Chapter 87 The layout is difficult to change
After looking at the map and thinking for a moment, the top leaders of the Mo family had basically the same strategic concept for this unavoidable war, which was to not confront the State of Song, but to give up the State of Song, lengthen the opponent's front line and supplies, lure the enemy into depth, seize the opportunity to jump from the wings to the outside line, and regain strategic initiative.
If we want to fight, then it will definitely be the three countries of Wei, Chu and Han that will attack first, and then the strategic initiative will be in their hands at the beginning.
If we just station troops on the border, it would be useless if there were fewer troops, and if there were too many, Wei Chuhan would be dragged to death.
The six fingers were right. If Wei, Chu and Han really wanted to fight, then at least this time the Three Kingdoms and their vassals would gather at least 100,000 main forces of war soldiers. For countries that have not yet fully reformed, if they lose, they would be a damaging force.
With so many soldiers hoarding one place, logistics supplies will drag countries into the abyss. They must demand a war and seek a quick battle.
Use the entire plain of the Song Kingdom, relying on Dangshan and Heze Taoyi as the two wings, to lure the enemy into deeper.
Originally, the situation between Si Shang and Song was like this: Song was prominent in the south of Heze and north of Pengcheng controlled by the Mohist family, with a raised belly.
Once the Mo family abandoned the Song State and induced the coalition of princes to advance forward, the raised belly would gradually be flattened, and even a concave half-month appeared.
The two wings that were originally unable to support the center can naturally become protruding when retreating to Si, thereby creating fighter jets around the two wings. This is a good way to regain the initiative.
Liuzhi's idea is a bit dangerous, but if you win, you will win. As Liuzhi said, only this battle can be determined by the Central Plains.
There are still many troops that can mobilize from various countries, but only those legions can fight in the field. If the field group is destroyed, the offensive and defensive momentum will change hands.
Even if it is a bit dangerous, the possibility of success is still very high.
As for the inferences that the six-finger judged, the princes who wanted to achieve their merits and completely defeat the Si Shang and the Mo family in one battle, it also agreed.
I even feel that Liu Finger has said less.
If you want to be able to fight in the field in every way, you will be able to stay unbeaten at least and delay until the rest of the leagues and fight in order to have more or less attacks. In each direction, the coalition of princes needs at least one field force of 20,000 to 30,000.
In addition, the Qi-Mo War and the Hegemony between the Mohists and the Yue Kingdom of Si Shang have learned one thing that countries must save when they jump to the outside line to attack the enemy.
If the enemy's coach is a fool, it is simple and there is no need to consider this complicated matter.
But if you are not a fool, if you want to make a joint attack and achieve success in one battle, you must beware of this commonly used and good method of Si Shang Yishi.
At least, several key cities such as Jiyangdu, Shangqiu, Sanglin, Huangchi, Daliang, etc. must be built in the style of Dangshan.
Once the Si Shang Yishi Jue jumps to the outside line and rely on the city defenses of these cities to hold on, as long as the Si Shang Yishi Jue cannot break the city quickly, the strategy of regaining the initiative will fail.
To achieve this, it would not only take 600,000 yuan, but it might be necessary to mobilize the entire Wei State Hedong, the eastern part of South Korea, and the Chen and Cai State of Chu State to complete it.
Building such a city costs a lot, not that only people can build it.
If people eat, the farmer and soldier system cannot build a city, and the farmer cannot build a city.
However, if the city is not built, the Si Shang encircled Si Shang. As long as there is a little chance, the Si Shang Yi Shi can jump out of the outside line and break through several cities such as Jiyangdu and Shangqiu, and turn the situation around and mobilize the troops of the princes.
This is second.
In the front line, the Mohist family is good at defending the city. Once they attack Si Shang, they have to fight fortresses and besieges against defending the city. However, the advantages of artillery engineers are on the Mohist family, and this tactic depends on people's lives.
Besides, even if the Qin State had been mobilized at one time, even after the reform, it was no longer able to fight after the Changping. It had almost no ability to take the initiative to attack within a few years, and it almost caused a famine, let alone the current vassal states?
Although Shi felt that Si was not fully prepared in politics and would be better off waiting for a few more years in military affairs, if all countries really sent troops to Song State, he would not be afraid.
However, once the war begins, the education system of Sishang will not be supported and the finance does not allow it. The available people trained by the education system of Sishang are not enough to completely control the Central Plains. It is best to wait for another three to five years.
Shi, the senior Mohist leaders believed that the judgment of the Si Shang situation was more than enough, but the attack was insufficient.
Offense and defense are not the same thing. If the princes do not unite and the princes do not rescue each other, the commander of the princes insists on inviting to fight on the border, that would be simple.
But I am afraid that some people who are good at using troops will drag the main force of the Mo family back, and the Mo family's front line and supply line will be lengthened. The other princes seized the opportunity and stabbed them, and then something big will happen to the Si River.
Therefore, for future strategies, the upper class of the Shihe Mo family has been waiting for an opportunity to "change the world", using the defense of the fortress city areas in Heze, Song, Si and other directions, and gathering the main field forces to open up the situation outside this direction. Only in this way can it be possible to solve the Chu State by actively attacking.
Otherwise, for example, attacking the fortress areas in the direction of Wei, Han, Heze, Sishui, etc. would be equivalent to losing its effect. If more troops are needed to defend the southern line, the forces used for attack will inevitably be reduced.
