Chapter 225: Together
What seems like a good plan is likely to become a joke when it can't determine the direction of the general trend.
Besides, the plan is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.
The Wei State had its own plans, and Qi Qin also had its own interests, and the Wei State could not know the embarrassing position of the Qi State in this matter.
At the same time as Gongzi was plotting, the rest of the princes were already discussing the matter of jointly sending troops.
This matter is the key to this alliance, but this key issue is not so easy to solve.
Even if the situation of cutting the flesh of the Wei State to supplement the countries in order to send troops is temporarily shelved, there is still a very serious problem in front of the princes.
What should the state of Chu do?
Is it the restoration of the country? Or not to return to the country?
After the restoration of the country, where do you need to cede land as a gratitude?
Of course, the purpose of the First War against Mo was to contain the threat and development of the Mo family, otherwise the princes would have an urgent need to hang up, but it was obviously unrealistic to be destroyed in a war, which caused the position of Qi to be extremely vacillating.
The plan for the joint dispatch of troops given by the important ministers of the Qin State is like this.
50,000 Qin soldiers went out of Luoyi and attacked Danyang; Qin soldiers of 30,000 threatened Nanzheng.
The Han army of 30,000, the army of the Son of Heaven of Heaven of 6,000, the Wei army of 10,000, and the Zhao army of 10,000 went out of Funiu Mountain and went south through Luyang and Fangcheng.
The two sides will march in Wancheng together, and they will go down to Deng, Sui, and Chen soldiers and Hanshui.
Sent envoys to Linhu, Lou Fu, and Donghu to bribe them to attack Yunzhong, Hetao, Gaoliu and other places, once the city was broken, the wealth and silk women were allowed to take it, and then the Central Plains countries no longer embarwent iron weapons, weapons, gunpowder, etc.
Yan sent 20,000 troops, Zhongshan sent 10,000 troops, and Zhao sent 20,000 troops to the north to attack Gaoliuyunzhong.
The main force of the Qi army was 70,000, leaving 30,000 in Jubei, Jimo, Linzi and other places.
The remaining 40,000, 10,000 Zhao troops, 20,000 Han troops, and 10,000 Wei troops Yu Daliang, attacked Shangqiu and covered the Korean flank.
Wei Guo sent 10,000 troops, and cooperated with a part of the Qi army to attack Taoyi and Heshui.
The Han army of 10,000 and the Wei army of 5,000 came out to attack Yangxia and threaten Dangshan.
The three armies of the eastern front marched separately, and when they arrived at the location, they surrounded Shangqiu, broke through Dangshan, and threatened Pei, Feng, and Pengcheng.
This was the most perfect plan that the princes could come up with at this timeβif of course, the purpose was to contain the Mo family and allow Qin and Han to expand.
However, as soon as this plan came out, Zhao, Qi, Zhongshan, Yan and other countries immediately stood up against it.
This plan, in the eyes of Qi people, is very poor.
Obviously, in this plan, the Qi people want to gnaw the hardest bones, and the Qi army will be used as bait to contain the main force of Sishang, so that the Mo family will not be able to support the direction of Nanyang and break through Korea, so that the combined forces of Han, Qin, Zhao and Zhou can achieve victory on the Western Front.
But the question is, if the Western Front is victorious, what will Qi get?
Qi sent tens of thousands of troops, risking another sneak attack on Linzi by the Mo family, just to be a watchdog for South Korea?
If Nanyang is taken, Qin can get 600 miles of land to reveal, Nanzheng, and Wancheng; South Korea can get Luyang, Fangcheng, Ye, and even Xu.
What can Qi get?
Nanyang Zhucheng, the Mo family newly occupied, the people's hearts may be undecided, if Qin and Han get it, they can expand their territory and increase their population.
What about Qi State?
The state of Qi wants to attack the heartland that the Mo family has been operating for thirty years, where everyone is a soldier, and a fortress city may need to be gnawed for half a year to take it.
Once the main force on Mojiasi seizes the opportunity, it will be able to cut off food around the rear, encircle and attack, and then go straight to Linzi, who will save the Qi country at that time?
