"Chapter 10: Surrounded on Three Sides"
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On the night of the cavalry attack led by Cabaye, the Seventh Wing was temporarily stationed more than 40 miles away from the accident site; Bai Er, who successfully found the robbers' lair, not only left enough traces for Cabaye, but also brought Bai Feng the details of the bandits.
According to Bai Er's observations, this bandit was not a real bandit at all, but a rogue force composed of some homeless homeless people in a mountain forest, and in addition to the women, children, old and weak, who accounted for the vast majority, there were less than 4,000 young and strong people with combat effectiveness.
What is even more tragic is that each of these 4,000 young men is not equipped with an iron weapon, and many of them are armed with sharpened wooden guns to use as weapons, and the people who command them are not some conspiracy and unscrupulous elements, but some of the best among the outcasts.
What Bai Feng couldn't figure out was how such a rabble took away the supplies from the hands of the three hundred imperial soldiers? Is there another hidden trump card of this rogue force? Or is it that the imperial soldiers are really vulnerable?
Although Bai Feng didn't want to believe it in his heart, he still had to admit that the possibility of the latter was far better than the former, after all, Bai Er was a powerful Flame Sword Saint, how could a mere rogue force have a secret trump card that could be hidden from him?
Thinking of the three hundred soldiers of the newly built army of the empire, they surrendered to a group of rogues without any sense of resistance, this almost cruel reality made Bai Feng once again clearly feel the strength of the imperial army.
As an extremely ordinary wing commander, Bai Feng was powerless to change the huge number of imperial troops, the only thing he could change was the seventh wing that belonged to him, and this was what he had been doing.
After learning this important information from Bai Er's mouth, Bai Feng, who had no external pressure, planned to use this task of suppressing bandits as a whetstone for the recruits and soldiers of the Seventh Wing, and the 2,000 recruits and soldiers of the Seventh Wing must all participate in this battle with little risk.
Early the next morning, as soon as the army had restarted, Bai Feng ordered Bonella to take his first brigade and quickly go to the north of the accident site to station, and the first brigade was accompanied by a group of Roman youth soldiers from the fifth brigade.
However, Bai Feng's order to Bonella was to temporarily stay in place, not to go deep into the nearby mountains and forests, and not to use the Roman youth army to meet the enemy unless the enemy attacked the temporary camp of their brigade.
At the same time as Bonella gave this order, the centurion of the Roman youth army also received the same order, which meant that even if Bonella wanted to use the power of the Roman youth army to take the initiative to go into the mountains, the Roman youth army would not obey his order.
However, it is taboo in the army for junior officers to disobey the orders of superior officers, so Bai Feng specially issued a clear order to Bonella, the purpose of which is to avoid this situation.
Soon after Bonella set off with his first brigade, Carroll also set off with his second brigade, but his destination was ten miles south of the accident site, which formed a symmetrical north-south distribution pattern with Bonella's brigade.
At this time, on a map in Bai Feng's hand, the mountains and forests where this rogue force was located had been marked by Bai Feng with a red pen, and this mountain forest that could accommodate tens of thousands of people to hide was located on the east bank of the Cangluo River, and to the west was the main stream of the Cangluo River, which was fast.
In this way, Bai Feng, who wanted to complete the task as soon as possible, adopted the method of encircling on three sides to attack, and the Bonella brigade to the north and the Carol brigade to the south were the other two armies of Bai Feng to surround this rogue force.
A 500 soldiers of the Imperial Standard Brigade should have no pressure to confront three or four times the size of themselves head-on on the premise of barely being able to use the Roman three-column battle array; besides, Bai Feng, who is responsible for commanding the main army to attack, will definitely attract more enemy troops.
The reason why Bai Feng was reluctant to let the Roman Youth Army participate in the next attack was because he didn't want the recruits and soldiers of the Seventh Wing to miss this rare opportunity to exercise;
Perhaps, the rogues in the mountains and forests will show a fighting will far beyond that of ordinary bandits in battle, but they are just a rogue after all without weapons and equipment;
After the departure of Bonella and Carol's army, Bai Feng ordered Darren to lead his third brigade as the vanguard, and Lennon's fourth brigade and the two remaining Roman youth armies under Hans became the main army in Bai Feng's hands.
Borg, who is nominally a quartermaster, is actually Bai Feng's chief of staff, and all the formulation and implementation of battle plans are the result of discussions between Bai Feng and Borg, and many times Bai Feng is guiding Borgg to turn what he has learned into action little by little.
At noon, while the army was preparing for lunch, Cabaye, who had led his cavalry out to find the bandits' lair yesterday, returned; when he returned, only 100 cavalry remained, and the other 400 cavalry were left near the robbers' lair.
Just as Bai Feng imagined, after successfully finding the bandits' lair, Cabaye left his cavalry on the outskirts of the mountain forest to monitor the robbers' every move, and he himself led a team of cavalry back to report to Bai Feng the location of the robbers' lair.
Bai Feng, who had known everything for a long time, deliberately pretended to be overjoyed to welcome Cabaye's return, and after Cabaye finished reporting on the situation he had reconnoitred, Bai Feng immediately gave the order to the soldiers who had had lunch to move forward at full speed.
A day's march at full speed allowed Bai Feng's main army to advance to a position only more than twenty miles away from the Liukou's lair; if Bai Feng hadn't had the purpose of training new soldiers, he would have been able to wipe out this rogue in one fell swoop tomorrow.
According to Bai Feng's plan, he planned to use the three-way army to surround the mountains and forests where the Liukou forces were located, and then use the wheel tactics to attack the Liukou in turn for three days, and the last two days were the best time for the Seventh Wing to go out to exterminate this Liukou.
Of course, the phrase that the plan can't keep up with the change is applicable in any world, and when Bai Feng led the main army to the east of the mountain forest, an extremely fierce debate broke out within the rogue forces in the mountain forest.
The rogue forces, which were originally formed by the union of many groups of displaced people, are, in the final analysis, a loose alliance, and dozens of leaders, large and small, cannot form any effective decision-making organs without unified command.
The reason they decided to take the risk of attacking the Empire's lone logistics and transport forces was because they had been reduced to a situation where there was no food to spare, so they chose the latter with a silver lining between starvation and war death.
As a result, they succeeded in attacking an Imperial logistics force that had no will to fight, and captured enough food and grass for them to eat for a month, but the ensuing Imperial encirclement army plunged them into chaos again.
Some of the leaders who tasted the sweetness wanted to rely on the advantages of the mountains and forests to continue to fight against the encirclement and suppression of the Empire, but most of the other leaders did not agree with this crazy approach, and they were ready to take the initiative to surrender to the Empire in order to obtain the amnesty of the Imperial army.
After the two sides were locked in a bitter dispute, neither could convince the other to agree with their own opinion, so the leaders who were ready to surrender began to find a way to obtain a conditional surrender, and the leaders who wanted to fight against the empire began to actively prepare for war!