In mid-September, the Chu king and his ministers finally made the final decision, and the King of Chu personally led the royal army to build a fortification along the river in Zhucheng, and ordered the Yin to live in Chu capital to allocate logistics supplies.

The Grand Sima rushed to Fangcheng to hunt Fangcheng, Luyang, and Xu's troops arrived in Chen Cai and threatened Si Shang, hoping that later generations of the plan to siege Wei and save Zhao to force the Mo family to return to help.

He sent envoys out of Qin, Wei, Han and Qi to invite the princes to save them, and to bribe them to the city and towns without hesitation.

This time, the ministers of Chu State learned from the experience and lessons of the Battle of Wu and Chu. In the Battle of Wu and Chu, Zuo Sima faced the Wu army and suggested that he move the troops of Fangcheng, go around to the side and cut off his retreat, so that the Yin of the Ling was holding on the front and not act rashly.

As a result, it is well known that in order to fight for the attack, Yin did not defend and attack first, he was defeated by Wu Zixu, and the State of Chu almost destroyed his country.

This time, facing the attack from the Mo family, the Chu nobles knew that if they were defeated by the Mo family, they would really be destroyed. This is a matter of their family descendants, and there is no question of whether to fight or not.

This is the only means that Chu State can use now.

It took longer to expect Fangcheng and other places to gather troops to go south to support it, and it would take longer for soldiers from Fangcheng Luyang and Xu to go to Chen Cai to contact the princes to threaten the flanks.

At the same time, the autumn rain period has passed, and the main force of the Mo family has begun to go up the river. The forward has arrived in Xishui and built a city on the east bank of Xishui.

The situation here is complicated, and there are also many Ba people who are dissatisfied with the Chu people. After the Chu King destroyed a Ba man, he drove some of the Ba people to move to the Dabie Mountains. These Ba people moved upstream of Xishui, and the local vassal kings would also send people to the places where the Ba people live to capture slaves.

Crossing the river Xishui River is the important copper mining area of ​​the Chu State. The mining area is a place where there are many riots, and this has always been the case.

Ejun, Zhu Gong and others here also built a fortification and camping in Bashui, west of Xishui. The two armies camped at the farthest distance were thirty miles apart.

From Xishui to Bashui and to the river where Wucheng is located, it is 18% off. Because of the effect of the erosion of sandbanks, it is not suitable for water wars.

After the main force of the Mo family arrived in Xishui, they built camps along the river. Because they avoided the flood season, the river surface became very narrow.

The Jiexuan Army built a fortress at the entrance of Xishui River, which was equipped with copper cannons to monitor the river surface. A brigade was sent to move into the sandbank, and also set up camps to control the water surface.

The main force of the Chu army camped west of the Bashui River, but it was not only the east of the Bashui River that we should guard against.

The Mohist school was good at circling the back, sneak attacks, interspersed, and encircled them. This was shown in the battle of alignment, so the Chu people had to be careful.

Bashui is not a natural danger, but if you want to break through, you must first choose to win the Yangtze River Battle. However, most of the Chu boats are here, and the number of boats is not lower than that of the Mo family's boats, especially the Mo family's boats, are not suitable for fighting here. Moreover, the water flows here, and the Chu people are in the upper reaches, so the advantage is great.

The Ba River is facing north, and there is a mountainous area, and the passes there cannot be easily broken through. However, the Mo family has occupied Huainan and there are still many reinforcements from the Mo family. King and Chu ministers of Chu were worried that the Mo family would surround the back, so they asked Shen Gong to lead the army to station in Jiuzi Kingdom to prevent flanking.

Jiuzi Kingdom, a small country descended from Huaiyi, was located in remote and in the Dabie Mountains, so the Chu Kingdom was not destroyed and the county was established. In addition, there were migrant Ba people and other Wushui barbarians in the local area, so this small country of Huaiyi could exist, and it was a place where birds could not shit.

However, if the Jiexuan Army sent troops to Jiuzi Kingdom north, they could bypass the Bashui defense line of Chu from the side, so they had to be guarded.

On the south bank of the Yangtze River, there is the Dayeshan copper mine of Chu, which is also the fief of Ejun. Therefore, it is necessary to defend. This is not a problem for the King of Chu, but it still needs to defend it for Ejun.

Although the Chu State mobilized a large number of manpower and military forces, because it had to defend everywhere, there were only about 50,000 field troops facing each other, as well as a large number of recruited peasants, civilians, baggage, etc.

Times have changed. In the past, when two armies made a battle to fight for chariots and decided to win and lose in half a day, this kind of war model of defending the city and mountains has already appeared. The number far exceeded the number of troops in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the strategic fronts that were as wide as dozens of miles were wide. These Chu countries were not familiar with them.

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

In early October, the Chu people once again recruited civilians, strengthened the defense line, and transported food.

The Jiexuan Army also began to build camps at some peaks between the two rivers and began to repair the roads for transporting copper cannons. The light cavalry controlled the plains between the two rivers and drove away the scouts of the Chu State.

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

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

The most secure tactic was to wait for the surprise troops to enter Xiangyang, and to join Nanzheng and Yunmeng's troops, and wait for the South China Sea to break through Linwu and go down the Xiangjiang River, thus forming a trend of ambushing on all sides and winning.

But Liu Fingers conceived another battle tactic that might be a battle of annihilation from the scout's reconnaissance situation.

The Mo family's Zhou Shi is related to the entire Jianghuai logistics, so after defeating the Yue Kingdom Navy, try to avoid the decisive battle without the Zhou Shi. If it can be solved by the army, use the army to solve it.

