Power and Empire Chapter 1720: Gaul’s Tragedy (7)
1720 Gaul Tragedy (7)
In March, everything is rejuvenated, the earth is picturesque,
Hasen Rambo, who hurried back from Gaul Kyoto, didn’t have the mood to appreciate the beauty at all. He received an emergency report from the Eastern Front, although he had been prepared for it, and he was obviously not at all about it. With a deep understanding of the meaningless armistice agreement, Hasen Rambo, the famous Gaul, was shocked in a cold sweat
The Falcon Army launched a new offensive in the spring!
how is it possible! It turned out to be the most unlikely Eastern Front, which is really incredible. . . . Is the other party crazy! "
Hasen Rambo glanced over the emergency report in his hand, muttered to himself, raised his head, his utterly gaze, bloodshot, frantically searching for the answer on the map marked with the lines of defense between the two warring parties behind him. He did not expect that the Gaul Empire and the Falcon Empire were at a stalemate on the line of war, but the direction of the attack made him completely bewildered, and he even had a feeling of being caught off guard. The 200,000 Falcon Empire army at a disadvantage, first of all. A huge and long line of attack was spread in the eastern section of Rusty, and the place where the attack fell was on the most unlikely eastern line!
On the map of the Rusty region, the Eastern Line is definitely an ideal defense zone. The Eastern Line is the place where the mountains and plains of the Rusty region are connected. Geographically, there is Sena that traverses the entire east. The river is used as a barrier, and the Falcon army and the Gaul army oppose each other on this line.
When Hasen Rambo was armed, he ordered the destruction of all the bridges on the Seine in advance, and placed heavy troops on the banks of the Seine to block the advancement of the Falcons.
The Seine River is 130 meters wide, and the current is rushing. In addition to the rainstorm season, the Seine River's current surges, and the river flows over the embankment to extend to both sides. The width is more than 200 meters. Soldiers of the two armies stand On the banks of the river, it is almost impossible to see the face of the enemy on the opposite side. "There are no dead ends, superior troops and superior terrain. No matter how good the Falcons are, there is really no possibility of taking the initiative to launch an attack at this point!" At the last military meeting, General Gaul proposed it, and the generals in Gaul also agreed with this statement.
Unless the opponent is crazy, they will use this as a breakthrough point for the offense! Even the experienced Hasen Rambo believes that this seine line of defense, which occupies the right time and place, is the strategic dead line of the entire line of defense, which means that as long as the Falcon Empire forces dare to launch an offensive, they will die as many as they can!
Compared to the Eastern Front, where a war is unlikely to break out, Hasen Rambo pays more attention to the central line area composed of more than a dozen cities and the western line area dominated by plains, because the central line cities are not fortresses after all, although they have been reinforced in winter. And transformation, but the terrifying siege weapon Thor, possessed by the Falcon Army, can undoubtedly easily rip holes in these non-fortress 1 urban areas, and then the army will invade and start brutal street fighting, with up to 80,000 combat power on the opposite side. The tyrannical Falcon Central Army unit is also an opponent Hasen Rambo is unwilling to fight head-on.
The central army of these Falcon Empires is extremely well-equipped, with strong fighting morale, bravery and fearless, and never knows what death and fear are. It is significantly better than the Gaul second-line army guarding the city, but it consists of as many as 17 cities. The four defensive lines are layered on top of each other, and there is a river barrier between them. It is like a huge deep web woven by giant spiders. Even if it encounters a fierce attack and falls, other cities are enough for hunters who are good at attacking tough ones. The Eagle Army stalled in the offensive, and was finally consumed with vigour,
The center line is a trap set by Hasen Rambo. It seems easy, but it is actually very tough. In the last Battle of Rust, the fat man would choose to attack the direction of Bruges supported by the heavy fortress, rather than being in the center line. The Gauls are entangled for this reason,
The Gaul local garrison mainly consists of 190,000 people stationed in the central city area. In order to reduce the conflicts between these local garrisons, Hasenrambo can only cluster the 190,000 garrisons into In the cities in the central area, these local defense teams are drawn from various places by the Gauls in winter.
Because of the shortage of first-line troops and time constraints, the number of second-line garrisons drawn from various places in Gaul has as many as 24, with a strength of 190,000. The equipment of these garrisons is due to the different economic conditions and personnel levels in each region. Different, the quality of the equipment is different, the combat power can only be regarded as average
The last 110,000 people came from troops transferred from the north to fight the Slavs.
