The commercial policy of Sishang Heavy Industry and seeking the profit of sales also made the logistics of this battle of exterminating Chu much simpler.

With a little mobilization, it was possible to build enough cargo ships capable of transporting material and logistical supplies along the river, and the price paid was only a stake in some overseas franchises, and the merchants knew the value of this, because it had already been manifested.

As the commander-in-chief who stayed in Sishang, the pressure was not great.

Almost all the elite cavalry stayed in Sishang and did not participate in the battle to destroy Chu, if Sishang fought on the inner line and was mobilized, he could also pull out a large army, and the food had been accumulated for thirty years, and it could not be used up.

Now there are 60,000 troops assembled in the Guangling area, all of which are the main force of the elite; Counting those oarsmen and requisitioned sailors, there are nearly 20,000 sailors, plus the mobilized logistics forces, Sishang still has spare strength.

The front-line troops left behind in the Sishang area, after a short period of mobilization and re-training to attack Vietnam, have more than 8,000 elite cavalry and 20,000 foot soldiers.

Chu is not suitable for heavy cavalry, and there are not many cavalry to destroy Chu, mainly light cavalry.

Sishang left the elite cavalry, and they were also ready to take the initiative to attack, once the countries were really ready to intervene jointly, they would definitely have to find an opportunity to jump to the outside line before the countries combined to do a vote.

Lu Zhanshi is not worried, the only thing he is worried about is the Yangtze River estuary water battle that is about to start now.

On paper, the Mo family's boat division is much stronger than the Yue country, but in fact, the Mo family's boat division does not have much actual combat experience, that is, when he fought with the Qi country more than ten years ago, he and the Yue country engaged in the Qi country once, which can be regarded as accumulating some experience.

On paper, it is finally shallow, and it is difficult to say whether the on-the-spot performance can defeat the Yue people who are good at boating.

In the past, there have not been too many battles in which land battles have won more with less, but the relative proportion of water battles in which fewer victories have been much higher.

Although the defeat of water did not affect the destruction of the Yue country in the slightest, the purpose of this time was not to destroy the Yue but only to destroy the water army of the Yue country and obtain the right to control water.

That's a bit of a problem.

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South of the Yangtze River, Yue Kingdom.

Yue Guo has been miserable in the past 20 years.

The hegemony of Sishang was lost, and the Mo family filled the vacancy and stuck the Qi State to the south, and then pit the Wei State, colonized the Qifu Land in the South China Sea, and the Yue State was wrapped in the middle, isolated and helpless.

The remnants of the Wu aristocracy were ready to move, the strategy was retracted and moved back to Huiji, the economy was dumped and plundered, and it became a grain production area in Sishang, which was originally weaker than the handicraft industry of the Central Plains princes was too close to Sishang and had water transportation.

The battle of Moyue, the coup d'état of the nobles, the Mo family sent the king of Yue back to the throne, and a civil strife wiped out the foundation and spirit of the Goujian era.

But even so, compared to what happened to Yue Guo in the original history, it can be regarded as a blessing in disguise.

Originally, in the past few years in history, there have been several classic aristocratic court-style conspiracy coups in the Yue Kingdom.

Originally, in history, King Yue was worried about the tradition of killing his father, and his younger brother killed the three sons of King Yue in order to obtain the first succession, and he was ready to kill the prince. Before the ass could sit firmly, the nobles killed the prince in a coup d'état, and the nobles of Wu made the son of the prince king; After one year on the throne, the nobles of the Yue Kingdom killed the nobles of the Wu State, drove away the son of the prince, and established the prince of Yue; A few years later, the nobles killed Wang Lixin in a coup d'état, and the royal family failed to fight back......

Therefore, compared with the turbulent coup d'état in history, more than ten years of civil strife are indeed a blessing in disguise.

The broken strategy contraction suppressed the remnants of the Wu nobles who had a desire for revenge; The defeat in Sishang made a bunch of careerists jump out early, but they didn't want the Mo family to have an unstable foothold and needed to support the Yue country, so they took out loans and released people and interfered and killed; The prince jumped out too early and made a negative teaching material for the sons, which made the sons slightly restrained......

So he can also put together a fleet that can fight against the Mo family's southward movement.

When the Yue Wang Phong was already old, and when the sons were preparing to kill their father and kill their brother in a coup d'état, the Mo family went south, which made the Yue nobles and the royal family unprecedentedly united: if Qi Chu came to attack, maybe they could also borrow external forces to coup d'état, but the Mo family was anti-aristocratic and wanted to destroy the foundation of the aristocracy in the system, which made the royal nobles of the Yue Kingdom unite unprecedentedly.

But even so, Yue Wang Fei is still worried about this unjust battle of the Mo family.

Dafu Xu was selected as the chief general of the naval army this time, and he can be regarded as a first-class water war nobleman in the Yue Kingdom, but he has no confidence in this battle.

"Your Majesty, in fact, the victory or defeat of this naval army is irrelevant. The navy has won, the river is thousands of miles, and the Mo family can cross the river from anywhere. As long as we cross the river, our army will be defeated. ”

"From the perspective of the past, the army of Sishang is invincible."

In the first battle of that year, the Mo family completely knocked the Yue Kingdom out of the shadows, the Junzi army suffered heavy casualties, the chariot battle was outdated, the brave noble swordsmen were defeated under the musketeers and spearmen in the array, and the archers were slaughtered by the stirrup cavalry.

Now in the past few years, the Mo family has fought with Wei and Qi, and what is the level of Yue Guo's own land warfare, Yue Wang Fei knows best in his heart.

In the Goujian era, brave swordsmen and young nobles were organized into a gentleman's army, which could be called "overlords", and the countries were convinced.

