Chapter 922 - Naval Fleet
Zhao Ziliang listened to Zhao Lei's words and said: "Even if you still know that you have a few catties and a few taels, you are not carried away by this huge result, you have the element of luck in this battle, but you also have your own command when you caught the fighter in time, and after rushing into the enemy camp, you can keep dispersing the enemies who are assembling, so that the scattered enemies continue to increase, and finally cause the situation that the rout wave swept the entire camp, in fact, the reason why the coalition forces have such large casualties is because of their own chaos!" Therefore, when we are attacked by the enemy, we must not be confused, we must calmly deal with it, and when we discover that we are under attack, we must immediately send orders to combat units at all levels to assemble on their own to deal with the enemy's attack, and we must quickly assemble with all of us as combat units or regiments as combat units. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoGenerally, the number of enemy troops attacking the camp is not too large, as long as we stabilize our position, we can calmly deal with it. Even if there is a loss afterwards, the loss will be much smaller! ”
The generals clasped their fists and said, "Yes!" ”
Zhao Ziliang asked Sima Wang Zhen on the march: Where have the Eastern Route Army and the Western Route Army arrived? When will we be able to join my mid-lane army? ”
Wang Zhen said: "Back to the king, the armies of the east and west roads can arrive here to join our army tomorrow morning at the latest!" ”
Zhao Ziliang immediately waved his hand and said: "Okay, send a large number of scoutposts to investigate the movements of the coalition army, and if there is news, it will be reported quickly, and all departments of the Central Route Army will be ordered to rest in place, and when the east and west armies arrive tomorrow, we will make calculations!" ”
"Yes, King!"
・・・・・・
South India, offshore in the west.
A large fleet was sailing south along the coastline, and because of the distance, the Tianzhu fishermen who were picking conch seas on the beach only saw a long line of small black boats moving slowly forward, and no one cared.
But after a while, a small boat was approaching the shore, and as it got closer, it grew bigger and bigger, and a Tianzhu fisherman who casually looked up spotted the boat and immediately shouted.
When the other fishermen heard the sound, they all got up and looked at the huge warship approaching on the sea, and they were all stunned, but they reacted, and ran to the shore with a frightened scream, and several small boats were lowered on the big boat, and these small boats rowed towards the beach at a very fast speed, and after landing, the two groups of soldiers got down from the small boats, and quickly crossed the beach and went ashore.
Soon after, a group of soldiers returned to the big ship by boat and reported to the people on the big ship.
On the fleet, Zhao Ting, who was dressed in silver armor, held on to the side of the ship and looked at the shore in the distance, because the distance was too far, he couldn't see clearly, and his vision was very blurry.
At this time, a sailor on the mast shouted: "Your Highness, the ninth battleship has raised the flag, saying that this is the sea area of the Hosara Kingdom!" However, warships cannot get close to the beach here, so they can only go ashore in small boats! ”
Zhao Ting thought for a while and ordered the people behind him: "Order all ships to continue to move forward and find a natural deep-water harbor where warships can dock!" ”
"Yes, Your Highness!"
After another half a day of sailing, the fleet finally found a natural deep-water dock where the battleship could dock, which could not be called a pier yet, and the sea surface had a vertical drop of five meters from the shore, but this was exactly the height of the battleship's side to the waterline! After the battleship docked, the sailors of the Western Qin Navy ran ashore and stepped on the ground to feel a lot more steady, and many people cheered, they really stayed on the sea for half a month, and their hearts have been up and down, only when they are down-to-earth, they feel the only steadfastness in their hearts.
After the troops stepped down from the warships one after another, Zhao Ting immediately sent reconnaissance and reconnaissance posts to explore the surrounding terrain, populations and customs, and at the same time sent small groups of men and horses to the surrounding areas to collect grain and grass and find drinkable fresh water sources.
At about mid-afternoon, a sentinel came back to report that he had found a small river thirty miles to the southeast, and that he could camp on the riverside, and that there was a small tribe living there, and that Zhao Ting immediately ordered three thousand men to be stationed at the dock to guard the safety of the fleet, and the others all followed him to the riverside thirty miles to the southeast.
Two days later, the sentinel surveyed the area around the area a hundred miles away, and found that forty miles to the northeast of the camp was a city called Udebi, surrounded by many villages and tribes.
Zhao Ting decided to capture the city to obtain food and other supplies after learning about the situation of Udibi City, he immediately led a large army to set out, using the method of rapid cavalry attack to capture the city gate without the Tianzhu people in Udibi City before they understood what was happening, and then captured the city wall and entered the city, and the resistance of the Western Qin army was extremely limited.
