In mid-September, the monarchs and ministers of Chu finally made the final decision, and the prince of Chu arrived at the city of Yi to build a fort along the river to defend it, and ordered Yin to live in the capital of Chu to deploy logistics supplies.

Da Sima rushed to Fangcheng to recruit Fangcheng, Luyang, and Xu Zhi's soldiers, stationed in Chen Cai, and threatened Sishang, in order to force the Mo family to return to help after the siege of Wei to save Zhao.

Send envoys out of Qin, Wei, Han, and Qi to save the princes, and bribe the cities and never be stingy.

This time, the ministers of Chu State have learned the lessons of the battle of Wu and Chu that year, in the battle of Wu and Chu, Zuo Sima faced the Wu army, and suggested that he go to move the troops of Fangcheng, go around to the side and cut off his back road, and let Ling Yin resist in front and not act rashly.

The result is well known, in order to fight for the attack, Yin Bushou attacked first, and was defeated by Wu Zixu, and the state of Chu almost perished.

This time in the face of the attack of the Mo family, the nobles of the Chu State still knew in their hearts that if they really lost to the Mo family, they would really destroy the country and destroy the species, this is a matter related to the descendants of their own family, and there is no longer a question of whether to fight or not.

This is the only means that the state of Chu can use now.

Counting on Fangcheng and other places to gather troops to support the south took longer than the soldiers from Fangcheng, Luyang, Xu and other places to go to Chen Cai to contact the princes and threaten the flank.

At the same time, the autumn rainy period has passed, and the main force of the Mo family has also begun to go up the river, and the forward has reached Xishui, and built a walled city on the east bank of Xishui.

The situation here is complicated, there are a lot of Ba people who are not satisfied with the Chu people, after the king of Chu destroyed a Ba Man, he drove a part of the Ba people to forcibly migrate to the Dabie Mountains, these Ba people will be active in the upper reaches of Xishui, and the local feudal monarchs will also send people to the places where the Ba people live to capture slaves.

Xishui crosses the river, which is Daye Mountain, an important copper mining area in Chu State, and the mining area is a place where there are many riots, and it has always been so.

The Ejun and the Duke of Yi in this place also set up camp in Ba Shui, west of Xishui, and the two armies camped at a distance of up to 30 miles.

From Xishui to Ba Shui to the river where Yicheng is located, there are nine twists and turns, because of the effect of the washed sandbar, this place is not suitable for water warfare.

After the main force of the Mo family arrived in Xishui, they built a fortress along the river, because they avoided the flood season, so the river became very narrow.

The Xie Xuan army built a fortress at the mouth of the Xishui River, equipped with copper cannons to monitor the river surface, and sent a brigade to live on the sandbar, and also set up a fortress to control the water surface.

The main force of the Chu army camped west of Ba Shui, but it was not just east of Ba Shui that had to be guarded against.

The Mo family is good at bypassing, sneak attacking, interspersing, and outflanking, which was shown in the First Battle of Alignment, so the Chu people had to guard against it.

Ba Shui is not a natural danger, but if you want to break through, you must first choose the Yangtze River water battle to win, but here Chu small boats are the majority, the number alone is not less than the Mo family's boat division, especially the Mo family's boat division building ship is not suitable for fighting here, and the water here is turbulent, and the Chu people are upstream, so the advantage is great.

To the north of Ba Shui is the mountainous area, where the pass is not easy to break through. But the Mo family has already occupied Huainan, and there are still a lot of reinforcements from the Mo family, and Chu Chen, the king of Chu, is worried that the Mo family will go around the rear, so he let Shen Gong lead the army to be stationed in the country of Jiuzi to prevent flanks.

Jiuzi State, a small country descended from Huaiyi, because it is located in the remote and Dabie Mountains, is a county because the Chu State has not been destroyed. In addition, there are migrating Ba people and other waterless barbarians in the local area, so this small Huaiyi country can also exist, and it is the place where birds do not poop at this time.

