The naval combat capability of the newly organized task force was fully demonstrated in the Battle of Hejin.

The Jinghai Sea Division has two brigade-level task forces, and two traditional naval forces of the town division, with a total strength of nearly 40,000 troops, and it is more than enough to suppress the Dengzhou Navy Division and tear apart the coastal defense line by force.

However, relying only on the Jinghai Division, the ability to project troops at sea for a long distance is limited, and there is no way to throw the elite 80,000 infantry brigades gathered in Haizhou to Jinhai at one time after tearing through the lock sea defense line.

The period of mobilizing and summoning merchant ships is relatively long, and it will alarm Yanhu in advance, so the main force of the Southeast Naval Division is secretly transferred to the north, and in fact, the main thing is to enhance the long-distance delivery ability of soldiers, so that the time for mobilizing merchant ships can be delayed.

Yue Zhi followed Zhao Qingshan into the heavily guarded inner courtyard, and saw Lin Jian dressed in civilian clothes, standing there waiting for them to come in, and hurriedly saluted Zhao Qingshan.

When Yue Zhi was appointed as the deputy commander of the Southeast Naval Division, he was trained for a short time in the Jiangning Naval Division Command School, and met with Cao Ziang, Song Fu, Gao Zongting and others, but when he saw that there was also an intermediate general in the hall, he had to introduce Luo Wenhu, a general of the Suizhou Army who was subordinated in the Battle of Jingxiang, and secretly felt that Huaidong had been inclusive and eclectic over the years, and had recruited a lot of talents, which laid the foundation for today's creation of a new dynasty.

Wu Qi, Ge Cunxin, and Zhou Pu quickly rushed over, and Liu Miaozhen, the wife of the state of Qian, who served as the commander of Feng Li's army, came over wearing armor.

Zhou Pu was about to come in, and when he saw Zhao Qingshan, he grinned and said: "You guys are rushing over, I want the crow to arrange the first jockey in the first dispatch sequence, and he will use the lack of sailors to push me; Come here and see what else he has to say! ”

Yue Zhi thought about the arrangement of the attack force, but Wu Qi couldn't be the master, probably because Zhou Pu didn't dare to mess with Lin Jian and Gao Zongting, and at this time, he would take the lead to win Zhao Qingshan's support.

Sure enough, Lin Jian interrupted Zhou Pu's words and said: "After tearing through the defense line of the sea lock, the first battle of the Jinhai attack, there is no need for horsemen, what are you going to do first?" "Let Myo-jung sit beside her.

Zhao Qingshan and Yue Zhi had just arrived in Haizhou with their troops, and they were not clear about the recent development of the situation, so they exchanged greetings with Cao Ziang, Song Fu, Gao Zongting, Zhou Pu, Ge Cunxin, Wu Qi and others, and after sitting down, they went straight to the topic and asked: "How is the Hejin war ......?"

"Dashan," Lin Jian knew the results of the Battle of Hejin, and he was also very excited, sometimes it is one thing to be able to predict the outcome of the battle in advance, and it is still difficult to be excited if the results are really achieved, or even better than expected, pointing at Luo Wenhu and said, "Luo Wenhu has just come from Shaocheng, and he will tell you about the detailed battle situation......

Zhao Qingshan is a general of the naval division, naturally concerned about the role of new warships in the naval battle, Luo Wenhu described in detail the naval battle of Hejin and the artillery battle of Hejin Island and Bailing Mountain, he and Yue Zhi asked many details in detail before letting go of Luo Wenhu - the results of the naval battle of Hejin also made Zhao Qingshan excited; Yue Zhi was excited, but also had a little luck in his heart: the Dengzhou war will kick off in the next two days, and when the results of the Dengzhou war come out, the fire crossbow and the new warship will surely shock the world, but I don't know what the people of Xuchang will feel at that time?

