After solving the most critical part of the retreat, the king of Chu ordered the boat division to land and burn the boats, so as not to let the Chu boat division fall into the hands of the Mo family, and also to have the foundation to form a naval division after fleeing north.

In the upper reaches of Ba Shui, the elite main force of the Mo family is slowly advancing south.

Six Fingers did not choose to attack the city quickly, but only sent a small force to make a feint to the west.

The city defense of Yicheng is not strong, and if it is attacked by elite soldiers, it is actually possible to capture it.

But Six Fingers didn't want to take this risk, because there wasn't much time left for him to make a miracle. If something goes wrong, he can't go down to the city with one blow, so that the army of Chu desperately comes to help, so that his forces have to be separated in half, it will be very bad.

Now the army is more than sixty miles away from Yicheng, and if they are all lightly armed, the distance may not be so far, but the more elite the Mo family's foot soldiers, the higher the requirements for logistics baggage, especially a large number of copper cannons, it is impossible to walk in the jungle, you need to walk, so the distance is sixty.

He is actually quite satisfied with the current results, he used the army to trap the Chu State Water Division, it can be said that as long as the Chu State Water Division is destroyed, whether it is the Chu people fighting in the field or escaping, after Yicheng, he can divide his troops back to Jianghuai and fight a better situation.

Now the Mo family has attacked Echeng, but the actual control area from Hefei to this side is actually empty, relying on a narrow area on the north side of a waterway to support the logistics link, which is also the reason why the six fingers dare not let the boat division and the Chu State fight a decisive battle, because the boat division cannot afford to lose.

The main cavalry of Sishang was the majority, and Six Fingers believed that if he personally led the troops, he would use the internal battle and the advantage of cavalry to break through each one.

However, the control range of the main force in Sishang is at most to Shouchun and Luzhou.

Therefore, the six fingers were anxious to get rid of the water division of the Chu State, divided the troops into Jianghuai, went north to Shenxi, and built a defense line from Hanzhong and Nanzheng to Yanying Xiangyang, and then to Shenxi and Huaihe.

The sooner the troops are divided, the better the situation will look in the future.

Now it seems that the goal of destroying the Chu State Boat Division has been achieved, and he doesn't want to take any more risks.

The victory of a surprise soldier is often an immortal achievement. But you can't win by surprise soldiers alone.

Six Fingers can only gamble now, and the monarchs and ministers of Chu State don't want to give up Jiang Han, so they choose to have a field battle with him here.

Whether it was him or the Sishang Central Committee, he didn't say anything and waited for the Chu State to fall into the net and go down step by step, in fact, the purpose was very clear: Jiang Han could not afford to lose the Chu State, and gave up Jiang Han, this is not the courage of a strong man to break his wrist, this is the courage of a strong man to cut off his hands and feet.

As far as the six fingers are concerned, the king of Chu is already at the end of the road, as long as the siege of the boat master is not solved, the king of Chu must have nowhere to go, and nine times out of ten he will be captured by him, so he is not in a hurry at this time.

The King of Chu may not know, but the six fingers know very well that the previous elite soldiers should have pounced on Xiangyang at this time; The troops of Nanzheng will also follow the Han River to the south to attack and support; The South China Sea Army will also occupy the Xiangjiang River to the north.

Therefore, what he had to do was only to divide his army, destroy Jiuzi first, go north to break through, cut off the route of the king of Chu to escape through the Dabie Mountain path, and force the king of Chu to either retreat to Jianghan and defend to the death, or go north through Yanying and Xiangyang.

More than 1,000 people of the main force of the country of Jiuzi have been destroyed, the small country of Jiuzi, a brigade can be destroyed, and it is not difficult to go north to seize the pass, and a brigade of soldiers is enough to control the pass of Jiuzi and the north.

In his opinion, it is already foolproof.

Just as he was entering the room on his own, a herald chased after him and reported back: "The Chu people have assembled the boats and are burning." ”

Six fingers slapped his forehead and scolded: "Xiong Liangfu is trying to slip away." Oops......"

Almost instantly, he thought of something and asked in a loud voice, "Is there any movement in Yu Su's Sixth Division?" ”

The herald came from the south and said, "Commander Yu has not moved. But after the boat master determined that the Chu people were burning the ship, they had already started from the bottom up. ”

Six Fingers snorted, thinking that this was also a matter of course.

Yu Su's Sixth Division is good at guarding, and Yu Su's person is very obedient to orders, and he will definitely not attack easily to avoid the situation of being surrounded by protrusion, which is also the reason why the enemy's former military commission asked the Sixth Division to defend the sandbank.

At the beginning, Liuzhi and the rest of the people judged that after the sandbar was surrounded, the Chu State would definitely try its best to fight back. They were right in their judgment of this, and it was also because of this that Shen Gong's army went south from Jiuzi to join the main force of the King of Chu, creating an opportunity for him to encircle and annihilate Shen Gong's army.

But according to common sense, the king of Chu is already storming the sandbar while fighting desperately to meet the enemy, who would have thought that the king of Chu was actually ready to run directly, and the direction of this run is obviously to run to the north, and he is not ready to insist on Jianghan at all.

Yu Su is too obedient to the order, and the words of the field guard are really first-class talents, but when encountering this kind of thing, it is inevitable that there will be some lack of judgment.

Six Fingers felt that if he was still the division commander guarding the sandbank, he was afraid that when he saw the Chu people burning the boat, his first reaction was that the Chu people were going to slip away, and immediately attacked northward, making the Chu people a mess - the purpose of guarding the sandbar was to strangle the boat division of the Chu State, and now that the boats were burned, the division of the sandbank should attack with all its might.

