Chapter 144: Mountain Cavalry
In the afternoon of the same day, the Dragon Clan sent a note to the Angsa Empire, demanding that the Angsa Empire immediately withdraw the 40th and 51st Frontier Regiments that had entered the Yalong Valley to the Angsa Empire, otherwise, any consequences would be borne by the Angsa Empire.
There was no need for the dragon clan to play human political tricks, but they didn't know if this was the dragon god or the dragon emperor's unfledged childlike attack.
However, the Angsa Empire thought that the Dragon Clan was preparing to enter the WTO, and not only did they not withdraw the 40th and 51st Frontier Regiments, but went one step further and stationed the 40th and 51st Regiments on the main road in the middle of the Yalong Valley.
At the same time, the Angsa Empire publicly replied to the note of the Dragons, they condemned the Frankish Empire and a handful of people with ulterior motives in the Dragons, and at the same time made it clear that the geographical location of the Yalong Valley is within the territory of the Angsa Empire, and it has been the territory of the Angsa Empire since ancient times, and this territory was given to the Dragons by the ancestors of the Angsa Empire 10,000 years ago.
The Angsa Empire believes that most of the Dragons do not agree with this political opinion, and they welcome Dragons who disagree with the current Dragons in power to come to the Angsa Empire for political refuge.
In reply to the statement of the Angsa Empire, on the night of the 11th, a checkpoint of the Angsa Empire was attacked again, and the place of this attack was fifty kilometers west of the site of the first attack.
The bad news is not only this, the two regiments in Yalong Valley found that at the north entrance of Yalong Valley, two mercenary groups appeared in front of them, judging from the pattern of the flag, they were the Snow Wolf Mercenary Group and the Bauhinia Mercenary Group.
To say good news, it's not nothing, first of all, the dragon clan seems unwilling to participate in the dispute between the two empires of the human race, they did not send troops into the Yalong Valley, but just let the humans themselves confront each other in the Yalong Valley, second, the strength of the two mercenary groups is not much, if it is configured according to the army, the two mercenary groups are at most battalion-level combat units.
For more than a day, the princess rangers disappeared from sight again, no one knew where they went, but every place was precarious, and it was not known in which direction they would appear, and in the conference room of the Paris military headquarters, a large number of staff officers were arguing around the sand table of the Paris region.
Here, opinions were divided into two factions, one believing that the Franks were advancing towards Paris only to attract everyone's attention, and that their ultimate goal was to go to the Yalong Valley and join the mercenary group that had received them.
The other group of people knew that the opponent was really trying to attack Paris, and only in this way could the troops deployed at the mouth of the Yalong Valley be mobilized, so that they could suddenly change direction and intervene with the troops of the Yalong Valley, so as to break through from the Yalong Valley.
Although both factions believe that they are ultimately aiming to cross the Vale dévelope, their views are completely different, the other faction thinks that the attack is fake, they think that they don't need to ignore the Franks, they just need to stick to the Vale dévelope, and the faction that thinks that the real attack on Paris still has to move the troops, but it can be moved from the direction of Antwerp to besiege the Einsatzgruppen in the Paris region.
When the two factions were arguing, a different voice interjected: "Why doesn't anyone think they will go to Antwerp? They attacked Paris just to get Antwerp to send troops to support Paris, and then, directly look for Antwerp and find a ship back to Frank!"
It was a low-level staff officer who was carrying a lieutenant on his shoulder, and usually he didn't have a chance to speak at all, but today it happened that both sides were arguing, and no one cared about him, and he stared at the sand table for a long time, so he had this idea.
A herald rushed in and handed over a piece of information to the head of the defense department in the meeting room, and the defense team unfolded the letter and hurriedly opened it, and passed the piece of paper to the intelligence chief sitting beside him, and the princess rangers raided the third place, a hundred kilometers east of Paris, where the camp of a platoon combat unit was razed to the ground by them.
Some staff officers marked the location of the attack on the sand table, and compared with the first two encounters, the three attacks were basically in the same straight line, and the other side still abandoned and advanced to Paris without the slightest sign of hesitation.
After reading the information, the chief of the general staff got up from his seat, walked to the sand table where the staff officers were discussing, and first looked at the place where the attack had been marked, and he asked: "When did these three attacks occur?"
Seeing the Chief of the General Staff go down in person, the staff officers who were arguing just now didn't accept the voice, and collectively looked at the Chief of the General Staff, who looked at the sand table and said softly: "Who will tell me?"
"All three attacks took place between 4 and 5 a.m., when people are most sleepy and want to rest. A young staff officer replied.
"What about the casualties?"
"Except for the first annihilation, the last two times our casualties were not high, and the losses were all fixed buildings in the camp. ”
"What does it mean?"
"We need to increase our manpower during this time period to prevent them from sneaking up!"
"Gone?"
"No!" the young staff officer stood straight, thinking to himself that he really had nothing to add.
"What about the others?" the Chief of the General Staff's question made the other staff officers think about it as well, and then everyone shook their heads in unison.
