Power and Empire Chapter 3474: Counter attack (12)

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War has always been a cruel competition. Winners can sing praises, but losers have to leave the field sadly. The premise is that they can save a life. Grand Duke Gengdi, as the only one among the top leaders of the Northern Lords, knows Ai The commander-in-chief of the Hokuriku noble army who attacked the Northland by the Prince Bert's army. When he heard the news of the imperial army's night attack from outside the camp, he was even known as the No. The Grand Duke was also black again, and immediately spit out black blood

Grand Duke Gengdi's whole person is solidified on the seat like a statue, and two attendants are fanning the wind next to him. Regardless of how Duke Gengdi was once a powerful man who controlled the fate of the Fezer Kingdom, he is already one at this moment. An old man in his sixties, let alone this time going south, marching and fighting all the way, sleeping and eating, even if he is a young man, he can't bear it, let alone an old man in his sixties

Duke Geng Di’s scary red eyes didn’t know what he was thinking. Within the military account, the generals of Geng Di’s army did not dare to breathe. They only heard the sound of fighting from the distance of the camp, like a landslide and a tsunami. General strike,

Everyone can see what the fighting situation looks like outside, but the emperor suddenly counterattacked. As the most powerful of the Northland aristocratic army, Geng Dijun, he is still watching at this moment, I am afraid that the other families are also in their hearts at this moment. Geng Dijun was scolded to the bones, but Grand Duke Geng Di did not give orders, everyone had to press these suspicions in their stomachs

Outside the military tent, the elite troops of the six thousand Gengdi family were drenched under the rain, but the queue was silent, just a pair of eyes suspiciously looking at the Duke’s military tent, behind each team wearing white cloaks The captains whispered to each other, and the West Coast was right in front of them. Originally, if the Emperor chose a certain location, it would cause considerable obstacles, but now the Emperor team is also actively rushing forward. This is not a dead end. As long as the military order comes down and defeats this emperor's army, it is rumored that there will be no resistance on the west coast of Jinshan Yinshan, and it will be impossible to do anything by then! I don't know what the adults are considering, what else can be considered, why the war order hasn't come down yet!

"Just when we got the news, just as we were in a **** battle to capture the West Coast, the despicable Prince Albert had betrayed us, abandoned the Fazer capital area, and led 20,000 troops to open the Northland portal. "Feng Leong Bao" Grand Duke Geng Di took a deep breath under the eyes of everyone, and said in a deep voice the news that shocked everyone

"What, **** Prince Albert!"

"I knew that he shouldn't have believed him at the beginning, he betrayed the royal family at the beginning, and now he betrayed us again!"

The generals of the Geng Di family who were full of stomachs on the revolving axis, their faces all changed at this moment. Finally, I know why Lord Geng Di has such a lost expression. Everyone’s territory is in Beilu, Beilu. If Lu is lost, what will happen to the West Coast!

"It shouldn't be too late. The main forces in the Northland have gone south, and the entire Northland is empty. We must regain the road to the north before Albert has captured the Northland!" Grand Duke Gengdi stood up Shaking his head, he took a deep look out of the military account and smiled bitterly at the corner of his mouth. "Also, the **** Albert wants to rob us of Hokuriku, I even suspect that he has already joined forces with the emperor! Otherwise, why? Come, if it’s too late, Prince Albert’s army turned to attack Northland, and the Imperial Army took the initiative to counterattack."

Grand Duke Gengdi paused, and his mouth grinned. "The emperor must think that our army will inevitably be shaken when he learns the news. He wants to take the opportunity to attack our army, but it is a pity, Emperor* *The team was afraid that the news did not go out. Even if the Imperial Army team is more powerful, that is, the troops of less than 20,000, how can it face the Northern Army of 450,000, but it is so desperate. , I don’t know what the commander of the emperor ** thinks"

"The book of the Grand Duke is right, the emperor took the initiative to attack, but we can save trouble."

"The subordinates were also wondering just now, why did the Emperor ** team suddenly counterattack, and now I heard the Grand Duke, I know why the Emperor ** team went crazy"

"So don't tell everyone this news for the time being!" Grand Duke Gengdi turned from the door of the military tent and beat him back, raised his right hand to the generals on the left and right, and waved his hand. He deserves to be the number one general in Hokuriku. Although I am old, I can still see the oppressive aura of the prime of life in every gesture.

In the camps outside the military tent, I don’t know how many people were involved in the chaos. The momentum seems to be quite scary, but Duke Gengdi doesn’t think it’s a serious matter. The intelligence of the entire Northern Army still stays at five. Six days ago, it was virtually ignored because the Fazer nobles on the west coast were attacked and suppressed. In just five or six days, the empire’s military strength on the west coast was no longer less than 20,000, but sufficient. The army of more than 100,000 has been completely cut off from the intelligence, and the Northland noble army, which is in the hands of the self-confessed victory, has become blind and deaf. Duke Gengdi believes that if other families know that Prince Albert has gone to Northland at this moment, On the contrary, it will shake the morale of the army and it will be counterproductive. We will wait until the other parties repel tonight’s attack.