In less than a hundred years, this military system has completely lagged behind the military system in Sishang, and the original organizational level of the Central Plains region has been matched with the new military system, and the land war of the Yue Kingdom has actually been defeated by none of the Central Plains princes.

The reason why Yue was able to dominate was only because of backwardness. The development of the Central Plains region was too early, and the civil society of the people of the country and the wilderness disintegrated prematurely, and was busy with internal strife, so that the Yue country was strong for a while, but once it could not take advantage of the world, its innate deficiency weakness would be revealed.

The navy that the Yue country can rely on is an advantage, but the Mo family has a lot of money, industry and commerce are developed, and the Yue country will build two or three ships on the Si ship; The building ships of the Yue Kingdom were poorly equipped with crossbows, and Sishang loaded several times the number of copper cannons on the building ships; The Yue people were born to swim and support boats, and Sishang was forced to serve to train oarsmen; The fishermen who supported the boat were recruited by the Yue Kingdom, and Sishang used the money to raise a standing oarsman.

And even if you win the water war, what can you do? Although the river is dangerous, it is not impossible for the foot soldiers to cross the river if they want to cross the river, and then it is difficult to mobilize troops to Qifu and go north to break through.

It is impossible to passively avoid war, retain the strength of the naval army and wait for the world to change. The Mo family's naval army had artillery, and the Yue country lacked a battery port that could protect its own warships, and there was nowhere to hide.

Yue Wang Fei sighed and said: "There is only one battle, there is no other way." ”

"Move south to hide, but the seven Fujian and South China Seas are all owned by the Mo family, and it is impossible to move south. Chu's civil strife, even if I have the heart to help me, I can't do it; Jin and Qin fought in Xihe, how could the Qi people dare to intervene alone and take Sishang? ”

"But what are the conditions that the Mo family gave me? Renounce all fiefdoms, renounce all power over the people of the fiefdoms. Or for the common people, or for ...... We were sent by boat to the big island in the south of Qifu, thinking that it was Xinyue. ”

"But there is no fiefdom, only fiefdom, what's the use of having Xinyue?"

This is the most favorable condition given by the Mohists: as long as the king of Yue surrenders, he can live as a citizen, and he can even pay some money every year because he does not fight to benefit the people; Either send all the royal families and nobles of the Yue Kingdom to Taiwan, and re-experience the feeling that the ancestors overcame the thorns and thorns and had a size land, but the people did not give any of them.

Only the land is given, not to the people.

If you don't accept it, then it means that the nobles still want to maintain the power to exploit the fiefdom farmers, that is not a pure aristocracy, if you want to be a pure aristocracy, you must be separated from the economic base, which the Mohists support, and it can't be said that because they are nobles, they will be persecuted If there is a pure aristocratic spirit in the world, and this spirit is the eternal and unchanging highest morality, then it should be separated from the exploitation of rentier, retain the identity of the nobility, and ban the feudal rights and personal dependence of the nobility, Send a person to the island to send a farm tool and a few catties of seeds to continue to be a pure nobleman, in order to continue the spirit of nobility.

And often organize people to visit, if the economic base is stripped and the aristocratic spirit still exists, and the aristocratic morality can still be maintained by cultivating and hunting in the barren land, then the Mo family admits that his previous remarks are wrong.

In fact, this is equivalent to cutting off the minds of the nobles of the Yue Kingdom to make peace.

Because the Mo family is more advanced in culture, has its own talent training system and a whole set of new legal principles and new ruling methods, the Mo family feels that these remnant nobles are already waste, useless, and do not need them to participate in the construction of the new regime, so naturally leave no room.

Thirty years ago, the aristocracy may have been required to become officials, otherwise the huge place could not be controlled, and now the internally cultivated cultural population is waiting in line to become officials, and the nobles are worthless, and they occupy the land, what is the use of keeping it? Besides, he has completely turned his face with the old world, and if he treats the nobles well and learns the three etiquettes, the nobles of the old world will not take the Mo family as their own, so there is no need to hide it.

Exiled to Taiwan, of course, he will not die, and there is even land, but the problem is that there is no land for people, what is the use of the nobles? It is always human labor that is exploited, because wealth is produced by labor, not land. The Mo family wants to peel the skin of the nobles and cut off their roots.

Besides, the literate population of Yue is basically a big aristocrat, these people are the inheritors of local culture, potential separatists, and they must find a way to get rid of them, otherwise how can they be synonymous?

Even if it has been forced to this point, it is impossible to surrender in this battle.

Yue Wang Peng asked Xu Dao: "What are the odds?" ”

Doctor Xu shook his head and said: "If you talk about water warfare, the odds of winning are thirty percent." If you talk about national wars, there is almost no chance of victory. At this time, the wind direction is difficult to determine, the north and south winds are changeable, and less is more than more, but only fire attacks, but because the wind direction is not feasible. ”

"In water battles, there are many soldiers and archers in Mojialou, and most of the soldiers in hand-to-hand combat were taught by Professor Mo Zhai's Beicheng Gate Guards in the past, and their swordsmanship is also high."

"When it comes to morale, even if the scholar and the doctor eat the king's Lu to fight to the death for the fiefdom, it is difficult to use their lives."

"Don't think about winning, think about losing first. If the Mohist naval army is defeated, it can still cross the river from elsewhere and destroy the Yue, but it will be a little later; If our army loses the water war, it will be difficult to sacrifice to the temple in the moon this year. ”

Yue Wang Fei nodded in agreement with this desperate and pessimistic view, and asked, "Don't you also support what the doctors said that if you fail, you will die?" ”