warring states careerist

Chapter 910 Complaining
After solving the most critical part of the evacuation, the King of Chu ordered the boat masters to land and burn the boats, so that the Chu boat masters could not fall into the hands of the Mohists. division.

In the upper reaches of Bashui, the elite main force of the Mohists was slowly heading south.

Liuzhi didn't choose to attack Zhu City quickly, but sent a small group of troops to feign west.

Zhu City's defenses were not considered strong, and if it was attacked by elite soldiers, it was actually possible to capture it.

But Liuzhi didn't want to take the risk, because there wasn't much time left for him to make extraordinary achievements.If something went wrong and he couldn't go down to Zhucheng with a drum, so that the Chu army desperately came to help, and his force had to be divided into two halves, it would be very bad.

Now the army is more than sixty miles away from Zhu City. If they are all lightly armed infantry, the distance may not be that far, but the more elite the Mohist infantry, the higher the requirements for logistics, especially the large number of bronze cannons. It may be possible to go to a place where the jungle is thick, and you have to walk, so the distance is sixty.

He is actually quite satisfied with the current results of the battle. He used the army to trap the Chu State Navy. It can be said that as long as the Chu State Navy is destroyed, no matter whether the Chu people are fighting in the field or fleeing, he can divide his troops back to Jianghuai after passing the city of Zhu. , to create a better situation.

Now the Mohists have attacked Echeng, but the actual control area from Hefei to here is actually empty, relying on the narrow area on the north side of a waterway to support the logistics connection. , because the boat master can't afford to lose.

Most of the main cavalry in Sishang, Liuzhi believes that if he leads the troops personally, he will use the advantages of internal combat and cavalry to defeat them one by one.

But the control range of the main force in Sishang is at most as far as Shouchun and Luzhou.

Therefore, Liuzhi was eager to get rid of Chu's navy, divided up the Jianghuai River, and went north to Shenxi to build a line of defense from Hanzhong and Nanzheng to Yanying and Xiangyang, and then to Shenxi and Huaihe.

The sooner the troops are divided, the better the future will be.

Now it seems that the goal of destroying Chu State's boat master has been achieved, so he doesn't want to take any more risks.

The victory of a surprise soldier is often an unworldly feat.But winning can't be all about the Raiders.

Liuzhi can only take a gamble now, the king and ministers of the Chu Kingdom did not want to give up Jiang Han, and chose to fight him here.

Neither he nor the Central Committee of Sishang said anything about waiting for Chu State to throw itself into the trap and step down step by step. In fact, the purpose is very clear: Jiang Han cannot afford to lose to Chu State. Abandoning Jiang Han is not the courage of a strong man to cut his wrists, it is the courage of a strong man The courage to cut off siblings.

As far as Liu Zhi was concerned, the king of Chu was already at the end of his road. As long as the siege of the boat master was not resolved, the king of Chu would have nowhere to go, and he would probably be captured by him in all likelihood, so he was not in a hurry.

The king of Chu may not know it, but Liuzhi knows very well that the elite army from before should have rushed to Xiangyang at this time;

Therefore, what he had to do was to divide his troops, destroy Jiuzi first, go north to break through the pass, cut off the escape route of the king of Chu through the Dabie Mountain trail, and force the king of Chu to either retreat to Jianghan and defend it, or go north through Yanying and Xiangyang.

More than 1000 people of the main force of the Jiuzi Kingdom have been destroyed. The small country of Jiuzi can be destroyed with one brigade.

From his point of view, everything was safe.

As he was advancing, a messenger came after him and reported: "The people of Chu have gathered together and are burning."

Six fingers slapped his forehead, cursing: "Xiong Liangfu is trying to slip away. Oh..."

Almost instantly, he thought of something, and asked repeatedly: "Is there any movement in Yu Tu's sixth division?"

The messenger came from the south and said, "Master Yu Tu has not moved. But the boat master has confirmed that the Chu people are burning the boat, and they have already started from the bottom up."

Liuzhi hummed, thinking that this was a matter of course.

Yu Tu's Sixth Division was good at defending. Yu Tu obeyed orders very well and would never attack lightly to avoid being surrounded.

At first, Liuzhi and the others judged that after the siege of Shazhou, Chu State would definitely fight back with all its might.They were right in their judgment on this point. It was also because of this that Shen Gong's army went south from Jiuzi to join the main force of King Chu, creating an opportunity for him to encircle and wipe out Shen Gong's army.

However, according to common sense, the King of Chu was already storming the sandbar, and at the same time fought desperately to meet the enemy in the field. Who would have thought that the King of Chu was going to run directly, and the direction of this running was obviously to run north, and he was not going to be there at all. Jiang Han persisted.

The prefect Yu Tu ordered that the field guards are really first-class talents, but it is inevitable that some judgments are insufficient when encountering this kind of thing.

Liuzhi felt that if he was still the commander guarding the sandbar, he was afraid that if he saw the Chu people burning their boats, the first reaction would be that the Chu people would slip away and immediately attack north, making the Chu people into a mess—the purpose of guarding the sandbar is to strangle the state of Chu Now that the boat divisions have burned their ships, the division of the sandbar should attack with all their strength.

