Due to seasonal reasons, the more than 20,000 Chu army that had been revolving thousands of miles from Chencang could not immediately arrive in Yue. The Qin army attacked Yue and faced only the remnants of the Chu and Yue armies, with a total of only more than 30,000 people in land and water. The southern exit of Hangou is opposite to Guangling, and the hundreds of miles southeast of Zhufang is Yupu, the northern exit of the Jiangnan Canal (now Xili Port, Jiangyin).

The so-called "In ancient Wu's ancient waterway, go out of Pingmen, go up to Guochi, go into Du, go out of Chaohu, go up to Lidi, pass Meiting, enter Yanghu, go out of Yupu, enter Dajiang, and listen to Guangling." The Jiangnan Canal dug by Fuchai of Wu State is still open to navigation. After crossing the Yangtze River, the Qin army can enter the Jiangnan Canal from Yupu to pass through Yanghu (now Yanghu between Wuxi, Changzhou), Meiting (i.e. Meili, Meicun in southeast Wuxi), Lidi (i.e. Lidi), Chaohu (now Caohu, Lihu, northwest of Suzhou), Du (now Shedu, forty miles west of Suzhou), and finally arrive at the former Wu capital Wucheng.

To the south of Wucheng is Baiqidu, passing through Zhenze, Quan (now Jiaxing), Yuer (now Chongfu Town, Tongxiang), and finally from Hezhuang Mountain (now Baihu Mountain in Xiaoshan, Qiantang River Road, which moves northward) from Qiantang River, cross the river to Kuaiji.

Wucheng can reach the Qiantang River along Baiqidu, and Xupu, which Wu Zixu excavated, can also sail from the old Wucheng to the Qiantang River. "Yu Gong" says: "After the three rivers enter, Zhenze is settled." The so-called Sanjiang is Songjiang, Loujiang, and Dongjiang. Songjiang is the Wusong River and Suzhou River in later generations; Loujiang is the Liu River in later generations, entering the sea from Taicang; Dongjiang is Xupu. The river channel originates from the southeast of Zhenze, passes through Chenghu, Baixi Lake, and Pinghu, and enters Hangzhou Bay from Wuyuan (now Haiyan).

With the direction of the waterway in this way, it is not difficult to judge the military nodes along the way.

Zhu Fang is the intersection of Hangou and the Jiangnan Canal, and it also controls the estuary of the Yangtze River, which must be a place for military struggle. Whether the capture of Zhu Fang is related to whether the Qin naval and land armies can attack Jiangdong. Although Yupu is also one of the nodes, only infantry can capture and occupy cities, and the Zhoushi is not suitable for occupation. Even if the Zhoushi seizes Yupu, 100,000 infantry are still blocked in Guangling and cannot go south, and still cannot conquer Jiangdong.

After Zhu Fang, Wucheng was naturally Wucheng. Wucheng was the intersection of the Jiangnan Canal and Baichidu. If you capture Wucheng, you can go south to Yue and take Kuaiji directly. You can also go along the Dongjiang River to Hangyi Bay. The south of Wuyuan is Jin (now Ningbo). Wucheng must be the target of competition between the two sides. If you pull out Wucheng, Jiangdong will also decide the tripod.

Finally, it is Kuaiji. Kuaiji is the center of the old capital of Yue and the land of Yue. Although there are Ouyue, Minyue, Nanyue, Luoyue and other places south of Kuaiji, once Kuaiji falls, if Yuewu dies in battle, the Yue Kingdom, which has finally returned, will definitely be divided again.

These are things that the strategists on both sides are very clear about, and things that Naojiu and Wang Jian know very well. Therefore, when they heard that the Chu army began to withdraw, Wang Jian immediately ordered Bai Lin to lead the Right Army out of Shouying and Shunhuai River to go east. The coast of the Huai River was still the city of Chu, but these cities with insufficient troops could only defend the city and could not leave the city to fight with the Qin army who was sailing to the east.

The Chu army withdrew and the Qin army went east. Naoji was a little surprised when he heard the news, but Li Qi said, "This Qin people were about to leave Hangou and join the Zhou army."

