I am a nobleman in Spring and Autumn

Chapter 421 The possible change of the country's name and the failure of the plot

So, the second five-year plan will be postponed again?
There is no way to do this, no one knows how big the next battle will be, and it is absolutely impossible to follow Zhiyao's expectation that the war will only be carried out within the territory of Lu.

The Tang Army, which had changed its banner, the troops of the Han, Fox, and Zhong clans did not even change their uniforms, and launched an offensive against the Lu State directly from the guard.

The State of Lu really didn't want war to come to him. In just half a month, the Tang army had already attacked the "negative flaw".

This "negative flaw" is on the west side of "Qufu", which can be regarded as the last city of "Qufu" on the west side.Once the "negative flaw" falls, it means that "Qufu", the capital of Lu State, will face a direct and fatal threat.

The ministers of Lu who were in the country thought that the border cities had fallen, but in fact the Tang army did not slowly attack one city after another.

The Tang army was using a "leapfrog tactic". To put it bluntly, it did not attack every target, but only selected those areas that must be attacked, and let the rest be temporarily let go, waiting for follow-up troops to attack.

Such tactics can hit the city of "Qufu" faster.

As for why they didn't directly raid "Qufu" to attack "Negative Xia", the simple reason is that Tang Jun can't leave such a threat behind him.

The reason is very simple, once the surprise attack fails to take "Qufu" and let "Qufu" persist until the arrival of reinforcements, then the Tang army will become unable to advance or retreat.

Therefore, it is absolutely necessary to take down the "negative defect". While ensuring that there is a way out, it is also an arrangement to prevent the princes from supporting the Lu State.

Another point is that the reason why Zhiyao did not choose to raid "Qufu" was actually to force the princes to rescue "Qufu".

If the Tang State captured "Qufu" from the beginning, and even destroyed the Lu State's Guozuo, it will be unknown whether the princes will come to rescue.

If the allied forces of the princes don't go north, how can Zhiyao keep singing?
This battle can be regarded as the battle for the founding of the Tang State. The more beautiful the Tang army fights, the better!

"The princes have already marched north, and there are about [-] combined troops." Sun Wu was appointed as a national captain.

Now almost all the official positions in the Tang State are named after new titles, and the incumbents need to figure out what rights and responsibilities their titles have and what responsibilities they have to bear.

Zhiyao is playing the Sangong Jiuqing system, but due to some reasons, it is necessary to avoid the official title of the Zhou royal family.

The three males are: General, Ruling and Situ.

It is easy to understand that the general is the supreme commander of the army under the monarch; the ruling is responsible for the management of civil affairs; some of Situ's powers overlap with the ruling, and can be regarded as the deputy of the ruling, and is also responsible for collecting corvees and supervising field cultivation.

The Jiuqing are ranked in no particular order, namely: Shi Shi, Yu Shi, Si Kou, Guo Wei, Nei Shi, Lieutenant, Tian Bu Shi, Eun Zhe Ling, and Zhong Sima.

Specifically, what are the responsibilities and what rights do you have, just apply the Jiuqing in the Western Han Dynasty.I won't make a long list of them one by one here.

Sun Wu served as the captain of the country. To put it bluntly, he was a kind of senior staff officer, similar to Wei Liao in the period of the first emperor.

Official titles and responsibilities will definitely change in the future.

After all, it was an excess that Zhiyao had to make.

Why not come up with a more advanced system?In fact, applicability is the key, not the more advanced the system, the better.

For example, it is impossible for Zhiyao to implement the prefecture and county system immediately, it needs a steady but lengthy process.

"The bank of Daye Lake will stop the attack first, and we must drag it until our army captures the border cities." Zhiyao said.

Sun Wu looked at Hu Jie.

Looking at everyone present, Han Geng is not here.

Han Geng has already returned to the fiefdom, whether to gather new troops to prepare to deal with Qin, or raise troops to fight against Tang, we can only wait and see.

At the same time, Zhong Quan was not there.He went to "Xintian" to be responsible for relocating the king of Jin to "Quliang" to settle down, and was also responsible for transforming the land of Jin into the land of Tang.

Is the Han family still in charge of Qin?In fact, it means that many things have not changed, including which family's fiefdom still belongs to them, and some previous things remain the same.

This makes Zhiyao very dissatisfied. The key is that many things cannot be rushed now.

There was also no Ji Seo-go at the scene.He commanded more than [-] troops around "Qufu", looking for opportunities to see if he could take the capital of the State of Lu by sneak attack or surprise attack.

There are more than [-] Tang troops stationed outside the city of Negative Xia, and nearly [-] Tang troops in the Daye Lake area.

This time, Zhiyao recruited a bit too many cavalry, totaling more than [-], [-]% of which went to Daye Lake, two of which were given to Zhi Xuwu to command, and the rest belonged to Han Geng to deal with the possible invasion of Qin.

In addition, apart from the Zhi family, the Han family, the Fox family, and the Zhong family all carried out a new round of mobilization. The Tang State has about 14 troops available in this area. If necessary, a second wave of recruitment will be carried out.

Of the 14 troops, about [-] were used to deal with the wars of the princes and attack the Lu State, and the remaining [-] were destroying the remnants of the Wei family who were still resisting.

Judging from the total number of troops used, it seems that it is less than before Zhishi did not turn his family into a country?That is caused by the necessity of garrisons in some places, so that the number of troops capable of field combat is only 14.

