Chapter 379: The Pawn and the Gentleman (20)
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There is a saying in later generations that every family has a scripture that is difficult to read. At this time, the Buddha had just come under the tree to attain enlightenment, and the scriptures had not yet reached Kyushu, but this meaning could describe the thoughts between the commander of the righteous master and the commander of the Yue people at this time.
Yue Wang Phong had to fight this battle, and he was forced to fight a field battle, and he couldn't even avoid the battle.
The previous actions of the righteous master had already told Yue Wang Fei that it was a dead end to his troops under the fortified city, and Yue Wang Fei must also win, so he could only choose to make an appointment.
Since the disagreement between Wen and Gou Jian because of the northward struggle for hegemony or sticking to Wu Yue, the Yue Kingdom has always had a difficult choice between going north or south. Gou Jianli went north to fight for hegemony, and after a short period of success, what was left to the future king of Yue was endless trouble.
It has been seventy or eighty years since the capital was moved to Langya, but the call of many Yue nobles to give up the Central Plains hegemony and return to the Wuyue River Estuary has not changed.
If you want to go north, or let the Yue country still have a glimmer of possibility to go north to the Central Plains and become a part of the Chinese system and become a hegemon, the Surabaya basin must be fought for.
At this time, the Yellow River had not yet flooded, and the Surabaya basin was also considered fertile soil in the world, second only to the Weizheng Central Plains, and there were many small countries.
A few years ago, he fought with Qi, although he was victorious, but Yue Wang also knew that Yue Guo was now two catties.
Just like the somewhat insulting sentence that the envoy got when he questioned the Ink Righteous Master before: If it is Gou Jian's Yue, why should as long as the two cities of Jianyang and Juling are captured, the three thousand slaves will form an alliance and truce?
There is the Qi State in the way, and whether the Qi State can be defeated is not the Yue State, but whether the Qi State is in civil strife and whether the Sanjin Dynasty oppresses the Qi State.
Now that the Chu people have been suppressed by the Three Jins, the two major countries in the world have not touched the power of Sishang for the time being, and this is the last chance for the Yue Kingdom.
Abandoning Sishang is equivalent to giving up Langya, and all the Yue people moved back to Wuyue's hometown, where it became a marginal country of the Chinese system and gradually declined.
Competing with other countries for a long time, the Yue country does not have this body now. But there is still a chance to stay in the north after all, waiting for the future. Retreating to the Yangtze River, even hope is shattered.
The political and cultural backwardness of the Yue Kingdom in the Central Plains, and the original strategy in Surabaya was only to rely on force to maintain superiority. annex one or two small countries when they are strong and do not interfere with the Great Powers; When foreign powers intervened, they supported the nobles of small countries to come to power and depose the king.
As long as the state of Chu does not fall, and the state of Qi is especially large, then the three Jin will always be in alliance with the Yue country, before the Yue country and the Jin country have been very close, several times to attack the state of Qi, it is Zhao Wei to fight the main attack, and the Yue country to fight the autumn wind.
The water war with the Chu State Since the public defeat class arrived in the Chu State, the Yue State Boat Master Xiliu has no advantage. Fortunately, the state of Chu has been declining and civil strife in recent years, and now it is confronting the state of Wei, the Song state has the change of Shangqiu, and the Zheng state has the rebellion of Siziyang, and the big countries of the Central Plains will not stare at Sishang for the time being, and the civil strife of the Zheng state is enough to attract the attention of the three Jin Dynasty for a while.
This is the last chance for the country.
The original strategy was not wrong, encroaching on whale swallowing, internal control, and supporting pro-Vietnamese aristocratic sons...... But as the Mo family began to do things in Pei County, the problem became complicated.
The strategy of the Yue State has been on the verge of failure, especially the restoration of the Teng State, which made the Yue Wang Phong understand that if he no longer cares about the Mo family, there will be no place for the Yue State in Sishang.
In fact, as long as the countries of the Central Plains fight for a few more years, they will turn their attention to Sishang, which is the only remaining place where the Central Plains culture has the potential to be rich and has not yet been occupied by the great powers. Song, Qi, Yue, and Wei will soon all be staring at this place.
