When Li Zicheng was pondering, He Xiaoxiao suddenly heard a chaotic footsteps, and his right hand subconsciously pressed the hilt of the knife on his waist, and his expression was slight, "Your Excellency, ......"

"Xiaomi don't have to be nervous, it should be the brothers of the water army." Li Zicheng waved his hand to the soldiers on frontal alert, on this island that has become a naval base, it is impossible for a large number of enemies to appear, besides, his coming to Longju Island this time is a completely temporary decision, and it is impossible for someone to leave an ambush on the island in advance.

Sure enough, it was Zhou Kun who came out of the forest, and when he saw Li Zicheng, he immediately turned over and bowed to the ground, "Subordinate Zhou Kun, knock to see your lord!" ”

"Zhou Zongqi doesn't need to be polite, get up," Li Zicheng laughed, "How about it, I suddenly came to Longju Island and didn't interrupt the normal training of the navy, right?" ”

"No, no," Zhou Kun got up, still arching slightly, "The subordinates got the news that the adults had come to Longju Island, and immediately rushed over, and the brothers are still continuing their training." ”

"That's good," Li Zicheng glanced at the surrounding trees, "This Longju Island is really a good place!" ”

"It's a good place," Zhou Kun smiled, "It's almost noon now, adults can have some lunch on the island." ”

"Let's go, let's go back to the dining room first, and I'll see what the brothers eat on weekdays."

"Yes, sir!" Zhou Kun took the lead, led Li Zicheng and his party back to Shatuo Temple, passed through the courtyard in the middle, and sat in the small room inside, and there were already firefighters who served tea to Li Zicheng and Liu Yunshui, "My lord, this place is simple, and there is no good tea, but this spring water is still good, and the brothers all say that there is a faint sweetness......"

Li Zicheng opened the lid of the cup, there was no tea in the cup, just a cup of white water, dipped in a little mouth, sure enough, there was a trace of sweetness, as if there was nothing, at the beginning of the mouth, there were some feelings, under the careful taste, but lost the trace, it felt like braised pork, when it came out of the pot, it could smell a sugar fragrance, into the mouth, but there was no sweetness.

The spring water of Ryukoma Island is really something special.

However, such a clear spring water should only be tasted carefully, if it is like a soldier, just to quench your thirst, I am afraid it is difficult to taste the charm of this, "Zhou Zongqi, is there only one spring water on the mountain?" There are more than 100 brothers, and this spring water is enough for the brothers to drink? ”

"There is still a spring of this kind in the southwest corner, which is smaller than this, but the water used by the brothers to eat and drink comes from this spring, and for so long, the spring water has not been seen."

Li Zicheng nodded, and said, "Zhou Zongqi, what's going on with this Shatuo Temple?" ”

Zhou Kun was startled, his face was stunned for a moment, and then he lowered his voice and said: "My lord, there were originally three Tibetan monks in this Shatuo Temple, and after we came to the island and landed, they strongly opposed it. ”

"And then?" Li Zicheng said indifferently.

And then ...... I sent my brother to talk to each other, but the monks in the temple just didn't open their minds, so they ......"

"So you killed them and threw their carcasses into the sea to feed the fish?" Li Zicheng's face showed a slight displeasure, "The southeast side of the West Sea, although it has been subsumed into Xining, but the northwest coast is the scope of Tibetan activities, and the Tibetans are all worshipping Buddha, if you let the Tibetans know that you killed their senior monks, how can they give up?" ”

"Adult ......"

"The navy needs Longju Island as a training base, the Tibetan monks refuse to give up the island, you can coexist, the worst is to drive the Tibetan monks out of Longju Island, why harm people's lives?"

"Your Excellency......" Zhou Kun was so frightened that he left the seat and fell to the ground.

"Get up," Li Zicheng still looked unkind, and said in a deep voice: "Since you have already done it, you have to make relevant preparations, if the Tibetans ask you to ask for the monks in the temple, how will you be?" ”

Zhou Kun got up and sat down tremblingly on the chair, "My lord, before my subordinates killed these Tibetan monks, they also observed for a long time, they did not contact the outside world, and no believers came to the island to worship!" ”

"Oh?" Li Zicheng remembered the questions he had about these Tibetan monks, and said: "Although there is fresh water on the island, it does not produce food, so what do these monks do on the island?" ”

"My lord, according to my subordinates, these monks do not leave Longju Island on weekdays, but only leave the island when the West Sea freezes every year, and go outside to purchase a year's worth of food, and practice on the island on weekdays, and their subordinates are before the end of the year, when the West Sea is frozen, they step on the footprints of these monks before the end of the year, and they only find Longju Island."

"In the West Sea, besides your navy, are there other ships?"

"No, my subordinates have never seen other ships in the West Sea during these days," Zhou Kun shook his head, seeing that Li Zicheng's expression returned to normal, he became a little bolder, "Now that the navy has occupied Longju Island, except for the ships of the Xining Army, there will be no other people's ships in the West Sea in the future." ”

Theoretically, the West Sea is different from the East China Sea and the South China Sea, in fact, it is just a closed saltwater lake, the sea area is so large, it is impossible to accommodate two naval armies, even civilian ships, and the Xining Navy has no clear opponent now, so it is its current task to protect the entire West Sea!

