It was four o'clock in the afternoon.

In the harbor of Kalihet, the children of Jiangdong were busy with things such as treating personnel and repairing ships, while Zhou Yu was sitting on the deck at the bow of the ship, and his fingers were pulling the chess pieces on the chessboard in front of him.

"Brother Zhong!"

Sun Shangxiang, who was still dressed in military uniform, came to Zhou Yu's side. In this naval battle, the fleet led by Sun Shangxiang is of the nature of joining halfway, compared to Zhou Yu's fleet and the rest fleet who played a night of chasing battles, the fatigue of Sun Shangxiang's fleet is not so high, so when the rest fleet broke through the siege and left, he was also responsible for the expulsion and vigilance of the rest fleet.

At this moment, Sun Shangxiang looked at the chessboard in front of Zhou Yu and said with a smile: "Why did Brother Zhong suddenly be so interested in playing chess by himself?" ”

Zhou Yu turned his head and raised his face to look at Sun Shangxiang, but this one stayed up all night with a fierce battle, and his bloodshot eyes made Sun Shangxiang a little startled. But then again, although these eyes were already bloodshot, at the moment when they turned their heads to look at Sun Shangxiang, there was still a trace of essence flashing.

Sun Shangxiang was sturdy when he saw Zhou Yu's appearance, and then said with concern: "Brother Zhong, you were tired for a day and a night yesterday, so you better go and rest early...... Speaking of which, you're over fifty years old, don't be as tireless as when you were young, okay? ”

Zhou Yu smiled indifferently: "It's okay, I'm also a person who has been in front of the battle for a long time, and it's not a big deal if I don't sleep all night." By the way, Shang Xiang, how do you feel about this battle? ”

Sun Shangxiang raised her eyebrows, and her excitement was overflowing: "It's enjoyable!" Seriously, it's the first time I've fought such an enjoyable battle in so many years. ”

That's not an exaggeration. At the beginning, when Sun Shangxiang was still her county lord and little girl in Jiangdong, there was no battle to fight at all, and Sun Quan would not let Sun Shangxiang lead the troops to fight. Later, I went to Lu Ren as a hostage, and I got some battles on the side of Wajima, but ...... Forget it, let's not talk about the battles she fought on Wajima. Perhaps none of those battles can be called battles, at best they can only be regarded as group brawls.

Later, with the development of the current situation, Sun Shangxiang followed Zhou Yu to fight a few times in Juyong Pass, but in general, it was mainly small-scale sneak attacks and guerrillas, and then followed Zhou Yu to sail out to sea. Until recently, he followed Zhou Yu to Kalihet, and Zhou Yu has been playing stuffy stick tactics against Nagopur, and there is nothing serious to talk about.

Therefore, this naval battle is actually the first formal and large-scale battle that Sun Shangxiang has fought until now, and he has won, do you think Sun Shangxiang can be excited about this? It's just that compared to Zhou Yu, Sun Shangxiang won't understand what kind of historical significance such a naval battle has.

Zhou Yu looked at Sun Shangxiang's excited appearance, but sighed secretly in his heart. As Sun Shangxiang's middle brother, Zhou Yu actually knows how Sun Shangxiang feels now, and has felt sorry for Sun Shangxiang more than once that she is a girl rather than a boy. Now seeing Sun Shangxiang is also a rare refreshment, Zhou Yu didn't want to spoil Sun Shangxiang's interest, just smiled and looked at the chessboard in front of him again.

Sun Shangxiang was excited, of course she wanted to find someone to talk to, but when she saw Zhou Yu looking at the chessboard again, she inevitably felt a little depressed in her heart. However, Sun Shangxiang wouldn't bother Zhou Yu too much, so he took a closer look at the chessboard, and then frowned slightly: "What kind of chess game is this?" ”

But see that on this chessboard, in the middle of the abdomen are dozens of sunspots that are hugged together and have living eyes, and outside this group of sunspots is a circle of whites, it seems that two white dragons surround the sunspots, but the enclosure is thin and there is an obvious gap, so if the blackster wants to kill out of the gap, it is still very promising.

