Chapter 6700 The Battle Situation is Clear

Chapter 6700 The Battle Situation is Clear
While Gan Ning was transporting more than 90,000 people to Ceylon, Galan, who was on Ceylon, was leading this group of people to the depths of Ceylon, preparing to engage in a fight relying on the terrain of Ceylon and the various defensive equipment left by Moncomb.

After all, Ceylon is a large island of tens of thousands of square kilometers, with mountains, water networks, and large-scale forests. If it does not fight the Han Dynasty head-on and only relies on these things to fight, even if the Han Dynasty is stronger and can delay time, theoretically it can be delayed for a long time.

However, ever since Galan saw the Han army crush the entire Ansar fleet with just a few attacks, he had fallen into a state of panic. This panic was not about life or death, but because he had realized that both sides had misjudged the strength of their forces.

On the battlefield, such misjudgment is sometimes worse than life and death. For example, if Ansar died, as long as Ceylon was still in the hands of the Kushans and the strategy could be maintained, then his death would at least be valuable. But now even Galan had no confidence in defending Ceylon.

The absolute strength shown by the Han army in its previous attacks made Galan realize that the next war could only be won by relying on fighting between the armies. However, at the army level, the Han army now had to have both quantity and quality. How much strength could the Kushans, who were best able to fight on a scale of a hundred people, exert in the face of the Han army's large-scale stranglehold?
"General." The Kushan centurion who was guarding Galan saluted to Galan with a solemn expression.

"What is the mentality of your soldiers now? Have we fully informed them of our goals and plans?" Galan suppressed his inner irritability and asked as calmly as possible. Being anxious at this time would not solve any problems. Even if Ansar died, he had to fulfill his previous promise to Ansar. Eight days, he had to hold on for eight days.

"The morale of my soldiers was a little low, but after the rewards, the morale has obviously improved. Moreover, you also led the inspection of the fortress on the edge of the mountain area before, and my soldiers have also regained some confidence. It's just that..." The centurion looked somewhat hesitant.

"But in the next battle, if we encounter the same kind of attack as before, this kind of morale can't be maintained, right?" Galan said calmly, "The Han army can't use such an attack on the island. That's a naval gun. The army can only attack with a corps at most. In addition to the soldiers, we also have a lot of Minotaur warriors. We can deploy these things first and launch a counterattack. What we need to do is to fight step by step instead of wasting our strength. Ceylon is very large, and eight days of fighting and retreating is enough."

The centurion nodded when he heard this. With Galan's explanation, he felt more at ease.

He waved his hand, signaling the centurion to leave first. Galan lowered his head and began to think. Galan was also aware of the legions stationed on the coast opposite Ceylon Island, especially Taishi Ci's legion, which annihilated Brah in the Battle of the Ganges and laid the foundation for the victory of Patrayagata. The legion under his command was also specifically studied.

Nearly a hundred legion attacks can be a devastating blow to an ordinary elite legion. Even for a top legion, once there is a problem with the cloud protection and it is suddenly hit like this, unless the willpower is strong enough to reconstruct and control the cloud in an instant, otherwise, even a top legion will inevitably suffer heavy losses. The danger of this thing is no joke.

Moreover, compared with other legions, this legion is almost invincible when facing a battlefield with a scale of one hundred people. From the perspective of attacking methods, it completely ignores the advantage of the Kushan's scale of one hundred people, because a legion of such a size does not have sufficient cloud protection, and the only thing they can do is die when facing the attack of such a legion.

"The Wu Dang Legion." Gal'an bent his knuckles and tapped in front of him. His previous proposal to create super-model clouds was not only to delay time and deter the Han army, but the most important point was to provide cloud shelter for subsequent land battles.

In other words, from the very beginning, Galan believed that the Ansar could not defend the coast, no matter what status the Ansar had in Kushan, and no matter how many coastal defense guns Meng Kangbu had built on Ceylon, the Han army could appear at this time, which meant that it must have taken all these things into consideration.

