warring states careerist

Chapter 971
Ao Sun Zhongzi consciously saw the essence of the problem, and said: "Qi and Han are at odds, so my strategy can tie Qi and Han together. If they live together, they will live together, and if they die together, they will die together. I also understand the Mohism's heart. It means it."

"With my plan, there will be no danger."

But he didn't expect that as soon as he finished speaking, a heavy scabbard flew straight over and hit him in the face.

A back molar was knocked off by the scabbard, and the person who threw the scabbard cursed: "I can't blame the Mo family for saying that some people are dead bones in the tomb, and they are talking about you people."

"Going out can't be a general who knows how to win thousands of miles, and entering can't be a rich country and a strong army. You can only engage in some magic tricks. You can follow the rules, and you can't do anything when you encounter the Mohist who smashed the rules."

"If you are really capable, why did the Son of Heaven fail to gather 6000 troops when he sent troops?"

What he said was a bit embarrassing, and Sun Zhongzi covered his face and stared at the other party in surprise, and found that he was a veteran of Qi State.

The veteran hand was very strong, and after tossing Sun Zhongzi, he said: "It's like you are a pig, knowing that someone wants to eat you, but you don't want to run away, but want to break that person's chopsticks first. Heart Thinking, people always need chopsticks to eat pigs, and I just need to break his chopsticks, and there is nothing he can do.”

"But I don't know that people eat with chopsticks just to avoid getting their hands dirty. If you really don't have chopsticks, you can use your hands!"

"You are that pig. You don't want to escape, but you want to break other people's chopsticks! People have people's hearts, if you really know people's hearts, why is the world like this? Incompetent, how can you bark like this?"

After Sun Zhongzi was scolded like this, he refused to be humiliated, and thought that a man would die if he was humiliated, so he tore his face today!
He covered his chin with one hand, and the corners of his mouth were bleeding from the fallen molars. He cursed indistinctly: "Isn't it your fault that the world has become like this?"

"Why does the emperor need a rich country and a strong army? The emperor has an order, and the princes follow it, divide the feudal state, defend the capital, and the ministers of the emperor don't need a rich country and a strong army! If you don't abide by the rules and laws, how can the world be chaotic? You have Ambition leads to chaos, but how can we say that those who obey the rules are incompetent?"

This is tantamount to blaming the princes for their failure to abide by the rules, and now they have led to such a dangerous situation, but they actually blame themselves for being incompetent, saying that they cannot become generals, rich countries and strong armies.However, if you all abide by the rules, how can the emperor need a rich country and a strong army?
He thought so, but the mocking voice on the other side was even harsher.

"It's ridiculous and pedantic! Could it be that the world's rituals and music are only now beginning?"

"The world is like this, and the nations are in conflict. There are only three ways to go."

"Either Zhongni traveled around the world like in the past, in order to reshape the rituals and music, and the world will be settled, and he will not hesitate to spend his whole life in the wind, food, and desolation, only to hope that the world's orders come from the emperor, the state's orders come from the princes, and return to the world of Zhou ritual authority. "

"Either the general enters the prime minister, the country is rich and the army is strong, and if the emperor is strong, who would dare to disobey the rules? In the past, when the enmity of the ninth generation of Qi was enmity, the emperor killed the prince of Qi, but the people of Qi never dared to resent the emperor."

"Either they are like Yang Zhu, Mo Di, and Lao Dan, seeking the way, following nature, re-establishing rules, and establishing another law."

"Of these three, which one do you know? Which one can you do? The Mohists say that you and others are dead bones in the tomb, that's absolutely true!"

Sun Zhongzi was speechless when he was scolded by the other party. He only felt that the other party's strong words were unreasonable, but it was difficult to find the words to refute.

Zhou Tianzi was so frightened that his face turned pale. He knew that the authority of the emperor was useless in this situation. He said it so bluntly, which made it clear that he was not going to give the emperor any face at all.

Qi Guo didn't want to follow Sun Zhongzi's plan. In that case, if the army slowly descended south to Hongshui before withdrawing, it would probably be completely surrounded.

