warring states careerist

Chapter 900 Zheng Qi
In mid-September, the king and ministers of the Chu Kingdom finally made the final decision. The Prince of Chu's commander, Wang Shiqin, went to Zhu City to build a fortification along the river, and ordered Yin Ju to deploy logistics supplies in the capital of Chu.

Da Sima rushed to Fangcheng to recruit soldiers from Fangcheng, Luyang, and Xu, stationed in Chencai, and threatened Sishang, hoping to force the Mohist family to return to help with the strategy of besieging Wei and saving Zhao in the future.

Send envoys out of Qin, Wei, Han, and Qi to make arrangements with the princes to rescue them, and they will not be stingy with bribing cities.

This time, all the ministers of the Chu State learned the experience and lessons of the Wu-Chu battle. In the Wu-Chu battle, Zuo Sima faced the Wu army and suggested that he move the soldiers of Fangcheng himself, go around to the side and cut off the back road, so that Ling Yin could stand in the front Don't act rashly.

As we all know, in order to fight for the offensive, Yin did not defend and attack first, but was defeated by Wu Zixu, and the state of Chu almost fell.

Facing the attack of the Mohist this time, the nobles of the Chu State still knew in their hearts that if they really lost to the Mohist, they would really die. up.

This is the only method Chu State can use now.

Counting on Fangcheng and other places to gather troops to go south for support, it will take longer than the soldiers from Fangcheng, Luyang, Xu and other places to go to Chen and Cai to contact the princes to threaten the flank.

At the same time, the autumn rain period had passed, and the main force of the Mohists began to move up the river. The vanguard had arrived at Xishui and built a city on the east bank of Xishui.

The situation here is complicated, and there are still many Ba people who are dissatisfied with the Chu people. After the king of Chu wiped out a Baman, some Ba people were forced to migrate to the Dabie Mountains. They will also send people to the places where the Ba people live to capture slaves.

Crossing the Xishui River is Daye Mountain, an important copper mining area in Chu State. The mining area is also a place where there are many riots, and it has always been like this.

E Jun, Zhu Gong, etc. who were here also fortified and camped at Bashui, west of Xishui, and the distance between the two armies' camps was [-] li at most.

The section of the river from Xishui to Bashui to Zhucheng has many twists and turns. Because of the effect of the sandbar washed away, it is not suitable for water warfare.

After the main force of the Mohists arrived at Xishui, they built fortifications along the river. Because the flood season was avoided, the river became very narrow.

The Xiexuan army built a fort at the mouth of the Xishui River, equipped with bronze cannons to monitor the river, and sent a brigade to live on the sandbar, and also set up camps to control the water.

The main force of the Chu army camped west of Bashui, but it was not just east of Bashui that had to be guarded.

The Mohists are good at going around, sneaking, interspersing, and outflanking, which was demonstrated in the first battle of Qi, so the Chu people had to guard against it.

Bashui is not a natural danger, but if you want to break through, you must first choose to win the Yangtze River water battle. However, there are mostly small boats in Chu State here, and the number is not lower than that of the Mohist boat masters, especially the big boats of the Mohist boat masters. It is not suitable for fighting here, and the water here is turbulent, and the Chu people are upstream, so they have a great advantage.

To the north of Bashui is a mountainous area, where there is a pass, and it is not easy to break through.But the Mohists had already occupied Huainan, and there were still a lot of Mohist reinforcements. The king of Chu, Chuchen, was worried that the Mohistry would retreat, so he let Shen Gong lead the army to station in the country of Jiuzi to prevent flanking.

Jiuzi Kingdom, a small country descended from Huaiyi, is located in the Dabie Mountains because of its remote location, so it was established as a county because Chu Kingdom was not destroyed.In addition, there are migratory Ba people and other waterless barbarians in the local area, so this small country of Huaiyi can exist, and it is a place where birds don't shit.