But then I thought again, even when I was the commander of the brigade, the commander was not the commander after all, the changes in the battlefield situation were still mobilized by the commander. I just seized the opportunity, but even if I didn’t seize the opportunity, victory is inevitable. The only thing that may be difficult is to stand out.

From this point of view, Yu Tu did nothing wrong and completed the task steadily. It was the Chu people's business that the Chu people did not attack, but the sandbank is still in the hands of the Sixth Division, and even forced the Chu people to burn the ship.Yu Tu just lacked a little bit of the big picture of the strategic battlefield.

Liuzhi stopped and had a brief meeting with a few people beside the carriage.

"Could it be the Chu people's trick to lure the enemy? Set up an ambush halfway and wait for the main force of our army to pursue it?"

When someone asked this, Liu Zhi shook his head and said, "I definitely want to run, even if it's an ambush halfway, it's just a tactical preparation for running."

"But the Sixth Division is definitely safe. It is impossible for the Chu people to allocate a huge force just to annihilate the Sixth Division, while completely ignoring the existence of our main force."

"The Chu people are definitely going to run in the direction of Zhucheng, but they are close and we are far away. The main force will definitely not be able to catch up."

"But we can't let Chu people run away so easily, let's send cavalry to catch up and intercept and harass them."

After unifying their opinions, they asked the messengers to send an order: the boat division will go upstream to control the waterway, and the sixth division will cooperate with the boat division to go straight to the north of the river.

It's a pity that you can't fly over to pass the news. If you come and go, I'm afraid you will miss the opportunity to stick to the main force of the Chu army.

The main force ordered the cavalry not to be equipped with cannons, and quickly pursued them; the two elite grenadiers who had boarded the camp first rode horses to pursue them, disrupting the retreat of the Chu people, and their own army quickly caught up.

The retreat of a large army is an extremely test of the manager's organizational ability, especially if he abandons the strategic decisive battle and organizes the retreat, if he is not careful, it will turn into a rout of scrambling to retreat.

On the Chu side, the King of Chu has already retreated with Che Guangjingrui, some nobles and some king teachers.

The sailors and oarsmen who came ashore followed closely behind.

The rest slowly retreated behind.

And some of the kings who were in charge of organizing the defense of Zhucheng and burning Zhucheng after the king of Chu retreated were ahead of the king of Chu. They had already arrived and took over the defense of Zhucheng.

In Zhu City, at a critical point, several officers in charge of directing the accumulation of firewood were complaining there.

These officers are all members of Wang Shi's new army, and they are the beneficiaries of the standard reforms of the previous king of Chu.

They were common people, and in this era when princes and generals really had seeds, they had no hope at all.

But later the Mohists gave lectures in various places, and these people also learned some characters. Then the Chu State established a new army, and the King of Chu began to compile and train a new army that was not controlled by the nobles. .

Wanting to change is not so easy. The new army was created at the beginning, and it cost a lot of money, and it was catching up with the Mohist victory over Yue, so instructors were needed.

It is borrowing money to buy guns, gunpowder, and cotton cloth for military uniforms; it is also asking the Mohists for training.

These people who were complaining at this time, because they knew some characters and some principles, followed the king of Chu to fight, beat Baiyue Cangwu in Dongting, fought against Wang Ziding, accumulated meritorious service, and gradually became military officers.

When the king of Chu died, a large number of reformers were killed. Fortunately, the new king of Chu recognized the vested interests of these new troops, and in the end the new army recognized the new king of Chu.

Many people in the army were quite dissatisfied with this palace coup, but although the king of Chu has carried out certain reforms, after all, the princes and generals are indeed kind, even when the people of the country were involved in politics before. Find a person of pure and noble blood to succeed the monarch. This is the case in coups such as Zheng, Wei, Qi, Lu, Song and other countries. Therefore, when the king of Chu died, the reformers were killed, and among the princes, there was no one who stood up to reform and establish himself as a monarch. These people can only choose to obey.

At this time, these few officers who had seen the world and knew some truths kept complaining. They all saw that the army was about to withdraw, and their dissatisfaction with King Chu, which had been suppressed for a long time, was on the verge of breaking out.

The reason why the Mohists had to wait until the death of the King of Chu and the coup d'état in Chu State to send troops was precisely for this reason. It seemed that the situation was stable, but in reality there was an undercurrent. The Mohists of the earth are those who are dissatisfied under the surging undercurrent.

"I think this Chu country is about to end."

An officer murmured in a low voice. He was surrounded by trusted friends and partners, so he didn't shy away from speaking.

Many people were pessimistic and disappointed by losing the right Sima first and then losing Shen Gong.

A person next to him laughed and said: "You can't say that. According to the Mohists, the land of Chu and the people of Chu still exist, and it's only the princes and nobles who are ruined. What's the matter with Chu?"

These people were already somewhat dissatisfied with this coup d'etat. It would be fine if they won all the way after the coup d'etat, or if they did not harm their interests. In an era when there is indeed kindness, these people who have benefited from the virtuous strategy in the reform are naturally dissatisfied.

As soon as the laughter fell, the person who was the first to complain hurriedly said: "Shut up! Don't be heard by others. If your words are heard by others, wouldn't it be suspected of being inked?"

(End of this chapter)