480th Spring and Autumn to the Warring States Period (III)

Since the Great Geographical Discovery, because of the overall success of the maritime vassal kingdom in the world, the idea of the central dynasty of Zhuxia has become more and more solid. Kyushu is a land of civilization, and other countries are barbarians. He also said, "Those who are not of my race will have different hearts." From the Yue Kingdom to the Wei Kingdom, and the Imperial Family to the Lu State, they all suffered because of the gullibility of the barbarians, and indirectly became more and more conservative, and the one country, two systems method governed the Kyushu mainland and the colonies respectively.

In all this, the Wei and Xia vassal states despised expansion beyond Kyushu proper, and did not envy Mao Jiuzhong for reproducing the miracle of the Mongol Empire. Because, if the territory covers colonies and spheres of influence, the territory of the maritime domain is also extremely large. The five maritime vassals, including the Imperial Family, the Yue Kingdom, the Wei Kingdom, the Wu Kingdom, and the Lu Kingdom, successively established colonial empires on which the sun never sets, and they all unscrupulously enclosed land in Tianzhu, Kunlun, and Penglai; The three feudal domains, including the Ming Domain, the Cochin Domain, and the Sea Star Domain, also sometimes fought wars and sometimes negotiated peace, and tacitly carved up the Indochina Peninsula.

Coastal vassal states and frontier vassal states can enclose and expand, and a hero like Mao Jiuzhong is naturally qualified to go to Central Asia to enclose.

The Wei Xia vassal state allowed Mao Jiuzhong to enclose the land, but the premise was that the Wei state could not affect the balance of Kyushu.

The Wei state has almost recreated the territory of the Mongol Empire, the Yan and Tang states have already surrendered, and the balance situation in Kyushu is in danger. If Mao Jiuzhong is willing to retreat to the Duke of Shengmeng and solve the threat of Wei without blood, it is the best result that everyone is willing to see. As a result, after many years, the royal family once again established the Duke of Shengmeng, and included Central Asia and Persia in the Weixia sphere of influence.

However, is Mao Jiuzhong willing to accept the division?

The answer is, no.

Mao Jiuzhong accepted the title of Duke of Shengmeng, but insisted on leading his army back to the old land of Wei.

Mao Shangde, the Duke of Wei, had the intention to prevent Mao Jiuzhong from returning to China, but the soldiers of Wei had long worshiped Mao Jiuzhong as a god of war, who would dare to fight him? Even the courtiers who were loyal to Mao Shangde could only despair and exhort themselves: "I am ashamed that there is no time to make a plan, but I will die to repay the king's kindness." Mao Shangde hesitated again and again, and had no choice but to be captured, anxiously to welcome Mao Jiuzhong who returned from the battle.

When Mao Jiuzhong returned, he immediately rectified the unstable factors during the Wei succession, and all the civil and military generals who betrayed him were deposed at one time, and then led the Wei dynasty as the regent uncle. In this case, what is the point of the Dukedom of Shengmeng?

Under pressure, the Wei Xia vassal state quickly formed an anti-Wei coalition army. Considering Mao Jiuzhong's military might in recent years, the anti-Wei coalition did not dare to directly declare war on Wei, but gathered more than 100,000 elite infantry cavalry on the grounds of quelling Zhao's civil strife. In the anti-Wei alliance, the vassal states calmly assembled the coalition forces with the buffer zone of the Zhao state, and then quickly raided the Wei capital; Other fronts. Cooperate with instigating the rebellion of the natives in Mao Jiuzhong's newly conquered territory, and he will definitely be able to blow up the Wei State at one time.

It is a pity that the anti-Wei alliance did not guess neither the beginning nor the end.

Mao Jiuzhong is not a person who sits idly by. When the anti-Wei coalition army was assembled to a certain size, Mao Jiuzhong immediately tore up his promise never to interfere in Zhao's internal affairs. In 1599, Mao Jiuzhong led his army to break into the territory of Zhao State, and immediately broke the anti-Wei coalition army in Jizhou Mansion.

