The battle at sea continues. With the unfolding of hand-to-hand combat www.biquge.info the fierceness of the fight has changed from the original distance to the current close play. Maybe it can't be called a trick, after all, they are all staring at each other's hideous faces, each other's roars, each other's wails, each other's hideousness, and each other's pain, but they can all be seen clearly at the moment. Due to the unsatisfactory range of artillery, a complete artillery battle was not possible in such a big battle. After all, the distance between the two sides is less than a mile, and if one of the two sides is ruthless and insists on pressing the army to engage the enemy with the other side, the other side will naturally not have much chance to refuse, unless they have prepared in advance. Just like now, once Lu Xun made up his mind, the hand-to-hand combat on the battlefield naturally began in Shihong's reluctance, even if Shihong was unwilling to do so, he couldn't.

The current situation on the battlefield is quite unfavorable for Li Tang, especially in hand-to-hand combat. Although Li Tang played defensively, Sun Wu used offense, and Li Tang still had a large number of defensive weapons to use, but due to the lack of troops, Li Tang still had no way to take Sun Wu's side.

"Alas...... Now it's up to the Admiral's side to see if the Admiral's response can be done quickly. Gan Wu, who was in charge of this battlefield, shouted with his waist knife. He is the eldest son of Gan Ning, the governor of Jinghai, and at the moment he is serving as a deputy general in Shihong's army, and is appointed by Shihong as the commander of this battlefield because of his excellent martial arts and good at close combat. As for Shihong himself, he led another part of the fleet and still engaged in artillery battles and guerrilla warfare with the Jiangdong Army outside the battlefield. This was also one of the decisions made by Shihong in the initial division of troops.

According to Shihong's plan, the entire battlefield was divided into three parts: the one side division fighting against Cao Wei's navy was one part; Hand-to-hand combat with Sun Wu was also part of it; The others were part of the continuation of the artillery battle with Sun Wu. As the commander of one side, and the general Shi Hong, who had dealt with Sun Wu's side, naturally understood where the strength and weakness between himself and the enemy were. He knew that he was good at artillery battles and weak at close quarters, because although he had a close battle with Sun Wu's army under forced circumstances, he never thought that he would completely defeat Sun Wu in close combat. In his opinion, since his own artillery is the most powerful, he should use his own artillery to attack the other party, even if the two sides are entangled at the moment. As a result, Shihong's Admiral Flag waved, but he took another part of the warships and left, and completely entrusted the battlefield of close combat with the enemy to Gan Wu.

This entrustment, of course, is not hasty, Shihong, who grew up in Li Shengjun, completely inherited Li Shengjun's plan: of course, the family background should be taken care of, firstly, the general trend of the world is like this, and secondly, it is also for the sake of his innocence; But this is not the main thing, the main thing is the ability of the generals themselves. If you can, you will go up, if you can't, if you are not a person, even if you are a supervisor like Shihong, you have to bear a lot of responsibilities. Therefore, it is natural to be much more cautious in appointing the adjutant general. He asked Gan Wu to serve as his lieutenant, and it was natural that he valued Gan Wu's ability. In Shihong's eyes, Gan Wuqi may not be as strong as his Lao Tzu in martial arts, but he can be regarded as skilled in bows, horses, sabers and arrows, and he is always passable, but in other aspects such as artillery command, he is much stronger than his Lao Tzu. “…… If it weren't for the fact that I was too young and still needed to exercise, I would have wanted to abdicate and make way for Xian. Shihong's words are very clear, he treats Gan Wu at the same level as himself. Of course, Gan Wu has never lived up to such a view, and of course, Gan Wu has never lived up to this view. After Shihong led a part of the warships to form a guerrilla fleet and left the guerrillas, the support of the troops was weakened a lot, and the battlefield quickly showed a state of insufficiency, Gan Wuke was very calm and issued one order after another, stopping the enemy outside the warships. Although the battle line of the entire hand-to-hand combat battlefield seems to be urgent, it is not something that can be broken by the opponent for a while.

Although it is weak, it can still be supported, and although it is said that he does not know when he will collapse, he still resolutely resists the enemy's wave after wave of charges in actual action. In Shihong's eyes, Gan Wu was a person who had to be entrusted to him, so that his plan to divide his troops and guerrillas could be put into action. After some sailing, Shihong's guerrilla fleet had gone around from the front of the Jiangdong Army to the rear of the Jiangdong Army, and all the rows of black guns on its battleships were neatly aimed at the Jiangdong Army.

