With the explosion of the last alive Mohist on the Yuhuang igniting gunpowder to sacrifice the ship, the war between the Mohist and Yue Kingdom ended.

This unlucky building ship ended up with an unlucky ending, but I think the Mo family will build another building ship and name it Yu Huang.

The Yue Dafu Xu Fu tried his best to destroy a Mo family's tower ship. He was extremely brave. Since the Mo family rose to Si, he was able to achieve one-to-one exchange ratio in the early local battles, which was enough to be known as the famous general of the princes of the times.

In this battle, the entire army of the Yue Kingdom's navy was destroyed. The main general Xu Feng was killed, two tower ships were captured, and four thousand oarsmen were captured.

The Mohist family lost a building ship, forty small sailboats, and more than 3,000 people were killed or injured.

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

Half of the more than 4,000 captured paddlers from Yue Kingdom were slaves and half were poor people. It is unlikely that they would become paddlers if they were not poor people.

They are tired and hard, and they are basically slaves and the most bitter serfs. But this is not a short-term job, only long-term training can be done, so slaves are mostly used.

The losses of the Mohist family are very small compared to the Mohist family, and there are another 4,000 paddlers, which can be said to be a great victory.

After this battle, it was declared that from Poyang Lake to the estuary of the Yangtze River, there was no naval army that could compete with the Mo family's boat troops. The Mo family had occupied the water control power from Poyang Lake to Jiujiang.

The only one in the world who can compete with the Mo family's boat troops is the Chu State, but in terms of its number, it may not be stronger than the Yue State.

After this battle, in order to worship the soldiers who died in battle for the benefit of the world, the Mohist family held a memorial service, wrapping glutinous rice in leaves and boiling it into the river water to pray that the fish and shrimp should not eat the bodies of the fallen soldiers and soldiers. Because of the tradition of sailing and paddling warfare and the policy of recruiting sailors and paddlers along the river, there are many paddle boat racing activities on this day.

This is a later story, so I won't mention it for now.

After the end of the Battle of Jiangkou, King Yi of Yue committed suicide and was reported to be located in Gongzi Wuyu.

Most of the nobles of Yue Kingdom ran away from Chu with gold, silver, pearls and jade.

King Wuyu of Yue asked for surrender. The Mo family took the abandonment of fiefdom and all power as the bottom line. Wuyu refused to surrender, retreated to Wu and strictly guarded Kuaiji.

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

At the end of May, a fleet of Mohists landed on the coast and built fortresses in Yongdong, and accumulated grain. Five other companies of private troops stationed, often landed onshore and raided near Kuaiji and burned port ships.

The country of Yue is like a great enemy, and it is strictly guarded every day, and the soldiers are all resentful.

In early June, Jiexuan's army headed west from Guangling along the river, conquered Zhaoguan and Tongyang, stationed troops west of Tongyang, and built a new city.

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

Ships traveled in an endless stream, transporting food, grass, gunpowder.

Jixian Pass is the Anqing period in later generations.

Anqing, the place where Wu and Chu are divided.

There is a dangerous Dabie Mountains in the north, and there is a swamp connected to Tong Kingdom. The Yangtze River turns sharply here and there is a sandbank in the middle, making Anqing the western gate of the Jianghuai Plain.

If you have Anqing, then the Jianghuai River can be defended and the Jiangnan can be settled.

The Mohist school quickly organized water transportation and transported twenty large-caliber iron cannons. The weight of these cannons is much heavier than that of copper cannons due to their iron casting level and is not suitable for field combat, so they are used for Jixian Pass defense.

The combat engineers built cities here and built turrets so that iron cannons could control the Yangtze River waterway.

However, Jixian Pass cannot reach the Jianghuai River along the river; if Jixian Pass does not break, Dabie Mountains are used as the city and the Yangtze River is used as the city, so that the head and tail of Chu cannot be taken care of each other.

There is a large swamp lake area heading north to Jixian Pass and Tongyang to north, which is the Xizi Lake and Caizi Lake of later generations. When crossing the lake, it is the location of Tongzi Country.

Tong Kingdom was the Huaiyi, and all the barbarians were sons. Tong Kingdom was the viscount country. It was sandwiched between Wu and Chu, and was destroyed because of his mistake in taking the team in the battle between Wu and Chu.

Later, Yue destroyed Wu, and Tongzi Kingdom surrendered to Yue. Tongzi Kingdom was originally a closed and poor place, but with the development of Sishang's industry and commerce in recent years, the economy of this tung oil production area has developed quite well. Although it is still mainly based on raw materials, it has also been well-connected in trade routes in recent years, and the Mohist theory has been widely circulated here.

After the Jiexuan army built Jixian Pass, five hundred soldiers headed north, Tongcheng was looking at the wind and descending, and he dared not fight.

At this point, all the places in the north of the Yue Kingdom belong to the Mohist school.

Lingyang, a land in the south of the Yangtze River, is an important copper mine. There are many local miners and many slaves. The Mo family rioted again, occupied Lingyang, built cities, and supported each other with Tongyang in the north of the Yangtze River.

A large number of cadres entered Lingyang, and ships transported grain and copper mines to and from time to time. In less than half a month, the Yue Kingdom did not dare to attack.

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

The Mohist family declared war against Chu on Si, and publicly spread the policy program after the future capture of Chu.

The world was shocked.

Si Shang carried out a comprehensive mobilization and various laws began to be controlled.

Subsequently, 30,000 people from Mohist families in Huaibei Si walked along the Huai River, using the grain stockpiled in Hongze Lake District as logistics supplies, and advanced west along the Huai River. Zhongli surrendered without fighting, and the people took pots of slurry to welcome the benevolent and righteous army.

