"The Great Wall is empty!?" Zhao Guangde was shocked. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

He was not only shocked by this sentence, but also because of the arrogant temperament and insight of the Tiger Society.

The Tiger Society didn't dare to take this sentence for himself, and he smiled: "I also borrowed the words of the king, which was said when the king summoned us to the Patriotic Army at the beginning of the year. ”

Zhao Guangde suddenly realized, at that time, he was still with the soldiers of Zou State in Zhongwu to encircle and suppress the Huaiyi bandits, so he was not present, since it was Zhao Wuxian who said it, then no matter how unbelievable, he would believe it, this is the supreme authority that Zhao Hou spent twenty years to establish within the Zhao family.

It turned out that at that Puyang military meeting, when some generals were worried about the solidity of the Great Wall in Qi State, Zhao Wuxian didn't think so, and directly sneered: "The Great Wall? That's empty! ”

Zhao Wuxian expounded his philosophy on the spot: "In ancient times, the Son of Heaven guarded Siyi; The Son of Heaven is humble and guards the princes. The princes were in their neighborhood; The princes are humble and keep in the four realms. When the Duke of Qi Huan established the hegemony, the north of the State of Qi was garrisoned by the State of Yan. The southern part of Qi was garrisoned by Lu and Xu, for which Qi mediated the internal strife of Lu many times, got rid of the traitor Qingfu, stabilized the political situation of Lu, and sent soldiers to Xu to defend against the attack of Chu. In the west, the state of Qi used Zhou, Xing, and Wei as barriers to support the Son of Heaven and save Xing to save the guard. It can be said that the national defense of Duke Qi Huan and Guan Zi is not only the state of Qi, but also expanded to the entire Central Plains and the land of Siyi. ”

"And now, the Qi State is in a stage of humble decline, and its defense line has shrunk from the four neighbors to the four realms, so it will build walls on the frontier on a large scale."

After taking a negative attitude towards Qi's defense of the Great Wall, Zhao Wuxian further pointed out the drawbacks of the Great Wall: "The Qi people built the Great Wall to defend against the enemy, especially to prevent the Zhao cavalry from crossing the border easily. As everyone knows, the construction of the Great Wall itself was a mistake. ”

In Zhao Wuxian's view, the construction of the Great Wall of Qi is just a way that the Chen father and son have no way to do, after all, the Qi State is surrounded by the Zhao State and its allies on three sides, and the Qi people are extremely insecure and urgently need a wall to calm people's hearts. The more effort the Qi State put into building the Great Wall, the stronger the Qi people's fear of the invasion of the Zhao army, the more money and wealth the country spent, and the weaker the combat effectiveness of the troops. There is no year when Qi and Chen did not spend a lot of money on building the Great Wall, but the efficacy and value of the Great Wall could not be reflected, but because of passive defense, they missed one opportunity after another to counterattack, and when Qin, Zheng, Wei, and Wu fell one by one, it was the turn of Qi to bear the attack.

On the contrary, on the sea without the Great Wall, the Qi State Boat Division took the initiative to attack and gave Zhao a painful blow, resulting in the annihilation of the Langya Navy Division of Zhao State, all the ships were burned, and only part of the crew retreated to Langya Mountain under the leadership of Xu Cheng and saved their lives.

Therefore, Zhao Wuxian's evaluation of the Great Wall is extremely low: "The so-called wealth of the Yunfu Treasury is used to fill the ravines of Lushan Mountain, and there is no benefit in hard work, and it is also drinking water to quench thirst!" ”

After the words made the generals fall into thought, Zhao Wuxian further elaborated on Zhao's concept of defense.

At that time, he raised his head and asked, "Where is the historian?" ”

Zuo Qiu Ming immediately agreed.

"Write down what the widow said today, and don't miss a word!"

"In the eyes of the widows, the Great Wall, especially the Great Wall purely for defense, is a useless thing, at most an ornament!"

Hu Hui and the others listened attentively, but they didn't know that in Zhao Wuxian's heart, what they thought of was the next two thousand years of history.

The Great Wall, the Great Wall, from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the beginning of the Qin Shi Huang to connect the Great Wall in the north, it has become synonymous with a civilization, but the Great Wall has been repaired in successive dynasties, and the Huma has continued to enter the fortress, the Ming Dynasty has used a hundred years of work and millions of people to repair the Great Wall, but it resolutely did not block the Manchu Qing Dynasty from entering the customs and changing hands.

On the contrary, the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not repair the Great Wall, and during the Kangxi period, Cai Yuan, the chief of the border guards, reported to the imperial court that many parts of the Great Wall had collapsed and asked for repairs. Kangxi was very disapproving, he said that since the Qin built the Great Wall, the Han, Tang and Song dynasties have often repaired it, but they have never been exempted from border troubles. At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, Taizu's soldiers drove straight in, and all roads collapsed, all of which could not be done, which shows that the way to defend the country is not to repair the city but to repair the people. Therefore, at the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, it actively expanded outward, destroyed the Weilat Mongols, and annexed the Western Regions, and since then there has been no major border trouble in the north.

