Everyone has been preparing intensively for this battle since years ago, practicing day and night, contacting heroes from all sides, and even He Chunsheng's caravan has not yet started to set off to the north.
The intensity of training is so great that many people cannot bear it.
The situation in the sea is not simple. If you are not careful, your life will be handed over there.
The doctors of the Black Cross Society had tried their best, but in the past few months, the Liang family army still lost dozens of people, and the Japanese army also suffered nearly a hundred casualties.
Although this proportion is not large, it is very heavy for the Liang family army. Every soldier is trained with a lot of financial and material resources, and cannot be used by ordinary sergeants after being recruited!
In the past few months, Liang Chuan became the admiral of the Navy, and asked Xia Dehai and his men to constantly practice the tactics of attacking the island, sending signals, cooperating, storming the island, and fighting in chaos. Every link must be rehearsed, striving to strike a blow. It worked.
Although Liang Chuan did not express it clearly, everyone knew that Liang Chuan was going to fight the Japanese directly in Dagou Town.
Su Wei did not agree with this tactic.
The territory of Yizhou is too large. Unlike other places, it is possible to adopt the method of landing on the island first and then fighting. After all, the advantage of the Liang family army is land warfare.
As long as the people of Qin stand on the ground, who can be their opponent?
Liang Chuan had already thought about this plan.
But he thinks of the Japanese too simply.
Only he, Liang Chuan, knows how big Yizhou is. It is not much worse than the entire Fujian Road!
If they don't go from Dagouzhen to the island, but from other places, how long will their front be? The terrain on the island is complex and more than can be described in a few words. If the Japanese set a trap on the island and the Liang family army wanted to advance from the north to the south, it would be impossible to complete it in just a few years!
Although a few years is a bit exaggerated, it is true!
Fighting for a few days costs only a small amount, but fighting for a year can pierce the family fortune. If it takes a few years, Liang Chuan has already asked Wu Yong to calculate it, and he will definitely not be able to sustain it.
Just transporting rice grains every day is a huge expense!
To transport a load of rice on flat land, it costs two loads, not to mention on the sea, three or four times the expenditure is normal. If there is extreme weather, even ten times the investment may not get any return!
After the beginning of spring, the food and materials accumulated in Qingyuan became old goods, which were difficult to sell in previous years. However, Liang Chuan was not merciful and moved them all back. A businessman in Qingyuan opened a ticket.
It is recorded in the military books of the Tang Dynasty that an army of 12,000 people would consume 90,000 shi of food a year, and one shi can be converted into more than 120 kilograms. This was still the standard of the Ming Dynasty in later generations. If it were replaced by millet, it would be more than 200,000 shi. How many kilograms is that? I am afraid that even if Liang Chuan's fleet keeps transporting grain, it will not be enough to eat.
Besides, there are Japanese people at sea. They like to rob merchant ships at sea. If the food route is cut off, the people on the island will starve to death.
At this juncture of the war, there is no time to go hunting and get all kinds of food to fill your stomach!
In a war of attrition, the time and money alone are more than Liang Chuan can afford. The longer the war drags on, the more dangerous the Liang family's army will be.
The advantage of the Liang Jiajun lies in their firepower. If they can concentrate all their power on one point and kill with one strike, this is the most economical cost!
Besides, if there is no quick victory on Yizhou Island, the rear area will definitely be in danger. There will be no people on the island at that time. They are all old and weak. What can they do to defend the island?
After all kinds of considerations, Liang Chuan decisively gave up the plan to land on the island from the north. If he wanted to fight, he would be more direct and directly cripple Yamamoto and let him give up Yizhou!
Although Su Wei and Wu Yong still hesitated, they finally had to accept Liang Chuan's point of view.
The foundation of Penghu is too weak and cannot withstand long-term consumption. This is a flaw!
The little Celestial Master said goodbye to Liang Chuan. Liang Chuan looked at the little Celestial Master with a subtle look, and now he didn't dare to make any jokes.
Although he didn't ask in detail, he also knew that the little heavenly master was no longer the little magic stick who wandered around the world before, he was really a god. .
Liang Chuan was looking forward to a wind, but it was almost past the Dragon Boat Festival and the temperature was rising sharply. Not only was there no sign of wind, the temperature of the sea water was also rising crazily.
The sea water at this time will no longer freeze anyone to death. When the sun is at its strongest during the day, it would be a pleasure to soak in the sea.
The time finally reached Liang Chuan's request, and he was able to get to the island in two hours without any interference. .
Liang Chuan finally forced a smile on his face as he looked at the reports from his men.
It's hard to catch a duck on the shelf, and it's even harder for a landlubber to get into the water. It's really not easy to turn this group of people into water-based masters in just half a year.
After the Dragon Boat Festival, the weather was so stuffy that people felt like a heavy hat was covering their heads, making them breathless.
Daily training is really exhausting, and to endure it again is really grueling!
