Zhiyao did not hand over all the Chu people captured in the "Battle of the Weishui", but was only willing to let Chu redeem 7,500 of them.
The two parties discussed how to redeem the money for a long time. It was not about other issues, but about some details.
First of all, Zhiyao hopes that the Chu State can allow the Chu army to be arranged according to the Jin army's system, that is, to use the Jin army's organization and no longer use the Chu State's system.
Just about how to reorganize the army, the Zhi family argued with the Chu State for half a month.
The Chu State was not willing to admit that it had lost to the Jin State in terms of military structure. They felt that their own organization was quite good and there was no need to imitate the Jin State.
The Jin Kingdom broke away from the constraints of the Zhou royal family during the period when Luan Shu served as the "Yuan Rong".
Luan Shu likes to engage in intrigues and intrigues. He has the nickname "Old Yin Biao", but he is very forward-looking in his views on things.
At that time, the Jin State had grown up in all aspects. Facing the rise of the Chu State and the continuous turmoil in the surrounding countries, it was believed that the establishment of the Zhou royal family was no longer suitable for the Jin State.
At Luan Shu's suggestion, the Jin army made an expansion move, that is, each "two" still retained one chariot, but the number of infantry following the chariot increased from twenty-two to seventy-three.
At that time, a "liang" of the Jin army consisted of seventy-five men including one chariot, a "pawn" consisted of three hundred men including four chariots, and a "brigade" consisted of one twenty chariots.
One thousand and five hundred people, a "division" of 7,500 people including 100 chariots, and an "army" of 37,500 people including 500 chariots.
It can be said that it was precisely because of Luan Shu's reform of the Jin army that the Jin State was like beating a child against the other countries in the Central Plains. After repeated confrontations with the Chu army, it finally did not have to be trapped in the Zhou royal family's military establishment.
The troops are always insufficient and we are faced with a dilemma.
One thing that must be understood is that at that time, only Jin, Qi and Zheng had the ability to form large-scale corps with the support of total population, economy, and grain production.
Qi wanted to learn but was immediately pressed and beaten by Jin. He gave up after getting stuck every time.
The State of Zheng was sandwiched between the State of Jin and the State of Chu, and both of them became old surrendering countries. As the national power continued to weaken, the expansion of the military establishment naturally disappeared.
After so many years, the Jin State is still enjoying the benefits of Luan Shu's military expansion. To some extent, it is also thanks to Zhao Dun's tenure as the "Yuan Rong" that led the Jin State to follow the path of military fruitism.
The reason why Zhiyao asked the Chu army to use the Jin army's establishment seemed to be to help complete a kind of "evolution", but it was actually a hidden evil intention.
The system of the Chu State is different from that of most countries, especially in terms of the formation of the army. Of course they have such a system, but only the "King Division" has a rigorous organizational system, such as the "Left and Left Guang";
The rest of the Chu army was brought by the nobles and formed its own army as long as it took. As a result, the number of Chu armies in each army was not fixed. It became a key point whether the commander knew how many armies he had under his command. He wanted to
It’s difficult to know.
In the end, Ziqi made a compromise and agreed with Zhi to let the Chu army be reorganized according to the Jin army's organization.
Currently, the Chu army reorganized by the Jin clan Zhi is fighting fiercely with the Wu army.
At the same time, Zhishi was also at war with the Wu army.
"Who doesn't know that improving the organization can effectively improve combat effectiveness? The terrible thing is that those nobles are absolutely unwilling to let things get done!" Ziqi saw that the same Chu people, after being reorganized by the Zhi family, showed a disciplined side.
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If Ziqi had not participated in the whole process of reorganization, he might have suspected that those who were released were not Chu people, but were temporarily transferred to Jin people, and would be transferred again to Chu people later and released.
Why did the state of Chu decline? Isn't it because a certain king of Chu lost control of the nobles, which prevented the new king of Chu from using more power to fight against the state of Wu, and even the capital was captured by the Wu army?
Those nobles did not rebel and stand on their own. They just pushed back on the King of Chu's orders if they could, and disobeyed them if they couldn't. Most of the nobles united to resist the central government, and the Chu State, which had lost control of the local areas, did not decline.
"Has Wu's army been severely damaged?" Ziqi asked.
Zhiyao nodded and said: "The Wu army originally numbered 30,000, but it was easy to defeat the Qi army. Our army fought with it for many days, making it impossible to take care of both the beginning and the end, so we could have such a scene."
To be honest, Zhiyao was really surprised that 10,000 people could resist for four days and exchanged about 4,000 casualties for nearly 2,000 victories.
Of course, the main reason is that Xu Menchao, the commander-in-chief of the Wu Army, despised the resistance of the ten thousand people. If they had gone all out from the beginning, the people's spiritual level would have been sublimated, but the physical combat effectiveness did not match the spiritual level, and they were severely damaged.
With an all-out siege of thirty thousand Wu troops, they will definitely be destroyed.
Ziqi wanted to say something, but as if he had seen something, he said in great confusion: "The Wu army has been defeated!"
To be precise, Xu Menchao could be regarded as re-establishing the communication between the various ministries and restoring them as a whole. He ordered Zhan Ru to take 3,000 people to the south to test out, agreed on a time, and made various preliminary arrangements.
Be prepared, and we will make a breakthrough today without any surprises.
