The blue sea stretches as far as the eye can see, and people can't help but relax their minds. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info with the undulations of the surging sea, the sassy sea breeze also continues to bring the taste of cool autumn into people's hearts. Autumn has arrived, and the sky, which originally seemed to be a little low, has been pulled away from afar, and on this cloudless day, it is particularly difficult to feel the vastness of the sea and sky. The deep space is infinite, and the sea is infinite. I don't know who said such a sentence, but it does make sense: "...... The vastness of the sea is far wider than that of the grassland, and that kind of thing is deep and fascinating. The feeling of boundlessness does make people relax and put their ambitions behind, which is a normal thing. However, there are always exceptions, and if one day the inflated ambition of the people cannot even contain the sea, then the crazy war may sweep the whole world. ”

“…… A frantic war sweeping the world? A slightly distracted Shi Hong smiled mockingly. But this smile didn't last long, as the contours of the land grew larger in his field of vision at the junction of water and sky, his expression became solemn for a moment. At this moment, he already thought that the sentence that came from nowhere was absolutely correct: "If I directly attack the base on this island like this, maybe the decisive battle in the world will really break out because of this." Thinking of this, Shi Hong, who has always been known as a young man, couldn't help but tremble his hands, he knew the power in his hands, and he also understood what the result would be once such a powerful power was volatilized. Whether to fight or not......" Shihong was a little undecided. Although he was at sea, he knew the delicate situation in the whole world, and if he ordered an attack like this now, it was very likely to become an excuse for Wu and Wei to start a war against the Tang Dynasty - the island in front of him was a part of Xiaoliuqiu, and its strategic location was very important, but it was not the territory of the Tang Dynasty. It is a territory under the joint management of Wu and Wei, a trade transit point for Wu and Wei in the entire Oriental Sea, and the largest pirate lair in the entire Oriental Sea. At first, Datang did not notice this, due to the excellence of ocean-going ships and the importance of the Nanyang local interests, a lot of Datang's naval energy was attracted by the expansion of Nanyang. As for the islands on the ground in the Oriental Ocean, the method of grasping the big and letting go of the small is adopted to control it. This didn't feel anything at the beginning, but when I thought about it later, it was obviously a mistake, and Shihong came to correct this mistake right now.

"Wave Shark" Shihiro, this is a prestigious name that has been passed down among pirates for a long time. As a pirate, you don't know who the lord of the three is today, and you don't know who the commander-in-chief of the navy of these three countries is, but you will never forget the name of "Wave Shark" Shihiro. For pirates, Shihiro was even more terrifying than Hades, and his Second Fleet was more pirate than any other pirate. In the past, there was a saying that Gao Shun's thousand-man broken camp attacked everything on land, and now there is a legend that Shihiro's Second Fleet is invincible on the sea. In the ten years since the establishment of the Second Fleet, Shihong has fought nearly 1,000 naval battles and exterminated nearly 200 pirate organizations. From small pirates with only a few ships to large pirates with dozens or hundreds of warships, as long as they are caught by Shihong, there is basically no possibility of escape, and there is no possibility of survival. The only fate of the pirate caught by Shihiro is to be thrown into the sea to feed the sharks by cutting their stomachs.

This is a cruel thing to do, of course, but it is very effective against pirates. In the number of Shihong across the South Seas, the pirates on the ground of the South Seas were almost wiped out, except for a few pirate organizations that Shihong deliberately left behind to train recruits, there were no pirates who could survive in it at all. Shihong has achieved great fame and official positions in this way, and now he is only twenty-eight years old, and he is already the deputy overseer of Jinghai, and he is under the post of the second-order Zhenhai general. This time, his Nanyang Fleet and Gan Ning's Dongyang Fleet switched defense areas, and Li Sheng's special explanation was to let him exterminate the pirates on the ground in the Eastern Ocean.

“…… Most of the pirates on the ground in the South Seas are supported by Sun Quan's side, as long as they are honestly attacked. In addition to Sun Quan, Cao Cao, and Gongsun, the pirates on the Oriental land have interests or contradictions with each other, and they also involve their own military issues, but they are very complicated. The first fleet of Xingba is mainly based on sailing warships with deep drafts, and is good at large-scale operations and amphibious operations. So it's up to you. Shi Hong, who was reporting on his work, heard his majesty say this when he was summoned by Li Sheng, who had already ascended the throne as emperor. Although this is also true, Shihong still feels Chunchun's entrustment from it.

