"It is better to retreat quickly! Only by retreating, the Mo family's army will be difficult to sustain due to lack of food and grass. To defeat the Mo family, it must have the help of the princes. It is probably difficult to rely solely on the power of the Chu State."

Just now, Zuo Sima, who was thinking about rescuing Shen Gong and strengthening the left army to cut off the route of Mojia crossing the river and returning to the river in order to siege the Mojia to the west of the Bashui River, immediately reversed his attitude.

Shen Gong was destroyed too quickly, and they couldn't bear it.

The reality that is even more terrifying than the destruction of Shen Gong is that if the Mohist family could destroy Shen Gong so quickly, what should they do if they sent an army to raid the city of Zhu? Who can defend it?

If the army can fight in the field, if it can win, it will have been field battle long ago.

What I thought before was nothing more than gathering the field to fight the Mohists, so I defended here to build a base, delayed time, and prompted various countries to send troops, and also allowed the princes in Nanyang, Huaibei to gather troops to surround Si to save Ying.

However, now it seems that this strategy cannot be implemented.

Seeing that everyone was silent, Zuo Sima said, "When I saw the Mo family rushing forward, I often thought that they were afraid that they would be difficult to break through the camp, or that they would be afraid that they would lose too much after breaking through Bashui."

"It seems that this is not the case now. I am afraid that the reason they do not attack is just to completely destroy us."

"The trapped Zhou army is to prevent us from retreating to the defense of Yingdu, Jingshan. The purpose is to achieve our goal and immediately cross the Bashui River to siege Shen Gong's army, and not allow the two armies to reconcile."

"I'm afraid that the Mo family's plan is great, so they want the king and my ministers of Chu to destroy them here! The Mo family is going to fight the country to destroy the country!"

Now that things have come to this point, the situation is clearer.

This is one time, another time.

At that time, when the Mo family had just arrived at Poyi, the King of Chu could escape, but the cost of escaping at that time was too high.

Apart from the war of destroying the country by Wu and Yue, there has been no war of destroying the country among the great powers of the princes for a long time. The inherent thinking of the Spring and Autumn Period made it difficult for them to imagine the war between Le Yi and Qi in history for several months, and even more difficult to imagine large-scale wars such as Qin's destruction of Yan and Ying.

At that time, although the Mo family slogan was shouted loudly, the Chu monarch and ministers estimated that the Mo family would only win a big victory at most, forcing the Chu State to reform or lose their hearts and want to destroy the huge Chu State.

At that time, the King of Chu was worried about the future monarchy, the nobles were worried about their fiefdoms, and the monarchs and ministers were worried that the Mo family occupied Jianghan and then created another Si Shang in a few years.

So at that time, if the King of Chu wanted to fight, he would at least stick to E and Zhu, use the big separation, the small separation as the city, and the Yangtze River as the pool. Build a building to defend in a narrow space, which would always delay for a period of time.

I never thought that the Mo family had such a great ambitions that not only wanted to defeat the King of Chu, but also prepared not to give the King of Chu a chance to regroup.

The trapped Zhoushi thought that the Mo family thought that crossing the river along the sandbank from Jiangnan could bypass the Chu army, but they didn't want to care about the Chu army camp in Jiangbei at all. They only care about the Chu army's boat army, and they wanted to destroy the last connecting force that could resist with the Jianghan terrain.

After the Zhou Master was trapped, the Mo family showed their fangs: We were just Bashui before, not afraid of your camps and defenses, but just worried that you would run away. Now you no longer have the chance to run away, so naturally we can spend Bashui and find an opportunity to wipe out you.

The south of the city of Zhu is adjacent to the Yangtze River and the north is Dabie. In the south of the Yangtze River, there is only one Daye and one Echeng. Further south, it is still a wild place, with the barbarians in Dongting.

If Zhucheng is stolen, the Chu army will be trapped in this narrow place, with logistics cut off, and even if the Mo family is trapped, they can be trapped to death.

