warring states careerist

Chapter 892 Pessimism and Despair
Sishang Heavy Industry's business policy of seeking profit from sales also made the logistics of this battle to destroy Chu much simpler.

With a little mobilization, enough cargo ships capable of transporting material and logistical supplies along the river can be produced, and the price paid is only the shares of franchise rights in some overseas regions. The businessmen are very clear about the value of this, because it has been reflected before.

Suitable as the commander-in-chief of Sishang, in fact, the pressure is not too great.

Almost all the elite cavalry remained in Sishang and did not participate in the battle to destroy Chu. If Sishang was mobilized for internal operations, he could pull out a large army. The food accumulated for 30 years could never be used up.

Now there are [-] troops assembled in the Guangling area, all of which are the main force of the elite; the navy has nearly [-] including the oarsmen and conscripted sailors.

The first-line troops staying in the Sishang area, after short-term mobilization and re-training for attacking Vietnam, have more than [-] elite cavalry and [-] infantry. The four divisions of Song State, plus if extensive mobilization is carried out, the defense is more than sufficient.

Chu land is not suitable for heavy cavalry, and there are not many cavalry to destroy Chu, mainly light cavalry.

The elite cavalry left behind on Sishang are also ready to take the initiative to attack. If the countries really plan to intervene jointly, they must find an opportunity to jump to the outside line to make a vote first before the countries join forces.

Lu Zhanshi is not worried, the only thing he is worried about is the upcoming war of words on the Yangtze River.

On paper, the Mohist boat masters are much stronger than the Yue state, but in fact, the Mohist boat masters don’t have much actual combat experience. That is, when they fought with the Qi state more than ten years ago, they fought with the Yue state once. Accumulated some experience.

It's not easy to understand on paper, but it's hard to say whether he can beat the Yueren who is good at sailing on the spot.

There are not too many battles in which land battles win more with less, but the proportion of water battles with less wins more is much higher.

Although the defeat of the water war does not affect the demise of the Yue State in the slightest, the purpose of this time is not to destroy the Yue State, but to destroy the Yue State's water army and obtain the right to control water.

This is a bit troublesome.

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South of the Yangtze River, the country of Yue.

Over the past 20 years, the country of Yue has been miserable.

The supremacy of Sishang was lost, the Mohists filled the vacancy, blocked the state of Qi and went south, and then pitted the state of Wei, colonizing the seven regions of Fujian in the South China Sea, and the state of Yue was trapped in the middle, isolated and helpless.

The aristocratic survivors of the Wu people were eager to move, and moved back to Kuaiji strategically. The economy was dumped and plundered, and it was reduced to a grain production area in Sishang.

The Battle of Moyue, the aristocratic coup, the Mohist family sent the King of Yue back to the throne, and a civil strife destroyed the foundation and spirit of the Goujian era.

But even so, compared to what happened to Yue in the original history, it was a blessing in disguise.

Originally, in the past few years in history, there have been several classic aristocratic court-style plots and coups in the country of Yue.

Originally, in history, the King of Yue was worried about the tradition of killing his father. In order to obtain the first succession, the younger brother killed the three sons of the King of Yue, and was about to kill the prince. The son simply learned to kill his father and uncle first; The buttocks are not yet settled, the nobles killed the prince in a coup, and the Wu nobles made the prince's son king; after one year of succession, the Yue nobles killed the Wu nobles, drove away the prince's son, and established the Yue king's concubine son; a few years later, the nobles killed the prince again Wang Lixin, the royal family's anti-killing failed...

Therefore, compared with the more than ten years of turbulent coups and civil strife in the history of Yue, it is indeed a blessing in disguise.

The collapsed strategic contraction suppressed the vengeful nobles of the Wu Kingdom; the defeat at Sishang made a bunch of ambitious people jump out early, but they didn't want the Mohist family to gain a foothold and needed to support the Yue Kingdom. Letting people go and interfering with anti-killing; the prince jumped out too early and made a lot of negative teaching materials for the sons, making the sons slightly restrained...

As a result, a fleet that could fight against the Mo family's southward movement could be assembled.

King Yi of Yue was already old, and when his sons were about to kill their fathers and brothers in a coup d'état, the Mo family went south, making the nobles and royal families of the Yue Kingdom unprecedentedly united: if Qi and Chu came to attack, maybe they could use external forces to carry out a coup d'état, However, the Mohists were anti-nobility and wanted to destroy the foundation of the nobility in the system, which made the royal family and nobles of the Yue Kingdom united like never before.

But even so, King Yi of Yue was still worried about this Mohist battle of punishing injustice.

The doctor Xu Que was selected as the chief general to lead the water army this time, and he can be regarded as the first-class water warfare nobleman in the country of Yue. However, he did not have much confidence in this battle.

"Your Majesty, in fact, the victory or defeat of the water army in this battle is irrelevant. If the water army wins, the river is thousands of miles away, and the soldiers of the Mo family can cross the river from anywhere. As long as we cross the river, our army will be defeated."

"Looking at the past, Sishang's army is invincible."

In the first battle that year, the Mohists completely cast the shadow of the Yue Kingdom. The Junzi Army suffered heavy casualties. When the chariot battle passed, the brave noble swordsmen were defeated by the musketeers and spearmen in the formation, and the archers were slaughtered by the stirrup cavalry.

