Facing such a huge warship for the first time, Shen Shenzhou and the others were also excited, and when they knew that there was still a huge amount of supplies that would arrive in Wuhu soon, everyone couldn't help but shout excitedly, and they were all gearing up, eager to establish the Chaohu Water Army immediately.

Shen Shenzhou couldn't help but secretly rejoice in his previous decision, it was only half a month, and the strength of Shuizhai had increased several times.

At this rate, in less than a year, the 'Chaohu Water Village' will definitely make great progress, not only for self-preservation, but also for the possibility of participating in the general trend of competing for the world.

Thinking of this, Shen Shenzhou's heart couldn't help but become hot, and he spared no effort to implement Lin Sumo's instructions.

The four warships returned to Chaohu Lake through the Yuxi River, and after a short period of repair and reinforcement, they were incorporated into the naval division battle column and belonged to two naval divisions.

With the addition of these four warships, Lin Sumo then rearranged the 'Chaohu Water Division' war department, and through this arrangement, Lin Sumo eliminated all the warships below the 'bridge class' and turned them to other uses, and only retained a dozen or so warships that were relatively strong for daily training.

The number of warships above the 'bridge class' is not much, and after eliminating a large number of warboats, the rest is only enough for two sailor brigades.

After the reorganization of the naval division, each team is equipped with two 'winglet-class' warships as the core, three 'Lou ship-class' warships and fifteen 'bridge-class' warboats, forming a warship formation.

The entire fleet of ships could carry 60 to 70 oarsmen and 140 to 150 warriors. After this rearrangement, although the number of warships in the naval division war department has decreased, after more than 10 days of coordinated drills, the two naval division brigades have formed an extremely strong combat strength, and their combat strength has increased several times compared with before.

To the east of the water village, on the high platform facing the water, looking at the two sailor brigades that were quickly interspersed on the water and chasing back and forth, Lin Sumo couldn't help but nod with satisfaction.

Lin Sumo raised his hand at Shen Shenzhou, and then saw Shen Shenzhou walk to a high place and wave the tricolor flag on the lake in the distance.

After a while, with the sound of Wutong drums, the two sailor brigades that were practicing and fighting on the lake immediately turned their bows and sailed towards the water village.

"Very good, Shen Zhou is attentive!" Lin Sumo did not hesitate to praise.

Shen Shenzhou was overjoyed, but his face was not revealed, and he said: "It's all thanks to Lin Shuai's wise guidance, and his subordinates don't dare to be greedy!" ”

Lin Sumo said with a smile: "Lin is not a person who is very happy, Shen Zhou doesn't need to be a sycophant, the 'Chaohu Water Master' will be handed over to you in the future!" ”

Shen Shenzhou heard the meaning of Lin Sumo's words, and asked in surprise: "Lin Shuai is leaving?" ”

Lin Sumo nodded and continued: "In addition, Lin has entrusted the 'Giant Kun Gang' to recruit a large number of craftsmen, and they will soon arrive in Wuhu, so the sinking boat will find a place to settle in Wuhu, and the shipyard will be built on the edge of the Yangtze River. ”

Shen Shenzhou was overjoyed when he heard this, that Duguce was imprisoned in Shuizhai for more than ten days, and was only transferred to 'Panlong Fort' yesterday, presumably the ransom of Dugu Valve has been delivered, although Shen Shenzhou does not know how much this ransom is, but with the wealth of Dugu Valve, there will be no less.

Shen Shenzhou was overjoyed, but said calmly: "Lin Shuai made Dugu Valve suffer a secret loss this time, the loss is not small, and he will inevitably secretly retaliate afterwards to get back face, Lin Shuai is still careful!" ”

Lin Sumo said with a smile: "It's okay, even if Dugu Valve wants to take revenge, he won't do it now, and it won't be in this matter, otherwise it will only leave a handle and give Lin an excuse to do it again, besides, this loss is nothing to Dugu Valve, if you break the fortune and eliminate the disaster, it should be regarded as buying a talisman for Dugu Ce!" ”

Speaking of this, Lin Sumo muttered: "But what Shen Zhou said is not unreasonable, after all, it is indispensable to defend against people, I have my own disposal of this matter, and Shen Zhou does not need to worry." ”

Shen Shenzhou nodded yes when he heard this, so he didn't say more, thinking that with Lin Sumo's martial arts cultivation, even You Chuhong, the first master of Dugu Valve, might not be his opponent.

"Lin Shuai, everyone is here!"

When the ship returned to the port, Lin Sumo summoned the main backbone of Shuizhai and officially appointed Shen Shenzhou as the commander of the Chaohu Naval Division, the general military affairs, and the command of operations.

Lu Qianfan, the master of the second village, was appointed as the commander of the first team of the water division, and Yi Hui, the master of the third village, was appointed as the commander of the second team of the water division.

Gao Mingda, the owner of the four villages, was appointed as the right governor, responsible for supervising the construction of the Jiangbei shipyard, and Zhu Yuanzheng, the master of the five villages, was appointed as the rear governor, responsible for the logistics support and supply of the commander-in-chief.

There are only these five people who are temporarily available in the 'Chaohu Water Village', and Lin Sumo has no intention of inserting people in it, so he only ordered the five people to perform their duties, and Lin Sumo left the 'Chaohu Water Village' alone.

In Xifeng Town, east of Chaohu Lake, Lin Sumo received news from Hou Luan that Du Fuwei's Jianghuai army had reached the Lujiang River, and the next step would be to approach the front line of Tongcheng and Shucheng.

