Tian Zhongshou is not stupid.

His methods were used by Tian Dan in Jimo in history, Chen She had used them in Daze Township, and the two emperors of Hui and Qin in the Song Dynasty.

The difference is that Tian Zhongshou, Tian Dan, and Chen She really don't believe it, while Emperor Song really believes it.

Tian Zhongshou actually understood that there were many people in the city who didn’t believe it, and even the nobles had a lot of people who didn’t believe it.

But he understood that if Jimo City wanted to defend, the people could no longer rely on it.

Because the premise of this kind of thing is whether you want to keep it or not.

If you want to keep it, someone will find excuses to find reasons to believe these things, and people will always want to believe what they want to believe.

If you don’t want to keep it, you will feel that asking God to make such a thing is simply a joke.

Jimo City wants to defend, but the backbone that relies on is the ones who want to defend. If you spend energy to organize and plan those who don’t want to defend at all, it will be meaningless.

He knew it was fake, but he also knew that many people who knew it were fake would always deceive themselves into believing that it was true in despair.

The Mohist family did not engage in massacre, but only let the nobles support themselves and not be sycoids. However, this is actually more terrifying to the nobles than death.

Because at this time, there are only Jiuzhou in the world and the world, and there is nowhere to escape if you clean up the fines and soft things.

Just like the captured King of Chu, they were exiled overseas. In the eyes of the nobles, life is worse than death. Although their ancestors did this, wasn’t their ancestors going through obstacles just to make it less difficult for future generations? How could they be willing to feel it again?

Since Tian Zhongshou is not stupid, he naturally will not choose to go out of the city to fight. He can only hope to defend himself to wait for the army from Linzi and other places to come to support him.

In order to keep it, on the second day after he asked God, he pretended that it was God's envoy who ordered him to come and communicate, and ordered the city to start the training of the personnel.

In order to encourage everyone to be brave enough to defend the city, Tian Zhongshou asked his concubines to be incorporated into the female family in the city to be responsible for cooking.

Your own wife and the other noble wives will be put together, live together in the city, stabilize people's hearts and do not let the nobles escape.

The private soldiers and slaves at home were all incorporated into the troops guarding the city.

Tian Zhongshou divided the males in the city into three parts. Once the Mo family attacked, all men from the age of fifteen to fifty-five had to participate in defending the city.

Three people took turns to rest.

Tian Zhongshou also set an example, personally carried the soil and stones, took out the property from the house and piled it on the top of the city. As long as he bravely killed the enemy, he would be rewarded.

When eating, I don’t say that I eat with the people.

All of this is to protect Jimo and everything that Tian Zhongshou's family and his family enjoyed.

However, the people are not buying it.

Among many people who were summoned to dig the soil, some songs began to spread. Although several were executed, the spread of such songs was not stopped.

Jimo City urgently built the city wall, but the people carrying the soil were not confident whether this rammed earth city wall could protect the Mohist family's bronze cannons and the tactics of digging holes to bury explosives.

Furthermore, if the weapons in the city are not complete, they can train thousands of people at most. The rest can only get some simple weapons. The price of copper is getting more expensive in the past twenty years. Unless some elite troops of Qi were still using copper weapons, they could only send some cast iron spears bought from Si, cheap, and even without the process of annealing this agricultural tool.

If you don’t make farm tools, it’s really bad if you are a weapon.

Moreover, the urban defense system of Jimo City is still old-style, and the inner and outer cities cannot support each other, which is different from the new fortresses newly built by the Mohist family in Jiaozhou Bay.

The old-style city defense, the inner city is the inner city, the outer city is the outer city, and if one of the four walls is broken, the outer city will be broken, leaving only the inner city, and the troops will always be in the same line.

New-style city defenses are mutually supportive, and some important fortresses also have inner cities, but that is a double fortress. The internal firearms can support and suppress the outside, and the troops are always spread out on a plane.

Even if the people who temporarily built the city did not know these problems, they knew that the Mohist family’s methods of siege were not ants, but explosion, dig, and explosion.

