"PS: Teng Hu and Teng Qi are both historical figures, not original, so don't blame the author for choosing a strange name, I can't help it."

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After a while, Qiu Liang, the Mo family's juzi, left in a hurry, thinking that he was going to gather the Mo family's disciples to think about how to crack the Jing Langche.

Looking at Qiu Liang's departing back, Teng Qi frowned slightly and asked, "Brother, what Fang Juzi said about "planning early" is not ......?"

"Hmm." Teng Hu nodded with a calm face.

He was very grateful for the help of the Mo family without asking for anything in return, so he also trusted Qiu Liang and other Mo family disciples.

And just now, Qiu Liang faintly revealed the meaning of "Teng Cheng may no longer be able to hold on", which made Teng Hu's heart sink to the bottom.

Plan ahead?

『…… It's easier said than done!'

Teng Hu let out a long breath.

Two years ago, he had sent a request for assistance from Qilu and Qilu.

But it is a pity that at this time, although the government has defeated Sanhuan and regained power, the national strength is not as good as before, so when Han, Zhao, Wei, Yan, and Zhongshan "five kingdom kings" - that is, the monarchs of these five countries recognize each other's "thrones" - when the Lu State was not invited by these five countries, it is equivalent to having completely reduced to a second-rate country.

You must know that at that time, there were only small countries such as Weiguo, Zou State, Teng State, and Fei State, and the Lu State of the twelve princes of the Spring and Autumn Period was reduced to a par with these small countries, and it is conceivable that the decline of the Lu State is now.

Therefore, the state of Lu could not be counted on, and the monarch of the state of Lu did not dare to offend the state of Song at all.

But the Qi State is different, the current Qi State is still very strong, but for some reason, the Qi State refuses to directly send troops to help the Teng State - whether it is to crusade against the Song State, or to enter the Teng State to help the Teng people resist the Song State.

Could it be that the dignified Qi State is also afraid of offending Song Wangyan?

Teng Hu was skeptical about this.

In his opinion, although the Song State has been very strong in recent years, it is still a certain gap from Qi Chu and other powerful countries, if the Qi State uses all its domestic soldiers to crusade against the Song State, the Song State will undoubtedly be defeated - of course, this is just a hypothesis, after all, the King of Qi really has no reason to start such a large-scale war with the Song State for a small Teng State.

"If you really can't do it, let's move the people to Qi country." Teng Qi suggested.

"Defecting to the Qi Kingdom?"

Teng Hu pondered for a moment when he heard this.

In all fairness, when there is no other way, defecting to the Qi State is not a way out, but in this way, the foundation of his Teng ancestors will be lost, although his Teng Country is only a small country, but there are also things that make his Teng people cherish.

"Wait."

Teng Hu said in a deep voice.

Teng Qi was silent for a moment when he heard this, and then said, "Brother, why don't you let me go to Linzi again and try to ask for reinforcements from Qi State." …… I believe that the State of Qi does not want our Teng State to be annexed by the Song State, and then make Xue Yi threatened by the Song State, if I state the benefits, I may be able to convince the King of Qi. ”

Teng Hu thought for a moment and nodded slowly.

Seeing this, Teng Qi's spirit was shocked, he stood up and arched his hand and said, "Then without further ado, I will leave for Qi today." ”

With that, he said goodbye to his brother and turned to leave the palace.

At the same time, in the camp of the Song army, the military Sima Jingwei was taking Meng Zhong for a walk in the camp and praised Meng Zhong's proposal for the well car.

“…… It's a pity that only four were built, and if there were more, maybe Tengcheng would be able to be broken today. ”

When he said this, Jing Wei had regret and remorse in his words that could not be concealed.

Hearing this, Meng Zhong glanced at Jing Yu and didn't say anything more with interest.

Because when building the well car, Meng Zhong once suggested: Tengcheng may not know the power of this kind of well car, if you build more, it may have a surprising effect and capture Tengcheng in a battle.

However, Jing Yu was too conservative, and he was unwilling to spend more energy without personally confirming whether this kind of well car was effective, otherwise, if there were only twenty well cars, Tengcheng would definitely be broken by the Song army today, so why wait until next time?

From this point, Meng Zhong can see that Jun Sima Jingyu is not a person with "discerning eyes".

After thinking about it, Meng Zhong reminded: "After today's incident, Tengcheng has been prepared, and if the military Sima Ta attacks Tengcheng with a well chariot in the future, he may have to suffer greater casualties." ”

Hearing this, Jing Yan stroked his beard and smiled: "It's okay, as long as you have such a sharp weapon in your hand, Tengcheng will definitely be defeated!" ”

I have to say that at this moment, Jing Yu saw the hope of breaking through Tengcheng, so he seemed to be in high spirits, where would he care about Meng Zhong's reminder that "Tengcheng is prepared", after all, in Jing Hui's eyes, as long as he can capture Tengcheng, even if he pays a heavy price, it is worth it - even, in this way, it can reflect the difficulty of capturing Tengcheng, and cover up his shame for "failing to capture Tengcheng for more than two years".

Of course, although he was high-spirited, Jing Yu had not yet swelled to the point of getting carried away after all, for example, he also saw some weaknesses and disadvantages of the well car.

