Spring and Autumn I Am King

The history of the Spring and Autumn Period is complicated, and the details in the history books are slightly different. Although Zhao Wuxi was a descendant of the later generations, he knew almost nothing about what happened in the Song Dynasty in this era. We can only rely on the news sent by Le's family and Nanzi for analysis, so I am very worried that something will happen to Shangqiu and it will affect Sicheng Le's family.

As for Nanzi, the two exchanged letters, and at least they had some friendship, like a collaborator and a friend of the opposite sex. Wu Xie is not not worried, but for some reason, he is convinced that this intelligent demon girl with long sleeves and good dance can resolve most crises with one hand.

But as Nanzi said, even though she is a daughter and a daughter, there are things she can't do, such as the marriage with Weihou, which has troubled her for a long time.

This letter is about this.

Wu Xie didn't notice that the **** his shoulder was half awake, he muttered to himself: "The letter said that Wei Hou sent the son to the Song Dynasty again, requesting that the wedding date be brought forward to July this year, which is before the autumn harvest. held..."

Nanzi was shocked when she heard it. In this matter, there were not many people she could rely on, otherwise she would not have been rushed to the doctor and planned with Zhao Wuxi.

But fortunately, this was just a false alarm. At Nanzi's request, Duke Song used an excuse to say that Wu Zhu's divination was bad, but he politely refused.

Zhao Wuxi breathed a sigh of relief after reading it, feeling a little strange in his heart. When he was reading the letter, he actually felt a trace of anger, anger towards Weihou, Gongzichao, and even Duke Song.

"I just don't want the good cabbage to make the pig arch..."

Wu Xie comforted himself like this, but he understood that in preventing Nan Zi from marrying Wei Hou, he had changed from passively being coerced by Nan Zi to spontaneously fulfilling...

However, Wu Xian didn't care to think about it. From Wei Guo's move, he was more and more sensitive to politics. He had already sniffed out some kind of information.

The matter between Zhao Wuxi and Nanzi is a secret, and it has been kept secret.

When the consultation stops. His thoughts are the same as Zhao Wuxi: "Wei Guo wants to advance the marriage date, and its purpose is self-evident. During the ** month, something big will happen in Pushang! Song country is in the south of Wei country. If the marriage relationship is settled, If you can ensure that the southern border is safe, you can relax your heart and join the rebellion against Jin and use your troops on the east and west borders!"

The western border of Wei Kingdom is the Jin Dynasty Chaoge area, and the eastern border is Zhencheng!

Wu Xie nodded and said: "Weiguo was besieged by the capital last year. After Zhenyi's loss, although his military strength recovered quickly, it was only equivalent to a minister of Jin. The reason why he dared to rebel against Jin again must have something to rely on. Maybe, the hegemony war between Qi and Jin will start in the first month!"

Although it was just a guess, in this way, Wei became a potential enemy country, and Wu Xie gained a lot of attention when they passed through its southern border.

But perhaps there are enough people on hand, there are three or four hundred people. Or the guards have no guts, and dare not plunder the edge of the military soldiers. Zhao Wuxi and others did not encounter any obstacles in their armed march in the Wei territory, and returned to Yuncheng safely.

When Wu Xie went from Yuncheng to Linqiu, which was operated as a fortress city and a center of handicrafts, Qi State began to recruit the people of the town, and the news of the gathering of village soldiers also spread to the surrounding countries. According to rumors, the targets of their attack this time are likely to be the northern border and the western part of Lu State!

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"I don't know who released this news first, but it has been confirmed by merchants and spies. Although Qi State thinks that it is secretive and consists of soldiers and politics. However, their borders with neighboring countries are long and there are not many restrictions on their exchanges, so this time Governance cannot be concealed. Before, I expected that the Qi people might attack Yiyi, which is more important to Jin and Qi’s struggle for supremacy, but now the blame is on Lu. In the eyes of the ministers, it is quite unwise, perhaps because of Yanghu Ben Qi's influence?"

In Linqiuyi Temple, just after handing over the government affairs for the past half month, Zhao Wuxi and Zhang Mengtan began to discuss the upcoming war. Looking at the map between Heji, Zhang Mengtan fell into contemplation.

It has been more than a year since he left Jin. Zhang Meng was in his late twenties, and he also started growing his beard. His chin was a little lighter, and he wore a deep snow-white coat, which made him look a little more like a feather fan and towel.

After he also reached the age of marriage, the largest clan in the territory, the Zhen Clan, began to ask Zhao Wuxi to talk about it, hoping to marry Zhang Mengtan with a daughter, and give thousands of acres of farmland as a dowry. However, Zhang Mengtan declined on the grounds that he did not dare to decide the marriage and had to report to his father in China.

