warring states careerist

Chapter 959
The plan of the empty city is empty, and doubts arise from doubts; when rigidity is soft, strange and complex.

It can be used both positively and negatively.

The current balance of power between the enemy and ourselves is completely different from the situation in which he was about to abandon Shangqiu and lure the enemy into Shanfu.

In addition, the preparations of the princes are hasty this time, not because they are fully prepared and have the combined efforts of Zhao, Wei, Wei, Han, and Qi, so there is no need to give up so much.

At this time, if the princes attack Sishang, they must attack Xu first.

After attacking Xu, they can split into a joint attack, and they will be under the city of Shangqiu to cover the flanks.

If you want to fight a war of annihilation, you must annihilate the enemy all the way, then you need to mobilize the enemy army in a very narrow space to make it vulnerable, and create a time difference to defeat the main force of the enemy army all the way.

Now the Mohist side has a great advantage, not to mention the military strength, the princes don't know that the main force of the Mohist is gathering in Pei, Feng and other places to hide.

They thought it was appropriate to march towards Laiwu with the main force, and it would take some time even to return to the division.

And the Mohists can take advantage of this.

Judging from all aspects of the situation, it is very likely that the main force of the coalition forces of the princes will march from Yongqiu in South Korea.

Yongqiu, the capital city of Qi State where people worry about the sky, and later Qi County, is not far from Daliang.

There is a canal in Daliang at this time, which is the best place for logistics transfer of princes.

Along the canal, water and sand can pass through.

Eighty miles south of Yongqiu is Yangxia.

Yangxia is a hundred miles west, that is Xu.

Xu Xiangxi is South Korea's Xiangcheng, Ye, Fangcheng, Xianghe and other important checkpoints occupied by the Mohists.

It is very likely that the allied forces of the princes will attack Xu first, and at the same time divide the troops to defend, and then send field mobile troops to attack Yangxia westward.

At that time, the real main force will be able to send troops out of Yongqiu, attack Ningling, threaten Chuqiu and Anyang, and then threaten the fortification area of ​​Heshui Taoyi, which the Mohists have operated for many years.

The task of the allied forces of the princes who captured Yangxia was to cover the flanks of the main force, block the Mohist troops in Chen and Xiang, and prevent the flanks from outflanking.

This tactic of splitting up and attacking together requires a high degree of cooperation. If either side takes a few steps fast or slow, problems may arise.

War is a kind of science, and there is an optimal solution in theory, but it is difficult to achieve it in practice.

If the princes want to play the best situation, they must achieve the ultimate cooperation.

The Wei army, the army of Wei Lin Qiu Chengyang, and part of the army north of Juye in the state of Qi will attack Heshui when the Han army captures Xucheng, and divert the direction of Heshui.

Once the Han army broke through Xu, the main force of the coalition forces of the princes could send troops from Yongqiu.

And when the main force of the allied forces sent troops from Yongqiu, the main force of the Han army in Xudi would also march towards Yangxia.

When the main force of the Korean army besieged Yangxia, the main force of the coalition forces was going to march to Ningling.

Not too fast, not too slow.

If the main force of Yongqiu's coalition forces started to leave Yongqiu and attack Ningling before Xu Di was captured, then its right wing would be completely exposed.

What the Mohists are best at in field battles these years is to quickly outflank, and the coalition forces of the princes must take precautions.

If Xudi is captured and the Han army has captured Yangxia and continues to march towards Xiangcheng, but the main force of the coalition forces is still in Yongqiu, then the Han army will face the danger of being surrounded.

The most perfect cooperation between the two main forces is to always maintain a safe distance of about a hundred miles. If either side is attacked, the other side can quickly support it.

The so-called empty city strategy does not mean scaring away the opponent by relying on an empty city.

Instead, it used the stereotyped style of Mohism's more than [-] years of field battles to intimidate the princes along the way, and at the same time lure the princes of the other way to advance rashly.

The reason is quite simple.

The purpose of Qi State this time is to force the Mohists to withdraw their troops, so as to relieve the threat of Linzi, so it cannot be too slow.