The battle of Jizhou Mansion ended, and the world shook. There is a saying that what you can't get on the battlefield, don't want to get it at the negotiation table. If the anti-Wei coalition could not defeat Mao Jiuzhong on the battlefield, what could they do if they were hostile to Wei? The Battle of Jizhou ended, and Mao Jiuzhong's reputation became even more victorious. Because of the comprehensive victory since the Great Geographical Discovery, the people of the empire generally believed that "one summer should be five Hu", that is, 10,000 Zhuxia troops could easily defeat 50,000 barbarian troops, just like the royal family, Yue State, Wei State, Wu State, Lu State and other maritime vassal states could sail all over the world, and Mao Jiuzhong's victory in the Western Regions was also a natural result. It wasn't until Mao Jiuzhong won the Battle of Jizhou in Kyushu that the people of the empire woke up to Mao Jiuzhong as a real famous general who can go down in history.

Military observers have studied the military system of the Wei State and believe that the military tactics of the Wei State originated from Qi Jiguang's Wu Wushu phalanx. Mao Jiuzhong carried out reforms on the basis of Wu Wushu's phalanx, and promptly introduced flint guns and artillery that were more advanced than the bird's beak guns and artillery that were convenient for field battles, so as to bring the power of guns and artillery to the extreme of contemporary times. Just like the innovation of the Wu Wu Pawn Phalanx to the Yue Wu Pawn Phalanx, the Wei State Pawn under the command of Mao Jiuzhong can already be called the Wei Wu Pawn Phalanx that is significantly ahead of the Wu Wu Pawn Phalanx.

Wei Wu's phalanx!

Hearing Wei Wushu's words, everyone couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

From the Yuewuzu phalanx to the Wuwuzu phalanx, and then to the Wei Wushu phalanx, this is the history of the evolution of the mainstream military art of the Weixia Empire. Tracing back to the original Yuewu Pawn Phalanx, the reason why it is named the Yuewu Pawn Phalanx is based on the Wei Warrior Formation created by Wu Qi during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Seventy-two battles, sixty-four victories, and the rest were solved, and the glory of Wei Wushu has been passed down for thousands of years. At that time, military strategists noticed that firearms had greatly strengthened the infantry and that the core role of the infantry was becoming stronger and stronger.

Unexpectedly, the phalanx of warriors drawn from Wei Wushu was once again carried forward under the banner of Wei.

The Wei Wushu phalanx did not insult the origin of the Wushu phalanx, and simply counting Mao Jiuzhong's achievements, his military achievements may have surpassed Wu Qi. Regardless of the repeated victories on the battlefield of Yue Wu, the Wei and Yan wars attacked the capital of the Yan king; Le Shi Yanran, integrating the steppe tribes; the western conquest to destroy the Oirat Khanate, the Yarkand Khanate, the Bukhara Khanate, the Khiva Khanate, the Kazakh Khanate, Persia and other countries; returned to Kyushu and broke the anti-Wei coalition army in Jizhou Mansion, such a military might even Wei Dongsheng had to take a cold breath.

However, Kyushu is Kyushu after all.

After more than 100 years of maritime trade and the feedback of the Penglai colony, the people of Kyushu are rich and strong, and the quality and quantity of firearms far exceed those of the Central Asian khanates. Although Mao Jiuzhong won the Jizhou Mansion as scheduled, he was keenly aware that the Wei Xia domains were far more difficult to conquer than he had imagined. The state of Zhao has been in chaos for many years, and there are new and old military fortresses everywhere, and if the steppe cavalry dares to raid deep into the interior, the result will definitely be the annihilation of the whole army. And if every battle is attacked by Wei on foot, the population size of Wei is not enough to maintain such consumption.

What is the population of Wei?

What is the population of the royal family and the Lu country?

Once the war turned into a war of attrition, Wei would inevitably continue to bleed to death.

As for the territory they had just conquered, it was okay to drive them to a big victory, and once the core military strength of the Wei State was insufficient, they would absolutely rebel as soon as possible.

Mao Jiuzhong would not and did not dare to trust that group of servant soldiers.

Mao Jiuzhong was aware of Wei's shortcomings, but he was unwilling to stop there.

In 1600, Mao Jiuzhong took the initiative to provoke the Battle of Baodingfu and once again broke the anti-Wei coalition army.

In 1601, Mao Jiuzhong continued to provoke the Battle of Zhendingfu and defeated the anti-Wei coalition army for the third time.

