Dongting County.

After Zhao Long decided to use actual combat training, he gave no other instructions.

The Shun army needs time to build warships and train the water army, and the same goes for the dry army.

It's just that the navy is easy to practice, but the warship is difficult to build!

Unless one is willing to spend money and can accept the loss of a warship falling apart within a few months of launching, it will take at least two or three months to build a qualified warship, which is still the case when there are enough suitable materials.

In fact, shipbuilding is a job with very high (low) upper and lower limits. Some large ships take several years or even ten years for a large country to complete, while some canoes can be successfully built on an isolated island by one person.

It all depends on what the shipbuilder wants to do with the boat.

A canoe would certainly not be able to beat a building boat several tens of feet long.

It's just that the matter is urgent now, and a batch of warships capable of fighting must be built first, which can support the battle on Dongting Lake, and warships that can be used for a long time can be slowly built.

Anyway, it will definitely be useful if it is created. Sooner or later, Qianguo will conquer Shunguo.

In Liu Jiwu's heart, he was more inclined to fight a protracted war between Qian and Shun.

What supported his speculation was that the dry army's offensive was not violent, which was very different from their previous fighting methods.

Of course, it is not ruled out that it is a conspiracy by the army.

That's why Liu Jiwu thought about launching a counterattack in half a month's time. It must buy him a lot of time after success.

As long as the dry army does not have a strong navy, Liu Jiwu has the confidence to defend Nanhu County.

Xu Fan was training the water army in Dongting Lake, and he transferred another water army from the Flying Bear Army in the south.

A month later, there will be nearly ten thousand water troops in Nanhu County, and it will be even more difficult for the dry army to cross Dongting Lake.

However, Zhao Long doesn't seem to be worried about Nanhu County strengthening the defense on Dongting Lake.

He never thought that he could not invade Nanhu County, even if Liu Jiwu made more preparations.

This time Liu Jiwu was wrong. Zhao Long didn’t really have any conspiracy. The previous tactics were just that the guard army was not strong enough. If he wanted to defeat the enemy without causing too many casualties, he had to ask the lord to do it himself. Only then did those things called miracles happen.

Now that the Qian Kingdom has been established, the Shenwei Army has become a more powerful Shenwu Wei and Habayashi Guard, and there are even larger Quartet Divine Beast Legions and Garrison Legions. The Qian Army no longer needs to invite gods to play.

"If the current Qian State still needs the king to take action, it can only show that our generals are incompetent!"

Zhao Long said to his subordinates at a combat meeting.

"This time we will defeat Liu Jiwu in an upright manner and enter Nanhu County."

The "upright" in Zhao Long's mouth is just that Yang Yuan doesn't need to take action to cheat them, but tricks are still needed.

Soldiers never tire of deceit on the battlefield, where is there any grand battle.

This kind of war disappeared as early as 1,200 years ago after the defeat of Song Gong.

Everyone knows that if you fight like a gentleman, you will fail. Who will be a gentleman general?

There is no problem in wanting to be a gentleman, stay away from the battlefield.

Of course, if you just want to be a hero who charges forward and doesn't have to think about other things, then there is no problem.

But it’s best not to, because any problem on the battlefield may affect the battle situation, which is related to the lives of many people, many, many...

Zhao Long lived two lives, although he was not long, but he has a deep understanding of war.

So his heart is very cold, cold to the enemy, and equally cold to his own soldiers (on the battlefield).

Of course he wouldn't trade the lives of his soldiers for the lives of enemy soldiers, wouldn't that be a exchange?

If the war was so simple, there would not be so many famous generals and marshals!

Gu ZhanZhao Long is not well-known in Zhongzhou yet, but many people in Shunguo know his name, but they are all ranked behind Gong Yi, Ma Teng and even Li Ye. He must be very dissatisfied with this situation.

But this kind of dissatisfaction can't be blamed on Ma Teng and the others. He really didn't fight a few outstanding battles before, and most of them cooperated with Gong Yi to do some battles that attracted attention.

Dongting County is where Zhao Long proved himself.

Ten days passed without knowing it, and the two armies of Qian and Shun still fought a small-scale and intensified battle on Dongting Lake every day.

After more than half a month of fighting, the soldiers on both sides became familiar. After all, except for some unlucky ones, they had to meet every day.

Across the lake surface of tens of meters, shoot several rounds of arrows at each other. If you are lucky, you can shoot on the opponent's warship. If you are unlucky, you can only fall into the lake. It has no other effect except wasting arrows.

Liu Jiwu has become more and more impatient these two days. There are still three days before Xu Fan promised him to join the army. The closer the date is, the more he feels a crisis is brewing.

What are you waiting for?

He is waiting for Xu Fan to form an army, and for the southern navy to go north, what is Zhao Long waiting for?

After fighting for so long, the commanders of both sides have a deeper understanding of each other's situation.

If you only count the previous battles, Liu Jiwu's reputation is still higher than that of Zhao Long.

After all, it has only been a few years since the emergence of the Qian Kingdom. The famous battles were almost all fought by Gong Yi, or by Yang Yuan. Even Ma Teng fought more tough battles than Zhao Long.

But this does not mean that Zhao Long can't fight, or that his meritorious service is less than the previous ones.

More than half of the Sifang Divine Beast Legion was trained by Zhao Long, and until now there is still a teaching group in the Sifang Divine Beast Legion.

All recruits who have just joined the Legion have to go to the teaching regiment for a walk~lightnovelpub.net~ Only after receiving the training of the teaching regiment can they be considered a real legion soldier.

At the same time, only the most elite fighters can join the teaching regiment.

Yang Yuan didn't have so many imperial soldiers to form a teaching group for each legion. He could only use the imperial soldiers as the main force to supplement the outstanding local soldiers, forming the most elite part of the legion.

Zhao Long's achievements are self-evident, and no one in Qianguo dares to underestimate the number one coach of the Sifang Divine Beast Legion.

So what is he thinking now?

Liu Jiwu is waiting for his naval training to be completed, what is he waiting for?

Are you also waiting for the navy training to be completed?

Obviously not.

Neither Yang Yuan nor Zhao Long wanted a quick sailor army. Although they had the idea of ​​training instead of fighting every day these days on Dongting Lake, the ultimate goal was not to train an excellent sailor army.

Shenwuwei needs a navy, but it is definitely not trained from existing fighters.

The real dry national navy has not yet come into being.

Liu Jiwu was waiting, and so was Zhao Long.

But what he was waiting for was not the training of the navy, but the weather.

It may sound like a joke, a war that determines the fate of two countries actually has a country coach waiting for the weather to come!

But it's true!

Zhao Long was waiting for a suitable weather to launch a general attack, and entered Nanhu County in one breath.

Sneak attack was not acceptable. Liu Jiwu commanded the Shun army to build a large number of camps on the south bank of Dongting Lake, many of which were built into the lake.

It would take a lot of troops and time to sneak attack on so many camps, and the difficulty was not less than attacking directly from the lake.

It's better to wait for a suitable weather to implement his plan. This plan was made when Zhao Long ordered to fight the Shun army on the lake.

All is ready except for the opportunity!