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Chapter 36 Mobilization Order

After the general strategic discussion, it was all about weakening the State of Song, controlling the State of Song, and intimidating various countries to use appeasement policies and not send troops.

Gong Zaoye finally asked: "If Wei, Chu, Han and Qiyue really send troops... then he can only fight."

"Didn't the General Staff have a plan long ago? This possibility has always existed, and specific strategies have been formulated."

"Once Wei, Chu and Han send troops, regardless of whether Qi State is participating or not, they must first attack Qi State, conquer Linzi, and dismantle Qi State."

"If Qi State has joined forces, we will fight, but if Qi State has not joined forces, we will fight. First solve Qi State and force Wei, Chu and Han to join forces."

The Mohist school’s strategic concept was to start with Chu and then Central Plains, but there were plans for various unexpected situations, because sometimes others might not follow their own ideas, and they always needed a preparation.

Qi is innocent, even if it is very likely that it will not be able to join the alliance due to its own threat, once the Central Plains War breaks out, the first one to fight will inevitably be Qi.

One is that the southwest Qi region has a good people's foundation, and the other is that the collapse of Qi can prevent Qi from gathering its strength in the short term.

And, most importantly, leave more time for yourself to prepare.

In the battle five years ago, Wei, Chu and Han must have learned lessons. It is impossible to continue using the strategy of splitting troops and joining forces, and they are worried that they will be defeated and eaten by the Mo family.

However, once the troops are united, the huge logistical pressure makes it impossible for countries to maintain a war for too long, and a nationwide famine will occur, especially under the system of unity of peasants and soldiers.

Moreover, if Wei, Chu and Han join forces, it will take longer, and a gathering point for alliances and troops. During the assembly process, fighter planes may be defeated one by one.

Furthermore, since you want to fight, it is impossible to fight around the State of Song.

The Song Dynasty is a plain with no danger to defend, and it is not like the Si Shui area is full of new-style city defenses.

The pressure faced by Wei, Chu and Han was also extremely huge. Five years ago, the Mo family jumped out of the inside line and confronted the country of Fei and Qi. However, the main force directly penetrated into Qi, besieging Linzi to rescue funds, and the whole of Si was stable.

If the fight really starts this time, you can use the same method. Wei, Chu and Han may be attacked. If they want to join forces under the logistical pressure and the threat of Si, they will inevitably leave heavy troops to guard them.

If Wei, Chu and Han join forces, the preparation time will take at least one year. The longer the preparation time, the more time the diplomatic mediation in the directions of Qin, Zhongshan and Zhao will be. Even if Qin does not send troops to watch the tiger fight, it will definitely put huge psychological pressure on Wei.

As long as one is annihilated and the situation of defending south and attacking north, Wei will most likely choose to defeat the alliance. Once Wei retreats, Han, who is in Zheng, cannot continue to fight. If only Chu is left, it would be easy to say.

If only Chu State is left, at most two victories will be won. Once Chu State suffers heavy losses, the conflicts accumulated by the entire Chu State due to reforms will break out.

The prince Zang cannot have children without children, and the prince's good husband stands on the side of the nobles to covet the position of the prince. The King of Chu has been centralizing the power and aristocrats complaining. If the King of Chu defeats Si Shang, everything is easy to say, but as long as he fails once or twice, the State of Chu will wait for civil strife.

However, the top leaders of the Mohist family were unwilling to fight now because they were not prepared enough. The rebellion in the South China Sea area had just subsided, and the large number of people there had not been converted into the basic market, and there might be major problems in the economy of Si Shang once war started.

Everyone present knew these situations. Shi finally concluded: "If we really fight, we will certainly have great difficulties, but the difficulties of Wei, Chu and Han countries are not smaller than ours. At that time, we will be more resilience."

"It is certainly good not to fight. But if you really want to fight, you don't have to worry. Our difficulties are not as good as them, and their internal conflicts will be even deeper due to defeat and long-term wars."

"In particular, it should be noted that in the past, countries may have accepted the way of peace by changing the monarch, or the reason for the war by punishing the monarch."

"But they have no other reason to fight against us, except to fight against equality, sages, and stop wars to make the people rich. What they have to do is to eradicate us, but once they do this, it is equivalent to being enemies with all the people in Si Shang, and sympathize with the world that we recognize our people as enemies."

"They will perish after all. I originally thought of preparing a coffin for them later and letting them perish, but if they can't wait to die now, then we must not stop killing them."

After persuading everyone, Shi personally drafted the "Special Exercise Mobilization Order" and signed and sealed, the main content of this meeting was over.

Before dawn, the envoy led by a committee member was assigned to 600 cavalry and two professional artillery companies, and quickly went to the State of Song.

As soon as dawn, news of the coup in Song State was spread. The envoy of the King of Chu hurriedly asked for a meeting, but the Mo family refused to meet on the grounds that there was no time for the time being. The soldiers of a company of garrisons stationed directly near the envoy of the King of Chu State, making an attitude that they did not want to talk to the State of Chu.

