Chapter 294: The way to play depends on who is right
The Zhao family's management of "Jinyang" began with Zhao Yang. In order to allow "Jinyang" to develop, Zhao Yang not only repeatedly moved people from the rest of the Zhao family's fiefdoms, but also deliberately planned to invade the Wei Kingdom and plunder the population, making "Jinyang"
"It has been like this in just over twenty years.
Before the civil war broke out, the permanent resident population of "Jinyang" was about 40,000, including the surrounding population of more than 130,000.
The Zhao family made great moves in the winter. They did not expect to be decisively intercepted and lost a large number of people and supplies. However, at least they allowed "Jinyang" to increase its population by about 70,000, and continued to do so.
There are mostly young and strong people.
When Sun Wu arrived at the outskirts of "Jinyang", he had already obtained relevant information in advance.
At present, there are almost no idlers in the city of "Jinyang", that is, people who have nothing to do with the war have moved away, leaving about 40,000 people for defensive operations.
Around "Jinyang", in addition to the two original camps, four new camps were built that looked large in size. Together with the strength of these camps, the total number of troops was about 100,000.
The location of the distribution of these camps is very particular. Firstly, they basically occupy favorable terrain. More importantly, the layout can achieve a layout that can support each other even if they are attacked.
"The Zhao family has tens of thousands of troops?" Sun Wu knew this kind of operation too well.
The State of Wu often ignored the quality of its troops and recruited those who could afford weapons into the army.
The Zhao family originally had a large population in "Jinyang", but later they gathered 30,000 to 40,000 young men, and in a desperate struggle, they armed more than 100,000 people. This seems to be quite understandable.
Sun Wu was not frightened because the Zhao family armed more than 100,000 people in "Jinyang". On the contrary, he burst into laughter after hearing this.
At this time, do you need someone to cheer you up and ask, "Why are you laughing?"
Zhi Xuwu actually asked.
Sun Wu said: "The Zhao family is short of food, how dare they raise troops in such a big way?"
There is no need to worry that the Zhao family's lack of food is false news. First, they fought for several years in a row, and then the fiefdom was divided up. Not to mention that the original reserves were greatly consumed. Later, when the fiefdom was divided, not only the reserves were lost, but production was also forced to stop.
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The Zhao family has been borrowing grain from various families since then, and the Han family has given the most support. The other families have been somewhat interested. Since the Zhao family has lost too much productive arable land in a short period of time, relying solely on support from other families will be a drop in the bucket.
Zhi Xuwu said: "The Zhao family originally wanted to conquer Dai."
Sun Wu had already taken that into account and said: "The Zhao family may have enough food to feed an army of 40,000 for a year, but the food for an army of 100,000 is less than four months' ration."
So it seems that there is nothing wrong with the calculation? Once the war really breaks out, frugality will not be enough. What is needed for the real war is to open up the supply, so as to avoid the morale of the military being hit, and it can also boost morale.
Sun Wu said: "The army retreated twenty miles."
Zhi Xuwu immediately understood what was going on.
The Zhao family is short of food but has so many people armed. The one who is eager to fight will be the Zhao family. The reason? Their food cannot last long. If they want to exchange losses for losses, it would be better if they can force the Zhi family to negotiate.
At the same time, Zhao Guanjie, who was in "Jinyang", received news that Zhi's army was approaching but retreating.
After hearing the news, not only Zhao Wuxie's face became gloomy, but also the faces of the decision-makers were not very good-looking.
Their own family knew about their own affairs and tried their best to arm more people. They thought they were going to fight a war of attrition with the Zhishi regardless of casualties. On the one hand, the food could not last long, and secondly, they wanted to show their determination and force the Zhishi to negotiate for peace.
As long as the Zhi family gives up the destruction of the Zhao family, the Wei family, the Hu family and the Zhong family will basically not fight with the Zhao family. When the time comes, they can look to the Han family to change the situation. Maybe the Zhao family's inevitable death situation can be changed.
Once the Zhao family is allowed to continue to exist, who can say for sure about many things? Maybe one day in the future, the Zhao family can recover, or maybe the Zhao family becomes the Zhi family, an ally of one of the Wei families, but the family that perished is
Become Zhi or Wei.
The impermanence of things in the world means that nothing is final and everything is possible.
The Zhi family's army retreated, which suddenly made the Zhao family feel very uncomfortable.
Zhao Wushe asked: "When will Daijun arrive?"
Gu Buziqing, who was in charge of the first response, replied: "After one month or later?"
The geographical environment of Dai State is quite good, but Dai State does not have the ability to develop farming. It mainly focuses on raising livestock, and the breeding of war horses is the best.
For a long time, Dai State has relied on selling war horses to foreign countries in exchange for food. In the past, the largest trade object was Xianyu, and it also had transactions with the Zhao family of Dai State. Xianyu has been destroyed, and the Zhi family has not been involved in Dai State's war horse trade for the time being.
Zhao hoped that providing food supplies for the country would be an unattainable thing.
"Wuxie told Dai Jun years ago that he might go to Yan to buy grain, but I don't know if Dai Jun followed it." Zhao Wuxie said.
The State of Dai shared a border with the State of Yan, and the State of Yan, which was almost forgotten by other countries in the Central Plains, was also one of the retreat options for Zhao Guanshe.
Or the war horses were exchanged for grain with the Yan State, or "Jinyang" could not hold on and fled to the Dai State, and then finally defected to the Yan State.