Even if the battle is won, the Qi State will at least lose tens of thousands of elites and take Shangqiu and other places.
But Shangqiu is a plain, there is no danger to defend, the Mo family only needs two years to recover to recapture, and the people's hearts are against Mo at all - the Mo family in the southwest of Qi has not been directly governed by it, not to mention the Song State, the base camp of the Mo family before its development.
Although Qi Hou was a little stupid, he was not stupid enough to be able to use others as dogs.
Before that, the Marquis of Qi hesitated in the two directions of swallowing Wei and attacking Moxi, and he also sent people to Sishang to look at the cities, people's hearts, morale, armaments, and so on.
Therefore, the state of Qi resolutely opposed this plan of the Qin people, and angrily denounced the Qin people for seeking personal interests at all, not for the benefit of the allies, and this plan simply did not work.
Therefore, under the condition that the northern line remains unchanged, the state of Qi put forward its own plan.
In Shangluo, the Qin army left 30,000 to defend; In the hinterland of South Korea such as Xiangcheng and Yangzhai, South Korea left 30,000 to defend.
The rest of the army was all concentrated on the front line of Chengyang, Daliang and Yangxia.
The Qin army of 30,000 and the Han army of 30,000 went out of Yangxia to attack Jiaocheng and Xiangcheng, that is, to attack Xuzhou through Bozhou and Huaibei in later generations.
The Wei army of 15,000, the Wei army of 20,000, the Zhao army of 10,000, and the Qi army of 10,000 stormed the fortified areas such as Heshui and Taoyi, and advanced to the line of Yutai and Peiyi.
The main force of the Qi army of 40,000, the Han army of 10,000, the Wei army of 10,000, the Zhao army of 10,000, and the army of the Son of Heaven of 6,000 gathered in Daliang, and after the upper and lower roads began to attack, they also began to advance slowly, steadily and steadily, step by step, and captured Shangqiu and Dangshan.
To be on the upper road to break through Peiyi, the lower road to break through Xiangcheng, and the three roads to besiege Pengcheng.
If the Wei Wei and Zhao coalition forces on the road could not capture Taoyi regularly, then the main force of the Qi army on the middle line would not move to prevent them from entering the dumplings.
If the Qin-Han coalition forces on the lower road could not capture Yangxia and Jiaocheng on a regular basis, then the main force of the Qi army in the middle would not attack Shangqiu, or prevent being surrounded by the Mo family on the inner line by using their mobile advantages.
If the upper and lower roads are successfully attacked, then the Qi army will march into Shangqiu when the upper road captures the single father and the lower road breaks through the city.
If the first line of Taoyi, Shanfu, Shangqiu, and Qiaocheng can be stabilized within a year, then all forces can be recruited to besiege Pengcheng and destroy the foundation of the Mo family in Sishang in one fell swoop.
At that time, whether the Mo family fled to Jianghan or crossed the river to Wuyue, it would be stable for at least a few decades.
Of course, it will not be able to threaten the Qi State, and the countries can use the geographical advantages to monopolize Sishang after slaughtering the grassroots and people of Mohua.
If the attack on the upper and lower roads is not smooth, or there is a greedy advance all the way, or the Mo family seizes the opportunity to annihilate it, then the three-way army immediately retreats, defends the first line of Daliang and Chengyang, and the main force of the Qi army returns to Linzi, confronts the Mo family for a long time, and recovers the original state as much as possible.
If it doesn't go well and the main force is annihilated, then all countries will resign themselves to fate, pack up their soft wealth, whether they take the initiative to give up their fiefdom rights, or negotiate with the Mo family and take the initiative to exile overseas, prepare in advance, so as not to have no choice when they get it.
The opinions of Qi immediately aroused the opposition of Han, Qin, Zhao and other countries.
Qin Han asked Qi Guo, why didn't Qin Han gather in Daliang, but the Qi army captured the road?
The next road to attack Yangxia, Xiangcheng, and Fulisai is all in the inner line of the Mo family, and it is easy to cut off the logistics, and the road is smooth along the way and it is easy to be surrounded by the Mo family, which is a dead end and the road that is most prone to problems.
