Chapter 1437: Can Win
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The reason why a great man is called a great man is because he can do what others can't.
It's not about how many enemies he kills on the battlefield, it's how many enemies he kills on the battlefield with the right people.
The biggest difference between a leader and a warrior is that the leader is subordinate to others, and the warrior is subject to others.
Kerry? Thorne was wrong.
He soon knew that he was wrong, too wrong, at the moment when he saw the main ships of the naval division brazenly ramming the warships of the Combined Fleet, causing both sides to be damaged and flooded, and they both perished.
The speed of the fastest warship cannot exceed the speed of the impact in a straight line.
Because a straight line hits don't require a turn, which is verbose, but ...... Indispensable!
This is a kind of resoluteness, a determination not to take his own life seriously, after all, he is not Kerry who regards himself as a superior person? Thorne could understand and make sense, but it really happened.
It would be stupid for any flagship to attack in such a resolute, suicidal way!
But Shi Lang had no remorse, because he knew that there was that man behind him, a god-like existence...... Mars!
Those who dare to die will take advantage of it after all.
No one is not afraid of death, I'm afraid that even Wu Zheng is not exempt from vulgarity, otherwise, he should take the lead and stand in Shi Lang's current position.
Kerry? Thorne was obviously more afraid of death, and of course, in his words, a noble man would never trade his life for a life for an inferior yellow-skinned monkey, and it was about a dignity that the world could not understand.
The sailors could not understand this dignity, because in their eyes there was nothing but the honor of the soldiers.
Shi Lang didn't understand that victory is victory, just as running away cannot be called detachment.
So when he stood in Kerry? When Thorne's main fleet was in its original position, he pointed to Kerry ten miles away? Thorne said, "Sink it...... Go back, I'll invite you to drink a lot! ”
Listen, listen, the flagship of the great Dutch naval commander is worth a big meal in Shi Lang's eyes, but this is obviously the common perception of the sailors and soldiers who participated in the war.
Sink the Combined Fleet Kerry? Thorne's flagship, not an easy task.
No one took Shi Lang's words seriously, not even the oarsmen at the lowest level of the Zhoushui Master's cabin knew that this could not be done.
The range of the gunships and the speed of the battleship are not as good as the enemy ships, how can it be possible to sink the enemy flagship that has already intended to escape?
But no one would think that there was anything wrong with Shi Lang's order, this was a precious battle intent!
What kind of commander there is, what kind of general there is, this sentence is not wrong at all.
Kerry? Thorne did not expect his Combined Fleet soldiers to be on par with the Marines' will to fight, so there was nothing wrong with his order to retreat, retreat...... The farther away from this bunch of maniacs, the better!
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In this battle, the three major naval divisions did their best, at the cost of up to forty percent of the battle losses, under the combined attack of more than 1,000 warships of the Zheng family's fleet, to repel the Fanren combined fleet.
The results of the battle were huge, in addition to the Nabur Division, which was gnawed by Shi Lang and Wang Yilin at the beginning of the war, another huge loss of the Combined Fleet was under the suicidal attack of the fire attack ships, they exchanged 73 capital warships for more than 570 fire attack ships.
It doesn't sound like a good deal, but anyone who really understands naval warfare understands that it's an absolutely good deal, although, it's not very humane.
According to Wang Yilin's words, he is willing to attack ships with a hundred fires in exchange for the enemy's general main warships, and he will never tire of it!
The third major loss of the combined fleet came from Shi Lang's pursuit, this Erhan was obviously a madman who was not afraid of ghosts, even Wu Zheng and Zheng Sen did not dare to order the pursuit of the combined fleet that had fled eastward to the depths of the ocean, but Shi Lang pursued it for two hundred miles like crazy.
Is it Lingkerry? In desperation, Thorne left one hundred and twenty capital ships behind.
This is tantamount to tearing off the fattest piece of meat of the Combined Fleet.
As you can imagine, a decent Kerry is needed? Thorne, how could it be possible to leave the great Dutch navy behind, in vain to make people laugh?
What he was willing to leave behind was naturally a warship that other countries used to make up the numbers to show his existence.
This is tantamount to cheapening Shi Lang for nothing, and adding a thick stroke to his military exploits, which Wang Yilin covets extremely much.
Kerry? Thorne's choice was simple, and between bad and worse, he wisely chose the former.
There is no doubt that he made the right choice!
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"I haven't seen him for many days, and King Wu's demeanor is flourishing!"
"Brother Damu, Wu Zheng remembered the love of coming to help."
"With a gesture, King Wu doesn't have to care."
"Cast it with peaches, cast it with plums...... Brother Damu doesn't have to be polite. ”
When Wu Zheng and Zheng Sen met for the third time, the atmosphere of the meeting between the two sides was very harmonious, so harmonious that they almost threw themselves into each other's arms.
This is because the sea is windy, and even a giant ship shakes violently.
But this is also the reason why the name of the Battle of Tanhu Mountain has never won the name of the Tanhu Mountain Alliance.
It was not because the two were "intimately" almost thrown into each other's arms, but because of the meeting at Tanhu Mountain, two of the three major anti-Qing forces officially formed the Northern Expedition Alliance.
Did Zheng Sen suddenly want to open it, or did Wu Zheng want to cut meat and feed the eagle?
In fact, it is not right, this is the overlap and ...... of the interests of both sides Compromise.
The general trend of the world must be divided for a long time, and the research must be combined.
The results of the Northern Expeditionary Army's Battle of Jiangbei were reflected in the reaction of the south, and the weakening of the Qing army's control made it inevitable that the Zheng army and the Northern Expeditionary Army would face each other head-on.
The two sides will fight, which will obviously make Zheng Sen and Wu Zheng fall into the world's verbal criticism, and no one will think that a civil war should break out at this juncture.
No one dared to risk such a big disapproval to fire the first shot, and the important thing was that Li Dingguo of Huguang was still leading his Great Western Army to advance northward with the might of the great victory of the famous king, and his momentum was invincible.
If Zheng Sen and Wu Zheng start a war, it is equivalent to indirectly pushing Li Dingguo to the top of righteousness, this kind of thing is something that Zheng Sen absolutely does not want to see, and it is also what Wu Zheng does not want to see.
Zheng Sen doesn't want to fall behind Li Dingguo, why is he the king of Jin and the king of Yanping County?
What Wu Zheng didn't want to see was that Yongli behind Li Dingguo became the real winner of the chess game.
So this meeting is not so much about complementing each other as taking what each side needs.
But this is not important, the important thing is that Wu Zheng "gifted" Zheng Sen the sixty-three capital ships of the Combined Fleet captured by Shi Lang, in order to compensate Zheng Lin for the loss of fifty warships that were "looted" by the sailors, and received a lot of "interest".
And Zheng Sen reciprocated the favor and swore an oath with Wu Zheng, and in the golden autumn of next year, Zheng Jun and the Northern Expeditionary Army will join Luoyang - the first pass in Zhejiang and Fujian.
The most exciting thing is that the two sides vowed to join forces for a three-year Northern Expedition!
But...... Specific matters, and will be discussed in detail later.
This is not perfunctory, on the contrary, it shows the sincerity of the cooperation between the two sides.
Because, the cooperation between the two armies is never a simple nod from the commanders of the two sides, it requires the overlap of the concepts and goals of the two sides.
Fighting separately is not called unity.