Chapter 6650 Reason

Chapter 6650 Reason
Meng Kangbu was not stupid. On the contrary, he was very clear-headed. The time of the decisive battle between Han and Kushan had actually been determined by the wise men in the upper echelons of Kushan. Meng Kangbu naturally also knew approximately what time it was.

With this understanding, the reasons given by Montcomb became much more crude - instead of taking advantage of Zhou Yu's death to march to Malacca, it would be better to continue staying in Ceylon and fortify Ceylon. Taking advantage of the internal chaos after Zhou Yu's death or fake death, he could mobilize a large amount of supplies to complete the comprehensive fortification of Ceylon.

Anyway, the decisive battle will be in three to five years. Ceylon has been fully fortified. Even if it is hit by the hammer of the seventh-generation warship, it will take several years to break it. If the decisive battle takes place before it is broken, our delay will be a success. By the time the decisive battle is launched after it is broken, the time we have delayed will be almost enough.

Meng Kangbu's answer made Zhu Helai somewhat silent. If viewed from the perspective of simply delaying time, there was nothing wrong with Meng Kangbu's idea. However, Guishuang wanted to save up cards and accumulate enough cards before the decisive battle to deal with the final decisive battle against the Han Dynasty.

"The navy can now rely on its old strength to defeat the Han navy that suffered heavy losses, but it is absolutely impossible to defeat the navy with Zhou Yu when the other side has near-coastal defense. Now we actually have no accurate information on whether Zhou Yu is dead or not, it is all speculation. In this case, why don't we do our own thing?" Meng Kangbu expressed his doubts, then looked at Zhu Helai and asked.

After all, Meng Kangbu had suspected that there was something wrong with Zhu Helai since a long time ago, and he had sufficient evidence to prove that there was something wrong with Zhu Helai. Who would deliberately conceal his ancestral home and origin if he didn't have any problems, right!
"Because if we just do our own thing, we may not be able to maintain the navy's advantage until the decisive battle between the Han Dynasty and us in three to five years." Bankim answered on behalf of Zhu Helai, "Fortification of Ceylon is indeed a good plan, and it is correct to use it as a support for the eastern Indian Ocean, but it is not enough. When the Han Dynasty navy recovers, this support point will be knocked down."

Montcombe did not refute what he heard because it was the fact. Everything he built on Ceylon could only delay the final victory after the navy fell into a disadvantage.

"We need a fulcrum for victory. You should be aware of what happened recently to the Ganges Legion of the Han Dynasty, and this is our chance." Bankim pushed several pieces of intelligence collected by the Kushans in front of Meng Kangbu. Meng Kangbu took it expressionlessly and opened it.

Although Meng Kangbu himself had heard about many things, the Ganges Legion had always been the main force in direct confrontation with the Kushans. Even the commander-in-chief of the navy would pay special attention to it. What's more, some news could be used to stimulate Gan Ning. Therefore, Meng Kangbu was roughly aware of the fun of the Ganges Legion.

However, when Meng Kangbu opened the information pushed by Bankim and took a look at it, he couldn't help but feel shocked. When Wang Ziqi, who was standing next to him, saw Meng Kangbu's expression, he also reached out and took a copy and opened it, and then his expression became extremely surprised.

"Are these really true?" Wang Ziqi asked Bankim with a hint of shock.

"We won't mess around with intelligence. This intelligence was originally collected from the front lines. At present, the management of the Han Dynasty's front lines has become somewhat chaotic. This is how prosperity ends and decline begins. Our successes have made them underestimate us to some extent." Zhu Helai said calmly, "This is what they call an arrogant army that will be defeated."

"However, even though the Han army has so many problems, we are still defeated by them time and time again." Meng Kangbu put down the information, and compared with Xun Qi, his expression was extremely calm.

These data and intelligence allowed Meng Kangbu to see many problems of the Han Dynasty, but the outrageous thing about the Han Dynasty was that it could still defeat the Kushan Empire despite such a debuff. After all, these conditions existed not only now, but also before, but not as serious as they are now. So the question is, in the current situation, is the Kushan Army confident of defeating the Han Dynasty?
"Don't say anything first." Meng Kangbu interrupted Xun Qi. He thought Xun Qi would speak on Zhu Helai's side. He had finally found a loyal and reliable ally, so how could he let him turn against him?

"Secretary, may I ask, given the Han Dynasty's many problems, how confident are you that we can win if we fight a decisive battle with the enemy?" After interrupting what Xun Qi was about to say, Meng Kangbu looked at Zhu Helai and asked, "It doesn't matter whether there are problems or not. What matters is whether we can win."

