I am a nobleman in Spring and Autumn

When faced with opportunistic opportunities, the vast majority of people will not refuse, and are even willing to do everything they can.

This is just like people's fluke psychology. Simply put, it is a kind of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages.

Chu State now wants to divide the north and south from Yuan State?They just picked up the past from a long time ago and tried it with a fluke mentality. It seems that some wise Chu people knew that it was impossible. They didn't object or even agree, they just wanted to delay the time.

Of course, it is impossible for Zhiyao to accept the situation of dividing the north and the south. The initial refusal, and later hesitation, is also a strategic attempt, and it would be great if it can mislead the high-level officials of Chu State.

The original country still has spare power.

The state of Chu was not at the end of its rope.

It is estimated that the two countries will fight and talk in the future. The battlefield should be in the territory of Song Dynasty?
"The widow thinks that we can't delay any longer, and we need to destroy Chu State within three years!" How could Zhiyao fail to notice that Chu State is trying its best to buy time?
According to Yuan State's plan, it would attract the Chu army to continue northward and enter Song State, and then seek to annihilate most of them.

Now Chu State's actions to buy time are too obvious, which indicates that there will be major changes within Chu State.

Based on the principle that if the enemy wants to complete it, he should try his best to destroy it, Zhiyao thinks that the plan needs to be changed.

Of course, the plan to eliminate more Chu troops remains the same, what has changed is the advance of the plan to attack Chu.

"The general returns to the country and calls the ruler to come." Zhi Yao looked at Zhi Xu Wu and gave the order.

During the country-to-country negotiations, King Ning of Chu, who killed the emperor, was not there, and even Ling Yin Zhaogu did not appear.

Zhiyao was present on Yuanguo's side in person, so it was difficult to have detours during the negotiation process, and it was almost as if what was agreed upon became the result.

That does not work!

It's not a matter of too much difference in identity, it's just that it will make the original country more passive.

Negotiation?How can there be a head of state from the beginning.

Zhiyao has asked Chu State Order Yin Zhaogu to come over.

But, since the king of the original country is here, maybe King Ning of Chu will come?
Zhiyao thinks that the chance of Chu Wangning coming is too small. One of the reasons is that the internal instability of Chu State makes Chu Wangning dare not leave the capital easily.

"Your Majesty, the news has been passed on. I think people who came to Song Dynasty will spread it widely when they hear about it." Cheng Shuo's recent operation is to spread the news that Chu State is in contact with Yuan State, emphasizing that Chu State will sell Song State.

The time has come to the late winter of the year, and spring will usher in more than two months.

It's a pity that the surface of the Suishui River did not freeze over, otherwise the original army would not have been stationed on the north bank and would have searched for a section of the river with thicker ice to cross the river.

Cheng Shuo talked about something else, and said, "'Quuqiu' really found Chu's navy, and there are a lot of them."

The "Dog Hill" is hundreds of miles away from the Suishui River section of "Shangqiu", and it is in the middle and lower reaches of the Suishui River.

The flow of the Suishui river is not fast, and the river surface is not too wide. The widest part of the river is about 400 meters, and the narrowest part is only about [-] meters. In fact, it is really not suitable for large-scale water battles.

Zhiyao asked with an inexplicable expression: "Chu's navy entered Sui from Surabaya?"

Sui River and Surabaya River are connected, but the section where they meet is nearly [-] miles away from "Shangqiu".

If you can sail from Suishui to Surabaya, it means that you can sail the entire river section of more than 600 miles, and then you can enter Huai River from Surabaya without any problem.

It is true that Sui River really connects to Surabaya, from Surabaya to Huai River, Huai River has an outlet to the sea, so can it also enter the inland river from the sea through the outlet of Huai River?

Cheng Shuo was a little confused.

Zhiyao thought of the canal dug by Wu Wang Fucha, which leads directly to the Huai River.

The main goal of Wu Wang Fuchai's canal digging was to go north to fight for hegemony, and many cities were built along the way.

Wu Guo had such an idea in the past, and it would definitely not be lost for nothing.

After Yue State destroyed Wu State, they restarted the canal project, and completed the canal that was almost completed without spending too much national power.

At present, there is an original army led by Sima Rangju to attack the territory of Yue State north of Dajiang. People here to verify.

Zhiyao called Zhiheng in and ordered: "You leave for Huainan immediately, and ask General Rangju to cooperate in finding someone who is familiar with the conditions of the Huaishui River, and personally investigate whether the river section can pass."

Zhiheng didn't know the cause and effect, he understood that all he needed to do was complete the task, he said "No!" and went down to prepare, and he set off on the same day.

