Although the No. 1 transit station is nominally a transit station, Lin Hai has repeatedly emphasized that this place must be regarded as a war zone before the reinforcements of the Chen Dynasty are defeated and Zhaoyang City is controlled. Therefore, the entire transit station is not a place piled with huge amounts of supplies and filled with unarmed civilians as people imagine.
According to the plan of the Ministry of War, due to its superior geographical location, the No. 1 Transfer Station must become the fulcrum between the Qinghe Fortress Group and Zhaoyang, and undertake the tasks of personnel and material transfer, strategic support, and long-term combat after being sieged.
All of this was clearly written in the order signed by Cheng Guorong himself.
But unfortunately, it only exists in commands.
Because Tang Tong defected at a speed beyond anyone's imagination, the Qinghe army took Zhaoyang without any effort, which made the No. 1 transit station, which was actually in the rear, useless.
In the eyes of many grassroots military officers, no matter how weak the Qinghe army is, it can still launch a textbook defensive counterattack against the Chen Dynasty's army with Zhaoyang City as the core. Therefore, the No. 1 transfer station in the rear only needs to be large enough and accommodate enough supplies to provide support to the Zhaoyang front.
In addition, the command center's countermeasures headquarters had clearly issued an order to strengthen the defense forces in the Zhaoyang direction, so the large-scale diversion of materials originally intended for reinforcing the No. 1 transfer station to strengthen the defense of Zhaoyang City could not be stopped.
Jiang Guoping can escape.
Due to lack of knowledge about the Qinghe telescope, Lieutenant General Li chose a place for rest outside the theoretical line of sight of the No. 1 transfer station, but it was seen clearly by Jiang Guoping. In addition, the Chen Dynasty scouts unscrupulously expelled the Qinghe sentinels, so that even a pig would know that the Chen Dynasty's vanguard cavalry bypassed Zhaoyang and came to kill them.
But Jiang Guoping was a garrison captain.
From the moment he accepted this position, his responsibility was actually just one, which was to guard this largest material distribution center with his 300 brothers.
Of course, he has more than 300 men under his command. There are at least 500 logistics support soldiers who have undergone the most basic military training and were converted from mobilized soldiers and are also in the transit station.
These people were immediately incorporated into the combat troops by Jiang Guoping in accordance with the war regulations, but they were not needed to go into battle now.
The rest were a dozen or so intelligence officers led by Xue Wuxia.
They didn't have any orders to stay here.
However, retreating when encountering an enemy is definitely not the style of the Qinghe army. Xue Wuxia compared the strength of the enemy and ourselves, and felt that we would not necessarily lose, so we did not think about retreating first.
Besides, being able to see the strength of the Chen Dynasty’s main force with one’s own eyes is also an extremely important thing for an intelligence officer.
Therefore, Jiang Guoping had to rely on these 800 people, this earthen wall that was less than ten feet high, the trench that was too shallow to be used as a drainage ditch, and the pit area that only existed on the drawings but was actually a flat grassland to defend this place.
"Has the messenger been sent out?"
Xue Wuxia asked as she saw through the telescope that the Chen Dynasty's cavalry were marching slowly and swaggering across the hillside, and that they appeared in her field of vision one after another.
"Send them out. Three waves, three people in each group. Two of my men and one of your intelligence officers. This way, they should be able to handle any situation."
Jiang Guoping really wanted to take another look through the telescope.
However, he knew that the garrison captain would not be issued a telescope. If he had not happened to meet Xue Wuxia passing by, he would have had to wait until the day he was transferred to a combat unit to be issued a telescope.
Although Xue Wuxia generously offered to "give" him a telescope, the two of them could only take turns using it. The key point was that the telescope was not originally his, making it very difficult for him to ask for it.
"There should be two more transfer stations along the entire transportation route. Can they send reinforcements from there?"
Xue Wuxia didn't know much about the military's arrangements, so she added, "According to wartime regulations, I am now the local intelligence chief and military judge, and I have the right to know the military's arrangements."
"Yeah." Jiang Guoping nodded, acknowledging the change of identity. A big boss who was several levels higher than him suddenly became his deputy. This feeling was still very subtle.
"I instructed the messenger to tell A-2 and A-3 not to send reinforcements."
Jiang Guoping answered casually while calculating the time in his mind.
"Why?"
Although Xue Wuxia felt a little surprised, she didn't make a fuss about it.
After all, Jiang Guoping is the highest-ranking official in the local area, and professional matters should be left to professionals.
"The defenders of Areas A-2 and A-3 are less than two hundred, all infantry. Even if they manage to get here, they'll be killed. There's no need to have them engage in open-air skirmishes with the Chen Dynasty cavalry."
"Um."
Xue Wuxia nodded, agreeing with this explanation, and then continued to talk to herself, "I hope they get the news and can retreat in time."
"They won't retreat."
Jiang Guoping said very calmly:
"Not to mention the order to hold the transit station and not retreat, even if they wanted to withdraw, the people can leave, but can the supplies inside also be taken away? So their only option is to hold on.
"But it seems the Chen Dynasty's troops aren't that numerous. If we hold out long enough, we can buy them more time to deploy their defenses. Furthermore, as long as we hold out until tomorrow noon, General Huang Zong's reinforcements will arrive."
Having said that, Jiang Guoping involuntarily turned his head and glanced at Xue Wuxia. Huang Zong's pursuit of Xue Wuxia was known to the world. Now that Xue Wuxia was in trouble, Huang Zong might be able to come faster, but he hoped that he would not come so soon. After all, the range of vision of the telescope was limited. Who knew what was hidden in the darkness of dusk in the distance?
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