Shouying and Langya are two horns. After losing these pair of horns, the first one to be hit is Zhu Fang from Jiangdong.

"How can the Qin people solve the food and grass?" Naoji knew what Li Qi meant, but he still couldn't understand Wang Jian's actions. "The cities below Shouying, Xia Cai, Quyang, Zhongli, Shandao, Huaiyin and other cities are all in my hands. The Qin people can go east, but the food and grass cannot go east."

"No!" Li Qi sighed in unison with Shen Tong beside Li Qi. Li Qi did not speak, and signaled Shen Tong to speak with his eyes. Shen Tong then said, "What the Grand Sima saw is the only Hungou. However, at this time, the people of Qi had been driven by the Qin people. The food and grass could be transported from Qi Shunyi River and Mushui River to Xia Pi, and then from Xia Pi to Si River to Huaiyin."

"Ah?" The water system on Huai Shang is well developed, and Naojiu really only stares at the boundary of the Gangkok, forgetting that there is still a boundary of Si Shui. Yuedi, Jiangdong and Qi and Lu have always been closely connected. This is why the phenomenon of the people of Lu people and the people of Lu are more and more Langya.

"Report to the Grand Sima, if Huaiyin is the one who can defend it..." Shouying and Huaiyin, one in Huaixi and the other in Huaidong, are all important towns that prevent the northern army from moving south. However, the Chu army had no soldiers to defend at this time. Most of the soldiers of the Huainan Division, including the soldiers from Huaiyin, died in the Battle of Shahai. A man over eight years old moved to Xinying. Hundreds of 50 and 60 years old soldiers and women in the city were unable to defend Huaiyin.

"So quickly order Huaiyin to surrender to Qin." Naojiu, who knew the situation in Huaiyin, had no choice but to order.

"How can Huaiyin surrender to Qin?" If the marquis on the side were led by Huainan Shishi, Huaiyin was not his fief, but he regarded Huaiyin as his homeland.

"What can I do if I don't surrender to Qin?" Naojiu retorted. "If I don't surrender, the whole city of Huaiyin will die?"

"They surrendered to Qin and were also conquered by the Qin people! Instead of transporting grain, Yu died in the Tao, it would be better to die in battle." Hou Ruo, the Zhou Dynasty, said in grief and clenched his fists tightly.

"Whether to fight or surrender can be decided by Huaiyin." Li Qi saw Naojiu and Hou Ruo arguing with him, so he had to make a suggestion. He made such a suggestion, Naojiu said: "Tell Huaiyin that it is decided by yourself."

Naojiu frowned as soon as he finished speaking. With the nature of the Huaiyin people, he would definitely choose to die in battle. At this time, Huaiyin is no longer a small town that was several miles ago, but Huaiyin is now a big city that is more than 30 miles away. Thinking of the Qin army's heads being cut off from Huaiyin City, Naojiu couldn't help but close his eyes while trembling slightly.

The Chu army withdrew from Shouying, and the Qin army also withdrew from Shouying. The two armies accelerated their departure in an agreement. In April 1911, a raging fire broke out in the Shouying royal city, and the fireworks were visible to ten miles. The country, which had only been established for seventeen years, was destroyed, and the eastern part of the Chu State was also declared to fall. In Zhufang, Wucheng, Kuaiji and other places, the Chu people who had been waiting for for a long time finally boarded the boat and sailed on the wind.

Zhu Fang's boats set sail still followed the Yangtze River to Lighthouse Island; Wucheng's boats set sail went out of Wusong along the Songjiang River and merged into the vast boat flow; Kuaiji's boats set sail were the farthest, but Kuaiji also had to return to Wusong along Baiqidu and go out from Wusong. The East China Sea in April was not as violent as winter, and countless boats went out to sea, as if a huge floating bridge was built on the sea. More than 200,000 people from Chu were walking east along this floating bridge, leaving and never returning.

