When I was in Qin Dynasty, I lost contact with the wave

Chapter 461: Nobles surrender, Xinzheng is in turmoil

"This time, there will be labor losers."

Zhang Ji saluted the public losers. Regardless of whether they could help or not, at least Zhang Ji's attitude of coming all night after receiving the letter made Zhang Ji salute.

"Your Majesty, you are so polite. I have been supported by the State of Qin for more than a hundred years, so I should serve the State of Qin."

A somewhat ugly smile appeared on Gong Shuqiu's face. It wasn't that he couldn't smile because he was unwilling to do so, but because Gong Shuqiu's skin was sagging and his face was full of wrinkles. Therefore, the smile looked like it was squeezed out, which was worse than crying. Still ugly.

The overbearing machine skills of the public losers and the non-attack machine skills of the Mohists are not only different in purpose of creation, but also completely different in materials.

There is a saying in the world that "Moji's organs are made of wood and stone; if bronze opens, you have to ask Gongshu." This does not mean that Mohists will not use bronze, iron and other metals to build organs, nor does it mean that Gongshu will not use wood and stone to build organs, but It means that the two sides are the kings of the two materials of wood, stone and bronze, and each has its own strengths.

Using bronze, iron and other metals to build machine beasts is naturally different from using wood and stone.If it is made of wood or stone, if it is unfinished, it can be set aside. But if you make a calculation hand of metal, you have to pay attention to the process just like forging a sword. If there is a mistake in the forging of any metal part, it may cause the metal part to crack. situation, thereby abolishing the entire institution.

So even though Gong Shuqiu is just getting over it now, he still has to stay up late or even all night long. In addition, he lives with the stove all the year round. He himself is not a master warrior like Mrs. Xu. Gong Shuqiu is not even a warrior, which naturally leads to The skin on the face is loose, and this smile looks uglier than crying.

And due to excessive hard work, unlike Master Ban's fat figure, Gong Shuqiu was a little skinny. If it weren't for those bright eyes, Zhang Ji would have even doubted whether Gong Shuqiu's time was running out.

However, Gong Shuchou was quite nimble in his work, so he even invited Zhang Ji to sit on the six-foot bat wing and watch Xinzheng City Defense.

Gongshu Qiu's idea is very simple. Since the right concubine is sincerely using Gongshu, on the one hand, it allows Zhang Ji to feel the difference between Gongshu's six-foot bat wings and the Mo family's mechanism Suzaku. To add a bit of trust, on the other hand, it is to explore the city defense of Xinzheng.

During the flight, Zhang Ji also told Gong Shuqiu about the strangeness of the Korean soldiers, and Gong Shuqiu also introduced Zhang Ji to the power of Potu Sanlang.

The two Potosaburo brought by Gongshujia were far from being the indestructible weapons made of fine steel that would later be used after the unification of the Qin Dynasty. Instead, they were made of bronze, and their attack power was much inferior.

Moreover, the current Poto Saburo did not fully protect the driver of the machine beast, but was exposed like the machine white tiger. This gave the enemy the opportunity to shoot the driver before Poto Saburo approached the city gate. Chance.

Therefore, the process of inspecting Xinzheng City Defense is necessary.

And just like the Mohist is good at defending the city, the public losers are also good at attacking the city. After some inspections, the conversation between the two of them allowed Zhang Ji to develop a lot of new ideas for attacking the city.

Inside Xinzheng City
Different from the joy of the Qin army who received the aid of the mechanism beasts, the soldiers and civilians in Xinzheng City were in turmoil when they learned that the Qin army had mobilized the mechanism beasts to attack the city. Even with the influence of Canglong Qisu, their hearts were in turmoil.

The only people Canglong Qisu hypnotized were Koreans who enlisted in the army. The effect of hypnosis gradually decreased over time, and the people hypnotized did not include many common people and nobles in the city.

Therefore, when the Qin sword in the hands of the Qin army had already chopped at the neck of South Korea, many nobles proposed to give up Xinzheng!
Although Xinzheng is a fortified city, during the reign of King Wei Hui, when the Wei State's national power was at its peak, he sent Pang Juan to attack Xinzheng, but he eventually fell into disarray and was defeated by the Qi army who came to rescue after a long attack. This is also South Korea sticks to Xinzheng’s confidence.

But the biggest problem now is that no country is willing to rescue South Korea. Without reinforcements, is there any point in South Korea persisting in holding on to this strong city?

Many Korean aristocrats whose fiefdoms had not yet been captured by the Qin army, such as the Duan family, the Xia family, and the Gongli family, advocated the immediate abandonment of Xinzheng, and the royal family moved to Yingchuan County or other mountains and rivers where siege machinery and beasts were inconvenient to defend by danger.

Of course, no one knows whether they want to take the opportunity to escape and surrender to the Qin Dynasty in order to retain part of the fiefdom, or whether they really believe that it is more suitable for defense to retreat to dangerous places where the siege machinery and beasts are inconvenient to transport. However, the latter situation is also possible. of.

While there are those who advocate retreat, there are naturally those who advocate continuing to hold on.

