In the water battle of Fuling Lake, Taoqiu wiped out the Huaibei Water Division of Chu State in the first battle, not only so that Surabaya, Suishui, Danshui and other rivers in the Song Dynasty no longer threatened by waterways, if Dai Yan was willing, he could even send troops to go upstream and capture the land of Huaishui!

But he didn't. He saw it very clearly, the outside must first be settled, and now the biggest problem in Taoqiu is not to resist external troubles, or even to expand the territory, to defeat Suiyang first, and to unify the Song State is the most important thing!

After the Battle of Fuling Lake, the army that confronted the Taoqiu Army also underwent some changes. According to the information that Dai Yan obtained through the front line, Suiyang and the Chu army already had plans to cancel the confrontation and return to their respective territories.

After receiving such news, he didn't care about continuing to command the naval army to pursue the Chu army's naval division in Xiapi, and immediately ordered the naval division to establish a stronghold near Fuling Lake to guard the main roads between Huaishui and Surabaya. After that, he immediately returned to the army camp near Xiangyi to deal with military and political affairs.

Through discussions with the staff officers and even the generals, Dai Yan believes that whether it is Suiyang or the Chu army, they should really have the intention of returning to the territory and fighting again in the future.

The truth is actually very simple, war is to achieve victory. Now all the waterways along the Song Kingdom have been controlled in the water of Taoqiu, the channel for transporting grain in Taoqiu is unimpeded, Suiyang and the Chu army continue to consume with Taoqiu, and it will definitely not be Taoqiu who will fail in the end!

Hua Rong, who led Suiyang, and Zhao Hua, the commander of the Chu army, were not brain-dead NPCs, but commanders with extremely high IQs. They have a high IQ, so they know how to make trade-offs and don't let themselves fall into a situation where they are bound to lose!

However, if Suiyang and the Chu army retreated, it would also be extremely unfavorable for Tao Qiu. In Dai Yan's view, soldiers are expensive, not long. The division of the Song State is naturally the best thing for the surrounding powers, and they are also happy to see a divided Song State. If before the Battle of Fuling Lake, the civil war between Taoqiu and Suiyang, everyone was in a state of parity, then now Taoqiu is obviously in the upper hand.

In today's Warring States period, powerful neighbors are a threat to themselves. Dai Yan knew very well that when King Wei Hui ascended the throne at the beginning of that year, a civil war broke out in Wei, and Korea and Zhao intervened in the Wei civil war, thinking of weakening Wei by splitting Wei into two countries. Although this strategy ultimately failed because of the feud between Korea and Zhao. But no one can deny that it is in the best interests of one's own country to divide one unified neighbor!

Take the Celestial Empire in later generations as an example, during the Korean War, the rabbit had millions of soldiers who fought a hundred battles from the civil war, coupled with the powerful military industry of the woolly bear, everyone worked together, and it may not be impossible to drive the United Nations army to the other side of the sea and help the stick achieve unification. But why didn't the rabbit and the furry bear do this, and draw a 38th parallel to reach an armistice? In fact, it is easy to explain: it is to divide the stick into two countries and weaken its strength!

The entire Korean Peninsula covers an area of more than 200,000 square kilometers and has a population of more than 70 million. If it were to be unified, it would be a country with a territory and population comparable to that of the British. If the economic development of the north and south of the country is balanced, and they all reach the point of the southern rod in the future, this will appear another neon next to the rabbit! In order to eliminate this threat, the stick is still divided into two halves that are more evenly balanced, and it is most advantageous for rabbits and woolly bears!

And the later war between the rabbits and the southern monkeys was actually to achieve such a goal. For rabbits, if the bald eagle could compete a little bit, and the southern monkey who supported it also competed a little, and divided the monkey into two halves, everyone might not be able to achieve the same ending as the stick. But neither the bald eagle nor the southern monkey were angry, so that the monkey completed the reunification of the north and the south, and the rabbit saw that he had barely recognized the aid for many years.

