To go straight to the Central Plains, this requires a huge military base.

Once the war begins in the Central Plains, the only strategy that the Mohist family can choose is to quickly fight and defeat each one, and to solve one before the various countries join forces. This is what the Mohist family's troops and the number of political cadres are not competent at this time.

Whether it is the idea of ​​flanking and then retreating proposed by the General Staff, or the idea of ​​large-scale two-wing wings to wrap dumplings with defense as an offense, the center of the center is the strategy of "abandoning Song, flattening the front line, turning the protruding part into a concave moon, lengthening the front line, and flanking the surroundings."

For example, if the Song State is included in direct rule, not talking about economic and political issues, but only talking about military affairs, then in Shangqiu, Lankao, Jiyang and other directions, it is necessary to invest troops, financial and material resources to build cities again.

The military strategy is that if the left doubles, the right is empty; if the front doubles, the back is empty; if the right doubles, the left is empty; if the right doubles, the right is empty everywhere.

Once the Song State, which is a large plain, has a geometric increase in defense lines and troops that need to be defended.

The Heze Taoqiu defense line on the northern line cannot move, and more troops are needed to maintain Lankao, from Jiyang to Heze, which is something that cannot be afforded by financial, material and manpower.

If the manpower, material resources and financial resources of Si can ensure that the Wei, Chu, Han and Qi princes can be pushed all the way in the Central Plains, then the Song State will be the best bridgehead; if it is not enough to do so but it still has to do so, then the Mo family will be defeated by each of them and the lack of troops on all sides will be the Mo family itself.

Therefore, Shi hopes that the upper class of the Mohist school can figure out the reason why the abandonment of Song and maintaining Song is the rule of the vassal state.

We must use the buffer state of Song, and continue to build Dangshan and Fuli's city on the southern front, so that once war begins in the direction of the Central Plains of Song, the Mo family can give up the Song state, lengthen the front line, and find fighter jets to annihilate the enemy.

As for the southern line, it is south of Fuli and all the way to the Sishui River and into the Huai River, which is considered a key area for the previous Wu and Chu and Wu Yue to compete for hegemony.

The effective rule of Chu State in the eastern part of the Huaihe River was only reached Zhongli, and after Zhongli, it was the final say of the Mohist school.

Moreover, because Qin did not gain Bashu and did not capture Yingdu, the focus of Chu's rule was still in Jianghan and Nanyang, and the power of Chu was very insufficient in the downstream of the Huai River.

Because the Yellow River has not yet captured the Huai River and entered the sea, Hongze Lake has not formed at this time, but a large area of ​​good land, east of Zhongli, along the Huai River, where it was the starting point for the attack of the Nanzheng, Xiangyang, Tongbai Mountain and Huai River strategy set by the Mohist family.

In the Bronze Age, the Hongze Lake area, which had not yet been captured by the Yellow River and entered the sea, was a settlement for fleeing farmers and the so-called "group of thieves".

Small lakes of all sizes, humid and warm climate, and high-quality soil are one of the best granary areas in the Iron Age, but they were not suitable for people to live in the Bronze Age.

Previously, Sishang had organized a large number of immigrants to enter Huai River, and even implemented the "long-term worker" trade, transporting a large number of people from afar to enrich the area. The strong organizational skills and execution capabilities, as well as the profitable background of private capital in cooperation with the "long-term worker" trade, have made the development here very fast.

Si Shang now basically owns the Northern Jiangsu Plain and has achieved effective rule in a vast area. Twenty years of peace, land reform, high-yield crops, iron and agricultural tools, coupled with factors such as escape from other places and human trafficking in the south, have caused a sharp increase in the population in northern Jiangsu.

Northern Jiangsu was a prosperous place in the Iron Age of Agricultural Technology. The Yellow River should not seize the Huai River and the sea, or after the capture of the Huai River, the government had enough organizational strength to completely manage the Huai River.

