Chapter 2955: Grasping the timing
Zhou Yu's answer made Li Yan feel a little heartbroken. He originally thought that Zhou Yu handed over such an important task to him because he was both civil and military, and could successfully capture the Kushan camp that was empty because of the departure of the navy, and do a good job of a Kushan strength limit valve.
As a result, Zhou Yu's answer made Li Yan fall into silent silence, because the other party was too right, and he couldn't even refute it. At that time, the naval battle would definitely be quite far from Malacca, and thick smoke rose in the general direction. Kushan's first reaction must be that the water camp was attacked, and such a large amount of smoke would definitely be that the main camp was about to be knocked down and burned.
As for setting fire to forests, will anyone think like this during war? As long as your mind is normal, you won’t think like this. The first reaction determines their next judgment.
"So if you want to say dangerous things, it is not big. As long as the time is about, you set fire. Kushan dare not gamble." Zhou Yu said with a smile. He generally does not fight unsure of wars. Since he dares to go to the front line, at least it means that there is no problem with retreating. There is no need for Kushan to gamble when he has a great advantage.
Why do you have to fight to the death if you can win by playing steadily?
"What if Kushan doesn't turn around and firmly believes that his camp can be kept? After all, we know the strength of the Kushan Army now, and the polarization is very serious." Huang Gai suddenly spoke. He really felt that this plan was a bit risky.
All the information about the fight between the Han Dynasty and the Kushan Army was transferred to Zhou Yu, and Zhou Yu also analyzed it to Jiangdong's generals one by one.
Simply put, the North and South Legions of the Han Dynasty can barely be considered to be within the range of the strength of a country's legion, at most, the tolerance is larger. The North and South Legions of the Kushan can basically be classified into two completely different levels.
Even the strongest wave is inferior to the top elites in the Han Dynasty, they can definitely fight to the death. The latter usually seems to be beaten by dozens of times.
Therefore, Huang Gai was worried that if there were elite legions in the Kushan camp? It shouldn't be said that it was even if it was. It must be that there must be. With such a large-scale dispatch, Vesutva I would at least stuff one or two elite legions into it to support the venue.
This is the most normal situation. Even if the book of the later generations is so fierce, the navy can actually fight on land. At most, the upper limit of the performance of these or two elite legions will not reach the true top level, but there will definitely be such legions.
"Kulshan will not bet, it has been so long. Kushan must have created permanent crossbows along the coast of Malacca. Once those turrets fall into our hands, it will be too difficult for the other party to reoccupy them." Zhou Yu shook his head and said, "The things that General Huang is worried about do exist, but they dare not bet on this probability, so they will withdraw."
In fact, this also involves a Kushan Legion's judgment on the strength of the Han army's marine warfare. Huang Gai can tell that there must be one or two capable army stationed in the camp. After the Kushan caught fire in Malacca, would he not be able to tell how many elite army troops of the Han Dynasty came?
This is a process of opposing oneself to others. It would be fine if I didn’t expect this, but when the location of the camp caught fire, it was impossible for Kushan to not think about the issues of the Han Army. The army side of the Kushans would definitely not bet, after all, they had received local arraignments.
Regarding the judgment of the Han army, the other party will definitely come to the conclusion that it is stronger than himself.
This is just like the Kushan easily concluded that the navy itself was stronger than the Han army, because it was all factual. Not to mention the marines of the Kushan Navy, even if they forced the Han Dynasty back to the royal commander-in-chief of the royal family east of the city of Brahmadhis, they would admit this fact in their hearts.
No matter how fierce the clamor is, as long as you still have self-knowledge, you will make a judgment on the comparison of your strength in your heart when making major decisions.
Others also understood the logic after hearing this. They were no longer confused about Zhou Yu's plan. Although war inevitably requires risks, it is beneficial for everyone to suppress the danger. Zhou Yu's current plan belongs to the type with guaranteed safety.
"Since you all know it, then we will complete the initial camp construction first. After the initial camp is completed, we will try to contact Kushan. There will be a time node problem here, and you must not make any mistakes in this aspect at that time." Zhou Yu said to everyone present.
Zhou Yu's plan itself has no problem. The only thing that may be wrong is the time node for sea routes to cooperate. Although after the army is in place, relying on scouts to observe the time of the large-scale dispatch of the opponent's legion, we can determine the approximate time when the Kushan Navy and Zhou Yu and others fight.
But there is an estimated problem here. Once the time is wrong, it will be better if it is too early. At most, Zhou Yu has no chance to see the Kushan Navy Group, which is fully engaged. If it is too late, Zhou Yu might suffer heavy losses.
