Tengcheng, as the capital of Teng State, is also the city built by "Teng Yuan Gong Teng Hong" almost half a lifetime, although its area is far less than Handan, Taoyi, Shangqiu, Linzi and other big cities in the world, but it can also be called a strong city.

This is due to Mencius's advice.

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

After his father's death, Teng Hong also consulted Mencius after inheriting the throne of Teng Hou.

He once asked Mencius: "Teng is a small country, sandwiched between Qi and Chu, should it take refuge in Qi or Chu?" ”

Mencius said to him, "It is not within my power to plan this problem. If I had to say that there is only one way: dig this moat, build this wall, and defend the city and the country together with the people, so that the people would rather give their lives than flee, then this will work. ”

This is the idea of "royal road" and "benevolent government" advocated by Mencius.

Teng Yuangong thought so, so in the decades he was in power, he treated the people well, built high city walls, and dug deep moats, which led to today's city that the Song State had not captured for three years, Tengcheng.

Of course, the Song army failed to capture Tengcheng for three years, which is of course not only the role of the city, but also the people who defend the city.

In addition to the current Teng monarch Teng Hu and his subjects, there were also many Mo disciples in the city, and even soldiers secretly sent by the Qi State.

Yes, in addition to the disciples of the Mo family, there was also the State of Qi secretly supporting the State of Teng to resist the attack of the Song State, which was the reason why Tengcheng was beaten by the Song army for three years and did not fall.

On the first day of August, Sima Jingyi of the Song Dynasty led his army to attack Tengcheng again, and the Mo family's giant "Qiu Liang" immediately climbed the city tower to check the situation.

After Mozi's death, the Mo family was divided into three factions, namely the ink of the Xiangli clan (Qin Mo), the ink of the Deng Ling clan (Chu Mo), and the ink of the Xiangfu clan (Qi Mo).

And the disciples of the Mo family led by Qiu Liang belong to the "Mo of the Deng Ling Clan", which is commonly known as "Chu Mo" and "Mo Xia".

This group of Mohist disciples, led by the original leader "Deng Lingzi", acted as a chivalrous man, and "Meng Sheng" is a typical representative of it, and its most famous example is the defense of the city for the king of Yangcheng.

The cause of this incident was the death of King Chu Mourning, when Wu Qi served as Ling Yin in Chu State and offended many nobles, so after the death of King Chu Mourning, these Chu nobles rebelled and wanted to kill Wu Qi.

Wu Qi saw that he could not be spared, so he fled to the cemetery where the coffin of the king of Chu was placed, and deliberately lay on the body of the king of Chu and was killed by the arrows of the rebel army, causing some arrows to hit the body of the king of Chu mourning.

According to the laws of the Chu State, destroying the corpse of the king was a major crime of the three clans, and Wu Qi took revenge on these Chu nobles.

Subsequently, the crown prince of Chu succeeded to the throne, that is, the "King of Chu Su", and he ordered the killing of all the "shooters of Wu Qi and the corpse of the king", a total of more than 70 families were implicated, and Meng Sheng's friend Yangcheng Jun was also one of the Chu ministers.

When the king of Chu came to attack Yangcheng, Yangcheng Jun himself took the lead in escaping, but entrusted his Yicheng to his friend, Meng Sheng, the son of the Mo family at that time.

Meng Sheng knew that he could not be spared, but in order to keep "righteousness", he could not break his promise to Yangcheng Jun and give up guarding the city, in order not to cut off the inheritance of the Mo family, he sent three people to the Qi country, and passed the position of Juzi to the "Tian Rang (i.e., Tian Jiu, Tian Xiangzi)" who was also a disciple of the Mo family, and he led nearly two hundred Mo disciples to die generously, holding Yangcheng until the last moment, until it was broken by the Chu army.

After that, "Tian Jiu" became the son of the Mo family, but he himself belonged to the "Xiangfu Clan's Mo (i.e. Qi Mo)", Qi Mo was different from Chu Mo, they did not take chivalry and righteousness as their own responsibility, but mainly debated scholars, they traveled around the world, taught the Mohist idea of "love and love", opposed all violence, including uprisings, and hoped to achieve peace with a soft attitude, and were the most idealistic of the Mo family.

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

A few years ago, "Tian Jiu" went to the Qin State to realize the ambitions of the Mo family, but unfortunately died in the Qin State, and then, Chu Mo of the Ranger faction and Qi Mo of the debate faction successively elected their own Juzi, and among them, the Ranger faction, that is, Chu Mo, their Juzi is "Qiu Liang", a disciple of the Mo family from the Qi people.

On the first day of the eighth month, after learning the news that the Song army had gathered again in the western suburbs outside the city, Qiu Liang of the Mo family did not dare to slack off, and immediately climbed the city wall to spy on the movements of the Song army.

Don't look at Qiu Liang's dress in cloth and straw shoes, but the soldiers and civilians of Teng on the city wall have special respect for him, and when he passes by, he is called "Mo Jiajuzi", which shows that the Mo family has won the trust of Teng's subjects.

"Juzi!"

