After returning from the east and west islands, Lin Jian did not rush to discuss the Northern Expedition after the banquet, but asked Yue Lengqiu and Yue Zhi to go back to the post house to rest first, so as to eliminate the fatigue of the boat and horses.

More than 100 horsemen who guarded Yue Lengqiu and Yue Zhi came to Haizhou were arranged to stay in the military camp in the south of the city, and only Yue Zhou and other three or five people were able to enter the city to take care of Yue Lengqiu and Yue Zhi's living in Haizhou City.

Yue Lengqiu and Yue Zhi picked up Wu Qi and Zhang Gou outside the city, and they disappeared until late at night, and Yue Zhou's heart was in his throat. I was afraid that Chongguo Gong would turn his face and deny people, so he ordered Yue Lengqiu and Yue Zhi's uncle and nephew to be detained.

Looking at Yue Lengqiu and Yue Zhi, the wine was not drunk and sent to the post house by Gao Zongting, and Yue Zhou's tense nerves relaxed. Sending Gao Zongting away, Yue Zhou couldn't help but ask: "Governor, nephew, where have you been for most of the day, but you have scared Yue Zhou and me enough?" ”

Yue Lengqiu and his nephew Yue Zhi glanced at each other, the shock they had suffered for most of the past half a year had not weakened much at this time, and there were thousands of words blocked in their chests for a while, and they didn't know how to say it - although Yue Zhou was the son of a domestic servant, Yue Lengqiu's own sons were not in the limelight, so he regarded Yue Zhi, Yue Zhou and others as heirs, and should not be regarded by outsiders.

"Let's go inside!" Yue Lengqiu sighed lightly.

Seeing Yue Zhou take a fire twist to light the glass lamp, and the faint yellow light shined through the transparent glazed wall, Yue Lengqiu opened his mouth and asked: "Yue Zhou, I should be able to recommend someone to enroll in the Jiangning Elementary Army Command Academy, are you willing to study?" ”

Yue turned around and looked at each other in amazement, not knowing why the Governor suddenly brought up this matter, and he didn't know how to answer for a while, but looked at Yue Zhi suspiciously.

"Fortunately, I came to Haizhou." Yue Zhi didn't know whether he was fortunate or frustrated, in Yue Zhou's opinion, he said this very thoughtlessly.

After the Battle of Jingxiang, they no longer wanted to confront the Huaidong Army, but Lin Lian summoned Yue Lengqiu in Haizhou to discuss the Northern Expedition, and the Voryang people were also worried that Lin Lian would turn his face and detain people, Deng Yu, Tao Chun, and Yue Zhi all offered to come to Haizhou on behalf of Yue Lengqiu to meet Lin Lian - Yue Lengqiu also weighed it again and again, and finally decided to go to Haizhou with Yue Zhi to meet Lin Lian.

Obviously, if Yue Lengqiu and Yue Zhi did not come to Haizhou in person, they would not be able to fundamentally gain Lin Lian's trust; Before Na Lin was bound to the Northern Expedition, he would definitely first use other means to force the soldiers and horses of the two towns of Wuyang and Zhengyang to submit, and only in this way could he ensure that there would be no major chaos on the Western Front and would not drag the Northern Expedition back.

Yue Zhou is also a smart person, listening to the words of the Governor and the Young Master Nephew, although he was shocked in his heart, he also understood what the decision made by the Governor was ......

Selecting generals from the two towns of Voryang and Zhengyang to study in the army command academy run by the Huaidong Army is, to put it bluntly, officially open to accept the Huaidong Army's infiltration of the two towns of Voryang and Zhengyang; Further, it is nothing more than accepting the direct dispatch or appointment of generals at all levels from the military staff to the two towns of Voryang and Zhengyang, and then the two towns of Voryang and Zhengyang will completely lose their independent status and integrate into the Huaidong Army system.

Looking at the Governor and the Young Master Nephew, there was a little frustration on his face, but there was no anger at coercion--Yue Zhoushi didn't know what the Governor and the Young Master Nephew had experienced for most of the day to make such a decision?

