warring states careerist

Chapter 776 Strategy and Tactics
Strategy and tactics are not the same thing.

Mohism emphasizes democratic centralism, but it is very difficult to grasp the degree of what is above everything and what is wrong with what is above is slanderous.

This time the siege strategy, and the use of visiting groups composed of envoys from various countries after the siege to force countries to spend a high price on building new gunpowder era forts, it is said that these division-level cadres do not need to discuss.

However, Sishang has always pursued the system that the company commander accepts the education of the brigade commander and deputy brigade commander. This discussion also hopes to develop the strategic thinking ability of these division-level cadres.

After Liuzhi asked, a teacher raised his hand and said: "In my opinion, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages."

"Sishang's system, taxation, and per capita grain production are not comparable to other princes."

"Even with our wealth and the hearts of the people, we still can only choose to build enough forts in the direction of Heze Taoqiu."

"If it were Wei and Han, they would devote all their efforts to the whole country. I am afraid they can only choose to build a few in the border areas and build them near the capital."

"But this will greatly consume their national power. If money is given, taxes will be heavy; if money is not given, the people will complain."

"To build such a fortress is not to build a city with rammed earth in the past. The imperial father's family has ruled the Song Dynasty for 20 years, and they have done more trade with us, but they have only built two angular cities."

"Besides, it's not that we can't take down this kind of city, it's just that it's a bit troublesome to take it. He spends national power to repair it, and at most he can stop us for a month or two. "

The teacher's words attracted the approval of many people.

As senior military officers, they are well aware of how expensive it is to build such a city defense system.

With Sishang's wealth, they only chose to build Peiyi, Pengcheng, and a fortress area southwest of Qilu in Taoqiu, Heze.

The whole way of building needs national power as the basis, and the foundation of national power needs reform as the background, but the reform will inevitably damage the interests of the old nobles. Similarly, building a fortress requires a lot of manpower, and the people will be dissatisfied.

In the long run, it would be beneficial if countries could be dragged into a race for border fortresses.

In fact, before this, countries have been dragged into this kind of arms race, but most of the countries built the Great Wall.

The Great Wall of Chu, Great Wall of Qi, Great Wall of Wei, Great Wall of Zhao... These Great Walls are the optimal solution to cold weapons and defense systems of the Bronze Age.

With the popularity of gunpowder, copper cannons, geometry, blasting siege methods, and tunnel approach methods, the cost performance of the Great Wall system has become very low.

From Sifang City to Star-shaped Fort, this is not something I thought of in a snap.

In the Sishang hegemony war between the Mohists and the Yue State, the new siege method was used to break the city for several days, and the world was shocked. More people saw the "victory of reason, victory of geometry, The Triumph of Heaven".

From the siege method that originally relied on experience, it has changed to geometric angles, included angles, parallelism, perpendicularity, side lengths, engagement lengths, etc., and has transformed the unpredictable war science into nine-number geometry that can be deduced. It is the victory of rational thinking.

In the short term, all countries will develop, which may be detrimental to Sishang.

In the long run, the development of rational thinking has made the leisure class in the market more and more inclined to Mohism, which is extremely beneficial to Sishang.

Now this siege tour and dragging countries into the fortress arms race is similar.

This incident is like Zheng Guoqu in later generations.

Even if the countries know that Sishang wants to consume the power of the countries and exhaust the countries, the problem is that even if they know it, they have to repair it-especially if Dangshan is captured soon.

The old defense system and methods of defending the city are no longer suitable for the material basis of the new era.

If it is not repaired, some Chu people commented shortly after the previous Qi-Mo war that the capital built with the two-building method of Chu State 20 years ago may not last two days under the attack of the Mohist siege troops.

In the Qi-Mo war, Sishang created a new mode of warfare, such as long-distance raids, decisive field battles, encircling rescue funds, besieging cities to fight for aid, etc. The main purpose of mobilizing the enemy's troops and destroying the enemy's vital forces is the combat method.

In this way of fighting, the importance of siege warfare and city defense warfare is fully reflected.

If Qi State was able to defend Pingyin and Licheng back then, how could Sishang have the opportunity to make a gesture of going straight to Linzi?
If cities such as Pingyin and Lucheng can be defended for more than three months, the princes of various countries will inevitably respond, and the situation of the Mohists will be extremely disadvantageous.

If the Qi State can confidently defend Linzi, then the army does not have to return to aid, and the one who will withdraw the army first will be the Sishang volunteers...

All these are summaries of the experience of various countries after the First Central Plains War.

So a new city defense system was built, which is what all countries have to do even if they know that the Mohists are exhausting them.

Especially for some traffic arteries, if there is such a fortress, even if the Mohists want to bypass it, they will inevitably leave some troops to besiege, monitor, and guard their own supply lines, which will lead to the dispersion of troops, and the offensive will become weaker and weaker .

But just as the teacher said, not every prince can build such a fortress.

