Power and Empire Chapter 1866: Tilan Rebellion (1)
In the evening, the snow began to fall again, and it was all white. In the flying snow,
Falcon Empire Scout Captain William Dennis immediately caught up in the snow, his eyes sharp as a sword, watching the distant figures of Gaul troops slowly retreating southward. First of all, the light cavalry wearing blue cloaks looked very cautious. After rushing the road for six consecutive days, I was still meticulous. First, I used light cavalry to spread out along the two sides of the road leading to the south. After noticing that there was no ambush, all safety signals were sent out. After half an hour, a piece of land came from a distance. The sound of the earth rumbling is the main force of Gaolu’s south retreat. I saw a white mist in the distance, hundreds of infantry formations holding the legionary flag began to appear,
The 110,000 army dragged a full length of more than 20 miles in the wild north of Gaul. The Gauls deserved to occupy the local advantage. They chose the route of retreat to the south, and they chose the safest one along the way. Nothing is too dangerous for the pass, the surrounding vision is wide, which is not conducive to army assault operations, and there is no big problem in security. The Gauls have been rushing for six days, marching for more than 80 miles every day, and they are almost doing their best. Driving towards Kyoto, although the two sides have reached an agreement in private, both the Gaul army and the Falcon army are very clear that the Gaul army will not enter the Gaul Kyoto area for a day, and the Falcon army will not close the road to the north for a day. The battle is not over. One 80,000 people and one 110,000 people, under the right circumstances, have the ability to catch the opponent off guard.
The so-called "breakthrough" Gaul troops amounted to 110,000 people. In order to cope with the battle that may break out at any time, the soldiers were required to prepare for the war. The soldiers carried their own packages and bags to march in groups. The soldiers were all wearing armor, the officer's helmet was wrapped with a layer of white cloth, or the title markings were stripped off, they were mixed in the infantry formation. There is no excitement or sorrow on the numb face, and some are just uncertain about the future. This arrangement is mainly to confuse the audience, so that the nearby Falcon Scouts cannot tell who is the Chinese army in Gaul. /
The huge army of 110,000 Gallic troops, dragged behind him nearly twenty miles in length,
There are three miles between each infantry regiment. This arrangement has advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that it can effectively avoid encountering the enemy’s main force. The disadvantage is that all cavalry units must be sent out if there is no abnormal situation. They must always be urged to maintain a tight queue, so there is no way to drive the nearby Falcon light cavalry scouts from peeping. look.
Tie Lan wore the armor of an ordinary officer and looked around with vigilance. A black line in the distance made his pupils tighten. This black line that had followed them for six days stopped at the edge of the forest. It was the falcon scout cavalry flashing with metallic luster. These scout cavalry wore light mail armor, the top helmet of the Falcon Emperor’s spear, and a one-meter long crossbow on their backs. They stared coldly at the Gaul troops wriggling like a colony of ants in the distance. The feeling that a vulture standing on a high cliff was looking at his food made the General Gaul very upset. "My lord, in the first thirty miles, it is Vernon of Kyoto!"
A forward cavalry rushed over. His tone was filled with uncontrollable excitement, and his shouting made the marching troops all around commotion, Vernon. In the gateway city outside Gaul Kyoto, reaching Vernon basically means entering the range of Gaul Kyoto! As the news spread, the Gaul army cheered the entire film "Hurrah! We are home""What are these people cheering?" The captain of the Falcon Scout looked at the cheering Gaul, his face looked a little bit Astonished, "It seems to be cheering...Vernon from Gaul Kyoto!" Next to him, a young scout from the northwest region who can understand Gaul said hesitantly
"Vernon! Vernon outside Gaul Kyoto! Is it finally here?"
The falcon scout captain was stunned, raised his face and looked deep into the distance. Through the wind and snow that had just stopped, Yixi could see the outline of a city in the distance, and the scout captain was holding the reins of the horse. His hands trembled slightly, his face was calm, he tilted his head to the one behind him, and asked in a deep voice, "Is everything ready?" Of course, I can guarantee that the Gauls will go crazy this time. !"
The one who answered him was a subordinate with a scar on his face grinning slightly, showing white teeth, and grinning, "We prepared fuel bombs for two cars and followed these **** for six days. Just to wait for this moment, I really want to see the scene when half of the walls of Vernon City are lifted into the sky when it bursts open. These Gauls who withdrew south think that we are just watching them, and we will never think of death. The goal is to prevent them from going back to Kyoto at all!"
"Okay, don't talk nonsense, we have to report to your majesty!" The scout captain waved to his men, turned and ran away on horseback
"These bastards, are you finally willing to leave?"
Looking at the Falcon Scout disappearing in the distance, Tie Lan waved her whip a bit annoyingly and hatefully, and finally felt a little light in her heart.
It’s not that he didn’t think that as soon as he left the Antura area, he would immediately switch back to block the Falcon Army in Antura in the north, but the report he received made him feel like being splashed with cold water, Vijay Falcon The 50,000 elites of the Central Army followed him 30 miles behind him. Along the way, the two armies seemed to be pulled by an invisible rope. Tie Lan stopped in front, and the Falcon Army stopped in the back. Tillan moved forward, and the Falcon Army also moved forward. Thirty miles away, along with the close trails of Falcon Army scouts, Tillan had no possibility of changing the march at all.
