Fu left the city, in the Chu army camp, the high-level officials of the Chu State began to discuss the next step of the marching plan. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"King, since the army of Yue has been defeated by our army, then now that Yue is no longer a threat to our country. I think that after we get in touch with Yingdunei, we should immediately turn around and go north to continue attacking Wei and Qi, so that our Chu State can restore the hegemony of King Zhuang to win the Central Plains! Da Sima Jingcui suggested to the King of Chu.

When Jing Cui said such a suggestion, Zhao Sui immediately spoke out to object: "When our Chu State and the Jin State competed for hegemony, Wu State was the enemy of our Chu State, and whenever our Chu State marched into the Central Plains, Wu State would sneak attack our country behind the back!" Now that our Chu State is competing for hegemony in the Central Plains, this Yue State is also like the Wu State back then, attacking us behind our backs. The minister thinks that my Chu country originated in the south, my country is in the upper reaches of the river, Wu Yue is in the lower reaches of the river, from the topography point of view, our country and the land of Wu Yue are really one! If we want to make our Chu country free of elbows and armpits, our country should take all the rivers! The minister thinks that now that the king of Yue is dead, and the army of Yue is severely damaged by our country, this is the best time for my country to take the river! The minister thinks that we should immediately send our troops south with all our strength to take the land of Wuyue! ”

The king of Chu thought for a long time, and then said to the ministers of the Chu state: "Zhao Sui's words make sense! My Chu State marched into the Central Plains, that was an attack; And my Chu country went south to attack Yue, that is guarding. It's always been the case that you have to defend before you can attack! The oligarchy wants to do it in the Central Plains, but the oligarchy wants to get rid of the scourge that poses the greatest threat to our country! This time, we will take advantage of the opportunity of the defeat of the Yue Kingdom to completely sweep away the great trouble of our country! ”

Subsequently, the king of Chu began to summon Dai Yan and Xiang She to discuss the all-out attack on Yue. The king of Chu saw that Dai Yan led his soldiers and horses to defeat the powerful army of Yue swordsmen, so he was also very polite to him. Then, under the mutual consultation and negotiation between the two sides, the Song State and the Chu State were divided into two parts and acted separately. The Song pursued the Yue army along the Huai River from the east, while the Chu state pursued the Yue army directly south.

In June, when the army of the Yue Kingdom marched to the vicinity of Zhongli, a small town in the south of the Chu State, the prince of the Yue State did not doubt that he hoped to be supported by the feudal kings and tribes of the Yue State to become the king of Yue, and all the tribes of the Yue State expressed their opposition.

In the eyes of these tribes, the reason why the Yue Kingdom has fallen to such a big defeat now is because the prince does not doubt suggest going north to attack the Song State that it ended up like this! These tribes all thought that the prince's undoubted vision was too clumsy, which led to the defeat of the Yue Kingdom!

Some tribes even want to break away from the rule of the Yue King!

Such an act was simply a betrayal to Bu Ke, who already regarded himself as the king of Yue, so his impatient personality began to attack again, and he directly put the opposing tribal patriarchs under house arrest, and he even ordered the execution of two tribal patriarchs who wanted to break away from the rule of the Yue king!

After doing this, he immediately proclaimed himself the new king of Yue.

It's like poking a hornet's nest! When he officially became the king of Yue and wanted to reorganize the army in Zhongli first, the powerful feudal lords and nobles in the Yue country began to launch. They led their respective clansmen to attack Budo, and Budoo immediately launched a counterattack, and the two sides fought a big battle, regardless of victory or defeat.

While they were fighting among themselves, Tian Ji's army, which was lying in ambush near Zhongli, launched a surprise attack on the Vietnamese army. The Vietnamese army was caught off guard by internal strife, and thus suffered an even greater defeat!

So they did not dare to resist and fled for their lives to the south.

After this incident, the whole country of Vietnam has been de facto divided. As a result, the domestic forces of the Yue Kingdom were divided into three factions: one faction was the forces under the command of the former Yue King, led by the crown prince Budo, who recognized the status of the Yue King and began to declare their allegiance to Budo. One faction is a united force composed of all the tribes and feudal forces of the Yue Kingdom, and they do not recognize the status of the king of Yue, so they also declare that they will no longer accept the rule of the king of Yue. Although these tribes are large in number and strong overall, they do not have a truly dominant force in terms of strength, so they only seem to be powerful.

The last remaining faction was the former Wu nobles who began to declare their independence from the rule of Yue after the infighting between the prince of Yue and the local tribes of Yue State. These people, led by Wu Yi, a member of the Wu tribe, have always resented the rule of the Wu people by the Yue people, and have a strong desire to fight for self-determination! Some radical people even have the idea of recommending Wu Yi as the king of Wu and re-establishing the state of Wu.