The Mo family was good at siegeing cities, which was the impression left on the princes for thirty years, because those who were good at defending cities would be good at siegeing cities. The Gongshu Ban's methods of siegeing cities were restrained by Mozi one by one. If Mozi had no intention of attacking but was determined to attack the city, who could defend it?

When Mozi passed away and the power of the Mo family and the right to explain the non-attack were reached, the princes realized this: the only ones that restricted the Mo family from attacking the city were actually their former non-attacking meaning.

Can Zhucheng be defended?

After the defeat of the State of Yue and Si Shang, Chu focused all its energy on the northern Central Plains. After being beaten by the Three Jins, there was a change of Chen and Cai and had to continue to strengthen the defense of the Central Plains. The subsequent changes of Song and Zheng made it impossible for Chu to place a large amount of financial and material resources in the direction of Jianghuai.

In the battle of Dangshan, everyone in the world knew that the defense system like Dangshan might block the Mo family. At least Dangshan supported it for many days. Moreover, because Dangshan was too close to the core area of ​​Sishang, the Mo family could concentrate the entire Sishang's strength and use tens of thousands of kilograms of gunpowder to capture it. In other words, if the city of Dangshan was like Xiucheng, as long as it was too far from Sishang, it could last for at least three or five months.

But when they really started to cultivate, all countries realized that cities and towns were not so easy to cultivate.

Stone, earthwork, bronze cannons, professional scholars who are proficient in geometry, a large amount of labor and huge expenditures. This is a heavy burden for the military and political system that integrates peasants and soldiers.

People were full of grievances, and when famine came, they had to save money to buy firearms, cotton cloth and weapons. There were many rumors that the Emperor of Zhou had bribed the Nine Cauldrons and minted the money. The King of Chu wished that his ancestors would really snatch the Nine Cauldrons back.

Zhucheng does not have such qualifications to build such a defense system, and everything is always in sequence. Even the capital of Chu State is too large, so it can only build the inner city appropriately.

With the combat effectiveness of the Mo family defeating Shen Gong's army within an hour, this monster who had dominated the world for more than 30 years told Xiong Liangfu, who had been busy with the coup before and had not really had contact with the Mo family, was afraid that Zhucheng would not be able to defend it.

Zuo Sima's words expressed the voices of some loyal people who were loyal to the emperor, but also made some nobles with fiefs in Jianghan angry and opposed them.

The fiefdom has its own ancestors, and this is the second.

What is important is that the nobles who have no fiefdom will gradually become marginal in Chu State, and at least the family cannot be continued.

The Chu State Order Yin has only been a real outsider so far. What is the ending? Where is his family now? And which of the big clans with real fiefdoms is not the evergreen vine of the political situation of Chu State?

If a country like Wu attacked, it would sooner or later be restored. But if the Mo family conquered Jianghan and followed the policies of the Si Shang place, even if they regained their fiefdom in the future, they would probably have to slaughter at least one-fifth of the people on the fiefdom to continue to maintain their rule.

Many people don’t want to leave or retreat, and they all think they should think of another way.

The silent Mr. E said sadly at this time: "If you want to retreat, you should retreat when the Mo family entered Poyi that day. At that time, you have to fight if you don't retreat, but you really have to retreat again and again. Let it be like reed grass and follow the wind. How can you do it?"

"If you want to retreat, you will retreat on the same day and you can still gather troops. Now you will not fight, and you will not retreat, which will delay the opportunity to fight..."

Zuo Sima said coldly: "This is a bad word. I did not retreat in the past because I still had the power of a battle, so I might not be defeated. If I retreat at that time, I would suffer great losses after weighing the pros and cons. If I retreat today, I can still survive and stay in the clan to wait for the future."

"Now the elite of the Mohist school are dozens of miles away, and there has been no news of the besieging Si Shang. There are also rumors that the Mohist school has sent troops from the South China Sea to attack Linwu Jiujiu and Shun Xiang River."