Wei Guo and Zhao asked Qi again, if you go on the road, the Mo family has been in business for thirty years, and there are fortresses, fortresses, and new city defenses everywhere, but Qi Guo let Wei Zhao as the main force of the coalition army gnaw there, in terms of the Mo family's ability to defend the city and the use of gunpowder and explosives, I am afraid not to mention the single father, and it will cost tens of thousands to capture Taoyi.
When Qi Ren heard this, he sneered: "The main forces are all concentrated on the Eastern Front, with a total of more than 100,000, but 300,000, and they are still afraid of war." According to the plan of your Koreans and Qin people, but let the Qi people attack Sishang alone with the main force, have you really regarded the Qi people as allies? β
"Wei Zhao thinks that the important towns along the way to attack Heshui Taoyi have suffered heavy losses, can the Qi people be able to capture them? Han Qin thought that the Labor Division's expedition would be easily seized by the Mo family, who were good at outflanking and annihilating, so wouldn't the Qi people be afraid? β
"The Mo family is powerful, and it is possible for all countries to completely eradicate the Mo family and make it far away. If you don't want it, but all the nations will perish, so why should you be afraid? β
The Qi people thought that Han Qin's plan was to pit the Qi State, and the Qi State's plan was actually really good for the princes in essence.
If it is really true that Pengcheng is captured and the Mo family moves south, then the princes can be stable for a period of time, recuperate and fight again.
Although this plan is also difficult - the three-way army needs to be neat and consistent, and it cannot be defeated once, and it must also have the ability to break the main force of the Mo family in a field battle, and it must not be greedy for merit, can not deliberately lag behind, cannot be a friendly army in difficulty, and cannot have its own thoughts......
Although there are many conditions, at least, there is hope.
But if you fight according to Han Qin's method, it will be equivalent to letting the Mo family beat you on the eastern front, and use the entire Qi country as a sacrifice in exchange for Han Qin to occupy Nanyang and Linjiang Han.
Qi did not have any internationalist spirit, so it was impossible to use himself as a sacrifice to complete Han Qin's grand cause.
Han Qin thought that according to the Qi State, Han Qin went on an expedition, and then Mao didn't get it, so he couldn't cut out a few enclaves in Sishang as a fief to reward the nobles, right? That has no meaning at all for the monarchy of Han and Qin.
Besides, according to the Qi State, even if the Chu army stationed in Nanyang did not take the opportunity to advance north, once the Mo family was given another two years, wait until Jianghan and Nanyang were integrated...... Even though Pengcheng Sishang is gone, the Mo family occupies the Nanyang Jianghan of Chu, so the pressure of the Mo family is all on Qin and Han.
Moreover, Han, Zhao, and Qin all knew in their hearts that the best result of this battle would be to restore Nanyang Jianghan and drive the Mo family back to the east.
What kind of thing as attacking Pengcheng and slaughtering Sishang is fantasy.
However, Han Zhaoqin understood, and Qi Guo naturally understood.
You all know that capturing Pengcheng is a fantasy, but let my Qi State attract the main force of the Mo family on the eastern front, but you are attacking the city on the western front to grab the population and land, what is this Qi State? Spending manpower and financial resources, risking the extinction of the country, and the possibility of the Linzi revolutionary rebellion, contributed to the expansion of Han and Qin?
That being the case, there is no sincerity, so what else is everyone talking about?
If you want me to send troops to cover for Qi, it's not impossible, but you have to show sincerity. Chengyang and Xiaqiu were both ceded to the Qi State; Wei Guo changed Qi to the suzerain, Wei and Han forces withdrew from Wei Guo, and ceded Guiling and other cities west of Wei Guo to Qi.
Moreover, the Qi State will not declare war on the Mo family, but only threaten the Mo family without a fight, so that the Mo family does not dare to attack Korea easily to prevent being copied by the Qi State.
Qi can only do this, and the rest can't do much. Let Qi fight to the death with the Mo family on the Eastern Front, but Han Qin occupies an area in Nanyang, don't even think about it. If you want to die, then drag everyone to die together.