Chapter 296: Inappropriate
"Your Highness, it's still early, let's go back to the cabin and rest!" Liu Zhu saw that His Royal Highness had been looking at the sea on the deck in a daze since he set sail, and came over to persuade. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"No need, it's stuffy in the cabin, and it's fun outside!" Zhao Yu waved his hand and refused.
"Your Highness is still angry that you can't go to the court to mourn the palace marshal?" Liu Zhu looked at His Highness with a drooping face, and said with a smile on his unhappy face.
"Hmph, what's angry, anyway, none of you agree, what can I do!" Zhao Hao snorted coldly. On that day, they discussed and discussed, and everyone unanimously agreed not to allow His Royal Highness to go to Qizhou Island, and finally sent a condolence mission with Deng Guang as the chief envoy to accompany Jiang Xuan.
"Your Highness, everyone is also good for you......" Liu Zhu couldn't hear the taste in his words, and said with a smile.
"What a fart, coaxing this king as a child all day long, I really don't know!" Zhao Yu said angrily without waiting for him to finish.
"How dare your subordinates, this time I didn't invite His Highness to come and sit in town!" Yoo so wasn't annoyed at all, and still said with a smile.
"It's even more, I think it's almost as good as inviting me to watch the excitement!" Zhao Yu listened to it and said more angrily.
"Your Highness, subordinates and others do not mean this. This sortie is imminent, and His Royal Highness's presence in person will definitely boost the morale of the soldiers. Liu Zhu shook his head and said.
"Hehe......" Zhao Hao smiled, but he sighed helplessly in his heart, "Alas, this is clearly another 'show', this victory will inevitably be added to his own body, the aura of the 'Young God of War' will be even brighter, they seem to be doing it for their own good, but in fact, they are all life charms given to me!" ”
"Your Highness, Your Highness......" Liu Zhu looked at His Highness's smiling madness and asked cautiously.
"How are you going to fight this battle?" Zhao Yu looked up at Liu Zhu and asked.
"Your Highness, there are a lot of people here, please move to the cabin to talk." Liu Zhu looked around, although there were no idle people and others, but there were also sailors coming and going, and said softly.
"It's good!" Zhao Yu nodded and said, followed Liu Zhu into the cabin, and listened to him introduce the battle plan for attacking the Ali Hague naval army......
Since the marshal's government learned that Ali Hague had collected ships in Qinzhou and Lianzhou, trained the navy, and prepared to enter the sea for battle, Zhao Yu had many meetings with the generals. Everyone agreed that Ali Hague's target was Qiongzhou and the imperial fleet. But after all, Qiongzhou is his jurisdiction, so Qiongzhou is more likely to be attacked. Because there is no strategic depth in Qiongzhou facing the sea, once the enemy army is blocked at the doorstep, it will be a battle of life and death, so Zhao Yu's opinion is to resist the enemy outside and fight a decisive battle at sea.
The generals thought that what Zhao Yu said was reasonable, especially after defeating Liu Shen with the navy as the main force. With this as the guiding ideology, the pacification department and the metropolitan command department formulated a battle plan, preset the battlefield in the waters of Lianzhou, and launched a battle with the naval army of Ali The Hague, with the annihilation of its naval division as the main combat goal. After intensive pre-war reconnaissance, they discovered that the enemy's naval divisions were mainly concentrated in the two ports of Hepu and Qinzhou, and that they were now in the process of reorganizing and training.
Ying Jieyan and other generals believed that the rainy season was coming, and the wind and waves would be high, and it would be unsuitable for the navy to go to sea to fight. Therefore, it is necessary to take advantage of the short period when the trade winds are beginning to rise and launch a campaign while the enemy has not completed the whole training. After obtaining Zhao's consent, they immediately secretly launched a mobilization, replenished supplies, and carried out pre-war reconnaissance. It was precisely at this that Jiang Wanzai fell into the water and died, so His Highness lost his temper, and they thought that it was just the opportunity to let His Highness inspect the participating naval army, boost morale, and at the same time let him scatter his heart, and the province looked at it in the mansion It was not pleasing to the eye.