The pace of Du Fuwei's expansion is getting faster and faster, and the sphere of influence he occupies is getting bigger and bigger, Lin Sumo feels that it is time to meet Du Fuwei and Fu Gongyi, and only by subduing these two people can he be regarded as having a place in this competition for hegemony in the world.

The goal was determined, Lin Sumo turned to the direction of Tongcheng, and news came that Du Fuwei was supervising the battle on the front line of Tongcheng at the moment.

When Lin Sumo arrived at Tongcheng, the Jianghuai army was attacking Tongcheng, and the battle was fierce, and the sound of killing on the wall of Tongcheng could be heard several miles away.

Tongcheng is located in the Jianghuai Chong, since ancient times for the soldiers to fight for the place, control Tongcheng, Du Fuwei's Jianghuai land is impregnable, into can refer to Jiangxia, the sword refers to Luzhou, coercing the hinterland of the Central Plains.

Before the arrival of Du Fuwei's Jianghuai army, the Tongcheng defenders had gathered more than 30,000 troops from more than 10 surrounding towns and counties, plus reinforcements from Luoyang, the entire Tongcheng garrison had reached 50,000 people.

Du Fuwei's 'Jianghuai Army' invested nearly 30,000 troops in this siege, and was led by Du Fuwei's adopted son Wang Xiongdan.

Wang Xiong is a burly person, with extraordinary strength, and his cultivation has done his best to achieve the true biography of Du Fuwei, and he is witty and brave, quite wise, and deeply respected by Du Fuwei.

At this moment, seven or eight arrow towers as high as five or six zhang have been erected outside the east gate of Tongcheng, through which you can not only attack the city condescendingly, but also look at the deployment of troops in the city.

Du Fuwei was on top of one of the arrow towers, facing the direction of the east gate of Tongcheng.

Du Fuwei frowned and looked at the scorching battlefield under the city, thinking about the strategy of breaking the enemy in his heart, and just behind him, there were two young people, one was sitting quietly, as if everything on this battlefield had nothing to do with him, while the other was looking left and right, scratching his ears and cheeks, eager to leave and rush into the battle array below to kill in all directions.

"Daddy Du, you have fought too hard in this battle, with your martial arts, Daddy, it is better to rush directly to the wall, cut off the head of the Sui army guard, and then open the city gate to enlarge the army into the city!" He looked at it for a while and couldn't help but say.

Du Fuwei shouted: "Kou Zhong, stinky boy, what do you know, attacking cities and conquering places is not as good as fighting in the rivers and lakes, after all, personal strength is too small to control the situation of a battle, besides, if I need to do everything myself, won't I be tired to death?" ”

These two young people are Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling, after escaping from Xingyang, the two were about to take Su Su back to the mountains and forests outside Yangzhou City to avoid the limelight, but they didn't want to be bumped into by Du Fuwei on the way.

Although the cultivation of the two has improved, they are still not Du Fuwei's opponents, so they have to obediently follow Du Fuwei to Liyang.

Kou Zhong smiled and said, "That's because Dad, your cultivation is not enough, if you can reach the realm of Brother Dalin and Wang Tong, don't say that since it is a small Tongcheng, it is easy to take the eastern capital Luoyang." ”

Du Fuwei was about to refute when he heard the words, but suddenly felt speechless, the battle between Lin Sumo and Wang Tong had already spread all over the rivers and lakes, but there was no one who had really seen it, but the rumors were becoming more and more exaggerated, making it difficult for Du Fuwei to distinguish the true from the false.

However, although Du Fuwei did not see the battle between Lin Sumo and Wang Tong with his own eyes, he was fortunate to see the 'scattered people' Ning Daoqi, who was also in the realm of grandmasters, make a move, if Lin Sumo also reached that realm, it would not be a problem to take a Tongcheng.

But Du Fuwei probably couldn't have imagined that the person he was thinking about at the moment was watching his every move from the hillside a few miles behind him.

Du Fuwei sighed: "Kou Zhong, don't you want to join this game of dominating the world? If you just know the reckless man who wins by strength, it is better to extinguish this idea of dominating the world as soon as possible, go home to marry a wife and have children, so as to leave a man and a woman for my old Du family! ”

Kou Zhong grinned and said: "Lao Du, even if you want to give birth, your surname is Kou, you Lao Du, your age, it is better to marry ten or eight little ladies now, and give birth to seventeen or eighteen!" ”

Du Fuwei's face sank when he heard this, Kou Zhong didn't know that the previous joke had hit Du Fuwei's sore spot.

In the early years, when Du Fuwei practiced martial arts, he practiced his qi and lost his spirit, although he recovered in the end, he was injured, so that over the years, the women around Du Fuwei have changed one stubble after another, but they have not been able to leave an heir, and only Du Dejun, who was born in his early years, is beside him.

Therefore, Du Fuwei selected more than 30 brave people in the army to be accepted as righteous sons, with food and clothing, on the one hand, to win people's hearts, and on the other hand, not to strengthen the Du family.

Seeing Du Fuwei's unhappy expression, Kou Zhong hurriedly said: "Okay, okay, Lao Du, at most let one person change his surname to Du, no more......"

Before Kou Zhong finished speaking, he suddenly saw Xu Ziling, who was sitting quietly on the side, suddenly opened his eyes and looked into the distance, Kou Zhong was shocked, and asked in a low voice: "Ling Shao, there is an enemy?" ”

Xu Ziling shook his head and said: "I suddenly felt an alarm, it seems that someone is snooping from a distance, but when I look again, I don't find anything, as if it's just an illusion!" ”

Kou Zhong knew that Xu Ziling would not be untargeted, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but be alert, and raised his eyes to look around, and at this moment, the scorching battle situation on the city wall below also changed.