warring states careerist

Chapter 934
Shangcai and Wufang are only a hundred miles away from Xianghe Pass.

Xianghe Pass is an important passage from the north to the south. If Xianghe Pass is captured, Fangcheng will be defenseless, and the army of the king of Chu assembled in Fangcheng will be in danger.

More importantly, Fangcheng is only a hundred miles away from Yangdi, the capital of South Korea.

Moreover, Xianghe Pass is an important support point for the defense line of the Great Wall of Chu State. Once the surprise attack on Xianghe is successful, Yangdi, the capital of South Korea, will be exposed to the frontier of the Mohist offensive.

After the Battle of Yinyang, due to the interference of the Mohists, the dispatch of troops from Chu, and the defensive battle in Xinzheng and the agitation of public opinion, South Korea did not move its capital to Xinzheng, but continued to keep the capital in Yangdi.

The people of Xinzheng were very disappointed with Wei Han's attitude. Although the Mohists had withdrawn on the surface, after the Xinzheng defensive battle, the people of Xinzheng believed that the people of Zheng Guogong and Wei Han had betrayed the people of Zheng Guo, so they were extremely concerned about South Korea's rule. Dissatisfaction, which makes the conditions for South Korea to move its capital very immature.

This makes Xiangheguan equivalent to the southern gate of South Korea. With the Chu royal family captured and unable to support it, South Korea must face the risk that the capital is within a hundred miles of the Mohist army.

Xianghe is connected to Fangcheng, which is a group of fortresses, which is Fangcheng Xiangheguan, one of the nine fortresses in the world, but this fortress group is for defense against the north.

Organize the defense around this group of fortresses, and Liuzhi cannot attack under the restraint of Qin State, which requires appropriateness to do this.

Facing a group of officers, Shi clarified his strategic intentions, and then said: "Separate a brigade and pretend to attack Shangcai. There are not many soldiers in Shangcai, but the system is complete, and it can still be defended for a period of time."

"For Wu Fang, it is easier to attack, and there will be more than a thousand soldiers at most. Once captured, our path to attack Xianghe will be opened."

"Shangcai's feigned attack, on the one hand, is to disturb the Chu people, and on the other hand, it is also to make the great Sima of Chu have nowhere to escape."

"I am going to attack him in the south of Yangcheng. If he is defeated and retreats without a fight, I will make sure that he cannot run to Shangcai, but to the north."

The officers understood what Shi meant, and it was obvious that they were going to make some repairs in Wufang, and then sent out surprise soldiers and went straight to Xianghe.

The Wu house is not big, but it is enough to collect and buy enough food. In addition, the Mohists themselves have frequent activities there, and the Mohists with merchant status are active there, so short-term food supply is not a problem.

If the [-] soldiers in the hands of Da Sima of the Chu State can be wiped out, it will only be a matter of time before the nearby cities change hands. On the premise that there are no field troops and the field troops are mainly farmers and soldiers, as long as Xianghe Pass is captured, it will be slowly planned. , it won't be long before these cities will fall.

After this defeat, it is impossible for the princes of Chu to dare to go south of Yinshui, but they will all curl up near the border of Han and Chu to resist.

A city without reinforcements cannot be defended. After the fall of Xiangheguan and the annihilation of Chu Da Sima's army, the city in the south of Zhaoling is equivalent to belonging to the Mohist school.

While attacking Wufang, the elite soldiers who attacked Xiangheguan would not stop, but would go directly to the west.

If the sneak attack fails, the remaining pawns need to follow up after capturing Wufang to launch a strong attack.

After assigning tasks, everyone did not stop.Shi took one division of infantry and nearly two divisions of cavalry to the south; the rest rushed west.

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A day and a half later, Shangcai.

Soldiers from a certain brigade entered a village near Shangcai in the afternoon after a day and a half of forced marching for eighty miles.

At this time, Shangcai was still in a peaceful scene. He didn't know that Shi was already attacking Da Sima of Chu, and he didn't know that 500 forwards of the Jiexuan Army who were attacking had already arrived near Shangcai.

After the soldiers of this brigade occupied the village community, they tightly blocked the news and rested near the village community, which is only more than ten miles away from Shangcai.

After the soldiers were stationed here, the business was peaceful and did not disturb the people, but the people were not allowed to leave the village, and the people in the village community had little activity at first, and at most they went to the city to buy some goods.

In the early years, the Mohists were active here, and the people in the village community were no strangers to the Mohism. When they went to the city to buy goods, they often encountered some goods from Sishang. This kind of familiarity from goods to people made them not afraid.

It has been rumored for a long time that the Jiexuan army is for the relief of the people, and they don't beat or kill or curse people. After entering the village, they saw that it was so, and no one panicked.

Even in the evening, some villagers had already started to sell their own firewood, or tried to exchange grain for banknotes in the hands of soldiers.

The banknotes on Sishang can be used here, because the villagers know that these banknotes can buy what they want in Shangcai, whether it is salt, ironware, cotton cloth, woodware, etc.

In this sneak attack, in addition to the necessary food, the army also brought some hard currency.

For example, gold, salt, etc., I thought that I need to use gold to buy things in this kind of place, but I didn’t expect that paper money can also be spent in this kind of place. The reality that no copper coins can be circulated due to the rising number of days.

The pickets with the red headbands on their arms are patrolling the village community to prevent forced buying and selling. People from the Propaganda Department are explaining the truth to the villagers. The scouts hide outside the village community and approach the village community who caught and brought back.

