The old site of Chang'an, which has changed hands again, is a dilapidated city. lā．

"Can you confirm that the Western Army has been defeated?"

I looked at the clouds of smoke rising in the distance, and sighed to the subordinates around me who were tired and excited.

"It's not easy."

If you look at it from the perspective of a strategy game, it is the countless faces in the dark that represent the morale value that has fallen to the bottom, but it has turned into a white and transparent long banner scurrying out of thin air.

Although there were still many cavalry of different banners on the edge of the battlefield, continuing to fight in groups in staggered charges and pursuits, it could not change anything about the overall situation.

And the purging and fighting in the ruined city of Chang'an ended early.

In order to maximize the effect of killing and damaging the vital forces of the Western Army as much as possible in advance, the armies engaged on the outer edge also paid a relatively heavy and even somewhat painful price; Due to the purpose of delaying and attracting the enemy as much as possible, this formation did not invest many messenger technology weapons as killer weapons in the first place, and also reserved the traditional method of battle against the enemy, so as to create a certain illusion of having a slight upper hand and even strength.

As a result, the troops under pressure in the early stage suffered heavy casualties, at least dozens of battalion heads were damaged to varying degrees, and even more than a dozen battalion heads were broken up as a whole because they could not be replaced, or the formations were broken down and could not be gathered nearby.

After all, once you lose the cover of a swarm and get into a scuffle, the lethal advantage provided by the power of firearms no longer becomes apparent. This is also a conspiracy to attract the enemy's troops to continuously refuel, rather than retreating from the frustration.

The consequence of this was that even my own formation lost contact with many of the troops that were later put into the battlefield or made temporary sorties; Because of the huge battlefield staggered disturbance and the mixing of a large number of troops, they didn't know where they would be taken by the tide of enemies who were mixed together, and they temporarily lost their sense of spatial orientation.

In the end, only the internal guard and the tooth army of our station, as well as the main formation and the core field fortifications composed of a large number of technical weapons, were able to hold on to their positions and continue to use the bombardment of heavy firearms to attract and summon the troops scattered on the battlefield to return and move closer.

As a result, it took two days and one night to gradually exhaust these Western armies, which had occupied the numerical scale and geographical advantage, from morale to fighting spirit to physical fitness, which can be said to be the result of the extreme use of the battle of stubborn villages.

This result is inevitable from the perspective of the long-term trend, but it is also full of various accidents and accidents in the specific process;

For example, almost at the same time as our cavalry went out of battle, the Western Army's mounted cavalry charged the formation and the Modao team that followed up on horseback, which almost gave my own formation a big "unexpected surprise"; Although these armored horses and horses were quickly covered and stopped by the dense projection of light and heavy firepower, the heavy casualties and sacrifices of these almost silent Modao teams were able to get close to our army's front.

As a result, under the wall of knives that suddenly grew in unison, whether it was the white soldiers, the gunners, or the grenadiers, it was as if they had been gnawed by some terrible devouring force, leaving only bloody fragments of corpses on the ground.

When the turned artillery and platoon guns fired a salvo, they also covered these intrusive Modao killing formations from the top of their heads and in front of them; After all, no amount of strong armor and bravery can change the fact that you are human flesh and blood in the face of the power of steel propelled by gunpowder.

However, fortunately, this is also the last few highlights of the other party's kind of return to the light;

If this kind of army, which is quite expensive in terms of equipment, training, and maintenance, and can be used and consumed anytime and anywhere in the Western Army, then the Western Army would have been able to rely on the advantage of the violent army to beat the whole world, instead of being restricted and constrained in the northwest by the Northern Dynasties in disguise.

The investment of technical weapons such as flowering bombs and platoon machine guns has greatly accelerated and catalyzed this process, and has also completely torn apart the last bit of illusion and camouflage on which the opposing enemy is based, or the luck psychology and hope of victory that are supported by it;

Then, the first Western Army unit that fled from the battlefield because it could no longer endure casualties began to appear, and at this time, there was no longer any overseer and the strength to suppress the formation, and deliberately made acts and actions to block.

Then, whether it was the original tenacious or fierce Western army foot soldiers, or the rampaging iron cavalry, or the strict crossbow archers, they all began to compete under the advancing array of guns and cannons, and they collapsed and collapsed one after another; And become a member of the surging trend of snowballing and defeating, and being coerced and brought up by himself.

