Before the rise of aircraft carriers and before the third scientific and technological revolution, water warfare [naval warfare] in the past thousands of years, no matter how much it has turned and changed, it cannot get out of the cage of "strong ships and guns + giant ship cannons".

The big victory over the small, the firm and the brittle, in the water war is justified.

And the 'cannons' they carry, that is, the original bow and arrow, the later beating rod, and then the real artillery, are also the number of armor soldiers carried on the warship. In the era before the advent of steam warships, hand-to-hand combat was unavoidable for Westerners accustomed to naval warfare.

Lu Qian didn't know anything about water warfare, but he provided the best hardware supply for the Liangshan Bo Shui Division.

There are the world's top first-class shipbuilders, the jade banner pole Meng Kang, a large number of fine wood dried in the shade, which cost countless money, and waves of Manichaean shipwrights and shipwrights sent from Jiangnan.

He even provided Meng Kang with an idea, which may be the only thing he knows about classical water warfare. It is a record related to the Southern Song Dynasty sailors in my memory: the bottom of the lake boat, the cover of the warship, and the multi-oared boat at the bow and tail of the sea ship.

He could not remember the name of the ship, how many armor soldiers it could carry, who invented it, how many bed crossbows and shooting rods it had, and how many oars it had. I remembered that sentence, the bottom of the lake boat, the cover of the warship, and the head and tail of the sea ship.

But such a sentence made Meng Kang like a treasure, and after thinking about it for half a year, he came up with a boat model. Craftsmen were summoned to draw scoops according to the gourd, and finally made a new warship with a length of 18 zhang, a width of 6 feet, a double layer, 20 pairs of oars, six crossbows with beds, and 100 armorers.

The bottom of the lake boat can be shallow, the cover of the war ship can be fought, and the bow and tail of the sea ship can break the waves. The principle is a perfect battleship.

Just talking about the effectiveness played in the water warfare exercise, this kind of warship, which is named "Chijiao Boat", has also performed quite well.

Of course, only three of these ships have been built so far.

The warships in the Liangshan Water Division are more of sea falcons, sea loaches, and small vehicles and ships.

Lijia Road Crossing. Tens of thousands of Liangshan army infantry armor have already rolled southward, and the battleships on the water not far away are connecting the sky.

This is sixty miles away from the town of Shigou. If the infantry of the Song army is called, it will be impossible to do it in two days, but for the Liangshan army, one day is enough time for the army to kill Shigou Town.

It was also on this day that the news had spread from Shigou Town to Hecai Town.

Gao Yu looked at the Qilu topographic map in front of him, looked at the location of Shigou Town, and was proud in his heart. But this guy has already come to Hecai Town, although his flag has been floating in the Guangji Army, but it is just to hide people's eyes.

"The Liangshan thieves and the land and water army are moving together, and they are really in the official's plan."

There are three divisions of Yang Wen, Xiang Yuanzhen, and Liu Menglong in Shigou Town, with 30,000 soldiers, all of whom are called elites. Isn't it easy?

There are only 30,000 or 20,000 thieves who can fight in Liangshan Boli. If his people do not attack, they will be like a sharp edge on their backs, and the eastern, northern, and western regions will not be able to exert themselves. And if they come to attack and kill, even if the elite of the 30,000 officers and soldiers can't defeat the Liangshan Bo thieves, they can at least fight a stalemate. After all, the first battle of Shigou Town was not a field battle, but Liangshan was attacking, and the Southern Route Army was defending.

Fighting for a stalemate, fighting for both loses, is already down.

It's not that Gao Yu underestimated Liang Shanjun. It is actually the habitual thinking of human beings.

Although Liangshanbo has repeatedly defeated the official army, no one has regarded Liangshanbo as the world's first-class elite, even though the generals who have defeated Liangshan several times have returned to say that the thieves are sharp. But if a person does not taste the suffering, then he does not know how great it is.

As later generations said, the newborn overlord must step on the corpse of the old overlord to ascend the throne. The Liangshan army defeated only ordinary officers and soldiers, even if the so-called elite of the forbidden army led by He Guan, how many high-ranking officials in the court did not know the true level of the forbidden army in Beijing? But no one compares them with the Western Army.

This is like the ghost soldiers during the Anti-Japanese War, who defeated millions of Chinese soldiers, but no one regarded them as the strongest army in World War II.

Now, Gao Yu regards Liangshan's soldiers and horses as the subordinate generals of the Ten Sections, and he already looks down on them.

In Gao Yu's estimation, Liang Shanbo's main force of soldiers and horses was only around 30,000. A few years ago, Liang Shanbo broke through the battle of the Daimyo, first attacking the east and west, and then hiding from the sky and crossing the sea, and the total number of soldiers and horses used was less than 20,000. Gao Yu's estimation is still reasonable.

The main force of the thief army is 30,000 people, how can they go out to attack Shigou Town?

And even if it is a nest move, 30,000 people fighting 30,000 people, it is not a wild wave battle, in Gao Yu's eyes, it will never be easy to distinguish the winner and loser.

Moreover, according to Gao Yu's knowledge, many of the Liangshanbo thieves were officers and soldiers who had been captured in the past, and when he left Beijing, he specially asked the Son of Heaven for a holy decree, promising that anyone who knew his mistakes and could change his secret and turned to the light would not be blamed for the past. I want to come from something that can shake the thief heart of Liangshanbo.

This is also because Gao Yu knew that Liang Shanbo had won many victories, and he had captured an unknown number of weapons and armor, and his armament was not inferior to the elite of the official army. That Lu Qian's thief is even more extraordinary, in two years, he made waves, rampant Qilu Zhao Wei, tens of thousands of instructors and soldiers who dare not resist, their talent must be outstanding, and they really can't be regarded as ordinary thieves. It took such a lot of effort.

