Jimo was indeed the second largest city in Qi except Linzi. After inspecting for a week, Tian Dan found that Jimo City was still majestic, but after many years of peaceful wars in the west, he was in peace and did not think of danger, the female wall arrow tower had been damaged, the ditch outside the city had become a shallow dry ditch, the outer layer of the city wall had fallen off a lot, and the rammed earth exposed by Luǒ had fallen so loosely that it had fallen.

Tian Dan thought for a while and immediately ordered: "After that, the general immediately led 3,000 soldiers and sent 7,000 men, and immediately deepened the trench outside the West Gate within one day!" Within ten days, the ditches on all sides were deepened to the original system of the city. The civil craftsmen of the workshop will all go to the city to repair day and night, and make sure that the city defense is as good as it was within ten days! The Chinese army Sima received the order and immediately flew away. After surveying the city defense, Tian Dan took a few military officials to the armory. Jimo armory covers an area of more than 10 acres, more than 60 giant stone slab houses with a height of more than three zhang are divided into three columns in the east and west, between the three columns are two six zhang wide rammed earth avenue, can be parallel four large carts to transport weapons, the scale can be called the first fortress of Qi country! But now it is full of sparseness, the warehouse is dusty, the iron door is rusty, and the avenue is shaky. Tian Dan couldn't help frowning: "Doesn't the Jimo Defenders change their weapons?" The weapons next to Sima blushed and said in fear: "The arsenal here is full of defensive equipment, Jimo has not fought for decades, and only replaces swords, spears, bows, arrows, armor, horse harnesses, shields, etc., ...... here."

"Open them all, count them all."

"Hey!" With a wave of his hand, the military officials guarding the treasury led a team of old soldiers to hurriedly run over, and one by one the rumblings opened the warehouse. "This right column is the Flying Armory." The military weapon Sima pointed to the two big characters "Flying Soldiers" on the top of the big iron gate on the right. Tian Dan nodded: "That's the general weapons such as the Iron Tribulus Terrestris Tool?" ”

"Exactly!"

"Immediately transfer a thousand healthy and prosperous old men, clean the warehouse, count the weapons, repair the roads, and make sure that the weapons are carried smoothly!" Tian Dan strode into the flying arsenal and inspected the large number of rusted equipment hoarded one by one, and couldn't help but sigh for a long time.

The most hoarded in these 20 slate warehouses are thistles and water chestnuts. This is a small weapon thrown on the main route of the army, which is specially designed to stab the horse's foot and intercept the cavalry. Tribulus terrestris, thorny wild shrubs, all over the country, but they are ordinary wild plants and trees. In ancient times, people often picked a large number of thistles between the mountains and threw them on the road to delay the enemy's men and horses. However, it was inconvenient to pick temporarily, so in the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a tribulus made of broken wood blocks. "Liutao, Hutao, Military" contains: "Tribulus terrestris, go to the ground two feet five inches, (layout) one hundred and twenty bodies...... Narrow road micro path, Zhang Tie Tribulus terrestris, its height is four inches, eight inches wide, more than six feet long, (road section layout) 1,200 bodies. Defeat to ride. "This thistle terrestris was invented by the soldiers after they had iron tools in the Warring States period - to create thistle-shaped spikes with iron sheets. The Mozi family was in guarding the city, and "Mozi Beixue" has a record of setting up a large number of thistles at the entrance and exit of the tunnel, outside the city gate, and in the river.

The second is all kinds of tools. The snarler throws the instrument of killing the enemy. 檑 originated in the Zhou Dynasty, the original sound is a "抡" word, that is, waving the arm to throw out, and after a long time the sound becomes "檑", because after throwing rumbling like thunder rolling, it is gradually officially written as "檑" or "thunder". "Zhou Li, Autumn Official, Career Jin Shu" cloud: "Thunder, the tool of guarding the city." "As a weapon, the spur is just a kind of weapon that is condescendingly thrown and killed, but it is actually divided into various names according to its use. There are five most commonly used ones: one of them, wooden skewers. Also known as the shoewood, it is made of a whole section of thick logs, four to six feet long, at least four inches in diameter, and no limit on thickness; The wood was inlaid with iron nails and thorns, which were continuously pushed down the city walls, destroying siege ladders and killing and wounding soldiers.

Second, mud sash. Mix mud with clay, add 30 catties of pig's bristles and horsetail hair to each thousand catties of mud, pound and roll it out, each slab is two or three feet long, and the diameter is at least five inches. After the mud is dry, it is as hard as copper and iron, heavy as a boulder, flexible as leather, and it is still intact when it falls from a high altitude and collides with the city wall.

