Of course Lu Qianshan knew that the Lions Empire's fleet was already on the way. Not only did he know, he also knew the specific location and even approximately how many ships there were.
Yes, approximately how many ships there are... Because the scale is too large and the organization is too complex, no one can tell how many ships the Lions Empire's fleet has.
From time to time, ships fall behind. Some transport ships are already very slow. The closer they get to their destination, the more they fall behind.
Some merchant fleets even deliberately left behind: they did not want to conflict with the Tang Empire, which would seriously affect subsequent commercial activities.
The war will eventually end. Even if the Tang Empire loses Dragon Island, there is a high probability that it will continue to exist. When doing business with the Tang Empire, it is hard to say whether the other party will pursue your past.
The Tang State may not pursue the Lanes Empire's war actions, but it would be too easy to pursue them against a small company.
The Tang Empire imposed sanctions at will. If it didn't sell some machine tools and equipment, some parts and the like, it could kill a small business. At that time, even if a certain shipping company's ships are not allowed to dock for supplies, that shipping company will lose money.
Of course, companies that dared to leave the fleet and pretend to be left behind were partly because they had close ties with the Tang Empire, and partly because the goods they transported were not important.
After all, if you transport a shipload of soldiers and fall behind at this time, it will be tantamount to offending the Lions Empire. Shipping companies like them can't afford to offend them, right?
Therefore, the straggler ships basically transport some spare parts and miscellaneous items, which are not Class II items that do not need to be landed urgently.
It was also the first time for the Lions Empire to organize a cross-sea landing on such a scale, and they didn't have much experience at the top or bottom.
They just relied on their huge size and wanted to use their strength to overwhelm the Tang Empire in one fell swoop, seizing Dragon Island with ten times and a hundred times more troops!
In order to prevent this large fleet from approaching Long Island, the forces deployed by the Tang Empire Navy near Long Island were mobilized by Lu Qianshan.
First of all, the fleet composed of a remaining aircraft carrier as the core has set off, and at this moment it is already lying across the path of the Lines Empire Navy fleet.
Secondly, the Tang Army also dispatched a large number of submarines, preparing to launch attacks when necessary to sink these invading enemies.
To be on the safe side, Lu Qianshan also assembled a large number of shore-based aircraft on Long Island. These aircraft can be dispatched at any time to attack the Lions Empire's fleet.
The entire Dragon Island sea area has now become a big pocket waiting for the Lions Empire's fleet to crash in.
However, from a quantitative point of view, the fleet of the Lines Empire still has an absolute advantage. The number of aircraft carriers between the two sides is 5 to 1, and the Lines Empire is completely victorious. The ratio of battleships is 5 to 0, and the Lines Empire is also completely victorious.
The Lines Empire's army troops landed on Dragon Island exceeded 100,000, and the four divisions stationed on Dragon Island were less than 80,000. The Lines Empire still had the advantage... Of course, this advantage was not as big as imagined.
The intelligence department of the Lions Empire has no way of knowing how many Datang troops are stationed on Dragon Island. They can only guess. In the end, they believed that the Tang army on Dragon Island would not exceed 20,000. This estimate was greatly different from the actual situation.
In fact, it was not that the intelligence department of the Lions Empire was out of their minds and underestimated the Tang army. But the "fact" that their superior, immediate boss, Emperor Lions I of the Lions Empire could accept was that the Tang army only had 20,000 people.
The logic of this matter is this: when Lions I decided to land on Dragon Island, he began to calculate how many troops he could send to Dragon Island at one time.
After calculation, he could only invest 100,000 troops on Dragon Island, which was almost the limit of the Lines Empire's maritime transportation capacity.
So...how many Tang army troops can the 100,000-strong army of the Lions Empire defeat? A more cautious estimate would be that they can defeat about 20,000 Tang troops. This is already a relatively optimistic estimate, and I wouldn't dare to brag about any more.
The question is, how many Tang troops are there on Dragon Island? The intelligence department of the Lions Empire believes that there should be about 50,000. This figure is reasonable, but cannot be accepted by Lines I.
Everyone in Lines decided to launch a sneak attack on Dragon Island, but in the end your army said it couldn't defeat the garrison on the island? Wouldn't that be a failure?
Therefore, after modification, the number of Tang troops stationed on Dragon Island was adjusted to 20,000, which was almost the limit that the 100,000 landing troops of the Lions Empire could barely defeat.
As for what if more Tang troops come out? Lions I believed that by then they would already have sea and air superiority and could help the army suppress Tang's ground forces.
No one knows the source of this confidence. In fact, even if the Tang Army does not take off its planes, the anti-aircraft missiles deployed by Longdao alone are enough to clean up the planes of the Lions Imperial Navy.
"Your Majesty! A call came from the warning fleet ahead, and a fishing boat from the Tang Empire Navy was spotted..." An officer from the Lions Imperial Navy walked up behind Lions I, stood at attention and saluted to report.
Lions I seemed to be in good spirits and could not see the impact of seasickness and vomiting on him along the way. He is still excited now, excited that he is about to become the master of Dragon Island.
"Sink him! Don't let him expose the fleet's position!" Lions I ordered with a pale face but full of energy.
"Yes!" The officer immediately went to convey the order.
A few seconds later, the Lions Empire cruiser Dream, which had aimed its main gun at the fishing boat, opened fire. After several rounds of salvos, the fishing boat was hit by one shot and burst into flames.
What no one knows is that this fishing boat was deliberately left here to be attacked by the fleet of the Lines Empire. In this way, the sneak attack by the Lions Empire was confirmed.
There was no one on the fishing boat; they had been picked up by another boat hours earlier. Not far from the burning fishing boat, a Tang Empire submarine recorded the entire process of the Lions Empire fleet opening fire and sinking the Tang Empire fishing boat.
The opportunity Lu Qianshan was waiting for finally came. After hearing that his fishing boat was sunk, he immediately grabbed the phone: "The Tang Empire was attacked! Dragon Island was attacked by the Lions Empire Navy warship! We regard this as Act of declaration of war! All forces...begin counterattack! Repeat! All forces! Begin counterattack! Begin counterattack!"
(End of chapter)
