Chapter 4217: change in strategic situation

Naturally, the decisive battle could not go on. On the one hand, Meng Kangbu, who had already set off at that time, had no relevant information at all. The fleet passed Kou's fief and arrived in the Bay of Bengal immediately.

At this time, it is meaningless to notify or not to notify. It is better to let Meng Kangbu choose his own target. After all, Meng Kangbu himself is also an excellent general. The war for so many years is not for nothing. It is natural to find that Zhou Yu is not there. New targets are also selected.

It's just that the overall situation is not as good as Zhu Helai thought. This actually involves a change in the strategic layout of the world's oceans after many years of naval battle between the Han army and Guishuang.

In the past, whoever captured the Strait of Malacca had the qualifications to block the passages of the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, but the Han army repaired the Kra Isthmus Canal and directly completed the change of the strategic layout of the world's oceans. After conquering the Han army's navy and seizing Malacca, the Han Dynasty can still travel between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.

As for the capture of the Kra Isthmus Canal by Meng Kangbu, this is purely a dream. This is an artificial canal, not a miracle of nature. The left and right widths are exactly the same. After the repair, various permanent forts were built.

Instead of thinking about how to win this kind of canal, it is better to be more realistic and block the canal directly with transport ships loaded with stones. At least this behavior is more realistic and effective.

But even if the canal is blocked by transport ships loaded with stones, the army can't block it, and the Han army can get through the canal again in a few days.

Therefore, the so-called capture of Malacca and regaining the overall strategic advantage of the navy did not exist from the beginning. As for why Zhou Yu has been deploying defenses in Malacca, this involves another reason, or more directly, this is purely political reason.

If there is no Kra Isthmus Canal, Jiangdong has mastered Malacca, and the sea transportation has gradually developed, and sooner or later he will fight with the Han Dynasty over the Malacca issue, and Jiangdong has almost devoted all resources to the construction of Sumatra Island. When the tidal flat problem is completely solved, there will be good land there. , one relying on the homeland, and the other relying on the teacher's expedition, the internal friction will be very terrible.

Chen Xi has no interest in the Eternal Dynasty, it’s just a stagnant pool, what he wants is the expansion of the Han cultural circle, the master and slave are not important, but the interest is the most touching thing, Malacca is in the hands of Jiangdong people, sooner or later unnecessary civil strife will break out because of the interest issue .

That's why the Kela Isthmus Canal was born. This canal of more than 100 miles was not only Jiangdong's strategic option for Guishuang at that time, but also another choice for the Han Dynasty in the future.

Even if Zhao Qi and those old people didn't point out the possibility of the weak point passing through the canal when they looked at the map at the beginning, Chen Xi would point it out later. After all, some things were not done at the beginning, and there would be too much resistance to do later.

Just like in ancient China, the 2,700-kilometer Grand Canal was built, but now the Kra Isthmus Canal in Thailand has been dragged on for hundreds of years, and has been put on hold for various political reasons. promote.

It is not how difficult it is to build a canal of more than 50 kilometers, but that the political forces involved in whether to build this canal are constantly wrestling, so no one can do anything.

Therefore, from the very beginning, the situation was not as good as Zhu Helai thought. On the contrary, Meng Kangbu's position at the beginning was very correct. No matter what kind of situation he faced next, as long as he seized this opportunity, Zhou Yu Killing them is a strategic victory.

After all, even if it is replaced by a real seventh-generation ship, without Zhou Yu's command, it may not be able to kill Meng Kangbu. The seventh-generation ship is absolutely invincible at the same time, and even Guishuang's various weapons and secret techniques cannot break the defense. Just beat it to the point where the paint is chipped.

However, in addition to long-range strikes, naval warfare also has the method of jumping ship warfare. Especially in the third century, the mainstream of the navy should have been based on jumping ship warfare.

It sounds outrageous, but in fact the last boarding battle took place in World War II. It was the Cossack vs. Altmark. Although it was a destroyer vs. an oil tanker, it was also a real jumping ship battle. It can be seen that if the captain is garbage, what? Things are not reliable.

If Zhou Yu opened the real seven-generation ship to fight against the Guishuang Navy, the probability of the Guishuang Navy having the opportunity to jump ship is 0, then if another commander, including Gan Ning, the Guishuang Navy has at least a chance to touch the True Seven On behalf of the ship, this is the difference.

