Chapter 360: The Battle of Lantian (Part II)

He should be subject to the Emperor God and the great god of Pixian, Wu Xian, and give the medicine Chu Shi, and return to my border city. Dare to count the curses of the alliance of the king of Chu Xiong Xiang, and the stone chapters of the alliance, with the power of the great god of the alliance.

Looking at the "Cursed Chuwen" that the Song State Propaganda Department sent back from the Qin State in an expedited manner of 800 miles, Dai Yan couldn't help but feel a sense of schadenfreude.

Who would have thought that the Qin State, which swept through the Eight Desolations and Liuhe and unified the world in later generations, would also have such a downtrodden time. The Qin State, which had just established the supreme hegemony, suddenly fell to the point where it had to pray for the power of ghosts and gods to help the Qin State win the Chu State.

And the Xiangguo of Qin, the chief strategist Zhang Yi, was not in charge of the overall situation in Qin at this time, but sent envoys to Han and Wei, hoping that these two countries could send troops to Chu at this time to help Qin!

Zhang Yi's previous plan for the Qin State deceived the King of Chu with false words, which drove a wedge between the two countries, gave the Qin State great strategic benefits, and laid the foundation for the victory of the Battle of Danyang.

However, in the blink of an eye, the Qin State fell to such a downtrooping state, and Dai Yan also realized an important point: diplomatic strategy is not omnipotent, and its own strength is the most important!

Qin has a strategist like Zhang Yi, who has done the ultimate in diplomatic planning, but after angering a superpower, he is in danger of shaking his foundation! All this makes Dai Yan extremely vigilant!

However, Zhang Yi, as the prime minister of Qin, was a first-class strategist in the world after all, and soon, he said that he had mobilized Han and Wei to send troops to attack Chu. As soon as the two countries saw that the main force of the Chu army was heading to the west, they immediately agreed to Zhang Yi's request.

As the two countries of South Korea and Wei, which were in the land of the four wars, the standing army system is now extremely perfect, and the armies of the two countries are ready to go at any time. After they agreed to Qin's troops to attack Chu, they immediately began to gather troops to attack Dengyi of Chu, and then threatened the safety of Huaisi of Chu.

Although the territory of Chu in Huaishui is vast, the most essential part of it is still the territory of Chen and Cai. These places have been feudal states of the princes since the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty and were developed earlier. Later, after it became the sphere of influence of the Chu State, after years of infiltration and operation of the Chu State, it finally became a part of the Chu State! This place is also the most valuable territory in the entire Huaishui Basin!

It is no wonder that as soon as Han and Wei attacked the state of Chu, they chose to use this area. The two countries had lost a large area of rich territory in the west in the previous war with Qin, and now they urgently needed new rich land as the foundation of the country, and the Huaishui Valley was obviously a good location!

Although the state of Chu has fallen into a two-front war, it still has a great advantage now! At least from the news sent back by the Ministry of Missions, Dai Yan knew that the war between Chu and Qin was now in the upper hand!

It is not surprising that the State of Chu can have the current situation. Since the death of King Chu Wei and the accession of the current King of Chu, the State of Chu has completely destroyed the State of Yue, thus becoming the country with the most extensive territory in the world. And the previous fraud of the Qin State also made the Chu people indignant, and the whole country held their breath and wanted to compete with the Qin State!

It was this tone that supported the state of Chu to complete this impossible military adventure: the whole country to attack Qin! And such an adventure, when the hegemony of the Qin State has reached its peak and the Qin Wangzhi is complacent, just caught the Qin State off guard!

Now the battle between the Chu army and the Qin army in Lantian must not be over in a short time. And now when most of the army of Chu is transferred to the west, and the Chu army still needs to divide its energy to deal with Han Wei, it is the best time for the Song State to attack Chu!

In fact, according to the location of the Song Kingdom, Huaishui Chen Cai's hometown is the closest place to the Song Kingdom, but Dai Yan has no intention of attacking this place!

First of all, not to mention that this place has been in operation for a long time, and the Chu State regards this place as its most core area in the same way as the land of Yanying and the land of Nanyang. Even if this place is captured, the Song State must not be able to settle down this place quickly, and it will definitely be counterattacked by the Jedi counterattack of the Chu State, and the Song State will inevitably fall into a long-term war with the Chu State in the future!

