warring states careerist

Chapter 897
Accompanied by the explosion sound of the last living Mohist on the Yuhuang igniting the gunpowder and dying on the ship, the Jiangkou water battle between the Mohist family and the Yue State came to an end.

This ship with an inauspicious name ended up with an unlucky ending, but the Mohists would definitely build another ship and name it Yuhuang.

The older man Xu Bi tried his best, but he only destroyed one of the Mohist buildings. He was unparalleled in bravery. Since the rise of the Mohism in Sishang, he was able to achieve a one-to-one exchange ratio in the early part of the battle, which is enough to be called the famous general of the princes of the world .

In this battle, the entire navy of the Yue State was destroyed. The main general Xu Que was killed, two building boats were captured, and four thousand oarsmen were captured.

The Mo family lost one building boat, forty small sailing boats, and more than three thousand people were killed or injured.

For the Mohists, sailors are easy to replenish, but oarsmen are not easy to replenish. The size of the Mohist fleet does not depend on how many ships or sailors there are, but on how many oarsmen.

Of the more than 4000 captured Yue paddlers, half were slaves, and half were impoverished people. Those who were not impoverished were unlikely to become paddlers.

Tired and hard, they are basically slaves and the most miserable serfs, but this is not a job that can be done in a short period of time, only long-term training can do it, so most of them are slaves.

The loss of the Mo family is very small compared to the foundation of the Mo family, and it has four thousand more oarsmen, which can be called a big victory.

After this battle, it was declared that from Poyang Lake to the mouth of the Yangtze River, there was no longer a navy capable of competing with the Mohist boat division, and the Mohist had already occupied the water control right from Poyang Lake to Jiujiang.

The only one in the world who can compete with the Mohist boat masters is the Chu state boat masters, but in terms of their numbers, they may not be stronger than the Yue state.

After this battle, in order to offer sacrifices to the soldiers who died fighting for the benefit of the world, the Mohists held a sacrificial activity, wrapped glutinous rice in leaves, cooked it and threw it into the river, praying that the fish and shrimp would not eat the corpses of those soldiers who died in battle, and because of sailing The tradition of boat warfare and the policy of recruiting sailors and oarsmen along the river have led to many rowing activities on this day.

This is a later story, let's not mention it for the time being.

After the First Battle of Jiangkou, King Yi of Yue committed suicide and was rumored to be in the position of Prince Wuyu.

Most of the aristocrats of the Yue Kingdom fled to Chu with gold, silver, pearls and jade.

The king of Yue asked to surrender without any remaining, and the Mohists set the bottom line of giving up their fiefs and all their powers, and they would not surrender without any remaining, and retreated into the land of Wu, and strictly guarded Kuaiji.

The Mohist climbed along the river and destroyed the shipbuilding workshops and ports of the Yue State.

At the end of May, a Mohist fleet went to Yongdong along the coast, built a fortress in Yongdong, and stockpiled grain. There were also five companies of private soldiers stationed there.

The country of Yue is facing a great enemy, and it is strictly guarded every day, and the soldiers are bitter and complaining.

At the beginning of June, the Jiexuan army marched west along the river from Guangling, even Kezhaoguan and Zongyang, stationed troops west of Zongyang, and built a new city.

At that time, there were many main forces in the Mohist army, and there were many famous generals, so it was named Jixian Pass.

Ships come and go in an endless stream, transporting food, grass and gunpowder.

Jixianguan is the Anqing of later generations.

Anqing, the place where Wu and Chu divide.

The danger of the Dabie Mountains in the north, and the swamps connected to Tongguo, where the Yangtze River makes a sharp turn, and there are sandbars in the middle, make Anqing the west gate of the Jianghuai Plain.

If Anqing is achieved, then Jianghuai can be defended, and Jiangnan can be settled.

The Mohists quickly organized a water transport to transport [-] large-caliber iron cannons. The weight of these iron cannons was much heavier than that of copper cannons due to the level of iron casting, and they were not suitable for field battles, so they were used for the defense of Jixian Pass.

Combat engineers built cities and built forts here, so that iron cannons can control the Yangtze River waterway.

