Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Revolution in the Art of War

Although the backbone of the faction that supported the reform of the King of Chu was the scholar class, the Great Sima was not born as a scholar, but a great nobleman, otherwise he would not have been able to occupy the position of the Great Sima.

But Chu Sima was raised by the two generations of the King of Chu, and he was not compatible with those traditional clans, and he still supported the reform of the Chu State and the policies of the King of Chu, which was the humerus of the King of Chu.

The taxi class in Chu is the same as in other places in the world, in fact, there are two kinds of taxi.

One is a sub-feudal taxi with a fief or an economic attribute that is sufficient to cultivate on his behalf; The other is to be like the wanderers who are all over the place today.

For example, with his background, he can't compete with the identity of a monk, but since he joined the Mo family, he has become a disciple of Mozi, so he can be regarded as a scholar in a broad sense.

Another example is Su Qin in later generations, when she was young, her poor sister-in-law frowned coldly, and returned home wearing the seal of the Seven Kingdoms and sighed, if he had 200 acres of land and a cow, where could he have achieved such an achievement today?

It has been a long time since the rise of the power of the Chu Guoshi class, but it has always been difficult to compete with the real nobles, and the tragic death of Wu Qi in history also confirms this.

The changes in the state of Chu since the fiasco of Yuguan in the Great Liang Dynasty really relied on the strength of the Mo family, and many Mo scholars accepted the orders of the organization and went out in the state of Chu, acting as some grassroots officials and serving as instructors of the new army of the king of Chu.

It's actually a trade.

The Mo family helped the king of Chu to train a new army, and served as officials in some parts of the land that the king of Chu could directly control, and implemented some reform policies; The king of Chu acquiesced to the spread of morality in the Chu state and granted the Mo family the right to tax exemption for some industrial and commercial goods.

The Mohists did not appear suddenly, and the spread of the Hundred Schools of Thought was originally a tradition in the Zhuxia Kingdoms, and before the various morals of the Mohists were released, none of the princes realized the terrible nature of the spread of this doctrine, so they did not prohibit it.

If you don't say anything else, the state of Chu can't even do things like centralizing power and controlling Ling Yin, but it is delusional to think that the state of Chu can strictly control the spread and association of various morals under the strict prohibition of inheritance at the grassroots level, which is really a dream.

By now, the Sishang Mo family had already shown its fangs, and the blood stains on these fangs were not concealed at all, and the ruling class of the Chu State had also begun to panic.

The infiltration of the Mo family into the Chu State can be said to have spared no effort.

In places close to Sishang and Huaishui, material temptations, disaster relief and rescue of people seem to take on the responsibilities of the second government.

Far away from Surabaya, but the economically developed Nanyang area, the excavation of iron ore, the development of industry and commerce, the dissemination of doctrines, and the congestion of listeners.

Cangwu Dongting, which is close to the South China Sea, has endless business and trade exchanges, border cooperation, and canal construction.

All kinds of ink people from the Chu State were constantly sent to their hometowns for activities, and Qu Jiangzi, who had made great achievements in Gaoliu, was directly transferred back to the Chu State to preside over some of the work of the Chu State Mo people, so that some villages and communities have appeared similar to the scene of Deng Xi in Zheng back then: there are problems and contradictions, and they do not seek the local government, but find the local grassroots organizations of the Mo family to solve them...... Of course, in terms of the degree of centralization of power in the Chu State, there is no local government.

What's more, Yu Yan Ying, known as the Mo family, has orders, and seven or eight out of ten market rangers obey their lives.

The change of the king of Chu became a little fast and a little ruthless, in fact, it exceeded the normal speed of the change of the Chu state, because the Mo family gave the king of Chu a lot of loans, which made the contradiction between the king of Chu and the nobles intensified, and the king of Chu did not dare to provoke the Mo family too much.

This is not to say that if you provoke it, you will not pay it back, but if you provoke the Mo family, you will cut off the follow-up loans, and once the capital chain is broken, the excessive stalls that were laid under the support of the loans before will be reversed.

In the past few years, I have finally received the results of the change, and I have more or less begun to have a surplus, and this waist board has hardened a little.

However, the Mo family never had unrealistic illusions about the king of Chu or even any of the princes, and delayed the time only to be more advantageous, but also for the development and progress of the whole society, and there was a basis for the rebellion of industrialists and merchants.

