The establishment of the Chuyue Alliance made Le Yi extremely surprised and extremely sad. Although he didn't know that there was a reason why the Wu people and the East China Sea nobles worked at the same time to destroy the relationship between the Yue people and the Song State, he had to deal with this sudden extra enemy!

Now in the hands of Le Yi, the troops gathered from Wu have 40,000 troops from the southern expedition of the Song State, plus 40,000 Wu troops recruited from Wu land, and a total of more than 80,000 troops of the Songwu Coalition Army. In this army, the logistics of the Song army were transported entirely by sea by the nobles of the East China Sea; The logistics of the Wu army were supplied by the Song army in a small part, and most of them were provided by the local Wu people.

This army was in his hands, and thus continued the consistent style of the Song army's marching operations: the priority was to ensure that the logistics were unharmed.

However, although the Song army did not need to worry about logistics, Le Yi could not let the army stay in Wu for a long time. In Yunyang, more and more Chu troops began to be gradually concentrated, plus the number of troops that the Yue people could assemble, there were also more than the Wu people, and the longer the Song army dragged on in Wu, the more unfavorable it would be to themselves!

In his opinion, the original battle plan of the Song army was to use the landed Song army and the Wu army as a sharp knife directly into the heart of the Chu army. However, he didn't expect that although this sharp knife was inserted, it was surrounded by a heavy encirclement, and now not only could he not directly stab the Chu army to death, but even his own sharp knife might face the danger of collapse!

If you want to stab the Chu army to death, that is, completely defeat the Chu army, you must let the Song-Wu coalition army get out of the situation of being surrounded by the Chu-Yue coalition army in the north and south! For any general, fighting on both sides is an extremely unfavorable outcome!

When the Yue people declared war on the Song army, Le Yi stepped up the reconnaissance of the Chu and Vietnamese armies. In Yuedi, after many years of war with the Chu State, now that the population has decreased sharply, the number of troops that can be mobilized will be more than that of the Wu people, but the gap will not be too big, Le Yi estimates that the Yue people will probably be able to mobilize an army of about 60,000 people.

And the Chu army in the north, in the front of Huainan and Jiangbei, is shrinking, plus the army from all over the south of the Yangtze River, the total number of people exceeds 100,000!

Of course, even if the Song-Chu war has become white-hot, the Chu army will naturally not relax on some important cities in the south of the Yangtze River, such as Jinling. Even so, according to Le Yi's estimates, the Chu army in Yunyang in the north is at least more than 80,000 people!

If the Song army wants to get rid of the state of Chu and Yue, it must choose to completely defeat it all the way! According to the opinions of the Wu people and the nobles of the East China Sea, it was best for the Song army to naturally abandon the Chu army and march south, and directly defeat the Yue army!

This is not only because the Yue army is a relatively easy persimmon to pinch compared to the Chu army, but more importantly, once the Song army breaks through the Yue land, then this land, as well as the territories in the south that are gradually discovered by the merchants, will gradually fall under their control.

However, Le Yi was extremely determined and directly chose to let the army go north and directly conquer the Chu army! In his opinion, if the Song State can't take down Yunyang, not only will the Wu land be unstable in the future, but even the Jiangbei land that has been obtained now may also be lost!

Businessmen and heroes may value immediate interests and give up long-term strategic interests, but a real celebrity will never make such a mistake! Le Yi is obviously a real celebrity!

However, Le Yi will not hit the confidence of the nobles of the East China Sea and the heroes of Wu for no reason, although the Yue people in the south have been hit by the Chu State many times, but their own strength is still not to be underestimated. Le Yi naturally needs to specially dispatch an army to deal with the Yue people!

After half a month of intense training, Le Yi did not continue to wait, allowing the Chu army and the Vietnamese army to gather more strength. He directly began to divide the large army of Wu Di into two routes, from the south and the north to deal with the Yue and Chu coalition forces.

The main force of the Song army was naturally mainly to deal with the Chu army. Le Yi personally led all the infantry of the Song army, plus half of the Wu army, a total of 60,000 people, to the north to engage the Chu army.

As for the Vietnamese army, Le Yi chose to take all the cavalry of the Song army, plus the remaining half of the Wu army, to defend against the Yue army. As a famous general who came out of the war, Le Yi believes that the best defense is offense!

The cavalry's powerful mobility gives it unparalleled attack power! In Le Yi's view, the defense of Yue Di must not be carried out in accordance with the general city defense and guarding the city gate, but should directly attack the heart of the Yue people like Huiji, so as to contain the Yue people and trap the Yue people in the Yue Di!

