Today, Gongshuzhuo was drinking with a smile, talking about the old things that Modi dissuaded Duke of Luyang back then, and was in a good mood because the Wei and Han alliance had already besieged the capital of Zheng State. According to the scouts hidden in it, the people in Zheng State were generally tired of war, and the city was broken for a few days.

Zheng State was once a country of two thousand cyclicals, with 60,000 soldiers from the capital and city circles, and 50,000 soldiers from all over the country.

After fighting with South Korea for almost fifty years, and with the three divisions of the country, only one-third of the territory is left, the capital of Zheng State may only gather less than 30,000 recruits.

The morale of the army was dispersed and the works were spread all over the place. The remaining parties of the seven Mu were hiding in the city. The people of Zheng were not willing to fight again. All of these made Gongshuzhu confident that Zhengdu could conquer it at most ten days.

What can I do in ten days?

The Mo family could not do anything, and the Chu State could not do anything. After all, the Si Shang Yishi had just begun to withdraw troops from the Song State. In addition, this was a battle to punish unjustly under the Mo family's discourse power system, so it was impossible to borrow a way from the Song State, which made Gongshu Zhuo full of confidence.

In Gongshuzhuo's view, dividing Zheng is a wonderful step.

If Wei does not divide it up, then Zheng will be annexed by South Korea sooner or later, because Zheng is the bargaining chip of the Wei-Han alliance: for example, if Wei Mo goes to war, then if Wei wants to get the support of South Korea's troops, it must acquiesce South Korea to annex the Zheng State.

Instead of letting South Korea swallow it by itself, it is better to separate it with South Korea, so that Wei can strengthen its power in Hedong, and at the same time, it can continue to separate South Korea's enclaves and directly threaten South Korea's capital.

The division of Zheng by Wei and Han will also make Zhao nervous, mistakenly thinking that the alliance between Wei and Han is unbreakable, thus trying to ease the internal relations between the Three Jins.

At the same time, after Zheng State obtained real profits, the legal principles of Zhongshan State were given to Zhao State, as an alliance between the Three Jins, and jointly opposed Chu and Mo, each in charge of a sincere expression.

Zhongshan Kingdom has been restored, but now there are two Zhongshan Lords, one is Zhongshan Lord who restored the country, and the other is Wei Gongzizhi. Zhongshan no longer belongs to Wei, but the legal principles of Wei is still Zhongshan Lord.

The key to the easing of the relationship between Wei and Zhao lies in the legal principles of Zhongshan Kingdom. Prince Zhi gave the claim of Zhongshan Lord to Zhao Hou, and at the same time gave Zhao State a geographical map of the mountains and rivers of Zhongshan Kingdom.

This will reorganize the Three Jin Alliance, Zhao Xiang northeast, Wei and Han southwest, so that there will be no major conflicts in their interests for the time being.

After dividing Zheng State, South Korea can be brought into the front line against Chu and Mo. As long as Chu State is a day of gold and jade, as long as Si is aggressive one day, the relationship between the Wei-Han alliance will be stable one day.

Gongshu Zhuo did not want to go to war with Si Shang, especially when he arrived in Shangqiu, and made a declaration that the Mo family would keep the alliance, and the Mo people would shed the blood of the last Mo people for the reputation of the covenant.

Gongshuzhu was convinced that once the Song and Mo families started a war, it would be endless. At that time, Wei would be so weak that it would be extremely weak. After Wei's defeated defeat, Wei could no longer withstand such a national war.

Once Wei is weak, Zhao, who could have been an ally, immediately took a bite, and Qin, which has the hatred of Xihe, will never give up this excellent opportunity.

What Gongshu Zhuo is not afraid of the Mo family, but the "friendly fishermen who have become popular" after they have become popular with the Mo family.

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Xinzheng.

The capital of Zheng State, built at the intersection of Fengshui and Fengshui, is actually still called Zheng, but the original fief of Zheng State is in Shaanxi.

