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The Huai River has a thousand miles east and west, and has been a natural boundary that must be fought for by military strategists from both north and south since ancient times.

However, such an important point has made the attack and defense clear of the attack and defense.

At present, the Huai Army is in an offensive position, while the Qin Army is on the defensive side.

In spring and summer, when the Huai Army attacked and occupied the sky, they could use the crisscrossing water network to quickly move north. But they were facing the Qin army, and the Qin army claimed to have the strongest naval division in the world. Although different from the inland water division owned by the Huai Army, the Qin army's naval division was mainly offshore naval divisions, but at this time, the rivers were full, and the Qin army's naval fleet was as free as the Huai River. In comparison, the Qin army's navy was not inferior to the Huai Army's naval divisions.

The Qin army also had a navy, and the Qin army was on the defensive side and could defend the river and occupy the advantage of the territory.

Responding to changes in the same way is Li Jing’s temporary plan.

The Huai River is so long, but the Huai Army's breakthrough and crossing the river are just a few places, Yingkou, Wokou, and Sikou. Now the General Staff has analyzed and judged that Gao Jie's troops who agreed with Li Jing's proposal of Yingkou and Wokou were only suspicious soldiers, so the only attack point of the Huai Army was left is Sikou.

Until now, the General Staff also adjusted its combat plan. While drawing navy troops into the four major rivers of Huaihe River, Bianhe River, Yellowhe River and Jihe River, secretly transferred their troops to Lianshui, east of Sizhou, to stay in the second city, but left half of the troops in Linhuai, Sizhou.

On Li Jing's side, although Xuzhou has not yet been taken, it occupied Sizhou. He was full of initiative when guarding Sishui. Sishui was connected to Yishui in the east, directly to Qingzhou. Through Xuzhou in the north, then directly dug the canal connecting the Jishui and the Yellow River, connecting with Yan and Qi prefectures, and directly to Hebei. Moreover, Sishui is also connected to the Bian River in the west and the Huai River in the south.

The Huai River runs east-west and separates north-south, while the Si River is connected to all parts, connecting the entire eastern part of Henan. This area is both water-wide and flat, and it has an adaptable side to the army in the south and the army in the north.

At this time, Li Jing had already assembled 40,000 troops in Sizhou and guarded the north bank of the Huai River. Behind them are the three estuaries: Huanhuo entering the Huai River, Bian River entering the Huai River, and Sishui entering the Huai River. With these waterways, plus the Yishui River channel, Li Jing could draw troops from Ziqing, Yanqi, Song Cao at any time to go south to reinforce.

However, the current forces of the Huai Army must rely on sufficient naval forces to fight this battle. The Huai Army does not lack naval forces. Huainan Town is located in the north of the Huai River and leans against the Yangtze River in the south. The inland naval forces are huge. However, if you want to fight with the Qin army on the Huai River, you must go north from the canal and enter the Huai River. This entry estuary is in the important town of Chuzhou, Chuzhou, and the other side is the Lianshui River in Sizhou to the east. A little west is the estuary of Sishui River, and the opposite Huainan is Sikou.

In Sikou, Gao Yu got up early in the morning and climbed up the tower to observe the enemy situation.

After a night, there were many more Qin Navy warships in the Huaihe River. In the past two days, a new batch of navy warships have arrived every day. These Qin Navy navys rushed towards them like cats that smelled fishy.

Gao Yu silently counted the warships on the river on the tower. Soon, he had already counted about 500 warships of all sizes, including ten of the five-story tower ships, and more than 30 fighting ships on the third floor. The remaining medium-sized sea falcons had a large number of ships. In addition, there were many boats, yachts, charge boats, etc.

If these warships are fully loaded, they can load at least 30,000 people, or even up to 50,000 people.

Gao Yu's face became increasingly ugly. He suspected that the Qin army had discovered the reality and reality of their side. Otherwise, even if the Qin army increased its troops, it would not be possible to transfer the main force to Sikou, but should stay in Linhuai.

It’s not that Gao Yu didn’t want to attack early. Three days ago, Zeng Yuanyu on the other side had only 20,000 troops, but now he may have 50,000.

