After the violent explosion, the young officer of the Chu State who inspires to serve the king was killed or shocked on the spot.

Several people who were a little farther away from him were completely lost in consciousness. They stood there blankly, and they would lose their balance if they moved a little. They no longer knew the southeast, west and north.

This kind of mine explosives is very effective in field combat, and it has almost no use, but it is the best choice for siege.

Whether it is the best miners and engineers in the Mo family who are digging holes and burying explosives, or the use of stone throwing machines to shoot at the edge of the inside line, the effect is excellent.

Dozens of stone throwers threw away about ten groups. After a stop, the remaining Chu army on it wisely raised the white flag according to the rules of Si Shang.

After one person occupied the fortress without any injuries, he left two companies to guard the camp, and the remaining people rushed straight to the next one.

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Sleeping City.

The Grand Sima of Chu had known about the news that Song Gong abdicated after the sacrifice in Sanglin Society, and also knew about the various remarks in the Mohist newspapers after the King of Chu was captured.

The news that Shi led his troops to leave Yang Xia did not shock him too much.

The fortress near Yangxia can delay the Mo family's offensive pace, and he still has enough time to prepare.

He understood the meaning of his here, not for attack, but for threats.

The 40,000 troops in his hands were unable to reconcile the Hanging Army in field battles, because if the 40,000 troops were the standard of the army, Si Shang could pull out 200,000 or even 300,000 troops, which was meaningless.

Among these 40,000 soldiers, 30,000 were just peasants who were temporarily recruited with spears.

The reason why the troops left Yancheng was that he still had fantasies about the Song Dynasty's neutrality.

Towards the north of the city is Chen, towards the east is Fulisai controlled by the Mohist school, and towards the southeast are Xia Cai and Shouchun.

The fact that a single army was stationed here could threaten the Jianghuai area of ​​the Mo family, so that the Mo family had to station some troops here in order to prevent the logistics line from being cut off.

However, after the news that Mr. Song abdicated and led his troops out of Yang Xia came, the sleeping city where he was located was extremely dangerous.

After the Battle of Zhucheng, Liujie divided up more than two nearly three divisions of troops and rushed to Shen Xi, and took down the empty Xinyang generation after killing Shen Gong.

If Yangxia is captured again, then the forces of the Chu State Grand Sima will have to choose to retreat, because if they do not retreat, they will be surrounded.

Moreover, there is only one way to retreat, retreat to Chendi to support Yangxia, wait for reinforcements, or retreat from Chendi to Xudi, with backing Wei and Han, and gather troops from Fengjun to defend.

Fortunately, he is very confident in Yang Xia's defense and should have enough time to retreat.

However, just as he was about to carefully deploy the retreat route, a soldier ran in panic and said, "The Fortress is surrounded by the fortress, attacking down, and no one is injured!"

The Grand Sima of Chu felt his head buzzing, and it took him a long time to recover and asked, "This... how is this possible? It was the last time that the six fingers attacked Dangshan, and he had been besieged for several days..."

The fortress near Yangxia learned the lessons of the siege of Dangshan and many places were improved. He did not believe that anyone could conquer without any injury.

Even though the Mohist school has been able to capture cities and defend cities over the years with the support of the people and technological progress, and has similar and unparalleled names in the field, those names are still within acceptable limits.

The fortress near Yangxia attacked and no one was injured, which made the Grand Sima of Chu feel desperate. The gap is so big, so why should I hit? Then why should I hit?

After calming down and calming down and asking for the specific situation, the generals and school counselors around him said, "It is better to retreat quickly!"

Grand Sima said: "Retreat is necessary to retreat, but what exactly do you want to do when you Shi Zhishi wants to do?"

He wanted to figure out or guess the purpose of the right one.

A adviser said: "Yangxia connects to Daliang in the north, to Chendi in the south, to Xu and Lushan in the west. The storm comes in a fierce momentum. Do you want to capture Xudi and block us?"

These words immediately attracted the alertness of the Grand Sima of Chu.

If this is really the purpose, then it would be terrible.

Xu once belonged to Zheng, and the Mo family was active there. Once Xu was captured, the Mo family could attack Ye and Mount Lu through Xu.

This completely surrounded the remaining monarchs of Chu State.

There is a Mo family's army stationed in Chu in Nanyang to the west, and the Mo family's base camp in the east. In fact, these vassals of Chu State actually had only one way to the north with their backs against Wei and Han.

The reason why these vassals are still insisting on it is because they know very well that if they give up their fiefdom and retreat to Wei Han, then they will have nothing.

If the King of Chu is gone, as long as the country is restored, another one can be established in the future. If the monarch insists, Chu will exist and the princes will send troops, and then Chu will be restored.

The vassals of Chu State still have some strength, as long as the princes send troops.

But if the purpose of the situation is to capture Yangxia and then attack Xu and cut off the way for the Chu State fleeing north, then all these plans will be meaningless.

When did the princes send troops? There is no result yet.

Yangxia is 130 miles away from Xudi. At the speed of the Mo family, the troops can reach Xudi within five days after capturing Yangxia.

I thought that the Fengchihui and other places could spend a lot of manpower and material resources to stop the Mohist journey to the Central Plains from the west, but I never thought that those fortresses that had stirred up civil unrest and uprising were captured without even holding up one attack.

