warring states careerist

Chapter 899 Coping

On the north bank of Jiujiang, the Mohist camp.

Most of the famous and legendary officers who have been famous in the army over the years gather here.

But the coach is still able to hold back, because no matter the coach, deputy coach or the Mohist representative of the legion, they are basically the characters who fought from the battle of Sishang Moyue until now, and basically filled the audience.

The battle against Chu was the most important step in the Mohist 30-year strategy. In order to suppress the situation, there were even three alternate Wuhai and several members of the military committee. It can be said that they have never been in a legion since the beginning of Sishang. Deploy such a high-level high-level specification.

The autumn rain has stopped, and hanging in the command post are some of the most accurate maps in the world at this time.

In the uninhabited Dabie Mountains, the Mohists once sent people in and out seven times to draw maps, find roads, find water sources in valleys, and determine hydrology.

Not to mention the art of latitude and longitude and some maps with cities and towns determined by triangulation.

Although before the battle, the enemy should be expected to be lenient, but now everyone finds that the enemy's estimate is a bit too lenient.

The reason why the army has not moved yet is to wait for the autumn rain season to pass, and the other is to gather troops.

This time it is a long-term plan, so the front will attack the city and pull out the stronghold, and the rear work team will keep up with the land reform, and some troops will stay behind to suppress and arrest the nobles.

In addition, Sishang has just finished the autumn harvest, and the real full-scale mobilization has just begun, so there is no rush here.

I thought that after the capture of Shouchun Xiacai, the nobles of Chu people would immediately unite and fight back at any cost, but they didn't want to wait for more than a month, and there was no news at all. Only then did everyone realize that they had lived in Sishang for a long time, but they forgot What the nobles look like outside, and how fragile their rule is.

Now from Jiujiang to Edi, the Mohist cavalry and scouts control the battlefield, and the situation of the defenders in Edi is clearly known.

However, the Mo family is not in a hurry, because the higher authorities do not want the king of Chu to flee to Nanyang and join forces with Wei Hanqi and others to fight against Mo.

Even though it would be a little troublesome to escape, after all, I still want to strive for the best result.

At the internal meeting, the members of the military committee reiterated the strategy this time.

It is to wait for the end of the autumn harvest and the gradual stabilization of the occupied area in the rear, gather troops and prepare for a big battle.

During this period, if the king of Chu chooses to build a fortress in Zhucheng to guard for a decisive battle, he will send elite forces and combat engineers to cross Dabie Mountain Tongbai Mountain and go straight to Suiguo and Yanying.

Wuhai, who was already a backup Wuhai, pointed to the position of Yanying on the map and said: "If we attract the main force of the Chu people to Edi, we will go straight to Yanying with the elite first division and two elite combat engineering brigades. With the cooperation of the local uprising, Yanying was captured, and the Chu army was actually divided into three parts."

"The main force of King Chu; Nanyang Fangcheng Legion; Chen Cai Xuxiang Legion."

"Needless to say the main force of King Chu."

"If we don't capture Yanying and Xiangyang, then the Chu army in Nanyang Fangcheng can either go south or support Chen Cai Xuxiang. The king of Chu can also choose to retreat after the defeat and defend with the Han River as the boundary."

"But if it is captured, Nanyang Fangcheng and other places will be entrusted with the monarch. After losing the center of Chu, they must protect themselves. Then they can only choose to garrison Nanyang to prevent us from going north in the direction of Yanying, and they will not be able to support Chen Cai, Xu Xiang, etc. The Chu Army of the land."

"The Chu army in Chen, Cai, Xuxiang and other places can only defend without their support. The giant still has elite cavalry and artillery in his hands. They dare not attack easily to avoid being eaten by the giant."

"In this way, the people of Chu must ask Wei Hanqi to send troops to pose a threat to us."

"But the army of Wei, Han and Qi will definitely not go deep alone. It will take a lot of time to wait for the conclusion of their alliance and negotiation. This is extremely beneficial to us."

Another candidate Wuhai added: "It is not difficult for us to capture Yanying. Although Yanying is a big city, we are here to attack Jianghan, and its navy must be transferred to Hubei. This is one of them."

"Secondly, Xu Ruo and others still have an army in Yunmeng. Although the number is not large, they are very familiar with the local area. Once the interior is empty, this army can do some big things and cooperate with us to attack Suiguo and Tangyi. .”

"Thirdly, the Nanzheng Legion will also go down the river at the agreed time to cooperate with us."

"Therefore, it is feasible to use the elite first division and two combat engineer brigades to cross Dabie along the small road, Tongbai to Tang and Yan, and it is extremely beneficial to the battle to destroy Chu."

"Occupying Yanying will connect Nanzheng with us. Garrisoning troops in Yanying can not only take advantage of the opportunity of the empty Chu army gathering in Hubei, harass and occupy the rear and force the Chu army to collapse without fighting; The lords in the Nanyang area of ​​Chu Kingdom dare not move lightly."

Six Fingers said again: "The way of a soldier is to combine righteousness and oddity. It is strange to attack Yanying, and we will be righteous. If we are righteous, we must fight steadily, advance along the way, deploy camps, and consolidate logistics."

