Chapter 569: Mysterious Yi Xiaochuan's speculation! Gao Yao's secret!
The mysterious Yi Xiaochuan knew that Gao Yao had invested a lot of manpower and material resources in the navy. The navy had strong mobility that the army could not match.
In ancient times, the speed of marching would vary depending on the marching mode and the type of army. Generally speaking, the daily march distance was about 25 to 35 kilometers; in emergency situations, the speed of forced marches could reach 50 to 60 kilometers; in the case of forced marches, the daily march distance could even exceed 75 kilometers.
However, it should be noted that not everyone can reach such a speed. In fact, only cavalry can achieve a daily march of more than 70 kilometers. For infantry, the limit is usually about 50 kilometers a day. Moreover, this does not take into account the impact of factors such as weather and ground conditions on the marching speed. These factors may become the key issues in determining the marching speed.
In contrast, the situation of the navy is different. By observing the changes in good weather in advance, the navy's daily marching speed is at least more than twice that of the army. If it happens to be in a favorable wind, its speed will be even faster, even up to three times, or even more than three times.
The speed difference is enough to completely change the direction of a war, especially for some coastal counties. It is basically difficult to succeed in sneak attacks. As long as the existence of a sneak attack is discovered, you only need to hold on and wait for help. As long as the news gets out, the navy can land and support within one day at the earliest and three days at the latest.
In other words, a small-scale sneak attack in Gaoyao territory is almost impossible to succeed, especially in coastal areas. This means that Gaoyao actually has absolute initiative, and this is only from a defensive perspective. In terms of offense, Gaoyao's advantage is even more significant.
Not only that, Gao Yao's attack method is also very mysterious, even Yi Xiaochuan can guess roughly. He speculated that Gao Yao would adopt the strategy of attacking with superior forces and navy at the same time. As long as the opponent's force is not as strong as Gao Yao's, this two-way simultaneous attack method will become extremely unsolvable. Even if the opponent knows Gao Yao's attack method, there is nothing they can do.
Because when you focus on defending the army's attack, it's hard to take into account the navy's attack; and if you strengthen the defense of the navy, it will leave the army with an opportunity to take advantage. In addition, there are many landing points in the coastal areas, which are extremely difficult to defend. If you are not careful, the Southern Border Army may directly attack the base camp, or attack from behind, which is hard to defend.
What was even more frustrating was that once too much strength was invested in defending the coastal areas, how could the frontal battlefield resist the Southern Border Army, which was equipped with black gunpowder? With the power of black gunpowder, the Southern Border Army was invincible in attacking cities and capturing strongholds.
Therefore, after careful consideration, the mysterious Yi Xiaochuan resolutely decided to abandon the so-called joint action of the princes to resist Gao Yao, because he knew that such resistance was not only meaningless, but might also put himself in a passive situation.
On the contrary, he thought that he should seize the opportunity when the princes and Gao Yao were fighting desperately and secretly accumulate his own strength. At present, the money and food under the mysterious Yi Xiaochuan were extremely scarce, which was an urgent problem to be solved. Therefore, he had to take this opportunity to restore his strength as soon as possible and accumulate enough food and grass to meet future challenges.
At the same time, the mysterious Yi Xiaochuan also realized that in order to gain an advantage in this confrontation with Gao Yao, he must have his own naval force. However, he also clearly knew that his naval construction could never be compared with Gao Yao's. After all, Gao Yao's navy had been developed for ten years, and the materials and money consumed during this period were undoubtedly an astronomical figure.
Despite this, the mysterious Yi Xiaochuan was not discouraged. He understood that although he could not build a strong navy that could compete with Gaoyao in a short period of time, he could first establish a complete reconnaissance organization in the offshore area. In this way, he could grasp the movements of the Gaoyao navy in a timely manner and thus better formulate a response strategy.
In fact, the establishment of such a scale does not require too much manpower and material resources. The key is to ensure that when someone approaches the sea area near us, we can make full preparations at the first time to avoid being attacked. As long as we can successfully occupy the coastline first, or set up an ambush in advance, then even if we face the well-trained navy of the Southern Border Army, 3,000 cavalrymen are fully capable of easily defeating tens of thousands of navymen who have landed. This is undoubtedly the simplest and most effective method.
Of course, this method is mainly designed to prevent sneak attacks. If the opponent adopts a joint attack method, the significance of this reconnaissance will be greatly reduced. Therefore, while implementing this strategy, it is also necessary to widely reserve food, accumulate sufficient strength, and start large-scale training of cavalry. After all, no matter how Gao Yao changes, the shortcomings of cavalry are always a problem that cannot be ignored.
After a long period of in-depth research and extensive collection of various information, the mysterious Yi Xiaochuan now had a general understanding of Gao Yao's situation. He found that Gao Yao did not dare to act rashly when he saw Xiang Yu had all the advantages at the beginning, which surprised him.
What surprised the mysterious Yi Xiaochuan even more was that Gao Yao kept producing all kinds of strange things, such as grain seeds, wine, unique smelting methods, distilled wine manufacturing technology, and even his martial arts value was constantly improving. These phenomena were contrary to common sense, and people couldn't help but have a strong interest in Gao Yao's background and origins.
If Gao Yao really had these things early on, he could have taken advantage of them, manufactured them in advance, recruited soldiers in Sishui County, and gradually developed into a powerful local power. He could even ascend to a high position in the Qin Dynasty step by step and become a powerful figure.
However, judging from Gao Yao's experience along the way, he obviously did not have a smooth journey, but stumbled and encountered many difficulties and setbacks, which was in sharp contrast to the extraordinary resources and skills he possessed.
Taking all these factors into consideration, Mysterious Yi Xiaochuan was able to draw a conclusion: Gao Yao did not originally possess these things and these skills, but gradually acquired them over time. They were not what Gao Yao had at the beginning, and how Gao Yao obtained these things was what Mysterious Yi Xiaochuan was curious about. Mysterious Yi Xiaochuan even cared more about this matter than about using Tianxing Changsheng.