After listening to Luo Wenhu's detailed description of the Hejin war, Zhao Qingshan sighed with emotion: "The Southeast Naval Division must also quickly equip new warships. The extension of the Nanyang sea route to the Straits of Johor was relatively smooth, but further west, it had aroused the alarm of the Xuduo dynasty. In the western waters of Johor, the power of the Haikou has swelled sharply, or it may be related to the behind-the-scenes support of the Qiangduo dynasty, and sooner or later a war will have to be fought. However, the traditional naval division has limited single-ship combat capabilities, and after the completion of the Pudan naval division base, it is impossible to allocate too many troops to be stationed in the past, so we can only look forward to new warships......"

"Speaking of which, I have an idea," Gao Zongting said, "The main warships will be directly controlled by the naval divisions, and they will be stationed in various places overseas in turn, but the escort fleet will be formed by the overseas governors themselves......

Most of the frigates are 200-ton warships, and their ability to resist wind and waves in the open sea is not strong, and repeated cruising in the open sea will greatly increase the frequency of shipwrecked accidents. The second is the suitability of overseas water conditions, the main warship is not suitable for rashly entering unfamiliar waters for close combat, which requires each overseas governor to master a convoy that is proficient in local water conditions.

Another issue is the issue of military expenditure: a ceiling will be set for each overseas governor's office, but instead of forming a convoy according to the upper limit, it will be decided according to the governor's own financial resources, rather than completely out of the pockets of the central government, which can even make a lot of money from the procurement of ordnance by the overseas metropolitan government.

Continued external ordnance purchases will also ensure the continuation of the new empire's ordnance technology development.

"This matter has not been resolved yet, don't think about the next things," Lin Jian interrupted Zhao Qingshan and Gao Zongting's words, pulled the topic back, and said, "There are twenty warships above the sea level of the Southeast Naval Division and Jin that have arrived in Haizhou; I think the time of Dengzhou will be set for the day after tomorrow......"

"Did Yan Lu notice it in Dengzhou?" Zhao Qingshan asked.

"It is impossible to say that he was completely unaware," said Lin Lian, "Yang Shi led the 1st Task Force to sea on March 28, and did not deliberately conceal anything, and the enemy in Dengzhou should know the relevant news after the fourth day." The task force did not have the first one to go to Dengzhou, and after hesitating for two or three days, Yan Lu should send a ship to Shaocheng to try to contact Ye Ji Baishi. Beginning on the 8th, in the waters southeast of the mountain, traces of enemy sentry ships were found many times. Whether they are aware or not depends on the blockade on the other side of Hangang Bay, but no one can guarantee that not a single ship will leak out......"

"But even if the enemy in Dengzhou is aware of it after eight days, they won't have time to adjust their deployment." Gao Zongting said, "First Cunxin led the Second Task Force and the Second Town Division to attack Miaoshan Island, and then Yang Shi led the First Task Force to set off directly from Shaocheng to strengthen the attack on the Suhai Defense Line, and the Jinghai Third Town Division and the Southeast Naval Division served as ......reserves."

Zhao Qingshan and Yue Zhi said with a smile: "Let me say, we won't be able to get a battle if we catch it early, so let's be honest and do the transportation brigade......"

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Dengzhou on the 15th was also shrouded in the clouds of war.

Although the war has not yet spread to Dengzhou, although there are still discussions in the army that the center of gravity of the Huaidong Army's Northern Expedition will be from Xuzhou, there are more and more obvious signs that the Suohai defense line is the focus of the Huaibei Expedition.

Fan Wenlan arrived in Dengzhou on 27 March and used the forces of the Xisi Prison to secretly check whether the Dengzhou generals were suspected of collaborating with the enemy, but he was not allowed to calmly carry out the work, and on 5 April, there was news from the inside that a large number of warships of the Jinghai Division had sailed on 28 March.

The monsoon in March and April was mixed, with a sudden north wind and a sudden southeast wind, and the sea currents were not conducive to the Jinghai division rushing directly from Haizhou to Dengzhou, but if the goal of the Jinghai division was Dengzhou, it should be later than 5 April, and the shadow of the Jinghai division could not be seen in Dengzhou.

