Therefore, Sima Zhongping still adopted an honest in-depth defense system, taking advantage of natural terrain advantages such as mountains and rivers, and relying on several dangerous and fortified city hubs to form several circular defense lines.
In this way, even if the navy is completely annihilated and the enemy lands in full force, he will not be able to directly break through his defense line. As long as there is sufficient logistical support and food reserves, he and his Yizhou guards can ensure that Yizhou will never fall.
Even if the opponent has hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, it won't work!
He can even use traps to control traps, and pin down the opponent's army and horses here...
These are not just what he, Sima Zhongping, said on paper, but conclusions he reached through thorough arguments and countless sand table deductions with Zhuge Xiaosheng, Dugulou, Wanyan Pingqiu, Lin Yue and others.
Deep defense is only a last resort. More often than not, the Yizhou Guards will take the initiative to cooperate with the fleet in combat. If there is a war with Zhou Dynasty in the future, his Yizhou guards will take the lead and directly attack Minzhou County before the opponent's troops approach! Of course, the same goes for starting a war with Japan...
Although Duke Saladin's arrival failed, it also attracted Sima Zhongping's great attention. Since Saladin can come, other Western fleets can naturally come, so Yizhou currently has three imaginary enemies, Japan, Dazhou, and and Westerners.
As for Ross and Southern Xinjiang, he is not considering it, because there is Yanyun County in the north, Gao Juli, Yunzhou in the south, and the dear Prince Ulman, leader of the Southern Xinjiang Alliance...
Sima Zhongping was good at land warfare and mountain and forest warfare, but he was not good at naval warfare, so he could not serve as a naval general at the same time.
Besides, the navy and Yanyun army are not the same system at present. Although they can cooperate in combat, they are not subordinate to each other. So far, there are few people in Yanyun County who can serve as both navy general and army general at the same time.
Yizhou is obviously very important, so the fleet general must also be a general who can take charge of his own role.
It is possible for Ibrahimovic, but he is now the general of Xiao Zihao, and Dugulou does not want to hand over Xiao Zihao to others, because in his opinion, Xiao Chen is more important than Yizhou.
Saji Zuoyama is okay, but he is Japanese after all, and he was once a subordinate of Nanchen Zhongtian, the Dragon King of the Sea. If he becomes the general of the Yizhou fleet, he will not get along well with Ren Pijiang and the others, and unnecessary friction may arise. The contradiction comes...
Then the most suitable candidate is Cheng Pingyuan. He was originally from Yizhou Navy, he has a good understanding of Yizhou sea area, and his performance in Lingzhou in the past two years has been extremely good.
Now that Lingzhou and Yunzhou have been merged, and with the presence of Yunzhou general Wu Hanming, he can escape.
For this reason, Xiao Chen also specifically asked Ling'er for his opinion. After all, Ling'er was Cheng Pingyuan's boss.
Ling'er was still very confused. You can do this yourself. Why are you asking me?
If you ask me this, can I disagree? He listens to me, but don’t I have to listen to you?
So he must listen to you. You respect his opinion, and I respect his opinion, so brother, you should ask him directly. If you ask me like this, it is unnecessary and unnecessary.
In fact, it is still necessary, because after Cheng Pingyuan came, he first asked Ling'er for her opinion, which made Ling'er a little depressed. Why do you ask me?
If you want to do it, do it. If you can do it, you should do it. Speaking of which, my brother trusts you. You should also know how important General Yizhou Wei is, right?
There are more than 200 warships alone, but they are still more than we have in Lingzhou. From now on, you will directly obey the orders of Mr. Dugu and the boss. If you don't come to me for anything, it will be as if I, Ling'er, are running some kind of party in Yanyun. They have no intention of rebelling. If you do this, it will not easily cause others to misunderstand. ?
You have to remember one thing, we are a family, my brother and I are also a family, so we are all a family, and there will no longer be any distinction between what is close and what is not, you know?
Don't always talk about Dian Hou's old department. Sima Zhongping is still an old department of Tianxuanhui. Doesn't he have to ask the chief helmsman Xiao Xinghan for instructions on what to do?
When you were in Yizhou before, you could only listen to the chief helmsman. Can you still ask me for instructions on everything?
Cheng Pingyuan said that we had listened to you before, but you left us and ran to Yanyun County and never came back. How can we ask for your instructions when we are thousands of miles apart?
And at that time, we actually thought you were a little girl who was inexperienced in the world. It wasn’t until you took us away that time that we knew, little princess, that you were a responsible person...
However, we still listen to you, little princess. Since you said so, we will do this in the future. But the old Dianhou tribe will always exist. When you, little princess, restore the title of Dianhou, we will still be your old subordinates. I will definitely follow you to Dianzhou County...
I don’t know when we will attack Dazhou, little princess? We are not as strong as we were before!
Ling'er was shocked when she heard this. Cheng Pingyuan, please don't mess around. My brother's strategy against Dazhou is very complicated. As for how complicated it is, I don't know yet...
In short, after you become the general of the Yizhou fleet, you must not act rashly. You are not allowed to provoke Da Zhou without the orders of Mr. Dugu and your brother.
So Ling'er may be confused about small things, but he is very clear about big things! Cheng Pingyuan said that I didn’t even think of myself as a little princess and you were a kid, so why do you still think of me as a kid? I'm just asking you in a hurry, how can I be so messy?
If I were so reckless, our boss wouldn't let me become the general of Yizhou Fleet!
By the way, I brought chocolates for you, little princess, but I didn’t dare to bring more chocolates for fear that they would melt on the road...
News came from the Xuanyi Guards in Fengyang City that Lin Dongyang had been sentenced to death after three trials. The emperor was merciful and reduced his crime to one level, and finally sentenced him to death.
In today's terms, it is equivalent to a death sentence with a two-year reprieve.
Although all his property was confiscated, his family members were not implicated. They were all released after the case was concluded. Although they were not punished, the situation was also very bleak. Currently, he rents a small house on Ningyuan Street to live in, and his family of dozens of people are living there. He made a living by pawning clothes and jewelry.
Yang Feng'er was not implicated and punished, but the situation was naturally extremely embarrassing. She was also frightened and became seriously ill because of it.
Because although Lin Dongyang's entire case has been closed, no one knows if anyone will continue to be involved in other crimes against him?
He is now only one step away from beheading, and even a small thing may kill him!
However, he did not suffer much in the imperial prison, at least he was not as miserable as Chen Jisheng was at the beginning. Zhu Xiaochuan, the commander of the Jinyi Guards, would at least take care of him out of old friendship.
But I don’t dare to take too much care of him. After all, under the current situation, no one dares to get involved with this person easily, for fear of getting into trouble!
In short, Lin Dongyang's case is quite interesting. Except for the few officials and censors who impeached him, none of the civil and military ministers in the Manchu Dynasty came to protect him in times of trouble, but none of them followed him to add insult to injury... This is very interesting in itself. unusual.
