"Have we counted the casualties of our army?" Tang Ying asked the logistics officer in charge of recording with a gloomy face.

At this time, it was already the second day after the Great River Water War. After the Song Army's naval division rashly attacked the Chu army's naval division camp in Yunyang, the main force of the Chu army's naval division suddenly appeared and defeated the Song army with a fire attack, which made Tang Ying and other Song army generals couldn't help but be angry!

Zhao Slip has been hiding in Jinling, and if he doesn't make a move, he will come directly to the Song Army Naval Division as soon as he makes a move! In Tang Ying's view, although the main force of the Song army was mainly infantry, the naval division was in the south, which was an important support for military strength. The Song army advanced by land and water, and without the fleet of sailors and merchants to provide logistics, it was impossible for the Song army to break away from the Song State so far away to carry out expeditionary operations!

With that vicious eye, Zhao Slip saw the weakness of the Song army clearly at once, and used the combat method used by the Song army in the water battle of Fuling Lake - fire attack to deal with the Song army!

During the water battle of Fuling Lake during the Song Civil War, Dai Yan used a large number of fireboats to fight in the water war because of the experience of later generations, which was a military innovation in the world at this time! However, such a move certainly helped the Song State win the Song Civil War and repel the intervention of the Chu State, but it also made the tactical idea of fire attack spread all over the world. Today's Song army, as the pioneer of the use of fire attack in water warfare, was defeated by his former subordinates and defeated himself in the same way, which can be described as a great shame for the Song army's sailors!

"In this battle, 55 warships of our navy division were destroyed, 132 ships were damaged, and about 2,500 soldiers were killed and wounded." The officer who counted the logistics only glanced at the casualty records and reported specific data to Tang Ying.

Hearing the specific casualty figures, Tang Ying breathed a sigh of relief. Although this casualty was the biggest defeat of the Song army since the beginning of the battle, it was still passable, at least the casualties of the sailors were still within his control.

When Tang Ying knew the news that the sailor was attacked by the Chu army, he immediately became a little angry, but fortunately, Le Yi was worthy of being a handsome talent valued by Dai Yan, and he did not panic about the sudden attack of the Chu army, but responded calmly, so that the Song army was on standby to intercept the main force of the Chu army, and let the sailor ships that were caught in the fire gradually withdraw and get out of the battle.

In this water battle, although the Chu army also used the same fire attack as the previous Song army in Surabaya, the situation faced by the Song army and the Chu army using fire attack was completely different.

During the water battle of Fuling Lake, the main force of the Chu army's naval division entered Surabaya, and the Song army lived in the upper reaches of the north, with the wind and water, and with the narrow water surface of Surabaya, once the Chu army was ignited by the fire boat, it could only flee backwards, and when the speed of the Song army's ships was faster than the Chu army's ships, the Chu army's naval division actually had no way to escape, so in Surabaya, the Chu army's Huaishui naval division was directly disabled by the Song army, and almost the entire army was wiped out!

In the battle of the Great River, although the Chu army was also in the upper reaches, it was in a favorable situation of smooth sailing. But first, the width on the river is not comparable to the narrow Surabaya at all, such a water battle is closer to a naval battle, and it is impossible for the Chu army to permanently besiege the Song army in a small place; Second, the fireboat tactic is certainly a better tactic, but it will consume a large number of ships, although the Chu State is a big country, but in the case of the Song State having such an industrialized city as Taoqiu, the number of ships in the Chu State is far less than the number of ships in the Song State, even if the Chu army draws a large number of ships from all over the Yangtze River, its number cannot be compared with the Song State at all. When the number of ships is insufficient, the fireboat tactics will naturally leave certain loopholes, which is also the reason why a large number of Song ships escaped.

In the Great River Water Battle, the Chu army roughly burned nearly one-eighth of the ships of the Song army's naval division, but for the strength of the naval division, it actually did not cause damage to the muscles and bones. In this water battle, most of the private sea ships owned by the nobles of the East China Sea were not affected by the fire attack at all, and all escaped from the battlefield.

If you really count the battle loss ratio between the Song army and the Chu army, although the Song army lost many ships, the ships burned by the Chu army using fire attack are actually not few! After this water battle, the forces of both sides were completely exposed, and on the water, the Song army and the Chu army were evenly matched!

However, the blow of the Great River Water Battle to the Song army was indeed great. This is not only because the Song army's record of consecutive victories was ended by the Chu army, which regained confidence and boosted the morale of the Chu army in Jiangnan. What's more, although the number of ships lost by the Song Army's naval division was not large, the only two building ships of the Song Army, one of which was the "Donghai", was also burned in this water battle!