This group of nobles are mainly those who have ceded territory to Qin again and again in Korea, and whose fiefdoms were captured during the Qin army's current invasion of Korea. They have no way to retreat and advocate sticking to Xinzheng to fight the Qin army in the final battle. At the same time, secret envoys were once again sent to various countries to ask for help at night and starry. Maybe the countries saw that South Korea was holding on to Xinzheng, and they would come to the rescue just like they did in the past when they rescued HD City, which had been besieged by the Qin army for a long time. In this way, the Korean nation could be preserved.

There are also a small number of people who can't agree on what to do, sometimes go along with it, and sometimes go along with it and stay.

Wei Zhuang and Zhang Liang jointly rejected the idea of ​​evacuating Xinzheng.

Xinzheng is the capital of South Korea and the last stronghold in the hearts of Koreans.

Xinzheng is still there, even without the influence of Canglong Qisu, both the military, civilians and nobles can still have hope, but if the New Zheng dies, the perseverance in Korean people's hearts will be lost, even if they really find a dangerous and dangerous city , to no avail.

By then people's hearts have been lost and it will be difficult to hold on.

What's more, now that he still has the power of Canglong Qisu, he still has the strength to fight in the city.

If he leaves the city and is intercepted by the Qin army's cavalry, the consequences will be disastrous.

Zhang Ji's record of defeating the Wei army of [-] with [-] Yulin cavalry is still vivid in his mind. Now that [-] Qin soldiers are surrounding Xinzheng, Wei Zhuang cannot imagine what kind of devastating blow the Korean army will suffer after hurriedly escaping from the city.

All Wei Zhuang can do now is to continue to hold on to Xinzheng and wait for the situation to change.

As for whether there will be changes in the current situation, it can only be resigned to fate.

For several days, the soldiers and civilians in Xinzheng City were worried about the machine beasts transferred by the Qin Army. However, the Qin Army never used the machine beasts to attack the city. Even the ant siege was no longer used. Instead, they tightly surrounded Xinzheng City. .

At first glance, Qin Jun seemed to have done nothing, but Wei Zhuang noticed Qin Jun's changes.

Although the military flag has not been reduced, the amount of daily cooking smoke has decreased significantly.

Although the number of earth stoves used by the Qin army has not changed, the speed of cooking by the Qin army has become much faster, and the duration of the smoke has also been shortened. Wei Zhuang guessed that the Qin army should have transferred some of them, but he did not know what they were used for. .

Could it be that some country came to help, and the Qin army mobilized troops to garrison the main road?

A glimmer of hope emerged in the hearts of the soldiers and civilians in Xinzheng City. Standing without help and standing firm waiting for help are two completely different things.

Some people also suggested taking advantage of the Qin army's mobilization to go out of the city to attack the Qin army.

Wei Zhuang ignored this stupid suggestion. The Qin army crushed the Korean army in all aspects such as the quality, quantity, morale, and equipment of its soldiers. It was difficult to hold on, so why did they go out to attack?Just like the Qin army, if you drop a coin on the city wall in the middle of the night, the lights can be clearly illuminated below the city, and they go out to attack?

In this way, the soldiers and civilians in Xinzheng City spent several days comfortably and full of hope, when bad news came from outside the city.

It was Qin Jun and a group of prisoners who conveyed the bad news.

They were the guards of the two cities of Maling and Linyi and the heirs of the nobles of the Zhang family of Maling and the Xu family of Linyi. Several of them were tied up by the Qin army and brought to the top of the city, shouting loudly into Xinzheng City.

"Maling and Linyi have been conquered by our Qin Dynasty. Sooner or later, Xinzheng will become an isolated city. I am a benevolent concubine. I urge you to surrender as soon as possible. Don't do useless things and lose your wealth and life in vain."

Although Wei Zhuang originally called on the Koreans to fight in the isolated city of Xinzheng, it did not mean that Xinzheng was the only city left in Korea, but that the Qin army concentrated fire on Xinzheng and no longer took care of other cities.

But if Xinzheng really becomes an isolated city, it will definitely be difficult to defend the city.

Back then, Tian Dan was able to rely on the two cities to defend and even counterattack, because the Qi people worked together to counterattack the Yan army throughout the territory.

But that was because the Yan army entered Qi, and in order to avenge the Qi army's hatred for burning, killing, and looting in the territory of Yan State, and even burned the ancestral temple of Yan State and snatched the sacrificial ritual vessels, so they burned, killed, and looted in the territory of Qi State by the same means.

This is why Le Yi stopped attacking and blindly attacked the remaining two cities of Qi.

What Le Yi does not want is a piece of meat that has been cut into several pieces but cannot be swallowed. Just like the Qi army was unable to swallow the land of the Yan State in the past, he hopes to completely regain the hearts of the Qi State and make up for the previous Yan Army. The impact of burning, killing and looting.

However, when the Qin army sent troops this time, there were very few cases of burning, killing, looting, etc., and even if they did, they were dealt with by military law. There was no deep hatred between the Qin people and the Koreans.

