The army set out in five days, and Yingdu was no longer as calm as before. First, the Queen Mother took the Prince of War to Ruoying Palace to live, and Concubine Li was taken back to Chunyang Palace for a while, which was almost like house arrest; then Yang Wenjun took Shouling Jun, Xiangcheng Jun and a group of Fengjun doctors ran to Lingyin's mansion and asked Zhaoshu to persuade the Queen Mother to let the Prince of War and his son live in the Eastern Palace.

His reason was that the king was in danger and had no children. In order to prevent the turmoil of Chu, he not only had to establish a crown prince early, but also prevent the fierce prince and his son from being harmed by the traitor. Yang Wenjun came to the imperial palace to persuade the emperor, and the county magistrate Yin also came to inform him, asking the emperor to ensure the safety of the fierce prince.

In this month, the county court officials and the imperial courts proposed a series of requests to revise the new policy, which is abolishing the new policy and respecting the virtuous and virtuous. However, most of them were opposed by the important officials. The new policy is equally important as the king. If the king agrees in this era, what's the use of saving the king? Trust is the foundation of the new policy. It is impossible to rescue the king, and then the king will go back on his word, right?

The county towns did not leave the county soldiers or the laborers, but only sent some private soldiers in the name of the Mi family. In this case, Yingdu did not take their Xunwen seriously. Moreover, the army immediately set off, and various materials were transported frequently. Zhaoshu was at the Grand Sima Mansion for half a day.

"Our army has a total of more than 121,000 people, which includes the number of strong men." The army Sima Peng Zong informed the number of troops to all the important officials present. "Twenty thousand kings and soldiers at Muling Pass have arrived at Qicheng in the Binshui, which is more than 400 miles away from Chenying, and it can be reached in about seven days; Xiangcheng can also draw 10,000 elite soldiers..."

Xiang Cheng was also under the attack of the Qin and Wei army. Before, 10,000 Xiang troops had been transferred to Magu. There were no more elite troops in the county, and another 10,000 were transferred. Xiang County probably could only rely on the elderly, weak, women and children to defend the city. All the ministers looked at Xiang Yan, and admiration arose. Xiang Yan had no expression, but only used his eyes to urge Peng Zong to quickly talk about the military situation.

"The soldiers in Jiangdong," Peng Zong coughed, "Only 20,000 people from Yuedi rushed to Yingdu day and night. At this time, they had already arrived at Jinling, and it was still more than ten days before they arrived at Yingdu. Ouyue and Fujian and Yue sent five thousand soldiers, but Yue Junkai prohibited their troops from crossing the border and did not provide food and fodder. The two armies had no choice but to bypass Yuedi from the sea and land on the south Wucheng in Wu..."

"Why is Yue Junkai so arrogant?" Zi Mo heard this and was very angry. After the county and towns were unwilling to send troops, the order of the emperor's mansion to serve the king was sent all over the south - "Term the south and do not invade China". The Chu State is located in the south, which is Yue, Ouyue, Minyue, Nanyue (South Sea), Luoyue, Xiou, Miao people... The kings of tribes of large and small countries. Now that the king is in trouble, it is natural to ask the ministers to send troops to serve the king. However, far water cannot quench the near thirst. It is estimated that by the end of the war, far-reaching tribes may not receive the order of the king from Yingdu.

"What else can I do? I want to be the King of Yue after the restoration of the country." The Lord of Luyang was very clear in his heart. China looked at the barbarians of Chu, and the Chu saw that the south was also barbarians. After the news of the approval of various countries spread last year, all Yue brought jewelry beauties to Yingdu to curry favor.

"Ji Yue fought for the king, and the Xiou, Miao people and other tribes were for the establishment of the country." Song Yu explained. After the resolute rule of the country had the conditions to restore the country, under the urgency of the Operations Department of the Grand Sima Prefecture, another country-building plan was developed for the tribes in the south.