Of course, in order not to damage the enthusiasm of the heroes of Wu and the East China Sea, Le Yi also approved the plan of the East China Sea nobles to freely attack Yue Di by sea through sea ships. Because these two parties are not the regular army of the Song State, and the place to be attacked is not the core area that the Song State needs to capture now, Le Yi has reached a tacit agreement with them on the handling of Yuedi: they can be allowed to temporarily not abide by the military discipline of the Song State!

To a certain extent, this practice connived at the looting of the nobles of the East China Sea and the Wu people in Yuedi. However, Le Yi knew very well that if he didn't pay such a huge profit, he would not be sure to settle the Yue people in the south at all! Soldiers, sophists, in war, in order to win, they naturally do everything!

With the forces of these two parties joining, it seems that the rear of the Song army in Wu Land can stabilize for a while.

After the Vietnamese army in the south did not have to worry about it for the time being, the Chu army in the north was the real enemy of the Song army. In order to deal with this powerful enemy, Le Yi did not fight alone, he also began to mobilize all the forces of the Song army to prepare for a decisive battle with the Chu army.

After the Great River Water Battle, the Song army had an understanding of the strength of the Chu army's water division. In order to prevent the Chu army from using fire to attack the Song army's water division again, Tang Ying also made adjustments to the Song army's water division in the process of Le Yi's capture of Wu.

He ordered special poles to be installed on all warships. Once the Chu army uses another trick to attack the Song army with the fire attack method, then the Song army only needs to use this kind of pole to prop up the Chu army's fire attack ship to prevent the battleship from being burned! As a result, the fear of the Song army's sailors for the Chu army disappeared at once.

In the case that the Chu army's fire attack tactics were ineffective, even if the number of Chu army's naval division warships was similar to that of the Song army, both the craftsmanship of the Song army's battleships and the weapons used by the Song army clearly surpassed that of the Chu army. In the small-scale water battle that broke out on the river, the Song warships defeated the Chu warships, and gradually became more numerous.

In such a situation, the Song army's naval division began to gradually gain the upper hand on the river. And the gradual smoothing of the waterway also made it more and more likely that the Song army would cross the river again and directly attack Yunyang. In this situation, Le Yi only communicated with Tang Ying slightly, so that the attack of the Song army's naval division increased again, and he was able to force the Chu army in Yunyang to get out of Yunyang and fight a decisive battle with the Song army by land!

In this southern expedition, the Song army attacked the city and plundered the land all the way, and fought siege battles, but this does not mean that the Song army's field combat ability is not strong. As the chief of staff of the Song Army, no one knows better than Le Yi how powerful the Song Army, which has been trained for so many years, is in the field!

Zhaohua, who was in Yunyang, after scouting the battle plan of the Song army, knew that the Song army sent the Wu army and cavalry out to block the Yue army, and let the main force of the Song army in Guangling, on the north bank of the river, put more pressure on the Chu army's naval division from the waterway, and easily saw the intention of the Song army: the Song army hoped to force the Chu army to fight a decisive battle with it!

Such an intention makes Zhao slip also very happy! No one knows how much he hated the Song army in his heart since he attacked the Xiangyi Industrial Zone of the Song State and destroyed one hand in this war, and he didn't want to find the Song army to avenge this broken arm all the time!

In order to avenge this, Zhao Hua selected 20,000 elites from the hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Zhao clan in Huaishui to deal with the powerful Song army. He equipped these armies with the best weapons, gave them all kinds of favorable treatment, and instilled a sense of loyalty. Later, in order to break the large formation of the Song army that was built under powerful long-range attacks, he specially came up with a formation, and let these troops continue to train for several years!

After the successful training of this army, the reputation of this army has reached the ears of the king of Chu. And in order to deal with the powerful Qin State, the King of Chu also specially requisitioned 10,000 such troops from the Zhao Clan, which was specially used to deal with the Qin State.

And after seeing this army with his own eyes, the king of Chu, who had all kinds of elites of the Chu State in his hands, thought that with only the remaining 10,000 troops to defend Jiangnan, then the newly captured land of Wuyue by the Chu State would no longer have any worries!

Since the Song army wants to force itself to fight with it, how can he live up to the kindness of the generals of the Song army opposite! That general is called Le Yi, I don't know when the young general appeared, I will let you know in a few days what a tragic end it is to be an enemy of the Chu State.

Zhao Slippery thought viciously in his heart! Subsequently, he took nearly 80,000 Chu troops out of Yunyang and set up a camp five miles away from the city, preparing for a field battle with the Song army!