Once the eastern front cannot be defended, Linzi will face threats.

The Mohist family only needed to seize Jimo, Gaomi, and Zhucheng, so that the remaining cities could be ignored, and they could use the Wei River to transport grain and advance to a hundred miles away from Linzi.

This is why Qi State appointed Tian Zhongshou as the chief minister and stationed a standing army in Jimo but only 7,000.

There is no use if there is too much, and there is less worry. The seven thousand standing troops are not too much. The 20,000 peasant soldiers recruited can just deal with the force of the 10,000 Mohist families in the direction of Jucheng.

Before, the Duke of Qi went to Luoyi and went to Shangqiu, and then recruited troops to gather in Song. Naturally, the State of Qi did not expect that the Mo family would transport troops to attack Jiaodong by sea.

No matter how you look at it, it seems that the Mohist family is preparing to defend the northern line and first solve the Vietnamese country in the south.

The two divisions had the forces at the mouth of the Huaihe River, and they claimed to be the ones who would conquer the Yue Kingdom and train to take a boat.

But I never thought that the Mohist upper class inferred that the Yue Kingdom was unable to go north, so I first solved Qi State and let the princes break the alliance.

The Mohist family was in Yangzhou, Guangling, and the direction of Jiangkou Haiyang, and did not have much field troops.

However, there is a large population and a large reserve population. If you can't fight in the field, there is no problem in defending the city.

The number of field troops that the Mohist family could pull out was limited, and the number of militias that could defend the city was enough to cope with the possible northward advance of the Vietnamese country.

A town of ten thousand households can recruit a brigade of full-time field troops, but if the enemy attacks and defends, it can pull out the reserves and retired soldiers of two brigades to defend the city, and it is enough to defend it.

Furthermore, the advantage of the Zhoushi is on the Mo family. The Yangtze River is a natural danger to the north for the north; it is also a natural danger to the north for the south.

Therefore, the Yue Kingdom will not be destroyed, and even let it go without any hesitation and will do its best to deal with the northern princes.

Shi was originally planning to fight a defensive counterattack, and used his inside advantage to eat the main force of the Korean and Qi coalition forces, thus breaking the alliance in one fell swoop.

However, as more and more information came from Luoyi, the conscription and rule progress in the Nanyang area of ​​Jianghan was smoother than expected, and other issues such as the strategy changed.

Active attack and turned passive defense into mobilizing the enemy, forcing South Korea to go to Nanyang and Qi to attack Song territory, thus dividing the vast land of the princes' coalition forces into three parts.

If the coalition of princes wants to take the initiative to attack, they can only take into account two directions.

The Han and Qin coalition forces attacked Nanyang; the Qi, Zhao, Wei and Wei coalition forces attacked Song and Si Shang.

This is a foregone conclusion, not a conspiracy, but a coalition of princes can only fight like this.

The coalition of princes in both directions has the ability to take the initiative to attack. The central axis of this actively attacking alliance is South Korea, but in fact the core is Qi State.

The point where the situation breaks is in Jiaodong.

If the princes took the initiative to seize Jiaodong before they were ready, then Qi would inevitably support Jiaodong from the Jishui area in southwest Qi, defend Linzi, and intend to drive the Mo family to the Yimeng Mountains.

As soon as the main force of Qi left, Han and Wei opened their doors, and the only Wei State was not worth mentioning. South Korea would not send troops to Nanyang, but would choose to guard Zhengdi on the eastern line to prevent the Mo family from attacking the Central Plains after mobilizing the main force of Qi army to leave.

South Korea did not attack Nanyang, and Qin State was unable to go to Nanyang with its own strength. Qin State could not chew on the Mo family's army stationed in Chu, and without South Korea's troops to cover the flanks, even if the Liujie gave up Danyang, the Qin army would not dare to chase after him - for fear of being cut off from Nanyang's rear route and making dumplings; with South Korea's cover, if the Qin army captured Danyang, it would dare to attack Nanyang fiercely.

If you are ready, the princes will divide into two groups and concentrate their forces and can take the initiative to attack.

If the Mohist family prepares in advance, it is easy for the princes to change their strategies.

Only when the princes were about to prepare for attack, the Mo family suddenly turned against the defense and took the initiative, which was the best way to destroy the princes' plans.

In this way, the princes could only divide their troops into three groups.

Once the troops are divided into three groups, neither of them will have the ability to take the initiative to attack.

South Korea did not have the ability to conquer Song alone, nor did Qi State have the ability to conquer Ju and Yishan alone.

Of course, in this situation, it is not easy for the Mo family's troops to continue attacking at this time, so we have the strategic idea of ​​attacking Jiaodong without defending.

