Chapter 211: The Moonlit Night Breaks Shang Cai (I)
In the future, the situation on the Western Front seems to be full of crises and insufficient troops, but in essence, as long as there is the idea of abandoning the strategic contraction of Nanyang, the situation will be greatly improved.
If Wei Han did not send troops, the Qin State would not have the strength to capture Nanyang, this was determined by the terrain, there was no second way to go, and six fingers were enough to organize a defense in Danyang.
If Wei and Han sent troops, then the pressure on the eastern front would be doubled, and the offensive on the eastern front would be used as a means to support the defense of the western front.
If there is a decisive battle on the Eastern Front, abandon Shangqiu and other places, and induce the enemy army to go deep and expose the flaws, so as to annihilate them.
If there is no decisive battle on the eastern front, then the troops will be sent out, because it is certain that the Qi State does not have the ability to take Sishang in a short time, and once you enter Sishang, you will know what it means to have troops everywhere.
In essence, it is impossible not to fight a decisive battle on the Eastern Front.
It is impossible for Qin, Wei, and Han to let Qi and Zhao sit idly by, but they themselves bleed in Nanyang.
The princes were wary of each other.
The state of Qi either sent troops to Luoyang to meet the Son of Heaven, and sent troops from Yi and Luo to Nanyang to cooperate with Han and Qin to fight; Either it is necessary to send troops to Sishang and attack on the Eastern Front, otherwise this alliance cannot be reached.
It's not that Qin doesn't agree, it's that Wei Han won't agree, and Wei Han won't agree if Qin doesn't agree.
Wei Han bleeds by himself, and he has been bloodied by the Mo family and the Qin State for twenty years, and he is already precarious and unable to hold on, so at this time, he will leave a stable Qi State by his side?
If Nanyang wins, the strength of the Mo family will be damaged, and the pressure on the Qi State will be doubled, and the Qi State will not choose to go west when there is no pressure from Sishang? Especially if there is no loss in the Qi country?
If Qi does not take the initiative to attack, South Korea will at most hit the first line of Luyang and Fangcheng, and it will not advance again to maintain its own defense.
This is not a matter of believing it or not, if the Qi State does not backstab and the Qi State does not send troops to attack, the Mo family has the ability to seize the Great Liang and threaten the heart of Wei Han, and when the main force of Wei Han goes deep into Nanyang, is it too late to run back?
Therefore, if Qi does not take the initiative to attack, then it is equivalent to the invalidity of this alliance.
When the time comes, will Qin Guo go all out in the decisive battle with the Mo family in Danyang? Fighting to the death, in the end, the little advantage that Xihe had just won was lost in Danyang, annoying the Mo family, Nanzheng and Danyang could go straight to the heart of the Qin State, and Wei Han was only afraid that he would breathe a sigh of relief when the time came.
There are many reasons why the princes have not sent troops for a long time, and if they can't reach a consensus and cooperate with each other in many places, even if the threat of the Mo family is so great and their ambitions are obvious, then they can only restrain each other and dare not move lightly.
In the world of strife and great strife, no one can afford to lose a great war between the princes.
In the first battle of Qi and Mo, the Qi State was honest for more than ten years, and it was powerless to fight for more than ten years.
In the battle between Chu and Mo, the battle of Daliang City, the fighting Chu State retracted and licked its wounds for twenty years.
Ten or twenty years, if in the spring and autumn world, it is nothing more than a moment, and you can still lie down and try to fight again.
And now, when the storm is surging, twenty years is enough to destroy the country and open the gap.
The Mo family is certainly hateful, but the question is that if Qi captures Han and Zhao captures Wei, will they not be extinct?
Therefore, it is very certain that the offensive on the Western Front will inevitably be later than the Qi State's troops, and it is impossible for the Western Front to attack before the Qi State does not send troops to meet with Wei, Han and Zhao.
The premise of the offensive on the western front was that the Korean army captured the direction of Nanyang through Funiu Mountain and forced the six fingers to divide the troops, so that the Qin State could break through the defense.
The premise for the Korean army to capture the direction of Nanyang through Funiu Mountain was that Qi and Zhao were the main forces, and they would attack Sishang in the direction of Daliang with the remaining forces of Wei and Han's eastern front, so as to ensure the security of the Korean rear.
Qi sent troops, and could only gather troops in Daliang, and would cooperate with the armies of Zhao, Han, and Wei to attack as a defense, which could make South Korea boldly send troops to Nanyang, otherwise Wei and Han would not agree to the alliance against Mexico.
Conversely, if Shi had lured Korea into moving south early and annihilated its field legions, then Qin would not have been able to attack Danyang, but would have found a way to capture Nanzheng, or maintain friendship with the Mo family and seize Xihe.
If Qin does not send troops, the western front is safe, and it will be impossible for Qi to fight Sishang, because if Qi goes to Sishang at this time, it is equivalent to using his own blood to protect Korea and Wei, and may even shed his own blood to protect South Korea and Wei.
It was this possible battle of the princes' alliance against Mexico, Han Wei could fight, Zhao, Qin, and Qi could not defeat any of them, but without his participation, this joint operation of the princes' alliance could not be united.
South Korea is the central axis. In other words, the field army in Korea was the central axis connecting the princely alliances.
Originally, the core of this central axis was the Wei State, and the Wei State had this strength twenty years ago, but after twenty years of bloodletting and exhaustion, the Wei State was no longer able to support this core.
This time, if the princes want to succeed in the alliance, they must trust each other.
