The black robe looked stern and said, "This Ghost King is really a disadvantage. Even this can be imagined. Although Bingzhou seems to be the closest route to attack the Central Plains and is also the best choice, there are actually many mountain roads and are easy to fall. It is not as easy to walk in the Guanzhong area and the Hebei Plain. Although it is far away, you can conquer a large number of prince tribes along the way, take steady steps and avoid risks."

Dou Peng frowned and said, "Yes, if we were not to achieve the goal of one battle, but were willing to slowly erode the left and right wings of the Shang Dynasty through decades and hundreds of years. On the one hand, we could gain a foothold in Guanzhong and Hebei, and on the other hand, we could also allow the Beidi tribe to attack with them and get benefits in the war. Only by giving enough benefits can we have more servants. It seems that this Ghost King has rich experience in destroying the country and occupying land, and is not in a hurry to go for a while. Whether he entered Assyria or attacking Tianzhu, he should have come according to this tactic."

The ancestor said calmly: "Whether Assyrian or Tianzhu, before the Guifang attacked the establishment of the empire, there was no unified and powerful dynasty in the area, and no one could command the princes and the emperors of each city-state. This is the biggest difference from the Shang Dynasty. It is precisely because we have emperors in Middle-earth, all the princes who are loyal to the emperor. Therefore, we are a unified Huaxia clan. As opponents, we are also a powerful enemy that Guifang has never encountered before. Although they once captured Taosi, the capital of the ancient Tang Dynasty, they still couldn't gain a foothold in the end. I believe that the lesson of that failure would be passed on to the tribesmen who fled back to the Guifang to the later Guifang monarchs. In order to plan this eastern expedition, they had prepared for a thousand years. The Ghost King chose to fully expand on the ten thousand miles of front, with the Beidi tribe as the leader to drive them to attack the Shang Dynasty. As the first wave of temptation, they must have thought about it early."

Black Rou said in a deep voice: "Then in the end, I have to rely on the trick of seducing the enemy and changing the plan of the Ghost King, and then I will turn the ball around? But how could ordinary tricks of seducing the enemy fool such a scheming ghost king?"

Dou Peng said thoughtfully: "Then it probably depends on the counter-espionage plan that Fu said. Is it true that at this time, Fu said that he sent his confidants to secretly communicate with the Ghost King, willing to act as an insider to attract the Ghost Army to attack the Shang Dynasty, capture and kill Wu Ding, destroy the Shang Dynasty, and avenge his tribe? But he himself is the prime minister of the Shang Dynasty. In theory, he had already let go of his hatred and was at the highest position. How could the Ghost King easily believe him?"

The ancestor smiled slightly and said, "This is the matter for people. Fu Shuo is called the first sage in Chinese history because he made great contributions or sacrifices during this ghost invasion. He did contact the Ghost King secretly as Venerable Dou Peng said. Moreover, he sent not other confidants, but his own son Fu Ping."

Dou Peng's face changed: "Let your own son go? This can indeed be trusted by the Ghost King, but did the Shang Dynasty not notice it?"

The ancestor shook his head and said, "This plan has been implemented from the beginning. Fu said the eldest son Fu Ping, who was the first time he fought with the vanguard of Guifang, served in the army. He was defeated and captured. Many comrades thought he was killed in battle, and Fu said he also publicly mourned and summoned souls for him. But Fu Ping just pretended to be dead that time, and was seriously injured and captured by the Guifang tribe. The Ghost King saw him personally and persuaded him to surrender. Fu Ping was willing to die at first, but when the Ghost King pulled out several tribe members from his father's tribe back then and told him about the past when the entire tribe was destroyed, Fu Ping pretended to be angry and shocked, and even cried bitterly, saying that he was willing to join the Guifang army to avenge the tribe, and even broke with his father who was greedy for glory and wealth."

"But the Ghost King is not satisfied with letting Fu Ping be a warrior. He values ​​Fu Ping's purpose, and still wants to win over Fu Ping, or even instigate the rebellion through Fu Ping, because in the Ghost King's view, Fu Shuo is a talented person, good at governing the country, and has always advocated reconciliation between the old enemy tribes. Such peacekeeping personnel are of use value for the Ghost Fang's plan to conquer the Central Plains. He can put aside the hatred of the tribe being destroyed and be loyal to the Shang Dynasty. So why can't he turn to the Ghost Fang again when the Ghost Fang is powerful?"

Dou Peng sneered: "The Guifang tribe thought that a traitor from the Shimao tribe had appeared, and another one would be released today. This is probably a conventional method for them to conquer and destroy the country everywhere. After all, those who know the times are heroes, and the Guifang tribe has advantages in military affairs. Before the Shang Dynasty, it also used force suppression and human sacrifice terror to intimidate all the princes. It was not a kingly way or benevolent person. Once they encountered an external force that was stronger than the Shang Dynasty, there were probably many princes who would abandon Shang and follow the ghost. This was probably what the Ghost King thought."

Hei Rou nodded and said, "So, this Ghost King wanted to first lure the prince tribes of the Shang Dynasty, so that more people would stand on his side instead of the Shang Dynasty. After all, although his military is strong, his population is only hundreds of thousands. It is still too few than the millions of people in the Central Plains at that time. They conquered the Indian states by differentiation and disintegration and defeated them one by one. This time, they wanted to succeed in the Middle Earth world again, so they used Fu Ping to persuade Fu to surrender to this prime minister, and then used the influence of Fu's speech to appease more prince tribes of the Central Plains to give up resistance and destroy the Shang Dynasty together. As for what happened after taking over, that was a later story."

The ancestor smiled slightly: "Your inference is very good. The two venerables, this is what the Ghost King thought at that time. However, he never expected that Fu Ping's serious injury and captured was a plan set by Fu Shuo in the morning. When he was a construction slave with Wu Ding, he talked about the strategy against the Ghost Party. That is, if you fight with the Ghost Party on the grassland, even if you win, the Ghost Army will be defeated. Because they have strong mobility and the Central Plains army, which is mainly infantry, will be difficult to catch up. At most, they will be repelled. In less than two years, they will make a comeback. The Tang Dynasty used to fight with the Ghost Party.

The tribes fought many times, and the Ghost Side tribe at that time was far less powerful than this Great Eastern Expedition. They were all very difficult to fight. Just like the war with the Huns when the Han Dynasty was founded, the biggest weakness was also in this mobility. The infantry in the Central Plains was difficult to compete with the Ghost Side, including the Huns, who were built on horseback and wheels on the grassland. Unless there was a way to destroy the enemy's main camp, the Khanate, and could destroy their main army at one time, just like the last flood flood flooded the full load of Ghost Side soldiers and horses." (End of this chapter)
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