Although he took the land of Yuedi Huiji, but in the face of the situation surrounded by mountains around Yuedi, Le Yi did not have a very good way to govern it. Especially when he knew that after the Battle of Huiji, Wang Chao, the leader of the Yue nobles, fled to the mountains and forests in the south, he had even more headaches.

It was impossible for him to keep the army in Huiji for a long time, after all, Jinling was still in the hands of the Chu State. As long as there is this fortress-like city in the south of the Yangtze River, it is impossible for the Song State to completely control the land of Wuyue.

As the military chief of the Song State, Le Yi himself handled local civil affairs without authorization, and he was also a little sensitive. In this case, he could only transfer two divisions from the Xuanniao Army and another 10,000 people from the Wu Army to garrison Huiji; Subsequently, the officers of the Song army, supplemented by the nobles of the East China Sea and the heroes of the Wu people, united to temporarily administer the Yuedi.

The final outcome of the disposition of Yue Di must be left to the sovereign to decide for himself.

After roughly dealing with Yuedi, Le Yi led the remaining army and began to return to Wudi. With the strong physique of the Song army, in just a few days, the main force of the Song army returned to Wucheng. Such a battle was completed in less than twenty days.

When the Song army completed the battle of Yue, the goal of the Song State in Jiangnan was only Jinling.

Jinling, in today's world, is definitely a young city. A dozen years ago, there was only a low, dilapidated stone town that was only inhabited. When the State of Chu and the State of Song together attacked Yue and destroyed the Kingdom of Yue, King Chu Wei thought that the terrain was dangerous and had the spirit of an emperor, so he ordered people to bury gold in this place and build Jinling Yi to suppress the royal spirit here. Although in the end, the king of Chu's move to bury gold was blocked by Dai Yan, but the name of the city was also determined.

In the eyes of the King of Chu, with a place like Jinling, the State of Chu can drive the deepest nail in the land of Wuyue, and use this to control the land of Wuyue and completely eliminate the threat posed by the lower reaches of the Yangtze River to the State of Chu!

When he first arrived in Jiangnan, Dai Yan coveted the land of Wuyue. In order to win this territory, Dai Yan has already asked Song Guo to prepare for more than ten years. And when the land of Wu Yue belonged to the State of Chu, if the Song State wanted to completely control the land of Wu Yue, the Song State had to take Jinling!

For this reason, Dai Yan didn't know how much preparation he had made for the investigation of Jinling and its surrounding terrain. However, as a person who personally inspected the topography of Jinling back then, before the Battle of Chu, whether the Song State could conquer this place was not sure even by Dai Yan himself.

The solidity of Jinling's defense lies not only in the solidity of its own city walls, but also in the solidity of its own terrain and the surrounding terrain. Most of the walls of this city are made of stone, and the outer walls are unusually strong; And it itself is located on Qingliang Mountain, and the Chu army guards it with a condescending posture; And the terrain around this city is even more dangerous and abnormal, there is Zhongshan in the east like a dragon entrenched, and Stone Town is entrenched like a tiger in the west, which is commonly known as "dragon and tiger", and in addition to these dangerous terrain, there are waterways such as Xuanwu Lake and the Yangtze River to provide it with defense!

If you combine the defenses of Jinling and the surrounding cities, it will be even more difficult to capture. After all, this city is on the Yangtze River, and it is extremely convenient to go to Jiangnan and Jiangbei, where it can support Jiangbei and Jiangnan very quickly, and at the same time, it can also easily accept the supplies given by the upstream Chu State. Previously, the Song army was unable to capture Yunyang, which is located in the south of the Yangtze River and located downstream of Jinling, completely because of Jinling's strong support capabilities.

If it weren't for the Song army, it would have been able to break common sense and attack from the sea, directly defeating most of the main force of the Chu army and taking Yunyang down. With the strength of the Song army alone, it was absolutely impossible to directly cross the river and capture Yunyang.

It can be said that the Song army's action to capture Jinling began when the Song army stationed in Guangling and attacked Yunyang. Now that Yunyang has fallen into the hands of the Song army, it is equivalent to cutting off half of Jinling's wings, greatly reducing Jinling's defense, and finally allowing the Song army to see a glimmer of opportunity to break the city.

After all, now that the Song army has arrived in Jiangnan, all they have to face is the strong walls of Jinling City and the dangerous terrain around it, and they don't have to deal with the many cities in the lower reaches of Jinling.

When Tang Ying knew that Le Yi had pacified Yuedi and returned to Wucheng, he immediately summoned him to Yunyang to discuss with him how to break through Jinling.

During the period when Le Yi was crusading against Yuedi, Tang Ying was not idle, and he mobilized the main forces of the Song army to Yunyang. When the Song army swept through the north of the Yangtze River and the south of the Yangtze River, every captured city must be garrisoned, and then the 40,000 troops mobilized to Le Yi were removed, and now there are more than 70,000 Song infantry gathered in the entire Yunyang City.

If you count the army led by Le Yi himself, as well as the troops he left behind, the Song army was able to mobilize more than 100,000 troops to attack Jinling. With such troops, if you attack an ordinary city, it is more than enough, but if you attack a fortified city like Jinling, even a fierce general like Tang Ying, who has never been afraid, is a little difficult.

