warring states careerist

Chapter 809
Shi looked at the map and thought about it for a while. The top Mohists basically agreed on the strategic concept of this unavoidable war, that is, not to fight in Song State, but to abandon Song State, lengthen the opponent's front line and supplies, and lure the enemy to go deeper. Take the opportunity to jump from the wings to the perimeter and regain the strategic initiative.

If they want to fight, then it must be the three countries of Wei, Chu and Han who attack first, so the strategic initiative is in their hands at first.

If it's just to station troops on the border, it's useless if there are too many, and Wei Chuhan will be dragged to death if there are too many.

Six Fingers judged it right. If Wei Chuhan really wanted to fight, at least this time the Three Kingdoms and their vassals would have to gather at least [-] main soldiers. For countries that have not yet fully reformed their laws, losing would be heartbreaking.

With so many soldiers hoarding in one place, the logistical supplies will drag the countries into the abyss. They must fight for a quick victory.

Use the entire plain of Song State, relying on Dangshan Mountain and Heze Taoyi as two wings, to lure the enemy to go deep.

Originally, the situation between Sishang and Song State was like this: Song State protruded south of Heze and north of Pengcheng controlled by the Mohist, and it was a protruding belly.

Once the Mohists abandoned the Song State and lured the allied forces of the princes to move forward, the protruding belly would be gradually flattened, and even a concave half moon would appear.

The two wings, which were unable to support the center originally, can naturally become salient parts when retreating to Sishang, so as to create fighter planes behind the two wings. This is a good way to regain the initiative.

Liuzhi's idea is a bit risky, but in addition to taking risks, once the victory is won, it will be a big victory. As Liuzhi said, the Central Plains can be settled only in this one battle.

There are still a lot of troops that can be mobilized by various countries, but the legions that can fight in the field are only those people. If the field group is destroyed, the offensive and defensive forces will change hands.

Even if it is a bit risky, the chances of success are still very high.

As for the inference judged by Liuzhi that the princes would need at least 60 people, including civilian husbands, to complete their efforts to completely defeat the Sishang eradicate the Mohists in one battle, Shi also agrees.

I even feel that Liuzhi said less.

If you want to keep at least undefeated in field battles on each route, and delay until the rest of the routes meet and fight, you need to have at least [-] to [-] field troops in each direction for the coalition forces of the princes.

In addition, the Qi-Mo war and the Sishang hegemony struggle between the Mohist family and the Yue State have taught the countries one thing, that is, jumping to the outside to attack the enemy must be saved.

If the enemy's coach is an idiot, it's simple, and there is no need to consider such complications.

But if you are not an idiot, and you want to split into a joint attack and complete all your achievements in one battle, then you must beware of this common and good method of Sishang volunteers.

At the very least, several key cities such as Jiyangdu, Shangqiu, Sanglin, Huangchi, and Daliang should be built in the style of Dangshan.

Once the Sishang volunteers jump to the outside line and rely on the city defenses of these cities to hold them back, as long as the Sishang volunteers cannot break through the city quickly, the strategy of regaining the initiative will fail.

And to do this, it would not only need 60, it may be necessary to mobilize the entire force of the entire Wei Kingdom East, South Korea East, and Chu Kingdom Chen Caishi to complete it.

It costs a lot to build such a city, and it doesn't mean that only people can build it.

People eat, and under the peasant-soldier system, the cities cannot be cultivated, and the cities cannot be built with the crops.

However, if the city is not built and Sishang is surrounded on all sides, as long as there is a slight chance, Sishang volunteers can jump out of the outside line and break through Jiyangdu, Shangqiu and other cities, turning the tide of the battle and mobilizing the armies of the princes.

This is still the second.

For front-line confrontation, the Mohists are good at defending the city. Once they attack Sishang, they have to fortress against fortress, besiege against fortress, but the artillery and engineers have the advantage on the Mohist side. This tactic depends on the heap of human lives.

What's more, even the Qin State after the reform has been unable to fight again after the reform. It has almost no ability to take the initiative to attack again within a few years, and even almost caused a famine. vassal state?
Although Shi felt that Sishang was not yet fully prepared politically, and it would be better to wait a few more years militarily, but he would not be afraid if countries really wanted to send troops to Song Guo to fight.

It's just that once the war starts, the education system in Sishang will not be able to support it, and the finances will not allow it, and the available people trained by the education system in Sishang are not enough to completely control the Central Plains. It is best to wait another three to five years.

Shiwai's high-level Mohists judged Sishang's situation and believed that self-protection was more than sufficient, but offense was insufficient.

Offense and defense are not the same thing. If the princes do not unite and rescue each other, the commander of the princes insists on inviting battle to the border, that would be easy.

But it is afraid that some people who are good at using soldiers will drag the main force of the Mo family back. The battle line and supply line of the Mo family will be stretched.

Therefore, for the future strategy, the upper echelons of Shihe Mohism have been waiting for an opportunity of "the world has changed", using the defense of the fortress cities in the directions of Heze, Song Dynasty, and Sishang, and gathering the main force of the field to open up the situation outside this direction. Only in this way can it be possible to solve Chu State by active attack.

Otherwise, for example, attacking the fortress areas in the direction of Wei Han, Heze, and Surabaya will lose its effect. If more troops are needed to defend the southern front, then the number of troops used for attack must be reduced.

For nearly 20 years, the Mohists have been working hard for this strategy, taking away the Yimeng Mountain Great Wall from Qi State; having a popular base in the southwestern area of ​​Qi; building many new-style cities in the direction of Heshui; helping Shu State Guarding Nanzheng is actually for one purpose.