As long as one of these two points is achieved, the northern Jiangsu region is one of the best granaries. It has been the history of the Yellow River seizing the Huai River in the Song Dynasty, which has gradually become depressed.

Now the Yimeng Mountain in Beidamen in the entire plain area is in the hands of the Mohists. The Heshui Sishui area, which is most likely to break through along the line, is also the Mohists' ruling center of strength and sufficient defense and stable defense, which provides a solid foundation for the next strategy.

Taking the Hongze Lake area as an example, Zhongli, the State of Chu, is not far away. After passing Zhongli, it goes west along the Huai River, and is the two important cities of Xia Cai and Shouchun.

The only one who took Cai Shouchun to prevent the Mo family from seizing the three passes and reaching Xiangyang was the field group of Chu State's "Shenxi Army".

The troops of Shenxi were similar to those of Chen Cai. They were both field armies under the county metric system of Chu State similar to the governor system. The power of the monarch here was very strong, but because of the Dabie Mountains and Tongbai Mountain, if the Mo family attacked Shenxi along the Huai River line, that is, the Xinyang area in later generations, in fact, the field groups of Chu State were divided.

The main force of Chu State's king's army, Che Guangdu's elite, was in the capital of Chu State.

If the troops of local powerful nobles such as Ejun and others want to support the Shenxi area, they must go to the Dabie Mountains, which are difficult to pass there. In fact, the Shenxi army and the Chu army in the Wuhan area of ​​Hubei were divided by mountains and rivers.

Chen Cai's army was on the front line of the Song, Wei and Han Central Plains. If they wanted to mobilize a series of consultations, such as diplomacy, the biggest possibility was to join forces with Wei and Han to attack Song and Pengcheng, and use a method similar to surround Wei and rescue Zhao to force the Mo family to retreat.

The key points of Xiangyang, Tongbai Mountain and Huaihe River strategy are actually the Chu State that has a built-in and combat-effective field group, which can be stopped by Shenxi Division.

There are actually three prerequisites for this strategy.

First, the State of Song is used as a buffer, and the defense line of Song, Heshui, Dangshan, Fuli is extended, and the power to defend and counterattack east of eastern Henan can support the attacks of Wei, Han, Chu, Chen and Cai in key areas. Use the mass base and city to defend against the attacks of the princes of the Central Plains.

Secondly, the construction of the Zhou army requires the ability to take the initiative in the Huaihe River and the Yangtze River, suppress the Zhou army of Chu, and divide the Chu state into Huainan and Huainan and Jiangnan.

Third, Fu Lisai, which is Suzhou in later generations, was in his hands. The Shuize District of Hongze Lake was flanked, forming the flanking defense areas of Dangshan, Suzhou and Hongze on the southern line of Pengcheng, which made the Chu, Chen and Cai army unable to easily break through and threaten Pengcheng.

If Wei, Chu and Han jointly act, Chen Cai's army would inevitably follow the Song line in the Central Plains and join forces with the Wei, Chu coalition forces.

If Wei Han doesn't take action or fails to react, if Chen Cai's army has strong generals and talents, it is likely to attack Fu Li Suzhou to threaten Pengcheng.

Therefore, these three points can be achieved, in fact, the strategy of starting Chu first and then Central Plains has been basically completed.

Therefore, the next key task of Si is to break out of the quagmire of Song State, strengthen the defense of Dangshan, Fuli and other areas, and continue to develop the Hongze Lake District as a logistics base for replicating Wu Zixu's battle in Chu.

The State of Chu seemed vast, but in fact it was divided by small vassal states due to political system factors and mountain and geographical factors.

Dabie Mountains and Tongbai Mountain lie between the Nanyang area and the Huaibei area. The top priority is the so-called "Yiyang Three Passes" in later generations.

In the past, Wu Zixu destroyed Chu, which was also the one who broke through the Mingjie Pass in later generations called Pingjing Pass, but now it is Mingjie Pass.