And the monkey that defeated the bald eagle began to swell. It wants to unify all the lands left behind by its former master, the Gallic Chicken, fulfill its dream of a large monkey empire, and begin to ask the rabbits for help. For this possible threat, the rabbit naturally refused. Then the monkey ignored the help that the rabbit had given it, and began to work its own to complete its "dream", and as a result, it underestimated the rabbit's political skills. The rabbit's family shouted, "The child is disobedient, it's time to spank." Then the monkey was punched by the rabbit and could not get up, and after ten years of confrontation, it continued to bleed, and its dream of unifying Indochina naturally became a dream forever.

Until the eve of Dai Yan's crossing, the monkey's territory exceeded 300,000 square kilometers and the population exceeded 90 million, and if its economy continued to develop, it may not be able to become a neon-like existence. However, because the monkey did not fulfill its dream of a big monkey empire, its territory was only less than 50 kilometers at its narrowest point, and the rabbit really wanted to deal with it, so he directly sent a few warships to break its waist with a light blow to its narrowest small waist! Monkeys have such huge flaws that it is impossible for them to be a real threat to rabbits.

Continuing to divide a small country and weaken it is almost an innate strategic thinking of a large country. The Wei State around the Song State used to be the overlord of the world, the premier super power, and the Chu State and the Qi State are also the big countries in the first echelon of strength today, Dai Yan believes that if the Song State is divided into two weak countries, the surrounding three countries will be happy to see it!

If he was just an ordinary feudal lord, Dai Yan would also be willing to make a truce with Suiyang, after all, he has now occupied such a vast land through the war, which is considered a big profit. However, now that the continued victory has swelled his ambitions, he has also been able to see the situation more clearly. He knows very well that today's Taoqiu has actually developed to a bottleneck, and is tied to the chariot of capitalism, it needs many things to support its development, population, markets, raw materials and everything else, these things are the nourishment it needs to continue to develop!

And to achieve all this, it is necessary to have strong strength, a vast living space to develop, and build a capitalist empire! In order to build this empire, it needs to devour the entire Song Kingdom and use the flesh and blood of the entire Song Kingdom to allow it to continue to develop. And in the future, he may devour more countries!

Let the soldiers of Suiyang return safely and start spring ploughing, which seems to be extremely beneficial to Taoqiu militarily. Politically, however, it has not been able to keep up with the situation! In the past, Taoqiu confronted its opponents everywhere and built a transportation system with sailors and merchant ships as a defensive strategy. Because the opponent is too strong, it can't deal with so many opponents at the same time, so it can only defend. And now Taoqiu, in order to avoid the split of the Song Kingdom, it can't eat enough flesh and blood, and it can no longer continue to defend, what it needs is to attack!

What Tao Qiu needs strategically is to attack, but on the frontal battlefield, it is still at a disadvantage! After all, the Battle of Fuling Lake only wiped out the Huaishui Division of the Chu State, and did not cause the slightest damage to the Chu army and Suiyang army stationed on both sides of Suishui near Xiangyi!

Even if it is a single battlefield, let the Taoqiu army face the Suiyang army, and the Taoqiu army is less numerous than the Suiyang army. In the era of cold weapons where the number of people determines the strength of the army, the Taoqiu army is weaker than the Suiyang army on the frontal battlefield!

Since ancient times, there is only the strong attacking the weak, where is the weak attacking the strong? Therefore, when Dai Yan proposed that the Taoqiu Army needed to take the initiative to attack the Suiyang Army, both the staff officers and the generals were in an uproar, everyone thought that the lord had gone crazy, otherwise how could he make such a crazy decision!

Even Tang Ying, the most courageous general under Dai Yan, persuaded Dai Yan with a tactful attitude: "Lord, I will never be afraid when I go to the battlefield, but now that we have decided the lives of tens of thousands of troops, is the Lord more cautious?" ”

Dai Yan waved his hand and said directly to the generals: "You don't need to say it anymore, I have already made a decision, we can't let the Suiyang army return to Suiyang safely!" If we let them go, the difficulty of our future capture of Suiyang will increase dramatically, and we may never even be able to get Suiyang! No matter how difficult it is, the decisive battle with Suiyang is imperative now! ”

Seeing such a resolute attitude of the sovereign, the generals gathered had no choice but to accept Dai Yan's point of view. However, let an army of more than 80,000 people attack an army of more than 100,000 people, no one can think of a good strategy.

