When the news reached Liu Pei, the entire staff cheered! Qi Qitao, who was extremely excited, shouted: "Why is the Qing army like a fool? He didn't know the smell of beans if he ate a hundred beans! We just had a landing battle through the navy and almost burned Hetuala. How could they think it would be useful to cut off our food channels?"

A staff officer said happily: "As the Tartars, how smart can they be!"

Liu Pei waved his hand and said, "You are talking nonsense! If the Tartars were not smart, how could they occupy such a large area of ​​land? This involves the issue of thinking direction."

Everyone calmed down and waited for Liu Pei's explanation. They all wanted to know what this had to do with the direction of thinking. Liu Pei explained: "In the history of China, the navy, or the navy, have never been the key army developed by all dynasties. There are two reasons here. Do you want to know?"

Qi Qitao said: "Don't keep it a secret! Tell me quickly!"

Liu Pei smiled and said, "The first reason is that our country is on a continent. Everyone's birth, old age, sickness and death cannot be separated from this continent. Our wealth mainly comes from land. Especially the most critical food also comes from land. Therefore, emperors and officials of all dynasties attach great importance to farming! Especially our enemies have always been barbarians in the north, so the emperors and officials attach more importance to the army."

An officer said, "But the Grand Marshal, as far as I know, the maritime trade is very profitable now! Didn't the emperors and officials in the past know about it?"

Liu Pei said: "I can say seriously that they really don't know! Because shipping is a very large and complex system, it requires many professional technicians. But in the past, ship manufacturing technology and navigation technology were very backward, and the courts of all dynasties lacked such officials, so naturally they did not attach much importance to the development of the navy! Of course, there are some other problems in this, which you will gradually understand in the future."

At this time, an officer from the Navy Liaison Team said, "Do you all know? Actually, we are quite envious of your army people!"

Everyone asked him in surprise why

?And everyone said they envy the Navy because their salary is high and their treatment is good.

The naval officer said: "Not to say anything else, just talk about the promotion of the officer. The grassroots officers of the army can obtain the rank of second lieutenant only after eight months of study and half a year of internship. What about our navy? It takes one year of study and one year of internship to obtain the formal rank. And the most important thing is that you can see a few girls on land, even if you send troops to fight! And we are on the boat, even mosquitoes are male!"

All the officers laughed. The little bit of estrangement in the past between the navy and the army also dissipated with the laughter.

When everyone calmed down, Qi Qitao said, "Master, the time is almost done now, let's start!"

Liu Pei said: "Now we will wait for news from the fleet. When the fleet arrives, we will start immediately."

Qi Qitao turned around and asked the naval officer, saying, "What news is coming from the navy?"

The officer said: "According to normal circumstances, the fleet should be able to reach the outer edge of Songshan tonight on the sea. Considering that the wind and waves have been relatively large recently, there may be a slight delay."

Liu Pei said: "Since that's the case, then wait for news!"

That night, Liu Pei received news from the fleet that he had indeed arrived at the sea outside Songshan. After carefully calculating the time, Liu Pei set the time of the action to the day after the next day.

That night, a large number of troops quietly retreated from the besieged city and rushed to the bank of Xiaoling River to camp. However, the military camp did not approach the river, but set up a temporary camp in a relatively hidden place.

When it was dawn and the morning mist dissipated, the rafts on both sides saw each other across the Xiaoling River. At the beginning, both sides would have compared several threatening gestures. But now both sides have turned a blind eye and are busy patrolling each other.

Just when the Qing soldiers felt that the other party had been staying for a long time today and felt a little strange, they suddenly saw a large group of ships coming up from the lower reaches of the river quickly.

The Qing army cavalry was shocked and ran along the river bank, wanting to see where the fleet came from? But they thought it must be the Ming army's fleet. Because he knew that the Qing army would not have one.

So many ships.

They ran closer and found that it was indeed the Ming army's ship! The sun and moon flag on the ship was extremely clear. Seeing this, the Ranger did not dare to be negligent, so he hurriedly rode the horse and ran back, wanting to go back to deliver the letter as soon as possible. Although he didn't know what these Ming army ships were just here to do? But for the Qing army, it was definitely not a good thing!"

At the front, about thirty ships passed by, which were somewhat similar to ordinary sand ships. But the difference is that these ships are taller and more suitable for sailing inland rivers. At the same time, they can also sail along the coast in shallow seas.

The most important thing is that there is no ship tower on this ship, but the upper deck is arranged as a gun deck. However, the gun door is very concealed and you can't see it without looking carefully! So this is simply a gunboat used in the inland river!

After more than thirty inland gunboats went, the dozens of ships that followed were even more strange! Because there were no guardrails on these ships, the entire uppermost deck was spread out flat.

When they walked to a river beside, they saw three flat-topped boats turning around and heading towards the shore. They rushed to the shallow stalls. The mud and sand at the bottom of the boat and the river were rubbing with rustling sounds, and the boat did not stop until the ship was stranded and stuck.

As soon as the boat stopped, a dozen shirtless men jumped off the boat and jumped into the waist-deep water. Then they threw four iron chains from the boat. More than a dozen men pulled four iron chains and walked towards the river bank with difficulty.

At this time, the army soldiers who had been hiding in the dark quickly came over. The first one was the soldiers from the baggage battalion in the army. To put it bluntly, they were engineers.

The soldiers quickly set a row of wooden stakes on the river bank, and then wrapped four iron chains tightly on the wooden stakes to fix them. Then the soldiers rushed to the river with the wooden stakes and formwork, quickly set the rows of wooden stakes, and then nailed the wooden boards. A slope road of about 30 degrees slowly formed, approaching the side of the stranded ship!
Chapter completed!