Third, bricks. The brick kiln is fired, the whole section is solid, three or four feet long, and the diameter is more than six inches, which is used for throwing at the head of the city. Fourth, the foot of the car. In fact, it is a huge single wheel, made of solid hardwood, with a wooden post with a rope hole in the center of the wheel, tied with a thick rope, and the winch fixed at the head of the city is lowered down the city wall and rolled horizontally, specifically killing and injuring the siege soldiers attached to the ladder. It can be retracted by winch and used repeatedly.

Fifth, the Yaksha. There is also a very elegant name called "staying". However, it is made of stubborn wet elm wood more than one zhang long and more than one foot in diameter, and the elm is surrounded by iron barbs or sharp knives five inches long, and casters with a diameter of two feet at each end. Two wheels with thick ropes, roll down the city wall with a winch, and cut off the enemy of the ladder with a hook to leave the corpse! It can also be retracted by winch and used repeatedly. Because of its amazing power, it has the name of a powerful ghost among the soldiers.

When the Tian clan was guarding Jimo, the trouble of Dongyi had not been eradicated, so they built and hoarded a large number of tools, although they were useless for many years, but in addition to the decay of the wooden wheel, they were also generally intact. Tian Dan felt a little relieved, so he immediately transferred craftsmen to repair it day and night.

After reading the right column, the weapon Sima said: "The twenty rooms in the middle column are big weapons, how about the general after cleaning up?" "Nope. Let's see. Tian Dan lifted his feet and walked into the dusty stone slab storehouse.

The first storehouse was the head of the city, striking the wolf's tooth slapper. This wolf's tooth paddle is also a stubborn elm plank, five feet long, four feet five inches wide, and three or four inches thick; The board is densely packed with hundreds of wolf tooth nails, each nail is five inches long and weighs six taels, and the nail head is three inches out of the wood; A sharp knife is embedded on each side, and the blade is half an inch into the wood; There are two iron rings in the front and back, which are run through thick ropes, and are hoisted on the city with a winch, but there are large ladders to climb the city, and they are twisted high and suddenly the oil and the brains are paved?/p>

The instrument used in conjunction with the wolf's tooth racket is a flying hook, which is connected to four thick hooks with iron chains, and when the wolf's tooth racket is slapped, the flying hook is thrown at the ladder at the same time to flip or pull it up and hang it in the air.

The second storehouse is the rejection of horses. Those who reject horses are also obstacles that block war horses. In the third dynasty of the Xia and Shang dynasties, there was an early rejection of horses, that is, the wooden pillars were fixed into a shelf, and the shelf was inlaid with sharp objects with blades and thorns (copper knives or stone knives). The Warring States Mohists called the rejection of the horse "Rui Bang", and there was a special article in "Mozi" on the "Rui Bang" tactics: the Moth Fu person, the enemy soldiers surged like moths and ants, at this time, five elements of sharp Bang were laid along the way, the spacing between the rows was three feet, the root was buried three feet, and the sharp cone was five feet long, which could block the enemy's advance. In the middle of the Warring States period, the rejection of horses developed into iron spears as the head (later generations called rejection of horses qiāng), with solid wood as a fixed support, and then six to ten iron spears fixed on the frame, all over the enemy's road so that its cavalry could not gallop. In the wilderness war, after all, the number of rejected horses is limited, so it is rarely used, but the city is fortified, and the rejection of horses is very useful.

The third warehouse is a really large machine, the Semen knife car. "Plug door" is the purpose, and "knife car" is the instrument. In fact, it is to create an extremely sturdy two-wheeled vehicle, the body of which is almost the same width as the city gate, and it is usually between three or four feet; There are three or four layers of wooden frame in front of the car, and each layer is fixed with a number of sharp knives, and the car body has a long wheel; When the enemy broke through the city gate, dozens of hundreds of soldiers pushed knife carts to block the city gate! The "Mozi Beixue" chapter records the use of this kind of Saimen knife car. For the long-term fierce battle of holding the city, it is difficult to protect the city gate without losing it once, and this Saimen knife cart is the most useful emergency weapon.

"How many Semen knife trucks are there?" Tian Dan asked.

"Three large warehouses, about 200 vehicles."

"Good! Look at the left column. Tian Dan felt that his heart had collapsed.

