Chapter 205 Strategic Conception
After the banquet, I signed a contract, which could be regarded as an explanation to the public representatives.
According to the morality of the Mohist family, there is no obligation to treat the royal family well, nor is there any ceremony of offering sacrifices to the three chariots, so it is impossible to spend money to raise these wastes.
After all, the King of Chu was desperate and surrendered, and it was not the one who took the initiative to follow the will of heaven as soon as the Si army arrived. The difference was self-evident.
This money is nothing more than immigrants to foreign countries, but it is moved by nobles rather than common people, and it is also for the increasing maritime trade to allow some ports to stay in replenishment in the future.
Early the next morning, Pengcheng held a very high-level meeting.
"After this incident, there is no room for compromise with the princes and nobles of various countries. Depriving fiefs and feudal rights and sending them overseas for development is an irreconcilable hatred for them."
"This battle must be continued. We have already made the worst plan and have always considered the worst plan. We are expected to be lenient. But now it seems that the situation is still very beneficial to us. Liuzhi handled it well in Jianghan, and it was a big victory."
Shi did not shy away from the possibility of doing this to the nobles, nor did he hide the possibility of self-disclosure and compromise with the nobles, nor did he dislike that the situation in the future would be extremely cruel.
But the dough has been torn off, so there is no need to talk about that much.
"The Duke of Qi sent people to explore our bottom line, but instead told us one thing, that is, the Qi country is still undecided. Should we take the opportunity to divide the Wei Kingdom into a stagnant battle? Or should we fight to the death with our Mo family?"
"In my opinion, this makes no sense."
Under his instructions, the staff members came to the front to unfold a geographical map of mountains and rivers, which roughly standardized mountains, rivers and cities. This is the most accurate map measured by the Mohist school in recent years using the most primitive longitude and latitude methods and triangle methods.
Shi said to everyone: "The General Staff wants to predict the enemy Yu Kuan, so we will consider the worst. We will unite the princes under the call of the Emperor Zhou, and they will not benefit themselves without any intrigue and completely devote themselves to killing us."
The staff from the General Staff explained the worst possible in front of everyone.
According to the General Staff’s expectations, if countries want to fight to a decisive battle, they will have to at least half a year later.
This is the situation now.
Jiang Han had already obtained the troops and arrived in Nanyang, basically controlling the southern foot of Funiu Mountain.
On the middle line, the Mohist family maintained the Huaihe River line. After Liuzhi met with Nanzheng, Nanhai, Xu Ruo and others, they withdrew the troops of three divisions and captured Shen, Xi and other places, making the entire Huaihe River defense line take shape.
The staff of the General Staff pointed to the city on the map that was still under the control of the Chu princes and said: "If it takes half a year for the princes to send troops, then in the past six months, our top priority is to gather troops, fight another big battle, and seize..."
The map marked the city of Chu, which is some important city north of the Huai River.
There are many cities including Eye, Juyang, Shangcai, Xianghe, etc., which are about the front line of Fuyang to Zhumadian in later generations.
"Once these cities are captured, one can stabilize the defense of the Huai River, and the other can connect the Huai River to Nanyang, bypass the Dabie Mountains, Tongbai Mountains, and Nanyang."
"Three, once the coalition forces of the princes come to attack in the future, this place can be used as the center line, which can not only support and threaten the flanks of the coalition forces of the princes."
"We need to attack and capture Yu, Shangcai, and meet with our army's Chu army at Xianghe Pass in Xianghe Pass in order to connect the east and west battlefields in the offensive before the coalition of princes sends troops."
Everyone's eyes stopped on a city called Xianghe, and all nodded.
If it is just for defense, the east and west lines have been connected together. It can be said that the Qinling Mountains, Xiangfan, Tongbai Mountains, and Huaihe River lines belong to the classic system of defense integration between north and south confrontation.
This is a relatively conservative plan, but now it seems that we should take the initiative, and we must get to the front line of Fuyang to Zhumadian in order to connect the east and the west into a system in strategic offense.
This battle is indeed necessary, and it must be fought as soon as possible, so that a situation of mutual support rather than mutual struggle can be formed.
Xiangheyi is located at the key point of the Zhumadian Great Wall of Chu State and is a key point of attacking from north to south.
Advance can threaten the important towns of Fangcheng and Ye County of Chu; retreat can prevent the coalition forces of the northern princes from directly crossing Funiu Mountain and Yu Nanyang.
It connects to Nanyang in the west and to Song in the east.
In the worst case, the Qin State may attack Danyang from Shangyu in half a year.
The remaining Wei army cooperated with the Han army and the Emperor of Zhou, and the army of the Emperor of the Emperor, and went out of Luyang, joined forces with the remaining forces of the local Chu prince to capture Lushan, and went eastward to Fangcheng and Yecheng, attack Xianghe, and threatened Wancheng Nanyang from the side.
The Korean army may also send an elite force to cross Funiu Mountain and attack Nanyang.
On the middle line, the Han army, Zhao army and the remaining forces of the Chu State in Zheng were used to maintain the middle line, forcing the Mo family's central line army to rescue Nanyang and support Si Shang.
Although the middle line does not attack, it can defend and threaten. As long as it does not take the initiative to attack, the Mo family's middle line army can only choose to confront the city.