Heroes of all ages, dreams of all ages, the Great Wall of thousands of miles. Looking at the past and the present, so that Zhao Wuxian has a vision beyond the times, he stood in front of the map with his hands, a little shallow, while denying the significance of the Great Wall of Qi, he also said loudly:

"The way to consolidate the country, only in the repair of the armor soldiers, the people's hearts, the sharp armor soldiers are fearful, and the people's hearts are happy, the country is self-consolidated, this so-called united people are also. The widow said here that Zhao will never build the Great Wall, but make the neighbors and the four Yi become my Great Wall! ”

In Zhao Wuxian's heart, even if he wants to build territorial expansion in the future, he will also build the border wall that encloses the outer frontier into the country, instead of the Great Wall of passive defense!

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At this moment, after the Tiger Club retold the situation of the day, Zhao Guangde was also inexplicably excited to hear it.

"The Qin State is the West City, the Yan Dynasty is the North City, the Zheng Song Dynasty is the South City, and the East China Sea is the East Pool! The frontier of Zhao is an active frontier, not a fragile border wall built at the cost of the people's fat and ointment......"

This impassioned words spoken by Zhao Hou made Guangde burst into tears, and he praised repeatedly: "This is the courage that a prince of a great country should have!" Compared with the king, the pattern of the Chen father and son of the Qi State is too small. ”

Indeed, when the Great Wall is safe and sound, the Great Wall looks very reassuring, but once the Zhao army attacks, because the Great Wall's defense line is too long, the rigid and passive wall can hardly withstand the sudden attack of the enemy, its weakness is obvious. Coupled with the different heights and thicknesses of the garrisons and city walls in various places, the Zhao army had more than a dozen ways to bypass several fortresses of the Great Wall, forcibly break through a hole, and its foot soldiers could rush in, and the Great Wall could not block the Zhao army's troops at all.

Hu Hui smiled and said: "However, the Qi State has been surrounded, even if there is a large conscription, can there be more than fifty people to guard the Great Wall every mile?" Even if you see the enemy lighting the beacon, you can't stop the embankment from being destroyed in the anthill, pick off a section, or use a small beam cannon to forcibly smash a section, and you can drive straight in! ”

Without enough soldiers to mobilize the defenses, the Great Wall would be as worthless as the low walls that prevented robbers from breaking into and looting.

"Having said that, but there are heavy guards in Muling Pass, Macheng, Fangmen and other places, where should we attack from?" Zhao Guangde asked, he commanded 10,000 Zou soldiers to support, but the Zou soldiers were relatively weak, and it was okay to suppress Huaiyi, and it was a little difficult to attack the fortifications.

"Yangdi." The Tiger Club has been pondering the path of march for several months, and he said confidently: "The so-called Yangdi is the place south of Mount Tai, north of Wenshui, and between Qilu and Qilu. The state of Lu took control of Yu, while the state of Qi took control of Yangqiao. We don't have to care about the so-called thousand-mile Great Wall at all, as long as we concentrate our forces to break through the Yangqiao, and then we can enter Jinan, not seeking to defeat the 30,000 Qi troops in the past, but only to disrupt its deployment and defense, so that the army's army in Jibei can cross the river! ”

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From the end of May, the situation in Qi became more and more severe, not only did the main force of the Zhao army sweep through Jibei, but the troops came to confront the 30,000 Qi army commanded by Chen Heng and the 30,000 temporarily conscripted people. At the same time, in the direction of Lu, 20,000 Lu troops also began to attack along the Great Wall of Qi.

Initially, the Tiger Club and Zhao Guangde's troops were divided into four routes, with Jiagu and Ailing as the main direction of attack, and broke through the pass respectively. However, they did not attack the city, but plundered the villages and forts. At the beginning of June, more than 200 cavalrymen plundered more than 1,000 women and children near Ailing, passed under the city of Ailing, saw their relatives in the city, and cried to each other, but the Qi army in the city did not dare to send a arrow, and let the Lu soldiers pass calmly. After Chen Heng, who was in the background, heard this, he still calmed down, so that the Qi garrisons everywhere must not rashly attack to let the Zhao army get a chance, but to see the movement of the main force of the Zhao army.

The strength of the Qi State was insufficient, the defensive line was too long, and the various internal divisions made the Lu soldiers like no one, shuttling back and forth between the north and south of Mount Tai, as Zhao Wuxian expected, the Great Wall of Qi could not become a consolidated defense line that could be fortified.

Just when the people of Qi thought that the main direction of attack of Zhao Lu's army would be the area of Ailing and Jiagu, in mid-June, Huhui suddenly led 10,000 Lu troops to destroy the Great Wall from Yangqiao near Fangmen!

There were many craftsmen who specialized in civil engineering in Lu State, many people were conscripted into the army during the war, made special engineers, carried hoes and shovels, and approached the Great Wall earthen wall that was not too thick under the cover of the soldiers.

Chen Heng set up three important towns along the Great Wall, including Mulingguan, Macheng and Fangmen, and made relatively strict deployments. However, the entire Great Wall was only garrisoned by more than 10,000 soldiers and the same number of people, and the power was different, there was no unified order, and the response was slow. In the past half a month, the Lu army has been harassed by the east attack and the west attack, and it is impossible to determine the center of gravity of the defense, so it was not until half a day after the fall of Yangqiao that the defense gate side reacted.

However, the thousands of people who went to the aid were defeated by the Tiger Society's tactics of encircling the point to help, and for a time the western section of the Great Wall of Qi had fallen.

As more than 10,000 Lu troops went deep into the Great Wall and began to gain a firm foothold and advance step by step, Chen Heng, who was in the past, found that the situation was becoming more and more serious......

PS: There is one more chapter at half past 12 (to be continued.) )