Emperor Yuan seven years, June.
The earth has warmed up, the new year's seedlings have been planted, and they have blossomed and bear fruit smoothly. Every country in the world has harvested a bumper harvest.
As a result, the grain and grass were put into the warehouse, and the soldiers and armor were also rested in the past six months. After training, the soldiers gradually became more like soldiers.
If the three conditions are met, then it is time to take revenge and repay injustice.
First, the behemoth in the south, the State of Chu, took the lead.
The Chu State tightened their belts and gritted their teeth to gather an army. A behemoth with a number of 500,000 people had already appeared.
The flags covered the sky and the sun, and the black heads of people could not be seen for hundreds of miles. The dust brought up by the movement of the army flew more than ten feet into the sky, looking terrifying.
However, although it looks very powerful, in fact the army is extremely scattered and has no way of moving. It is a mess like a group of refugees.
These troops were just brought out. They were just ordinary people before. Maybe some of them had fought in the war, but they had not been on the battlefield for several years and were already unfamiliar with marching and fighting.
Now that he was forced out, he was really unwilling to do so.
But having said that, these common people at least look a little bit like soldiers. Although he acted in a disorganized manner, he was still quite obedient and fearful of his superior's orders.
And their opponent, the Yue Kingdom in the south, was really a group of rebels composed of refugees.
Although the Yue Kingdom has a legal name, the ancient Yue Kingdom has been destroyed for decades. After three or four generations, the local people's memory of the Yue Kingdom has gradually faded.
Furthermore, when the Yue Kingdom was newly established, the system was not yet perfect, and there were omissions everywhere and a lack of officials to fill in the gaps.
So there was an embarrassing situation. There were local officials but no officials to fill them. There were soldiers but no generals to train them. Many places fell into stagnation or even chaos.
Originally, these were nothing. Any dynasty would encounter this situation when it founded the country. After two or three years of operation, slowly selecting some talents from the private sector, and adding some training of your own, it will be easy to fill in these omissions.
However, Chu State would not give Yue State this time.
Nowadays, the Yue Kingdom is still very weak. Although he can mobilize many armies, many of them have no military foundation and are just a mob with weapons.
Although the number of these mobs is large, it is very easy for the army to defeat even those with only a little military quality.
If he didn't take advantage of the current opportunity to pursue and attack the Yue Kingdom fiercely, let him calm down and train these refugees a little, and they would look like an army.
If you want to win the Yue Kingdom again, I'm afraid you will have to work a hundred times a thousand times more.
As a result, 500,000 Chu troops marched southward in a mighty manner, shaking the world and making Yue fearful.
Although today's Yue State has experienced a country, it has a king, its own army, its own land, and its own government.
But there is no denying that no matter how many he has, half a year ago, he was just a few counties under the Chu State.
As for the people in the Yue Kingdom's court, whether they were the national army, ministers, or even the soldiers and civilians at the bottom, they were just ordinary subjects under the rule of the Chu Kingdom.
Therefore, in their hearts, they still have considerable awe and fear for Chu State.
This is not only felt by the common people at the bottom, but also by the princes and nobles at the top, and even the current King of Yue.
Therefore, in this unfavorable psychological condition, although the Yue State quickly organized an army of about 300,000 to fight, although it had the natural danger of the Yangtze River as a support, it was still disadvantageous overall.
Although the Yue Kingdom could theoretically mobilize an army of 500,000, it was just a theory.
Let’s not talk about whether the Yue State has so much money and food to support it, but whether the Yue State has the ability to get so many people to be loyal to him is a question.
After all, Chu State has been in power for a long time and is deeply rooted in the territory of Yue State. Many local people have their hearts set on Chu State and always look forward to returning to the embrace of Chu State.
Therefore, what Yue State can really mobilize is the young men he brought in at the beginning, and they are truly trustworthy.
The war begins.
Although the Yangtze River is naturally dangerous, the navy of the Yue Kingdom is actually very crude. There are no large ships. They are small boats that can only carry dozens of people, and only a dozen can carry hundreds of people.
The real naval forces of the Chu State were all gathered along the Huaihe River or Jiangling Line, which were used to defend against Qin or other countries.
As for the Yue Kingdom and other places in the rear, there are no regular naval forces at all. What they have are just some patrol forces that patrol the Yangtze River, set up checkpoints, and attack some water thieves by the way. They are the kind of reserve forces.
This has also caused the embarrassing situation of the Yue State today. The natural barrier of the Yangtze River is there. This is a city wall given to the Yue State by God, but the Yue State cannot use it.
On the contrary, his enemy Chu State had enough naval forces. From the beginning, they annihilated Yue State's two or three large cat and kitten naval forces, and then completely dominated and controlled the entire Yangtze River.
In an instant, the Yangtze River became the back garden of the Chu State, where the Chu army roamed freely. In just one month, 200,000 Chu troops had crossed the Yangtze River and invaded the land of the Yue State.
However, everyone in the Yue Kingdom had already anticipated the current situation and did not panic too much.
They had long given up on the natural dangers of the Yangtze River, and instead chose the cities, mountains, and checkpoints within the territory. These natural dangers and important towns that the Yue army could use as support to resist Chu's footsteps.
Everyone in the Yue Kingdom understood that if they really fought with the Chu army, they would never be able to defeat them. Their only purpose was to delay.
Delay the time until something unexpected happens in Chu's rear, or until Chu has no supplies and can no longer fight.
For this reason, even if most of the entire Yue country was reduced to rubble, they would not hesitate.
Just like the Qi State back then, it was surrounded by the six-nation coalition and was defeated one after another at the beginning. Later, relying on the numerous cities in Chu State to defend one by one, it took half a year until something happened in the rear of the coalition forces, and then Sheji was saved.
Today's Yue State is planning to follow suit.
They are not the original Qi State. Now they are just a group of barefoot men who are planning to take risks.
If you lose, then of course there is no need to say more, it’s just death.
But if they win, or withstand it, then they will make a lot of money.
Not only did they become masters and nobles that they had always dreamed of, they could also enjoy their own fiefdom and an ancestral temple that could be passed down to their descendants.
With these, it doesn't matter even if the country of Yue turns into a wasteland. As long as the land remains, no matter how many people die, they can slowly recover through time.
(End of chapter)