When Xun Qi heard this, he couldn't help but look at Zhu Helai. In his opinion, the frontline soldiers of the Han army had made so many mistakes and there were so many problems in management. They were bound to be defeated no matter what. This was the so-called arrogant soldiers will surely be defeated. But what did Meng Kangbu mean by this question? Could the Han army still fight even with such a debuff?

In Xun Qi's impression, there is no doubt that the Han army's army is stronger than the Kushan army, but the elite troops of the Northern Gui are no pushovers. As a prince, Xun Qi has seen the elite backbones of the Kushan, including a large number of fifth- and sixth-level immortals, as well as a large number of middle and low-level backbones. As a result, the Kushan, which has such strength, still cannot win against the Han army in such a state?
"Considering that..." Zhu Helai thought for a moment and began to explain.

However, as soon as he opened his mouth, he was interrupted by Meng Kangbu, "Secretary, there is no need to think about those trivial things. Just say one thing, do you think our Kushan army can win against such a Han army? If so, will it be a big victory or a small victory?"

Zhu Helai was silent for a long time before he spoke, "I'm not sure if we can win. The Han army's Ganges Legion does have many problems, but a large number of heavy armored shield guards ensure the legion's lower limit strength, and the commander-in-chief, Guan Yu, ensures the legion's upper limit strength. A large number of core officers can maintain the overall structure without major problems."

This is the biggest problem. The Ganges Legion of the Han Dynasty now has a lot of problems, but even with these problems, the Kushans are still not sure they can win. This is why they would consider forcing Oswald to be the commander of the army, because only when Oswald reaches that level, they can be sure that they should be able to win. Otherwise, they are not sure.

After all, Guan Yu represents the upper limit of the Ganges Legion. In the military structure, as long as the legion commander's beliefs and will can be passed on, the person sitting in that position represents the limit of the overall strength. In this era, no one can find fault with the way Guan Yu treats his soldiers.

He treats his soldiers well, is loyal, has the belief of sacrificing his life for justice, and has enough ability. As long as Guan Yu is still in the position of commander-in-chief, no matter how many ideas the soldiers under him have, they will try their best to follow Guan Yu in battle.

After all, let alone the military structure, even the bureaucracy abides by the concept of superiors following inferiors.

Therefore, even if the Ganges Legion has problems of one kind or another, as long as Guan Yu still adheres to his beliefs and the logistics and equipment can keep up, the overall combat effectiveness will still be maintained at a very high level when going to the battlefield. This is the meaning of being a commander.

As for the shield guard, there is no need to comment on it. It is just a thing to maintain the bottom line. It is true that a 180 shield guard is not invincible these days, but the opponents that a 180 shield guard faces are generally not tough ones. It is basically enough to just keep a steady hand.

This is also the most difficult part for the Kushans - the lower limit of the Ganges Legion's combat effectiveness requires them to jump a lot to reach it, which is very fatal.

"So even if I led the navy to attack, even if Zhou Yu really died, and I won the battle, what would that change?" Meng Kangbu looked at Zhu Helai calmly and said. Although he had some doubts about Zhu Helai, as long as Zhu Helai still respected reality, Meng Kangbu was still willing to listen to his advice. After all, in terms of brains, Meng Kangbu still agreed with Zhu Helai.

"Your idea is wrong." Just as Xun Qi was applauding Meng Kangbu's speech, Szegedi slowly said, "Only by blocking the Han army outside the Indian Ocean can we have the spare strength to deal with the Han army. At present, we estimate that the possibility of winning by advancing by land and sea and encircling from the front and back is the highest possibility, and the navy cannot support this plan at all at present."

"If the Ceylon Fortress is built, won't it support this plan?" Meng Kangbu said casually. When he built this thing, he also had the idea of ​​attacking the Han army's retreat from Samata and other places from the north of Ceylon, so it was not a problem to say it out.

"Once the Ceylon fortress is repaired, the Han army's navy will be restored. At that point, it will not be easy to outflank the Han army's rear when facing the Han navy. To put it bluntly, the reason why the Han army is willing to cease fire with us is not because we now have the power to threaten their food supply?" Zhu Helai sighed and decided to lay out some things with Meng Kangbu, so as to be honest.

Meng Kangbu was silent for a while after hearing this, but he had to admit the fact that Zhu He was right. The reason why the Han army was willing to cease fire with the Kushans, apart from the so-called world crisis, was that the Han army was actually unable to fight against the Kushans. The so-called being too full was only one of the reasons.

The more practical reason is that after the Han Dynasty's navy was severely damaged, the Indian Ocean was once again controlled by the Kushans. With the naval strength currently controlled by Meng Kangbu, once the Han Dynasty's army was deployed on a large scale, it would need to consider the possibility of being confiscated by Meng Kangbu in the rear.