Many soldiers have collapsed from exhaustion in this kind of weather. Fortunately, Dr. An and others have prepared many prescriptions to relieve the heat, such as Zhengqi Powder. One dose will ensure your safety immediately!
The weather has changed so fast in the past few days. Liang Chuan exposed his chest and shook the cattail leaf fan vigorously, but he still couldn't get rid of the sweltering heat. He used to hunt for the sea breeze, but now it has long disappeared. In a year, he never imagined that this island could become so suffocating. !
After returning from long-distance running training, many people like to jump into the sea water for a nice wash, and then come ashore to eat meat, whether it is boiled, fried or grilled. It is really delicious!
Liang Chuan saw Liang Jiajun's excitement and wanted to get into the water to have some fun. As soon as he got into the water, he suddenly realized something!
He put away his clothes and ran back immediately, directly to the meeting hall where Su Wei and Wu Yong were.
Liang Chuan burst into the hall with a happy face, his clothes were in disorder, and he seemed to be running away, surprising the two of them.
'I'm coming! Liang Chuan muttered, making people confused.
The two looked at Liang Chuan in surprise and asked, "What's coming?" '
Liang Chuan pointed at Yizhou on the map, his eyes sparkling with light, and his body began to tremble with excitement: "The wind is coming, the wind is finally coming!" '
The two looked at each other, a little puzzled. The boss must have been stunned by the heat. It was so hot that it was almost life-threatening. There was no wind at all. Where did the wind come from?
Liang Chuan suppressed the excitement in his heart and said to Su Wei and Wu Yong: "Call Yang Ba first. He, the general manager of the island, is in charge of the overall situation. Ask him to prepare all kinds of supplies immediately, and then return the buildings on the island." A fleet of ships at sea retreated into the port to take shelter from the wind, and the typhoon finally came! '
The typhoon is coming, how is it possible!
Whose mouth did Liang Chuan hear such nonsense from? He wanted to persuade Liang Chuan not to be deceived.
But the two of them combined, Liang Chuan was often with the Little Celestial Master these days. The Little Celestial Master had some knowledge and was proficient in astronomy and geography. It would be normal if he could see some celestial phenomena. .
Liang Chuan would not fight an unprepared battle. For this time, he had been preparing for half a year. He would not start early or late. But at this time, he believed that the rumors were definitely not groundless!
On such a hot day, people have to thicken and strengthen the roofs. The residents on the island wish they could dismantle the roofs to sleep. Doing such a thankless job at this time, it is a ghost to have good sound. .
The islanders were scolding, but what came down from above was the order. No one dared to resist, and they began to reinforce various buildings and facilities on the island.
Even Liang Chuan didn't dare to relax in training, so he stopped at this time! The entire island began to invest in this heavy reinforcement activity.
The ships returned to the port and the dilapidated buildings were demolished. Any places that might cause problems were reinforced with wood. All activities at sea also stopped. All the Japanese fishing people retreated to the shore. Oda Nobunaga told Liang Chuan Our orders are never compromised, and what should be carried out is absolutely unambiguous!
Everyone has a sense of crisis that a storm is coming, but there is only stuffy heat in front of them, which is so stuffy that it is difficult to fall asleep.
Except for the sergeants on duty, everyone else on Penghu Island slept heavier than a pig at night. The training during the day was too heavy and squeezed out the last bit of energy in their bodies. They still had the strength to do other things. , sleep is the greatest reward.
In the first half of the night on Penghu Island, the sultry climate made the insects and birds on the island disappear unusually. The entire island was dead silent, as if it was the tranquility before a heavy rain. In the second half of the night, the original sultry and irritable climate suddenly changed. , the flow of air seems to speed up, people become lighter, the skin becomes cooler, and sleep becomes more comfortable.
I don't know when it started in the sky, the night became darker, black clouds came up, the entire island was shrouded in darkness, the stars and the moon disappeared, and even the soldiers on duty noticed something was wrong.
call. .
The first gust of wind swept across the sky and the earth, followed by a mighty rolling gust of wind, rushing towards the face, threatening to sweep people to the ground.
The island is still struggling in the steamer during the day, but at night it is struggling in the roar of the wind!
The strong wind was so powerful that it almost uprooted the island! The trees on the island were not cut down by Liang Chuan, because their existence reduced a lot of wind force. The buildings on the island are also mainly made of stone. The mud inside is mixed with the hard shells of sea oysters and added to the mud to make the bite between the bricks stronger.
The various livestock and crops raised on the island have been returned to the warehouse by Liang Jiajun who can harvest them, and the livestock have also rushed to the place where they are kept. Because of the advance preparation, the losses have been reduced to the maximum!
The first time Liang Chuan saw a typhoon in this era was in Xinghua eight or nine years ago. At that time, the typhoon caused a devastating blow to Fengshan, and the flash floods it caused almost destroyed the entire Fengshan!
Now that Fengshan is gone, everyone has immigrated to Penghu, facing the typhoon at sea, and can even feel the violence and ruthlessness of the wind!
Liang Chuan stayed up all night, he had been waiting for this gust of wind!