But then I thought about it, even if I was the brigade commander and division commander, after a few battles, I was not the commander after all, and the change in the battlefield situation was still transferred by the commander, and I just seized the fighter, but even if I didn't seize the fighter, victory was inevitable, but it might be difficult to stand out.

From this point of view, Yu Su is not wrong, and he has completed the task steadily, and it is the Chu people's business not to attack, but the sandbar is still in the hands of the Sixth Division, and even forced the Chu people to burn the ship. Yu Su only slightly lacks a little bit of the overall situation of the strategic battlefield.

Six Fingers stopped and had a brief meeting with a few people next to the carriage.

"Could it be the Chu people's trick to lure the enemy? Set up an ambush halfway and wait for the main force of our army to pursue? ”

Someone asked, Six Fingers shook his head and said: "I definitely want to run, even if it is an ambush halfway, it is just a tactical preparation for running." ”

"But the Sixth Division's side is definitely safe, and it is impossible for the Chu people to divide a huge amount of troops just to annihilate the Sixth Division, and completely ignore the existence of our main forces."

"The Chu people are definitely going to run in the direction of Yicheng, but they are close, we are far away, and the main force will definitely not be able to catch up."

"But you can't let the Chu people run so easily, send cavalry to chase after them and intercept and harass them."

After unifying the opinions, he asked the herald to give the order: the boat division went upstream to control the waterway, and the sixth division cooperated with the boat division to go straight to the north of the river.

It's a pity that the news can't fly over, and if it comes and goes, I'm afraid I will miss the opportunity to stick to the main force of the Chu army.

The main force ordered the cavalry not to be equipped with cavalry artillery and to pursue quickly; The two elite grenadiers who had arrived in the camp first rode horses to pursue, disrupting the retreat of the Chu people, and their own army quickly caught up.

The retreat of the army is a great test of the commander's organizational ability, especially if he abandons the strategic decisive battle and organizes a retreat, if he is not careful, it will evolve into a rout of the race to retreat.

On the side of the Chu State, the King of Chu had already taken Che Guang Elite and some nobles and some royal divisions to retreat first.

The sailors who went ashore and the oarsmen followed.

The rest slowly retreated in the back.

And some of the royal divisions who were responsible for organizing the defense of Yicheng and waiting for the king of Chu and others to retreat and burn the city of Yicheng, who were ahead of the king of Chu, had already arrived, took over the defense of Yicheng, and began to assign personnel to guard everywhere and collect firewood and grass for accumulation.

In the middle of the city, in a critical place, several officers in charge of directing the accumulation of firewood and grass were complaining there.

These officers were all from the new army of the Wang Division, and they belonged to the beneficiaries of the reform and reform of the previous king of Chu.

They were originally common people, and in this era when princes and generals did have a kind, there was no hope at all.

But later, the Mo family gave lectures in various places, and these people also learned some words, and then the state of Chu created a new army, and the king of Chu began to organize a new army with farmers and nomads in the cities as the main force, not controlled by the nobles.

If you want to change, it is not so easy, the new army is created, the cost is huge, and it catches up with the Mo family's victory over the Yue country, and it needs instructors.

and borrowed money to buy guns, gunpowder, and military uniforms and cotton cloth; It's the Mo family training again, if this is not affected, it will be a ghost.

At this time, these people who were complaining, because they knew some words and knew some truths, followed the king of Chu to fight, Ping Dongting Baiyue Cangwu, and the prince of war, accumulated meritorious deeds, and gradually became officers.

As soon as the king of Chu died, a large number of reformers were killed, but fortunately, the king of Xin Chu recognized the vested interests of these new armies, and in the end the new army still recognized the king of new Chu.

Many people in the army are quite dissatisfied with this palace coup, but although the king of Chu has carried out certain reforms, after all, there is still a kind of princely general, even when the countrymen were in politics before, even if they can interfere in politics, but they must find a person with pure blood and dignity to inherit the monarch's position, Zheng Wei, Qi, Qi, Song and other countries such coups are like this, so the king of Chu died, the reformers were killed, and the princes did not stand up to firmly reform and establish themselves as kings, these people can only choose to obey.

At this time, these officers, who had seen the world and knew some truths, were constantly complaining, and they all saw that this was the army withdrawing, and the long-suppressed dissatisfaction with the King of Chu was on the verge of breaking out.

The reason why the Mo family wants to wait until the death of the king of Chu and the coup d'état of Chu to send troops is precisely this, it seems that the situation is stable, but in fact, the undercurrent is surging, and the Mo family chose this time to attack Chu and relied on the general trend, not the Mo people in Chu who are wholeheartedly for the benefit of the world, but those who are dissatisfied under the undercurrent.

"I look at this Chu country, I'm afraid it's going to be over."

An officer muttered in a low voice, surrounded by trustworthy friends and partners, and he did not shy away from speaking.

First folded the right Sima, and then damaged Shen Gong, many people were pessimistic and disappointed.

One of the people next to him scoffed: "You can't say that. According to the Mo family, the land of Chu still exists, the people of Chu are still there, and it is only the princes and nobles who are finished, what does it have to do with Chu? ”

These people were already a little dissatisfied with this coup, if they won all the way after the coup, or it would be good if it did not harm their interests, but just now the coup d'état was defeated again and again, and the Mo family's inscription angrily denounced that this was a return to the era when princes and generals did have a kind of situation, and these people who benefited from Shang Xian's strategy in the change of law were naturally dissatisfied.

As soon as the laughter fell, the person who complained at first hurriedly said, "Silence! Don't be heard, if your words are heard, won't it be a suspicion of ink? ”