Chapter 179 Offensive and Defensive

Wang Dong opened his mouth and was about to ask something more when a loud sound of gongs and drums suddenly came from outside.

The Saint-Hand King's expression changed and said coldly: "This Li Qing really doesn't take the lives of his subordinates seriously. He started attacking again in such a quick time. Isn't the lesson he learned just now? It would be strange if he could attack the island this time. Just now, we only dispatched two heavy infantry battalions and two rangers to guard the two docks respectively, so that they could not move forward. Hehe, he thought this was on land and there were too many people to win? But fortunately we were prepared in advance and put stakes around the island in advance, otherwise we would really suffer a big loss."

Li Ming frowned and said with a little concern: "Regularly speaking, Li Qing shouldn't be so reckless, and Liu Zhang is even more cunning. Seeing the situation just now, he should be recklessly attacking again. No, he must have some other method. Wang Dong, you immediately drive an iron-armored warship along the island and see what they are doing. If I think correctly, Li Qing should be attacking the east and west. It is virtual when he attacks the pier, and it is real to deposit it in other places. Although there are hidden piles on the shore, so that their ships cannot dock, it cannot prevent sailors with good water quality from swimming ashore. The hidden piles are only more than fifty meters wide, and this distance is easy to swim. By the way, that's it. I immediately order the troops on the island to dispatch and defend tightly along the coast to prevent the enemy from getting ashore."

Everyone was anxious when they heard this. If the enemy had been allowed to sneak into the unprepared Biquan inside as Li Ming said, the loss would be great. So, as soon as Li Ming finished speaking, everyone ran out to convey the order.

Li Ming was not idle at this time. After following everyone out, he led his personal guards to the shore to assist those defenders patrolling the coast.

As expected by Li Ming, after the failure of the first strong attack, Li Qing changed his tactics and used the troops attacking the dock to attract the attention of the defenders. Then he sent ships to transport the navy troops with good water properties, and went around to the foot of a mountain very far away from the dock, where the navy soldiers went down to the water and swam to the shore. He sent a total of five such attack troops, and almost all of them had been temporarily replaced by the army.

But he did not expect that Li Ming had timely seen through his plan to attack the east and west, and had already sent patrol troops to patrol the coast, paying attention to the movements of the surface ships at any time. Nearly 50,000 troops on the island, except for 9,000 people each to defend the two wharfs, the remaining 30,000 people were scattered on the shore to strictly prevent the enemy's sneak attacks. At the same time, more than 30,000 people on the island's police forces and militia self-defense regiments helped to defend, causing the entire Biquan Island to be defensive.

At this time, the navy troops who had landed around the foot of the mountain had successfully landed ashore. Since they had been swimming, they were not wearing any armor. Even their weapons were just a thin waist knife specially made from Biquan Island to facilitate swimming in the water.

After the gathering on the shore, they went upstream along the stream at the foot of the mountain and began to march towards the interior of the island. This place was too remote and the location was too strange. In the valley between the two mountains, there was a gentle hillside inserted into the lake, which could allow these soldiers who came ashore to have a place to settle down. Going to both sides, they were all cliffs. And looking around, except for the dense pine forests on the mountain in the distance, there were only tender green grass under their feet. Not to mention a figure, even a little hare could not see one.

The leading officer was very happy to see this situation all day long. The opponent was not defending in such a good place. He was too careless. Thinking of the fierce landing battle on the dock, he couldn't help but have a very good idea. So, after settling the soldiers who were getting ashore, he called two subordinates over and gave them instructions, asking them to go into the water and swim to the ship that had not yet walked away.

In fact, the soldiers who came ashore here were indeed lucky because except for them, the soldiers who landed in the other four places had already declared failure. Two places were destroyed by Wang Dong in an armored warship. He sank almost all the ships transported by the soldiers. The other two places were attacked on the shore during the soldiers' ashore. Under the attack of a round of crossbow arrows, most of them were killed and injured, and the remaining residues were

Bing Youyong hurriedly climbed back to the ship and hurriedly retreated to the realm of his fleet. The sailors who were guarding not far from the shore saw the soldiers on the shore cheering and wanted to start the warship and crash into it. However, the hidden stakes were arranged along the coast so that they did not dare to move forward at all, because when they first surrounded Biquan Island, nearly 400 warships were scraped off the bottom of the ship by the hidden stakes at the bottom of the water because they did not understand the situation, causing them to sink.