By noon, the efficiency of centralization of Si Shang began to show.

With Pengcheng as the center, along the well-connected road, the commanders holding special flags in their hands galloped towards all directions of Si Shang.

In the afternoon, outside a very ordinary village in the upper reaches of Si Shui.

The people of the village are digging canals in full swing. The weather is a bit dry this year. Fortunately, the canals dug a few years ago have been watered. Although the output will be affected, it is not at least not as grainy as in the deserted years.

Under the premise that there are many lands and few people, villages and communities in Sishui and the northern Jiangsu plains below basically adopted collective cooperation under the propaganda orientation and interests.

The original clan villages and communities are still in their own way, and there is a lot of land per capita. Most of them adopt rough planting methods, not meticulous cultivation.

Some wood-iron era machinery such as double-horse heavy plows, horse-drawn ear cutting machines, horse-drawn threshers, etc. are not something that each household can bear. The joint operation of villages and communities can not only bear some risks, but also cooperate in operating some handicrafts.

And the most important thing is that we can work together to build canals and dig wells, such as collective labor that one household cannot afford.

The scene of this very ordinary village building canal has often exploded, and gunpowder has become a very common thing on Si, either firecrackers, soil sloops, or mining. Even newborn children are not surprised by gunpowder buried under the pile of earth and stones.

On a small stone cliff in the distance, it has been blown up and full of holes. Most of the Si Shui River Basin, southwest Qi and Lu, and even the northern Jiangsu Plain area have impacted the plains, and stones are rare.

As the impact plains is easily washed out of deep pits by floods, stones are in great demand as foundation for canals. This small stone cliff is where more than 20 nearby villages and communities take stones together.

Several people who are dedicated to civil blasting are from miners and are arranged to work in villages and communities. At this time, they are using iron drills to make holes in installing gunpowder.

Several carriages were waiting in the distance. A hard-faced gravel road built by more than 20 villages and communities directly to Sishui was less afraid of rain than those dirt roads and more suitable for transportation.

It is said that the old miner who stood high and looked far away, smashed the iron drill on the cliff and stopped the sledgehammer in his hand. The young man holding the drill was wondering why he had not heard the sound of knocking for a long time.

When I looked up, I found that the old miner was building a pergola with his hands and staring at the distance.

The young man looked along his eyes and found several horses galloping over the road in the distance, and the red and black flags that the rider could still be seen from afar.

"What happened!"

The people on the mountain said this at the same time, hurriedly threw down the work in their hands and walked towards the downstairs.

Next to the canal far below the mountain, men, women, young and old are busy. When the Mo family guarded the city, they always emphasized that men, women, young and old are useful, so that after Qin Mo entered Qin in history, the three armies guarding the city in Qin State were "strong men are one army, strong women are one army, and the rest are the old and young and old and one army."

Those who dig the soil, those who pick the baskets are busy without being messy.

A large pot was boiled next to it, with a pot of water rolling in it, and the clay pot was filled with water soaked with some of the cheapest tea leaves. Two weaker women were responsible for boiling water.

Several men were sweating profusely digging the soil, chatting about homely events from time to time.

After choosing their surnames a few years ago, they all had their own surnames and names. Because men had to serve in adulthood, almost everyone was able to write their names proficiently.

But everyone's name is almost a bad name, which can be heard from some homely conversations.

A man spitted two spits into his palms and took advantage of the rest of his breath and said, "I went to the city to sell pigs a few days ago. When I was having lunch at the restaurant, would you guess who did I see?"

"Chen Gouzi was a woman, who was with a man at that time. When he saw me, he quickly lowered his head. She didn't talk to me, and I ignored her... You tell me, Gouzi threw it away and went to the South China Sea with a few companions. I heard that he died of illness several times... His woman and the child lived in the city. Dogzi was fighting for life outside to make money, but the woman was hooking up in the city. What's the thing!"

"If you want me to tell me, the Dharma is too loose now. You can watch it. When Gouzi comes back this year, they will definitely get divorced. I have told Gouzi a long time ago, don't go to the South China Sea."

"I have all my wives and children. If you don't stay here, who knows what can happen? Besides, Nanhai can make money, but how many people die there? A comrade in my service also followed people to go to Nanhai. As soon as I went to Nanhai, I died of illness... That money was really exchanged for my life."

"You said this is strange. How many people can run to the South China Sea every year?"

The South China Sea is very far away, and they may have never heard of it twenty years ago.

Now, the South China Sea is very close, and even people in the villages are talking about fellow villagers who use their lives to fight for wealth.

When several men who worked together were about to complain about the marriage law issued in recent years, some people also paid attention to the speeding number of horses on the road far away.

A man who had worked as a cavalry said wonderingly: "Who is this? Isn't it going to kill the horse like this? If this is in the army, I will be criticized..."

There are many horses in the village community. As important livestock on arable land, the people in the village community have an indescribable close relationship with cattle and horses, especially those who have served as cavalrymen.
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