warring states careerist

Chapter 953: Turning Passive into Active

Tian Zhongshou is not stupid.

Historically, Tian Dan used his method in Jimo, Chen She used it in Daze Township, and Emperor Huiqin of the Song Dynasty also used it.

The difference is that Tian Zhongshou, Tian Dan, and Chen She really didn't believe it themselves, but Song Emperor really believed it.

Tian Zhongshou actually understands that there are many people in the city who don't believe it, even the nobles.

But he understood that if Jimo City wanted to hold on, the people could no longer rely on it.

Because the premise of this kind of thing is whether you want to keep it or not.

If you want to keep it, some people will find excuses and reasons to believe these things, and people will always want to believe what they want to believe.

If you don't want to keep it, you will feel that asking for an envoy from the gods is a joke.

If Jimo City wants to defend it, it relies on those who want to defend it. It would be meaningless to spend energy on organizing and planning those who don't want to defend it at all.

He knew it was false, but he also knew that many people who knew it was false would always deceive themselves into believing it was true in their desperation.

The Mohists do not engage in massacres, but just let the nobles live on their own and not be silverfish. However, this is actually more terrible than death for the nobles.

Because there is only Kyushu in the world and the world at this time, and there is nowhere to escape if you tidy it up.

Exiled overseas like the captured king of Chu, in the eyes of the nobles, life would be worse than death. Although their ancestors did this, wasn't the ancestors going through the thorns and thorns so that future generations would not suffer so much?How could they be willing to feel it again.

Since Tian Zhongshou is not stupid, he naturally would not choose to go out of the city to fight in the field. He can only hope that he will stick to it and wait for the troops from Linzi and other places to come to help him.

In order to keep it, on the second day he asked the gods, he pretended to be an envoy of the gods and ordered him to convey it, ordering the city to start training personnel.

In order to encourage everyone's courage to defend the city, Tian Zhongshou asked his concubines to be incorporated into the female family members in the city to be responsible for cooking.

My wife and the rest of the noble wives are weaved together and live together in the city to stabilize people's hearts and prevent the nobles from fleeing.

The private soldiers and slaves in the family were incorporated into the troops defending the city.

Tian Zhongshou divided the men in the city into three parts. Once the Mo family came to attack, all the men from 15 to 55 years old had to participate in the defense of the city.

Three people take turns to rest.

Tian Zhongshou also set an example by personally carrying the soil and laying stones, and took out his family's belongings and piled them on the top of the city. As long as he bravely kills the enemy, he will be rewarded.

When eating, although it is not said to eat with the people.

All this is to keep Jimo, Tian Zhongshou's family and everything that his family has enjoyed.

However, the public did not buy it.

Many people who were conscripted to dig the soil began to spread some songs. Although a few were executed, the spread of this kind of songs was not stopped.

Jimo City urgently built a city wall, but the people who carried the earth were not confident whether the rammed earth city wall could defend against the Mohist's copper cannons and the tactics of digging holes to bury explosives.

Moreover, there are not enough weapons in the city, and at most a few thousand people can be trained, and the rest can only use some simple weapons-the price of copper has been lower and lower in the past 20 years, unless some elite troops of Qi State are still using copper. For weapons, the conscripts of peasants and soldiers can only issue some cheap cast iron spears bought from Sishang, which do not even have the process of annealing, which is a common process for agricultural tools.

It is unqualified to be a farm tool, and it is really too bad to be a weapon.

Moreover, the city defense system of Jimo City is still old-fashioned, and the inner city and outer city cannot support each other, which is different from the new-style fortresses newly built by the Mohists in Jiaozhou Bay.

In the old-fashioned city defense, the inner city is the inner city, and the outer city is the outer city. If one of the four walls is breached, the outer city will be broken, leaving only the inner city, and the troops will always be in the same line.

The new-style city defenses are mutual horns. Some important fortresses also have inner walls, but they are double forts. The firearms inside can support and suppress the outside, and the troops are always deployed on a flat surface.

