On the 23rd, he swore an oath to the east and arrived at the vineyard on the 28th. The cavalry gathered again and returned to the building. Sending seventy or eighty people was enough to control the entire scene.

It is difficult for Yue people to know how many people the Mo family dispatched, because according to the algorithms of various countries at this time, the civilians who followed the war were also considered peasant soldiers, so the number is difficult to count.

After camping three miles away from Tengdi, the scouts scattered, and the troop coach of the Third Brigade and Meng Sheng and other figures with the right to suggest and make decisions gathered.

Shi took out the suggested map he had drawn when he met Teng Shuyu in Teng, and pointed to the pass of Jinghe and Xiaojinghe in the northeast corner of Tengcheng, saying: "The plan is the same as before, you all know it. Meng Sheng then brought a brigade and waited here. The cavalry scattered and the outside of the Jinghe River. If the Yue people retreated and fled, they would be captured."

Meng Sheng smiled and said, "They may not escape, they are afraid that they will refuse to defend in the inner city, and the brigade soldiers will wait for nothing."

Shi spread his hands and said, "If they do not escape if they surround three and one, it will be easy. The Mo family is good at defending and naturally good at attacking the city. The small inner city is only two miles away, and it is easy to break through."

The others laughed, and they would not think there would be any surprises in this siege.

Most people in Teng land knew Mo's name, and many people in Teng land fled to Pei County to make a living. They had many exchanges with their families and relatives who remained in Teng land, and the people were in Mo's hearts.

King Yi of Yue was warlike. The Yue nobles who were enfeoffed and guarding Teng land were on the edge and did not even know how to cut down the wood within several miles outside the city. Obviously, this man was not a famous general.

Furthermore, there were only two thousand Yue people in the city, and even if the righteous master removed a brigade, there were still more than three thousand, and the methods of breaking the city were far beyond the twelve methods of siege at this time.

No matter how you look at it, it is not a problem to break the city. Although it is said that you should be defeated before you have to worry about victory, but under the crushing of absolute strength, it would be like what Lie Yuko said to be a careless person.

After the discussion, I asked some people who were good at using muskets to approach the city wall, and sent more than 300 warriors or vagabonds who were good at fighting in close combat to protect them, shooting at the city at night, making the city uneasy.

That night, before dawn, Meng Sheng led a brigade of men and horses and cavalry to bypass Jinghe and quietly detour towards the northeast corner.

As soon as the next day, the sky was dawn, and the drums were beating the array, and two thousand civilians took the bluff of the left wing and slowly approached the city wall.

Last night, gunfire continued, although there were almost no casualties, but the defenders in the city were unable to sleep and they dared not leave the city as soon as the daylight came.

After approaching, the two brigades of Shishuai were only arranged two hundred steps outside the city, just outside the range of the bow and arrows guarding the city.

The drummer beat the drum first, shocking the city. The two thousand civilians distributed tools such as shovels and pickaxes, and dug a camp first.

The camp was only tall with chest height and was completed before noon.

Sand and soil were piled up, and rammed earth became a position for deploying cannons, and all artillery was deployed on the position.

These cannons have small calibers and are only suitable for field battles, not suitable for siege, and it is impossible to break the city walls with iron balls that are only three or two kilograms.

But about two hundred steps, these bronze cannons can bombard the city.

If artillery has become popular at this time, getting so close is going to be a death.

However, the Yue people did not have cannons, nor did they use the Mo family to defend the city to large long-distance crossbows such as bed crossbows and relaying machines.

After the copper cannon is arranged, the trench will be dug from the midpoint where the two copper cannons are calm. Given that there are no cannons in the city, it is much easier to dig such trenches.

The mobilized farmers basically had the experience of digging ditches and rivers, and the tools were very easy. There were also several full-time miners from Dayeshan Copper Mine to guide them.

In a group of ten people, two people took wicker baskets and dug a narrow trench that could accommodate one person. Then they put the soil into the wicker baskets and piled them in front as a chest wall to minimize the shooting of bows and arrows on the city wall.

Although the shooting of bows and arrows on the top of the city can basically be ignored, Shi hopes to minimize casualties so that the world can know the methods of the Mo family's attack, and to make itself famous in the army.

When two people dug out a trench that could accommodate one person, the rest began to follow behind and widen the trench to about four meters, so that soldiers could calmly approach the city wall through the trench.

The ejected feather arrows are almost difficult to cause casualties, especially at a distance of about a hundred steps. Only when you are extremely lucky can you be hit by the feather arrows.

As night fell, these civilians had dug to a distance of only a hundred steps from the city wall. Twenty steps ahead were the moat, but it was not deep.

At night, everyone evacuated the front trench and guarded against the counterattack in the city in the second trench.

I had nothing to do all night, and early the next morning, I still approached the moat near the moat in this way, only sixty or seventy steps away from the city wall.

All the musketeers were in place, right behind the chest wall of the first trench, aiming at the city wall in a direct manner, waiting for orders.

Musketeers, like cannons, are arranged on both sides of the city gate, leaving a two four-meter-wide trench in the middle to allow soldiers to pass through.

After taking his seat, Shi did not order the fire, but asked some locals from Tengdi to come forward and shout loudly near the chest wall in front.