"How dare the minister not repay His Majesty with loyalty?" Shihong kowtowed and said with tears. From Canton, he first traveled as far as the shipyards in Liaodong to expand his fleet, and then quickly headed south, heading straight to this place, where he had already learned through the white coat that this was the settlement of the entire Oriental pirates.

This is already an era of formal division. The emperor is said to be a unique title in the world, but at this moment it is divided among three people. The mighty Han Empire is a thing of the past. Shortly after Cao Cao's illness and death six years ago, Cao Cao's son Cao Pi fulfilled his father's words and became the "King of Zhou Wu", ousting the Han Emperor, who was originally a puppet. The Han Emperor did not, and Li Sheng and Sun Quan, who were unwilling to submit to the Cao family, naturally chose to be emperors: in May of the year when Cao Pi became emperor, Tang King Li Sheng established the Tang Empire as emperor, with the year name Zhonghua; In February of the following year, Sun Quan of Jiangdong also claimed that the emperor ascended the throne and established the Wu Empire, with the era name Huangwu.

Four years have passed, and today's era names seem to be a little confusing, specifically the fifth year of Wei Huangchu, the fifth year of Tang Zhonghua, and the fourth year of Wu Huangwu. The whole world is in a situation where the mountains and rains are about to come, and in the face of the Northern Expedition that Li Tang's side is about to launch, both Cao Wei and Sun Wu urgently feel the existence of the crisis. Although the army on the Li and Tang sides was only 300,000, while the Wei had 500,000 and the Wu had 200,000, both Cao Pi and Sun Quan were terrified of Li Sheng's army—what kind of army was that under Li Sheng? It was a division of a hundred battles obtained by constantly fighting with the Xiongnu and Xianbei, Wuhuan and other barbarians, and the combat power they possessed was not comparable to the soldiers on Cao Pi and Sun Quan's side who had not fought for several years. I think that when Cao Cao was alive, Cao Cao still gritted his teeth and frequently attacked the grassland to do the same training as Li Sheng, but after Cao Pi came to power, this training was abolished. The bottom of the Cao family is not as thick as Li Sheng, although they have also made a fortune in sea trade, but compared with Li Sheng's, it is still a small head, of course they can't bear such consumption. And Cao Pizai seems to be a little worse than Cao Cao.

"I'm afraid that the fate of the world will be determined in a few years." There is hardly any doubt about this, everyone knows it. And which is the most capable force in the world, as the strength of Datang is revealed little by little, everyone's eyes seem to have gathered on Yizhou: the treasury is worth the treasury after repeated battles; frequently use the people's power and the people's hearts are not chaotic; building water conservancy, dredging canals, cultivating farmland, establishing schools, etc., so that the people do not go hungry, etc.; Outside, it conquered the four seas and shook the grassland, which can be said to make the world look sideways.

"I'm afraid the one who rules the world is Datang." The people are thinking like this, why don't those high-ranking officials of Wu and Wei think so? Shortly after Cao Pi and Sun Quan became emperors, the Jiangnan alliance broke down, and in order to defend against Li Sheng's invasion, Cao Pi and Sun Quan established a new alliance. Since Cao Pi and Sun Quan were both located to the east of Li Tang, this alliance was also called the Eastern Alliance by the people on Li Sheng's side.

Regarding how Li Sheng's side called the alliance on his side, Cao Pi and Sun Quan didn't care much. What they care about is what they should do in the face of Li Tang's strong interests and the increasingly perfect encirclement network. "The world's No. 1 strategic master!" This is the nickname they gave Li Sheng after they knew that Li Sheng's strategic arrangements for making a fortune were all completed by Li Sheng alone. As they spent more time with Li Sheng, they gradually got to know more about Li Sheng. They found that every attack by Li Sheng was carried out with a strong political purpose, that is to say, every war launched by Li Sheng was to achieve his strategic deployment:

When he was in Changsha, Li Sheng plotted against Jingnan, which was basically to gain a stable foothold. When Xiangyang, Jiangling, and Jiangxia became the focus of fire, Li Sheng chose Jingnan, which no one paid attention to, as his foundation, which was his first brilliant stroke in strategy;

After the alliance between Li Sheng and Liu Bei, Li Sheng helped Liu Bei gain a foothold in Jingbei and gave him support in all aspects, which made Liu Bei a shield for Li Sheng to resist Cao Cao in the north. It stands to reason that Li Sheng should cultivate after this victory and prepare to deal with Cao Cao's attack, but Li Sheng did not do so, because at this time, the great battle of Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Quan in Huainan broke out, and Li Sheng's Yizhou settled down, and through Liu Bei's support and containment of Cao Cao, Li Sheng achieved a lot of benefits in this battle. He sent troops to Nanzhong, eliminated the threat to himself from the Nanzhongnan people, and prepared for the development of Nanzhong. He went deep into the Qiang land and built a base with the Qiang people, laying the foundation for the future conquest of Liangzhou;

