If the Dahua army wants to invade the land of Huainan, it must cross the river, and now the river is controlled by the Jianghuai army, and there are constantly ships patrolling back and forth, and finding that a large-scale enemy army is approaching to cross the river, it will definitely attract the encirclement of the Jianghuai Naval Division, and fight on the river, so the Jianghuai Naval Division has an absolute advantage.

This is where the current problem lies, it is quite difficult to quietly send 100,000 troops across the Huai River, even if it is tens of thousands of people, it is relatively difficult not to be discovered.

Because it takes a lot of time for the ship to approach, board, cross the river, and land on the shore, there are sentry posts and temporary beacons on the opposite bank to observe, and there are also ships patrolling the river, so it is not easy to hide it.

Unless the team goes all the way to the west, to the upper reaches of the Huai River, to find a place to cross the river, and enter the west of Huainan County, it will delay the journey for more than ten days, which seems to be safe.

An army of 100,000 people, tossing back and forth, is really not a clever place to use soldiers, it is easy to affect the sharpness, become tired soldiers, and decline before fighting.

"Your Majesty, whether to mobilize the counties of Jiangbei, send river workers and boatmen, speed up shipbuilding, and recruit sailors to train .......?"

Luo Zhaoyun shook his head and smiled: "It's too late, it takes too much time, and the temporarily formed water division, even if the number of people is enough, it can't have combat effectiveness, and if you can't beat the Jianghuai water division, it's all in vain." ”

When all the soldiers heard this, they were a little discouraged.

Luo Zhaoyun looked around and said with a smile: "Generals, there is no need to be like this, I already have a plan, I can break the Jianghuai Naval Division!" ”

When all the soldiers heard this, they all showed curious looks, and they didn't know what His Majesty's plan was.

Even Zhang Zhenzhou, Du Ruhui and others were surprised, they were also wise and calculating, but they didn't think of any good way, and when they heard that His Majesty had a plan to break the enemy, they were all surprised and admired.

"Have you ever heard the story of burning Chibi?"

"Burning Chibi?" Everyone was stunned and looked at each other.

Luo Zhaoyun originally wanted to use the example of Cao Cao and Sun Quan Liu Bei of the Three Kingdoms to explain the burning of Chibi, but when he saw the stunned looks on everyone's faces, he suddenly reacted. The story of burning Chibi is from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and in history, there is a difference between the Battle of Chibi and the Battle of Chibi in the Romance.

According to the research of later scholars, at that time, Cao Cao led his troops south, not the 800,000 army in the Romance, but only 70,000 or 80,000 people. According to the clear record of the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms", the soldiers and horses sent by Sun Quan to Zhou Yu were 30,000 people, and the men and horses sent by Liu Bei were between 10,000 and 20,000.

Therefore, Sun Liu against Cao Cao is 50,000 versus 80,000, which can be regarded as winning more with less, but the difference is not as great as in the romance.

Secondly, at that time, Cao Cao advanced by land and water, and the sailors were only a few people, less than 10,000 people, and when they approached Chibi, they were repelled by the Wu State sailors, and then Cao Cao ordered the sailors to land on the north bank and gather and camp in Wulin. Later, the three parties burned and killed in Wulin, which was the decisive battle.

At that time, Cao Jun's ship and military camp were on the north bank, and Huang Gai led people to set fire to Wulin on the north bank of the Yangtze River, not Chibi on the south bank of the Yangtze River.

Luo Zhaoyun coughed dryly and explained: "When I was in the Youzhou area, I heard people tell stories about the story of the burning of Chibi during the Three Kingdoms period.......

He briefly explained that Cao Cao's hundreds of thousands of troops went south, how Liu Bei and Sun Quan joined forces, and how Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang laid out, everyone had not heard of this version, so they were all fascinated.

"This is the burning of Chibi."

The generals suddenly realized that the so-called burning of Chibi was this fire attack and burned the opponent's ships with warships.

"Now that it has entered autumn, the west wind prevails in the Jianghuai area, whether it is the water flow or the wind, it is conducive to our upstream ships, and ride the wind downstream, so we link some ships with iron chains, cover the river, rush to the enemy warships, and then ignite the ships, fire to attack the past, so that the Jianghuai army also fell into the sea of fire."

"When the time comes, the archers will release arrows on both banks, and the river will be full of fireboats, and the river will block the retreat of the ships, and under a sea of fire, the Jianghuai naval army will only fail."

Luo Zhaoyun explained his strategy, which was to rely on fire attack to defeat the Jianghuai army's sailors.

The veteran Zhang Zhenzhou nodded and said: "Your Majesty is wise and martial, thinking of such a good strategy, you can avoid water battles and win with fire." ”

"yes, it's a good strategy!"

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

Most of the generals are straight, and when they saw that some people praised His Majesty Shengming, they all echoed it.

But Chu Suiliang, as a strategist, would consider more factors, and hesitated: "Your Majesty, if the Jianghuai army finds that the situation is not good, turns around and follows the current and wind, and flees downstream, what should we do, our warship is on fire and no one controls it, I'm afraid it will not be able to pursue." ”

Luo Zhaoyun smiled and said: "The key point is that after the main ships of the Jianghuai Army are brought over, they should block the river with large iron chains on the river surface behind the enemy to block the retreat of the ships, and add other trees, boulders and chains to cooperate to cause the ships and ships on the river to be blocked. ”

Chu Suiliang then understood, why before the march, His Majesty specially explained, let the arsenal made the big thick iron chain with the army, when he counted the military supplies, he was still very puzzled, what these iron chains were used all the way south from Chang'an City.

Luo Zhaoyun continued: "I have already thought about the specific marching and ambush arrangements, and I will assign them today, all in accordance with the steps, lead out the water division, lure the enemy into depth, destroy the fire attack, seize control of the Huai River, and then cross the river as soon as possible and insert it into the flank of Du Fuwei's Jianghuai army, if Du Fuwei can be captured alive, the Jiangdong rebels will lose their leader." ”

"I'll obey Your Majesty's arrangement!" The generals solemnly bowed their hands, and their words were very respectful, waiting for His Majesty's strategic arrangement, dispatching troops, and arranging troops.