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Jiangbei.

Seeing the tiger army and the water army playing cat and mouse to wipe out the vanguard army, Liu Yanqing, Xin Xingzong and other Song army officers and soldiers were both resentful and shocked.

For a long time, the soldiers of the Song army never cared about the Tiger Army, thinking that as long as they gathered enough ships, they could destroy the Tiger Army.

But after seeing with their own eyes the strength of the Tiger Ben Naval Army today, the officers and men of the Song Army finally reassessed the Tiger Ben Army, and felt that at least the Tiger Ben Naval Army was really strong, even if they transferred the Dengzhou Naval Army, it would definitely be useless.

Be.

The Pinghai Army and the Chenghai Army can be regarded as the largest naval divisions in the Northern Song Dynasty Forbidden Army.

But the problem is that the Chenghai Sea Army only has two commands of crossbowmen, and the same is true for the Pinghai Sea Army, the two armies together are only four commanders of 2,000 people, how can they compete with the Tiger Ben Navy with 100,000 soldiers and thousands of ships?

The key point is that these four commanders of the naval army have never studied water warfare, their martial arts are lazy, and they have not had combat missions for many years, and now they are maintaining the law and order in Xinyang, Banqiao, and Taoluo in Mizhou off the coast of Shandong, and counting on them to come to fight water battles on the Yangtze River.

Speaking of which, this is actually quite normal, after all, since the founding of the Zhao Song Dynasty, the enemies of the Zhao and Song dynasties have mainly been the Liao State, the Western Xia, and at most one Tubo, all of which are army duels, and there is no need for a naval army at all, how can its naval army be strong?

No solution.

In the face of such a powerful tiger army, the Song army was already at a loss, and now, the ships owned by the Song army were all taken away by the tiger army in a battle, and this battle could not be fought on the water.

What to do?!

Tong Guan, who was standing on the wall of Yangtze Town at this moment, was also thinking like water: "What should I do?!" ”

For the battle that they are determined to win, they haven't made much effort on their side, and they were cut off by the Tiger Ben Water Army, Tong Guan was shocked and angry, his face was pale, as if he had been punched hard.

Tong Guan slapped the city wall in front of him fiercely, and squeezed out a name from between his teeth: "Yuwen Huangzhong!" ”

The matter is already obvious, even if Yuwen Huangzhong did not betray the Song Dynasty, the crime of not doing things well will definitely not be able to escape, otherwise, how could the Tiger Ben Army be so well prepared, and even dispatched more than 2,000 large ships to lock the Yangtze River, this is simply a trap arranged for their operation, the purpose is to completely annihilate the ships in their hands, so that they can no longer pose a threat to the Tiger Ben Army in a short period of time!

Li Cun can calculate to this extent, if he kills Tong Guan, Tong Guan will definitely not believe it.

So the problem can only be with Yuwen Huangzhong, the planner and main executor of this surprise attack!

Tan Zhen, who had been watching the battle with a cold face before, was extremely active at this time.

Tan Zhi first said bitterly to Cai You, who had no military knowledge at all: "Although there were only more than 10,000 soldiers in this battle, our army was defeated in this battle!" ”

Cai You asked inexplicably: "What do you mean by this?" ”

Tan Zhi immediately explained to Cai You very enthusiastically: "In this battle, the purpose of the ant thieves is not to annihilate our soldiers, but to aim at the ships, the ant thieves must have known the foundation of our army, and used Tong Xuanfu to trust his henchman Yuwen to be controlled, specially set up a trap, tricked our army into sending all the ships across the river, and then seized our ships in one fell swoop." ”

Cai Yougongzi said angrily: "The ship is taken away and rebuilt, why should you worry? ”

"It is not easy for our army to build ships."

Tan Zhi pointed to the five-tooth battleship of the Tiger Ben Naval Army: "The materials used to build this ship are to be dried in the shade for three or four years, and at most for more than ten years before it can be completed." ”

"When Li Cun's thief first arrived in Hangzhou, he sent ant thieves to seize the Hangzhou City Ship Division and the Mingzhou City Ship Division, and the official and private ships, shipbuilding materials, and shipwrights on the Sigang were all seized by Li Cun's thief, and then Li Cun's thief concocted and robbed Xiuzhou City's Ship Division in the same way."

"According to Ma Xuanzan, in the area occupied by Li Cun's thief, the official and private shipyards, official and private ships, official and private shipbuilding materials, and shipwrights are all owned by Li Cun's thief.