On the left, there are various fire extinguishing appliances and fire attack equipment. The armor Sima said that except for the more than 3,000 barrels of fierce fire oil that were bought from the Qin State back then, the rest of the warehouses were built by the Jisumida clan back then, but unfortunately they have been idle. Tian Dan felt a burst of emotion in his heart, he knew that this weapon Sima would not know that he was the current Jisutian clan, so he said lightly: "No matter who builds it, as long as it is useful." The weapon Sima said: "Fire extinguishing equipment may be used, but fire attack equipment is difficult to say." Tian Dan said: "Let's talk about it after watching it." Then he went headlong into the dusty stone storehouse. Attacking and defending in the Warring States period, fire attack has become one of the main tactics, and preparing for fire attack has naturally become a common method in soldiers. "Liutao Wentao" cloud: "Yingying can't be saved, what can I do about the hot fire?" "It is the urgency of extinguishing the fire of the attacking side. "The Art of War" has a chapter on "Fire Attack" that specifically discusses the five types of fire attack tactics, and summarizes: "The attacker with fire is bright (powerful), and the attacker is strong with water." "Mozi Beicheng Gate" also specifically records the method of using fire to defend the city gate, as well as various methods to extinguish the enemy's arson. In the offensive and defensive battles of the city, fire attack and counter-fire attack are the basic tactics. There are four main types of fire extinguishing appliances in the warehouse: one is the water bag. Sew the "human" shaped bag with the wool of the horseskin cowhide, fill three or four quintals of water, connect the bag mouth with a bamboo pipe of more than one zhang long, place the city gate and the vital place, if there is a fire, three or five soldiers lift the water bag and squeeze it violently, and the bamboo pipe will spray water jets to extinguish the fire.

Second, water bladders. If the enemy army piles firewood under the city and sets it on fire, a large number of water bladders will be thrown down from the city, and the water will burst out, and the fire can be extinguished. Third, the pump, truncated bamboo pipe for the body, the top of the bamboo pipe is opened, and then the wooden rod is wrapped with cotton wool and stuffed into the bamboo pipe to make a piston that can be pulled, and a large water urn is placed next to it. This stream spreads among the people, and it becomes the play "water qiāng" of children in later generations, but this is a later story. Fourth, hemp. With a long pole of eight feet or one zhang, the head of the rod is tied with two catties of loose hemp silk, and a water urn is placed next to it.

The second stone vault is the fire attack equipment used to defend the city. Defending the city is not only to extinguish the fire, but also to defend with fire, which is actually a special kind of fire attack, using fire to attack the enemy to kill and injure the attacker. There are also four types of fire attack equipment: first, the dovetail torch. Bundled with semi-dry reed grass into a dovetail shape, full of oozing grease and oil for preparation, the enemy army under the city attacked with large equipment such as rushing cars, so they threw down a large number of lit dovetail torches and burned the siege equipment. Second, the flying torch. Set up an orange tree at the head of the city, hang the huge dovetail torch on the orange pole head, but there is an enemy ladder climbing the city like ants attacking, immediately light the dovetail torch and pull the orange tree violently, the burning dovetail torch smashes to the ladder on the city wall, you can burn the ladder and several ants attached to the soldiers.

Third, the iron fire bed. The iron lattice "bed frame" with a length of five or six feet and a width of four feet is made of tough wrought iron, and four wooden wheels wrapped in iron pages are installed at the bottom, and two iron cables are drawn out at the rear end, which are then tied with long iron chains, and the "bed frame" is tied to 24 bundles of grass fire oxen (cow-shaped fat fire starters filled with fat and oil tied with thatch. However, when the enemy attacks the city, the grass fire ox is lit from the city and lowered from the city with an orange tree or a winch, and the raging fire can not only kill the enemy in a large area, but also illuminate the battlefield under the city.

Fourth, the iron box of the game. Wrought iron is made into a hanging basket-shaped object, and a long iron cable is tied to it, which contains hardwood firewood and bundled mugwort fire. However, when the enemy army digs a tunnel under the city or attacks from the tunnel, the iron box will be lowered to the mouth of the tunnel, which can scorch the enemy in the smoke cave.

"Is there a stove?" Tian Danlu looked at it, and suddenly remembered a record in Tian's classics.

"Furnace?" The military weapon Sima was stunned, "The last general doesn't know, and let me inquire." With that, he walked blushing quickly to several old military officials who were counting the treasury, and after a few words, he led an old military officer.

"There are three furnaces, but I don't know if they can be repaired." The old soldier was terrified.

"Let's see." Tian Dan did not blame anything.

As the old soldier came to the last stone storehouse, the rusted iron door was rumbled open, and he saw a large cloth covering a piece of material in the corner of the wall. The old soldier took off the big cloth with three inches of dust, and coughed again and again: "This, this is, three, the furnace." ”

"Iron-making furnace?" Tian Dan was surprised, "Is this the furnace?" ”

"The furnace walker can push the walking furnace." The old warman instructed, "But if the iron is melted at the head of the city, if the enemy is strong, lift the furnace with a large pole and pour iron juice down the city wall, so as to protect the enemy's retreat." ”

Tian Dan knocked on it for a while, and resolutely ordered: "Order the ironworker to repair it immediately!" With the help of such divine weapons, you can fight to the death with Le Yi. "Hey!" The military weapon Sima finally got rid of Fang Cai's embarrassment and strode away in high spirits.