Zhen's daughter, Zhao Wuyi, has also met. She is very beautiful and virtuous, but she is not a merciless dish. Although his concept of marriage is subtly influenced by this era, if he sees a woman, he needs to enter the harem, which is really unbearable. But in order to combine with local forces, sometimes marriage must be used as a bond, so Zhao Wuxi supported his subordinate officials to marry each clan.

However, if it was Zhang Mengtan's turn, the second-in-command of Sanyi, Wu Xie, looked down on Zhen's power.

"The Zhen family is only a sergeant's family. If his daughter is the wife of the main family, it will be a matter of humiliation."

"The ministers are only the concubine of the Zhang clan, so why should we talk about condescension?"

Wuqi glanced at him: "Although Meng Tan is now named Yizai, in fact, Doctor Quan Tong, his future future should not be limited to this."

Although Zhang Mengtan is in a peaceful state of mind, as he grows older, his view of fame and fortune becomes less and less, and his mind is on "contribution", one of the three immortals, but this seemingly non-existent promise still makes him great move.

After investing in papaya and repaying it with Qiong Yao, he is naturally willing to use his power as Zhao Wuxi to consolidate and expand and make some contributions. In the future, when Zhao Xiaosikou plans to defend the Punan land of the country, the help of these Weiren clans is indispensable.

"If my father agrees, when the war is over, I am willing to marry the Zhen family."

Among the several garrison officers, Yang Tong Rong was stationed in Zhenyi, and Hu Hui was stationed in Yuncheng. The one in Linqiu is Ran Qiu, who is considered by Zhao Wuxi as a "general talent". In addition to strictly fulfilling orders, he also has a set of war strategies in his heart. With him, he can fill some deficiencies in Wuxi and Zhang Mengtan. .

In addition, Kan Zhi and others were present at the meeting, and they were a little nervous about the news that the Qi army might attack. This is not fear, but Zhao Wuxi's power is insignificant compared to the entire Qi Kingdom.

Originally the military system of Qi

, 10,000 people make up an army. With the development of population and economy, the three armies can recruit at least 60,000 people. In addition to Dr. Qing's personal family, it is no problem to gather a chariot of 2,000, and soldiers of 100,000 to watch them. Even if only one army of 20,000 people was dispatched, there would still be five times as much as three city soldiers, city soldiers, and township soldiers plus one and five times as much, so everyone felt that Mount Tai was pressing down on the top, and the small town was about to be destroyed.

Unexpectedly, when discussing the military situation, Zhao Wuxi and his counselor Meng Tan could easily talk about the marriage after the war. It made them wonder whether they should laugh or cry, and at the same time, their emotions were relieved, and Si Kou and Zhang Zi probably already had a foolproof plan.

Zhao Wuxi said: "It's not perfect, it's just that the gathering of people in a country is time-consuming and laborious. We have time to wait for work."

The preparations for war in the Spring and Autumn Period were extremely long, not to mention the fact that the troops and horses were not moved, the food and forage came first, just as Sun Tzu summed up: "Anyone who uses the military method can drive a thousand horses. . Then the cost of internal and external expenses, the use of guests, the materials of glue and paint, the service of car armor, the daily cost of thousands of gold, and then the teacher of 100,000."

To say that the troops are expensive and fast, it refers not only to the march, but also to the assembly...

The process of assembling the army before the war. Known as "governing the army", the military system of the feudal lords in the Spring and Autumn Period was basically a combination of peasants and soldiers. A large country of thousands of miles, from the court to issue the war order, to the ministers and fiefs of all levels to gather in the suburbs with their subjects and privates, and then to divide the formation of the system, and finally to train and start, it generally takes two to three months. the process of.

For example, the battle of Jinchu Chengpu, which is regarded as a military classic, seems to be extremely violent. In fact, it is a slow war.

In the autumn and August of the twenty-seventh year of Duke Xi of Lu, King Cheng of Chu made a decision to "encircle the Song Dynasty", and ordered Yin Ziwen to rule the soldiers in Kuidi, and Sima Ziyu to re-treat the soldiers in Kuidi. By winter October. Chu talent went abroad, and it was only in November that Chen, Cai, Zheng, and Xu allied forces to surround Song, a time span of three months.

The Jin State in the north was more efficient, and it was only in the winter of November that the State of Chu received information about the encirclement of the Song Dynasty, in December. The Jin people were assembled in the quilt, as the three armies, seeking the marshal, and promulgated the "law of the quilt". In the spring and January of the twenty-eighth year of Duke Xi of Lu, the Jin San army set out to attack Wei and Cao, and the time span was two months.