However, if the army is sent north to the country of Jiuzi, it can bypass the Bashui defense line of the state of Chu from the side, and it is necessary to prevent it.

On the south bank of the Yangtze River, there is the Daye Mountain Copper Mine of Chu State, which is also the fief of Ejun, so it must also be defended. This can be guarded against by the king of Chu, but it must be guarded by the king of E.

Although the Chu State mobilized a lot of manpower and military strength, because it had to defend everywhere, there were only about 50,000 field divisions in the frontal confrontation, as well as a large number of conscripted peasants, soldiers, people, and baggage.

Times have changed, and the previous era of half-day battle between the two armies has passed, and this mode of warfare with the help of cities, mountains, and rivers has emerged. The number far exceeded the number of troops in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the strategic front was wide to dozens of miles, which the Chu State was not familiar with.

By the end of September, the two sides had already built their camps, the main forces had arrived one after another, and some skirmishes broke out.

At the beginning of October, the Chu people requisitioned the people, strengthened the defense line, and transported grain.

The Xie Xuan army also began to build camps on some of the peaks between the two rivers, and began to repair the roads for transporting copper cannons, and the light cavalry controlled the plain between the two rivers to drive away the Chu scouts.

The boat division tried to get close to Ba Shui, and some skirmishes broke out between the two sides, testing each other, and the main force of the boat division of the Chu army gathered.

In the Xishui camp, the military conference was held again.

Originally, the most prudent tactic was to wait for the strange troops to enter Xiangyang, and the divisions of Nanzheng and Yunmeng, and wait for the South China Sea to break through Linwu and go down the Xiangjiang River, so as to form an ambush on all sides and win.

However, from the scout's reconnaissance, Sixfinger conceived another battle tactic that might turn into a war of annihilation.

The Mo family's boat division is related to the logistics of the entire Jianghuai, so after defeating the Yue State Naval Division, it can be avoided as much as possible without the decisive battle of the boat division, and what can be solved by the army is solved by the army.

Once the boat division failed and the logistics were cut, the Chu people could not only go down the river, but also contact the Yue people.

The Mo family was not unprepared for this, so they deployed iron cannons to build forts in Pengze, Anqing and other places, in order to prevent that once the boat division failed and the Chu State naval division cut off the Yangtze River, then the rear threat of the Yue State that was equivalent to non-existence because of the complete destruction of the naval division would come back to life.

Moreover, if the decisive battle of the boat division is carried out here, it will be extremely disadvantageous to the Mo family. One is that the water is turbulent, and the Mohists are downstream; The second is that the wind direction is the golden wind, and the wind is also unfavorable to the Mo family.

If the Zhou Division can defeat the Chu Zhou Division, then the Bashui defense line built by the Chu King and a group of nobles can be swept down in one go.

However, if it fails, it means that the Mo family has given up the right to control water, and must retreat to the east of Poyang Lake in order to gain a firm foothold and ensure logistical supplies.

But if you rely on the army, Ba Shui is not a moat, it is not so easy to force it to cross, and you must also guard against the support of the Chu State Boat Division.

However, the Hanging Army is actually at the end of a strong crossbow, too far away from the rear, and it can't withstand the battle with too much loss, and it has to leave a hand for the future division of troops to Huainan.

Coupled with the fact that the way of using soldiers is in harmony, it is impossible for Six Fingers to pin all their hopes on Nan Zheng, Yun Meng and that strange soldier.

Just when both sides were staring at Ba Shui and Xi Shui, Six Fingers set their sights on Jiangnan.

On the Xishui sandbank, the Mo family took advantage of the opportunity of the end of the flood season to deploy forts on the sandbank, which can be said to control the Yangtze River under Xishui.

After crossing the river for only a few dozen miles, it is the Daye Mountain Copper Mine, where the Mo family is very familiar, one is that there are many miners who have escaped in Sishang, and the other is that the Mo family has made some mining and mining machinery gradually adopted in Daye Mountain.