Han Wei had to believe that Qi Zhao would attack the Sishang Song Land in the direction of Daliang, desperately covering his fragile heart; Qin had to believe that when he attacked Danyang, Korea would definitely leave Luyang Fangcheng; Qi should believe that when he assembles a field battle in the east, South Korea will do its best instead of choosing to avoid the war after sending troops in Nanyang; Zhao Guo wanted to believe that he had made peace with Zhongshan and sent troops and Gao Liuyun was angry, Qi, Qin, Han, and Wei would fight to the end instead of choosing to make peace and slip away first, not to mention the best time for himself to seize Zhongshan, and also caused instability in the hearts of the people in the country.
From the time when the etiquette collapsed, the princes quarreled and deceited.
If the alliance is a fart, the conspiracy of the blood oath can be reported overnight, the two families jointly sent troops to fight and suddenly ran away in the middle of the battle, the three families worked together to exterminate one family in the middle of the night, and the two rebels made the allies first, and the close ally monarch immediately sent troops to engage in inheritance and interfered in the war, and did not hesitate to split the alliance into two......
There are so many things like this that it's really hard to trust each other.
The worst plan made by the Sishang General Staff was actually the least likely plan.
The plan to lure South Korea into sending troops is essentially the best estimate, but I just don't know if South Korea can be fooled.
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Five days later, twenty miles north of Yang City in Chudi.
This Yangcheng is the Yangcheng that was closely related to the rise and fall of the Mo family in history, and a city between Zhoukou and Luohe in later generations.
This city is very famous, not only because of the fact that Meng Sheng died for Xiaoyi in history, but also because there was a kind of character who shouted out the genuine prince general Xiangning.
The corps of the infantry, which had abandoned the artillery and part of the infantry, had arrived, and the scouts reported that the 40,000 troops of Chu Da Sima were forty miles to the south.
There are Chu cities all around here, and they are flat, and the great Sima of Chu only thinks about retreating quickly, and he does not send enough scouts to reconnoiter within the range of his control, and the speed of the march is too fast, which causes the entire team to be stretched very long.
Near the carriage, in a makeshift command post, officers above the brigade level in the corps were waiting to be deployed.
Judging from the scout's reconnaissance, Chu Da Sima's retreat was extremely hasty, and he thought that this was the hinterland of Chu, so he didn't even send a basic scout.
The judgment that is suitable is that Chu Da Sima is really in a hurry, not that he has any scheme.
As the saying goes, the premise of the four taels of thousands of catties is that the people of the four taels must first have the strength of a thousand catties, and it is the same reason for the two armies to fight.
Obviously, the little soldiers in the hands of Sima of Chu State were not enough to resist the army led by Shi, so there was no possibility of luring the enemy to go deeper, but he himself did not notice the danger because he was in a hurry to retreat.
Because luring the enemy deep requires the ability to annihilate the enemy who is deep, otherwise it is to let go of the body and wait for the enemy to ravage.
When the mission was deployed, two cities were highlighted.
There are almost no hills here, a plain, these two cities are in the west of Yangcheng and the south of Yinyang, which is a place where supplies can be replenished, and there are Mo family organizations active there.
A city is called Wu Fang.
This used to be the land of the Viscount Fangguo, which inherited the sacrifice of Yao and the feudal kingdom of Danzhu, the son of Emperor Yao. Danzhu was originally sealed in Danshui, but because Shun replaced Yao and exiled Danzhu, it was changed to be sealed in the room.
The housekeeper, the temple of Nuwa, was originally a special noun. It was originally an important place of worship for Nuwa, and the legend of Nüwa mending the sky also comes from a nearby mountain peak.
Dan Zhu Feng continued the place name of Fang after that, and later came to the Battle of Baiju, the younger brother of He Lu defected to the Chu State, and the King of Chu sealed him here and renamed it Wu Fang - because the younger brother of He Lu had a coup d'état before defecting, and called himself the King of Wu, so the Chu State added a Wu character in front, which was quite disgusting and the meaning of Lu Lu.
In later generations, there was a legend of Caizhou under the snowy night, because of the First World War, so the then Li Tang Emperor ordered it to be renamed "Suiping".
At this time, this is a small city, where the Mo family is organized and active, and there are not many defenders.
The other place is the Shangcai of the so-called Chen Cai's division in the Chu State, which is a big city, and there are many ink writers who are secretly active in the city.
In addition, it has experienced the rebellion of the prince early on, and after the pacification, the feudal aristocratic forces here were purged by the king of Chu, and the feudal aristocratic forces were swept away, and Chen Di was an important city connecting the Song Dynasty and Sishang, so the commerce here was developed, and the penetration of the Mo family was also extremely serious.
The information here is clear, and the troops sent by the advance team are trying to find a way to sneak attack these two cities.
Its main thing is to sneak attack Wu Fang, because it is relatively easy. And if Shang Cai can't sneak attack, he will pretend to attack the city to scare him, and the army can repair it in Wufang for a while, and then go straight to Xianghe.
He didn't pay attention to the 40,000 people of Chu Dasima at all, and the important thing was always to capture Xianghehui and the army stationed in Chu to lure South Korea into sending troops early.
Wu Fang and Shang Cai are very close, Cai is a county of Chu State, and Wu Fang is just a fief of the nobles.
At this point, it is necessary to divide the troops, and prepare to let a part of the infantry and combat engineers advance westward first, and take all the cavalry and 7,000 foot soldiers to attack the 40,000 people of Chu Da Sima.