"I respect you, Commander. Without your support in the past few years, I may have sunk. Raising his glass, Li Quan said to Kou Shuguang sincerely.

Looking at the several dishes on the table, Kou Shuguang shook his head and smiled: "Your life is really hard, and the relationship with your father has not eased?" ”

Li Quan drank all the wine in the cup in one gulp, and his expression was a little complicated, "The son does not say anything about the father." As for the hardships of life, I don't think, Commander, that in those years we were floating on the sea, but we didn't have such a sumptuous meal and wine. ”

Kou Shuguang laughed: "You are right, it seems that I have been comfortable in the past few years, and I have forgotten the hard work at that time." You can keep your heart, I'm very happy, come, let's have a drink, come bitterly, Li Quan, your good days are coming. ”

The two wine glasses clinked in the air, and as the wine in the cup was drunk, Li Quan's eyes lit up: "Commander, are you going to do it?" ”

"It was really unexpected." Li Quan suppressed the joy in his heart, "All along, whether it is the military intelligence report or the public information, it seems to show that the first target of our Han is the Qin State, why did it take such a big turn in the blink of an eye?" ”

"You can call it a strategic deception, this is one thing that the king has been trying to do in recent years, in fact, when Yingying came to power, abolished the Li family's law, and enabled Fan Sui to start domestic reform, the king expected that they would inevitably fail, coupled with Lu Chao's matter, the king and the political hall both judged that the Qin State had no threat to our Han Dynasty, whether it was political, military or economic, but it was the Chu State, which had a rising momentum in recent years, in this case, of course, we have to choose again. Of course, in order to do this, you can't let Chu have a vigilance, so in the past few years. This kind of strategic deception has been going on all the time. ”

"The main merit of the waterway?" Li Quan said excitedly.

Kou Shuguang laughed, put a chopstick dish into his mouth and chewed it slowly, "You have thought too much about this, Chu State, that is an eight-hundred-year-old dynasty, a behemoth of five thousand miles of rivers and mountains, just by attacking all the way, how can we defeat it, what we think about is to destroy his living force in the shortest possible time." There is no room for counterattack, and then slowly clean it up, so this time the attack is several ways at the same time, but don't be disappointed. ”

Looking at the look on Li Quan's face, Kou Shuguang continued: "You are going to attack Jiangdong County of Chu State, and your task is to sweep away the naval division of the Qing State stationed in Jiangdong County to create conditions for the army to land ashore, this time we secretly recruited about hundreds of civilian boats. The troops transporting 50,000 people were brought ashore from Jiangdong County, and they wanted to take Jiangdong in one fell swoop, and the Jiangdong counties were the important wealth of the Chu State, so take him. It is equivalent to weaning the Chu Dynasty and running out of food, and it will be at an absolute disadvantage in the next battle with us. ”

"Rest assured, the commander will not fail in his mission. The water master of Chu State is just a group of soil loaches rolling in the mud pond, and they want to compete with my Han water master. They're not even close! Li Quan stood up and said loudly.

"This time our battle with the Chu State is a battle to destroy the country, even if it is our Han Dynasty, it is also a national mobilization, your sailor's initial task is mainly to eliminate the Chu sailor, after doing this, your remaining task is more to serve as a troop projection, to send our army to any location along the Yangtze River where we want to land, and at the same time to ensure that they can logistically supply and can retreat safely at any time, next, you are busy." Kou Shuguang smiled.

"Commander, I'm not afraid of being busy, I'm afraid of idleness, in the past few years, I've been idle to the point that I'm going to grow hair." Li Quan waved his arms.

"It's okay to be idle, at least in the past few years when you have been idle, you have trained a strong sailor for us, and it can also make you calm down and think about a lot of things, Li Quan, your future is not only here, this point, I have already talked to the king deeply, and when you finish fighting the Chu State, you should go back to the navy, the vast ocean is where you should gallop." Kou Shuguang looked at Li Quan and said: "Your performance in the past few years has also made the king very satisfied, you are familiar with maritime affairs, and you are proficient in inland rivers, and after a few years of training, who will I give this position to you if I don't give it to you in the future?" ”

"Commander!" Li Quan looked at Kou Shuguang, and his eyes turned red all of a sudden, "If there is no cultivation of the commander, Li Quan is only afraid that he will rot in the gutter long ago, Li Quan didn't think so far, and he didn't want to be a minister, I thought, as long as I can return to the navy and go to the sea again, I am willing to be a captain and a sailor!" ”

"It's not far off!" Kou Shuguang said: "The Qin State has already become the end of the strong crossbow, and after we finish fighting the Chu State, it is basically equivalent to unifying the world, and next, the aiming port of the Han artillery will inevitably be aimed overseas." In the past, the king said to me that wherever the sun shines, the banner of our Han will be planted, and now I will give you this sentence. ”

"Thank you Commander, thank you King, Li Quan will definitely do this." Li Quan said excitedly.