"How many troops do you plan to send?" Zhao Yu asked after listening to Liu Zhu's simple preparations for the battle.
"Your Highness, your subordinates are preparing to dispatch six commanders of the naval army and infantry army belonging to the two water villages of Chengmai and Lingao, with more than 200 warships and 8,000 soldiers." Yoo so replied.
"Well, Qinzhou has 5,000 enemy main naval forces and nearly 400 large and small warships, and the strength is basically the same. So how are you going to fight? Zhao Yu nodded and asked again.
"The subordinates plan to lure the enemy out of the village to the preset sea area with a part of the army, and then encircle and annihilate it with a large army in ambush, and then use the infantry army to attack and destroy its water village, so that it cannot threaten Qiongzhou." Liu Zhu said.
"What about Hepu?" Zhao Hao looked at the map and asked thoughtfully.
"Your Highness, Hepu only has 2,000 enemy naval troops and more than 100 warships, so there is nothing to worry about. After defeating the enemy naval division in Qinzhou, they will no longer have a naval army to use, and we can turn back and attack Hepu again. "Liu Zhu's plan is to destroy the strong first, and then fight the weak, so that the enemy cannot rescue each other.
"If you plan to attack the enemy water village in Qinzhou first, but if you enter the bay during the day, you will be discovered by the enemy, how can you ambush the troops?" Zhao Yu asked. Qinzhou Water Village is located at the top of Qinzhou Bay, there is Qinshui and such as the Hongjiang River to join, because it resembles a cat's tail and gets the name of Maowei Sea, the widest point from east to west is about 30 miles, the widest place from north to south is about 35 miles, from north to south like an upside-down gourd. The coastline of the bay is tortuous, full of mangrove forests, among which there are many small islands and harbors, and there are tortuous waterways between the islands, there is no problem with hiding soldiers, but the difficulty is how to enter without being discovered.
"Your Highness, it is the night tide these days, we can take advantage of the night to enter the bay, and set up an ambush to fight again at dawn. What's wrong with that? Yoo Su asked.
"It's very inappropriate. Qinzhou is garrisoned by the enemy's 10,000 households, there are 10,000 infantry cavalry troops, and only six infantry troops under the command of do you think you can capture Qinzhou Water Village? Zhao Yu said, "There are also enemy naval forces stationed in Hepu who have learned that Qinzhou has been attacked, and it will not take half a day to arrive at full speed to help, once the bay is blocked, you will not be able to advance or retreat, and your back will be attacked." ”
"Your Highness, Qinzhou and Hepu are two hundred miles away, and now it is a northeast wind, they came to be a headwind, how could they arrive in such a short time!" Liu Zhu shook his head with a smile and said, obviously thinking that His Highness's worries were unnecessary.
"Now is the season when the trade winds interact, the wind direction changes often during the day and at night, and it is winter, and the water from the open sea moves north along the east side of the bay, and the water in the bay flows south along the west side, forming a circulation, which can be reached in half a day even with the help of the force of the ocean current." Zhao Hao's finger crossed the map counterclockwise.
"The subordinates haven't thought about this, so how about we hit Hepu first?" Liu Zhu's face was no longer relaxed when he heard this, and cold sweat flowed down his neck. If he follows this plan, he is likely to be blocked in the bay by the enemy, let alone win, and it is difficult to say whether he can break through or not. He said with some trepidation.
"It's not appropriate. What would you do if your Lingao Water Village was breached? Zhao Yu didn't answer, but asked rhetorically.
"Of course, the subordinates must be careful and patrol day and night to prevent the enemy from sneaking up!" Liu Zhu said without thinking.
"If you know, what do you ask?" Zhao Hao chuckled...... (To be continued.) )