If such a thing happened to Si, Xu Ruo would definitely be angry.

But when it happened here, Xu Ruo couldn't get angry after listening to such a statement, thinking that what these people said seemed to make some sense.

What are the common people on the city wall defending?

He didn't know, nor did Zheng people who sang love songs in the sound of cannons.

Not long after, someone came to the top of the city and called Xu Ruo on the city wall to the side.

"Is there an order on it?"

The man who came to call him nodded and said, "So I'll ask you to go back and have a meeting."

Xu Ruo hurried back to the Mo family's stronghold in Xinzheng, and the main figures of the Mo family who were active in Zhengcheng had gathered together.

Xu Ruo asked, "What does it mean? Are we guarding or not?"

The person in charge of the Zheng Dimozhe Organization and the person in charge of the Mozhe who came from Si this time asked him: "You have been waiting and watching for a long time and have participated in the Feidi Incident that year. In your opinion, can you keep it?"

Xu Ruo shook his head and said, "If you don't say how much you defend, I can't say whether you can defend it. If there is no external force to help, you will fall sooner or later. But if you guard it for a month or two, you can do it militarily, provided that the Zheng people have to know why they fight."

"In other words, if you have to defend for a month or two and wait for the situation in the world to change, then the most urgent task is politics rather than military. The Zheng people don't want to fight at all, so no matter how good the weapons are and how high the means of defending the city are, it's useless."

Everyone present nodded. Since they were in charge of Xuanyi's Ministry more than ten years ago, they have always emphasized that military service to politics, and politics has acted against military forces. They are very clear about this.

The Zheng people didn't want to fight at all, and they couldn't find a reason to fight this battle. If this problem was not solved, even if it was a genius, Taigong wanted Sun Wuzi to be resurrected, there was no way.

The Mozhe who presided over the meeting said, "It's true, but there is no news yet for the superior to fight or not. However, if Zheng Cheng is in the future, then the initiative is with us."

"If the Zheng people are willing to defend themselves, just from a military perspective, how can they defend themselves for one or two months?"

From a military perspective alone, Xinzheng is not easy to defend.

According to previous battle experience, the city wall is the key to determining the outcome of defending the city. Once the city wall is broken, the defense of the entire city will be completed.

In the era of bows, crossbows and bronze spears, Xinzheng's ten-meter-high city wall was the biggest advantage, which would bring great damage to the siege side.

However, with the emergence of gunpowder, this advantage becomes a disadvantage. The rammed earth wall cannot withstand the bombardment of iron bombs, and it cannot withstand the explosion of using gunpowder to explode the base after excavation.

Wei Han didn't have too many artillery artillery, not too large in caliber, and his technology was also very average.

But even so, according to the current bombardment frequency, the city wall will be collapsed in at most seven days.

Once the city wall is collapsed, it will be blasted into the gap, and Xinzheng will fall within one day.

So far, gunpowder has not been used to break through the capital of any country. Once Xinzheng is destroyed by gunpowder, the entire city defense system and offensive and defensive city tactics of Zhuxia will change, and the fall of Xinzheng will announce the end of the old-style city defense.

It seems that breaking the city is not difficult now.

Xu Ruo considered this issue, and many people present had considered it, so when Xu Ruo said that he could actually stick to it for one or two months, everyone was confused.

But this was a discussion meeting. Everyone was watching Xu Ruo, and Xu Ruo said, "If you really want to stay for a month or two and wait for the situation in the world to change, there is no way."

"Since the city wall is a weakness, why do we have to stick to the city wall?"

"Give up the walls, pretend to stick to it, and buy us seven days."

"Organize the people to retreat a hundred steps, demolish the houses, and build a simple concave and convex defense line according to methods like Peiyi Pengcheng or Dangshan. It does not need to be too high or too strong."

"In this way, even if the city wall collapses, we can still retreat to the familiar city defense system and eliminate Wei Han's artillery advantages. Even if they capture the city wall, it is still useless."

"It is necessary to guard it, and even though you know that this kind of rammed earth---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

"And, everywhere is twice as weak as it is everywhere, so Wei and Han must attack one direction. Since they chose to concentrate the bronze cannons in one place, we only need to deploy a line of defense behind their attack direction."

It was just a word that woke up the dreamer. This time, the Si Shang sent to Zheng State, there were some people who were good at building city wall defense, or called Mo Shou, who were mainly responsible for building city wall defense, and they all had refined geometry, nine numbers and some architecture.

The reason why the Mohist family had to let Zheng contact with the Mohist family was that Xinzheng had to be able to defend it before they could wait for mediation from various countries.

But what Zheng people didn't expect was that this time it was not only Han who attacked Zheng, but also Wei, who originally had the fantasy of being able to use it as a foreign aid, also joined forces with Han.

Xu Ruo just put forward a suggestion and idea, how to arrange the second line of defense and give up the city wall is not something he needs to consider.

