King Chu and Qu Qing never looked at these people again. A group of insects who only compete for power. Who gave them the courage to think that they could lead an army against Wu Qi, the world's best military master?
Some people also do things like rushing to give away people's heads.
When things got to this point, counting on these people, King Chu might as well pray that Wu Qi would suddenly die of illness. The entire Hanyang Plain collapsed, and even Yun Mengze could not stop Huai Guo's progress.
After the navy of the Huai Kingdom defeated the navy of the Chu Kingdom, they could already enter the Han River. If the Chu Kingdom had not closed the river and dug wooden piles into the bottom of the Han River to block the Huai Navy, the Han River Plain would have fallen even faster. .
For the northern countries, there are many lakes and swamps in the Han River Plain, which is not conducive to chariot operations. However, for the Huai State, which is also located in a land with abundant water, this environment is equally familiar to them.
Moreover, after several restructurings, the number of tanks in the Huaiguo army was very small.
After the King of Chu saw that the nobles were still unwilling to hand over their military power, he immediately no longer reluctantly appointed these people as Sima of the Left Army to command the army.
It is said that they command the army, but in fact they are the private soldiers of these big nobles, as well as part of the soldiers of Yingdu. These nobles have thousands of private soldiers, sometimes hundreds, plus they mobilize tens of thousands of peasant soldiers. Altogether they made up an army of 100,000. Prepare to use the Han River and cities to defend.
The King of Chu asked these nobles to lead the army, and then sent Qu Qing's son Qu Chang and Jing Mu's brother Jing Ming to the Nanyang Plain to take away the troops who were still loyal to the King of Chu.
The Nanyang Basin was also entrusted to the nobles by the King of Chu. Those nobles were eager for the King of Chu's army to leave quickly so that they could occupy it.
After the King of Chu granted the title of Ling Yin to those nobles and Sima of the Zuo Army, Qu Qing wrote a letter asking the King of Chu to move the capital.
"Your Majesty, the Huai State's attack on Chu is to destroy our Chu State. Now that the Huai State's army has broken through the defense lines on the Han River Plain, I ask you to move the capital to Jiangzhou City immediately."
Jiangzhou City was originally the capital of the Ba Kingdom, but was later captured by the Chu Kingdom. Because the city was located in the mountains, it was also called a mountain city. After the fall of the Ba Kingdom, the Chu State occupied the land of the Ba Kingdom. The mountains here are steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there is a basin in it. The land is fertile and produces rock salt. The Ba Kingdom relied on this place to fight against the Chu Kingdom for hundreds of years.
If there hadn't been civil strife in the end and Qin's help, it would not have been easy to destroy Ba.
"Please give the king's order to summon the Nanyang Army to protect you on your journey westward."
The King of Chu knew that now was a critical moment and could no longer hesitate, so he immediately ordered the Chu family to move westward.
King Qu Qing of Chu led the royal family and a large number of civilians to move westward. At the same time, Qu Chang and Jing Ming led their troops to protect them. Fortunately, in the past few months, King Chu and Qu Qing had transported a large amount of supplies to Jiangzhou City several times, so they did not need to bring too many supplies this time. But even so, King Chu's fleet stretched for more than ten miles.
The westward migration team was huge, with nearly 200,000 people in total. Adding in the previous migrations, the number of people who moved to Badi this time exceeded 600,000.
Just as the Chu State was moving westward, Wu Qi had already swept the Han River plain and began to advance towards the capital of Ying.
At the same time, the Three Jins and Qi also took action. Qi stationed tens of thousands of troops on the border, but did not attack. However, the Three Jins agreed to send troops to rescue Chu, and the army went south. Taking advantage of Chu's empty military strength, Wei would be directly attacked. All the land captured by Chu State was taken back.
South Korea also took this opportunity to sneak attack on Zheng Guo. The so-called Three Jin Allied Forces had no intention of rescuing the Chu State. Instead, they took advantage of this opportunity to directly annex all the territory in the Central Plains of the Chu State. And began to move south to attack the Nanyang Basin.
