• Mozi – Chapter 70

    This military chapter lays out comprehensive siege regulations: strict discipline, collective accountability, beacon signals, material requisition, spy management, reward-punishment rules and full civilian mobilization to secure walled cities.

  • Mozi – Chapter 69

    This chapter lays out a siege signal system: color-coded, pictorial banners for supplies/troops, plus graded drum and fire alerts tracking enemy advance stages, alongside strict gate tally rules and reward regulations for defenders.

  • Mozi – Chapter 68

    This chapter covers pre-siege rituals, five-element directional sacrifices and cloud divination. It also sets city defense rules, troop hierarchies, wartime resource management and morale-boosting night shouts to guard towns.

  • Mozi – Chapter 63

    This chapter details defenses against suicidal ant-like swarming assaults. It covers pulley-hung shields, incendiary carts, wall stakes, boiling liquids, plus midnight ambushes and white-cloaked night troops to rout enemy waves.

  • Mozi – Chapter 62

    This chapter details Mohist counter-tunnel tactics. It uses leather-covered jars to detect digging sounds, dig intercepting tunnels, and deploy mugwort smoke, spears and vinegar to defeat underground enemy assaults.

  • Mozi – Chapter 61

    This chapter details defense tactics for hidden breakout gates. It describes mud-covered wheel barricades, kilns and bellows burning mugwort to create choking smoke, trapping enemy troops that break through these secondary wall openings.