That is to say, on the northern line, the fort was exchanged for more mobile field forces in other directions. Before the allied forces of the princes broke through the Sishang fortress, the Sishang volunteers first solved the state of Chu, and obtained the Huaihe River, Dabie Mountain, Tongbai Mountain, Xiangyang, and Hanzhong. A situation of confrontation between the North and the South with Huaibei Sishang was formed.

Only in this way can the Mohist's active offensive strategy be realized: at that time, the direction of Nanyang in Xiangyang and the direction of Huaibei in Surabaya, a total of two geographical advantages that can be attacked, retreated and defended, then the situation in the world will be stable.

Now Liuzhi has proposed an idea of ​​using defense as an offense to solve the Central Plains issue in one fell swoop. I feel that the purely military inference is no problem, but the Mohist school has not made sufficient preparations for this, and there may be many problems in the future. .

It was inconvenient for him to say something, so he encouraged Liu Zhi a few words and said: "The plan of the staff department is still safe, not that your plan is very risky, and the possibility of military victory is extremely high. As long as the battle line is prolonged, They either continue to increase their troops or they can only be besieged and wiped out."

"It's just that this is not just a military matter. It will take several years to prepare the talents for governance. It is not good if it is delayed for a long time, and the reforms of various countries are not good for me; it is not good if it is too fast. The preparation is insufficient and the foundation is unstable. .”

"The world is the world. Now Zhu Xia is the world. There are no vicious enemies outside. It is better to build a solid foundation and take it slowly. However, it is better to take the opportunity to settle the Central Plains, or to obtain the greatest benefits within the effective rule within one's ability. The initiative is still in the country. In our hands."

"I'll talk to the people in the staff department again, make another plan, and see it later. Be prepared, and the battle situation is changing rapidly, and the strategic staff planning is just a rough plan. You can't do it without it, you will be in a hurry; but you can't follow the steps and do not know how to adapt." .”

Liuzhi nodded in agreement, and the two talked about the gains and losses of this Dangshan siege.

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When Shihe and Six Fingers were discussing what to do if the countries sent troops to force them to retreat with a small victory, or to encircle and wipe out the main field corps of Wei and Han in a big victory, Wei Jian also formally met with Han You to discuss the matter of dividing up Zheng Guo.

The news of the siege of Dangshan shocked Wei Jian and Han You greatly. The terrible results of breaking the city in half a month and using parallel trench tactics until they approached the city wall with less than [-] casualties completely dispelled Wei Jian's idea of ​​sending troops.

The field battle may not be successful. If the Mo family wants to attack the city, they can attack wherever they want. As long as the Mo family wins a field battle, the entire river east will be in danger.

In the entire Wei Kingdom, who is fully sure that they can defeat the Mohists in a field battle and hurt their bones?

There doesn't seem to be any.

As long as the Wei State fails in a field battle and lacks a strategically maneuverable field corps, based on the siege capabilities demonstrated by the Mohists in Dangshan, no city in the Wei State will be safe.

Just as Marquis Wei asked Uncle Cuo, if the Mo family guarded Dangshan, how would they guard it?Uncle Zuo replied, if you defeat the siege enemy in the field, then you will hold on.

Faced with such pressure, Wei Jian knew very well that Gong Shucuo's overall strategic contraction and the idea of ​​reorganizing the Sanjin Alliance were the only correct choices.

But if you want to achieve this, you must first reprimand the Mohists and call for an alliance. Taking advantage of the impossibility of the Chu National Alliance to interfere with the state of Zheng, with the help of the smoke screen of the alliance, it is most correct to carve up the state of Zheng with South Korea in one fell swoop. choose.

Sishang has become so aggressive that it is impossible for Chu State to form a sincere alliance with Sishang. This is thanks to the Mo family for interfering with Song State.

The meeting between Han You and Wei Jian used the guise of Song Guo and the Mo family, but in fact they talked about Zheng Guo's affairs.

The remaining territories of Zheng State have been carefully divided into two parts on the map, each with its own plans, hidden evil intentions, and intrigues.

A part will belong to Wei, and a part will belong to Han, and what the two sides are arguing about is just the ownership of several cities: South Korea does not want Wei to use him as a gun to block the front, and Wei does not want several enclaves of South Korea to be linked together Contain Wei's throat.

Although Song and the Mo family were both the pretense of this alliance, when they were tired of arguing with each other, they couldn't help but talk about Song Guo and Sishang.

South Korea's national power is not strong now, and Shen Buhai, who was later criticized by Han Feizi for "not being good at the law and not following the constitution" to govern the country with skill, was still indulging in a carefree childhood in the state of Zheng.

Yan Zhongzi, who once hoped to change the centralization of power, was squeezed out by Han Gui, the second grandfather of the Duke of Han, who is now Han Hou. In history, Nie Zheng assassinated Han Gui, which gave Han Hou the opportunity to gather power and try to reform, but now in the story of this world , Nie Zheng assassinated Qin Jun, and Han Gui was not assassinated. The power of the Korean clan is growing stronger and stronger. Under the separation of powers, it is impossible for the nobles of the clan to support the centralization of power. Their heads have always understood what their ass is sitting on. Location.

Today's Xiangguo in South Korea is still a member of the public family, and he is the uncle of Han Houyou today.

The specific person in charge who came forward to discuss the matter of dividing up the state of Zheng, the prime ministers of the two countries of Korea and Wei, it is impossible for the monarchs to discuss these details, they just need to control the overall situation.

(End of this chapter)