Chapter 81: Ambush
For more than half a month, Zhao Chun, Laura and others led the rebellious miners to conquer the five small towns of the Black Ice Tribe, and their marching routes were flickering from east to west, making the Black Ice Tribe army tracking them want to find an opportunity to fight a decisive battle completely confused.
And Zhao Chun's troops, due to the continuous addition and replenishment of workers, coupled with the ingenious methods of attacking the city these days, did not have large-scale battles, and there were not too many casualties, at most they only lost hundreds of people, the scale has reached more than 30,000 people, and a small number of surrendered Black Ice Tribe soldiers have joined them, which makes their army particularly remarkable in the Black Ice Tribe, the Black Ice Tribe is currently expanding in a big way, and has defeated and occupied several tribes before, and is now fighting with another relatively powerful tribe in the Holy Domain, and the rest of the tribes, including the most powerful tribe in the Holy Domain, are all waiting and seeing, Once they learned that the Black Ice Tribe was so unbearable that they were beaten by a group of workers from the inside, I believe they would soon make a choice.
The high-level leaders of the Black Ice Tribe were naturally terrified, especially since their young master was still in the hands of Zhao Chun and the others. For this matter, the tribal leader Zhu Song didn't know how many cups he had broken, how many tables and chairs he had smashed, and he even swore that he would never care about the life or death of the waste, but now, this matter is not only a matter of the life and death of the waste, but also related to the face of the Black Ice Tribe, if he can't quickly defeat Zhao Chun and rescue the waste, the myth of the Black Ice Tribe's invincibility will be gone, and then affect the morale of the troops in front of him, and may even have a very serious impact on the battle situation. Therefore, Takematsu demanded that the military must solve the domestic problems within a month at all costs......
Under such pressure, the military of the Black Ice Tribe mobilized all the military forces that could be mobilized throughout the country, in addition to the two or three hundred thousand troops who were fighting with another tribe, the armies that were originally going to attack several other small tribes were also transferred, and they also integrated the arms obtained from the Huoyan Kingdom and used them to form a mysterious warband. This is the strongest military force that the Black Ice Tribe can now use, with a total of 500,000 troops encircling and intercepting Zhao Chun's troops.
In addition to sending an army of 50,000 people to follow from a distance where Zhao Chun's troops passed, the rest were divided into five main forces, and from the direction where Zhao Chun's troops might appear, they slowly closed in the middle, preparing to annihilate them in the western region of the Black Ice Tribe in one fell swoop.
Zhao Chun was vigilant about these actions of the Black Ice Tribe, but because the communication of the Black Ice Tribe was not developed, unlike a modern country like Huoyan Country, which could have mobile phones, fixed telephones, televisions, radio, etc., their communication here generally used birds to pass books, horses and beasts to pass books, etc., only heard Takeuchi mention it, there are communication beads between the bamboo pine leader and dozens of military leaders to contact, but they are only used in emergency situations, because the communication distance of these communication beads is long, and the spiritual power consumed is huge, and it is difficult to afford it. Therefore, Zhao Chun is not very clear about the specific movements of the Black Ice Tribe army, although he has set up five reconnaissance squadrons, and constantly sends horse beast cavalry and more than a dozen flying soldiers out to reconnoiter every day, but the coverage range is only a few hundred miles, and it can only provide tactical-level intelligence, as for the more distant strategic-level intelligence, with his current conditions, it is impossible to achieve.
And there is a very real problem, he is now fighting in the away game of the Black Ice Tribe, the characteristics of the Black Ice Tribe's are too obvious, if you let a worker of a foreign tribe go to the town of the Black Ice Tribe to inquire about intelligence, it will be easy to be recognized. And now Zhao Chun's assimilated Black Ice Tribe has limited prisoners, and the loyalty is not high, although the system has solved some problems, it cannot be used on a large scale in a short period of time, which is also Zhao Chun's biggest headache, if it lacks a lot of support from the native people of the Black Ice Tribe, their tribe is only rootless, and when encountering a large-scale counterattack by the Black Ice Tribe army, it is very passive.
In response to this situation, Zhao Chun asked Laura to form an ideological work team, which included soldiers from the Black Ice tribe who had surrendered and workers from other tribes, and his core requirement for these people was absolute loyalty to the cause of the "good" organization.
After ten days of short training for these people, Zhao Chun dispersed them and sent them out, letting them infiltrate the various cities and towns where there were more workers in the Black Ice Tribe, and develop armed organizations underground.
Because these people are different from Zhao Chun in terms of ability, quality, and consciousness, it is unrealistic to want to organize the same armed forces as Zhao Chun in a short period of time, so Zhao Chun can only hope that this form of development of armed forces behind enemy lines can play a certain role at some point in the future, and it can become a big help against the Black Ice Tribe in the future, and now he can do it and that's all.