Sishang can be repaired in that way, relying on promoting the unity of the people, relying on excess profits, and relying on the profits of commodity dumping.

The gap in national strength is reflected in this. For example, in today's South Korea, if South Korea builds the fortification area of ​​the Heze Taoqiu defense line in Sishang within 20 years, the whole South Korea will inevitably boil with dissatisfaction and nobles rebel.

Building a fortress requires people and money.

Where do people and money come from?
Under the peasant-soldier system, people still need to bear taxes, food production, and ordnance manufacturing, and these people will be reduced in other places when they are vacant.

Under the aristocratic feudal system, the aristocratic fiefs cannot afford to build such a city defense system by themselves. Will the monarch agree to send people to repair the aristocrats?Even if the nobles agree, the monarch will be so stupid as to build a fortress city for the nobles that can fight against the central government in the future?

This is not the same as the construction of the Zhengguo Canal by later generations, and the construction of the canal by Ximen Bao in Yecheng, which caused people's resentment.

After the canals are repaired, the irrigation and agriculture can be seen immediately, and the hearts of the people will be restored within three years at most.

What about the fortress city?The people go to labor to build, the family tax continues to be paid, the nobles' usury is pressing for debts every day, and their land is bought and robbed by those who don't need to do labor... If the people are willing, it will be a ghost.

When the Song Dynasty built Shangqiu City during the slack season, the people complained fiercely, and also mocked the nobles who supervised their city building, detailing the embarrassing things about the nobles.

Nowadays, Mohism’s ideas are spreading so fast, every time tens of thousands of people gather to do something together, it is a carnival of the Mohist Xuanyi Department, and various ideas will spread among the people like wildfire: the people themselves are bound to the land, The known world is only within a hundred miles, and we are worried about the difficulty of publicity. The princes took the initiative to help gather the people together. Aren't these princes members of the Xuanyi Department of the Mohist School?
So the teacher said that in the long run, the internal conflicts of various countries will inevitably be blown up, which is almost agreed by the majority of people.

This is strategic.

Some agree and others add.

The Mohist representative of another division said: "In addition, the role of the city fortress is only to delay our march and supplies, but the final victory depends on the field battle."

"What is needed in field warfare is a new military system, and the new military system must conform to the new land system and political system. You can't imagine a standing army under the peasant and soldier system, nor can you imagine that the well field system is destroyed and the village community disintegrates." It's the same reason for the local shooter."

"Such a fortress is expensive to build, and the supporting education of number nine, geometry, and artillery gunners; the training of musketeers, and a standing army that can rescue sieges and fight in the field... these involve more than just repairing fortresses."

"In the short term, it may have an impact on our future operations. For example, if the Qi people build new city defenses in some important cities, it will take us longer to capture them, and the Qi people may gather more troops."

"But in the medium term, this matter will inevitably lead to civil strife in various countries. Monarchy, nobility, common people, taxation, labor... This cannot be resolved with a simple government order. If you want to change the law, there will be no bloodshed."

"In the long run... In the long run, we have already made great profits in the world. Those cities and fortresses are just a part of Kyushu. They can be demolished or kept. They are meaningless."

"Since we don't want to fight against the princes of the world in the short term, the disadvantages in the short term have no effect on us, which is equivalent to non-existence."

"Since it is impossible for us to allow the old nobles to continue to rule the world and harm the people of the world in this way, the long-term pros and cons are not something we need to consider."

"Since we only consider the mid-term, the advantages must outweigh the disadvantages. No matter how strong the city is, it still needs someone to guard it. If the country is in chaos, no matter how strong the city is, it will be like paper soaked in water. If you tear it lightly, it will fall apart."

This is not something that senior officers like them learned in school, but it can also be said that this is what they learned in school.

The high-level military and political universities in Sishang teach methods, just like the difference between "Tao" and "Skills"; The method can analyze many truths that they need to learn but can comprehend by themselves.

The expectation in the hearts of these senior military officers on Sishang is to fight the princes within ten years, and at most it will not be more than 20 years.

Because... After Qin Huali was seriously ill, the first suggestion Shi put forward was to prevent the recurrence of Qin's advanced age and serious illness. Juzi's term of office is at most two 24 years.

Now that five years have passed, the senior military officers all understand that the giant will let such an opportunity to benefit the world be passed on to the next generation?

Now that there is a time expectation, there is a scope for analyzing the pros and cons. If it is 50 years, fortresses and military reforms have spawned reforms in various countries, then it is definitely not good for Sige; the problem is 50 years, and these people think they are not thinking about it within the range.

50 years is too long, three years is too short, ten years and 20 years are just right.Ten years will be the most embarrassing time, when the old law is exhausted and the new law is undecided.

Building fortresses and reforming the military system are ultimately about national strength. The competition for national strength is about system, science, technology, organizational strength, and... which country can shed all the blood in the shortest time? What about reform?In particular, what needs to be changed is the law of the feudal nobles who have the ability to bleed the royal power, how can it not bleed.

(End of this chapter)