The State of Chu looks quite large, but in fact it will be divided into many divided areas such as Huaibei, Huainan, Yunmeng, Dongting, and Nanyang.

If Xiangyang is controlled, three passes and one is broken, Shenxi's army will be annihilated, and Si Shang Huaibei will be controlled in his hands. In fact, a situation of confrontation between the north and the south can arise.

The three gates are the key to the battle between the Huai and Han soldiers; Xiangyang is the fulcrum for the confrontation between the north and the south.

If the three passes are obtained and Shenxi is preserved, then the Huai and Han will be connected together. If the three passes are lost and Shenxi is destroyed, then Chu will be divided.

The Mohist riots in the Song Dynasty were actually attracting the attention of various countries and diverting their attention.

After the Prince Ding Rebellion, the King of Chu was able to directly govern the Chen Cai area, but the Central Plains area was intertwined, which was actually equivalent to Chen Cai's army being trapped in the Central Plains.

Chen Cai's army has actually become a field force that will be exhausted whenever Wei, Han, and Si move. We must not only guard against Mo, Wei, and Han, but also guard against Han. Trust between each other is impossible. Jin and Chu have fought for more than a hundred years.

The Shenxi area and the Huaihe area have always been the private land of the Chu vassals. The prerequisite for the shift of the Chu ruling focus was that the Qin controls Bashu and threatens Jianghan, causing the Chu State to move eastward to break the local political balance. Otherwise, the Huaihe area would have many vassals, and the key points of the Chu State were always Yunmeng Dongting and Nanyang.

For Si Shang, the Pengcheng area has a ruling foundation for 20 years and the public supports the highest, which is destined to resolve the situation of confrontation between the north and the south in the future. It will not be in the direction of Nanyang Yiluo, but can only go to Huanghuai, Shandong, and advance west and north.

The premise of taking Xiangyang as the center of gravity and directly entering Nanyang Yiluo is that the north has a unified regime, marching in this direction, cutting the north so that Guanzhong and Shandong cannot take care of each other first.

The defending of Xiangyang and attacking Si are the better choices that the world has already been divided into a time of great struggle between princes.

If you want to compare, once this strategy is successful, the south will be consolidated and land reform and government construction will be completed.

Then the situation was like annexing Zhu Yuanzhang from Zhang Shicheng and the Huaihe area.

Or like Zhang Jun and Han Shizhong of the Huai River during the Northern Expedition of Yue Wumu, he had the same heart and virtue as Comrades, and there was also a field group that was no less than the Yue family army in the direction of Huaibei.

The Sishui River Basin can advance northward or expedition westward, supporting the line with Nanyang, or occupying the plains to advance northward to gather the plains east of the Taihang Mountains, which are feasible strategies.

The overall strategy was set twenty years ago. The Mohist school has not been foolishly waiting for "the world will change", but is actively creating opportunities and instigating conflicts between countries.

Now that the Song State is making such a fuss, it can be said that the whole world thinks that the Mo family will eat up various countries bit by bit along the direction of the Song State Central Plains, but they don’t think about the Mo family’s whale swallowing.

As for the two Huai River Basins and the Shenxi army of Chu, it was not in the Mo family, but in the Chu itself.

If you want to strengthen your defense there, you have to gather central power, which will harm the interests of the real powerful nobles.

There is no way to gather central power, and the Shenxi and Huai areas will not be able to organize effective defenses. Once the Mohist family defeated the Shenxi army, the fate of the state of Chu will be divided will inevitably be avoided.

The sudden coup and preemptive choice that occurred in the State of Song disrupted Si Shang's strategy of continuing to develop high-rise cities and abundant grain storage, but handling it properly instead turned disadvantages into advantages and attracted the attention of all countries to the Central Plains.

Now that it is basically confirmed that Wei, Chu and Han cannot work together to send troops, the next step is to invest more energy in the southern line.
Chapter completed!