And after Han and Wei attacked this place, even if Dai Yan had confidence in the strength of the Song State, he didn't have much confidence that he would be able to get much oil and water from the meat valued by the two countries.

Moreover, in today's era, the successful experience of Qin and Zhao in expanding their territory also let Dai Yan know how to spend the least effort to seek the greatest benefits!

Sima of Qin made a mistake in crusading against Bashu and took a country of abundance that was no less than the land of Guanzhong, but the countries under heaven did not react. After being persuaded by Dai Yan before, Zhao temporarily gave up competing with other countries and turned to the north to crusade against Zhurong, which also allowed the territory to expand rapidly, and all countries in the world also did not oppose it!

At this time in the world, it is true that attacking the hinterland of China such as the land of Huaishui Chen Cai can obtain great benefits, but the obstacles are not ordinarily large! On the contrary, it will attack the land where the surrounding barbarians live, but it will not be hindered in the slightest, and it will not arouse the opposition of the great powers!

The attack between the great powers is like playing Go, abiding by the rules of the golden horn and silver edge grass belly.

Although from a geographical point of view, the position of the Song State in the world at this time is a grass belly in the heart of the heart, biased towards the silver edge, and it is not as favorable as the Qin State and the Chu State occupying this golden horn. However, Dai Yan has always had such ambitions, making the Song State a marginal country occupying the "Golden Horn" in the territory of China.

And Song Guo actually has this great advantage in this regard.

With Dai Yan's efforts, the territory of the Song Kingdom has reached the sea to the east. And the Song State went south, all the way across the Yangtze River, and then reached the land of Wuyue, all of which belonged to the territory of the Chu State. And a large area to the south of the Song Kingdom belongs to Yangzhou in today's Kyushu.

"Yu Gong" has a saying: Huaihai is only Yangzhou. Peng Li is both a pig and a bird. The three rivers have entered, and the earthquake is stable. Xiao Huang is both dressed, the grass is only dying, and the wood is only Qiao. The soil is only muddy. The field is only lower, the lower is the best, and the upper is wrong.

In the impression of the people of the world, this territory located in the southeast of the world is basically a water town, the land is all damp mud, and the fields are the most barren ninth class, and the taxes collected there can only be collected in a relatively low way! It can be said that in the eyes of the Central Plains, Yangzhou is a poor and wild land!

After the investigation of the Mo family and the peasant disciples, Dai Yan also knew that the statement of "Yu Gong" to evaluate Yangzhou was indeed true. In the entire Song Kingdom, there are not many people who are interested in this place!

However, Dai Yan knows how important the land of Yangzhou is to the Central Plains Dynasty in later generations!

After the collapse of the unified Han Empire, the Jiangdong Sun clan took Yangzhou as the foundation, and controlled the land of Jingzhou, and then established a powerful Eastern Wu Empire in the southeast! Later, after the Western Jin Dynasty was destroyed, the northern scholars crossed to the south, and this place became the core area of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and even the following Southern Dynasties!

Since the Sui and Tang dynasties, this place has become the most important source of wealth for the Central Plains Dynasty. In order to be able to effectively collect the wealth here, the Sui Dynasty even had to exhaust the people's resources to build the Grand Canal connecting the Central Plains and Yangzhou!

And until the eve of Dai Yan's crossing, the Yangzhou region, the Yangtze River Delta region represented by Jiangbei and Jiangnan, is still the most economically developed region in the whole country!

It can be said that Yangzhou, which is now regarded as a barren land by the countries of the world, is actually a treasure land that cannot be dug up!

And although this place is now a vast and sparsely populated area, the Song Kingdom has a natural advantage in controlling this land!

Since the late Spring and Autumn Period, after the rise of the Wu State, in order to be able to enter the Central Plains to compete for hegemony, Wu Wangfucha mobilized the Wu people to build a ditch connecting the Huaishui and the Yangtze River. Since then, Yangzhou has been closely connected with the Song Dynasty geographically.

With Hangou, the Song Kingdom marched here, and the logistics could be perfectly guaranteed. And if the Song State controls the land of Yangzhou and spends a lot of energy to develop this place, the wealth obtained from Yangzhou can also be quickly transported back to China through water transportation!