After all, Zhou Yu had demonstrated to the Kushans how to use the moon tides and secret ship techniques to drive a super-large ship directly into the Ganges.

Precisely because Meng Kangbu was able to do this, it was basically unrealistic for the Han Dynasty to mobilize large-scale main forces to fight against the Kushans in the short term. Therefore, after the world crisis, the Han Dynasty chose to cease fire with the Kushans. Without this reason, the Han Dynasty would still be fighting against the Kushans.

After all, there have been more than a few world-scale crises. The previous problem of the deification of Africa was a real world crisis, but the Han Dynasty continued to strike back at the Kushan Empire and never stopped.

To a certain extent, the Han Dynasty was also a typical example of someone who would take advantage of others. When the Kushans did not have the strength to threaten them, the Han Dynasty would do its best to attack them. But when the Kushans got a card that could disgust the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty quickly became civilized.

"It is because of our strength that we can sit here and discuss. If we were not strong enough, we would probably still be beaten by the Han Dynasty." Zhu Helai summarized calmly, but no one present refuted his words because they were indeed very correct.

"We need to maintain our strategic advantage at sea." Zhu Helai looked at Meng Kangbu and said, "There is no other reason. It is very simple. Only by maintaining a strategic advantage in a certain area can we ensure that the Kushan Empire will not suddenly suffer a devastating blow in the future. At present, the only advantage we have is in the navy."

Although the army now has the imperial will, the military soul, and the three talents, and seems to be much stronger than before the fall of the Parthian Empire, and in terms of potential, it is also far stronger than the Parthian Empire at that time, but to be honest, this strength is really not enough when facing the Han Dynasty.

In this case, the only strategic advantage that the Kushans can choose is the navy. As long as one of the army and navy can maintain its dominant position, then the Kushans will have a card to continue playing. But if both of them are at a disadvantage, to be honest, the Kushan Empire can only wait for the Han army to come out and deal with it themselves. There is nothing much to say. It is such a simple and realistic situation.

"Strategic advantage?" Meng Kangbu lowered his head in thought, and Xun Qi repeated this sentence. As a non-loser who had rushed out of the Xun family's stranglehold, Xun Qi also had his own understanding of strategy and tactics. Therefore, when Zhu Helai analyzed the overall situation, Xun Qi knew that nothing he said would be of any use.

Because Zhu Helai's judgment was correct, the Kushans only retained some strategic advantages, and the Han Dynasty would not act recklessly when facing the Kushans.

When Celian was alive, why did the Han Dynasty rarely launch large-scale attacks? It always had to keep a large main force in the rear, which resulted in it being difficult to capture cities and territories on a large scale even if it won? To put it bluntly, it was because the Kushan navy still had the advantage. Even if the old man Celian might not have the energy to do such a thing against Zhou Yu, the Han Dynasty’s army had to consider this matter.

But after Zhou Yu killed Celian, the scale of the Han army's deployment and the gains after each victory began to increase massively. To put it bluntly, after Zhou Yu won, many of the forces that were originally scheduled to stay in the rear could be deployed to the front line.

In the last naval battle, Meng Kangbu seized the opportunity and directly destroyed most of the main forces of the Han Dynasty's navy. Although he failed to retake Malacca, he once again gained the initiative in the Indian Ocean. It was precisely because of this strategic initiative that the Han Dynasty used the world disaster as a stepping stone to establish an indefinite ceasefire with the Kushan Empire. To put it bluntly, without the strategic initiative, the Han Dynasty could do whatever it wanted.

"Fortification of Ceylon is a good idea, but this idea cannot change the collapse of our Kushan navy's overall strategy after the Han navy recovers and enters the Indian Ocean." Zhu Helai looked at Meng Kangbu calmly and said, "We don't have to force you to attack Malacca, but we realize that the Kushans must maintain the strategic initiative in one aspect of the army or navy."

There is no hope for the Kushan army. Even if Oswald really achieves enlightenment, there will only be a stalemate at most, and the initiative is still in the hands of the Han Dynasty. But it is different with the navy. The current Kushan navy already has an advantage. If they seize the opportunity now and inflict heavy damage to the Han Dynasty navy again, then the Kushan will most likely be able to drag the situation until the decisive battle. The Han army will need to devote part of its energy to dealing with possible attacks from the Kushan navy on land, and this is the real advantage.

Montcomb lowered his head and thought. From the perspective of the navy and delaying time, there was no problem for Montcomb to completely reject Zhu Helai. However, from the perspective of the overall strategic situation, Montcomb had to admit that Zhu Helai was correct.

