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Chapter 954: Turning Passive into Active

Once the eastern front cannot be defended, Linzi will face threats.

The Mohists only need to capture Jimo, Gaomi, and Zhucheng, then the remaining cities can be ignored, and they can use Weishui to transport grain and advance to a place a hundred miles away from Linzi.

This is why the state of Qi appointed Tian Zhongshou as the capital doctor and stationed a standing army in Jimo, but there were only seven thousand.

It is useless to have more, and worry less. The 1 standing army is not too many, and the [-] peasants and soldiers recruited can just deal with the [-] Mohists in the direction of Jucheng.

Before Qi Hou went to Luoyi, then went to Shangqiu, and then recruited troops to gather in Song Dynasty. Naturally, Qi State did not expect that the Mohists would send troops by sea to attack Jiaodong.

No matter how you look at it, it seems that the Mohists are planning to hold on to the northern line and deal with the Yue State in the south first.

The strength of the two divisions is at the mouth of the Huaihe River, and they also declare to the outside world that they will conquer the country of Yue and train them to take boats.

But I never thought that the upper echelons of the Mohists inferred that the Yue State was unable to go north, so they should first solve the Qi State and make the princes break the alliance.

The Mohists did not have many field troops in the direction of Guangling Yangzhou and Jiangkou Haiyang.

However, there is a large population there, and there are also a large number of reserve personnel, so they cannot fight in the field, and there is no problem in defending the city.

The number of field troops that the Mohists can pull out is limited, but the number of militiamen defending the city is sufficient to cope with the possible northward advance of the Yue Kingdom.

In a city of ten thousand households, one brigade of full-time field troops can be recruited, but if the enemy attacks and defends, it can pull out two brigades of reserve and retired soldiers to defend the city, and it is enough to hold it.

Furthermore, the advantage of the boat division is on the Mohist side, and the Yangtze River is a natural danger, which is a natural danger for the north to go south; for the south, it is also a natural danger to go north.

Therefore, the country of Yue will not be destroyed, and even let it go, and first deal with the northern princes with all their strength.

Shi was originally planning to fight back defensively, using the inside advantage to eat the main force of the Han and Qi coalition forces, thus breaking the alliance in one fell swoop.

However, as more and more information came from Luoyi, and the progress of conscription and rule in the Jianghan Nanyang area was smoother than expected, the strategy was changed.

Taking the initiative to attack, turning passive defense into mobilizing the enemy forces, forcing South Korea to be unable to go to Nanyang and Qi to attack Song, thus dividing the vast land of Kyushu into three parts by the coalition forces of the princes.

If the coalition forces of the princes want to take the initiative to attack, they can only take two directions into consideration.

The combined forces of Han and Qin attacked Nanyang; the combined forces of Qi, Zhao, Wei and Wei attacked Song and Sishang.

This is a matter of certainty, not some strange conspiracy, it is the only way for the allied forces of the princes to fight like this.

The coalition forces of the princes in both directions have the ability to take the initiative to attack. The central axis of this initiative to attack the covenant is South Korea, but in fact the core is Qi.

The breaking point lies in Jiaodong.

If the princes take the initiative to seize Jiaodong before the princes are ready, then the Qi State will definitely support Jiaodong from the Jishui area in the southwest of Qi, defend Linzi, and intend to drive the Mohists to the Yimeng Mountains.

As soon as the main force of the Qi State leaves, the door of Han and Wei is wide open, and defending the country is not worth mentioning. South Korea will not send troops to Nanyang, but will choose to guard Zhengdi on the eastern front, so as to prevent the Mo family from mobilizing the main force of the Qi army and leaving. Attack the Central Plains area.

South Korea did not attack Nanyang, and Qin was unable to go to Nanyang on its own. Qin could not move the Mohists’ troops stationed in Chu, and without South Korea sending troops to cover their flanks, even if Six Fingers gave up on Danyang, Qin’s army would not dare to chase them—for fear of being killed. Dumplings were made after cutting off the back road in Nanyang; with the cover of South Korea, the Qin army dared to storm into Nanyang only if it captured Danyang.

If it is ready, the princes will divide their troops into two groups and concentrate their forces before they can take the initiative to attack.

If the Mohists had prepared in advance, it would be easy for the princes to change their strategies.

Only when the princes were about to prepare to attack, the Mohists suddenly turned from defense to attack and pre-emptive strikes, which was the best way to destroy the princes' plan.

In this way, the princes can only divide their troops into three groups.

Once the troops are divided into three groups, none of them has the ability to take the initiative to attack.

South Korea did not have the ability to conquer Song alone, and Qi State did not have the ability to conquer Ju and Yishan alone.

