Chapter 6706 Settlement

Chapter 6706 Settlement
Montcomb's judgment was correct. Tens of thousands of rounds of fire comparable to those of coastal defense artillery would definitely be enough to crush all the remaining soldiers under his command without the protection of self-circulation. Therefore, even if the use of self-circulation is like drinking poison to quench thirst, it must be turned on.

After all, without this thing, let alone Meng Kangbu, Celian was beaten when he was in Fuso, so there is no point in struggling. He should just run away under the bombardment of the Han Army. Don't struggle. If he struggles again, Zhou Yu will drive the remaining ships from the shore and bite Meng Kangbu. I'm afraid that this time next year will be the death anniversary of the Kushan Navy.

Even though Meng Kangbu knew very well that the Kushan Empire had lost its only strategic advantage after the disastrous defeat in Malacca, and its elite navy, which had been able to annoy the Han Dynasty from time to time, would probably no longer be able to have an impact on the Han Dynasty, the initiative of the subsequent wars would be completely transferred to the Han Dynasty.

It can be said that from today onwards, the Han Dynasty can fight however it wants, and no longer needs to worry about Meng Kangbu leading ships to cut off the logistics line of the Wenjia area, which is the Bangladesh area in later generations, during the rainy season.

You have to know that during the rainy season in South Asia, heavy rains often cause the water to be two feet deep. At that time, although large ships could not go ashore, ordinary warships and boats could actually go onto land. The Han Dynasty was disgusted by this kind of gameplay several times.

Even forced Guan Yu to now actually know the navy. Although he may not be very good at sea, but in the river, Guan Yu's navy is really good. Is this Guan Yu wanting to expand his skills? What a joke, this is the Kushan navy taking advantage of the rainy season to rush Guan Yu's food route, forcing Guan Yu to have to order the navy.

Now that the Kushan navy has suffered heavy losses, it can no longer maintain its suppression strategy across the Indian Ocean. The cost of the Han army maintaining its food supply has also been greatly reduced. The several obstacles that Chen Xi had to face when he led his troops out of Kushan were once again smoothed out.

After all, in the 13th year of Yuanfeng, three million main forces left Kushan, and logistics had to be considered no matter what. Chen Xi was confident that he could guarantee the logistics of three million people, but he could not guarantee that the logistics of these three million people could be successfully transferred to the appropriate location when Meng Kangbu controlled the Indian Ocean.

Meng Kangbu is not a fool. If the time really comes, even if it means giving up his navy and dying in battle, he will definitely rush to the Wenjia area and forcibly cut off the logistics line for the Han Dynasty.

Therefore, before the decisive battle, the Han Dynasty must lift Meng Kangbu's strategic suppression of the Indian Ocean. However, Chen Xi planned to gradually lift this thing starting from next year. Unexpectedly, the development of the world is sometimes so unexpected.

By the way, this is why many counselors, including Chen Xi, think that Meng Kangbu's occupation of Ceylon Island is really disgusting. To put it bluntly, Meng Kangbu, who is squatting in this position, can rush up and disgust the Han Dynasty at any time if he wants to. Especially when Meng Kangbu does not care about his own losses, he can definitely give a big blow to the Han Dynasty's logistics network.

However, all this is over now. Ceylon Island was conquered by Gan Ning, and the Kushan Navy, which had been able to suppress Zhou Yu with its advantage in naval backbone, was now half destroyed. The Kushan Navy, trapped in such a situation, basically has no chance of turning the tables.

On the other side, Zhou Yu's catapult chamber successfully slowed down with the last wave of recoil force, and then landed steadily on the ground. Although the entire warship was slightly impacted due to the landing at the last moment, compared with the equipment that Chen Xi had developed that year, Zhou Yu's landing was still very successful.

"Let's go, let's go and see if Meng Kangbu is dead!" Cai Mao pushed the door open and rushed out immediately. He didn't care about any etiquette at this moment.

Zhou Yu did not stop Cai Mao when he saw this. He knew how much Cai Mao was troubled by this matter, and he also wanted to see how Meng Kangbu died.