Of course, the original army stationed on the north bank of Sui River was not just Wodong. Apart from collecting the available boats on the north bank of Sui River, a large number of auxiliary soldiers were cutting down trees, and craftsmen were rushing to make boats.

The boats in the Suishui River section were conscripted by Chu State and Song State first, and there were not many left for the original army to requisition.

Collecting materials and making boats caused a lot of noise, and they didn't avoid the Chu-Song coalition forces at all. The formation was that the original army would continue to move south.

During the long wait, Qu Huai would come to Yuanjun's side on a mission every three days, during which there was even an episode where Song Junluan wrote a letter to Zhiyao.

Qu Huai frequently ran to the original army, and he must have the goal of spying on the military situation. The more he watched and the more information he returned, the more nervous the Chu-Song coalition army would feel.

The original army builds boats. In the beginning, it took ten days to launch a boat. After a month, as many as ten boats were launched every day, and the number of boats was even more. The speed is really amazing.

The reason why it seems slow at the beginning is purely that collecting materials slows down the speed of manufacturing boats. Waiting for enough materials to accumulate, the speed of processing increases, and the speed of manufacturing will definitely increase.This is not only due to the variety of tools in the original country, but also to the efficiency of the assembly line production.

Seeing the number of boats of the original army increasing day by day, the allied army of Chu and Song became more and more worried. They were deeply afraid that the original army would start crossing the river tomorrow.

Under this kind of worry, the Chu State Navy, which was originally located in "Dog Hill", began to act.

On this day, a former army came to the top of the hill opposite the Suishui River section of "Guqiu".

Each of them is either carrying a bow or carrying a crossbow, and even the figure of the bed crossbow can be seen on the top of the mountain.

Below the mountain is the section of the Suishui River, and on the opposite side is the mountain wall.

Therefore, the names of Zhuxia are really not random. Once a place name has "Qiu" or "Daishan" next to it, the place must be a mountainous place.

Zhiyao was also on the mountain, watching the Chu State navy that was approaching from the lower reaches of the Sui River, and found that those ships had no mast design at all, and all sailed by manpower oars.

How else can we say that Chu, Wu, and Yue all imitated each other on the ships of the navy?The core may be different, but the appearance is basically the same.

Zhiyao had seen the warships of the Yue Kingdom in "Langya", and boarded the ship for various observations, so the evaluation can only be said to be very bad.

However, it was the early days of the Warring States period after all, and it was actually quite impressive to be able to build a ship with a length of about 27.6 meters and a width of about 3.68 meters, which was still a two-story structure.

On the side of Europa at the same time, Western Europe, Northern Europe, and Central Europe are still drinking their blood. The only things they can play with are small boats less than three meters long and about one meter wide.

The Greek city-states were very successful in shipbuilding. Their ship design idea was a twelve-to-one ratio of length and width, that is, 12 meters long and only one meter wide.A general warship is about 37 meters long and only about three meters wide. The ship is a flat-bottomed boat, but the cabin has three floors.

The main reason why the Greeks played with warship design ideas was that the waves in the Mediterranean Sea were not too big, and the shipbuilding ideas were similar to those of Zhuxia in the Western Han Dynasty, and the hulls on the horizontal line were relatively high.

On the contrary, the First Persian Empire was ahead of all civilizations in terms of ship manufacturing technology, and at one time even built a super battleship close to [-] meters in length.It is their shipbuilding technology that is ahead of the Greek city-states, and it is the first Persian empire that has repeatedly invaded Greece.

The difference between the ships made in ancient Greece and Persia and Zhu Xia's side is that their warships have two kinds of power: sails and oars.

"There are 32 large wings, 78 middle wings, and more than [-] small wings." Zhi Yao patiently counted them one by one.

Ships of this size were definitely not temporarily built by the Chu State in a certain section of the Suishui River. They did not have that kind of time, and neither the Yue State nor the Song State would allow it.

Zhiyao is almost certain that the Huai River is indeed navigable, especially that it can enter Surabaya, and then enter Sui River via Surabaya.

"Many sections of the river in later generations can't be used by boats at all, and even the canal can't be used if it hasn't been dredged for several years..." Zhiyao found it quite strange.

Why is that?In fact, it is directly related to the change of the environment.

In the current era, there are forests everywhere, and a large number of river beaches have not been turned into farmland. Naturally, there is no problem of soil erosion.

Later generations will become like that, mainly because the river carries too much soil, and with repeated flow and sedimentation, the river bed will definitely become shallower and shallower.

It is also related to the amount of rainfall. As the rainfall in the upper reaches decreases, the water level will inevitably become lower and lower. Some river sections will simply decrease in width again and again. How can boats sail?
"Your Majesty?"