Sun Shangxiang only knows a little bit about Go, and he can't understand the chess game set by Zhou Yu. Fortunately, Zhou Yu said at this time: "I still don't know about your two stinky chess skills?" Okay, don't think too much, it's not a chess game, it's a battle of ours. ”

Sun Shangxiang reacted when Zhou Yu reminded him like this. Indeed, the two white dragons on the outside are like the two fleets of himself and Zhou Yu before, while the black spot in the middle is like a fleet of rest. After a few more glances, Sun Shangxiang finally saw something and asked, "Brother Zhong, if we insisted on intercepting and culling at that time, we could actually eat all these sunspots, right?" ”

Zhou Yu nodded: "It is very likely that all the sunspots will be culled, but it is also very likely that one of our two white dragons will be broken." ”

Speaking of this, Zhou Yu sighed heavily: "Shang Xiang, do you think I don't want to extinguish all these sunspots here?" But in that case, we don't know how much we have to fight...... I can't bear it! ”

Of course, Sun Shangxiang understood the meaning of Zhou Yu's words, but he was also a little helpless.

In fact, Zhou Yu's heart was also very depressed at this time. Zhou Yu understood the historical significance of this naval battle, so at the beginning, Zhou Yu had the idea of winning a beautiful total annihilation and first killing even if he fought for all the five thousand Jiangdong disciples. But Zhou Yu is not Lu Ren's person after all, and it is impossible for him to have no selfishness in his heart, not to mention that Zhou Yu's most fundamental purpose is to bring back a well-honed Jiangdong disciple, so in the end, he chose to change annihilation to repulsion, and retain a little more elite for Jiangdong. In this way, the effect of this naval battle in some things will be reduced, and it will naturally affect the evaluation of Zhou Yu in the future, so Zhou Yu's heart will be so depressed. But there is no way, it will always be difficult to have both.

The two were silent for a while, but Sun Shangxiang reached out and patted Zhou Yu's shoulder, and comforted: "Brother Zhong, there is nothing wrong with you doing this, even if you are a little selfish, but at least we drove away the rest fleet, so we still have an explanation for Mr. Lu." Besides, with my understanding of Mr. Lu, he actually understands many things better than anyone else, so as long as I can give him an explanation, he will not embarrass us. ”

Zhou Yu smiled and nodded to Sun Shangxiang, but the depression in his heart couldn't fade for a while. And once many things are missed, there will be no chance in the future.

Fu sighed secretly, and Zhou Yu asked, "Has the telegram been sent?" ”

Sun Shangxiang nodded: "Yesterday, when you sent a boat back to report to me, I took a picture of the telegram, and then I took another one on the way back just now." ”

Zhou Yu said: "Can Lu Nanhai call back?" ”

Sun Shangxiang's face suddenly became a little ugly: "I just went back." It's just, it's just that after asking us about the situation here, he told us to return Ceylon immediately. ”

Zhou Yu was also stunned when he heard this: "Return Ceylon?" Why? ”

Sun Shangxiang shook his head: "I don't understand either, but it's inconvenient to ask, and I want to ask Brother Zhong if you can figure out anything." ”

Zhou Yu was silent again when he heard this. After pondering for a long time, Zhou Yu nodded lightly and said, "Order the ships, and after completing the things at hand, move the things that should be moved onto the ship and return them to Ceylon for the time being." ”

Sun Shangxiang was stunned: "Really return to Ceylon?" And what about Kalihet here? ”

Zhou Yu said: "Maybe Lu Nanhai is also afraid that if our five thousand Jiangdong disciples are really gone, he will not be able to explain to Zhongmou, right?" But ......"

Saying that, Zhou Yu glanced at the dock of Kalihet, shook his head lightly, and said, "The current Kaliheit is indeed inconvenient to defend and fight. ”

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said that Lu Ren was really afraid that Zhou Yu and Sun Shangxiang would kill all the 5,000 Jiangdong disciples at this time. If that really happens, do you know how difficult it will be for Lu Ren to explain at the diplomatic level? And people's words are terrifying, in case someone who wants to do something says that Lu Ren deliberately let the Jiangdong disciples go to death, then Lu Ren's trouble will be big, and there will be people who can't speak clearly.

Maybe at this time, some people will say that since this is the case, what are you Lu Ren asking Zhou Yu and Sun Shangxiang to do in Kalihet?

In fact, before Lu Ren would approve Zhou Yu and Sun Shangxiang to go to Kalihet, there was a very important reason that Lu Ren's generals and soldiers on hand could not be turned around for a while, so they would let Zhou Yu and Sun Shangxiang go to fight the strikers first.

In addition, Huang Zhong had mentioned to Lu Ren that Nagopur wanted to surrender to Lu Ren and sacrifice his daughter, but Lu Ren judged that Nagopur was not a decent person, so sending Zhou Yu and Sun Shangxiang to Kalihet could only be a share of Nagopur's being played by Zhou Yu. In other words, there will be no danger for Zhou Yu and Sun Shangxiang to go to Kalihat, and Lu Ren can rest assured.