Just like what the veteran said, eating with chopsticks is just to prevent your hands from getting dirty, but it doesn't mean that you can't eat without chopsticks.As a pig, you should think about how to escape, not about breaking the chopsticks of the person who wants to eat him.

It is true that the Mo family sent out suspicious soldiers before to dismantle the central army and the right wing, but now it seems that the purpose has been achieved, it is precisely for the purpose of defeating each.

But it doesn't mean that the two armies and the Mo family have nothing to do, at most it will be more uncomfortable to eat.

The root cause of the stalemate at this time is who withdraws first.

If the order to withdraw the troops is issued immediately and each department finds its own way, the [-] Korean troops will undoubtedly be the easiest to withdraw.

Now that the Mo family has made such a big battle, it is obvious that the target is not just the [-] Korean army in Yangxia, and if the target is really Yangxia, they can quietly gather their troops in the south of Shangqiu.

If the information about the northeast direction given by the scouts is true, the Mo family is obviously planning to eat the main force of the allied forces of the princes near Shangqiu.

If so, Yangxia's [-] Korean troops can definitely run away when the order to withdraw is given now, because the Mohist division in the direction of Cheng Kuang will definitely let Yangxia's Korean troops slip away and block the retreat of the main force of the coalition forces .

The prerequisite for the Qi army to withdraw now is to use the [-] Han army in Yangxia as a bait to go north to Chengkuang to attract the partial division of the Mohists.

The main force rushed to the north of Chengkuang quickly, regardless of what to do with the [-] Korean troops.If the [-] Korean army can complete the task well, there is a high probability that they will be besieged by the Mohists between Cheng Kuang and Yang Xia.

This is where the differences lie: Qi’s thinking is correct from the perspective of the overall situation, but this overall situation is not the overall situation of South Korea, but the overall situation of the so-called princes and emperors in the world. Will South Korea be willing to give up the last field for martyrdom? The troops even block the risk of destroying the country?Does South Korea believe that Qi will not save Linzi after withdrawing its troops, but will defend South Korea's capital in the Central Plains for South Korea's abandonment of Jiaodong and Linzi?
Therefore, the so-called overall situation of Qi State is meaningless. South Korea does not want to make martyrdom sacrifices, and uses South Korea's ancestral temple to make bricks and tiles for the continuation of the princes.

Therefore, it is obvious that Sun Zhongzi's remark was kind and muddled, and it was approved by South Korea.

At least, it's either all alive or all dead, and it's not like saying that Qi Guo ran away and died in South Korea.

The Minister of Qi State wanted to continue attacking Sun Zhongzi to veto this plan, but Han Hou came forward and said: "The words of Sun Zhongzi are quite big. When Han Qi sends troops, the alliance vows first, and they must not withdraw privately. I am Han Hou. Consider for Han thirty thousand soldiers."

"Now only when Qi Han is of the same mind can things be done."

Qi Xiang Tianju asked: "If Qi and Han are of the same mind, why can't the [-] Han troops in Yangxia go north to accept Kuang for the overall situation? If they are of one mind, the Han army will be the Qi army, and the Qi army will be the Han army. They should be one. Give up the little one and protect the big one."

"Now Hanhou says that Qi and Han are of the same heart, but in his heart he still separates Han Jun and Qi Jun. Isn't this what he says but what he doesn't mean?"

Hanhou no longer wants to be reasonable, and if he is reasonable, there will only be those words of trust or distrust. They are all princes, how can they be so naive to believe in allies?
If they really withdraw, it is very likely that the Qi army will abandon the Han army and march towards Linzi as soon as they arrive at Yongqiu.

No matter how beautiful the promise is now, even if he swears to ghosts and gods in front of the emperor, Han Hou will not believe it.

So Han Hou said coldly: "Unless this matter is a compromise between Sun Zhongzi and Sun Zhongzi, I will order Duan Duan to withdraw the army now. The army will disperse and retreat separately."

Now Han Hou, Qi Hou, and Zhou Tianzi are not very dangerous, because if they want to run away, they may not be able to escape alone with the servants around them.

