The migration of hundreds of thousands of people was a huge project. Fortunately, they were protected by the Huai Army along the way. Before the migration, Wen Zhong had already set up strongholds along the way. There was a stronghold within twenty miles where the people could move. rest.
Not all of these people will migrate to the Huai Kingdom, but all the way east from Yingdu, a distance of about five to six hundred miles, to the area east of the Dabie Mountains and west of the nest.
This is the land of the Chu State that the Huai State had just annexed. Those who dared to resist the Chu State lords on the land were directly killed, while those who surrendered were moved to the land of Wuyue in the Huai State.
After two generations of people built water conservancy facilities, the land of Wuyue has transformed from a wild land into a land of plenty. This place has few people and lots of land, so it needs a large number of people to fill it.
Wang Qi forcibly moved these Chu people to the land of Wu and Yue. At the same time, in order to prevent the local wealthy families from growing, Wang Qi forcibly split up the wealthy families near Huai'an and moved them to the land of Wuyue and the newly acquired land of Chu.
Through this method of vacating the cage for birds, Wang Qi restricted the growth of local wealthy families, and at the same time moved away the original nobles and nobles of Chu. After several rounds of rotation, this piece of Chu land was also controlled by Huai.
And those families of ministers in Chu State also lacked the ability to control the grassroots level after being relocated and divided.
Just need to wait a few more years, and this place will be completely controlled by the Huai State, providing Huai State with more materials and manpower.
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Sun Wu, Wu Zixu, and Qing Ji led an army of 50,000 to the north, while the Qin and Chu allied forces met at Yanling, and then the army went south.
The allied forces of Qin and Chu were 200,000 strong, and the Huai army was waiting for work. The two armies met at Jushui.
Seeing Qin and Chu's 200,000 troops, Sun Wu was not afraid, but was eager to try. Next, the armies of both sides launched a series of battles around Jushui.
The main force of the Huai army, 15,000 men, crossed the Ju River and then formed a formation with their backs to the water. The other 35,000 men crossed the Ju River eastward and bypassed the flanks of the Qin and Chu coalition forces.
Qin State's top minister Zipu was surprised to see the Huai army arrayed against the water.
"The Huai Kingdom knew that we had 200,000 people, but they only sent 15,000 people, so they didn't take us seriously!" Zihu was very angry when he looked at the Huai army arrayed with their backs to the water.
"Is there any deception in Huaiguo's formation?" Shangqing Zipu was very confused. So he invited the head coach of Chu State. But the Chu coach has also never seen such a formation.
After all, it was more than a hundred years ago when the Huai State used Queyue Formation to defeat the Jin coalition, and the Jin State would not tell their enemies how they were defeated. .
Therefore, both Chu and Qin knew this battle formation.
"There were only fifteen thousand people on the left and right. The army charged and pushed them directly into the river!" Zihu said.
Immediately Zihu personally led an army of 30,000 to attack. As a result, instead of pushing the Huai army into the river, the 30,000 Qin army suffered heavy losses. Even Zihu was killed in the battle.
Seeing the defeat of the army, the Qin and Chu allied forces were shocked. The Huai army took the opportunity to counterattack, and the Qin army was defeated.
At the same time, Wu Zixu, who had already reached the flank of the Qin-Chu coalition forces, immediately ordered the army to attack, and 35,000 troops attacked the Chu army from the flank.
The Chu army was not elite to begin with. It was composed of many strong people. It was good to be able to list the military formations. However, under the attack of the Huai army, the military formations collapsed and tens of thousands of troops were directly defeated.
The defeated army panicked and chose no route, and was driven by the Huai army to attack the military formation. For a time, the Chu army's military formation was shaken, and the Huai army took advantage of the opportunity to attack. Chu was defeated, and because of Chu's defeat, Qin could only retreat.
The Qin and Chu allied forces retreated thirty miles, and both armies suffered heavy losses. From then on, they did not dare to fight with the Huai army in the field, but held fast to the city. On the other side, a large number of small troops were sent to harass the Huai army.
The Huai State came a long way, and after consuming a lot of supplies due to migration, the supplies for the Huai State army needed to be transported thousands of miles by water.
Qin and Chu began to rely on their military superiority to confront the Huai State, and then let the Chu State's feudal lords resist.
These princes were also at a critical moment of life and death, and each one of them desperately supported Chu. After changing their war strategies, although Qin and Chu were still no match for Huai, they began to draw closer to each other.
The gap between the two. In fact, this is also a sign of their helplessness.
After all, Huai State's military strength is limited and cannot be divided too much, otherwise it will be easy to be forcibly besieged by the Qin and Chu coalition forces by concentrating their superior forces.
Sun Wu saw the plans of Qin and Chu, which was to compete with Huai State in consumption. After seeing through their purpose, Sun Wu planned to give up as soon as possible.
Wang Qi was very satisfied with this battle. He had gained a lot of benefits last time, and Yingdu was almost evacuated by the Huai Kingdom. The Huaiguo army continues to stay here to help the evacuated people and delay time.
After the confrontation between the Huai State and the Qin and Chu coalition forces, there was no further battle between the two sides. As Chu State continued to recruit soldiers, Huai State also began to retreat little by little.
After the news of Wenzhong came, most of the migrating Chu people had already left, and the remaining Chu people could not catch up. Only then did Sun Wu, Wu Zixu and Qing Ji lead their troops to leave.
Without the restraint of the Huai army, the Qin and Chu allied forces quickly regained Yingdu. However, after the Chu army entered Yingdu, the city, which originally had a population of more than 100,000, became very deserted.
The capital of Ying was deserted, the people had almost disappeared, and the defeat of the King of Chu made Chu a joke. The capital of Ying was defeated, and the Chu State had no time to evacuate. Too many officials were captured and killed.
Seeing only a few people in the city, King Chu's body shook. He felt like the world was spinning and he fell to the ground.
Chu's hundreds of years of accumulation can be said to have been lost in one day.
After recapturing the capital of Ying, the state of Chu began to suffer from food and grass shortages. The collection of food and fodder was also much slower. The Qin and Chu coalition forces saw a large number of Chu people fleeing, and almost half of the population in the entire Hanshui Plain was lost. When the Huai State evacuated, it moved a large number of people. The Chu army wanted to pursue them, but found that there was insufficient food and grass.
The Chu State's strength was greatly reduced. Even if it recaptured Yingdu and the Hanshui Plain, the loss of its strength was serious and was no longer a concern. The Qin State was also unable to survive alone, so it had no choice but to give up pursuing the Huai State.
Sun Wu led the army to leave Chu and return to Huai.
In this battle, the strategy has been achieved, and the Chu State suffered heavy losses. In the next twenty years, the Chu State will have to recuperate.
The Chu State regained its territory, but the area east of the Dabie Mountains became the territory of the Huai State. The Chu State could only accept it temporarily and wanted to wait until its strength recovered before trying again.
The capital of Ying was evacuated by the Huai State. Although the State of Chu regained the capital of Ying, it did not dare to continue to establish a capital here, so the King of Chu ordered it to move northwest. The original Yingdu was directly abandoned by the Chu State.
After moving to the northwest, the Chu State re-established its capital and continued to be called the capital of Ying.