Yue Wang Fei is now very clear that the small Teng State does not have much practical benefit for the Yue State, but for the long-term hegemonic strategy, the Teng State Restoration Congress has caused a series of reactions, which is also a signal that the Mo family has begun to get involved in Sishang.
Sishang is a good place, but Wei Chu is now powerless to fight, and Yue Guo is the one who can feel the threat of the Mo family the most.
If you don't fight, then wait for the Mo family to dye Sishang black step by step, and Teng Guo will restore the country, in the eyes of Yue Guo, what kind of restoration is this? I don't know if a person is caught from there and says that he is a descendant of Kaogong, does he have real power?
This is the choice that Vietnam has to make strategically.
Since the strategy is to be fought, how can the whole campaign be fought?
Shi had already given Yue Wang Phong a only answer two months ago: don't think about besieging the city, the Mo family guards the city, and if you can fight for a year, you will be unparalleled in the world. But this year, the mobile force that traveled extremely fast and attacked the city quickly will not cut off the grain route? Wouldn't it be a threat to the Sishang princes in the rear? Won't they cooperate with Qi people to attack Langya?
Therefore, in the battle, the only option is field battle, and it is a field battle with a great victory, destroying the main force of the righteous division, then these cities are dead cities, even if it takes time, they can always be besieged.
When it comes to the specific battle, Yue Wang Phong must win again, otherwise he will lose strategically: the victory of the Mo family means that the strategy of annexing Sishang by the Yue State is completely broken by the Mo family.
The battle was to be won both and big, and after observing that the military formation of the Mojia Yishi was a defensive dead formation, he chose the most threatening offensive direction.
At least, he thinks it's threatening.
But it was a real fight, and it was completely unexpected. The elite has not moved, the front of the righteous division is like the sea, and his attacks are like a splash, without any impact.
On the contrary, it was his own left flank, which was attacked by the righteous division and was on the verge of collapse.
Almost immediately, he thought of the main force of the righteous teachers who were going around with him, and secretly thought: "The left-wing division must be the elite of the righteous teachers." Since he has defended several formations and is not to be moved, he is to crush me on the left flank. ”
It's just that there is no precedent in this world for infantry to change formations and flanks, and he naturally didn't expect that Shi's ambition was to eat all his troops to fight a war of annihilation.
In fact, he thought well, but the infantry faced by his left flank and the infantry faced by his right flank were not a system at all.
The infantry he faced on his right flank was indeed more defensive and extremely mobile, because he followed the path of phalanx defense, and was a phalanx spearmen with the first batch of primitive heavy muskets. Even if there is any opportunity on the battlefield, it cannot rely on mobility to expand the advantage, and it is too slow. Go fast and lose combat effectiveness.
When the turtle shrank there, with the cooperation of musketeers and cannons, the Yue people had no cavalry and no cannons, and they had to wait until the year of the monkey to break the phalanx. However, once you get moving, problems arise.
However, the six brigades faced by the left flank belonged to the six brigades of the Mojia Volunteer Division's attempt to reform the military system, and they followed the path of attacking with small phalanxes and musketeers, which were more mobile and suitable for attacking.
Mobility means that one brigade can be used as two brigades, and more can be used to fight less where necessary. And any master tactician, a famous general in the world, pursues only one thing in his life: through mobilization and formation confrontation on the battlefield, and in the local realization of more and less.
It was suitable to use three of the six brigades as cavalry that could be tactically maneuverable, and Yue Wang Fei didn't know it.
If the Mo family continues to continue this mobilization of 27,000 people, it will cause a series of follow-up dissatisfaction in Pei County, so the Mo family also hopes for a decisive battle, but Yue Wang Fei does not know.
The Mo family needed this battle to be a war of annihilation, in order to force the Yue people to take the next step according to the established strategy in the previous synonymous meeting, and Yue Wang Peng did not know.
The Mo family is facing the situation that Mo Zhai is dying, and the results of this battle are needed to integrate the internal contradictions, and Yue Wang Peng does not know.
Therefore, Yue Wang Peng, who was most worried, saw that the situation was not good, and directly threw away the left flank and slipped away, and Yue Wang Peng would not do it.
Because once he did it, it meant defeat, although it was a small defeat in the battle, but it was a big defeat in strategy: the strategy of the Yue Kingdom and the oppression of the Mo family forced Yue Wang Peng to win this battle and not lose it.
