The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire

In the seventh year of Emperor Yuan, June.

The earth has warmed up, the new year's seedlings have been planted, and they are blooming and bearing fruit. Every country in the world has harvested a good harvest.

Ever since, the grain and grass were put into the warehouse, and the armor was also rested in the past six months. After the soldiers were trained, they gradually looked like soldiers.

If the three conditions are met, then it is time to avenge revenge and avenge grievances.

First of all, the behemoth located in the south, Chu State took the lead in moving.

The state of Chu tightened its belts, gritted its teeth and wanted to gather a large army. A behemoth with a population of 500,000 had already appeared.

The flags covered the sky and the sun, and there were hundreds of miles of people's heads. The dust brought up by the action of the army flew more than ten feet into the sky, which looked terrifying.

It's just that it looks very powerful, but in fact the army is extremely scattered, and it doesn't look like they are rushing, like a group of refugees.

These troops have only just been pulled out. They were originally just ordinary people. Maybe some people have fought in battles, but they have not been on the battlefield for several years, and they have long been unfamiliar with marching and fighting.

Now being pulled out by force, I really don't want to.

But having said that, these common people at least look like soldiers. Although he behaves in a disorderly manner, he still obeys and fears the orders of his chief.

And their opponent, the Yue State in the south, is really a group of rebellious troops composed of refugees.

Although the Yue Kingdom has a legal name, the ancient Yue Kingdom has been extinct for decades. After three or four generations, the local people's memories of the Yue Kingdom have gradually faded.

Furthermore, the Yue State was newly built, and the system was not yet perfect. There were omissions everywhere, and there was a lack of officials to fill in.

So there was an embarrassing situation, there were officials in the locality but no officials, and there were soldiers but no generals to train them. Many places fell into stagnation and even chaos.

Originally, these were nothing, and any dynasty that founded a country would encounter this situation. After two or three years of operation, slowly selecting some talents from the people, coupled with some training by myself, it is easy to fill in these omissions.

However, the state of Chu would not give such time to the state of Yue.

Today, the Yue State is still very weak. Although he can mobilize many troops, many of them have no military foundation. They are just a group of mobs with weapons.

Although the number of these mobs is large, for the army, even an army with only a little military quality is very easy to defeat.

If you don't take advantage of the current opportunity, chase and attack the Yue country fiercely, let him calm down, train these refugees a little, and look like an army.

If you want to win the Yue country again, you will have to pay a hundred times and a thousand times more effort.

Ever since, 500,000 Chu troops marched southward in a mighty manner, the world was shaken, and the country of Yue was terrified.

Today's Yue State, although it has experienced a state, has a monarch, has its own army, has its own land, and has its own government.

But it is undeniable that no matter how much he has, but half a year ago, he was only a few counties under the Chu State.

As for the court of Yue State, whether it is the national army, ministers, or even soldiers and civilians at the bottom, they are just ordinary subjects under the rule of Chu State.

So in their hearts, they still have a lot of awe and fear for Chu State.

This point is not only shared by the common people at the bottom, but also by the princes and nobles at the top, and even the current king of Yue.

Therefore, in terms of such unfavorable psychological conditions, although the Yue State quickly organized an army of about 300,000 to fight against it, although it had the natural danger of the Yangtze River as its support, it was still unfavorable overall.

Although the Yue State can theoretically mobilize 500,000 troops, it is only a theory.

Not to mention whether the Yue State has so much money and food to support it, but whether the Yue State has the ability to make so many people loyal to him is a question.

After all, the state of Chu has ruled for a long time, and it is deeply rooted in the territory of the state of Yue. Many local people have a heart for the state of Chu, and they are always looking forward to returning to the embrace of the state of Chu.

Therefore, what the Yue Kingdom can really mobilize are the young men he coerced at the beginning, and they are truly trustworthy.

The war begins.

Although there is a natural danger in the Yangtze River, the navy of the Yue Kingdom is actually very simple, there are no large ships, they are all small boats that can only hold dozens of people, and only a dozen can hold a hundred people.

The real naval forces of Chu State are all gathered on the Huaihe River or Jiangling Line, which are used to guard against Qin State or other countries.

As for the Yue country and other places in the rear, there is no regular navy at all. Some are just some patrol troops who patrol the Yangtze River to set up checkpoints and attack some water thieves by the way. They belong to the reserve type.

This has also caused the current embarrassing situation for the Yue Kingdom. The Yangtze River natural barrier is there. This is the city wall given to the Yue Kingdom by God, but the Yue Kingdom cannot use it.

On the contrary, his enemy, Chu State, had enough sailors to annihilate the two or three sailors of Yue State from the beginning, and then completely dominated and controlled the entire Yangtze River.

In an instant, the Yangtze River became the back garden of the Chu State, and the Chu State's army wandered there wantonly. In just one month, 200,000 Chu troops had already crossed the Yangtze River and invaded the land of the Yue State.

However, for the current situation, everyone in the Yue Kingdom had expected it, and they were not too flustered.

They had long given up on the natural dangers of the Yangtze River, and instead chose the cities, mountains, and checkpoints in the territory. These natural dangers and important towns that the Yue army could use as a basis to resist Chu's footsteps.

Everyone in the Yue Kingdom understood that if they really fought against the Chu army, they would never be able to fight. Their purpose was only one, and that was to delay.

Procrastinating for time until something happened in the rear of Chu State, or until Chu State ran out of supplies and could no longer fight.

For this reason, even if most of the entire country of Yue was destroyed, it would not hesitate.

Just like Qi State at the beginning, it was beaten by the Allied Forces of the Six Nations, and it was not a series of defeats at the beginning. Later, relying on the numerous cities in the Chu State, they defended one by one, and it took half a year to survive until there was an accident in the rear of the coalition forces, and then the community was saved.

Today's Yue State is planning to follow suit.

They are not the original Qi State, but now they are just a group of barefoot men who intend to take risks.

If you lose, there is no need to say much, it is just a death.

But if they win, or withstand it, then they will make a lot of money.

Not only have they become masters, they have become the nobles they dreamed of in the past, but they can also enjoy their own fief and the ancestral temple to pass on to their descendants.

With these, it doesn't matter even if the country of Yue becomes a wasteland. As long as the land is still there, no matter how many people die, they can slowly recover through the cultivation of time.