By the end of June, Dai Yan's army began to march south along the Huai River and Hangou. Because of the great victory over Yue Guo in the Battle of Fuli, this march won the full support of the national Junzixi. At Dai Yan's suggestion, Zixi began to take out all the wealth he had gained from selling grain to various countries, and hired merchants from the Song dynasty to transport grain along the Huai River and Hangou.

I didn't expect such a policy to work surprisingly well, because Dai Yan's reputation has always been good, and this time it was the pursuit battle of Song Chu's great victory over Yueguo. There are some merchants of the Song State who serve the country and some who are for the benefit, and there is an endless stream of teams leading the fleet to transport grain for the Song army.

With plenty of food, Dai Yan would certainly be able to let go and launch an attack.

After the Yue Kingdom was divided into three parts, the main thing that fled from the Huaihe Hangou was Wu Yi's original Wu aristocratic force.

In July, the army led by Xiang She and Dai Yan passed through Hangou and Sheyang Lake and arrived at Hancheng, a city of Yue on the north bank of the Yangtze River.

Hancheng is the starting point of Hangou on the Yangtze River, and the city was built by the way when the husband built the ditch.

When Dai Yan led his army all the way south to pursue, Wu Yi did not resist, but just ran wildly all the way. And when he arrived in Hancheng, he immediately began to gather the people of Wu's hometown and began to resist the Song army.

The Song army had a total of 40,000 standing troops and private troops of various feudal monarchs, while all the professional soldiers of the Wu army were less than 3,000, and there were 12,000 remnants of the original Wu State recruited by it!

It has been more than a hundred years since the state of Wu perished, and most of the remnants of the state of Wu have actually forgotten what the state of Wu means to them, and they just want to live their own peaceful life. In addition, when the Song army pursued south, there was an ample supply of food, and there were no large-scale looting, so the remnants of Wu did not participate much in Wu Yi's army.

The two sides fought a big battle in Hancheng.

The Song army defeated the army led by Wu Yi without exception in the case of absolute superiority. And when the great Sima Xiangshe hoped to continue the attack, hoping to completely wipe out the army of these Gou Wu remnants, the giant Tian Jiu spoke out to stop it.

Although Tian Jiu had begun to pledge allegiance to Dai Yan, most of his thoughts were still Mohist thoughts.

In the Mohists' view, wars are ominous. Although Tian Jiu helped Dai Yan win the Battle of Fengyi and the Battle of Fuli, Tian Jiu always believed that Fengyi and Song were threatened by the outside in both wars, so there was no problem in self-defense and counterattack.

But now that the army of the Song State has invaded the territory of the Yue Kingdom, in the eyes of the Mo family, this is already unjust! If Xiang She and Dai Yan still want to continue to attack and eliminate these Gou Wu remnants, it will really be too much!

Immediately, Tian Jiu personally expressed his willingness to go to Wu Yi's camp and persuade Wu Yi to surrender.

After two major wars, Dai Yan and Xiang She also knew how powerful Fengyi's army with the Mo family as the core was, so they didn't dare to ignore the opinions of the Mo family giants. At this time, the Holy Mother of the Mo family had an attack, and they had no choice, so they had to agree.

Under Tian Jiu's personal persuasion, Wu Yi soon agreed to surrender. Then the Song army began to enter Hancheng.

As a result, Dai Yan easily controlled a large area of territory from the Huai River to the banks of Hangou!

Unlike the Song army, which pursued only once, the main force of the Chu army led by the king of Chu encountered much fiercer resistance than the eastern route when it marched south!

Because the Yue army wiped out the Qianmao army of the Chu State, the entire Chu army hated the Yue people very much. Although this attack on Yue State, the Song State was also supplying food to the Chu army, but when the Chu army went south to the land of Qunshu, the two sides spontaneously terminated such actions.

Of course, this is because the land of Qunshu is too far away from the Song State, and if you supply food like this, not only the Song State will not be able to bear it, but even the Chu State will think that it is not cost-effective. As a result, the grain of the Chu army was transported by the Chu state itself through the Yangtze River.

At this time, the food supply of the Chu army began to have some problems. When the Chu army attacked the Qi State, tens of thousands of troops were placed on the edge of the Song State, and Dai Yan was worried that once there was a real shortage of food, the trouble would be bad and the Chu State would continue to plunder Fengyi regardless of the previous experience of raising the Lingjun, so he was very concerned about the supply of military food for the Chu State.

And when it came to the Chu State and the attack on the Yue State, the Chu State was huge in size, and the problem of the bloated bureaucracy began to appear. Many of the troops of the feudal monarchs of the Chu State could not receive enough military rations!

At this time, the feudal lords of Chu spontaneously forgot their experience in Song and began to restore their true colors. The feudal lords sent their subordinates to go out on their own to "collect grain", and by the way, they plundered the already small wealth of the Yue people.

And because the Chu people were deeply saddened by the Yue people's killing of the Qianmao army, the Chu army took revenge on the ordinary civilians of the Yue country while plundering the Yue country!

And such an act was naturally met with strong resistance from the Yue people!