That means that a large number of warships of the Jinghai Division went to sea and were likely to join the eastward camp of the sea and rush to the west coast of the Goryeo Peninsula.

From 6 April, Nakh Xiongqi instructed the Dengzhou Navy Division to send a number of sentinel ships to search the western waters of the Goryeo Peninsula, and it was not until 10 April that the sentinel ships returned to Dengzhou, and Nakh Xiongqi and others learned in Dengzhou that the warships of the Haidong Camp had been blockaded in the outer waters of Hangang Bay......

By this time, the Beiyan generals who had gathered in Dengzhou City, such as Nahe Xiongqi, Fan Wenlan, Su Tingzhan, and Tong Huacheng, really realized the seriousness of the problem.

A large number of warships of the Jinghai Division set out for sea on 28 March, and will appear in the waters of Hejin on 2 April or even earlier at the earliest. Even if it can't confront the main fleet of Huaidong in the outer seas, it should send warships to break through the blockade line of Huaidong warships as quickly as possible to Dengzhou to report the news......

As of the 10th, Dengzhou had not received a word of news from Shaocheng and Hanyang, and even the routine contact once every half a month was interrupted, which probably showed that the Goryeo naval division had suffered a great blow, and the situation was even so bad that it was unable to send ships to break through and report the news.

Nahe Xiongqi, Fan Wenlan, Su Tingzhan, Tong Huacheng and others are still clear and confident in the defense conditions of the Shaocheng Hejin Strait. In the past few years, Cui Quanchen has taken advantage of the complicated sea conditions on the west coast of Goryeo to inflict heavy losses on the nearly invincible Huaidong Naval Division in the East China Sea, which proves that the Goryeo Naval Division under the leadership of Cui Quanchen is a military force with combat effectiveness and combat skills, and should not inflict heavy losses on the Huaidong Naval Division in a single naval battle.

The sudden change made Nahe Xiongqi, Fan Wenlan, Su Tingzhan, Tong Huacheng and others like headless flies, losing their judgment and opinions, and could only land from Haicheng in the northern part of the Goryeo Peninsula by sending ships from Liaodong Jianpai, and go to Hanyang by land to contact to confirm what happened to Hanyang and Shaocheng!

Standing on the head of Dengzhou City, Fan Wenlan looked at the vast night sky in the east, and the sea was hidden under the night sky. Although Dengzhou City is still more than ten miles away from the sea, the wind blowing is the smell of the sea - listening to the sound of footsteps behind him, Fan Wenlan looked back and saw that it was Na He Xiongqi and Tong Huacheng who came to the city, and asked, "General Na He and Lord Tong can't sleep either?" ”

"I can't sleep," said Na Hexiongqi, shaking his head, and standing in front of the battlement wall, looking at the silent and murderous night outside the city, "it is already the beginning of summer, and in another month, storms in the East China Sea will be frequent; Does Master Fan think Dengzhou can spend this month peacefully? ”

So far, there is no news from Hanyang and Shaocheng, and it is difficult for Fan Wenlan to answer Nahe Xiongqi's question.

Tong Huacheng said: "The Huaidong Naval Division unexpectedly fought Gaoyang first, even if the war went smoothly, it should not be possible to adjust and fight another battle in a month, the key at hand is to find out what happened in Hanjiang Bay......

According to common sense, Tong Huacheng's judgment is not wrong, but the situation in Hanjiang Bay is too weird, and everything becomes difficult to say; In Fan Wenlan's view, if only one large-scale attack could be organized before the storm occurred, the Huaidong army should have attacked the Suohai defense line rather than the west coast of Goryeo.

At this time, I saw several horses galloping towards the city, and the riders on horseback galloped to the front without slowing down, but shouted loudly: "Hanyang 100,000 urgent military situation, report to General Dengzhou quickly......"

Nahe Xiongqi, Fan Wenlan, and Tong Huacheng all looked up, and finally there was news from Hanyang: No matter whether the news is good or bad, it is better to have news than no news.