In the silence, the young general Le Yi stood up again and said: "Lord, I think that we can continue to use the method of defending instead of attacking to force the opponent to fight a decisive battle with us!" ”

"How do you defend instead of attack?" Hearing Le Yi's words, someone at the scene immediately asked.

Hearing other people's questions, Le Yi said with a smile: "Follow with infantry, harass with cavalry, and force Suiyang to fight a decisive battle with us!" ”

It's as simple as that? The crowd felt a little incredible! No matter what Hua Rong Lecheng and his ilk say, they are also powerful ministers of the Song Kingdom. Not to mention anything else, IQ is always online, and leading troops to fight is also experienced, you say that forcing him to fight with us can make the opponent honestly fight with us?

After Le Yi finished speaking, he didn't say much, looked at Dai Yan directly, and let Dai Yan make a decision!

Hearing such a simple approach, Dai Yan couldn't help but fall into deep thought. Such a simple approach? Will the Suiyang Army be fooled? The answer is, definitely!

As the leader of Taoqiu, Dai Yan is an ambitious figure, and he can understand Hua Rong's mood very well! Hua Rong is willing to introduce the power of Chu to the State of Chu to fight against Tao Qiu and complete the dream of controlling the State of Song, can he be a good stubble? He, like Dai Yan, is also an ambitious figure!

If this time, in the confrontation between the two sides, Hua Rong will return to Suiyang, and the Chu army will also return to the fiefdom. With the fortified city of Suiyang and the sufficient population near Suiyang, Suiyang should be able to support Taoqiu's attack for more than half a year! But what happens after that?

After controlling most of the Song Kingdom, Taoqiu will inevitably become stronger and stronger, and Suiyang will inevitably become weaker and weaker! Even if there is a state of Chu as a backer in the future, and the state of Song is divided into two countries, Suiyang can survive for a long time, and what is given to Hua Rong is only a weak small country, which is intolerable to the ambitious Hua Rong!

To make a choice between a lingering breath and a bright future, a careerist like Hua Rong must choose a bright future, even if the hope of achieving this future is very slim, and it needs to take great risks to gamble!

A true careerist with a gambler's trait! Dai Yan has such a specificity, and Hua Rong will inevitably have it! Such a simple truth, Dai Yan didn't understand it before, but now after Le Yi mentioned it a little, he immediately understood!

Being able to guess the psychology of the leaders of both sides, and formulate seemingly simple, but actually profound tactics based on this psychology, also makes Dai Yan pay more and more attention to Le Yi!

Dai Yan accepted the tactical strategy proposed by Le Yi. When he wanted to appoint Le Yi to implement this strategy, Le Yi directly refused! He only asked Dai Yan to allow him to take full command of Taoqiu's cavalry to harass the Suiyang army.

Dai Yan agreed with Le Yi's suggestion and gave him a greater mandate: to give him complete freedom of movement, and to allow him to insert into the battlefield at a certain time and solve the battle!

Subsequently, under the personal leadership of Dai Yan, more than 80,000 Suiyang troops directly set off from the village, continued to advance along Suishui, and placed a position less than ten miles away from the Suiyang army camp, silently staring at the Suiyang army's actions!

Seeing the actions of Taoqiu's army, Hua Rong, who personally commanded more than 100,000 troops, was ecstatic in his heart! The Taoqiu army is finally willing to come out of the well-defended camp for a decisive battle! As long as he did not attack the fortified city, he was not afraid of a decisive battle with the army of Taoqiu.

In the previous confrontation with the Taoqiu army, he could not see any hope of victory, so he could only retreat! At this time, he was already able to see a glimmer of victory from the deployment of the Taoqiu army! As long as you can defeat the Taoqiu army, the dream of revitalizing the family for many years and taking the whole Song Kingdom will become a reality!