In fact, to put it bluntly, the Zhi family not only has to deal with the princes, but also needs to guard against the Han family, the Hu family, the Zhong family or which family originally belonged to the Jin state; the Han family, the Zhong family and the Hu family cannot be completely at ease with the Zhi family.

In this way, it is certain that some troops will be wasted.

One day when the situation in Tang State stabilized, or Zhiyao used some means to quickly gain the trust of Han, Hu and Zhong, the situation would change.

It took the Tang army two days to capture the city of "Negative Xia", and after leaving a small number of troops to maintain stability, Zhiyao led the army to "Qufu".

It only took two days to capture the "negative flaw"?This is because the fighting power of the Lu people is very poor, and it is not expected that someone will come to attack the city in advance.

When Zhiyao arrived in "Qufu", the coalition forces headed by Chu State had just entered the territory of Lu State.

Beforehand, Lu Junning sent an envoy to Zhiyao to ask why Zhiyao wanted to attack Lu.

Everything needs to pay attention to a sequence, that is, causality, right?

The state of Lu formed an alliance with the princes in the "Yongqiu League", and their alliance was right against the state of Tang.

The Tang army invaded after the Lu State joined the alliance, no matter from which point of view it was a self-defense counterattack.

As a result, the State of Lu once again ignored the fact that he was going to be an enemy of the State of Tang first, and still had the face to ask why the State of Tang invaded the State of Lu.Are the rulers and ministers of the Lu Kingdom too naive, or are they taking the monarchs and ministers of the Tang Dynasty for fools?

This time, the kings and ministers of Lu State performed their traditional program again, which was probably "It's not me, it's the world", "Hey is my business, how can you hit me", followed by "Daddy, save me! "some type of.

The reason why it is said that those are the traditional programs of the State of Lu is actually that the State of Jin encountered the same thing too many times on the State of Lu, and this time it became a headache for the State of Chu.

According to the original plan of Chu's monarchs and ministers, they had no intention of going north immediately. What they wanted was to quickly grab the meat from Wu's corpse, and then quickly quell the domestic rebellion. It would be at least three years before they really wanted to crusade against Tang.

The problem is that the king and ministers of the Lu Kingdom took turns praying, and then cried loudly in front of the princes, which made Chu Junzhang, who had just become the leader of the alliance, embarrassed and annoyed, and had no choice but to lead his army northward.

Speaking of it, Chu State once again served as the leader of the alliance with the Central Plains countries after more than 130 years.

In 597 BC, the Chu army won the confrontation with the Jin army in the "Battle of Bi", and once overwhelmed the countries of the Central Plains, it seemed that they were only one step away from the success of "Aspirations".This was the highlight moment of the Chu State in the Spring and Autumn Period, but the Jin State soon recovered, and the two sides continued to fight in the territory of the Zheng State until they lost their hegemony in the "Battle of Yanling".

At present, there are about [-] Tang cavalry scattered all the way to harass the coalition forces. On the one hand, they have repeatedly slowed down the marching speed of the coalition forces. More and more people realize that even if they reach "Qufu", their logistics lines seem to have to to guarantee.

Of course, it seems impossible not to rescue the country of Lu?Really turning a blind eye to the crisis of Lu State, wouldn't their alliance become a joke.

The monarchs and ministers of the Lu Kingdom staged a scene of crying and making trouble every day, which made the monarchs and ministers of all countries extremely irritable.

Finally, Chu Junzhang thought of a way and sent envoys to Zhiyao to invite Tang Jun to go to "Mao" for hunting.

Of course, the kings and ministers of Lu State are eager to break the siege of "Qufu". The terrible thing is that Chu State is different from other countries.

The state of Chu can disregard its face when it needs it. Compared with marching into "Qufu" and being cut off from the back, they would rather the monarch and ministers of the state of Lu cry and make trouble every day.

So, Zhiyao's attempt seems to have failed?To some extent, it has not completely failed, at least let the princes understand that Chu State is still the Chu State they know, and they can shout "I am a barbarian" anytime and anywhere to deny some things.

"The allied forces have returned to the Song Dynasty, what should I do?" Zhi Yao was asking Fan Li.

Speaking of which, Fan Li had been traveling north for a long time, but he only joined the Tang Dynasty when the Tang army besieged "Qufu".

As soon as Fan Li saw Zhiyao, he preemptively announced that Chu would not go north easily once he realized the danger.

From the looks of it, Fan Li had really caught his eye.

Zhiyao was happy but hesitant about Fan Li's contribution.

Happy?Of course, Zhiyao has the collection addiction that all traversers will have.

As for hesitation, don't forget that Zhiyao once suspected that Fan Li was a spy sent by Chu State to Yue State.

Fan Li's second topic is to advise Zhiyao to be cautious in choosing the country name, and he made it very clear that Zhiyao could have used the impeccable country name "Yuan" to recognize his ancestors and restore his mother country. There is nothing to blame, how can you leave a story for the world on this kind of matter?

To be honest, Fan Li was not the first person to persuade Zhiyao so much, which made Zhiyao extremely depressed.

To be honest, it’s okay for one or two people to say that. Many people... especially wise and insightful people repeatedly persuaded her. Zhiyao felt that she should consider it carefully.

In particular, Zhiyao has not sent any country name to the Zhou royal family for the time being. It is a bit embarrassing to change it, and it seems to be a kind of nonsense, but it is better than continuing to make mistakes?

(End of this chapter)