Unfortunately, just like the great victory of Jizhou Mansion, the great victory of Baoding Mansion and the great victory of Zhending Mansion were only successes in battle, and the population consumption of the three campaigns had already had a negative effect on the economy of Wei. Mao Jiuzhong realized that his dream of going straight to Kyoto could not be realized in a short period of time, and immediately took the initiative to end this protracted battle.

Next, Mao Jiuzhong no longer focused on land annexation, but used diplomacy to dismantle the anti-Wei alliance.

At the same time, Wei's hegemony was not stable. When Mao Jiuzhong and the anti-Wei alliance fought a decisive battle in Zhao, the newly conquered territories also ushered in strong challenges, in addition to the local uprisings one after another, the Russian Empire in the northwest, the Ottoman Empire in the southwest, and the Mughal Empire in the southeast all wanted to take advantage of the great expansion of Wei. After Mao Jiuzhong gave up the one-time plan to enter the Central Plains, he immediately solved these difficulties in a vertical and horizontal way.

Mao Jiuzhong first concluded an alliance with the three feudal states of Zhao, Jin, and Yan to the four kingdoms of Jizhou, and asked Zhao to cede the four northern provinces of Duoyan, Xuanfu, Jizhou, and Yongping to Wei. This land covers the real world of Yanjing City, Tianjin City, Qinhuangdao City, Chengde City, Zhangjiakou City, Tangshan City, Langfang City in Hebei Province, the area is quite vast, and there is a good port in Tianjin, and the geographical value is very superior. Wei's annexation of Yan and Liaoxi had already shaken the empire, so how could the Wei and Xia vassal states allow Wei to continue to annex Zhao's territory?

However, Mao Jiuzhong made a condition that everyone could not refuse.

As long as the vassal recognized the Wei Zhao Jizhou Covenant and the Wei Yan Liao ASEAN Treaty, Mao Jiuzhong would lead his army back to the Duke of Shengmeng, and the Wei State would be divided into two. If it weren't for the fear of Mao Jiuzhong's long-term drive to the hinterland of the Central Plains to change the dynasty, the vassal states would have wanted to stop the war a long time ago. In particular, in the state of Lu, when Mao Jiuzhong could attack the capital of the state of Lu at any time, the royal family and nobles of Lu were eager to peacefully solve the problem of the expansion of the state of Wei.

Merge as merge.

Sacrifice Zhao State, sacrifice Zhao State.

The anti-Wei coalition army is now useless.

Mao Jiuzhong kept his promise and transferred all the Kyushu familiar lands, including the western part of Liao and the four northern provinces of Zhao, to Wei, and he himself led his army back to the territory of the Duke of Shengmeng. Mao Jiuzhong then continued to solve political problems with diplomatic skills, first Mao Jiuzhong led his army to conquer Baluchistan and the Mughal Empire in the south, and then sold part of the territory of Baluchistan and the Mughal Empire to Lu at a low price, and then concluded a mutual defense treaty against the Mughal Empire with Lu; In the following year, he went west to the Ottoman Empire, led the army to recklessly turn around the territory of the Ottoman Empire, and then sold the real world Kuwait, part of Iraq, part of the Saudi coast and other lands to the royal family cheaply, and sold part of the real world UAE land to the Ottoman Empire cheaply, and then concluded a mutual defense treaty against the Ottoman Empire with the royal family, the Vietnamese country, and the patriotic country.

With the help of the royal family, the Lu state, the Yue state, the Wei state and other vassal states to attract hatred, the external crisis of the Shengmeng vassal state was rapidly reduced.

As for the Russian Empire, which did not have sea access, Mao Jiuzhong was ready to solve it personally.

Unexpectedly, on the eve of the expedition to the Russian Empire, the homeland of Kyushu suddenly changed. In 1604, Wei Fengxiang, the king of Yan, died of illness and had no children. The Central Plains vassal states coerced the Yan nobles to agree to take refuge in the imperial family, and Wei Yiping, a relative of the Yan clan in Jiangsu Province, succeeded him as the king of Yan. Moreover, Wei Shangde, the prince of Wei, did not have the courage to be invincible in the world like Mao Jiuzhong, and gradually succumbed to the threat of the Central Plains vassal states, and began to purge Mao Jiuzhong's cronies, so that the Wei vassal state and the Shengmeng vassal state completely became two countries.