Meng Kangbu didn't know this, he just implemented the plan he thought was correct according to his own judgment, but in reality, his plan can be called the most correct plan, at least, this is a real chance to kill Zhou Yu's plan to hurt the Han army.

As for Zhu Helai and Altay's current plans, in good conscience, Altay just created a few kilometers of muddy land, so what if he created half of the Ganges River's muddy land, this method is at best to contain With the performance of the Han army, Guishuang can move if the Han army can't move?

In addition to the Kshatriya warrior legion in Saqqara, Guishuang has the ability to pass through this terrain, aren't the other legions also bad in the face of this terrain?

The Han Dynasty has been disgusted for a while, at least they can take out 20,000 to 30,000 shield guards with solid talents, and even if they are not good enough, Zang Ba can be transferred back. Is this the way to solve the problem?

Actually not, Altay never thought of solving the problem completely, he just wanted to procrastinate.

On the contrary, Meng Kangbu really wants to solve the problem, and what is different from others is that Meng Kangbu is really likely to solve the problem. After all, in army combat, as long as the generals are not stupid and can't win, run away quickly, even if they are defeated, Can also run away a lot.

But naval battles, as long as you seize the opportunity, even if it is just a chance, it is possible to completely turn defeat into victory. Zhou Yu showed everyone the facts before. win back.

This time, it is really an opportunity for Guishuang to turn defeat into victory. If Zhou Yu hadn't driven the seventh-generation ship to Qunu City, Meng Kangbu would have a 60% chance to win back everything he lost before, including this battle. Guan Yu, Yu Jin and others captured all the places they captured.

Because Zhou Yu also wanted to kill Meng Kangbu, as long as Meng Kangbu really appeared in the Bay of Bengal, Zhou Yu would pursue it even if he knew it was a bait, because Zhou Yu brought 70% of the Han Dynasty fleet and admirals in the Bay of Bengal.

This data is matched with Zhou Yu's own combat power. Against Meng Kangbu who has not changed the battleship, without the cover of land-based artillery, even if Meng Kangbu cannot be defeated, he can still defeat the opponent, even if Meng Kangbu has some other secret techniques And the hidden power doesn't matter to Zhou Yu anymore, just like the first time Zhou Yu faced Sailian, it doesn't matter what tricks you have.

After all, Zhou Yu was also very annoying to Meng Kangbu. Except for Gan Ning, the other naval officers of the Han army were all dead when they met Meng Kangbu when other conditions were not much different.

Although the Guishuang navy is very afraid of Zhou Yu, the Han army is actually very afraid of the Guishuang navy. To this extent, everyone can see that the navy is divided into Zhou Yu and others, while the others are divided into Meng Kangbu and others. other…

So Zhou Yu also wanted to seize a chance to kill Meng Kangbu, so that the ordinary admirals under his command could lead the fleet to dominate the world.

The problem is that when Zhou Yu led the team, Meng Kangbu was either the main force to form a group, or there were land-based forts on the coast of Guishuang to protect him. When Zhou Yu was not leading the team, Meng Kangbu led the team to find a way to strangle the Han army. The two barely met each other.

In the only few encounters, the navy led by Zhou Yu did not have the strength to gnaw Meng Kangbu's main force, so when Zhou Yu led the main force and Meng Kangbu suddenly appeared, Zhou Yu would definitely rush to strangle Meng Kangbu, even if Zhou Yu was mentally It is clear that the other party must be the bait, but what happened to the bait? I, Zhou Yu, want to see what kind of ambush you can come up with.

The so-called "a good rider falls on a horse, and a good swimmer drowns in water" is exactly like this.

Just like back then, didn't Sailian know that Zhou Yu's big move was a bait? I know, but Sailian is confident that even if he is old and has only one breath left, he can take Zhou Yu away with him at the last moment, so Sailian followed Zhou Yu when he saw Zhou Yu making a big move.

The follow-up results are also known. In the sea battle, Zhou Yu really couldn't beat Celian at that time, but Celian was pinched by Zhou Yu in that breath.

