Chapter 535: Iron Harrier
However, at this moment, Chen Duyun could only think that it would take a lot of preparation to actually carry out such an operation, such as self-confidence and the trust of soldiers.
There are already many people who affirm the fact that Chen Duyun is the main general, but this recognition is not enough, and it cannot be called trust, let alone "trust".
This kind of thing can only be done slowly...... Chen Duyun can't say this now, these days, he has seen too many remnants of soldiers rush to Yunzhou and then die - the healing technique is indeed developed, and each team is equipped with healers, but the magic power is not infinite, and the healers are not as many as you think, so many people die before they can survive being treated.
This is war, a real war, a war without a holy healer like Xinlan, and Chen Duyun deeply understands the cruelty of war.
There is no time for him to slowly subdue the troops, and they also have complaints about themselves who have been unable to fight for a long time, so the only way left is to give the soldiers substantial benefits - to achieve substantial combat achievements.
Fortunately, he has already calculated the road ahead, and everything is fine.
"Everyone hurry up, we will arrive in Taiyuan in three days!"
Since it is to ensure the way out, the transit station of Taiyuan City naturally has to ensure that nothing happens, and there is really a problem in the rear, compared to fleeing to Yunzhou, more remnants of the army must choose Taiyuan, a big city with complete facilities, not to mention that there is Li Qingzhao outside the city.
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"Report to your lordship, Lu Liang has been taken away!"
On the evening of April 14, Li Hao received a message from his subordinates.
After separating from Zhu Yong, Li Hao went straight back along the original road, and the main reason was to see Taiyuan's reaction - they didn't go to a big city like Taiyuan to make trouble, but picked small towns and county seats.
Ask them if they are not tired, how can they have the strength to fight?
It was true that the soldiers were mentally and physically tired when they attacked the plains, but their Xia army was cavalry like most of the ancient Mongolian vassal armies, but the mounts were different.
And the most famous thing in Xia is a kind of land traveling birds and beasts, similar to a harrier, but the body is not an ordinary feather, but a steel silver feather, extremely strong, can block the sixth-order magic bombardment several times, people can also get mounts to share the damage, so the cavalry of Xia country is known as the "iron harrier", the defense is first-class, and the charge is like a steel torrent of tanks.
But this is the usual situation, and in order to fight quickly, this time they let their mounts take off their feathers - and the point is that they are tired, but their mounts are far from the limit, so the soldiers can meditate on their horses and regain their strength during the journey.
After these two days, even if there were two battles, they still recovered to eighty percent of their combat strength.
And Li Hao has always been ambitious, he doesn't want to kill from the west to the north at all, but wants to try to swallow Taiyuan.
As soon as they came, on the way back, they received that Taiyuan chose to shrink instead of recovering the lost territory after receiving the news of their haunting, and this lack of confidence showed that the city guards were just mediocre.
Second, the cycle of their iron harrier feather regeneration is ten days, and now it is almost there, and it is not difficult for the iron harrier to storm a big city in its heyday!
Of course, Li Hao took it for granted that he underestimated the army of the Great Song Dynasty, and he might not be able to take it even if he had to pay a heavy price, but before he made the decision to attack the city, he received the news that a series of "territories" west of Taiyuan had been uprooted.
In fact, it is not difficult to use dozens or hundreds of people to suppress the ordinary people of the Great Song Dynasty, because the Great Song people are most afraid of coming out, so they can only silently coax, but when the army comes, they suddenly have the "courage" to cooperate with the outside and the inside, and they don't know whether to say that they are witty or bullying the good and afraid of evil, or soft bones......
However, what surprised Li Hao the most was that the Song army that pulled out these occupations was only three squadrons - he had always believed that the Great Xia soldiers could defeat the Song people with one block.
Especially when he received information that it was a female general leading the army, he was even more shocked.
That female general is, of course, Li Qingzhao, the institute is indeed moving, but there are also diehards who stay, after ensuring the safety of those who leave, Li Qingzhao stays behind to continue to protect and persuade the diehards, and continue to perform their duties as much as possible.
Of course, I don't know whether to say that Li Qingzhao is lucky or whether to say that Li Hao and Zhu Yong are lucky, because the map has been expanded a hundred times, there are two more ravines and a small river between the institute and Taiyuan City, and the communication is extremely inconvenient.
But now that she knows, even if she has the responsibility of protecting the research institute, she is still the future of the Great Song Dynasty, and has a higher responsibility to protect her family and defend the country, so she decisively set off with three squadrons to attack those cities that were defeated, and then killed all the way to Luliang, cutting off Li Hao's "retreat".