Even Tian Zhongshou understood that Jimo City may not be qualified to be attacked by the Mo family with the word "Tihe" method.

But he had no choice, to eat the king's fortune or be loyal to the king, and he was also a member of the Tian family, and the rise, decline, honor and disgrace were closely related.

There is no other way except to defend.

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What Hetian Zhongdiao thought was different. The Jiexuan Army landed in Jiaozhou Bay did not attack Jimo.

After a brief renovation, the forces of the two divisions did not march towards Jimo in the northeast, but quickly turned to the west and attacked Zhucheng.

There was no field army in Jimo. The field standing army of Jimo, one of the four capitals, was concentrated on the front line of Zhucheng to confront the Mo family's legion in Jucheng.

Zhucheng and Gaomi are not far away. Jimo is the northeast.

Jimo's field standing army was in Zhucheng, which means that Jimo was unable to capture Jiaozhou Bay, which the Mo family had run for a long time, and was even unable to send troops to fight in the field, let alone capture the fortress.

The Mohist school had known this that temporary recruitment of citizens and peasants could defend the city under strict laws and regulations, but could not attack the city.

As early as the Mozi era, when the Mo family defended the city, they also emphasized the sneak attack from the city and attacked when the attack was not smooth.

But Mozi trained the city gatekeepers and trained professional elite swords and shields, instead of relying on the temporary recruitment of citizens and peasants in the city.

With city walls as cages, farmers, soldiers and citizens can also abide by some discipline.

If you go out of the city to fight, it will be difficult to form an army, and you may scatter if you rush out.

The high-level Mohist leaders' understanding of war is in line with that of the right line, or most officers grew up under the theory of appropriateness.

The State of Qi they saw was not the State of Qi with a radius of thousands of miles and a hundred and twenty cities.

In their eyes, Qi State was just a Qi State guarded by a field mobile corps of 70,000 people.

This field army was destroyed, and then the 120 cities of Qi would be like a girl who had taken off her clothes facing her boyfriend without any defense.

As long as the field legion of Qi was destroyed, the Mo family would win the victory of the battle against Mo. Even if Han, Qin and Zhao still had troops, it would be useless.

Therefore, from the beginning, the task of these two divisions was to cooperate with the Jiexuan Army in the direction of Jucheng to capture Zhucheng, and surrounded the 7,000 elite field soldiers and 20,000 peasant soldiers confronting Zhucheng, and to eat up the field forces of Qi little by little.

Once these people are eliminated, Qi State will not be able to produce a field army east of Linzi.

There are many cities east of Linzi, with at least thirty cities. Each city can gather hundreds of soldiers, but it is useless.

It is difficult to assemble and scattered among the cities and cannot attack at all.

The troops that cannot attack or fight in the field are just the forces on paper.

It is dead, not alive, and it can be ignored.

The two divisions in Jiaozhou Bay divided their troops and one brigade to attack Gaomi, while the main force marched quickly towards Weishui, intending to block the retreat of the Qi army in the direction of Zhucheng.

The Qi army in Zhucheng direction had 7,000 permanent troops, and 20,000 newly recruited peasant soldiers due to the Mo family's attack on Chu, totaling nearly 30,000.

After the Qi-Mo War, the Mo family seized Jucheng, which made the border between Qi-Mo quite unfavorable to Qi-Mo.

The eastern line of the Great Wall of Qi State relies on the sea and Yimeng Mountain. When Jucheng belonged to Qi State, Qi State had a great advantage in defending.

If the Mohist family wanted to attack from the eastern front, they had to go to Yimeng Mountain and conquer Jucheng, and then they could go straight to Linzi with a flat horse.

However, after the cedes Jucheng, the eastern line of Qi Great Wall was under the control of the Mo family, and the Yimeng Mountains were also under the control of the Mo family, and Qi was on the defensive.

The Mohist family can attack as soon as they want, and they can defend even if they want.