It is said that there is nothing wrong with this arrangement, and the only variable can only be on the rest side, but Lu Ren also made a mistake of inertial thinking at this time, that is, Lu Ren thinks that rest and Rome are currently in a state of exhaustion and want a truce. And since the rest is in such a state, it should not have the ability to send the fleet out, at least not for a short time.

After all, if the Navy were to act, it would be much more cumbersome and more expensive than the ground forces. And the rest is already in a state of exhaustion, and the costs associated with dispatching a large-scale navy should not be able to be paid.

But what Lu Ren didn't expect was that the rest of the navy, under Wan'er's strict requirements for Cass Yili, had its own relatively independent operation system. To put it bluntly, there is no money in the army, and there is still money available in the navy. Kasy Eli once mobilized resources from the navy to support the army because of the shortage of the army, but was severely criticized by Wan'er afterwards.

No more. In a word, although Lu Ren had asked Zhou Yu to pay attention to rest in Zhou Yu's previous phone call, it was only to be on guard, because Lu Ren did not think that the rest of the navy could come to India in a short time. Then when he suddenly received the relevant telegram from Sun Shangxiang last night, Lu Ren was shocked into a cold sweat at that time, and immediately understood that he had made the mistake of inertial thinking. However, in order not to affect Zhou Yu and Sun Shangxiang's on-the-spot battle, Lu Ren also suppressed the anxiety in his heart and did not call to ask.

In this way, it was not until the battle between Zhou Yu and Sun Shangxiang here was over and Lu Ren sent a telegram of victory that Lu Ren finally breathed a sigh of relief. Then he asked about the specific balance of forces between the enemy and us, as well as the information from the enemy prisoners, and the final losses of the enemy and the enemy in this naval battle, Lu Ren knew that Zhou Yu and Sun Shangxiang could not be allowed to stay with Kalihet anymore.

In terms of the balance of strength between the enemy and us, it is sixty-seven for rest than fifty-two for Zhou Yu and Sun Shangxiang...... The second here refers to Zhou Yu and Sun Shangxiang's respective ships, which are not directly counted in the five groups of Jiangdong's disciples. Although Lu Ren's military ability is not good, but after so many years, he always has some good military experience, so Lu Ren understands that the rest of the sixty-seven must be just the vanguard fleet of rest, and if nothing else, there will definitely be a larger fleet behind.

Lu Ren has arranged for a detailed work to go to the rest side, although the information transmission is not smooth, and the radio station or anything can't go to the rest side, but there is always some information that can be transmitted back, so Lu Ren knows that the current size of the rest of the navy is probably more than 200 large and small ships. And this time there are sixty-seven ships in the vanguard fleet, so the navy that is not sure about the rest of the country will come out of the nest this time.

Then the news of the prisoner's confession also confirmed Lu Ren's conjecture. The total number of ships sent by Anxi this time is more than 170, and this is still the number of pure warships excluding logistics ships. In other words, rest is that only a small number of alert ships are left, and the main fleet is really pouring out to kill India.

Lu Ren didn't know that this was the result of Wan'er's stern warning to Cass Eli, and after Kasi Eli understood the result of being driven to rest by Lu Ren's fleet, she immediately decided to concentrate her forces on a thunderous blow and block Lu Ren from the door of Rest's house first. If Lu Ren's fleet was really pushed into the area near the Persian Gulf, then it would be troublesome to rest here. It is for this reason that the line of Bombay, Kalhiat, and Ceylon has become very important for the present Sabbath.

These are at the strategic level, and the losses of the rest fleet and the fleets of Zhou Yu and Sun Shangxiang in this naval battle provide Lu Ren with information about the combat effectiveness of the rest ships to a certain extent.

In total, there were 67 resting ships, including 5 large ships, 22 medium ships, and 30 small ships. Zhou Yu and Sun Shangxiang's fleet consisted of five plus two large warships, fifteen medium-sized warships, and thirty small warships, and the combat power of the two sides was roughly the same. And the final result of the battle damage was that Zhou Yu had the upper hand, and the loss was a little smaller than that of rest.

On this basis, taking into account Zhou Yu's ambush, then Lu Ren did not take advantage of it very much. Lu Ren's final calculation was that if the combat power of his own ship was one hundred, then the combat power of a ship of the same type should be ninety, so it was not so easy to deal with it......