However, the latitude of the West Sea is very high, and it is likely that all of them will be frozen in winter, just like Zhou Kun said, the Tibetan monks on Longju Island can step on the ice to come out, and the people outside can also step on the ice to enter the island.

"If you enter the freeze, how do you protect Longkoma Island?"

"Subordinates prepare, the soldiers who live on Longju Island, if someone comes on the ice, then ...... Subordinate...... subordinates ......"

"Kill them, don't you?"

Li Zicheng calculated, this is indeed a good choice, plus during the navigation period, the Xining Navy blocked the entire West Sea, people outside could not land on the island, and the contact with the island was completely cut off, and they would gradually lose their memory of Longju Island, and eventually forget the existence of Longju Island.

Li Zicheng did not stop Zhou Kun's thoughts, but worried for him, the navy is now only more than 100 people, and he has to assist in contacting Li Jibu's garrisons on both sides of the strait, can this soldier control the vast West Sea?

How to completely liberate the water army?

If Xining can feed a large number of soldiers like the imperial court, then it doesn't matter whether the two sides of the West Sea are stationed separately and whether they want to strengthen the liaison between them, let Li Jibu guard both sides of the West Sea, just to save soldiers, where there is a military situation, the soldiers will be concentrated in one place, Li Zicheng first established the West Sea Army, is to quickly transport soldiers through the West Sea.

Expanding the army is a method, but even if the Xining army expands, it will not station a large number of soldiers on both sides of the West Sea in order to deal with a small number of nomadic cavalry.

However, from the nomads, Li Zicheng thought of another tool for quickly transporting soldiers - war horses!

If Li Ji's army has enough war horses, it can use the rapid mobility of the cavalry to quickly complete the mobilization of the army, this time in Kadang City, the Xining army captured six or seven hundred war horses of Mai Li cadres, but these war horses, have gone to Xining with the auxiliary troops of Liu Yunshui's department, and will be handed over to Li Guobu, and cannot be left to Li Ji for the time being.

However, there are still some foals grazing on Jinyintan, and some of the horses are close to adulthood, these horses were originally left to Li Guobu, but Li Guo got the war horses of the Maili cadres, which are enough to equip five hundred households, and there is no need for war horses for the time being.

Although fifty war horses could not completely complete the transportation of soldiers, they could at least reduce the transportation pressure of the navy and allow the navy to focus on the West Sea.

At this time, Zhou Kun's personal soldiers urged lunch, and Li Zicheng said: "It just so happens that I am also hungry, eat first, and in the afternoon I will go to the West Sea to see how Zhou Zongqi's naval training is doing." ”

"Yes, sir!" Zhou Kun waved his hand and asked the soldiers to bring the food over.

After a while, the two soldiers held the tray in their hands and put the meal specially provided by the firefighters for Li Zicheng on the table, Li Zicheng looked at the place, and the large amount of mutton eaten by Li Jicheng was different, but it was mostly fresh fish, in addition to three plates of various roasted fish, there was also a plate of fish soup.

"Sure enough, it depends on the water draft, if it goes on like this, I am afraid that the fish in the West Sea will be eaten up by Zhou Zongqi, haha......"

Zhou Kun smiled innocently, "Your Excellency is here today, and my subordinates specially asked someone to catch some fresh fish from the West Sea, if it is a weekday, the soldiers can only eat the salted fish sent by the fishing team." ”

"Haha, Mr. Zhou has a heart!"

After lunch, Zhou Kun personally went to the sea for training, and Li Zicheng took his own soldiers and took a transport ship, and also came to the sea to observe the training of the navy at close range.

To the northeast was a battleship, noticeably much longer and taller than the rest, as if it were two decks, with a total of three masted sails in the bow and stern.

There were originally several transport ships in front, and when they saw this behemoth, they scattered in fright and fled far away, but this warship was unrelenting, and the sail operators twisted the sails desperately, and with the help of the wind, they soon caught up with an escaped transport ship.

This is an asymmetrical battle, if the "behemoth" uses its size advantage, it can completely knock over the small boat-like transport ship, but Zhou Kun disdains to do so, and instead confronts the soldiers on the transport ship with a white blade......

The transport ship that had fled just now saw that its companions had fallen into the hands of the enemy, and they gradually approached and joined the battle group, and the two sides were inseparable for a while, and the soldiers who were anxious actually stood on the side of the ship, they may have been accustomed to the attributes of the ship, and there was no unstable swaying of the center of gravity.

Under the siege of the transport ship on all sides, the huge warship could not take advantage of the lack of maneuverability, and after half an hour, almost all the soldiers on the ship were "killed", and the sail and helmsman were forced to replenish it, but it was still difficult to save the situation, and in the end, it turned out that the soldiers on the warship were all wiped out and obediently became prisoners, and the drill was over.

This surprised Li Zicheng.

He watched the battle in person, and it stands to reason that Zhou Kun should arrange a one-sided drill to highlight the advantages of large warships, but he didn't expect the result to be a complete defeat of the warship to the transport ship, is this Zhou Kun's intention?