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The terrible north wind whistled and swirled across the sails, and the thick cotton jacket was worn on the body like frozen iron armor, Luo Zifang had to tighten his head to avoid the cold wind from burrowing into his back from his neck, this kind of weather was not unheard of on the battlefield, but it was the first time to board a ship and sail on the sea. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The northwesterly wind seemed to Luo Zifang to be an insurmountable obstacle, which was almost the opposite of his goal, but it was not a big problem for the connoisseurs who had been sailing on the sea for many years, turning to the right direction and zigzag, and sometimes even faster than when the wind was too small downwind. It's just that the power of this northwest is too strong, and the thick cotton clothes are simply equal to nothing for it, and the whole body is like a frozen corpse after staying on the ship all day.

Quietly leaving the port from Laizhou, the entire First Division of the Eighth Army Corps only selected two wings of less than 10,000 men, and a considerable part of the more than 60 large ships were recruited from Dengzhou, which also proves that the corps commander had been preparing such a plan for a long time. Luo Zifang didn't know why the legion commander would choose to attack the Duotun side at this time, but the legion commander's order was undoubtedly more effective for him than the holy decree, from the beginning of the Taiping Army Luo Zifang followed the legion commander, countless ups and downs, both Lu Long's embarrassment of running wildly, and the transformation of Jiujiang's foothold, as well as the annexation of Huzhou's publicity, and finally the corps commander chose to serve in the western frontier, which made Luo Zifang a little disappointed, but then the reputation of the Eighth Legion rose so that Luo Zifang finally found his confidence in the past.

"Division commander, I have found the ship that has come to make contact. The adjutant's exuberant shouts rang out with the sound of leather boots.

"Oh, hurry up and ask them to come up. Luo Zifang was a little surprised, he didn't expect the other party to find him so quickly, it seems that the other party must have sent a lot of liaison ships in this area.

Luo Zifang soon understood the situation on the shore, the situation in the Okhotsk area changed slightly, although the Dodons were more inclined to the western side of the country to launch a large-scale offensive in the Kuts area, but Crawford's prediction still made the military a little vigilant, on the one hand, closely monitor the activities of the Western Xinjiang Army in Huangdao Port, on the other hand, they also sent additional patrol troops in the coastal zone of the Okhotsk region, originally wanted to transfer naval forces, but the navy is far away in the northeast of the Nomenkan naval base, and it has entered winter, and the Japanese navy has control of this sea area, if the Japanese misunderstand that the Doton navy has other intentions, it will bring disaster to the Doton navy, so in the end, the navy was not agreed to move south, but a number of additional patrols were sent to the coastal area north of the Hylan fortress just in case.

The number of patrol troops of the Dodons is not large, most of them are mainly thousand-people, and the slightly rugged terrain and backward economy of the coastal areas of Okhotsk make the transportation conditions in this area extremely bad, which in turn makes the Dotons more reluctant to spend too much energy in this regard, which is in stark contrast to the Kuts region in the east of Okhotsk and the Yenemia region in the north, the Kuts region is the most important grain and cotton producing area, and the Yenemia region is the main industrial area of the Doton Kingdom, coal mines, iron ore, iron smelting, Processing is particularly developed in this area. On the other hand, in Okhotsk, except for the city of Okhotsk, which is mainly based on fishing and has some agricultural and fishery products processing industry because of its coastal waterfront, the whole Okhotsk is more like a small market town, and even the population is only two or three thousand, which is not even as large as the population of the Hailan fortress with a team of 10,000 people.

There are two landing sites selected by the Western Frontier Army, one is the Black Rock Reef forty places north of the Port of Okhotsk, and the other is the Snake Core Cape twenty miles south of the Port of Okhotsk and ten miles north of the Hailan Fortress, if it is safe to land from the Black Rock Reef, you can quickly enter the mountains and facilitate hiding, but now the Duotun people have strengthened their patrols, this choice is obviously not suitable, and the landing from the Snake Core Cape is more sudden, if you grasp it well, you can even immediately launch an attack on the Hailan Fortress, and it is not a dream to take the Hailan Fortress in one fell swoop, but this seems to be a bit risky, the Snake Core Cape is only ten miles away from the Hailan Fortress, and the terrain is treacherousIf you choose to land at night, the risk is greater for the fleet, and it is very easy to hit the reef and capsize the ship at night, resulting in the destruction of the ship and the death of people.