Under the obsessive gaze of the fat man, Tielan had to go all the way south until he entered Vernon and Kyoto was in sight. The morale of the entire Gaul army was immediately boosted. Soldiers and officers were all cheering and were about to go home. Tielan also felt that the danger was finally Going away, he didn't know, the real danger had just come. On the other side of the road where no one was paying attention, two carriages with black tarpaulin covered with a signal were signaled. Start turning the axle, heading in the direction of Vernon, "Papa"
The wheels were crushed on the snow-covered road, and the frame made a rhythmic creak, like something swaying neatly from side to side. The cargo on top was piled up to two or three meters high, outside The suit can't see the thick tarpaulin inside. Although I don't know what it is, it looks very heavy, because the noses of the four horses pulled in front of them are constantly making breathing sounds when they are running. The horseshoe lifted up the snow on the ground, and the direction of travel was a three-way intersection on the main road of Vernon ahead. On the seat of the carriage driver was a burly young man, wearing a gray robe all over his body, with a bulging waist. , There seems to be something, unable to see his face, his eyes are cold looking at the intersection in the distance
After a while, there was a rapid sound of horse hooves on the road on his left, and three light cavalry in Gaul uniforms galloped from the fork in the road. They went to Vernon to convey the news. The head of Vernon, the Marquis de Gia, is a friend of Lord Tielan. The 110,000 army trek in the ice and snow for six consecutive days. The army needs a place to rest, and this time it will return to Kyoto. It wasn't as simple as just returning. Tie Lan brought back an army of 110,000 this time. Even if it was placed in Kyoto, it would be a staggering capital. If the operation can be achieved, it is entirely possible to reach the height of the chief military officer concurrently serving as the undersecretary of the military department." Roger, you go and inform the city guard, Rafido. You go and inform Lord Gia, I will go ahead and they will clear the city gate. So that the army can pass..." an officer of the three light cavalry exhorted loudly, with golden hair. Around the age of twenty-five or sixty years old, he looks quite handsome, with a sense of toughness
For the carriage that appears at the fork in the road. The officer just took a look, and he didn’t have much interest in continuing to watch. This kind of all-enclosed, seemingly mysterious commercial carriage is not uncommon in Gaul. Drivers are reluctant to show their true colors and hide the goods because the carriage is full. It is smuggled goods that cannot be put on the table. Now the Gaul Kyoto supplies are extremely scarce, prices are soaring, and under heavy profits, smuggling is rampant, and repeated attacks have no effect. In fact, everyone knows that these are capable of smuggling goods into Kyoto. People, most of them are very background Kyoto giants behind, otherwise it is absolutely impossible for these smuggled goods to pass through the Kyoto area controlled by these giants. Unless they feel that they are not dying fast enough, who will look for trouble! The officer who came from one of the richest families in Kyoto ignored the existence of this carriage,
The carriage swayed towards the gate of Vernon’s city gate made of huge stones. There was a team of ten guards outside each, and there were several carriages waiting to be inspected at the door, most of them were Similar to this carriage, the guards are very lenient in the inspection of these types of carriages. If there are familiar people, they don’t even need to check. "The army is about to pass and the road will be cleared immediately!" The light cavalry officer came to the city. At the door, he took out the documents representing his identity and shouted to the guards. Cheng Wei glanced at the officer’s documents, and quickly checked all the carriages still parked on the stone bridge outside the door, and came to the last fully wrapped car. In front of the freight wagon, the guards unexpectedly discovered that the sky above the driver's seat was empty, and the people on it had long been gone. "Whose cargo is this?" The city guards shouted to the surrounding very dissatisfied, but no one responded. "Damn, you are ashamed." It’s a crime to run away! "The guard whispered with uneasy expression." Leave it alone, immediately pull the carriage into the city and clear the road! If you delay the army's entry into the city, you will be a capital crime!" The officer glanced not far away. The army battle flag that appeared, urged loudly on the horse
"Yes! Yes!" The city guards were so frightened that they shouted hurriedly, "Come on, get this carriage away right away!
Other city guards ran over in a hurry, pulling and pushing, and the heavy carriage gradually sank into the gate aisle. When there was less than half a meter of length left, "swish" a fiery red arc. The whistling sound of the distance shoots towards the carriage with a gorgeous parabola from a distance
"Watch out for the arrow attack!" The city guard yelled in fright. The other soldiers squatted on the ground, daring not to move, slapped, the arrows fell, and there was a soft sound, and the flames of the arrows were steady. Nailed to the cargo of the carriage, the tarpaulin covered on it almost instantly turned into a red volcano,
In an instant, a huge thunder-like explosion lit up the entire city gate, and the red halo shot up to the sky directly to the ceiling of Vernon’s narrow city road. Both sides of the city corridor were photographed at the same time. The flat squeezed balloons swallowed all the objects on both sides of the turbulent airflow, booming! . A series of explosions one after another shocked everything. The entire wall of Vernon was shaking, and the dazzling flames seemed to illuminate the entire vast wilderness.