There is nothing Lu Xun can do about this, at this moment, he is constantly ordering his own warships to assault and assault, where can he take care of the future? Naval warfare is not like a land battle, and it is said that you can keep as many reserves as you want. Reserves on land can be very close to the battlefield, but not at sea, and if they are close, they may be able to put you in and fight together, and if they are far away, God knows you will not be able to catch up. Unlike the face-to-face hard attack on land, the sea is about outflanking and anti-outflanking, and everything is in motion.

"Turn the assault into a gouge and let our men cut through the enemy's array and make a way out of it." Although there is no such thing as a good solution, Lu Xun still came up with some orthodox countermeasures. With the whole army desperately moving forward, of course, he can't order any of his troops to turn around and counterattack the enemy, so he can only keep moving forward, from the enemy's current array and then through movement to get rid of the enemy's tail pursuit behind him, and if he is lucky, he can even bite the enemy back because of this, just like the legendary ring.

Of course, it is very difficult to do that, in addition to the life of each battleship, there is also a certain amount of luck. Because of the lesson that Li Shengjun's warships did not obey orders for individual reasons, resulting in chaos and becoming a disadvantage, Lu Xun naturally could not be wary of his own subordinates. So an order was swiftly conveyed to the whole army: no one was to turn around and attack the enemy without authorization, and if there was any unauthorized action that caused the collapse of the fleet's formation, his ships would be punished as rebellion, and anyone could use artillery to fire them.

This is an unprecedented order. Although Lu Xun was very generous to his soldiers, the military orders were always strictly enforced. Under strict orders, no one dared to turn their bow without authorization, and they always moved forward with the battleships in front and behind while maintaining a certain distance, forward, step by step, and chiseled through the enemy's formation step by step.

The rumbling of artillery rang out in the distant rear. Because the distance was a little far away, even if Lu Xun turned around and couldn't see the cannonballs flying in the sky, he could only rely on the perception of his ears and the distant vision of the crystal cylinder to see the monstrous water columns and faintly exploding sparks that continued to rise behind the formation.

"There are still warships that have been sunk by Li Shengjun." Lu Xun didn't deny this, but he didn't care about such a thing. Because in his opinion, the enemy's actions behind his formation are just a temporary opportunity, and he may be able to cause a lot of losses to himself, but as long as he can only destroy those damn guys in front of him, he will naturally have more spare strength to deal with those behind him. Don't forget that the current military strength of both sides is 100 to 100. The Jiangdong Army, which had more than 100 warships, still firmly held the upper hand here.

Jiang Dongjun is still ignoring and doing his own thing, and Li Shengjun has no better way to do this. This is the case in the battle at sea, when the maneuverability of the warships on both sides is about the same, it is our enemy who cannot be hit, but the enemy who is not engaged is the enemy. Shi Hong, who fully understood Lu Xun's calculations, had no way to do this except to scold Lu Xun for being "cunning".

“…… Firecrackers! Hit me hard! Shihong roared. Since the other party was so cunning that he refused to turn around and fight him, he forced forward step by step to knock out their strength, and sank their warships one by one. He Shihong wanted to see how hard Lu Xun's heart could be, "...... If he killed most of their warships, would this guy Lu Xun not turn around? "Shihong is eager to figure this out. He further split his battle lines into three battle lines to form a crane wing formation. This is a crane wing array in motion, in which each line moves in a circle: Shihong left the most organically powered cruiser at the bottom of the crane wing, and placed the battleships with powerful attack power on both sides of the crane wing. Due to the chaotic battle in front of him at this moment, the speed of the Jiangdong Army Fleet was much slower than it was at the beginning, so that Shihong was very lucky to carry his crane wings up, grabbing the tail of the Jiangdong Fleet like a big hand, and crushing them bit by bit.

The rumbling cannon continued to roar, but the column of water in all directions decreased little by little, while the rising smoke increased rapidly. At this moment, Shihong commanded his own fleet to engage in a close artillery battle with Lu Xun, and at a distance of less than 100 zhang, he bombarded the opponent fiercely with the artillery of the flowering shell, and exerted the power of the battleship into ten ten. For a while, the sound of cannons, explosions, screams, and splinters were all intertwined, becoming a blood-boiling military music. Encountering such a salvo at such a distance, the power of the flowering bomb is so great, even a salvo cruiser can use the dozen guns in his hand to scrap a heavy battleship of the Jiangdong Army at one time, not to mention that the battleships under Shihong who rely on them to become the main force are currently fighting with the Jiangdong Army.

