warring states careerist

Chapter 379

There is a saying in later generations that every family has scriptures that are difficult to recite.At this time, the Buddha had just enlightened under the tree, and the scriptures had not yet spread to Kyushu, but this meaning can just describe the thoughts between the commander-in-chief of the righteous teacher and the commander-in-chief of the Yue people at this time.

King Yi of Yue had to fight this battle, and was forced to fight in the field, and could not even avoid the battle.

The righteous division's previous actions had already told King Yi of Yue that stationing troops under Jiancheng would be a dead end, and King Yi of Yue must also win, so he could only choose to make an appointment to fight.

Starting from the disagreement between Wenzhong and Goujian because of going north to fight for hegemony or sticking to Wuyue, the country of Yue has always had a difficult choice between going north or going south.Gou Jian tried his best to go north to fight for hegemony against all opinions. After a short-term success, what was left to his successor King Yue was endless troubles.

It has been 80 to [-] years since the capital was moved to Langya, but the voice of many Yue nobles who want to give up the struggle for hegemony in the Central Plains and return to Wuyue River Estuary has not changed.

If you want to go north, or let the Yue Kingdom still have a chance to go north to the Central Plains to become part of the Huaxia system and become the overlord, the Surabaya River Basin must be contested.

At this time, the Yellow River has not yet flooded, and the Sishui River Basin can be regarded as a fertile land in the world, second only to Weizheng Central Plains, and there are many small countries.

A few years ago, he fought with Qi, although he won, but King Yi of Yue also knew the current state of Yue.

Just like the insulting words that the envoy received when he questioned Mozhe's righteous teacher before: If Goujian had gone beyond, why did he only need the two cities of Jianyang and Juling, and three thousand slaves would form an alliance and a truce?

There is Qi State blocking it in the north. Whether Qi State can be defeated does not depend on Yue State, but on whether Qi State is in civil strife and whether the Three Jins oppress Qi State.

Now that the people of Chu are being suppressed by the Three Jins, neither of the two major powers in the world has the power to touch Sishang for the time being. This is the last chance for the Yue Kingdom.

Abandoning Sishang is equivalent to giving up Langya, and all the Yue people will move back to the hometown of Wuyue, where they will become a marginal country of the Huaxia system and gradually decline.

Competing with other countries for a long time, the country of Yue does not have the stamina now.But after all, there is still a chance to stay in the north, waiting for the future.Back to the Yangtze River, even hope is shattered.

Yue State's politics and culture lagged behind the Central Plains, and the original strategy in Surabaya was to rely on force to maintain its superiority.When the power is strong and there is no interference from the big powers, one or two small countries will be annexed;

As long as the state of Chu does not fall, and the state of Qi is particularly large, then the Three Jins will always be in an alliance with the state of Yue. Before that, the state of Yue and the state of Jin have always been very close. Several times they attacked the state of Qi. Zhao Wei was the main attack, and the state of Yue fought the autumn wind.

Water battle with Chu State Ever since Gongshu Ban arrived in Chu State, Xiliu, the Yue State boat master, had no advantage.Fortunately, the state of Chu has been in decline and civil strife in the past few years, and now it is confronting the state of Wei. The state of Song has the change of Shangqiu, and the state of Zheng has the rebellion of Siziyang. Attracted Sanjin's eyes for a while.

This is Yue's last chance.

The original strategy was not wrong, encroaching on whales, internal control, supporting pro-Vietnamese aristocrats... But as the Mo family started to do things in Pei County, the problem became complicated.

The strategy of the Yue State was on the verge of failure, especially the restoration of the Teng State, which made Yue Wang Yi understand that if the Mohists were ignored, there would be no place for the Yue State to stand on Sishang.

In fact, as long as the countries in the Central Plains fight for a few more years, they will turn their attention to Sishang, which is the only remaining place that has the potential to be rich in Central Plains culture that has not been occupied by the big powers.Song, Qi, Yue, and Wei will all be staring at this place soon.

King Yi of Yue is very clear now that the small Teng Kingdom does not have much real benefit to the Yue Kingdom, but in terms of the long-term hegemony strategy, the restoration of the Teng Kingdom will cause a series of reactions, and it is also a signal that the Mohists have begun to get involved in Sishang.