The Chu State was originally defending against the Huai State's attack and regarded the three Jin coalition forces as allies. It did not expect that the three Jin Dynasties would suddenly attack. It was caught off guard and was directly attacked by the three Jin Dynasties in several cities.
Originally, the state of Chu had lost consecutive battles and its morale was low. It was waiting for the three Jin coalition forces to come to support, but it turned out that the three Jin coalition forces took the opportunity to attack.
The original reinforcements became a dagger piercing their hearts. This made the Nanyang Chu army completely lose hope and their morale collapsed.
On the other side, the Huai army, which went north to attack Nanyang, also launched an attack. The Chu State was unable to withstand the attack from the north and south by the armies of the Three Jin and Huai States.
In just one month, the Nanyang Basin was completely divided between the Sanjin and Huai Kingdoms. After carving up the Nanyang Basin, the Huai State and the three Jin coalition forces faced off, but no more war broke out.
After Huai State annexed half of the Nanyang Basin, it was very unhappy with the three Jins taking advantage of the situation, but without military orders, Huai State did not attack.
When the Three Jin Dynasties saw that the Huai State had almost destroyed the Chu State, they did not dare to send troops to provoke, so the two sides faced off here in the Nanyang Basin.
The main goal of the Huai State was to destroy the Chu State, and they did not want to start a war with the Three Jins at this time.
Wu Qi's army fought with the Chu army. After learning that Chu had sent several nobles with little experience in leading troops as generals, Wu Qi immediately laughed and said: "These Chu nobles are not willing to give up the fight for power when they perish. How can the country not be destroyed like this?"
After speaking, he directly ordered: "Wu Zuo!"
"The general is here!" A young general stepped forward excitedly.
"You lead five thousand soldiers and horses to attack the Chu army!"
"yes!"
"Remember, you can only lose in this battle, not win. If you win, not only will it be useless, but you will be demoted three levels in a row!"
"Ah!" Wu Zuo, who looked excited just now, was immediately dumbfounded.
"Ah, what? The military orders are like mountains, take them!"
Wu Zuo looked ugly. After receiving the general's order, he led his army to fight.
Five thousand troops attacked the Chu army, and after fighting for half an hour, the Huai army pretended to be defeated and retreated in disgrace. Several Chu nobles who led the army for the first time were overjoyed to see the Huai army defeated.
"Wu Qi is nothing more than that!" several people said proudly.
"Then Meng Zhuo relied on the defense line of the Han River Plain and his army of more than 100,000 people was defeated miserably. He is indeed a person with a false reputation. He should not have been recommended as a general in the first place!"
"Yes, if we were the generals at that time, how could Wu Qi reach the Han River with his troops?"
After Wu Zuo's defeat, Wu Qi led his army to retreat thirty miles, and then could not hold on. When the Chu generals saw Huai's retreat, they immediately led a large army to pursue him.
Seeing that the general wanted to lead his army in pursuit, several generals around him quickly stepped forward to dissuade him.
"General, this is Huaiguo's plan to lure the enemy. This battle will definitely be a false defeat. If we pursue rashly, we will definitely fall into Huaiguo's treacherous plan!"
"Nonsense, the Huai Kingdom has been defeated. Now is the time to pursue. You are not scared out of your wits by the Huai people!"
However, a few nobles did not listen at all and forcibly ordered the army to pursue them.
When they saw that Chu's army had actually arrived, several generals from Huai's state were also surprised. Doesn't the Chu general know that he should send scouts to search first, and then pursue after it's safe?
Seeing that the Chu generals were so clumsy and the army was advancing rashly, how could Wu Qi be so polite and directly ordered all the ambush troops to come out and capture the Chu army in one fell swoop?
Then the army marched straight in and defeated the capital of Ying in one battle.
(End of chapter)
