Your Majesty's words to be a thief shocked everyone. You should know that there are many lucky elements in the war horses that can deceive the enemy. Now the enemy is alert, and it is almost impossible to move the ranch north and copy the previous actions. Moreover, there are tens of thousands of horses on the other side, so the word "steal" is probably too implicit. It is the most appropriate to say that robbery is, and this is in line with the temper of the little emperor.

"Your Majesty, now we are discussing peace with the Mongol Yuan. Is it a bad thing to provoke a border provocation?" Chen Shishi knew the little emperor's thoughts very well. As the head of the imperial office, he had the responsibility of reminding him and said immediately.

"Can the peace agreement be reached?" Zhao Bing asked back.

"This... is just a preliminary discussion now, no progress, and no agreement has been reached!" Chen Shishi said in a daze. He thought in his heart that the little emperor was asking questions knowingly, and he didn't want to reach a peace agreement at all, so there would be no result.

"That's right, even if the two sides have not reached an agreement, then the Song and Yuan dynasties will still be the enemy country. How could they provoke border provocations?" Zhao Bing spread his hands and smiled.

"That's right, the Tartars are our biggest enemy of the Song Dynasty. What reason do you want to fight? Just hit him if you want!" Chen Fenglin interrupted after hearing this.

"But the matter of stealing horses always makes people lose the spirit of a gentleman!" Chen Shishi knew that these arrogant soldiers and generals were fine and wanted to find trouble, and it was the emperor's suggestion that he argued with them was to bring shame on himself, so he turned around.

"Master Chen wants to tell the enemy about the gentleman's style? I'm afraid we are not today!" Zhao Mengjin felt that he had heard the funny things in the world. As one of the first people to follow the little emperor, he naturally knew how His Majesty started his business and had nothing to do with the gentleman's style.

Although the young emperor was ashamed of King Wei and the deputy commander of the world's military and horses, Zhao Mengjin knew that he had no soldiers and no money. The capital of starting his business was to pit the property of the Mongol enemy ship who was pursuing the epidemic ship on the epidemic ship, and to maintain the situation after the establishment of the General's Mansion. When he went to Qiongzhou, he was already empty, and the little emperor's method was to steal Guangzhou. After he succeeded to the throne, in order to solve the financial difficulties of the relocation of the court and Qiong, he still robbed Quanzhou. Although he was elegant after recovering Jiangnan, he was actually robbed the Mongol wealth in Jiangnan in the name of confiscating enemy wealth.

Therefore, Zhao Mengjin and others knew the character of the little emperor. Although he looked harmless, he never cared about the so-called gentleman in order to achieve his goal. He could not stop him if he really wanted to do anything. Besides, this was just a matter of a few horses. However, the reality was that the lack of horses had affected the current situation. There was no more effective and realistic solution than robbing.

"Come on, let's go over there and discuss and see how to act!" Zhao Bing pointed to a forest near the river bank under the slope.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Everyone politely said.

Chen Shishi also understood that the little emperor was determined to do something, even the important officials in the court could not stop it, and he was his aide, and he knew that his duty was that once His Majesty decided to do it, he would cooperate and make suggestions even if he was dissatisfied, rather than responding negatively. Therefore, he immediately ordered a guard to return to the imperial boat to get the required things.

The little emperor's temporary intention caught Zheng Yong and Yi Jie, commander of the Imperial Horse Camp, off guard. Thinking that since His Majesty had to plan for a while, he would not be able to end it, he quickly ordered people to set up a shed in the forest. It was almost noon, so he could not let His Majesty go hungry, and he was busy calling people to prepare meals and provide logistics supply guarantees.

"Zheng Yi, this is the base of your Land Battle Brigade, and you are the main force. Let me tell you what you think first!" Zhao Bing sat on a tree stump, reached out to grab a scone and broke it apart, and asked while eating it.

"Your Majesty, this... this matter happened suddenly, and I didn't have time to consider it!" Zheng Yi did not expect that His Majesty would ask a sudden question, and he didn't know how to answer for a moment.

"Give you a quarter of an hour to think about it!" Zhao Bing swallowed the food in his mouth and frowned.

"Yes, I obey the order!" Zheng Yi quickly bowed, but when he retreated, he quietly winked his brother.

Zheng Yong naturally understood what his brother meant. The emperor was not something that anyone could see, nor could he be in front of the emperor alone. At the moment, there was no aide around him. Suddenly, the emperor asked him to come up with a combat plan in a very short time, which caught Zheng Yi off guard. But there was not even a person who could negotiate, so he had to ask his brother for help.

