warring states careerist

Chapter 955 Wei Yang and Shang Yu
Although this battle concerning the strategy of the world is important, the process of the battle is not intense.

In the first battle of Weishui, Qi's [-] standing army on the eastern front was completely wiped out, and a large number of temporarily recruited farmers and soldiers surrendered.

After the news reached Linzi, Prince Xi of Qi, who was in Linzi's supervisory state, panicked.

The scouts of the Mo family even ran to the vicinity of Linzi, and the city of Linzi was shocked three times a day.

Prince Xi had no choice but to send people to Luoyi to report back immediately, while intending to organize the defense of Linzi City, he did not dare to send troops easily, or he could not gather a mobile force that could fight in the field.

When the news reached Luoyi, the princes were also shocked. They all said that the Mo family's ambitions had been revealed, and they had to fight to the death.

That is to say, but how to fight, it is difficult to negotiate a result.

Qi Houyan wanted to return to the army, but a minister said: "Returning to the army at this time is the right plan to hit the gate."

Many Qi Chen reached a consensus on this point.

However, there are differences on what to do without returning aid.

Some Qi officials believed that what the Mo family stole from Qi State, Qi State snatched it back from Wei Han, and cut off Wei Han to make up for the Mo family's attack.

It's better to make peace with the Mohists and cede the east of Weishui, and Qi will take the opportunity to start a war against Wei and Han, and cede the land of Wei and Han to compensate for the loss of Qi.

Or, join forces directly with Qin State to get rid of Wei and Han, and use Luoyi as the boundary to dominate the east and west.

However, Qi Prime Minister Tianju objected, he said: "Most of the army is in Pingyin and the southwest of Mount Tai. If they return to aid Linzi, it will take a lot of time."

"If you attack the enemy, you must save them. Since the Mo family attacked Jiaodong, your majesty can let the army go south to attack Song."

"Now the ambitions of the Mo family are clear, and the princes know their own interests. The Wei country is weak, and it is difficult to fight alone, but the king is attacking the Song Dynasty, and the Wei must follow."

"If the Song Dynasty is defeated, Han and Wei cannot survive alone, so Han must follow."

"In this way, the Han army can send tens of thousands, the Qi army can still move 30, Wei Wei and the emperor's division can send [-], numbering [-], to attack Song."

"If you go down to Shangqiu, the Mohist will definitely come back to help. Even if you don't return to help, the main force will not dare to move lightly. If the main force does not move, it will be difficult to break Linzi with an army in Jiaodong."

"Although Linzi is not as strong as Pengcheng, it has been repaired for several years. There are more copper cannons and enough food. There are many fighters in the city. As long as they are willing to spend money, they can be hired, and they can always be defended."

"If they return to help, they will hit the Mohists' plan. If the Mohists attack Pingyin and Mount Tai again, Qi will not be able to look after each other. It will be even more dangerous then."

"Besides, if the Jiaodong Mohists are capable of destroying Linzi in a few days, Linzi may already be destroyed by the time the Lord's army returns. If the Jiaodong Mohism cannot destroy Linzi in a few days, what difference does it make if the Lord goes back or not?"

"That's why I said, it's better to take advantage of this opportunity to attack and save them, and drag Han, Wei, and Wei into the water to fight a decisive battle. If you win, Qi can survive; if you lose, Qi will die, and Han and Wei will not survive."

The biggest problem in the joint operations of the princes is not how many common enemies can fight, but the biggest problem is always the allies.

Sometimes it is more important to guard your allies than your enemies.

Now that the princes are not ready, the Mo family suddenly came up with such a move, disrupting the deployment of the princes.

The minister of Qi State who spoke was very clear that attacking Song Dynasty was not the best choice at this time, and the countries could not come up with the most perfect lineup and tacit cooperation in a hurry.

Once the decisive battle fails, the princes will be finished.

But the advantage is that if you fail, you can pull Han Weiwei to die together, instead of saying that Qi State was swallowed and annexed and Han Wei still survived.