For these troops, Hasenrambo also feels a headache. The simple configuration of light infantry. The soldiers of these troops were originally residents of the northern region. Because of the invasion of the Slavs, they fled their homes and fled to the south. The Gaul Ministry of Military Affairs used winter to need food. The opportunity to include a large number of young and middle-aged among them, forming four new infantry regiments to fill in the Rusty line of defense,
As the reserve force of Rusty, they are Gaul’s 20th, 21st, 22nd, and 24th Infantry Regiment,
The soldiers of these four reserve corps are mostly just after a short month of training, and their equipment is poorly equipped. The Gaul hinterland has not experienced the baptism of war for decades, so the weapons transferred from various military depots are mostly old, rusty swords, and moldy leather armor accumulated over the years. I don’t know which emperor’s period was. The forged shield, the bald helmet that was gnawed off by the mouse, this kind of inconsistent equipment and the low morale of these soldiers made Hasen Rambo worry about the combat power of these four new infantry regiments.
"Although there are 110,000 people, the nature of overcharging is too serious"
Hasen Rambo commented and transferred these troops to the second line. As a reserve team, they were mainly arranged on the plains of the western line. The undulating mountains that continued from the eastern line began to fall and gradually became flat. The city was scarce. , Most of them are abandoned fields,
The defensive conditions on the western front are very inadequate. It is also the only part of the entire defense line that Hasen Rambo believes may be broken by the Falcons in a short period of time.
In order to make up for this gap, in the 50-mile area of the Western Front, Hasen Rambo has used hundreds of thousands of Gaul refugees in the past winter, and artificially erected thousands of them on the plains of the Western Front. The stone towers are similar to the bunker, each tower is more than five meters high, and there is a lookout post on it.
The thick stone walls are enough to withstand the attacks of ordinary trebuchets. A small team can resist for more than two days. Hasen Rambo will deploy his strongest Eighth Army Corps to the core area of this blockhouse. In addition to the four new infantry regiments serving as the reserve, two of them are arranged here, with a total strength of 170,000 troops, which is the top priority of the entire line of defense.
In the long winter, the Gaul troops were able to maintain a certain centripetal force under the weight of the Falcons, but the peace of a winter caused some things that were suppressed at the beginning to burst out
The noble soldiers from the rich areas began to show their normality, riding on vigorous horses, wearing armors with their own coat of arms, followed by more than a dozen family entourages, and ran past the soldiers of other troops with horseshoes. Shaking the dirt on the ground unscrupulously, completely ignoring that the ragged soldiers next to him are all his comrades in arms,
The three garrison regiments on the Kyoto side are even more embarrassing, purple and lightly outfitted hussars with a number of up to 20,000. These cavalry are often pulled out in groups, and the posture of running is overwhelming, with the people of Kyoto. The arrogance rushed to his own camp, watching the soldiers guarding other areas in the camp panic, rolling all over to avoid, these speeding Kyoto nobles laughed into a ball on horseback for fun. , And to train friendly forces to improve resistance to enemy cavalry attacks.
The infantry regiments from remote areas often have fewer than 5,000 people and have no say. They can only guard some remote towns and are equipped with light leather armor and worn-out daggers. There are almost no cavalry, only regiments. The leader is accompanied by two cavalry on horsebacks to fill the front. The soldiers are lazy in discipline and have no training throughout the winter.
This battle has completely squeezed out the military power of the Gaul side. It can lose 300,000 people and quickly fill in 300,000 people in one winter, which is enough to prove the military potential of the Gaul Empire. , But the huge contrast between the troops also makes the guards in these places with different mentalities full of contradictions,
The nobles of Kyoto look down on the local hillbillies, while the nobles of the local people think that the nobles of Kyoto are elder brothers who have inherited the family, and they have no posture of being a soldier.
The homeless people in the rich areas look down on the homeless people in the poor areas, and think that such colleagues are just as cannon fodder, and they are a humiliation to the soldiers of the entire empire
The luxurious styles of the nobles in the rich areas are also dismissive in the poor areas. The gorgeous armor and the showy entourage are just the flowers in the greenhouse. No matter how beautiful they are, they cannot withstand the cold wind.