Dozens of warships packed into a pocket, constantly loading Lu Xun's fleet into it. Although the warships of the Jiangdong Army have long had the characteristics of "fast speed, heavy load, and not easy to sink", they could not withstand the continuous salvo fire of these hundreds of guns. As a result, after a round of execution, the Jiangdong Army scrapped several warships, and countless sailors who were lucky enough to escape from the destruction of the ship were struggling in the still cold water, and some of them sank to the ground after shouting a few times. The fighting continues, so no one is kind enough to come to their rescue. Several warships, like hills, passed by them without looking, and then threw themselves into an even more fierce battle. Everything is moving, whether it is the Jiangdong Army commanded by Lu Xun or the Li Tang Army commanded by Shihong.

"When will the battle end?" The stalemate battle formation is always annoying, and the fact that the wind is sliding down little by little from the top is even more of a headache, although everything is not very obvious at the moment, but a wise man like Lu Xun invariably feels a different flavor from it. It was an ominous smell, wafting from the far west and from behind oneself, with that dull roar in between.

"Alas...... Our original plan was cracked! Lu Xun couldn't help but sigh at this, and he would not fail to admit the facts: the sound of cannons wafting from the far west had already explained the situation of the battle between the part of the fleet sent by Shihong and Cao Wei's naval army; And the sound that sounded behind him showed the completion of Shi Hong's outflanking plan. "That guy is a headache to be a part of." Even though Lu Xun has always been very confident in himself, at this time he couldn't help but start to reflect on his own shortcomings: "Are we underestimating them too much? That's why they have been forced here again and again. ”

It also seems to be a certainty. For a long time, both Cao Wei's side and Sun Wu on his own side seemed to only see the rapid growth of their own strength, but ignored the expansion of the enemy's strength. Of course, this is not a complete ignorance of the enemy's strength, Lu Xun knows that the intelligence personnel on his side are working hard, but from today's point of view, the direction of their efforts is different, paying too much attention to how many new warships the other side has added, and for some hidden things, such as the formation of battleships, the establishment of artillery, the general orders of fleet command, etc., they do not know so much. This is not only the mistake of Jiangdong's intelligence officers, but also Lu Xun's mistake, because from the beginning to the present, even Lu Xun himself has not valued these soft powers. I seem to have been looking for it all the time, touching the margins of those things, but only seeing a little bit of it without paying full attention to it.

"Mistake......! It was our mistake! Lu Xun muttered, Tong Meng, who was in danger of dealing with Mr. Exam, found that he hadn't memorized what he was taking the exam at all-the situation was indeed like this.

If a mistake is discovered, it is logical that it should be corrected. But there is no time to make things right. Candidates who don't know how to know how to deal with completely unfamiliar test papers? In addition to really making up your mind to give up on yourself, I'm afraid you also have to think of some crooked ways to go. It is true that it is a very wrong thing for candidates to take the wrong path, but for generals like Lu Xun who are fighting on the battlefield, there is not only nothing shameful about taking the wrong path, but on the contrary, it should be sought after, which shows the birth of another "strange scheme". Of course, this is when that crooked path can really be solved.

"I've come up with a trick." Lu Xun whispered to himself. But when you say that, where do you really have any good ideas in your heart? The framework and rules of naval warfare are all explored by everyone, and Lu Xun can say that everything is in the process of being created so far, and he himself is apprehensive about his every move and every move. He wasn't sure if the Dao he was thinking about was really useful, and he was sure that he could really carry out his plan with his current strength. Naval warfare and land warfare are very different, and even if Lu Xun himself does not want to admit it, he has to face up to the fact that he has now fallen into a dilemma: should he continue to carry out the artillery combat policy that he ignores and expand the chaos in front of him? Or just go around in a circle and continue to entangle with Shihong? It's a real headache.

If he carried out the strategy of expanding the chaotic situation and threw all the forces in his hands into it, then he was sure that he would win the partial killing battle in this way. But ...... "Such a victory is not enough!" Lu Xun shook his head, knowing this very well in his heart. The chaotic battle is inside, and the enemy's soldiers are fighting outside. Even if I can win in this regard, I am afraid that my strength will be almost consumed. As soon as Shihong's guerrilla army launched an attack, he was afraid that he would be able to defeat all of his people in a few circles. You know, the artillery can keep sinking its ships in circles.

