Fu Chai's ability is beyond doubt.

In his body, we can see the shadow of Xiang Yu, the later overlord of Western Chu.

The same willfulness, the same womanly kindness, the same bravery...

"The Sentinel Cavalry came to report, but now that my husband has burned Gumi City to the ground, he has led his army to the north and attacked Juwu. How to annihilate them, please tell me what you think."

Qingji, who was sitting high on the steps, looked around for a week and then asked.

Sun Wu, the imperial censor who was well versed in the art of war, pondered for a moment and then came out first and said: "Your Majesty, I believe that if you want to completely annihilate the enemy's army, you cannot do it if it is no more than the enemy's."

"The way to use troops is to surround them by ten, attack them by five, and divide them if they are doubled. If the enemy is small, you can fight it. If the enemy is small, you can run away. If it is small, you can avoid it."

"Right now, there is no place left. Our Wu army has 5,000 fighting troops, which is far less than the southern barbarians. However, we can fight, but we cannot completely annihilate them."

Qing Ji shook his head and said, "I want to annihilate all the Southern Barbarians!"

Qingji's ambitions were extremely high.

He wanted to use this battle to completely annihilate the Southern Barbarian coalition led by Fu Chai, and achieve success in one battle!

After this, the State of Wu could take the opportunity to send troops southward to conquer all the places that Fu Chai had conquered, and turn the land south of Lingnan into the territory of the State of Wu.

Wasn't this the purpose that he deliberately let Fu Chai go back then?

Hearing this, all the officials looked at each other in shock and began to think secretly.

Sun Wu said again: "Your Majesty wants to annihilate all the Southern Barbarians, but he may not be able to do so. For the current plan, your Majesty may recruit soldiers and horses from all over Kuaiji County, or he may send troops from within the country. If they are to be completely annihilated, it will not be a multiple of them."

You are a Southern barbarian and cannot do this!"

Sun Wu gave two choices.

Either temporarily recruit troops from the land of old Vietnam, or send troops from within the country.

Just when Qing Ji hesitated, he ordered Confucius to go out and said: "Your Majesty, I think we can recruit troops on the spot from Kuaiji County."

"In the past, I was the governor of Kuaiji County and educated all the people. Therefore, the people of Yue were unruly and disobedient to the king. However, things have improved a lot now."

"Even if the people of Yue are not interested in Wu, they can still see the tragic situation in Gumi City and learn from this bloody lesson. Therefore, the people of Yue must share the same hatred of the enemy and help the king resist the invasion of the southern barbarians!"

After a pause, Confucius continued: "Furthermore, to mobilize troops from the country at this time, the journey is far away, and there are high mountains and mountains, and mountains and lakes are blocked. Although there are official roads leading to Kuaiji County, I am afraid that the water from far away cannot quench the thirst of the people nearby.

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Confucius's proposition is also understandable.

He once served as the governor of Kuaiji County and understood the thoughts of the local people.

Four years ago, the State of Yue was destroyed by the Wu army, and the territory of Yue officially became part of the State of Wu.

There was a feud between Wu and Yue, and it was difficult to bridge this gap for a while.

However, the brutal behavior of the Nanmanzi in Gumi City is obvious to all!

The southern barbarians are violent in nature, burning, killing, looting, and committing all kinds of evil.

It is conceivable that if the Southern Barbarian army really captures Kuaiji County, what kind of misfortune will be suffered by the common people like them!

Almost a disaster!

It is also an objective fact that Kuaiji County is too far away from Wu State.

If you want to send troops, they must be sent from the capital Jinling.

Even if there is no need for a nationwide conscription, the Wu army from Jinling really will not be able to rush to Kuaiji County for reinforcements for a while.

"Your Majesty, I think the Yue people cannot be trusted."

Fan Li, the internal historian of Zhisu, shook his head and said: "Although the Daxing Order has been effective in educating Kuaiji County for several years, it is impossible to eradicate the true nature of the Yue people!"