After seeing Tang Ying, Le Yi first reported to him about the treatment of Yuedi, and then when talking about the strategy for Jinling, Le Yi thought about it and said: "When I first arrived in the land south of the Yangtze River, although I heard people say that Jinling is extremely strong, I didn't see it with my own eyes, and it was not easy to judge. Can you wait until I've seen this place for myself before jumping to conclusions? ”

Hearing Le Yi say this, Tang Ying remembered that since he attacked the land of Wuyue by sea, it can be said that he has been in a state of war, and he has not had time to rush to Jinling to check the topography of the city in person. So Tang Ying immediately rushed with Le Yi from Yunyang to the land of Jinling.

After taking Yunyang, the Song Army finally had a place to settle down in Jiangnan. Therefore, the two went to Jinling and took a boat directly, but in just one day, they arrived near Jinling.

After seeing the terrain of Jinling with his own eyes, Le Yi finally understood why the lord who had always been proud of his family would also have the idea of not being able to capture Jinling. As soon as Le Yifang saw the situation where the mountain was the city and the river was the pool, he directly extinguished the idea of storming and taking the city! If you really use the method of forcible attack to take this city, I really don't know how many bones of the Song army soldiers need to be filled in to do it.

Therefore, Le Yi said directly to Tang Ying: "Dashuai, this city is too strong, and it is absolutely impossible to attack it." The only feasible way can only be to eliminate the sailors of the Chu army, cut off the supply of the Chu mainland to Jinling, and then take the city by besieging it! ”

Hearing this answer, Tang Ying was also extremely helpless. Although Le Yi's method took a long time to teach, and also greatly reduced the Song army's exploits in taking Jinling, this was also the way the Song army could take the city with as little consumption as possible.

When the two commanders of the Song army reached a unified opinion, they accelerated their actions, and Le Yi began to return to Wucheng, and the Song army that had just been repaired was pulled out of the village again, and went straight to Jinling. After Tang Ying left some people to guard the palace in Yunyang, he also took the main force of the Song army to Jinling City.

However, before the two main forces of the Song army converged under Jinling City, an urgent battle report suddenly came from within the Song Kingdom, so that Tang Ying and Le Yi had to abandon the strategy they had drawn up before.

During the period when the Song State was crusading against the Chu State, the wars between the Chu State and other countries were not interrupted. In the west, the army of Chu entered the Guanzhong Plain and approached the Lantian camp of Qin. However, when the King of Qin personally led the Qin people to resist the Chu army, the pace of the Chu army's advance finally stabilized. The Qin and Chu sides fought several battles on the Guanzhong Plain, and the Chu army had the upper hand!

However, in the state of Chu, it was not possible to quickly defeat the Qin army, completely threaten the Qin capital Xianyang, or let the Qin state take the initiative to sue for peace. At the same time, while Chu was fighting alone, Qin's allies Han and Wei were also in action.

The land of Huaibei attacked by Han and Wei was not like the Song State, which captured the remote places of Chu and places where the strength was weak. The two countries attacked the richest place in the Huaishui Valley of the Chu State!

In August, five months after the Chu state attacked the Qin state, the Han and Wei coalition forces captured the Huaishui town of Dengyi, and then directly sent troops to Wancheng. If Wancheng is captured by the Han and Wei armies again, then the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Chu State attacking the Qin State will face the danger of being cut off from the back road!

And at this time, in the face of the danger of the overthrow of the whole army of the Chu State, even if the king of Chu had great anger in his heart, he had to endure it and began to order the Chu army to withdraw. According to the information provided by the Song State in the Chu State Intelligence Agency, within two months, the Chu army was able to return to the country. At that time, the three kingdoms of Han, Wei, and Song, which took advantage of Chu's crusade against Qin and attacked it, will definitely encounter Chu's crazy retaliation!

Compared with Han and Wei, as the Song State, which plundered the Jiangbei of the Chu State and the land of Wu Yue and other large territories, the possibility of encountering the retaliation of the Chu State is definitely not much smaller than that of Han Wei. Dai Yan himself is not afraid of retaliation, in his opinion, others can retaliate against you, it is because you are not strong enough! If you have enough strength to defeat the enemy directly, will you still be afraid of the retaliation of others?

And if the Song State wants to resist the revenge of the Chu State, it must take Jinling down as quickly as possible! As long as this place is taken, the land of Wu and Yue can be completely connected, and the Song State can restore the situation when the Yue State faced the Chu State in the lower reaches of the Great River. If Jinling cannot be taken quickly, then once the Chu State regathers forces in Jinling, it can quickly cut off the Yangtze River defense line, so that all the achievements of the Song State in this attack on Chu will be destroyed in one fell swoop!

Even if Jinling City is a newly built city, with its name as the first important town in the south of the Yangtze River, there must be sufficient reserves of materials in it. No matter how much the Song army besieged it, it would never be possible to consume the materials in Jinling City and capture the city in two months.

Then, the only way left for the Song army was to quickly break through the city within two months.