Yue Lengqiu stretched out his hand and took out a lead pill from his sleeve, put it on the table, and said to Yue Zhou: "Our previous speculations in Vortex Yang have all come to naught, and the ceremony of Chongguo Gong to go on the Northern Expedition first and then perform the Zen concession is almost a foregone conclusion. Except that the emperor died of illness before the Northern Expedition, otherwise there is no second possibility. The Cao family thought that they were in danger of the Xiajiang River, and Dong Yuan thought that there was still a chance to fight, but this time they all hit the iron plate. As long as the two towns of Voryang and Zhengyang have no other thoughts, the outcome will not be too bad in the future, and Chongguo Gong still has to have two or three examples to calm the hearts of the people in the world......"

Yue Wednesday held the lead shot to the lamp like a snail and looked at it carefully, covering the light, the lead shot had a dull metallic luster, round like a drop of water falling in the air, one weighed about a tael, comparable to a cluster of arrows with a crossbow, but there was no edge and no edge.

"This is the marble of the fire crossbow?" Yue Zhou also heard the faint thunder all the way with him, and he only knew the name of the Fuhuo crossbow, but did not see its shape, and when he saw that the governor brought a lead, he naturally wanted to go up to the Fuhuo crossbow.

"This is just a scattered son of the fire crossbow," Yue Zhi smiled helplessly, and asked Yue Zhou, "Twenty zhang battle line, you are allowed to fill in the bow and crossbow, and the enemy cavalry will charge in formation, how do you stop it......"

Hearing that the nephew and young master studied his own art of war, Yue Zhou replied: "Use the shield spear to squat and guard the front line, so that the enemy cavalry can not get close, the battle line of twenty zhang, after the shield array, you can fill a hundred to one hundred and fifty crossbows, unless the enemy cavalry charges with heavy armor, otherwise it is difficult to engage the ......battle."

"This kind of scatter, a fire crossbow can shoot 200 grains at a time, the armor-piercing shooting power of the scatter is not lower than the arm crossbow, twenty zhang battle line, place ten fire crossbows, a shot kill, comparable to a salvo of 1,000 to 1,500 arms Zhang Qiang crossbow," Yue Zhi said, "Did you say that the Cao family and Dong Yuan hit the iron plate?" ”

Yue Zhi said it well, but Yue Zhou had not witnessed the majesty of the Fu Yan crossbow with his own eyes, and it was difficult to imagine the situation when the Fu Huo crossbow fired a scatter bomb for a while. If it weren't for the fact that Yue Zhi had always been serious and didn't like superficial words, Yue Zhou could only think that Yue Zhi's statement that "1,000 to 1,500 strong crossbows were gathered on the 20 zhang battle line" to describe the power of the fire crossbow was an exaggeration.

"This is a military secret, don't leak it," Yue Lengqiu gave Yue Zhou an additional command, and asked Yue Zhi again, "If the Chongguo Guild decides to go on the Northern Expedition next year, how do you think the Chongguo Guild will fight?" ”

"Although the fire crossbow is a divine weapon, it has the disadvantage of being inconvenient to move, and it cannot give full play to its advantages in a decisive victory with the Yanhu cavalry in the Hehuai Plain," Yue Zhi frowned and pondered, "From what my nephew can see, Chongguo Gong has made a big splash in Haizhou in the past two years, and has sent troops to land in Goryeo Yashan, which has attracted Yanhu soldiers and horses to gather in Shandong, Hehuai and Hanyang County of Goryeo, which has actually made Yanhu's garrison in the hinterland of Yanji and Liangliao continue to weaken......"

"Forcefully tear open the sea defense line, bypass the Shandong defense line, jump to hit Jinhai, smash Yanjing, and kill you with one blow!" Yue Lengqiu almost sighed, and gently said the Northern Expedition strategy of the Huaidong Army that he had speculated.

Yue Zhi is also this speculation - immersed in military affairs for many years, Yue Lengqiu and Yue Zhi's views on the art of war are considered super-first-class in the world, and after seeing the power of the ambush crossbow into the formation and installation, there will be no major deviation in re-deducing the Northern Expedition strategy.

Prior to the advent of the Fire Bolt, only heavy stone-throwing crossbows could effectively damage fortified fortifications.

The two strongest fortifications of the Yanhu Suo coastal defense line were built around the island, and there was no place to place heavy stone-throwing crossbows outside the fortifications; Traditional siege tactics will be ineffective or greatly reduced in effectiveness before the sea defense line is locked.

The deck of the old Lin Zhengjun-class warship was divided by five sets of huge and criss-crossing masts, and there was actually no entire deck that could be used to place heavy stone-throwing crossbows—making most people believe that the Huaidong Army could only fill in with human lives if they wanted to take the two sea fortifications of Miaoshan and Huangcheng Island in the Yanhusuo coastal defense line.

