When the monk was besieged, the fleet led by the red had not yet set off from Zhufang Harbor. Despite this, it was impossible for the state of Chu to send reinforcements to the Sangha. In September, the corn was harvested, and the warehouses of the Qin State, which was temporarily short of grain, were full of corn, and Zhibisi believed that the Qin army would make some moves this winter, and suggested that a nationwide mobilization should be started in October, whether it was in the east or in the hometown, soldiers should be recruited and the army should be assembled.

Such a proposal was undoubtedly vetoed by the Great Sima Mansion and the Zheng Dynasty, and the current problem of the Chu army was that the soldiers were not trained and there was a shortage of officers, especially a shortage of qualified grassroots officers. A pawn needs a pawn commander, two partial chiefs, five two chiefs (one, two, three columns, forty-five people), and fifteen column commanders (i.e., one column) each of the principal and deputy chiefs, in addition to drummers, standard-bearers, clerks and other related military officials.

The above are spearmen, and thirty-six archers. A spearman without an archer is very dangerous, and if the front is resisted, the enemy shoots arrows - there is always a weak point in the armor, and fifteen steps of the crossbow can break the armor, and the consequences are unimaginable. Only by suppressing the Qin crossbowmen with archers can we avoid being hit by the enemy's strong crossbows under the dense array.

There are 16 soldiers in each of the 30 divisions, a total of 480 soldiers, and about 5,000 of these 480 soldiers and officers at the grassroots level and 15,000 are needed for the chief and deputy column commanders.

According to the basic principles of the Chu army's army building, whether it is a later generation of non-commissioned officers such as the chief and deputy column commanders, or grassroots officers and military officials such as the two chiefs, partial chiefs, and pawn commanders, they all require localization as much as possible. Only localization can form resilience between non-commissioned officers and non-commissioned officers, and between non-commissioned officers and officers. If we change the narrative mode, it is to make the county pawns and yi pawns gangs, gangs, and underworlds, and the army does not belong to the state, but only to the local nobles and commoners.

This is isomorphic to the political system of the Chu state, where power comes from force, force comes from the army, and the army comes from the nobles and nobles and the common people under their jurisdiction. The organizational structure and hierarchy within the armed forces are the organizational structure and hierarchical hierarchy in realpolitik.

It's a pity that there are no nobles in the West, not even a wealthy family, only the honorable people who have just been divided. Even if the nobles were drawn from the eastern land, there were only nobles in the places with many clans in the western part of the eastern region, and the Song land and the Wu land were still blank.

The lack of nobility makes it difficult for the old land to build an army like the eastern land, and if the nobility is left behind to build an army, it will be a precursor to the nationalization of the army. Can the army be nationalized? Of course not.

"Nationalization of the army" is contrary to the 800-year-old tradition of the Chu State; "Nationalization of the army" is detrimental to the nature of the Chu army; The "nationalization of the army" is divorced from the realistic requirements of the politics of Chu County; The "nationalization of the army" runs counter to the fundamental interests of the state of Chu.

Among the "de-aristocracy of the armed forces, the depoliticization of the armed forces" and the "nationalization of the armed forces," the "nationalization of the armed forces" is the most demagogic. The hostile forces deliberately disturb the relationship between the political party, the state and the army, oppose the political attributes of the armed forces against the attributes of the state, negate the political attributes of the armed forces with the national attributes of the armed forces, and then negate the absolute leadership of the aristocracy over the armed forces. This is not only politically harmful, but also theoretically unreasonable, and even less feasible in practice, an illusory paradox.

The result of the Zheng Dynasty's decision was that it would rather form an army later than an army, and it would also insist that the nobles (surnamed Mi) lead the army, and never form an army in which the common people command the common people.

In this context, even if Zhibisi provided convincing information, the national mobilization was completely rejected, and not a single Chu sergeant was reinforced. Some are just the private pawns of the Bai clan, the Yi clan, the Kong clan, the Xian clan, the Shi clan, the Guo clan, the Duan clan, the Tian clan, the Cheng clan, the Diao clan, the Wuyan clan, and the Bing clan.

More precisely, it was a mercenary army composed of great merchants and magnates of the world, and most of the soldiers in it were hired. Among the nations, the soldiers who were willing to be hired were mainly in the kingdom of Qi. But the soldiers of Qi are not so easy to hire, and they must do everything possible to get the talisman to go abroad, otherwise no matter how much money they have, they will not be able to pull people away.

Fortunately, among the private sea boats built by cypress and cypress, the Tian family accounted for almost half. Although Tian's Haizhou was not detained in the port of Sangrakha, it was detained in the port of Wubulai, and it was not one, but twelve ships - Qi was not famous for producing grain, and fish, salt, silk and hemp were the specialties of Qi, so the vast majority of Qi's wine had to be imported from other countries, and as soon as the wine tax rose, Tian's Haizhou all went to the Persian Gulf to ship local jujube wine and wine transferred from the Mediterranean, and then it was detained.

The Tian clan intervened to mediate, and the Zhu clan hired about 6,000 elite soldiers from the Qi state, and in addition to the Qi state, the Bai clan and the Yi clan of the Wei state, and the Guo clan and the Duan clan of the Zhao state also brought out a thousand people from their own country, plus the children of the twelve clans, as well as the servants, barely managed to scrape together an army of about 10,000 people, and set out from the Zhu side in early November to help the monk Luojia thousands of miles away.

