When faced with opportunistic opportunities, most people will not refuse, and will even be willing to take advantage of them.
This is just like people's luck mentality. Simply put, it is a kind of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages.
Now the Chu State wants to separate the north and the south from the original state? They just picked up the past a long time ago and tried it with a sense of luck. Some wise Chu people knew that it was impossible, and they had no objection or even approval.
I just want to delay time.
Of course, Zhiyao could not accept the situation of dividing the north and the south. His initial refusal and later hesitation was also a strategic attempt. It would be great if he could mislead the top leaders of Chu State.
The original country still has some strength left.
The Chu State has not yet reached its end.
It is expected that the two countries will fight and talk about each other next. The battlefield should be within the Song Dynasty?
"I thought we couldn't delay it any longer and destroyed Chu State within three years!" How could Zhiyao not notice that Chu State was trying its best to buy time?
According to the plan of the Yuan Kingdom, the Chu army would be attracted to continuously move northward into the Song Kingdom, and then seek to annihilate most of them.
Now Chu State's move to buy time is too obvious, which indicates that there will be big changes within Chu State.
Based on the principle that the enemy should try his best to destroy it if it wants to complete it, Zhiyao believes that the plan needs to be changed.
Of course, the plan to eliminate more Chu troops remains unchanged, but what has changed is that the plan to attack Chu has been advanced.
"The general returned to the country and summoned the governor to come." Zhiyao looked at Zhi Xuwu and gave the order.
When the country was discussing with other countries, King Ning of Chu, who had killed his king and came to power, was not there, and even his order, Yin Zhaogu, did not appear.
On Yuan Guo's side, Zhiyao was present in person, and it was difficult to make any detours during the negotiation. The result was almost whatever was agreed upon.
This won't work!
It's not that there's a big difference in status, it's just that it makes Yuan Guo more passive.
Negotiations? How could it ever be started by the head of a country?
Zhiyao has asked Yin Zhaogu, the commander of Chu State, to come over.
But, since the king of the original country is here, maybe King Ning of Chu will come?
Zhiyao felt that the chance of Chu Wang Ning coming was too low. One of the reasons was that the Chu State was internally unstable and Chu Wang Ning did not dare to leave the capital easily.
"Your Majesty, the news has been passed on. I think it will spread widely when people in Song Dynasty know it." Cheng Shuo's recent operation is to spread the news that Chu State and Yuan State are in contact, emphasizing that Chu State wants to sell Song State.
Time has arrived at the end of winter, and spring will usher in just over two months.
It is a pity that the Suishui River is not frozen, otherwise the original army would not be stationed on the north bank and would definitely look for a section of the river with thicker ice to cross.
Cheng Shuo talked about other things and said: "'Quinqiu' indeed discovered the navy of Chu State, which was extremely large in number."
That "Quinqiu" is hundreds of miles away from the Suishui River section of "Shangqiu" and is in the middle and lower reaches of the Suishui River.
The water flow in Suishui is not very fast, and the river surface is not too wide. The river surface at the widest point is about 400 meters, and the narrowest section is only about 30 meters. In fact, it is really not suitable for large-scale water battles.
Zhiyao asked with a puzzled expression: "Chu's navy entered Suishui from Si River?"
The Suishui River is connected to the Sishui River, but the river section where they meet is nearly 600 miles away from "Shangqiu".
If it is possible to sail from Suishui to Surabaya, it means that the entire river section of more than 600 miles can be sailed, and then there will be no problem in entering Huaihe River from Surabaya.
The Suishui River really connects to the Surabaya River. From the Surabaya River, you can enter the Huai River. The Huai River has an outlet to the sea. Wouldn't it be possible to enter the inland river from the sea through the outlet of the Huai River?
Cheng Shuo was a little confused by the question.
Zhiyao actually remembered the canal dug by King Wu Fu Cha, which led directly to the Huaihe River.
King Wu Fu Chai's main goal of digging the canal was to go north to fight for hegemony, and he also built many cities along the way.
Wu Guo had such an idea in the past, and it would definitely not be a waste of time.
After the Yue State destroyed the Wu State, they restarted the canal project and completed the canal that was almost completed without spending much national power.
Currently, a Yuan army under the leadership of Sima Ranju is attacking the Yue territory north of the river. It is also the first time that the Yuan army has entered that land. Many things are not understood. To understand, the locals need to reveal it, and then the Yuan army will
It's up to the people here to verify it.
Zhi Yao called Zhi Heng in and ordered: "You will leave for Huainan immediately and ask General Rangju to cooperate in finding people who are familiar with the conditions of the Huai River and personally explore whether the river section is passable."
Zhiheng didn't know the cause and effect, but he understood that he only needed to complete the task, so he said "Promise!" and went down to prepare, and set off that day.
