Sun Ce understood Huang Yueying's intention to remind him that Cai Yong was a famous man in the world, and if he could get a positive comment or two from him, he would be considered to be among the scholars. Cao Cao even kidnapped Xu Shao in order to get a comment from Xu Shao. Liu Bei's worship of Lu Zhi as a teacher is not to do learning, but to touch the light of Lu Zhi, a famous teacher. But now he doesn't like to deal with people as much as he did at the beginning. The battle of words was meaningless, and he was now more inclined to let others, such as Yuan Shu, rush to the front, and hide behind himself to reap the benefits.

It's a false name or something, it's a fart.

Of course, when it comes to Cai Yong specifically, he still has some opinions. Cai Yong went to Jiangdong when he wandered the rivers and lakes, and also accepted a disciple named Gu Yong, who was later the prime minister of Wu State. However, his greater gain was to get Wang Chong's posthumous manuscript "On Balance", and his skills in logical debate increased greatly, but only that, he didn't seem to really understand the essence of Wang Chong's thoughts, or he realized it, but he didn't have the opportunity to express it.

Sun Ce came out of the big tent, and the craftsmen looked at him in unison, squeezing their eyebrows, looking like they were watching a good show. Cai Yong and Pang Shanmin stood outside the crowd, far away, when they heard Sun Ce's voice, Pang Shanmin turned around, his face was full of pain, obviously ravaged by Cai Yong. Cai Yong just glanced at Sun Ce slightly, shook his head, and let out a long sigh.

Sun Ce suddenly became furious. You old scholar, why are you so faceless. I eat and drink for my face, your nose is not a nose, your face is not a face, what's the matter? Believe it or not, I will send you back to Yuan Shu's big tent, if he sees your expression, he can slap you in person.

"What's the trouble, sir?" Sun Ce walked to Cai Yong's side, smiling without smiling.

Cai Yong walked forward slowly and whispered: "People don't know etiquette, and they can't stand." ”

Sun Ce understood. This means that I was alone with Huang Yueying just now, and it was not in line with etiquette. You're excited, aren't you? Okay, you wait, when the time comes, I will snatch your daughter over, and the lonely man and widow will be alone in the room, and see if you are still polite.

Sun Ce was being ruthless in his heart, Lei Bo walked quickly with two guards, nodded and said hello to Sun Ce, and bowed to Cai Yong. Yuan Shu has an urgent matter, please ask Cai Yong to post the account. Cai Yongzheng felt that Sun Ce was boring and didn't want to chat with him anymore, so he immediately followed Lei Bo away.

Pang Shanmin shook his head, his expression was obviously not as respectful as before. Sun Ce couldn't help but want to laugh. A few months ago, Pang Shanmin's expression was similar to that of Cai Yong now, as if he thought he was holding the truth. Even after studying behind closed doors for so long, he didn't completely turn around. Now that he meets Cai Yong, who has more power to speak, he can be regarded as realizing the hatefulness and abomination of this scholar.

"If you want to compare your knowledge with Cai Bo, it's boring, you say you are reasonable, I say I am reasonable, and no one can convince anyone."

Pang Shanmin said curtly: "I didn't want to compare my knowledge with him. ”

"Don't worry, I'm not done yet." Sun Ce slowed down and said slowly: "But some knowledge does not depend on being able to speak well. Right is right, wrong is wrong. If it is wrong, even if everyone in the world says it is right, it is impossible to turn what is wrong into right. If it's right, even if you're the only one in the world who says it's right, and everyone else says you're wrong, that's right. ”

Pang Shanmin tilted his head and looked at Sun Ce, his eyes flickering.

Sun Ce smiled, and then said: "Pang Jun, you are a smart person, young, not as twilight as Cai Bojiao, I think you should figure it out." ”

Pang Shanmin exhaled lightly and nodded.

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Sun Ce returned to his big tent and sent someone to call Huang Zhong and others to discuss the matter, preparing to arrange the siege of the city. The Xiliang soldiers are getting closer and closer, and after Yuan Shu solves the problem of troops, the siege will be immediately put on the agenda, he is the inevitable main force, and he must be prepared. Siege is a tough battle, but it is not as simple as fighting the He family's manor.

Deng Zhan came the fastest, and as soon as Yicong laid out the map and prepared tea and snacks, he pushed the tent in. "General, are you going to attack the city?"

Sun Ce raised his head, surprised. "Ziyi, are you just waiting, I just sent out, and you came."

Deng Zhan laughed. "General, I'm not alone, we're all waiting. You just went to the baggage camp, and we were all there, but we didn't run into it. ”

Sun Ce was even more strange, and hurriedly beckoned Deng Zhan to take a seat. Deng Zhan took a big sip of a glass of water, took out a handkerchief to wipe his mouth, and folded it carefully, before explaining. There have been no combat missions in the past few days, but they have not been idle, except for training, they will run to the baggage camp if they have nothing to do. The experience of attacking the manor made them realize the importance of siege equipment, and it was unimaginable to attack Wancheng without the help of the baggage battalion, so they all paid attention to the process of building the baggage battalion equipment, and naturally also paid attention to Huang Yueying's plan to build a giant stone throwing machine. As soon as the plan to enter the city to assemble was rejected by Sun Ce, they received the news that Deng Zhan rushed back to the camp and happened to meet the teleporters, so they rushed by the way.

While speaking, Huang Zhong and Dong Yu also entered the tent before and after, and they took their seats without Sun Ce's greeting.

"General, I have a suggestion." Huang Zhong said: "The giant stone throwing machine can be built, and it must be built, otherwise we will suffer too many casualties, and it will be difficult to break the city in a short time." As for how the stone thrower entered the city, I discussed it with Ziyi and Ji Yu, and I didn't think it was a problem. Wancheng has a large area, which does not mean that when you enter the city, you will be in close contact with the enemy, and there is still enough space. Ziyi, you are most familiar with this situation, you can explain it. ”

Deng Zhan responded, took out a silk map from his arms, and spread it out in front of Sun Ce. There are a lot of ink dots and vermilion lines drawn on the silk map, and it seems that these three people should have studied it for a long time.

"General, Wancheng is sixteen miles in circumference, basically square, with a circumference of four miles. The small city is in the southwest corner of the big city, one mile square, and three miles each with the east city gate and the north city gate, which is nine hundred steps. The strongest crossbow in Wancheng is six stones, with a range of two hundred and forty steps. It takes 300 paces for the army to line up, and there are still about 460 paces left, which is enough for the baggage battalion to put the stone throwing machine at the mercy......"

Watching Deng Zhan blurt out one number after another, Sun Ce was very pleased. War is to kill people, military science has always been the most pragmatic knowledge in ancient times, the generals who lead troops to fight are also the most pragmatic people, they are the easiest to accept his ideas, but also the easiest to accept new things, stone throwers appeared on the battlefield soon after, they began to study the use of methods, as much as possible to give full play to the power of this weapon.

Pang Tong looked at Sun Ce, raised his hand, and signaled that he had something to say. Sun Ce nodded in agreement. Pang Tong said: "Captain Deng, according to what Cai Deqi saw, only the houses in Wancheng that are a stone's throw away from the inner city have been demolished, and the other houses have not been moved. If you follow your plan, won't you have to tear down all the houses? ”

Deng Zhan nodded and hesitated: "Although it is a pity, it is also forced by the situation and has no choice." ”

Sun Ce was silent.