Han Shizhong's arrival on the mountain immediately caused a commotion in the army. Let's not talk about how Emperor Zhao talked to Han Shizhong. Lü Hao asked, after all, there were many important people gathered here, and most of them were smart people. At this time, these people sat together, talking about this battle, and they actually guessed Zhao Jiu and Han Shizhong's plan from beginning to end...

First of all, there is no doubt that the government valued Han Shizhong. This was known to all officials. The officials who fled did not know it before, but when they arrived in Sizhou and Chuzhou and saw the jade belt on Han Tongzhi, they definitely knew it.

So the question is, considering how much Emperor Zhao valued Han Shizhong, and how he almost risked his life in this battle (although there was already suspicion of a desperate move), when it came to the actual operation, how could he possibly throw aside Han Shizhong, his chosen hero, as a detachment?

Therefore, Han Shizhong must be the main force, and if he is not the main force, he must be promoted to the main force! So Han Shizhong's assistance today should have been part of the plan.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, Han Shizhong's words and judgments seem to be the real basis for Emperor Zhao's choices all along... For example, the death of Liu Guangshi on that day seemed to be more or less directly related to the military intelligence documents of Han Tongzhi - what Huyan Tong delivered that day was the military intelligence that Han Shizhong had ascertained. The military report clearly stated that the Jin army had less than 20,000 or 30,000 troops. It was based on this military report and the fire at Xiacai Neidu that Emperor Zhao disregarded everything and personally killed Liu Guangshi with a knife.

As for the batch of huge warships brought by Han Shizhong, it was not a pleasant surprise. On the contrary, these people knew the origin of this fleet better than anyone else, because this fleet of sailing ships was actually put together by the two coastal military states in Jingdong!

It turned out that not long after Han Shizhong was transferred from Hebei to Jingdong to quell the rebellion, that is, right after the emperor ascended the throne, before the Mingdao Palace fell into the well, Han Shizhong received an order from the central government at that time because of a memorial... At that time, the prefects along the coast of Jingdong and the east were worried that the Jin people would attack by sea, so they submitted a memorial to the Nanjing (Shangqiu) imperial court, requesting protection. Han Shizhong then got this task, which was to let him quell the rebellion while collecting the sea vessels from the military states along the rivers in Jingdong and the east!

Later, when the army was heading south, Han Shizhong also went south to quell the rebellion. However, according to the unspoken rules of that time, these ships were treated as private property by him and reluctantly brought all the way to the southern part of Shandong Peninsula... According to the mutual confirmation of these people, when Emperor Zhao was discussing this battle with Han Shizhong in Shunchang Prefecture, this fleet was parked at the Huaikou Lianshui Army!

In other words, this fleet was originally intended to be of great use to Han Shizhong, but Huang Qianshan was in power before the government fell, so the purpose of this fleet was questionable. Later, when the government decided to fight the war, this fleet entered the Huai River.

Therefore, the logic of the matter is probably the opposite of what it seems on the surface. It may be because of this fleet that Han Shizhong boldly made suggestions to the emperor and launched this battle!

You know what, although these officials were just hindsight experts, they basically guessed most of the things correctly... That's basically what happened.

The reason why it is so complicated is that these officials still have no way of knowing what information gave Emperor Zhao the courage to risk his life, and they also completely misunderstood the primary and secondary positions of Han Shizhong and Zhao Jiu in planning this battle.

In fact, long before he asked that question on the bank of the Yingshui River, Zhao Jiu had learned about the fleet from Han Shizhong, and as a time traveler, he almost immediately used his information advantage and instinctively thought of the famous battle that was tied to Han Shizhong... Yes, it was the famous Battle of Huangtiandang that had been in history books and countless novels!

As a time traveler, Emperor Zhao immediately realized why Han Shizhong had inexplicably pulled out such a navy with sails under such circumstances and fought such a classic battle!

The reason is very simple. General Han Wu had sailing ships at the beginning, and he had experience in commanding sailing ships very early! He may be the first general in Chinese history to command a large-scale sailing ship fleet, and he really played a key role at a critical historical node.

Of course, the sea vessels Han Shizhong had in the Battle of Huangtiandang were definitely not limited to the Shandong Peninsula, that is, the so-called Jingdong and Jingdong routes. There must have been the joint efforts of the military states in the Yangtze River Estuary with richer sea vessel resources.

However, wasn't the Jin army the main force of the Eastern Route Army with nearly 100,000 troops at that time? Wasn't Jin Wushu already a formal marshal? So if Han Shizhong could use a large sea fleet to block Jin Wushu's 100,000 main forces on the Yangtze River at that time, why couldn't he use a smaller sailing fleet to block Jin Wushu's 30,000 troops on the Huai River?

Besides, Jin Wushu had just come to power and was leading an army for the first time. His military experience was far less than that of Huang Tiandang. However, Han Shizhong, who was forty years old, was at the golden age to be a top general!

In short, apart from the various accidents led by the Liu Guangshi incident and the deviations from the plan that were taken for granted during the war, this was the fundamental idea of ​​this battle. It was Zhao Jiu who took the initiative to propose it, and Han Shizhong gave a positive answer. And this navy unit was the reason why Zhao Jiu spent all his efforts to stabilize the situation here, and it was also the reason why he had the courage to issue random manifestos, such as the whole country resisting the war, not retreating a step, and preferring death to peace.

On the fifth day of November last year, Zhao Jiu and Han Shizhong made a plan on the embankment of the Yingshui River outside Shunchang Prefecture. On that day, Han Shizhong immediately set out with his infantry to march east along the Huai River, and sent fast horses to summon the fleet to quickly enter the Huai River.

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