Chapter 0933 - Deployment
Xue Ping's pioneer battalion soon reported that Cui Zhouping did not have many troops stationed on the sea on the east side, and the general on duty was Ma Meng.
Ma Meng, this person Yingji has heard of it, although there is only one fierce word in the name, but the person is not only fierce, he is indeed fierce when he charges into battle, but he is also quite a city.
"How far is the nearest garrison to Ma Meng?" asked Yingji.
"One round trip in a day. ”
A round trip in one day, then it means that Yingji must take the horse down in half a day, otherwise it will be useless when reinforcements arrive.
"What about the troops?"
"It's just one or two thousand. ”
Ying Ji shook her head, that place is Cui Zhouping's retreat, it will definitely not be just a deployment of one or two thousand, it should be more.
"Dress up in disguise and find a nearby fishing boat to go out to sea to see if there are any troops deployed at sea. ”
The person who reported the news went back to Xue Ping to restore his life.
Yingji's ability to march and fight is more and more impressive, and several generals are beginning to doubt Yingji's identity, but the problem is that they can't find a girl who is so beautiful and has such a strong ability to march and fight!
Now Yingji can't hide her strength, the unification plan is important, she must race against time to figure out how to block Cui Zhouping's retreat, and then she can catch turtles in the urn with Xiaoxia.
Soon the front came to report that there were indeed some ships at sea, but there were no flags. If these ships are Cui Zhouping's, then there should be 10,000 troops.
"How many soldiers does Cui Zhouping have?"
"With Song Qing's, there should be 500,000. ”
"Where's Xiaoxia?"
"It is said that Xiaoxia led 300,000 troops. ”
Ying Ji began to calculate, Xiaoxia has so many soldiers that according to reason, she can't prevent Cui Zhouping, and the reason why she can still be invincible is because she has a lot of capable people under her.
Xiaoxia's soldiers are deeper, will Cui Zhouping choose to go around Xiaoxia's back?
If he wants to go around Xiaoxia's back, it is not impossible for the two armies to be stuck for so long, anything can happen.
With such a large depth of Xiaoxia, it is unrealistic for Cui Zhouping to go around from the west, and the road to travel is too far.
Then the only possibility is that he bypasses the waterway to the east!
If he goes around from the waterway to the back of Xiaoxia, then he can explain why there are so many soldiers at sea. Because he may have sent part of his army behind Xiaoxia.
"Oops! Quick!
It is impossible for Xiaoxia to know the information that Ying Ji has inquired about, she and Cui Zhouping's army are in a state of stalemate, and it is impossible for her to know the situation of Cui Zhouping's deployment of troops on the sea far away from the capital.
Young-hee knew this, and she knew she had to inform Xiaoxia as soon as possible so that she could step up the defenses behind her.
When her letter arrived in Xiaoxia's hand, the battle report from Xiaoxia's rear also came at the same time.
As Ying Ji expected, Cui Zhouping sent some soldiers to make a detour from the sea to Xiaoxia's back early in the morning.
The speed of the march of the army at sea was relatively slow, and the situation at sea was complicated, so Cui Zhouping was not sure when these troops would arrive, nor how many fighting forces they would have after they arrived.
But he knew that he had to take this step, even if only a small part of his troops arrived in the end, as long as they moved, he could advance the front line of the battle!
Now that he knew that his men had successfully made it to Xiaoxia's rear and started to attack the city, he could also start moving.
According to the current tip, Xiaoxia decided to abandon the capital that she had been holding on to all along.
If Cui Zhouping gets the capital, he should first find a way to keep the capital, so that he can contain part of his strength and ease the pressure he brings to Xiaoxia on the front line.
Due to communication limitations, she has immediately sent a message to Young-hee to inform Young-hee of her decision.
In order to prevent being robbed, Xiaoxia has sent out a few flying pigeons, a large part of these flying pigeons were shot down by Cui Zhouping's people, and finally a pigeon successfully broke through the encirclement but did not know why the delivery of the letter was delayed.
Ying Ji had expected the communication at this time, she knew that the carrier pigeon from Cui Zhouping's rear might not be shot, but the carrier pigeon from Xiaoxia must be in danger of life, at this time she no longer expected to receive Xiaoxia's letter, she could only speculate on her possible actions based on her cooperation with Xiaoxia for so many years.
If she guessed correctly, Cui Zhouping's soldiers would arrive at any time.
If Xiaoxia had arranged the rear defense line before Cui Zhouping's troops arrived, when Cui Zhouping's army made two flanking attacks, Xiaoxia could easily deal with his onslaught on the front line. Then she shouldn't see Cui Zhouping advancing the front.
If Xiaoxia doesn't have time to deploy the rear defense line when she receives the letter, then she will have to give up some places to contain Cui Zhouping's attack in front.
At this time, the best solution is to abandon the capital.
For Cui Zhouping, the capital is his battleground, how can he elect King Rui as the emperor without the capital?
Xiaoxia must also want to get this, if the capital is abandoned, Cui Zhouping will definitely divide a part of the troops to garrison the capital, and then continue to attack Xiaoxia to advance the front.
The best time to cut off Cui Zhouping's retreat is when Cui Zhouping gets the capital, and once he gets the capital, he will definitely draw his troops.
At that time, he probably wouldn't have thought that someone would sneak attack him like he attacked Xiaoxia, so the troops left on the eastern sea would definitely not be as large as now, so that she could obtain the power of the sea and cut off Cui Zhouping's retreat.
If Xiaoxia can fight back at this time, then she will definitely be able to deal a heavy blow to Cui Zhouping!
It's just that I don't know if Xiaoxia has time to fight back, and it's too late to write to Xiaoxia now, because the problem in front of her is also very serious.
Only a small number of the soldiers recruited this time came from the south, and most of them came from the central and western regions, and the water combat ability of these people was definitely not as good as Cui Zhouping's sailors.
Fortunately, most of Cui Zhouping's sailors went to attack Xiaoxia, and if the line report is correct, then there should not be many sailors left at sea in the end.
Another problem is the problem of warships, although Cui Zhouping does not have many people left, but the warships are serious warships.
Even if they are fighting at sea now, they are borrowing the fishing boats of fishermen, which are basically incapable of fighting. Small fishing boats are not able to land against large warships at all, let alone attack.
When a small fishing boat goes into the sea, it is a situation where it is beaten, so this naval battle must avoid a frontal conflict and focus on a sneak attack.
The sailors involved in the sneak attack had to be very water-friendly, the ships were patrolled at night, and the sailors had to be able to hold their breath underwater for a long time so that they could get close to the ships under the cover of night.