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It turned out that Bai Qi led the army to take the initiative to attack north, that is, he completely gave up the defense of a county in Jiangdong, and he took all the troops from the waterway, and the patriotic people of Jiangdong could not take it away, but escaped into the mountains, most of these people were military dependents or patriots who migrated into Jiangdong from the Central Plains.

After the Chu army entered the Southern Great Wall, they occupied empty cities, and all of this was carefully planned by Bai Qi.

Since the rise of the nameless division of the Chu State, and after getting Wei Zheng's edict to defend Jiangdong, for the general, Bai Qi planned to think about his defeat before the battle, he knew that in the past, the soldiers of the countries were trapped in the camp, and after breaking the city, it was to slaughter the city, you must know that the siegers often suffered countless casualties, and the red-eyed army killed all the enemy troops and would take the people in the city to open the knife, because it was not only the army that defended the city, but also the people in the city would also be requisitioned by the defenders, and the city would often be slaughtered after the city was broken, because the people in the city were regarded as enemy accomplices by the army that broke the city.

With the help of the lush topography of the Jiangdong mountains, Bai Qi made a decision according to local conditions, that is, to vigorously build a refuge place in the deep mountains and old forests, once the Chu army broke through a county in Jiangdong, the people who defended the country fled into the mountains and wilderness like those Wu Yue remnants, so as to avoid the disaster of slaughtering the city and killing the people, and also let the soldiers on the front line have no worries.

After the outbreak of the Great War in Weichu, the food hoarded in the refuge was enough for the people to eat for three years, because everything that could be moved had been removed in this year.

The Chu army failed to fulfill its wish for a year of storming Jiangdong, giving enough time to prepare, Bai Qi defended the enemy in the front, and Jiangdong County Shou Xu Xing, Sun Shuyou and other peasant disciples began to prepare to open up one refuge after another in the mountains. After Bai Qi led the main army to attack, Xu Xing and Bai Qi's family had already left the capital of Wucheng and entered the mountains.

Not to mention that the Chu army slaughtered the city after breaking the city to vent their anger, even the people's fat and ointment could not be looted, so the Chu people in anger actually burned all the occupied cities to the fire, and only burned the city to vent their anger.

In the huge Jiangdong, the common people fled into the mountains, and the Chu army had no choice but to burn the city to vent their anger.

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However, it is said that the fleet traveled for a day, and it was about to arrive at the Zhonggu River section of the confluence of the Zhongjiang River and the Yangtze River (Yangtze River), which was the fortress pass, which was originally the garrison of the Weijun Naval Division, and was later occupied by the Chu State, and it was also the only outlet for the Jiangdong Naval Division to enter the river.

"Here you go!" Bai Qi patted Yao You on the shoulder and left the deck, entered the cabin and looked at a map, pointed to the location of Zhonggukou, and said: "The main force of the Chu Army's Naval Division is here, according to the speed of our army's warships, it will arrive in about five hours, Zhonggukou is the first battle between our Army's Naval Division and the Chu Army's Naval Division, and it is also a key battle, a battle on the water, and this battle must annihilate the main force of the Chu Army's Naval Division in one fell swoop." The Chu army's naval division is not destroyed, although it can also cross the north bank, but then if you want to work with the Song army to annihilate the old Zhaoyang's troops, our army will be hindered by the Zhaoguan fortress, with our army's 70,000 troops, the Zhaoguan fortress cannot go to it. ”

Yao You stared at the map, his eyes gradually moved west along the river, and finally locked on the "Songyang" less than two hundred miles away from the mouth of the middle valley, Yao You's eyes lit up: "Wu Anjun's intention, after destroying the troops of the Chu Water Division, my army will go upstream, and then take Songyang to land and go north?" It's wonderful! In this way, our army can bypass the Zhao Pass, go north along Songyang to the land of Shu and Zong, and join the Song army at the nest (blood nest) where the Yue army was once destroyed. ”

"Not bad-" Bai Qiqi nodded, and then muttered: "It's just that my Jiangdong Naval Division is the first time to take the initiative to fight on a large scale, Yao You, you are also quite talented in the method of water warfare, what do you say are the chances of our army winning?" ”

Yao You is the number one general under Bai Qi's account, and he is thoughtful and serious, even Wei Zheng also remembered his name, and when he heard this, he nodded categorically: "As far as the sailor is concerned, the last general thinks that our army can win at least ninety percent of the time." ”

