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The Pakistani people are not very good at summing up the experience and lessons of war, and most of them believe in the willow leaf sword in their hands.

After the war, it should have been summed up seriously, but the nobles among them spent more energy on the pleasures of the rest of their lives, and the slaves were of course doing their endless work.

However, they thought they knew very well why this battle was fought.

There is no war for no reason, and even if it is for no reason, it is a cause in itself. Now, let's briefly explain the background of the Bachu War.

This famous war in the history of Pakistan, "Historical Records of the Chu Family" only contains: "In the fourth year of King Su, Shu attacked Chu and took the right side." So Chu defended the pass and distanced it. The words are ominous, so that future generations mistakenly think that it has nothing to do with the Ba people who advocate force and are brave and good at fighting.

The historical records of the Ba people and the country of Ba are rarer than those with long tails, and there is a belief that the country of Ba originally had history books, but it was burned by Qin Shi Huang.

The direct cause of this war was that the state of Chu sent troops to first capture the first salt spring in the east of the country - Yishui (Qingjiang) salt spring, and the state of Ba united with the state of Shu to counterattack, intending to recapture the salt spring and block the territorial expansion of the powerful state of Chu to the two countries.

At that time, the national border did not have the accurate latitude and longitude as it is now, and migration was more common, so the concept of land was still vague in some places (such as no man's land, buffer zone), but in the hearts of the Pakistani people, salt springs (water) were the most sacred and inviolable territory, and every drop of water was to fight for it.

Salt, canoes (and coffins), willow leaf swords, dansha, bamboo branch songs and dances, and of course, witchcraft, which they considered more important, were closely related to the Ba people.

This is a war because of salt, and the samurai of Pakistan are veritable heroes of the salt war.

So let's start with salt.

The Ba people's understanding of salt is far more profound than that of modern people, and in their hearts, table salt is sacred and full of magic.

Labor creates man, and more than a dozen trace elements contained in table salt are the catalyst for the evolution of the ape brain to the human brain. Salt also provides convenience for the preservation of food, especially meat.

"Salt" originally meant "to boil and marinate in a vessel". As early as the Yu Shun period, salt has been an important item of frequent exchange between tribes, salt, is the earliest commodity, the Xia Dynasty "set Kyushu, let the soil as tribute", stipulating that wherever salt is produced, salt must be paid as tribute to the Son of Heaven on schedule.

In the early stage, the acquisition of salt was time-consuming, fuel-consuming, and low-yielding, so it was scarce and expensive. "Zuo Chuan" called salt a "national treasure".

Salt is a natural monopoly commodity.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Guan Zhong basically got rid of the official system of salt, and the monopoly operation (franchising) has not really disappeared. Ancient super tyrants (giants) mostly came from the salt industry and iron industry.

Not only that, salt is also a common thing in ancient sacrifices, and people believe that evil has a fear of salt, and the Ba people are even more convinced. "The major affairs of the country are in the worship and Rong", do you say that it is important?

In ancient times, to control salt was to control important resources, to control wealth, and even to control the fate of others. And the struggle between all animals originated from the fight for food, and human beings fought for wealth, including food, and will never stop.

Ancient Chinese salt can be divided into sea salt, lake salt, well salt, rock salt, etc., due to the traffic conditions and salt production technology at the same time by the great restrictions, the nearest salt will inevitably become one of the most important things, do not hesitate to make a big move.

It is said that the two earliest historical wars in China, the Battle of Hanquan between the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor, and the Battle of Zhuolu between the Yellow Emperor and Chiyou, were also fought for the salt pond. Among them, Hedong Salt Pond (Shanxi Yuncheng Jiechi) is the most important salt source, which has become the target of the Central Plains.

The ancient Ba people were blessed. The Three Gorges and Sichuan Basin were originally an ocean, a part of the ancient Mediterranean, and later, the Sichuan Basin became an inland sea, an inner lake, and then a land basin from the sea basin and lake basin.

After the uplift of many mountain ranges such as Dawu Mountain and Da Lou Mountain, the salt layer on the seabed rises, and then flows out of the surface after rainwater infiltrates and dissolves through the fissures, forming numerous salt springs in the Xiajiang area.

The salt abundant in the Xiajiang area has made the Ba people, and there are two words "salt" and "Ba salt". Salt is the economic lifeblood of Pakistan, and the canoes of the Pakistani people who are full of salt and shuttle between large and small rivers make the neighbors envious, jealous, hateful, and crazy.

Wherever the Ba people go, the salt water will come out of where, in addition to the three major salt springs, they robbed, or found many salt springs, only along the Yangtze River, there are the white salt moraine of Fengjie, the Yun'an factory in Yunyang, the Wentang well in Kaixian, the water beach well in Wanzhou, the Tujing in Zhongxian and so on to make them smile.

