Tengcheng, as the capital of Teng Kingdom, is also a city built by Teng Yuangong Teng Hong in almost half of his life. Although its area is far less than that of the world's largest cities such as Handan, Taoyi, Shangqiu, and Linzi, it can also be called a strong city.

This comes from Mencius's advice.

Teng Hong, Duke of Teng Yuan, came to Mencius for advice when he was still the crown prince of Teng.

After his father's death, Teng Hong also asked Mencius for advice after inheriting the position of Teng Hou.

He once asked Mencius: "Teng is a small country, sandwiched between Qi and Chu, should we surrender to Qi or Chu?"

Mencius said to him: "Planning this problem is not within my ability. If I have to say it, there is only one way: dig deep into this moat, build this wall, and guard the city and the country with the people, so that the people would rather sacrifice their lives than escape, then this would work."

This is the idea of ​​"kingdom" and "benevolent government" advocated by Mencius.

Duke Teng Yuan agreed deeply, so during his decades of his rule, he treated the people well, built high walls, and dug deep into the moat, which led to the city of Teng City, which was not captured for three years.

Of course, the Song army took three years to fail to capture Teng City. Of course, this is not just the role of the city, but more importantly, the people who defended the city.

In addition to the current monarch of Teng Hu, Teng Hu and his subjects led by him, there are also many Mohist disciples in the city, and even soldiers and generals secretly sent by Qi.

Yes, in addition to the disciples of the Mo family, Qi also secretly supported Teng's country to resist the attack of Song. This is the reason why Tengcheng was beaten by the Song army for three years but did not fall.

On the first day of August, Sima Jingzi, a Song army, led his army to attack Tengcheng again. The Mohist master "Qiu Liang" immediately climbed the city tower to check what was going on.

After Mozi's death, the Mo family gradually split into three factions, namely the Mo (Qin Mo), the Mo (Chu Mo), and the Mo (Qi Mo).

The Mo family disciples led by Qiu Liang belong to the "Dengling family's Mo", which is commonly known as "Chu Mo" and "Mo Xia".

This Mohist disciple, headed by the original leader "Deng Lingzi", was a hero, and was a hero. "Meng Sheng" was a typical representative figure. His most famous example was the case of defending the city for Yangchengjun.

The cause of this incident was that King Dao of Chu died. At that time, Wu Qi served as the chief magistrate in Chu and offended many nobles. Therefore, after King Dao of Chu died, these nobles of Chu committed rebellion and wanted to kill Wu Qi.

Seeing that he was not spared, Wu Qi fled to the cemetery where King Dao of Chu was placed, and deliberately laid on the body of the King of Chu and was killed by arrows from the army, causing some arrows to hit King Dao of Chu.

According to the laws of Chu, destroying the king's corpse is a serious crime for the three tribes. Wu Qi used this to retaliate against these Chu nobles.

Subsequently, the Crown Prince of Chu succeeded to the throne, namely "King Su of Chu", and he ordered the killing of all the "those who shot Wu Qi and joined the king's corpse". More than 70 families were implicated, and Meng Sheng's friend Yang Chengjun was also one of the officials of Chu.

When the King of Chu came to attack Yangcheng, Yangchengjun took the lead in fleeing, but entrusted his city to his friend, Meng Sheng, the then Mo family's master.

Meng Sheng knew that he was not spared, but in order to maintain the "righteousness", he could not give up defending the city without breaking his promise to Yangchengjun. In order not to cut off the inheritance of the Mo family, he sent three people to Qi State and passed the position of Juzi to "Tian Rang (i.e., Tian Jiu and Tian Xiangzi)" who were also a disciple of the Mo family. He led nearly two hundred Mo family disciples to die generously and defended Yangcheng until the last moment until they were captured by the Chu army.

After that, "Tian Jiu" became a great man in the Mo family, but he himself belonged to the "Mo (i.e., Qi Mo)". Qi Mo and Chu Mo were different. They did not take the chivalrous and righteousness as their responsibility, but mainly debated scholars. They traveled around the country, taught the Mo family's "universal love" idea, opposed all violence, including uprisings, and hoped to obtain peace with a gentle attitude. They were the most ideal school in the Mo family.

As for the last Xiangli Mo (i.e. Qin Mo), this school focused on scientific and technological research and believed that the Qin system was closest to their Mohist ideals, so it tried to help Qin.

Several years ago, "Tian Jiu" went to Qin to realize the ambitions of the Mo family, but unfortunately died in Qin. Later, Chu Mo, the Ranger Sect and Qi Mo of the Debate Sect, successively selected his own sect's masters, among which the Ranger Sect, Chu Mo, was their master, "Qiu Liang", a Mo family disciple who was born in Qi.

On the first day of August, when he learned that the Song army had gathered again in the western suburbs outside the city, Qiu Liang, a master of the Mo family, dared not neglect and immediately climbed the city wall to spy on the movements of the Song army.

Although Qiu Liang dressed up in cloth and straw sandals, the military and civilians of Teng State on the city wall respected him particularly, and respected him as "the master of the Mo family" when he passed by. This shows that the Mo family had already gained the trust of the subjects of Teng State.

"Master!"

When Qiu Liang climbed the city wall, a Mo family disciple immediately greeted, "Come and come and see."

Hearing this, Qiu Liang walked forward and followed the direction pointed by the finger of the Mo family disciple, and immediately saw the four well railing cars in the Song army's array.