Later, the contradiction between Liu Bei and Sun Quan broke out, Sun Quan leaned towards Cao Cao, Liu Bei died because of this, Li Sheng took this opportunity to occupy Xiangyang, the core of Jingzhou, and perfectly used the cooperation of the navy and the army to thwart Cao Cao and Sun Quan's joint attack on their own side, and also used the newly formed and formed navy and the team that had been hiding in the Qiang land to launch an attack on Sun Quan's capital Jianye and Cao Cao's Liangzhou. Because of this, Li Sheng forced Sun Quan to make peace and seized Liangzhou, thus forming a certain advantage over Cao Cao in terms of topography, so that the world recognized Li Sheng's strength for the first time;

At such a time, Cao Cao instinctively chose to confront Li Sheng, but such a confrontation ultimately proved useless. What series of plans did Li Sheng make after seizing Jiaozhou in the past played a role at this time. Countless wealth and materials obtained through maritime trade, colonization, and overseas mining were imported from Jiaozhou into Li Sheng's territory, which made Li Sheng's economy develop rapidly, and Li Sheng's emphasis on skilled workers and his efforts to support the development of technology also made Li Sheng's commerce, agriculture and handicraft industry have made great progress. After such a few years, Li Sheng's strength surpassed Cao Cao's side and steadily pressed on Cao Cao's top. With sufficient military resources, Li Sheng was able to make frequent sorties on the grasslands, and he used the cavalry he had formed in Liangzhou and the infantry army with superior equipment to raise a wave of bloody storms on the grasslands. After continuous attacks, the tribes on the grassland had to choose to surrender to Li Sheng in the face of Li Sheng's strength, so far Li Sheng's territory extended from Liangzhou to Liaodong, as long as Li Sheng was willing, he seemed to be able to use his one-and-a-half-moon type encirclement network to besiege Cao Wei and Sun Wu at any time, and attack on several fronts at the same time;

But Li Sheng did not do this, he seemed to be a cautious person, after the Liangzhou strategy and the grassland strategy were completed, he wanted to make this half-moon-shaped encirclement network complete, he chose to arrange a blockade chain on the sea, and cut off the sea trade between Wu and Wei, which increasingly occupied the weight of their own financial revenue. This is not only to cut off maritime trade, but also to wipe out the navies of the two countries. Once this step is completed, Li Sheng's conquest of Wu and Wei will form a very favorable situation, a situation that can be said to be completely closed.

"Li Sheng's arrangement is completely careful in the layout, bold in action." After analyzing Li Sheng's fortune history, everyone came to such a conclusion. This is also not wrong, if you don't think from the perspective of whether the strategy itself can achieve victory, Li Sheng's layout is absolutely careful, he starts from the weakest place in the whole world, and after gaining a firm foothold, step by step towards the consummation of the encirclement to carry out his own arrangements. He does not go around attacking around, but only after he has a clear goal and a clear consideration, he carries out his own actions, and this is where his prudence lies; As for boldness, it is only in order to achieve his goals, and the means he uses are very bold: such as entering Qiang from Yizhou, and possessing Liangzhou; Threats to Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Jizhou, Youzhou, etc., from the sea, these are all unimaginable before, but Li Sheng did it boldly because of this, and achieved success with this. It was unnatural to say that he was lucky, because if everyone else thought about it a little, they would find that it was possible for him to do so, especially if the person he sent had that status.

"Li Sheng is good at selecting people, and he is even more good at employing people!" This is another conclusion that Wei and Wu have come to after analyzing Li Sheng. Although this is not a very distinctive conclusion, after all, whether it is Sun Quan or Cao Pi can do this, but what they can do seems to be different from what Li Sheng has done, and the most important thing is that Li Sheng's employment is sincere and unreserved, and there is no other idea. He can directly appoint capable generals he trusts to act as the chief officer of a side, without fear of whether they will rebel or not. Perhaps Li Sheng was no longer afraid of the rebellion of his generals, because no matter how much a general under his command tried to rebel, he could only take him away in the end, but it was impossible to take away even the army under his control.

“…… Is this what they call the system's means of employing people? With the civilian as the supervising army, he has the right to recommend the promotion of the military generals and perform secrets, and let the military generals be fully responsible for the war, and strengthen the control ...... the middle and lower generals, so that there is really no one to rebel. They sighed, but they had to admire another success of Li Sheng's side for such a change.

