Zhao Yu knows better than anyone the situation of Xingchao at this time, of course he can't sit back and wait for a miracle to appear, hoping that God will send him back to the 21st century at the last moment, so he also has to start to prepare. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

It is the best way to transfer the Xingchao to Qiongzhou, and the combined forces of the two sides are enough to deal with Zhang Hongfan's attack, but Zhao Yu feels that the best time has been missed, and now the enemy has discovered that the Xingchao is on the coast of Guangdong, and has sent a large number of sentinel ships to find it, so that the fleet will inevitably be discovered soon as it appears, and if it follows the pursuit, it is likely to stage the tragedy of the Battle of Jingao again. In addition, Zhao Yu was not sure that he could persuade Zhang Shijie to go to Qiongzhou, and acting rashly may cause deeper misunderstandings.

Similarly, summoning the Qiongzhou army to help in the war at this extremely sensitive time will make Zhang Shijie feel uneasy, worried that he will be taken the opportunity by His Majesty to get rid of him, which is likely to lead to unwarranted suspicion and prevention between the two sides, increase internal friction in vain, and even lead to everyone preserving their own strength, resulting in the situation of 'one monk has water to eat, two monks carry water to eat, and three monks have no water to eat', and everyone will be finished together.

With the help of Qiongzhou's strength, it is not a long-term solution to continue to travel to the sea, and from the bottom of his heart, Zhao Yu also hopes to fight this battle, and then can severely damage the Yuan Dynasty naval army, even if it is a short period of peace, so that he and the Xing Dynasty have a chance to breathe. He knew that this was not without precedent in the world, and that in the Battle of Salami between Greece and Persia more than a thousand years ago, Greece faced a situation very similar to the current situation, but Greece won the battle and changed its own destiny and that of the world.

It was 480 B.C., and the new Persian king Xerxes I, after three years of preparation, personally led an army of 300,000 and 1,000 warships to attack Greece again. Xerxes first allied with Carthage, a maritime power in the Mediterranean, to contain the Greek city-state of Syracusa on the Italian island of Sicily, then built two pontoon bridges over the Strait of Heraspont, which divided Europe and Asia, and established several logistics bases along the route in Thrace. Many Greek city-states surrendered to the Persian Empire and sent troops and ships to the war. When everything was ready, Xerxes led his army into Europe through the Strait of Heraspont, through Thrace and Macedonia, and launched an attack on Greece.

Prior to the Battle of Salamis, the Greek city-states were not maritime powers. The seafaring powers of the Mediterranean at that time were Phoenicia and Carthage, who sided with Persia in the Greco-Persian wars. Athens had the most powerful navy in Greece at the time, but there were less than 400 three-oared warships and more than 50 single-oared warships. Persia originally did not have a navy, but after conquering Phoenicia and Egypt on the Mediterranean coast, they organized their huge fleet into the Persian navy and became the new maritime hegemon, while the Athenian navy was simply unable to compete with it for sea supremacy in the Aegean Sea.

The commander of the Greek coalition was the Spartan nobleman Eureid, who learned that 1,200 Persian warships were gathered southeast of the strait, and was shocked by the apparent strength of the Persian navy, and was ready to abandon the island of Salamis and retreat to the Peloponnese for passive defense, which aroused the resolute opposition of the Greek consul Themistocles. While the two were arguing, the Athenian general Aristide arrived on the island of Salamis by speedboat from his penal colony and told everyone that Xerxes had sent the Egyptian fleet of the Persian navy around the west side of the island of Salamis to block the exit of the strait and prepare to wipe out the Greek coalition.

Themistocles told them that there was no way out, and persuaded them to fight to the death with Persia. The Persians cut off the Greeks' back route, but instead aroused the courage and determination of the Greek coalition to fight to the death. The other ships of the fleet were ready to engage the enemy fleet at sea. The Strait of Salamis, with more than 300 warships of the Greek navy anchored in the strait, and the Persian fleet, which was superior in numbers, could not launch a majestic formation to strike at the Greek fleet. When the vanguard of the Persian fleet approached the narrow mouth of the strait, the other columns of warships followed closely. The Greeks suddenly changed course and turned around and killed a horse.

The soldiers of the Greek army were not forcibly recruited to fight, they all had the spirit of fighting to the death to defend their homeland and their loved ones. Not only that, but it turned out that they also had good tactics, ships with good combat performance, and very skilled ship handling skills, all of which ensured their victory in battle; The Persians were sent by forced conscription of conquered peoples, and their morale was low and war-weary. And because their galleys are designed according to the tactics of gang jumping, their actions are not flexible enough. Their marines always wanted the ship to get tangled up as quickly as possible, and the friend and foe were engaged in a melee on the deck by the broadside, so that the deck of the warship became a floating battlefield.

At the beginning of the battle, the nimble Greek three-tiered galleys slammed left and right, circling the enemy's galleys to avoid being caught by the Persian anchor hooks. At the same time, the ramming horns were used again and again to attack the crowding enemy, and the Persian ships were either sunk or forced back into the follow-up fleet. Although the Persians still outnumbered the Greeks in strength, they were demoralized and had no desire to fight, and when the west wind blew, the Persian ships were busy raising their sails and fleeing. Xerxes, faced with this situation, had to admit that the fortresses in Greece could not defeat the Greeks, and thus gave up the conquest of Greece.

Zhang Shijie was undoubtedly in a much better position than Themistocles, and he had much more military power than the Greeks. Moreover, most of the shipwrights of the Yuan army were "Fujian and Zhejiang sailors, and their hearts did not want to go south", once "the southern ship was destroyed and the Fujian and Zhejiang sailors would change in the north boat, and there would be a reason to annihilate". The above words were not imagined by Zhao Hao, but written by Wen Tianxiang, who was imprisoned in the Yuan military ship, and he felt that it was also in line with the current situation. But it is a pity that Zhang Shijie is not Themistocles, and he is not a strong Themistocles.

Therefore, if you want to win this battle and save the defeat, Zhao Yu feels that it is very difficult, in the entire Song and Yuan wars, only Meng Hui can barely be regarded as a famous general in the Song army, but unfortunately he died too early, people like Yu Jue, Wang Jian and others can be regarded as good generals, but there is a distance from famous generals. As for Zhang Shijie, Li Tingzhi, Xia Gui, Lu Wende, and Lu Wenhuan, the main generals of the Song army in the middle and late stages of the war, the best adjectives are at best generals. But on the other side, Ali Hague, commanders like Boyan are not mentioned, that is, the current Zhang Hongfan, Li Heng's command talent is also above Zhang Shijie, and the other generals in the dynasty who abandoned literature and followed the military are even worse.

"Damn, is it really that Liao Hua, the general of Shuzhong, turned into a pioneer and forced Lao Tzu to go into battle in person?" Zhao Hao pondered for a long time and didn't come up with a good solution, and said hatefully...... (To be continued.) )