1827 The Death of a Famous General (8)
Breaking through the flank is a doomed result, under the equal strength of both sides, the consequence of gathering superior forces to forcibly break through is to expose their weakest link to the enemy at the same time, in order to suppress the right flank of the Falcon Empire and force it to expose the breakthrough without knowing it, Algernonkatya decisively pressed three-quarters of the entire northern army, otherwise it would not be possible to achieve the advantage of suppressing troops in a short period of time,
In the same way, only a quarter of his troops were placed on the flank, which was bound to be frantically pounced, which was a strategic gamble, the time, the place, the people, the rain, the murderous intentions, the soldiers, and on this day at the same time gathered on the side of the northern army of Gaul,
The flank was destined to be an abandoned area from the beginning, the difference was only the time when the flank was broken, whether it was before the breakthrough was opened, or after the breakthrough was opened, the local victory did not represent a qiē, only the mound that broke through the strategic point was taken This time, the Gauls' hard work was rewarded, and the direction of the battle situation could still be in the hands of the Gallic side! In the case of the collapse of one side, Algernonkatya still stubbornly rushed to the breakthrough point, and the two infantry regiments quickly deployed their backs against the hills, and the dense spears and shields formed two gates to cover the retreat of the other troops, "Breakthrough!"
The governor of the south, Statunko, stayed in the case, his face looked ugly, he couldn't believe that the breakthrough of the Gallic army was actually opened from his own hands, and the falcon army, who found that something was wrong, launched a pursuit, and ordered the cavalry to run back, and the sound of the horn behind him made the battlefield in front of him look particularly bleak,
Five o'clock in the afternoon. The cavalry and infantry clusters surrounded from the flanks began to merge, and the horses' hooves roared like thunder in the sky, and the knights above could no longer be regarded as a complete queue. Most of the people looked very tired, the captain of the infantry of the Salon Legion shouted hoarsely "vertical spear", the tips of the long spears fell in unison, and the fierce spears "creaked" collided together, and on the small hill of the breach, the troops behind the Gallic Northern Army and the pursuing Falcon infantry collided together, in front of the mound. That terrible battlefield with no end in sight,
Mountains of corpses, stumps of guns stuck in the battlefield. Broken spears and heavy swords were everywhere, corpses of men and horses were piled up, and hands and feet were poked on the muddy ground, like flags planted on them. Accumulate corpses on this bloody battlefield as far as the eye can see. "Is it all over?" a young Gallic soldier looked up blankly. Look at the sky where the raindrops are like white lines flying down countless times overhead. There was no end in sight, no direction in sight, only a little pain in the face, "Failed again?" The young soldier knelt on the ground with his knees weak, the faith and will in his eyes were close to collapse, and the hours of fighting had exhausted his body, and it seemed that he had become a trophy that could be grabbed at will, just like him. The long swords and shields in the hands of many soldiers around him had hung down weakly, and the flanks were broken through. The Falcon Empire's army is encircling, and even the lowest soldiers can see that the overall situation has been decided, "I'm not reconciled, why, why must we lose!"
Another soldier next to him shouted, his body trembled slightly, the raindrops hit him, like white flowers blooming, his lowered head was muttering in a low voice, his hands were clenched tightly in his fists, there were raindrops sliding from his face, more like tears with broken threads running, the raindrops hit his face coldly, the terrible horn sound of the collapse of the right wing came, and he saw the golden tassels of the battle flag of the Northern Army broken in the wind and rain, the hand holding the long sword was blue and white, and when he was about to win, the flank was broken through, and the feeling was like being poured into the depths of the ice,
"Woo" A high-spirited trombone sound came at this time, and the soldier raised his head a little dazedly, and then he heard a cheer in the distance, "Hooray, break through!" "Break through...... Have you opened the breakout!" The young soldier's body trembled slightly, and he looked up in the direction where the voice came from, and a battle flag of the Gallic Northern Army fluttered in the mounds in the distance,
It was a wide area, located outside the encirclement that had been formed by the falcons, and all kinds of cheers suddenly rang out, and many people, like him, couldn't believe that they had really broken through the barrier surrounded by 100,000 falcons.