Moreover, the general of the Qin army who attacked South Korea was the son-in-law of Han Wangan and the husband of the well-known Princess Honglian. In other words, he was the son-in-law of a Korean, and he was one of his own!
It is tantamount to nonsense to expect the Koreans in the whole of South Korea to resist the Qin army like the Qi people in the past, regardless of life and death.

Originally, Wei Zhuang thought that the Qin army was only planning to use the news that the Qin army was preparing to isolate Xinzheng to influence the morale of the troops in the city and persuade them to surrender. He did not pay too much attention to it, but he did not want the nobles in the city to be in turmoil.

Zhang Ji's purpose was not to persuade the soldiers and civilians of Xinzheng City to surrender, but to persuade the nobles in the city to surrender. Otherwise, he would not have brought the heirs of the two noble families of Maling Zhang and Linyi Xu to Xinzheng City.

Knowing that the fief was seized and their heirs were captured by the Qin army, the heads of the Zhang family of Ma Ling and the Xu family of Linyi felt ashamed, but the heads of the other families that still had their fiefs had other thoughts.

The Qin army obviously wants to isolate Xinzheng. If they surrender to the Qin army now, the most they can do is reduce their fiefdoms and not completely deprive them of it. By then, relying on their family's talents, knowledge and wealth, they will be able to restore their former glory in ten or twenty years. However, if the fiefdom is completely deprived, and even the heirs of the inheritance family are captured, it is almost equivalent to destroying the family.

So, one night, the three aristocrats of the Duan, Gongli, and Xia families, who had contacted the Qin army outside the city in advance through the net entrenched in the city, Mo Ya, the leader of the South Korean altar, escaped from Xinzheng and asked the Qin army to surrender. .

When the news came, Wei Zhuang was furious, and immediately ordered a thorough investigation and the pursuit of the three nobles.

The facts of the investigation are: three noble families bribed the gatekeepers with large sums of money and fled with all the valuables stored in Xinzheng. However, it was never clear who opened the city gate.

There are at least six guards on duty at each city gate. Each person is on duty at the city gate to ensure energy. However, the results of the investigation cannot find out when the three noble families left the city, so it is impossible to find out who released the three families without permission. The nobles are out of town.

The news spread like wildfire, and in Xinzheng City, nobles fled one after another. Many Korean royal families even chose to flee, unwilling to stick to Xinzheng City. In the end, Wei Zhuang even had to send people who were originally used to hunt down the killers in the city. The Jiuyihui and Qijuetang confidants came to guard the city gate.

However, the number of nobles fleeing has only decreased. Although a group of people have been arrested, they are still repeatedly banned, and there are still many nobles who have successfully left the city.

"Forget it, I can't stop it."

Zhang Liang sighed. He, who also came from an aristocratic family, naturally knew how vividly these aristocrats could perform double-deckering and three-handedness.

Qijuetang and Jiuyihui are, in the final analysis, a gang composed of idle people. They usually survive by collecting protection fees. Now during the war, the people's surplus food has been forcibly confiscated. Where can they receive protection fees?
If you can't receive money, you are used to being extravagant in your daily life, so it is easy to have evil thoughts in your heart.

In the past few days, he has received many accusations against gang members from Qijuetang and Jiuyihui for robbing shops and houses, raping women, and even killing people for their talents.

The nobles who escaped after Qijuetang and Jiuyihui took part in the guard at the gate of the city were nothing more than more money for bribes.As for those who were stopped, it was simply because the bribes given were not enough, or some gang members became greedy and held the idea of ​​"if I kill you all, they will all be mine", they killed people and took wealth, and also robbed the women of the nobles. .

Such a move further caused unrest in the city, especially the protests by the nobles.

There are still many nobles in the city who stick to it, and they really have no intention of fleeing. Some of them have nowhere to go because they lost their fiefs, and some are sincerely defending the city for their country. Will behave even more disgusting!

In the final analysis, everyone is from the aristocratic circle, they just have different choices.

The nobles in South Korea have been marrying each other for many years, and most of them are related by blood. Some of the noble women who were snatched away may be the noble daughters married by other nobles!

Even among hostile nobles, the behavior of Qijuetang and Jiuyihui cannot be tolerated.

Their hostile nobles are at fault, and they should not be dealt with by you mud legs, and their family property should not be taken away by you mud legs!
You Qijuetang and Jiuyihui are taking food from our tiger's mouth!

The private soldiers assembled by the nobles in the city clashed with the gang members of Qijuetang and Jiuyihui many times, and even directly faced each other several times.

Wei Zhuang has always remained neutral and impartial. After all, no matter which side he helps, the other side will cause chaos.

But Wei Zhuang's impartiality meant inaction at this time.

His inaction has led to the further escalation of the conflict between the two parties, which has reached the point where they are fighting to the death.

Therefore, a choice was finally placed in front of Wei Zhuang.

Should he choose to safeguard the interests of the nobles and severely punish the gang members involved in Qijuetang and Jiuyihui, or should he warn the nobles and not punish the gangsters involved in Qijuetang and Jiuyihui?
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