Even if the people who temporarily built the city didn't know about these problems, they also knew that the Mohist's method of attacking the city was not by ants, but by bombing, digging, and exploding.

Even Tian Zhongshou understands that Jimo City may not be qualified to be attacked by the Zigzag trench method used by Mo.

But he has no choice, eating the king's salary and being loyal to the king, besides, he is also a member of the Tian clan, the rise and fall of honor and disgrace are closely related.

There is no other way but to stick to it.

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Contrary to what Tian Zhongshou thought, the Jiexuan army that landed in Jiaozhou Bay did not attack Jimo.

After a brief refurbishment, the forces of the two divisions did not march toward Jimo in the northeast, but quickly turned to the west and attacked Zhucheng.

There is no field army in Jimo, and the field standing army of Jimo, one of the four capitals, is concentrated on the front line of Zhucheng to confront the Mohist army in Jucheng.

Zhucheng and Gaomi are not far from each other.Further northeast is Jimo.

Jimo's field standing army is in Zhucheng, which means that Jimo has no ability to capture Jiaozhou Bay, which the Mohists have operated for a long time, or even send troops to field battles, let alone capture fortresses.

The temporarily recruited citizens, peasants and soldiers can defend the city under strict laws, but they cannot attack the city. The Mohists have long known this.

As early as the time of Mozi, when the Mohists defended the city, they also emphasized going out of the city to attack and counterattack when the siege was not going well.

But Mozi trained the guards of Beicheng, trained professional sword and shield elites, instead of relying on the civilian peasants and soldiers temporarily recruited in the city.

With the city wall as a cage, farmers, soldiers and citizens can still observe discipline.

If you go out of the city to fight in the field, it will be difficult to form an army, and you may be scattered if you rush out.

The senior Mohist's understanding of war is in the same line as that of Shi Shi, or most of the officers grew up under Shi Shi's theory.

The Qi State they see is not the Qi State with a radius of thousands of miles and a hundred and twenty cities.

The Qi State in their eyes is just the Qi State guarded by a 7 field mobile corps.

If this field army is wiped out, then Qi State Hundred and Twenty City will be as defenseless as a girl who has taken off her clothes facing her boyfriend.

As long as Qi's field army is destroyed, the Mo family will win the war against the Mohists. Even if Han, Qin, and Zhao still have troops, it will be useless.

Therefore, from the very beginning, the task of these two divisions was to cooperate with the Jiexuan army in the direction of Jucheng, capture Zhucheng, encircle the [-] field elites and [-] peasants and soldiers facing each other in Zhucheng, and eat up Qi's field forces little by little.

Once these people are eliminated, the Qi State will not be able to produce a field army to the east of Linzi.

There are many cities to the east of Linzi, at least more than 30, and each city can gather hundreds of soldiers, but it is useless.

It is difficult to assemble, and it is impossible to attack if they are scattered in various cities.

The forces that cannot attack or fight in the field are only forces on paper.

is dead, not alive, and negligible.

The two divisions in Jiaozhou Bay divided their troops into one brigade to pretend to attack Gaomi, while the main force marched hurriedly towards Weishui, intending to block the retreat of the Qi army in the direction of Zhucheng.

The Qi army in the direction of Zhucheng has 3 standing troops, and [-] farmers and soldiers newly recruited because of the Mohist attack on Chu, a total of nearly [-].

After the war between Qi and Mo, the Mo family seized Jucheng, which made the border between Qi and Mo very unfavorable for Qi.

The east line of the Great Wall of Qi State relies on the sea and Yimeng Mountain. When Jucheng belonged to Qi State, Qi State had an advantage in defense.

If the Mohists want to attack from the east, they have to go to Yimeng Mountain and capture Jucheng, and then they can go straight to Linzi.

However, after Jucheng was ceded, the eastern front of the Great Wall of Qi was under the control of the Mohists, and the Yimeng Mountains were also under the control of the Mohists, and Qi was on the defensive.

The Mohists can attack if they want to, and they can defend if they want to.

