After the general strategic deliberations were completed, they all revolved around the idea of weakening the Song State, controlling the Song State, and deterring other countries from using the appeasement policy to refrain from sending troops.

Gong Zaoye finally asked, "If Wei Chu Han Qi Yue really sends troops...... That can only be defeated. ”

Shidao: "Didn't the General Staff have a plan in advance?" This possibility has always existed, and the specific strategy has already been formulated. ”

"Once Wei Chuhan sends troops, regardless of whether the Qi State participates or not, he must first fight the Qi State, defeat Linzi, and disintegrate the Qi State."

"The Qi State will fight if it has an alliance, and the Qi State will fight if it does not have an alliance. Solve the Qi State first, and force Wei, Chu, and Han to join forces. ”

The strategic concept of the Mohists is to come first and then to the Central Plains, but there are also plans for various unexpected situations, because sometimes others may not follow their own ideas, and they always need to be prepared.

Qi is not guilty, even if it is very likely that it is impossible to join the alliance due to his own threat, but once the Central Plains War breaks out, the first to fight will inevitably be Qi State.

One is that the southwest region of Qi has a good popular base, and the other is that the disintegration of Qi can make it impossible for Qi to gather forces in the short term.

And most importantly, give yourself more time to prepare.

In the big war five years ago, presumably Wei Chuhan had learned a lesson, and it was impossible to continue to use the strategy of dividing the troops and advancing together, for fear of being defeated by the Mo family and being eaten.

But once the forces are combined, the huge logistical pressure makes it impossible for the countries to maintain a state of war for too long, and then there will be a nationwide famine, especially under the system of integration of peasants and soldiers.

Moreover, if Wei Chuhan is a joint force, it will take a longer time, and a gathering point for the alliance and joint forces will be needed, and in the process of assembly, the fighters may be broken by each other.

Moreover, since it is necessary to fight, it is impossible to fight around the Song State.

The Song Kingdom is a plain, there is no danger to defend, and it is not like the Surabaya area is full of new city defenses.

The pressure faced by Wei Chuhan is also extremely huge, five years ago in the first Central Plains War, the Mo family jumped out of the inner line, in the Fei State and the Qi State confrontation, but the main force went straight into the Qi State, surrounded Linzi to save Fei, and the whole Si was stable.

If they really fight this time, they can also use the same means, Wei Chuhan may be attacked, and if they want to join forces under the threat of logistics pressure and Sishang, they will inevitably leave heavy guards.

If Wei, Chu and Han join forces, the preparation time will be at least one year, and the longer the preparation time, the more time there will be for diplomatic mediation in the directions of Qin, Zhongshan, and Zhao.

As long as one part is annihilated and the posture of defending the south and attacking the north is made, there is a good chance that the Wei State will choose to betray the alliance, and as soon as the Wei State retreats, it is impossible for Zheng's Korea to continue to fight, and it is easy to say that only the Chu State is left.

If only the Chu State is left, with a maximum of two victories, once the Chu State suffers heavy losses, the contradictions accumulated by the entire Chu State due to the law change will erupt.

The crown prince Zang can't have children and has no children, the prince and the good husband stand on the side of the nobles and covet the crown prince's position, the king of Chu has been complaining about the centralized aristocracy, if the king of Chu defeats Sishang, everything is easy to say, but as long as he fails once or twice, the state of Chu will wait for civil strife.

It's just that the top level of the Mo family is not willing to fight now, because the preparations are not sufficient, the rebellion in the South China Sea has just been quelled, the large population there has not yet been converted into a basic plate, and the economy of Sishang may have big problems in the event of a war.

Those present in these situations knew that Shi finally concluded: "If we really fight, we will certainly have great difficulties, but the difficulties of Wei, Chuhan and the countries are no less than ours, and when the time comes, what will be compared is resilience." ”

"It's good not to fight. But if you really want to fight, you don't have to worry. Our difficulties are inferior to theirs, and their internal contradictions will be exacerbated by defeat and protracted wars. ”

"In particular, it should be noted that in the past, when countries fought wars, they might have accepted the way of making peace with a different monarch, or the punishment of the monarch as a justification for war."

"But they are fighting against us, and there is no other reason than to oppose equality, to oppose virtue, to stop the war, and to make the people rich. What they want to do is to eradicate us, but if they do, they will be the enemy of all the people of Sishang, and the people of the world who sympathize with us and approve of us. ”

"They are going to perish after all, I thought that they would be made coffins later and then let them perish, but if they can't wait to die now, then we can't help but kill."

After convincing everyone, Shi personally drafted the "Special Exercise Mobilization Order" and signed the seal, and the main content of the meeting was over.

Before dawn, the envoy corps headed by one commissioner, with 600 cavalry and the backbone of two specialized artillery companies, quickly left for the Song State.

As soon as dawn, the news of the coup d'état of the Song State was spread, and the envoy of the king of Chu hurriedly asked to see him, but the Mo family refused to meet on the grounds that there was no time for the time being, and the soldiers of the garrison brigade of a company were stationed directly near the residence of the envoy of the king of Chu, making a gesture that they did not want to talk with the state of Chu.

By noon, the efficiency of the centralization of power in Sishang began to be demonstrated.