"Erlang, isn't your Majesty making things difficult for others? How can you make a plan with such a short time?" Seeing that the brother retreated to the outside of the camp, Zheng Yi looked at the place where there was no one around and complained in a low voice.

"Brother, don't think too much. Your Majesty's intention is not to make things difficult for you, but to take the exam. Look at your military officer's ability to deal with unexpected situations!" Zheng Yong sighed and explained. He often followed the little emperor around him, so he naturally knew his intention.

"So that's it!" Zheng Yi, as a veteran who has been fighting for many years, also understood that the battlefield changes rapidly, and the combat plan formulated in advance cannot cover all situations. This requires the commander to respond in a timely manner according to the on-site situation, which is the most test of the commander's ability to respond to the situation in the most.

"Brother, don't panic. Your Majesty also knows that you cannot complete the detailed combat plan in a short period of time. You just need to tell the general direction of the combat and explain roughly how to organize the combat. It doesn't matter if you say it wrong, but don't panic when answering. What Your Majesty hates the most is that the general is at a loss in the face of the battle!" Zheng Yong quickly mentioned the things that your brother should pay attention to. After all, not everyone can be with Your Majesty at all times.

"Well, I understand!" Zheng Yi felt at ease after hearing this and nodded. He waved his hand and asked his brother to go back first to avoid arousing suspicion from others. He paced around the tree, forcing himself to calm down as soon as possible. His mind was also working quickly, thinking about how to fight this battle and to win...

"His Majesty!"

"No gifts, just eat and talk!" Zhao Bing was already eating two Hu cakes at this time, holding the third one in his hand, and was still chewing food in his mouth, a little confused and authentic.

"Your Majesty, I think it is difficult to complete this task with the ability of our troops alone, and it also requires the assistance of friendly troops!" Zheng Yi also sat down around the table, but knew his identity. He dared not eat the things on the table. He could only swallow his mouth and report first.

"There are both commander-in-chief, and the commander-in-chief of the navy here. No matter whether you need soldiers or generals, you will try your best to cooperate!" Zhao Bing took a Hu cake and handed it to Zheng Yi, pointing to the people around him and said.

Zheng Yi can be said to be the lowest among the generals of this group of escorts, and he asked him to take charge of this operation to test his command ability. At the same time, he also knew the principle that the running water does not rot and the door hinge does not rot. No matter how hard a military trains, it is difficult to test its level if it has not been through actual combat for a long time. Especially when there are continuous replenishment of new recruits, actual combat is the most effective way to maintain the combat effectiveness of a unit. As a sharp knife in Zhao Bing's hand, the land brigade will rust if it is not used for a long time, so he wants to use this to sharpen it.

"Thank you, my subordinates are disrespectful!" Zheng Yi stood up and walked to the hanging map to salute everyone, and said, "The subordinates of this battle thought the focus was to quickly break into the enemy ranch quickly, quickly defeat the defending enemy and turn to defense, then drive the horses across the river, and complete the task before the enemy reinforcements arrived..."

At this time, a funny scene appeared. Whether it was an explanation or an listening experience, he was holding a piece of cake in his hand. He also bite it from time to time, sometimes he chewed it slowly and sometimes swallowed the food in his mouth and asked questions. If he was not aware of the inside story, no one could think that this was a group of people discussing a combat plan and pondering the other party’s tens of thousands of war horses.

Zhao Bing was no exception. He listened to Zheng Yi talking while examining the map. At this time, the Yangtze River Delta was not yet fully developed as in later generations. If the Yangtze River estuary was compared to the Longkou, then Tongzhou in Jiangbei would be like the upper palate of the Longkou, and the Chongming Islands where they were located were like a few beads in the Longkou. However, the "upper palate" now seemed too thin, and it was still a narrow peninsula that explored the sea, more like a slender tongue.

According to Zheng Yi, Tongzhou is only 40 miles wide from north to south and about 60 miles long from east to west. Because it is a "new land" formed by the accumulation of mud and sand carried by rivers, it is close to the coast, and is severely salinized and not suitable for cultivation. Coupled with the influence of war, the land is underdeveloped. Although it is known as a state, it is sparsely populated, and most of it is a wild land with prosperous plants. It is precisely because of this that it was chosen by the Mongolian Yuan to be a pasture to domesticate war horses. Horse raising cannot be separated from sufficient water, so the pastures are chosen on the side near the Yangtze River. Not only is the water source abundant, but the grass is also more lush.