"A bunch of fools! This shows that they are under-armed! They only have seven men, and if we are careful, they can't help us at all! Instead of predicting where they will attack here, we should spread our troops and force them to go north!" The Chief of the General Staff kept reprimanding these staff officers.
Originally, this meeting was for these staff officers to work out how to drive the opponent to the north, but it turned out that these staff officers guessed the direction of the opponent's attack here, and the opponent only had seven people, and to guess where they were attacking and what they were doing, they only needed to determine the area of their activities, and then divide the troops into several squads, and squeeze the opponent's living space little by little, and finally reach a strategy of forcing them to the north.
After driving out these inadequate staff officers directly, the chief of the general staff said to the heralds with a gloomy face: "All the checkpoints, keep one squad in place, and the other forces will be mobilized for me, and now the opponent's area of activity is obvious, they are between Paris and Burgundy, and the troops in these areas are mobilized for me, find out these rats, and cannot give them the freedom to attack us at any time!"
The strategy of the staff was decided, Philip and Charles were almost gone, they didn't have to arrest these guys, all operations were handed over to the military, and in this land, the army was divided into countless small units, patrolling all kinds of terrain, compressing Vivien's area of activity smaller and smaller.
"This can't be done, the cavalry needs to be in unison, and the enemy array will be attacked in a volley, you have only rushed a few steps like this, and the formation has been scattered, how can you fight?" In Bauhinia's camp, a platoon of training dragoons was being reprimanded by the instructor.
Since receiving the order from the military headquarters, the Bauhinia Mercenary Regiment immediately selected a squadron of mercenaries who can ride horses, and immediately marched towards Frankfurt, they did not have war horses, to be honest, they are not worthy of war horses now, so the Bauhinia Mercenary Regiment marching with infantry is not very fast, of course, their speed is not slow, and it is much faster than ordinary people walking.
However, along the way, they were caught up by countless mercenary squads, and then, the directors of these squads immediately found their third deputy commander, Jack.
This battle was completely unexpected by Jack, this mercenary squad all held the orders of the military department, and all the orders pointed to him, or rather, to the Bauhinia mercenary group, these mercenary squads are not official mercenaries at all, they are all veterans selected from various cavalry teams across the country, on the surface, they have all left the active duty troops, but in the archives of the military department, they are all active soldiers, even the mercenaries of the squadron that came out with Jack this time.
When they arrived in Frankfurt, they had completed the construction of a standard mercenary group, that is, the formation of a standard cavalry battalion, except that there were no war horses, all their formations had been militarized, and the squadron of mercenaries brought out by Jack was not mixed with the cavalry of the other two squadrons.
However, the training of this squadron cannot be discounted, who knows if the soldiers of these two fake squadrons will return to their original units after this incident, and at this time they will be used as instructors, Jack will adjust the best of these two veteran squadrons as instructors to create a real cavalry unit for his mercenary squadron.
They rested for a day, that is, on October 12, they entered the mountain, and on the 14th they arrived at the north entrance of the Yalong Valley, their camp had been built by the engineering regiment that had arrived before, and they were directly stationed, and the whole camp was arranged according to the cavalry battalion, which made these cavalrymen who did not have war horses feel very strange, because they were all ready to be infantry.
That night, their camp was suddenly surrounded by dragons, and then a dragon elder entered the camp to find Jack, indicating that their horsemen had arrived, and asked the cavalry to choose their own horses.
One night, all the cavalry received their own companions, and all the people in the camp rode one person and two horses, and the war horses were earth-walking dragons, and the riding beasts on the march were not simple, they were all horse-shaped wurmists.
When the people of the Snow Wolf Mercenary Group came to visit the door the next day, they found that the Bauhinia Mercenary Group, which was camped not far from them, had been cavalry like them, and compared to them, it was even more upscale.
However, they are not without benefits, the white horses they originally rode over have all been demonized into snow-treading and wind-chasing beasts overnight, except for a circle of white hair on their four hooves, and their whole bodies have been replaced with black hair.
Originally, the cavalry was not suitable for fighting in the mountains, but the riding beasts of the Snow Wolf Mercenary Regiment and the Bauhinia Mercenary Regiment were all horseable monsters living in the jungle, so it was not an exaggeration to call them mountain cavalry.
But the news came back to Paris, but the staff of the staff who had no knowledge of the brainless staff officers were once again confused and confident, they collectively ignored the word mountain in front of the cavalry, in their eyes, the opponent was a king-sized fool, this news they didn't report to the chief of staff in detail, the news that appeared on the desk of the chief of staff was that the Frankish Empire sent two battalion-level unit mercenary regiments, other than that, there was no more.
On the night of the 15th, they had been compressed near Balodik, the capital of the Meuse province in the Lorraine region, and they had to stop the strategy of harassing the checkpoints, and they did not mobilize the troops of the Angsa Empire, but because they were few in number, they were driven northward by the troops of the Angsa Empire little by little.