However, if the Jiexuan army sent troops northward to Jiuzi State, it would be able to bypass Chu State's Bashui defense line from the side, so it had to be guarded against.

On the south bank of the Yangtze River, there is the Dayeshan Copper Mine in Chu State, and it is also the fief of Lord E, so it must also be defended.This may not be guarded by King Chu, but it is still necessary for Lord E.

Although Chu State mobilized a lot of manpower and troops, but because it had to defend everywhere, only about [-] field divisions were confronted head-on, and there were also a large number of conscripted farmers, soldiers, civilian husbands, and luggage.

Times have changed. In the past, the era when the two armies agreed to fight in chariots for half a day to decide the outcome has passed. This kind of war mode that relies on cities and mountains to defend to the death has already appeared.The number of troops far exceeds the number of troops in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the strategic front as wide as dozens of miles, these Chu countries are not yet familiar with.

At the end of September, the two sides had built camps, and the main force had arrived one after another, and some small-scale battles broke out.

At the beginning of October, the Chu people again recruited civilian husbands to strengthen the defense line and transport food.

The Jiexuan army also began to build camps on some mountain peaks between the two rivers, and began to repair the roads for transporting copper cannons. The light cavalry controlled the plain between the two rivers and drove away the Chu scouts.

The boat division tried to get close to Bashui, and some small-scale battles broke out between the two sides to test each other, and the main force of the Chu army's boat division gathered.

In the Xishui camp, the military meeting was held again.

Originally, the safest tactic was to wait for the surprise soldiers to enter Xiangyang, join forces with Nanzheng and Yunmeng's divisions, and wait for the South China Sea to break Linwu and go down the Xiangjiang River, thus forming an ambush on all sides and winning.

But Liuzhi conceived another battle tactic that might lead to a battle of annihilation from the scout's reconnaissance situation.

The Mohists' boat divisions are related to the logistics of the entire Jianghuai River, so after defeating the Yue State Navy, try to avoid a decisive battle with the boat divisions, and use the army to solve the problem if it can be solved by the army.

Once the boat division fails and the logistics are cut off, the Chu people can not only go down the river, but also contact the Yue people.

It’s not that the Mohists were unprepared for this, so they deployed iron cannons to build forts in Pengze, Anqing and other places, in order to prevent that once the navy of Chu State failed to cut off the Yangtze River, the Yue State would be equivalent to the destruction of the navy. The non-existent rear threat comes alive.

And it would be extremely detrimental to the Mo family if the boat division decisive battle is held here.One is that the water flow is turbulent, and the Mohists are downstream; the other is that the wind direction is the golden wind, and the wind force is also unfavorable to the Mohists.

If the boat master can defeat the Chu people's boat master, then the Bashui defense line built by the king of Chu and a group of nobles can be defeated in one go.

But if it fails, it means that the Mohists have given up the right to control water, and they must retreat to the east of Poyang Lake to gain a firm foothold and ensure logistical supplies.

But if you rely on the army, Bashui is not a moat, and it is not so easy to cross by force, and you have to guard against the support of Chu's boat division.

However, the Jiexuan army was already at the end of its strength, it was too far away from the rear, and could not withstand a battle with too many losses, and had to reserve a hand for the future division of troops to Huainan.

Coupled with the fact that the way of using soldiers is just and strange, it is impossible for Liuzhi to pin all his hopes on Nanzheng, Yunmeng and that strange soldier.

Just when both sides were staring at the area between Bashui and Xishui, Liuzhi turned his attention to Jiangnan.

On the Xishui sandbar, the Mohists took advantage of the end of the flood season to deploy forts on the sandbar, which can be said to control the Yangtze River under the Xishui.

Only a few dozen miles across the river is the Dayeshan Copper Mine, where the Mo family is very familiar. One is that there are many miners who escaped in Sishang, and the other is that the Mo family made some mining machinery in Daye. Mountains were gradually adopted.