What's more, the sudden appearance of the Han army made it obvious that Zhou Yu's death was a fake. In this situation, all Ansar could do was to buy time. Galan knew from the beginning that Ansar would lose, and even knew that there was a great possibility that Ansar would die. He just didn't expect the gap between the two sides to be so big that it ended before they were even prepared.

"Cloud shelter..." Galan squatted aside and thought with his head down. If the current situation was to drag on until eight days later, cloud shelter would be necessary. Without this thing, a harassment war of a hundred people could not be completed at all. Facing Taishi Ci's Wu Dang, a super-large legion attack would be enough for the Kushan legion of a hundred people to ascend collectively.

In the same way, the legions that rely on so-called fortresses, trenches, etc. for blocking the enemy will also have to face the Wu Dang Flying Army. Without sufficient cloud protection, or a small amount of cloud protection, it is meaningless in front of the Wu Dang Legion. Nearly a hundred legion attacks mean that if they are taken down one by one, it will be enough to destroy all the fortresses and strongholds around the mountain area.

"Either we find a way to kill the Wudang Legion first, or we can only..." Galan muttered to himself with a gloomy face, and quickly made up his mind that this was a necessary sacrifice!
"General, we obtained the secret letter left by General Mengkangbu in the northern fortress." Just when Galan made up his mind, a centurion of the Kushan Legion rushed over with the secret letter from Mengkangbu. This was what they found when they moved there and cleaned up the room.

"Hmm?" Galan didn't understand, but still took the secret letter.

After opening it, he found that it was full of special secret codes. If Galan's lord was not a true high-ranking Kushan like Ansar, Galan would not be able to decipher it.

"Hiss! General Meng Kangbu is truly an amazing person!" Galan was greatly surprised. What was described in this secret letter made Galan regain his confidence after being surprised. Because before Meng Kangbu left, he expressed that he was worried that Zhou Yu was still alive. This attack was very risky. If Zhou Yu was still alive after his attack and the Han army landed on Ceylon, the generals who saw this letter were requested to immediately execute the plan according to his orders.

"Quick, go to the northern fortress as soon as possible to activate the supermodel cloud transmission." Galan gave the order immediately. As long as the Kushan Legion had the supermodel cloud, there would still be hope. Without it, it would be difficult to maintain the existing confidence when fighting against the Han army.

Meng Kangbu always suspected that this was a trick of faking his death to lure the enemy, and he had deep doubts about Zhou Yu's strange death. Even though he was persuaded by Zhu Helai, Meng Kangbu was still quite hesitant when he attacked. All these hesitations were transformed into a backup plan to protect Ceylon when Meng Kangbu attacked. Of course, Meng Kangbu had not actually considered the possibility that Zhou Yu would attack Ceylon.

What Montcomb was thinking at the time was whether the Kou family would seize the opportunity to attack Ceylon after he left, and then take advantage of his absence to seize some unexpected opportunity and successfully land on the island. If this happened, even if there were troops stationed on Ceylon Island, it would be very troublesome after he returned.

Therefore, according to Montcomb's estimation, even if Ceylon suffered a blow, at least most of its territory had to be in the hands of the Kushans so that he could rush back to recover it.

After all, Meng Kangbu didn't believe that Zhou Yu could rush out from Malacca to hunt him down. After all, no matter how amazing the Han army's shipbuilding technology was, the size of its navy was still limited. Maybe he would be ambushed in Malacca and suffer some losses, but as long as he was well prepared, he would not be trapped there, and Zhou Yu would not be able to chase him out. Then, he would blockade Ceylon from the outside. As long as most of the island was still in the hands of the Kushans, it would not be difficult to retake Ceylon by attacking from both land and sea.

To be honest, there is nothing wrong with this idea, but both Montcomb and Ansar seriously underestimated the combat effectiveness of the seventh-generation ships, even though Montcomb and Ansar actually obtained the combat data of the seventh-generation ships from certain internal channels.

But the data on paper and the actual performance are two different things. Just like during World War II, Japan did research on the atomic bomb, and the United States also clearly stated the power of the atomic bomb test. With Japan's intelligence capabilities at the time, how could it not know about this thing.

