The water thief's reaction to Xiang Yan still needs to be observed for a few days, because the water thief can't tell what Xiang Yan thinks. Moreover, the situation is now extremely complex, with different interests on the issue of water piracy.

The merchants of Chu took the initiative to avoid the way, because the merchants mainly valued the interests of commerce, and they did not want to lose more interests because of a little money, if the loss of interests was enough to make the merchants lose money, then the merchants of the Chu State would take another countermeasure, that is, to take the initiative to kill the water thieves. At present, the water pirates only levy some protection fees on the merchants of the Chu State in the past. This protection fee is exactly within the psychological price range that is acceptable to both parties. For the time being, there is no time for a large-scale struggle of interests between the two sides.

The Qin merchants took a drastic approach, forming armed merchant fleets one after another under the control of the military. Take a tough stance on all the obstacles that stand in their way to prosperity. This toughness comes from the embodiment and symbol of Qin's national strength. They don't take water thieves seriously at all.

And the upper echelons of the Chu State thought the same, and the upper echelons of the Chu State, who had received various benefits from the Qin State, were not willing to let these water thieves interfere with their big business. They monopolized the collection and production, primary processing, and transportation of a large number of raw materials in the Chu State. Regarding this behavior of water piracy, the upper echelons of the Chu State also have this radical view.

"A water thief is a water thief, and once you enter the water, you will be a thief for life. If we don't eradicate it, we will destroy our great things. A nobleman of the Chu State said at the banquet of the nobles. It can be seen that for the problem of water piracy. The idea of the aristocracy is very simple, that is, to exterminate it, to exterminate it permanently.

On the one hand, the surface ship forces of the Qin State frequently challenged the Chu State Naval Army. It is in a delicate relationship with the water pirates. The nobles put pressure on them as frequently as the surface ship forces of the Qin State, and under this pressure, the Chu State naval army naturally chose to win over them.

No matter what tactics the Chu navy adopts, some of these forces need to form a new alliance in order for the situation to develop again. Just when the water army of the Chu State took new measures. The Qi army finally ran into the main reserve force of the Yan State. The Qi army was on the verge of a tired and ready battle. And the Yan army is a group of troops with no combat power.

It's hilarious to say that this powerless unit is quite funny. It can even be said to be very ridiculous.

When the Qi army broke through the border of the Yan Kingdom, the psychological defense line of the King of Yan was on the verge of collapse when he heard the news. He suddenly felt a sense of danger. He had a feeling that it was very likely that he would be driven away from Yandu again. With this sense of crisis, he first made a decision that he thought was very wise.

He ordered that all the royal property in Yandu be transferred to Liaodong first. At the same time, Liaodong was set up as the capital of Yan State. This was the first major initiative in the Warring States Period, because other countries did not have the idea of setting up a companion capital, and Yan was the first. Yan Wang's move immediately caused a chain reaction.

Panic began on a large scale among the merchants in Yandu. Many merchants began to abandon their family property and then transfer it to Liaodong. What's more, some officials, wealthy businessmen, and other families began to plan to move their families away. In their opinion. Yan Wang's move is not planned to hand over Yandu.

The impact is not only that, the last reserve force of the Yan Kingdom has collapsed under the impact of this news. Those noble children usually play around as soldiers, but now, when the real big war is coming, they are all panicking. So they began to use their own domestic slaves, and even paid people to be soldiers, while they themselves slipped away in advance. They evacuated the area with their families and their families.

Yandu was panicked for a while, and the defending troops did not plan to resist at all. In this way, when the Qi army was advancing rapidly, Yan was busy transferring property and transferring family members. And the state of Qin, the state of Zhao, was busy making money. The diplomats of the Yan State are busy calculating the country's family resources.

When all these busy arrangements were made, King Yan suddenly woke up, and he thought that he still had an army in his hands to use to defend it. Yandu failed to defend several times, and this time he simply didn't defend it.

Since it's not guarded. Then take the initiative. Wouldn't it be a surprise if we defeated the other party? With this in mind, King Yan suddenly ordered the first division of Yan Kingdom, which was defending Yandu, to take the initiative to attack and defeat the invading enemy within three months. This command overwhelmed everyone.

"Didn't you say to withdraw before?" A Yanmin asked after seeing the notice.

"Doesn't that mean annihilating the invading enemy?" Another Yan Min looked at the notice and said. Yan Guo was all confused for a while. They also didn't know what King Yan thought. One will retreat, the other will say that it is going to fight. What the hell is going on, no one can say. Even King Yan himself didn't know what to do.