The general content is to take Chu State as a model, and under the guidance of the Chu people, help tribes improve the construction of religion, politics, economy, science and technology, culture, etc. so that they can become an independent state. This is also a planned and long-term assimilation.

Whether it is restoring the country or establishing a country, there are four most important things: one is the gods, which are important signs that distinguish between me and non-me. Everything may be fake, but the gods sacrificed cannot be fake; the second is history books, which especially take the heroes of the tribe. After reading the draft of the Chu history Xiong Jing, the biggest opinion is to "rewrite the history of Chu based on heroes, rather than historical events. The heroes of the Chu people must be presented to the Chu people alive and make them the gods in the hearts of everyone's Chu people'.

Third, that is language and writing. All countries in the country used their own language and writing to ban the elegant language promoted by Qin in China, using humans to create language barriers and ruling barriers, so that the differences between the rulers and non-rulers in these regions in the future will be different from me and non-rulers. However, the language of the ethnic groups in the founding of the country will certainly not be changed in the short term, and they can only be left to be changed when popularizing education in the future, but the writing must be used from the beginning of the bird and insect text of Chu.

The fourth is the military system. In addition to recruiting honorary soldiers, military academies also recruit nobles and warriors from tribes of southern states to help them establish their own military system and military industry system.

One of the reasons why the Grand Sima Mansion tried his best to formulate the strategy of building a country in the south was to prevent the Qin army from taking strategic detours in the south. At this time, the land route in Hunan could already connect Jiangxi, and Jiangxi threatened the side of the Chu State's last base Zhejiang. If there were no large number of nails buried in the south, the Qin army would surround Zhejiang on three sides in the future;

Or according to history, if the Qin army built the spiritual canal and occupied Luoyue and Nanyue, then the Chu merchant fleet would lose the Guangzhou relay station. More importantly, once the Qin army mastered the construction technology of the Sanjima Dayi (the vegetation and steaming are both means to bend the wood. As long as the Chu army's large wing warship was seized, from a technical point of view, the Qin army could also build the Sanjima Dayi), it is very likely that the Sanjima Dayi would attack the merchant fleet in the South China Sea area, and the sailing speed was not as fast as the Sanjima Dayi;

In addition, there is another advantage that can be seen is that the human resources of the tribes in the south. The export of culture, systems and technology is just a copy of the existing version of Chu State, rather than tightening the belt to help them. It is difficult to create high-end and sophisticated things, but the cost of copying them after they are created is very low. The State of Chu State helps them build a country, so they naturally have to help Chu State desperately. However, the founding plan has just begun, and Ling Yin’s Mansion has to mobilize the manpower of the tribes in the south. It is obviously too urgent.

"The army of all ethnic groups in the south is hopeless." Peng Zong took the words of Zimo, and talked about Qi again. "There is no news in Qi State so far. If the Qi army does not arrive, our army will only be more than 151,000. If it joins Chen Ying's army, there may be 200,000."

It has been a month since Chen Ying's defenders retreated into the royal city, and 200,000 is just Peng Zong's guess. If he followed the steps when retreating, the losses of the defenders would be very small, but if he was very panicked when retreating, the defenders would definitely not have 50,000.

Two hundred thousand vs. Four hundred thousand. The only thing that is thankful is that these 400 thousand are the exhausted army. As of today, they have been siege for nearly half a year. And the 150,000 reinforcements are all new forces, and their physical strength and will are in an advantageous state.

"How about the boats?" After Peng Zong talked about the military strength, Xiang Yan asked about the transportation. The 150,000 troops were not walking, but taking a boat. In order to attack, in order to have a surprise attack, all the boats and boats in Chu were recruited to Yingdu, except for other ships necessary for defense lines.

"Report to the general, there are plenty of boats." The answer was E Zhuo from the Transportation Department. "There are 321 new-style large wings, which can transport 52,965 people; the old-style warships can transport 30,300 soldiers. The remaining 1,626 boats can transport 80,000 people, but in fact, they only need to transport more than 63,000 people."