Of course, the original army stationed on the north bank of Suishui River is not just sleeping in the winter. In addition to collecting the available boats on the north bank of Suishui River, there are a large number of auxiliary soldiers who are cutting down trees, and craftsmen are busy making boats.
The boats in the Suishui River section were first collected by Chu and Song, and there were not many left for the original army to requisition.
The gathering of materials and the manufacture of boats caused quite a stir, and they did not avoid the Chu-Song coalition forces at all. The formation was such that the original army would continue to move south.
During the long wait, Qu Huaihui came to Yuanjun as an envoy every two days. During this period, there was even an episode of Song Junluan writing a letter to Zhiyao.
Qu Huai's frequent trips to the original army must have the goal of spying on the military situation. The more he watched and the more information he reported back, the more nervous the Chu and Song coalition forces would feel.
The former army built boats. At first, it took more than ten days to launch a boat. After a month, there were as many as ten boats launched every day, and the number of boats was even greater. The speed was really amazing.
The reason why it seems slow at the beginning is simply that collecting materials slows down the speed of building boats. When enough materials are accumulated and the processing speed increases, the manufacturing speed will definitely become faster. This is not just a tool from the original country.
The credit for the large number of types is actually due to the efficiency shown by the assembly line production.
Seeing the number of boats from the original army increasing every day, the Chu and Song allied forces were increasingly worried, fearing that the original army would start crossing the river tomorrow.
Under this concern, the Chu navy, which was originally located at "Canine Hill", began to take action.
On this day, a former army came to the top of the mountain opposite the Suishui River section of "Guqiu".
Each of them is either carrying a bow or a crossbow on his back, and even a crossbow can be seen on the top of the mountain.
Under the mountain is the Suishui River section, and on the opposite side is the mountain wall.
Therefore, Zhu Xia really does not choose names randomly. Once a place name has "Qiu" or is next to the word "山", the place must be a mountainous area.
Zhiyao was also on the mountain, watching the Chu navy approaching downstream of Suishui River, and found that those ships had no mast design at all, and their navigation relied entirely on human oars.
How else could it be said that Chu, Wu, and Yue all imitated each other on their navy ships? There may be differences in the core, but the appearance is basically the same.
Zhiyao had seen Yue's warships at "Langya" and personally boarded the ships to conduct various observations. In terms of evaluation, he could only say that they were very poor.
However, this was the early Warring States period after all, and being able to build a ship with a length of about 27.6 meters, a width of about 3.68 meters, and a two-story structure was actually quite impressive.
At the same time, Europa, Western Europe, Northern Europe, and Central Europe were still drinking blood, and the only things they could play with were small boats less than three meters long and about one meter wide.
The Greek city-states were very successful in shipbuilding. Their ship design ideas were based on a length-to-width ratio of twelve to one, that is, twelve meters long and one meter wide. The average length of a warship is about thirty-seven meters.
, the width is only about three meters, the boat is a flat-bottomed boat, but the cabin has three floors.
The main reason why the Greeks played with the idea of warship design that way was because the waves in the Mediterranean were not too big, and the idea of shipbuilding was similar to that of Zhu Xia in the Western Han Dynasty, with the hull on the horizontal line being relatively high.
On the other hand, the First Persian Empire was ahead of all other civilizations in shipbuilding technology, and at one time even built a super battleship nearly a hundred meters long. It was precisely because their shipbuilding technology was ahead of the Greek city-states that the First Persian Empire repeatedly took the initiative to invade Greece.
The difference between the ships built by ancient Greece and Persia and those made by Zhu Xia was that their warships had both sails and oars.
"Thirty-two large wings, seventy-eight middle wings, and more than two hundred small wings." Zhiyao patiently counted them one by one.
Ships of this size were definitely not temporarily manufactured by Chu State in a certain section of Suishui River. They did not have that kind of time, and Yue State and Song State would not allow it.
Zhiyao is almost certain that the Huai River is indeed navigable, especially that it can enter the Surabaya River and then enter the Suishui River via the Surabaya River.
"In later generations, many sections of the river were impossible to navigate at all, and even the canal could not be used unless it was dredged for several years..." Zhiyao found it strange.
Why does that happen? In fact, it is directly related to changes in the environment.
In the current era, everywhere is filled with woods, and a large number of riverbanks have not been turned into farmland. Naturally, there is no problem of soil erosion.
What will happen in the future is mainly because the river carries too much soil. With repeated flow and sedimentation, the river bed will definitely become shallower and shallower.
It also has something to do with the amount of rainfall. With less rainfall upstream, the water level must be getting lower and lower. The width of some river sections has simply been reduced repeatedly. How can we still sail?
