Chapter 4217 Changes in the Strategic Situation
The decisive battle naturally could not be fought. On the one hand, Mengkangbu, who had already set out at that time, had no relevant information at all. On the other hand, when Kushan discovered that Zhou Yu's ship was sailing to the middle of the Ganges, Mengkangbu's fleet had passed the Kou fief and arrived at the Bay of Bengal immediately.
It is meaningless to notify or not at this time. It is better to let Meng Kangbu choose the target by himself. After all, Meng Kangbu himself is also an excellent general and the war has not been in vain for so many years. If you find that Zhou Yu is not there, you will naturally choose a new target.
However, the overall situation is not as good as Zhu Helai thought. This actually involves a change in the world's maritime strategic layout caused by many years of war between the Han army and the Kushan.
Whoever took over the Strait of Malacca was qualified to block the Indian Ocean and the Pacific. However, the Han army built the Kra Isthmus Canal and directly completed the change of the world's maritime strategic layout. Simply put, Mengkangbugan broke the Han army's navy and seized Malacca. The Han Dynasty could still travel between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.
As for the capture of the Kra Isthmus Canal, it was purely a dream. This is an artificial canal, not the magical craftsmanship of nature. The widths of the left and right are exactly the same. After the repair, various permanent forts were built.
Instead of thinking about how to take down this canal, it is better to be realistic and block the canal directly with a transport ship. At least this behavior is more realistic and more effective.
However, even if the canal was blocked by a transport ship, the army could not block it, and the Han army could open the canal in a few days.
Therefore, the so-called seizing Malacca and regaining the overall strategic advantage of the navy did not exist from the beginning. As for why Zhou Yu has been arriving in Malacca, this involves another reason, or more directly, this is purely political reasons.
If there was no Kra Isthmus Canal, Jiangdong had mastered Malacca and maritime transportation gradually developed, and would fight with the Han Dynasty about Malacca problems sooner or later. Jiangdong almost devoted almost all resources to the construction of Sumatra Island, and when the problem of tidal flats was completely solved, there would be fertile land there. One was based on the local area and the other was on the expedition, and internal friction would be very fatal.
Chen Xi was not interested in the Eternal Dynasty, just a stagnant pool. All he wanted was the expansion of the Han cultural circle. The master and subordinate were not important, but interests were the most touching. In the hands of the people of Jiangdong, unnecessary civil strife would sooner or later break out due to interests.
Therefore, the birth of the Kra Isthmus Canal was founded. This canal of more than 100 miles was not only a strategic alternative to the Kushans in Jiangdong at that time, but also another choice for the Han Dynasty in the future.
Even if there is no possibility that Zhao Qi and the elderly point out the weakness when viewing the map, Chen Xi will point out the possibility that they can penetrate the canal in the future. After all, some things were not done at the beginning, and the resistance to doing later was too great.
Just like in ancient China, the 2,700-kilometer Grand Canal was built, and now the Kara Isthmus Canal in Thailand has been dragged for hundreds of years and has been shelved due to various political reasons. Now, no matter who is interested, there is strong resistance to push it.
It’s not that it is difficult to repair a canal of more than fifty kilometers, but that the political forces involved in building this canal are constantly fighting, which makes no one possible.
Therefore, from the 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 situation he was facing next, as long as he seized this opportunity to kill Zhou Yu, it would be 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 definitely an invincible existence in its contemporaries, and even various Kushan weapons and secret techniques cannot break the defense. At most, it will only be blown to the point of paint loss.
But in addition to long-range strikes, naval combat also has the gameplay of jumping ship warfare. Especially in the third century, the mainstream naval warfare should have been based on jumping ship warfare as the core combat idea.
It sounds outrageous, but in fact, the last battle of the boarding battle occurred in World War II, which was the Cossacks vs. Artmark. Although it was a destroyer vs. oil tanker, it was also a real jumping battle. It can be seen that if the captain was garbage, nothing was reliable.
If Zhou Yu drove the real seventh-generation ship against the Kushan Navy, the probability that the Kushan Navy had the opportunity to perform a jump ship was 0, then if you change to other commanders, including Gan Ning, the Kushan Navy would at least have the chance to touch the real seventh-generation ship. This is the difference.
