Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 2322 Wherever you go, fight where you go, the second battle between Chu and Yue

Chapter 2318: Fight wherever you go, the second Chu Yue war

The countries of Tianzhu conquered each other, and the scale was getting bigger and bigger. Ye Qingmei was worried that Daqin would be involved, so after selling some prisoners of war and captured ships at a low price, he decisively chose to return.

When she came to Tianzhu, Ye Qingmei's boat was loaded with all kinds of goods, but when she returned, it was full of gold and silver wealth, local products from South Asia, plants and fruits, and [-] female slaves from Tianzhu.

What Ye Qingmei didn't know was that not long after her fleet left Tianzhu, the country of Shura Sena was destroyed.

The strongest in Shura Sena Kingdom is the navy, but it was destroyed by Qi Jiguang in one battle. Without the protection of the navy, it is naturally difficult to resist the invasion of foreign enemies.

In the end, most of the territory of Shura Sena Kingdom was occupied by the Gupta Kingdom, and the rest of the territory was wiped out by other forces.

Naturally, the return journey was much smoother than when it came. After all, the fleet had already sailed once. The countries and pirates along the way were either subdued or wiped out. Naturally, no one dared to provoke the Daqin fleet.

After more than half a month of sailing, when Ye Qingmei's fleet docked at Magellan Port to replenish water and fresh vegetables, they learned that there was also a civil war in Myanmar, and it was still getting worse.

The reason is that Anuruddha, the king of Bagan, bought equipment from Daqin, and felt that the combat power of his own army had surpassed that of the other two countries, so he used the interests as a temptation to unite four small countries and provoked the war on his own initiative. To complete the unification.

The two kingdoms of Toungoo and Gongbang, as well as three other small countries, obviously did not want to be annexed by the Bagan Kingdom, so they formed a coalition to fight against Bagan.

Although the Burmese region has become a mess, all parties are still rational, and the war has not spread to Magellan Port.

Ye Qingmei doesn't care about the outcome of the Burmese civil war at all. What she wants to do most now is to return to the Central Plains, so after replenishing the water source and supplies, she is ready to set off immediately and continue her voyage, but before she leaves, envoys from various countries come one after another Goodbye.

After meeting these people, Ye Qingmei found out that they came to place new orders from Daqin, and what they bought were of course all kinds of equipment.

You must know that ordnance is a consumable, and the more intense the battle, the faster the consumption of ordnance.

Now that the Burmese civil war has started and is intensifying, I don’t know when it will end. Of course, countries need to buy more ordnance and stockpile it just in case.

The total number of orders placed by various countries in Myanmar can already equip 15 troops. This is a relatively big business. Naturally, Ye Qingmei has no reason to refuse, and made an appointment to make a deal when Daqin went to the West for the second time.

After the resupply was over, Ye Qingmei returned directly, and after another sail, the fleet arrived at Jiguang Port smoothly. When they docked to resupply, they learned that the capital of the Ayutthaya Kingdom had been captured by the Allied Forces of Eight Nations.

After hearing the news, Ye Qingmei felt very happy. The most disgusting people she met during this voyage were the king of Ayutthaya and the fourth prince. Now that Ayutthaya has been conquered, the Siamese Eight-Nation Alliance can be regarded as a She let out a bad breath.

Ye Qingmei originally thought that the Eight-Nation Allied Forces would take this opportunity to directly wipe out the big trouble of Ayutthaya, but the result was completely opposite to what she thought.

Not only did the Eight-Power Allied Forces fail to destroy Ayutthaya, but because of the unequal distribution of profits, internal strife broke out, and they fought violently. Ayutthaya, which was on the verge of extinction, survived miraculously.

This result made Ye Qingmei extremely speechless, but this is the choice of the Siamese countries, and she has no choice.

Knowing that Ye Qingmei had returned, the Siamese countries also sent envoys to Jiguang Port to seek an audience, and the purpose was naturally the same as that of the Burmese countries, all of which were to place new ordnance orders from Daqin.

The number of orders placed by the Siamese countries is also not small, a total of about 13 troops can be equipped, and Ye Qingmei naturally does not refuse anyone, and also agrees to trade on the second voyage to the West.

After leaving Siam, Ye Qingmei was far away from returning to Qingbei, leaving only the last transit point, Annan Qingmei Port.

When Ye Qingmei left Annan, there was no war in Annan, but when she returned, she did not expect that Annan was also fighting.

Ye Qingmei herself has some doubts, is she cursed, why does she hit wherever she goes?It's weird.

The war that took place in Annan was not a civil war. After all, with the threat of Chu State, the major forces in Annan did not dare to fight among themselves, and this time they were fighting against Chu State.