At this time, Li Ming was patrolling the shore near the school with more than 2,000 of his personal guards. The mountains and rivers are beautiful and the scenery is pleasant, but the scenery is destroyed by warships in the lake not far away. Due to this war, all the students in the school were on holiday, and the children living on campus were not all transferred to the middle of the island, so the current school is empty, which just happened to serve as a temporary command post for Li Ming.

This section of defense was brought by Li Ming and the Saint King. Since the war began, the commander-in-chief was commanded by Zhang Meng and Yuchi Xiong, Li Ming did not take over the command after he came back. Since the battle situation was in his favor so far, there was no need to change the command temporarily. Therefore, Li Ming took the initiative to enter the battlefield and brought his own personal support to defend here.

Although this place is remote, Li Qing did not seem to have chosen this place as the landing place. Li Ming has been here for a long time, but he still did not notice the enemy's movement, which made him unable to sit still. On the battlefield, his army was fighting with the enemy, but he sat here to wait for the rabbit, which made him feel something was wrong. Finally, after waiting for more than an hour, he suddenly walked out of the campus, called Jia Yi over, and ordered: "You thirty people are guarding here, and you can report to the nearby reinforcements at any time if you have any situation. Lin Long and I will go back to the villa for a while. Don't worry, my master is in charge of the villa, and no one can do anything to me."

Jia hesitated for a while, but Ge could not helplessly agree. He had only more than thirty brothers around him, and he really couldn't play any important role. Now he was the only one who acted as a scout here and watched the enemy's movements at any time.

Li Ming took Lin Long to the villa quickly, but found Lin Lingfeng leisurely playing Go with Zhang Yao in the pavilion by the spring.

Suddenly, a feeling of laughter and crying surged into Li Ming's heart. Before he could speak, Lin Long next to him first started to complain: "Dad, what's wrong with you? Everyone is fighting bloody battles with the enemy on the shore. How about you, playing chess with Sister Yao here? Is this island not yours, you don't care about the matter? It should be easy to kill Li Qing at this time, right? Why do you do this?" At this point, she was so angry that she blushed.

Lin Lingfeng smiled faintly, looked at Zhang Yao meaningfully, and said, "If I go to the battlefield, what do you want the people from their command to do? The war will be fought as you said, and the world will be pacified long ago. Longer, you have to be able to handle things in the world and business, but you don't understand the things in this war. In this kind of war scene, martial arts are not very useful. My strength alone is very limited. Besides, with nearly 50,000 well-trained elite soldiers on the island,

With Biquan Island's natural defensive advantage, if I can't stand this attack, then I will be suspicious of Li Ming's ability to conquer the world in the future. In addition, you said that I would kill Li Qing, haha, it's not impossible, but Li Ming nodded. In this delicate situation, it takes very careful action to eliminate the powerful leader of one side. This involves a strategic issue, right? Li Ming, I'm afraid that if I kill Li Qing now, it will cause you a lot of trouble."

Li Ming nodded hurriedly and said to Lin Long: "That's right, the master is very correct. At this time, I will never let something happen to Li Qing. Although he is leading the army to besiege my Biquan Island, I still have no idea of ​​killing him. The master is right, there is a strategic issue involved. But don't worry, with my current strength, I don't take Li Qing's troops seriously. According to my current combat capabilities, even Zhuo Junhao's army composed of new recruits can be able to block five with one. That is to say, on the battlefield, my 50,000 troops can be equivalent to the combat ability of more than 200,000 troops on the other side. You said, I will also put Li Qing in.

In my eyes? Haha, I actually have secret weapons that have not been used, mainly because I am afraid of leaking the opportunity, so I will not use them until very necessary. According to my estimate, he will withdraw his troops within three days, with more than 70,000 troops. The food consumption alone is amazing every day, not to mention the supplementary issues of weapons such as arrow branches. He stayed away from his base to go on an expedition. If he dragged it like this, he would definitely not be able to delay it. Therefore, as long as we stick to it, we should firmly guard the docks and shores, we don’t need to spend so much effort to counterattack, and they will naturally retreat. Since I don’t want to kill him or destroy his army, I will let him retreat like this."

Lin Long blinked blankly and looked at Lin Lingfeng who was smiling knowingly, making her feel that she was so ignorant for the first time. Li Ming's words were mysterious, which made her a little confused. She didn't even understand what Li Ming meant. Helplessly, she had to use her anger to hide her doubts: "Whatever she said, how could she learn to be careless now? Why can't Li Qing be killed? Why can't she destroy his army? Don't keep it a secret. I know that you have become cunning recently. The little girl is willing to give me a chance to understand." At the end of the story, she had to admit her doubts.

