Volume 18 Chapter 38 Boldly Trying New Tactics (Part II)
On this day, near noon, when the pot was being buried, a cloud of cooking smoke rose from the No. 3 fortress of the French army in the Pyrenees, and a tempting smell came from the barracks, and the soldiers standing guard everywhere could not help swallowing their saliva, their stomachs were hungry, and they were about to eat, and everything seemed so normal.
However, the guard of the fortress, Bris, smelled this tempting smell but did not have a little appetite, because the food in the fortress could not last for a few days, and he knew very well what the consequences would be if the food was cut off.
He was pacing back and forth on the third floor of the fortress, and he was really in a hurry.
When this month's food was not delivered on time, he felt that something was wrong, and the fortress sent someone to lead the way, but the person who led the way did not come back!
He knew that something should have happened, due to the perennial war, both countries in West France have more or less some rogues, especially in the Pyrenees on the border between the two countries, it is a place where rogues often haunt, they are hungry, and it is not impossible to grab military rations.
As for the possibility of the enemy cutting off the grain, he did not consider it at all, because the French had built bastions on all the passages through the Pyrenees, and it was impossible for the enemy to run behind them silently.
Under normal circumstances, this is indeed the case, not to mention tens of thousands of troops, that is, an army of several thousand people, to detour back to the enemy's rear, you need to bring a considerable amount of grain, grass and baggage, such as food, tents, quilts and so on, without these, let alone fighting, survival will be a problem.
It was obviously unrealistic for all of these things to be carried over the mountains and mountains on their backs, and it was necessary to pull them through the mountain passages in a car, and all the passages were blocked by them, so in his opinion, the enemy, who did not exist, could not have been in their rear at all.
Because of the preconceived belief that it was the Liukou, he only sent a thousand people in the first batch, thinking that if there were not many Liukou, the thousand or so people would take back the food, and if the number of Liukou was too large, they could also come back for help, after all, the mountain road leading to the outside was more than 100 miles long, and if you rode a horse, you would soon be able to come back to report the news.
As a result, the first batch of more than 1,000 people was sent out two days later, but there was still no news, he was really shocked, what a large-scale rogue this is!
There was no way, he had to send most of the men and horses in the fortress to take back the grain, otherwise, the grain would really be cut off.
He has always preconceived that it is a rogue, no matter how large the scale of the rogue, five thousand people pass, the possibility of not being able to defeat is very small, and even if it can't be defeated, it is impossible to be completely annihilated.
These 5,000 people have been sent out for two more days, and even if they don't meet the rogues, they have also walked out of the mountains, and there should be news, why is there still no news?
Just as he was in a hurry, the sentry on the tower suddenly pointed to the north and shouted, "General, look. “
Hearing this, Bliss hurriedly raised the telescope in his hand and looked at the intersection to the north.
I saw a large group of French soldiers gushing out from the far junction, surging more and more, surging more and more, and the number was at least four thousand.
Due to the distance, it is not very real in the telescope, but judging from the clothing, it is indeed a French soldier.
Briss was simply surprised and delighted, happy that the second group of people sent out finally came back, and the loss of numbers should not be large, and the surprise was that these people seemed to have fled in rout, and five thousand people were all defeated and fled, how big is the scale of this rogue!
At this moment, he didn't think that it was the enemy army playing sneak attack, his mind was full of rogues, rogues, rogues, how many rogues there were!
With a mind full of questions, he kept looking at his subordinates who fled back, the figures in the binoculars slowly became clearer, and he could finally see his appearance clearly, but only the faces of the hundreds of people in front of him were still clean, and they could basically recognize their appearances, and the faces behind were all black and black, and their clothes were also tattered and bloodstained, and they couldn't be identified at all.
He searched the crowd in the front row for a while, and finally found a major he knew, and then, after searching the crowd for a while, he could not find a higher position.
At this time, the rout was less than a mile away from the fortress, he thought for a while, and ordered: "Open the first layer of the city gate, let Major Bastian come up immediately to report the situation, and let the others let them go back to the camp and wait for orders." “
With that, he lifted his feet and walked to his office.
The herald ran all the way to the ground floor, delivered General Bliss's order to open the gates, and stood at the gate, waiting for Major Bastian to come and take him to General Bliss.
In the rout, Fu Yunlong, who was mixed behind the French prisoners, secretly stared at the city gate, and stared nervously at Major Bastian in front, this product is the highest rank among the prisoners of Toucheng, whether he can deceive the city gate depends on this guy.
The city gate is getting closer and closer, so close that he can see the faces of the guards above, and he is getting more and more nervous, fortunately, there is nothing abnormal about those guards, and it seems that there is still hope for deceiving the city gate.
Just when he was so nervous that he couldn't do anything, the city gate suddenly opened!
Fu Yunlong almost fell out of his eyes, what's going on?
The city gate was opened, could it be that there was an ambush inside!
Whether there was an ambush or not, he could not retreat, because their disguised rout was less than a hundred paces away from the city gates.
Bite the bullet, he gritted his teeth and coldly ordered: "Prepare to seize the city gate." “
With his order, a dozen or so carefully selected special forces experts quickly squeezed forward under the leadership of a French-proficient Jinyi Wei instructor, until they squeezed to the front of Major Bastian before stopping.
The defeated army finally approached the city gate, Major Bastian was also dumbfounded at this time, the Ming army taught him that he didn't know how much to deceive the city gate, the problem is that now the city gate has been opened, he doesn't know what to say after entering the gate.
What to do? He was so stunned that he was caught by the Jinyi Wei instructor and a dozen or so special forces masters and ran into the doorway, and before he could speak, a herald ran up to him and said loudly: "Major Bastian, General Bliss asked you to report the situation immediately." “
It turned out that this was the case, and the master of the brocade guard who led the team immediately made a look, and a dozen or so special forces quickly scattered to both sides, seemingly to open the passage in the middle of the city gate, but in fact, they were preparing to kill the French soldiers guarding the gate.
More and more soldiers poured in at the door, and the soldiers shouted dutifully: "General Bliss has an order, order you to return to the camp and wait for the order." “
With that, he glanced at Major Bastian, turned around and walked inside.
He meant to ask Bastian to meet General Bliss with him, but Bastian didn't move, it was the brocade guard instructor beside him who moved, and at this time the influx of rout soldiers had already crowded the passage of the city gate, the scene was extremely chaotic, and it was time to make a move.
The brocade guard instructor directly pulled out the dagger, followed, covered the herald's mouth, and stabbed the dagger directly into his back, giving him a chill.
Seeing the instructor move, the other special forces elites drew their daggers one after another, stabbing all the soldiers guarding the door to the heart, and then, the special forces disguised as French soldiers swarmed behind, and the first layer of the city gate was easily taken down, and the sneak attack tactics were half successful.