But once that happens, the main force of the more than 6 coalition forces will completely collapse, and they will be abandoned without a fight, and the most elite field force in Qi will be completely ruined.

Qi's plan to withdraw troops by the same route must be supported by South Korea. If South Korea does not support it, withdrawing troops by the same route will lead to death.

South Korea also finally grasped the weakness of Qi State, and no longer reasoned with Qi State, but threatened to die together.

Either according to the compromise plan, go south to Hongshui now, meet in Yangxia, and withdraw from Yangxia.

Or, now the Han army in Yangxia will run away, and Han Hou in the coalition army will also go to Yangxia lightly, throwing all the Qi army here, and let Qi Hou choose whether to run alone with Han Hou or stay here and wait captured.

Qi Guo really wanted to scold him for his lack of strategy and strategy, and going south to Hongshui is more than auspicious.

It has already penetrated deep into Sishang, but now it will go further south. At that time, the Chengkuang and Chenku County divisions will surround them like gadflies that smell blood. Whether the nearly [-] troops can break through is all up unknown number.

Once this is the case, the possibility of the Qi army or the Han army withdrawing alone will be ruined.

But the benefits are also obvious. At that time, Han and Qi will be like grasshoppers on the same rope, living and dying together, but there will be fewer conflicts.

The elites in the era of aristocratic enfeoffment like Sun Zhongzi are thinking about the right direction. When allies fight, they must consider stabbing each other with knives. This is a priority.

Therefore, when the elites of the old aristocratic era considered problems, they had to consider the hearts of the people first, and how to avoid ambiguity between allies, and then they could consider victory or defeat on this basis.

If you can't even do the former, you are actually not qualified to consider victory or defeat at all.

Although the old general of Qi State scolded fiercely, it was all bullshit.

It is said that it is for the overall situation, whose overall situation?Is Qi's overall situation the same as South Korea's overall situation?Why should South Korea give up its last viable force for the overall situation of Qi?

When Sun Zhongzi saw that Han Hou said so, he also covered his mouth and said: "That's exactly the case. In the battle of the allies, the most taboo is not to be in the same heart."

"If the princes are of one mind, why would the hundreds of Mohist schools shake the world? Mo Zhai is a great talent, but the tens of thousands of Mohists are mostly mediocre. If the princes are of one mind, why are there today's troubles?"

"I heard Wu Qi once said that if you are not in harmony with the country, you cannot send troops; if you are not in harmony with the army, you cannot go out in battle;

"If you want to fight the Mohist now, how can you not make peace with the army?"

"The only way is to retreat to Zhecheng and work together to make peace between Qi and Han."

"At that time, if you live, you will live together, and if you die, you will die together. This is what is called death and then life."

"If you don't have your own thoughts, how can you fight even if you have a hundred thousand troops?"

He has a very standard old aristocratic thinking with dead bones in the tomb. If he can't solve the problem of the princes' concentricity from the "Tao", that is, the root cause, then use "skills" to force the princes to be unanimous.

In this way, it is reasonable to let the princes work together, abandon the small and protect the big, and at the same time let Qi withdraw and not run away to defend South Korea with arms.

The trick here is to find a way to mix Han Jun and Qi Jun together to restrain each other, so that no one can run first or everyone will die together.

Han Hou grasped Qi Guoyuan's weakness in retreating troops.

After arguing for about a morning, Qi Guo had no choice but to accept South Korea's proposal and chose a compromise and muddy solution.

That is to say, the Qi army that besieged Ningling immediately withdrew from the siege, set up defenses between Ningling and Shangqiu, and blocked the main force of the Mohists for at least a day with [-] troops, buying time for the main force of the coalition to withdraw southward.

The main force of the allied forces went south and crossed Hongshui; while the Yangxia Han army was firmly defending Yangxia, they sent an army eastward to Zhecheng to attack the Mohist suspects in Kuxian and other places.

The main force of the coalition forces and the Han army will meet in Zhecheng, then from Zhecheng to Yangxia, and from Yangxia through Gucheng and retreat to Xu.

(End of this chapter)