Chapter 147: The Battle of Taoyi VII
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"Your Highness, you see, Chen Ying, the current capital of Chu State, is frequently in Wei State, and the capital of Wei State, Daliang, and Chen Ying, Chu State, are both on the chasm."
"The chasm?" Tian Jian looked at the map on the desk and fell into deep thought, Chen Ying of Chu State was only a hundred miles away from the border of Wei State, which was also the key to Zhao Sheng, the king of the Plains, who could quickly escape from Chen Ying that day, and the girder extended in all directions, and Chen Ying was connected to a river, this is the chasm.
Starting from the chasm, with the convenience of the boats, it is not difficult for the Chu army to approach Daliang City within three days!
"Uncle Wang, although this is the case, can Wei Guoyan not have a trace of defense?" Tian Jian asked.
Wei is not a common thing, it has been besieged by enemy countries repeatedly, how can it be impossible for Wei to guard against enemy countries, not to mention that Wei and Chu are enemy countries, it is certain that there are heavy troops here, and it is undoubtedly a fool's dream to highlight the encirclement and encircle Daliang from here, and realize the same siege of Wei and rescue Zhao as Sun Bin and Tian Ji!
But is Tian Dan, as the king of Qi Guoanping, really so "stupid"?
A smile appeared at the corner of Tian Dan's mouth, and he said: "According to normal times, the Wei State will not withdraw the heavy troops deployed in Yongqiu, but this is just ordinary time!" ”
Yongqiu is a city on the edge of the chasm, and it is a famous big city of Wei, where Wei has at least 50,000 heavy soldiers.
"Usually? I don't know what Uncle Wang said about this? Could it be that Uncle Wang has a way to make Wei withdraw his troops, or ....." Tian Jian set his eyes on Tian Dan.
Now the Triple Alliance, the main forces are Qin and Wei, and Qin is far away, even if it attacks Qin to relieve the pressure, it will not help, because Qin is too powerful to be resisted by Chu alone, and Qin is condescending and occupies a favorable geographical position.
Why?
Because China's geography changes from west to east and from north to south from high to low, friends who have learned geography know that China's geography is divided into three major ladders, the first ladder is the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the second ladder is the Loess Plateau, the Sichuan Basin, and the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau including the Guanzhong Plain, and the third ladder is the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River Plain and the North China Plain.
The state of Chu originally owned about the entire south, which can be described as a beautiful place in the world, and has the highest possibility of completing the great cause of unification.
However, after the Qin State captured Bashu, the situation began to reverse, and the King of Chu Huai sent 200,000 Chu troops to attack the Qin State, not completely out of righteous indignation, for Zhang Yi's fraudulent move, but for thoughtful consideration.
Thinking about it, can Zhang Yi's 600 miles of business land really make the King of Chu so angry?
After Zhang Yi returned to Qin, there was a debate between Sima Cuo and Zhang Yi about whether to capture Bashu or Korea, and in the end Sima Co won, and Bashu was successfully captured by Sima Cuo.
At this time, the state of Chu sent troops to attack Qin!
Unfortunately, because of the high terrain of Sichuan, the Qin State went directly eastward from the Yangtze River and directly attacked the Yingdu of the Chu State, and finally the Chu State troops were defeated at Danyang and Lantian.
Later, Bai Qi attacked Chu, and the battle of Yanling that broke out was also sent from Bashu to attack Yingdu directly.
That's the location!
Therefore, during the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there was a saying that if Bashu was Huainan'an, and Huaibei was expected to be in the Northern Expedition!
Huainan is the south, and only by keeping Bashu can the emperor of the south sleep soundly.
During the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin replaced the Later Zhou Dynasty, and the first to attack was the separatist force Cheng Han in Sichuan, not the Khitan in the north.
Why? Of course, it's not for the beauty of Mrs. Hua Rui, it's just incidental, but to get Bashu, then Huainan is easy to get.
In fact, this is the case, Zhao Kuangyin led the Song army to take the road of Bashu.
Tian Dan stroked his white beard with his hand and said, "How can the minister have the ability to make Wei withdraw his troops, but there is one person who can!" ”
"Who? Today, only King Wei has this ability! Tian Jiandao.
"Yes, King Wei." Tian Dan nodded with satisfaction, and then said: "Although King Wei is not a faint king, he is not a Ming master, he has a small temperament that likes to be greedy. ”
"Greedy?" Tian Jian's brows furrowed, who in the world is not greedy?
Some people are greedy for profit, some people are greedy for fame, for the monarch, if for the Ming monarch, the greed is the reputation of future generations, just like Tang Taizong Li Shimin, although there is the rule of Zhenguan, but it can't change his stigma of killing his brother and taking his sister-in-law, after the change of Xuanwumen, Li Shimin cut the grass and eradicated the roots, built the prince, and killed the son of Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, but only the crown princess and Queen Qi who built the prince remained.
