Chapter 502: Water Attack True Intent
Sure enough, after the Jing army retreated to Yiling, in order to seize the initiative in this war, Chu General Yuanzhang also requisitioned tens of thousands of people to build dams along the coast of Jiangling, and also sent several troops of 10,000 soldiers and horses to attack Yiling.
But as Lin Yuyan expected, the terrain of Yiling is narrow and cramped, Lin Yuyan arranged tens of thousands of horses of the Jing army to guard the mouth of Yiling, and arranged heavy troops to defend along the mountain and water, occupying the right time and place, although Yuanzhang sent several troops and horses to attack Yiling, but in the heavy defense of the Jing army, nothing was gained.
Yuanzhang's many performances also made Lin Yuyan pay attention to this general of the Chu State and promote him to the ranks of the famous generals of the Chu State, and it is precisely because of this that the pressure faced by the Jing army is also increasing day by day.
Originally, Mi Yun didn't want to agree to Lin Yuyan's request to cut the army, and he also wanted to send troops from Yiling to attack the defenders of Chu, but he was vetoed by Lin Yuyan, because the Jing army ensured that it had an invincible advantage in Yiling, and it also handed over all the advantages outside Yiling to the Chu ** team.
Finally, in Yuanzhang's active preparations day after day, Mi Yun finally agreed and allowed the soldiers to be streamlined.
Sure enough, after getting Mi Yun's consent, Lin Yuyan also immediately arranged manpower to streamline the soldiers from the hundreds of thousands of troops, first to eliminate the old and weak, and then to select the tall and powerful young and strong from Jane, and finally after ten days, 30,000 elite soldiers!
And most of the 30,000 elite soldiers are hundreds of commanders, who are from the Qin people, although Mi Yun is helpless, but also admit this matter, since the death of Dongzhu Guo Mi, Jing Guo is not a famous general who can command hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, at this time Lin Yuyan is the only hope that Mi Yun can grasp to defeat the Chu army.
By the end of May, the Jing army was also impounding water in Yiling, and the water potential of the river had completely swelled in late May, and the water level was getting higher and higher day by day, which could not be stopped by manpower.
It was for most of the month, the Jing army almost blocked the sewer with a mountain at the sewer of Yiling, and the entire waterway of Yiling also skyrocketed to the shore that flooded both sides of the bank as high as ten zhang high, and the Jing army stationed in the Yiling area, the old and weak also retreated to the high mountain of Yiling, and some were even waved by Miyun's big hand and directly returned to Wuling County.
Miyun saw such a soaring water potential, if Yiling was not a narrow waterway, there were mountains on both sides of the river blocking the soaring water potential, and the entire middle reaches of the river would have been flooded!
"If this continues, I'm afraid that the water of this great river will not flood Jiangling, but will flood Yiling!" Mi Yun looked at the surging water in Yiling, and also frowned and said, with a worried face, as if he was watching the surging river sooner or later submerge the entire Yiling.
"Then withdraw from Yiling!" Lin Yuyan also said lightly: "The land is dead, the people are alive, Yiling is flooded, the old and weak Jing army is to withdraw to Wuling County, as for the 30,000 elite soldiers, move the location of the camp!" ”
"But ......" Mi Yun still frowned and said: "The Jing army is so loud in Yiling, it must not be able to hide the ears and eyes of the Chu army, not to mention that the Chu army is already building a dam in Jiangling, and it is already on guard, I am afraid that this water attack plan will not be able to attack Jiangling after all!" ”
"Old Chu has governed the river for hundreds of years, but has it ever solved the flood once and for all?" Lin Yuyan asked rhetorically, and then listened to the sound of the waves of the river lapping on the shore, and finally said something to Miyun: "In a war, you must not stare at one city and one pool, since you want to attack the entire Chu country, you might as well focus on the entire land of Chuxi, Jiangling is just a pass in Chuxi after all, Yuanzhang mobilized manpower to build a dam in Jiangling, although it is possible to defend a Jiangling, but what about Chuxi?" ”
"This time to hold the narrow waterway of Yiling for hundreds of miles, the water that has been accumulated for several months is bound to be the largest water potential in the history of the land of Chuxi, even if Yuanzhang sticks to Jiangling, but there is only a fifty percent chance of being able to hold Jiangling, even if Yuanzhang guards Jiangling, then after Jiangling, Yingdu and even ...... The whole land of Chuxi! ”
"This ......" Lin Yuyan's nod made Mi Yun break out in a cold sweat after thinking it through.
Lin Yuyan This is the gaze of the mighty soup river flowing up, and also said: "The time for Yiling to block the water potential is limited after all, and it is the eternal truth that the water flows to a low place, and the river flows out of Kunlun Mountain, how can there be no end, and the Yiling water outlet will collapse one day when it gets to the mountain dam, maybe after a month, maybe half a month, or even ...... Tomorrow! ”
"Once the mountain dam collapses, the accumulated river water will definitely flow thousands of miles, and the natural power of heaven and earth can no longer be stopped by man!" Lin Yuyan sighed after all and said, "Although Yuanzhang is guarding Jiangling, I'm afraid the entire land of Chuxi after Jiangling can't be defended!" ”
"And that is also around July, the people of Chu West regard it as the hope for the coming year, and the follow-up grain and grass of Chu Jiang Yuanzhang are probably going to be buried in the roaring water of this great river!"
Originally, Mi Yun had already vaguely guessed this ending, but since Lin Yuyan said it, Mi Yun knew such serious consequences, and he also broke out in a cold sweat, and then looked at Lin Yuyan and asked, "The casualties of this battle...... Wouldn't it be better than the Battle of Yancheng! ”
"The battle of Yancheng is just borrowing Han Water and Yan Shui, but this time, it is borrowing the water of the entire Great River!"
Although Lin Yuyan did not say it explicitly, he had already given Mi Yun a definite reply, after all, he was the former lord of Jing Land, and Mi Yun was really unacceptable to Lin Yuyan's actions this time, but when he thought that all the generals of Jing State were dead or died in the hands of Chu State, Mi Yun still subconsciously agreed to do so.
Lin Yuyan also noticed Mi Yun's face, and after a few breaths, he also said: "When the great river floods ravaged the land of western Chu, the Han naval army of Great Qin at that time was also in eastern Chu, and they would do their best to rescue the people of Jing who were affected by the flood!" ”
In this way, Mi Yun felt a little better, but despite this, Mi Yun also knew that once the river that had been accumulated for several months broke out, how could it be completely rescued by manpower.
After this battle, I don't know how many families survived in the land of Chuxi, where the flood was raging, and how many people could survive?!
"Ordered the army of Yiling, 30,000 elite soldiers to drill, and the rest cut down the trees of Yiling, and on the day when the river breaks the dam, sharpen the two ends of the trees, and then throw them into the river to break the Jiangling!"