Chapter 173: Knowing Yourself and Knowing Your Opponent Wins All Battles
On the march, Ling Xia rode his war horse slowly, and when he came to a forest, Ling Xia raised his left hand and said with a smashing mouth: "Pass the order, set up camp in the woods in front, spend the night from here today, and set off again tomorrow morning." ”
"Wait!"
As soon as Ling Xia's words fell, the three Qin who were in charge of delivering the decree next to him almost quit, only to see the three of them walk up to Ling Xia and protest with a sad and indignant face: "Don Ma, what are you doing here?" It's been three days, and we've only walked more than 50 miles, and we haven't even walked out of the boundaries of Dingyi Province yet, or let's take two more steps.
You go to Liulijiang to find the princess, it only takes one night's work, and the small speed is a few points faster than lightning, but when it comes to marching and fighting, why are you as slow as a snail, and you are not afraid of indigestion among the soldiers after marching fifty miles in three days? Encamped all day, the speed at which the soldiers set up their tents has improved markedly in the past few days.
If I'm not mistaken, we just had breakfast an hour ago, and after eating so much, you can give the big guy a chance to digest the food, and let's just take a walk after dinner, okay? Now it's not even noon, you give the order to set up camp, and if it is calculated at this rate, by the time we arrive at the war zone, the war will be over long ago. ”
"Didn't I just let the brothers set up a camp, why are you so anxious to be white-faced?" Seeing the impatient appearance of the three Qincha, Ling Xia said unhurriedly: "The conscription order only asked me to rush to the northern theater to participate in the war, but there is no time limit, my three-day march of fifty miles is already considered fast, and from tomorrow, the speed will be reduced by half." ”
Hearing that Ling Xia was going to slow down, the three Qincha were about to vomit blood urgently, they surrounded Ling Xia in the middle, and said anxiously: "My concubine, I can't slow down anymore, if we reduce it again, we won't be able to rush to the war zone in this life, three days and fifty miles, how embarrassing it is to say it." ”
Ling Xia didn't want to go to the battlefield so early, Nangong Xiongba urged himself as if urging his life, he must have been in trouble in the war, Ling Xia was sure, after he went, Nangong Xiongba would definitely assign him crazily, as the saying goes, jump is happy, die early, Ling Xia doesn't want to rush over stupidly to be cannon fodder.
Seeing that the lips of the three of them were almost bald, Ling Xia still looked unmoved, and the three Qincha could only accept their fate to follow Ling Xia's march, and after sending the three Qincha away, Ling Xia leaned against a tree, took out the map of the Northern War Zone from his arms, and kept marking something on it.
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"Donkey, can you hurry up, the Metropolitan Governor of Nangong has already urged several times."
"Hey, horse, take two more steps, another territory has been lost."
"My colt, how come thou hast encamped again? Didn't we just get out of camp? ”
"Colt, you...... Alas...... You can do whatever you want......"
In a blink of an eye, more than 20 days have passed, during this time, Ling Xia is still marching slowly, camping for ten miles, resting for a hundred miles, and when he reaches a distance of a thousand miles, the team must stop and celebrate for three days before leaving.
From Ziyanjiang to the Northern Theater Headquarters, it only took more than 20 days to march normally, but two months after Ling Xia left the camp and set off, the team was still wandering on the road, and the military orders urging the march in the Northern Theater were one after another, and even the coalition headquarters sent a letter urging Ling Xia to speed up the march, but Ling Xia was unmoved, and still did his own thing.
Just when Ling Xia led the team to march step by step, suddenly, Lao Cui, who had disappeared for more than two months, led two of his subordinates to return to the camp from the direction of the northern theater of operations.
"General, the situation in the theater is not optimistic." After handing the information to Ling Xia, while Ling Xia was watching the information, Lao Cui said worriedly: "Looking at the entire Northern Theater, the war situation has been dominated by Gang Ning Ichiro's side, although the Northern Theater has joined Mr. Dongfang in the later stage, the situation has recovered a few points, but the initiative is still in the hands of the enemy. ”
"Who? Who were you talking about? Mr. Oriental? Which Mr. East? After hearing this name, Ling Xia was stunned.
"This Mr. Dongfang is a bit mysterious, I only found out that he was a scholar, and he once lived in the Juyi Hall of Baishi Province for a while, and then he suddenly disappeared, until a few months ago, he suddenly recommended himself, and later assisted the Metropolitan Governor of Nangong as a military advisor." Lao Cui replied with a fifteen-ten.
"I said that Nangong Xiongba suddenly opened his mind, and actually thought of recruiting me to the battlefield through the coalition headquarters, now it seems that all this should be Mr. Dongfang's idea, Mr. Dongfang ------ hehe------ it turns out that you are calculating me." With a chuckle, Ling Xia looked at Lao Cui and asked, "How is the situation recently?" ”
"In recent months, the enemy generals have carried out irregular attacks on various territories in the northern theater, although the theater has sent many soldiers to meet the battle, but all of them have been defeated and returned, up to now, the theater and the enemy's regional confrontation record is 20 battles and 19 defeats, except for the new division commander of the "Rock" division, Nangong Xiu, who is better than the enemy by one, the rest of the generals are not opponents.
At this moment, the main battlefield of the enemy and us is inclined to Yuankun Jiang, which is the passage between the northern theater and the southern theater, and the material supply lines in the theater all need to arrive from Yuankunjiang.
Although the island country hoarded heavy troops on Yuankun Xinjiang, but in the later period, under the strategy of Mr. Dongfang, the battle guard army recaptured the five occupied provincial capitals, and strengthened the defense, the original Yuan Kunjiang deployed 700,000 troops, and later increased the number of troops to 3 million, and each provincial capital hoarded an average of three legions, in case the island country counterattacked again.
During this period, although the enemy's main battle forces were relatively scattered, it can still be seen that they attached more importance to Yuankun Xinjiang, and among the 20 battles that started the war, 12 of them took place in Yuankun Xinjiang.
According to the intelligence stolen from the island country and the information from within the Praetorian Guard, in the next step, the main battlefield of the enemy and us will be changed to Yuankun Jiang, at present, the northern theater is replenishing the establishment of Yuankun Xinjiang, the troops of Donghan Province and Gowu Province have been replenished, while the front line of the war has only replenished two corps, and the third army is still being reorganized. ”
After listening to Lao Cui's report, Ling Xia looked at the map, sorted out some information in his hand, and then, he said in a low voice: "It seems that our division should be supplemented in the Third Army Corps of Ontario, and the Third Army Corps ------ Alas------ this is a cannon fodder position." ”
With a sigh, Ling Xia instructed Lao Cui: "Go and give the order, march quickly, before tonight, the division must rush to the headquarters of the war zone." ”