"Pass on my military order, and ask Wang Huan to lead Li Congji to kill Qinghe County. Liu Zhenbu of Puzhou heard Wang Huan's dispatch and asked Xu Jing, Wang Wende, and Mei Zhan to quickly lead troops to Hecai Town. ”

The Liangshanbo army dispatched to kill Benshigou Town, which means that this battle has really started.

In order to do everything in one fell swoop, Gao Yu couldn't lead an army of 100,000 to attack Liangshan directly, and he didn't have such talent.

Leading an army of 100,000 people, bringing so many people to the battlefield, spreading them out, and dispatching them back and forth as they wish, is not something that anyone can do casually. Not everyone is like Han Xin, the more generals the better.

Gao Yu is very self-aware, otherwise he wouldn't have thought of going to the northwest to show off in the first place, and stayed in Tokyo City from beginning to end. He definitely didn't have the ability to command an army of 100,000 like his arm. But he thought he could be a Han Liu Bang, Liu Bang was not good at generals, but he was good at generals. That's what Gao Yu did. Teach the errands of war to the vulgar old men.

But there are many other small calculations in the distribution combination.

For example, Yang Wen, Xiang Yuanzhen and Liu Menglong, Yang Wen, who was born in the Yang family, is obviously a head taller.

Wang Huan is the eldest brother in the ten knots, but the soldiers under this old man are afraid that they are the weakest in the ten knots. Who told him to be stationed in Gyeonggi, and he was a lieutenant for a few years, but Gao Yu didn't know that the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty were like that. The more prosperous the soldiers and horses in the land, the more unbearable they are. Wang Huan's old horseman's soldiers and horses are stronger than the Beijing Forbidden Army.

But Wang Huan, the old thief, has a very high prestige in the ten knots, and he can easily suppress Li Congjilai. The latter is the envoy of the Hanyang Festival in Longxi, and the station is close to the northwest, next to Tubo and Hehuang. His military horses naturally have combat power.

So one weak and one strong and one weak is just a good match.

And in this army in which Gao Yu is located, the five jiedu make the Sino-Korean Deposit Insurance a well-deserved boss, and the roots of this guy are too big. Even if the Han family has fallen, Han Xiaoxuan [Han Zhongyan's grandson] knows Xiangzhou, and his family foundation is still there, and it is difficult to have an important minister of the Han family in the court.

- Han Yanxuan, the minister of power in the Southern Song Dynasty, is also a cousin of Han Xiaoxuan and the great-grandson of Han Qi.

If he could, Gao Yu wouldn't mind selling it to Han Cunbao, so that he would have two more credits. After all, there are still quite a few protégés of the Han family among the high-ranking officials of the court.

At present, among the five festival envoys, Wang Wende, the envoy of the Hongnong festival in Jingbei, and the Mei Zhan envoy of the Yingzhou Runan festival, are afraid that they are only half a catty and eight taels with Wang Huan's department; But the Shangdang Taiyuan Festival made Xu Jing and the Yunzhong Yanmen Festival made Han Cunbao's headquarters soldiers and horses, in the eyes of Gao Yu, there will be no difference, not to mention the Qinghe Tianshui Festival to make Jing Zhong's department. Qinzhou, where the latter is located, is already under the category of the Qinfeng Road Western Army.

It can be said that before the Zhao and Song dynasties established the post of envoy of the Qinghe Tianshui Festival, the soldiers and horses here were originally the Western Army.

Jing Zhong, the first Jiedu envoy to die in the original book, has always been in office for many years, and he has always paid close attention to training, and he does not dare to be careless at all. It is conceivable that his troops are strong.

Gao Yu's military exploits all relied on the second Xiao Liu of the Western Army to earn for him, and he himself greatly respected the combat power of the Western Army. Keeping the best by your side like this, and being surrounded by other four-knots of soldiers and horses, you think you're safe.

When Wang Huan and Li Congji's two troops and horses rushed to Qinghe, he wanted to see how the Liangshan thieves took care of the head and tail? And he has 50,000 soldiers in his hands, even if there is an accident, if necessary, he will turn the tide and fall, so he is really at ease.

With a wave of his hand, he put away the topographic map with his own long-term attendant. Gao Yu asked someone to make a pot of tea, and sat on the chair with his eyes closed and meditated, but he was brewing in his heart how to talk to the emperor.

This was not a recess, but a private message to the emperor, so that the emperor would know about the battle.

Gao Yu's political acumen is not very good, but he is by no means a stupid person. It's not been a year or two since Zhao Ji has been serving before and after the saddle, how can he not know the temperament of this son of heaven?

It's not bad to say that today's playthings are demoralized, indulgent, and indulged in pleasure. But such an emperor is the one who cares most about authority.

He is not a eunuch of Tong Guan, he can lead hundreds of thousands of troops, and he is not suspicious of Emperor Zhao. He's a bird!

Can Zhao Ji completely hand over the army of more than 100,000 to him? It's so close to the city of Tokyo, it's impossible.

What's more, the stakes in this war are huge.

Gao Yu didn't even dare to check how many of his entourages were the eyeliner of the Imperial City Division. The only thing Gao Yu can do is to show his loyalty to Zhao Ji from time to time.

Xingchen is not so easy to do. The meritorious minister, even if the emperor wants to turn his face and deny people, he must give dignity. But Gao Yu is such a fortunate person, everything can be maintained in the emperor's favor. Gao Yu has always been very aware of this.