Rebirth of Wu Ba Spring and Autumn

Chapter 808 War Scale Escalation
"Wu Hong, Wu Heng."

"My son is here!"

"The two of you are in charge of uniting the people of our Wu Kingdom and integrating a new army of 15 people in Jinling. All the weapons, armor, food and salaries needed will be reported to the widow. The new army must stay on the outskirts of the capital and wait for death!"

"promise!"

Prince Heng and Prince Hong immediately took orders.

Qingji's determination is beyond doubt.

In the next series of wars, the state of Wu will devote all its power to the country.

After all, since King Ping of Zhou moved to the east and the feudal lords fought for hegemony, although there was a small war in three days and a big war in five days, the scale of the war was not large.

There are only a handful of battles involving thousands of people, tens of thousands of people, and more than 10 people.

What is the reason?

Because Zhou Tianzi canonized too many vassal states, the population and land were scattered, and as the war intensified, the bigger the big country, the smaller the small country, until they perished, how could the scale of this war remain the same?

Qingji cannot be tolerated, and the world has formed a pattern like the "Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period" in history.

Therefore, this kind of time is a great test of Wu's military mobilization ability.

Although the military service system of Wu State belongs to the recruitment system, it is different from the military-agricultural integration system of other countries.

However, is it true that the whole people of the Wu Kingdom are soldiers?

As long as Qingji issued a conscription order, no matter if they were old Wu people or new Wu people, they had to prepare their own weapons and armor, and even food and clothing to go to the battlefield.

Every male is required to serve in the military.

In Wu State, in fact, each county will organize one or two drills every year during the slack season, and all men over the age of 14 and under 40 must participate in it.

They are the reserve soldiers of Wu State, belonging to the category of militia, and have certain combat capabilities.

After a period of training, they can be put on the battlefield at any time, killing the enemy and serving the country, making great achievements.

Among the militia, retired soldiers are given priority for selection.

This is the first time Wu Guo has had such an intense war, why not mobilize as much as possible?
"Calculate."

"Chen is here!"

"You are responsible for allocating labor and food supplies. In terms of labor, 10 Kunlun slaves can be recruited in the early stage, and 20 or 30 slaves will be recruited later. The Kunlun slaves must be strictly guarded."

Qing Ji said in a deep voice: "If there are not enough officers and soldiers to supervise, the neighboring counties can be dispatched. Once the Kunlun slaves rebel, all within a county, or within a county, will be guilty!"

"All the officials will be reduced to the first rank, and their salaries will be confiscated for one year, and they will stay in their posts for future use. Those who neglect their duties will be beheaded and their families will be exiled in Lingnan!"

"If all the supervising officers and soldiers cause the Kunlun slaves to riot and lose more than half of their supplies, they will be beheaded regardless of the reason!"

"Sir, please obey the king's orders."

Ji Ran agreed with a wry smile.

Qingji's edict was too harsh.

However, because of the Kunlun slave riots last time, the Wu army's food, fodder and supplies were all destroyed, and the Wu army fighting in the Western Regions was in danger. How could Qingji not take warning and try to prevent problems before they happen?
These are not thousands or tens of thousands of Kunlun slaves, but hundreds of thousands of Kunlun slaves!

If there is a little carelessness, Wu Guo is very likely to suffer the consequences.

At this time, Young Master Hong Jin, who felt that something was wrong, said: "Father, my son thinks that it is inappropriate to blindly abuse Kunlun slaves."

"Hundreds of thousands of Kunlun slaves are not easy to supervise, and the soldiers will inevitably make mistakes."

"Therefore, why didn't the father assign half of the Kunlun slaves and half of the common people to serve as labor escorts to transport food, fodder and supplies?"

Qingji heard the words, thought for a while, and decided to accept Gongzihong's advice.

For Kunlun slaves, Qingji naturally couldn't believe it.

After all, for so many years, Wu Guo has been cruelly enslaving Kunlun slaves and squeezing their surplus value.

Now that the state of Wu wants to devote all its power to the country, it needs to mobilize some peasants to serve as labor escorts for transporting grain, fodder and supplies. What's the difference?

You must know that in this era, under the system where all the people are soldiers, the Li Shu at the bottom not only have to perform military service, but also labor service is essential.

"Fan Li."

Qingji turned his attention to Fan Li, the official censor, and asked, "Is there a reply from Duhu?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, as expected, Du Hu, who was under house arrest by Du Nai, was dissatisfied. He was already contacting his old department to prepare to flee, and then raised troops."

Fan Li said slowly: "If there are no accidents, the day the army arrives in Bajun, the Kingdom of Shu will definitely fall into civil war."

"good."

For this battle of destroying Shu, Qingji was naturally well prepared.

Not to mention that Bu Shang and others acted as internal responders, cooperating with Wu Jun's internal response and external cooperation, and did enough homework for Dujiangyan.

Just relying on Sun Wu to lead one hundred thousand Wu army elites, it is no problem to conquer Shu.

As for whether the Qin people would send troops to destroy Shu together at that time, it was not something Qingji had to consider.

Anyway, when he arrived in Yongcheng, he was responsible for lobbying Qin Bo Yingning's language, which was enough to make the people of Qin hesitate and hesitate.

Finally, Qingji took a deep look at Sun Wu, and said, "Sun Wu, after the destruction of Shu, you will be the leader of the Qin army. I will give you the right to kill first and then play, and make decisions on the fly."

"The widow will fully support you. The widow is your strongest backing!"

"Thank you king!"

Sun Wu solemnly knelt down towards Qingji, kowtowed his head, and then bowed and said: "Minister, after this farewell, we will never destroy Shu and Qin, and vow not to return to the capital!"

"it is good!"

Wu State does not have the tradition of overthrowing troops and killing generals.

However, if the state of Wu launched a war to destroy Qin, all the 30 to [-] troops would be handed over to Sun Wu, who would be the most elite soldiers in the state of Wu.

Qingji can be said to have emptied his family to support Sun Wu in this battle!
How can you not worry?
In case of Sun Wu's defeat, or if the Wu army is deeply trapped in the Qin land and cannot win the final victory for a long time, the state of Wu will most likely fall into a situation of eternal doom.

This is like, at the end of the Warring States Period, before the battle of Qin's destruction of Chu, Qin Wangzheng summoned a group of ministers to discuss the plan to destroy Chu. Wang Jian believed that "60 people must be necessary", while Li Xin believed that "no more than 20 people" can be defeated Chu State.

Qin Wang Yingzheng was very happy and thought that Wang Jian was too old to use, so he sent Li Xin and Meng Tian with 20 troops to attack Chu in the south.

However, in the end, the Qin army was defeated and returned...

This is probably the so-called not listening to the old man's words, and the loss is in front of you!

On the way of using troops, Qingji thought he was not as good as Sun Wu.

In the whole world, there is no one who can surpass Sun Wu in marching and fighting.

Famous generals who can be compared with Sun Wu, Wu Zixu and Tian Rangju, have all been brought under Qing Ji's command.

Even so, Qingji still couldn't relax.

After all, a famous general is a famous general. If the army is not strong, no matter how powerful the general is, it will be useless!
Perhaps Sun Wu could defeat Qin's 1 or 6 troops with Wu's [-] troops, but so what?
Qingji's goal is to destroy Qin, not simply destroy the vital forces of the Qin people!
The two are inseparable.

(End of this chapter)