On the lighthouse, the lookout post of the Chu army saw this army hired by the twelve great merchants. 10,000 soldiers were scattered on sixty or seventy gluttonous cargo ships, and from a distance, the deck to the mast were full of people. After confirming that it was their own fleet, the flag that reinforcements had arrived was issued from the lighthouse, and the military officials at the head of the city forgot the etiquette and shouted: "Reinforcements are coming!" Reinforcements are coming! ”

"Reinforcements are ...... the last place", including Ou Zhe, were stunned for a moment when they heard the words, and then shouted and cried with joy.

After several months of siege, the greatest pressure was not the enemy's attack, but the enemy's failure to attack. As soon as the reinforcements arrived, everyone seemed to have been given a shot of strength, and immediately shouted wildly.

The Pandias are not dancing, but worshipping Shiva in order to sweep away the Chu people in the Sanghaja harbor under Shiva's blessing. The madness of the Chu people in the city stunned them, and they still launched a second round of attacks, and the pagans were in danger of perdition, and for a time everyone worshipped the queen who was dancing. What they didn't see was that east of Jaffna Island, two Pandia sentinels were desperately rowing west to warn the besieging army.

Although the Indian ships were extremely rudimentary, and although the Pandia was a trading power, the Seleucids and Egyptians did not export the technology of three-oared warships to them, and what they did have was the old stitched ships with large wings. The ships cruising in the sea east of Jaffna saw the gunboat Chaos sailing at the forefront from a distance of more than ten kilometers, and then rowed back. But under the strong northeast monsoon, the full-sail gunboats and gluttonous cargo ships quickly caught up with them.

The gunboats had no interest in such a small target, and the lighthouse lookout had already informed the enemy of the situation in the Pauk Strait, and it was only right not to entangle with these two small boats, and to quickly enter the strait to bombard the Pandia fleet. The gunboat was harmless, but the mercenaries of the Qi State on the gluttonous-class cargo ship behind the gunboat were in an uproar.

For the sake of money, thousands of people came to fight thousands of miles away, and now the enemy appeared in front of him. They first pointed at the Pandians on the sewing boat, then cursed, and finally simply mounted the bowstring and shot arrows at the stitched boat. But the arrows were in vain, and the northeast monsoon was strong, and the distance was so far apart that the arrows were swept away by the north wind after flying forty or fifty paces, and none of them landed on the sewing boat.

Although the arrows missed, the Pandians on the sewing boat suddenly became involved in a convoy of more than sixty boats, one after another large ships passed by, and suddenly forgot their direction, and they were stumbling left and right in the convoy to avoid being knocked into the sea by the boats. The boats were large and the seaboats were small, and none of them would risk bumping into the two enemy sentinels, both of which were heading straight for the Pauk Strait, ready to land after the gunboats had cleared the enemy fleet.

The shrill drums of 'Knock Knock Knock' sounded again under the city, and although the sentinel ships did not warn, there were also Pandian soldiers at the eastern end of Jaffna Island. Hill-like gunboats approached from the sea, and the news immediately reached the city. However, it was too late by this time, and the Chaos had already opened its gun door and aimed at the Pandia battleship at the entrance to the channel.

"Fire!" Hongji held a cup of tea and ordered without changing his face.

The gunners on the artillery deck shouted, and with a 'boom', the thirty-two pound naval guns roared at the enemy ships. The cannon roared like thunder, and the solid cannonballs fired from the flames shattered a stitched ship in front of it. The smoke of the firing spread not only across the entire deck, but also throughout the strait.

When the first salvo was over, most of the Pandia warships at the entrance to the strait were gone, and there were only six Chaos class gunboats on the sea.

"Pan people want to dance again." Ou Zhe, who witnessed this scene on the city wall, said with a smile, but no one around him could laugh like him. The gunboat was hung with a three-headed phoenix flag representing the king, but the unbelievable bombardment of the gunboat was terrifying.

In the midst of everyone's fear, the gunboat opened fire again, and the Chaos, whose sail skills were far superior to that of cargo ships, sailed from the top of Jaffna Island, with a gap of more than 400 meters between the large and small joints, into the bay between the joints, and began to shell the barracks of the Pandian army along the coast, the baggage, and the soldiers who remained in the tents. Under the raging artillery fire, boats, vehicles, and baggage were in shambles, and soldiers and ghosts cried wolves and fled everywhere.

As the Chaos got closer to the harbor, the cannonballs it fired were already able to damage the Pandian army on the west side of the city. At this time, it was no longer a gunboat from the Chaos that was bombarding, but the Chaos and Shu were also bombarding with the Chaos into this bay. A few shells fell among the elephants, and the elephants, who were already panicked by the sound of the cannons, suddenly bombed the camp.

More than 300 war elephants were more than 300 heavy chariots, which scattered in all directions, and rushed into chaos in the Pandian army, which had been loosened. The soldiers abandoned the queen on the float and ran to wherever they felt safe. Ou Zhe, who saw this scene at the head of the city, regretted it, he should have ordered his soldiers to go out of the city and pursue while they were in chaos.