But if he wanted to go north and cross such a wide Huai River, especially facing the Qin army guarding the shore with the navy, Gao Yu could only wait for his navy to come.

Compared with the Qin army's naval division, the Huai army's naval division seemed to be somewhat invisible, as if the city people were clearly divided between the country people. The Qin army had several large shipyards and dozens of small and medium-sized shipyards. In recent years, Dengzhou and Liaonan sea trade was prosperous, and the shipbuilding industry was extremely developed. Li Jing had several large shipyards to make warships, which made the Qin army's naval division's warships all extremely beautiful and powerful warships. Compared with the large number of naval divisions composed of ordinary merchant ships on the Huai army, it was simply from heaven to earth. Therefore, the real soldiers and horses of the Huai army's northern expedition were 80,000 troops from the three armies of the cavalry and the water, including more than 2,000 ships of the navy.

The Huainan Army is not without money, but at the same time, there is no need for such huge tower ships at ordinary times, and Huainan also lacks a powerful shipyard. Sometimes, even if you have money, you must be able to buy anything.

Gao Yu knew that his uncle handed over the main force of the Northern Expedition to him, and he was also dissatisfied with the public. Even the Forty-five Lang Gao Jie took the credit for the attack on Haozhou, but was suddenly transferred to Huaixi to command a group of civilians as suspicious soldiers, and all the soldiers under him were handed over to him, and he was very dissatisfied.

However, Gao Pian was able to hand over such an important task to him, not only because he was his nephew. If it were said, Gao Jie had just captured Haozhou, and had previously served as the governor of Yanzhou, and served as the commander of the coastal naval army. He was no less suitable than him as the commander of the Northern Expedition. One step further, there were also generals such as Liang Zhang, Yu Gongchu, and Yao Guili in the army, but in the end the position of the commander of the head of the commander of the head of the Northern Expedition.

In addition to being Gao Jie's brother, Gao Pian's nephew, and a member of the Gao family, what is more important is that he has always been more important than Gao Jie in Gao Pian's eyes, which naturally means that he is more capable than Gao Jie. Of course, it is not ruled out that he is the general this time, which also confuses the Qin army.

Gao Jie had already won Haozhou before, but was still replaced, which fully demonstrated Gao Pian's determination to win Xuzhou and Haozhou this time.

Li Jing wanted to eat the Invasion Army, and his uncle also wanted to eat the Invasion Army, which moved his whole body with one move. Originally, the battle was a quick battle, but he knew very well that there was only one chance to seize Xu Hao. If the first attack was not won, then there would be no chance again, at least it would be difficult to have a chance in the short term.

Therefore, Gao Yu suppressed his subordinates' request to attack immediately in the past two days. Instead, he was waiting for the arrival of the subsequent troops of the Huai Army Navy.

He looked at the Qin Navy in the river. The warships were luxurious and tall, with strict flags. Even if they were just patrols at this time, they still had an orderly array on the river.

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He understood the sarcastic smile, but he had never heard of the meaning of the middle finger before. He probably thought it was a gesture of mockery and contempt from the Northeast or somewhere in the Khitan. Thinking of this, Gao Yu couldn't help but raise a middle finger at the officer, and then he clearly saw that the other party's face was stunned for a moment.

The other Huai Army officers who also held the thousand-mile mirror could not help but clamor when they saw the Qin army was so rude.

"Young marshal, when the last general goes out to fight for a while, these Liaogou know that our Huai Army is not easy to mess with!" The first person who couldn't help was Gao Yu's deputy general Chen Gong, who was also an old general who was very trusted by Gao Pian. This time, as Gao Pian's deputy general, this time, it was Gao Pian's intention to supervise Gao Yu on his behalf.

As soon as Chen Gong asked for a fight, the generals responded one after another, Feng Shou, Yu Gongchu, Yao Guili, Dong Jin and others said in a verbal manner: "That's right, can you still be afraid of these Liao dogs!"

"Give them a certain hundred ships and immediately destroy their arrogance!"