"King?"
Zhiyao looked away, knowing that she should hide her figure.
There are original troops on several mountains to the north of this river section. They have been stationed for six days waiting for the arrival of the Chu navy. They cannot and should not waste all their efforts because of some oversights.
As for why they knew that the Chu Navy was coming? The original army had already known where the Chu Navy was stationed. How could they not send agents to spy at all times and found out that the Chu Navy had left the station and was definitely going north.
That is because the boats manufactured locally by the original country are about to reach a large scale, which will inevitably attract the Chu navy. If the Chu navy does not come, will the original country have to wait for the available ships to increase again and again?
Therefore, the navy of the Chu Kingdom will definitely think of temporarily gaining an advantage in scale and destroy the increasing number of Yuan Kingdom ships as soon as possible.
The Yuan army grasped the psychology of the Chu State and received reports in advance. How could they afford the cooperation of the Chu Navy without an ambush.
When the Chu navy entered the ambush river section, the original army's crossbowmen did not fire arrows immediately.
The navy of Chu State sailed upstream. If they attacked too early, the oarsmen of the rowing boat would be able to reverse the boat on the spot. With the help of the current, it would be very easy to escape.
The original army should wait patiently and seize the best opportunity before launching an attack.
Zhiyao was just a spectator, and had no intention of issuing any orders unless necessary.
After most of the ships of the Chu Navy entered the shooting range of the original army's crossbowmen, some boats and rafts suddenly floated down from the upper stream, with fires burning on them.
The boats and rafts had just been launched from the shore, and the fire had just been lit.
Because of the burning of kerosene, the fire on the boats and rafts quickly took hold. They went straight down the river, and all the Chu troops who saw them shouted loudly.
"put!"
When the command is given, there is a series of banging sounds.
The river section surrounded by mountain walls echoed with the sound of "release" and the intensive banging of bangs, which shocked the Chu troops on the warships to look up.
When the Chu navy raised its head, dense arrows were fired from the north bank of Suishui River. The first few waves were regular arrows, but later they turned into rockets. During this period, crossbows were also fired.
Suddenly an ambush was encountered, and burning boats and wooden rafts floated down the upper reaches. The Chu warships sailing in the front were the first to be attacked. It was the Chu warships in the rear row that suffered the most long-range attacks from the original army on the shore.
Under Zhiyao's watch, as many as a dozen ropes were pulled up from the bottom of the river, and they would be tied to the tree trunks on both sides as interception ropes.
In fact, the conditions are not enough, otherwise it would be more appropriate to use iron ropes to avoid being burned by fire.
The arrows fired from the north bank of Suishui River were so dense that it was simply a nightmare for warships without ship walls. Chu soldiers were constantly hit by arrows and flying into the water. The warships that lost too many oarsmen simply lost control. The warships simply lost control.
The collision further exacerbated the confusion.
"We have entered the Warring States period, why are the generals of Chu still so unwilling to learn lessons?" Zhiyao was talking about the fact that he did not send out scouts to conduct rigorous investigations.
This was wrongly blamed on the naval generals of the Chu State. They had sent out scouts, but the mountain here was difficult to climb from the east, and the road after going up the mountain was not easy.
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In addition, the Chu-Song coalition forces were pressing very urgently.
Being too hasty in everything will inevitably lead to omissions. Some things that can be done carefully to ensure that no mistakes are made will be full of mistakes in a hurry.
Sun Wu has a saying that is very right: Soldiers are important matters of the country, the place of life and death, and the way of survival, and must be carefully observed!
With the cooperation of Wu Zixu and Sun Wu, the Chu State was beaten so badly. Who can blame them if they still "don't forget to eat but not to fight".
Warships on the river continued to collide, and the fire continued to spread, and was soon shrouded in thick smoke.
The original army on the mountain could not clearly see the situation on the river below. When they ran out of arrows, they continued to fire arrows, but the crossbows no longer fired.
The crossbow arrows are much more difficult to make than ordinary crossbow arrows, so you must use them sparingly if you can.
Facts have proved that the hemp ropes are indeed unreliable. Fortunately, the original army prepared a sufficient number. Otherwise, they would have been cut by the soldiers of the Chu army entering the water, or they would have been burned. A larger number would at least be able to block it for a longer period of time.
However, the more than ten hemp ropes blocking the river only delayed it for about two quarters of an hour. After they were all found, some Chu warships still managed to escape from the fire scene and escaped from the Shura field in an unusually embarrassed manner.
This was not the first time that Chu's navy was ambushed, nor was it the first time that it was attacked by fire. The Wu's navy had also done this before.
"The fish in Suishui will be very fat this year!" Zhiyao expressed her feelings before the war ended.