After all, in terms of absolute strength, according to Zhou Yu's judgment, he is weaker than Kushan, and there is basically no possibility of winning a head-on battle. If it is not necessary for the situation, and it is necessary to judge how much the opponent surpasses him. Zhou Yu will not fight Kushan head-on for a long time after he arrives, and will only gradually start fighting after he is sure.
Of course, the plan cannot keep up with the changes. It is indeed dangerous to experience the complete strength of the Kushan Navy from the beginning, but experiencing such a war will also help the Han Dynasty determine the gap between the two sides and then learn to imitate the other party to eliminate its own shortcomings.
Of course, the prerequisite is to survive, and the prerequisite for survival is to make time well. If you don’t grasp the time well, it will be really not worth the loss.
This is also the reason why Zhou Yu had to hand over this task to Li Yan, who was not very experienced. Compared with other generals and schools, Li Yan has more intelligence and can seize the opportunity of the fighter. As for others, it is probably only possible to achieve Sun Ce's beast intuition and Gan Ning's inspiration.
However, no matter who went to Zhou Yu, it felt that Zhou Yu was not suitable. Once Sun Ce started to be reckless, as long as Zhou Yu was not around, no one could hold him back. As one of the commanders of the navy, Gan Ning had a deeper understanding of the Kushan Navy than Zhou Yu's understanding of the Kushan Navy.
Of course, Zhou Yu inevitably needed Gan Ning to check for omissions and fill in the gaps in this battle, so Gan Ning could not move easily. In this way, the person he could choose was Li Yan.
When Li Yan heard this, he was a little happy. Although he was heartbroken by Zhou Yu's previous words, Li Yan heard what Zhou Yu said later and remembered it in his heart. After all, when the next battle was fought, the life of the army was placed in his judgment.
This pressure not only did not make Li Yan feel heavy, but instead made him even more excited. This guy himself is also a top talent. Although Zhou Yu's top talent inevitably has some personality defects, it is very high in terms of ability limits.
"Have you finished discussing it?" Sun Ce greeted from afar. Seeing Zhou Yu turn his head to look at him when he heard this, Sun Ce immediately added, "But no matter whether it is finished or not, I will be the first to go there at that time."
"Oh~" Zhou Yu sighed. He found that he was like an old mother. Although he guessed that this would definitely be the case in the morning, Zhou Yu was still a little tired after Sun Ce said this. This guy was completely unconsidered with him.
It seems that it doesn't matter whether it is considerate or not. Zhou Yu's plan 2 has already covered Sun Ce. Thinking of this, Zhou Yu felt inexplicably tired.
"It's nothing, Bo Fu, you can rest assured that you will definitely have your place at that time." Zhou Yu said with a little sigh, "Let's go together then, maybe there will be another big battle."
"Is that true?" Sun Ce said in surprise at Zhou Yu.
"Of course, let's take the same boat as me, and let's go as a flagship." Zhou Yu looked like a broken can.
"Governor, you should just calm down. You almost wrote the words "Broken Can" on your face." Jiang Qin sent a message to Zhou Yu with a little tired heart. Zhou Yu was always reliable in his work, and he would not look angry regardless of victory or defeat. Only Sun Ce often made Zhou Yu look depressed, and this situation would inevitably occur.
"What does it mean to throw apart? It's obviously going with the flow." Zhou Yu waved his hand, not wanting to discuss this matter, let's go with Sun Ce's Mao first. At the beginning of the war, Zhou Yu had to stare at it carefully. On the one hand, he didn't know much about the combat power of the Kushan extreme level, and on the other hand, he also protected Sun Ce's high-level death.
After all, water war is different from land war. If Sun Ce is not under his nose and is caught by Kushan, it is not impossible to kill directly. Although Sun Ce has always been lucky, Zhou Yu still doesn't want Sun Ce to use it as his trump card for luck.
Therefore, it was easier to manage Sun Ce in the early stage.
"Will the flagship lead other warships then? Generally, if the flagship leads the way, all warships will rush, right?" Sun Ce asked excitedly.
"Yes, it's this rhythm. The flagship will be the commander at that time." Before Zhou Yu's answer, Gan Ning, who was making snapper there, gave the answer Sun Ce wanted, "By the way, you are also from a navy army, so you won't even know about this kind of thing."
"Oh, yes, I also fought with the navy, probably forgot." Sun Ce Wangtian thought for a while, and finally confirmed that it must be because his mind did not match Zhou Yu last year.
Chapter completed!