However, when Zhou Yu and his men rushed to the shore of Sumatra Island, the Kushan Navy, under the bombardment of the Han Army's Changshuiying, successfully escaped from the battle after leaving behind a few frigates.

Sun Ce felt very sorry about this, but he didn't have any better solution. Now the main force of Jiangdong in Malacca was mainly the land army. The main navy had no ships and no people. The only group of naval forces that could fight before were taken away by Gan Ning. The only navy left in the entire Malacca that could be on the stage was the more than 3,000 people led by Zhou Yu, who had been ejected from the warehouse and landed.

So even though Meng Kangbu was in Malacca, the garrison area of ​​the Han Dynasty navy, there was no navy to stop and harass him when he retreated.

In the end, Sun Ce could only watch as a large black fog rose from the sea, hiding the entire Kushan navy. Then when the fog dissipated, the entire Kushan navy disappeared.

"The Kushan Empire actually developed this secret technique." When Zhou Yu rushed over, the black fog on the sea had not yet dissipated. After using his special reconnaissance talent to test it a few times, Zhou Yu said in amazement. Zhou Yu had obtained this technology from Qunu City, but it was only a technical route at the time. He did not expect it to appear in actual combat so soon.

"This fog seems to block observation at the level of will." Zhang Zhao's face looked somewhat ugly at this time. The civil officials of Jiangdong were not good at fighting, but they all had quite good means of avoiding disasters. What Zhang Zhao mastered was a large-scale reconnaissance technique, which was very useful. However, when he investigated the foggy area, he could not get any information at all, as if he had been swallowed up.

"The Kushans developed a secret technique for the army to separate battlefields and bring out the special talents of elite troops. However, I didn't expect that the navy has already used it as a cover before the army has even seen it." Zhou Yu looked at the gradually dissipating black fog and didn't have any better solution.

To be honest, if Zhou Yu had 20,000 naval forces now, they don't have to be of very high level, just the kind that can control the self-circulation with him. Zhou Yu would board the ship to pursue Meng Kangbu. But now Zhou Yu has only more than 3,000 people, and at most he can operate two seventh-generation ships and several frigates. If he rushes up, he will not be going to annihilate Meng Kangbu, but will be sending his head to Meng Kangbu.

Therefore, Zhou Yu, who was always very arrogant, could only sigh and let the Kushan navy escape when faced with this situation. As for other things, he didn't have any better solution.

But at the very least, this great victory was enough to stabilize many things. After all, no matter what, this was a great victory in which less than a hundred people on our side were killed and the other side suffered more than 30,000 losses, and those who died were all elite Kushan navy.

After so many losses, even if the Kushan Navy can still recover, it will probably take some time. It can be said that the initiative in the Indian Ocean has once again been taken by the Han Dynasty.

"It's almost an explanation." Zhou Yu said with a sigh, a smile on his face. The answer on his side was not very good, but Gan Ning and Lu Xun did a good job and reversed the entire strategy. I think no one will put the blame on him.

"What explanation do you need!" Sun Ce walked over with a grim smile on his face. When he was being beaten by Meng Kangbu just now, Sun Ce's heart almost jumped out of his chest. What does it mean to lose and regain, and gain and lose again? Don't you, Zhou Yu, know this?

"Commander-in-chief, you won't know how to play until the end. You have to show me how extreme your operation is, right?" Zhang Zhao came over with a gloomy face, "Do you know what happened to us before?"

It took several years to build the Ruins of Shaohao to this level, and it exploded just like that. Can't you fight well if you can win? You really want to show your ultimate level, right? You won't play until you're done? You're really good.

"Uh!" Zhou Yu was silent for a while. He wanted to explain his situation, but he found that he couldn't explain it no matter what. Looking at the group of officers and civil officials around him with gloomy faces, it was obvious that this group of people were scared enough by Zhou Yu this time.

