Power and Empire Chapter 1857: Blood and fire, the battle for northern Gaul (2)
The situation suddenly changed. Duke Simon listened to the attendant's report with a solemn expression. His old and languid eyes began to grow. He was silent for a while and looked at the attendant. "Are you sure the intelligence is correct? The other party's target is Antura." ?"
"Yes, absolutely sure!" The middle-aged servant officer over forty years old showed a firm face on his resolute face. Before serving as a servant officer in the northern army, he was a minor player in the Gaul military. Fame, said with certainty, "According to the report from the forefront outpost, the enemy’s five thousand forward troops entered the narrow Xingguang Gorge in the afternoon and drove out of the gorge after rest. The target was the direction of Baishan. There were more troops behind the gorge. , The number is definitely more than 10,000 people, and the total force of the Falcon North Army Corps is about 30,000, so it is certain that it is definitely the main force of the army."
"White Mountain!"
Simon's body trembled slightly, and his face became more gloomy, and said, "White Mountain is the main route from Xingguangxia to Antura. If the Falcon Army’s offensive direction is Baishan, then it is basically certain that the opponent’s target is Antu. Pull, because it’s just a small hill, Baishan hasn’t the qualifications to attract the other’s main force."
"Although the reason for the opponent's attack is still unclear, let's send people to reinforce Baishan immediately! If the Falcons pass through the Star Gorge, and then occupy Baishan! The gate of Antura will be completely opened." The attendant's face The heavy one wanted to drip water, and said eagerly,
He is the attendant of the Northern Army. He knows that once the main route Baishan is lost, the Falcon Army entering Antura will go to the bottleneck that can be restricted. It can attack and retreat. The opponent's step is already It is inevitable that this winter that was supposed to let the war calm down has a luster of iron and blood!
"Liar, you immediately led the Bi Dan Army 1st Corps to Baishan, and I then led the troops to go"
The situation is urgent. Duke Simon also felt the seriousness of the situation. He hurried to the desk to issue reinforcement orders. Although it was said that Antura had set up a net, in fact Duke Simon was very clear that the cold winter had already caused the troops to fight. Power loss
can really play a role, except for the 30,000 Bi Dan Army under his command, the other northern troops are unreliable. The previous blockades also proved this point. The Falcon Army, the rolling dragon, really smashed into Antu. It would be a tragic disaster to stop him from approaching Antura.
"My lord, I think it is unwise to support Baishan at this time!" Just when Duke Simon picked up the quill on the table and pinched it in the ink tool, he stood up alone,
It was Liar who went to Hakusan to reinforce his request. As one of the few generals who had fought against the Falcons on the Western Front, he was highly regarded by the Duke of Simon in Shili in Kyoto. He had golden hair thirty. At the age of about 10 years old, he has a strong back and a strong momentum, and has a military temperament.
Just before coming, he promised Duke Simon, who was preparing to meet with the Kyoto reinforcements, that the Falcons on the opposite side would not have a chance to see Antura’s city wall throughout the winter, and he was already leading to Antu. La’s strategic points are all set up with heavy troops, unless the Falcons are taken as prisoners.
"Bluffing?" Duke Simon looked at his first confidant, his eyebrows frowned slightly, the pen stopped in the air, waiting for his explanation,
"Yes, my lord, the opponent's offense is completely illogical!"
Liar, wearing a dark blue general uniform, respectfully saluted Duke Simon, stepped forward, swiped his hand on the map on the table, and said solemnly, "If the opponent wants to attack, it will be in October. The sky should begin to advance. At that time, our army had just been beaten back, its footing was not stable, the army's heart was disintegrated, and most of the outer defense line was destroyed in the battle with the Slavs. Now our army has been stationed in the Antura area. I stabilized my heels, and the city walls and the outer border fortresses were also repaired and reinforced. The front line laid out outside the Xingguang Gorge is already very obvious.
