After Zizhang's chariot troops were defeated, Dai Yan continued to keep the Sidong camp on the east bank of Surabaya, as a stopping point for the Taoqiu Water Division, and a storage place for supplies, and he only sent a brigade of soldiers to monitor the Sixi camp under Pengcheng City.

With Pengcheng not intervening in the civil war, the situation immediately turned in favor of Taoqiu. Without Pengcheng's interference, Taoqiu's sailors could directly bypass Pengcheng and enter Danshui. If Danshui is controlled, then most of the Song Kingdom will be under Dai Yan's control!

With such an advantage, Dai Yan immediately divided his troops into two ways, and he asked Xiao Xiang to lead the Crane Control Army, plus some water divisions, to go north directly from Danshui and attack Xiao Yi!

Xiao Yiyi, who had not been fighting against the water for a few days, immediately surrendered when he saw the Taoqiu army attacking, and he didn't even have any interest in resisting! In this way, the power of Taoqiu quickly flooded the lower reaches of Danshui. Xiao Xiang even established a stronghold of the sailor in Xiaoyi, and through this stronghold, he sent the sailor north, hoping to threaten the foundation of the Le clan. His actions immediately made most of Le's strength unable to move!

Another army of Taoqiu, led by Dai Yan himself, continued south along Surabaya from Pengcheng to Xiapi, and then transferred from Xiapi to Suishui. He was so eager to transfer the army into Suishui, but he was completely oppressed by the Chu army and Suiyang!

Since the Chu army froze through Suishui and captured the Xiangyi Industrial Zone, they began to understand the power of the cavalry led by Le Yi! If you are fighting in a formation on flat ground, Zhao Slip may not be afraid of cavalry! However, Le Yi was too clear about the advantages of cavalry, he never fought head-on with the Chu army, but just constantly attacked the logistics of the Chu army!

The Chu army originally attacked the Xiangyi Industrial Zone with more than 30,000 people, but when the Xiangyi Industrial Zone was captured, there were less than 20,000 Chu troops stationed in the industrial zone. It was the logistics supply of more than 20,000 people, which made Zhao slip a lot of headaches!

Originally, in Zhaohua, Xiangyi Industrial Zone is very close to Yangling after all, and the whole journey is only more than 100 miles, and it is most suitable for Yangling to supply logistics. However, it was such a short journey of 100 miles that it became a sad place for the Chu army to supply logistics!

The clan soldiers personally led by Yang Lingjun, and even the accompanying people, were powerless to resist in the face of the hordes of cavalry! Taoqiu's cavalry were all light cavalry wearing light armor, and they had a great advantage in the face of the soldiers of the Yangling Jun clan! Basically, seeing the opponent's grain transport team, the cavalry first attacked in the distance, disrupting their formation. After the other party fled, he directly drew his saber and chased and slashed!

A small number of elite Yangling soldiers and some brave folk men dared to resist, but they did not have a good way to face the hordes of cavalry. The cavalry is dressed in light armor, even if the Yangling soldiers have archers, it is impossible to cause damage to the cavalry due to the limitations of the power of bows and arrows!

The fact that the cavalry faced the infantry was extremely unsettling. Later, he had to send thousands of troops to concentrate on transporting grain at one time, which prevented the large-scale loss of the grain transport team. Even though Zhaohua sent thousands of infantry, every time it faced a cavalry attack, the Chu army had to form a formation to protect itself. This kind of cavalry harassment also greatly reduced the efficiency of the Chu army's grain transportation!

And this situation of the infantry being disturbed was not alleviated until the Suishui thawed and the cavalry could not cross the Suishui directly! By this time, Dai Yan had already led the cavalry to Pengcheng and had a showdown with Zizhang!

It was at the stage when the cavalry left Xiangyi that the Chu army and Suiyang had already planned a big move!

With the efforts of Zhaohua, Zhaoyang, who was far away in Yingdu, finally saw the strong strength of Taoqiu and began to mobilize Zhao's forces in Huaishui to participate in the Song civil war. The Zhao clan's handwriting was huge, and they directly mobilized more than 100,000 troops at one time and arrived at the shore of Suishui through Yangling!

The Zhao clan dispatched an army of 100,000 troops, not that the Zhao clan only has this strength! If the Zhao clan is willing, they can even mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops in Huaishui! However, once such power is used, not to mention anything else, the wealth that the Zhao clan has accumulated over the years will first be directly eaten up by such a huge army!