The other Northern Army troops who were still fighting looked at the Gallic military flag fluttering in the direction of the evacuation point, and the morale of the Gallic Northern Army was boosted, and everyone's pale and bloodless faces finally rekindled the look of hope when they saw it: "If you rush there, there should be hope!" Many Gallic soldiers began to move closer to the breakthrough in unison, the troops fighting fiercely in front of them were ordered to leave the battle, they withdrew as fast as the wind, and the Falcon infantry who were still fighting with them only felt empty in front of them, and the enemy who was still screaming and slashing and killing just now ran out of a hundred meters away in a blink of an eye, leaving only countless corpses lying in the mud in front of them that was congealed by rain and blood, reminding the madness of these guys just now
"The transformation of history and the victory or defeat are often decided in an instant. But most people look back on it after that moment. Few people know that this is the moment when great changes will occur, and even fewer people can use their own hands to determine this critical moment, Hasenlampo, do you see, now you can look at it!"
The fat man's eyes were red and he looked at the gap that the Gauls had torn at the edge of the battle line, and there was already a tendency to jump out of the encirclement, and the corners of his mouth showed a trace of helplessness, there were too many accidents in this battle, so many that even he, the god of war, could not fully control it, first of all, Hasenranpo risked his life and ran to Danny to remind Algernonkatya that his plan had failed, otherwise Algernonkatya would definitely not wake up from self-absorption in such a short period of time, and quickly made plans to break through in the shortest possible time, without Hasenlanga's disturbance, Algernonkatya would not have known that the plan had failed, as long as the wrong judgment delayed the tactics, the northern army of Gaul would have died in Danny,
Then there was a sharp turn of rainstorm weather that disrupted all the deployment, and the "Thor", who was able to suppress the artifact in heavy group operations, withdrew from the battlefield in advance, and the Gallic Northern Army, which broke through frantically, broke out in this rainstorm at the same time surpassed its own combat effectiveness, which may be the favor of God, at this moment, at least for a period of time, the time and place. Human, these factors that can affect the direction of the war, Qi Qi is on the side of the Gauls who are fighting to the death. In front of such an army, even if the fat man is a military god, he can't completely cut off the vitality of this Gallic elite.
Now it is unrealistic to think that Algernonkatya will be completely annihilated, and Algernonkatya can be regarded as having fought with all his endurance, and in such a desperate battle, he still left 20,000 elite troops unused, and these 20,000 recuperated troops have become the key to a breakthrough. On the hill of the breach, more and more of the Gallic Northern Army passed through the gap, and the pursuing Central Army infantry and the Southern Army were blocked there. A third of the Gauls were still struggling in the encirclement formed by Hukochili and Salon, most of them flanked and routed in all directions, and Hukochili's cavalry was rapidly breaking through this part of the rout, which had not yet reached the breach. Salon's infantry was slower. The rout was like a huge turbulence, making it impossible to achieve the encirclement for a while.
"Tell Hukochili and Salon, encircle on the spot, how many nets can be contained!" The fat man gave up the intention of annihilating all of them in his heart, and decisively turned to the herald behind him and ordered, if you want to slip away like this, you always need to leave some tolls,
The Marquis de la Salle, commander of the 10th Gallic Infantry Regiment, happened to be one of the ones trapped by the rout. His troops were buffeted by the Hukochili cavalry, and before they could react, they were dispersed by the intruding cavalry cluster. In the battle of the falcon cavalry, although he dragged the fierce pursuit of the cavalry, the most loyal knights under his command were killed and wounded, and there were less than thirty people left around him, and all of them were wounded, it was himself, and the corners of his eyebrows were also grazed by the sword of the falcon cavalry, bringing out a crimson wound, and the white bones of the forest were faintly visible
"My lord, we are surrounded! I'm afraid we won't be able to get out" The captain of the guard who went to check the situation hurriedly came to him, his eyes were full of anxiety, the decisive encirclement of the Falcon Army blocked the breakthrough, he got off the horse, the armor on his body dragged out a grinding sound, and knelt down on one knee in front of the Marquis of Lasalle in a trance, and said, "My lord, I can't break through the siege, let's think of other ways, I heard that the Falcon Army is not bad for ordinary soldiers, my lord immediately changed the general's armor, and he should be able to escape the eyes of the Falcon Army!" Is it a good idea to change into ordinary soldier armor to escape!" Lassalle glanced at him and said lightly, "But do you think such a person is still worthy of being a Gallic general?" "My lord, there is nothing shameful about losing to the Falcon Army, as long as you are there, you can keep the fundamentals, and you can ......" The captain of the escort was speaking fluently, but Lassalle suddenly interrupted him, with a wry smile on the corner of his mouth, and said to himself, "Look at those colleagues who have died in battle for the breakthrough of the army, how can they endure humiliation and steal their lives!"
