After the destruction of the country in Hou Nantang, Gu Dazu hid in the fields and became the ignorant owner of an inn next to Longwei Slope.
Both of his sons died heroically in the Battle of Boyang Lake, and their wives even died for their love. Gu Dazu was the only one left in the Gu family. Although the water war was won, the country was eventually destroyed.
Jiang Si, who was advised by Aoxiao Hongchen, came to the door personally and found the veteran.
That day, Jiang Si chatted with the old man about a period of history in the Southern Tang Dynasty that was regarded as a joke by the world.
Gu Dazu, whose country was ruined and his family was destroyed, saw new hope in Jiang Si.
He was dissatisfied with the rumors about his loyal colleagues, and he was dissatisfied with the fact that he had been misunderstood. It is good to ask the king of hell about good and evil, and it is good for a successful king to scold the defeated bandits. But so what if you don't accept it? How many people in the world still know him today?
With Jiang Si's words, the former general put on his armor again and started a new journey.
Under his arrangement, the Guangling Navy, which prided itself on having many soldiers and ships, was indeed led out.
Gu Dazu predicted that there would be heavy fog on Bailu Lake in this season, and took advantage of the favorable location to complete the siege with Guangling Navy.
After completing the three-sided encirclement of the Guangling Navy, they immediately dispatched the fireships that had been prepared and took advantage of the wind and water to rush towards the main force of the Guangling Navy.
The reason why he did not attack by force was that Gu Dazu considered that even if the Xichu Navy relied on the right time and place, it could successfully surround the main force of the Guangling Navy.
However, the Xichu Navy, which was dominated by small warships, could not compete head-on with the main force of the Guangling Navy.
Being surrounded and faced with another fire attack, the main force of the Guangling Navy was in chaos.
Fortunately, the naval commander calmly commanded, and when the elite naval forces in Guangling were surrounded and attacked by fire, their wrists were severed.
Relying on the strength of their own ships, they abandoned a small part of the already chaotic team and retained most of their strength to break through.
But what the Guangling naval commander did not expect was that when he rushed back to the water stronghold, the Western Chu military flag had already been planted on the stronghold.
It turns out that within the Guangling Navy, a large number of soldiers in the navy are locals from Guangling Road.
In addition, he had long been dissatisfied with the rule of King Guangling and Li Yang in Guangling Road.
When Cao Changqing was there, he developed many sailors as secret spies for the Western Chu.
After Cao Changqing's death, Jiang Si officially took over the power of Western Chu, and paid more attention to this navy, which was known as the number one navy in Liyang.
On the basis of Cao Changqing's original strength, the number of troops was further developed, trying to win over this powerful navy born on the land of Chu when the war started.
Kou Jianghuai broke in and conquered more than fifty cities in more than twenty days. The chain reaction caused was so profound that Liyang Chaoting, who was far away in Tai'an City, did not expect.
Most of the family members of the navy soldiers were already under the rule of Xi Chu. Coupled with the influence of sailors within the navy who had taken refuge in Xi Chu, the mood of the war strike was already very serious.
So, while the commander of the Guangling Navy led the elites in the camp to leave, these people took advantage of the situation and raised the banner of returning to Chu.
In less than an hour, the Guangling navy who stayed in the water village decided to defect to Xi Chu.
Before Gu Dazu besieged the main force of Guangling Navy, he took advantage of the heavy fog on the lake to send some warships to the water stronghold to contact the people inside.
With the support of his own people, the warship entered the water stronghold and successfully received the Guangling Navy who stayed in the stronghold.
Then, together with the pursuing Xichu Navy, they attacked the elite Guangling Navy who had no home and a great loss of morale.
In the end, the leader of the Guangling Navy died in the battle, and most of the Guangling Navy was absorbed into the Xichu Navy.
With the addition of the strongest navy in Liyang, the strength of the Xichu navy increased instantly.
The navy has more than 100,000 troops and more than 40 large warships. It has been promoted to the number one navy in the world.
The Qingzhou Navy led by King Zhao Xun of Jingan deliberately delayed the rescue, with the idea of losing both sides and reaping the benefits.
I didn’t expect the Bailu Lake water battle to end so quickly.
