The southern shore of the Persian Gulf, Muscat.

"What do you say? Hassan Que was assassinated!? ”

At this time, Lu Ren was dealing with the official document at hand, and suddenly heard the news brought by Minchan, and people were stunned at that time. When he came back to his senses, Lu Ren immediately asked, "Are you dead?" ”

Minchan shook her head: "No." According to the detailed work, although Hassan Ke was seriously injured, because he did not hurt the vital injury, his life was not in serious danger, and at most he was only unable to move. ”

Lu Ren put aside the pen in his hand, and the person also left the table, pacing back and forth in the cabin. After a while, Lu Ren said to Minchan: "Go and call Gongjin, Old Man Huang, Xingba, and Meng Qi to a meeting immediately." ”

Minchan left in response, and soon after, a group of high-ranking generals under Lu Ren's command came to Lu Ren's ship conference cabin. Seeing that everyone had arrived, Lu Ren asked Minchan to tell the news she had just received, and then knocked on the table and said, "Everyone, although I haven't received the news from the Sassanid family here, I believe that this matter should be the work of the assassins sent by the Sassanid family." But let's not talk about him for now, I just want to ask you what you think about this. ”

Everyone present first looked at each other, and then they all focused their eyes on Zhou Yu...... Although Zhou Yu is Sun Quan's person, his identity here in Lu Ren is a senior staff officer, and his personal relationship with Lu Ren's side is also very good, and Zhou Yu's ability is indeed convincing.

Zhou Yu saw that everyone's eyes were looking at him, so he shook his head and smiled: "Such a simple matter, I believe everyone here should have understood who did it." Obviously, the Sassanid family's intention to do this is nothing more than to cause chaos on the north shore by assassinating Hassank, so as to give Lu Nanhai a chance to take advantage of the chaos to attack. ”

Everyone nodded in unison, and Lu Ren asked, "Then Gong Jin, do you think we should launch a large-scale attack now?" ”

Zhou Yu shook his head: "It's hard to say, because I don't have exact information here on some things, so it's inconvenient to make a judgment too early." ”

Lu Ren raised his eyebrows: "What information does Gong Jin want to know?" ”

Zhou Yu said: "It's what the situation of the Sassanid family is in the Palsis region now. ”

Lu Ren nodded, and then looked at Minchan. Minchan understood, and told Lu Ren about the current situation of the Sassanid family. After listening to this, Zhou Yu lowered his head and pondered for a long time before raising his head and saying to Lu Ren very seriously: "If this is the case, then I'm afraid Lu Nanhai, you really can't watch the fire from the other side here on the south coast." ”

Lu Ren said: "Why? ”

Zhou Yu said: "Lu Nanhai, you have been here on the south bank for so long, and you have not launched any large-scale attacks on the north bank, although there is some intention to stabilize the situation on the south bank, but the most fundamental purpose is to wait for the civil strife to rest intensify. Now the situation of the Sassanid family is not optimistic, and even such a trick has been used, which can only show that if it continues like this, the Sassanid family is afraid that it will really not last long. ”

Saying that, Zhou Yu paused, looked around at the crowd, and then continued: "Breaking through the defense on the north shore is just Lu Nanhai's first step for you to rest in peace, and then you have to fight the royal city of rest, and there are still many battles to be fought. Now that the situation of the Sassanid family is becoming more and more dangerous, if you don't hurry up at this time to let them breathe a sigh of relief, and let them be swept away by the resting royal family, then after Lu Nanhai sets foot on the land of rest, there will be one less force that can help Lu Nanhai share part of the resting forces. ”

Lu Ren nodded, and then asked the others, "What do you mean?" ”

Gan Ning opened his mouth: "The last general thinks that what Zhou Gongjin said is not bad. At this time, if you still wait and see like this, once the Sassanid family is really settled by the rest royal family, then the lord will have to face all the troops of rest alone, which is not cost-effective. ”

Lu Ren looked at the other people again, and the other people also expressed their approval, so Lu Ren nodded vigorously and said, "In this case, everyone will go back to make final preparations, and start attacking the north shore at eight o'clock in the morning according to the sortie sequence we agreed on before." But ......"

