A moment later, Sima Mengqing invited all the tribe members who served as "car officers" to his military tent.

Including the clan soldiers who came to reinforce, there were a total of sixteen chariot officials. Among them, Meng Zhong had a special status and was qualified to sit in the tent because he was a disciple of Zhuangzi. In addition to him, even Meng Hu, the son of Sima Mengqing, could only stand outside the tent, looking into the tent from time to time, and looking at Meng Zhong, the good brother, with envious eyes.

"At present, there are still forty-seven tribe members left in the army."

When Meng Wu asked about the situation in the army, Meng Qing replied heavily.

Hearing this, all the reinforcements were silent.

You should know that two years ago, the Meng family sent a total of 200 tribe members, and in the past two years, he sent more than 40 tribe members one after another, such as Meng Zhi, who immediately returned to the battlefield after recovering from his injuries.

However, there are about 240 tribe members in total, but now there are only 47 people left. Nearly 200 tribe members died in this battle. How can it not make people feel sad?

"As for the troops, there are more than 500 people at present." Meng Zhi, who was next to him, explained: "In the past two years, Pengcheng recruited some civilians and gradually supplemented our troops one after another. Currently, it remains at about 500 people... In addition to the reinforcements brought by the young master this time, that is, 1,200 people."

Meng Wu nodded when she heard this and suddenly asked, "Where is the king's army? As far as I know, Pengcheng only sent one army of kings this time, my Song State has more than this little force, right?"

The "army" he mentioned is the number of contemporary troops, one army is 12,500. The army of Song State had at least three to four armies in the era of "Tiaochengjun", let alone the current situation when Song Wang Yan held the country.

Even if the Song State has nearly 100,000 troops, this is not an exaggeration.

However, these 100,000 troops may not be easily mobilized, because most of them are deployed in various borders of the Song State, guarding against Wei, Chu, and Qi State. The number of people who can mobilize may be only 30,000 to 40,000. No matter how many, they will have to rely on the soldiers of various families in the country.

"I heard that two or three armies were deployed in the "Sihuai"." Meng Zhi explained.

The so-called "Si Huai" is the land bordering the country Xueyi, Song and Chu. All signs indicate that it is also a place that Song Wang Yan hopes to annex. However, Song does not dare to act rashly for the time being, so as not to anger Chu and cause a war - although Chu is currently busy gathering countries to attack Qin again.

"First Teng Kingdom, then Xueyi, then either Qi Kingdom or Sihuai Kingdom. Depend on the progress of Zhao's attack on Zhongshan Kingdom, this is probably the intention of King Song."

After listening carefully to the conversation between Meng Qing, Meng Zhi, Meng Wu and others, Meng Zhong secretly guessed in his heart.

Then, everyone talked about Tengcheng again.

Both Meng Wu and Meng Zhong were incredible about this. You should know that the army of Song State attacking Teng State, including the royal army and soldiers of various families, had more than 40,000 people one after another, and there were countless civil servants transporting food and grass. However, such troops still could not capture a Teng City?

What is the mystery of Tengcheng? So difficult to overcome?

"It's the Mo family!"

Meng Zhi, who is more talkative than his brother Meng Qing, explained: "In the past two years, Mo family disciples have gathered in Teng Kingdom to help Teng City build some equipment to defend the city. For example, there is an equipment that can fire several crossbow arrows at once. It is more powerful than a bow and can often kill several soldiers in one go. There is also an equipment called "roller throwing", which can throw huge rocks and charcoal fires, which is very powerful. But the most difficult thing is the equipment we call "Bi" and "Bi" privately..."

"What is that?" Meng Wu asked curiously.

Seeing this, Meng Zhi gestured with his hands and explained: "It is a wooden cover. My brother once personally led people to observe the city wall. The shape of this object is like the character B. The upper end is a cover and the lower end is a base. The Teng people installed it on the city wall so that the upper cover can protrude outside the wall, making it difficult for our soldiers to climb with a long ladder... Just like this, its upper end can be moved. If we put the long ladder on the city wall, it will push out and turn the ladder over; if we put the long ladder on its upper cover, it will retract and make the ladder lose support... What's even more troublesome is that this kind of instrument can also protect the Teng soldiers behind the city wall, so that our army under the city cannot shoot at them, and can only shoot from a distance."

"Can't it be destroyed?" Meng Zhong interrupted suddenly.

"It's meaningless." Meng Zhi glanced at Meng Zhong, shook his head and explained: "It's not difficult to build this kind of "B-wall". The materials required are just wood. How much we can destroy at a huge price? Tengcheng will soon be able to rebuild a group of... Mo family disciples all know how to build such city guarding equipment, and they also taught the Teng people in the city." After a pause, he continued: "The only way is to siege the city, prevent the Teng people from leaving the city to cut off wood, and burn all the trees in the surrounding area, but Teng seems to have reserved a lot of wood in advance..."

Speaking of this, he shook his head again, obviously helpless about such simple city-guarding equipment.

Seeing Meng Wu, Meng Zhong and other new tribe members seemed a little disbelief. One tribe member sighed: "In a few days, when the army Sima tried to attack the city again, you will know how powerful this thing is."

Meng Wu, Meng Zhong and others looked at each other and didn't say anything more.

After the meeting, the tribesmen dispersed one after another and returned to their respective military tents to rest, but Meng Zhong was kept by Meng Qing.

