Chapter 111 Calculation

And Liu Jiang had just sneaked back to the army from Zuo Liangyu's water camp. When he heard Xiao Tianjian ask him how he was doing on this trip, he immediately replied with his eyebrows, "Sir, this matter has been done. These days are hidden in the Zuo military water camp, and a total of more than 30 brothers have been contacted. They As soon as I heard that the little one had voted for the marshal, he was willing to join the marshal without saying a word. In the future, he will serve the marshal and help the marshal except Zuo Liangyu, a son of a bastard! Moreover, some of these brothers are small flag officials at present, and some brothers are already in charge of some people and boats. Together, there are more than a thousand of them, and they also said that they would contact more reliable brothers and join the commander-in-chief together! As long as the marshal gives an order, they will immediately raise things on the river and wait for the marshal to say a word!"

After hearing this, Xiao Tianjian asked, "So how many boats has Zuo Liangyu prepared on the Yangtze River?" Have you checked it out yet?

"It's clear that Zuo Liangyu has prepared more than 700 ships on the Yangtze River, of which there are more than 100 warships, more than 200 fast boats for 30 people, and the rest are some cargo ships and fishing boats captive on the river. The small brothers can control more than a dozen hundred-person warships and 20 fast boats. There are many, and there are still many people working on cargo ships and fishing boats. It is estimated that they can control 20% to 30% of the ships! Now they are still contacting their friends. I guess they can at least contact a lot of people in the next few days! As long as the general says a word, they will immediately sail the ship downstream overnight! This left king's father and son are not a thing. Nowadays, many people can't wait to skin their father and son!"

Xiao Tianjian was overjoyed after hearing this. He came to fight Jingzhou this time. In fact, he was not worried that he could not defeat Jingzhou and fight on land. He looked at the officers and soldiers in the Huguang area now. It can basically be said that he had no enemies, but what he was worried about was that once Jingzhou was defeated, Zuo Liangyu would take a boat and fled to Wuchang. It's Yueyang, and now he has just gone south, and he hasn't been able to have his own fleet on the Yangtze River. Yang Kunshan transferred here and controlled a fleet on the Han River, but most of those boats are fishing boats or cargo ships, which are not enough to use. Moreover, from the Han River to Jingzhou, the waterway is not connected, and there is no way to stare at Zuo Liangyu. Once Zuo Liangyu wanted to escape by boat, and he could only stand on the shore to see him.

So for this matter, Xiao Tianjian and Li Xin are quite a headache, and their plan is that after conquering Jingzhou, they can't take a rest. They should immediately go south of the Yangtze River and attack Yueyang and Wuchang, so that they can control Huguang as soon as possible. Once Zuo Liangyu leads a large number of ships to escape downstream, he basically has no opportunity. He will seize too many ships. In this way, even if he beat Jingzhou, he may not be able to go down the river to attack the important town of Yueyang. He can only turn around and lead the army back to Xiangyang and take the land road to Wuchang. In this way, I'm afraid it will take a year and a half to hit Huguang alone.

After thinking about it, Xiao Tianjian and Li Xin don't have a good way. Now that Liu Jiang appears, it undoubtedly provides them with a great opportunity. First, they can take the opportunity to seize some of Zuo Liangyu and Chen's fleet stationed on the Yangtze River. In addition, they can take the opportunity to stop Zuo Liangyu from escaping by boat. If he does well, he You can immediately have a fleet on the Yangtze River, and the next step is to attack Yueyang and Wuchang!

After Xiao Tianjian was happy for a while, he asked someone to give a seat to Liu Jiang. After discussing with Li Xin for a while, he said to Liu Jiang, "Don't be in a hurry to let your brothers get up. I'm afraid this matter needs to be discussed in the long-term. Our purpose is not just to ask for a boat, but to do it. Get rid of Zuo Liangyu and his son, and completely eliminate the scourge of Zuo Liangyu. Once you get up too early, Zuo Liangyu can still escape by boat, and may even send troops to chase and kill you. On the contrary, it's a big deal!

Let's do this! You go back now and tell your brothers that I, Xiao, will fight against them, and Xiao can ensure that he will never treat them badly. In the future, Xing Tianjun will also establish his own water camp on the Yangtze River. In the future, he will have to use them again, but please don't be impatient. Don't be in a hurry and wait for me to lead the attack. When you defeat Jingzhou City, Zuo Liangyu wants to escape by boat. It's not too late for you to do it again!

What should be done is foolproof and safer. Let's discuss it carefully..."

After Li Dingguo stopped in the artillery array, he had been carefully observing Xing Tianjun's every move. Since he was surrendered by Xiao Tianjian, he was originally a little dissatisfied with Xiao Tianjian, and thought that Xiao Tianjian was a little unfair in dealing with Zhang Xianzhong like this. After all, his godfather Zhang Xianzhong was a famous figure in the Rebel Army, although However, it was a little inappropriate to do things, but his identity was left here, but Xiao Tianjian abandoned it and was assigned to Jinnan. For this reason, Li Dingguo was quite slanderous about this.

