Chapter 5829 Retreat
As Lin Haoming broke the Chu army, he quickly divided the army into several routes to attack the three counties.
Lin Haoming had only 100,000 people on hand, but it was divided into three groups, which was really incredible, but what made Chu even more incredible was that when the three counties of Wu saw the Yue army coming, they had no power to resist. Many people in Wu even took the initiative to support the Yue army, and the situation in the three counties of Wu completely plummeted.
The situation in the three counties of Wu also forced Qu Xiong to increase his efforts to go north, but Jiang Heng was extremely strict in guarding. Although he was at a disadvantage everywhere, he was only at a disadvantage.
Just when the Chu State was having a headache for the three counties in Wu, something even more fatal happened. The Wei army, which had originally crossed the border of the State of China, suddenly appeared in the northwest of the State of China. Without any hello, they went south to attack Chu State, and in an instant, Chu State faced the enemy three times.
Under such a situation, the State of Chu could no longer face the enemy three times, and had to completely abandon the three counties of the State of Wu and shrink its strength to deal with the enemies in the north and northeast.
Just when Lin Haoming occupied the entire three counties of Wu, it had already entered Xia, and Lin Haoming also stopped. Chu State contracted completely, and the Wei army stopped at the cost of agreeing to ced the nine northwest counties. At the same time, Chu State sent envoys to Daxia and actually proposed that Wu State restore the country.
As soon as this proposal was made, the people of Wu, who originally supported the Yue army, immediately stood opposite to Yue, which Lin Haoming had expected in the morning. At the same time, Lin Haoming had to admire that there were also talents on the Chu State who ceded land to Wei State and then withstand the Yue State's attack. On the other hand, Wu State could use the help of Daxia to suppress Yue State.
Lin Haoming had a solution to such a situation. Sun Zan, who had just returned from Wei, immediately took the envoy directly to Daxia.
The front of both sides seemed calm, and each had famous generals who could not swallow each other. Moreover, the reason why Wei State satisfies the land of nine counties was that he knew that Yue State could not be allowed to take advantage of the greater advantage. There was a feud between Wei State and Yue State.
In the Daxia side, after some negotiations, Prince Rong of Daxia personally brought the descendants of the Wu Kingdom who had been exiled to Daxia.
Seeing this, Lin Haoming was particularly pleased and gave up all the places east of the Dongyi Mountains. He also said that since the people of Wu expected the Wu Kingdom to restore the country, he would not really occupy the three counties of Wu Kingdom. The reason for invasion was because this place was originally Chu.
As a result, the original tension between Wu and Yue disappeared suddenly. The entire Wu people were quite grateful to the soldiers of Yue, because the soldiers of Yue were very disciplined and completely different from those of the Chu traitors. Although they occupied the city, they did not offend the people. As for the years of construction of fortresses in the Dongyi Mountains after they withdrew, they could only admit that they could not send troops. In the end, there was nothing. Even the Daxia Kingdom felt that they could not be too harsh.
So after the beginning of autumn, half a year after entering Wu, the army of Yue returned to Yue. The three counties of Wu were given up, which was not really in vain. Yue had to go to Chu to ced the land around Fenghu Lake in Chu at the beginning.
Fenghu Lake is also a lake in the Pingjiang River Basin, which is much smaller than Anyang Lake. However, after the Pingjiang River water gathers in Fenghu Lake, it is divided into several tributaries and injected into Hengshui. If Fenghu Lake is in its hands, it will have absolute initiative over Chu. After all, the Pingjiang River Basin is the only channel to enter Chu from north to south, otherwise it will have to cross mountains and ridges. Heavy equipment cannot cross mountains and ridges at all. It would be a dream to take over the hinterland of Chu.
The Chu State was also extremely furious about this matter, but in Daxia, since Yue State had withdrawn from the three counties of Wu, it was naturally impossible to let Yue State suffer losses. Or even if Chu and Yue completely formed hatred, Fenghu would be ceded. All of this was under Lin Haoming's plan. At the same time, Sun Zan made an envoy to Daxia, and he also decided based on his verbal remarks.
After Prince Rong was surrounded by Lin Haoming, and returned to Yue State with delicious food and drinks, he immediately followed him to Chu State to fulfill this matter. No matter how unwilling the State of Chu State was, he could only hand over Fenghu to Yue State in the face of the pressure from Daxia.
The Vietnamese army entered Fenghu and directly regarded Fenghu as the largest military camp, with a total of 100,000 troops stationed here.
Before winter began, Prince Rong went back with a smile. This time he went south and took a lot of things, but it was not a waste of time.
As soon as he returned to the capital of Daxia, he heard news from the south that the Chu State launched the Battle of Fenghu in the winter. The Yue army was unable to fight against the Chu State's naval army at all and was driven out of Fenghu by Qu Xiong.
This incident made the people of Yue furious, and immediately sent Sun Zan to Daxia to find an explanation, but Daxia did not pay much attention to it.
Seeing this, Sun Zan deliberately spread the situation in the capital. Now His Majesty is loyal and treacherous. After all, for the people of Xia, Chu is a southern barbarian and does not keep his trustworthy, while Yue adheres to the gentleman's way, occupying the old land of Wu, and allowing Wu to restore the country. It is naturally easy to distinguish between loyalty and treacherous.
Under such public opinion, Xia State could only order to rebuke Chu State, but Chu State did not pay attention to it, which damaged the power of the Great Xia State.
Seeing that Daxia had no choice but to the State of Chu, the Chu people who were originally in Wu became active.
Originally, the three counties in Wu were occupied for decades, and the Chu State also moved a large number of Chu people over. Originally, the Chu people were considered top-notch people here, but the situation is reversed, so the Chu people in Wu are naturally unwilling to accept it.
As soon as the State of Yue left, the State of Wu did not have many soldiers and horses. Although the army recruited just now was known as 80,000, it actually did not have much combat effectiveness, but essentially the military discipline was corrupt. After the State of Wu restored the State of Wu, the officials who were originally in charge of various prefectures and counties were replaced by the people of Wu. Unfortunately, these people were even worse than those of the Chu people. Starting from the withdrawal of troops from Yue, the people of Wu found that life was even more difficult than before. Chaos broke out in various parts of the State of Wu throughout the winter. The king of Wu was unable to control the situation at all, and even had to seek troops from Daxia and Yue.
This is true for the Wu Kingdom. Lin Haoming only needs to send tens of thousands of troops to take back the Wu Kingdom. However, even so, Lin Haoming still had no intention of swallowing it. He even secretly sent people to help the King of Wu suppress all the places. Because Chu Kingdom did not send troops, Lin Haoming did not plan to send troops. As for Fenghu, which he had originally occupied, in fact, he had already planned to give it to the Chu Kingdom. For this reason, Wang Jiangman, who cherished his reputation, deliberately replaced Jiang Heng and was criticized for being defeated.
Of course, Wang Jiangman is now old and doesn't care about these things. If he was twenty years ago, he would never take the blame. Of course, Wei Qian naturally treated his descendants well as the result of taking the blame.
Chapter completed!