After E Zhuo said, he said: "The 640-mile waterway from Yingdu to Chenying has been equipped with night navigation lights and buoys, and can also be sailed at night. The new big wing can reach Chenying in one day and night. The old big wing takes two days, and the folk boats need...it may take four days."

"Four Days?" Although Xiang Yan was a general, he had no idea how the Chu army would be like in the future.

"However, although the people's boat recruitment was equipped with what the king said, they could travel around Yingshui for only 170 miles in a day and night." Xiang Yan was surprised that the boat was so fast, and E Zhuo thought he was slow.

"Xiang Bo doesn't know anything," Yi Tu and Xiang Yan, who knew what kind of army the Chu army would be in the future, did not deal with it, so the Lord of Luyang spoke: "In the future, the Chu army will change it to the Zhou army."

"Master Zhou?" Xiang Yan wanted to laugh, but she couldn't laugh.

"Yes." Lu Yang Jun was very serious. "If the new-style big wings only take a day, they can travel nine hundred miles along the water for one day and one night against the water for more than six hundred miles. Let's ask what the enemy is like if the 200,000 Chu troops travel six hundred miles a day?"

"Nine hundred miles?" Whether Xiang Yan or Peng Zong were speechless when he heard this, he was walking nine hundred miles a day and night, which was equivalent to appearing in front of the enemy out of thin air. If he had no time to gather troops, he would be leveled. Xiang Yan seemed a little excited and said, "There is no way to guard against it!"

"Yes." The smart man spoke without any slight words, and the Lord of Luyang smiled. "The Chu army will stop with boats and oars in the future. The soldiers only need to practice rowing, not water wars. They will fight as soon as they land on ashore, and retreat if they are not good. Any city where boats and oars can reach is the city where our Chu army attacks."

"So, why not..." Xiang Yan was speechless again, and then said anxiously: "Why not attack Rongyang? At the turn of spring and summer, the Wei Kingdom had already finished its food. Now the grain of the Qin and Wei army ate out of Ao Cang. If they could go to Rongyang and burn Ao Cang, the enemy would have no food!"

"The General can tell that Rongyang has 50,000 Qin troops and 20,000 Ao Cang. Our army has a limited new style of big wings, and only more than 50,000 soldiers can be removed." The combat officer Li Jie had to speak. "If Rongyang attacks, how many people will be left to rescue Chen Ying after the war?"

"But how many people are left?" Xiang Yan was stunned for 50,000 to 70,000, and was about to take down Ao Cang.

"Even if you burn all the grains of Ao Cang, the grain trucks along the way, the accumulation of military camps, and the remaining grains of Han and Wei can support the Qin and Wei armies for half a month. If the city is broken..." It is rare for someone to think of them as him, and Li Qi couldn't help but talk about the details.

"What if the food route is intercepted?" Peng Zong interrupted. He was also thinking about how the army that traveled 900 miles a day should be used. Unfortunately, he laughed as soon as he spoke. He also noticed the problem at this time and hurriedly said, "I'm wrong. If the corn comes from Ao Cang, it will definitely be transported from Xinzheng, Han capital to Xiangcheng and Chen and Ying."

There were few soldiers, so it was obviously a bit unwise to go deep into South Korea to intercept the Qin army's food route. Maybe the task of the 200,000 Han troops was to guard the Qin army's food route, and South Korea was more close to Qin than Wei.

"The king is the most important thing." Zhaoshu, who had been silent, spoke. Chen Ying and Ao Cang had already made the choice, and there was no need to discuss it anymore. "Can the General think this battle can be won?"

"Our army generals and soldiers use their lives, and the huge soldiers are strong and armored, and they will definitely be able to fight and win." The rescue battle is likely to be 150,000 to 300,000, and Qin and Wei only leave 100,000 people to restrain the defenders in the city. Xiang Yan has been considering this battle for a long time and has his own strategy in mind.

"Oh." Zhaoshu's face smiled. This was the happiest sentence he had heard in a month. "Please tell me."

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Chapter completed!