"If you said this before, I wouldn't believe it, but now it seems that I should praise you for being far-sighted." Wei Yubai smiled.

"If there is no fleet under our feet in the battle of Yanshan Mansion, we don't know when we will fight, and I have another idea."

"What's the idea?" Li Xingzhou asked.

"That is, these twenty ships cannot be all gunboats and supply ships. I think a fleet of ten gunboats is enough, ten gunboats are only 240 guns, and the remaining six can be converted into troop transport ships. Even if each ship is looser and transports 500 people, it can transport 3,000 people."

Wei Yubai continued to talk: "In this way, ten gunboats provide shore firepower, four supply ships are responsible for supplies, and six troop transport ships can go from the river basin, canals, Huaihe River basin, and large river basin. They can also go to the Haihe River basin by sea. The whole country can quickly send troops, and the 3,000 new troops are not afraid of fighting. Di Zhi 3,000 people, cooperate with the gunboat firepower in the river, is enough to defeat tens of thousands of elite Liao troops......

Isn’t that where the fleet can reach? It’s unstoppable to our country of Jing. For example, the major cities of Xia Country are all built along the river.”

She said excitedly.

Li Xingzhou laughed: "You are really learning from one example." Isn't the arrangement that Wei Yubai mentioned is the modern naval combat mode? The navy follows the waterway and uses fleet firepower to bombard coastal cities or riverside cities. After sufficient firepower is prepared, the Marine Corps will be put down to take over.

If you encounter resistance on the way, you will temporarily withdraw and hand it over to the shore fleet's firepower, and use saturation strikes to defeat the opponent's defense line. Strategically, naval bases, supply stations, and station troops along the rivers and coasts, and provide supplies. Because water routes are much faster than land routes most of the time, the army can be mobilized and sent to the personnel to seize the opportunity.

This was originally a clear history of military deployment and development. In the past, countries famous for heavy infantry were quickly dominating by walking on two legs. Qin in the east (according to the Terracotta Warriors, the cavalry of Qin in the Qin State were all light cavalry, not responsible for frontal rushing, but responsible for harassing and surrounding the enemy), and Rome in the west were all famous for heavy infantry.

Later people discovered that horses were faster than people, so cavalry could often gain strategic advantages in fighting infantry through rapid maneuvering deployment, and nomadic countries quickly swept the world.

Then people discovered that waterway deployment was much faster than landway! The maritime power countries rose rapidly and dominated the world.

Later, people discovered that air deployment was faster and more convenient than sea, so the air force power dominated the world.

In general, the faster the better! Every time the revolutionary technology that can accelerate strategic deployment emerges, it will inevitably lead to tactical and tactical crushing on the battlefield, and the situation is one-sided.

"But this makes these new troops not easy to call them." Wei Yubai said: "They are both the prince's navy and they are going to land on the battlefield. Are they navy or army?

Could it be called...Naval Marine Army?"

"Puff!" Li Xingzhou held back his laughter every time.

"What's wrong?"

"Hahaha, nothing, I just think you are too advanced..." Li Xingzhou laughed. Unexpectedly, Wei Yubai actually said something like the Navy and Marine Army. If there were any historians in the future, they would probably go back to what she said today.

"Don't call it the Marine Army, you can call it the Marine Corps." Li Xingzhou smiled.

Wei Yubai nodded: "This is indeed easy, but will the team be too small? Three thousand people can be called the army..."

"Don't, just call the Marines very good."

.........

On the ninth day of the eighth month, the royal mansion fleet officially entered the mouth of the river from the Bohai Sea, and then began to move south and return to Kaiyuan.

Along the river, many people gathered to celebrate their return, beating gongs and gongs. Compared to the coldness when they went there, they looked like a different look.

Along the way, some people shouted at the Prince of Jin, and of course there were many men, women, young and old, as well as talented men and beautiful women who wrote poems praising merits and recited loudly beside the desk.

Li Xingzhou was originally a big shot, but then he thought that he was already the prince of Jin, so he could not neglect the people no matter what. Even a political show was necessary, so he had to stand at the bow of the ship and wave to both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

Sure enough, the voices on both sides of the Taiwan Strait have become even higher, and many people even shouted his name and ran with the big ship, becoming a spectacular scene.

"You are really what the people want." Wei Yubai said happily beside him. Liu Ji looked at the excited crowd and sighed: "The prince defeated the Liao Kingdom. It was a dream for many generations of Jing people. He was a hunter. But since he was a child, his father told me about the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, saying that he was strong in the Han Dynasty, and saying that he had recovered lost territory.

They probably are the same, passed down from generation to generation, taught by words and words, and have been looking forward to it until now."

"Damn, I was a little moved by what you said..." Li Xingzhou said, and then he thought that he had never put himself in the shoes of the people of Jingguo. How many generations have they been looking forward to today, and hundreds of years of expectations.

So he could only wave harder. Apart from that, he didn't know how to respond to the excited people...

The fleet headed east from the entrance to the sea and needed to stop once in the middle. When the docking, a large number of people were already surrounded by the ferry and brought wine and meat to reward the army.

At this point, Li Xingzhou was not polite and told them to do whatever they wanted and could drink, but not violate other military disciplines.

The soldiers were naturally happy, and even Liu Ji was excited to participate. His rebels were now regarded as heroes by the people. I believe that he had never had such an experience.

Yelu Dashi looked at the celebration at the ferry at night, and the soldiers and civilians were full of envy and disappointment. After all, he was a loser and a prisoner of war.

"You can consider becoming a subject of Jingguo." Li Xingzhou stood on the deck and said to Yelu Dashi beside him. He changed into clean Hanfu at this time, with Yelu Yali beside him, and Xiao Hongqi was translating for them.

Yelu Dashi said: "I promise you to accept your emperor's enthronement. Are you not a subject of Jingguo?"

"I mean the heart." Lee Sing-cheol said: "If you learn to accept and love this country, maybe we can still cooperate in the future."

Yelu Dashi laughed: "It's not worth it."

"I know it's difficult for you to understand the people of Jingguo, or the Central Plains, but it's actually very simple." Li Xingzhou looked at him and smiled: "In the eyes of the Khitans, there are only the weak and the strong, and the strong are superior to the weak. The strong think this is the case, and the weak also think it's reasonable.

But to everyone in the Central Plains, they themselves are by no means weak."

"What does it mean?" Yelu Dashi was puzzled.

"Don't you want to understand the Chinese? The core logic of China is - 'I am the destiny of heaven'. Most people are like this. From childhood to adulthood, such cultural imprints will be deeply engraved in everyone's heart, and most people think this way without consciousness.

So no matter how hard it is, Chinese people will always be unwilling to fall behind, rise up and move forward, live a hard, tired, work hard, and never stop, and strive for self-improvement. Therefore, China will not perish, at most it will not change its families, and then there will be a group of people who have the heart of "I am the destiny of heaven."

Yelu Dashi was silent for a long time, "I don't believe it, who taught them? I have so many people. Is there really a god in your country of Jing?"

"Of course, there are people who teach you, benevolence, justice, and self-improvement. If one day you also consider yourself "the destiny belongs to heaven", you are my Chinese. Then you don't have to envy them, we can cooperate honestly." Li Xingzhou pointed to the crowd celebrating below.
Chapter completed!