When the princes were divided into three groups, the Mo family's field troops would be exposed no matter which side they attacked.

Nanyang is too far away, so the field legion on Si Shang can choose not many offensive directions.

If the Qi army retreats to Jiaodong, then it is not enough to rely solely on the forces of the two divisions to annihilate the main field force of Qi. This requires the main force to be mobilized.

Once the main force is mobilized to cross the Yimeng Mountain, South Korea may invade Song territory.

The same goes for attacking South Korea in turn.

But the initiative is in the hands of the Mohist school.

The State of Qi did not know that the Mo family had the strategy of attacking Jiaodong but not defending, so the State of Qi had to send troops back. After all, it was impossible to gamble that the Mo family dared not attack Linzi. If Linzi conquered Qi, it would be mostly done.

South Korea also dared not to gamble whether the Mohist family would not give up on Jiaodong. If the Qi army retreated, the Mohist family would give up on Jiaodong, retreat back to Jucheng, and rely on Yimeng Mountain to resist, then South Korea might be attacked by the Mohist family, so South Korea could only give up its plan to go to Nanyang.

The initiative in a war is very important because the passive party cannot be sure what the active party wants to do, especially in the situation where the original initiative is but suddenly passive because the other party changes hands.

At the beginning, the Mohist school formulated the strategy of giving up Shangqiu's temptation to lure the enemy into the anti-encirclement was an idea of ​​using the inside advantage as much as possible in a weak situation.

However, the grassroots rule in Jianghan, Nanyang and Huaixi areas was smoother than expected, changing the comparison of strength and weakness.

At most, the Mo family will be able to pull out another field army dominated by Huaixi soldiers.

A complete control of the grassroots of cities and cities and a reasonable training system. Even if this group of Huaixi soldiers is not as good as the most elite divisions in Si Shang, it is not a problem to line up and fight in the field.

At that time, the power of the Mo family will have an advantage, and the princes' active attack strategy will naturally abort.

This year, you have to rely on various means to strive for it.

It seems that the Mohist family did not attack the enemy this time, but in fact they are still attacking the enemy.

Now in July, if the army of Qi in Zhucheng can be wiped out, the entire Jiaodong will be able to be captured by September.

Food supplies and people can divide the land, so they cannot get enough support from soldiers in a short period of time, but they can get enough support from civilians.

In October, if Linzi is threatened, the Qi army will be transferred back from the western front.

If Qi takes the initiative to counterattack and attack Jiaodong, and the Mohist families fight and retreat, the Qi army will not dare to advance rashly, at least to the next year.

Jiaozhou Bay and Lai are enough for Qi to chew for a while.

The main force withdrew to Jucheng and relied on Yimeng Mountain, Qi State was not able to take the initiative to attack, so this would be a stalemate.

The Si Shang Field Army in Song Dynasty always maintained a threat to Jishui and Zhengzhou, relying on the advantages of the long border to actively attack, which would cause South Korea to gather its troops on the Eastern Front.

After such trouble, at least until June next year, the princes will not have the opportunity to unite and send troops, or at least they will not have the opportunity to send troops according to the optimal strategy, and can only passively defend or attack rashly.

After this trouble, the time when the princes can jointly send troops will be delayed until at least next winter... or even longer.

After this battle, Qi State would never dare to transfer its main force westwards until it did not capture the fortress of Jiaozhou Bay. The Jiaozhou Bay Fortress was backed by the sea, with sufficient iron cannons, and it would not be a problem to support the supply of food for half a year without supply. Qi State's current siege ability is still acceptable, but fortresses such as Jiaozhou Bay, which are backed by the sea, cannot be attacked without half a year.

You can buy at least another year and a half.

A year and a half later, Huaixi can pull out another field troops of 30,000; Nanyang can pull another 20,000; Jianghan and Han 30,000, and Huaihe and Jianghan have completely stabilized, so it will be meaningless for the princes to join forces again.

The worst case is that the Duke of Qi gave up Linzi and refused to mobilize troops back to Jiaodong. Instead, he chose to fight to the death and attacked the Song territory with Han, Wei, Wei and other countries. That was just the situation of the previous defensive counterattack strategy and could not be worse.

However, this situation also has great difficulties for Qi State.

The main reason is that Jiaodong area is the fiefdom of many new military aristocrats Xuanyuan tribe. Most of the regular army are numb farmers from Jiaodong area recruited, rather than breaking away from the Linzi citizen class. Even if the Duke of Qi wants to ignore Jiaodong, the grassroots officers and upstarts below cannot ignore it... They will not let their fiefdoms be divided by the Mo family and instill the spirit of resistance to the farmers on the fief.

The battle between Zhucheng is crucial.
Chapter completed!