Without others, Meng Qing said to Meng Zhong seriously and sincerely: "A Zhong, I feel deeply guilty about your brother's affairs, but don't worry, as long as you are still alive for uncle and A Zhi, you will one day capture Teng Hu and allow you to avenge your brother..."

"Uncle Meng Qing..."

Meng Zhong actually wanted to say that it was not the two uncles who blamed him for this matter, but looking at Meng Zhi's serious and sincere expression, he finally nodded.

And at this moment, suddenly a clan soldier came to report: "Sima, the military Sima came to us and said that he was here to comfort the clan members who were reinforced."

"Sima Jingzi of the Army?"

Meng Qing was slightly stunned. Before he could think about it, he took Meng Zhong to welcome him. At the same time, he sent someone to summon the chariot officials of Meng Wu, Meng Zhi and other tribes.

Soon, Meng Zhong met Jing Yan in the camp and the supreme commander in charge of the Song Dynasty's attack on Teng State.

"Meng Zhi, I have met the army Sima."

“No need to be polite.”

After seeing each other, Jing Shi, who was over 70 years old, explained with a smile: "I heard that Jing Bo Mengshi had reinforcements here today. Old Fut came to comfort me. The Mengshi tribe is really worthy of being a pillar of my Song State. I am worried about state affairs and sent troops to reinforce, which is faster than the family in Pengcheng..."

"Mr. Sima is so proud."

Meng Qing thanked her with his fists, and couldn't help but feel a little surprised.

Although Jing Qian kept saying that he came to comfort the reinforcements of the Mengshi, this statement obviously did not convince people. What kind of person was Jing Qian? He was the Sima who led the King's Division of the First Army and the General of Song who attacked Teng, and comforted the Mengshi's reinforcements. Even if he sent a few personal soldiers at will, it would be enough, and he didn't need to come in person.

But since Jing Ze said so, Meng Qing certainly would not ask about the truth.

Meng Qing felt that if Jing Zhen really had something else to come, he would have expressed his purpose in the end.

Sure enough, after chatting with Meng Qing for a few words, Jing Qing pretended to be careless and asked: "Meng Qing, I heard that there is a young man named Meng Zhong in your Meng clan who is fortunate to worship under Master Zhuang..."

Meng Qing looked at Jing Ze strangely, but did not answer immediately, but turned his head slightly to look at Meng Zhong.

Seeing this, Meng Zhong took the initiative to salute and said, "Sima, the boy is Meng Zhong."

"oh?"

Jing Zhi was slightly stunned, looked at Meng Zhong carefully, and then smiled and said, "It turns out that he is a young Yicai, who is worthy of being a disciple of Master Zhuang."

From the appearance, you can tell that it is "elegant talent"?

Meng Zhong's expression was a little strange, and he secretly guessed in his heart.

He didn't believe that the story of his disciples from Zhuang had spread throughout the Song Dynasty. It was obvious that someone revealed it to Jing Yan, and this person had a good status, so that Jing Yan was extremely polite and kind to him.

If you think about it carefully, there are probably only those who agree with the conditions. Song Wangyan and Hui'an.

But with Song Wangyan's personality, he would not let Jing Yan take care of him in a roundabout way - and Song Wangyan is unlikely to take special care of him, so it is only Hui Ang.

Sure enough, after praising Meng Zhong a few words, Jing Qian said with a little temptation: "I heard that you lived in your brother's mansion when you were in Pengcheng, how about you?"

『?』

Meng Qing was confused when he was listening.

But Meng Zhong said, "Men Sima refers to Doctor Hui Anghui?"

“Yes, yes.”

Upon hearing this, Jing Cheng had no doubts anymore and smiled and said, "Doctor Hui is really a pillar of the country. He and I can also be called a friend of age. If you have any needs in the army in the future, you might as well speak to me. I should take the time to see what I want...hahahaha."

Faced with Jing Zhen's deliberate show of kindness, Meng Zhong couldn't help but sigh at his righteous brother Hui'an's connections and his mentor Zhuangzi's connections.

"Thank you, Jun Sima." Meng Zhong thanked him with his fists.

"No need to thank you, no need to thank you." Jing Rong waved his hand with a smile.

It has to be said that Hui Ang's face is indeed quite good. For example, in the siege battle a few days later, the Mongolian clan soldiers used to assist in the siege, just like other families. To put it bluntly, they were cannon fodders that consumed the physical strength of the defenders in the city. However, this time, Jing Zhen transferred the Mongolian clan soldiers to the flank. Although he claimed to let the Mongolian clan soldiers guard the flanks, he actually retreated from the front line of the battlefield.

When talking about this siege battle, Meng Zhong has to say that although Jing Yan was very polite to him, the veteran did not have much attainment in attacking the city. "Ant Attachment" seemed to be his only siege tactic - the so-called Ant Attachment is the tactic of allowing soldiers to climb the city wall like ants.

In addition, in this siege battle, Meng Zhong also saw the Mo family's city defense equipment mentioned by Meng Zhi, especially the equipment called "Yi Wall" by the Song soldiers. In the face of such city defense equipment, even if the Song soldiers could attack the city, they could not cross the "Yi Wall" and climb up the city wall, so that Teng City blocked the Song army's attack without any danger.

"It is worthy of being a city-guarding equipment created by the Mohist school, but... it may be broken by the "welling railing"!"

Seeing that Song Bing was blocked by Tengcheng City and unable to advance, Meng Zhong thought to himself in his heart.
Chapter completed!