The reason why the Central Plains surpasses the Jingchu land in the Great River Basin in many aspects such as politics and culture is precisely because the development of the Great River Basin has begun since ancient times, especially the feudal princes at the beginning of the establishment of the Ji and Zhou Dynasty, that is, most of the important princes were divided along the Great River Basin, and it is precisely because of this that the degree of civilization of the Central Plains is obviously several eras ahead of other regions.

Nanyang was regarded as the edge of the Central Plains at first, and it can be regarded as the Central Plains, and it can also be divided into the Central Plains, and it is such an embarrassing position that after Han Kui entered the political Great Qin, the advanced culture of the Central Plains was introduced into the Great Qin, especially the Yingyin area was obtained in the battle between the Qin army and South Korea, which included the territory of the Central Plains to include the border of the Great Qin.

Correspondingly, the river has also become the most important river in Daqin, especially Han Kui attaches great importance to water conservancy, and the transportation capacity of the river is basically the same as that of the Daqin Straight Road.

The 30,000 Yulin army rushed to the south naturally not through the Great Qin Straight Road, and with the opening of the Shuishui River on the Nanyang side, there were already more than 100 grain boats and ships in the Qin State, which was enough to send part of the Yulin army to Ruoguan in the south first.

On the Nanjun side, a fleet was also sent to Nanyang Shuyang, not Wu Kang's Han Naval Army, but Nanjun's own naval fleet, which was the original Xinye Army, to be precise, it was the former Xinye Army General Guan Ning's cronies Qu Shuishui Yi, and it was also the new camp of the Xiangyang Army.

This military horse is led by Fang De, there is no need for Lin Yuyan to worry about anything, after taking over the Lin flag, Lin Yuyan is in Wancheng to rest, the military horse drill has its own special generals in charge, Lin Yuyan stayed after the New Year, Wancheng after the matter told Zheng Dan, is rushed to Jiangxia.

And the imperial court of Great Qin also selected the candidates who went to Xincai in early March, Qin Gong went to it, Shouying negotiated and Bailihuai was personally responsible, and the state affairs of Daqin were also temporarily taken care of by Han Kui, Qin Gong went to Xincai should be in mid-February to leave Xincai, and it is very likely that Daqin's army guarding Qin Gong in Xincai will leave Xincai at this time.

Lin Yuyan came to Jiangxia so early, in addition to dispatching Jiangxia's Yunmengjun to Nanjun to join the division, in fact, the most important thing was to look at the new weapons created by Jiangxia's foundry.

If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools, and Lin Yuyan also instructed Jiangxia's foundry to create a lot of siege weapons in order to go south.

For example, the catapult!

This catapult does not refer to the catapult that is prevalent in the Central Plains today, but has improved a lot on the basis of the original catapult, especially after the standard weights and measures implemented by Daqin, the general size of the catapult has been accurate to the inch, and some of the details are refined in points.

It is not as simple and crude as the catapults originally made by Daqin, the brackets of these catapults all have scales, and even the stones used in the catapults are almost the same in size, this is because, in the future, as long as the crosshair strength of a catapult is calculated, and the other catapults are adjusted to the same value, they can be used on the battlefield as soon as possible.

It is this kind of excellence, especially in the new catapult on the addition of the "lever principle" and "winch accumulation" two major killers, Daqin's new catapult throwing distance has reached a distance of more than 100 zhang, which is twice the original catapult, even the most advanced catapult in the Central Plains in front of Daqin's new catapult, there is no pride!

The catapult was developed at the end of November, and during this time, even some people who were not working in the countryside were recruited, and dozens of catapults were finally produced in late January.

I have to say that the glory of the old Qin people in Nanyang has gradually evolved from the most important means of protecting the family and defending the country in the past to the biggest obstacle to the progress of the Great Qin.

However, in Jiangxia, Jiangxia, who did not have the slightest restraint in this regard, incorporated the merchants into the official system one step ahead of Nanyang, and became the most important means to control the circulation of Daqin copper coins.

During this time, the grain and a large amount of cloth from the Jiangxia Commercial Bank were sent to Nanjun, no accident, as long as it was in the territory of Qin, it was natural to know what it meant to conquer Jingdi in the south of Daqi, especially the old people who were devastated by the Jingdi army, after learning that the army of Daqin attacked Jingdi, they all warned their sons and nephews to go into battle to kill the enemy and avenge the tragic deaths of their relatives!