The tall ship of Lou Chuan is a symbol of invincibility and indestructibility in the minds of the soldiers, but now that the indestructible ships have been destroyed, and the soldiers are now in a foreign land far away from the homeland, can people not be afraid?

Faced with such a situation, Tang Ying and Le Yi both knew that at this difficult moment, they must use the momentum of thunder to achieve a big victory and boost the morale of the Song army!

Zhao Slip's eyes were extremely vicious, he clearly saw through the current situation, so he personally led the main force of the Chu army, moved to Yunyang, and confronted the Song army across the river! He knew that as long as the Song army's sailors could not win, the Song army would not be able to attack Yunyang safely, so the Song army's plan to attack Jiangnan would be considered a complete failure! And as long as the Chu State has dragged on for such a difficult period now, and the war between the Chu State and the Qin State is over, and the Chu State army will flow down the Yangtze River and Huaishui, the land north of the Yangtze River that the Song army has attacked will still return to the embrace of the Chu State!

The high-level leaders of the Song army saw very clearly the purpose of Zhao's slippery move to Yunyang, and they knew that if a war of attrition was fought in the south of the Yangtze River, the Song army would not be afraid of the Chu army at all! However, when it comes to the war of attrition between countries, Song Guoke may not be able to have the last laugh!

After all, the state of Chu is a big country with a million armor, and after the Song army attacked the state of Chu, the state of Chu has clearly seen the ambitions of the state of Song. In order to prevent the re-emergence of a regime in the lower reaches of the Great River that threatens the safety of Chu like Wu State, Chu State will definitely come to fight to the death against Song State at all costs!

And in order to avoid war, or to win the war, the Song State must take the entire land south of the Yangtze River in the shortest possible time! Only by connecting the south and north of the Yangtze River will the Song State not worry about falling into the disadvantage in the long-term war of attrition with the Chu State!

At such a moment in the war, it can be said that it is an extremely critical moment! If the Song State is not able to quickly open up the situation in Jiangnan, then the Song army will most likely face a greater defeat!

And at such a critical moment, the news from the surrounding areas of Wucheng in the south of the Yangtze River made the high-level of the Song army begin to cheer up: Wu Yi had already contacted many rangers in Wu and successfully persuaded them to raise troops against Chu! According to Wu Yi's news, these rangers can raise an army of nearly 30,000 people at the same time at the same time!

With such a large number of troops starting from the heart of Wu, it is conceivable that it will help the Song State. In Le Yi's opinion, the 30,000 people in Wu Land, if they are used well, are a sharp knife inserted into the heart of the Chu army!

Now that the Song army was defeated at the beginning of the water war and could not break through quickly on the river, it was indeed a very good plan to break the situation from Wudi. Soon, Le Yi instructed the Song Army Staff to formulate a thorough battle plan!

Now that the Song army is in Guangling and the Chu army is in Yunyang, the confrontation between the two sides across the river is still very necessary, after all, only in this way can the main force of the Chu army be dragged here and create opportunities for Wu Yi in the rear.

Of course, in order to make the breakthrough army in the rear more destructive, and also to keep the Wu army under the control of the Song army, the Song army must also send a large army to assist. At such a time, it is necessary for the Song army to send a large army to conduct cross-sea operations!

In today's Warring States world, although wars between countries are extremely frequent, wars fought by sea are very rare. The only naval attack battle that can be recorded in history is probably the Wu Qi naval battle that broke out in order to crusade against Qi in order to crusade against Qi in order to defeat Qi State.

The naval battle of Wu and Qi, because the Wu army was not familiar with the sea conditions and the domestic situation of the Qi country, ended in the complete defeat of the Wu army. And attacking other countries from the sea has become an impossible way of fighting in the hearts of the princes of the world!

However, in Le Yi's view, what the former Wu Jun couldn't do doesn't mean that the current Song Army can't do it! Compared with the state of Wu, which was only a water town hundreds of years ago, today's Song State is a real seafaring power, accumulating rich experience in navigation and naval warfare. Moreover, the cross-sea operation carried out this time was actually not far away, but it was from Guangling, or the land of the East China Sea, spanning a distance of hundreds of miles, and directly arrived near the Nanwu City of Wu Di for landing operations.

Compared with the situation when the Wu army attacked Qi, his eyes were dark, and he didn't understand the situation in the country at all, the Song army had an internal response in Wudi! As long as the Song army can quickly establish a stronghold around Nanwu City, then the Song army will definitely be able to log in quickly, and then join up with the army led by Wu Di Haojie, turn Wu Di upside down, and make the Chu army in Yunyang completely lose the support of the rear!