However, before the actual bombing, almost no one from top to bottom of the book believed in this thing.

This is the limit of human cognition. No matter how much you explain something to someone before you have seen it, it is hard for them to know that it has already surpassed their own cognition.

Meng Kangbu calculated that the seventh-generation ship was very strong, but this strength was only several times stronger than the flagship he used. The actual situation was that if Meng Kangbu and the large-scale frigates guarding the flagship were not counted, the seventh-generation ship alone would be enough to destroy the entire Kushan Navy.

The gap has widened to a level that cannot be explained or described. In other words, not counting the support provided by humans themselves, the seventh-generation ships are dozens to hundreds of times stronger than existing warships.

Theoretically speaking, if the etched solid projectile can penetrate and circulate in one shot, the seventh-generation ship can also crush the fleet led by Meng Kangbu and Zhou Yu.

However, there is a problem. Without the ability to use the self-circulating Gan Ning, it is impossible to increase the power of the etched solid projectile to such an extent that Meng Kangbu and Zhou Yu can still fight.

But it’s useless for these two to fight. The others can’t fight, which means that Montcomb’s previous normal strategic and tactical planning has completely collapsed.

All the contingency plans he had made had not taken into account the existence of an invincible seventh-generation ship that would be destroyed in seconds if he did not activate the self-loop to face the enemy head-on!

From a certain perspective, Ansar actually protected Moncomb from disaster. After all, it was Moncomb's habit to never activate the self-loop when facing Gan Ning. If he really faced Gan Ning with the seventh-generation ship, he would probably end up like Ansar.

At the beginning, Zhou Yu estimated that Gan Ning would block Meng Kangbu on the west side of Malacca. The most important reason why Meng Kangbu could not be killed was that Zhou Yu appeared in front of Meng Kangbu. When Meng Kangbu was escaping, he would turn on all the protection to the maximum. After leaving Malacca, he would immediately start the self-loop and run to Ceylon Island to avoid accidents in the rear, so he could withstand Gan Ning.

If, as Gan Ning thought, Meng Kangbu plundered Malacca, won a great victory and returned with a full load, it would not be a problem for the seventh-generation ships to kill Meng Kangbu directly.

Unfortunately, things in this world are just like this; it is hard to achieve perfection.

"Supermodel cloud?" Gan Ning was stunned when he saw the earth-gray cloud that suddenly emerged from the northwest of Ceylon and quickly covered most of Ceylon. How could this be possible?

At the same time, Zhu Helai, who had returned from North Africa and was staying in the new capital of Mathura, sighed after seeing the super model cloud being activated. He lost the bet, and Zhou Yu was still alive.

Also because this matter was too important, Xun Qi did not return to Peshawar, but stayed in Mathura. Xun Qi, who was somewhat restless, finally calmed down when he saw the super model cloud being withdrawn.

[Zhou Yu is still alive!] Xun Qi was shocked, but at the same time, he was extremely fortunate. As long as that guy was still alive, many things could still be turned around.

"Zhou Yu is still alive." Zhu Helai said after a moment of silence. Even if there was no substantial evidence, the fact that Ceylon Island remotely called upon the supermodel cloud was enough to show that the situation on Ceylon Island had gotten out of control, and that the supermodel cloud must be used for protection.

Considering that there are Ansar navy outside Ceylon and tens of thousands of land forces on the island, it is self-evident what kind of opponent they are facing when they are forced to rely on supermodel cloud energy to protect themselves in such a situation where they are equipped with both land and sea forces.

After all, Ansar was the naval commander second only to Montcombe, and the former predecessor and current patriarch of the Sisi family. His naval combat capabilities were second to none in the world. With coastal defense artillery, a large number of sea defense lines, and a large fleet, he was able to be landed on Ceylon by his opponents. There was no need to say more about the opponents he faced. He undoubtedly lost the gamble and was defeated miserably.