"There are only 60,000 or 70,000 soldiers who can fight today. I thought they could win the field battle. But I asked you, Mr. Shen is also a man who knows the soldiers. When they fight at the battle, who can defeat Mr. Shen within one hour?"

"Seven years ago, the Mo family just sent cavalry to help fight in Yinyang. No one knew what the infantry did not fight for seven years. Some people said that if they don't fight for a long time, their soldiers would be declining. Now it seems that this statement is not credible. Not only has it not been declining, but it is more courageous."

Xuchengjun stood up and wanted to refute Zuo Sima's words. King Chu said: "There is no need to argue about this matter, so it is better to retreat quickly. When Duke Shen is destroyed, the army is terrified and it is difficult to hold on. If he does not retreat, he may suffer a great disaster."

The King of Chu thought to himself, I was not as good as my ancestors during the Battle of Wu and Chu. The Wu people attacked me and ran away. I had been persisting for so long, but I really couldn't fight this battle. What if I didn't return it?

Seeing that the Chu people had decided to leave, the Fengjun never spoke again.

After all, if you retreat, someone will always need to cut off the rear. If you refute it at this time, you will definitely be the one who cut off the rear.

Whether to defend the city of Zhu or take the initiative to intercept the main force of the Mo family, this is a path of death. Now it is a bronze cannon and musket, and if you are not careful, you may be killed. Besides, being caught by the Mo family is not treated with courtesy, but it is said that you will be judged by the untouchables, which is a great humiliation.

Since this is the case, naturally no one is willing to stand up and be the one who has left behind.

The King of Chu did not mention this matter at this time, but said, "If you want to retreat, you need to burn the warships. Burn all warships, don't leave them to the Mo family."

"The grains in the camp must also be burned. All the boat soldiers and oarsmen went ashore and retreated."

The King of Chu was still sober. The Mo family's boat troops were still a little worse than the three armies on the land. If these warships fell into the hands of the Mo family, the Chu State would basically have no hope of restoring the country.

This retreat does not mean that you can just retreat a few cities.

Instead, you must retreat from Zhucheng to Suiguo, then retreat from Suiguo to Yanying, and continue to retreat from Yanying to Wancheng before you can gain a foothold.

Otherwise, you will always be under the pursuit of the Mo family. If you take a step slower, you may be stopped and you will be finished.

The northeast of Suiguo is Tongbai Mountain, where there is no cannon, so in the end, he had to run towards Xiangyang and escape from where to north.

After passing Yanying, it was not the south. The people there were not good at taking boats, so they had to take away the soldiers of the Zhouzheng as much as possible.

Not everyone can fight on a boat, and not everyone can be a paddler. All tower boats and sailboats can be built, but the paddlers and sailors are not so easy to train.

If there were no navy, even if there were changes in the world in the future, it would be difficult to conquer Jianghan.

Things have reached this point, and I am afraid that this is the only way. I retreated from Zhucheng, with the country and Yanying; I sent people to inform the nobles along the way that those who were willing to follow the king and those whose families were able to escape would flee north from all directions.

In history, when Yan State destroyed Qi, Tian Dan was also a member of the army of fleeing nobles. The reason for his fame was foresight: when everyone was running, he tied an iron hoop on the axle. When he escaped, the road was not good and he ran for a long time, so many people's axles were broken, but the Tian Dan family did not break.

It is because of this that he became famous and became a good story for a while, and was elected as a guard and finally successfully counterattacked.

Of course there was no such story at this time, but the King of Chu still knew in his heart who was his basic foundation. He did not have a large number of nobles, scholars and families in Jianghan who fled together. In the future, he would lack people to fight back, and those who could gain a stable foothold after running to the north.

He can't fight, and he hasn't given him the opportunity to show his level, but he still has a family background in coups and infighting.
Chapter completed!