After observing the situation on the battlefield, Yue Wang Fei knew that the battle situation was changing rapidly, so he made a decision to change his strategy, and it was also a decision that would affect the entire battle.
Because he didn't know that Shi's ambition was to annihilate the main force of the Yue people in the field of more than 40,000 people, including 6,000 gentlemen's army, so after the right flank chariot was repulsed and the righteous division did not pursue, Yue Wang Phong judged that the left flank of the righteous division was a frozen array, and he had no ability to pursue at all.
This is because of the asymmetry of information, he doesn't know that the Mo family needs a war of annihilation, and thinks that all the Mo family needs is a victory.
Therefore, he felt that if it was just for the sake of victory, if the left flank of the righteous division had the ability to pursue and counterattack, he would have fallen into chaos by now and might have failed.
Since he has not yet failed, and the righteous master has not pursued, there is only one possibility: his left wing, the right wing of the righteous division, is the elite main force of the righteous division, and it is also the main force that has been pursued by himself for two or three months but has found nothing. The righteous master wanted to fight steadily and break through himself with a geese-shaped formation on the right flank.
As long as this elite is annihilated, then the Mo family can only choose to defend the city, and has no strength to bypass the army to sneak attack the rear, cut off the grain route, and break through the capital of the vassal state.
Thus, he made a judgment at the moment when the left wing collapsed into a dilemma.
Give up the previous idea of breaking through from the left wing of the Chinese army and encircling and annihilating most of the righteous division.
Instead, they used to storm the right flank of the righteous division, and the left wing of the Chinese army, which used the numerical advantage to suppress the righteous division, could not support the right flank, and at the same time relied on the absolutely elite gentleman's army and most of the troops to annihilate this only field division of the righteous division that could be attacked.
Changing formations on the battlefield will bring a lot of chaos, but Yue Wang has the judgment that the formation change is successful.
The left flank of the righteous division and the central army were in a dead formation, so as long as the forces that had been deployed in the front continued to attack, leaving room for the troops encircling and destroying the right flank of the righteous division to deploy and redeploy, then the extremely dangerous mid-battle change could be completed.
The defense of the righteous division chose two support points, which was very disgusting for the Yue people, because the Yue people's army could not be fully deployed. It doesn't make sense to expand.
First, the number of the Yue people was already large, and the second was that the military formation of the Yue people was much looser than the dense formation of the rebel division.
Therefore, in the case of maintaining the formation, the space required by the Yue people is larger, and the width is limited, and the space required is relatively larger.
The troops that had been deployed in front could not be withdrawn, so they could only continue to attack, thinking that their main forces had room to maintain their formation.
He led the main force of the Chinese army and the elite gentleman's army, as well as the archers and all the elites, and stormed the left flank of the righteous division. Although there is a limit to the water, it can still complete a small area of outflanking, so as to completely annihilate this elite of righteous teachers.
As long as they can eliminate the elite of the righteous divisions who are fighting field attacks and attacking the city, then the remaining righteous divisions are a group of dead stiff soldiers who can only put up "several formations" to defend to the death, and even if they do their best, they can also take Tengcheng by besieging the city and laying the hegemony in Surabaya in one fell swoop.
Whether the Qi State will send troops halfway depends on this battle: this battle can encircle and annihilate the elite main force of the righteous division, and at the same time can besiege Tengcheng, then the Vietnamese army is still the "tiger division", and the Qi people dare not move.
On the contrary, if you slip away now, the righteous master may not be able to retreat, and the Yue people in the eyes of the Qi people are not so terrible.
Judging from the fame that the Tian clan needs most now, the Tian clan needs a victory in a foreign war.
The Wei people are not easy to fight, and the revenge of the Pingyin Alliance and the Battle of Diqiu cannot be avenged, and they dare not take revenge.
However, the revenge of Jianyang, Juling and the slaves of the three thousand Qi people can be avenged...... As long as this battle is lost, then the Qi people are likely to take advantage of the confrontation between Wei and Chu and Liang to send troops to Langya.
The ugliness of that year was from Qi Hou, and the glory was recaptured by the Tian family, which is very different.
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