Qi Houyan weighed the strategy of cutting Wei and supplementing Qi and the strategy of fighting to the death to die together, and said: "It's very close to my heart."

So he sent people to contact Han, Wei, Wei and other countries without mentioning it.

In the Qin people's building, they learned that the Qi State acted in such a way that the Qin people's opinions were almost unanimous, and that Qi State was betraying the alliance.

Qi Guo did this, where did the people of Qin be restrained?

For the overall situation of anti-Mo, Qin Jun put on such a big advantage in Xihe and did not fight, and sat down to talk with Wei Han, because Qin knew that once the Mo family became bigger and Nanyang and Jianghan were stabilized, the northern princes would have no good fruit to eat. .

At this time, it should be the same as when Duke Huan of Qi respected the king and fought against the barbarians, he treated the southern Chu State unanimously, at least we must work together.

Working together is not just talking about it, but doing it in cooperation with each other.

Qi State wanted to pull Han and Wei to attack Song Dynasty alone, and Qin State was very embarrassed on the issue of Shang Yu's land and Xihe.

If the allied forces of Qi and Han win, what will Qin gain?
All the pressure of the Nanyang Mohist army stationed in Chu must be supported by Qin, otherwise South Korea will not be able to attack Song.

The countries are not ready yet, Qin State can't advance or retreat in Nanyang, but Xihe is negotiating again, Qin State is making wedding dresses for various countries in the end.

Although the princes are going to make an alliance this time, the righteousness is to oppose Mo, but Qin is not willing to be a martyr, and he does not benefit himself and only benefits others.

If this battle is defeated, it is not to mention that it will be more difficult for Qin to attack in Nanyang, and it will completely lose the support of South Korea.

Coupled with the fact that the relationship with the Mohists would be very tense, even the offensive in Xihe might have to be stopped to prevent the Mohists from attacking.

According to the thinking of Qin's monarchs and ministers, in order to oppose Mo's righteousness, Qi should not return to Linzi, nor should it rush into Song at this time, and Wei Qi must be saved if he attacked Mo's.

Instead, we should abandon Linzi, retreat to the east, and stick to the front line of Mount Tai and Pingyin.

Stretching the front of the Mohists made the Mohists unable to attack, and if the Mohists attacked Pingyin and other places, they had to worry that Zhao Guo might cross the Yellow River to interfere.

Once the Mohist front is stretched, a stalemate may form.

In this way, the main force of Qi is still there, and it will not be defeated individually, so that a covenant can be reached to march together to form a military advantage on the two fronts.

In the big picture, that's exactly how it should be.

However, this is a time of great vassal struggles. Qihou Shan is a vassal of Qi, not a high-ranking official of Qi Province in the Zhou Dynasty. Under the great unification, part of the land can be given up to gain an advantage, but under the situation of vassal struggle, this is difficult.

The Mo family had just destroyed the state of Chu, and the state of Qi had previously revealed its intention to carve up the state of Wei by taking advantage of the illness of the state of Wei. Before these two events, how could the state of Qi believe that all countries would do their best to help restore the state of Qi?If the Mo family fails and retreats to Jianghan, maybe the countries will take advantage of the opportunity of Qi's disease to get rid of Qi first.

Although there is a lot of knowledge on Sishang, such as the difference between saving land and losing people and saving people and losing land, Qi's depth and grassroots governance are not enough to do so, because for Qi, saving people and losing land may mean that people lose their land. Gone, the land is gone.

Knowing that the current situation is difficult, Qin Jun had no choice but to send someone to visit Qi Xiang to clarify the pros and cons.

The one who finally chose to be an envoy was none other than Wei Yang, a young man who had been a concubine by Wu Qi's side after entering Qin a few years ago, and was recommended to the center of Qin as Wu Qi became seriously ill and aged.

Since the meeting of a hundred families in Sishang that year, Wei Yang left the Song Dynasty and came to the Qin Kingdom with some fellow disciples.