Due to the success of Li Sheng's reform in recent years, Cao Wei's side and Sun Wu's side also coincidentally carried out their own changes according to Li Sheng's example. Although this reform cannot be as "thorough" as Li Sheng's side due to the constraints of their respective domestic opposition forces, in many respects, they still learned from Li Sheng's system and behavior and achieved certain results: for example, in armaments, for example, in navigation, for example, in naval construction, for example, in letting civilian officials restrain the expansion of the ambition of military generals, for example, ......in the training of junior officers, Cao Wei and Sun Wu have made good progress in these aspects.

In terms of military affairs alone, Cao Wei had a regular army of 450,000, including 300,000 infantry troops, 100,000 horse troops, 50,000 ordnance troops, and a powerful armed force of 1 million mobilized troops. And Cao Wei's navy also had a scale of 50,000, including 50 2,000-stone warships and 120 1,800-stone warships. There were 200 battleships of 1,500 stones, and nearly 500 warships of the rank below 1,000 stones. On the Sun and Wu side, there are 200,000 troops, including 150,000 infantry troops, 20,000 horse troops, 30,000 ordnance soldiers, and the army can mobilize 300,000 troops, which has increased to a greater extent than ten years ago, of course, this is inseparable from the help of Cao Wei's side; As for the navy, because of the special nature of the Jiangdong Army, the fleet was generally divided into an inland river fleet and a naval fleet like Li Sheng, and the Jiangdong Army's inland river fleet remained at about 40,000 and had more than 4,000 large and small warships, while the Jiangdong Army's naval fleet had a scale of 70,000 people, with 20 2,500 stone warships, 80 2,000 stone warships, 100 1,900 stone warships, 300 1,400 stone warships, and 400 1,000 stone warships, and the size of its fleet personnel slightly exceeded Li Sheng. And it has a pirate fleet of about 30,000 people, which is not counted in the number of regular naval forces. The capital ships of this pirate fleet (i.e., warships of about 1,500 stones) are not many, but their role should not be underestimated. In the past ten years, the Jiangdong army has relied on such a pirate fleet to plunder at least nearly 40,000 copper coins from Li Sheng's side - it is because of this fleet that Jiangdong has been able to maintain such a strong armament. You must know that Jiangdong's own tax revenue is far inferior to Cao Wei's, after all, there are too many families in Jiangdong to restrict Jiangdong's tax reform.

“…… In order to completely defeat Sun Wu and Cao Wei, it is necessary to cut off the limbs of the beasts first, and first cut off the sea trade that they regard as the pulse...... In the past, we guided Cao Wei and Sun Wu to the ocean, but we don't want to block them on land again today, which is really ironic......" Li Sheng understands this, Shi Hong also understands, as the deputy superintendent of Jinghai in the Tang Dynasty, the second person in the entire navy, Shi Hong vaguely got the next step of the Tang Dynasty from Li Sheng and Gan Ningting - it is mainly divided into two steps, mainly for Cao Wei on land, mainly for the battle for Guanzhong, and on the ocean, it is the part that he is responsible for. He took the opportunity of destroying Sun Quan's pirate fleet to induce Sun Quan's side to engage in a decisive battle at sea with himself, so as to achieve the goal of eliminating the sea power of Sun Wu and Cao Wei.

"Split into a combined attack, this is another strategy of separate attack and combined attack, it seems that the emperor likes to come to this set very much." Shi Hong thought about it, and felt slightly inappropriate in his heart: "The emperor does this, and the people from the staff province don't stop him?" Aren't they worried that the enemy will make various breakthroughs against us? "Shihong, who was born in the Jiaozhou Shi family, is the beneficiary of Li Sheng's policy of suppressing the family's promotion of the Han family, so he is very loyal to Li Sheng. When such a question appeared in his mind, he even felt a little restless. Of course, as a foreign minister, it is not easy for him to directly question the decision made by Li Sheng's side, but he also has someone to solve his doubts, that is, Kong Shen's younger brother Kong Heng, a highly talented student who came out of the staff department of the Martial Arts Academy, is known as the "No. 1 literati sergeant on paper".

"Do you think this is a strategy of splitting and attacking?" Kong Heng asked with a smile in response to Shihong's question.

"Huh? Isn't it? Or, is it that we already have the ability to go to war against Wu and Wei at the same time? In the face of Kong Heng's rhetorical question, Shihong seemed to realize something, but he was unwilling to put forward his own reasons.