"If the odd plan fails, we will attack; if the odd plan succeeds, we will use defense as an offense, and the Chu people will collapse without fighting."

"Destroying Chu is only the first step. There are still other things such as clearing up the remnants of the enemy and controlling the city by the military. Don't be impatient. There is a lot of time left for us. The time given to us by the giant is one year, that is, before June next year, we must We must capture and stabilize Jianghan. We don’t need to take care of Sishang’s affairs, and we don’t need to be distracted.”

"The only thing is, before June next year, if something really happens, we must ensure that from Jixianguan to Yanying to Linwu Jiuyi, the government orders will be smooth and there will be no rebels from the Chu nobles."

"Of course, time is tight."

"Although Juzi gave us one year, we'd better be able to defeat the Chu army before November, and before the new year next year, we can send two to four divisions to the front line of Shouchun Lucheng."

The soldiers gathered here this time, if not counting the school officials, the oldest one is no more than 25, and they are all a group of people who have grown up since the establishment of the Sishang regime.

In other words, people under the age of 25 and six in Sishang all have the experience of serving in the army. Some frontier guard work such as lookout will be arranged.

This is not the same as the peasant-soldier system of other princes in the slack farming and martial arts. Once a war starts, a large number of soldiers can be guaranteed at the expense of economic development. Of course, this model cannot last.

He has been trained in formation and learned to observe discipline in school since he was a child. Even if he farms after retiring from the army, with firearms as the main output weapon, as long as he is recruited again, he can train a group of soldiers who are at least worthy of a battle in three months.

As far as the military system of the Chu State is concerned, apart from the new army after the reform of professional soldiers, the rest is still the elite of low-ranking nobles, nobles, slaves and soldiers, a small number of private soldiers as the core, and a large number of conscripted peasants who lack training. Soldiers are the main body.

There are really not many soldiers in Chu State who can fight, especially after the civil strife has just ended and the interior has not yet been integrated.

Or like the state of Wei, if it is really going to fight now, the state of Wei can indeed pull out a [-] army, but the combat effectiveness of this [-] army is worrying, and this [-] army can only exist for three or four months at most. The country's economy and agriculture will collapse completely.

But the main force that can really fight in the field and march quickly, the Wei State has basically disappeared... The bloodletting of the Mohist and the Qin State, the Wei State now has at most only more than 1 elite field troops.

Therefore, the top Mohists gave these people a year to destroy Chu, and they were not worried about what would happen to Sishang.

The importance of Chu State to the Mohists is self-evident. In addition to those well-known ones, the Jianghan area is also the key to connect the South China Sea and Hanzhong.

As long as the tactical concept of the surprise attack on Xiangyang is completed, all the forces of Chu State will be divided into three parts, and the originally separated forces of Mohism can be combined into one.

For Fulou in the South China Sea, you can go north to Wuling, and after capturing Linwu, go south along the Xiangjiang River system; Nanzheng has also conquered some small countries in recent years, and has been expanding along the Han River. Hanzhong is a good agricultural area. , You can also learn from the battle between Qin and Chu in later generations and go down the Han River.

In other words, once the main force on the Yangtze River can defeat the main force of the Chu army, the Mohist forces in Jianghan and Xiaoxiang are actually sufficient to maintain stability and surrender those small vassal states.

In other words, as long as the main force of the Chu army is defeated, the troops can be sent to Huainan immediately.

Although the Dabie Mountains were used by the Mohists to divide Chu's military power into three parts, it also hindered the connection of the Mohist legions. If the strategic deployment of the Jianghan Plain can be completed before November and the main force of the Chu army can be defeated, then they can be divided into three parts. Send some troops back to Huainan to stabilize the Huai River defense line.

Relying on the strength of the South China Sea and Hanzhong, as well as a large number of specially trained cadres who are proficient in Chu language, is enough to stabilize the situation in Hannan.

But the key to this is when to attack.

If it was early, the King of Chu might run away, especially the news that Linwu had been captured would come soon, and the King of Chu might run to Xiangyang.

Once you pass Xiangyang and arrive at Nanyang, it is equivalent to integrating the divided forces of the Chu Kingdom. With the central command and certain royal power suppression, those nobles can still integrate a certain force, plus Wei Hanqi. Maybe Qin sent troops in exchange for the land of Shangluo. In that case, it would really be a long-term north-south confrontation, and it would take at least ten years to stabilize the situation.

If the king of Chu can be lured to fight to the death, and then attack Xiangyang with a sneak attack, and join forces with Xu Ruo of Yunmeng and Zao Mi Qisui of Nanzheng, the division of Chu can be completed: the main forces of the king of Chu will be wiped out in Jianghan, Forcing the Nanyang feudal monarchs to dare not move lightly, the Chu army in the Central Plains of Chen Cai could not fight alone, and there was no center to act independently.

In this way, the Mohists can call back part of their troops to guard the Huaihe River, thereby threatening the flanks of the coalition forces of various countries and consolidating the occupied areas.

The Jianghan Plain and the Jianghuai Plain, which connect the east and west of the Dabie Mountains, adopted the method of bilateral threats: Xiangyang ruled that Huaisi attacked to assist defense; Huaisi ruled that Xiangyang attacked and defended by assisting each other.

(End of this chapter)