"Oh? How so? ”

"The last general was ordered by the general not to forget to monitor the movements of the Chu army's naval division at all times, and for more than ten years, I have found out that the Chu army's naval division only has 700 old building ships, and the Chu State attaches great importance to the naval division is far inferior to my Jiangdong, not to mention that our army's naval division has new warships such as warships. Nearly eighty percent of the sailors of our army are recruited from fishermen to train them into an army, and they are all on the boats as if they were walking on the ground. ”

At the end, Yao You's eyes looked at Peng Li on the map, and said with a sigh: "Peng Li's water village has a strong defense, and the foot soldiers on our warships are difficult to adapt to the long-term waterway, otherwise my 100,000 soldiers are all sailors, so I have to go all the way upstream, go straight to Yunmengze and go south to Changsha, and capture the king of Chu, why do you have so many things." ”

That is to say, the Jiangdong Navy Division has invested a lot in the past ten years, and it is only comparable to the elite of 30,000 sailors, and the energy spent to train an army of 100,000 people with both water and land is unimaginable, even more than the investment of cavalry, and the sailor division is still an auxiliary division after all, not to mention that the defense of the country is not only staring at the south of the Yangtze River, the Central Plains is the world, and the status of the army as the king is still difficult to shake.

Bai Qi smiled slightly, but also sighed again and again, the Jiangdong Naval Division was established from scratch after more than ten years, and it was always aimed at defeating the Chu Army's naval division, not only did it have a new type of warship and fighting ship as the hole card, but it was a year of fighting with Chu, and the warships were damaged a lot, and the number of ships today is still twice that of the Chu Army's naval division. Bai Qi pointed to the ship and said: "Yao You listened to the order, and immediately raised you as the general of the Chinese army of the naval division, and led my Jiangdong naval division to fight with the naval division of the Chu army. This warship is your command flagship, and you are in charge, and I will lead 20,000 foot soldiers to land in front of the Lingfu to attack the Chu army infantry at the mouth of the middle valley, pull out the land foundation of the Chu army and naval division at the mouth of the valley, advance by land and water, and destroy the Chu army and naval division in one fell swoop. ”

"No-" Yao You was immediately excited when he heard this, he couldn't imagine that Wu Anjun would hand over the burden of destroying the Chu army's sailor to himself, it can be seen how he was pinned on high hopes, and won deep affirmation and trust, Yao You, who was in great spirits, gave up his hand to receive the order: "The last general is willing to make a military order, this time he will not destroy the enemy's sailor, come and see you!" ”

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After Bai Qi handed over the Jiangdong Naval Division to Yao You, the Lingfu in front of him hurriedly landed on the shore with 20,000 foot soldiers and drove towards Zhonggukou and Chengcheng.

In a moment, the flag-bearers on the warships of the Jiangdong Navy Division waved flags one after another, and the mighty sailors began to change formations in an orderly manner, and the four hundred warships took the lead and went straight to the mouth of the middle valley from the river.

A middle river runs through Zhenze and the river from east to west, and the mouth of the middle valley is the outlet of the mountain on three sides, after the soldiers of the Chu State captured this place, they were guarded by the land and water armies, locked Zhenze in the west, and controlled the only outlet of the Jiangdong Water Division, so that it was held in the lower reaches of the Wanli River, originally as the defense of the Jiangdong Water Division, the Chu Army Water Division was important, with the scorching war, the Middle Valley Pass was also lost, and the Jiangdong Water Division had to go back to defense.

Now, although it is said that it is the occupied territory of the Chu State, and there are also water and land armies to defend it, but the defense of Zhonggukou is extremely lax, not to mention that the Jiangdong Naval Division has pursued a strategy of only defending and not attacking under the strategy of defending for a year, so that the Chu army will not think that the enemy naval division will come out to take the initiative to seek battle, after all, it is still the naval division of the Chu State that thinks it is the first in the world, and there are not many people who can compete with it, so naturally the defense is lax, but everyone does not know that time has passed, and it has long been the same as in the past.

At the time of Shen, the Jiangdong Naval Division had already overlooked the Zhonggukou River, and the place where the Chu Army Naval Division was stationed received a scout flying report: The Jiangdong Naval Division came out of Zhenze.

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