Chapter 169: The Strategy of Exterminating Chu
Pengcheng.
A highly classified meeting is taking place.
Excited and solemn words echoed in the room.
"If the king of Chu can rule over the land and people of 5,000 li with more than ten big families, dozens of feudal kings, and thousands of nobles above the corporal; Then of course, our Mo family can rely on tens of thousands of Mo people to govern the land and people of these five thousand miles. ”
This is the most important step in the great cause of benefiting the world. Comrades, do not forget the original intention and inherit the legacy of Zimozi and Zi Yuzi. ”
"This time, we are not just at war with the state of Chu, but with the entire old system and the old world. When our soldiers really occupy the capital of Chu, the rulers of the old system will unite. ”
"The Ying clan of the Qin State, the Marquis of the Three Jin Dynasty, and the Tian clan of the Qi State will all move out of Zhou Tianzi, who has not been used for a long time, and unite to strangle us."
"But the victory is ours in the end. As long as we occupy Chu and defeat a joint counterattack of these enemies, then there is only one point left before the world is great. When the time comes, it will be like a rotten wood, and it will fall down when you push it! ”
Shi waved his arms and made a speech about the start of war, and also announced that this attack on Yue was just a cover.
The naval army of the Yue State was a threat, and it was necessary to allocate troops to occupy the Yue State to maintain the rule of the system, so taking advantage of the opportunity of the Qin and Jin wars and the civil strife in Chu, the Mo family used the injustice of the Yue King as an excuse to induce the princes of the world to believe that the Mo family wanted to annex the Yue Kingdom.
However, in fact, the Mo family is just preparing to get rid of the Yue country's naval army, control the Yangtze River and cut off their worries: the Yue country without the water army will not pose any threat to the Huaisi region, and can only watch the Mo family defeat the Chu state and then come back to clean them up.
Once the Yue naval army was defeated, the Mo family would immediately declare war on the Chu state.
The reasons are...... It is impossible for a prince to believe it, and when he hears it, it is a fabrication, but the people will believe very much in a reason for consuming the dead.
Xiong who reformed and changed the law was suspicious to death, or finally survived to death, waiting for this opportunity.
Of course, Xiong suspected that he did not die a normal death, but was "stolen and killed" like his father, which was a political murder to put it bluntly.
A large number of feudal lords who smuggled arms with the Mo family supported the prince Liangfu and opposed the succession of Prince Zang, who inherited the reform will of the king of Chu, and the civil war broke out in the succession of the Chu state.
It is said that it is a civil war of inheritance, but in fact it is a palace coup, and the body of the king of Chu has not yet been mourned, and the nobles invaded the palace to kill the prince Zang, sacrificed to the temple, claimed that the law of the ancestors was immutable, and elected the prince Liangfu as the king.
The reason for the preparation is that when he went to the state of Chu more than 20 years ago, he talked with the secret room of the king of Chu. Fabricate that the king of Chu said that if there was a reactionary change in the Chu state, then ask the Mo family to come forward to solve these rebellions and benefit the people.
This reason is too nonsense, as long as the nobles with long brains do not believe it.
However, this reason is not believed by the nobles at all, and the audience of these things is not the nobles, but the people of the Chu State.
This is not a casus belli, but a propaganda tool.
Even the texts that had been drafted, as well as the various laws and regulations that were beneficial to the people after ruling the Chu State, were all written in the simplest, easy-to-understand dialect that the people of the Chu State were familiar with.
Propaganda must be clear about the audience, and it is undoubtedly stupid to sing the drums and even quote scriptures to the people when they come to the spring and snow.
Unbelievers can choose a myriad of reasons not to believe, and the purpose of propaganda is only to convince those who can believe.
This attack on Yue was just to cover the battle against Chu.
Now the elite division is gathering in Huaishui, it seems that they want to destroy the Yue Kingdom.
In fact, once the Mojia won the battle at the mouth of the Yangtze River, the elite army assembled on the Huai River would not cross the river to destroy the Yue, because after the destruction of the Yue, a large number of cadres and garrisons would be needed to maintain effective rule, so it was better not to destroy it first.
The elite will follow the Yangtze River, use the advantages of the naval army to transport logistics supplies, capture the Zhaoguan of the Yue Kingdom, which is the legendary place where Wu Zixu crossed the Baitou Pass, and then continue to advance along the river to capture Songyang.