"Well, let me tell you a good news." Zhou Yu looked at the Jiangdong civil and military officers headed by Sun Ce and rushed up with dark faces. He was also embarrassed. He tried to change the subject and pulled Lu Meng over. "Ziming has learned the self-circulation. Although he is not very proficient, he has got the basics. He only needs to strengthen training in the future. It won't be long before he can become an excellent naval commander. In addition, the whole camp's ascension was also Ziming's operation. Ziming already has the qualities of a commander."

Lu Meng smiled awkwardly when he heard this. He was very happy to be praised by Zhou Yu, but Lu Meng knew his own business. He had just started to learn the self-circulation thing, and his operation of Fei Tian was actually quite useless. If it weren't for the backup plan prepared by Zhou Yu, they might not have ended up well this time. After all, that was Fei Tian!
"Gongjin, come here, I have something to tell you!" Sun Ce walked over quickly, hugged Zhou Yu's neck with his big elbow, and then dragged Zhou Yu to the side, "You guys take care of the rest of the things, I need to have a good talk with Gongjin."

On the other side, Meng Kangbu sneaked all the way to the west side of Malacca, carefully used special reconnaissance, and finally found that Gan Ning did not lead the seventh-generation ships to block him here. He couldn't help but sigh. Things have come to this point. Even if Lu Xun's spiritual talent has the ability to cause the enemy to form thinking errors, it is impossible to continue to cover up a certain strategy.

"Retreat, go back to the Gulf of Kutch and prepare." Moncomb said with a miserable face. He still hadn't received any news from Ceylon, but it was meaningless. Gan Ning didn't block him here, so he must have gone to Ceylon. Ansar was indeed very strong, even a little stronger than Gan Ning, but in this situation, Moncomb didn't think the other side could defend Ceylon.

"General!" Bebhutto growled with a livid face. His brother, Nikaya, the deputy commander of the Kushan Navy, had been killed in the previous attack. To be precise, the senior leaders of the Kushan fleet, except for Moncombu and Bebhutto who were on the deck before, were basically all killed.

Cai Mao's operation of using his self-circulating fleet to attack people was an unsolvable tactic for Celian. It was so powerful that it destroyed all the attacked enemies completely painlessly.

"Gan Ning is not here, so we can only go to Ceylon. We have been plotted against since the very beginning." Meng Kangbu sighed and said, "It's also because I was not prepared enough. If we were more prepared, even if Ceylon fell, as long as we could take Zhou Yu away, it would not be a loss. But who would have thought that Zhou Yu's entire fleet could actually rely on those things to fly."

The biggest blow to Montcomb was actually that Zhou Yu flew up. He had prepared many backup plans, but none of them were used to deal with a fleet that could fly. That was simply beyond the scope of common sense, so when Zhou Yu flew up, they lost completely.

"Let's retreat and go back to the Gulf of Kutch first. We need to talk to His Majesty King Vessudeva I." Meng Kangbu said with a gloomy face. No matter how reasonable Zhu Helai's words were, no matter how much preparation Meng Kangbu had made, Zhu Helai would at least have to take the lion's share of the responsibility for this problem.

"What should we do after returning to the Gulf of Kutch?" There was obvious despair on Bebute's face. The Kushan Navy did not fall from the sky. Some time ago, even when Zhou Yu killed Celian, the main body of the Kushan Navy did not suffer much damage. However, after so many years of accumulated losses, the backbone of the Kushan Navy also suffered heavy losses.

To this day, with Zhou Yu's sudden move, 70% of the backbones of the Kushan Navy have been destroyed by this move, and it is a problem where to replenish these backbones in the future.

The army can be reorganized within one or two years, but the navy, when can the navy be reorganized within one or two years?
After suffering these losses, the Kushan Navy's training system, which had been formed since Celian's youth when the navy was established, finally could not withstand the test. At the very least, Benazir, who knew about this, even felt a little desperate. The Kushan did not have many naval backbones left.