Zhiyao withdrew her gaze, knowing that she should hide her figure.

There are original troops on several mountains to the north of this section of the river. They have been stationed for six days in order to wait for the arrival of the Chu State Navy, and they cannot and should not be wasted due to some omissions.

As for why he knew that there was a Chu State navy coming?The Yuan army already knew where the Chu State navy was stationed, so how could it not have sent spies to spy on them all the time, and found that the Chu State navy must be heading north when they left the station.

That is, the boats manufactured locally by the Yuan State are about to take shape, which will inevitably attract the Chu State's navy. If the Chu State's navy does not come, we are still waiting for the number of ships available in the Yuan State to increase again and again?
Therefore, the Chu State Navy will definitely think about the temporary advantage in scale and destroy the increasing number of original ships as soon as possible.

The Yuan army grasped the state of Chu's psychology, and got a report in advance, how could it be worthy of the cooperation of the Chu state's navy if they didn't lay an ambush.

When the Chu State Navy entered the ambush section of the river, the crossbowmen of the original army did not shoot arrows immediately.

Chu's navy was going upstream, and if they attacked too early, the oarsmen would be able to reverse where they were, and with the help of the current, it was very easy to escape.

The original army should wait patiently and seize the best opportunity to launch an attack.

Zhiyao was just a spectator, and had no intention of giving any orders unless necessary.

After most of the ships of the Chu State Navy entered the range of the archers of the original army, some boats and wooden rafts suddenly floated down the upper stream, and there were burning fires on them.

Those boats and rafts had just been released from the shore, and the fire had only just been lit.

Because of the kerosene, the fire on the boat and raft quickly became powerful, and they went straight down the current, and all the Chu soldiers who saw them shouted loudly.

"put!"

The password was issued, and there was a series of bangs.

The sound of "Fang" and the sound of clappers reverberated in the river section surrounded by mountain walls, which shocked the Chu army on the warship to look up.

At the same time that Chu State's navy raised its head, dense arrows were fired from the north bank of Suishui River. The first few waves were still regular arrows, and the latter ones turned into rockets. During this period, bed crossbows were also fired.

Suddenly encountering an ambush, and burning boats and wooden rafts floated down from the upstream, the Chu warship sailing in the front was the first to be attacked, but the Chu warship in the back row was the one that suffered the most long-range attacks from the former army on the shore.

Under Zhiyao's gaze, as many as a dozen ropes were pulled up from the bottom of the river, and they would be tied to the tree trunks on both banks as intercepting ropes.

In fact, the conditions are not enough, otherwise it is more appropriate to use iron cables to avoid being burned by fire.

The arrows shot from the north bank of the Sui River were very dense, it was a nightmare for warships without walls, soldiers from Chu State kept shooting arrows into the water, and the warships that lost too many sailors simply lost control. The collision between them further exacerbated the confusion.

"Having entered the Warring States period, why are the generals of Chu still so ignorant of the lesson?" Zhiyao said that he did not send scouts to investigate rigorously.

This is a mistake to blame Chu's navy general.They sent scouts, but the mountain here is difficult to climb from the east, and the road after going up the mountain is not easy.

In addition, the Chu-Song coalition forces were in a hurry.

Once everything is too eager, it will inevitably lead to omissions. Some things that can be guaranteed to be done with care will be full of mistakes and omissions in a hurry.

Sun Tzu has a saying that is very correct: Soldiers, the great affairs of the country, the place of life and death, the way of survival, must be observed!

With the cooperation of Wu Zixu and Sun Wu, the state of Chu was beaten so badly, who can be blamed for being able to "remember eating but not beating".

The warships on the river continued to collide, and the fire continued to spread, and was soon shrouded in thick smoke.

The original army on the mountain couldn't see the situation of the river below, and they kept shooting arrows without enough arrows, but the bed crossbows stopped firing.

The production of bed crossbow arrows is much more difficult than that of ordinary crossbow arrows, and it must be saved if it can be saved.

Facts have proved that the hemp rope is really unreliable. Fortunately, the original army prepared enough quantities. Otherwise, it would have been cut by the soldiers who entered the water from the Chu army, or it would have been burnt.

However, more than a dozen hemp ropes blocking the river were only delayed for about two quarters of an hour. After they were all found, some Chu warships managed to escape from the fire scene, and escaped from the Shura field in an extremely embarrassing manner.

This is not the first time that Chu's water army has been ambushed, nor is it the first time it has been attacked by fire. The Wu State's water army has also played like this before.

"The fish in Sui Shui this year will definitely be very fat!" Zhiyao expressed her feelings when the battle was not over.