The flagship Queshan, where the gunboat general Shen Yinshang was located, was swimming in the north of this huge floating bridge. After evacuating Langya, the Chuyue Zhoushi's gunboat retreated to a small island formed by mud and sand alluvial outside the mouth of the Yangtze River. Later generations will be called Rudong, but it was a deserted island here more than two thousand years ago. The Qin army boats that occupied Langya were about to go south along the coast, with a distance of only 900 miles apart. The warship gunboats fell here, and they could just protect the Chu people from crossing the east.

Although it was on the north side of the pontoon bridge, Shen Yinshang, who was on the stern, could not see the "huge pontoon bridge" a hundred miles southwest. He had no intention of looking south, but he raised the Lu Lijing from time to time to look north. The sea was vast, and no one knew when the Qin army's boat troops would go south.

"Is there any news about Yanyi?" Shen Yinshang, who put down Lu Li's mirror, asked to Wei Pan tiredly.

Yanyi is Yancheng, and Yancheng of this era is on the beach. From Langya to Jizhen (now northeast of Ganyu), from Jizhen to Yushan (Yunmeng Mountain), from Yushan to Yanyi, and from Yanyi to this sand island in Rudong, there are observation posts on the 900-mile coast. Once there is a police officer, use Feixun to inform him.

There is no reason for the fleet to retreat to the estuary of the Yangtze River. Resistance is not a good way to delay time. Once you retreat nearly a thousand miles, with the dependence of the Mediterranean three-oar warships on logistics, the Qin people must have huge logistics boats to transport food and fodder and even clear water when they go south. As long as the fleet sinks these logistics boats, not to mention annihilation of the Qin army's boat troops, the Qin army's boat troops retreat in a panic and then go south again to at least two months before they attack again. But this is just before evading, the evacuation has begun, and the Chu and Yue armies must be strictly guarded and defended.

Shen Yin Shangxiang asked, and the lookout on the mast plate immediately looked at the message pole on the coast with Lu Li mirror and replied: "Report to General, there is no news."

Shen Yinshang was disappointed, but said, "No news is the best."

‘Boom, boom…’, as soon as Shen Yinshang finished speaking, a faint sound of cannons came from afar. He raised Lu Lijing to look for something but found. He looked on the mast plate and searched with Lu Lijing for a long time, and finally saw a yellow sail.

"Report to General, Vermilion Bird-level!" There is a warning line on land, and another warning line on sea consisting of the new Vermilion Bird-level.

"Who is the news?" Shen Yinshang was no longer lazy and became nervous immediately, but the Maitan did not answer for a long time.

"Who is the news?" Shen Yin still didn't understand why, there were naturally police officers who fired a vermilion, and if there were police officers, they should send a message to inform the Qin people of movement and the number of warships. "Who is the news?!" He asked again, a little anxious.

When Shen Yinshang asked for the third time, the boat clerk beside him pointed at the north and said, "General..."

The wind blows north, and the new Suzaku-level, which is slower than the wind, slowly appears on the sea level. In the mirror of Lu Li, behind it is not the blue of the ocean, but a mottled brown. The cross made of masts and cross truss is like a bare forest before snow falls in winter, cold and solemn. Shen Yinshang finally knew why the guard stopped talking. Like him, he couldn't speak.

"Crash the cannons! The Qin people have arrived, and the warships cover the sea." Shen Yinshang was calm. He didn't know how the Qin people went south, but the fact was that the Qin people had already gone south and the boat team was dozens of miles away. The sea boats could not escape the warships at such a close distance. Fortunately, the "Floating Bridge" is hundreds of miles southwest of the Queshan, and the evacuated boats can urgently dock. As for how to avoid the evacuation next, only the gods know.

The sirens suddenly sounded on the Queshan, and a harsh whistle sounded in the harbor full of spring breeze. All the gunboats urgently raised their anchors and sailed out of the harbor. The Yue people snatched their hands, swords and shields quickly boarded the warship. Yue Wuzhu, who was sleeping soundly in the afternoon, was quickly awakened by his servants: "King, King, Qin people have arrived, the warship covers the sea, and the warship covers the sea."
Chapter completed!