However, the main force of the Mo family has always been hidden in the line of Pei and Feng, making the princes believe that the Mo family's troops in Sishang are insufficient at this time.

Therefore, the purpose of this empty city strategy is not for the enemy on the road below the empty city, but another enemy army eighty miles away from the empty city.

If the empty city is withdrawn, the enemy troops in the direction of Xu, Yangxia, and Xiang must worry that this is the Mohist's strategy to lure the enemy in. Although they will not see the empty city and refuse to enter, they will definitely send out scouts, advance carefully, and slow down their speed.

The enemies on the front line of Xu, Yang Xia, and Xiang must be only the flanks, and cannot be the main force.

Because the princes knew that Pengcheng could not be captured, the best result would be to capture Shangqiu or besiege Shangqiu to force the Mohist main forces to retreat.

However, if the enemies on the front line of Xu and Yangxia did not attack Shangqiu, and the main force went straight to Pengcheng, they would have to pass through Fulisai and Dangshan City, which had been run by the Mohists for a long time.

Therefore, the task of the enemy troops on the front line of Xu and Yangxia is to ensure the right wing of the main force of the coalition forces and prevent them from attacking Shangqiu from going south for a while.

If we can send a small number of troops in the direction of the main force of the coalition forces on the center line, but not too many or too much; at the same time, we can make an empty city to lure the enemy on the right side of the coalition forces, and deliberately send scouts to harass and expose the intention...

This is very likely to induce the coalition forces to make a wrong judgment: the number of Mohist field troops in Sishang is not enough to eat the main force of the coalition forces, so they dare not move the main force of the coalition forces, so they choose a small number of troops to die; The Mohist field army intended to lure the coalition forces on the right to advance aggressively, using an empty city to lure them, wanting to fight a war of annihilation, destroy their right wing and force the coalition forces to retreat.

Once the troops can be properly mobilized to induce the coalition commander to think in this direction, then opportunities may arise.

The coalition forces did not dare to procrastinate. If they procrastinate, there will be no results. It is very likely that the Mo family will take down Linzi first and then return to aid.

Then, after making a wrong judgment, the commander of the coalition army is very likely to advance with the main force, and use the threat of attack to destroy the Mohists' attempt to wipe out his right flank.

Or think that the main force of the Sishang troops of the Mo family are all looking for opportunities to set up an ambush on the right, and the main force of the coalition forces can drive straight into Shangqiu.

At that time, the small number of Mohists' troops in the middle will make the coalition commander believe that the Mohist's intention is to flank the right flank.

Because at that time, all the coalition forces will only need to attack, and the part of the deadly defenders who pretend to be bluffing will not be able to defend and retreat, which will make the coalition forces believe that the center is false and the right is false.

This empty city strategy is used in reverse rather than positively. It is not to scare the enemy from marching, but to encourage the enemy to take the initiative to attack.

With such an empty city plan placed on the right, the coalition forces of the princes can only think in two directions.

Either they think that the Mohists are shrinking their forces to defend the central army, abandoning the right wing, and gathering forces to shrink the front to confront each other; The situation forced the Allied forces to retreat.

In order to deceive the enemy, it is necessary to try every means to induce the commander of the coalition forces to think about the second possibility, to be deceived by the empty city and be seen by the opponent as real, but the reality is empty and false.

The best result is that the enemy army believed in the second possibility, and made a judgment based on this, and the Chinese army took the initiative to attack Shangqiu, making the center and the right a distance of about a hundred miles.

Once this distance is widened, the real main force of the Mohists will have the opportunity to wipe out the main force of the central army of the coalition army with a huge advantage in strength, and then use light cavalry and first boarding the camp to cut off the rear of the right army of the coalition army and completely destroy it. The annihilation battle of Qi and Han's last field army.

If it can be achieved, then this should be the last battle in the Central Plains. In the east, Linzi can be broken to drink the Yellow River;

If it is not achieved, the intention is exposed in advance, and the enemy is not fooled, then at most it will be exposed that the main force of the Mohists is not in the direction of Laiwu, and the Qi and Han coalition forces will withdraw, then it will return to the previous plan: let Qi go back to Jiaodong, time-consuming It was dragged to Jianghan and Huaixi to be completely stabilized.