However, Jixian Pass cannot reach the Jianghuai River along the river; if Jixian Pass is not broken, the Dabie Mountains and the Yangtze River will be used as the city, making it impossible for Chu to look after each other.

To the north of Jixianguan and to the north of Zongyang, there is a large swamp lake area, which is the Xizi Lake and Caizi Lake in later generations, and the Tongzi Kingdom is located across the lake.

Tong Guo is Huai Yi, and Yi Di is the son, so Tong Guo is the Viscount State.Sandwiched between Wu and Chu, he was eliminated because he participated in the battle of Wu and Chu by mistake.

After Yue destroyed Wu, Tongzi Kingdom was surrendered to Yue. Tongzi Kingdom was originally a closed and impoverished place, but with the development of industry and commerce in Sishang in recent years, tung oil was urgently needed, which made the economy of this tung oil producing area quite developed, although it was still based on raw materials. Mainly, but in the past few years, it has also opened up business channels, and the theory of Mohism has been widely spread here.

To be released, the Xuan army built Jixian Pass, went north with five hundred soldiers, and Tongcheng surrendered in anticipation of the wind, not daring to fight.

So far, the land in the north of the country of Yue belongs to the Mohist.

Lingyang, a land in the south of the Yangtze River, is an important copper mine. There are many local miners and many slaves. The Mohists rioted again, occupying Lingyang, building a city, and forming horns with Zongyang in the north of the Yangtze River.

A large number of cadres entered Lingyang, and the boats transported grain and copper mines. The production resumed in less than half a month, and the country of Yue dared not attack.

In July, Jixian Pass was built and the fort was ready.

The Mohists declared war on Chu in Sishang, and publicly disseminated the policy program after the capture of Chu in the future.

The world was shocked.

A full-scale mobilization was carried out in Sishang, and various laws and regulations began to control.

Afterwards, 3 people from Huaibei Sishang of the Mohists moved west along the Huaihe River along the Huaihe River, using the grain hoarded in the Hongze Lake area as logistical supplies, and Zhongli surrendered without a fight.

In mid-July, the Huaishui Legion occupied Xiacai and Shouchun along the Huaihe River, attacked the city with heavy artillery, the defenders surrendered, and the local lord was captured.

At that time, the harvest was about to be harvested, and the Mohists immediately sent cadres to announce the land reform, and all the land to be harvested was allocated to the local people according to the population, and the people cheered and cheered.

This place is not the old land of Chu State. Chu State just captured this place 50 years ago and forced Marquis Cai to migrate to the south of the Yangtze River.

In the same month, the main force of the Jiexuan army of Jixian Pass went north along Tongzi Kingdom and captured Luzhou, later known as Hefei.

The two armies joined forces in the south of Shouchun.

So far, south of the Huaihe River and east of Tongbai Mountain in the Dabie Mountains, only Shenxi's remaining divisions in Chu State can stand up to the battle.

But because of the reputation of the Mohists in field battles these years, Shen Xi's division did not dare to attack, so they could only pray to the Mohists not to attack.

The Mohists sent civilians to build reservations in Shouchun and Xiacai, and the warships gathered, making Xiacai and Shouchun the horns of each other.

Xiacai is in the north of the Huaihe River, and Shouchun is in the south of the Huaihe River. They are connected by boat divisions, just like the defense of Xiangfan in later generations.Accumulate soil and rocks, and deploy defenses to prevent the Chu people from counterattacking.

At the beginning of August, the Jiexuan army gathered at Jixian Pass again, advancing by land and water.

In the middle of the month, they attacked the country of Aihou and occupied Poyi.

Poyi, the Hukou County of later generations.

In the war between Wu and Chu in the past, when the king of Chu heard that Wu had captured Poyi, he immediately gave up the capital and fled.But this time Chu State didn't even respond, because of the sudden attack method of Mojia, Chu State neither thought that Mojia would send troops to attack Chu, nor did it have such a high degree of organization that it could be assembled within two months.

By the end of August, the Mohists had strengthened the defense of Poyi, blocked the mouth of Poyang Lake, and occupied the north bank of Jiujiang in later generations, where the boatmen gathered.

