In fact, not only did Asmin not understand the emperor's intention, Qin Qiong didn't understand it either.
Nowadays, Qin Qiong has been semi-disarmed and retired. In the past two years, he has been transferred to the Lingnan area to take up a casual position, responsible for some work of suppressing pirates... Qin Qiong took the initiative to apply to Li Er, because now several children have
He has grown up and left home, and even his daughter has joined the army...
Poor Qin Qiong, an empty-nest old man, was extremely bored. People in the elite circles in Chang'an liked to compete in poems and calligraphy, etc. Qin Qiong couldn't do these things, so when he got bored, he simply asked for permission to go out and find something to do.
As a result, after two years of suppressing pirates, suddenly came the important task of imperial edict.
This imperial edict was sent by "telephone", which means that it is a real and important task... And when he learned the content of the edict, Qin Qiong also somewhat understood His Majesty's intentions.
Originally, his daughter Ruochan went to support the Forbidden Forces in Africa. This time, letting him, a veteran general, and his father go there can be regarded as His Majesty's good intentions... After all, the father certainly hopes that he will solve dangerous and complicated problems instead of his daughter.
But Qin Qiong is not a young fledgling after all. He knows very well that His Majesty's will often has deep meaning...
And just because he understands that as a father, he is worried about his daughter, he would mobilize himself to replace his daughter in commanding the battle. It seems a bit unreasonable.
Of course, there is another reason. He is a veteran, and he is closer to Africa than Chaishao. It is indeed more reliable to deal with the complex problems in Africa. But...
Even with this addition, the reason seems to be insufficient.
Unknowingly, Qin Qiong and Asmin thought of going together. They both guessed what kind of action Li Er was preparing, but the specific action was hard to figure out...
After all, this battle is about guarding a remote military town isolated overseas, and there is not much that His Majesty can do. After a little troubleshooting, there is no clue.
There is no clue to think about, but after all, the enemy is still stationed not far away from here, and I am confused and puzzled. I still have to fight this battle carefully...
The old man and the young man explained the situation, and they had a good impression of each other, and... in fact, they had heard of each other, and they were both skilled in maritime warfare.
It's just that we really don't know what kind of medicine is in His Majesty's gourd. The entire team can only work hard to deploy defenses and look for opportunities to consume the Romans.
Consumption, this is the main task at present!
But Qin Qiong is a veteran after all.
Although the main thing to do now should be consumption and counter-consumption, but...
Qin Qiong is more thoughtful than juniors like Asmin and Qin Ruochan.
Qin Qiong knew the whole story from the beginning, and reviewed it again on the boat. During this review, Qin Qiong quickly realized what was wrong. The key to everything... lies in Rome.
The people came here deliberately, otherwise, even with the advantage of being close to the water, the Roman legions would not be like now, first inflicting heavy losses on Arabia, and now putting great pressure on the military towns of the Tang Dynasty.
Since the Romans came deliberately, things cannot be too simple. The current situation seems to be a stalemate, but...
Since Qin Qiong is a veteran, of course he will still think further about the worst possibilities.
The worse possibility, of course, is that the Romans' "intention" did not stop at the time of defeating the three small-scale forbidden army camps originally stationed here.
And the situation at this moment is still within the "intention" of the Romans...
If you look at it this way, things are quite scary. In other words... the Romans will once again encircle this fortified military town.
And at this time, there was another encirclement, so after thinking about it, Qin Qiong had only one possibility... First of all, they were also on an expedition, and it was impossible to send another army of comparable size from the land of Africa.
Offensives from the land direction can basically be ruled out directly. After all, the Roman army is not composed of gods, and the cost of long-distance marching and attacking is also extremely high.
Sun Tzu once said in The Art of War, "Those who gain profit within a hundred miles can defeat the general." This is no joke. It is a lesson learned in blood. The distance of a hundred miles was still deeply remembered by Sun Wuzi, not to mention the distance from the Roman border to southern Africa...
…The probability of taking the land route is extremely low.
But correspondingly, the possibility of taking the sea route... will definitely not be low.
And Qin Qiong could also imagine that if the Romans took the sea route to encircle them, then...
Ships currently docked in the harbor...
There are two possibilities that might happen.
First, it was once again attacked by the Romans and severely damaged by arson.
This possibility is not low, but Qin Qiong instinctively feels that it is not very high either.
Because the Romans had come once before and burned half of the ships - again, ancient ships were extremely weak to fire. Even if they stayed in a place full of water, wooden ships were wooden ships and were born with great fuel.
Block - great results.
However, it has been stopped in time...
To be honest, Qin Qiong does not blame her daughter for not thinking carefully, because on the first day when the fleet arrives, people will subconsciously strengthen the defense of the rear route, but this kind of strengthening is often instinctive rather than careful and thoughtful thinking, which gives
Asking himself about the possibility of the enemy's prejudgment, Qin Qiong felt that if it were him, he might not have made the same mistake.
But the other party has already done this once, and now he wants to do it again...
That’s not to say it’s impossible to succeed, but the difficulty, success rate, and cost-effectiveness are much lower!
And the most important thing is that setting fire again will destroy the ship again. This seems to cut off the retreat of the Tang Dynasty Forbidden Army, but behind the Tang Dynasty is a powerful Forbidden Army, and behind the Forbidden Army... it is also powerful
of the Tang Empire.
Burning a few ships doesn't mean cutting off the Imperial Army's retreat!
If the effective forces are still alive, then the combat effectiveness of the Roman Forbidden Army will obviously be greatly reduced.
So the really most likely possibility is the second one.
Rome no longer tried to set fire to the ships to cut off the Tang army's retreat. Instead, it sent a large number of warships directly by sea to fight head-on with the Tang Dynasty's ships, captured the ships, and then directly cooperated with the legions on the shore.
Surround your own camp!
In Qin Qiong's opinion, this possibility is much higher.
Of course, the strongest force in the imperial army of the Tang Dynasty is of course the army... In fact, the strongest military force in every dynasty in China is the army. But in recent years, the most famous one is the navy. If it is to deal with ordinary enemies, this may
The effectiveness is not high either, because the naval force that wants to destroy this camp head-on must then cooperate with the army to encircle it, which is too overwhelming.