Chapter 296: Set things right
Cao Yang has thought of many ways to solve the current problem!
For example, gather several lieutenants under him, and then tell them their decisions, and those who agree will follow them, and those who disagree will be killed directly.
Or trick them out to sea, and then summon them to a ship at sea to announce these things.
After thinking about it, Cao Yang still chose the latter.
After all, he is a naval general, and arranging ships or anything is not a problem for him, and doing these things on a ship is much less risky than on land.
With 2,000 troops stationed in the naval camp, 4,000 rebel soldiers have gathered in this camp.
And Hou Junji only has a total of 20,000 people in his hands, and once these 4,000 people have an accident, the consequences will be unimaginable.
Hou Junji also understands this truth, but other than that, he has no other way, nearly half of the 2,000 people of the navy will be divided to operate the ship, if it is a war, there will be more people who need to be divided, and the remaining few people will not be able to fight at all.
But increasing manpower is also a problem for Hou Junji, he has no one available, 20,000 people control the entire Silla, in this case, there are frequent loopholes in various places, during this time Hou Junji was full of anger everywhere to fill in the leaks, but at this time the sequelae of insufficient troops were completely revealed.
Therefore, Hou Junji attaches great importance to this expedition, and at the same time is particularly worried.
Despite the lack of people, he still had to go, and despite his hesitation, he still added his two hundred henchmen to the two thousand, hoping that they could deter people with other intentions.
It would take a little more than two days to get from the naval camp to Tamna, which is a very uncomfortable time point unless you can get out of time in two days, but then the combat efficiency will be greatly reduced.
So Cao Yang chose to slow down and give the soldiers more time to rest.
Of course, all this was an illusion, and on the first day of sailing, small boats kept shuttling back and forth in the fleet, sending officers from various ships to Cao Yang's ship to inquire about some information.
The next day, it was still the same, and everyone gradually got used to it, but as they got closer and closer to Tamna, many people began to have different thoughts in their hearts.
The voyage of more than two days was forcibly increased by one day by Cao Yang, and the reason for the announcement was that the imperial fleet would definitely depart in the morning, and if it was at a normal speed, we would not be able to catch up in the morning anyway.
Therefore, on the third day, they sailed for half a day, and then dropped anchor to rest and recuperate, and set off before dawn on the fourth day, when they could basically catch up with the imperial fleet going to sea.
From an operational point of view, this choice is undoubtedly the most appropriate.
Of course, what made Cao Yang decide the most was actually after boarding the ship, under his intentional eavesdropping, he found that the soldiers on the ship would always mention the word "home" intentionally or unintentionally.
Others don't know, but these soldiers under his command, Cao Yang, know very well that in the past six months, their mental state has plummeted, as if they have lost their souls.
In the cabin, the atmosphere was a little depressing, and many people sat there silently and waited without saying a word after they came in.
The two-day meeting also made everyone feel vigilant, to put it simply, it was skin, and they knew that there would not be anything too important, so they all wanted to hurry up and go back to sleep.
"General Cao, are you going to arrange tomorrow's war?" One of the lieutenants sensed that something was not right in the atmosphere, and after a little thought, he asked directly.
I don't know what's wrong, he always feels that something is not quite right today, but he can't see anything wrong for a while.
"War? What else is going on? Cao Yang sneered and directly mocked: "This farce has lasted long enough, it's time to go home!" ”
Go home?
When the word "go home" came out of Cao Yang's mouth, most of the captains in the cabin lit up, and their empty eyes seemed to be rejuvenated with hope, and the excitement and excitement on their faces couldn't help it.
"Cao Yang, do you want to rebel?" The lieutenant finally understood that something was wrong, and stood up with a fused face and pointed at Cao Yang and asked sharply.
"Rebellion? Qin Yong, who rebelled against whom? Don't you know? Cao Yang looked at Qin Yong coldly and asked, Qin Yong is the person Hou Junji put on the surface to monitor, from his attack, Cao Yang has been prepared.
Qin Yong wanted to draw his knife and cut Cao Yang directly, but at this time, he found that his knife was put away when he entered here.
At that time, he felt strange, but when he saw that Cao Yang also handed over his knife, he didn't ask much, and he didn't react until now, it was a trap from the beginning.
But Qin Yong was personally sent here by Hou Junji to monitor and deter, naturally it couldn't be as simple as an ordinary captain.
Mobilizing all his brain circuits to think, the only thing he can do now is to persuade these people down first, and then settle accounts after returning from this battle.
"Cao Yang, the king treats you well, right? has promised to make you the prince of the country, appointed you as the general of the navy, and given you more rewards than you have earned in your lifetime in Datang, are you really going to betray the king? ”
"Betrayal? I advise you to save it, from the beginning, we never thought about betraying Datang, let alone becoming a rebel. Speaking of this, Cao Yang stretched out his hand and pointed in the direction of Tamna: "Do you know how many soldiers and horses there are?" Fifty thousand! A vanguard of 50,000 men! Do you know who is leading the way? It's Li Jing, the Duke of Weiguo! On the other side, there is still an army of 50,000 people waiting to cross the sea, a full 100,000 horses, can only 20,000 people stop it?
Or do you think these 20,000 people are bent on dying with you? ”
Cao Yang really didn't know who was the leader, and Xue Li didn't say it before, anyway, it was just nonsense, why did you want to talk about Li Jing, the Duke of Weiguo? Because Hou Junji has been Li Jing's deputy all the year round, he knows very well how powerful Li Jing is, if Li Jing leads the troops, let alone an army of 50,000, it is the same 20,000 people, and Hou Junji has no chance of winning.
Of course, the number of people is also nonsense, anyway, it is a blind guess according to the convention, it is impossible for an army to run so far to quell the rebellion, so there is a high probability that there are two armies, and two armies are 50,000 people......
"Take it!" Cao Yang shouted directly, and the knife and axe hand that had been prepared outside the door pushed the door in, looked at the situation inside, and directly took down the tense Qin Yong and tied him up.
"Ridiculous! Ridiculous! Do you think you'll really be able to go back? Rebels! Rebels! Whether you want to or not, you are all rebels, don't you know the methods that the imperial court has always used to deal with rebels? Even if I can spare your life, your future will be over......" Qin Yong roared madly without shying away from it.
Everyone's eyes looked at Cao Yang, although they knew that there was a high probability that this would be the case, but they were a little entangled in their hearts, they wanted to hear different answers, even if it was just to lie to them.
"This time, the court only punishes the evil!" Cao Yang looked at Qin Yong with a smile, of course this was guessed by himself, the purpose was to stabilize people's hearts, but in order to stimulate them, he couldn't help but continue: "I'm afraid you don't know yet, right?" The scout teams sent by the imperial court are all over the land of Silla at this moment, and they have already mastered all the deployments that you regard as confidential, and besides, the general has never been out of the barracks, but he still has contact with them, isn't anyone curious? ”