Therefore, the initial pre-battle surrender alone has exceeded tens of thousands, and according to my estimates, as the essence and main combat power of the great Western Army Alliance, it should be invested in this battle;

After all, compared with those who had a close relationship with the Northern Dynasties and were seriously dragged down and weakened before, the soldiers and horses from Shuofang, Beiyuan, Yunzhong, and Guannai were obviously uneven, and these were all under the banner of Hexi and Longyou, and the fighting spirit and morale displayed were also indescribable.

After the battle in the ruined city of Chang'an broke their backbone, or rather, the belief and confidence of the battle, all that remained was how to let tens of thousands of cavalry of all colors maximize the fruits of victory in the pursuit of the north.

And having just taken the strategic lead in the heart of Kannai Road, I also have to start thinking about the next strategic direction.

Today's Western Army is strong and surging, but the foundation and strength are difficult to last, and after the defeat, it is even more empty and weak, but the local people are fierce and difficult to train; Although the Southern Dynasty seems to be quite weak, and the mountains are full of beacons, the stamina and heritage of the eldest dynasty are still long.

whether to divide the troops into two routes to the south, and lightly take a series of territories left by the Western Army; Or continue to march westward to "it is advisable to chase the poor with the remaining bravery, and Mo Xuegu to become an overlord!", and further cut the grass and eradicate the root to prevent future troubles.

The historical choice and juncture of first difficult and then easy, or easy first and then difficult, has once again been placed in front of me.

"Report."

At this moment, a sound rushing up the tower interrupted my musings.

"The fourth general of the ranger is over, and he has caught up with the puppet Western Dynasty."

"Scattered more than 1,000 horses in front of him, and captured the thief Li Sheng, the son of the Western Thief, and hundreds of concubines, eunuchs, and ministers."

At the same time, Zhao Xi, who had changed his appearance and looked like an ordinary general, was also mixed in a team under the banner of "Suzhou Regiment Training", and hurriedly entered the defeated and retreated army, disturbing the noisy Xiaoguan City; And the hustle and bustle of going out to engage with the pursuers was temporarily abandoned and blocked behind.

And in the ruined city of Chang'an, the so-called personally leading the army to break off and buying time for the Son of Heaven were actually just the smoke and cover of his rhetoric in order to protect himself.

And among those soldiers who were determined to break off for it, they were just a clan brother who was similar to him. After all, in the current situation, as an important leader of the family, his safety is even more important than the overall interests of the Western Army Alliance, which are already in jeopardy after the defeat;

As the so-called survival after defeat, sometimes it is enough to run faster than friendly troops and be able to return to your territory and army first.

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Fuso Domain, Higashiyama-do,

Musashi Province Takeshu (today's Tokyo Metropolitan Government, all of Tama Prefecture, all of Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, and all of Kawasaki City. The war in the territory was once again quelled by hundreds of thousands of people in the twenty-two counties of the whole territory under the control of the Southern Korean camp.

It can be said that, except for a few coastal ports and their affiliated fishing villages, as well as a few nearby coal-based and copper-iron mines, Huaizhen has nothing to take from the rest of the land in the territory.

In addition to the full authority to dispose of the prisoners after the war, the large and small lords, including the Musashi Kuniji of the Southern Dynasty and the Musashi Mamoru of the Western Kingdom, were required to continue to provide at least two and 30,000 servant labor for the local agents of Huaizhen to build roads and bridges, open mountains and log trees, mine and build in the local area.

Of course, as far as the Southern Dynasties, which was in the midst of a downwind and adverse trend, the pros and cons of being able to tie up a strong foreign aid to the local area are naturally self-evident.

Therefore, as an important foreign aid that played a key role, Huaishang Yicong, led by Ping Jiangmen, also received a batch of supplies from the mainland, and then non-stop invaded the territory of Shangzhou Ueno Kingdom, which was under the joint management of the important princes of the Northern Dynasty and the Eastern Kingdom camp.

Immediately, at the Tone River on the west side of the Myogi Mountains, he defeated the reinforcements from the western country on the Boso Peninsula in the east, and the coalition of more than 30,000 troops from the upper and lower states and Anbo provinces, joined forces with the Satake clan and the Takaya clan, the princes who were inclined to the southern dynasty, and surrounded the Stable Bridge Castle in Gunma County, where King Yorashi's residence was located.

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