An army of 100,000 troops, neither more nor less, the Chu army is just enough to supply logistics of this scale. And this kind of military strength happens to be able to give Taoqiu enough threat and help Suiyang solve the civil war!

Seeing Chu Jun come forward to help, Hua Rong, who was in Suiyang, was also very excited! In the Song Kingdom, through bribery and co-optation, he can be regarded as activating the power left by Hua, and he can mobilize an army of 30,000. And the headquarters of the Hua family in the Chu State also gave enough support to Suiyang, and sent 30,000 troops to support!

Zixi, as the monarch of the Song State and the leader of the Huang clan, also mobilized more than 50,000 troops in Suiyang and its surroundings, plus the remaining strength of the Le clan, and the troops of the entire Suiyang Emperor, Le, and Hua families gathered together exceeded 150,000!

Suiyang and the Chu army moved consistently, and when the Chu army arrived on the south bank of Suishui, except for part of Le's forces guarding the Danshui defense line in case of an attack from Chuqiu and Xiaoyi, the remaining army of Suiyang gathered together and directly passed through Suishui and arrived at the city of Xiangyi!

In this way, near Xiangyi, on both sides of Suishui, more than 200,000 troops were gathered! These armies are all enemies of Taoqiu!

As the saying goes, when there are more than 10,000 people, there is no shore! Today's Xiangyi not only has more than 100,000 troops across the other side of Suishui, but even under his own city, there are still more than 100,000 troops! An army of this size scared the nobles of Xiangyi a lot at once!

The messenger asking for help flew from Xiangyi to Pengcheng, urging Dai Yan to come to support! Seeing this, Dai Yan did not dare to slack off at all, and quickly dispatched a large army, rushing to Suishui by land and water, and went to support!

On the march, Dai Yan already knew the huge difference in strength between the two sides. The enemy's army is more than 200,000, but the army in his hands, with such a long front and the division of troops, now has only 80,000 troops in his actual control. On the way, he gathered all the counselors and generals to discuss how to deal with the biggest crisis of the day!

"You all know exactly what we are facing today! There are more than 200,000 troops in Chu and Suiyang, how should we deal with it? Dai Yan asked directly to everyone.

When everyone heard the news, they immediately looked at each other. Then a counselor named Hua Fan stood up and said to Dai Yan: "Lord, Sun Tzu has a saying in the Art of War: the law of war, ten are to surround it, five to attack it, and to divide it if it is doubled, the enemy can fight, if it is less, it can escape, and if it is not, it can be avoided." Now that the enemy is three times larger than mine, we are really not opponents, and we should avoid the enemy's edge in order to fight again in the future! ”

As soon as this person's words came out, although there were few people present who echoed him, most of the counselors had such a meaning.

However, as soon as such remarks came out, the generals of Taoqiu immediately stopped doing it! The first fierce general under Dai Yan, Xuanniao General Tang Ying, immediately stood up and said: "Your Majesty, Hua Fan can be killed!" My Taoqiu army has been invincible since the beginning of the battle, so why should I be afraid or even escape? As long as the lord will come out to help Xiangyi, the last general will definitely live and die with Xiangyi! ”

Seeing Tang Ying so tough, the other generals were all happy, while the faces of the counselors were a little unsightly. A counselor was angry, and immediately jumped out and accused: "General, you shouldn't have said so much, right?" Now we are just here to discuss the strategy of dealing with Chu Jun and Suiyang, if you are not satisfied, you can oppose it, why do you shout and kill like this? Now that we are waiting for the great enemy, it is better to coordinate and deal with the foreign enemy! ”

As soon as this person's words came out, they immediately received a voice of approval from the counselors. And the generals of Taoqiu were not to be outdone, and immediately had the meaning of refutation!

Dai Yan saw that both sides had a tendency to fall out, so he had to stand up and say, "You all shut up!" Is it time to quarrel? If this battle is a big victory, I will not interfere even if you are in an open duel, and now what I want you to do is how to deal with the enemy's more than 200,000 troops! ”

Hearing Dai Yan's reprimand, both sides closed their mouths all of a sudden. Dai Yan carefully observed the people in the audience, and saw that Ning Yue, who had given him advice, had been silent, and then he took the initiative to ask: "I don't know what Mr. Ning thinks?" ”

Hearing Dai Yan take the initiative to ask, Ning Yue immediately stood up, bowed deeply to Dai Yan and said, "Lord, I think that now we must not retreat!" ”

Not giving in is also the goal of Dai Yan's heart. Dai Yan didn't show a different color on his face, but he appreciated Ning Yue more and more, and asked him, "Sir, can you tell me in detail?" ”

Ning Yue promised, and immediately began to say: "Our army must not retreat!" Xiangyi is my earliest ally in Taoqiu, and if we abandon our allies so easily without a fight, it will surely chill the hearts of other allies. Once the allies do not trust Taoqiu, it is very likely that the land of the East China Sea, and even along the Surabaya, will collapse completely!