After the war was filled with the princes, Zheng State moved to Henan and later built a new city where the Wushui River and the Wushui River converged. Therefore, the Zheng people still called Zheng, and the outside could be called Xinzheng.

Xin Mou, this is a typical nomenclature of colonies or migratory places.

The standard before the emergence of Xinzheng's urban defense was extremely strong.

The twelve-meter-high city wall and the twenty-meter-wide base of the city wall are still three meters wide even the upper city wall.

Under the influence of Mozi's technique of defending the city, Xinzheng's city wall began to build "horse faces" and "walk walls", but due to financial and manpower issues, it was only built in the north, because there was no water barrier there, which was the most susceptible direction to be attacked.

However, with the emergence of gunpowder, Xinzheng's rammed earth wall is no longer enough, and a slightly larger copper cannon can be blasted.

When boys and girls were singing love songs, the bold girls sang songs and actively lured boys to the shore of the Fongshui River, which was already covered with the armies of Wei and Han countries.

The bronze cannon was roaring, and iron bullets hit the rammed earth city walls. The joy was gone, and only the soldiers' slings were left in the places where the love songs were duet.

The general attack had not yet begun, and the Wei and Han coalition forces were building camps.

Fortunately, the Heze Alliance five years ago stipulated a war method that would be considered a war criminal if the city was sieged by water. The Wei and Han coalition forces did not consider the idea of ​​stacking up dams and flooding the new policy.

Several iron bullets flew over and made a deep pit on the rammed earth city wall. It seemed that Wei Han wanted to concentrate artillery attacks one place in order to break through the city wall.

The bronze cannon is not an advanced technology that can hit a house a thousand meters away.

As long as it can use gunpowder to push the projectile out, large-caliber things can be called cannons. This is a technology that can be achieved in the Bronze Age, and all that is missing is gunpowder that has been born for twenty years.

Wei Han's bronze artillery field combat ability is far inferior to that of Si Shang, but the siege of the city was enough to deal with the city walls of Zheng State.

It is shaky and cannot be held firm. This is what the new policy is facing now.

On the city wall, Xu Ruo, the Mohist, who was supposed to die in Yangcheng in the past two years and was the first to be martyred by the Mohist family in history, has participated in the Fei Kingdom Uprising and is now the Mohist, who is now a military envoy to aid Zheng Zheng. He sighed as he looked at the white smoke rising from the city.

"No walls, no earthen turrets, no concave corners, and not enough artillery... Zheng can't defend it."

He murmured to himself, because he had already seen that the intention of the Wei and Han coalition forces was extremely simple, but extremely effective: he concentrated all the artillery and attacked the city wall to collapse.

Once the city wall is broken, Xinzheng will be declared fallen.

Another ink man holding a telescope next to him wiped the dust on the lenses and shook his head and said, "Unless the night attack and counterattack are organized, we will destroy Wei Han's artillery."

Xu Ruo smiled bitterly and said, "The people are not willing to fight, who is willing to fight to the death? Besides, the artillery positions of Wei and Han allied forces are very strict in their protection, and a rash night attack can only seek death."

While speaking, several more iron bullets flew over, and soon left several deep pits on the rammed earth wall.

Xu Ruo was not the envoy who joined the non-aggressive alliance after negotiating reforms with Zheng State this time, but a military envoy who had sent him before.

He had been here for a long time. He originally thought the order above was to ask them as instructors to adapt the army of Zheng State and build a new type of city wall, but now it seems that this is not the case.

The Mo family organization in Zheng State has not given orders to Xu Ruo and others to organize defense. Even though Zheng Junyi had cried and begged the Mo family to help defend the city, the Mo people did not take over the tiger talisman that defended the city on the grounds that the central government had not arrived.

He also followed Cao Gui's argument against the war and questioned Zheng Jun a few words "Why do we fight?" Zheng Jun was silently unable to answer.

Now the order that Xu Ruo and others received was to observe Wei Han's siege tactics on the city wall and write a report tonight.