Xu Menchao knew that he could not leave just as he wanted, so he had to put the Jin cavalry into a state of fatigue first. They had suffered casualties in the past few days to lure the Jin cavalry to attack, and then ordered his own soldiers to sacrifice their lives for the Zhishi cavalry.
Cause more trouble.
After two days of desperate resistance and nearly 3,000 casualties, Zhishi's cavalry did not participate in the battle today.
"If you are guilty, you will be punished!"
The State of Wu also had the habit of killing generals when defeated, but it was not so strictly enforced in recent years.
In order to successfully break out of the encirclement, Xu Menchao not only spent about 3,000 men to fight against the Zhishi cavalry, but also sent 3,000 men to fight the Chu army today, and another 4,000 men to fight the Jin army. And he will take them with him
The rest of the Wu army left Paoze, who was fighting, to break through.
Wu Jun’s choice is very surprising!
After all, Wu's army initially numbered around 30,000, but lost 13,000 at one stage or another. In the end, it lost another 7,000, which means that even if it succeeded in breaking through, it would lose less than 10,000.
Ziqi saw that Zhiyao had not made any new arrangements and asked, "Has the Jin army set up an ambush on the enemy's return route?"
Zhiyao said: "Yao came with only three 'teachers'."
On this battlefield, the number of Zhishi's troops was about 20,000, which means that almost all Jin troops were present.
Ziqi said in surprise: "Maybe they can be completely wiped out, but how can they be released?"
Zhiyao said: "Chu Sima's troops can be handed over to me, and the Chu army will pursue them."
This time, Zhiyao managed Zi Qi to a certain degree.
After all, Zhiyao's army could have many purposes, and it could be that he did not want to completely annihilate the Wu army.
Ziqi really felt that he couldn't just let go of the Wu army. After the Jin army took over the Wu army that was regarded as abandoned, he took the Chu army to pursue the Wu army led by Xu Menchao that broke out to the south.
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"Even if the State of Wu challenges the State of Jin again, it will basically be ten years later. At this stage, the object of the war between the State of Wu and the State of Chu will be the State of Chu again, and it will be the Chu people who fight, so why should I join in the fun?" Zhiyao thought to herself.
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Subsequently, Zhiyao issued an order to persuade them to surrender.
Knowing that he had become an outcast, the Wu people saw little hope against the Jin army. After waffling for a while, the nobles chose to surrender.
Yes, not everyone is qualified to surrender now. Under the established system, only nobles are qualified to surrender. For example, if a soldier is caught without resisting, it is said that he was captured, not surrendered.
Zhiyao didn't care whether Xu Menchao could successfully break through with the remaining Wu troops, and she didn't care what would happen to Ziqi's pursuit. After a brief stay of three days, she took Qi Junwan with her and started to wander upstream of Jishui River with a purpose.
stand up.
Zhiyao could imagine the operation of taking the king of a country on a tour. Every time he went to a place, the local Qi nobles would be extremely entangled. Whether to welcome him or not. The greeting would definitely have to be controlled by Zhishi without any bloodshed.
It goes against the way of being a minister.
Even if Qi Junwan didn't know what Zhiyao was doing before, he should have figured it out after one or two times.
However, understanding comes to understanding. Including Qi Junwan, the Yingjun and his ministers cooperated with Zhiyao's arrangements. It was not until about three or four out of ten of the upper reaches of Jishui River were controlled by the Zhi family that they cautiously found him.
Zhiyao, put on a posture of discussing something.
At that time, Zhiyao was having a banquet with Ziqi.
Ziqi led his army to pursue Wu's army. They caught up with Wu's army and fought with them. They tasted the sweetness of victory and captured Zhanru who was behind them. However, Xumenchao succeeded in breaking through with about three thousand Wu's army.
Although he did not fully achieve his goal, Ziqi still felt extremely excited.
Since the state of Chu weakened, it has been defeated again and again against the Wu army. It often takes five to one to fight against the Wu army, and it almost loses its morale.
This time, Ziqi led about 7,000 Chu troops to pursue them. Wu Jun found out that they were chasing Chu troops and stopped fighting. It was obvious that they looked down on Chu troops.
"Jin Qing, please have a full drink of this glass!" Ziqi was really grateful to Zhiyao and drank it all first.
To be honest, Zhiyao was also a little surprised at the combat effectiveness displayed by the Chu army. She was surprised that the Jin army was only given the organization, but she never expected that the Chu army would suddenly change.
Ziqi said: "Like...", just one word, and there was a voice asking for permission from outside.
What he wanted to say was, if Chu's army fully imitated Jin's organization, what kind of vitality would it unleash.
Of course those who came to see him were the monarchs and ministers of Qi.
There were many people coming, and they had only one goal. They wanted to ask Zhishi for help in forming an army, and at the same time, they wanted to purchase weapons and equipment on credit from Zhishi.
The reason why the monarchs and ministers of Qi had the idea of letting the Zhi family help form the army was because they were all Qi people, but the civilians became more capable of fighting than the regular Qi army; and secondly, the Chu army, which had been reorganized by the Zhi family, was able to fight more with less.
, defeated Wu Jun.
They cooperated with the Zhi family to occupy the upper reaches of Jishui River, and exchanged what they would have lost for new hope. Is there anything wrong with them?
All I can say is that benevolence sees benevolence and wisdom sees wisdom...