By the time he received the news that the Guangling Navy had been wiped out, Gu Dazu had already led the Xichu Navy with great momentum and rushed to the front, wanting to retreat.
After a water battle, Zhao Xun escaped with only a dozen warships. He did not dare to stop at all along the way and fled back to Qingzhou territory overnight.
As Liyang's first navy was destroyed, the second navy was crippled.
Guangling Jiangdao is already under the control of the Xichu Navy. Even if Liyang, who is rich and wealthy, wants to form a force that can compete with the Xichu Navy on the water, it will take at least three years.
This does not include the many experienced sailors who have to make up for the losses in this water battle.
If you want to re-train a navy that can overwhelm Xi Chu in terms of numbers and combat power, it will only take longer.
After the water battle of Guangling River was decided, the battle on land has also resumed.
After losing all their naval forces, the Guangling soldiers led by the feudal lord Zhao Yi lost all their fighting spirit after being without food for many days.
Subsequently, under the siege of Kou Jianghuai, Pei Hongzhi, and Xie Xiqiao who arrived, the army was defeated and he could only make up and abscond with his son Zhao Piao.
He was ambushed by Han Liangchen, who had become the deputy lieutenant of Xuanwei of Western Chu, and captured them all.
Also by virtue of his ability to capture the two kings, Han Liangchen was promoted to the fourth rank in a row and became the seventh-rank Zhiguo Captain.
King Guangling Zhao Yi and Prince Guangling's son Zhao Piao were captured to the west, which meant that half of the southeastern part of Liyang was returned to the Western Chu.
Led by Zhao Yi and his son, the gang of Liyang officials were arrogant in the Chu region and expropriated local nobles. Jiang Si, the new empress of Western Chu, ordered them to be scraped alive, cut in half, beheaded, and served as a meal for the Yi tribe. , in order to calm the dissatisfaction of the people in Chu.
Zhao Yi and his son also became the first royal family in Liyang to be beheaded by Xi Chu since the war began.
With the death of King Guangling, it took less than four months for Western Chu to regain more than half of the former Chu territory in the battle to restore the country.
The ancient capital of Western Chu in Guangling Road was renamed from the Divine Phoenix City to the humiliating Lost Cauldron City after being trampled by the Xu family's cavalry. It was also officially changed back to its original name after the Western Chu State was restored to control.
With the end of the war in Guangling Road, Gu Dazu commanded the Guangling Navy and patrolled the Guangling River.
As a result, the southern Xinjiang army led by King Yan Chi no longer dared to cross the river in the face of the huge Western Chu navy, and could only garrison the upper reaches of the Guangling River.
Lu Shengxiang, the commander-in-chief of the Southern Expedition, also received the news that the Guangling Navy had been destroyed and that King Guangling was defeated and killed. He had no choice but to stop the army and stick to a few key passes.
This symbolizes the stability of the southeastern half of Western Chu.
It also means that the great situation originally envisioned by the Liyang court of attacking from the north and the south, merging from the east and west, and completely besieging the capital of Western Chu has become a fantasy.
After this series of battles, Xi Chu's military strength increased instead of decreasing. After integrating the rebels and surrendered troops from all over Guangling Road, the military strength increased from more than 100,000 at the beginning of the war to more than 300,000.
The number of naval forces increased to 140,000, making him the number one navy in the world.
But when the war between the north and the south started and the country was in turmoil, there were still gatherings in Tai'an City, where poems and rhymes were recited, and people drank wine in the meandering water.
On the eastern border between Liao and Jibei, Gu Jiantang of Liyang Dazhu Kingdom and Yuan Tingshan, the new general of Jizhou, both fought a series of beautiful victories in the war with Beimang.
As for Western Chu, after the restoration of the country, Jiang Si took advantage of the great victory and promoted a large number of new recruits in the Western Chu army.
Among them, Han Liangchen had outstanding performance. He killed Song Li and captured Zhao Yi and his son. Jiang Si personally issued an order to commend him. In addition to being promoted to general of the pirates, he was given 20 pieces of silk and a silver fish bag.
On the other hand, Jiang Si borrowed the name of Cao Changqing's legacy and began to build a new political system of Western Chu that was different from the past, assisted by Sun Xiji, the old master of Da Chu and the current prime minister of Western Chu.