Although this is Chu's, the Chu State owes the Mo family money and needs copper to pay, and the Mo family needs a large amount of copper, so it does not prevent the Mo family from helping Chu to improve the excavation and smelting technology of Daye Mountain.

If it could, the Mo family only needed a brigade to control the Daye Mountain Copper Mine, this kind of industrial and mining land where people gathered, it was simply a hotbed for the spread and development of the Mo doctrine, just like thick hairs for lice, compared to those scattered farmers and the doctrine that had a certain damage to the interests of the farmers, this was naturally the hardest hit area for the Mo family to preach.

To the north of Daye Mountain, there is the important town of Edi, an important town in the south of the Chu State, which is the fiefdom of the Ejun, and there are not too many people guarding it.

After Echeng, there is a large swamp, which is also the reason why the Chu State did not deploy defenses in the south of the Yangtze River, even if the Mo family took the Eland, they could not get around the Huze area, which was connected with Daze Yunmeng, the waves were vast, not lower than the sea, and the Mo family's boatman could not grow wings from the river to bypass the Chu people and fly into Daze.

However, the scout reported that there was also a huge bend in the Yangtze River ten miles above the mouth of the Ba River, and that there was also a sandbar there because of the bend.

The sandbar divides the Yangtze River waterway into north and south, and now when the water is dry, the width of the south side is only more than 400 steps, and the width of the north side is only more than 200 steps.

Six Fingers almost immediately found the lifeline of the Chu State, which was the sandbar dozens of miles to the west.

Since the boat master is a baby pimple and cannot fail, why do you have to use a boat to defeat the boat master of the Chu State?

Who said that the army could not annihilate the sailors?

If the main force is forward, the mountains between the two rivers will be used as a large camp, and the main force will reach the east bank of Ba Shui, and artillery will be deployed on the east bank to build boat beams.

If the main force of the Chu people chooses to cross the river to fight, although this is basically impossible, even if the Chu people cross the river and fight in the field, it is impossible for the Chu people to win.

If the main force of the Chu people continues to learn from the west of Ba Shui, where the turtle is located, and builds fortifications along the river to wait for the half-crossing attack, then the main force of the Xie Xuan army can be deployed by the river and ready to cross the river at any time for a decisive battle.

The boat division was dispatched, as if to cooperate with the army in a decisive battle, to induce all the Chu people's boat divisions to concentrate on this section of the river about twenty miles long - if the boat division could not control the Yangtze River, the Mo family could easily break through the Bashui defense line - once the main force of the Chu people's boat division was assembled on this twenty-mile long river, immediately send an elite army to the south of the Yangtze River.

With a rapid march day and night to the sandbank, and immediately prepare for defense after controlling the sandbank, the follow-up people will continue to transport a large number of heavy artillery originally used for river defense deployment to the sandbank, build a fortress there, and trap the Chu sailors on this twenty-mile river.

If the Chu people chose to return to the division to rescue, the main force would take the opportunity to cross the river.

If the Chu people choose not to rescue, but instead attack to seek a glimmer of survival, they will turn the offensive into defense, hold the fortifications in the mountains and Xishui and the sandbanks downstream, break through the Hubei and Daye Mountains, continue the confrontation, calmly mobilize troops and rely on the army to intersperse and outflank the rear, cut off the grain route, and capture the city.

The boatmaster of the main force of the sailing boat needs a port and needs to solve great logistical pressure, and the boatmaster trapped on the Twenty-mile River is not a boatmaster, just a fat sheep to be slaughtered.

As soon as the main force of the land war of the Chu State was defeated, these boat divisions either surrendered or sank themselves, and there was no other way out. As soon as the boat division of the Chu State was destroyed, and if the boat division of the Mo family was still there, then the six fingers felt that as long as they finished this battle, they could immediately divide 20,000 troops and return to Huainan, and the Chu State would be destroyed.

With the temptation of righteousness and the surprise attack, Six Fingers felt that if everything went well, he might have to fight a real and probably the biggest battle of annihilation so far.