Saying that, Lu Ren smiled again: "Fight and fight, but don't fight too fiercely, the first principle is to reduce the number of casualties of our soldiers as much as possible." To put it simply, when you find that you need to pay a lot of casualties to get a point, then you would rather not fight it. Got it? ”

Lu Ren's words made everyone stunned, and then Huang Zhong asked puzzledly: "Lord, what do you mean by this?" ”

Among the crowd, only Zhou Yu was the first to react, and said with a smile: "Does Lu Nanhai mean that although Hassan Keyin was assassinated and injured, his people are still there, and he can still control the situation on the north shore, so we are going all out to attack the north bank at this time, and Hassan Keyin can still make effective commands?" ”

Lu Ren said: "That's what it means. If Hassan had been killed by the Sassanid Assassins, I would have not hesitated to order the attack, but Hassan was only seriously wounded, so it did not affect his command very much. And we have to admit that although this Hassan Keyin was once our defeated man, this guy does have good military talents, at least the defense system he has put together on the north shore is quite a headache for us, if we attack on all fronts, it will only bring too many unnecessary casualties to our soldiers. ”

Zhou Yu nodded sympathetically: "Yes, this Hassan Keyin is indeed a good general." If I had any chance, I'd love to have a fair fight with him. ”

Lu Renxin said that you Zhou Yu want to have a "fair" contest with Hassanke? Then Hassan Keyin will most likely be played to death by you Zhou Gongjin, right? Hassan Keyin's ability is good, but if it is expressed in numerical values, the command value is eighty nods, and the intelligence is only about seventy, and you Zhou Yu These two values are more than ninety and close to the cap, you two are not on the same level at all, okay?

The reason why Hassan Ke can withstand it now is that on the one hand, as the defender, he has a lot of home conveniences such as geographical advantages, logistics, and troop resources, and on the other hand, Lu Ren is unwilling to cause excessive losses here in consideration of the follow-up operations and the situation on the Huaxia side. If you don't take these things into account, you will directly order a full-scale attack on the north shore, and it won't take too long to break through the defense of the north bank. It's just that in that case, Lu Ren's current army of 80,000 gathered here in the Persian Gulf will have to pay more than 20,000 to say the least, which is too cost-effective.

Therefore, Lu Ren now ordered all his troops to attack, which can be regarded as an increase in scale on the basis of the previous small-scale tentative attacks, but it is not a comprehensive and thorough general attack. From a military perspective, Lu Ren is using these to expand the scale and relatively more effective attacks, to find or create better decisive battle fighters for his own side; From a strategic point of view, this can be regarded as a kind of response to the Sassanid family, telling the Sassanid family that Lu Ren is not idle, but is actively attacking the north bank.

The effect of this is equivalent to a shot in the arm for the Sassanid family. It is said that "put death and then live", the current Sassanid family is already that virtue, and suddenly seeing that Lu Ren's attack on the north bank has become much more active, they will naturally work harder to fight against Cassili's Sabbath army, and then they will naturally become more and more entangled with the Sabbath army...... Anyway, to put it simply, Lu Ren wants to force out the last "bottom force" of the Sassanid family, so that they can further entangle Kasili's forces on the other side of Parcis, so as to facilitate Lu Ren's arrangement.

In addition to these, Lu Ren also had a very important reason why he didn't tell everyone at this time, and this reason was that Lu Lan was already on the way back. And what did Lu Lan mean on the way back? That is, the Roman side has received the news of the war situation resting on this side of the Persian Gulf, and then after Lu Lan's repeated persuasion, as well as Rome's own repeated deliberations, it has finally decided to take this opportunity to launch a new offensive against the Armenian region, and is now preparing for the attack.

In other words, Lu Ren was waiting for the military action on the Roman side. The battle on the other side of Rome has not yet started, why are you in such a hurry to fight so fiercely? And now he is expanding the scale of some attacks, but he is not going all out, on the one hand, he is giving the Sassanid family a shot in the arm so that the Sassanid family can hold on, and on the other hand, he is using these military actions to show a sincerity to the Roman side, so that the Roman side will not be so suspicious, so as to seriously launch an attack on Armenia. And at that time, it was time for Lu Ren to really launch an all-out attack on Anxi......