In the first year of Shenwu, on October [-], Lin Fengxiang, the prefect of Jiaozhi in Chu State, led five thousand Jiaozhou troops, and took the initiative to attack Annan.

The reason why Lin Fengxiang took the initiative to send troops to Annan is very simple, it is to grab money, people and resources.

The state of Chu is also cultivating, and wants to develop its internal affairs, but the treasury is tight, and Liu Xiu can't change the money, so he let the prefects of the counties figure out their own ways.

Although Lin Fengxiang was the prefect of a county, he was a military commander after all. In his opinion, robbing is the fastest way to make money.

Annan's [-]-thousand allied army was defeated by Chu's [-] Jiaozhou counties before. The Annan war captives captured by the Chu army were either used for mining or farming, but they created a lot of wealth for Chu.

Now that Lin Fengxiang's Jiaozhi County is short of money, the only quickest way he can think of to get money is to grab it from these Annan barbarians, so the nearby Annan forces will naturally suffer.

Annan's local forces, although they bought equipment from Daqin, are not much worse than Chu's in terms of equipment, but compared with Chu's army in terms of army training and formation, there is still a world of difference.

In the end, the [-] Jiaozhou Army led by Lin Fengxiang achieved a record of killing [-] enemies in the first battle, but their own casualties were less than [-].

Then, Lin Fengxiang directly wiped out a small power in Annan with lightning speed, grabbed a lot of wealth, and captured [-] Annan people, returning with a full load.

After hearing the news, Ruan Yue and other major forces in Annan were in a collective uproar. In shock and anger, they once again came up with the idea of ​​forming a coalition to avenge Chu.

After buying the equipment from Daqin, Annan's army has changed its guns, and its self-confidence has been unprecedentedly inflated.

Even if Lin Fengxiang led [-] troops and easily wiped out a local force in Annan, they also felt that it was because of Lin Fengxiang's sneak attack that the victory was invincible.

Under the leadership of Ruan Yue and Ruan Yue, the Annan Anti-Chu coalition army was established again. The major forces totaled 12 troops, and the troops were divided into two groups.

At the same time that Annan formed the coalition forces, major incidents also occurred in Chu State.

After Lin Fengxiang returned from victory, he seized a lot of Yanzhao-style weapons and equipment. He instinctively realized that something was wrong, so he reported the news to the governor's office, and the governor's office reported it to Liu Xiu, king of Chu.

After Liu Xiu learned about it, he immediately convened a group of ministers under his command to discuss. For a wild place like Annan, would there be weapons from the destroyed Yan Kingdom and Zhao Kingdom?

The state of Chu still has no shortage of capable people, and the military adviser Pang Tongtong saw at a glance that it was the state of Qin who sold these weapons to Annan through the navy, so as to turn waste into treasure.

Liu Xiu already knew that Qin's navy was able to sail across the sea, but he was able to sail across the waters of Qingzhou, Xu, Yang, and Jiaozhou, sailing all the way to the Annan area, and sailing all the way to the Annan area. Liu Xiu, and even everyone in Chu State expected it.

Since ancient times, the south ship and the north horse.

The Chu State Navy was the Neihu Navy, and later changed to the Yangtze River Navy, but even so, it still lacked the ability to sail.

And the Great Qin in the north not only has an elite navy, but can also sail to Annan. Is there anything more outrageous than this in the world?
The civil and military forces of the state of Chu are unwilling to accept that the Great Qin has surpassed the State of Chu in terms of naval forces, but at least in terms of shipbuilding technology, the Great Qin has far surpassed the State of Chu. This is beyond doubt.

Liu Xiu has always believed that Chu's only advantage over Qin is the natural danger of the Yangtze River and the navy.

Now Daqin's shipbuilding technology has far surpassed that of Chu State, and in terms of water warfare, warships are the most important factor.

Therefore, even if Chu's navy is stronger than Qin's, can Chu's water battle defeat Daqin when the warships are far behind?
This is obviously difficult.

Liu Xiu couldn't tolerate Chu's navy being inferior to Qin's, so he invested a lot of money in improving shipbuilding technology. He didn't want to surpass Daqin, but at least shortened the gap between them.

The improvement of shipbuilding technology is not achieved overnight.

With Liu Xiu's strong support, Chu's shipbuilding technology has indeed been greatly improved, and has the level of offshore navigation, but there is still a huge gap compared with Daqin.

Liu Xiu saw that the road of independent research and development would not work, so he wanted to steal Qin's shipbuilding technology by buying Qin's shipbuilders.

But it is a pity that the state of Qin has extremely strict control over shipbuilding. There is no shipbuilder who has mastered complete shipbuilding technology, and militarized management is implemented for shipbuilders.