The intelligence officials who contacted him did not express any opinions, but truthfully stated the objective difficulties and risks to Luo Zifang, the commander-in-chief of the landing group, and emphasized that there may be a variety of uncertainties in the Snake Core Cape, if the wind increases, the landing on the Snake Core Point may even run aground, if the landing is at night, the landing may become a disaster, and if it is discovered by the defenders of the fortress, the consequences are even more unimaginable.

The intelligence officer's slightly chattering words made Luo Zifang make up his mind, the more complex and difficult the objective situation, the greater the paralysis of the defenders, but those places that are easy to land and fight, maybe they have long been regarded as a key monitoring area by the Duotun patrol army, and the possibility of a surprise attack has been lost, so his army can only become a guerrilla force in the mountains, without the main force behind, sooner or later it will only be exterminated.

Naturally, the personnel of the intelligence department could not interfere with the commander's decision, but they were still intimidated by the courage of the other party, and they were able to make such a decision without knowing the place well, and when the two of them had already stated the difficulties and risks clearly enough, such a decision required the determination and perseverance of the commander.

The snake core cape is located under the nose of the Hailan Fortress, and it is almost less than an hour to run to the ten miles of land, and to the army on the current fleet to dock to complete the landing and assembly, it is impossible to do it in three or five hours, once it is discovered by the Doton army, the outcome can be imagined.

Even if you can successfully dodge the Dodon people's monitoring and landing, how to capture the Hyland Fortress is still a difficult problem, the Hyland Fortress has a 10,000-strong force stationed, although it is much easier to attack from behind than from the front, but as a fortress, no matter from which direction, even if it is its own rear still has basic protection, it is also quite difficult to seize the fortress from the rear, especially in the case of the strength is not superior, once the situation cannot be completely controlled in a short period of time, the enemy only needs to wake up and swallow this assault force, especially in the case of 30,000 soldiers stationed on the Okhotsk front。

However, now that the commander had made his decision, the intelligence officers who had been sent to cooperate immediately devoted themselves to preparing the assault group for the best way to fight. The development of the Military Intelligence Bureau in Doton can be regarded as smooth, especially in the Okhotsk region, where there is a considerable number of Tang people, which leaves a fairly broad space for the military intelligence department to gain a foothold, and Okhotsk is not a key area for the defense of the Dodons, so the collection of intelligence in this area is relatively easy. The Hyland Fortress is quite closely connected with the local people who depend on the fortress for their livelihood, especially the inconvenient road transportation, so that the Hyland Fortress army has to rely heavily on local merchants to complete the replenishment and supply of civilian supplies. And the detailed information provided by the Military Intelligence Bureau for Luo Zifang here made Luo Zifang realize once again that his army is not fighting alone even if it is operating outside the territory, and there is a powerful intelligence system to assist him at any time, and such a battle is undoubtedly much easier for Luo Zifang.

Snake Core Cape is a prominent headland area, the water on both sides of the headland is turbulent, and the undercurrent and reef are complex, the landing conditions are not good, the only place that can be used is that there is an area at the foot of the headland where the water flow is relatively gentle, but to enter this water area needs to pass through a reef group, although the intelligence department has learned about the specific situation of this reef group through the local Tang fishermen and drawn a chart, but as a fleet to pass through this area is obviously too difficult, fortunately, the intelligence department is also aware of this, and hired two local fishermen as guides to minimize this riskHowever, the captains of the ships still had considerable doubts about the smooth passage of this area after inspecting the charts, but now they had to send the arrows on the bow, and even if they were worried and afraid, they had to go up.

It was getting dark, and it was reassuring that the strong northwesterly wind had finally subsided at this time, which was a good sign that the fleet was finally able to quickly enter the channel according to the established plan, and move towards the goal step by step. Luo Zifang stood alone on the bow of the boat and looked ahead, as the sky darkened, the distance between the boats had to be kept farther away, and the two sides could only use special waterproof lanterns to transmit messages to maintain contact, according to the reaction of the intelligence department, the fishermen in this area have entered the winter break, and no one will choose to go out to sea to fish at this time, and it is even more impossible at night. The only danger is from under the water, the fishermen's guides have personally taken the lead in the boat, and they are responsible for leading the way in front, so that although the time consumption may be more, the risk has dropped to the lowest point, after all, this is at sea at night, once it hits the reef, except for shouting to the sky, Luo Zifang can't think of any other way to save.

A slight noise came from the side and rear, Luo Zifang's heart tightened, and he suddenly turned his head to look for the source of the sound, he had repeatedly ordered that no noise should be allowed during the landing process, so as not to be discovered by the Duotun army patrolling along the coast, this kind of shouting can only prove that something must be wrong.

(To be continued)