"Is this a listening urn?" Tian Dan pointed to a huge pottery urn that was swinging against the wall.

"Exactly, the Seven Stone Pottery Urn." The old soldier nodded hurriedly, "The general is so familiar with all kinds of utensils, and he is also blessed with ink." "Nope." Tian Dan shook his head, "I just read the method of 'listening to the ground' from Mozi, and the rest is black. The old soldier said that this seven-stone pottery urn was specially designed to listen to the direction of the enemy's movement outside the city, and the people called it "burying the jar and listening to the sound". Dig a well in the inner city wall and every two zhang or so, the depth of the well is five or six feet in the high place, and the low place is three feet under the water, and the bottom of the well is buried in a large urn of seven stones, and the person who sends the ear spirit lies in the urn and listens, and determines the direction of the person who excavates the tunnel outside the city according to the difference in the sound of the adjacent large urn; You can also bury two large urns with a distance of more than one zhang in a deep pit at the same time, so that the two people can listen at the same time, and determine the direction according to the sound difference. "The urn is underwater, can you hear it really?" Tian Dan was puzzled.

"The general doesn't know." The old soldier smiled, "When the land comes out of the water, the sound is better, and it is much clearer than the lack of water." "Good!" Tian Dan said with a smile, "I see that the old man will listen to this stall!" ”

"Yes!" The old military officer was extremely excited, "I haven't fought for many years, and I'm depressed!" ”

By the time I left in the afternoon, the armory was already hectic. The armory Sima was appointed by Tian Dan on the spot as the concurrently leading treasury order, and sat in charge of the armory and the original old treasury order and several old military officials supervised the repair. All the craftsmen such as ironworkers, carpenters, potters, and leather workers were dispatched to the armory, and a shed was erected on the Kurma Avenue where the grass had been cleared, and the sound of the furnace was blazing and the hammer was clanging, which was extremely exciting.

Returning to his residence, Tian Dan immediately ordered the Chinese military shogunate to move out of the Jimo Ling official residence and choose a vacant land near the west gate to build the shogunate. Sima of the Chinese army couldn't help but hesitate a little: "The old official residence is in the middle of the city, which is conducive to responding from all sides, why does the general want to move?" Tian Dan said: "At the very moment, the death battle is mostly in the West Gate, which is too far away. Sima of the Chinese army said: "It's a pity that this old mansion is idle. Tian Dan said: "Jimo is already overcrowded, how can I vacate the house?" Immediately, the old mansion was turned into a place of healing, and all the doctors in the city gathered here, and hundreds of capable women were selected to transport the wounded soldiers to help heal the wounded. Jimo can only fight to the death, and I'm afraid that the healing here is still small. Sima of the Chinese army couldn't help but be in awe: "The shogunate is close to the battlefield, but it leaves the good official residence to the wounded soldiers, and the general admires such a mind!" After saying that, he immediately strode and hurriedly deployed.

After some exploration, Tiandan's Chinese army shogunate was built in the west gate, only more than ten zhang away from the city wall, almost separated by a road. It was originally a folk fish market, but now the fishermen are closed by Simen and cannot go out to sea and go down to the river, so it has naturally become an open space, but the land that has been soaked in fish water for a long time has always been filled with a strong fishy smell that the wind does not disperse, which makes people often sneeze and sneeze. Tian Dan burst into laughter: "Okay, good! There is no fish in the war, but God gives me the taste of fish, and I get it! A group of military officials were originally frowning, for fear that Tian Dan would not be able to bear it, but now seeing that Tian Dan was so open-minded, they also laughed.

When it was dark, the shogunate had already built a large tent made of adobe bricks and wood and three cowhide tents, although it was urgent and simple and damp, but it was also three entrances inside and outside, with a gathering hall, a military affairs hall, a command hall and living rooms. After the shogunate was completed, Sima and the ordinary military officials immediately entered the military affairs hall and began to deal with military affairs, while Tian Dan entered and exited the order hall. The first thing Tian Dan did when he entered the study was to stand in front of the almost wall-sized "Jimo City Mapping" and think carefully. After looking at it for a moment, he heard the sound of horses' hooves outside the tent, followed by a report from the military officials: "Scouts outside the city have arrived——! ”

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