"The opponent is not a fool, but very cunning. The subordinates think that the opponent is aware of the arrival of our reinforcements, and they make some active offensives under pressure, which will help confuse us!" Lial looked respectful and performed well. The quality of the generals, said firmly, "And I think the other party's attack on Baishan is false. Their purpose is to draw the main force of our army out of Antuola and expose us to the harsh ice and snow. We will fight each other. Several times, every time the opponent is like this, pretending to be teasing, and then choose a close and orderly military formation in a favorable terrain"
" Relying on the excellent heinous long-range weapons and the hòu real warm coat on the body, it slowly advances like a hedgehog that makes people unable to bite the mouth, constantly crushing our attack line, although we have the strength There is no chance to play the advantage at all. This is already a despicable tactic used by the opponent many times."
"But I just decided that I would not go to the rescue, I am afraid that Baishan will be in trouble if it is lost!" Duke Simon was lost in thought
"The subordinates think it is impossible to reinforce the Baishan in time!" Liar's voice stopped, and he glanced at the direction of the Kyoto Army on the other side, and said condensedly, "My Bi Dan Army 1st Corps is away from Baishan. For twenty miles, if the enemy forward crossed the Xingguang Gorge in the afternoon, then at this moment, the enemy is already under the Baishan Mountain. We have about 5,000 troops in the Baishan Mountain, and we can hold on for half a night at most. So if we can rescue quickly, unless we have a cavalry force with high mobility!"
"Cavalry! Liar, are you fainted"
Duke Simon trembled in anger, and said sharply, "You should know that there are no cavalry in the northern army. All the scarce supplies such as war horses are supplied to the direction of Kyoto. Even for Bi Danjun, there are only less than one. The formation of a hundred light cavalry is mainly used to transmit information!"
"We don’t have cavalry, but...
. . . . "The ugly words on Liar's face stopped, and he glanced in the direction of the general of the Kyoto Army. This time, among the Kyoto Army troops that came to the north, there happened to be Tielan’s five thousand blue holy beast cavalry regiments.
"If only the cavalry can rescue, my blue holy beast cavalry can do it!" Tie Lan's face was so cold that he was forced to such a degree that he could no longer pretend to be deaf and dumb, and his hands were squeezed in front of the table. Fist, said in a deep voice, "Moreover, my troops also brought three hundred horse-drawn sledges, enough to transport five thousand soldiers at one time!"
"How can this work? Master Tielan is a distinguished guest from the north, and he has just arrived in Antura less than a day. I have already prepared a banquet in Fenghuo for you to pick up the wind and dust. How can I let the adults go to the wind and snow again? Yeah!" Duke Simon stood up from his seat abruptly and said with an awkward expression
" The military situation is urgent. As an imperial soldier, war should be the first priority!" Tie Lan smiled and stood up from her seat. "I will not delay here. I only hope Master Simon can provide timely support. As for Baishan, he must It will make a mountain of Falcon Corpses!"
"Well, what a pile of mountains, Lord Tielan deserves to be a model of the nobles of the empire, the military advertised is really the prosperity of the country! The presence of adults in Baishan will inevitably prevent the Falcons from crossing my Antura one step, I will write The order book, your army’s logistics is definitely the first guarantee!” Duke Simon said repeatedly and immediately wrote the order document that guarantees the logistics in any way, and said that he will immediately issue an order for the army to support Baishan and dispatch troops. Ministry is under the jurisdiction of Lord Tielan
After getting the documents for supporting logistics, Tie Lan's cold expression finally loosened a bit. It seemed that he was really worried about the deterioration of Antura's situation caused by the fall of Baishan, and nodded, "So thank you Sir Simon!" The generals hurried away, watching Tie Lan’s back disappear into the distance. Duke Simon, who had a bitter expression just now, took a deep breath and looked relieved. He glanced at Liar below, suddenly haha. Laugh, the other generals also laughed, completely different from Gang Cai's tense atmosphere.
