Chapter 304: The Million Jin Army Goes South
The strategy of the Jin Kingdom has become clear.
Solve the problem of the southeast first, and then reject the forces of the north.
Speaking of which, although the emperor of the Jin State has been a little anxious in the past two years, he still has the most basic reason, and he is most worried about the Chu State and the Cang State, as long as either the Chu State or the Cang State is hit hard, then the pressure will be much lighter.
According to what the emperor of the Jin State thought, in addition to the government soldiers, the Jin State had a total of five million soldiers who could be transferred to fight in other places, and with two million of them, plus more than 300,000 troops of the Che State, a total of more than 2.3 million, it was more than enough to deal with the 400,000 troops of the Cangguo with the Great River Moat.
Anyway, the purpose of the Jin State at this stage is not to break through the Cangguo, but to hold its own territory, the Jin State has time to grind slowly, but the alliance of the countries is not necessarily, once a certain country retreats, there will be a big loophole, which will eventually lead to the collapse of the alliance.
Zou Ji received the holy decree and went out of the city with Shuai Yin, and began to feel uneasy.
Since the Battle of Wei, he has firmly grasped the emperor's self-satisfaction, which can be described as flattery, which makes the emperor very useful.
The emperor cared about the front-line military on weekdays, and he didn't have any capable ministers, so he played chess games with him and talked about the affairs of the soldiers by the way.
Zou Ji is now fifty-three, born in a noble lord family, since he was a teenager, he has followed the army to make meritorious deeds, and has passed through dozens of large and small battlefields, except that he has not led the army to fight, but he is very familiar with military affairs.
It is precisely because of the strengths of this ordinary person that it is difficult to have, coupled with the dexterity and dexterity of the machine, he was naturally greatly appreciated by the emperor of the Jin State, and even every time he went to a wonderful place, the emperor always laughed, saying that the Jin State still had such a great general to be humiliated.
Let's just say that last time, the emperor of the Jin State was very annoyed after hearing that Cangguo had completely annexed Shengguo, so he asked Xun Wu that Cangguo annexed countries larger than himself twice in succession, and each time it was extremely fast, defeating the strong with the weak, why?
Xun Wu is a famous general of the Jin State, ranking first among the five generals, of course, according to objective facts, he made a comment on Cangguo.
It is precisely in this way that the emperor of the Jin State disliked him and thought that he was exaggerating.
Xun Wu argued, and the emperor of Jin was immediately furious.
Zou Ji took this opportunity to hurriedly come out and pat himself on the back, cheer up and talk eloquently, and said for half an hour in one breath, starting from the disadvantages of the cave country and the sheng country, emphasizing that the two countries were too weak, and then explained that under the surprise attack of the cavalry of the Cang country, the main force of the cave country was severely damaged in one fell swoop, which made the aftermath, like a horse and a flat river, annex the Cang country.
However, Zou Ji is also a well-educated person, and after some words, he made it clear that Cangguo used troops and the lack of response, which attracted courtiers and some veterans, and they were also admired.
The emperor of the Jin State was also a smart person, so he asked more than a dozen questions in one breath, and Zou Ji responded calmly.
This made the emperor of the Jin State even more stunned, calling him a general, so he was promoted to join the army in front of the emperor and was in charge of important military and political affairs.
In the Jin Kingdom, the imperial army in charge of important military and political affairs is equivalent to the first rank of the Cangguo, and the logistics of the national army and the important tasks of the border fortress are all within the scope of the imperial army's power, and the status is equal to that of the five generals.
At the beginning, Xun Wu was deposed, and after the Jin State knew that the Wei State had already launched a large army, the emperor summoned all the veterans to discuss, and Zou Ji also made a plan in front of the palace, suggesting that he should concentrate his forces to defeat one side, and then break them one by one.
After that, he slapped another sycophant, saying that after the Jin State fought this war, the countries should not be afraid, and the Jin State would be able to dominate the world.
At that time, Zou Ji didn't expect that His Majesty the Emperor would let him fill the gap of this great general!
If you want to say that there are many generals who are good at fighting, there are not many people in the Jin Kingdom, and there are people from all major families who take on important responsibilities in the military, and he has several predecessors in the Zou family, who also crawled out of the sea of blood in the corpse mountain, how can he get his turn?
The incident happened suddenly, and the emperor of the Jin Kingdom did not discuss it in private, and directly worshiped him as a general on the Golden Palace!
Zou Ji was stunned, a cold sweat rose on his back, and when he returned home at night, he stared blankly at the soldier talisman seal letter in the study, and couldn't think of a tactic, and then when he thought of the serious problem that Wang Zhi said in the letter, and the terrible speculation, his scalp was numb.
Since you want to please the emperor, of course, you have to do some homework.
In order to find the weakness of the Cang army, so that he could tell the emperor in detail next time, he also specially asked the caravan to secretly buy off a few veterans who were originally scattered from the cave army, and studied it carefully.
It doesn't matter if this research is, what kind of ability Cangjun has is already very obvious.
Even if the strength of the soldiers of the Jin army is stronger than that of the Zhidong Kingdom and the Sheng Kingdom, what can this be?
Giving advice, managing logistics and military affairs, he has no problem with these things.
Commanding the war is not the same as talking about it!
In this regard, he is extremely lacking in self-confidence.
So in the palace before, he seemed to be following Wang Zhi's advice, but in fact, he felt that Wang Zhi had been fighting for many years, and his intuition would not be wrong, even if he was wrong, Wang Zhi was responsible, and he couldn't blame him anyway.
After thinking about it all night, the biggest thought in Zou Ji's heart was to resign as a general and still join the army as a royal officer.
But can you quit?
In the past two years, under the praise of these courtiers, the emperor's prestige and temper have been cultivated, violent and impermanent, rigid and self-serving, and he must have scolded him for cowardice, maybe it is worse than that Xun Wu, and he must be killed by a holy decree.
Zou Ji thought to himself, this was the first time he regretted why he was so high-profile in the past.
Isn't it good to be an honest official who can't go up or down, and slowly boil up his qualifications? If you have to die, you just have to slap the emperor on the horse, and you have to take the initiative to show an extraordinary piece.
An army of millions, if he loses to an army of 400,000, not to mention that his head will be lost, and he will also affect the family members, at least the lives of his wife and children will not be saved.
"Fortunately, this time there is Wang Zhi in charge of the army, and Xun Wu, the dismissed general, stays in the barracks to give advice, and when I enter the front line, I only need to be humble and invite Xun Wu to come to the army as a guest, and I will not make a mistake."
Zou Ji sighed, holding the handsome seal, transferred a million troops from all over the country, set off from Jincheng by himself, and there were large armies on the way one after another, until the border between the Jin State and the Che State, the million army was assembled, and there was no end in sight along the way, stretching ten miles away, which was magnificent.
Since this army is not a patchwork, it does not have a specific name, and the banner is also written with the word "Zou". ()