Lin Lingfeng laughed and joked, "Why, Long'er, don't you take anyone seriously? Do you still think that your intelligence and talent are unparalleled in the world? Haha, let me tell you, Li Ming is now rewarded by the emperor and served as the governor of the two states. This is an opportunity and a shackle. Although it can allow Li Ming to take the opportunity to develop and strengthen himself, it also makes Li Ming not act rashly. You must know that the reason why Li Ming has this in the people of the world

Such a great appeal and such a high prestige all lies in his positive image of curing diseases and saving people and benefiting the people. In the minds of the people in the world, he is the embodiment of justice. Even if he leads troops to fight this time, it is also a very just thing: under the appointment of the emperor, he led a large army to attack the prince who intends to rebel, which is originally an orthodox hero in the minds of the people. Therefore, this is a benefit of accepting the appointment of the emperor, but at the same time, it also prevents Li Ming from easily

Can you understand this? Without a high-sounding and seamless reason, Li Ming must not be independent. This is caused by the inherent traditional concepts of this society. It is due to the general trend and cannot be changed. Therefore, Li Ming cannot eliminate Li Qing or Li Jiao. This is equivalent to making a wedding dress for Li Song, and he will not have any benefits. Once the power of Li Qing and Li Jiao is over, Li Song will turn his head and deal with Li Ming. By then, if Li Song wants to not control his own power, there will be no way other than rebellion, but that will destroy Li Ming's reputation and his image will be destroyed in the minds of the people of the world. Now, you should understand Li Ming's real idea. In fact, Li Ming can still maintain such a calm mind when he is surrounded by Li Qing's soldiers, which means that he is becoming more and more mature. Long'er, you should think about him more and more about learning."

Lin Long's face turned red, he looked at Li Ming with embarrassment, and said slowly: "Of course, the man I like is definitely extraordinary. But you, Dad, you haven't answered me yet. Why didn't you go to the battlefield to cheer for the troops, but hide here to play chess with Sister Yao for fun?" Lin Long hurriedly changed the topic and began to question Lin Lingfeng.

Lin Lingfeng smiled, looked at Lin Long's coquettish face lovingly, and said, "Didn't I say it? I don't need to come forward on the battlefield. If Wang Tong can't even control this scene, it would be too disappointing to have Li Ming's trust."

Li Ming also smiled, pulled Lin Long's sleeve, and whispered: "Long'er, stop making trouble. There is really no need for a master on the battlefield. Besides, the master is not doing nothing here. He is here to protect Yao'er and prevent the enemy from being unfavorable to her."

Lin Long was stunned for a moment, and then a rosy gushed up to her face, making it seem like water dripping from her face. She looked at Li Ming blankly, and murmured in a low voice: "What's going on? I can't even see such a simple thing? Am I becoming benzene, or are you smarter? I found that since I followed you, I have no longer been like before. I have become rarely seriously considering one thing and studying one thing, and I have also begun to get used to following your ideas. Is this a blessing or a disaster for me? In order to follow you, should I completely lose myself?"

"What is self? If you like the state in front of you, then what's wrong with completely giving up your past? For you, the current you are your self. The past you have become a past. If you still want to restore your past, that's what you are, it's called losing yourself." Man'er came out of the room, holding a few cups of Longjing in his hand, just behind Lin Long. Hearing Lin Long's confused question, he couldn't help but refute. Since her identity was revealed, Lin Long's attitude towards her has been very different, and she herself began to let go of herself in front of everyone, so she was not as reserved as before when she spoke to Lin Long.

Lin Long was stunned again. Man'er's words woke her up from her confusion with a thunder. Yes, she cared too much about her former self, so she ignored her actual mood and state. Man'er was right. Her current state is the self. If she loses her current self in order to find her former self, it is called putting the cart before the horse. Since she is used to living under the influence of Li Ming, why should she emphasize her former independent self?

Seeing Lin Long's sudden expression, Li Ming couldn't help but look at Man'er gratefully. As a result, the teacup she handed over, Li Ming asked with concern: "How are you doing recently? I have been very busy and I don't have time to take care of you. Are you afraid of so many people besieging us?"

Man'er glanced at Li Ming with a chuckle and said disrespectfully: "With the training level of the soldiers on the island and the inherent defensive advantages of the island, it is impossible for the enemy to break through the defense line without a 200,000 army. Moreover, with only two docks to dock warships, if the enemy wants to attack the island, they must step on their own bodies and swim through other places forcibly. This is absolutely impossible without enough troops."