If Qi wants to attack, he must first conquer Jucheng and cross Yishan, and then enter the East China Sea of ​​the Mo family, Langya, and continue to go south to threaten the Mo family's side.

The terrain is narrow and it is difficult to replenish.

If Qi State takes the initiative to attack on the eastern front of Qi State, either the Zhou Army defeated the Mo family's navy and copied the miracle of the Qi-Wu Sea Battle that year to control offshore supplies.

Otherwise, you can only rely on Yimeng Mountain for supply, then capture Jucheng, Langya, and Lanling, and rush for hundreds of miles to threaten the core area of ​​the Mohist school.

The navy of Qi State was no longer possible to win the navy of the Mo family, so in fact, if Qi State took the initiative to attack on the eastern front, it would be possible to cross the Yimeng Mountain and walk along the road of Jucheng, Langya and Lanling.

And this road... is full of crises.

One of them is the inside line of the Mo family. The Mo family can mobilize troops to use the advantages of the inside line to defeat it. Moreover, it is not the core area of ​​the Mo family. The core area of ​​the Mo family is Pengcheng, Peiyi, and Huaibei hundreds of miles away.

Secondly, once the supply is cut off, the Qi army attacking the eastern front is likely to be destroyed between the Jucheng City of Langya.

But the other way around is different.

If the Mo family attacked from the eastern front, the eastern section of the Qi Great Wall was controlled by the Mo family. In the battle of Qi and Mo, the Mo family obtained Yimeng Mountain and Jucheng, and gave up the early layout of southwest Qi, so that if the Mo family attacked, they could use Jucheng as a base for the front.

Jucheng is facing east, and there are Zhucheng, Gaomi and Jimo. These three cities are just around the corner, and Jiaodong can be settled.

Towards northwest of Jucheng, it is the Weishui original area, all the way to Linzi, with no mountains or water, and nothing to do.

The Wei River originates from the Yimeng Mountains and enters the sea from the Bohai Sea. The Mohist family can rely on the Wei River to transport and feed them downstream.

In the later years of the Chu-Han dispute, Han Xin decided to fight against Weishui, which was determined by the terrain: if Weishui is obtained, Jiaodong can be determined and Linzi can be attacked.

However, for the side that went south, Jiaodong, Weishui, Jucheng, and Yimeng, they can only play a flank role at most and cannot become the main force.

During the dispute between Chu and Han, the Han army violated the alliance of Honggou and attacked Si Shang along the current Han and Song territories; King Han Xin of Qi and others also surrounded Pengcheng of Si Shang from the eastern front as flanks.

If Han and Song did not gather their main forces, even the Marquis of Huaiyin would not dare to go south from Qi along the East China Sea to attack Pengcheng, because that would be a path to death.

This situation makes the current situation facing Qi State extremely embarrassing.

The Mohist family was aggressive and must be the one who took the initiative to attack. The Duke of Qi understood this truth after the Battle of Qi and Mo.

So an embarrassing situation arises.

The State of Qi did not go out to Daliang, southwest Qi, and Jishui to cooperate with the Han, Wei and Guards. They could not attack the Si area of ​​Song, and could not mobilize the main force of the Mo family's field battles, and they could not attack from the eastern line Jucheng and Langya.

The Qi State's troops were not enough to attack on two lines, and the coalition of princes was not enough to attack on two lines. Therefore, Qi State's troops were not too many, nor was it too few, in the direction of Zhucheng.

If there are too many troops stationed, then the strategy of the main force in the Song Dynasty and the flanks surrounding the Lanling of Jucheng will inevitably be insufficient in the main attack direction. The main attack direction is insufficient in the force, and the flanks will advance rashly, which means to die. Once the retreat route is cut off, the entire army will be destroyed.

The main attack direction is insufficient, and the flanking forces are useless.

There were fewer troops in the garrison, and the Mo family was the main attacker. The dangerous Yimeng Mountains and the Great Wall defense line were occupied by the Mo family. Qi State was guarding the plains, but he was afraid he could not defend it.
Chapter completed!