It's no wonder. After all, the four well railings are higher than the walls of Teng City. They seem to stand out in the array of Song troops, so how could they not be seen?

"Room car?" Qiu Liang frowned slightly.

The "story car" he mentioned is actually a well railing car, which was invented by Mozi in the early years. Later, it was used by Chu to attack Song. At that time, Mozi led the disciples of the Mo family to help Song resist Chu, and invented the method of using fire to destroy such a tower car.

However, this kind of building car is different from the well railing car painted by Meng Zhong. The former does not have the function of "infantry passage", but is just a "mobile arrow tower".

"Damn Song people, how dare they steal the invention of my Mohist family."

A Mo family disciple said angrily.

Qiu Liang frowned and didn't say anything because he thought this was strange: Song general Jing Ze attacked Tengcheng for more than two years. He had never seen him build such a car. He could only ask Song Bing to attack the city with the "ant support" tactics. Why did he suddenly change the original tactics?

However, he had no time to think about it for the time being and ordered his disciples: "You should know this kind of building car and how to deal with it... Ask the disciples in the city to create wooden shields immediately and send them to the defenders in the city. As long as everyone has a shield in their hands, the threat of this kind of building car can be minimized."

"yes!"

Immediately, a Mo family disciple left.

To be fair, Qiu Liang, a master of the Mohist school, did not care much about the kind of "street car" he thought, because in his impression, such a stand car needed to be equipped with crossbowmen to pose a huge threat to the city guard. However, crossbows are still relatively rare in the Song State. After all, the Song State is not South Korea - South Korea is a country that produces powerful crossbows and is known as "all the powerful crossbows in the world come from South Korea."

In the absence of crossbows, even if Song State uses archers instead, they will not be too threatening to Tengcheng. After all, pulling a bow and shooting archery is a very physically exhausting thing. Even an excellent archer may only shoot at most seven or eight arrows in a war, let alone creating a bow is not easy.

"Woo-Woo-Woo-Woo-"

"Dongdongdongdongdongdong--"

Just as Qiu Liang was thinking secretly, in the western suburbs outside the city, the horns and sermon drums sounded together. Soon, the soldiers of the Song State pushed the four well railings to slowly approach Tengcheng.

"Jiuzi."

Behind Qiu Liang, a loud voice came amid the background of Qiu Liang.

Qiu Liang turned his head and saw Teng Hu, the monarch of Teng Kingdom. He had arrived at the city some time, so he nodded slightly to the latter as a manner: "Mr. Teng."

Teng Hu, or Teng Houhu, is a nine-foot-tall warrior with a 9-foot-tall warrior with a back and a bear-back. When facing the Mo family disciples and subjects of Teng, he often has a cheerful smile on his face, especially when he is holding a girl of six or seven years old in his arms, it is hard to imagine such a friendly person, which makes countless Song soldiers feel fear and frightened.

"I don't know whose little girl it is, she said she wanted me to hug her."

Seeing Qiu Liang staring at the girl in his arms, Teng Hu explained with a smile. Then, he bent down and put the girl on the ground, patted the latter's head and said with a smile: "Okay, little girl, I'm going to beat the evil people. Go home quickly, so that your parents can worry about you."

"June, you must beat many evil people." The girl pulled Teng Hu's neck of her clothes and said with anticipation.

Teng Hu grinned and nodded solemnly: "Don't worry."

Seeing the little girl leaving happily, Qiu Liang, a master of the Mo family, felt a secret emotion in his heart.

Although the Mohist and Confucianism have always had a bad relationship, the country governed by Mencius's "kingdom" and "benevolent government" ideas is quite in line with the "holy country" in the Mohist lofty ideals, that is, there is no fighting or persecution. Even monarchs like Teng Hong and Teng Hu can still be approachable and become a commoner and become a commoner.

However, such a country was attacked by the Song State.

"Is old man Jing Ze a person who is here to make fun of it again?"

After the little girl left, the heartfelt smile on Teng Hu's face gradually faded away, and replaced by sneer, which was a contempt for the Song general Jing Ze.

Seeing this, Qiu Liang reminded: "Don't underestimate the enemy, Teng Hou, look at it, the Song army has built four tower cars..."

As he said that, he briefly introduced Teng Hu.

At this time, the Teng soldiers on the city wall had already put the city guarding equipment called Yibi on the city wall. After all, the Song soldiers who came to attack the city with ladders had already quickly attacked the bottom of the city.

"Arrow!"

With the order of a general from Teng Kingdom, a wave of arrows shot out sparsely from the city.

There is no way, after all, it is very difficult to make bow tools. There are only hundreds of bows in the entire Teng City, and it is impossible to do it like rain. In fact, the Song army outside the city cannot do it either.

For example, on the top platform on the four well rail cars outside the city, each with only twenty bowmen is allowed. How can this level suppress the city wall?

Seeing this, Teng Hu smiled and said, "Old man Jing Ze tried to use this object to break through Teng City, really..."

As soon as he said this, his voice came to an abrupt end, because the four well railing trucks outside the city slowly lowered the hanging wooden boards and put them on the city wall with a bang, covering several walls, thus building a passage between the well railing truck and the city wall.

And at the other end of the "channel", there was a team of solemn Song infantry.

"What?!"

Qiu Liang, a master of the Mo family, changed his expression and stared at the nearest car.

"No! This is not my Mo family's building car!"
Chapter completed!