"Your Highness, it's still early, go back to the cabin to rest!" Liu Zhu saw that His Highness had been on the deck watching the sea since he left the voyage, and came to persuade him.??    ??
"No need, you're so stuffy in the cabin, so be happy outside!" Zhao Bing waved his hand and refused.
"Your Highness is still angry that you can't go to the temple to pay your respects?" Liu Zhu smiled as he looked at His Highness with a drooping face.
"Hmph, why are you angry? No one of you agrees, so what can I do!" Zhao Bing snorted coldly. After discussing that day, everyone agreed not to allow His Highness to go to Zizhou Island. Finally, he sent a mourning delegation with Deng Guangjian as the main envoy to accompany Jiang Yu.
"Your Highness, everyone is doing it for your own good..." Liu Zhu couldn't hear the taste of his words and said with a smile.
"What a nonsense. I'm coaxing me as a child all day long. I really don't know!" Zhao Bing said angrily before he could finish speaking.
"Who dares me? I'm not asking Your Highness to come and take charge this time!" Liu Zhu was not annoyed at all and said with a smile.
"It's even nonsense. I think it's almost the same thing to invite me to watch the fun!" Zhao Bing said angrily after hearing this.
"Your Highness, my subordinates are definitely not in this intention. This attack is about to happen, and your soldiers will definitely be very motivated." Liu Zhu shook his head and said.
"Haha..." Zhao Bing smiled, but sighed helplessly in his heart, "Oh, this is clearly another 'show'. If this victory is over, the credit will inevitably be added to him. The halo of the 'Young God of War' will be even brighter. They seem to be doing their own good, but in fact they are all the death talismans given to me!"
"Your Highness, Your Highness..." Liu Zhu asked carefully when he saw His Highness laughing.
"How do you plan to fight this battle?" Zhao Bing looked up at Liu Zhu and asked.
"Your Highness, there are so many people here, please move into the cabin to talk." Liu Zhu looked around. Although there were no idle people waiting, there were sailors coming and going and whispered.
"Okay!" Zhao Bing nodded and followed Liu Zhu into the cabin, listening to him introduce the combat plan to attack the Ali Hague navy...
Since the General's Mansion learned that Ali Hague collected ships in Qinzhou and Lianzhou, trained naval forces, and prepared to go into the sea to fight, Zhao Bing held many meetings with the generals. Everyone agreed that Ali Hague's target was Qiongzhou and the other was the imperial fleet. But after all, Qiongzhou was his jurisdiction, so Qiongzhou could be attacked even more. Because Qiongzhou faced the sea without a strategic depth, once the enemy was blocked at the door, it would be a life-and-death battle, so Zhao Bing's opinion was to defend the enemy from the outside and fight decisively at the sea.
All the generals thought that Zhao Bing was justified, especially after defeating Liu Shen with the navy as the main force. The Pacification Department and the General Office formulated a combat plan based on this as the guiding ideology, preset the battlefield in the waters of Lianzhou, and fought with the navy in Ali Hague, with the main combat goal of annihilation of their navy. After intensive pre-war reconnaissance, they found that the enemy navy was mainly concentrated in two ports, Hepu and Qinzhou, and the army has now been undergoing training.
Generals such as Ying Jieyan believed that the rainy season was coming, and that the wind was high and the waves were high, and the navy was not suitable to go out to sea to fight. Therefore, they should take advantage of the short time when the trade winds first started to start the battle before the enemy had not completed the training. After obtaining Zhao Bing's consent, they immediately launched a secret mobilization, replenishing supplies, and conduct pre-war reconnaissance. Just as this was the case when Jiang Wanzai fell into the water and died, his highness got angry because of this. They thought it was just a good opportunity to let His Highness inspect the navy in the battle, boost morale, and let him relax, so that he could not enjoy any of them in the mansion.
"How many troops do you plan to dispatch?" Zhao Bing asked after hearing Liu Zhu's simple battle preparations.
"Your Highness, your subordinates are preparing to dispatch six commanders of the navy and infantry troops to Chengmai and Linggao water camps, with a total of more than 200 warships and 8,000 soldiers." Liu Zhu replied.
"Well, Qinzhou has 5,000 main enemy naval troops, nearly 400 warships of all sizes and sizes, and their troops are basically the same. So how are you going to fight?" Zhao Bing nodded and asked again.
"The subordinates are planning to use one to lure the enemy out of the village to the preset sea area, then encircle and annihilate the hidden army, and then use the infantry to attack and destroy the water camp so that they cannot threaten Qiongzhou." Liu Zhu said.
"Where is the other side of Hepu?" Zhao Bing asked thoughtfully as he looked at the map.
"Your Highness, Hepu only has 2,000 enemy naval troops and more than 100 warships. It's not worth worrying. After defeating the enemy navy in Qinzhou, they will no longer have naval troops. We can turn back and attack Hepu." Liu Zhu's plan is to destroy the strong first and then attack the weak, so that the enemies cannot rescue each other.
"If you imagine attacking Qinzhou's enemy water village first, but if you enter the bay in the daytime, you will be exposed by the enemy. How can you ambush the troops?" Zhao Bing asked. Qinzhou Water Village is located at the top of Qinzhou Bay. There are Qinshui and Ruhong River influx here. It is named Maotai Sea because it looks like a cat's tail. It is about thirty miles widest from east to south, and about thirty-five miles widest from north to south. It looks like an upside-down gourd from north to south. The coastline in the bay is winding and mangroves are everywhere. Among them, there are many small islands and harbors, and there are twists and turns between islands. There is no problem hiding soldiers, but the difficulty lies in how to enter and not be revealed.
"Your Highness, these days are the tide is rising at night. We can enter the bay at night, arrange ambushes and fight again when the sky is dawn. What's wrong with it?" Liu Zhu asked.
"It's very inappropriate. Qinzhou is stationed by ten thousand enemies of Lu Buhua, and there are ten thousand infantry and cavalry troops. Do you think you can capture Qinzhou Water Village with only six commanded infantry?" Zhao Bing said, "There are also the enemy water troops stationed in Hepu who learned that Qinzhou was attacked and all came to aid in less than half a day. Once the bay is blocked, you will be unable to advance or retreat, and your back is attacked."
"Your Highness, Qinzhou and Hepu are two hundred miles away, and now it is the northeast wind again. It is the wind they come to. How could they arrive in such a short time!" Liu Zhu smiled and shook his head, obviously thinking that His Highness's worries were unnecessary.
"It is the time for trade winds to interact. The wind directions often change during the day and night. Now it is winter. The water from the outer sea goes north along the east side of the bay, and the water in the bay goes south along the west side to form a circulation. Even if you only use the power of the ocean currents, you can reach it within half a day." Zhao Bing's finger on the map drew the passage counterclockwise.
"I haven't thought about this, so what if we fight Hepu first?" Liu Zhu's face was no longer relaxed after hearing this, and cold sweat flowed down his neck. If he followed this plan, he might be blocked by the enemy in the bay. Not to mention winning, it is hard to say whether he can break through. He said with some fear.
"It's not appropriate. What would you do if your Lingao Water Village was compromised?" Zhao Bing asked instead of answering.
"Of course, I must be careful and patrol day and night to prevent the enemy from attacking!" Liu Zhu said without hesitation.
Chapter completed!