Those Jiangxia Qingzhuang, who were not naturalized, heard the promise of the Great Qin Imperial Court that "all the soldiers of the Southern Expedition will be promoted to the old Qin people", and they also went out with the army one after another, and they joined the company of their subordinates and contributed their own strength to the Southern Expedition of Great Qin.

In this way, the number of personnel who ensured the logistics of the regular army, such as food and grass baggage, was close to 200,000 in Jiangxia alone, and many of them were young and strong men in Jiangxia, who had suffered from the devastation of the Jingdi army!

These subordinates or civilians of Great Qin have also undergone simple military drills, in order to be able to select a group of combatable soldiers as much as possible in the future once the Qin army is short of manpower on the battlefield.

Since then, Jiangxia's state of preparedness has lasted for more than a month, Yunmengjun has already opened Nanjun, the time is already early February, and Qin Gong also set out from Wancheng and rushed to Xincai in Chu State.

Sure enough, the new Cai alliance of the Chu State is really huge, in addition to the Wu State and the Qin State, like the vassal state of the Chu State, the small princes such as the Cai State and the Chen State also sent thousands or more than 10,000 troops to the alliance, in addition, even the Ba State and Yong State in the west of Wuling in Jingdi also sent important envoys to participate in the alliance, with the main army of the Chu State, and wanted to become the fourth road of the battle of Jing, that is, the Western Route Army.

Yongguo is located in the mountains, has lost the scenery of the early establishment of Ji Zhou in the past, as for Ba is more and more west of Shu has hundreds of years of grievances, although it is the formation of the Western Route Army, but compared to the Chu State, Wu State and Qin State at every turn hundreds of thousands of troops, it is still a small thing, the entire Western Route Army added up to only more than 10,000 people, so their goal is also simple, just fancy the Qin State and the Chu State abandoned the Wuling Land.

The Xincai Hui League is the most powerful Hui League in the Central Plains in the past ten years, and the inscription sent by the Chu State as the leader of the alliance is also a statement, Jingdi is a mob usurped the royal system, and the use of ghosts and gods to demagogue people's hearts and evil spirits, so even the Ji Zhou royal family, which parted ways with the Chu royal family, also sent an envoy and gave the Chu State "Gizzard", which is also a reward.

Wu Chu is a feud, according to common sense, even if the king of Wu is to aid Chu this time, but the gentleman does not stand under the dangerous wall, he should be wise to protect himself, and send a minister in the country to the Chu National Alliance, but the king of Wu came to Xin Cai in person.

Compared with the relief of the Duke of Qin, although King Wu seemed to be risky, he actually brought a lot of armor.

On the surface, for the sake of King Wu's aid to Chu, the King of Chu still thanked him many times, as for the Duke of Qin, the King of Chu did not have the grand reception of King Wu, but he did not lose his courtesy.

In the ancient Yao Shun era, Bo Yi because of Zuo Dayu's meritorious work in controlling the water, had been sealed here as the country of Lu Hou, to a hundred years ago, Cai Pinghou moved the capital to this place named "Caizhou", and later named "New Cai".

This is also the former capital of the Cai State, but after the first king of the Chu State destroyed the Cai State, this generation of Chu kings was also once crowned by the King of Chu, and after the original Cai Gong became the king of Chu today, the Cai State and the Chen State were restored, but the original Cai State as a rich new Cai was not returned, and it was transferred to the territory of the Chu State, and the new capital of the Cai State was moved to Xia Cai.

It is precisely because of the origin of the Chu State in this place that the land of Xincai is enough to accommodate the soldiers and horses brought by the princes from all walks of life, and the King of Chu also wants to establish his prestige and tell the world the mind of the Chu State, so as to lay the foundation for the hegemony of the Great River Basin in the future and the Central Plains in the north.

Although the state of Chu is the land of lost western Chu, but the east of Chu is also a rich land, although it is not enough to support the hegemony of the former state of Chu, but it is also able to ensure the status of the state of Chu in the world of power, the state of Chu in Xincai for the alliance to build a tall tower of sacrifice, it is said that it was built with 200,000 people.

It seems that he intended to show off, but Qin Gong didn't think so, this sacrificial platform was not a little bit different from the Lingyun Platform in the southeast of Qin Palace.

In the past hundred years, the prestige of Ji Zhou Tianzi, the co-lord of the world in the past, is the river is declining, and it is gradually the collapse of etiquette, and today, even the Central Plains countries no longer pay attention to the set of hierarchical etiquette in the Ji Zhou period, especially the three families are divided, and Ji Zhou Tianzi assigned the identity of the three princes of Han, Zhao and Wei, which is even more so.