Because of this, the local defense camps often make troubles very unpleasantly
Fight to get more food. One fight is a gang fight of thousands of people. It is normal for a hundred or so people to die. Fight to occupy the best barracks position, and both sides can drown. The dead, and even launched a huge collision. Thousands of people mingled together, making it just like a real battle.
fought in order to seize the barracks and their own sphere of influence, and for the sake of prostitutes and pursue women, private fights became popular
There are three infantry regiment leaders who have not really gone to the battlefield. They were seriously injured and carried down by the attendants. They were still clamoring that they would never die with each other. Little Rusty gathered one-half of the empire at once. With hundreds of thousands of hot-blooded males, it’s more lively than a frying pan,
"It's a mess that can't be sorted out!"
One winter, Hasen Rambo’s head was big, and he was soft when he received various reports. In addition to accusations, there were threatening letters, and there were even various requests for signing the family surname directly and submitting it in a majestic manner. What? The request for additional military pay is closely followed, saying that the military pay is too small to be enough for expenses,
requires the expansion of the barracks. It is best for each officer to have his own private room.
responded that the food was unpalatable, asked to hire a private cook, responded that it was too cold and no one warmed the bed, and asked to be accompanied by a personal maid,
All kinds of weird requests really make Hasen Rambo dumbfounded. In terms of authority, although Hasen Rambo is the head of the defense of the Rusty region, he is facing almost the entire empire’s local family, the Kyoto family. , Without the supreme authorization from His Majesty the Emperor, what could he be a small army commander!
As for the Imperial Ministry of Military Affairs, he also called for helpless consideration. This is an imperial army of 400,000 people, one-half of the military power of the Gaul Empire.
is enough to rejuvenate the country, but also enough to destroy the country!
With the lessons learned from the Julius family, the betrayal of the Murphy Legion, the ungratefulness of the southwest and northwest, even Hasen Rambo, who was on the front line, worked hard to resist the advancement of the Falcons, the imperial military affairs The ministry did not dare to completely trust this time,
was in charge of the appointment of the true chief of the 400,000 army, but it has not been issued until the winter season.
This time, Hasen Rambo returned to Kyoto to participate in the meeting for this purpose. At the military prince meeting held by His Majesty, Hasen Rambo sincerely asked the emperor to send a chief officer, and said frankly, " I am incompetent, and I am willing to use myself as a deputy, and only hope that the empire can make a quick decision. Otherwise, the 400,000 army will be in chaos. If a unified command system is not formed, the minister is worried that the empire's army will collapse on its own before next spring!"
The emperor was furious and asked why the Ministry of Military Affairs had not issued an appointment, and the Ministry of Military Affairs had to appoint Hasen Rambo as the chief officer.
But as a check, an emperor’s envoy will also be sent to supervise and command the battle,
Just when the Gaul Military Department was still arguing about who could serve as a candidate for the task of supervising the war, the power of 400,000 troops, and the fate of an empire, as the first wave of attacks from the Falcon Empire, hurriedly Falling on the famous Gaul Hasen Rambo
Hasen Rambo, on the day he received the report, went both day and night, and finally ran thousands of miles back to Rusty in seven days. At this time, the Falcon Army across the Seine River had begun to rumbling. With the sound of war drums, countless number of trebuchets were deployed by Falcon infantry in a line along the banks of the river bank. Next to the huge trebuchet lever, piles of trebuchets were piled up in the drizzle. Just like rows of giants with huge arms standing on the other side of the river, the nerves of the Gaul army on the opposite side tightened.
Everything shows that the full-scale offensive of the Falcon Empire is imminent,
Stationed on the front line of the Seine is the Gaul Fifteenth Army, with a force of 70,000. The Falcons on the other side of the river are the veteran force of the Falcon Empire, which has been suppressed in the Dorok Mountains for more than a year. Northwest Army, well-equipped, sharp combat power, mountain assault capability, known as the Northwest Army of the Falcon Empire.
The flood was rolling, mixed with the broken soil in the mountains, the clear river became turbid, and the flag of the Falcon Empire cracked against the wind
"What's the number today?" Crolitsart asked, riding on his horse.
"March 7, my lord!" a general of the Northwest Army replied in the back
"Number seven? Then it's today!"