Of course, in this situation, it is actually not easy for the Mohist forces to continue to attack at this time, so they have the strategic idea of ​​​​attacking Jiaodong instead of defending.

When the princes are divided into three groups, no matter which side the Mohist field forces attack, they will also show their flanks.

Nanyang is too far away, so there are not many attacking directions for the Sishang field army to choose.

If the Qi army retreats to Jiaodong, then it is not enough to rely on the strength of the two divisions to annihilate Qi's main force in the field, so the main force must be mobilized.

And once the main force is mobilized to cross Yimeng Mountain, South Korea may invade the Song Dynasty.

Conversely, the same is true for attacking Korea.

But the initiative is in the hands of the Mohists.

Qi State didn't know that the Mo family had a strategy of attacking Jiaodong and not defending it, so Qi State had to send troops back. After all, we can't bet that the Mo family would not dare to attack Linzi, and if Linzi captured Qi State, most of it would be over.

South Korea does not dare to bet whether the Mo family will not give up Jiaodong. In case the Qi army retreats, the Mo family will abandon Jiaodong, retreat to Jucheng, and rely on Yimeng Mountain to resist, then South Korea may be attacked by the Mo family, so South Korea can only give up. Nanyang's plan.

The initiative in war is very important, because the passive party cannot determine what the active party wants to do, especially in a situation where the original active party suddenly becomes passive because the other party changes hands.

At the beginning, the Mohist's strategy of abandoning Shangqiu to lure the enemy into deep anti-encirclement was based on the idea of ​​giving full play to the inside advantage in a weak situation.

However, the grassroots governance in Jianghan, Nanyang, and Huaixi regions has been smoother than expected, which has changed the balance of strength and weakness.

In another year at most, the Mohists will be able to pull out another field army dominated by Huaixi soldiers.

With perfect control of the grassroots in the city and a reasonable training system, even though these Huaixi soldiers are not as good as the most elite divisions in Sishang, it is not a problem to form a field battle.

At that time, the power of the Mohists will have an advantage, and the princes' active offensive strategy will naturally abort.

This year's time has to be won by various means.

It seems that the Mo family didn't plan to attack Jiaojiao this time, but in fact they are still planning to attack.

Now in July, if Qi's army in Zhucheng can be wiped out, the entire Jiaodong will be captured before September.

Food supplies and the distribution of fields among the people cannot get enough support from soldiers in a short period of time, but they are enough to get the support of civilian husbands.

If Linzi is threatened in October, Qi's army will be transferred back from the western front.

If Qi State took the initiative to counterattack and invade Jiaodong, and the Mohists fought and retreated, the army of Qi State would not dare to rush forward rashly, at least in the next year.

The two fortresses of Jiaozhou Bay and Lai are enough for Qi to eat for a while.

The main force retreated to Jucheng, relying on Yimeng Mountain, and Qi was unable to take the initiative to attack, so there would be a stalemate.

The Sishang Field Army in Songdi has always maintained a threat to Jishui and Zhengdi. Relying on the advantage of the long border to take the initiative to attack, it will make South Korea concentrate its forces on the eastern front.

After such a toss, at least until June next year, the princes will not have the opportunity to unite to send troops, or at least not have the opportunity to send troops according to the optimal strategy, so they can only passively defend or attack rashly.

After all this trouble, the time for the princes to jointly send troops will be delayed until at least next winter...or even longer.

After this battle, Qi would never dare to move its main force westward until it captured the fortress of Jiaozhou Bay.However, the Jiaozhou Bay Fortress is backed by the sea, and there are sufficient iron cannons. Without food supplies, it is not a problem to last for half a year. Qi's current siege capability is acceptable, but it is not half a year to attack a fortress like Jiaozhou Bay, which is backed by the sea. Can't attack.

At least another year and a half can be won.

A year and a half later, Huaixi can draw another 3 field troops; Nanyang can pull another [-];

In the worst case, at best, the Marquis of Qi would abandon Linzi and resolutely refuse to send troops back to Jiaodong. Instead, he would choose to fight to the death and invade Song with Han, Wei, Wei and other countries. That was just the previous defensive counterattack strategy. The situation couldn't be worse.

However, this situation also presents great difficulties for Qi.

The main reason is that the Jiaodong area is the fiefdom of many new military aristocrats, the Xuanyuan family, and most of the standing army is the numb peasants in the Jiaodong area recruited, rather than the bourgeoisie of Linzi who have escaped. It is impossible for the upstarts to ignore... They will not let their fiefs be divided by the Mohists, and instill the spirit of resistance into the farmers on the fiefs.

The battle of Zhucheng is very important.

The battle of the princes against the ink, which seems to be overwhelmed by dark clouds, has to decide its future direction on a corner battlefield where there may be only 3 or [-] people on both sides.

(End of this chapter)