He said to an attendant, "You arrange a few people to stay and wait until dawn before telling the other families about it."

"Yes, "The attendant nodded, turned around and arranged for someone to go.

Duke Geng Di’s provisional decision made the Geng Di Army, the most powerful in the Northland Noble Army, withdraw during the life and death of the Northland Noble Army, compared with the more than 40,000 Northland Noble Army that was beheaded that night. , Geng Dijun, who didn't know at a loss, was more fortunate. The fastest update ┏Ⅹ④③⑨⑨┛ But on the third day when the imperial cavalry scouts bite up, Geng Di’s army has begun to feel something is wrong. Duke Geng Di ordered to go forward lightly, and was chased by the imperial light cavalry like a wolf dog all night, but unfortunately the imperial light cavalry The number was only six hundred, which was enough to stop the Geng Di Army. In the Fazer capital area, the Geng Di Army was bitten again and suffered heavy losses under the attack of the Imperial Cavalry

The army of more than 6,000 people, after two days and two nights running wildly, traversed the area of ​​King Fazer’s capital, and reached the Hokuriku Plateau when it was already less than 4,000.

Grand Duke Gengdi’s body almost collapsed. He was awakened by the violent morning wind. When he woke up, he felt aches and pains in his body, a splitting headache, and a thirsty throat. There was a fire burning, and his eyelids were as heavy as several thousand catties of shots. He moaned in pain: "Water!" The attendant quickly handed the kettle over, and he greedily grasped the spout with a trembling hand and gulped. Swallow water. But when he drank only half of the first mouthful, he vomited: the water in the pot was smelly and fishy, ​​with an unpleasant smell of mud and blood. The attendant whispered in his ear, "My lord, get over it. , All the wells are filled, we can only find this temporarily."

Duke Geng Di knew in his heart that the entire Fei Ze King had been swept away by the Northland Noble Army all the way south, and when the Imperial Reclamation Army was evacuating, all the wells along the way were filled with stones, and now he wants to dig temporarily. It was impossible to open it. He resisted the nausea and swallowed another sip of water, but he couldn’t drink the third sip anymore. He lay down weakly, feeling like his body was shaking in a group of boats. Duke Gengdi was being Man carried forward on a stretcher. In the rhythmic shaking, he fell into a trance of half awake and half comatose. When he woke up for the second time, it was already afternoon that day. Looking out from the side of the stretcher, the brown road under the stretcher slides endlessly,

"The Road to the North!"

There were cheers all around, and the soldiers shouted in excitement, "The Road to the North", which is the name of the Feize people for this only road along the northern plateau. Lying on a stretcher, Grand Duke Gengdi looked Looking ahead in a complicated way, I was caught in an inexplicable confusion. Just over half a month ago, an army of 60,000 Hokuriku nobles broke into the Fazer capital area from this road, and now they are returning only in the area in front of them. Three or four thousand people, an attendant ran towards him quickly,

"Where are we?"

"Grand Duke, we have arrived on the road to the north, as long as we move forward, it is Hokuriku!"

"Any news from other families?" Grand Duke Gengdi's old face was pale, and he struggled to sit up and looked around. In the brown woods stained with summer colors, the dense leaves are just emerald green. , Hovering and flying. The sun shattered on the large slopes that were originally fields, large forests in the distance appeared under the dazzling blue sky, and a road extending to the north gradually disappeared in front of the uplifted plateau

"Not yet"

The attendant shook his head with an ugly face. The news from the south is still unconfirmed, but the emperor’s army appeared behind and bit up, which has already explained a lot of problems. If the main force of the Northland Noble Army is still , The emperor team will not bite it anyway, but in this case, who dares to say it, you know, that is the main force of the entire Northland noble army, forty to fifty thousand lives, and they are gone in one night. This is not an exaggeration for the entire Hokuriku family. Now the military is forbidden to discuss this matter because it is too scary and too desperate.

Duke Gengdi withdrew his eyes from the far northward road with a deep gaze, and sat up from the stretcher. He came to his horse with difficulty, and took out one of the horses wrapped tightly with oilcloth from the package on the horse. The strict package was solemnly handed to the attendant with both hands. Seeing that Duke Gengdi was so solemn, the attendants did not dare to neglect, and took the package with both hands "Grand Duke, is this?"

"This is the flag of my Northern Army" Duke Geng Di closed his eyes and said after a few seconds of silence. The attendant knelt down and held the parcel with his hands over his head, his voice trembling with excitement, "Grand Duke!" "

"Open it, let me see." Grand Duke Gengdi's voice trembled slightly, the flag of the Northern Army, if the southward march goes smoothly, this will also be the national flag of the future northern country, but now, It can only be a dream. The main force of the Hokuriku noble army is lost, and the Prince Albert's army invades the Hokuriku. An unknown number of imperial troops are pouring in from behind.