"If the Yue people who have been gathered turn against each other in battle, just like those slave armies who turned against King Wu in the past when he defeated Zhou, we will probably regret it too late!"

What Fan Li said was what Qingji was most worried about.

Can Yue people be trusted?

Unbelievable!

Just like the slaves who betrayed King Zhou of Shang.

When talking about King Wu's defeat of Zhou, we have to talk about the famous "Battle of Makino"!

After the meeting of Mengjin, King Zhou Wu's strategic plan to defeat the Shang Dynasty was: while the main force of the Shang Dynasty was stranded in the southeast, the elite troops penetrated into Wangji with lightning speed and defeated the Chaoge defenders.

Capture the Shang capital in one fell swoop, disintegrate the Shang Dynasty, leaving the remaining merchants and their affiliated states leaderless, and then defeat them one by one.

This is quite similar to Country D’s “Blitzkrieg” in World War II.

At that time, the coalition of princes led by Zhou State had 45,000 troops.

Emperor Xin was shocked to hear that the Zhou army was attacking, so he had to hurriedly arm a large number of slaves and prisoners of war, together with the troops guarding the capital, and march to Muye to fight.

It is said that the Shang Dynasty had a total of 170,000 soldiers and horses!

Unfortunately, most of them were slaves and prisoners of war, vulnerable to attack, and eventually turned against the merchant army.

Qing Ji was very contemptuous of Ji Fa's actions during the Battle of Makino.

Why?

Victory without force!

Because Emperor Xin was committed to using troops against the southeastern Yi people, although he won the war and captured "billions (millions) of Yi people", Emperor Xin was also known as "Baike" (victorious in every battle).

However, the main force of the Shang army went on an expedition to Dongyi, leaving the Shang capital Chaoge empty and without troops to defend it.

This led to the despicable and shameless Ji Fa to take advantage of the situation and destroy the Shang Dynasty in one fell swoop.

As time goes by, the Battle of Makino has become shrouded in layers of mystery.

According to the records at that time, Emperor Xinshang was a hero with serious flaws. However, in later generations, "King Zhou" became a shameless, cruel and tyrannical king, and was splashed with more and more sewage.

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Correspondingly, the Battle of Makino, a "bloody" war of conquest, became a just war against tyranny in which the people were punished.

In later Confucian legends, the Zhou army "singed before and danced behind", without killing anyone or shedding a drop of blood, the Shang Dynasty collapsed on its own.

With the support of the people of Li, King Wu ascended the throne of the emperor. From then on, swords and guns were stored in the warehouse, horses were released in Nanshan, and the world was peaceful...

absurd!

In Qingji's view, such historical records are as absurd as the Battle of Yingzhou in the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Houzhao, Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty, and the little prince of Mongolia, fought for a whole day with 100,000 soldiers and horses. Fifty-two people died in the Ming army and 16 people died in the Mongolian army. Zhu Houzhao even killed an enemy with his own hands!

Who dares to believe it?

"Deploying troops from within the country."

Qing Ji immediately made a decision and said: "Pass the imperial edict and send 30,000 troops to aid Kuaiji County. The needed civilian soldiers and rations can be obtained on the spot and will be replenished later!"

"Your Majesty is wise!"

Qing Ji could not trust the Yue people, so he issued such an order.

He could never place all his expectations on others.

Anyway, Qing Ji was not in a hurry to completely annihilate the Nanman army led by Fu Chai.

Thirty thousand people are enough for the Wu State to completely annihilate the Southern Barbarians and take the opportunity to go south to conquer the Lingnan region!

Moreover, according to Qingji's estimation, if they were to recruit troops from Jinling and rush to Kuaiji County, they would have to travel both by land and water, and they would only need to hold on for one month!

You know, in order to prevent the Yue people from rebelling, Qing Ji built a lot of official roads, which were very suitable for large-scale army marches.

Now it comes in handy!

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