For nearly twenty years, the Mohist family had been working hard for this strategy and took away the Yimeng Mountain Great Wall from Qi State; had a public foundation in the southwest Qi State; built many new cities in the direction of Heshui; and helped Shu State defend Nanzheng, which was actually for one purpose.
That is, on the northern line, the fortress was exchanged for more mobile field forces in other directions. Before the coalition of princes captured the Sishang Fortress, the Sishang Yishi first solved the Chu State and obtained the Huaihe River, Dabie Mountain, Tongbai Mountain, Xiangyang, and Hanzhong lines, forming a north-south confrontation with Huaibei and Sishang.
Only in this way can the Mohist school's active offensive strategy be realized: at that time, in the direction of Xiangyang Nanyang and Sishui Huaibei, there are a total of two geographical advantages that can be attacked, retreated and defended, and the situation in the world will be stable.
Now the Six Fingers have proposed the idea of using defense as an offense to solve the Central Plains problem in one fell swoop. I feel that pure military inference is fine, but the Mohist school has not made sufficient preparations for this, and there may be many problems in the future.
There were some things that he was not convenient to say, so he encouraged Liuzhi and said, "The General Staff's plan is still safe. It's not that your plan is very risky and the possibility of winning militarily is extremely high. As long as the front line is extended, they either continue to increase their troops or will be besieged and annihilated."
"It's just that this is not just a military matter, but it still takes several years to prepare for the talents in governance. It's not good if it delays for a long time, and reforms from various countries will be bad for me; it's not good if it's too fast, it's not good if it's not prepared enough, and the foundation is unstable."
"The world is the world, and now all summer is the world. There are no vicious enemies outside. It is better to take a steady foundation and take it slowly. It is just to take the opportunity to settle the Central Plains or gain the greatest benefits within our ability and effectively rule. Then the initiative is still in our hands."
"I will talk to the staff and make another plan and look at it later. Be prepared for any eventuality. Besides, the situation of the war is changing rapidly, and the strategic consultant planning is just a rough idea. If you can't leave it, you will be in a hurry; but you can't follow the steps and don't know how to adapt."
Liu Finger nodded and said yes, and the two talked about the gains and losses of this battle in the Dangshan siege.
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Shi and Liuzhi were discussing whether countries sent troops to win a small victory and forced retreat, or a big victory to encircle and annihilate the main field corps of Wei and Han, Wei Ji also formally met with Han You to discuss the division of Zheng State.
The news of the siege of the Dangshan city shocked Wei Ji and Han You. The terrible battle result of breaking the city with half a month and parallel trench tactics until the city wall was approaching less than fifty casualties completely dispelled Wei Ji's idea of sending troops.
The field battle may not be able to be defeated. If the Mo family wants to attack the city, they will attack wherever they want. As long as the Mo family wins the field battle once, the entire Hedong will be in danger.
Who in the entire Wei Kingdom is confident that he can defeat the Mo family in a field?
There seems to be none of them.
As long as the Wei State fails in a field battle and lacks strategic maneuvering field corps, no city in Wei State will be safe with the Mo family's siege ability demonstrated in Dangshan.
Just as the Marquis of Wei asked Gongshuzhu, if the Mo family guarded Dangshan, how would they defend? Gongshuzhu replied, if you defeat the enemy who attacked the city in a field, then you should defend it.
Faced with such pressure, Wei Dou knew very well that Gongshuzhu's comprehensive strategic contraction and the idea of reorganizing the Sanjin Alliance was the only correct choice.
If we want to achieve this, we must first denounce the Mo family and call on the Alliance. Taking advantage of the opportunity that the Chu Alliance could not interfere with Zheng State, and use the smoke screen of the Alliance to divide Zheng State with South Korea. This is the most correct choice.
Si Shang has become so aggressive that it is impossible for Chu State to truly form an alliance with Si Shang. I still have to thank the Mo family for interfering in the Song State.
Han You and Wei Ji met with the guise of the Song and Mo families, but in fact they were talking about the Zheng State.
The only remaining territory of Zheng State has been carefully on the map, each with its own intentions, hiding evil intentions, and being deceitful intent is divided into two parts.
Some of the generals belong to Wei, some of them belong to Han, and what the two sides argued was the ownership of several cities: Han did not want Wei to use him as a gun to block the front, and Wei did not want several enclaves of Han to be connected together to curb Wei's throat.
Although the Song and Mo families were both pretexts for this alliance, when they were tired of a dispute with each other, the Double Rebellion could not help but talk about the affairs of Song and Si Shang.
South Korea's national strength is not strong now, and was later criticized by Han Feizi for being "not good at the law and not having the constitutional order" for governing the country with skills. At this time, Shen Buhe was still intoxicated by his carefree childhood in Zhengguo.
Yan Zhongzi, who once hoped to change the centralization of power, was squeezed out by the second grandfather of Han Hou. In history, Nie Zheng assassinated Han Kui, giving Han Hou the opportunity to gather power and try to reform. But in this story in the world, Nie Zheng assassinated Qin Jun, but Han Kui was not assassinated. The power of the Han Gong clan became stronger and stronger. Under the decentralization of power, the nobles of the public could not support centralization. Their heads have always understood where their butts are sitting.
Today, the prime minister of South Korea is still a member of the princes and the uncle of Han Houyou.
Chapter completed!