Under a big tree in the village community, the brigade commander and the officers in the brigade were discussing the feint attack on Shangcai.

Lu Shuai said: "The giant ordered our brigade to pretend to attack Shangcai. In my opinion, this is a chance to make meritorious deeds."

"It is extremely difficult to make meritorious deeds nowadays. Once a war starts, it will often be a battle involving tens of thousands of people. You must obey orders and not move lightly..."

When he said this, the officers all nodded.

This time it was a feint attack on Shangcai. It would be best if he could take it down, but if he couldn't take it down, he had completed the mission of the feint attack.

When the war started, the brigade officers were the happiest, because they were the most embarrassing group of officers.

Officers at the level of division commander have all attended high-level command schools. There are only a few regular divisions in Sishang, and they can all enter the top ranks of the army in time.

The company commanders below the main brigade are generally young people who have graduated from military academies. If they want to rise up, as long as they work hard, they will have a chance.

Only the officers at the brigade commander level have already reached this position, and it is extremely difficult to go up.

It takes meritorious service to have the opportunity to enter a high-level military academy to train as a division commander. There are many veteran brigade commanders who have been in the military for more than ten years.

Because officers at the brigade level are the most difficult level to get meritorious service.

The officers at the first level of the Sishang Army's middle brigade secretly circulated some sayings, saying that the brigade commander with the best luck went to Nanhai, the unlucky one went to Gaoliu, and the worst luck went to Sishang.

In the South China Sea, it is mainly to suppress the resistance of the old local tribes. There have been cases where 800 people wiped out a country, and it is easy to make meritorious service.

From time to time, Gaoliu also fought with Lin Hu Loufan in the north. Those battles were small-scale, and the brigade commander could personally command and give full play to his subjective initiative. The story of five hundred cavalry raiding a marauding tribe and subjugating ten thousand people.

As for Sishang, they haven't fought much in these years, so it's really difficult to make meritorious service.

In the battle of Yinyang seven or eight years ago, cavalry were sent, not to mention; Six Fingers attacked Linqiu, and there was basically no battle, but digging holes, firing artillery, and entering the city was extremely boring.

In the previous few battles, either they followed orders to advance and retreat together during the battle, and even subjective initiative was only qualified at the division commander level. At this time, the battle depends on the formation, and it is really difficult to have a chance to express yourself.

If the company commanders work hard on the battlefield, or if they practice extremely hard and strictly during normal training, then they can enter the military academy to study, and then hone their skills for a while to become a deputy brigade commander, staff officer, etc. For the brigade commander.

But the brigade commanders have to survive a long time, competing with the older generation of brigade commanders and competing with the new generation of young people. There are only a few regular divisions. When it was founded 20 years ago, there were many people with outstanding military exploits. It is really difficult to squeeze into the threshold of the teacher.

Just like many officers at the brigade commander level often lamented that they were born 20 years late, during the Qiyue War, the six fingers who were the brigade representatives could exert their subjective initiative and march in columns and lines. Small, there are only a few volunteers in Sishang.

Up to now, officers at the brigade level can only obey orders in battle: the division commander tells you to stay in place as a reserve team, so you must stay; ...And once you act rashly, it will often bring about a chain reaction, which is not allowed.

To put it in an appropriate way, volunteer teachers were founded 20 years ago, relying on subjective initiative, because volunteer teachers were very fragile at that time and had to perform beyond their capabilities.

Twenty years later, none of the feudal lords will be able to defeat the Jiexuan Army in a one-on-one situation. What is needed at this time is to obey orders and make no mistakes to win. People's hearts, food, industrial and commercial foundations...

At this time, the brigade commander's words were the voices of the officers in the brigade. They all felt that this time the giant let their brigade pretend to attack Shangcai, which was a godsend.

Because there are very few independent actions at the brigade level, the scale of the war is expanding day by day, and it has become the norm for a country to be won or lost in a field battle.

And as infantry, nicknamed "lower people in the army", when it comes to attacking cities first, they are not as good as grenadiers, when it comes to raiding the flanks, they are not as good as cavalry, when it comes to superiority and comfort, they are not as good as artillery, and when it comes to attention, they are not as good as those combat engineers. ... Most of the time, their task is to listen to the orders and drums of the orderlies, and use the most mechanical steps to march, shoot, load, and charge on the battlefield.

The few brigades with honorary titles were either in very special circumstances, or they were obtained in the South China Sea or Gaoliu in the Clouds. It was really too difficult.

Nowadays, there are very few actions at the level of individual infantry brigades. At most, they are those specialized fortress city defense brigades, but those people are not field legions.

Seeing that no one objected, the commander-in-chief said, "Looking at it now, Shangcai doesn't know that Juzi personally commanded the army to go south, let alone that we have already hidden in the vicinity of Shangcai. There are also our comrades in Shangcai, and the main force in the city is From Da Sima of Chu, we have a great chance of winning Shangcai."

"Send some skilled soldiers to lurk below the city tonight. We will rest first and march quietly as night falls. Those soldiers climbed up the city wall in the middle of the night and killed the guards at the city gate. We will break into the city at dawn."

"If it succeeds, it will be a great achievement."

"If it doesn't work, the enemy army doesn't know how many of us there are. They will just choose to stick to it and wait for the confirmation. They won't leave the city without knowing what's going on outside the city, unless the defender is a fool. We can still complete the feint attack mission."

"Shangcai was captured by 500 people, even if it is not as good as 800 people broke Fulou, but it is not bad. What do you comrades think?"

(End of this chapter)