When Qiu Liang climbed the city wall, a disciple of the Mo family immediately beckoned, "Come and see." ”

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

It's no wonder, after all, those four wells are taller than the city walls of Tengcheng, and they seem to stand out in the array of Song troops, how can they not see it.

"Floor car?" Qiu Liang frowned slightly.

The "building car" he mentioned is actually the well car, but it was invented by Mozi in the early years, and was later used by the Chu State to attack the Song State, when Mozi led the Mo disciples to help the Song State resist the Chu State, and invented the method of destroying this kind of building car with fire.

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

"The hateful Song people dare to steal the inventions of my Mo family."

There was a disciple of the Mo family who said angrily.

Qiu Liang frowned and didn't speak, because he felt that this matter was very strange: Song General Jing Wei had attacked Tengcheng for more than two years, and he had never seen him build this kind of building car in the past, but would only ask Song Bing to attack the city with the tactic of "ant attached", why did he suddenly change his original tactics?

However, he didn't have time to think about it for the time being, and instructed the disciples on the left and right: "You should all know this kind of building car and how to deal with it. …… Tell the disciples in the city to immediately build wooden shields and distribute them to the guards 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 disciple of the Mo family left.

In all fairness, the Mo family Juzi Qiu Liang didn't care much about what he thought of as a "building car" at the moment, because in his impression, this kind of building car needed to be equipped with a crossbow hand in order to pose a huge threat to the defenders of the city, however, the crossbow was still a relatively rare thing in the Song Kingdom, after all, the Song Kingdom was not South Korea - South Korea is a country that produces strong crossbows, and it is known as "all the best crossbows in the world come from South Korea".

In the absence of crossbows, even if the Song State replaced them with archers, their threat to Tengcheng would not be too great, after all, drawing a bow and shooting arrows is a very physically demanding thing, even if it is an excellent archer, a war may only shoot seven or eight arrows at most, not to mention that it is not easy to build a bow.

"Woo-woo-woo-"

"Knock knock—"

Just as Qiu Liang was thinking to himself, in the western suburbs outside the city, the horns and military drums sounded in unison, and immediately, the soldiers of the Song State struggled to push the four well chariots to make them slowly approach Tengcheng.

"Juzi."

Behind Qiu Liang, a loud voice came.

Qiu Liang turned his head and saw Teng Hu, the monarch of Teng State, who had come to the city at some point, so he bowed slightly towards the latter as a courtesy: "Teng Hou." ”

Teng Hu, or Teng Hou Hu, this is a nine-foot-tall warrior, nine feet tall, tiger-backed bear-waisted, when facing the Mo family disciples and Teng subjects, he often has a hearty smile on his face, especially at this moment when he is holding a six- or seven-year-old girl in his arms, it is difficult to imagine that such an affinity person actually made countless Song soldiers feel afraid and frightened.

"I don't know whose little girl it is, saying that she wants me to hug her."

Seeing Qiu Liang's eyes staring at the girl in his arms, Teng Hu explained with a smile, and immediately, 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 fight the wicked, you go home quickly, so that your father and mother don't worry about you." ”

"Prince, you must fight many, many wicked people." The girl pulled the corner of Teng Hu's clothes and said expectantly.

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

Seeing the little girl leave happily, Qiu Liang of the Mo family secretly sighed in his heart.

Although the relationship between the Mohists and Confucianism has always been bad, the country governed by Teng Wengong's ideas of "royal way" and "benevolent government" is quite in line with the lofty ideals of the Mohists, that is, there is no aristocratic opposition, no persecution, even if it is a monarch such as Teng Hong and Teng Hu, he can be approachable and mingle with ordinary commoners.

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

"Is Jing Yu Lao Er boring again?"

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

Seeing this, Qiu Liang reminded: "Tenghou Mo wants to underestimate the enemy, Tenghou looks, the Song army has built four building car ......"

As he spoke, he briefly introduced it to Teng Hu.

At this time, the Teng soldiers who were on the city wall had already put the city defense equipment called Yibi on the city wall, after all, the Song soldiers who came to attack the city with ladders were already attacking the city.

"Archery!"

With the order of a Teng general, a wave of arrows rained out from the city.

There is no way, after all, it is very difficult to make bows, and there are only hundreds of bows in the entire Teng City, and it is impossible to rain arrows at all - and in fact, the Song army outside the city can't do it.

For example, on the top platform of the four wells outside the city, each of which had only about 20 archers, how could it suppress the city wall to this extent?

Seeing this, Teng Hu said with a smile: "Jing Yu Lao'er tried to use this thing to break through Tengcheng, it was really ......."

As soon as he said this, his voice stopped abruptly, because the four well carts outside the city slowly lowered the hanging wooden planks and slammed them on the city wall, covering several pieces of the wall, thus building a passage between the well carriage and the city wall.

And at the other end of the "passage", there was a team of Song soldiers who were waiting solemnly.

"What?!"

The Mo family's Juziqiu Scale's face changed greatly, and he stared at the nearest well car.

"Not good! This is not my Mo family's building car!'

He thought to himself, stunned.