Songyang, or at this time called Zongyang, was an important city, and further west was the territory of Chu State, Anqing in later generations.
Moreover, the south of Zongyang is Tongling, which is the place where the Mo family has the greatest influence in Yue, where a large number of miners can quickly organize defenses, wedge into the south of the Yangtze River, and use Zongyang as horns for each other.
After the capture of Zongyang, the time will maintain the state of war with the Yue State and announce the attack on Chu.
The legions left behind in Sishang captured Xia Cai and Shouchun along the Huai River, and went south to Hefei.
The main army continued to advance along the Yangtze River to Pengze at this time, that is, Poyang Lake, where it defeated the main force of the naval army on the eastern front of the Chu State, made a posture to threaten Hubei and the Wuhan region in later generations, and made a posture to capture Jingzhou along the line along the river south of the Dabie Mountains and break through the Chu capital.
Lured the Shen Xi division of the Chu State to the south, and lured the main force of Jing Xiang of the Chu State to gather in Hubei, as if they were going to fight a battle of Wuhan.
In fact, the elite was dispatched to the three passes of Yiyang, and entered the empty Xiangyang area after the transfer of the Chu State through Tongbai Mountain.
The Nanzheng Army supported along the river, joined forces with a large number of ink warriors in Xiangyang City, and cooperated with the surprise attack to capture Xiangyang, which was transferred to the Hubei region, that is, Yanying.
In the South China Sea, the Wuling trade route that had been repaired was used to capture Linwu and Jiuzhi, and the upper reaches of the Xiangjiang River were obtained, forming a geographical advantage.
Attacking from all sides, using Dabie Mountain, Tongbai Mountain, Huai River, Khan, Xiangjiang River, and Yangtze River to divide the entire Chu State.
Among them, the Chu King's Division, Shenxi, Exian and other corps were divided in Wuhan and Yunmeng Generation.
Chen Cai, Nanyang, Luyang, Xu and other corps were divided in the Central Plains.
So that the head and tail of the Chu State could not take care of each other.
Once Xiangyang is captured, the city is built to prepare for defense, waiting for the opportunity to move, and connecting Hanzhong to help.
When the time comes, Meng Sheng, who is hooked up in Yunmeng Daze, will cut off the back road of the Chu army in the Wuhan area.
If the Chu army retreated, the Sishang army in Hubei followed closely and pursued the oppression to annihilate it.
If you don't retreat and want to build a fortress to delay time, then this side also chooses to delay time, capture the land of Shenxi, send cadres to immediately land reform, stabilize the situation, and build a fortress against a fortress, and the army of Xiangyang will go straight to the Chu capital and disintegrate the rule of Chu.
The South China Sea Army went down the Xiangjiang River and captured Changsha and other counties, echoing the north of the Yangtze River.
As for the Chu army in Nanyang, Fangcheng, Luyang, Xu, Chen Cai and other places, they only had two paths to choose.
Either choose to fight Xiangyang, the Mo family will defend Xiangyang, as long as it lasts until the end of the Battle of Wuhan, the Chu State will be completely finished.
Similarly, if they stumbled Xiangyang to the death, Sishang would carry out a general mobilization, along the Huaishui to the north, each of them broke through, and captured Chen Cai and other places, forcing the feudal monarchs of Chu to give up the capture of Xiangyang and retreat to their fiefdoms.
If they do not smash Xiangyang to the death, but choose to gather troops in the Central Plains, cooperate with Wei, Han and Zhao Qi, and come to "encircle Wei to save Zhao", and capture Sishang in exchange for Sishang's retreat, then there is also a plan.
The top echelons of the Shihe Mo family would stay in Sishang and carry out a comprehensive general mobilization, so that Wei Han Chuqi could see how terrible the general mobilization and internal operations under the effective rule of the grassroots were.
If they delay time and wait for all countries to send troops together, then the Mo family will also choose to delay time, as long as the southern army of Chu divided by Tongbai Mountain and the Han River is annihilated, the general situation will be decided.
If they do not delay time, but are ready to attack in a hurry, they will break one finger at a time according to the predetermined plan, so that they cannot assemble.
If it is really unexpected that the reaction speed of various countries far exceeds the limit of the feudal era, and an unprecedented army is really organized, then according to the plan of the previous General Staff.
Abandoning the Song State, the northern front used the fortified areas of Jishui, Heze and other places to defend, retreated in the middle line, gathered troops, lured the enemy to go deep, and once the opportunity came, it was deep and deep, then the right flank of the coalition army was defeated on the left flank, that is, the southern flank, and dumplings were made to force the coalition army to retreat.