He asked Meng Zhongdao: "Today, Tengcheng used fire to destroy our army's well car, what can you do about it?" ”

Meng Zhong thought for a while and replied: "The well car is made of wood, and it is inevitable that it is afraid of fire, so the fire attack cannot be stopped, but it can delay the spread of the fire as much as possible, for example, after the construction of the well car is completed, muddy water is repeatedly splashed on the outer wall of the well car, so that the outer wall is covered with mud, even after the mud solidifies, it can also slightly delay the spread of the fire." …… In addition, you can ask someone to prepare some more water, and when the Teng people use fire arrows to burn the well car, pour water on the inner wall of the car......"

"Splashing water on the inner wall of the well?" Jing Yu was stunned when he heard this, and asked puzzledly: "The fire is burning on the outer wall, is it useful to splash water on the inner wall?" The old man had never heard of this way of extinguishing fires. ”

Meng Zhong shook his head and explained, "The flame makes the wood burn, and it needs to reach a certain heat. …… Did the military Sima ever boil water in a wooden barrel? Before the water in the barrel turned into water vapor and disappeared, had you ever seen the wooden barrel burned through the charcoal fire underneath? The kid's suggestion is to adopt this principle. ”

Jing Yu was skeptical when he heard this, and when he returned to the tent that night, he asked the soldiers to make a wooden barrel, fill it with water, and hang it on the bonfire.

Sure enough, as Meng Zhong said, before the water in the barrel leaked, even if the barrel was burned on the fire, the barrel itself showed no signs of burning, at most the bottom was blackened by the fire.

"He is worthy of being a disciple of Zhuangzi."

In addition to sighing, Jing Yu immediately ordered to prepare in advance according to Meng Zhong's suggestion.

In the following days, the Song and Teng sides temporarily stopped fighting, and the Song army was busy building a large number of well carts for the capture of Tengcheng in one go, while Tengcheng, led by Mojia Juziqiu, secretly dug a moat outside the city, trying to restore this moat to block the Song army's well carts.

Due to the negligence of the Song army's scouts, by the time Jing Yu learned of this, Qiu Liang, the Mo family's Juzi, had already led his disciples and the subjects of Teng State in the city to dig a large section of the moat.

In response to this, Jing Yu was furious, and immediately ordered the execution of several scouts, and ordered his troops to lead troops to Tengcheng, trying to fill the moat with earth again.

Since there were not many crossbowmen in Tengcheng, they could not pose a great threat to the Song army, so when the Song army came to the city in large numbers to try to fill the moat, they had no choice but to watch the Song army.

But that night, the disciples of the Mo family quietly slipped out of the city with the people of Teng State again, and dug up a section again.

So, when Jing Yu looked at it after dawn, good guy, the place that was filled in yesterday was dug up by the Teng people again.

Enraged, he ordered his subordinates: "From tonight, send people to guard Tengcheng, and if any Teng people secretly dig at night, kill them all." ”

This order was issued, so that the soldiers of the Song State can be said to have suffered, during the day to cut down the forest to build a well car, and at night to guard the city of Teng, not to let the Teng people dig the moat, within a few days, the Song soldiers were exhausted, and the speed of building the car was greatly reduced.

After realizing this, Jing Yu withdrew the general order and let the Song soldiers under his command rest for a few nights.

Unexpectedly, within two days, the Teng people dug up the moat outside the city again, and Jing Yu was so angry that he really had no choice, so he found Meng Zhong and asked the latter what he had in mind.

I have to say that Meng Zhong is also a little speechless for this military Sima.

He said to Jing Yu: "Jun Sima, you want the soldiers to build the well car, and you want them to fill the moat dug by the Teng people at any time, and do two things at the same time, of course the soldiers will be tired, why not let them concentrate on building the well car?" ”

"What should the Teng people do if they regain the moat?" Jing Yu asked.

Meng Zhong said without hesitation: "It's just to build a bridge, why don't you use it to build a bridge when you compete with the Teng people for that moat?" With just a few planks laid on the moat, the well cart can approach the city walls smoothly, so why bother? ”

Jing Yu suddenly realized.

So after that, the Song soldiers no longer "competed" with the Teng people for the moat, so that in the end, even if the Teng people dug the moat during the day, the patrolling Song army scouts turned a blind eye.

This made the Mo family Juziqiu very puzzled.

By the beginning of September, the Song army had built about 50 well-mounted carts, and Sima Jingyu thought that this number was enough to capture Tengcheng, and did not want to delay the fighters any longer, so he gave the order to attack the city.

At this time, the Mo disciples in Teng City and the people of Teng State had barely restored a few sections of the moat, or the trenches that had not yet been introduced into the river.

They originally thought that the moats and moats outside the city could block the Song army's well carts, but they never expected that another kind of creation appeared in the Song army, something that seemed to be ladder frames (similar to scaffolding), and the Song people put these wooden frames in the moats and ditches, flush with the ground, and then paved wooden planks on them, and soon paved the road that could allow the well carts to pass smoothly.

『……』

When the Mo family saw this scene in Tengcheng City, his face became more solemn.

He never imagined that the moats and moats he used to restrain the Song army's wells and carts would be cracked by the Song army so easily.

"It must be a male loser!"

Clenching his fists, the Mo family thought secretly with a little annoyance.