After conquering Huaiyin City, the Zhao army captured the various city passes in Huainan non-stop, and the good news was spread frequently, and in less than three days, the entire Huainan was hung with the banner of the Zhao army.

In this regard, Shi Min was noncommittal.

Xun Ji, the accompanying adviser, admonished: "King, the minister thinks that we should first consolidate the fruits of our victory, rest in Huainan, and wait for work!" Huainan is only a river away from Jiankang, and the news of the fall of Huainan must have already reached Jiankang, and Jiankang will definitely make corresponding preparations for this, and the divisions of King Qin from all over the Jin Kingdom will come one after another! “

"And now, although our army has taken Huainan like a bamboo, the Jin side has taken precautions. Yu Yi in Xiangyang, Sima Xun in Liangzhou, Huan Wen in Shouchun, and the army of Qinwang in the south of the Jin Kingdom will definitely not stand idly by! This time, the king attacked the Jin State on a large scale, in order to destroy the main force of the Jin State and deter the Jin State. And now that the forces of the Jin army have retreated to the south of the Yangtze River, how easy is it for our Zhao army to break through the Yangtze River moat? ”

Hearing this, the strategists and generals present couldn't help but nod their heads and secretly approve.

Lu Polou, another strategist under Shi Min's command, also said: "King, what Lord Xun said is extremely true. The Yangtze River moat, easy to defend and difficult to attack, no less than any strong city! In the past, Cao Mengde and Sun Liu's combined forces fought in Chibi, as well as the Battle of Yiling where Lu Xun burned the company camp and led to Liu Bei's death, Bai Qi's attack on Ying, Wu Wang's attack on Chu, Zhang Liao's battle against Xiaoyaojin, and a series of battles took place on the Yangtze River! ”

"The danger of the Yangtze River and the danger of the Yellow River are all the dangers of the moat! Now my Zhao army invaded Jin, although there are more than 100,000 people, and with a great victory to attack, but the ancient war, the right time and place are indispensable, it is said that the Jin Emperor Sima Yue is not in good health, almost want to die the sky, so my Zhao army is considered to occupy the day, but the location and people are on the side of the Jin people. ”

As long as they firmly lock the Yangtze River moat and consume the strength of our Zhao army, as long as the fatigue of our Zhao army is revealed, our Zhao army is afraid that we will face the catastrophe!"

Hearing this, Shi Min's brows furrowed, but he didn't refute anything.

Xun Ji said again: "King, the minister thinks that it is really inappropriate to cross the river to fight now!" Not to mention that the Jin army will defend the Yangtze River and wait for work, and my Zhao army is full of northerners, herding horses and fighting in the field, the Jin people are not the opponent of my Zhao army, but on this vast river, even if there is a strong naval division of the Zhao army, I am afraid that it is not the opponent of the Jin army! ”

Xun Ji's views were shared by many strategists.

The northerners are not accustomed to water and are good at horse warfare and are skilled in bow horses, while the southerners are good at water warfare. On the vast river, landlubbers from the north meet from the watery southerners, and there is no doubt about what the result will be.

In the Battle of Chibi that year, how did the hundreds of thousands of Cao troops defeat the hands of tens of thousands of Sun and Liu coalition troops?

One is that Cao Cao is proud and complacent, and he is too contemptuous of the enemy.

Because Cao Cao played triumphant songs all the way in the previous wars, he successively eliminated Yuan Shao, Lü Bu and other separatist forces, and strengthened his own strength.

After he led the army to the Yangtze River, he didn't take the Sun-Liu coalition army into account at all, and before the battle, he had already begun to calculate how to enjoy himself in Jiangdong after the victory, and did not carefully study the strategy and tactics as he did in the previous battle of Guandu, nor did he carefully arrange to go to Jiangdong to listen to the military situation, but neglected to take precautions, and let Sun Quan's ears and eyes sneak into the military camp again and again to spy on the news.

did not carefully examine the authenticity of Huang Gai's surrender, as well as Pang Tong's intention to offer a "serial plan".

Second, Cao Cao's army was chaotic and did not practice water warfare.

Cao Cao's army came from the north, and most of them were not accustomed to water warfare, and their composition was chaotic.