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Lu Ren didn't say much in advance, but when he arrived at the command center of the rest of the garrison on the north shore, a "distinguished guest" suddenly came today.

said that it was a "distinguished guest", but in fact, the status of the person who came was not high, and it should even be said that it was a little humble, but it was just a big man represented by the person...... Forget it, don't talk nonsense, the person who came here at this time is actually Wan'er's personal maid Vanilla in the palace of rest.

Because of such a big incident as the assassination, of course, Hassan would have been reported back to the city of Rest as soon as possible, and Kass Eli was really frightened at that time. It's all old fritters in the political arena, how can she not know what kind of bad consequences Hasanke will have if she accidentally hangs up at this time?

Fortunately, Hassanke's life was great, although he was assassinated at that time, but he was not seriously injured, but he was only injured that was more serious but not life-threatening, and he was still able to insist on commanding the defensive operations on the north shore, which made Kass Eli greatly relieved. It's just that you can't keep letting Hassan Lane "work with injuries" like this, right? If that's the case, under the work with injuries, the plan is not worried about life, and the injury will be more and more serious, and the result will be life-threatening.

So after asking about the situation, Kasy immediately ran to Wan'er and asked Wan'er to help Hassan Keyin heal her injuries. It's just that Wan'er is busy with some things at hand because of the current not very good situation, and people can't leave at all, so she found some special medicine and handed it to Vanilla, who rushed to Hassan Keyin to treat Hassankein's injuries.

Speaking of which, at the moment, only Vanilla can do this job, after all, Vanilla is Wan'er's personal maid, and for many years when Wan'er was playing with magic sticks...... It's a bit too much to say this, anyway, Wan'er often treats people for medical treatment, and vanilla, who is Wan'er's personal maid, naturally becomes Wan'er's only assistant. In modern terms, Wan'er is like the attending physician, and Vanilla is equivalent to the head nurse next to the attending physician, and in most cases, it will only be the head nurse who really goes into battle to do things, but not the attending physician.

Okay, don't talk about these things, anyway, Vanilla rushed to Hassan Keyin with the special medicine given by Wan'er. As the "head nurse" by Wan'er's side, Vanilla's medical experience is also very rich, and with the special medicine given by Wan'er, Hassan Keyin's injuries were quickly stabilized. However, Hassanke's injuries don't heal so quickly, so Vanilla has to stay here for a while.

The identity is special, the task is special, and the vanilla itself is also a beauty of the Persian system, so the vanilla naturally received a lot of courtesy and preferential treatment from Hassan Keyin at this time. In other words, Vanilla could walk around Hassankein's barracks at will at this time without anyone stopping him.

At this time, Lu Ren's attack on the north shore has been strengthened a lot, and after days of fighting, it can basically be said that the rest of the head is not peaceful, and under Lu Ren's attack, there are not a few people who are injured in the rest of the defenders. And vanilla is the "head nurse" next to Wan'er, and she can't squat a little when she squats in the house all day long, so at this time, she volunteered to act as a field nurse and actively treat the rest of the defenders.

After nightfall, Vanilla also finished the day's busyness and came to the high platform near the sea to blow the wind and rest.

To be clear, the place where vanilla is now located is the future Bandar Abbas, that is, directly opposite the protruding corner on the southern shore of the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf. And this is almost the narrowest point in the entire Persian Gulf, with less than 60 kilometers between the shores.

Sixty kilometers was a lot of distance in that era, but you must know that after Lu Ren ordered to expand the scale of the attack on the north shore, Lu Ren's naval fleet raised a distance in front and set up a camp on the water, so the front end of Lu Ren's naval fleet was only a dozen kilometers away from the north shore.

It's not that Lu Ren's head is too big, but at this time, there is not much left of the mobile force of the rest navy, and the number of warships is less than sixty, and in the face of Lu Ren's water village, which is composed of nearly 300 warships and arranged by water battle strongmen like Zhou Yu and Gan Ning, Hassan Keyin has no courage to let the remaining mobile forces take the initiative to attack. On the other hand, Lu Ren also hopes that you, Hassan Keyin, can send all the remaining fifty or so warships of the Rest Navy to die......