"This...this..."
The guard at the city gate was trembling all over by the sound of a thunderbolt in the blue sky,
He was knocked over by the strong wave of air, and when he got up, he saw a terrible scene. He saw countless bricks and debris and human corpses, being thrown into the air, even more exaggeratedly, the city wall There were several archers on the ground, and they were directly lifted off by the huge wave of air that swept from under their feet, and fell heavily from the city wall more than ten meters high. On the old city wall that has gone through hundreds of years of wind and rain, a huge gap has appeared.
A Gaul general who was rushing to the city gate suddenly stopped. He was the head of Vernon, Marquis Gia. He looked at the collapsed city gate and the huge black cloud on the wall. His face was so ugly and ugly, he gritted his teeth and said, "Asshole, there must be a premeditated attack, immediately block the entrance and exit of the city. The whole army is on alert!"
"My lord, Lord Tielan's army will soon be out of the city..." the adjutant next to him reminded in a low voice
"What's the situation, let's worry about it! Who can guarantee that this attack was not planned by Tillan!" The Marquis of Gia seemed to have been greatly irritated, his face was almost deformed, and he roared angrily. Said, "It must be the weapons of the Falcon Empire that can possess such power, and the Tillan army is unclear, and the situation in the north is deteriorating. If he has betrayed the empire and joined the Falcon Empire, we will open the gates. It is tantamount to exposing the whole of Kyoto to the enemy! "Now..."The adjutant looks at a loss." The whole army is prepared for combat. Before we can find out, no matter who is outside the city gate, we must block it! "The Marquis de Gea punched the wall firmly, following the order. Oooh! The trombone that represents full combat readiness echoes in the Vernon sky, "Is this the city's guard?"
Tie Lan rode on the war horse, watching the Vernon Wall that had begun to collapse in a large area with a straight line of black smoke in the distance. Also dumbfounded, the horn sound from Vernon in the distance indicated that the other party directly listed himself as an enemy without even asking!
"Asshole, are Vernon's army crazy!" When the generals of the Kyoto Army heard Vernon's battle horns, they immediately scolded at the back one by one," Lao Tzu hurried back from the north desperately, isn't it? Is that the treatment?"
"Go in directly, I don't believe that a little Vernon can stop us." Someone yelled extremely arrogantly. Vernon’s garrison had only 5,000 men, while our retreat was as many as 110,000. For those who do not know the rules, a proper lesson should be given! "
"Okay, everyone, be quiet, I think this should be just a misunderstanding! There is no need to cause such trouble." Tie Lan was still relatively calm, he looked at the excited subordinates, raised his hand and said slowly, "Jia The Marquis is a cautious person by nature. Vernon is the gateway between Kyoto and the north. In such a sudden situation, closing the city gates, restricting entry, and guarding the entire army are all relatively normal behaviors. You don’t need to behave. 1 Such a fuss, believe that we are all fighting for the honor of the empire. "What now? Can't enter the city, is it that the 110,000 army will be under the city tonight? The weather is so cold, and the army is attenuated. Seriously, every night, it’s a torment for our soldiers." The general asked with a look of irritation." And we are still behind us with 50,000 Falcons. Among them, there are more than 20,000 cavalry troops. Staring at us, in this case, who can sleep!"
"It shouldn't be the case yet. We have reached Vernon outside Kyoto. Does the other party dare to take military action?" Some generals said that it should not be so bad~IndoMTL.com~Just before the words came out, Everyone heard a rush of hoofs from far to near. It was a scout cavalry. The horses hadn't stopped. The cavalry had jumped out of the standing horse, panting, and knelt down on one knee in front of Tielan. "The situation is not good. The Falcon cavalry behind us suddenly pushed into the red line of our army twenty miles. Our scout was defeated by surprise! The opponent is rushing towards the back of our army." /
"What! 20,000 Falcon cavalry came to the rear of our army!"
Tillan was stunned, and the whole person was stupid. The gate of Vernon was closed in front, and the cavalry of Falcons killed them in a big way. Tillan suddenly realized that she was like a mouse that got into a tube. We can't go forward, we can go backwards! For a moment, he even felt that the other party hadn't let go of his 110,000 army plan from the very beginning, but the other party could bear until he was about to enter Gaul Kyoto. This scheming really moved his heart after thinking about it. Feeling cold and cold. "Assemble immediately and get ready to fight!" Tielan turned around with a refreshing look, glanced over his subordinates, and yelled 0000000, "Woo!" The 110,000 Gallic army outside the city began to disperse, and countless spears were raised. "The shield is like a sea, and the armor is like scales." Asshole, he immediately reported to Kyoto that Vernon urgently asked for reinforcements, and Tiran led the army to rebel!? "The Marquis of Gia standing on the wall of Vernon looked murderously below. The troops shuddered in fright. Tielan really has a problem. She has only 5,000 people, and she is still a defensive team. The opponent is an elite force in the empire.