"Baoqing?" Cao Tiancheng was holding the name of the place, obviously not having any concept of it. Pen %fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info Changyang County is also an extremely poor county in the Yue Kingdom, and Baoqing is located in a more remote location, how could the dignified Emperor of Great Qi have nothing to pay attention to such a place? Therefore, his eyes were fixed on Shu Hui. He knew very well that since Shu Hui came to him with this question, of course he had done his homework accordingly.

"There is a military port in Baoqing. It was established in the early stage of the Tang Dynasty, when Emperor Li Qing vigorously promoted foreign trade, mainly to combat piracy and protect merchant ships. Later, as the pirates were almost wiped out by the Tang Dynasty sailors, the port gradually became idle, and by the end of the Tang Dynasty, it had been completely abandoned. Shu Hui explained. After the minister got the news, after returning to Chang'an, he also plunged into the National History Museum, and more than a dozen people searched for several days before they piled up the old case files and found out. ”

Cao Tiancheng's brows furrowed: "The former military port? What is the maximum size of a battleship that can be docked? ”

"Your Majesty, it can dock a large warship." Shu Hui said: "The size of the warship of the Chu people depicted by the intelligence from over there is indeed the main warship of the Chu people. ”

After a moment of silence, Cao Tiancheng suddenly burst out laughing.

"Min Ruoying, this guy, it looks like now, you really can't underestimate it." He shook his head and said: "It seems that it really took a lot of effort to play such a trick, thinking that this guy has really worked hard to defeat my Daqi, and he has really tried his best over the years, and even such a military port that has been abandoned for many years can be turned out of the garbage heap, admiration and admiration." ”

"But now that we know it, it will be difficult for him to succeed." Shu Hui said.

Cao Tiancheng looked at Shu Hui, "This is not necessarily, you must know that on the sea, the strength of the Chu people is actually stronger than ours." He scratched his head with some distress, and said: "This is a big failure of the old man, he ******** thinking about winning a decisive victory on land, but the Chu, Qin, and Yue Three Kingdoms Alliance, no matter how strong we are, it is impossible to defeat their coalition army, the sea power is in his hands, and the combat power has fallen sharply. But Xiao Huizi, since the time of the old man, the strength of the army has increased greatly, and it has long occupied the right to speak in our army, and it is not easy to develop a sailor, but I have only rebuilt a fleet. ”

Shu Hui kept his mouth shut, the old man in the emperor's mouth, that was the first emperor, the emperor could be so disrespectful, he didn't dare. Only a gourd with a saw spout.

"Min Wei is much more shrewd, knowing that he can't do us on land, but he focuses on building a naval division, and at the beginning, we still had generals who laughed at Chu that they were preparing for a rainy day and preparing for a great escape at sea. Hmph, it's really a frog that goes to the bottom. Min Ruoying inherited these inheritances from Min Wei, and now it is our turn to be uncomfortable. Cao Tiancheng shook his head.

"Your Majesty, we must not allow them to increase their troops in Baoqing without restrictions, and we must fight back." Shu Hui said.

Cao Tiancheng shook his head: "Do you know that this is not another conspiracy of the people of Chu?" He looked at Shu Hui, his eyes shining, "The Chu people have strong sea power, and our sea power has fallen, compared with the two, even if we are relatively large, but if we start a war with the other party, we actually don't have the upper hand at all." Because the sailors of the Chu people are more proficient in water warfare. ”

"Your Majesty suspects that the Chu people want to lure us into fighting them at sea first?" Shu Hui suddenly realized.

"Why isn't that possible?" Cao Tiancheng nodded and said: "It is ironclad that they will not win the land forces, otherwise, with Luo Liang's temperament of fighting for quick success and quick profit, after taking up the post of commander of the eastern border army of Chu State, he can still hold on to this reason." There were many skirmishes, but no large-scale wars, because they knew very well that if they started a war like this, they would definitely lose. But not necessarily. If we lose at sea first, then we will be passive. ”

Having said that, Shu Hui is also powerless, this involves the layout of the military at the national level in the past few decades, the current Qi State Naval Division, there is still strength to protect the land in close combat, but if you want to fight in the ocean, it will not work, in case you go to sea on a large scale and fall into the trap of the Chu army, and are annihilated by the Chu people in the ocean, and then the Qi country has such a long coast, it will be everywhere. It was really at that time that Qi Guo was really expelled.

This is a dilemma, if they don't dare to go to sea to intercept the Chu warships, they can only let the Chu people increase their troops towards Baoqing, which is also a big trouble for the Qi State.

"If I knew this, I should have taken down the Yue Kingdom in the first place, and I shouldn't have left them to take a breath!" He said fiercely.

