Three months passed quickly.
Although the Six-fingered Black Man sent several mechanics and some city-defending equipment to Yan Dan for Yan Dan's sake, their style of defending the city was quite different from that of the Mo Man.
The Mo heroes help defend the city, but they value loyalty over life and death. They basically live and die with the city.
Mechanics are different. Most of them are technical geeks. They don't really care about loyalty or profit. Moreover, there is no loyalty between them and Yan State. So rather than saying that they are here to help defend the city, it is better to say that they are here to find an opportunity to actually debug their own machinery and equipment.
They don't care whether the city can be defended or not.
Although the attitude was rude, because the skills were really superb, some of the Mohist's black technology creations did cause a certain degree of trouble to Zhao Jun.
However, in any case, these mechanics and equipment alone are not enough to change the outcome of a war.
Although it was a little slower than expected, Zhao Jun finally crossed the Yishui River and forced his troops to attack Jicheng.
The King of Yan was so frightened that he was forced to sign a city alliance with Zhao, re-increasing troops on the front line, and promising to double the supply of food, grass and baggage.
In this surprise battle, although Prince Yan Dan, who shouldered the heavy responsibility of defense, failed, he was not completely defeated because Yan Chunjun, who was the leader of the peace faction, suffered a heavier blow. On the contrary, because the Yan State would continue to resist Qin, and the King of Yan was worried and became ill, he, as the main war faction, took over more power and resources.
But whether this is a good thing or not remains to be seen.
If the coalition wins the final victory this time, then as the leader of the main war faction in the Yan Kingdom, Yan Dan may be able to force his father to abdicate and call himself king with a wave of his arms.
But if the alliance fails in the end, then King Yan only needs to push this most conspicuous and active son out to quell Qin's anger.
After all, he himself was ill at the time, and the decision was made by the prince without anyone knowing.
But these are all things for later.
In the past three months, there have been many disturbances on the Hezong frontline battlefield due to the Yan State incident.
On the northern front, Wang Jian's troops tried their best to test the enemy but failed. However, because his arrangements were careful and thorough enough, even though they suffered a small loss, they did not give Lord Xinling a chance to expand his results.
As for the middle line, after receiving a message from Wang Jian and knowing that Lord Xinling had left, Meng Wu hesitated for a moment, but still chose to stand still and defend to the death. He had no intention of sending troops to take advantage of the opportunity, and his performance was extremely stable.
It seems that he has a very clear understanding of his own position and mission. He insists on stability along the way, holding back the main force of Han and Wei on the opposite side. Holding on is a great achievement, and there is no need for him to break the deadlock.
On the contrary, if he accidentally falls into a trap and loses control of the center line, that will be a real disaster.
His son Meng Tian asked for orders to take a cavalry to explore, but Meng Wu refused.
Such excessive caution left Li Mu helpless.
His prestige in the allied forces of Han and Wei is not as good as that of Lord Xinling, so it is impossible to launch a forceful attack. Once an attack is made, there must be gains, otherwise the military will be doubtful and will be even more constrained in future actions.
But although Li Mu was a famous general, he had nothing to do when faced with an over-steady Meng Wu and a powerful pass that was rare in the world.
In addition to complaining in his heart that Meng Wu was really the reincarnation of a turtle, he could only sigh at the empty city.
However, although this strategy of changing generals failed to achieve the expected benefits, it was able to hold back the Qin army steadily, preventing them from causing any trouble on the front line while the Yan Kingdom was in chaos.
In general, the strategic goals of the joint vertical side can be considered to be achieved.
After all, their original purpose was to ensure that the Qin army would not take advantage of them when solving Yan's problems.
As for relying on sudden changes of generals to catch the opponent off guard, success is an unexpected surprise, and failure is not a loss.
As the saying goes, seek the top and you will get the middle. It is nothing more than this.
On the contrary, Qin seemed to have cracked the opponent's plan, but in real terms, it was actually a missed opportunity that could have turned the tide of the war.
Now that the incident in the Yan Kingdom has subsided, the war situation has returned to the old outlook. It is still a see-saw state. Both sides are patient and looking forward to the next change.
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Jicheng.
Prince Yan Dan now holds great power. In addition to promoting officials who support him in the court, he also invests heavily in the Mohist family.
Nominally it was to thank the Mohist family for its previous support, but in fact it was to occupy a higher say in it.
The last time Mo Xia was unwilling to help, the reason was that Yan State had betrayed its alliance and was unjust, but it seemed high-sounding. But in his opinion, the main reason is that he usually fails to recruit enough people.
He didn't want this to happen again, so he had to find a way to solve it.
In Yan Dan's view, righteousness can also be divided into small righteousness and great righteousness.
For the Mohist family as a whole, righteousness may be more important. But for individuals, small righteousness is the key.
For example, a scholar dies for his confidant. This is a typical Xiaoyi perspective. Because a person has given him a favor, he can die for him.
As for whether this person has done other good or bad things, it doesn't matter.
But righteousness is different. Killing relatives for righteousness is the most extreme situation.
That is to say, no matter whether this person treats me well or not, as long as he violates justice, I will destroy him.
Yan Dan cannot guarantee that everything he does in the future will be in line with the righteousness in the hearts of Mohist disciples. No, it should be said that as a prince and the future king of the Yan Kingdom, he should not consider righteousness or unrighteousness at all in his future actions. Everyone The focus is completely different!
Therefore, he set his sights on Xiaoyi.
As long as I treat you well, you will repay me. This is how a powerful man like him makes friends with people in the world.
He didn't do this before, firstly because he didn't have enough power and money, and secondly because he didn't know the Moh family well enough.
But after this incident, he realized.
Not only did he use money to show favor, he also began to actively select people with potential to join the Mo family.
With his support behind them, these people will definitely develop much faster than others.
As their status gradually increases, Yan Dan's voice within the Mohist family will naturally increase accordingly.
Just like in the original timeline, in the future Mohist family, four of the total seven leaders were recruited by Yan Dan. With such power, the Mohist family almost became his sole authority.
In this way, it was possible for Mohist disciples to take the initiative to fight against Qin on the battlefield.
After all, as a school of thought, Mohism should not have a national stance. As a result, he opposed Qin everywhere, which is unreasonable no matter how you think about it.
And his first target was Lu Fang, who had shown outstanding skills in mechanism skills on the bank of Yishui this time.
As for why Master Tian Sheng himself was not selected, it was because the other party was already one of the leaders of the agency line. What he could give was very limited. At most, he could only make friends, and it was almost impossible to win over him.
But Lu Fang is different.
He is currently just an ordinary disciple, and studying mechanism techniques is quite expensive. In addition, since he has the reason of helping to defend the Yan Kingdom, it can be said that it is logical for Yan Dan to bribe him.
As for some Mohist disciples who showed insufficient talent, Yan Dan simply rewarded them without putting any big thought into them.
However, just when Yan Dan was about to visit Lu Fang in person, a servant came to deliver a message:
"Sorry, Your Highness, Lu Fang is missing!"
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