Xu Ruo felt that there was nothing to learn from Wei and Han's siege tactics.

Pengcheng is not Xinzheng. If the Wei and Han coalition forces choose this tactic to attack Pengcheng or Peiyi, it would be a slightest search for death.

The new city defense system and the artillery that stands out in the world on Si Shang can turn the artillery positions that are full of loopholes in Xu Ruo's eyes into powder. If you don't have the advantage of artillery, you will be afraid that you will have to fill in four or five times the life of the defenders.

Beside Xu Ruo were several conscripted Zheng people defenders. Some were holding clamps that were obviously produced and sold in Si Shang, some were even extremely backward and had already been completely eliminated, as well as some with crossbows and bows.

Xu Ruo bent over and walked to the people under the cover of the city. The people looked at Xu Ruo's red squid and the unique military uniforms of the Mozhe who were tied to Xu Ruo's arms, and then politely said hello.

A Zheng soldier said, "This Mo, do you think Zheng Cheng can defend it?"

Xu Ruo said: "After all, people are the ones who use weapons. Whether they can defend or not depends on the dangers of the city walls, but whether you are willing to defend them."

The Zhengren spat and cursed: "The genius is willing to guard it. Who is the tax paid to whom? Who is the farming of the public land? "

Another city guard who was obviously a down-and-out class next to him also sighed: "In the past, Duke Yi of Wei liked cranes. Those who had cranes were about to fight. Those who were armed by the Chinese people all said: "If the cranes are actually given, the cranes have their own position, how can I fight?"

"Since Duke Yi of Wei allows the He to benefit, then Wei State should let the Hei protect him. Isn't this the same truth?"

"The seven Muslims fight over and over again, but there is no such person as Zichan again. The land is divided by the Seven Muslims tribe. We have little land and no land, so we naturally let people with land and fight."

"We didn't have us when we were fighting for the land, but we were bleeding when we were defending the city. What's the difference between this and the guards asking the crane to guard the city?"

"Didn't your Mo family often say that the world is the world of the world? The princes have a country, the doctor has a family, and we common people have no home and no country. If we don't climb the city, we will be punished. Who is willing to fight?"

Xu Ruo nodded. This is the morality of the Mohist family. Before the unification of the world, the Mohist family would never advocate the concept of nation-state, so they must recognize and spread the Zheng people's rhetoric.

Another person next to him said, "Since the king pretends that we are Chinese people, we also pretend to guard the city. When the city wall is broken, birds and beasts will scatter. If I die, no one will raise my wife and children for me. The taxes at home have to be paid, and the public land has to be cultivated. I apologize for Si's interest debt to be paid every year, so I can't die."

"The Wei people are here and the Han people are here. It's nothing more than tax collection and service. The meat eaters surrender and still eat meat. The cheap ones still eat corn. There is no difference."

"If Wei and Han all shouted that the city would be exempted from taxes and taxes, and all usury interest would be invalidated, I was afraid that I would have opened the city gate to greet him."

The Zheng people next to them laughed. The siege had not started yet, and the sound of cannons below could not affect their jokes.

In the laughter, some people sang "pop songs" at the Zheng people hiding behind the city wall next to them with cannons and drums as rhymes.

"The girl said that the rooster crows, and the scholar said that the martyr was martyr. The son watched the night, and the stars were rotten. The general soared and the general flew, and the ducks and the geese."

The song is the simplest and most common life scene.

The woman said the rooster was crowing and got up soon. Her husband said that I would sleep for a while before dawn.

My wife said she didn't believe it, but you see, Qi Mingxing has come out, don't be lazy, hurry up and pack up the bow and arrow to catch birds as soon as possible. If it's too late, it will be difficult to shoot.

As soon as he sang like this, several people whistled and cheered.

Someone shouted jokingly: "You can't die. If you die, your wife will change her marriage and urge others to get up. Maybe you will also blame you for not being able to do in bed before, so that the person will get up happily after hearing this."
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