Lassalle ordered the commander of the battle flag to fold the battle flag of the Northern Army, and handed it to the captain of the guard with great caution, my lord!" The captain of the guard knelt on one knee and let out a cry of pain, the Northern Army of the Empire, which once represented glory and was known as the hope of the Empire, finally came to an end after this battle.
"Lanti, please bring this back to Lord Jarde, no matter what method you use, it should not fall into the hands of the enemy here!This will bring shame on the Northern Army created by Lord Jarde!" Lassalle's hand trembled slightly, and his cherished hand touched the blood-stained silk battle flag to charge, victory belongs to Gaul! Lassalle struggled to mount his horse, glanced at the far north, raised his sword in his hand, and shouted with a slight hoarse voice with a sense of desolation, and the 50 guards cavalry behind him rode on their horses to meet the enemy's charge, Lassalle's general's armor was so dazzling, his body was shot by countless swift arrows, and even the man and the horse were like hitting an invisible wall, and slammed into the muddy land, and the personal guard cavalry behind him did not survive.
"Your Excellency......" The captain of the guard looked at Lassalle's back as he fell from his horse into the mud, his face was a little red, his throat was like a piece of iron, his eyes were wet with tears, the rain stopped unconsciously, and a seven-colored rainbow appeared on the edge of the sky like a bridge, like a ray of red shining on the black horizon, and the most tragic battle in the late Gaul Empire was also coming to an end.
At the cost of 70,000 elites, although two-thirds of them were damaged, Algernonkatya still led the Gallic Northern Army to successfully break through, and finally proved his strength as a famous general, the corpses were piled up on this muddy meadow like a tomb, some were soaked white, their bodies were swollen, and some looked at the sky above them with an unwilling face, "woo" A crisp eagle song resounded through the sky of the wilderness, and the emerald grass was stained red with blood. The war horse that lost its owner wandered beside the corpse, and the tragic battle turned into a dead silence,
In the most tragic part of the Southern Army's fighting. Countless corpses and mutilated limbs abounded, the bright red blood seeped into the soil as terrible as the legendary hell, and finding that it was impossible to bring out more people, Algernonkatya chose to abandon the trapped Gallic rout like a strong man with a broken wrist, some of these abandoned people knelt on the ground and surrendered, some simply lay down in the mud and pretended to be corpses, but more soldiers knelt numbly. The long sword and shield in his hand were already weakly thrown to the ground, because the two sides fought too fiercely, and it was inevitable that there would be a small-scale massacre on the part of the Southern Army.
It was a terrible battle, both against the Gallic army and the Falcon army, and after the battle, the northern Gallic army suffered 74,364 casualties in this battle. Among them, only 1,211 officers above the rank of squadron commander were served. There were 7 generals, 21,345 wounded on the Falcon side, 254 officers above the rank of squadron commander, and the most severely damaged was Statunko's Southern Army,
Of the 20,000 hoplites, 13,245 were wounded in battle, the commander of the third banner was killed in battle, and the commander of the fourth banner was seriously wounded. The corps commander Statunko also almost went into battle himself, and this battle almost killed a third of the total strength of the Southern Corps. The two most relied on elites were completely disabled,
But the reason why this battle has the name of "Danni Hell Soul Song" is because the casualties of soldiers can be compensated, but experienced generals are difficult to demand, although the most elite Northern Army in the late Gaul Empire successfully broke through in Danny, but the overall death of the famous generals of the Northern Army who had high hopes from the Gallic Empire was tantamount to sounding the alarm bell of the end of the Gallic Empire. Now let's take a look at these names, which are as bright as meteors and burning rapidly, the commander of the 6th Army of the Gallic Empire, the first general of Gaul, Hasenlimpo, the commander of the 8th Infantry Regiment of the Northern Gallic Army, the strongwall Lescott, the deputy commander of the Northern Gallic Army, Trensk, the commander of the 10th Infantry Regiment of Gaul, Lassalle, the commander of the 9th Infantry Regiment of Gaul, Andreulie...... "My lord, the latest battle report!"