Even if the state of Chu could buy people, it would be difficult to bring them back to the state of Chu. Even if they could bring people back, it would only be part of the technology, and it would still be unable to build a warship comparable to that of the Great Qin.

Although Chu State failed to obtain technology from Da Qin, it obtained it from Wu State. Although it is not as good as Da Qin, it is better than Chu State's own shipbuilding technology.

Liu Xiu saw that buying a shipbuilder was a no-go, so he came up with the idea of ​​capturing a Daqin warship and imitating it.

After having a sample of the ship, although it does not mean that Chu State can imitate it, the difficulty is definitely much easier than developing it yourself.

Liu Xiu didn't know why the Daqin Navy would come to Annan again, but since Daqin would sell abandoned ordnance to Annan once, he would definitely sell it a second time, and he just had to wait and see.

Chu’s navy is basically concentrated in the Yangtze River. The river between Jingnan and Jiaozhou is not open. Chu’s navy can’t go directly to Jiaozhou by water, and it can’t go to Jiaozhou from the Yangtze River to the sea. After all, it will pass through Wu, so it must be It will be intercepted by Wu Guoshui army.

Liu Xiu saw that the navy could not be transferred to Jiaozhou, so he appointed Gan Ning as the governor of the Jiaozhou navy, and asked him to take a large number of shipbuilders to Jiaozhou to build a shipyard in Jiaozhou to build warships, and recruited [-] sailors.

Isn't Liu Xiu excellent?Naturally excellent, but because of the limitations of the times, he, and even everyone in Chu State, focused their attention on Qin State's shipbuilding technology, but did not pay attention to Qin State's maritime trade.

Liu Xiu thought that Daqin sold weapons to the barbarians for waste utilization, or used the barbarians in Annan to contain Chu, and did not realize the huge profits of Daqin's maritime trade.

It was too late when Liu Xiu realized that Great Qin had already unified the Central Plains, and its soldiers were pointing directly at the south of the Yangtze River. All the energy of Chu State was used to defend against Great Qin, so there was no room left to divide the big cake of sea trade.

For Liu Xiu, the biggest opponent is Daqin. As for Annan's local power, he directly ignores it. There is no other reason, it is too weak and backward.

Even if the major forces in Annan had already bought weapons from Daqin, they still couldn't catch Liu Xiu's eyes.

From Liu Xiu's point of view, Chu State only needs to dispatch an army of [-] to [-], which is enough to sweep all the forces in the Annan area, but he never thought about occupying Annan.

Occupying Annan is easy, but direct governance and development are not easy.

That piece of land is still an undeveloped virgin forest, even the land of Jiaozhou in Chu State has not yet been fully developed, so what is there to do with such a barren land?
Although Liu Xiu never thought of occupying Annan, Annan's population and other resources are also a wealth for Chu State, so he agreed to Lin Fengxiang's sending troops to Annan.

As for the fact that the major forces in Annan formed a coalition and sent 12 troops to attack Jiaozhou, Liu Xiu naturally knew about it, but she still didn't care.

In Liu Xiu's view, relying on the [-] defenders in Jiaozhou, as well as Li Xiucheng, Lin Fengxiang, Li Kaifang and other generals, is enough to repel the Annan coalition forces.

To Liu Xiu's surprise, shortly thereafter, he received a request for help from Zhennan General Li Xiucheng.

Li Xiucheng would ask Liu Xiu for help, not because he was unsure of winning.

After the countries in Annan replaced their new equipment, their combat effectiveness is no longer what it used to be. In addition to the 12 troops, Li Xiucheng felt that even if he could win with the Jiaozhou Army, he would have to pay a considerable price, so he was cautious. , I hope that the domestic faction will always come to support the elite.

Liu Xiu felt that what Li Xiucheng said in the memorial was reasonable, so he appointed Guo Ziyi as the chief general and Chai Rong as the deputy general to command [-] elite Chu troops and go south to support Zhennan General Li Xiucheng.

Guo Ziyi and Chai Rong were very excited when they heard about it, and they had just joined them. However, they were newcomers and without any merit, they were entrusted with important tasks by Liu Xiu, so many soldiers in the Chu army refused to accept them.

Guo Ziyi and Chai Rong also want to make meritorious service to prove themselves, but Chu State is also in the process of self-cultivation, and has even carried out disarmament, so there is no war, and naturally there is no chance for the two to make meritorious service.

This time they led the army to Jiaozhou and supported Zhennan General Li Xiucheng. It was not only Guo Ziyi and Chai Rong's first battle after they voted for Chu, but also the best opportunity for them to make meritorious service to prove their abilities.

The only fly in the ointment is that the opponent is only Annan barbarians, even if they win this battle, the two of them will not have much sense of accomplishment.

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