But the value of this idea itself is enough.

A few people who are proficient in such knowledge thought about it briefly and praised: "Be a real and wonderful plan."

"If the Wei and Han army separate the artillery and cannot open the city wall; if they separate and do not bomb the city wall but use cannons as large crossbows, the city wall can be defended, and their means of attacking the city are still the same as you; if they are concentrated, we can predict their main attack direction, and set up a fort, accumulate soil to defend the cannons, concentrate muskets, crossbows and bronze cannons in the city, and their bronze cannons will be difficult to break again."

Xu Ruo also means this.

To defend the city walls to the death was the tactic before the gunpowder era.

It is not that rammed earth cannot prevent artillery, but with the emergence of copper cannons, the city wall should buffer towards a thicker slope and more geometric angles to increase the direction of the horse surface of the wall.

The old city walls could not block artillery, and the rammed earth layer of the structure was easily blasted open. How to avoid the artillery of the Wei and Han Allied Forces was the key to defending the city.

Xu Ruo believed that it was impossible to rely on Xinzheng's power to defend it. Being trapped in the lonely city is always a dead end, and external reinforcements must be rescued.

But if you can't stand for a month or two, you can't wait for reinforcements. If you want to stand for a month or two, the attitude of whether the Zheng people are willing to fight is critical. Tactics must be considered only if the Zheng people are willing to fight.

His tactic is to quickly build a new simple city defense behind the old city wall using the Mohist organizational techniques.

This kind of simple city defense is too long and impossible to defend, but Xu Ruo believes that if the problem of the people daring to fight can be solved, there will be no problem in defending for one or two months.

But the key to the problem is... Why do the Zheng people defend the city? Why do they work hard to defend the city?

The old clan and country system had collapsed, and the new common national religion had not been established. The Zheng people did not have the concept of the motherland that moved them. The scholars were loyal to the masters who gave them fiefdoms. However, the war in the new era was no longer dominated by the scholar class but the vast common people. In the Spring and Autumn Period, the war between hundreds of scholars and tens of thousands of soldiers had become a formation confrontation of tens of thousands of people. In this case, what should we rely on to convince the Zheng people to defend the city?

The Mozhe, who presided over the meeting, did not discuss this issue for the time being, but only asked everyone to discuss whether Xu Ruo’s suggestions were feasible.

Many people have experienced it on the battlefield, and many of them are also professionals. After a brief discussion, they all recognized Xu Ruo's ideas.

Mozhe, who presided over the meeting, said: "In this way, if the problem of Zhengren's desire to fight can be solved, then is it possible to defend for one or two months until the situation in the world changes?"

Everyone thought it was indeed possible, so the Mozhe said, "Before we were sent here, I made it clear about this mission."

"Not attacking is righteousness, and fighting without declaring is unjust. This is certainly true. But not all wars are unjust?"

"What is our purpose of non-attacking? This is what we have to figure out."

"It's like there is a mountain of gold and jade on the edge of the East China Sea. Someone knows the direction and tells us to go east, so we go east. But as we walk, there is no road to go east. After asking, I know there is a road that needs to go west first, so should we go west first?"

"Some people say that going west is wrong, and it should go east. This lies in our internal situation, called it "in" or pedantic dogma."

"Just as Zi Mozi said, Shun's politics was good at that time, but it was not at this time; like Yu's flood control was the number one priority in the world at that time, but it was not at this time."

"The thinking in this lies in what is our purpose. Is non-attack the purpose? Or means? We must understand that our purpose is to benefit the people and the world. Non-attack is just a means."

"You also know that the giants and the pedantic faction that non-aggressive and founded the country have been fighting for a long time. This is a matter of big things and should not be underestimated."

Speaking of this, the program issue of this activity in Zheng State has actually been raised.

The internal struggle of the Mohist school is semi-public. The debate on whether non-attack is the purpose or the means has been debated since Mozi's death, and it was not until two or three years after Shi became a giant.

The non-aggressive and founding faction has basically stepped aside now, and the pure non-aggressive and peaceful war-stop faction, which is even more, has basically faded out of the political activities of the Mohist school.

This time, the non-aggression declaration of Zheng State must be made clear to everyone involved, so that there will be no doubts or confusion on the route issue.

The Mohist, who presided over the meeting, continued: "Before, the central government sent people to Zheng to discuss the matter of joining the non-aggressive alliance. The premise is that Zheng State must carry out changes to make the people profit. Only in this way can our Mohist family help Zheng State, and non-aggressive wars are beneficial to the people."

"If attack is not an end rather than a means, then there is no need to force Zheng Jun to carry out reforms."

"Precisely because non-attack is one of the means to benefit the people and the world, we did not accept the tiger talisman of Zheng Jun guarding the city before."

"Is Zheng State guarding or not guarding now? It's not up to us, but Zheng Jun and a group of nobles."
Chapter completed!