The adjutant of the Ministry of Military Affairs wearing the uniform of the blue Gallic Imperial Army pushed open the closed office door, and a ray of golden sunlight came in with the fresh air outside the window, and the deputy minister of the Gallic Military Department and the commander-in-chief of the North Yard raised his head on the military map with a tired face, which was full of bloodshots, although he was already middle-aged, his eyes were still dominant, and he was used to seeing the inertial gaze of life and death, and only when he saw the news about the Northern Army, he would rarely reveal a trace of warmth, although he had been deprived of the command of the heavy army of the Northern Army, Yard did not show too much discouragement
It still gives people a hard feeling, like a hammer, full of a tight sense of strength, receiving the battle report from the adjutant's hand, Yalde opened a little nervously, his eyes swept over, there was not much news, Danny didn't seem to have changed much, the Northern Army moved westward, facing the most terrible Falcon Imperial Army, as a single-handedly forged the soul of the Northern Army, Yalde may be the most worried, although he has not fought with the Falcon Imperial Army, but he also knows that the Falcon Imperial Army that has repeatedly hit the empire is not comparable to the Slavs on the back
The news of the Battle of Dani touched everyone's nerves, although the hinterland of the empire was beaten into a hornet's nest by the steppe cavalry, but as long as people with military common sense can see that these steppe cavalry divisions like a storm crossing the border did not stay for long, they could not establish a stable reign, just a group of robbers who robbed houses, according to the news, some steppe cavalry has been loaded with property and turned back, and the number of grassland cavalry attacking the Kyoto area is also rapidly decreasing, but it has entered the late autumn of September, and Kyoto may have some difficulties for the arrival of midwinter,
"My lord, Kyoto hopes that the north can give more food support! There are about 1.4 million refugees who need to be resettled, which is beyond Kyoto's capacity, they think that Kyoto has been hit hard by the war, and they hope to be able to send the refugees to the north!" the adjutant said, taking out a few more orders from Kyoto, to Yard, who was sitting at the table
"Put it in the north?" Jarde was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and stood up with some anger, "What do those people think, haven't Kyoto considered how many people will freeze to death in the cold in the north? 1.4 million people, being able to settle one-third is already half of what the north can bear at present, of course, if those bastards in Kyoto don't leave all the men behind, but leave a group of women, children, old and children all to us, otherwise, I won't be able to complete such a task! Aren't there many manors in Kyoto?" Why not settle there!"
"My lord, only slaves can enter the manor, and no one dares to blatantly accept Gallic natives as slaves in large numbers," the young adjutant reminded in a quiet voice with a righteous face
"Do you really think so? The real situation is much darker than you think, the war between the Empire and the Falcon Empire has been going on for two years, where have all those refugees gone! Although the number is not as huge as this time, there are still thousands, tens of thousands!"
Alder sighed, and glanced at the young adjutant with a strange look, this young adjutant is called Rogkag, 24 years old, born in a famous family in Kyoto, graduated from Imperial University, personable, with golden hair curls, is the favorite type in the hearts of many Kyoto women, in the Northern War, many times for outstanding analytical talent has been praised, and is called the "Imperial Military Twins" together with Hasenrimbaud's beautiful adjutant Andaline, and is expected to become a rising star in the military world before the age of thirty
This also makes the Imperial military circles invisibly Naald and Hasenlan Bobby, and the adjutants between the two are also contrasting, (to be continued......)