"Of course not!" Kong Heng shook his head heavily, "If I had to use one word to describe this strategy, I think it would be best to use a two-fist attack to explain it." Kong Heng narrowed his eyes as he spoke.

"Punch out? That's true, but I don't know if our fists can be tougher than each other. Shihong was still worried.

"I don't know much about the Army. As far as the navy is concerned, do you think your Second Fleet's sixty county-level warships will be able to wipe out all the pirates here? Kong Heng ignored Shi Hong's worries and asked again.

"Do you want all sixty warships? To deal with these damn pirates, all I need is the average of our Second Fleet. Shihong said confidently. This is also a fact, don't look at the size of Li Sheng's navy is only 60,000 men, which is much less than the Jiangdong army, and 10,000 of them are marines, but in fact, the combat power of Li Sheng's navy is absolutely above that of Sun Wu and Cao Wei, and even the two navies combined are not as powerful as Li Sheng's navy -- because Li Sheng's side is equipped with a unique artillery in the whole world as his own standard weapon. For this kind of weapon that can silence a battleship with a single salvo, Sun Wu and Cao Wei both knew it, but there was no way. Although they had already trial-produced gunpowder, the wrong proportion of gunpowder and the specifications of the charge were not formed, all of which restricted their further installation of gunpowder weapons. To this day, they can only use gunpowder arrows to fight with bed crossbows, and they can't go any further. It was precisely because Li Sheng's side had such an advantage in weapons that Shi Hong said such confident words in front of Kong Heng.

"Then it's no problem for our navy to take Sun Wu and Cao Wei's navy?" Kong Heng asked again with a smile.

"Of course." Shihong nodded, and looked at Kong Heng with a somewhat idiotic look: "Didn't you already know about this?" ”

"I know! But I'm afraid you'll forget. Kong Heng smiled.

"I forgot? How is this possible? Shihong rolled his eyes, but he didn't believe Kong Heng's statement at all.

"If you hadn't forgotten, how could you be so unconfident in your side?" Kong Heng was still smiling.

"Huh? What does this say? Shi Hong was more and more puzzled by this.

"You think, since our fleet can deal with Wu and Wei's navy, then if we take this opportunity to officially launch an operation against Wu Wei's navy, Wu Wei's attention will definitely be focused here. You must know that this peace has been maintained for ten years, although the northern front in the Bingzhou, Jizhou, and Youzhou areas has always heard the news of our army's bravail, but the Guanzhong area has always been quite peaceful. If we take advantage of the news of the naval attack and the changes in Youzhou, I think it should not be a problem for Cao Wei to think that our goal is Youzhou. And when such an attraction plan is completed, it should naturally be easy for our army to attack the key problems by surprise. Once Guanzhong succeeds, then the general trend of the world will almost be decided. Kong Heng said with a smile.

"Wow! What a clear judgment! Speaking of which, who told you this? Shi Hong was surprised, he naturally knew that this was Kong Heng's own idea, but he still deliberately asked Kong Heng like this.

"What did someone tell me? This is my great Kong Heng military division's own judgment or not! Kong Heng shouted loudly. As a highly talented student, he has always thought that he is excellent, and he can't stand the doubts of others about his ability.

"You're a bit of a stinky fart." Shi Hong supported his chin with his hand, and rolled his eyes to Kong Heng again. Although he admired Kong Heng's judgment in his heart, he was still the same as he was used to raising the bar with Kong Heng on the surface

"Humph!" Regarding Shi Hong's words, Kong Heng just spoke softly but didn't say much. Shihong knew that Kong Heng didn't take this to heart.

"Alright, alright! Now it's time for us to look at what we are doing to the problem we are facing today. After a slight pause, Shi Hong turned the topic to the situation he was facing: "The enemy is hiding in this island and cannot come out, and we don't have enough reason to forcibly search the small island under the condominium of Wu Wei. Not! What do you say to do in this situation? ”

"Huh? The problem? How do you ask me? Don't you have anything you can do? Kong Heng was puzzled by this: "It's not like you haven't encountered this kind of situation before." ”

"Hey, I've got a headache because I've done this before. You know the last time we used a fake retreat to lure each other in. Now the other party has already suffered a loss, if we use the old method again, we are only afraid of ......! Shihong was embarrassed by this.

"I'm afraid that the other party will see through it, right?" Kong Heng chuckled and narrowed his eyes, he didn't seem to care.

"That's right!" Shi Hong nodded heavily.

"Since the other party will see through it once, then why don't we see it many times?" The smile on Kong Heng's face deepened.

"Multiple times?" Shi Hong muttered, but there was a hint of realization on his face, "I understand." ”