Once the Zhou army fails and the logistics is cut off, the Chu people can not only go down the river, but also contact Yue people.

The Mo family was not unprepared for this, so they deployed iron cannons to build turrets in Pengze, Anqing and other places to prevent the failure of the Zhou army, the Chu navy cut off the Yangtze River, and the Yue country's threat, which was equivalent to non-existent because the navy was completely destroyed, would come alive.

Moreover, if the decisive battle between the Zhouzheng here is extremely unfavorable to the Mo family. One is that the water flows fast and the Mo family is in the downstream; the other is that the wind direction is the golden wind, and the wind power is also unfavorable to the Mo family.

If the boat army can defeat the Chu people and the Zhou army, then the Bashui defense line built by the King of Chu and a group of nobles can be pulled down in one go.

But if the failure is done, it means that the Mohist school has given up its water control rights and must retreat east of Poyang Lake to barely gain a foothold to ensure logistics supply.

But if you rely on the army, the Bashui River is not a moat and it is not so easy to cross. You must also be wary of the support of the Chu State's Zhou Division.

But the Jie Xuan Army is actually at the end of its strength. It is too far from the rear and cannot withstand too much loss of battles. It also has to leave a hand in the future to divide the troops to Huainan.

In addition, the way of using troops is consistent and strange, and Liufing cannot place all hope on Nanzheng, Yunmeng and that surprise soldier.

Just as both sides were staring at Bashui and Xishui, Liuzhi turned his attention to Jiangnan.

On the Xishui sandbank, the Mohist family has deployed a fort on the sandbank with the opportunity of the end of the flood season, which can be said to have controlled the Yangtze River under the Xishui.

After crossing the river for only a few dozen miles, the Daye Mountain Copper Mine was very familiar with the Mo family. One was that there were many miners who escaped in Si Shang, and the other was that the Mo family had some mining machinery gradually adopted in Daye Mountain.

Although this is from Chu, Chu owes Mohist money to pay for copper, and the Mohist needs a lot of copper, so it does not prevent the Mohist from helping Chu improve the excavation and smelting technology of Daye Mountain.

If possible, the Mohist school only needs a brigade to control the Daye Mountain Copper Mine. This kind of industrial and mining land where people gather is simply a hotbed for the spread and development of the Mohist theory. It is like thick hair that is used to lice. Compared with the theory that dispersed farmers and the theory that has certain damage to the interests of farmers, this is naturally the hardest hit area of ​​the Mohist propaganda.

To the north of Daye Mountain is the important town of E, the Chu State Jiangnan. It was the fief of Ejun, and there were not many people guarding it.

After passing Echeng, it was a large swamp, which was also the reason why the Chu State did not set up defenses in the south of the Yangtze River. Even if the Mo family took over the land of Hubei, they could not avoid the lake area, which was connected to the Great Swamp Yunmeng. The waves were vast and could not fall into the sea. The Mo family's boat master could not grow wings to bypass the Chu people from the river and flew into the Great Swamp.

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

The sandbank divides the Yangtze River waterway into the north and south sides. Now when the water is dry, the width of the south side is only more than 400 steps, and the width of the north side is only more than 200 steps.

Liu Finger found the place where the life gate of Chu State was almost instantly, which was the sandbank dozens of miles west.

Since the boat master is a treasure that cannot fail, why do you have to use a boat to defeat the Chu State's boat master?

Who said that the army cannot annihilate the navy?

If the main force is forward, use the mountains between the two rivers as a building camp, the main force will reach the east bank of Bashui, and deploy artillery on the east bank to build boat beams.

If the main force of the Chu people choose to cross the river and fight in the field, although this is basically impossible, even if they cross the river and fight in the field, the Chu people will not be able to win.

If the main force of the Chu people continues to learn from the west of the Bashui River where the turtle is, and builds a fortress along the river and waits for half a cross to attack, then the main force of the Jiexuan Army can deploy and launch a decisive battle by the river and make a good move to cross the river at any time.

The Zhou army was dispatched, as if they wanted to cooperate with the army's decisive battle, and all the Zhou army that lured the Chu people to concentrate on this area of ​​about twenty-mile long river. It would not be possible to gather. If the Zhou army could not control the Yangtze River, the Mo family could easily break through the Bashui defense line. Once the Chu people's Zhou army's main force gathered on this area of ​​twenty-mile long river, an elite force would be sent to the south of the Yangtze River.

They marched day and night to attack the sandbanks. After controlling the sandbanks, they immediately prepared defenses. The subsequent civilians would continuously transport a large number of heavy artillery originally used for river defense deployment to the sandbanks, where they built a fortress and trapped the Chu Navy on this twenty-mile river surface.

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

If the Chu people choose not to rescue and instead attack to seek a glimmer of hope, they will turn off attack to defend, guard the mountains, build up the mountains, Xishui and the downstream sandbanks, break through Eyi and Daye Mountains, continue to confront each other, calmly mobilize troops and rely on the army to intersect and encircle backwards, cut off the food route, and capture Zhucheng.

The main force of the sailboat is needed to take a port and solve the huge logistical pressure. The boatman trapped on the twenty-mile river is not the boatman, but a fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered.

Once the main force of the Chu State's land war was defeated, these boat troops either surrendered or sank themselves, and had no other way out. Once the Chu State's boat troops were destroyed, and if the Mo family's boat troops were still there, then Liuzhi felt that as long as the battle was finished, they could immediately divide 20,000 troops to return to Huainan, and the Chu State would be destroyed.
Chapter completed!