"What should we do now?" Xun Qi looked at Zhu He with a gloomy face, and his expression was almost like saying bluntly, "I didn't agree with this plan before, and Meng Kangbu also disagreed with this plan. You must push it forward. Now that things have come to this, we must at least have a way to clean up the mess."

"Let's wait for Meng Kangbu to come back." Zhu Helai sighed and said. His face, which was originally radiant, now seemed to have lost its spirit and aged suddenly.

"What if Meng Kangbu doesn't come back!" Xun Qi excitedly shouted at Zhu Helai, as if he was out of control. After all, Xun Qi had been showing resistance to attacking the Han Dynasty after Zhou Yu's death during this period of time, and now it was like Xun Qi had a total outburst after the dust settled.

"He won't die." Zhu Helai turned his head to look at Xun Qi and said, "There is only one Zhou Yu. For the sake of strategic service, if we take over Ceylon Island, he won't be able to deal with Meng Kangbu."

"Oh!" Xun Qi sighed deeply, said nothing in the end, and left with a flick of his sleeves.

Zhu Helai looked at Xun Qi's back and didn't say anything. He would feel the same if he were in Xun Qi's shoes. After all, Xun Qi was the only one who was completely opposed to this matter from the very beginning. Even though Zhu Helai presented the facts and explained the situation, and even convinced Meng Kangbu in the end, Xun Qi still resisted this matter.

The reason why he did not return to Peshawar was because he wanted to know the outcome of this matter as soon as possible. But now he doesn't need to know the outcome. The Kushans lost, and lost badly. Not only did they lose on the battlefield, but they also lost morally. After all, after the Han Dynasty and the Kushans signed an armistice agreement, the Han Dynasty, as the advantageous party, did not take the initiative to attack, but the Kushans broke off relations first. This is very helpless.

"Oh, this time it really is..." After Xun Qi left, Zhu Helai rubbed his face. At this moment, even he could feel his stiffness. The defeat of Meng Kangbu meant that their Kushan had lost their last advantage. Now they could only wait for the judgment of the Han Dynasty.

"It seems that we have no choice but to launch the final plan." Zhu Helai muttered to himself bitterly.

The navy lost, so the original backup plan had to be brought to the forefront, and the things prepared by the army for Oswald had to be served. As the party that tore up the armistice agreement, the Han Dynasty could launch a counterattack at any time. The only good thing was that there were also considerable problems within the Han Dynasty. Otherwise, Zhu Helai would not dare to imagine what would happen next.

If the Han army lost its greatest naval advantage and its strategic fulcrum, and then the Kushans tore up the armistice agreement and launched an attack directly from the Ganges, and they still had the momentum they had when they had just captured Pataliputra and fought against Purnama, then the Kushans, who had no sense of justice and no morale, and had just lost their advantage, would probably be defeated in one battle.

Fortunately, the Han Dynasty has won for so long and has reached a certain limit and is now recuperating. Otherwise, this would be a good opportunity to destroy the Kushan Empire.

"There is actually a super-sized cloud on Ceylon Island?" Kou Feng felt the gradually emerging suppression and frowned. Normally, with just a few people on Ceylon Island, they could only form a cloud at most. How could such a large-scale cloud suppression be formed in such an almost uninhabited area?

"Maybe it's the transmission of clouds." Gan Ning reacted quickly. When the locusts were eradicated in East Africa, it was the Kushan Empire that provided the cloud energy. At that time, the Kushan Empire relied on ships as relay stations to transmit the clouds from the Ganges to East Africa.

Compared with the distance from South Asia to East Africa, the distance from the Ganges to Ceylon is closer, but this is not a good thing for the Han Dynasty. From a certain perspective, this thing is more like the trump card that Gan Ning had considered before. With tens of thousands of people guarding the island, if they have this thing, they can indeed hold on if they fight a harassment war.

Unfortunately, that was when he was facing Gan Ning, after all, Gan Ning had fewer people. But now he is facing Kou Feng, who has more than 95,000 people and doesn’t care whether you have this thing or not!

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