Chapter 67 Strategy
This time the Northern Expedition, Zhong Yu was divided into three stages. The first stage was to surround Luoyang in all directions and attack from the four counties of Nanyang, Chang'an, Hanoi, and Xingyang.
Use your own strong military strength, coupled with the support of surrendered soldiers from various counties, to share the few soldiers in the Han Dynasty.
As a result, in these four directions, the number of defenders in each place is only 20,000 to 30,000, and it is impossible to form a large defensive circle.
Coupled with the civil strife that he instigated those defenders, it can be said that breaking through these defenses is very easy.
The second stage is that after the army breaks through the defense, it surrounds Luoyang City, and it is best to make an emergency landing on Emperor Ling of Han.
The spiritual leader, political leader, and military leader of the entire Han Dynasty, after many courtiers who still wanted to fight for him, lost the goal of fighting for it in their hearts, their will to resist completely collapsed.
Then, in the name of Lingdi, the righteousness of the supreme leader of the Han Dynasty, he ordered the princes and prefectures in various places to unconditionally put down their resistance and take refuge in themselves.
In order to achieve this goal, I prepared a county and seven counties for Emperor Ling as a feudal state, and prepared 25 counties for the prestigious elders of the Liu family in the Han Dynasty to buy and disperse them.
In order to stabilize the hearts of the Liu clan who are afraid of purging the entire Han Dynasty clan by themselves, they will disintegrate their will to resist.
To prevent them from being full and supporting themselves, they ran to the hands of local princes with ulterior motives and used them as banners to call on the people everywhere to resist themselves and cause them a lot of trouble.
And the aristocratic families in various places have also set a rule. Each state asks their local aristocratic families to recommend a most powerful gentry to accept the rewards of four counties in one county, and only one county for other gentry families. .
But there is a problem. There must be a few big families with the closest strength in a state, and they will take charge of the order of the entire state family together.
And only one family can get the reward of one county and four counties in each state, but there are many aristocratic families who want to share this pie.
Who will pick it up, and who will accept the appointment on behalf of the entire state's gentry, this is not something that can be easily let go, this is righteousness. Once it is given up, the aristocratic family that gets a county can use this righteousness to order the gentry of the entire state.
Then the several aristocratic families with similar strengths will gradually widen the gap, and completely become two different classes from the family that has benefited, and will survive under the shadow of that family from then on.
So even if all the soldiers in this state know that this is a strategy to blatantly divide and alienate the relationship between them, but the interests related to the future fate of their own family come first, how can they bear it and not eat this temptation? What about human bait!
So this is a conspiracy. It's in front of you. Do you want to eat it all? Accept his mercy, so as to contribute his strength to serve Zhong Yu.
And even some gentry in this state couldn't swallow this breath, and wanted to rebel. But most of the gentry who have already benefited will unite to put down this troublemaker who wants to destroy their vested interests.
Don't the emperors know about this kind of strategy of drawing salary from the bottom of the pot, all kinds of princes in ancient and modern times who want to unify the world? They knew it, but they didn't dare to use it. They were afraid that they would become the second emperor of Zhou and be at the mercy of the princes and kings throughout the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods.
So they knew that this would make their pace of unifying the world faster, but they still chose the centralized county system.
And the second dynasty in China similar to Zhou Tianzi's enfeoffment system, the Tang Dynasty clearly proved the disadvantages of this enfeoffment system.
After the Anshi Rebellion, the vassals and towns in various places were like the vassal states in the Spring and Autumn Period of Zhou Tianzi. In name, they obeyed the orders of Zhou Tianzi, but in fact they ceded land for themselves.
It just lacks a nominal country title, and it is actually no different from a country. The officials' taxes are all set by themselves, and even the laws are different from Datang. They are completely two different countries.
So this situation lasted until more than 100 years after him, and the completely dilapidated Tang Dynasty was destroyed by these princes just like Zhou Tianzi at the end of the Warring States Period, and disappeared into the dust of history.
And my goal is not in this small world of the Three Kingdoms. The concept of those territories is not worth mentioning for my goal of establishing the heaven and ruling the heavens and worlds.
Therefore, I can disregard any disadvantages and arbitrarily entrust these princes, and I can also use my favor to those princes to make them further support and awe of my heavenly court.
Just like Zhou Tianzi used his enfeoffment to standardize the establishment of etiquette in line with the interests of princes in various places, so that China has complied with the regulations of this ancient dynasty for thousands of years, and called itself a state of etiquette.
How can I ignore such a successful case that is clearly placed in front of me? In every world that I have conquered, I can arbitrarily canonize various princes, and let them organize grand ceremonies on time, and offer sacrifices to my heavenly court in four seasons.
And form a country that was established without being recognized and canonized by its own heaven. It is against the will of God, without the virtue and ability to accept the offerings of a country.
After forming a kind of righteousness, then no matter what world, as long as it is under your command, you must be loyal to yourself and give your own beliefs, so that you can establish, survive and continue.
Just like the emperors in ancient times, they had to offer sacrifices to the heaven and the earth every year, and declare to the world that they ruled the country righteously. This is a habit and a moral constraint.
And the third stage, after the forced landing in Luoyang City, sent troops to conquer those local princes who did not obey him and wanted to resist stubbornly, so as to unify the entire Three Kingdoms world in one fell swoop and fulfill his purpose and goal of coming to this world.
According to this strategic goal, Zhong Yu divided four armies and gave them to his four generals, Wang Fang, Han Kai, Li Zhen, and Zhao Ping to lead the four armies to attack Luoyang from four directions.
Two months after the expedition, the armies from all over the place had arrived at the corresponding positions and controlled the surrounding counties. Those gentry who surrendered to him provided food, grass and ordnance, so they could eat on the spot without worrying about logistical pressure.
And Zhong Yu came to Yingchuan County with an elite army of 100,000, and sat in Xuchang City, the prefecture of Yingchuan County, to control the entire battle situation from the rear.
And the supplements that passed through various places and surrendered counties have expanded to his 600,000 cannon fodder, and they were taken to fill the consumption of those endless checkpoints.
In any case, it is a dynasty that has been passed down for nearly four hundred years. There are still some foundations and loyal righteous men, and the damned will still die. How can a dynasty be completely unified without bloodshed?
And from the 600,000 cannon fodder, he can get more than a hundred thousand of his elite again, and after he destroys this small world, he will get enough luck points.
You can bring these armies back to the main world after several years of training and fighting in the Three Kingdoms world, so as to provide great support for your future conquest in the lost land.