Now that the Mohists have fought against Wei State and Qi State in recent years, Yue Wang Yi knows best what Yue State's own land warfare level is.

In the era of Goujian, brave swordsmen and young nobles were organized into an army of gentlemen, who could be called the "Overlord", and all countries were convinced.

In less than a hundred years, this military system has completely lagged behind that of Sishang. The original organizational skills in the Central Plains were combined with the new military system.

The reason why Yue State was able to dominate was because of its backwardness.The development of the Central Plains was too early, and the civil society of the country and the country disintegrated too early to be busy with internal struggles, which made the Yue Kingdom temporarily strong, but once it failed to take over the world, its inherent weaknesses would be fully revealed.

The navy that the Yue State can rely on is an advantage, but the Mo family has a lot of money and has developed industries and commerce. The State of Yue builds two or three ships on top of each building ship; Sishang installed several times the number of bronze cannons on the building boats; Yue people were born to swim and punted, so Sishang was forced to serve and train paddlers; paddler.

What's more, even if the water battle is won, so what?Although the great river is dangerous, it is not difficult for the infantry to cross the river. It is not enough to mobilize troops to Qimin and go north to break through.

It is also impossible to passively avoid wars, retain the strength of the navy and wait for the world to change.The water army of the Mohists had cannons, and the Yue Kingdom lacked a fort port that could protect its warships, so there was nowhere to hide.

King Yi of Yue sighed and said, "There is no other way but to fight."

"Moving to the south to escape, but the seven Fujian and South Seas are all owned by the Mohists, and moving south is impossible. Chu's internal strife, even if he wanted to help me, he was powerless; Jin and Qin fought in Xihe, how dare the people of Qi intervene and take Sishang alone?"

"But what is the condition that the Mo family gave me? Give up all the fiefs, give up all the power over the people in the fiefs. Either for the common people, or... use a boat to send us to the big island in the south of Qimin, thinking of Xinyue."

"But there are no fiefs, only fiefs, so what's the use of having Xinyue?"

This is the most favorable condition offered by the Mohists: as long as the king of Yue surrenders, he can live as a citizen, and even give some money every year for the merits of not fighting to benefit the people; or send all the royal family and nobles of the Yue kingdom to Taiwan, Re-experience the feeling of the ancestors overcame the thorns and thorns, but the people did not give it to them.

Only give the land, not give people.

If you don’t accept it, then it means that the nobles still want to maintain the power to exploit the landed farmers. They are not pure nobles. If they want to be pure nobles, they must be separated from the economic foundation. It needs to be persecuted—if there is a pure aristocratic spirit in the world, and this spirit is the highest morality that will never change, then it should be separated from the exploitation of rentiers, the identity of the nobility should be retained, the feudal rights and personal attachment of the nobility should be abolished, and the nobility should be sent away. Go to the island and send a farm tool and a few catties of seeds to one person and continue to be a pure aristocrat in order to continue the aristocratic spirit.

And they often organize people to visit. If the economic foundation is stripped away and the aristocratic spirit still exists, and the aristocratic morality can be maintained by farming and hunting in the barren land, then the Mohists will admit that their previous remarks are wrong.

In fact, this is equivalent to cutting off the desire of the nobles of Yue to make peace.

The Mohists, because their culture is more advanced, have their own personnel training system and a whole set of new legal principles and new governance methods, the Mohists feel that these remnants of nobles are already waste, and they are useless, and they don’t need to participate in the construction of the new regime. Nature leaves no room for it.

30 years ago, nobles might be required to become officials, otherwise such a large place would be uncontrollable, but now the internally cultivated cultural population is waiting in line to become officials. Nobles are worthless and occupy land. What is the use of keeping them?Besides, they have completely turned against the old world. If they are kind to the nobles and learn the three respects, the nobles of the old world will not regard the Mohist family as their own, so there is no need to cover it up.

Exile to Taiwan, of course, will not die, and even have land, but the problem is that there is no land, what is the use of the nobles?It is always human labor that is exploited, because wealth is produced by labor, not land.The Mohists want to peel off the skin of the nobles and cut off their roots.

Besides, the literate population of Yue is basically aristocrats. These people are the inheritors of local culture and potential separatists. They must find a way to eliminate them. Otherwise, how can they be synonymous?

Since it has been pushed to this point, it is already impossible to surrender in this battle.

King Yi of Yue asked Xu Ting, "What are the odds?"

The doctor Xu Ting shook his head and said: "If it is about water warfare, the chance of winning is [-]%. If it is about national warfare, there is almost no chance of winning. At this time, the wind direction is difficult to determine, and the north and south winds are changeable. If you want to win more with less, you can only attack with fire, but because of the wind direction, it is not feasible. .”

"Water battles, there are many boatmen and shooters in the Mohist building, and most of the melee soldiers were taught by the former Beicheng disciples taught by Mo Di, and their swordsmanship is also high."

"When it comes to morale, even if the scholar and the doctor eat the king's salary to fight to the death for the fief, it will be difficult to survive."

"If you don't think about winning, think about losing first. If the Mohist water army loses, they can still cross the river from other places and destroy Yue, but it will be a little later; if our army loses in the water battle, it will be difficult to sacrifice to the ancestral temple in the twelfth lunar month."

King Yi of Yue nodded in agreement with this hopeless and pessimistic view, and asked, "Don't you also support the statement of the great officials that if you lose, you will perish in Chu?"

(End of this chapter)