And if Qi State wants to attack, it must first capture Jucheng, cross Yishan Mountain, and then enter the East China Sea and Langya of the Mohist family, and continue south to threaten the Mohist side.

The terrain is narrow and supplies are not easy.

If Qi State takes the initiative to attack on the eastern front of Qi State, or the boat division wins the Mohist navy, copying the miracle of the Qi-Wu naval battle to control offshore supplies.

Otherwise, they can only rely on Yimeng Mountain for supplies, and then attack Jucheng, Langya, and Lanling, and attack for hundreds of miles, before they can threaten the core area of ​​the Mohist family.

It is no longer possible for the navy of Qi State to win the navy of the Mohist School, so in fact, if Qi State takes the initiative to attack on the eastern front, it can only cross Yimeng Mountain and take the road of Jucheng, Langya, and Lanling.

And this road... is full of dangers.

Firstly, it is the Mohist's inner line. The Mohist can mobilize troops to take advantage of the insider line to break through, and that is not the core area of ​​the Mohist family. The core area of ​​the Mohist family is hundreds of miles away in Pengcheng, Peiyi, and Huaibei.

Second, once the supply is cut off, the Qi army attacking on the eastern front is likely to be wiped out between the cities of Langyaju.

But the reverse is not the same.

If the Mohist attack from the east, the eastern section of the Great Wall of Qi will be controlled by the Mohist. In the battle between Qi and Mo, the Mohist got Yimeng Mountain and Jucheng, and gave up the layout in the southwestern part of Qi, so that if the Mohist attacked, they could use Jucheng as the foreground. out base.

To the east of Jucheng are Zhucheng, Gaomi, and Jimo.With these three cities, Jiaodong can be settled.

To the northwest of Jucheng is the Weishui plain area, all the way to Linzi, with no mountains, no water, and nothing to do.

Weishui originated in the Yimeng Mountains, and entered the sea from the Bohai Sea. The Mohists could rely on Weishui to transport supplies and go downstream.

In the struggle between Chu and Han in the later generations, Han Xin decided the Three Qis in the first battle of Weishui, which was determined by the topography: if Weishui was won, Jiaodong could be settled and Linzi could be attacked.

But for the party going south, Jiaodong, Weishui, Jucheng, and Yimeng can only play a role as a flank at most, and cannot become the main force.

In the conflict between Chu and Han, the Han army violated the alliance of the gap and invaded Sishang along the current Han and Song lands; Qi Wang Hanxin and others also flanked Sishang Pengcheng from the eastern front.

If Han and Song did not gather their main forces, even the Marquis of Huaiyin would not dare to go south from Qi to Pengcheng along the East China Sea, because that would be the way to death.

Such a situation makes the current situation facing Qi State extremely embarrassing.

The Mohists are aggressive, and they must be the one to take the initiative to attack. Qihou has understood this truth since the Qi-Mo War.

So an embarrassing situation arises.

If the Qi State does not send its main force to Daliang, Qixinan, and Jishui to cooperate with the Han, Wei, and Wei armies, it will not be able to attack Sishang in the Song Dynasty, and it will not be able to mobilize the main field force of the Mohists, nor will it be able to move from the east line to Jucheng and Langya. attack.

However, Qi's military strength is not enough to attack on two fronts, and the coalition forces of the princes are not enough to attack on two fronts, so Qi's garrison in the direction of Zhucheng is neither too much nor too small.

If there are too many garrisons, then the strategy that should have been a decisive battle in the Song Dynasty and an outflanking of Jucheng and Lanling on the flanks, there will inevitably be insufficient troops in the main attack direction.The troops in the main attack direction are insufficient, and the troops on the flanks rush forward rashly, which means death. Once the retreat is cut off, the entire army will be wiped out.

There are insufficient troops in the main attack direction, and the flank troops are useless.

There are fewer garrisons, and the Mohists are the main attacking side. The Yimeng Mountains and the Great Wall defense line are occupied by the Mohists.

(End of this chapter)