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Jiangbei.

Seeing helplessly the Tiger and Ben Navy troops annihilating the vanguard army like cats and mice, Liu Yanqing, Xin Xingzong and other Song soldiers were both angry and shocked.

Until now, the officers and soldiers of the Song Army had never cared about the Huben Army. They felt that as long as they gathered enough ships, they could destroy the Huben Army with overwhelming force.

But after seeing with their own eyes how powerful the Huben Navy was today, the Song Army soldiers finally re-evaluated the Huben Navy and felt that at least the Huben Navy was really powerful. Even if they transferred the Dengzhou Navy, it would definitely not help.

yes.

The Pinghai Navy and Chengcheng Navy can be regarded as the largest navy in the Forbidden Army of the Northern Song Dynasty.

But the problem is that the Chengdu Navy only has two commanders of crossbowmen, and the same goes for the Pinghai Navy. The two armies combined can only have four commanders and 2,000 people. How can they compete with the Huben Navy, which has a hundred thousand soldiers and thousands of ships?

The key point is that these four commanders of the navy have never learned water warfare, their martial arts are inert, and they have not been on a combat mission for many years. Now they are just maintaining the security of Xinyang, Banqiao, and Taoluo in Mizhou in the coastal areas of Shandong. I count on them.

It would be better for the Western Army to come up with a water war on the Yangtze River than to think of a solution on their own.

This is actually quite normal. After all, since the founding of the Zhao Song Dynasty, Zhao Song's enemies have mainly been the Liao Kingdom, Xixia, and at most Tubo. They were all duels between armies. There was no need for naval forces at all.

How can the army be so powerful?

No solution.

Facing such a powerful Huben navy, the Song army was already helpless. Now, all the ships owned by the Song army were taken away by the Huben navy in a single battle, making this battle even more impossible to fight on the water.

what to do?!

At this moment, Tong Guan, who was standing on the wall of Yangzi Town, was also thinking with a sinking face: "What should I do?!"

In a battle they were determined to win, before they even exerted much effort, their finger was broken off by the Hu Ben navy. Tong Guan was shocked and angry. His face was livid, as if he had been punched hard.

Tong Guan slapped the city wall in front of him hard and squeezed out a name from between his teeth: "Yuwen Huangzhong!"

The matter is already obvious. Even if Yuwen Huangzhong did not rebel against the Song Dynasty, he would definitely not be able to get away with the crime of failing to do things well. Otherwise, how could the Huben Army be so well prepared that they dispatched more than 2,000 large ships to lock up the Yangtze River?

, this is simply a trap arranged for their operation. The purpose is to wipe out all the ships in their hands so that they can no longer pose a threat to the Huben Army in a short period of time!

If Li Cun could calculate to this extent, Tong Guan would never believe it if he beat Tong Guan to death.

So the problem can only lie with Yuwen Huangzhong, the planner and main executor of this surprise attack!

Tan Zhen, who had been watching the battle with a cold face before, was extremely active at this time.

Tan Zhen first said sadly to Cai You, who had no military knowledge at all: "Although we only lost more than ten thousand soldiers in this battle, our army was completely defeated in this battle!"

Cai You asked without understanding: "What do you mean by this?"

Tan Zhen immediately and enthusiastically explained to Cai You: "In this battle, the ant thieves' goal is not to annihilate our soldiers, but actually to ship ships. The ant thieves must already know the foundation of our army, and use Tong Xuanfu's trust in his confidant Yu Wenzhi.

They specially set up a trap to trick our army into sending all our ships across the river, and then seize all our ships in one fell swoop."

Mr. Cai You said angrily: "The ship can be taken away and rebuilt. Why do you have to worry about it?"

"Shipbuilding for our army is not easy."

Tan Zhen pointed at the five-toothed warship of the Hu Ben Navy: "The materials needed to build this ship can be dried in the dark for at least three or four years, and at most for more than ten years before it is ready."

"When the thief Li Cunna first arrived in Hangzhou, he sent ant thieves to seize the Hangzhou City Shipping Department and the Mingzhou City Shipping Department. The private ships owned by Shangguan Shangguan, the shipbuilding materials, and the boatmen were all taken by the thief Li Cunna, and then

Li Cun, the thief, followed the same pattern and robbed Xiuzhou Shipping Department."

"According to what Ma Xuanzan said, the area occupied by Li Cun's thief, the official and private shipbuilding yards, the official and private ships, the materials for official and private shipbuilding, and the shipwrights are all owned by Li Cun's thief. When he died, Li Cun's thief

Only I have such a powerful naval force."

"There was no shortage of ships in the Song Dynasty. The imperial court needed a large number of ships to carry grain and other supplies from the southeast every year. Therefore, the imperial court had shipyards in many places and built thousands of ships of various types every year. However, the largest shipyards were all in Guangzhou

,Quanzhou, Mingzhou, Wenzhou

In the southeastern coastal areas such as Hangzhou, there are official shipbuilding yards and private shipbuilding yards. The government-run workshops build warships, tankers, etc., and the private workshops build merchant ships, cruise ships, etc. Therefore, when the ant pirates occupy the southeast, they occupy all the land.