Bayan was an important supply place for the Chu State, the Shu State, and even the Qin Border and Yelang and the surrounding small countries and clans at that time.

Some people will say that there is a lot of salt in Shu, which is good, but it will not be until many years later, when King Qin Zhao presided over the construction of Dujiangyan, Li Bing, who was the Taishou of Shu County, innovated and dug the salt of Shu wells.

Before that, many people in Shu probably did not dare to despise Ba Yan, although they did not necessarily like the neighbor who owned the salt, just as liking a woman did not necessarily have to like her husband.

With their military strength stronger than that of Shu, the people of Chu also swelled their ambitions even more, and wanted to completely solve the problem of salt once and for all, so they openly adopted the most direct, bloody, tragic, and most effective, and perhaps most in line with the logic of troubled times: it is better to buy than to borrow, to borrow is better than to steal, to steal than to rob, and to rob is not as good as have.

Until the later King of Chuxiang, he was still dreaming of a tryst with the goddess of Wushan.

In fact, this is an artistic dream of Chu's strong desire for the salt of Baguo, not simply the desire for beauty. Although the beauty of the goddess of Pakistan is enough to make all the kings want a tryst, the white salt water flowing from this beauty's hands, like her long blue hair, also haunts the kings.

Of course, the appetite of the people of Chu is by no means just the salt of Ba.

Chu is a great country, since the Spring and Autumn Period and Jianghan, Chen, Cai and other places, all times out of the north, want to win the Central Plains, has always been by the Qi State, Jin State and other old powers to contain (respect the king for the void, the Yi is real), as long as more than 100 years, and later the dispute between Wu and Chu is more than 60 years.

At this time, the state of Qin, which has always been ridiculed by the so-called mainstream countries, is also rising and will soon enter a bull market.

Chu went north more and more thanklessly, first monopolizing the Yangtze River basin and occupying half of the country, it became its strategic goal. Therefore, the battle of Bachu is inevitable.

Both the Chu and Pakistani people see this very clearly, but the Chu people, who have produced Xiong Lu, Wu Zixu, Shen Gong Wuchen, Fan Li, Qu Ping, first-class politicians and strategists, see it farther.

The people of Pakistan are proud of salt, and they fight even more with salt, and they see it more precious than life. It is no exaggeration to say that many wars fought in Pakistan are related to salt, including foreign wars and civil wars. Salt water is the blood of the Ba people.

This time, Pakistan mobilized the strength of the whole country and united with Shu to try to restrain the westward advance of Chu, but it was defeated and went downhill from then on.

This battle has clearly exposed Pakistan's fatal shortcomings. At a time when the major powers were undergoing changes one after another, the Pakistani public aristocracy did not want to forge ahead, and its political, military, economic, and social systems lagged behind many major countries in the same period.

The Pakistani state system is in a semi-national state, with the upper strata already having a state form, and the middle and lower strata still dominated by tribes. There is a theory that iron tools and ox farming sprouted the feudal system, and the country of Pakistan, where bronze still dominates, is clearly backward, about a semi-slave, semi-feudal society.

From the military aspect, the country has built a strong tiger warriors, for the direct line of the Pakistani master, called the "Ba Division", which is equivalent to the formal armed forces, the national army, and has the dual functions of the Praetorian Guard and the field army.

At the same time, a large number of samurai were still men of appropriate age scattered among the tribes, and even the old and weak men and strong women were warriors when the war was tense, and belonged to the private armed forces of the expanded aristocracy.

Although Pakistan's wartime organization is not far from that of other major countries, Pakistan has the advantage of individual combat independence that makes the soldiers of major countries tremble when they hear the wind, especially in jungle warfare, and each of their warriors is full of fighting cells.

The Pakistani army is mainly a water infantry army. The navy is called "Boat Division" and "Water Division", and the infantry army is called "Land Division", also known as "Mausoleum Division", which is about the same as the Chu army called Mausoleum Division. Because of the high mountains and dangerous roads in the Dan Fushui area, the local people also commonly call the infantry army "mountain division"; some gentle places, such as the capital, have chariot divisions, but in the special geographical environment of Pakistan, it is not the main military force, and the role of etiquette is greater.

At this time, the civil and military forces of Pakistan had been gradually separated, and there were also generals in the army, who were about the rank of professional officers; the leaders of various tribes and important figures were led by the Pakistani lord.

The monarch is the supreme commander of the army.

Every time there is a big war, the lord of Ba personally leads, or orders the generals before the war, led by the prince and important ministers, and the warriors of various tribes accompany the expedition to accept unified command.