Chapter Seventy-Three: The Battle of the Covenant

The advantages and disadvantages of the Chuni fleet, the advantages and disadvantages of the Qini fleet, Amenas, who participated in the battle of Daze throughout the whole process, already knew very well in his heart.

Although these two countries were giant kingdoms relative to the Greek city-states, Macedonia, Egypt, and Rome, and the number of warships participating in the battle was measured not in hundreds, but in thousands, there was no essential difference between a few hundred warships and thousands of warships.

Chuni has excellent warboats that are well suited to the local waters, and can turn and turn without turning oars; She also had trained oarsmen and squad tactics more suited to the waters of the East than Chinney didn't, but they lacked sufficient experience and experience in real naval engagements. In the last battle, they still used squad tactics that were applied to narrow rivers. These squads can achieve great results if they are used properly, but if they are not used properly, they will be crushed by the fierce attack of the Qinni people.

Abandoning the narrow river and entering that huge lake upstream, dismantling the Chuni's nimble squad tactics with the overall superiority of the fleet, that's what Armenas was thinking. In the last battle, the pre-battle arrangement of the commander-in-chief of the navy Qin Ni could not be said to be completely wrong, but once the battle began, the opponent's fast and sharp squad tactics began, and the whole battle became completely disorderly.

Whenever he thought of this after the war, Armenas felt sorry for it. He didn't approve of Zhao Ying's way of fighting together, even though Qin Ni's warboats and oarsmen were endless. On the wide lake, the Chinni fleet was more than capable of winning the battle at a fraction of the cost, and especially less than the enemy.

The Jing people's boat division headed north, and at the current rate, they would not be able to reach the water near Fuyi until tomorrow afternoon, and the Qin army would only have a day at most to discuss. In the end, he followed Bai Di's advice, abandoned the frustration, and fought with the enemy in Daze; Or do you stick to the previous plan, and wait for each other in the water below the frustrated city, and once again inflict irreparable damage on the Jing people with the tactics of exchanging two boats for one boat? Everything only depends on Zhao Ying's decision.

The Chu army marched westward without delay. The commander-in-chief knew that the physical strength of hundreds of warships was extremely important. We can't just rush forward blindly without sparing any effort like Chengtong, but we must be prepared for a fierce battle all day or even several days. After he came to Nanzheng, the first thing he emphasized to the generals was this.

It is with the idea of conserving physical strength that the two hundred and thirty waterways will be divided into three days. Shortly after noon in the afternoon, he ordered the whole army to drop anchor and encamp. The next morning he set out at dawn, earlier than the day before, and as soon as noon passed and moved into the small house, he ordered the whole army to anchor and camp. At this time, the war boat was still more than sixty miles away from Fuyi.

"Why don't you see the Qin people?" From the morning, the whole army was on alert. If the Qin people go down the river and row with all their might, the speed of the descent may reach sixty miles an hour. Two hundred miles can be killed in one morning. Yesterday, the Qin scouts could still be seen far away from Fuyi, and today from morning to noon, the Qin people's war boats were gone, and the scouts were gone.

"I really haven't seen the Qin people." Xiang Shi is at the end of the line. The entire boat captain is seven miles, although it is far away, Xiang Chao's doubts in his heart are the same as those of Cheng Feng and Jing Gui. "Do you want to ...... tomorrow?"

"Report ——!" Xiang Chao was still talking, and a ship came speeding up, and the boat official stood on the bumpy deck and shouted while waving the flag. The speed of the assault was extremely fast, and the boat officials were so panicked that the generals thought that the Qin people had gone south. Finally waited for the sudden approach, but the boat official on the deck was a Yue person, and the Yue language made the generals even more anxious, and once again picked up the Lu Lijing and looked upstream.

"Qin Ren Zhiye?" Jing Gui grabbed the arm of the donkey, and the tip of his toe was already pointing to the trestle where he boarded the ship.

"It must be Qin Renzhi. The herald ...... "Xiang Chao is also in a hurry, even if Xiang Shi is behind the team."

Bu Liangju, who commanded the large wing gunboats, directly ordered people to wave flags at the gunboats, asking the ships to prepare to load shells. Not wanting to be surrounded by the generals, he smiled reluctantly, and he said in Chu language: "The Qin people are leaving the frustrated city!" ”

"Ah......" The gang was all stunned. I couldn't help but look back at the rush of the news to see if the person who reported the news was a Qin person or a Yue person.

"The Qin people really left the frustration?!" Cheng Feng looked at the donkey in disbelief.

"What you say must be true." Whether the news is true or not, he knows it completely. He wrinkled his brows and wondered why Qin Ren did this, and when he thought about it, the tattoo on his jaw wrinkled together, looking a little hideous.

"Why did the Qin people leave Fuyi?" Jing Gui asked. "Fuyi is the key point of the Qin people's attack on Tho, the Qin army of nearly 100,000 people is attacking Tonggu, the boat division is leaving Fuyi, what about 100,000 Qin soldiers? If our army abandons the boat and lands on the shore......"

"If our army abandons the boat and lands on the shore, the Qin people's boat division will quickly attack me along the current." Su Kai interrupted Jing Gui and said the consequences of attacking the Qin army with the Bayue defenders who were defending Tonggu if he landed on the shore.

"Even if I don't land on the shore, nearly 100,000 Qin troops, tens of thousands of soldiers, where will the grain and grass come from?" Cheng Feng and Dao. He always felt that either the scout's report was wrong, or the Qin people were playing tricks and tricks.