Sishang is a good place, but Wei and Chu are unable to fight for it now, and the Yue Kingdom is the one that can feel the threat of the Mohist the most.

If you don’t fight, then wait for the Mo family to dye Sishang black step by step, and the Teng Kingdom will be restored. What kind of restoration is this in the eyes of the Yue Kingdom?I don't know where a person is caught and said to be a descendant of Kao Gong. Does he have real power?

Fighting, this is the choice that Yue has to make strategically.

Since the strategy must be fought, how should the entire battle be fought?
Two months ago, Wang Yi of Yue had already given the only answer: Don't even think about besieging the city. The Mo family defends the city. If you fight for a year, you will be considered unparalleled in the world.But this year's mobile force that roamed extremely fast and attacked the city quickly, wouldn't it cut off the food road?Wouldn't he threaten the princes of Sishang from the rear?Wouldn't they cooperate with the people of Qi to attack Langya?
Therefore, in terms of battle, the only option is to fight in the field, and if it is a field battle that will be victorious and victorious, if the main force of the righteous army is eliminated, then these cities will be dead cities, and even if it takes time, they can always be surrounded.

When it came to the specific battle, King Yi of Yue had to win again, otherwise he would have failed strategically: the Mohist victory meant that the strategy of the Yue State to annex Sishang was completely broken by the Mohist.

The battle must be won, but also a great victory. After observing that the army formation of the Mohist volunteers is a defensive death formation, "several formations", he chose the most threatening direction of attack.

At least, he thought it was threatening.

But it was really a fight, and it was completely unexpected.The elite did not move, the front line of the volunteers was like the sea, and his few attacks were like splashes of water, without any effect.

On the contrary, his left wing was on the verge of collapse after being attacked by the volunteers.

He almost immediately thought of the main force of the volunteer army who was going around in circles with him, and thought to himself: "The army on the left wing must be the elite volunteer army. Since he has defended for several rounds and cannot move lightly, then he will defeat me on the left wing."

However, there is no precedent in this world for the infantry to change formation and switch flanks, and he naturally never thought that Shi's ambition was to eat all his troops and fight a battle of annihilation.

In fact, he thought well, but the infantry facing his left wing and the infantry facing his right wing were not a system at all.

The infantry he was facing on the right wing were indeed deficient in defense and extremely poor in mobility, because they were taking the route of phalanx defense, and they were the phalanx spearmen who cooperated with the first batch of primitive heavy muskets.Even if there are any opportunities on the battlefield, you can't rely on mobility to expand your advantage, and you are going too slowly.Going fast and losing fighting power.

When the tortoise shrank there, relying on the cooperation of musketeers and cannons, the Yue people had no cavalry and no cannons, and they had to wait until the year of the monkey to break the phalanx.But once it moves, problems arise.

However, the six brigades facing the left wing belonged to the six brigades that Mohism attempted to reform the military system of righteous divisions. They followed the path of a small square formation mixed with musketeers, which was more mobile and more suitable for attacking.

Mobility means that one brigade can be used as two brigades, and it can be realized where necessary to fight more and less.And any master tactician, a famous general in the world, only pursues one thing in his life: through mobilization and formation confrontation on the battlefield, he can achieve more and less in local areas.

King Yi of Yue did not know that three of the six brigades were used as cavalry capable of maneuvering tactically.

If the Mohists continue to mobilize 7000 people, there will be a series of follow-up dissatisfaction in Pei County, so the Mohism also hopes for a decisive battle, but King Yi of Yue does not know.

The Mohists needed this battle to be a war of annihilation in order to force the Yue people to take the next step according to the established strategy at the previous fraternity meeting, but King Yi of Yue didn't know.

The Mo family is facing the situation that Mo Zhai is about to die, and the result of this battle is needed to integrate the internal contradictions, and King Yi of Yue doesn't know it either.

Therefore, Yue Wangyi, who was most worried, saw that the situation was not good, and directly threw away the left wing and ran away, which Yue Wangyi would not do.

