Only one hour later, the battle to encircle and annihilate Shen Gong ended.

More than 1,400 people were killed in the Chu army, and most of the rest were captured. The Jiexuan army was injured forty and six were killed.

Shen Gong's body was hit by more than forty bullets, but he had already died.

He was wearing iron armor, and the two infantry divisions who followed him six fingers used flint rifles.

In order to facilitate the use of short spears, it is very light and can be used to kill people. However, compared with those widely distributed heavy-frame guns or slightly larger flint guns that require full-time spearmen to cover, the power is still slightly worse.

However, iron armor was not popular at this time, and most soldiers wore leather armor. Due to technology, the caliber was slightly smaller and the power was slightly weak, which was not a big problem. It was enough to deal with the lord soldiers who were insufficiently armoured and the surrounding areas that were more backward than the lord soldiers.

The spears of Si Shang have been light from the beginning, and can be used to carry short swords as spears, and even the first batch of flint rifles sacrificed certain power.

The main reason is that the armor-wearing rate is too low at this time and you are not facing a large number of enemies wearing heavy armor. There is no need to move in a heavy and large direction when the technology is insufficient and it is difficult to ensure the dual effects of lightness and power.

Of course, if the enemies on the opposite side are all wearing heavy armor, the power of these flint rifles is not enough. However, with the national strength of the various vassal states, a legion wearing heavy armor will be created, not to mention technical issues, but the economy will destroy these vassal states.

After the battle, a large number of captured Chu soldiers were very happy. One reason was that the Mo family did not kill and capture the prisoners in the world; the second reason was that the Mo family wanted to benefit the world. The witches who wandered around spreading morality and applied talisman herbs often told them; the third reason was that the people of the Xuanyi tribe of the Mo family immediately used Shen local dialect to tell them: each household would have a land that was enough for the family to live, and five households could rent cattle and horses. All debts of the throne and the throne were abolished. The Mo family did not inherit all their labor obligations for the throne's personal interests. The Mo family would also issue iron tools to pay them off for five years. The Mo family would control the salt price and clean up those unscrupulous merchants in the fief because this was not in line with the "freedom of trade" under the basis of the development of industry and commerce in Si Shang.

Besides, people of Shen Gong cannot have enough officials to conduct salt and iron franchise, but can only cover taxes on profiteers. The huge bureaucratic system of the Mohist family, which has begun to expand in recent years, will eat nothing left of profiteers who are trying to control this invisible tax.

The people of Si Shang were most concerned about the Mohist war in the battle to destroy Chu, which were the workshop owners and handicraft owners in Si Shang, because they needed a larger market to sell their production capacity that had been rapidly expanded due to the expansion of the Mohist army in recent years. The best market for various handicraft products was to be sold on the ground of various vassal states, because most of the surrounding areas outside the coast were still in the era of slash-and-burn farming. It was too difficult to expect those people to buy enough goods in the short term. If they invested in the long term, they would be far less than launching a war to attack those princes with similar productivity levels than those thirty years ago in Si Shang.

After the Mo family attacked Chu, the first thing they had to do was land reform. Land reform meant that farmers would gradually have surplus grain left in their hands and then they could be able to buy the goods. Many workshop owners have calculated that if the farmers in the entire Xia vassal state had the purchasing ability of the Si vassal states, they would make money every day, and the reason why the farmers in the vassal states had such great purchasing ability was not because the land was too small and the per capita was too poor, but because the noble system of the vassal states bound the farmers.

On the contrary, the many self-cultivated farmers in Si, in terms of short-term interests, actually destroying Chu did not have much benefit to them. That is, the policies and regulations and some propaganda that benefited the world have enabled the arms system to operate normally.

Of course, as long as the economy is strong, the system is proper, and the training is in place, a group of scumbags and the population trafficked by human traffickers can be trained to become a strong army with sufficient discipline. And after all, this is an army with the belief of benefiting the world.

It is clear who the Mohist family represents in recent years. It is said that it benefits the world. In fact, the Mohist family still represents the interests of city handicraftsmen and their higher forms of interests. Self-cultivation farmers are just their soldiers.

This is the terrible thing about the rational theory of knowledge. It is cold and ruthless. It is precisely the accurate implementation of the theory of heaven and earth that the heavenly will be the will of heaven and heavenly will, which is impossible to achieve the benevolence of the whole nation and the righteousness of the whole nation.

However, for farmers who are still under the oppression and constraints of the aristocratic system, even if the Mo family is not a farmer, it can still bring them hope and a better life.

It was not that the Mohist family did too well or that it was a farmer's theory of interests, but because the nobles did too badly, they pushed the common peasants, industry and commerce to the opposition of the nobles.

There are only two ways for self-cultivation farmers to go, either the military merit system becomes a landlord with serfs, or the emphasis on industrial and commercial policies becomes a workshop or agricultural hiring. As for the third way to be both shareholders and hiring workers, it is too difficult to walk, and the Mohist school has basically given up promoting outside Si Shang.

Since the Mohist school cut off the first and third paths, the fate of these people is destined for decades or even a hundred years.

But at this time, these captured farmers from Chu who had more or less heard of the Mohist propaganda were still full of hope and joy for the future.

These prisoners from Shendi obediently accepted the propaganda of the Xuanyi Department of the Mohist family, built camps with simple tools, captured nobles, and elected prestigious people to organize themselves. They were gathered and left in place. Some of the wounded men of the Mohist family and several doctors also stayed.

Liu Fingers selected several nobles and asked them to return to the camp where the King of Chu was located to tell the King of Chu about this, and submitted a letter urging the King of Chu to surrender.

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In the camp where the main force of Chu was located, the news that the Six-fingered commander went north to cross the Bashui River to surround Shen Gong once again caused chaos in the king and ministers of Chu.

At this time, the news of Mr. Shen being killed had not yet come. Several ministers accused Zuo Sima, who was talking about crossing the halfway point yesterday, saying: "You have a clever plan, but unfortunately everyone in the Mo family did not go to Jiangnan."

Zuo Sima didn't say anything, and cursed in his heart that he didn't say anything when he asked you what to do that day, but he still laughed at him today.

The King of Chu said: "Now that the Mo bandit has crossed the Ba River, the city of Zhu is in danger, what can I do?"

The elite team sent by the Mo family wedged between the Chu army camp and the city of Zhu. They attacked and killed those who transported grain. They fought with fewer people and ran away when there were too many people. And often as soon as they approached, some people shouted in Chu that the grain belonged to the king and their lives belonged to their own, and they scattered in a hurry.

The number of people was not large, but it made the Chu king and ministers frightened.

Zhucheng was the place where their logistics supply was located and the only way for them to retreat. Once the Mo family’s idea was to capture Zhucheng and cut off its return road, the general situation would be gone.

At this moment, a nearby servant panicked and went straight into the camp and said in shock: "Master!Master! The trouble! Shen Gong's army was surrounded by the Mo family army and was completely destroyed in one hour. Shen Gong was killed by dozens of lead bullets!"

"What?"

The king and ministers of Chu were shocked, and the news was like a bolt from the blue.

When Duke Shen was besieged, the monarch and minister of Chu had already given up Duke Shen and slipped away, and he was sure that Duke Shen was about to finish his siege.

But how could I have thought that in less than an hour of fierce battle, Shen Gong’s nearly 20,000 troops would be gone?

Before they could recede, they heard more terrifying news.

"Only six people were killed in the entire Mo family, and dozens of them were injured..."
Chapter completed!