Once the state navy destroys Suzhou Yangmen Cave Army Navy, it will be able to threaten the capital of Dasong without fear. At that time, the capital will shake and I don’t know what disaster it will cause.
Li Bao did not dare to take the risk, nor did he dare to bear the consequences. He decided that the main guard would never take the initiative to lead the army again until reinforcements arrived
Li Bao is also very unhappy when the war reaches this level.
After Li Bao took over the state navy, he relied on Wang Lun’s support to ask Wang Lun for several times. After deduction, he managed to rectify the state navy to 300 warships and more than 4,000 sailors, which barely reached his own minimum requirements.
After that, he vigorously trained sailors to rectify the discipline of the navy and standardize the daily training standards of the navy, which quickly restored the peak combat effectiveness of the navy.
Then he expressed his hope to the imperial court that he could take the initiative to attack the naval division for the initiative.
But this time, on behalf of the imperial court, Wang Lun sternly refused to ask Li Bao to command the state navy to guard Suzhou Ocean and protect Lin ‘an Haimen, and never let the army cross the line.
This is your duty to take the initiative. What’s too risky? The state navy is the main force of the Dasong navy. If anything happens to Dasong, it will lose the control of the sea. Who will take the responsibility then?
Don’t attack
Li Bao is of course very willing to do things in the imperial court, but he thinks it is much better to take the initiative than to be trapped in the sea. He has drawn up a battle plan and stated his reasons for taking the initiative to Wang Lun, believing that the navy is not strong enough to take the initiative to win.
But Wang Lun still doesn’t support him.
Wang Lun asked him to guard the Dinghai and protect the imperial court, regardless of his affairs. He had to guard Suzhou Ocean and not let the navy swagger in.
And this period of the Southern Song Dynasty small court is not nothing.
They realized the importance of a naval division at the end of the war, and the advantages of nearly 20,000 seagoing ships were controlled by the self-interest. A large number of ships were transferred from ports in the southeast coastal areas and in the Hangzhou Bay area. Shipbuilding workers rebuilt and rebuilt these ships and accelerated the construction of warships.
They tried to increase the number of navy officers to better protect Lin ‘an ‘an.
As far as ship control is concerned, the Southern Song Dynasty was an absolute crushing country by several orders of magnitude. They had a world-class super seaport at that time and nearly 20,000 seagoing ships, which was far behind the nascent empire.
They can build an absolutely powerful enemy fleet when they give it to them.
Li Bao knew that the imperial court planned, but the defensive policy Li Bao seemed to be wrong.
Navy is a terrible beast sailing in the sea, so it should set sail for a naval battle, show its fangs and attack. If we just shut up the port, we might as well abolish the navy and stay behind to expand the infantry.
What is the way for the water army to fight the defensive war?
Isn’t it better to play the defensive infantry than the navy?
Li Bao is very depressed, but he can secretly worry about resisting the court’s decision.
But today, Li Bao found that the imperial court’s fear and fear of the army in advance was not the reason.
The navy is not strong enough, and its technology is rough, not as delicate as that of the navy in the Southern Song Dynasty, but its durability is very strong, and its number is huge, and it is tough enough not to be destroyed easily.
Compared with the Southern Song Dynasty, if the navy fought a protracted war, it would be so tough.
The navy division of our army is really not a weak brigade. He is a little glad that he didn’t just go out in a rash way, otherwise it’s hard to say who will win.
Now, although the war situation is deadlocked and has not been defeated by the army, it is also a credit that the army has not invaded Suzhou Ocean and threatened Lin ‘an.
These Japanese troops still send a fleet to attack the state water army every day, as always. The state water army can carry out defensive warfare and will never take the initiative to attack or pursue it.
In this way, at the ninth noon of April, the army navy attacked Dinghai Port again, bombarded it and took the initiative to retreat. Then he didn’t come again until it was dark. Li Baosong was relieved to let the rest of the patrol and rapid reaction fleet who were keeping the most basic pay attention to eat and rest.
The night was very quiet, there was no war, there was no explosion, and all the soldiers in Song Jun had a good sleep and felt very comfortable.
But in the early hours of April 10th, an army with thousands of troops attacked Dinghai County, easily took the county seat, defeated the defenders, and quickly raided Dinghai Port to kill the sailors who didn’t come.
The raiders carried kindling and Raytheon guns, and the port set fire to military facilities. Warships also threw Raytheon guns to increase the chaos, which made the sailors in the Southern Song Dynasty panic and bombed the camp and fled everywhere.
Li Bao was also resting on the shore at that time. When he saw it, he was shocked. He immediately rectified Qinbing to board the ship and blew the horn and beat the drums. He asked the sailors who could ship to pull it out as soon as possible. A ship is a ship.
Dinghai must be unable to stay. Retreat in the direction of Lin ‘an and maybe have a chance to live.
But at this time, Kong Zhende sent 300 warships to attack Dinghai Port with a forward momentum. Facing the port chaos, the Song Jun Navy was a big rocket shooting, and a loud noise exploded the Song Jun Navy.
More than warships scattered to block the state navy’s escape road on three sides, and blocked the state navy’s port in one breath, and was caught in a panic attack.
In the face of such a situation, Li Bao and only 30 warships that can move are also scattered, and Li Bao is left with a flagship and two other frigates to form a small fleet to charge westward and try to fight our way out to survive.
There is nothing Li Bao can do now. Even if he can calm down, the sailors can’t calm down. At this moment, all he can do is retreat.
His heart was full of remorse, and all his attention was paid to the Li Gang Army Navy, and he didn’t care about it at all. He didn’t expect the army to let the Navy land and attack Dinghai County and port.