Speaking of Li Shimin's harem, the composition is extremely complex, not only his sister-in-law and brother-in-law, but also the daughter of Emperor Yang of Sui, that is, the mother of Li Ke, King of Wu.
However, when talking about Li Shimin in modern times, we will slowly ignore these and only remember Li Shimin's great achievements, which is the aspect of Li Shimin's greed for fame.
If you are a mediocre monarch, you are greedy for 'profit', wine and wealth, Xia Wei in order to be greedy for pleasure, built a deer platform and a wine pond meat forest in the summer palace, and it is even more greedy for the color of her sister's joy, which is the country that died.
Doesn't it look like this is very similar to the King of the Ring?
In fact, the king of the gods is completely imitating Xia Ji, these things are all done by Xia Ji, and Meixi is from Qingqiu country, that is, the country of the nine-tailed fox.
Isn't this Daji? It looks a little ruined.
Why did the Shang Dynasty die in the history books? It was because the king sent an army to crusade against the Dongyi tribe, and then the taxes were too harsh, and the people were unwilling, and finally they were replaced by King Wu of Zhou. It's different from the god list!
Tian Dan smiled meaningfully and said: "Now that the Three Kingdoms are attacking Qi and gathering troops in Tao County, if our Qi country wants to win this battle, one is a strong city, and the other is a gathering of troops!" ”
"Fortified City! This is the same as what this palace thinks, the Qin and Wei coalition forces are unstoppable, and only by using the strong city to sharpen its sharpness, waiting for its grain and grass to run out, and losing its sharpness, can our Qi country have a chance! But why is this gathering of troops? Tian Jian sighed lightly and looked at Tian Dan with a look of incomprehension in his eyes.
Tian Dan laughed and said: "The old minister admired the strategy that the prince said in Linzi that day, but the prince missed a point, that is, those who save the land, people and land are lost, and those who save soldiers are gained." ”
"Eh" Tian Jian rolled his eyes, isn't this the theory of sports warfare? During the War of Liberation, the communist army exchanged space for time, dispersed the forces of the national army, and then gathered troops separately to encircle and suppress them.
It's like I have 10,000 troops now, and you have 100,000 troops, okay, I'll give you the place, don't you have to let the army occupy it?
In this way, your 100,000 troops are scattered, while my 10,000 troops are condensed into a rope, and then they begin to conquer the original places, and the last 10,000 will absorb the remnants of your army, and finally my army will be more and more, and yours will be less and less.
But I don't know how Tian Dan knows, could it be that Tian Dan is also a traverser?
Thinking of this, Tian Jian shuddered!
"How did Uncle Wang come up with this, saving the land and losing people, saving people and losing land, what a good theory! It seems that Uncle Wang is not inferior to Wu Qi in the world, Sun Wu, ah 1" Tian Jian began to praise with a clear conscience.
But it didn't take long for Tian Dan to dispel Tian Jian's doubts, and he said with a smile: "Your Highness, this military book can't just be read once, but also think carefully and figure it out secretly. In the combat chapter of Sun Tzu's Art of War, it is said: Those who attack must take it, and those who attack it will not defend it...... Therefore, if I am invisible and formless, I will be the enemy. I am designed for one, and the enemy is divided into ten, and if I attack one of them with ten, then we are outnumbered; Those who can defeat the outnumbered with the crowd will be the ones who fight with me. ”
Tian Jian was stunned for a moment, he didn't know what to say, it was difficult... Don't... As early as the Warring States period, there was a theory of sports warfare, which... This... He began to figure it out in secret.
There was a feeling of crying and laughing in my heart, after thousands of years, this person's thinking has not changed much, but the thoughts of the sages have been thrown into the dust in the corner by later generations.
If it is possible, all modern political systems, military theories, and financial ideas can basically find a corner in the classics of the sages, but they are just filled with the name of another person!
However, for the sake of unknown ideas, some masters said that they would imitate the British constitutional monarchy, but they forgot the cabinet system during the Ming Dynasty, saying that it was a democratic republic, but it was not as good as the republican government in the era of King Zhou Li, which was a Westerner?
For the Orientals?
During the period of the Zhou Dynasty, there was already centralized democracy, but this "countryman" became a representative of the people's congress, civilization became a magnat, and the weak sense of bloodline will not die out after all!
"What does Uncle Wang mean?" Tian Jian questioned.
Tian Dan smiled and said, "When we were waiting to attack Taojun, Wei Ran made a decision, which was to concentrate his forces in Taoyi instead of scattering them. ”
Last year, Wei Ran could not compete with Qi because there were only 30,000 Qin troops in Tao County, so he concentrated his forces in the city of Taoyi, preparing to defend Taoyi, but under Tian Jian's soil law, Wei Ran finally died in Tao County.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it was very easy to hold on to a city, and if there was enough grain and grass in the city, soldiers and horses, it was not difficult to defend it for a year or two.