At this time, when Yanhu was on the rise in armament, he had recovered from the defeat in the Battle of Jingxiang, and the morale of the generals was available, and the elite combat forces deployed in the Suohai defense line were all capable of fighting bloody battles; Yue Lengqiu and Yue Zhi didn't dare to imagine that the Huaidong Army would tear through Yanhu's sea-locking defense line and how many lives would be enough to fill it.

It is impossible to tear apart the sea defense line, and Lin Jian wants to go on a northern expedition, so he can only honestly attack Shandong first, and then deploy troops from Shandong to Yanji and Hehuai.

After seeing the power of the Fuhuo crossbow, Yue Lengqiu and Yue Zhi knew how sinister Lin Jian had been in allowing Yan Hu to build a coastal defense line at the Bohai Sea between Dengzhou and Jinzhou over the years.

A twenty-four-pound cannon can strike at the city wall at a distance of one kilometer, no less than a heavy stone-throwing crossbow. Even if there is no need for a new type of warship with dense crossbow positions, the Jinghai Division remodeled the old warship and installed a 24-pound or even heavier fire crossbow on the foredeck of each Jinhai-class battleship. Gathering more than a dozen warships on the sea surface of 1,000 to 2,000 meters, continuing to bombard the enemy's island fortress, no matter how strong the fortress on the coastal defense line is, it is only passively beaten, without the power to counterattack, and can it support for several days without falling?

Even downgraded by one level, with a twelve-pound fire crossbow, at most the bombardment time is extended by two or three times. Compared with the ultra-long range of traditional and combat weapons, the fire crossbow directly and completely changes the mode of water warfare.

Dengzhou Daoyu Village is a typical naval fortification, when the warship encounters a strong enemy, it can avoid the inner lake of the Daoyu Village, and use the strong city wall to block the strong enemy outside the water village. Once a strong enemy retreats or hesitates to storm the water wall, the warship can attack the tail of the attack or play assault tactics.

It's just that the depth of the inner lake of the Daoyu Village is not three or four miles, as long as the new Huaidong warship is approaching the Daoyu Village, there is no need to break the village, and the heavy ambush fire crossbows mounted on the battleship can directly attack the enemy ships that avoid the inner lake in the village.

Yue Lengqiu and Yue Zhi really couldn't imagine: when the ministers of Yanhu saw that the sea-locking defense line they had built with the strength of the whole country was so fragile and vulnerable in front of the crossbows of the new warship formation in Huaidong, what kind of frustration and despair should they be?

Huaidongli has the ability to tear through Yanhu's sea defense line, and the Jinghai Sea Division has the ability to send 40,000 to 60,000 Mabu troops at a long distance even if it is not expanded, and the powerful naval division warships can also ensure that the logistics supply will not be cut off.

After tearing apart the Yanhu Suohai defense line, Yue Lengqiu and Yue Zhi really couldn't imagine that Lin Jian would not directly attack Jinhai, not directly attack Yanjing, and would not directly hit Yanhu's vital point, but would honestly attack Yanhu's Shandong defense line.

Compared with the cavalry corps, the biggest drawback of the ambush fire crossbow is that it lacks mobility and does not have an advantage in mobile warfare.

When the Huaidong Heavy Army Corps successfully landed in Jinhai, there was no need to fight any movement war with the main force of the Yanhu Cavalry, as long as the front of the troops pointed directly at Yanjing City, which was 200 miles west of Jinhai, it could force the main force of the Yanhu Cavalry to fill in between Yanhu and Jinhai and fight a positional battle with the Huaidong Heavy Corps.

Thinking of this, Yue Lengqiu asked Yue Zhou to open the box he brought with him, take out the map, and spread it out to only look at the southeast area of Ji from Yanjing to Jinhai. Between Jinhai and Yanjing, the two rivers of the Vortex River and the Chaobai River are so dazzling that they are almost about to strangle Yanjing to death......

Yue Lengqiu and Yue Zhi glanced at each other, and said secretly: Unless they immediately send someone to send the details of the Huaidong Fuhuo crossbow and the new warship to the Yanhu people, the Yanhu people can decisively abandon Yanjing, move the capital to the northwest inland, and move to Taiyuan or Datong, maybe they can avoid the catastrophe next year......