With Pengcheng as the center, along the roads that extend in all directions, the heralds with special flags in their hands galloped in all directions towards Sishang.

In the afternoon, outside a very ordinary village in the upper reaches of Surabaya.

The people of the village community are digging the canal in full swing, and the weather is a little dry this year, but fortunately, the water canal dug a few years ago has allowed the village to irrigate the land, and although the yield will be affected, at least it is not a situation where there is no harvest like in the famine year.

Under the premise that there are few people in the area, the villages and communities in Surabaya and the northern Jiangsu Plain below have basically adopted the method of collective cooperation under the guidance of propaganda and driven by interests.

The remnants of the original clan village are still there, and there is more land per capita, most of which are cultivated in a rough way, not intensively.

Some of the machinery of the wood-iron era, such as the double-horse heavy plow, the horse-drawn ear cutting machine, and the horse-drawn threshing machine, is not something that a single household can bear, and the village community can not only take some risks, but also cooperate in some handicraft industries.

And most importantly, it is possible to work together to build canals and dig wells, which is a collective work that is difficult for a single family to bear.

Explosions have been heard on a regular basis at the site of the construction of the canal in this very ordinary village community, and gunpowder has become a very common thing in Sishang, whether it is firecrackers, or blowing up earth slopes, or mining, and even newborn children are used to gunpowder buried under the mounds of earth.

On a small stone cliff in the distance, it has been blown up with thousands of holes, and most of the Surabaya Basin, the southwest of Qilu, and even the northern Jiangsu Plain are impact plains, and stones are very rare.

The impact plain is easily washed out of the deep pit by floods, and stones are in great demand as the foundation of the canal, and this small stone cliff is the place where more than 20 nearby villages and communities take stones together.

Several of those who specialize in civilian blasting were miners and were assigned to work in the villages, and were using iron drills to drill holes for installing gunpowder.

In the distance, several horse-drawn carriages are waiting, and a hard-faced gravel road to Surabaya built by more than 20 villages and communities is more resistant to rain and more suitable for transportation than those dirt roads.

It is said that the old miner who was smashing the iron drill on the cliff stopped the sledgehammer in his hand, and the young man holding the drill wondered why he did not hear the knocking sound for a long time.

When I looked up, I saw that the old miner was building a pergola with his hands, and he was stunned in the distance.

The young man looked and saw several horses galloping on the road in the distance, and in the distance he could see the red and black flags held by the riders.

"Something's wrong!"

The people on the mountain said this in unison, hurriedly threw down the work in their hands, and walked down the mountain.

Beside the canal in the distance at the foot of the mountain, men, women and children are busy, and the Mo family has always emphasized that men, women and children are useful when they defend the city, so that after Qin Mo entered Qin in history, the three armies of Qin defending the city are "strong men for the first army, strong women for the first army, and the rest of the old and young for the first army".

The digging of the soil, the picking of the basket, the busy but not chaotic.

There was a large pot boiling next to it, and a pot of water was boiling in it, and the clay pot was filled with water for brewing some of the cheapest tea leaves, and two frail women were in charge of boiling the water.

A few men were sweating and digging through the dirt, chatting about some household chores from time to time.

After choosing their surnames a few years ago, they all had their own surnames and first names, and almost all of them were able to write their names proficiently, because men had to serve as adults.

It's just that everyone's name is almost a cheap name, which can be heard from some homely conversations.

A man spat twice at the palm of his hand, and said while he was breathless: "A few days ago, I went to the city to sell pigs, and when I ate at the restaurant at noon, guess who I saw?" ”

"Chen Gouzi and his woman, who was with a man at the time, saw me at that time and hurriedly lowered his head. She didn't talk to me, and I didn't talk to her...... You say, the dog threw the ground and followed a few of his fellow comrades to the South China Sea, and I heard that he died of illness several times...... His woman and children have lived in the city, and the dog is fighting outside to make money, but the woman is hooking up in the city, what a thing! ”

"If you want me to say, the current law is too loose. Look at it, when the dog comes back this year, they will definitely get divorced. I told the dog a long time ago, don't go to the South China Sea. ”

"I have a wife and children, and if you don't guard here, who knows what can happen? Besides, the South China Sea can make money, but how many people died there? One of my comrades when I was serving also followed people to break in, and as soon as he went to the South China Sea, he got sick and died...... That money was really exchanged for life. ”

"You say it's weird, money can make people spare their lives, how many people go to the South China Sea every year?"

The South China Sea is far away, and they probably didn't even hear of it twenty years ago.

And now, the South China Sea is so close that even the people in the village are talking about those fellow villagers who are fighting for wealth with their lives.

When several men who worked together were about to complain about the marriage law introduced in recent years, someone also noticed a few horses galloping on the road in the distance.

A man who had been a cavalryman wondered, "Who is this?" Riding a horse like this doesn't mean that the horse is going to run away? If this is in the army, it will inevitably be criticized......"

There are many horses in the village community, and as an important livestock for cultivated land, the people in the village community have an indescribable affection for cattle and horses, especially those who have served as cavalry.

However, when they got closer, they heard the brass bell that could only be used in an emergency by the flag-bearer waving on the horse, and the men who had been digging in the dirt just now immediately put down their tools.