Ye Chenchen spread his hands and said: "I have nothing to do with this. I am an invisible person now, and external things have nothing to do with me. How to motivate your subordinates, you have to figure it out yourself."

Mi Chong rolled his eyes and said: "I heard that before the army leaves, the court will allocate a departure fee. How about you allocate a sum of money to me, your Majesty, and I will distribute it in the name of the commander-in-chief. It can be regarded as a pre-war incentive."

Bar."

Ye Chenchen smiled mischievously and said: "This is a good idea. I agree. How much money is needed, you can just go to the Dongquezhou treasury to pick it up. There is no need to report it to me."

Mi Chong stared, almost roaring and said: "Is there any mistake? The money in the Dongque Prefecture's treasury belongs to me. You are showing generosity to others."

Ye Chenchen smiled sarcastically and said: "Who among us is following whom? What's yours is mine, and what's mine is yours. Why are we so clearly divided? Your Dongquezhou treasury is rich, so take some

Isn't it normal to come out and reward your own fleet? Okay, go quickly, don't keep Yang Kuo waiting too long."

Yang Kuo and a group of senior fleet officials waited for nearly two hours at the princess's mansion, and finally saw his immediate boss, the current commander of the East China Sea Fleet, Mi Chong. What Yang Kuo and the senior fleet officials did not expect was that Mi Chong came up.

From now on, the first thing to do is to change the name of the fleet. Although the name Dongsheng Fleet can better distinguish it from the numerous East China Sea fleets in the countries along the East China Sea, Yang Kuo and others do not think this name is very clever.

Yang Kuo and the others are not very willing to change their name. After all, the name East China Sea Fleet has been with them for more than ten years. In these more than ten years, the fleet has grown from scratch, from weak to strong. The word East China Sea Fleet has been closely related to their destiny.

They were closely connected. But as the commander of the fleet, Mi Chong had the right to change his name, so they had no choice but to accept it.

Mi Chong knew that the name change would make Yang Kuo and others dissatisfied. In order to appease their dissatisfaction, Mi Chong immediately announced the order to attack Luping Island after the name change was settled, and made a grand statement that he would start from Dongque.

Five hundred thousand gold was allocated from the state treasury to pay for the departure of the Dongsheng Fleet. This made Yang Kuo and the others really happy for a while.

The East China Sea Fleet has not experienced a real battle since its establishment. Now the new fleet commander has finally issued a battle order, which makes them a group of professional soldiers very excited. What's more, their commander is obviously a grand man, like this

A battle that kills chickens with a knife can at best be regarded as a more intense real-arms and live-fire exercise. There is no need for any departure fee at all. But since the commander-in-chief wants to pay it, they will accept it. After all, no one will be dissatisfied with the money.

Mostly not.

After bidding farewell to Mi Chong, Yang Kuo immediately rushed back to the home port of the Dongsheng Fleet, and in the name of an exercise, sent all the main forces of the Dongsheng Fleet secretly to Luping Island.

Luping Island covers an area of ​​80 square kilometers and is located in the southern waters of the East China Sea. It is 150 kilometers away from Chen State to the west and 120 kilometers from Shen State to the south. It was originally the private territory of the Shen State naval family and the Shilai family.

Later, the Xilai family took the Shen navy to defect to Ye Anfeng, and by the way, Luping Island was also given to Ye Anfeng.

The Xilai family has always operated Luping Island as an important overseas base for the Shen Kingdom's navy. After Ye Anfeng obtained Luping Island, he was immediately attracted by its superior geographical location and decided to use it as a springboard to attack the mainland of Chen Kingdom.

and logistics supply bases. To this end, he carried out extensive construction projects on the island, built a large number of warehouses and barracks, and built a large number of shore-based forts near several docks and tidal flats for landing. The forts were equipped with hundreds of troops.

caliber coastal defense artillery. Combined with the East China Sea Fleet cruising nearby, Luping Island's defense is watertight.

After seven days of secret sailing, the Dongsheng Fleet arrived in the waters around 100 kilometers northeast of Luping Island. Yang Kuo ordered the fleet to make some repairs here, while he was in the command room of the flagship, the Deep Blue, making the final pre-war deployment. Participate

In addition to Yang Kuo and his deputy general of staff, those present at the pre-war meeting were the commanders of each squadron.

The Dongsheng Fleet has a total of three surface squadrons and one underwater squadron. Each squadron has fifteen large battleships, fifty medium-sized battleships, more than one hundred small battleships and speedboats, and twenty underwater battleships.

Form an independent underwater squadron. The leaders of the three surface squadrons are Wang Keqin, commander of the first squadron, Zhou Tianqun, commander of the second squadron, and Zhang Taisheng, commander of the third squadron. The commander of the underwater squadron is from the Jing family

Scenery of cedar trees.

Yang Kuo held a small bamboo pole in his hand, stood in front of a chart, and said to several squadron commanders: "Everyone, you have seen the information about Luping Island many times, so I won't repeat it again.

But I need to remind you that the lion still needs to use all his strength to fight the rabbit. Although the strength of our army is several times that of the enemy, we must not take it lightly. After all, this is the first battle since the establishment of our Dongsheng Fleet. It will have a great influence on our future ability.
Chapter completed!