Now in the direction of the Huaihe River, the Mohist captured Shouchun Xiacai, Hefei, and Zhaoguan, leaving only the Chu State in the Huaihe River direction with Shenxi's divisions available, relying on several cities at the foot of the Dabie Mountains for support.

In the direction of the Yangtze River, taking advantage of the flood coming, which is not suitable for water warfare, they captured Jiujiang along the valley plain on the north bank of the Yangtze River.

Now Eyi and Zhuyi, the important towns of Yunmeng in Chu State, are in danger, which is the area of ​​Hankou and Huanggang in later generations.

It was the last line of defense in the Jianghan Plain of Chu State. If Zhuyi was breached, the entire Jianghan Plain would be like a prostitute in the army with its arms open, and there was no danger to defend.

If Wuhan is broken, Jingzhou must be broken, and Jingzhou is the capital of Chu State at this time, and it is also the place where the most elite Jianghan Plain of Chu State is located.

To the north of Wuhan is Tang State and Sui State. At this time, there is a dual system of counties and states. Suiguo also rescued the king of Chu.

Up along the Dabie Mountains is Xinyang, which is an important town in the upper reaches of the Huaihe River, such as Shen, Xi, and Qisi, where the teachers of Shen Xi of Chu State are located.

Therefore, Eyi and Zhucheng are the best places for Chu to choose a strategic decisive battle.

Of course, you can also choose not to fight and continue to retreat, which means preparing to move the capital, because once you pass Wuhan, there will be nothing beneficial to the defender in the entire Jianghan Plain.

The king of Chu has nowhere to go. After all, Sichuan is not part of Chu at this time. If he abandons Wuhan, he can only go to Gaocai to go into exile.

If they can fight in Wuhan, the two armies build fortifications to resist the Mohist offensive, delay time, and wait for the reactions of other countries, Chu may still have the power to fight.

It can not only mobilize troops from the capital, Jianghan and other places to gather in Wuhan; it can also mobilize Shenxi's division to go down the mountain to support Wuhan.

At the same time, the Jianghan area, as an important agricultural area of ​​the Chu State, can also provide a steady stream of logistical supplies and support the long-term operations of the large army.

Anqing is the gate for Jianghan to attack Jianghuai; Wuhan is the gate for Jianghuai to attack Jianghan.

Time is also quite unfavorable for Chu State. The Mohists avoided the flood season. It is now the end of August, and the winter that is very suitable for land warfare is coming soon. Chu State has no other choice but to choose a decisive battle.

A decisive battle does not necessarily require a melee battle on the battlefield. You can also choose to build a fortress in Zhuyi and wait for the opportunity.

The key to this is the victory or defeat of the water battle. If the water battle wins, then the Chu State can connect the Jiangnan and Jiangbei to each other as horns, transport food and grass, and build fortifications.If the battle is defeated, then all logistics can only be transported by land, which will greatly increase the pressure, and with the cooperation of the water army, the Mohists may find it difficult to hold Zhuyi.

At the beginning of September, less than a company of Mohist cavalry circled around Zhuyi. The Chu people closed the city gates tightly and did not dare to go out to fight.

Many nobles fled to the west by car, and the cities to the east of Zhuyi have become cities without jurisdiction.

When the autumn rains came, the Mohists lived temporarily in the north of Jiujiang, hoarding food, grass and gunpowder, repairing the fleet, organizing harvesting, and carrying out land reform.

Chu State also took this opportunity to wake up from the panic, and the Mo family also dug a trap and waited for the Chu people.

Shen Gong thought that the main force of the Mohists was on the river bank, so he sent a division to try to go down the Huai River, but was wiped out by the main force of the Mohism waiting there like a lion fighting a rabbit. Waiting for the Chu army in the north to gather.

E Jun also immediately dispatched his own fleet, assembled the soldiers of the fief, and gathered towards Zhu City, which is the Xinzhou District of Wuhan in later generations, and began to excavate earth and rocks to build fortifications.

The Chu army in the Jianghan area also began to gather and move towards this side. Shenxi's division also sent the main force to the south. Chu State began to hoard food and grass to prepare for a long-term confrontation.

(End of this chapter)