Because once he did it, it would mean failure. Although it was a small defeat in battle, it was a big defeat in strategy: the strategy of the Yue State and the oppression of the Mohists forced Yue Wang Yi to win this battle but not lose.

After observing the situation on the battlefield, King Yi of Yue knew that the battle situation was changing rapidly, so he made a decision to change his strategy, and it was also a decision that would affect the entire battle situation.

Because he didn't know that Shi's ambition was to wipe out more than 4 Yue people including the main force of the [-] gentleman army. Therefore, after the right-wing chariot attack was repulsed and the righteous army did not pursue it, Yue Wangyi judged that the left wing of the righteous army was dead. After a few rounds, there is no ability to pursue them at all.

This is because of the unequal information. He didn't know that the Mohists needed a war of annihilation, but thought that what the Mohists needed was just a victory.

So he felt that if it was only for victory, if the righteous division's left wing had the ability to pursue and counterattack, he was already in chaos and might have failed.

Since he hasn't failed yet, and the righteous teacher hasn't pursued him, there is only one possibility: his left wing and the right wing of the righteous teacher are the elite main force of the righteous teacher, and also the main force that he chased for two or three months but found nothing.The Yishi wanted to fight steadily, relying on the right wing to defeat himself in a wild goose formation.

As long as this elite group is wiped out, the Mohists can only choose to defend the city, and have no strength to bypass the army and attack the rear, cut off the food road, and break through the capital of the vassal state.

Therefore, he made a judgment at the moment when the left wing collapsed.

Give up the previous idea of ​​breaking through from the left wing joint of the rebel army's central army and encircling and annihilating most of the rebel division.

Instead, they used a fierce attack on the right wing of the volunteer army, and used the superiority in numbers to suppress the left wing of the volunteer army, which could not support the right wing.

Changing formations on the battlefield will bring a lot of chaos, but King Yi of Yue has the judgment that the formations will be successful.

The left wing of the volunteer army and the central army formed a deadly formation, so as long as the troops deployed in the front continue to attack and leave space for the troops to encircle and wipe out the right wing of the volunteer army to deploy and redeploy, then the extreme battle can be accomplished. Dangerous changes in battle.

The righteous division chose two support points for the defense, which was very disgusting to the Yue people, because the Yue people's army could not be fully deployed.Expanding doesn't make sense either.

One is that the number of Yueren is already large, and the other is that the army formation of Yueren is much looser than the phalanx of the uprising division.

Therefore, in the case of maintaining the formation, Yueren needs more space, but the width is limited, and the space required is relatively larger.

The troops that have been deployed in front cannot be retracted, they can only be allowed to continue to attack, thinking that their main force will have room to maintain the formation.

He led the main force of the Chinese army and the elite army of gentlemen, as well as the archers and all the elite, and stormed the left wing of the righteous division.Although there is a limit to flooding, it is still possible to complete a small-scale outflank, thus completely annihilating this elite volunteer army.

As long as the elite army of volunteers who fought in the field and attacked the city can be eliminated, then the remaining volunteers will be just a group of deadbeats who can only put up a "several array" of defense. Even if they try their best at that time, they can still win by besieging the city Tengcheng established hegemony in Surabaya in one fell swoop.

Whether the Qi Congress will send troops halfway depends on this battle: this battle can encircle and annihilate the elite main force of the volunteer army, and at the same time besiege Tengcheng, so the Vietnamese army is still the "tiger army", and the Qi people dare not move.

On the other hand, if he slipped away now, the righteous teacher might not retreat, and the Yue people in the eyes of Qi people were not so terrible.

Judging from the reputation that the Tian family needs most now, the Tian family needs a victory in a foreign war.

The Wei people were not easy to fight, and the revenge of the Pingyin League and the Battle of Linqiu could not be avenged, and they dared not avenge.

But Jianyang, Juling, and the [-] slaves of the Qi people can avenge their revenge... If this battle is lost, then the Qi people are likely to take advantage of the opportunity of the confrontation between Wei and Chu Liang to send troops to Langya.

The ugliness of the year was caused by Marquis Qi, while the glory was regained by the Tian family, which is very different.

(End of this chapter)