This is not the time to worry about the interference of the allied forces of the princes during the Song Dynasty coup. Now that the advantages are all there, there is no need to be too nervous to tremble because there is no way out.

The more this is the case, the clearer the mind will be, and it will be easier to let go if you are not nervous.

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Generally speaking, the people of Song Dynasty still supported the war against the princes.

The peasants in the western part of the Song Dynasty were affected by the policies of the peasant family, and their small life was not bad.

In the eastern part of the Song Dynasty, although there are some bad complaints, on the whole, no matter how bad the Mohism is, the nobles must be stronger, at least they still support it for the time being.

The eastern part of the Song Dynasty is not a traditional directly-administered area of ​​Mohism, but more like a colony, so the people there are actually very dissatisfied, and there is room for conservative and reactionary thoughts to spread there.

Many people complained: "The first class is workshop owners and big businessmen; the second class is village farmers, self-cultivators, craftsmen; Work in the workshops of the city."

This is not to blame some people complaining, it is indeed like that.

The life of the owner farmers is much better than that of the farmers who supported private ownership and are now bankrupt due to land annexation.

Under the condition of not going bankrupt, the self-cultivating farmers have a family of more than [-] mu of land, one or two cows and one or two horses, plowing in spring and harvesting in autumn, leisurely and prosperous.

But those farmers who supported private ownership but went bankrupt due to various reasons are quite different.

They lost their land. In order to support the cheap labor needed by industry and commerce, the Mohists did not take the initiative to accept them to join the joint farming in the name of some local schools of thought that follow nature, rule by doing nothing, and turn everything into morality. The communes or the redistribution of land made them have to go into exile in the city and become hired workers in workshops.

But the Mohists didn’t accept it completely, but used a price control method to force the hired workers here to be in a situation where they were more than before and less than others.

If it is too difficult, these people's congresses can leave the city and go to Sishang to join a joint farming society with somewhat harsh conditions to obtain land.

This makes some local workshops and land laborers not too miserable. In fact, this less miserable stems from the technological leap brought about by technological progress and the popularization of high-yield crops, rather than the system in the eastern part of the Song Dynasty. There are benefits.

However, it is difficult for the people to distinguish, and it is not too miserable. Whether they support or oppose it has no effect on the overall situation.

The main force of the Sishang Liberation Army is those village communities whose land is prohibited from being traded, public workshops and mines, some fanatical and enthusiastic small producers and citizens, and some village communities controlled by farmers.

As for those who work as hired workers on the workshop land, they are not the ruling class. Of course, a new group of new classes that have emerged in Sishang will not consider issues from their perspective when they formulate laws.

In some places, there is still a market for reactionary thoughts.

After all, if there were no wars and chaos, the era of feudalism and serfdom could still achieve pastoral fantasies. After all, the land was not bought and sold, and the neighbors did not buy land.

But at this time, due to the limitations of the times, those who accept these reactionary thoughts are neither the main force of the soldiers nor the main force of taxation, and the number is not very large. From the current point of view, they are still dispensable and cannot affect the situation of the world. class power.

They are the gravediggers of the new era, but this group of gravediggers are still in a state of ignorance at this time, and the only way they can think of to resist is to go to the co-cultivation cooperative to fight for more than a hundred acres of land. cattle; or they believe that the lamentation of the nobles is half elegy and half curse, and feel that it is better to go back to the era when the villages and lands could not be bought and sold, and the nobles could still be rewarded with a few cups of bitter wine during festivals and sacrifices. There is a piece of land.

They are not the majority, and their influence is quite insufficient now, and the industry and commerce in Sishang has not yet developed to the point where they become the mainstream of the population, so generally speaking, the people of Song still support war against the princes.

Many people lack passion, but are forced by laws and regulations, and have to respect it, but it is enough.There are not many people who benefit the world subjectively, but there are enough people who have to benefit the world objectively based on rules and laws.

(End of this chapter)