A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 160 Retreat
The migration of tens of thousands of people is a huge project. Fortunately, there are Huai army protection along the way. Before the migration, Wenzhong has already set up strongholds along the way. There is a stronghold within 10 miles, and the common people can stay in it. rest.

Not all of these people will migrate to Huai Country, but from Yingdu all the way to the east, a distance of about five or six hundred miles, to the area east of the Dabie Mountains and west of the nest.

This is the land of Chu State that Huai State had just annexed. The rulers of Chu State who dared to resist were killed directly, and those who surrendered were relocated to the land of Wuyue in Huai State.

After two generations of people built water conservancy facilities in the land of Wuyue, it has changed from a barren land to a land of fish and rice.There are fewer people and more land here, and a large population needs to be filled.

Wang Qi forcibly moved these Chu people to the land of Wuyue.At the same time, in order to prevent the local powerful families from growing stronger, Wang Qi forcibly split up the powerful families near Huai'an and moved them to the land of Wuyue and the newly acquired land of Chu State.

Through this method of vacating the cage and changing the bird, Wang Qi restricted the expansion of the local wealthy family, and at the same time moved away the original nobles and nobles in Chu. After a few minutes of rotation, this piece of Chu land was also controlled by Huai State.

And those Qingshi families in Chu State also had no ability to control the grassroots after being relocated and divided.

It only needs to wait a few more years, and this place will be completely controlled by the Huai country, and it will improve the materials and manpower for the Huai country.

Sun Wu, Wu Zixu, and Qingji led an army of [-] to the north, and the Qin and Chu allied forces met at Yanling, and then the army went south.

The 20 allied forces of Qin and Chu were mighty, and the Huai army waited for work with leisure. The two armies met in Jushui.

Seeing Qin Chu's 20 troops, Sun Wu was not afraid, but eager to try.Next, the armies of both sides launched a series of battles around Jushui.

The main force of the Huai army, 5000 people crossed the Jushui River, and then lined up against the water. The other 5000 people crossed the Jushui River eastward, bypassing the flanks of the Qin-Chu coalition forces.

Shangqing Zipu of the Qin State was very surprised to see the Huai army lining up against the water.

"Huaiguo knows that we have 20 people, but they only sent 5000 people, so they don't pay attention to us!" Zihu looked at the Huai army who was standing behind the water, very angry.

"Is there any fraud in Huai country's formation?" Shangqing Zipu was very puzzled.So the coach of Chu State was invited over.But the coach of the Chu State has never seen such a formation.

After all, it was more than a hundred years ago when the Huai State used the Queyue Formation to defeat the Jin State's coalition forces, and the Jin State would not tell their opponents how they were defeated.

Therefore, neither the Chu State nor the Qin State did not know this battle formation.

"There are only 5000 people left and right, and the army charged and pushed them directly into the river!" Zihu said.

Immediately, Zihu personally led an army of [-] to attack. As a result, instead of pushing the Huai army into the river, the [-] Qin army suffered heavy losses, and even Zihu was killed in the battle.

Seeing the defeat of the army, the Qin and Chu coalition forces were taken aback. The Huai army took the opportunity to counterattack, and the Qin army was defeated.

At the same time, Wu Zixu, who had already circled to the flank of the Qin-Chu coalition army, immediately ordered the army to attack, and [-] troops attacked the Chu army from the flank.

The Chu army was originally not elite, and it consisted of many civilians. It is not bad to be able to list the army formation. As a result, under the impact of the Huai army, the army formation collapsed, and tens of thousands of troops were directly defeated.

The defeated army panicked, and was driven by the Huai army to attack the army formation. For a while, the Chu army's central army was shaken, and the Huai army took advantage of the situation to attack.

The Qin-Chu coalition forces retreated for [-] miles, and the two armies suffered heavy losses. Since then, they dare not fight the Huai army in the field, but stick to the city.

The Huai country came from afar, because after the migration consumed a lot of supplies, the supplies of the Huai country's army needed to be transported thousands of miles by water.

The Qin and Chu countries began to confront Huai State by virtue of their military superiority, and then let the princes of Chu State rebel.

These lords are also at a critical moment of life and death, and they all desperately support Chu State.After changing the war strategy, although Qin State and Chu State were still not the opponents of Huai State, they also began to narrow the gap between the two.In fact, this is also their helpless performance.

After all, the Huai State has limited troops and cannot divide too many troops, otherwise it is easy to be forcibly besieged by the concentrated superior forces of the Qin-Chu coalition forces.

Sun Wu could see the plan of Qin and Chu, which was to compare consumption with Huai country.After seeing through their purpose, Sun Wu planned to accept it as soon as it was good.

Wang Qi was very satisfied with this battle. He had already gained a lot of benefits last time, and Yingdu was almost evacuated by Huaiguo.The Huai army continued to stay here in order to help the evacuated people delay the time.

After the confrontation between the Huai State and the Qin-Chu Allied Forces, there was no further battle between the two sides.As Chu State continued to recruit soldiers, Huai State also began to retreat a little bit.

After the news of Wenzhong came, most of the migrating Chu people had left, and the rest of Chu couldn't catch up, so Sun Wu, Wu Zixu and Qingji led their troops to leave.

Without the containment of the Huai army, the Qin-Chu coalition forces quickly regained Yingdu, but after the Chu army entered Yingdu, the city with a population of more than 10 people turned out to be very deserted.

Yingdu was empty, the people had almost disappeared, and the defeat of King Chu made Chu Kingdom a joke.The capital of Ying was destroyed, and the state of Chu had no time to evacuate. Too many nobles were arrested and killed.

Seeing the few people in the city, the King of Chu shook his body and felt his head spin and he fell to the ground.

The accumulation of the Chu State for a hundred years can be said to be lost in one dynasty.

After regaining the capital of Ying, Chu State's food and grass began to suffer.Raising food and grass has also been much slower.The Qin-Chu Allied Forces saw a large number of Chu people flee, and the entire Han River Plain almost lost more than half of its population.When the Huai State was evacuating, it moved a large number of people. The Chu army wanted to pursue them, but found that there was not enough food and grass.

The strength of the Chu State has been greatly reduced. Even if Yingdu and the Hanhui Plain were regained, the loss of its strength is serious, and it is no longer a concern.The Qin State was also unable to support itself, so it had to give up pursuing the Huai State.

Sun Wu commanded the army to leave Chu and return to Huai.

In this battle, the strategy has been achieved, Chu State suffered heavy losses, and Chu State will have to recuperate in the next 20 years.

Chu State regained its land, but the area east of the Dabie Mountains became the territory of Huai State. Chu State could only temporarily accept it, and wanted to wait until its strength recovered before trying again.

The capital of Ying was evacuated by the Huai state. Although the state of Chu regained the capital of Ying, it did not dare to continue to build a capital here, so the king of Chu ordered to move to the northwest.The original Yingdu was directly abandoned by Chu State.

After migrating to the northwest, the state of Chu re-established its capital and continued to call it Yingdu.

(End of this chapter)