"If the Qin army has half a month's grain and grass, the Qin army's war boats will increase by one hundred and fifty in half a month......" Su Kai didn't want to talk anymore. Our side is now in a very unfavorable period, the front is too long, and the troops are insufficient. If more than 30 divisions and brigades and 6 or 700 warships were put into Daze on the Western Front at one time, instead of being invested in batches like now, the Qin people would inevitably be defeated.

The number of troops is small, but the enemy's strength is increasing day by day, and Nanzheng and the upper reaches of the river cannot give up, which dooms their side to a quick victory. The frowning donkey pondered for about half an hour before he ordered the abrupt man waiting under the side of the boat: "Explore." Probe. ”

Mao Tu sped away again, this time not one, but five, and under the gaze of everyone, the five Mao Tu quickly disappeared into the somewhat crooked river. At this time, Su Kai said: "Since the Qin people have left the depressed city, the whole army and soldiers can drink a piece of wine." ”

I thought that he would hold a meeting to arrange military affairs, but he didn't expect that his first military order was to drink a bottle of wine. There isn't much to drink, and even the most easily drunk soldier won't get drunk. Such a drink can also raise the morale of the whole army, and let them know that the Qin people are afraid of me.

The military officer took the order and left, and the conversation got to the point: "The water is narrow, and the Qin people's move is to ask me to fight in Daze." ”

"Why don't you dare!" Xiang Chao is the youngest, he hates water wars, but the current situation has to fight with the Qin people.

"Daze is lenient, and as soon as he enters Daze, he will either live or die." As he spoke, he remembered the last battle. The Zhao people, who don't know how to water, have been fluttering on the surface of Ze since they fell into the water, as if the entire Daze has been boiling. When the Yue Shi went to the rescue, except for a few soldiers holding wooden oars and building drums, the rest of the soldiers either sank to the bottom of the Ze or floated on the Ze surface.

"If you don't enter Daze, if you don't hold the fish pass in the north of Daze, how can the war end?" Jing Gu said. Not sticking to Yuguan was Chengtong's biggest mistake, but at that time, the whole army was thinking about attacking Guanzhong, who would have thought that the Qin Renzhou Division would go down the water.

"Xi Division, Sui Division, Chengyang Division, Xin Cai Division, Xia Cai Division, Qi Si Division, Fuyi Brigade, our army does not chase the Qin people in the north, and the six divisions and one brigade will forever fall to the west." Cheng Feng wanted to drive the Qin people out of Yuguan more than anyone else, and this was the only way to rescue these divisions and brigades.

"If you come, you will fight." When Zhaoliu came to Nanzheng, he knew that this was a battle of life and death, and now he retreated at this time, and he would only be ridiculed by the people when he went back. Laugh at him, he can bear it, laugh at Zhao, he must not bear it.

The generals who led the army and the battle were determined to fight the Qin people, even if the place of battle was not the originally expected water drainage, but Daze, which was nearly twenty miles wide. Only Bu Bu Liangju was a little distressed, and he asked: "If you fight in Daze, there are only twelve gunboats in Da Wing, this is ......?"

"Fighting in Daze, if the Qin people form a circle again, they can be bombarded with artillery." He shook his head and said with a smile.

"The Bigwing gunboat is still at the forefront of the formation?" Bu Liangju asked again.

"Can be at the front of the military formation, do you know the pawn of the bow and crossbow?" He asked rhetorically after answering. He knew that the Qin people would no longer list the circle array.

"Zhiya." Bu Liangju nodded. "The meaning of the big wing gunboat is that the big wing gunboat is in the front before the handover, and the ...... after the handover"

The crossbowmen of the Mausoleum Division 'retreated' when they exchanged troops, but it was not them who retreated, but the rear foot soldiers who passed through the gap in their ranks. It's just that when the mausoleum fights, the retreating crossbowmen can still shoot - 'the order of the war, the short one holds a spear, and the old one holds a bow and ......crossbow', which means that when the short man fights with a spear and halberd in front, the tall man in the rear can also shoot arrows, because they are tall and the arrows they shoot cannot hurt their own people. Unlike the boat divisions, the decks of the large-wing gunboats were not higher than those of the wingers, but rather shorter than the ships of the wings, and it was impossible for them to shoot arrows from behind the spearmen like crossbowmen.

Thinking of this, Bu Liangju's face instantly turned red, and he compared the big wing gunboats to bows and crossbows, although it was not a direct humiliation, but it was also a kind of neglect, he didn't think that the twelve big wing gunboats could play any role in this battle.

Bu Liangju's face changed color, and everyone listened to what he said, but hundreds of warships were fighting on Daze, what could twelve gunboats do? And it's so inconvenient, can't more than 200 warships be the same as it, facing the enemy stern and attracting the Qin people to chase it, right?

"What does Captain Bu Liangzhou think, how should the twelve large-wing gunboats be arranged?" It was completely unintentional, he just said what he really thought.

Su Kai's direct question made Bu Liangju feel better, but when he thought of fighting in Daze and thinking of Daze's width, he didn't feel the bottom of his heart. He thought about it again and again, and finally said: "Please ask the large wing gunboat to fight in front, five miles away from me." If I induce the Qin people to form a boat formation, Su Ao can take advantage of this to attack them. ”

Bu Liangju is going to fight alone, attacking the enemy formation in a vanguard way, everyone's eyes lit up when they heard this, and they nodded and said, "No." Tomorrow into Daze, with you as the vanguard, the whole army is five miles away from you. ”

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