As soon as Man'er's words fell, Li Ming and Lin Lingfeng couldn't help but be shocked. Although he already knew that Man'er was the princess of the Great Zhou Kingdom, he did not expect that her analysis of the current situation was so old. Judging from her expression, she seemed to have said it casually without any careful consideration. Then, Man'er's familiarity with military affairs could not be measured by general understanding.

Seeing Li Ming and Lin Lingfeng's surprised expressions, Man'er was stunned for a moment, then laughed again. She hurriedly explained: "Have you forgotten? In our Great Zhou Kingdom, all princes and princesses have to undergo strict training. This kind of training is not only martial arts, but also military and internal affairs. So I can still analyze my own opinions on the current situation of the war. Moreover, now the young masters can sit here and chat so limitedly, which means that my idea is correct?

Li Ming couldn't help but smile with relief. He looked at Man'er with anticipation and said, "Since you have received so much training, you can't waste your talents? Now Long'er is busy following me all day to protect me, so the internal affairs of the island are all on Yao'er alone. I'm worried that she can't bear it, so I wonder if you think about it and start to serve as my third executive director from now on? On the one hand, you can use your abilities, and on the other hand, you also share some work for Yao'er."

Man'er's face suddenly turned red. She quickly lowered her head and bit her lips tightly, not daring to look at Li Ming at all. She made a low voice of mosquitoes and flies: "Young master looks down on me so much, why didn't Man'er agree? It's just that the two sisters don't know if they can accept me."

Li Ming was stunned. When he made this suggestion just now, he really wanted Man'er to help Zhang Yao, but he didn't expect that Man'er had misunderstood his meaning. How would he explain it like this? If he said he didn't have this meaning, it would be too embarrassing for Man'er. If he didn't explain it, let alone he couldn't accept it, even Lin Long could not get it. For Man'er, he always had a very strange feeling in his heart. Even he couldn't explain this feeling clearly. Is it sympathy? Is it love?

Do you like it? Or novelty? He really doesn't know. He only knows that every time he faces Man'er, his heart can't calm down, and there is always a wonderful complex entangling him. Even he himself can't understand what happened. Now Man'er is so much a misunderstanding at this time, and asking such a difficult problem to himself makes him really not know how to solve it. With Lin Long's temper, should she be so angry? Thinking of this, Li Ming couldn't help but look at Lin Long.

It seemed as if he had known that Li Ming was going to see him. As soon as Li Ming's eyes moved to Lin Long's face, Lin Long's eyes rolled up, which made Li Ming's heart beat. He subconsciously spoke to explain the situation to Man'er, but unexpectedly, Lin Long spoke at this time.

"No problem. Since my elder brother values ​​you so much, Sister Yao and I sincerely welcome you. But we must be optimistic in the future. Any young woman must not be allowed to contact him, otherwise our team will continue to grow. Is it right? Brother."

Li Ming suddenly opened his mouth wide and looked at Lin Long foolishly. When he asked her to accept Zhang Yao, it took quite a lot of twists and turns, so since then, Li Ming tried his best to control himself and prevent the relationship between men and women from happening to him again. Although it is a common situation in this era to be superior to men and women, Li Ming, as a modern person, is still satisfied with the two confidants around him. For Man'er, he has never thought about the relationship between men and women. Even today, it is clearly a beautiful misunderstanding, but he did not expect that Lin Long's words turned this misunderstanding into facts. For a moment, a feeling of fate making people play tricks arise in Li Ming's heart.

"Okay, for this matter, you won't be so happy that you can't even say anything, right?" Looking at Li Ming's stupid look, Lin Long couldn't help but feel a little sad, and his dissatisfied words blurted out.

This sentence immediately made Li Ming and Man'er blush. Li Ming looked at Lin Long awkwardly, feeling distressed in his heart. Today, Lin Long caused this misunderstanding, but he himself could not eliminate this misunderstanding. Looking at Man'er's shy and smiling face, Li Ming really didn't know how to say it.

Fortunately, Malin walked into the villa in time at this time to relieve Li Ming of this embarrassing situation.

At this time, in the inconspicuous corner of Biquan Island, Tian Tian was nervously leading his more than 2,000 sailors to camp nervously. As the sky was about to dark, he had to fix the camp before the sun set. Although the order given to them in advance was to launch an attack immediately after they went to the island to attract the enemy's army, Cheng Tian found that there was no trace of the island troops here. If he still followed the original plan, he had to lead the more than 2,000 soldiers to climb over the mountain in front of him and then pass through the pine forest under the hillside to find the enemy's army to attack. However, judging from the terrain in front of him, it would take at least half a day to climb over this mountain and cross the forest. The sun was about to set. It was not a good idea to climb over the mountains and cross the mountains on the dark night. One step would make them fall off the cliff. Moreover,

The original plan was a suicide restraining attack, so except for a waist knife, there was no supply or camping item. How could his troops stay overnight on a cold night? How could his soldiers rush to the hunger? So, from the moment he landed ashore, a plan arose in his heart. He wanted to send his subordinates back to report and let his army land quietly from here, although he still needed to be familiar with the water.

