Chapter 13: The Invasion of the Great Army
Albion's 100,000-strong army sailed out of the ports in a hundred floating ships, and the movement could not be stopped, and the spies of various countries received the news. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info However, Albion did not take the port of Toristine, did they want to force the landing? Romania, Kermania are confused.
Toristin got the news first, and Chen Bing was on the border of Goriatoristin and was waiting for him.
The port city of Goria [Hirutni] ceased operations yesterday, and all commercial and private floating boat traffic was suspended, and the idle people and others left and sent troops to garrison it. Then this afternoon, a mighty floating ship carrying an army of 100,000 in the distance appeared from the clouds.
Port crews run back and forth to clear the landing area. The deep-water port outside the city of Hirutny is a natural landing site, and Albion's floating ship descends from the sky, slows down and then crashes into the sea, splashing and absorbing most of the impact. Pulled by the ropes thrown from the port, the floating boat was pulled closer to the pier, and the Albion troops on board the floating boat disembarked one after another.
With a hundred ships, it took half a day just to attract and assemble these 100,000 troops. According to the alliance of the five major families and other nobles, the 100,000 troops were distributed in the six areas of [Hirutni].
The commanders of the six divisions of the army had come together to take a deliberative meeting, and they would rest tonight, and tomorrow they would march their armies to the borders of Goria and Torristin. The six commanders returned to the garrison's area, and the commander of the Grunt family quietly released carrier pigeons, informing the Torlistine defender commander of the movement of the army, Field Marshal Gramont.
When Gramon got the news, he told the army to relax tonight and prepare for tomorrow's battle.
If you can lead the army to attack [Hirutni], you will definitely be able to inflict heavy casualties on the enemy army. However, it was Goria's territory, and Toristine's strength would not dare to anger the most powerful country on the continent. Grammon regretted his heart, and he also felt angry and dissatisfied with Goria's lease of the port and the passage of Albion's army. If it weren't for Goria's troubles, the war between Torristeen and Albion might have stopped.
The day after the Albion army landed, after breakfast, at about nine o'clock in the morning, the Albion army set out. Each army left about 500 men to guard the harbor, and the rest of the army set out to march northwest to approach Torlistine.
[Hirutni] was only half a day's way from the border of Toristingoria, and the Albion army stopped for a meal in the field at noon and arrived at the border at about three o'clock in the afternoon.
Goria was so powerful that he didn't need to defend against Toristine, and there were no defensive cities on the border; Torristin, on the other hand, was very jealous of the great power of Goria, and built three defensive cities along the border. From northwest to southeast, they are Tony, Toth, and Tolly. Gramont mobilized all the local armies and noble armies in the southeast region of Torristin, and cobbled together 50,000 troops, including 20,000 troops directly under Gramon. Grammon stationed 30,000 troops in [Toth], and [Tony] and [Tolly] each had 10,000 troops, and if they were attacked by the main force on both sides, they would rush to the aid of [Toth].
At the border, the commanders of the six armies of Albion came together to discuss how to attack Torristin.
"We have an army of 100,000 men, and Toristin must not have thought that we would be able to attack with the help of Dougoria. Unable to attack unprepared, we concentrate all our forces on the next city, and then we can export our army to the Torristeen hinterland. House commanded.
"There are three cities on this border, and we have the advantage of military strength, so it is better to divide our troops into three places and capture one city each. After that, it will be a long drive, and whoever lays down the cities, villages and towns will belong to whomever it is. "This is the opinion of the commander of the coalition forces of the minor nobles.
Commander House frowned, then looked at Commander Grent and Commander McGhan.
"What do you think?"
Grent commanded: "I also think it's better to divide the troops, otherwise whose things are killed?" Our army and the McGan family joined forces to attack [Tony]. ”
Commander Grun looked at Commander McGhan, "What do you think?" ”
Commander McGhan nodded, "Well, I think it's okay." ”
"You, you. What about you? Commander House looked at Mani and Pace again.
Mani and Pace each have only 5,000 troops, and if they fight together, how can they fight for the spoils of 30,000 and 22,000 Hausgrun McGren? So the two commanders said: "We also agree with the division of troops." ”
Commander House suppressed his anger and said coldly: "Okay, then my House family attacked [Thoth] alone, do you have any opinions?" ”
Mani, Pace, and the minor noble commanders looked at each other and said, "Then let's join forces and attack [Tolly]." "In this way, the two families have a disadvantage of 10,000 troops, and the alliance of the minor nobles has many troops but has a mixed group, which is more fair.
Several commanders dispersed, leading their armies to each of the three cities. 20,000 each of the Grent and McGan families went to [Tony]; The 30,000 men of the House headed west to [Thoth]; Mani, Pest 5,000 each and 20,000 of the lesser nobles allied together towards [Tory].
The combined forces of the Grent and McGhan families set aside a short day and arrived outside Tony in the evening. The 10,000 defenders of the city closed the gates, wound their bows and arrows, and sent messages to the pigeons, preparing to fight to the death and informing Grammon of the city of [Thoth] of the situation.
Commander McGhan observed for a while, and found that the defenders were only about 10,000, and immediately wanted to attack the city.
Commander Grent dissuaded him: "We marched all day, and the soldiers were tired. Rest for the time being today, and then storm the city tomorrow. ”
Commander McGhan thought for a moment and agreed with his companion.
So 40,000 troops were stationed outside Tony, and 3,000 soldiers kept vigil to be vigilant for a possible night attack by the defenders of Tony.
The defenders of Tony only have 10,000 troops, how dare they take the initiative to attack? It is fortunate that the enemy army does not attack the city.
On the other hand, the House family is stationed in the wilderness at night, and it is still half a day away from the city of [Thoth].
And the 30,000 different Albion troops are still more than a day's way away from the city of [Tory].
Marshal Gramont of the city of [Toth] received two letters, one was a letter for help from the city of [Tony], saying that he was powerless to stop in the face of an enemy army of 30,000 to 50,000; The other was a letter from Commander Grunt, informing Gramont of the division of troops, and saying that he would delay the progress of the siege, and would not let the McGans take Tony City, so that Marshal Gramont could concentrate on holding back the other two enemy forces.
Knowing the situation of the enemy army, Grammon thought for a while, and decided not to reinforce [Tony] [Tory], and first concentrated on defeating the 30,000 enemy troops of the House family.
As for the city of [Tony], he trusted the command of Grunt, so he sent a letter back to [Tony] to ask the commander of the defending army to pay attention to the preservation of troops, signaling that the commander of Grent was someone from our side, and asked him to cooperate with the commander of Grent to fight a "fake war".
And the city of [Tory] can only be defended to the death, and there is no fear of casualties, the enemy army belongs to a large number, if it is a battle with the wind, it is quite terrible; However, once there is a headwind or stalemate, and there are a lot of casualties, the various forces will want to save themselves and reduce the casualties, and they will inevitably not dare to attack hard, and then the 30,000 troops will not be able to exert 5,000, and they should be able to hold on. Gramont also wrote a letter to the defenders of Tolly, informing them that 30,000 enemy troops would arrive about a day later, and that they would be to inflict casualties on the enemy in the first round of engagement.
Come on, then, the enemy forces of House House. Gramont was full of anticipation before bed.