In mid-July, the Huai River Army occupied Cai and Shouchun along the Huai River, and attacked the city with heavy artillery. The defenders surrendered, and the local vassal was captured.

At that time, the harvest was about to be achieved, and the Mohist school immediately sent cadres to announce land reform. All the land that was about to be harvested was distributed to the local people according to the population, and the people cheered and cheered.

This place is not the old land of Chu. Fifty years ago, the Chu State had just captured this place and forced Cai to move to the south of the Yangtze River. The people had no feelings for Chu State, but they knew that their vassals occupied more land and gave more usury.

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

The two armies met south of Shouchun.

At this point, the only army of Yu Shenxi in the Chu State could be able to fight to the south of the Huai River and east of Tongbai Mountain in the Dabie Mountains.

However, because of the reputation of Mohism in the past few years, Shen Xi's army did not dare to attack, so they could only pray to the Mohism not to attack.

The Mohist family sent civil servants to build and preserve the construction in Shouchun and Xia Cai. The warships gathered, making Xia Cai and Shouchun support each other.

Xia Cai is north of the Huai River, and Shouchun is south of the Huai River, connected by boat troops, just like the Xiangfan defense in later generations. It accumulates soil and stones, and deploys defenses to prevent the Chu people from counterattacking.

In early August, the Jiexuan Army gathered again at Jixian Pass and advanced along the water and land.

In the middle of the month, he captured Aihou Kingdom and occupied Poyi.

Poyi is Hukou County in later generations.

In the battle of Wu and Chu in the past, the King of Chu immediately gave up the capital and fled after hearing that the Wu Kingdom had captured Poyi. But this time, the Chu Kingdom had not even responded because of the sudden attack methods used by the Mo family. The Chu Kingdom neither expected that the Mo family would send troops to attack Chu, nor that the organization could be assembled within two months.

By the end of August, the Mohist family had strengthened the defense of Poyi, blocked the mouth of Poyang Lake, and occupied the north bank of Jiujiang in later generations, where boat troops gathered here.

Now, in the direction of the Huaihe River, the Mohists have captured Xia Cai, Hefei and Zhaoguan in Shouchun, leaving only the Shenxi army left in the Chu State in the entire Huaihe River, relying on several cities at the foot of the Dabie Mountains to support it.

In the direction of the Yangtze River, taking advantage of the opportunity that floods are not suitable for water war, we will conquer Jiujiang along the river valley plain on the north bank of the Yangtze River.

Nowadays, Eyi, an important Yunmeng town in Chu State, is in danger, which is the area around Hankou and Huanggang in later generations.

There is the last line of defense in the Jianghan Plain of Chu State. If the Zhuyi is destroyed, then the entire Jianghan Plain will be open like a camp prostitute in the army and will have no danger to defend.

If Wuhan is destroyed, Jingzhou will be destroyed. Jingzhou is the capital of Chu at this time, and it is also the most exquisite Jianghan Plain in Chu.

The north of Wuhan is Tang State and Sui State. At this time, it is still a dual system of county and state. Sui State saved the King of Chu. Although Tang State was wrong in taking the team back then, it was still not a place that Chu State could directly govern.

Going up along the Dabie Mountains is Xinyang, which is the important towns in the upper reaches of the Huai River such as Shen, Xi, Qisi, etc.

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

Of course, you can also choose not to fight and continue to retreat, which means you are preparing to move the capital, because once you pass Wuhan, there is no favorable area for the entire Jianghan Plain to the defense.

The King of Chu had no way to retreat. After all, Sichuan was not from Chu at this time. If you give up Wuhan, you can only run to Gao Cai and go into exile.

If the two armies could fight in Wuhan, and the two armies could build a fortress to resist the Mo family's offensive, delay time, and wait for various countries to react, the Chu State might have the power to fight.

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

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

Anqing is the gateway to the Jianghan attack the Jianghuai River; Wuhan is the gateway to the Jianghuai River attack the Jianghan.

Time is also quite unfavorable to the State of Chu. The Mo family avoided the flood season. It is now the end of August, and it is about to be in winter that is very suitable for land warfare. The State of Chu has no other way except to choose a decisive battle.

The decisive battle may not necessarily involve setting up a melee on the battlefield. You can also choose to build a base in Zhuyi to defend the death, and not be able to leave and wait for an opportunity.

The key to this is the victory or defeat of the water battle. If the water battle is won, the Chu State can connect the south and north of the Yangtze River to form a supporter, transport food and grass, and build a fortification. If the battle is defeated, then all the logistics can only be transported by land, which will greatly increase the pressure, and with the cooperation of the Mohist army, the Mohist family may not be able to defend it.

In early September, less than a company of Mo family cavalry went around near Zhuyi. The Chu people closed the city gates and did not dare to fight. The cavalrymen showed off their power and returned calmly, but did not dare to leave the city along the way.

Many nobles fled west by car, and Zhucheng east of Zhuyi has become an unattended city.

When autumn rain comes, the Mohist family temporarily lives north of Jiujiang, stocking up food, grass and gunpowder, repairing the fleet, organizing harvesting, and carrying out land reform.

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

Shen Gong thought that the main forces of the Mo family were all on the bank of the river, so he sent a division to test down the Huai River. He was completely wiped out by the main forces of the Mo family waiting there with the power of fighting against the rabbit. At this point, Shenxi's army did not dare to try and could only wait for the Chu army in the north to assemble.

E Jun immediately sent his own fleet to assemble the soldiers from the fiefdom, gathered towards the Xinzhou District of Zhucheng, which is later Wuhan, and began to dig soil and stone to build a fortification.
Chapter completed!