As for continuing to entangle with Shihong himself, this is really a way to give people hope for victory. At least, that's what Lu Xun thought at the beginning of Shihong's tactics. However, as time goes by, this perception is disappearing little by little. After all, in front of Shi Hong's display of the divine might of Li Tang's battleship so thoroughly, any bit of confidence based on completely empty self-confidence would collapse with the roar of the cannon. Lu Xun is not an arrogant person, he naturally understands that all confidence must be based on his own strength. At present, the strength of his side is indeed not as good as that of the other party, so naturally this kind of self-confidence must be reduced a lot.

"The first option is definitely not going to work out. Can the second option be realized? Ay...... This is also a troublesome question. Lu Xun had a headache because of this. The so-called "talking and laughing to destroy the enemy" are all outsiders' opinions on them, maybe they are exaggerated, or they are superficial, in fact, when faced with a dilemma, they have the same headache as any other general, and they are not without that feeling of hesitation.

But the decision still has to be made. Although there is some hesitation in my heart, such hesitation cannot be known to outsiders. After his mind went through his mind, Lu Xun finally chose the second way - to continue to entangle with Li Tangjun.

Why?

Lu Xun said: "The outcome of today's battle is an unsatisfactory but acceptable result for us and for Li Tang. Li Shengjun's strength was not easily surpassed by us as we imagined. They are not as weak as we think, and we are not as strong as we think we are. Any idea of a one-time job is unrealistic. Judging from the strength shown by both sides at the moment, this battle will have to continue, and it is likely to become a big battle of slaughter. Of course, that's for later. And the truth at the moment is that even if we tried our best in today's battle, we ended up fighting with each other to a draw. As long as we can continue to hold on, we will be able to leave the battlefield and thus be further reinforced. The appearance of the enemy's fleet here shows that they are already aware of our sneak attack. It was clear that the sneak attack would become a delusion, and the ensuing battle would be a battle of strength and nothing else. ”

"Is that all there is to it?" Jiang Xiu, who was following Lu Xun's side, raised his own questions.

"The simplest truth in the book of war is to know oneself and know one's opponent, and one cannot be defeated in a hundred battles. After suffering on Li Sheng's side, we also realized this again. However, we have to admit that Li Sheng's approach to intelligence secrecy is still much stronger than ours, and we know that Li Sheng's strength is like seeing flowers in a fog, and we don't know where their strength is. It is often when we think that we have seen through everything about Li Sheng, and further think that we have surpassed Li Sheng, that we are surprised to find that Li Sheng's strength is still above us in the battle. As a result, what we know about Li Sheng is actually a situation in which we know ourselves but do not know the other, one wins and one loses. We couldn't win completely, we tried to keep our own clean sheets as much as possible, and there seems to be nothing to complain about if we can get a draw. Lu Xun explained all this very clearly, and he really said the point.

When Jiang Xiu heard this, he was slightly stunned, and used his brain to think about it, but he also nodded yes. He fully understood Lu Xun's thoughts. and knew that Lu Xun's real plan at the moment was to entangle with Li Shengjun and form a situation of mutual consumption. Until sunset. The two sides withdrew their troops according to the agreement. He led his troops back to the military port in Huangxian County, and while receiving supplies, he and everyone summed up what he should do next.

This is obviously a cautious way of doing things, and it is also the most in line with the current facts: the fact that the fleet of a coalition army is a combination of Cao Wei and Sun Wu; No matter how strict the military order is, it is impossible to truly soften the generals and soldiers of the two countries together. In the current situation where such a quick victory is completely impossible, this very obvious fact has become the only thing Lu Xun can do - to retreat temporarily, and he has already planned for the future.

The close quarter-to-close killing between the warships and the warships themselves continued, and the long-range attacks between the fleets and the fleets did not stop for a quarter of an hour, and time passed in the gathering of gunpowder smoke and the hoarseness of shouting and killing, and everything gradually entered the evening as Lu Xun said. The sun was setting in the west at this time, and the golden afterglow shone through the overlapping clouds, illuminating the sea with their soft light. The time is almost over, and it is time to mingjin, once the sky is completely dark, don't say that you will continue to fight, but I am afraid that sailing in the dark is full of danger. So, by the same time, Li Tang's side and the reinforcements both rang the crisp bell at the same time. Under the melodious sound of three long and one short, the warships of both sides retreated at the same time, but they returned to their own positions to rest temporarily. A day of fighting brought great losses to both sides, but it was not clear whether the war would be won or lost.

Each retreated, and before night fell, the two sides disengaged. And after further fixing the course, both sides sailed back to their respective military ports overnight to prepare for the next step of the operation.

Due to the huge losses caused by this battle to both sides, both sides did not make any moves in the dozens of days after returning to Hong Kong. It's just nesting in his own military port, and while receiving supplies, he started an earth-shattering war of words.