Only a sexual navy can overcome the stakes, but with floating objects such as wooden basins, people who are not familiar with water can swim through this distance. Moreover, this place is calm and suitable for people with poor water properties. Therefore, before the large army landed ashore, it is the most important thing to camp and set up a good defensive position on the beach. Moreover, if your army cannot reach today, you will also build some straw sheds to read this cold night.

The sun gradually set below the opposite peak, and the quiet valley suddenly became dark. The soldiers who were busy cutting down trees with their waist knives in their hands couldn't help but speed up their progress, hoping to build the straw hut before it was completely dark, otherwise, they might freeze to death this night.

However, although their waist knives are made of steel from Biquan Island, they are not an axe after all. The thin waist knives are not suitable for cutting down trees at all, so the work progresses quite slowly.

Fortunately, after the sun was completely set, their camp was barely built, so the more than 2,000 vanguard troops squeezed closely into the low shack, enduring the cold wind coming in everywhere, covering their hungry belly, and preparing to spend this long and difficult night.

That night, the sky was covered with crescent moons. Although it was not very bright, it could vaguely illuminate the earth. The sounds of shouts and war drums in the distance had already stopped. The whole sky was silent, and only the sound of teeth fighting and the sound of rumbling inside the stomach echoed in the simple camp.

Suddenly, there were waves of rustling sounds from the lake not far away, which made Cheng Tian, ​​who had been unable to sleep, suddenly alert. He got up and listened carefully to the movements coming from there. In a moment, he made a judgment that it was not the sound of water waves or night fish. This sound was clearly someone swimming in the water.

Chengtian felt excited. He hurriedly stood up, bent down and climbed out of the shack, ran to the edge of the camp and looked carefully into the water. Under the faint moonlight, the dark shadows in the water were slowly moving towards the shore.

He made his troops! He almost screamed with joy in his heart. He hurriedly woke up the soldiers in the shacks around him and followed him to the shore.

The person who came was indeed Li Qing's follow-up troops. After receiving the report from all day long, he was furious about more than 10,000 casualties in one day and was overjoyed and hurriedly selected soldiers from the navy who knew water. But for this sneak attack, he had already sent out all the soldiers who were proficient in water in the army, and the remaining people could only select seven or eight thousand people who knew water. In desperation, Li Qing didn't care about so many and hurriedly ordered the eight thousand navy troops to lead three thousand non-moving water soldiers to gather all the wooden basins on the warships, trying to force the ten thousand troops to the shore where they landed all day long. Since it took a lot of time to select soldiers, he did not officially set off until the evening. In order not to delay the battle record and to be more secretive, Li Qing issued an order to swim overnight.

Fortunately, the officers in charge of this operation thought of them all day long and brought them a moderate amount of food when they got ashore, which made the vanguard soldiers who lived like year old in hunger very happy. After eating their stomachs, they hurried to the shore to help the land ducks get ashore.

After busy for a long time, no one appeared on the water again. After a hurry, he gathered and called him, he found that more than two thousand soldiers were missing out of thin air. It seemed that even with the help of others and the buoyancy of the wooden tub, most of the people who did not understand the nature of the water still failed to cross this section of the water.

Because they dared not to make a fire to keep warm, the soldiers who came ashore were all stiff and their bodies were frozen. The spring nights were still very cold, especially when they were in the valley. The wind was very strong, which blew their wet clothes, making these people unable to stand it.

Seeing this situation, he hurriedly suggested to Jiang Tao, the leader general who was also trembling with cold all over the world, to let the troops resist the cold through movement. After hearing this, Jiang Tao felt it made sense, so he ordered the troops not to camp, but to climb over the mountains in front of him directly in the dark and try to launch a sneak attack at night. On the one hand, this approach can make the troops move and prevent too many injuries from affecting the battle. On the other hand, he really wants to attack the enemy by chance at night. If he can arrive near the dock before dawn and take the opportunity to eliminate the enemy archers around the dock, it will be a great achievement.

So, under Jiang Tao's strong threat, the troops, which were not dressed and trembling, slowly climbed up the opposite mountain with the moonlight.
Chapter completed!