Crolitsart nodded solemnly, and the oncoming wind hit him in the face with the moist water vapor from the river. Behind him were a dozen Northwest Army generals, standing in front of him. The surface of the river was extremely wide, and the water was tumbling. A general of the Northwest Army threw a head-sized stone toward the turbulent torrent of the water. Even such a heavy stone, it only fluttered for a while, and it was immediately in the turbulent turbulence of the flood. It flew down and disappeared after a few strokes. I saw that everyone's eyebrows were slightly furrowed,
"My lord, in this situation, we can't launch a cross-river operation at all"
The stone-throwing Northwest Army general stood up, shook his head, and said in a worried tone, "Even though we have prepared a large number of catapults, facing such a wide river and such a rushing river, the soldiers are wearing Heavy armor, if you go down, you will be ruthlessly washed away. Moreover, the Gauls on the opposite side have already prepared. Their number of shooters is more than 10,000, and the distance of 200 meters has exceeded the range of assistance of our archers. The army risked huge casualties and passed halfway through the river, and would immediately be quickly blocked by the opponent. The opponent's archer could calmly shoot our soldiers to death in the river one by one. The subordinates really couldn't understand the meaning of your majesty's order. ..."
"Enough, crossing the river this afternoon is your majesty’s order, our duty is to carry out! Assemble your troops, ready to go into combat at any time, waiting for orders"
Crolitsart waved his hand to the general and interrupted his complaint. His sharp eyes fell on the opposite side of the river again. The Gaul flag was fluttering in the wind and rain, between the barracks and the barracks. Exposing a huge wooden fence
The ridges, the rows of fences, and the temporary line of defense made up of gray hard soil make everyone’s complexion look bad.
One year of silence, the entire Northwest Army is eager for a day of re-emergence, but it is not to carry out a seemingly impossible battle. The Falcon’s order is so incredible, March 7 Cross the river, occupy the upper reaches of the river, and cooperate with the Second Southern Army to sweep the enemy's center line!
Even the confidant of the emperor, Crolitsart, could not fully understand the meaning of this order
As this subordinate said, the flooding Seine River is enough to become a strategic natural danger. There is no breakthrough that can be opened at all. Almost none of his long-range troops can support the troops crossing the river, and his soldiers have More than half of them are light infantry, and they are not suitable for this kind of forcibly crossing the river. They can run in the mountains like a falcon, but in the rapids of the river, their performance can only be regarded as mediocre
He took a deep breath and was about to turn around,
The Northwest Army behind has been assembled. Although they have not yet been engaged in combat, they are lined up. The black armor of the fifty thousand army is like a black tide pressing on the river beach, giving people a feeling of suffocation.
The faces of the soldiers are not very beautiful, and the wide river surface of the torrent is shocking to everyone. Even Crolitsart himself is not sure that the return of the Northwest Army will be What kind of result, is it destruction or rebirth!
"My lord~IndoMTL.com~Listen, what is that sound!" Suddenly a general of the Northwest Army stopped and turned his head curiously to look up the river. Soon, there was a faint rumbling sound. It starts to become clear, it seems that something huge is sliding
"Could it be!" Crolitsat looked at the direction of the sound with curiosity, and saw a dozen small black spots rapidly growing from the distance of the river, getting bigger and bigger, clear in the rolling flood The white sails are fluttering, everyone's eyes are bulging at once
"Battleship! It is the battleship of the Empire!"
Crolitsat looked at the pupils of the little black dots shrinking, his body trembled slightly, and his face flashed with uncontrollable ecstasy. He knew that the governor of Rusty chose to be in the upper reaches of the river in December last year. A small dam was built to accumulate water flow in times of drought,
But he didn’t expect that the Empire built a dock inside this dam
Throughout the winter, it was too easy to temporarily assemble a dozen imperial warships with accessories. Now, the entire Rusty is a land of waters, and even heavy tonnage warships can sail on these rivers.
This kind of despicable and shameless person, but who makes the opponent feel desperate, who else is there except Majesty Falcon! It seems that in December last year, His Majesty was already preparing to break the game! (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to subscribe, reward, and your support is my biggest motivation.) [This text is brought by the Qihang update team@洛水神子Let’s @Peas.com @TB小红鸡@神韵有意@小乐鸡@神兽老师Provided by]