Meng Kangbu didn't know about this. He just implemented the plan he thought was correct according to his own judgment. However, in reality, his plan could be called the most correct plan. At least, this is a plan that really has the chance to kill Zhou Yu and hurt the Han army.
As for Zhu Helai, Altay has made these plans now, to be honest, Altay has only made a few kilometers of mud, but he can only create half of the mud in Ganges? This method can only curb the Han army's performance at most. If the Han army cannot move, can Kushan move?
Except for the Kshatriya Warrior Legion in Sakara, Kushan has the ability to pass through this terrain, isn’t other legions also insulting in the face of this terrain?
The Han Dynasty was disgusted for a while, and at least 20,000 to 30,000 shield guards with solid talents could be used. No matter how bad Zang Ba was, he could still be transferred back. Is this the way to solve the problem?
Actually, it’s not. Altay never thought of solving the problem completely. He just wanted to delay time.
On the contrary, Meng Kangbu really wants to solve the problem, and the difference from others is that Meng Kangbu really can solve the problem. After all, in the army, as long as the generals and the school are not stupid and cannot win, they can run away quickly. Even if they are defeated, they can still escape a lot.
But in a naval battle, as long as you seize the opportunity, even if it is just one chance, you can actually turn defeat into victory. Zhou Yu used facts to show everyone what it means to be better than me, as long as you have a chance, you can win back all those who have lost before.
This time, it was really a chance for Kushan to turn defeat into victory. If Zhou Yu did not drive the seventh generation ship to Qunu City, Meng Kangbu had a 60% chance to win back all the previous losses, including in this battle, where Guan Yu, Yu Jin and others seized them.
Because Zhou Yu also wanted to kill Meng Kangbu, as long as Meng Kangbu really appeared in the Bay of Bengal, Zhou Yu would chase after him even if he knew it was bait, because Zhou Yu brought 70% of the Han Dynasty fleet and naval generals in the Bay of Bengal.
This data is combined with Zhou Yu's combat power last year. When fighting against Meng Kangbu, who had not replaced the warship, without the cover of the land-based turret, even if Meng Kangbu cannot defeat Meng Kangbu, he can defeat the opponent. Even if Meng Kangbu has some other secret techniques and hidden powers, it doesn't matter to Zhou Yu. Just like the first time Zhou Yu faces Selyan, it doesn't matter what tricks you have.
After all, Zhou Yu was also quite annoyed by Meng Kangbu. Other naval generals and officers of the Han army were killed when other conditions were not different except Gan Ning.
Although the Kushan Navy was extremely afraid of Zhou Yu, in fact, the Han army was also very afraid of the Kushan Navy. When it was so far, everyone could see that the navy was divided into Zhou Yu and others, while the others were divided into Mengkangbu and others...
So Zhou Yu also wanted to get an opportunity to kill Meng Kangbu so that his ordinary naval generals and officers could lead the fleet to dominate Siyang.
The problem is that when Zhou Yu led the team, Meng Kangbu either had the main force group or had land-based forts on the coast of Kushan. When Zhou Yu did not lead the team, Meng Kangbu led the team to find ways to strangle the Han navy. The two had basically never encountered each other a few times.
In the only few encounters, the navy led by Zhou Yu did not have the ability to slap Mengkangbu's main force. Therefore, when Zhou Yu led the main force and Mengkangbu suddenly appeared, Zhou Yu would definitely rush forward to strangle Mengkangbu. Even if Zhou Yu knew that the other party must be a bait, what happened to the bait? Zhou Yu wanted to see what kind of ambush you could take out.
This is what is called "a good rider falls on a horse, and a good swimmer drowns on a water."
Just like Sellian, didn’t you know that Zhou Yu’s big move was bait? I know, but Sellian was confident that even if he was old, he could only breathe a sigh of relief and could take Zhou Yu away at the last moment. So Sellian saw Zhou Yu’s big move, and followed directly.
I also knew the subsequent results. At that time, Zhou Yu could not beat Selian at that time, but Selian was pinched by Zhou Yu in that breath.
As long as Zhou Yu follows, Meng Kangbu will be 60% to 70% sure to take Zhou Yu away. Of course, at the cost, the generals and schoolmen under Meng Kangbu and even Meng Kangbu himself may be taken away in this process, but it doesn't matter.