"This is the deployment and training location of the Han navy that we recently obtained during the chaos." Zhu Helai handed the most core information to Meng Kangbu.

"Zhou Yu may still be alive." Xun Qi struggled desperately, hoping to convince Zhu Helai and Meng Kangbu with this. However, although he said this, Xun Qi did not hold out any hope that Zhou Yu might still be alive. After all, the intelligence he had collected was enough to explain many problems.

"It would be best if Zhou Yu died, but it would not be a surprise if he was alive. But even if he faked his death, his actions led to overall turmoil in Sumatra. His status was too high, and his status in the Han Empire was also too high. Even if he faked his death, it caused problems in the operation of many internal links." Zhu Helai said calmly, and then asked Dilip to hand over the information he had verified.

Xun Qi opened the information verified by Dilip and saw the conclusion at a glance. The Zhou Yu who was currently moving in Sumatra was not Zhou Yu himself, but the controlled corpse of Zhou Yu. In other words, the so-called walking out of the ice cellar was intended to calm people's hearts from the very beginning.

This information was exactly the same as Xun Qi's previous estimate. From the moment he first received the information, Xun Qi felt that Zhou Yu had most likely killed himself. Now the information that Dilip gave him could only be said to have further verified Xun Qi's judgment.

"What if he was faking his death?" Xun Qi directly showed his confusion about the matter and his complete opposition to it. However, this was also consistent with Xun Qi's performance all along. He tended to be conservative most of the time and would only become radical when he had no choice.

"Even if it's a fake death, we won't lose anything. The turmoil caused by Zhou Yu's fake death in Sumatra alone is enough to explain many problems." Zhu Helai said to Xun Qi, and then his eyes fell on Meng Kangbu, who pondered the letter in his hand and was silent for a long time.

"It's your choice. I've said everything I need to say." Zhu Helai sighed. If Meng Kangbu didn't cooperate, there was nothing he could do.

Although Zhu Helai thought this was a good opportunity no matter what, whether Zhou Yu was dead or faking his death, it was still an opportunity. As long as they could rush into the Han navy training camp and kill all those guys, even if the Kushans suffered heavy losses, they would have won the future.

The seventh-generation ship is invincible, right? On paper, even Bebout could fight Moncombe head-on, right? Okay, I will just kill your crew. I wonder how you can fight us without your crew.

Considering that whether Zhou Yu was really dead or faked his death, it led to internal turmoil in Sumatra, which is also the reason why the Kushans were able to obtain so much intelligence recently.

Therefore, if they played a sneak attack on Chencang and risked the explosion of their own intelligence system, they could directly destroy the coastal defenses in several important locations, creating an opportunity for Meng Kangbu to rush to the Han Army Navy Training Camp. Then, it would not matter whether Zhou Yu was alive or dead, or whether the seventh-generation ship could be launched.

After all, no matter how advanced a thing is, there still needs someone to operate it behind the scenes.

"What's your plan?" After a long silence, Meng Kangbu thought through all the causes and consequences, strategies and battle situations. Finally, he agreed to Zhu Helai's plan. But before that, he had to listen to Zhu Helai's plan before making a judgment.

"I can't be sure whether Zhou Yu is dead or not, but I can be sure that Zhou Yu's current condition is unknown. Next, I will spread the word in Sumatra to let the Han Dynasty realize that Zhou Yu's body walking on the land is controlled by others, which will naturally cause unrest." Zhu Helai said indifferently, "Once this unrest really starts brewing, we will try to kill several key coastal defenses, and then you will lead the navy here."

"This is the training camp of the Han navy and the stationing point of the warships." Zhu Helai pointed to a protruding port and explained, "I have never thought about ending the battle completely, but if we take this place, we can delay the time by another year and a half."

"What if Zhou Yu is not dead? Just wait for Meng Kangbu to rush over!" Xun Qi said from the side, "Zhu Helai, you also said that you can't be sure of Zhou Yu's life or death. Even if Zhou Yu is dead, as a person with internal energy out of his body, he may have left some tricks behind."

"So we notified Zhou Yu's good friend Sun Ce. He is now returning to Sumatra. The chaos in Sumatra is imminent. This is our chance. Even if Zhou Yu is not dead, as long as he does not show up on the scene, Sun Ce will raise his butcher knife." Zhu Helai said coldly.

"Chaos is our opportunity. If chaos really breaks out, even if Zhou Yu is alive, he won't be able to stabilize the situation. Compared to the intelligence we have gathered, I believe more in the chaos we have created ourselves." Zhu Helai looked at Meng Kangbu calmly and said, "If you think this is okay, then we will start now, and then you will lead the navy to attack and knock this place down to strive for a continuation period at the strategic level."

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