Although it belonged to Chu State, Chu State needed copper to pay for the money owed to the Mohist family, and the Mohist family needed a lot of copper, so it did not prevent the Mohist family from helping Chu State improve the excavation and smelting technology of Daye Mountain.

If possible, the Mohists can control the Dayeshan Copper Mine with only one traveler. This kind of industrial and mining site where people gather is simply a hotbed for the spread and development of the Mohist theory, just like thick hair for lice. Compared with those scattered Farmers and theories that have certain damage to the interests of farmers, this is naturally the hardest hit area preached by Mohism.

To the north of Daye Mountain is Edi, an important town in the south of the Chu Kingdom. It is the fiefdom of Lord E, and there are not many people guarding it.

After Echeng, there is a large swamp, which is the reason why Chu State did not set up defenses in the south of the Yangtze River. Even if the Mohists took Edi, they would not be able to avoid the lake area, where Daze Yunmeng Connected, the waves are vast, no less than the sea, and it is impossible for the boat masters of the Mohist to grow wings and fly around the Chu people from the river and fly into the Daze.

However, the scouts reported that ten miles above the mouth of Bashui, the Yangtze River also had a huge bend there, and because of the bend, there was also a sandbar there.

The sandbar divides the Yangtze River waterway into north and south sides. Now when the water is dry, the width of the south side is only more than [-] steps, and the width of the north side is only more than [-] steps.

Liuzhi found the vital gate of Chu State almost immediately, which was the sandbar dozens of miles to the west.

Since the boat master is a treasure and cannot fail, why must a boat be used to defeat the boat master of Chu?
Who said the army can't annihilate the navy?
If the main force is moved forward, the mountains between the two rivers will be used as a fortified camp, and the main force will reach the east bank of Bashui, deploy artillery on the east bank, and build a boat beam.

If the main force of the Chu people chooses to cross the river for a field battle, although this is basically impossible, even if the Chu people cross the river for a field battle, it is impossible for the Chu people to win.

If the main force of the Chu people continues to follow the example of the tortoise to the west of Bashui and build fortifications along the river and wait for the half-crossing, then the main force of the unhung army can be deployed by the river, ready for a decisive battle across the river at any time.

The boat division was dispatched, as if to cooperate with the army in a decisive battle, luring all the Chu people's boat division to concentrate on this section of the river about [-] miles long - it would not work without gathering, if the boat division could not control the Yangtze River, the Mohists could easily break through Bashui Line of Defense——Once the main force of the Chu people's boat division is assembled on this twenty-mile-long river, an elite team will be dispatched to the south of the Yangtze River immediately.

Use day and night to march straight to the sandbar, and immediately make defensive preparations after controlling the sandbar. The follow-up civilians will continue to transport a large number of heavy artillery originally used for river defense deployment to the sandbar, build a fort there, and trap the Chu navy here. On the river for twenty miles.

If the Chu people choose to return to the division for rescue, the main force will take the opportunity to cross the river.

If the Chu people choose not to rescue, but instead attack to seek a chance of life, they will switch from offense to defense, guard the fortifications in the mountains, the Xishui River, and the sandbars downstream, break through Eyi and Daye Mountains, continue to confront each other, and calmly mobilize troops to rely on the army to move forward. Later, they interspersed and outflanked, cut off the grain road, and captured Zhucheng.

The sailors, who are the main force of the sailing boats, need a port and need to solve the huge logistical pressure. The sailors trapped on the Ershili River are not sailors, but fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered.

The main force of Chu's land battle was defeated. These boats either surrendered or sank, and there was no other way out.Once Chu's boat masters were destroyed, and if Mo's boat masters were still there, then Liuzhi felt that as soon as this battle was over, [-] troops could be sent back to Huainan, and Chu would be destroyed.

Lured by righteousness and attacked by surprise, Liuzhi felt that if everything went well, he might have to fight a real, possibly biggest battle of annihilation so far.

(End of this chapter)