"Chapter 90: The Tide of Things"
Truth, once known, transcends all scriptures. All the classics are pointing at it, and the classics are nothing but fingers pointing to the moon.
- Osho (Founder of Rajnesh Ashram)
The counterinsurgency army of the Luxi tribe finally withdrew from the battle at the cost of leaving behind 6,000 corpses, while Nishimura's 3,000 dead soldiers and 100,000 displaced people withdrew to the Kirkwall camp overnight, with only more than 1,300 dead soldiers and more than 68,000 people.
If it weren't for the fact that the three-way counterinsurgency army that surrounded the Kirkwall camp was missing one route, Nishimura's troops would not have been able to withdraw to the camp smoothly; the two-way counterinsurgency army, with a total strength of only 55,000, only surrounded the south, north, and west sides of the Kirkwall camp, leaving the east side unsurrounded.
It was this eastern side, which was not surrounded by the counterinsurgency army, that became the passage for the 70,000 old and weak women and children of Nishimura's army to withdraw to the camp.
The so-called bustle was actually the bloody slaughter of the migrants who had returned to the camp and complained to the people in the camp about the atrocities of the counterinsurgency army, and this time, there was no need for Naoki Yoshikawa to send someone to add fuel to the fire, and the reputation of the counterinsurgency army was completely discredited overnight.
The words of nearly 70,000 emigrants easily turned the 550,000 camp people into the same hatred, and the enthusiastic camp people fully demonstrated their warlike nature as barbarians, and they took up arms and shouted to fight the enemy to the end.
The full support of the 620,000 barbarian people, as far as the defensive pressure was huge, was definitely a relief in the snow! There was no reason to refuse, so he took advantage of the situation to select 50,000 soldiers with decent combat strength from among the angry people.
These 50,000-year-old warriors were either too old or too young, and what they held in their hands was not the wooden guns and sticks of their own homes, but the swords, guns, swords, and axes that were originally controlled by Yoki Yamashita, and although most of these weapons were no longer sharp, they could still be used to kill people.
With the addition of 50,000 soldiers, the defense of the Kirkwall camp was stronger than ever, and it was divided into four forces: 10,000 elite divisions composed of carefully selected barbarian warriors, 15,000 ordinary troops composed of young and strong barbarian warriors, 20,000 second-line troops composed of female warriors and slightly older warriors, and 50,000 reserve troops composed of old and young warriors.
The counterinsurgency army under Gregory's command, which was about to surround the Kirkwall camp, numbered 10,000 cavalry and 84,000 soldiers, of which 32,000 cavalry and warriors came from southwest Lu, accounting for one-third of the total number of counterinsurgency troops!
When the entire Kirkwall camp was in a boil, Nishimura Jun also came to the headquarters where Yamashita Yoki was, and there were only three people who could appear in this headquarters tonight, namely Yamashita Yoki, Natsukawa Heiko, and Nishimura Jun.
"Nishimura-kun!" As soon as Nishimura Jun walked into the command headquarters, Yoki Yamashita, who was still talking to Xia Chuan Pinggong, immediately stood up to meet him, grabbed his arm and said, "It's really a great blessing for our army that you can retreat with your whole body!"
"Yamashita-kun, I'm really ashamed that I failed to fulfill my promise to be loyal to the lord!" Facing Yamashita Yoki's excitement, Nishimura Jun said with shame on his face: "It's just that the enemy army has taken the initiative to retreat, and I ...... out of desperation."
"Nishimura-kun!" Before Nishimura finished speaking, Yamashita Yoki directly interrupted him and said: "You have done well enough, I am sure that no one can do better than you in that situation, you are our hero, and you deserve everyone's respect!"
"Yamashita-kun, the real hero is not me, but the dead soldiers and people who died on the battlefield. Nishimura Jun said with a solemn face: "I really didn't expect that the ordinary people of the barbarians had a bloody nature that was not inferior to that of the samurai, and it was they who repelled the enemy's attack. ”
"Nishimura-kun, I have always believed that a flock of sheep led by lions is far stronger than a flock of lions led by sheep. In this regard, Yamashita Yangxi's attitude was: "It was you who helped us to make the blood of the 620,000 barbarian people burn!"
"Nishimura-kun, you don't have to be modest. Xia Chuan Pinggong on the side also smiled and agreed: "You go to the camp now and take a casual walk, see if anyone doesn't know your name as the 'God of War of Hundred Slashes'? You are prestigious, but you are forged with the blood of the enemy!"
Yamashita Yoki and Natsukawa Ping Gong said a word, but Nishimura Jun could only smile bitterly, and only after the three of them were seated did he ask Yamashita Yoki: "Yamashita-kun, the enemy army from the east will surround you early tomorrow morning, how should we carry out the plan of discord at that time?"
"Nishimura-kun, the core part of the dissension plan has been completed by you, and the rest is not difficult, especially the return of your army, which makes the implementation of our follow-up plan easier and easier, and even the dead soldiers who originally spread the news don't need to be sent out. ”
"If the dead are not sent out to spread the word, how will those southern warriors know that their families have been slaughtered by their allies?"
Xia Chuan Pinggong explained to Nishimura Jun: "Nishimura-kun, on the day you commanded the migrating people to leave the camp, we found more than 6,000 families of southern soldiers, plus the more than 1,000 surviving families you brought back, there are 7,000 families of southern soldiers in the camp. ”
"At this very moment, hundreds of craftsmen in the camp are hurrying to transform the trumpets into amplified horns, and tomorrow morning, whether the enemy army attacks or not, we will arrange for the surviving families to use the amplified horns to complain about the atrocities of the northern warriors. ”
After listening to Xia Chuan's explanation, Nishimura Jun, who naturally made up the chaotic scene of the enemy army tomorrow morning, said with a smile on his face: "In this way, just how to coordinate the fierce contradictions between the northern and southern soldiers in my own army is probably enough for Gregory to have a headache." ”
"Haha, I hope he can worry about it for a month!" Xia Chuan Pinggong was also full of excitement.
"Even if he can appease the 32,000 southern warriors in his army in a short period of time, so what?" Instead, Yamashita Yoki, said with disdain on his face: "With 620,000 barbarian people who are determined to fight to the end, our strength is not weaker than his Gregory!"
When Naoki Yoshikawa was calculating the balance of forces between the two sides, Gregory's counterinsurgency army numbered 100,000, while the rebels defending the camp were only 45,000. And now, with combat strength alone, the size of the rebel army defending the camp has reached 95,000!
And this does not include the 570,000 barbarians in the camp who can take up rudimentary weapons at any time to fight, and if we add these 570,000 barbarian people, Gregory, who already has 32,000 southern warriors who cannot be easily used, has actually become the inferior side.
The reason why Bai Feng led his army to stay a hundred miles south of the Kirkwall camp was because he did not want to attract the attention of the Luxi tribe before the Eastern Alliance and Lu Xiluo went to war, so even if the defenders were stronger, Yamashita Yoki could not take the initiative to attack the enemy army.
The situation has developed to such a point that no one could have imagined that the barbarian people's characteristics of all soldiers would become the key to turning the tide of the situation for Yamashita Yoki and others;