This time the Chu State and the Mo family are not broken, but it is almost over, and the Grand Sima of the Chu State knows very well that this time he will participate in the alliance, and the next step is to give away some of the ink gifts of the public activities of the Chu State.

The king of Chu already felt the threat of the Mo family, but the king of Chu still stayed on the idea that Sishang was a newly rising prince.

Because before this, there had never been an organization or school that could revolt at the same time across hundreds of miles.

Historically, to achieve this, we had to wait until "the sky is dead, and the yellow sky should stand", and the thirty-six parties rioted at the same time in an organized manner.

If there is no such history at this time, there is no such experience, and it is really difficult to face it.

If you want to regard the Mo family as the princes of Sishang, then the strategy of the Great Sima of the Chu State to go to Wei Han to participate in the alliance and organize the defense this time is actually correct.

The state of Chu is so big, and the capital of Yingdu is so far away, the state of Chu has never considered that the Mo family will have the ambition to destroy Chu in one fell swoop, which is really a bit beyond the cognition of the state of Chu.

The threat to the state of Chu has only three directions from the outside.

Luyang Nanyang line; Daliang Yuguan Song State line; Huaishui Dabie Mountain line.

There is no need to talk about the former, that is where Sanjin and Chu fought all day long.

The first line of the Song Kingdom in Yuguan, Daliang, is the main battlefield of the Jin and Chu hegemony.

The first line of Huaishui Dabie Mountain, that was the lesson of Wu Duoyingdu back then.

But in fact, in the eyes of the Chu State, the route of Huaishui Dabie Mountain in the Battle of Wu and Chu cannot be copied, especially the current Sishang Mo family cannot be copied.

In that year, because of the Xia Ji incident, Shen Gong Wuchen rebelled against Chu and taught Wu Guocha Zhan, which was actually a foreign aid cultivated by the Jin State to contain Chu.

The background is still the Jin and Chu hegemony, and Wu Guo, who didn't want to make a feint, made a big news, and became the main attack.

Second, after Wu Guona, after Taibo, the Jianghan Zhuji was wiped out by the Chu State, and he laughed at himself with barbarism all day long, how did Taibo say that King Wen's uncle, in the name of revenge for the Jianghan Zhuji, many vassal states of the Chu State and the destroyed Zhuji still supported it.

Third, when Wu participated in the struggle for hegemony, the Yue State took the opportunity to attack and destroy Wu, and all countries should learn this lesson.

Now Sishang occupies Huaibei and has considerable power in Huainan, but the Yue Kingdom has not been destroyed; The state of Qi is still there; The essence of the land is in the southwest of Qilu, Wei and Han are forbidden, and in the eyes of Chu, Sishang does not have the ability to replicate the strategy of Wu Zixu Huaihe Dabie Mountain.

Therefore, without considering the internal contradictions, the state of Chu now faces only two directions, that is, the Central Plains of the Song Dynasty and the Lushan Mountains of Nanyang.

If you want to guard against Sishang, then the first line of Lushan and Nanyang is not under consideration.

Therefore, the biggest threat from Sishang to the Chu State is still the front line of the Song State.

Chen Cai's division had played a unique role in many battles as the general reserve and firefighter of the Chu State, but the Wang Ziding Split Incident actually destroyed the Chen Caizhi Division of the Chu State.

Chen Cai's division is the main force of Jin and Chu in the battle for hegemony in the Song State, more than ten years have passed since the Wang Ziding split incident, and it is only four or five years since the pacification of Chen Cai, and the pacification of Chen Cai can also be regarded as a turning point in the relationship between Mo and Chu: Chen Cai is vested, then the Mo family is a threat and no longer a help.

The king of Chu took advantage of the Wang Ziding incident to purge the Chencai region on a large scale, which was a good thing for the people, but it was a disaster for the local entrenched nobles, making the Chencai region part of the power directly under the control of the king of Chu.

The rebuilding of Chen Cai's division and the decision to belong to the king of Chu instead of the county prince gave the state of Chu a field group in the Chen Cai region.

Going north can participate in the struggle for hegemony in Jin and Chu, and can also guard against the invasion of Admiral Mojiasi in the future.

The king of Chu hoped to take advantage of this Song incident to make Wei Han recognize the threat of Sishang and reach an anti-Mexican and anti-Mexican alliance in the Central Plains.