What is difficult to do is the army, and the army is crazy from top to bottom at this time. Those children of official families who usually lead five or six people by themselves are crazy about spending money to find cannon fodder. The beggars on the streets were pulled out almost in a day.

"Let's go, Ye will give you a good place to eat. There is clothing to wear, and there is food to eat. Don't do anything. So saying, a richly dressed man waved his hand and let two of his men take the beggar away.

The beggar was then given a military uniform and a rusty flintlock pistol, which was not as good for the beggar as his crutches. The number of a division of the Yan army was 30,000. The actual number is less than five thousand. One can think of how many people eat military salaries. Such troops have no combat effectiveness.

5,000 people have become 30,000 in a short period of time, which is not a small number. The commander of the division deducted his military salary on weekdays and was busy with wine. There is no longer the flesh to fight the war. When he heard the news of the war, his first thought was how to save his life. He did the same thing as those officials, transferring family members, property. For the army. He didn't think about it at all.

When the order to go out is given. He panicked. There are simply not so many troops. If King Yan inspects it, he is afraid that he will be beheaded on the spot. And the actual situation is that the 5,000 people who died and dragged it only became more than 12,000. There is still a big gap between 30,000 and 30,000.

In order to make up the number of people, the division commander immediately gave a decisive order.

"Whether it's blind or not. Dumb. Deaf. Silly. As long as it's anyone, I'll arrest them all. "This is an order. The army in Yandu is crazy to arrest people.

"Don't arrest me." An innocent peasant was captured by the army in this way. The soldiers put a number of ropes on them, or tied them away with shackles against the prisoners.

"Hey, hey. Catch me. Hey. Catch me. "A fool who often wanders the streets is chased by a group of soldiers. The fool thinks that this group of soldiers is playing with him. So, he tried his best to hide. And the soldiers really can't catch people. Because people started to hide as soon as they heard the news. I had no choice but to catch some that didn't hide. There is no hiding, and there is only this kind of disabled person.

Soon, the deaf, blind, stupid, and lame people on the streets of Yandu were all arrested and enlisted as soldiers. But that's not enough. But the army soon had a solution.

"Boom." There was a loud bang, and the door of a civilian house was smashed open.

"Ahh The head of the household screamed loudly.

"Catch, get me." A leader shouted.

So the soldiers began to arrest the head of the household. Even boys who had just reached their teenage years were taken with them. The woman looked at it and stopped doing it.

"Why do you arrest my man, why do you arrest my child?" The woman cried out loudly as she grabbed the leader with all her strength. And throughout the street, there is such a noise everywhere. The whole Yan is arresting people, in order to make up the number of people.

"Damn, get out of the way. If you don't get out of the way, I'll kill you. "The leader thinks the woman is very annoying.

"Kill, I won't survive anyway." The woman simply decided to die.

"Damn, you think I don't dare." As he spoke, the leader was about to take a flintlock pistol and break open the trap door to shoot the woman.

"Head, you can't kill it." A little soldier who looked like a person saw that this woman still had a little look, and the ancients got married and had children relatively early. Naturally, the woman's age is not very old. And the little soldiers are still in the army, and those children of the official family have nothing to do, so they are naturally easy to learn some bad things.

"Head, we might as well ・・・・・・・ like this," the soldier said with a wicked smile.

"Good, good. It just so happened that Lao Tzu also wanted to vent his fire. The leader said with a wicked smile.

"Head, this has to be kept secret." The soldier looked at the woman and said.

"Yes, yes." As he spoke, the leader began to become serious.

"Death, death is not so easy." The leader spoke suddenly.

"Come, take this woman down for me." Saying that, a group of soldiers swarmed up, they had long taken a fancy to the woman's appearance, and some misdeeds were inevitable in addition to being bound.

In this way, the Yan army barely managed to make up enough numbers in an extreme time. And this wave of arrests has stopped. King Yan had no interest in looking at his army at all. He just wanted to defeat the Qi army. Immediately, this hastily cobbled together "army" went to war on the road without any review. This relieved the general. Because he really can't come up with anything decent to show the combat effectiveness of the army.

But now it's finally passed. In this way, this special army of cannon fodder, deaf, mute, foolish, peasants who knew nothing, some innocent Yandu people, and the women who were captured with them formed a special army and set out on the road.

Some of them had military uniforms to wear, and those who were captured in the back were sent directly to the battlefield without even being given clothes, and in order to prevent some of them from escaping, this army was tethered to the battlefield. This is probably the first time that an army has been tied to the battlefield.