Cao Tiancheng smiled: "That's so simple, if we really want to destroy the Yue Kingdom in one go, let's not say that the Yue Kingdom is really at the last moment, and it will inevitably fight to the death with us, let's just say that we really destroyed the Yue Kingdom, if we want to digest it, how many years will it take to completely rule the Yue Kingdom?" At that time, on the one hand, we had to maintain a large number of troops in the Yue Kingdom to maintain the rule, and on the other hand, we had to wage war against Qin Chu on the two battlefields at the same time. Although there is a trouble with Baoqing now, at least, the Yue State has restrained a large number of border troops of the Qin State for us, so that we can concentrate on dealing with the Chu State. ”

"Then Your Majesty, what shall we do now?" Shu Hui said with some distress.

Cao Tiancheng suddenly laughed, "This is also an opportunity for us, for Daqi, this time it is a big humiliation to retreat at sea, and to change this situation, we must strengthen the strength of the naval division, I believe that with this one thing, strengthening the strength of the naval division will no longer be hindered too much above the court, the army is too strong, and it can't fly to the sea to fight, right?" This is precisely the fact that we have changed our amphibious division as a duck. ”

"But Baoqing's side?" Shu Hui couldn't keep up with Cao Tiancheng's pace of worrying at all, "If you let the Chu army increase troops over there at will, it will be troublesome in the future, right?" ”

"Don't you have friends on any side?" Cao Tiancheng laughed and said: "The leader of the Taiping Army named Li Feng is a very interesting person, now that he has controlled Shayang County, Liu Qiutian, a thousand-year-old fox, is convinced, it's very good!" Have you done a detailed investigation of this person? ”

"This person suddenly appeared in Yanshan, and there is a group of very loyal subordinates, who should not be too old and will not exceed thirty, but he is a ninth-level master, and when he investigates forward, there is no clue at all." Shu Hui said: "More importantly, this person is ambitious, I'm afraid it will be difficult to control." ”

"A ninth-level master who is less than thirty years old, ha, he really has a bright future. No wonder he's ambitious. But we Daqi have never been afraid that someone is ambitious, Xiaohuizi, aren't you ambitious? The important thing is whether you can control these ambitious people. ”

"Your Majesty wants to use this person to curb the expansion of the Chu army in Changyang County?" Shu Hui asked.

"The people of the Yue Kingdom can't count on it, they have done their best to contain the Qin army now, tolerate the old fox Liu in the past, and now this Li Feng is entrenched in Shayang County, and after being wiped out by five thousand tigers, the army has to endure the anger to recruit An Moluo, and seal Mo Luo as the guard of Changyang County, which is the proof of the exhaustion of their national strength." Cao Tianmin knocked on the white jade face in front of him and said.

"What Your Majesty said is very true."

"We can't send troops directly to Shayang, because this will conflict with this Li Feng, and then force him to join forces with Mo Luo and even with the Chu army, so we can only learn from the Chu people, stand behind this Li Feng, give him support, and let him solve this problem for us."

"But from what I know about the Taiping Army, they will never tolerate us sending people into their system." Shu Hui groaned: "This Taiping army led by Li Feng has a strict system, in my opinion, although they are born as bandits, they are more like an army. That's where I'm confused. ”

"It's okay!" Cao Tiancheng waved his hand and said: "You can let him go and fight first, if he can't do it, he will naturally ask us for help, and then send troops and people over, it is logical." Didn't you give this Li Feng a false title of a third-level general in the Ministry of War, and after going down, tell the Ministry of War that this Li Feng was promoted to the second level. ”

"Your Majesty, this matter cannot be made public for the time being, this Li Feng has now accepted the regular army of the Yue State, and he is still a senior officer of the Yue State?" Shu Hui said with some embarrassment.

"That's it! This Li Feng is really interesting, notify left and right! Cao Tiancheng said with a smile, "Then you should use your door to do this, in short, let this Li Feng know that I, the Emperor of Qi likes him very much and attaches great importance to him, as long as he can destroy Mo Luo, what do you want, what do you have." ”

Shu Hui nodded: "Your Majesty, I understand." However, Your Majesty, I am a little worried, if this Li Feng really succeeds, defeats Mo Luo, and occupies Baoqing, his power will not be small, and it will be a little difficult to control it at that time. ”

"Again, don't be afraid of the high ability of your subordinates, ask if you have the strength to control these capable subordinates!" He leaned forward and said with a smile: "Even if this Li Feng controls Changyang and Shayang, and his power has increased greatly, on land, does he have the capital to fight with us?" Naturally not. When the time comes, he will make the right choice. ”

"Your Majesty is eloquent and strategic, so naturally you can ignore such a thing, but Weichen doesn't dare not worry about it." Shu Hui said with a smile.

"It's good to be careful, but if you shrink back because you're careful, you don't dare to do it, and you don't think about the consequences, so you're not a person who does big things." Cao Tiancheng shook his head and said.

"Yes, Your Majesty, then next, the support for the Taiping Army is still from the ghost shadow, and the fewer people who know about it, the better."

"Well, you just let it go." Cao Tiancheng nodded. (To be continued.) )