The benefit of ships.”

Only then did Cai You realize that things were not as simple as he had imagined, so he put away his previous indifference and frowned and asked: "The Song Dynasty was such a big land, but only the southeast could build ships?"

Tan Zhen replied: "There are also shipbuilding yards in Jinghutan, Ding and other prefectures, as well as in Xiegu, Fengxiangfu, Shaanxi, etc. However, the water far away is not as good as that of the nearby ones. Moreover, regardless of the number of shipbuilding and the size of the ships built in Jinghu and Shaanxi, they cannot be compared with those in the southeast."

compared to."

Cai You knew that Tan Zhen was a water transporter. He and Chen Tao once presided over the warehouse of Southeast Sixth Road for transporting grain to the capital. He was an expert in water transport, so what Tan Zhen said should not be wrong.

Cai You frowned even more tightly: "When I came, I saw dozens of big boats along the river. How can there be no boats?"

Tan Zhen said: "That boat is a gang boat or a seat boat, used for water transportation or carrying passengers. It is not a war ship or a horse boat. It is not suitable for fighting with ant thieves in the river."

Afraid that Cai You would not understand, Tan Zhen patiently explained to Cai You: "The river is not as big as the sea, and it is not easy for a big ship to turn. This is what the bachelor has seen before. The pirate ships rush in groups, and then slowly turn around to fight back when they reach a distance."

Therefore."

Tan Zhen added: "And those ships are all private ships. The imperial ships were mostly stuck in the southeast for transporting autumn grain and were captured by ant thieves. If private ships were to be recruited, the imperial court would need to allocate huge sums of money to rent and buy them. Otherwise, they would compete with the people for profit."

also."

At this point, Tan Zhen sighed: "Moreover, our army has more Northern troops, is not good at water warfare, and is afraid of the heat. If we lose this battle, the right time, place and people are not in our army, so this defeat is a great disadvantage to our army."

Tong Guan could no longer listen to Tan Zhen gloating over his misfortune. He put down his demeanor and said, "I owe all this to someone, don't you know?"

Tan Zhen was waiting for Tong Guan to speak, and he immediately said impassionedly: "My defeat was all because the southern army could not be reused, which delayed my major mission. If I had Tong Xuanfu's elite soldiers and strong generals, I would have wiped out the ant thieves several times."

——The implication of Tan Zhen’s words is that I lost because the southern soldiers were not good at fighting. It was excusable. You had the most elite troops in the Song Dynasty and you also lost. What’s the reason?

As competing political opponents, Tan Zhen was actually not afraid of Tong Guan.

The reason why Tan Zhen was so restrained in front of Tong Guan before was because his two defeats made him passive, and he had to temporarily put his tail between his legs and behave.

Now, Tong Guan has also been defeated, and it was a defeat that also had a huge impact.

Coupled with the previous defeat of Wang Zhen, who represented Tong Guan.

Tan Zhen can be said to be tied with Tong Guan.

In this case, how could Tan Zhen still be afraid of Tong Guan?

Could Tong Guan still be able to replace Tan Zhen with Zhao Ji?

If Tong Guan really dared to do this, Tan Zhen would join forces with Liang Shicheng and Wang Fu to drag Tong Guan into trouble.

Some people may want to ask, couldn't Zhao Ji replace Tong Guan and Tan Zhen together?

Definitely not.

Zhao Ji, no, it should be said that most of the emperors of the Zhao Song Dynasty did not trust military generals. Therefore, military generals in the Zhao Song Dynasty (especially the Northern Song Dynasty) rarely had the power to command troops.

And most literati can't fight.

Key literati are not as reliable as eunuchs.

Therefore, eunuchs commanding the troops became the best choice for Emperor Zhao and Song.

Looking at the current Zhao Song Dynasty, the only eunuchs who can serve as commander-in-chief are Tong Guan and Tan Zhen, and there is no third one.

Therefore, Zhao Ji does not need Tong Guan and Tan Zhen, there is no one available at all.

In this way, with Tong Guan there to compare, Tan Zhen, who has a profound background, will definitely be able to avert danger.

Under such circumstances, Tan Zhen, who had been humiliated by Tong Guan for a long time, would certainly not be polite to Tong Guan anymore.

Tong Guan knew that he, who had just suffered a huge defeat, was no match for Tan Zhen in a verbal sparring match.

Moreover, what Tan Zhen said is not unreasonable. If Tan Zhen had an elite Western army in his hands during the Danyang battle, the defeat might really be the Tiger Army.

Therefore, Tong Guanzhong snorted and ignored Tan Zhen.

Cai You, who was somewhat aware of the current situation that was very unfavorable to the Song Dynasty, couldn't help but worry for Zhao Song: "What should we do when we fall to the ground?"

Tong Guan also hoped that Cai You would show mercy so that Zhao Ji would not impose heavy punishment on him.

Therefore, Tong Guan confidently said to Cai You: "Grandmaster, there is no need to worry, my troops will be here soon..."

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