"To benefit the world, the Mo family attacked the unrighteous Yue. Listen to the people of Teng land who guarded the city, you have heard of the rumors about the Mo family, and some relatives know about the lives of farmers in Pei County. This time, the young master returned to Teng land to restore the country, and fully appointed the Mo people to carry out the reform."

"The people in Teng who guard the city will soon attack the city. The Mo family will soon attack the city. The city gate will be as if it is struck by lightning and will instantly turn into powder. The Mo people will return to Teng, and they will be unable to bear to kill and hurt. They also know that you are forced to defend the city by Yue people and will be unable to resist."

"Remember, once the indigo flag is raised on the wooden poles outside the city, and immediately stay away from the city gate. At that time, everything will die under the lightning strike! If the Yue people block it, they can fight, and the Mo people can break the city in an instant!"

"Remember! Remember!"

He shouted at the top of his throat for an afternoon. When the evening came again, only some soldiers were left to continue to be alert, and the rest were resting as usual.

A brigade coach said, "Why not just cross the trench to attack the city at noon?"

Shi pointed to the city and said, "No hurry. The cavalry scouts came out everywhere, and the Yue people guarded a city alone. News had also been heard from Meng Sheng that the cavalry was fully controlled within ten miles, and the Yue people would not know."

"If you want to break through the trench, you need to fill it. You can't attack the city in the afternoon. If you go back on the night, you have to be careful. There is no time left, and it's not bad for this afternoon."

"Tomorrow morning, the farmers will carry soil in front of the passage reserved in the middle with wicker baskets and fill the moat. The artillery and musketeers will slam the city to cover the farmers carrying soil from both sides."

The troupe coach stumbled: "Gunpowder is expensive."

The brigade coach did not know the formula of gunpowder, but he knew the price of gunpowder sold to the outside world, and also knew how troublesome the configuration of this thing was.

Pei County alone cannot support so much gunpowder. The Mohist family placed the gunpowder workshop in a deserted place in the water, and strictly managed it. They also pretended to ship salt inside every day. As long as the specific formula is not mentioned, it will be impossible for countries to know in a short time.

In order to have enough raw materials, the Mohist school was not stingy with the means of raising nitrogen and spread the method of scrambling toilets in Song Dynasty.

First, toilets can be popularized, and second, it can also allow Peixian to obtain a steady stream of saltpeter.

Nitrogen soil can be replaced with iron tools and exchanged for money issued by the Mohist family.

You can buy iron, oil, wine, salt, seeds, woodware, carts, plowshares, etc., and there is no compulsory measure at all. For profit, there are already merchants in the Song Dynasty who specialize in purchasing nitro soil along cities or villages.

In fact, the Mohist family uses it themselves, gunpowder is not expensive.

Shi didn't say much, just said: "Human life is priceless. The more gunpowder is used, the less blood is shed. This is the first battle since the Yishi became a brigade, and morale needs to be brought out."

The coach nodded and wrote down.

The next morning, after the Teng people in the army called out again, Shi waved his hand and signaled the artillery and musketeers to prepare.

With the sound of drums, all the cannons, muskets, and crossbows were shooting at the top of the city. The Yue archers on the top of the city did not dare to show their heads and were immediately suppressed.

Hundreds of wicker baskets carrying wicker baskets approached the moat from two reserved intermediate passages, looking for opportunities to stuff the wicker baskets filled with sand, soil and stone into the moat.

During this period, there was no arrow on the top of the city. It was not only scared by the cannons, but also because a few people showed up quickly were suppressed by the musketeers below.

There are two thousand people in the country, but the training of archers is not easy, and the number is not large.

In just two hours, the moat had been filled and was completely accessible, but the artillery fire did not stop and still roared.

More than a dozen miners from mining took the lead and crossed the moat. People on both sides raised shields to guard against arrows on the city. These elite ink masters quickly dug several trenches with their hands-on tools.

The subsequent civilians widened the trench as before, transported the wood from behind, and began to dig tunnels as in the mine, and supported them with wood.

Half of the artillery stopped at this time and no longer shot at the top of the city, but aimed at the city gate. Once the Yue people left the city to counterattack, they would immediately suppress them.

After crossing the tunnel of the moat, it extended toward the city wall. In Mozi's "Preparation of Caves", there are technical indicators for how to dig tunnels. Mozhe used to test digging tunnels to counterattack the crypts on the side of the city before, so the excavation speed was extremely fast.

Normally, when excavating under the city wall, you can actually use wood to support it, and then dig the rammed earth foundation of the city wall.

When the time comes, a torch will burn the supporting wood and the city wall will collapse.

However, this took too long and was not shocking enough, so this time the tunnel was directly excavated under the city gate.

The subsequent civilians pushed two coffins filled with gunpowder and entered the city gate from a four-meter-wide tunnel. Two ink men who were good at tinkering with gunpowder were left behind, and the rest quickly withdrew.

After reserved enough leads, go back and tell us that everything is ready.

After two days of besieging the city, it consumed a lot of gunpowder and everyone was sweating a lot. It would be troublesome to dig the tunnels normally and get close to them. However, people in Yue had no cannons, which was much simpler.

In the past two days, only three people were unfortunately hit by feather arrows, but they were not dead and were only injured.

Shi looked at the top of the city and smiled and said, "Let the artillery stop. Prepare to raise the indigo flag. The whole team of infantry approaches the trench. Once the city gate explodes, capture the city gate immediately."
Chapter completed!