"Your Majesty, what should I do now?"
However, because his subordinates regarded it as a way out, Li Hao never considered retreating without taking a city or a town.
"After a little preparation, we will go around to the north and attack Taiyuan!"
In fact, Li Hao now only has 2,000 iron harriers, and he can't take them, and the soldiers don't understand why their Khan King would make such a move.
"Hehe, when you hear the news of that female general, do you still think that the Great Song people are very weak?" Li Hao said with a smile.
The subordinates hesitated, and several people nodded to affirm the true meaning of Li Hao's words.
"But it is estimated that it is the most elite army in Taiyuan, of course, with the protection of the city barrier, Taiyuan is also very difficult to deal with, and my previous expectations are estimated to be shattered...... Damn Zhu Yong, you dare to pit me, hehe. ”
Everyone found that although Li Hao had anger on his face, his smile was also very obvious.
"So, your majesty has a countermeasure?" someone asked cautiously.
To be honest, the people who can gather here are all the generals of the Xia Kingdom, although the unique classification of Gu Meng may only be at the general level, and there is no eighth-order junior general, but in front of Li Hao, he is like a minion, and there is really no way to do it.
Because Xia is Li Hao's country alone, the generals who have the potential to threaten Li Hao were all killed by him, and even the master of the Tianshan faction who was only in charge of agriculture and people's livelihood was driven to the Great Song Dynasty by him.
Obviously, Li Hao is a person who does not allow others to contaminate half of his power, and with such a monarch, the courtiers will lose their heads if they are not careful, where can they dare to straighten their waists and speak.
"Of course, since the enemy is not as weak as we think, we can only outwit. Li Hao licked the corner of his lower lip, "I have seen the terrain near that city, there are plains to the north and west, as long as we ambush there...... Anyway, how about the idea of using captives to attack the city?"
There were few cities in ancient Mongolia, but Wei did it, and as a result, the Mongols captured the people of Wei to attack the city...... But in the end, Mongolia didn't take advantage, just because of the existence of that guy Zhuyong.
But the Great Song Dynasty did not have Zhu Yong, so this tactic would be useful, of course, the first thing to do was to get prisoners.
Therefore, what to do is to "encircle the point and send reinforcements".
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Chen Duyun did not encounter danger along the way, because the northern army did not fall as much as the eastern battlefield in the west, which was of course because there were more northern troops in the west, but there were also reasons why most people, including Pharmacist Li, did not expect that the Wu family had betrayed.
And Gu Meng invested more in the east, but they were blocked by the holding of Beiping, and in the west their investment was not large, the only two armies equipped with Suss equipment, one exhausted the life of the equipment after defeating the Song army, waiting for support, and the other unfortunately encountered the men and horses of Li Yaoshi's headquarters, and before the equipment advantage could be brought into play, it was crushed by the powerful Six Flowers Array.
As for the battles with the various ancient Mongolian vassal states, they were mutually victorious and defeated, and the front line was not so much Yunzhou, but the Hetao region in the west, which was about to become a meat grinder, but I don't know if it was because of Xinlan, Pharmacist Li deliberately did not let him go over to support.
Of course, Chen Duyun didn't have time to complain about this, this way south, he did receive the news of the appearance of enemy shadows in the south in the towns along the way, but they didn't have the strength to investigate, and Taiyuan didn't send anyone to ask for help-
"I guess it's all right, right?"
Chen Duyun did not have time to hold the defender accountable for saying this, and at noon on April 15, he finally encountered the remnants of soldiers from the Hebei region in the southeast.
"There is an ancient Mongolian army attacking the city in the rear, and now it is going to Taiyuan!"
For a while, Chen Duyun made up a marching route in his mind, and an army landed from the Bohai Sea and killed all the way to Taiyuan, wanting to sneak attack their rear.
Theoretically, Taihang Mountain is in between, but who knows if the system will change out of the flat of Taihang Mountain, where the terrain is abnormal?
In fact, Chen Duyun really guessed the system's handwriting, there are indeed several paths that can run through the mountain range in Taihang Mountain, Li Hao and Er Zhurong were lucky to find one of them while exploring, although it is not the fastest and smoothest one, but the general danger is not a problem in front of Yu Zhuyong's magic.
Chen Duyun hurriedly asked the troops to speed up their pace, in order to reach Taiyuan as soon as possible, and on the night of the same day, when they finally entered the Taiyuan range-
"Enemy attack!"
Under the light of the stars, an iron knight shining with silver light rushed in.