Beijing, the wind and rain are swaying, and the fate of each family is completely out of control. Under his gaze, the attendant carefully unpacked the carefully folded package, took out the flag, shaken it, and grabbed a corner. , Smoothed the flag surface. The attendant and two guards worked together to spread the flag, let Duke Geng Di look at this smooth flag, and the proud Hokuriku white eagle watched the people majesticly.

"Go, find a high place and hang up the flag! If you can reach here alive, you will see this flag." Duke Gengdi gently stroked the surface of the flag, his voice murmured, in the evening sunset Under the shining, the flag floats lonely on the Gaopo, the White Eagle Flag is cold and sad, everyone gathers in front of Gaopo silently

"Okay, let's go home!"

Duke Gengdi raised his finger to the road to the north. This single road has blocked the Fazers for more than a hundred years. At the beginning, the Astai dynasty built a fairly strong fortress on this road. Prince Albert The army will inevitably leave part of the guard force. Now the whole army is exhausted and morale is even lower. If you don’t find some means to inspire it, I am afraid that it is a delusion to return to Hokuriku, but Albert wants to complete the battle against Hokuriku as soon as possible The conquests of each family will certainly not leave much force, and Albert will never have thought that he came back so quickly. Facts have proved that Duke Gengdi’s guess is correct

Prince Albert has only two thousand troops guarding the mountain road. Although these two thousand people do not seem to be too many, they are already more than one-tenth of Prince Albert’s current force. According to Prince Albert’s It is estimated that the Hokuriku noble army will take more than half a month before they are willing to leave on the west coast. Therefore, under normal circumstances, two thousand people only need to be able to guard the mountain road fortress and report the situation at any time. For half a month, even I did not take the entire Northland, but most of the Northland can still do it, but it is a pity that the two thousand Albert troops encountered the Duke Gengdi who knew the road to the north well.

The Geng Di Jun who returned to the army suddenly felt like a group of hungry wolves by night. The first thing he saw was not the enemy, but a large number of corpses of nearby civilians. His eyes turned red. There were a lot of Geng Di Jun. People rotate in these fortresses, and they have a very good relationship with these Northland civilians. Some soldiers even came from nearby civilians. Because there is no time to dispose of the corpses, the Albert Army just throws them in the low-lying mud at will, but they didn’t expect it. Geng Dijun would touch it at night, and by the time he found it, he was already in a chaotic battle. Geng Dijun wore a shield and watched his companions fall down with arrows, desperately rushing towards the fortress entrance.

"Papa Papa 1" Dozens of simple long ladders leaned on the fortress buttresses, and a dozen Geng Di black silk bars were firmly held at the foot of each ladder. Prevent this simple long ladder from falling down. The previous batch was killed and returned, and more people still climbed the long ladder. Either empty-handed, or just crawling up without protection. "Flap! Flap! Flap!" Countless cups were thrown from the city wall on people who were climbing. These cups exploded on the heavy armors~IndoMTL.com~Gengdi Army heavy infantry wearing heavy armors produced by the empire , Just shook his body and continued to move upwards, seeing the Albert soldiers above them chilling in their hearts

"Asshole, it's the heavy infantry of the Geng Di family!" Someone immediately recognized the family crest of the Geng Di family. The Geng Di family was the family with the most heavily armored infantry among the Northland nobles. The heavy armor on the body was purchased from the empire, all with delicate and fine scales. Armor, two-inch-wide iron armor leaves, layered on top of one another with leather cords, it is like hanging several thick layers of paste armor, the arrow clusters are difficult to wear, and the spear will be stuck when pierced, unless it is severely smashed by a heavy weapon. Go down, otherwise it will be difficult to break open in one fell swoop. Faced with these heavily armored infantry, the soldiers left by Prince Albert have no choice. It is just that the fortress falls overnight and the obstacles to the northward road are opened.

Rain water hits the body like a bead from a broken rope, and the rainy season that has passed has just caught up with the tail

Duke Gengdi immediately stood in front of the blood-stained fortress. In the open door, you could see more than two hundred Albert army captives tied behind their hands and forced to kneel on the road entering the fortress. Behind a prisoner stood a Geng Di Jun holding a sharp blade. As the Grand Duke Geng Di’s horse slowly moved forward every time it reached a position, the Geng Di Jun standing behind the prisoner would not hesitate to slash at the back of the prisoner’s neck. Going down, people's heads rolled down, blood rushing like a pillar of water, the torrential rain hit the gorgeous military flag of Geng Di's house, and the rain hit the muddy ground like a messy and broken string, like a turbulent flow rolling frantically on this land. Move