When it comes to using troops on the water, Deng Shichang and the others are experts. They shook their heads and laughed and said, "Are you denying yourselves? When His Majesty took charge, the head of state sent three inland river gunboats to patrol the Grand Canal..."
"Don't you know the performance of the gunboats produced by your Chinese family? In pure steel gunboats, the eighty-eight cannons in the hands of Guiziliu can't do anything to the structure of the warship. They can't do anything except kill a few sailors!"
Jiang Lie and the others were really from the army. They were not very familiar with the details of the navy. They completely forgot about the gift from the head of state. The three of them laughed and laughed, "Well... This is an oversight on our part. It seems that this variable should be counted." Your advantage!"
"That's right! Gunboats are the imperial court's advantage. Now that the rebels are attacking the Yongding River defense line, the imperial court can send gunboats upstream at any time and fire cannons along the Yongding River to bombard the rebels!"
Um? Having said this, the red and blue deduction parties present were stunned for a moment. A sudden inspiration came to them that no one had expected just now!
Neither of them spoke, but they looked at each other. Gordon stared at the map without looking up, "Well... this is a variable, a very big variable..."
"After Yongding River crosses the Marco Polo Bridge, it heads southwest, and joins the Haihe River and the Grand Canal just outside Tianjin. The Bohai Bay enters the sea...these three water systems are connected!"
"Master... let me ask you, do the imperial river gunboats have patrols and training on weekdays?" Gordon asked Xiang Lang.
Xiang Lang was stunned, "This... I really haven't noticed this? Huo Yuanjia, your family is running a canal walking business, you should know best!"
Huo Yuanjia had been listening all the time. He was dumbfounded by today's conversation. Xiang Lang called him for a long time before he woke up, "Huh? Yes... yes, we often see..."
"The three gunboats are all made of steel, burned with white coal, and fly the triangular dragon flag of the imperial court... They often patrol the Haihe River and the canal. They are very polite, unlike other sentry boats, and they know how to blackmail our boat owners. of silver..."
Gordon nodded, "That's right... I have been to the Yongding River for training. The water volume of the Yongding River is very large. There is no problem in passing the gunboats. In other words, as long as the court needs it, Long live the Lord can send these three warships at any time to support Yongding River Defense Line..."
"Maybe, these three warships are sailing on the Yongding River right now!"
What Gordon said is not wrong at all. In the late Qing Dynasty, there were no large or small reservoirs to store water, and the North China Plain had abundant rainfall at that time.
The Yongding River has always been a big river. You can tell by looking at the length of the Marco Polo Bridge. It is more than 200 meters, so you can imagine how wide the river is during the wet season.
The small gunboats made by the Chinese are designed for inland rivers. There is no problem at all in such waters. As long as three gunboats appear on the Yongding River, they are three unsinkable forts. The power of the battleship's main gun is greater than that of a field gun. There are too many.
"We can all deduce the variables. Can't Guiziliu deduce them? So since he has deduced it, why did he storm the Yongding River this afternoon?"
Gordon said quietly, "There are airship troops in the sky, gunboats patrolling the river, and a large number of permanent fortifications built by Li Tuo on the other side of the river... Could he be looking for death?"
"Fake attack!" The people on the red and blue deduction teams collectively exclaimed, "Fake attack! Damn it... Guiziliu is playing tricks again! He is feinting to attack Yongding River, and his target is definitely somewhere else!"
The conspiracy was half exposed. Everyone guessed that this was a feint attack by Guiziliu, but they couldn't guess where the real attack direction was!
This feeling of seeing through half of the conspiracy is actually more terrifying, and everyone present has goosebumps!
No matter how courageous the martial arts tycoon is, he can't help but feel awe-inspiring when faced with such a secret battle involving thousands of troops, where a single strategy can determine the life or death of tens of thousands of people.
"Damn it, I'd rather hunt a tiger than fight these fools! How did these seven-oracled and exquisite hearts grow?"
"That's right... This kind of person was reincarnated into the human world just to engage in conspiracy. I can't afford to offend him, I can't afford to offend him!"
Deng Shichang immediately said to Xiang Lang, "Is there a telegraph machine...I want to send a message to the capital immediately! Remind Long Live Lord to be careful..."
Of course, the telegraph machine can be used casually, but is it enough to just remind? You can see that Guiziliu is feinting, but what is the real direction of the attack?
To generate electricity for the imperial court, we cannot just raise problems without coming up with solutions!
Everyone's heads were sweating. Ma Hui, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said, "I... I just made a guess! Could this Jaap Six be targeting Tianjin Wei?"
"We started a feint attack this afternoon, and this evening a military train was sent to Tangshan to transport Hunchun's troops... But that's not right. We also have an intelligence network in Tianjin, and we haven't noticed any large-scale mobilization of rebels at all!"
"The rebels closest to Tianjin are to the west of Wang Qingtuo... This is still far away!"
Jiang Lie slammed his fist on the table, "Check! We must check. Guiziliu has been working hard for so many years, he must have his own way!"
"To be able to fight such a high-level Battle of Zhuozhou, secretly transporting troops to Tianjin must not be a problem! Our intelligence agency may not be omnipotent!"
"Think again, are there any other possibilities for the main attack?"
This is really a sudden ghost in the middle of the night. After a good banquet, a huge conspiracy suddenly came out. These are people who are in the army, and they subconsciously want to deduce the truth.
What is the truth? In fact, the truth lies with the British!
Ma Hui's guess was not wrong at all. At this moment, Ronglu and Yisiha, the two generals of the Sixth Japanese Army, each led 10,000 elite troops and stationed troops in Wangqingtuo.
This is for all intelligence agencies to see externally. These 20,000 people are all elites raised by the Japanese in Liuyi's lifetime, but they are wearing the tattered clothes and holding broadswords and spears in their hands.
The real weapons were hidden in boxes and straw piles. In order to confuse intelligence personnel from all parties, they began to arrest civilian husbands and women when they arrived. While eating, drinking and having fun, they gave the impression that they were a group of refugees and an insurgent army.
And to the south of Yangcun Railway Station, north of Wangqingtuo, there is a new force of British businessmen hidden secretly!
British foreign merchants purchased a lot of land in Yangcun and built a large warehouse to store cheap and bulky goods.
Especially during this famine, the British emptied their hands of foreign goods, and all warehouses in the north were filled with grain purchased at low prices.
The illegitimate son of Guiziliu, Zaitu, and the rebellious division commander Nastu of Xishan Camp, are currently lurking in this warehouse area with three thousand elite members of their direct lineage.
The warehouse is very big, and the British have many privileges. These three thousand ghosts have been lurking for six hours!
"Your Majesty... We have already spared a column of troops. When are we going to start?"
Zai Tu glanced at his direct descendants and said, "Shut up, I told you not to call me Prince!"
"Wait patiently, the special train from Hunchun is what we want to run...big fish!"