"There is no shortage of ships in my Great Song Dynasty, and the imperial court needs a large number of ships to carry grain and other things in the southeast every year, so the imperial court has shipyards in many places, and thousands of ships of all kinds are built every year. However, the large shipyards are all located in Guangzhou, Quanzhou, Mingzhou, Wenzhou and Hangzhou and other southeast coastal areas, and there are official shipyards and private shipyards in various places, with government-run workshops building warships and boats, and private workshops building merchant ships and pleasure boats. Therefore, the ant thieves occupy the southeast and take advantage of the ships. ”

Cai You realized that things didn't seem to be as simple as he imagined before, so he put away his previous carelessness, frowned and asked: "The Great Song Dynasty is big, and only the southeast can build ships?" ”

Tan Shu replied: "There are also shipyards in Jinghutan, Ding and other prefectures, and Xiegu in Fengxiang Mansion in Shaanxi, but the far water is not as thirsty as the near, and Jinghu and Shaanxi cannot be compared with the southeast regardless of the number of ships built and the size of the ships built. ”

Cai You knew that Tan Zhi was from the background of Cao Yun, and he and Chen Yu had presided over the warehouse of the Southeast Sixth Road Cao Grain to Jingshi, and he belonged to Cao Yun experts, so what Tan Zhi said should not be wrong.

Cai You's brows furrowed even tighter: "When I came, I met dozens of big boats along the river, how could I have no boats?" ”

Tan Zhi said: "The other ship is a gang ship or a seat ship, which is used for transporting or carrying passengers, not a war ship or a horse boat, and it is not suitable for fighting ant thieves in the river." ”

Afraid that Cai You would not understand, Tan Zhi patiently explained to Cai You: "The river is not as good as the sea, and it is not easy for the big ship to turn. ”

Tan Zhi said: "And the other ships are all private ships, the imperial court ships are mostly trapped in the southeast because of the transportation of autumn grain, and they are seized by ant thieves. ”

Speaking of this, Tan Zhi sighed for a long time: "And our army has a lot of northern troops, not good at water warfare, and afraid of heat, once this battle is defeated, the time, place and people are not in our army, so this defeat is not good for our army." ”

Tong Guan couldn't listen to Tan Zhi gloating over there anymore, he put down his demeanor and said, "Who is responsible for this, don't you know?" ”

Tan Zhi waited for Tong Guan to answer, and he immediately said excitedly: "I was defeated, all because the southern soldiers were overwhelmed and mistaken for me, if I had Tong Xuanfu's elite soldiers, I would have annihilated the ant thieves several times." ”

- Tan Zhi's implication is that I lost because the southern soldiers are not good at fighting, and there are forgivable circumstances, you have the most elite troops in the Great Song Dynasty, and you are also defeated, what is the reason?

As a competing political enemy, Tan Zhi has actually not been afraid of Tong Guan.

The reason why Tan Zhi was so restrained in front of Tong Guan before was because his two defeats made him fall into passivity, and he had to temporarily clamp his tail and be a man.

Now that it's good, Tong Guan has also been defeated, and it is a defeat that has also had a very big impact.

plus the defeat of Wang Yu, who represented Tong Guan before.

Tan Zhi can be said to have drawn with Tong Guan.

In this way, how could Tan Zhi still be afraid of Tong Guan?

Can Tong Guan still play with Zhao Ji and replace him Tan Zhen?

If Tong Guan really dared to do this, then Tan Zhi would join forces with Liang Shicheng and Wang Hao to pull Tong Guan into the water.

Some people may want to ask, can't Zhao Ji replace Tong Guan and Tan Zhi together?

Definitely not.

Zhao Ji, no, it should be said that the vast majority of emperors of Zhao and Song Dynasty were not at ease with military generals, so military generals in Zhao Song (especially in the Northern Song Dynasty) were very rarely able to get the power to command the army.

And most of the literati can't fight.

The key literati were also not as reliable as the eunuchs.

Therefore, the eunuch commander became the best choice for Emperor Zhao and Song.

Looking at the current Zhao and Song dynasties, the only eunuchs who can be commanders are Tong Guan and Tan Zhen, and there is no third one.

Therefore, Zhao Ji doesn't use Tong Guan and Tan Zhen, there is no one available at all.

In this way, Tan Zhen, who has a deep background and a deep background, will definitely be able to turn the danger into a disaster.

In this case, Tan Zhen, who has been humiliated by Tong Guan for a long time, will of course not be polite to Tong Guan anymore.

Tong Guan knew that he had just achieved a big defeat, and he was definitely not Tan Zhen's opponent in the verbal battle.

Moreover, what Tan Zhi said is not unreasonable, if during the battle of Danyang, Tan Zhi had an elite Western army in his hands, and he was defeated, maybe it was really the Tiger Army.

Therefore, Tong Guan snorted heavily and didn't pay attention to Tan Zhi again.

Cai You, who is somewhat aware of the current situation that is very unfavorable to Da Song, can't help but be a little worried about Zhao Song: "When you are in charge, what should I do?" ”

Tong Guan also counted on Cai You's mercy, lest Zhao Ji punish him heavily.

Therefore, Tong Guan confidently said to Cai You: "There is no need to worry about the scholars, I am ...... when I am a strange soldier."

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