The king of Chu sat in the north and faced south, and the remaining princes sat on either side of the king of Chu, and the Duke of Qin and the king of Wu sat first on both sides.

The envoy of the Chu State, Qu Ping, who is also the important minister of the court of the Chu State today, recited the inscription of the Chu State under the altar, indicating that he invited all the princes to go to the Xincai Huimeng to fight the mob of the rebellious Jingdi.

The conditions had been negotiated one by one before, but now it was just a ceremony of blood alliance.

It wasn't until the envoys of Ji Zhou Tianzi gave him the gizzard that he understood that the princes took the king of Chu as the leader of the alliance and raised more than 100,000 troops to attack Jingdi!

The king of Chu also pulled out his sword, and took on the leader of the new Cai Hui Alliance, and at that moment the tiger looked at the princes from all walks of life, and said quite vigorously: "Today's covenant has been completed, and the princes will help the Chu State fight!" ”

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Then, the princes or envoys of the alliance naturally sent the entente horses back to the country and raised troops to attack Jingdi.

Lin Yuyan was in Jiangxia, it was the edict to send troops received on March 5, it was sent by the envoy of the Duke of Qin from Xincai day and night, running and killing three horses, after Lin Yuyan saw the edict of sending troops, he also sent Huang Quan to cross the Han River and go to Jingling to invite Shouwang Huanyu to send troops to attack Ganyukou.

There have always been many people in Jingdi, and after Shouwang Huanyu received the food support of Daqin, he also recruited 50,000 troops at dusk, and practiced day and night, in order to avenge Xiong Ji's attack and killing that day!

Lin Yuyan went to Ruoguan in Nanjun, where now there are 80,000 elite soldiers of Great Qin, as well as nearly 100,000 subordinates, which is the main force of Great Qin.

A few days later, Lin Yuyan, who arrived at Ruoguan, also met with the generals of the various military camps in Daqin, but Chen Zhiqing, the general of the Xiangyang Army, told Lin Yuyan extremely bad news.

That is, Xiong Jizhen's soldiers and horses guarding the south of Hanshui in Nanjun County have actually reached 500,000!

Lin Yuyan frowned, and asked at the moment, "Where did Xiong Ji get so many soldiers and horses?!" ”

Chen Zhiqing explained: "The information was obtained from Changsha County, the hinterland of Jing State, as for why Xiong Ji was able to get so many soldiers and horses, I think it should be the help of Qu Yan, the head of the five pillars of Jing State, before the winter of last year, the three armies of Xiangyang, Yunmeng and Hanshui were able to join forces to attack Yanling guarded by Xiong Ji, and now, the city walls outside Ruoguan were all captured by Xiong Ji's army!" ”

Speaking of this, Chen Zhiqing still picked up a long brother from the side: "It's also strange to say, I really didn't expect that the soldiers of Jing Guo, who were usually hungry and poorly clothed, had so many extra leather armor soldiers, and after these battles, it was found that the leather armor army under Xiong Ji had reached 100,000!" ”

"How can there be so many!" Lin Yuyan was also very surprised, although Lin Yuyan also knew about the wealth of Jing Kingdom, those princes who included ninety percent of the wealth of Jing Kingdom in their own hands would probably be an astonishing number once they took it out, but the strange thing was why Jing Kingdom was able to directly convert those wealth into ready-made soldiers and grain so quickly!

Chen Zhiqing also gave his own guess: "A certain guess, probably because these feudal kings of Jingdi all have different intentions, and in the past, they were secretly accumulating strength, and the Zhurong Tiangong who was afraid of Yingdu was so hidden and not taken out, and now the new Cai Huimeng is clearly going to the destruction of Jing Kingdom, and there are no eggs under the nest, and these feudal kings of Jing Kingdom have taken out their hole cards one by one!" ”

"I think so!" Lin Yuyan nodded, only this explanation can make sense at the moment, Xiong Ji has an army of 500,000, and Lin Yuyan is also going to lead 300,000 Qin people to march south!

"Right now, it's the time when Jingdi has survived the cold winter, but the changes in the south of this Han River are still not known, tomorrow send an army to attack a leather armor army under Xiong Ji, visit the reality and then discuss!"

"Whoa!" Chen Zhiqing responded with a fist.

The next day, when the Qin army was about to set out to conquer the city, another unexpected news came suddenly.

"Report! When Ling Huanyu's Shouwang army marched yesterday, it was ambushed and defeated by Xiong Ji's army, and more than half of it was lost! ”