Moreover, Xiao Tianjian arranged someone to sneak up on his godfather, which also seemed a little despicable in this matter. Taking Zhang Xianzhong as his hostage, he forced them to defect to Xing Tianjun. Although they had to accept such a thing in the end, it was always like a thorn in his heart, which made him a little unconvinced.

Although Xiao Tianjian is good to him and valued him, so that he can be a battalion general among the guards. He can lead the battalion and temporarily live under Liu Yaoben. However, Li Dingguo and Ai Nengqi always feel that they have a breath in their chest and want to be with Liu Yaoben and Xiao Tianjian. Let's have a comparison.

During this period, he also led his department to play several games well, and also killed Liu Guoneng, for which he was awarded by Xiao Tianjian. However, as their time in Xing Tianjun gradually grew, the arrogance of Li Dingguo and Ai Nengqi gradually began to dissipate.

To be honest, these adopted sons of Zhang Xianzhong are all good at fighting in the war. For a long time, they have seen any world after following Zhang Xianzhong's southern expedition to the north. I don't know how many times they have fought in the bloody pool. The number of times they have fought with the officers and soldiers has been countless, but until they are sentenced. After the Tianjun, the concept of war in Li Dingguo's mind was completely subverted.

In his previous view, fighting a war depends on elites, daring to kill and strong martial arts skills to win the battle. After he joined the Xingtian Army, he first found that the personal martial arts level of Xing Tianjun's soldiers was actually very average. Although there were also some people with high martial arts skills, these people were not It is made up separately, but scattered in various camps, playing the role of some knife players. People with good martial arts skills are not very high in official positions.

He also practiced with Liu Yaoben when he was free. Liu Yaoben fought with him and was not his opponent at all. This made him and his men quite look down on Liu Yaoben and others at the beginning, and felt that Xing Tianjun was no more than you.

But when they were in the Xingtian Army for a little longer, they found that the Xing Tianjun did not pay much attention to the cultivation of personal martial arts, but he attached great importance to training. Every morning, Li Dingguo and others just got up, stretched out their arms and kicked out of the camp to find an open space, leading his subordinates to catch and fight. Wu found that a large number of old troops of the Xingtian Army were lined up in neat queues, running around the camp with weight, and then still in the camp. He was still doing that kind of queue exercises that made people feel a little ridiculous. It was boring to be boring, just walking forward, turning in place, sorting and so on. It didn't seem to want to do it at all. Train them to fight, but just to make their queues look more neat. For this reason, Li Dingguo and Zhang Xianzhong's old men really despised them. They felt that training like Xing Tianjun was simply full, and there was no place to digest food. They did such a boring thing, officers and soldiers and him. It was a shame that they were defeated in the hands of Xing Tianjun, so they couldn't help sneering at the old department of Xing Tianjun.

For this reason, the old troops of the Xingtian Army and Li Dingguo and Zhang Xianzhong's old troops also clashed in the camp and secretly fought in a group. Of course, the result was that Li Dingguo and others won a big victory in the group fight. They beat some soldiers of the old headquarters of the Xingtian Army who were bothering them like pig heads. For this reason, Liu Yao was also killed by Xiao Tian. Jian was scolded once and was dragged out to hit 20 military sticks.

But what happened next surprised Li Dingguo and others. After dealing with Liu Yaoben, Xiao Tianjian smiled and asked Li Dingguo if they were interested in training with the Xingtian army.

In the Xing Tianjun, there are many long guns and wooden knives specially prepared for drills and other things. After hearing this, even if the battalion came down, he proposed that the firearms of the old headquarters of the Xingtian Army were too powerful. The two sides could not use firearms and bows and arrows, so they used knives and guns to fight. Xiao Tianjian nodded and agreed. Come on.

Li Dingguo then immediately took his men out of the camp. In addition, Xiao Tianjian casually pointed out a battalion from the old headquarters of the Xing Tian Army to fight, stipulating that the two sides did not use firearms and bows and arrows.

The fireman was ordered to withdraw and replaced by the long gunners and knifemen of the other battalion, and the leader here was only a subordinate of Liu Yaoben. The two battalions opened their posture outside the big camp and launched a "fighting"

Li Dingguo originally looked down on the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the Xingtian army. Xiao Tianjian gave an order, and he immediately sent his men to rush to the phalanx of the Xingtian Army. Normally, the strongest thing in the Xing Tianjun was that they had a large number of fire soldiers, and their ability to output firepower from a long distance was very strong, but now they are not allowed to use fire. Naturally, the greatest advantage is limited. Li Dingguo and his men think that this is basically a one-sided "massacre". They can humiliate Xiao Tianjian's old subordinates in front of Xiao Tianjian, and let them see that the soldiers brought by their Eighth King are not vegetarian.

(The network cable was broken yesterday afternoon. Today, I changed the whole phone line and rearranged the cable. As a result, the update was late! Please forgive me! I will never break my promise today, and it will break out according to the original plan! There are two more update, do what you say!)