining the Mo family.

Mozi could not have been able to command this battle at the age of seventy. Gong Zaoye was very busy in Pengcheng. Qin Huali was not young anymore and was good at defending the city and not good at fighting in the field.

During the Battle of Shangqiu, he proposed many ideas to adapt to the situation. The Battle of Niu Lanyi also proved his ability to command thousands of people to defend the city alone.

He summarized the use of firearms and stirrups and a complete set of tactics. Although it is considered "paper talk", it is still better than those who cannot talk about it.

After returning from Tengdi, he wrote a combat plan and sent it to Mozi in October to convene the senior Mohist leaders who had already learned the news to discuss.

To capture Teng land, Shi decided to break the city by digging tunnels to approach the city wall, and then digging tunnels to bury gunpowder and blow up the city gate.

However, in order to reduce casualties, he hopes to use the terrain of Teng land to fight an ambush and annihilation battle.

On the southwest side, it is the most open place in Tengcheng, and it is also the most suitable place for siege.

On both sides of the north and south, surrounded by Jing River and Xiao Jing River, which is not conducive to siege.

On the northeast side, the Xiaojing River and Jing River have a narrowest close proximity, forming a pass. If you surround the southwest corner and attack hard and use gunpowder to blow up the city gate, the people of Yue will inevitably panic.

There is still an inner city in Teng. When the Yue people saw the city gate being bombed, they would definitely know that the inner city could not be defended and would definitely flee from the northeast.
Chapter completed!