Yangxia is another big city, and the more this kind of big city it is, the easier it is to attack, because it is impossible to build the entire city with an edge-shaped defense system. Besides, although Yangxia's bronze cannons are relatively large, how can it be compared with the Mo family?

The purpose of the Central Plains Alliance was to hope that Yangxia and the surrounding four forts could delay the main force of the Mo family for two to three months, and to win time for Wei, Han and Chu to jointly send troops.

But now it seems that the significance of building the Yangxia Fortress Group has not achieved the expected results.

Another adviser said: "Yun, the nine barriers in the world are the most dangerous ones, such as Dafen, Minghe, Jingruan, Fangcheng, Wu, Jingxing, Lingqi, Juzhu, Juyong."

"The three of the nine passes are in Chu. However, the Mo family has already obtained a great farewell to Tongbai, and the place of Shenxi. The underworld is meaningless."

"Jing Ruan, the Mo family has obtained Danyang and drank Mahan Water. The Jing Ruan land has returned to Mo."

"Only Fangcheng, Xianghe, has not yet fallen into the hands of the Mo family."

"The Six-finger army was exhausted during the expedition, and they had to guard against Qin and Han soldiers. The Qin soldiers went to Shangluo to guard against the Mo family. Even if they had the intention to occupy the land, they could force Liuzhi to advance eastward to capture the square city."

"Is the army of good-family commanders trying to capture Fangcheng?"

The great sage of the strategist felt more and more reasonable when he said this.

This theory of the nine passes in the world has long existed, and the three of the nine passes are in the State of Chu.

Now the second of the three are obtained by the Mo family. It is not that these fortresses are not strong enough, but that the Chu State would not have thought that the Mo family would advance along the Yangtze River to Eyi and enter Jianghan?

Now there is still the extremely strong fortress of Xianghe Pass in Fangcheng, and this fortress is part of the Great Wall of Chu, to prevent the princes of the Central Plains from entering the Nanyang area of ​​Chu.

Xianghe Fortress is built along the mountain, and there is also a "Xia Road" connecting the rear, which is the earliest place to build roads in Chu.

From Xianghe to Luguan, following Funiu Mountain, the purpose of the existence of a series of fortress groups in Chu State is indeed to prevent the north but not the south.

It is obvious that the Mo family has now been impossible to reconcile with the princes, so the Mo family is likely to seize the Xianghe Fortress Group before the princes send troops.

The Liuzhi's army stationed in Chu also needed to disperse some of the remaining troops in the rear, stationed in the Jianghan area, and organize the construction and defense of Jingruan Fortress to prevent Qin from sending troops from Shangluo.

After occupying Wancheng, the Chu kings were already nervous. It was the front line of Chu kings fighting against the Central Plains before. The power of the finite kings could still defend, and the Liuzhi was unable to completely eliminate the entire Fangcheng, Xianghe and even the Chu army in Luyang.

According to the strategist, it is really possible.

Attack Yangxia, marched into Xu, seized Yinyang, passed Yinyang, Zhaoling, and Xu and attacked Luyang, thus forming a force of attacking north and south. At that time, the Jiexuan Army in Nanyang area only needs one elite army to attack Xianghefangcheng from behind, thereby closing the door and attacking dogs, trapping the vassals of Chu State in the south of Wei and Han.

Moreover, in the view of the Grand Sima of Chu, the Six Fingers are now at the end of their power. After the Qin army sent troops to Shangluo, the army stationed in Chu was no longer able to organize a large-scale attack, which led to the Mohist family's defense of the northern princes.

Since ancient times, all countries have basically had to attack Chu, except for the Wu State that time, they have basically passed through Fangcheng and Luyang. After all, the biggest enemy of Chu State is the San Jin State, and they have the most battles.

If the Great Wall Defense Line of Chu and Xianghe Fortress Area were not captured by the Mo family, the northern princes could attack Nanyang directly, thus forming a situation of attack with the Qin army.

The Nanyang Basin is flat. Although the Mohist school is good at field battles, its troops are obviously insufficient, which is far less than resistance based on the existing defense line of the Chu State Great Wall.

If the Mohist army can be increased by 30,000 troops and conquer Xianghefang City and organize defense there, the Mohist family can save a lot of troops.

First of all, although Wancheng is located on a plain, the Mohist school is good at defending the city.

Assuming that the Mohist school guarded the two defense systems of Xianghe to Luyang, Jingruan to Danyang, guarded the coalition of princes, and then it was essentially difficult to break through the coalition of princes.

It is impossible for Qin to send troops to Yiluo to cooperate with Wei Han. What if the Mo family attacked Lantian from Shangluo and threatened Qin's confidant?

The Wei and Han army wanted to defeat the Mo family and help Chu restore Jianghan. They could only go to the line of Luyang to Xianghe, and there was no point elsewhere.

After Wancheng was controlled by the Mo family, with the Mo family's ability to defend the city, the Grand Sima of Chu knew very well that the huge Wancheng was where the Mo family "helped" to build an iron smelting workshop in the Chu State. It was deeply penetrated, so how could it be so easy to be counterattacked?
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