"From now on, the inland water division will enter a state of first-level military combat readiness and be ready to attack at any time." Kou Shuguang said: "This time, you are fighting on the front line, and I am sitting in Fenzhou to coordinate the coordination between the army and the naval division and the deployment of materials, and I will never allow any mistakes." ”

"Finally, we can fight under the command of the commander again." Li Quan smiled: "This makes me feel a little back to the past." ”

Kou Shuguang laughed: "This time I don't command the battle, it's you who came to the front line, I have some other things to do besides these, well, after this battle, you better go home and take a look, Li Can is your son after all, blood is thicker than water, and he sent you to the navy, although the original intention was not for your development at that time, but after all, it made you have the current rebellion, after the New Year, he will completely retire, go home to comfort and comfort him." ”

Li Quan's body shook slightly, and asked in a low voice, "Is it because of me?" ”

"Almost, Li's shipping is now through the way of outsiders participating in shares, it is no longer your Li family alone to have the final say, the rise of Fenzhou shipping, but also Cangzhou has a rival opponent, that year is in the past, but the king values you, and wants to transfer you back to the navy, your father is naturally no longer suitable to be the president of Cangzhou Naval University, do you understand?"

"My subordinates understand." Looking at the meaning of the king, this is to be raised as the future head of the navy, since this is the case, naturally he can't let his son serve as the head of the navy, but Lao Tzu controls the cultivation of the navy's reserve forces.

"So, your Lao Tzu has sacrificed a lot for you this time, but if the Li family wants to develop and gain a foothold in the Han Dynasty, he can only count on you." Kou Shuguang said with a smile: "Come, for the victory of the Great War and for your bright future, we will drink this cup full." ”

"I respect the Commander!" Li Quan stood up, holding the cup in both hands, and looked respectfully towards Kou Shuguang.

The inland water division entered a state of front-line combat readiness from the night of the same day, all the officers and men of the naval division on leave were all recalled, the military docks were closed, the officers and men of the naval division began to get busy from the state of idleness, the ships were undergoing final maintenance, the steel plates were moved out of the warehouse and hung on the boats, and weapons such as crossbows and stone cannons began to be installed and debugged on the ships, and the entire wharf was very busy.

Everyone understands that this time it is not a drill, but a real war. For these officers and men of the inland water division, this is an exciting and somewhat frightening thing, because they have never fought a serious battle, and in the past, they were very good at suppressing bandits and investigating smuggling. However, everyone still expects more in their hearts, in the Han Dynasty, military merit, anywhere, anytime is a well-deserved honor, Commander Li has been training them desperately in the past few years, and there was still some resentment, but now, this resentment has long disappeared, not only because Commander Li has been sharing weal and woe with them, but also because of the imminent war, sweating more in peacetime, and less bloodshed in wartime, those vicious drills on weekdays, in wartime, have become a life-saving elixir, after all, everyone is eager for military merit, but I don't want to have military merits but lose my life to enjoy them.

Different from the busy preparation for the battle of the inland river division, another key point at the junction of Han and Chu, Pengcheng is a jubilant scene, yesterday, the team of Yingdu to send relatives has just arrived here, and the one who married is the princess Shuyu, the most beloved of King Chu Huai, and the one who married the princess was the senior general infantry of the Han Dynasty.

The ambassador who sent his relatives was Fan Zhuo, a doctor who often dealt with the Han Kingdom, of course, in addition to sending his relatives this time, he also shouldered the heavy responsibility of making friends with the Han Kingdom.

When the princess arrived, Pengcheng naturally had to greet her ceremoniously, and at the same time, she had to ensure that she did not lose her joy, but the magistrates of Pengcheng were busy enough. It doesn't matter if the princess wants to get married, but Fan Zhuoke, the ambassador of the family, is a figure worth shutting down, this person not only controls the production and sales of silk, the largest source of foreign trade in Chu, but also the sons and daughters of Huang Xie, the head of Chu.

Liu An is the busiest of these officials, because in addition to being clumsy, he also has to be responsible for the security work of the entire Pengcheng, Liu An after the last Pengcheng War, he was promoted from a tooth general to the position of Pengcheng general, and the former Pengcheng general Bi Xuan, now has long been the commander of the Yingdu Praetorian Guard, it can be said that the first battle of Pengcheng was a key battle for Chu to defeat Han and save the precarious national fortunes, and the generals who participated in that battle were more or less promoted, Liu An, It's just one of them who is promoted faster.

Now Liu An is waiting at the gate of the city with a team of guards, because the welcoming procession of the Han Kingdom is about to arrive. (To be continued.) )