Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

"Dear General, I am the deputy commander of the coalition forces, Brigadier General Ryan of the Gallic Empire."

"Our army can surrender to you and your army now, but I hope you can guarantee our safety and basic supplies."

After Fang Xiao confirmed that the coalition forces were ready to surrender, he brought the other party's commander to Lin Yi.

When Lin Yi heard his translator translate Ryan's words, a smile suddenly appeared on his face.

He felt that this Ryan was still a person who understood his situation very well. Unlike when I read novels before, I would always see some idiots who couldn't understand the reality.

Even though he was defeated, he still looked aloof.

For such a person, Lin Yi wouldn't mind giving him a bullet. There is no such thing as the Geneva Convention these days.

Looking at Ryan in front of him, he kept his posture very low and did not put forward any excessive conditions. In order to show his great power, Lin Yi agreed to Ryan's request.

"Dear Lord Ryan, I accept your surrender."

"This king guarantees your safety in Daxia during the war and provides you with supplies."

"But correspondingly, you need to ensure that during this period, you cannot gather in groups to cause trouble. Otherwise, we will reserve the use of violence and other methods."

When Ryan heard Lin Yi's words, although he was a little surprised that the commander of Daxia was actually a prince, he still kept his expression as normal.

Ryan took off the command knife from his waist and handed it to Lin Yi with both hands.

Lin Yi took Lane's command knife, then turned around and raised Lane's command knife high above his head.

The soldiers of the newly formed [-]st Division behind him saw Lin Yi feeling the enemy's command knife and immediately started shouting again: "Long live!"

Lin Yi had no extra time to accept the surrender ceremony. After accepting Ryan's surrender, he left the matter of arranging the prisoners to Fang Zhong.

Lin Yi, on the other hand, dived into his temporary headquarters.

In Lin Yi's mind, he had an even crazier plan.

"Fang Xiao, Panyu, where is the Lei Zihao speedboat dispatched by Jian'an?" Lin Yi looked at the map and asked without looking up.

"Your Majesty, the latest news is that they have passed the Miaodao Islands and entered the North Sea." Fang Xiao thought for a while and then said to Lin Yi.

"Entering Beihai?" Lin Yi heard Fang Xiao's words. He first looked at his pocket watch and found that it was already five o'clock in the afternoon.

According to the journey and distance, it should be late at night when the Leizi speedboat arrived at Jinghai Sea.

Lin Yi nodded with satisfaction, and then said to Fang Xiao: "Send orders to the first, second, fourth, fifth regiments, and Zhou Chuyun's artillery regiment."

"Tell them, no matter what method they use, even if they kill me, they must reach Jinghai before ten o'clock tonight."

"At 0:[-] midnight, we must launch an attack on the coalition warship camp in Jinghai Port!"

"Remember, this time, I don't want a casualty report. Tell them that even if they all die this time, they must hold on for an hour!"

"Also, send an order to Hou Hongqiang, the commander of the thunder boat! I don't care what method he uses, even if he paddles with both hands, he must launch a torpedo attack on the enemy ships in the harbor at [-]:[-] at midnight!"

"Tell them that my soldiers can only buy them half an hour! Within this half hour, they must shoot out all the torpedoes!"

Having said this, Lin Yi slowly raised his head and looked at Fang Xiao.

"Tell them, this battle is about whether our Daxia Empire can gain some breathing time by fighting, and whether our Daxia Empire can return to the top of the world in the future."

"I hope they can fight for Daxia! If they die, I will stake the king's title and carry them to the Hall of Heroes to receive incense for eternity!"

"Yes!" When Fang Xiao heard what Lin Yi said, he did not dare to hesitate at all. He quickly saluted Lin Yi with a military salute and ran to deliver the order.

Looking at Fang Xiao's leaving figure, Lin Yi licked his chapped lips.

Is Lin Yi crazy? He wants to use infantry, field guns and torpedo boats to fight against allied warships?

Maybe he is crazy, but if he doesn't do this, the war between Daxia and the Kingdom of John and the Kingdom of Gaul will last for a long time.

By that time, it will definitely be more painful for Daxia than fighting this battle.

Although Lin Yi wiped out [-] coalition infantry, the coalition's warships were not damaged at all. They can still advance and retreat in a controlled manner.

Not to mention anything else, if this fleet sets sail south and launches an artillery attack along the coastline of Daxia, it won't be too much. One or two volleys from each city will be enough to destroy Daxia. Xia's industrial enlightenment was completely interrupted.

You know, almost more than half of the industry in Daxia is located in coastal cities.

If they don't destroy this fleet in Tranquility Port and beat John and Gaul to pain, they will continue to send troops.

Only by wiping out their entire fleet will John and Gaul be beaten so hard that they can return to the negotiating table.

Only in this way can Daxia's industrial base be preserved. For this, no matter what the price, Lin Yi can accept it.

Besides, the plan he specified was not without any chance.

First of all, today is the first day that the coalition army has penetrated into the territory of Daxia. I am afraid that the commander of the coalition fleet would never have thought that Daxia could wipe out all [-] coalition troops in one day.

Therefore, the fleet commander will definitely relax his vigilance and let the sailors go ashore to take turns to rest.

When the time comes, if their new First Division suddenly attacks them, they may not be able to react quickly.

As long as they are within a certain distance from the sailors, the artillery of those warships will not dare to fire at will.

After the fierce fighting on our side attracted the attention of the coalition fleet, the torpedo boats that launched the attack half an hour later than the newly formed [-]st Division could rely on their own small size and fast speed to launch torpedo attacks on the enemy ships.

With such a two-pronged plan, Lin Yi is confident that he can bite a big piece of meat from the coalition fleet!

As long as this fleet is damaged and disabled, it is possible to bring John and Gaul back to the negotiating table.

This is Lin Yi's entire plan. In order to implement his plan smoothly, Lin Yi shamelessly asked Zhao Xu.

In front of Zhao Xu, Lin Yi talked for three hours, and then received Zhao Xu's full support, and Lin Yi was indeed favored.

Finally, Zhao Xucai agreed to Lin Yi's plan and personally sent a secret order to Panyu and the commander of the Jian'an fleet, asking them to assemble all the torpedo boats under his command.

Only then thirty torpedo boats were assembled. Without the cover of any warships, they rushed to Jinghai at full power to join the battle.

To paraphrase Lin Yi’s later joke on the Internet, “The success or failure of the empire depends on this!”