And these days, because the system has helped too many people to transform, all kinds of values have soared to a large amount, it means that it has basically met the conditions for upgrading, just to upgrade more perfectly, it also wants to collect more rare materials. If it can be upgraded to the Xuan level, it will not only bring more surprises to Zhao Chun, but also lend him more anti-heaven value.
Zhao Chun is naturally looking forward to it, but he can't find those rare materials for a while, so he can only wait for the opportunity, if the opportunity does not come, he can't do anything, after all, the survival of tens of thousands of people is tied to him, he needs to think about too many things every day, and there are too many things to face and deal with, and the pressure of the mountain makes him almost breathless. It's a pity that there are too few people who can share the pressure for him, the troops have grown rapidly recently, and the number of people has come up, but unfortunately they haven't gone through too much baptism of war, especially the lack of commanders who have gone through the baptism of war, this is Zhao Chun's biggest headache, but the experience of this thing, the system can't provide it for the time being, saying that only after it is upgraded, it is possible to expand the value of this aspect.
On this day, the weather in the northwest of the Sanctuary was not bad, the dark clouds that had been pressing in the sky had dissipated a little, the wind had stopped, the snow had stopped, and Zhao Chun was leading the team towards K Town according to the information returned by the reconnaissance squadron before. From previous reconnaissance, it was known that the town of K was made of a special kind of military ration, which was more important than weapons and equipment for troops fighting far from the rear.
Zhao Chun is naturally very greedy for this town, as long as he occupies this town, his troops will not have to worry about eating for a year or even longer, the significance of this to him can be imagined, so he ordered all the troops to accelerate their advance towards this town, and be sure to capture it tonight.
But in the afternoon, when they were still more than thirty kilometers away from this town, Zhao Chun suddenly received information from the reconnaissance squadron that about forty kilometers in the rear, an army of the Black Ice tribe appeared, the number of which was about tens of thousands, and they had a large number of cavalry, and the speed of advance was very fast, and they might catch up with us in the middle of the night.
This made Zhao Chun very surprised, because before, all the information Zhao Chun received was that the Black Ice Tribe army in his rear was at least two hundred kilometers away from him, and they were not fast.
Zhao Chun had also studied with Laura, Xiaolu and others before, and felt that the purpose of this Black Ice Tribe army was to drive themselves into the encirclement they had arranged and fight a decisive battle at a certain location. According to Zhao Chun's previous strategic deployment, after capturing K Town and getting a large amount of military rations, he ambushed this army and calmly jumped out of the encirclement, but now, the Black Ice Tribe obviously sensed something and wanted to make a move in advance.
Zhao Chun asked the reconnaissance squadron to report the movements of the Black Ice Tribe army in front while asking the reconnaissance squadron to bring the captured military map.
"This time, the army of the Black Ice Tribe is menacing, and it seems that they are preparing to fight the defenders of the town back and forth and wipe us out in K Town. Xiaolu said while looking at the map.
Laura pursed her lips and said: "Haven't they learned the lessons of the town next to the Batu Caves before? They can't make the same mistake again, right? Maybe they have deployed tens of thousands of troops in K Town, in case we can't attack K Town for a long time, and the army behind us rushes over, we will be in danger, not to mention that their weapons and equipment and army quality are superior, if the number of people is superior, we can't fight this battle." ”
"What are you afraid of, Lao Tzu hasn't fought a happy battle for a long time, this group of turtle grandsons will come to one, I'll kill a pair!" Shen Ju said very domineeringly.
Zhao Chun glared at Shen Ju and said: "Laura's concern is not unreasonable, this group of enemy troops suddenly accelerated for no reason, according to my analysis, there are two possibilities, one is that the K town is very important to the Black Ice Tribe, they want to drag us down and prevent us from occupying this town; Either way, it's not what we want to see right now. Just now I looked at the map and found that there are several snow-capped mountains more than ten kilometers away from us, and if we want to reach K Town, we must pass through the canyon under this snow-capped mountain. ”
"But that's an army of tens of thousands, and cavalry still makes up the majority, can we beat this little force?" said Laura, not worriedly.
"If it is in the plains, it is naturally the cavalry that has the advantage, but in the snow-capped mountain area, it is difficult for the cavalry to give full play to their advantages, and if we dig more traps, build some more tunnels and make use of the terrain, it is not impossible. Zhao Chun cheered them up.
"Yes, if Commander-in-Chief Zhao has the courage, he should let these grandsons taste our strength!" Shen Ju said, as if he wanted to fight immediately.
So the troops marched more than 10 kilometers to the foot of those snowy mountains, and then began preparations before the war in full swing.