Chu has the Chen Cai Legion, Wei has the Great Liang Legion, Korea has the Huangchi Legion, and the Wei Guo as a vassal vassal state still has a certain strength, coupled with the contradictions between the Mo family and the Yue State Qi State, as much as possible to form an iron curtain to lock the Mo family in Si.

The basis of this anti-Mexican alliance was that Wei, Chu and Han reached a common interest in the Central Plains and established a common enemy.

It is impossible for Qi and Yue to participate in this alliance openly, but they do not need to participate, as long as they have the ability to contain part of the forces in Sishang.

Because the Mo family's attitude towards the weakened Qi Yue was extremely arrogant, as long as the Qi State participated in non-non-aligned activities, it would be beaten, and the Yue State really did not have the ability to take the initiative to attack now.

As for the field intervention in the Song State, it was impossible, not only internal political issues, but also from a military point of view.

Chen Cai's army was newly built, and the field division was only 30,000, and the Sishang climate had become the best at outflanking and maneuvering, and the 30,000 Chen Cai's division was no longer enough to pick up the girder in this era after the Spring and Autumn Period, and it was easy for the whole army to be wiped out if it took the initiative to march; and Wei Han joined forces, and it was easy for the Mo family to steal Chen Cai; With the strength of the whole country and the continuous change of support after the war, the results of the law will be destroyed in one fell swoop.

Besides, the joint operation of the three countries, a hundred years of hatred, each with its own mind, wants to work together, it is really unrealistic.

That being the case, it is better to form the defense of the Central Plains with Chen Cai's division, the Liang Army, and the Huangchi Army as the mainstay, build cities, and reach an agreement on the theater alliance against Mexico, so as to lock the development of the Mo family in the direction of the Central Plains.

The Dangshan Siege Battle ended neatly, and in order to spread the "rational spirit" and spread the various experiences of the Dangshan Battle to the world, so that Chu Da Sima also saw some things that others might not see.

The Battle of Dangshan was fought simply and beautifully, and the fortified city was broken in half a month, but the premise was at least five times as many infantry, twice as many artillery, and superior engineers, not counting the situation where there was a need for foreign aid to reserve reinforcements.

In other words, three times as many troops are not enough to storm the city.

Then, if Yongqiu, Daliang, Yangxia, and Xiangling build a strong fortress on the front line, and Chen Caizhi's division, Daliang Legion, and Huangchi Legion have a total of about 100,000 people defending here, it is equivalent to the Mo family will lose the best tactics of maneuvering, circling around, and mobilizing.

For example, in Yangxia, the main force is behind, leaving more than 10,000 people, and if the Mo family wants to attack, they must concentrate almost all the main forces, and as long as the alliance can be guaranteed to work, the main force of the Three Kingdoms field war assembled in the Central Plains region will send troops, and the situation of the Mo family will be very dangerous.

If they don't attack, but continue to go straight to the rear to find an opportunity to fight a decisive battle, then the Mo family needs to leave at least 10,000 troops to besiege the city to prevent the troops in the city from cutting off the supply line.

In that case, it would be equivalent to the Mo family losing the ability to move around the rear line, and tens of thousands of people would have to divide their troops to besiege the city, where could they still threaten the salvation of all countries?

Gunpowder, geometry, Dangshan siege ...... The emergence of these things has actually changed the tactics of the world, forcing various countries to change their tactics and military systems, and changing the previous war mode in which the two armies met in one day to see victory or defeat.

The way of building fortresses, defending new cities, defending borders, garrisoning troops after a hundred miles, and defending the tired enemy in the field have quietly influenced the thinking of various countries about the transformation of the art of war.

What Chu Sima was thinking, he believed that the sages of Wei Han could also think clearly.

The foundation of the Central Plains Anti-Mexico Alliance is the threat of the rise of Sishang, but in addition to this foundation, Zheng Guo is also an unavoidable problem.

Zheng and Song, the buffer states of the Jin and Chu hegemony, have now been lost, but fortunately they are not lost in the hands of the Jin people.

Then, the anti-Mexico alliance of Chu, Wei and Han in the Central Plains must ensure that Zheng is independent and still a buffer country, and all countries must not interfere or invade.

The state of Chu could give up the claim of the Great Liang and admit that Wei Han occupied the land of Zheng as a sincere attitude, in exchange for the unanimity of Wei and Han on the Central Plains Anti-Ink Alliance, but it would not include Zheng Guo's division of Wei and Han, making Chu's defense at Yuguan like guarding the border for Wei and Han, and could be stabbed in the back at any time.