However, when Tian Jian brought the method of breaking the city used by the Mongols to conquer Europe, it became very difficult, filling sacks with soil, and then throwing bags of loess under the city through trebuchets and fast horses, and finally using war horses to rush up to the city.
But what about when Tian Jian defended the city? Can Bai Qi predict the prophet and use such a method to break the city?
You must know that during the Battle of Yanling, it was the Qin State that deceived the King of Chu and said that he wanted to marry the Princess of the King of Chu and let the King of Chu open the door to welcome his relatives, and then Bai Qi invaded the Yingdu, otherwise it is unknown how many years this war will last.
The battles that became famous since Guanbai were all field battles, and there were few siege battles.
The three largest battles that decided Baiqi, the Battle of Yique, the Battle of Yanling, and the Battle of Changping, the first two were battles of annihilation, that is, they were basically field battles.
In the later Battle of Changping, Lian Po was originally the commander of Zhao State, and Lian Po would clear the wall without fighting, build a good defense and wait for Qin to attack.
After Zhao Kuo took over, King Qin secretly replaced Bai Qi as the commander of the Qin army, because field warfare was Bai Qi's main course!
Now that I, Qi State, ignore you in vain, I will defend the city, and we will finish a simple siege war, and Qi State is different from Han Wei this time, there will be a possibility of splitting, and it is also different from the fool Chu State, who was deceived by Qin State.
Our big war is that the more my Qi country drags on to the later stage, my chances of winning will be greater.
In terms of grain and grass, Qi has basically no war in 20 years, sitting on the Shandong Peninsula, and the benefits of fish and salt are the best in the world, so it will not be like Zhao State, there is a possibility of food shortage, not to mention that under the five capital systems of Qi State, Linzi, Gaotang, Jucheng, Jimo, and Pinglu can each produce at least 100,000 soldiers and horses.
In the Warring States Period, in addition to the national capital Linzi, there were also four capitals in the four realms. In the four capitals, there are standing armies for training and training. Under the five-capital system, the state of Qi was divided into five regions, each with a military and political center, and a metropolitan doctor to manage the affairs of each region. The five capitals of Qi all have "halberd bearers", also known as technical strikes, for the technical fighters of Qi State, it is mainly Qi State generals to recruit the people, and carry out strict military training, so as to become a type of military that rivals Wei Wushu in the Warring States Period.
Although it is said in Xunzi's military chapter that Wei Wushu is not as good as Qin Ruishi, and Qi Jingjing is not as good as Wei Wushu, but where can the elite troops go?
Not to mention, Qi also has geographical advantages, fighting in Tao County, relying on the geographical factors of Qi country's proximity, it is easy to gather people in Pingludu in the south and Linzi in the central part of the country, and form an army of 200,000!
These 200,000 troops can easily reach the battlefield of Tao County, and it is not certain who will die and who will win at that time?
"Uncle Wang means that I, the Qi State, will gather the army to Taoyi, and then defend Taoyi?" Tian Jian's brows furrowed deeply.
Tian Dan glared at Tian Jian and said: "Of course not, unlike Wei Ran, Taojun is an enclave of Qin, so Wei Ran can only defend Taoyi and wait for Qin's reinforcements, but Taojun is backed by Qi State, and next to it is Pinglu, the southern capital of my Qi State."
We gathered our troops in Taoyi, Zuoshi, Chengqiu... These cities near Jishui have abandoned the cities to the south and to the north..."
Tao County as a whole is like an ellipse, and Jishui is the center line of this ellipse, and Jishui finally collects into the big river, that is, the Yellow River, and finally flows to the Huaihai, and the downstream of Jishui is the Qi country.
Now the purpose of Tiandan is to abandon the two sides of the Taojun ellipse, and only keep these prosperous cities in the middle....
"Uncle Wang meant to concentrate his forces on Jishui and occupy the Jishui Valley, and as for the south and north of Tao County, it was up to Wei and Qin. The three Koreas are vying for each other, and we are in the middle. Tian Jian guessed.
Tian Dan nodded and said: "Occupy the cities near Jishui, you can ensure that the reinforcements of our Qi State will arrive quickly, and the Wei State and the Qin State are not in harmony, and suddenly vacate such a large place, the Wei State will mobilize the soldiers and horses stationed in the Yong clan in the south, because this is the closest to Tao County, when the Wei State gets cheap, it will be short of fighting spirit, once the fighting spirit is insufficient...
When the Chu State sends troops, the Qin-Wei alliance will be self-defeating! ”