As for the decisive battle between the two countries in Chengpu, it was already in April, and it was more than half a year before the war began. This is also the limit that the crown princes in the Spring and Autumn Period can withstand when professional soldiers are not yet popular. . If it is a small-scale recruitment, you can also replace the frontline soldiers in turn, or tear down the east wall to make up for the west wall. If the whole country fought, it would delay the farming season. At that time, King Cheng of Chu was busy trying to withdraw his troops despite Ziyu's request.

Ran Qiu, who had been standing by the side, added: "Of course, since Guan Zhong reformed the military system and Sima Rangju adjusted it, the efficiency of military governance has been much higher than that of Jin and Chu a hundred years ago, but it should not be too high. estimate."

Guan Yiwu's military reform in the country in those years, the principle is "for internal affairs and send military orders", the measure is "participate in the country and Wu is contemptible", the content is: divide the country into twenty-one townships, six townships of industry and commerce, Shixiang fifteen. The township of industry and commerce does not engage in combat, but the Shixiang fifteen are actually engaged in combat.

The state of Qi has five townships as its chief commander, with eleven thousand people. With the Marquis of Qi leading the Central Army, the two Shangqing Kingdoms and Gao Jiangu led the five townships as the left and right armies.

A township recruited two thousand people for a brigade, and the good people of the township were handsome. There are ten companies in the township, 200 people are pawns, and the company commander is in charge. There are four li in the company, fifty people are Xiao Rong, and there is Si Shuaizhi. There are ten tracks in a mile, five people are in a company, the track leader is in charge, and there are five families on a track. This is "Wu Qibi". The five families in the track have lived together from generation to generation, and because of the same interests, misfortunes and blessings, they "have the same principles and the same strength in warfare."

This is a combat system that combines social and military forces, and it is considered a pioneering initiative of the times. Therefore, only 30,000 people of Qi could attack in all directions and make an expedition across thousands of miles to expedite the mountains and destroy the lonely bamboo country.

Later, with the death of Duke Huan of Qi and Guan Zhong, the system was broken for a time, but Sima Rangju restored it. His "Sima Law" was handed down to the world, which made Qi people in the spring to search for brigade, autumn to rule the army, the soldiers of the villages gathered in the village, and the army of the capital city gathered in the suburbs. The efficiency is much higher than that of Jin and Chu a hundred years ago. .

But perhaps Zhao Wuxi's starting point was too high. When he compared the "Shenqiguo and Wuqiwei" that Qi people were proud of with his "Xianting Shiwu" system, he felt that Qi people The rule of the army is as slow as a turtle...

"Ziyou is right, it's the middle of July, Qi is a big country, five hundred miles from north to south and one thousand miles from east to west, the army of Bianbi can be assembled at the border in half a month, and it may take a month for the central capital to wait until the three armies. All start to attack Lu, it may be the end of August."

Compared with the big man who has difficulty turning around, Sanyi, a small sparrow with all the internal organs, has an advantage in this regard, especially the efficiency of military orders and decrees is extremely high. People's hearts have gradually returned to serving. Since the establishment of the township Tingshiwu system in the Qin and Han Dynasties of Zhao Wuxi's cottage, the tentacles of governance have penetrated into the grassroots.

Sima Fayun, belligerent will perish, forgetting to fight will lead to danger, so the lack of shirts always makes the lords nervous. Onozawa's robbery is a good excuse for conscription training.

According to statistics from Ji Qiao, in the past six months, Sanyi has had at least two exercises to control the army~www.wuxiahere.com~ Because Shiwu has his own affiliation, the pavilion chief and Qiujiao are military officials. Therefore, if a township or pavilion can be assembled in one day, the patriarchs of the township pavilion can join forces in the suburbs in three days, and the army can be combined into thousands in five days!

"There's no way..." Wu Xie thought: "After all, our system is two or three centuries ahead of the times."

This comparison made the subordinate officials a little relieved, because they were able to take precautions as soon as possible, at least they would not be caught off guard.

What's more, in terms of attack, those secret sons in Punan of Wei Guo have been buried for a long time, and they only owe Dongfeng. Because of Nanzi's affairs, Zhao Wuxi has been particularly looking for Wei Guo's unhappiness recently. In terms of defense, the period of time when the Qi people were assembled was enough for Sanyi to train soldiers, repair walls, and be fully prepared to deal with the coming of war.

What's more, Wu Xie and Zhang Mengtan's footsteps did not stop at sitting. In just a few days, they finalized a "Xilu Joint Defense Plan" with "advance as retreat" and "neighbor as screen". (To be continued.)

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