"General, please!" Along with the herald who sent the military information, there were also the eunuchs who were close to the King of Chu.
Xiang Yan naturally recognized the other party, frowned, and followed the eunuch out of the tent to an uninhabited hill.
"What's wrong, Your Majesty?" Xiang Yan asked directly.
"She is seriously ill, and the imperial doctor ordered that she might not survive this year!" the eunuch said in a low voice.
"..." Xiang Yan was silent.
After all, the King of Chu was old and sick, and no longer as brave as he once was.
"The king asked me to hand this over to the general. Only the general is allowed to watch it. If anyone else knows about it, they will be killed!" The eunuch handed the purple brocade box sealed with fire paint to Xiang Yan.
Xiang Yan opened the brocade box and saw the brocade bag inside. When he opened the brocade bag, a piece of paper appeared in front of him. Then he thought of King Chu's explanation and looked at the eunuch.
The eunuch looked at Xiang Yan and smiled slightly, "General, don't worry, no one else knows about this!"
After saying that, black blood overflowed from the corner of his mouth, and he fell straight onto the hilly ground.
Xiang Yan looked at the eunuch's body, sighed, bowed respectfully, and then carefully read the content written with secret symbols on the note.
"Huh?" Xiang Yanhu's eyes widened, veins popped up in his hands, and he held the paper tightly until the paper turned into ashes in his hands before letting go, letting the ashes fly away in the wind.
"Your Majesty, Yan will definitely live up to his command!" Xiang Yan knelt down on one knee in the direction of Shouchun and bowed solemnly three times.
Time passed like this little by little, Long Wei Chen's soldiers were facing off against the Chu army in Songyang County, and no one took the initiative to attack again.
"The situation is not good for us!" Wu Rui said with a frown.
Xiang Yan has integrated the army of nobles. The longer he delays, the more disadvantageous it will be to the Dragon Guard. Once Xiang Yan completes the integration of the army, they will be in danger.
"Something is not quite right!" Jin Yao frowned and said, his eyelids twitching, he always felt that something was not quite right.
If it were just these noble armies in Xiang Yan's hands, even if they were integrated by Xiang Yan, he would have nothing to fear. The worst case scenario would be a 50-50 split, which would make life difficult for everyone, and it would be impossible for Chu State to accept this loss and consequences.
"What's wrong?" Jin Yao frowned and looked at the captured map in front of him, but all the armies they faced were clearly marked on it.
It wasn't until half a month later that three or four-story naval ships appeared that Jin Yao and others finally understood what was wrong!
"Kuiji Navy Ship!" Jin Yao and others all looked ugly.
Although Jiujiang County is known as Jiujiang and has a developed water system, Jiujiang has never been the center of Chu State, so there is no large shipyard at all. Not only can it not build building ships, it cannot even build stern ships.
Pengze's Jiujiang water system, which could have been relied upon, changed hands for offense and defense the moment the Kuaiji navy appeared!
Even when the Qin State attacked Chu State in official history, it avoided the route with developed water system and chose to fight Chu State on land and finally conquered Shouchun.
Because the Chu State of this era has a unique navy in the world. This is an army establishment that no other country has!
"Kuiji Navy!" When the navy ship appeared, Li Mu was also shocked.
No one expected that in order to deal with this rebel army that no one paid much attention to, the Kuaiji Navy actually dispatched its entire army, including all its large ships and stern ships.
Even if Li Mu got the information about Luo Sheng in advance, he only thought that the Kuaiji Navy sent some troops to add to the army, but he never thought that the King of Chu actually asked the entire Kuaiji Navy to come.
"It's hard to bear this!" Li Mu's face turned ugly.
He was good at cavalry and infantry combat, and had no experience in naval combat.
In other words, in the entire world, except for Chu, no country has a navy establishment, and naturally no one is proficient in water warfare!
If there was, it was only the Qi State in the past, but after the Queen's death, the Qi State no longer had a naval force.
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"How to fight!" Wu Rui and other Longjun generals all looked at Jin Yao with ugly expressions.
Jin Yao stared at the giant water war beasts that appeared on the river outside Songyang City. He also wanted to know how to fight them!
At this time, the Chu Navy and the Lou Chuan were a bug, and it was not until the Ming Dynasty that the power of the Lou Chuan was restored.
Who has ever seen a large ship that can carry three thousand people aboard for combat?
There are also ships that can carry hundreds of people for combat!
"How about I take advantage of the darkness, take the water monkeys, dive underwater, and dig through the building and the stern!" Yingbu suggested.
The appearance of large ships and sterns is a disaster for them.
The largest ship in Jiujiang can only accommodate more than ten people. Not to mention the tall ship, just a charge of the stern ship can overturn it with the water waves stirred up.
"It's useless!" Jin Yao sighed.
The Mohists were also involved in the supervision of the construction of the building ships and ships. The bottoms and decks of the ships and ships were coated with fireproof materials so that they would not be ignited. The bottoms of the ships were also reinforced. With just a few
It is impossible to penetrate a person underwater!
"Otherwise, we will dig out all the canals and flood them!" Wu Rui gritted his teeth and said.
In the past two years, they have built canals one after another in Longcheng to divert the river water and create countless fertile fields.
But now, they have to destroy all the dams and let all the stored lake water pour into the river, causing floods.
Jin Yao looked at Wu Rui, and in front of his eyes was the scene of millions of farmland being destroyed after the embankment broke, and countless people on both sides of the river being displaced.
In fact, once they issue this order, even Songyang County under their feet may cease to exist due to the raging river water.
Looking at the huge ship, Jin Yao was not sure that it would really be able to capsize it if the flood peak passed by.
"No! We are here to escape and seek a home to survive. If the embankment breaks, how will the people downstream survive?" Jin Yao directly rejected Wu Rui's idea.
The rebels had no choice but to move here and open up a new home because they could no longer survive.
If they dig out all the dams, the entire lower reaches of the Yangtze River will be flooded and people will be displaced due to the raging floods.
So what is the difference between them and the nobles who oppressed them before?
"Send an envoy to meet with Xiang Yan!" Jin Yao was silent for a long time before speaking.
"Here!" Wu Rui also knew that others could do things like breaking the embankment, but the rebels would never do it.
"The Dragon Lord of Jiujiang has asked us to meet thirty miles away from the army at noon tomorrow!" Xiang Yan also guessed that the navy was coming and Jin Yao would definitely meet him.
"Then let's meet him!" Xiang Yan nodded. He also wanted to see who this Dragon Lord was who annihilated the three major legions of Chu State.
Therefore, Xiang Yan and Jin Yao went to a pavilion thirty miles away from the army to meet each other at noon the next day, without any personal guards.