First of all, Cao Wei and Sun Wu jointly issued a battle report, saying that their side won the battle in this battle, defeated the Beiyang fleet invaded by the puppet Tang Dynasty, and protected the security of the Oriental direction. During this period, more than 80 large and small warships of the Beiyang Fleet of the Puppet Tang Dynasty were sunk, more than 100 were damaged, and 12 heavy warships of the Puppet Tang Dynasty were captured, achieving an unprecedented victory, so that the Puppet Tang Army did not dare to face due south for a considerable period of time, which can be said to have achieved an unprecedented victory.

"What nonsense......!" Of course, Li Tang refuted Cao Wei and Sun Wu's statements: What about us invading you, it is obvious that you are violating our territorial waters in Beiyang! Don't you know that the sea between Vladivostok and Qinjin belongs to us? Even the role between offense and defense can be wrong, can the battle report you send still be believed? As for the results of your assertions, they are doubtful. Our Datang Beiyang Fleet has a total of 247 warships, according to your statement, we have sunk 80 ships, damaged more than 100 ships, and captured 12 ships, so it is only right that the warships in our military port should be less than 100. But open your eyes and see how many ships we have left. In the military port of Vladivostok, we still have more than 180 warships -- in order to prove that the battle reports of Cao Wei and Sun Wu are not credible, Li Sheng has very clearly made the strength of his naval forces public, with more than 180 warships on the Beiyang side, 154 warships on the Nanyang side, and 306 warships on the Western side, while the Dongyang side, which has suffered heavy losses, also has 48 warships in a short period of 10 days.

Is this true or false? Cao Wei and Sun Wu were both suspicious of this, and Li Sheng's side and their side had completely become enemy countries. For the people who came from their side, not to mention the spies, even the ordinary business travelers, Li Sheng's side is also very concerned. After the war began, the private precautions against Cao Wei and Sun Wu could be said to have become more severe, and Cao Wei and Sun Wu could really get more detailed information than this in addition to listening carefully to Li Sheng's own figures.

“…… However, regardless of whether the news released by Li Sheng is true or not, it has no impact on our strategy. So we shouldn't talk too much about it. When the news came, the imperial courts of Cao Wei and Sun Wu naturally did not discuss this, and in the situation that everyone thought that they should be careful and cautious at the moment, Zhuge Ke put forward a different conclusion.

"Why?" Sun Quan asked puzzled.

"It is certain that the news released by Li Sheng has a lot of moisture. But we can refer to this watery information and add our own judgment to make it. It should be a fact that the Western fleet of the Li Tang Army has more than three hundred warships. After all, the main body of the Western Fleet was Li Sheng's original First Fleet, which already had more than 250 warships before our army carried out privateering tactics, and now after several years of development, it is not surprising to have more than 300 warships. As for the Nanyang side, even if there are not more than 150 ships, there are close to 100 ships for several years, and it can be said that the difference is not much from what Li Sheng announced. A few days ago, a fleet from Quanzhou went north, with a size of about 100 ships, all under the banner of red fire, and it seemed to be Li Sheng's Nanyang fleet. At the moment, it should have been a round with Li Sheng's Beiyang side. In this round, the strength of the entire Beiyang side has risen to more than two hundred, although it is not as good as our alliance with Cao Wei, but as long as it is used to defend the military port, there is no problem. Now that we and Li Sheng have torn their faces, and the sneak attack tactics of the navy have also been recognized, the strength of the two sides at sea can be described as evenly matched, and no one can eat anyone. Under such circumstances, the situation at sea has little impact on the overall situation. The next thing to look at should not be the sea, but the ......" Zhuge Ke is a person who understands the whole situation very thoroughly, and he immediately grasps the key in front of him.

"You mean land?" Sun Quan understood.

"Exactly...... Although I don't know whether Li Sheng wants to go south and then north, or north and then south, one fact is certain: when the situation at sea cannot be opened for the time being, the battle on land is very important. Zhuge Ke said with certainty.

"I see." Sun Quan nodded heavily: "I will let Ziming be careful in Jiangxia." As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly saw a scout horse coming in from outside the hall and shouted: "Li Sheng's army launched the southern expedition five days ago, and his 150,000 troops from the grassland have already broken through the Yanmen Gate. ”

"What......?" Although this is not about their own Dongwu, Sun Quan and their courtiers were still frightened by this news: "Li Sheng is actually at this time...... Damn, he had a good timing. What are we going to do? The monarchs and ministers of Eastern Wu looked at this.