Among them are the sergeants of the original Yuan Shao's army, who surrendered to Cao's army after the Battle of Guandu, the surrendered troops when the Central Plains pacified Xuzhou, the surrendered troops that were subdued when Jingzhou was pacified, and the Yellow Turban Army that surrendered when Cao Cao suppressed the Yellow Turban Army in the early days.

There are not many troops that really belong to Cao Cao's lineage, and these troops of various backgrounds have not been seriously unified ideologically and psychologically after being included in the establishment by Cao Cao, and there are many internal disputes and contradictions.

In fact, Shi Min understands this very well, why Jiangnan is as easy as Bashu to form a separatist regime, it is because Jiangnan has such a Yangtze River moat!

After the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there were four southern dynasties, Song, Qi, Liang, and Chen, collectively known as the "Southern Dynasties". And these dynasties, like the Eastern Wu and Southern Song Dynasty, have always relied on this Yangtze River moat to block the threat from the north!

And relying on the strength of the north to break the Yangtze River moat and smash the Yellow Dragon is not easy.

A battle of the water is enough to illustrate the difficulty!

The Battle of Huangshui, like the Battle of Chibi, is one of the famous battles in which fewer won more.

This battle affected the national strength and financial strength of the former Qin, so that the former Qin collapsed after this battle, and for the Eastern Jin Dynasty, let the Eastern Jin Dynasty recover some of the lost territory occupied by the former Qin, and there were more than 40 years of peace after this battle.

In the Battle of Weishui, there was a huge disparity in the strength of the Former Qin and the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the total strength of the Former Qin was 10 times that of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. However, the former Qin thought that his superiority in strength could defeat the Eastern Jin Dynasty, but he failed extremely badly.

And the big battles that took place on the Yangtze River, throughout ancient and modern times, are too many, and the vast majority of them are battles in which fewer victories are more.

The most famous battle in the Yangtze River valley was the Battle of Chibi (in present-day Chibi, Hubei), followed by the Battle of Yiling (in present-day Yiting, Hubei) in which Lu Xun burned down the company camp and led to Liu Bei's death.

In addition, the more famous ones are the battle of Sui to destroy Nanchen, the Northern Song Dynasty Cao Bin and Pan Mei led the army to pacify Li Yu of the Southern Tang Dynasty, the Song army intercepted the famous water battle of the Jin army in the east and west waters of the Yangtze River Huangtiandang (now northeast of Nanjing), the battle of Xiangyang in which the Mongols broke through Xiangyang, and the water battle of Poyang Lake in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty.

The more famous ancient battles are probably these, and some such as Bai Qi's attack on Ying, Wu Wang's Lu and Chu, Zhang Liao's battle against Xiaoyaojin or something are less famous.

"Qin Mu, what is your opinion?" Shi Min asked Qin Mu again, his eyes were a little deep and meaningful.

Qin Mu was Shi Min's chief strategist, serving as the position of Da Honglu, equivalent to the foreign minister of later generations, but during the war, Shi Min still habitually took Qin Mu with him, after all, the matter of diplomatic relations has basically been settled.

Although Shi Min didn't say anything to Qin Mu's words, Shi Min would still be kind to Qin Mu's opinions.

And Qin Mu can be said to be the person who knows Shi Min the most among the many advisors, just like the roundworm in Shi Min's stomach. What Shi Min was thinking and what he wanted to do, Qin Mu could more or less guess it, but it was right to be a low-key person if he saw through it or not.

Now that Shi Min asked, Qin Mu should know what to say!

"King, the minister thinks that because of this, our army should not stop in Huainan and sit still!"

"What do you mean by that?"

"Now that our Zhao army is attacking the Jin State on a large scale, it has been like a bamboo, taking the land of Huainan and drinking the Yangtze River. At this time, my Zhao army should be vigorous, fight across the Yangtze River, if victorious, then the army will be under the city of Jiankang, if defeated, you can also retreat to Huainan, according to Huainan and resist the strong enemy, such as Cao Wei of the year, hold Hefei and Huaiyin Jiancheng, and firmly imprison the power of the Jin State in the south of the Yangtze River! ”

"Good!"

That's what Shi Min was waiting for!

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Chapter 0291: Drinking the Yangtze River