However, if our army does not retreat, how should we deal with the opponent's army of more than 200,000? I thought that our army did not need to be afraid at all, or even avoid! Although Sun Tzu said in the Art of War: if you don't do it, you will avoid it, but our army is not necessarily weaker than the opponent! You must know that now our army has a powerful water division, which can completely control the water. If we have the initiative in Suishui, then even if the enemy has more than 200,000 troops, it will inevitably be divided into two parts by our army, although our army only has 80,000 troops, and the number is still inferior to the opponent, but considering that our army is well-armed, advanced equipment, and high morale, the opponent facing the same battlefield is only more than 100,000 people, and it is still unknown who will die! ”

Hearing Ning Yue's words, Dai Yan said with a smile: "What Mr. Ning said makes sense! Even if the enemy is strong, I, Taoqiu, am not weak, so why should I be afraid? Is there anything else you would like to add? ”

Hearing that Dai Yan praised Ning Yue and set the tone for the direction of the battle, the counselors all began to be silent, while the generals all looked like their eyebrows were flying. At this moment, the young Le Yi suddenly stood up again and said to Dai Yan: "Since the lord has decided to fight, is there a way to defeat the opponent?" ”

Dai Yan thought for a while, and then said: "Now that the opponent is going to fight, then we should naturally fight." What are your thoughts? ”

Le Yi said to Dai Yan: "Lord, I think that our army should march, but it should never engage the opponent directly!" ”

Hearing Le Yi's words, Dai Yan squinted his eyes and asked him, "Why is this to march and not fight?" How? ”

Le Yi replied: "Lord, the art of war: know yourself and know your enemy, and you will not be defeated in a hundred battles!" Now that we are going to fight with the Chu army and the Suiyang army, where are the advantages and disadvantages of our army and the Suiyang army?

In my opinion, the most powerful place of our army is not the courage of the soldiers, but the complete logistics line of our army, and the logistics supply is extremely sufficient, which is where our army surpasses its opponents! Since the reign of my Taoqiu independent monarch, the people have been stable and the people have been rich. Now that the lord is on the march, Taoqiu Shimin has bought 500 million bonds for the lord's use. If needed, I, Tao Qiu, can also mobilize more wealth to fight against opponents!

And our army is far superior to its opponents in the supply of logistics! Now from Taoqiu to Pengcheng, and even Xiangyi, it can be said that they are all in the hands of our army. Our army has a powerful merchant fleet, and the food of the army of 80,000 is not a problem at all! If necessary, even if our army goes out for a year, it will not have much impact!

However, can Chu Jun and Suiyang do this? Now that the Chu army and Suiyang have mobilized an army of such a size, it will inevitably have a huge impact on the farming of the two places, which means that although the opponent's army is strong, it cannot go out for a long time! In fact, our army does not need to actually engage the opponent, it only needs to be consumed along the Suishui line, and they can be consumed to death! ”

When Dai Yan heard Le Yi's words, he immediately praised it, this Le Yi's vision is really unusual! From the perspective of looking at the problem, he is no longer purely considering from the perspective of a general, but from the perspective of the overall situation!

What is the biggest difference between Taoqiu and Suiyang, and even between the Chu State? It's that society is made up in a completely different way! Today's Taoqiu is already a city with primitive capitalist industrial colors, and the most powerful thing about such a city is that it does not need to rely on the weather to eat like agriculture!

Why are the wars of the agricultural era not large-scale? Because of such a society, the economic structure is single, and once the peasants, who are the main producers, participate in the war abroad for a long time, then their own agricultural production will certainly be greatly affected! In the case of the collapse of the domestic economy, without logistics, there is no supply of sufficient food, how can we go to war?

But the society of capitalist industry is completely different! Due to its high degree of social organization, it does not need to rely on the weather to accumulate wealth, and it ensures the supply of logistics! It can even strengthen itself through war and make itself stronger!

This is the case with today's pottery mounds! It doesn't need to worry about agricultural production, as long as all walks of life in Taoqiu can start work and commercial trade can go on normally, it doesn't need to worry about not having enough food at all! With such a big advantage, Tao Qiu can completely defeat his opponent by playing against him!