When Hu Quan returned to the camp, Wang Bi congratulated and thanked him again, and asked Hu Quan to return to His Highness's Sea King to report the victory, and coaxed Hu Quan very happy.

First, this is his way of domination, as the commander-in-chief, he must provide emotional value to the generals he relies on, so that the other party is willing to die.

Second, pity the hearts of parents all over the world, Wang Bi knew that his daughter was weak, how could he let go of this opportunity to befriend His Royal Highness's uncles.

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At night, the flagship is on the stern.

"In this battle, our army won a complete victory, broke through the stone walls of the enemy's defenses, and routed their main forces in the field, drove them back to Shuicheng, and inflicted a large number of casualties on the Japanese in pursuit." Hu Quan reported to His Highness in a deep voice:

"Our army lost a total of 62 people, wounded 203 people, and destroyed nearly 10,000 enemies......"

Because more than seventy percent of the enemy annihilation occurred in pursuit, the corpses of the Japanese were all over the mountain, and it was impossible to count them carefully in a hurry.

"Not bad, not bad." Lao Liu nodded with satisfaction, although he knew that most of the so-called Japanese troops in this era were actually peasants, and they were completely incomparable with the Ming army of Qing Yishui professional soldiers, but he was still very happy to be able to achieve such results.

"Transfer all the wounded to the hospital ship, so that my fifth brother's subordinates can be well treated." He commanded in a deep voice.

"Yes." Hu Quan hurriedly responded in a deep voice. His Royal Highness the King of Chu attaches great importance to the medical treatment of the army, in addition to the military doctor on every ship, there is also a special hospital ship in the fleet, which is responsible for the treatment of the wounded and seriously ill. This not only allows the wounded and sick to receive the best medical conditions, but also avoids the outbreak of infectious diseases on the battleship, which is very necessary in overseas operations.

"Marquis Dingyuan asks His Highness, is it possible to encircle Shuicheng and send reinforcements according to the original plan?" Then he asked again.

"Uncle, what do you think?" Lao Liu's eyes crossed the port of Hakata and looked in the direction of the water city. Even if you don't need a telescope, you can see the lights on the castle at night.

"That water city is a huge fortress, the circumference is about four or five miles, the height of the city is close to two zhang, and there is a moat that stores water, it looks difficult to fight." Hu Quan described what he saw with his own eyes and commented:

"We have few soldiers, and the Japanese army is weak but numerous, so we should really avoid siege warfare as much as possible, so that our advantage will be canceled out, and the advantage of the Japanese army will be highlighted."

"yes." The sixth nodded, the area from Hakata to Dazaifu is a rare coastal plain on Kyushu Island and even in Japan, so Hakata Bay will become the center of Kyushu.

But because of this, if the enemy army landed from Hakata Bay, they could attack Dazaifu without hindrance, so the Japanese spent a lot of money to build this water fortress to make it the gateway barrier of Dazaifu, and it was really unrealistic to attack it for hundreds of years.

"Then the plan remains the same, first surround the point to send reinforcements, and wait for the opportunity to move." He said in a deep voice.

"Yes." Hu Quan responded in a deep voice. Yu Tongyuan, who was on the side, said in a low voice: "It's just that in this way, it will be difficult to make a quick decision." ”

Fighting away, the most feared thing is that the war will drag on for a long time.

"I'm not going to do it quickly." The sixth said with a straight face: "How do you say that, you must despise the enemy strategically and attach importance to the enemy tactically." Japan is a samurai country with a population of 10 million and has fought for decades, and if you want to eat them in one bite, you will only repeat the mistakes of the Yuan Dynasty. ”

"Yes." Yu Tongyuan and the others nodded, this is right.

"Tell all the officers and soldiers, don't be in a hurry, be patient and follow the steps, victory will definitely belong to us!" Zhu Zhen analyzed for his generals:

"Usually the biggest concern for a labor expedition is the lack of logistics, but we don't have to worry about that at all. Because we have a strong sea transport capacity, which is completely incomparable to land transportation. ”

"It is said that it is 1,600 miles away from the mainland, but with the help of ocean currents, a fleet full of supplies can reach Hakata Bay in less than ten days from Liujiagang in Taicang. So don't worry about logistics at all. The sixth continued:

"And this place in Hakata is good, a rare flat river, suitable for our cavalry to fight." Zhu Zhen smiled and said: "Japan has many mountains and few plains, so it is not easy to find a battlefield suitable for us." ”

"Yes." Hu Quan thought deeply and said: "Here we can attack the enemy with our own strengths, and two thousand cavalry is an existence that the Japanese army cannot match." If we go into the mountains, our advantages will not be brought into full play, and the Japanese army will be able to comfortably fight our ambush. ”

"That's right." The generals couldn't help but nod their heads again and again, and they all felt that His Highness was right, and that they should send reinforcements at the encirclement point of Hakata's peace of mind to destroy the living forces of the Japanese army.

"Actually, in my personal judgment, the more we put on the posture of fighting for a long time, the war will not drag on for too long." The sixth said lightly.

"Oh? Why did the prince say this? The generals asked curiously.

"Because the situation of the Southern Dynasty in Japan itself is stormy, and even the local tyrants in Kyushu are inseparable." His Royal Highness the King of Chu rarely opened the conversation box and said:

"The Southern Dynasty was established forty or fifty years ago, after the so-called Emperor Go-Daigo failed in his struggle for power, and he fled to the house, so it was the weak side from the beginning."

"If it weren't for the fierce internal struggle within the Northern Shogunate, they wouldn't have survived now. But now the third shogun of the Muromachi shogunate is young and promising, and he has unified Honshu and subjugated Shikoku, and has brought all the emperors of the Southern Dynasty to the island of Kyushu. ”

"In fact, on Kyushu Island, the Southern Dynasty was originally also a weak party, and Prince Huailiang's Zhengxi General's Mansion couldn't beat the Kyushu exploration of the Northern Dynasty at all, but the Northern Dynasty saw that the victory was in hand, and the steps were a little bigger, and they wanted to take the opportunity to weaken the three people who had been entrenched in Kyushu for generations."

"So under the pretext of inviting three people to a banquet, they assassinated the governor of the Shao Er family on the spot, so the three people who had planned to surrender to the Northern Dynasty collectively rebelled, joined the camp of the Southern Dynasty, and drove the forces of the Northern Dynasty out of Kyushu Island, which is what we have today."

Before the Northern Dynasty killed the Shao Er Family Governor, Prince Huailiang and the three of them had a big fight, and it is said that the total number of troops participating in the war reached 100,000 at that time. The rift between them will definitely not disappear, but the common enemy forces them to pinch their noses and cooperate. ”

"His Royal Highness means," Yang Shiqi, who was brought out by the sixth child to gain insight and serve as a member of the army, has already understood.

"They're likely to turn against each other again?"

"Hahaskie is really smart." The sixth brother smiled and said: "That's right, the current situation is Huailiang's fault, and the three of them have suffered heavy losses today, can they have no resentment against him?" ”

"That must be a lot of resentment." The generals laughed.

"And the Southern Dynasty is hopeless, and the local tyrants of Kyushu, led by the three people, must definitely consider the future."

"The reason why they can repeatedly jump back is because they have soldiers in their hands, which is their biggest capital, and they will never dare to fight with us. So they're still a fart? Zhu Zhen finally said firmly:

"So as long as we resolutely eliminate the reinforcements of each family and continue to weaken their capital, they will definitely be tempted to jump back again!"

(End of chapter)