Of course, as the front line of confrontation between the two countries, there will inevitably be heavy troops stationed here. However, in the past, the military operations of the Song army were targeted at relatively wealthy areas or farming areas along the river to attack and weaken the economic strength of the Mongolian Yuan. Most areas of Tongzhou are still in their original state and are not suitable for farming, and seem to have no economic value. Therefore, they have not built large-scale river defense fortresses like other riverside areas, but there is only a team of thousands of people stationed in the Jinghai, the state.

However, Zhao Bing thought that the reason why the Mongol Yuan was like this was not to despise the military value here, but was not unrelated to the special terrain of Tongzhou. One reason was that it was close to the estuary of the Yangtze River, with a wide water surface and a gentle river bank. There was no deep water port, so it was not suitable for naval troops to land and fight; the other was that most of the Tongzhou area was explored into the sea. Even though the Song army successfully landed on a large scale, the prefecture-based Jinghai just held the throat connected to the mainland. As long as Jingzhou was not lost, the landing troops could only be trapped on the peninsula and could not develop in depth.

Zheng Yi's idea of ​​this battle was very simple, which was to use the navy to land from behind Tongzhou, control the main road from Haimen to Jinghai, and complete the encirclement of the ranch. In order to achieve the purpose of a rapid assault, he intended to use the cavalry brigade of the first army as the main force, to bear the task of defeating the ranch defenders and gathering the horses; the other route was to land in Jiangkou Town with the land combat brigade as the main force, to cut off the road from Jinghai to the ranch, block the task of blocking the enemy reinforcements, and at the same time blocking the retreat of the enemy on the ranch.

Zheng Yong also thought that it was unrealistic and impossible to complete the task of using naval warships to transport tens of thousands of horses back to Chongming. Therefore, he planned to use the land brigade's baggage as the main force and the engineering team of the first army's baggage brigade as the auxiliary, and set up several pontoon bridges on the river surface as a way to get horses and withdraw troops. After completing the task, he burned the pontoon bridge and turned to defensive operations.

After hearing Zheng Yi's explanation, Zhao Bing was not in a hurry to express his opinion. He thought that the First Land War Brigade had been stationed on the Chongming Islands for more than a year and would inevitably conduct reconnaissance on the face of the land, very familiar with the enemy situation and terrain. But his eyes remained on a familiar and unfamiliar map. He worked in a shipyard in his previous life and had been here many times during the trial voyage. At that time, the Haimen was far away from the present. As the name suggests, Jiangkou Town was the location of Jiangkou in the past, but now it is also at the western end of the peninsula, adjacent to Jinghai, and in his previous life it had been renamed Nantong.

"Zheng Dutong, your plan seems to be feasible, but have you ever thought that although the flood season is coming to an end, the water in the downstream is still quite large, the river is still wide, and it is difficult to build a floating bridge, which cannot be completed in a temporary way. If it is set up first, the intention of the battle will be exposed. Moreover, Tongzhou lacks a suitable port for landing, so how can we ensure the landing success?" Zhao Bing thought about it and said that he was worried.

"Your Majesty, I have thought about it." Zheng Yi didn't seem to think that Your Majesty's problem was abrupt, and explained with a smile, "Your Majesty also knows that the amount of river water will be affected by the tide. When the tide is low, the river water will leak into the sea with the tide on a large scale. At this time, the river surface shrinks and the water flow will slow down. You can take this opportunity to build a floating bridge. On the contrary, when the tide is high, the sea water flows back into the river, the water surface becomes wider and the water depth increases, making it easier to carry out landing operations!"

"Well, it's great to use the window period of tide rise and retreat to carry out landing and retreat operations separately. But the grasp of time is very strict. If there is a slight mistake, all the efforts will be wasted!" Zhao Bing nodded. He already understood the arrangements for his combat, but this battle was a joint combat between the three armies of water, intravenous and cavalry, and the requirements for commanders also put forward higher standards.

"Your Majesty, today is July 17th. Tomorrow, the tide will rise at the end of the min hour and reach its climax in the Chou hour. It is most suitable for landing. The ebb is at the hour of Mao, and two hours can be used for troops to land and develop. As long as the organization is tight, the time should be enough. After the ebb, the floating bridge will be built immediately. According to the previous training results, if nothing unexpected happens, you can completely use two kilometer-long and half a meter-wide boat bridges within one hour!" Zheng Yi has always led the land combat brigade and is very familiar with the landing combat business, so he is confident.

"Yes, then you will be in charge of this battle. Whether you can steal those horses back depends on you!" After Zhao Bing asked a few questions, he handed over the mission to him.
Chapter completed!