"Leah, what a great job"
Duke Simon walked down and patted Liar on the shoulder happily
" In one sentence, Tie Lan, a **** who is thinking about the control of the northern army, was sent to the Baishan, where people were frozen to death in the cold wind. I wanted to take a look. The entire logistics of the army was held in my hands in Kyoto. What tricks can the Tielan Legion do in places like Baishan!"
"No, it is mainly the cleverness of the maidservant, who was able to come up with such a way!
" In fact, the Falcon Army had already been on the White Mountain at noon, but I don’t know why, and kept on hold of the soldiers. "Liar’s eyes flickered, respectfully said" Just let Tielan’s Kyoto Army help us try the water. If the Falcon Army is really bluffing, our army can use this to attack and take back the Star Gorge in one fell swoop. The adults must be famous in Kyoto. If the Falcon Army’s target is really Antura and the Kyoto Army is blocking in front, we can be on both of them. Join when you are exhausted, you can also get a big victory and solve my northern crisis in one fell swoop!"
"But what about the troops that dispatched Hakusan reinforcements? Is it really just sent to the Kyoto army?" The attendant said with some worry
"What about giving him the miscellaneous troops that don’t even have winter coats and a large number of attritions? I don’t believe that the Kyoto Army will pull off their cotton coats for these second-line troops!" Liar had a deep gaze. The brilliance of flashing memories,
Thinking of the Kyoto style in the Battle of Rusty, he gritted his teeth and said, "These Kyoto army’s styles are more famous than ours. Wait and see, it won’t take long for them to arouse anger and become a whole People who are not welcome in the north have to go back dingy in the end, and can't go anywhere else!"
Coming out of the Antura Chamber, seven pairs of neatly paced iron-clad riding boots walked in the dark red corridor. Tie Lan was walking in the front, followed by six generals of the Kyoto Army, Han In the wind, behind the seven, the red legion’s cloak fluttered neatly with the wind, and the pace was neatly unified like a person,
" Your lord, you won’t really go to rescue some Baishan! The other party obviously arranged it deliberately! I can guarantee that when we arrived, the Falcons must meet and attack. The sturdy officer in the blindfold exaggerated and shouted,
"Yes, sir, we can't help others make wedding gowns!" Another general said, the iron fence's footsteps suddenly stopped, and the other people's footsteps stopped immediately. The atmosphere was a little nervous, and Tielan looked around. I took a look and confirmed that this place has been out of sight of the guards. The corners of his mouth smiled coldly, "Baishan? What a joke, it is that Antura is lost. What does it have to do with us!" Tielan's eyes flashed with a sly light, and she took out The letter of order signed by Simon, with a disdainful smile, "I want this. As for rescue, we only said to go to rescue, but we didn't say that it must be to rescue Baishan."
" But I can also see that the old fox, Simon, didn’t know where he had listened to. He deliberately wrote and acted this farce because he wanted us to leave Antura. He thought that controlling Antura was equivalent to controlling it. The lifeblood of the entire Northern Army, including what we must listen to him, must be very proud of it now. It just happens to be our opportunity. When you wait to assemble the troops, take this order and take the supplies as well, prepare for a month’s worth. Put on as many horse-drawn sleds as possible,
Tielan turned to a middle-aged general with short flax hair to the right and said in a low voice, "Feida, you must gather the troops immediately and we will leave Antura! Three hundred carriages will be full afterwards, enough for Simon to be heartbroken. Yes, let’s go to Biarix in the northwest of Antura. There is the scraping ground of my Tielan family. With supplies, we can sit and watch Simon and the Falcons fight to death! The old Simon Fox wants us to fight the Falcons. The army then sits back and reaps the benefits, and we just don’t pull it back! I want to see if there are no supplies, whether the northern army listens to him or me!"
" Haha, I'm still a master! "The generals of the Kyoto Army behind them all smiled. The generals assembled the troops and took the documents to extract the materials. Three hundred carriages lined up in front of the material warehouse for three hours. Later, the Tillan troops loaded with supplies left Antura and left.