If they do not retreat in the face of the situation that the right flank is stolen, the left flank cannot break through the Heze Jishui defense line, and the Chinese army is too deep, then they can choose to fight a decisive battle on the inner line, fight a battle of annihilation in the concave moon pocket array, and destroy the last main field force of Wei, Chu and Hanqi.
It's just that in this way, Wei, Han and Chuqi will be finished, and there will be no chance to struggle at all, and the strategic offensive power of the Central Plains battlefield will be in the hands of the Mo family.
When the time comes, go north to break Qi first, and the troops will be in the Yellow River and Taihang, and it doesn't matter if it is encroached upon or swallowed by whales.
The essence of the entire North China Plain is in the hands of the Mo family, and the best developed Huaisi region is not lost, and the Chu land in the south of the Yangtze River belongs to the Mo family, but it is only three years to pull out a large army through land reform.
In recent years, for this grand strategy, the Mo family has cultivated and reserved a sufficient number of cadres who are proficient in the Chu language in various places, and they have begun to prepare more than ten years ago, not only to destroy Chu, but also to form an effective rule.
This plan seems cumbersome, but in fact it is simple, even if there is an accident in any link, as long as it is not completely defeated and invincible, it is basically impossible for the Chu State to exist.
The state of Chu is in turmoil, if the state of Chu chooses to fight in Wuhan, it is impossible for the army on Sishang to fail, and the gap in combat effectiveness cannot be made up by stratagem.
If the king of Chu chooses to flee and give up the battle of Wuhan, it will actually be a dead end. Giving up Wuhan is equivalent to giving up Jingxiang, and fleeing south like the Battle of Baiju back then, there will be no chance of returning to the country.
The Mo family is not the state of Wu, not for revenge, but to form an effective rule to relieve the hanging of the people, the more the king of Chu gives up and faster, the faster the strength of the Mo family grows, and he dares to escape the Mo family and dare to occupy it.
Shenxi's division also had only two choices, either go south to Wuhan and make peace with the Jingxiang Legion and prepare for the Battle of Wuhan; Either go north and meet with Nanyang Chen Cai and other divisions, and then try to plot with him.
If Shen Gongzhen's brain is not good, he chooses to command Shen's division to rescue Hefei, Xia Cai, and Shouchun, it just saves a lot of trouble, and each one breaks through and eats Shen's division first, and there will be no troops from Huaibei to Hubei Chu, so it will be really unimpeded in the future.
The elite soldiers captured the three passes to take Xiangyang, just to close the door and fight the dogs to divide the Chu State, which is not an invincible means otherwise, but a simple means that is so victorious, so the trick is feasible, and if it is not feasible, it will be pushed along the river.
Similarly, in the Central Plains, the Wei State was bled by the Mo family and the Qin State in the east and west, in fact, there was no longer a field army capable of fighting in the east, and Korea still had some strength, but it had to cooperate with the remnants of the Chu State.
Qi State itself does not dare to go deep into Sishang, the lone army will definitely die if it goes deep, Qi State can only wait for the countries to be ready, and when the countries are ready, it may be that Yingdu has already carried out a mobilization meeting to start recruiting troops.
For this plan, the most crucial step is to destroy the Vietnamese navy, make the Vietnamese country useless, cut off worries, and obtain the right to control the river.
Of course, if this battle is not won, then retreat and choose to avoid water battles and cross rivers and land battles to destroy the Yue Kingdom first, and slowly try to do it.
As long as this is overcome, then all the plans can be carried out with all their might. These plans could not be solved by intrigue and ingenuity, and the Mo family could withstand several mistakes, while the Chu state was finished with only one time without "amazingly winning more with less". In other words, the state of Chu had to create at least three miracles that belonged to the 3,000-year-old history books of later generations in order to be able to preserve its immortality.
The three miracles that the Chu State needed to accomplish included: the civil strife had just subsided, and the unstable army of up to 40,000 field legions defeated at least 60,000 Sishang elites in the Wuhan area, and it had to be a war of annihilation rather than a crush; Nanyang Fangcheng pinched his fingers and calculated the intention of the Mo family, gave up the fiefdom, and assembled within a month to counterattack Xiangyang; A meteor fell into Pengcheng, causing all the senior cadres of the Mo family to die.