Shi Jiao and Wu Qi had an old relationship, and through Shi Jiao's recommendation, Wei Yang became an official beside Wu Qi after entering Qin Dynasty.

He likes the study of criminal names, and he grew up under the influence of the penal governance system of the San Jin Dynasty, following the Xihe school of thought.

What Wu Qi did in the west of the Qin State was similar to what he did in Xihe, the two sides were extremely speculative, and Wei Yang was talented, so he quickly stood out.

Wu Qi's policy in the western frontier of the Qin State was a copy of the Xihe military pawn system, because the western frontier of the Qin State was very suitable for the Xihe pawn system, and they also fought those backward nomadic tribes.

However, the system in Xihe has changed slightly.

Wu Qi divided the experience of the Xihe military pawn system into two systems, the Fubing system and the recruiting system.

In Longxi, Yiqu, Wushi and other places, brave people were selected, and they were granted land and horses in the frontier areas, exempted from tax and labor, and formed villages composed of strong, strong and brave people.

People in these villages don't need to pay taxes, and their families don't need to do hard labor. If they don't have women, they go to the tribes outside to rob them. If they don't have land to cultivate, they go to the tribes outside.

Relying on the crops, farming techniques, gunpowder, etc. brought from Sishang, these people still maintain their farming life.

But there is a lot of land, and there are many servants in the family, so there are also many horses. These people are full-time military families, and they are nobles of the army.

When fighting, they generally serve as cavalry and need to pay blood tax instead of their taxes.

These cavalry have good riding skills, but poor discipline, but they are excellent in hand-to-hand combat, surprise attack, sneak attack, and cover-up.

And because of the cooperation of firearms and car battalion techniques, often a Fubing village of 200 people can fight the surrounding nomadic tribes and flee, and even those who dare to do it want to make military exploits, and the villages of several townships will be united together Take action to eliminate some big tribes robbing horses, cattle and sheep.

This military system has sharply reduced the pressure on nomads in the west of Qin State, but the disadvantage is that these villages often rob some caravans for trade in the far west, but because Qin State is mainly public trade, the impact is not very big.

In addition to this military system, there is also a very strict conscription system and recruitment system under the household Shiwu system.

In Inozawa and other places, the conscription system under registered households is adopted, but once the age is reached, one must serve in the army.

A group of Shiwu shared the cattle, and even sat in the criminal law.

If you make meritorious service in the army, you can be promoted to a soldier in the government, you can allocate land, and you can be exempted from taxes.

The officers in the army are all composed of nobles and bastards, who have received a new type of education under the education presided over by those rebels.

This kind of conscription system is practiced in every city, while in remote areas, a military aristocratic system similar to Fubing is implemented.

Relying on the population advantage of the city and the discipline advantage of recruiting troops, it can ensure the force suppression of those upstarts, and at the same time, it can draw enough light cavalry during the war.

Wei Yang doesn't like the military system in the frontier, but he is very good at the Shiwu conscription system under the jurisdiction of the city. The academics he learned from Shijiao and Xihe's criminal names are really at home here, and he quickly gained There is room for development.

People must be able to stand out when opportunities are in front of them.The relationship between Shi Jiao and Wu Qi gave Wei Yang an opportunity, and he also grasped this opportunity.

Wu Qi once said that if the incident in the western frontier was just military, it would only be the work of the five doctors to crush it with the tactics of the Stirrup and Firearms Battalion, and it would not be considered an earth-shattering contribution.

And the most important thing is the rule after defeating, this is the key to make the merit surpass the five doctors.

Under this kind of thinking, what Wei Yang learned was brought into play.

When Wu Qi was seriously ill and old, he also recommended Wei Yang to Qin Jun.

Qin Jun knew about this person before, because the appointment and removal of officials were all ordered by the emperor, and he had meritorious service before. Although the people under his rule were not rich, the people obeyed the law.

After the recommendation and in-depth conversation, Qin Jun also recognized Wei Yang's talent.

(End of this chapter)