As long as Zhou Yu follows, Meng Kangbu will be 60%~70% sure to take Zhou Yu away. Of course, as a price, the generals under Meng Kangbu's command, and even Meng Kangbu himself may be taken away in the process ,But that's okay.

If Meng Kangbu did not die during this process, Guishuang would have won a complete victory, which is enough to say that the strategic situation has been reversed. The Han Dynasty can only wait for the follow-up true seventh-generation ships to go to sea to completely solve the Guishuang navy. And there are some other surprises as well.

If Meng Kangbu also dies during this process, Guishuang has at least reversed the strategic situation to a certain extent, and the navy has at least the foundation to suppress the Han navy. They are all blind.

Without Meng Kangbu's level, ordinary admirals and school companies are not qualified to fight ship jumping battles with real seventh-generation ships. The simplest one is that without Meng Kangbu, admirals and admirals who are only a little stronger than the Han army can't let their own side Under the attack of the Han army, the warship approached the real seven-generation ship.

This little gap is the accidental factors briefly summarized above—even if it is the so-called favor of fate, you must have the basic strength to accept this favor.

It's a pity that Zhou Yu has already gone to Qunu City to clear up the follow-up hidden dangers for Sun Ce's actions back then. As a result, the only possible opportunity to reverse the entire strategy has been lost. Zhou Yu is not in the Bay of Bengal, and the biggest movement Meng Kangbu can make is to smash it. Some pots and pans.

Perhaps for Guishuang, smashing these altars and jars is a huge victory, but just like when the book played against the US emperor, the huge victory they think is not a painful loss for the US emperor at all .

The two sides did not fight at the same level from the beginning. The victory sought by the Han Dynasty is a victory that can stabilize operations and continue to rule, while Guishuang's goal is to continue to fight, and there is no long-term plan at all.

Many of the performances of the Guishuang Empire that are considered astonishing are actually nothing more than an idea when they were beaten by the Han Dynasty.

The entire Han-Gui war, which can really be called a strategic plan, only blocked Malacca, controlled Xiangxiong, moved Beigui inland, and pulled Liu Ling to integrate internally. The rest were just passive responses to the beatings of the Han Dynasty.

However, among these several strategic plans, only one came from Zhu Helai, and the other two, one was the experience analysis of sea layout by Sailian, a veteran of the navy, and the other two were gifts from Mahinde when he escaped.

As for other operations, let’s put it this way, the strategies that can’t turn the tide of the battle are all funny analysis. Do you know why there is a kind of staff called Showa Staff? This kind of staff is not because of a gap in intelligence from others, but a more direct cognitive problem. There are gaps in levels.

The failure of tactics is at most a labor pain, and the failure of strategy, then there is no need to hurt, because it is already dead, so what is the pain?

Guishuang's current predicament is actually a strategic passivity. Unfortunately, there are very few ways to reverse this kind of passivity. The question is how to get out of these four-two efforts.

It is Guishuang's business to think about how to make these four or two efforts. What the Han Dynasty wants is to beat Guishuang to death directly with a thousand catties.

For example, the seventh-generation ship that bottomed out near Qunv City, and after Sun Ce, the guy standing on the bow as the figurehead, was washed away, Zhou Yu finally gave up and continued to move forward.

At present, this place is still more than a dozen miles away from Qunv City, but this is already within the strike range of the Tiandi Jingqi-Electromagnetic Railgun, and Zhou Yu does not want to waste energy to move on. There is still a few miles to go on the cloud-solidified road, but that is really too much trouble.

Zhou Yu said that there is no need to do this. It doesn’t matter how many miles or how many miles. Naval guns are fighting warships at sea. Because of the turbulence of the sea, it is difficult to hit, but the hit rate is guaranteed when shooting a fixed target, and the fixed target is still If a city is still missed, the Jiangdong archers still committed suicide, pure waste!

"This city wall is not easy to fight." Sun Ce stared at Qunu City with a serious expression.

"This is the royal city. At the beginning, there was no cloud opening and no etching. General Guan used the strength of the whole army to cut down the Peshawar city wall, and there was only one trace, not to mention the current Qunv city." Zhou Yu said calmly, "The above I may not be able to distinguish between secret techniques and etching, but as long as it is still a city wall, there is no problem, go contact our people and prepare to attack the city."