In the north, the worst plan is for Zhao to contact the barbarians such as Yan, Donghu, Linhu, Loufan, etc., and siege them from all directions. Zhao can draw troops to go south. This is absolutely possible for the princes to lead the barbarians to attack the enemy. This is not a shame for the princes. There are not so many nobles who truly believe in the meaning of barbarians and Xia.
In the land of Nanzheng, we must be wary of the siege of Ba, Shu and Qin, and Nanzheng must be defended.
On the side of Yue Kingdom, Yue Kingdom was unable to attack north at all. Without a navy, even if you cross the river, once the supply logistics were cut off, Yue Kingdom's current combat effectiveness would be enough to resist the local local legions, and the threat of Yue Kingdom would be ignored.
The Eastern Front should be the most critical. Qi must raise troops to the east and cooperate with the main forces of Han and Zhao, and march along the Danshui and Sui River through the direction of Song.
If the main force is not united, the countries will not dare to move lightly; if the troops are united, the State of Qi will be prepared to attack the Mohist family again.
By this calculation, the military strength of each country is actually limited, and it is impossible to concentrate all together.
It is not just a matter of logistics, but it is impossible for Qin to concentrate all its troops near Daliang; it is impossible for Qi to work hard to concentrate its troops south of Luoyang on an expedition.
In this way, the force can be calculated.
There are 20,000 troops in the Nanzheng area. Due to the terrain, Bashu lags too much behind the Central Plains, which cannot pose an effective threat.
The Qin army may have marched from the Wudu direction, but due to the logistics road factors, the troops would not be too much, and Nanzheng could defend it.
In the direction of Danyang, the Qin army had a maximum field force of 70,000.
If the attack is launched in half a year, even if Liuzhi releases the army of Nanzheng to Nanzheng, the field forces available in his hands will also have some legions in the South China Sea, and some new Chu troops, and there will still be at least 70,000 troops to fight.
If the enemy can be effectively mobilized and while Danyang is defending, it will be possible to eat South Korea's troops bypass Funiu Mountain, then there is no need to retreat to Xiangfan.
If the army of Qi, Han, Zhou and Wei advance in unison, neither advancing nor falling behind, within a range of hundreds of miles, it would be impossible to retreat to Xiangfan and resist with the help of the navy advantage and the continuous new army in the Jianghan area.
On the middle line, the Mo family only needs about 20,000 troops to restrain Wei Hanchu as the support and threatening of the middle line army.
On the eastern front, when Qi State could defend its homeland Linzi, even if it could die the last Qi man and defend the old rules, it might concentrate 60,000 to 70,000 field troops in the direction of Daliang.
In addition, the Han and Zhao army had a maximum of 120,000 to 130,000. If these troops advance in unison, the Mo family could mobilize 120,000 to 130,000 troops to fight in the decisive battle, including several divisions of the Song State.
At that time, by giving up Shangqiu and retreating and migrating the people to strengthen their walls and clear the fields, as long as you seize the opportunity to break one of them, you can defeat them one by one.
Even if the final decisive battle was carried out in the most extreme situation, the Mo family was not afraid. After retreating to the front line of Peiyi, they could use the local terrain advantages and the advantages of internal combat to defeat them.
Moreover, before this, once the Qi army was found to start mobilizing westward, they could directly declare war against Qi, and use cavalry and elite troops to quickly maneuver to the Jishui area. Before the Qi army and Wei, Han, and Zhao army met, they could annihilate the main force of Qi.
Even if there is no such opportunity, the combat effectiveness of Si Shang's comprehensive mobilization of the decisive battle is not something that the princes can imagine. Things that people have not experienced before can be imagined.
The worst possibility is that Nan Zheng was lost; Gaoliu Hetao and other northern borders were destroyed by Zhao State, Yan State colluded with Donghulin and Hu Loufan, and that was the case.
It is nothing more than the western front guarding Xiangyang, Tongbai Mountain and Huaihe River.
After talking about the worst possible, he said: "So I say that the Duke of Qi sent an envoy this time is actually meaningless."
"We have absolute advantages on the Eastern Front. Qi State dare not attack Si Shang alone because he can only go three directions."
"Jucheng, Langya, the front line of the East China Sea, went deep into our territory and went deep into the army alone, in order to seek death."
"Just like the changes in Fei State in the past, when they passed through Lu State and entered Si Shang, it was almost the same as the Eastern Front."
"And from Yuncheng and Heze, after we have been operating for almost 30 years, this... even if he has 100,000 troops, it is still difficult to move forward. With the fortress against the fortress, we have many guns, many people, many food, and many things. This is the stupidest line."
"So the idea of Qi is meaningless to us, and we have already held high the banner of opposing the old system, so don't compromise anymore, otherwise the Xuanyi tribe will find it difficult to turn, and the people will also wonder what to do."
"If the princes unite in half a year, we defend the west and attack the east. As long as we defeat the coalition forces of the princes in the east, we will directly destroy Qi. Qi is our next plan."
A buzzing sounded and discussion for a while, but I felt that this seemingly bold idea was not difficult to realize. It was hard to imagine that it would have been to destroy a great country before, but now it is completely different. Once the coalition of princes on the Eastern Front was defeated, the Mo family would be sure to break the Yellow River in Qi in a short time.
Chapter completed!