Looking at the empty warehouse, Antura's logistics officer looked sad and eager to cry without tears,
He is not from the Bi Dan Army, but from the Northern Army. Because he is uncomfortable with the behavior of Duke Simon, he was demoted from a senior officer to now in charge of guarding the warehouse. He saw his colleagues enduring hunger in the cold winter. Hungry, and Duke Simon sent it to others in large quantities with a stroke of his hand,
Three hundred carriages and a rationing of 50,000 soldiers. These **** directly removed 6-tenths of Antura’s supplies and food. The frustrated material logistics officer went to the chamber and had not yet reached the stage. The moon gate below was stopped by Captain Simon’s guard at the gate,
"Who are you?"
The captain of the personal guard looked up and down at him. After learning that he was just a viscount, his tone was a bit disdainful. "Sorry, there is a grand banquet being held inside. Only people above the baron are eligible to enter. Go back. Well, the adults won't see you!"
The captain of the personal guard looked slantingly at the low-level logistics material officer Viscount Braundo, like a dog in the water
"I have emergency military affairs..." Viscount Braundo's lips trembled, and his grief and anger could not vent, showing a rare hardness
"If it's military affairs, it should be during working hours, now it's a break time!" The captain of the guard reprimanded unceremoniously. The captain of the guard was a baron, so he had no pressure on Shang Braondo, and his tone was contemptuous. Said "Don't always think about how to fawn on the adults. The adults are receiving guests from Kyoto. There is no time to manage this kind of hours. For your part, you can only wait at the door!"
"You.
. . . . "Wuzi logistics official face flushed,
stomping, the sound of rushing horseshoes came in the dark, an embarrassed messenger sent the cavalry to fly into Antura’s city gate, and the rapid sound of horseshoes that erupted in the night awakened many people. The cavalry was sent to stop the horse outside the chamber, jumped down, and trot over,
The captain of the personal guard stretched out his hand to stop the messenger cavalry at the door
"Stop, what's the matter, haven't you seen the adults having a banquet?" The captain of the guards said impatiently to the messy appearance of the messenger cavalry.
"I have a tight... Emergency military report, Baishan has fallen!" The cavalry was panting, his voice was indistinct, and his chapped lips looked like a purple ham in the cold night, which was frozen for several hours. Sequelae, the thick northern accent is like humming,
"What is he talking about? The captain of the guard is not used to the spoken words of the northerners, so he asked the logistics officer next to him
" Your lord~IndoMTL.com~ he said that Baishan was lost!" The material logistics officer Viscount Braando repeated it
" Hakusan... lost his mouth! "The captain of the guard was taken aback by the news, like burning eyebrows, and turned around. Soon, the attendant in charge of affairs appeared outside the chamber, and he glanced at it. The messenger cavalry squatting on the ground to rest, angrily asked, "Are you sure Baishan has fallen? Haven't it been sent for reinforcements"
"White Mountain reinforcements? I didn't see it!"
The rumor made the cavalry stand up hard. He ran for most of the night in the cold and windy night. He was treated like this. He didn’t even have a mouthful of hot water. The five thousand defenders killed two thousand in battle. All the battle lines were captured! "Send the Cavalry to answer with a weird face" and I didn't see any signs of reinforcement on the way back! "
"You are talking nonsense! You must not see clearly at night! "Like a thunderbolt in the sky, the attendant shuddered, and his eyes were swollen. Baishan had no reinforcements! Baishan has fallen! Where did Tielan's 50,000 Kyoto Army go? The attendant's head was messed up with twine, and he said to himself "They should have set off three hours ago!"
At this moment, Viscount Braundo, who was in charge of logistics supplies, said coldly, "If you said three hours ago, then I only know that just three hours ago, there was a unit with Lord Simon’s warrant. They took away 60% of Antura’s food and supplies! They went in another direction" [This text is provided by Qihang Update Team@威武霸气的艾迪] If you like this work, you are welcome To vote for recommended votes and monthly tickets, your support is my greatest motivation. )