Gao Yu only heard a few words and said coldly: "The prince of the county is the commander, and those who have no commander to attack without permission will be executed immediately!"

In an instant, everyone became quiet.

Although Gao Yu was a little younger and the generals spoke just now, they were dissatisfied with Gao Yu's opportunity to make noise, but when Gao Yu said such words, naturally no one dared to continue to rely on his seniority.

"My generals, don't lose the big picture because of a small loss." Gao Yu lowered his tone, "My generals should know that we are still in a secret state. After we concentrate our strength, we will catch Li Jing off guard and decide Xu Si in one battle. Now, because of the opponent's provocation, we will rush out. Even if we destroy the opponent, we will only expose our strength at this time and let the opponent guess our full offensive intention."

The Huai Army has arranged a maze and mobilized troops and horses everywhere. On the surface, there are only a few thousand people. Although Gao Yu suspected that the Chen army had mastered their plans, it is not the time to act rashly.

He also wanted to do something earlier. If he wanted to blame, he would blame the damn Liang Zhang for capsizing the ship in Hu Douzhou, resulting in a group of ships being transferred to Hu Douzhou and was wiped out. Once Hu Douzhou was defeated, Yangzhou had to make adjustments to deal with Zhou Bao, which made Gao Yu's soldiers and ships unable to arrive for a long time, and the offensive plan was repeatedly postponed.

In the Qin Navy Camp on the other side of Sikou, Li Jing saw the squadron coming back from changing defenses. After a while, Li Xu walked in.

Li Jing did not show his own flag at this time. He stayed in the tent of the leader of the Nutao Army Li Xu, and was sitting beside him. At this time, there were two leader Megan, Julie, and naval generals such as Zhang Lie and Meng Yang.

When Li Xu came in, he saw that everyone looked unhappy. Just now, Li Jing conveyed to the generals of the navy that the entire army of Hu Douzhou Jianghai Town was wiped out, the first fleet of the navy Lingbo Army was wiped out, and the leader of the Lingbo Army Wu Qian was killed in battle.

As the leader of the Lingbo Army, one of the four naval armies, Wu Qian was called the Four Dragons of the Navy together with Meghan, Julie and Li Xu. However, now, Wu Qian, as the veteran of the Navy, has been killed in battle. The entire Lingbo Fleet of the Navy was wiped out, which was a huge blow to the entire navy. In the years since the establishment of the Navy, it has never been wiped out by the entire army like this.

Especially at this time, Zhang Lie, the wing leader of the second fleet of the Lingbo Army, Meng Yang, the wing leader of the Third Fleet, Wang Qingcheng, the wing leader of the Fourth Fleet, and Zhao Kai, the wing leader of the Fleet, were all even more gritted and extremely angry. If it weren't for their four fleets' orders to go north to cooperate with Zeng Yuanyu's offensive against Mi, Hai, Yi and Sizhou, if they stayed in Hudouzhou and had a complete Lingbo Army, they wouldn't have to be afraid of the Huai Army's surprise attack, and the first fleet and the ninth and eighteenth townships would have been wiped out.

"Why, the other party was not provoked by you?" Li Jing saw Li Xu coming in and asked out loud, breaking the dull atmosphere in the tent.

Li Xu shook his head and told him the details.

After pinching his chin and pondering for a while, Li Jing became more and more determined in his mind. The real main force of the Huai Army must be in Huaixi, and it is very likely that it is in Huaikou opposite here. However, the accuracy still needs to be verified.

His eyes swept over Zhang Lie and other officers of Lingbo Army who were still immersed in grief, anger, and self-blame, and spoke: "I will give you a chance to avenge Wu Qian and the First Fleet. Tonight you can lead the fleet to attack the opposite Huai Army camp. Who do you want to go?"

As soon as Li Jing's words fell, Zhang Lie, Meng Yang, Zhao Kai, and Wang Qingcheng all stood up and replied loudly: "Please ask for a fight."

Even the three military leaders, Julie, Meghan and Li Xu, spoke together and were willing to lead their troops to the scene.
Chapter completed!