As a typical inland empire, the Ming Empire paid far less attention to the sailors than to the nine-sided border army.

Daming Shui was at its peak from the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Great War against Zhang Shicheng, and then Yongle to the West.

After Yongle, the sailors became increasingly abandoned, and a large number of sea ships slowly decayed, until the Jiajing period was in turmoil, and the sailors were slightly reinvigorated, and the battle of Korea was brilliant again by the east wind of Xiao Ruxun, and after that, no one cared.

Before Xiao Ruxun raised his troops, in addition to the Burmese Sailors, Daming only left a sailor in Guangdong, which was useless, Xiao Ruxun's hand was far superior to the Guangdong Sailor, not to mention, but also swallowed the Guangdong Sailor directly, becoming stronger, and the entire Daming coast was no longer invincible.

As a marshal, Li Hualong is very familiar with land and cavalry battles, but he has never thought about water battles or even naval battles, and of course, he should not think about it.

Originally, Chen Lan, who was the only one who could compete with Xiao Ruxun's sailor, also took refuge in him under Xiao Ruxun's strategy, Li Hualong naturally had no way to take this sailor, and in the face of the repeated northern attacks of the Zhennan Army's sailors, he could only passively defend and be beaten passively, and tried his best to support and delay time, until he could have some warships in his hands.

He can see that if he doesn't have a warship in his hand, it is impossible to compete with the naval division of the Zhennan Army, and he can only resist hard support on land except for avoidance, but under the superior firepower of the Zhennan Army, he is indeed very hard to support.

He felt that he had indeed fallen into an insidious trap, unable to cross the river to fight, but he had to deal with the Zhennan Army Naval Division that might invade from the north from time to time, and he was already very tired in order to deal with their attack, and he could not think about his offensive strategy at all.

Thinking of this, Li Hualong deeply hated Xiao Daheng's short-sightedness and Shen's consistent ignorance! It would be stupid to give up your strengths in land warfare and compete with each other on the water!

But they have to do this, otherwise once Yangzhou is gone, the entire canal route will be exposed to the attack range of the Zhennan Army and Water Division, and they can directly attack the Beijing Division along the canal north, which is an unacceptable outcome for Li Hualong.

Even if the grain road is opened, if the Jingshi is gone, what is the point?

In this way, they can only continue to entangle with the Zhennan Army and Naval Division along the canal, so that the superior forces will not be able to get out as if they are stuck in a quagmire, and they will be tired of defense and will not even be able to attack.

The sailors of the Zhennan army can fire cannons on the water, and they can also let the army land on the shore for land battles, coming and going at will as if no one is in a land, but he has no good way to contain it, and wants to use cavalry to contain it, but no matter how fast the cavalry is and how strong the combat effectiveness is, the Zhennan army will not get off the boat, but will attack them with firearms and crossbows on the boat, and they can't do anything.

For four days in a row, after several battles, although the losses of the imperial army were not large, the morale was seriously low, and there was no way to face those warships, basically they didn't want to compete with those warships anymore, and the generals under them were also complaining, which caused a lot of pressure on Li Hualong.

"No, it's not a way to be beaten passively like this, we must take the initiative to curb the arrogant momentum of the bandits! Even if it's just one sortie, at least let the rebels know how good we are! ”

Li Hualong pounded the table in front of him and said to the subordinates around him.

The subordinates looked at each other.

We know that, but what can we do?

You're always expecting us to figure it out, and we're in a lot of trouble!

"Overseer, if we don't have a warship, it is impossible for us to cross the river, and the sailors of the rebels will stop us."

A subordinate said tentatively.

"Of course Ben Doge knows! However, it takes time to rebuild the warship, and now we are allowing the rebels to come and go freely in our army's defense area, and there is no need to wait for the warship to be renovated, and the army has already collapsed! What kind of face does the Governor have to face His Majesty? ”

Li Hualong's voice was as loud as ever, which made his subordinates even more uneasy.

Especially Chai Guozhu, at this moment, he smelled a strong smell of the back-handed man.

Most of the dead were my men!

Is it the elite soldiers of Jizhen that I trained? You don't have the face to face Your Majesty, I'll do it?

Li Hualong has always been a strong person, and fighting a war only requires military generals to dare to give their lives, and they must follow his strategy, and they are not allowed to raise opposing opinions.

His strength Chai Guozhu had heard of for a long time, but he didn't expect Li Hualong to be so strong that he didn't discuss anything with Chai Guozhu when he came here to fight, it was a cold order to transfer troops.

At this time, another civil official tentatively said to Li Hualong: "Supervisor, the lower official heard that there is a mage in Yangzhou City, who has strong mana and can communicate with the dragon king, why don't we ask the mage to go out, discuss with the dragon king in the river, offer sacrifices, and ask the dragon king to do it, and swallow all the rebel water masters into the bottom of the river, isn't it good?" ”

As soon as these words came out, a few more civil officials immediately echoed them, and the rest of the officials also began to talk in a whisper, and even the generals had some people who exchanged their heads and ears, and seemed to have some hope for this method.

Then Li Hualong slapped the table hard.

"Bastard thing! The son is silent, and the power is confused! What kind of magic is there in the world? Where is the dragon king? It's just a swagger and a mouthful! Have you read all your books in the dog's belly?! ”

Li Hualong's anger frightened the officials and hurriedly pleaded guilty.

Li Hualong snorted heavily, then pondered for a while, and turned his gaze to Chai Guozhu, who had not spoken.

"Mr. Chai, what do you say?"

Li Hualong's sudden question made Chai Guozhu's heart feel inexplicably frightened, he raised his head and looked at Li Hualong.

"The last general...... The last general thinks that what the overseer said is very true! ”

Chai Guozhu didn't dare to say anything, he knew that Li Hualong didn't like generals to talk too much, if he asked, you would answer, and if he didn't ask you, you would shut up and not speak.

"Oh? What is that? Is the chief soldier of Chai willing to lead the troops to take the initiative to attack once? ”

Yes?

Chai Guozhu looked at Li Hualong in surprise.

Li Hualong's face was serious, his eyes were solemn and cold, and he didn't seem to be joking.

This......

The rest of the generals seemed to be a little uneasy at first, and the civil servants seemed to be a little surprised.

Although he is a military general, he is also the main general, and he does not let the rest of the deputy generals take people with him, but he wants the main general to go out in person.

Lee has his own ideas.

Before leaving for the expedition, Liu Huangshang came to Li Hualong with Shen's consistent intention and told him about Chai Guozhu, saying that Chai Guozhu had made too many achievements under Xiao Ruxun, and was very appreciated by Xiao Ruxun, and should have received a lot of help from Xiao Ruxun, so there may still be some problems in his heart.

Liu Huangshang suspected that Xiao Ruxun's progress was so terrifying, not because he had more troops, but because he had found someone to respond, it may be that the military generals in Yunnan and Guangzhou, who were turned against Xiao Ruxun and directly helped him to raise troops, so Xiao Ruxun's progress was so fast.

This is very terrible, Xiao Ruxun's old department is all over the world, Chai Guozhu is also one of them, Li Rusong will not come directly, although Chai Guozhu is here now, but he must also be a little guarded against him, send people to keep an eye on him, and don't let him have a chance to move.

Liu Huangshang told Li Hualong like this.