Why didn't he go to Qin, his distant relative? What Zhao Wushe knew was that Zhao Bolu had already gone to Qin. He thought that since Zhao Bolu had gone to Qin, it was enough to steal Dai Zuo, or someone could go to Yan to develop.
And if it develops, it will be possible to seek revenge from the Jin State from two directions in the future.
Yes, he is seeking revenge from the Jin State, not just from the Zhi family.
In Zhao Wushe's opinion, all the other families in the Jin Kingdom were attacking the Zhao family, and the Zhao family's enemy was the Jin state, not just any single family.
Of course, Zhao Wuji's understanding is that revenge can be taken slowly one by one. It is entirely possible to use which family to attack that family in the process. It does not necessarily require that all families be liquidated at the same time.
When the situation has progressed to this point, Zhao Wuji's biggest hope is that the Zhi family and the Wei family are not as harmonious as they seem. He hopes to show the strength of the Zhao family by holding the Zhi family, and then contact the Wei family or the Zhi family to provoke them.
, other things aside, in short, they just fight against each other to save themselves.
In other words, there are so many ways that Zhao Wuxie can do when faced with a bad situation. If it were the rest of the people, they would either resist until death, or else they would want to run away as soon as possible. How can there be so many twists and turns.
"Who is the general and who is the assistant of Zhijun?" Zhao Wuxie asked.
Is this a thing? It’s the enemy’s turn and they don’t know it right under their noses. It’s really not a funny thing.
After all, the speed of information transmission in the current era is just that, and it is not that easy to find out without actively detecting it, or actively detecting it.
Gubu Ziqing knew that he should send an envoy to the Zhi family's army.
When the envoy goes there, he can know who the commander of the army is, and he can also rely on identifying people to know who is in the army. He can even insult the other party and make the other party go crazy and give up their original plan.
Soon, the envoy set off and returned in less than a day, giving the news that the commander of the opposite army was Zhi Xuwu and the commander was Sun Wu.
"Grandson?" Of course Zhao Wushe knew who Sun Wu was, but he just found out that Sun Wu actually worked for the Zhi family.
Zhao Wuxie murmured: "First there was Yang Hu, and then there was Sun Wu. The Zhi family has great plans..."
Yang Hu has a bad reputation, but his ability should not be questioned.
Sun Wu's reputation is so great that no one doubts his ability.
Gubu Ziqing said: "Qi State's veteran general Tian Ranju also serves the Zhi family."
This moment made Zhao Wuxie's face contort with envy.
It's the same starting point for a big family, and it's even more eager to develop. Why is it that everything is not going well for the Zhao family, while it's the Zhi family's turn to make various profits and recruit talents?
Knowing who the Zhi clan's generals and military assistants were, Zhao Wuxie suddenly felt extremely uneasy.
Zhi Xuwu has nothing to say, he is nothing more than a brainless general.
It would be different with Sun Wu!
Faced with a person who could pull off all kinds of tricks, Zhao Guanji didn't have the confidence that his tricks would not be noticed in advance. He would definitely not be able to rely on defending to consume the Zhi clan's troops, and other plans were also a bit up in the air.
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Subsequently, Zhao Wuji sent an envoy again, using insults to stimulate the enemy, hoping to provoke the other party and make the other party attack.
What was the result? The envoy sent by the Zhao family was simply killed, and the Zhi family's army still stayed in place, showing no signs of marching into "Jinyang" and launching an attack.
Later, news came back one after another that the Wei family easily captured the three cities on the "Cai Mulberry" side, and then set out to attack the "Zhao" land; after the Hu family and the Zhong family captured "Taigu"
They did not withdraw their troops, but stayed in the area to suppress disobedience.
It was not until half a month later that Zhao Wuji convened a meeting with decision-makers. After the meeting, Zhao began to take new actions.
What they did was to send a force to the north. Their purpose was to find local Zhishi troops to fight, seemingly to ensure a passable route to the north.
"If you still don't fight with me, I'll go north and join the throne!" Zhao Wuxie said.
Because they have the fatal weakness of insufficient food, they simply have no extra choice. In the end, they will only collapse on their own, or simply cause a tragedy of cannibalism.
Gubuziqing was the one who knew all about Zhao Guanshe's plans. Hearing this, he thought: "You set up the posture of the first and decisive battle, originally to confuse the Zhi family. What you want is to transfer to Dai and then steal the country. But
Don’t lie to others and get yourself involved.”
Since Zhao Wuxie had made such a calculation from the beginning, why did he have to perform such a scene more? This is the so-called virtual reality.
Putting on a defensive posture in "Jinyang" might be able to scare the Zhi family, right?
The Zhao family is still contacting the Zhi family, the Wei family, the Hu family, the Zhong family and the Han family respectively to find out what the best results can be achieved and cannot just give it a try.
At present, what Zhao Wuji fears most is that his plot will be discovered in advance and he will weaken the Zhi family's troops who are heading north without a bloody battle. Even if the Zhao family turns north and enters the state of Dai, he is afraid that they will be chased and killed.
Once again, he made a wedding dress for the Zhi family, and Dai Guo was swallowed up by the Zhi family.
Playing tricks, playing to the point where he was in a dilemma, Zhao Guanji was unlucky to meet Sun Wu, and was a little frightened by Sun Wu's name and hesitated.