The blood of the Ceci family has been almost shed. The capable fighters of the younger generation such as Anes, Nigaye and others have died in battle. Three generations of patriarchs have all been killed on the battlefield!
What does this mean? It means that the hematopoietic function of the Kushan Navy was finally exhausted by the Han Dynasty in the past ten years. Admittedly, because the foundation was there, the navy it pulled out did have advantages over the Han Dynasty, but it could forget about the exaggerated technical and tactical advantages like before.

"Let's retreat first and return to the Gulf of Kutch." Meng Kangbu said with a gloomy expression. The loss of the Kushan Empire's only strategic advantage cast a heavy shadow on Meng Kangbu's heart.

In the past, Meng Kangbu had never thought about the possibility of destroying a country. In his judgment, even if the Han Dynasty was powerful, it was impossible to wipe out the Kushan Empire in a short time. And given the size of the empire, as long as it could not wipe out the opponent in a short time, then as time went on, it would inevitably become a war of attrition, and a war of attrition would take decades or even hundreds of years to end.

The Kushan Empire might perish, but it would never perish at the hands of their generation. Moreover, no matter how badly the army is fighting now, it is not so bad that it has no power to fight back, and the navy has the upper hand. Even if this advantage cannot be turned into victory, retaining this advantage is enough to tie up most of the energy of the Han navy and army's food and fodder transportation lines.

Even if necessary, Meng Kangbu was absolutely sure that he could cut off the Han Dynasty's logistics line at all costs.

So Meng Kangbu had never considered this problem before, but now with the collapse of the naval strategy, the Kushan Empire has lost its greatest advantage. Meng Kangbu has to consider what to do next. Now the army cannot win, and the navy cannot regain the advantage in a short time. This window period may last for about five years. After some twists and turns, it is not impossible to take the Kushan Empire away.

After these distracting thoughts went around in Meng Kangbu's mind, he threw them out. Now was not the time to think about these things. In Meng Kangbu's view, what he had to do now was to confront Zhu Helai in court. After all, this matter was too big, so big that Zhu Helai had to give an explanation, and all the decision makers, including him, Meng Kangbu, had to give an explanation.

If you think back carefully, when their group of people finalized the plan, Wang Ziqi was the only one who firmly stated that this was definitely Zhou Yu's trick of faking his own death. He even chose to keep his own suggestion when he was unable to convince others. In other words, in the end, Wang Ziqi was the only one who firmly believed that no matter what, they should not attack, and should grasp the existing advantages and drag on for this period of time.

Looking back now, Meng Kangbu had to admit that Wang Ziqi's plan was truly mature and prudent, while others were somewhat too radical in this regard. Wang Ziqi really achieved being radical when he should be radical and conservative when he should be conservative. Unfortunately, he regretted not listening to Wang Ziqi's advice, which led to such a result.

"Confrontation in the court?" Benazir Bhutto's face twisted when he heard this. "Take me with you this time. If Ceylon also falls..."

If Ceylon fell, it would mean that the current patriarch of the Sethi family, Ansar, would have died in battle. In this way, the Sethi family would have shed their last drop of blood for the Kushans, so the surviving Benazir must let Vasudeva I give an explanation to the Sethi family.

Chang'an, after the outskirts of Ceylon Island were captured, Chen Xi received Gan Ning's handwritten letter, and soon after received news that Jiangdong's own losses were only a hundred people, half of the Kushan fleet was annihilated, and the actual results were being counted.

"This guy..." Jia Xu, who had already withdrawn from the northwest, couldn't help but feel a little emotional when looking at the two urgent secret reports. No matter how shameful Zhou Yu's previous assassination was, this time he recaptured Ceylon and beat Montcombe's main navy half to death, directly reversing the strategic situation in the entire Indian Ocean. It was indeed quite powerful.

"I didn't tell Xingba that the governor was still alive, which means that Xingba made the most correct choice." Chen Xi said with a smile. Even if this merit was taken from the results of this battle, it would be enough for two or three people to be granted titles of nobility. After all, in the past two years, the Han Dynasty had been very uncomfortable with Meng Kangbu who was squatting on Ceylon Island. He was like a skewer piercing meat!

Slipped away, failed in the dying struggle, sigh