The Xiang'an guards surrendered, and Xiang'an City didn't send an arrow. Zhang Yi sat in Xiang'an and began to prepare for a counterattack to defend the south of the river.

The most important thing to defend the counterattack south of the river is the water army.

After Li Hongzhang received Zhang Yi's order, he immediately commanded the naval army and came to the mouth of the river along the river. The mouth of the river is the place where the Chaohu Lake enters the river, and it is a strategic place. As long as he owns this place, Zhang Yi's navy can advance and retreat freely and be invincible.

After Li Hongzhang arrived at the mouth of the water, he felt that this place was very important, so he left Li Jun to build a water village to prevent the Jiangdong naval army.

Li Hongzhang came to Xiang'an, met with Zhang Yi and said: "Lord, now that our navy has to enter the river, the waves of the river are even worse than that of Zhichao Lake, and it will take a while for the navy to form combat power." ”

Zhang Yi thought for a moment and asked, "Then what do you think?" ”

Li Hongzhang said: "I intend to set up a water village in the mouth of the water and send heavy troops to guard it. Once the Jiangdong Navy came to attack, the Navy suspended training, retreated to the mouth of the water, and relied on the water village to defend. ”

The more Zhang Yi listened, the more he frowned, how did he feel that this was still the same as the Beiyang Naval Division's stubborn defense of the port? Although the ships are small now, the attack is to board the ship except for bows and arrows. However, the role of the navy is still used to attack, and it is not a good way to give up the advantages of the navy.

"You're still too conservative." Zhang Yi shook his head and said, "As far as I know, our warships are much larger than the Jiangdong Navy. Although the boat operation in Huainan is worse than that in Jiangdong, water warfare is nothing more than those methods, not allowing the enemy to board the ship, and guarding against the enemy's fire attack, after these are done, they can basically be invincible. ”

Li Hongzhang knew that his conservatism made Zhang Yi dissatisfied, so he said: "The main thing is that there are no good generals in water warfare, although Li Jun and Zhang Shun are good at water, but their command skills are not high, and they are probably not the opponents of Jiangdong fierce generals." ”

When Zhang Yi heard it, it was indeed the case. Li Jun and Zhang Shun were originally traders who fished and sold fish, and their skills may not be bad, but their ability to lead the troops was really not very good, otherwise most of the people in Liangshan would not have died.

Zhang Yi thought about it, and said to Li Hongzhang: "In this way, the navy will first be stationed at the mouth of the river, let Li Jun and Zhang Shun each take a few big boats to cruise the river, and don't fight in close combat when encountering the Jiangdong navy, as long as they attack from afar, we just need to ensure that Jiangdong does not transport troops across the river, and we don't need to destroy the Jiangdong navy." ”

Li Hongzhang breathed a sigh of relief, he now knew that the navy was not trained overnight. When he asked Zhang Yi for the navy, in addition to wanting to be in charge of the navy deep down, he also had the idea of having a long time with Zhou Yu.

Li Hongzhang and Zhou Yu both live in the Chaohu area, and the age difference between the two is not much, even if Li Hongzhang is implanted in this world, but they also have childhood memories. Zhou Yu has been a well-known figure since he was a child, and he is the first person around Chaohu Lake. It is impossible to say that Li Hongzhang did not have a long and short idea with Zhou Yu, Zhou Yu can lead the troops, and so can I, Li Hongzhang. And I still want to fight you to see if you are stronger or I am stronger.

It's just that after Li Hongzhang took charge of the navy, he found that his ability was not enough, but the area around Juchao and Liyang was well organized by him, and the construction of the navy was nothing more than how many boats were built and how many soldiers were found, and the training was done by Li Jun and Zhang Shunlai.

If these two were to be called water-based, perhaps no one would be able to compare to them. But if it comes to training sailors, they simply can't do it.

As a result, the soldiers they called out were very strong in personal combat, but they were very poorly disciplined, and they did not use bows and crossbows very well.

Li Hongzhang went to the mouth of the water, and Zhang Yi always felt a little uneasy. Let someone send a letter to Di Qing, so that he can attack other counties in Lujiang, and send Wei Wentong out to threaten Shu County from the east.

He himself rushed to the mouth of the water from the land with Fan Lihua, and Xiang'an handed it over to the newly summoned Lin Fengxiang to defend.

Fortunately, Lin Fengxiang's implanted identity is high enough, and he is also a school captain. But how did Zhang Yi remember that the system didn't seem to say Lin Fengxiang's identity at the beginning? Was it too busy to forget?

Zhang Yi took Fan Lihua to enjoy the scenery on the road while hurrying. Beautiful scenery and beautiful women, it should be regarded as one of the best things in the world, right?

Although Zhang Yi doesn't know how to pick up girls, with his knowledge far beyond the ancients and anecdotes, he also amused Fan Lihua.

According to this progress, Zhang Yi felt that he should be able to win Fan Lihua soon.

Fan Lihua also admires Zhang Yi, beauties love heroes, although Fan Lihua is a tigress, but she also needs to find a male tiger, right?

The two of them laughed all the way, and the soldiers under them were abused enough, if it weren't for the fact that these people were all looking forward to Zhang Yi finding a woman soon, they might all mutiniate and let you abuse the single dog?

When he came to Wet Whiskers, Zhang Yi saw Li Jun and Zhang Shun for the first time, both of whom were quite handsome. However, Li Jun's skin is bronze, and Zhang Shun is white, and it is very white, whiter than Fan Lihua.

"This can't be a woman, right?" Fan Lihua said a little jealously.

"Man!" Zhang Yi also sighed, there are really no surprises in this world! After sighing, Zhang Yi felt wrong again, Zhang Shun is an imaginary character, it is normal to be different from ordinary people, just like Wei Wentong, Guan Yu, who is very close to the artistic image, and Guan Yu is put together, he is redder than Guan Yu's face.

Li Hongzhang and the three accompanied Zhang Yi to inspect the water village being built, and got on the boat to see the structure on it. After a while, Zhang Yi couldn't stand it anymore.

His hometown is in Wuwei, which is now the area of Gansu, in the hinterland. There is no problem with letting him ride a horse, but board! Forget it! Zhang Yi didn't vomit, which was already very good.

On the contrary, Fan Lihua is very adaptable and has no discomfort at all. It's no wonder that she is Fan Neng's sister and a Jiangnan girl, so she should have taken a boat.

However, Zhang Yi never thought of letting Fan Lihua stay in the mouth of the water, but let Li Hongzhang continue to garrison, and handed over the political affairs of Linhu and Xiang'an to him.

Li Hongzhang's ability to govern is much greater than his military ability, and his military ability is more strategic and logistical.

Zhang Yi has already started looking for a candidate to get a new commander of the navy, and he doesn't know what can summon Zheng Chenggong!

In other words, there are really a few naval generals in ancient China! This may have something to do with not paying attention to the water army!

It seems that the land is vast and has its drawbacks, and all eyes are on the land, and the sea is ignored.

After Zhang Yi returned to Xiang'an, he wrote a letter and asked him to send it to Jingzhou to see if he could find Gan Ning and let him come to defect.

If you can get Gan Ning, the navy will have at least one general.