If Meng Kangbu did not die in this process, then the Kushan would have won a great victory, which is enough to be called a reverse of the strategic situation. The Han Dynasty could only wait for the subsequent Shi Seventh-generation ships to go into the sea to completely solve the Kushan Navy, and there were some other unexpected factors here.
If Meng Kangbu died in this process, the Kushans would at least reverse the strategic situation to a certain extent. The navy had at least the basis to suppress the Han navy, but when the real seventh generation ship came down, all efforts would be in vain.
Without Mengkangbu's level, ordinary naval generals and the Shin-Seventh Generation ships are not qualified to fight a jetty battle. The simplest one is that without Mengkangbu, a naval general who is just stronger than the Han army is impossible to let his warships approach the Shin-Seventh Generation ships under the attack of the Han army.
This little difference is the unexpected factors summarized above - even if it is the so-called favor of fate, you must have the basic strength to accept this favor.
Unfortunately, Zhou Yu had already gone to Qunnu City to eliminate subsequent hidden dangers for Sun Ce's behavior that year, resulting in the only possible opportunity to reverse the entire strategy was lost. Zhou Yu was not in the Bay of Bengal, and the biggest thing that Meng Kangbu could do was to smash some jars and jars.
Perhaps for Kushan, smashing these jars and jars was a huge victory, but just like when the book was fighting against the US, the huge victory they thought was not a serious loss for the US.
Both sides did not fight at the same level from the beginning. The victory sought by the Han Dynasty was a victory that could operate stably and continue to rule. The Kushan goal was to continue to survive and had no long-term plans at all.
Many of the Kushan Empires were considered amazing, but in fact they were just an inspiration when they were pressed and beaten by the Han Dynasty.
The entire Han-Gui war, which can be truly called a strategic plan, is to blockade Malacca, control Xiangxiong, Beigui's internal migration, and pull Liu Ling into the internal affairs. The rest is just a passive reaction in the face of the Han Dynasty beating.
However, only one of these strategic plans comes from Zhu Helai, the other two, one is the experience analysis of the marine layout by Selian, the naval giant, and the two are gifts given by Masind when he escaped.
As for other operations, let’s put it this way, all strategies that cannot reverse the situation are funny analysis. Do you know why there is a kind of staff called Showa staff? This kind of staff is not because there is a gap in intelligence and others, but because there is a gap in the level of cognitive issues.
The failure of tactics is at most a pain. If the failure of strategy is not a pain, then there is no need to hurt, because it is already dead, so why does it hurt?
The dilemma that Kushan is now in is actually strategic passivity. Unfortunately, there are very few ways to reverse this kind of passivity. After all, even if you want to try to get a big pound of force, at least you have to have a pound of force. The problem with Kushan is how to get this pound of force.
Kushan thought about how to get these four taels of force. That was the Kushan business. What the Han Dynasty wanted was to kill Kushan directly with a thousand pounds of force.
For example, after the seventh generation ship that hit the bottom near Qunnu City rushed down, Zhou Yu finally gave up and continued to move forward.
At present, this place is more than ten miles away from Qunnu City, but it is already within the range of the attack of the spirit of heaven and earth - electromagnetic rail gun. Zhou Yu did not want to waste his energy and continue to move forward. Although his crew members were busy repairing the ship and then could still move forward a few miles by relying on cloud air to solidify the road, it was really troublesome.
Zhou Yu said that it is not necessary. It is actually no longer important to have more miles or less. Naval guns are fighting warships at sea because of the bumps on the sea surface. However, when hitting fixed targets, the hit rate is still guaranteed. Moreover, the fixed target is still a city. If it still fails to hit, then the Jiangdong archers committed suicide, which is pure waste!
"This city wall is not easy to fight." Sun Ce stared at Qunnu City with a serious expression.
"This is a royal city. There was no Qi of Qi at the beginning and there was no etching. General Guan called on the power of the entire army and only had a trace of the Peshawar city wall with one knife, let alone the Qunun City now." Zhou Yu said with a calm expression, "I may not be able to identify the secret techniques and etching above, but as long as it is still the city wall, there is no problem. Contact our people and prepare to attack the city."
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