"Has Tianzhu been translated?" Zhao Ting sat in the lobby of the City Lord's Mansion, eating the melons and fruits unique to this place, glanced at the local official who was kneeling on the ground and shivering, and asked.
A major general next to him clenched his fists and said: "Your Highness, someone has already been sent to call, and it should be on the road at this time!" ”
Not long after, a northern Tianzhu man walked in and saluted Zhao Ting and said, "I have seen Your Highness, the villain is late, please forgive Your Highness!" ”
Zhao Ting waved his hand: "Don't talk nonsense, you ask him, where is this Udebi City in the country of Hosala?" He has Tianzhu here! ”
"Yes, the villain will ask him!"
Although the dialects of Tianzhu are different, the language is generally the same, listen carefully, or the northern Tianzhu people can still understand the language of the southern Tianzhu people.
After some exchanges, the Tianzhu translator said to Zhao Ting: "Your Highness, this official said that Udibi City is in the southwest of Hosala Country, and he only has the Kanyu map of Hosala Country here, if you want to find the Kanyu map of the entire Tianzhu, you have to go to the big city of Semoga City in the northeast!" ”
"Escort him to find the Kanyu map of the country of Hosala!" Zhao Ting raised his chin at the major general beside him.
"Yes, Your Highness!"
A map of animal skins was quickly taken, perhaps it was not a short time, the lines on the map of animal skins were already a little blurred, Zhao Ting looked at it, and found the location of Udebi City and Semoga City under the guidance of Tianzhu's translator.
"You ask him, do you know about the alliance of the Southern Tianzhu countries jointly sending troops to resist the Western Qin army!"
The interpreter of Bei Tianzhu spoke to the official kneeling on the ground again, and the two talked for several minutes before the interpreter turned to Zhao Ting and saluted: "Your Highness, he said that he knew about this matter, he heard that the coalition army was defeated by the middle route army of Western Qin a while ago, and lost more than 100,000 horses, and now the coalition army of 300,000 people is resisting the attack of the Western Qin army at Peacock Pass, and various countries are constantly sending troops, grain and grass and other military supplies to Peacock Pass!" The Peacock is in the northeast of the country of Katamba, a thousand miles away! ”
Zhao Ting thought about it and felt that this Udebi City was closest to the dock where the fleet was moored, and it was necessary to control this city in order to ensure that the back road of his army was unblocked, so he ordered the army to rest in Udebi for two days, during which he selected a group of Tianzhu Zhuangding as a servant army, with a total of more than 2,200 people.
Two days later, Zhao Ting left 1,000 headquarters and 500 local servants to garrison Udebi City, and then marched to the city of Semoga in the east direction with the army and the remaining 1,700 servants.
After two days of marching, the army arrived at the city of Semoga, Zhao Ting immediately launched the siege, because the coalition army lost the war, the loss of troops was serious, so all countries are drawing troops from the country, Semoga's troops have also been emptied, left in the city garrison are some old, weak, sick and disabled, simply can not withstand the attack of the elite army under Zhao Ting, the battle only lasted for half a day, the city of Semoga was breached, the Western Qin army did not massacre after entering the city, only killed officials and noble landlords, and sent troops to collect grain and grass and various military supplies, No harmful activities were carried out on ordinary people.
After capturing the city of Semoga, Zhao Ting finally found the map of Tianzhu and confirmed the location of his army and the approximate location of the main army fighting with the coalition army.
After thinking about it, Zhao Ting decided to attack the entire Hosala country first, otherwise his back road would be easily cut off, so he divided the army into eight branches, each battalion was a road, and each was led by a major colonel, attacking everywhere and capturing the entire territory of Hosala country as quickly as possible.
The country of Hosara, which was empty of troops and defenses, was captured by Zhao Ting's army in just a few days, seizing countless gold and silver treasures, grain and grass, livestock and military supplies, and capturing nearly 10,000 Hosara soldiers.
At this time, Zhao Ziliang led the Western Qin army and the servant army of nearly 400,000 people to storm the Peacock Pass, and a large number of servant troops died in the siege battle every day, and the life of the coalition army was not easy, and the losses were equally heavy.
The camp of the Western Qin Army, with more than 400,000 soldiers and horses scattered on the ground within a radius of more than ten miles outside the Peacock Pass, could not see the end at a glance.
In the big tent of the Chinese army, Zhao Ziliang asked Xuan Eighteen: "Zhao Ting still has no news?" ”
Xuan Eighteen shook his head and said: "Not yet, Weichen has sent a large number of spies to the south to investigate, if there is any news, it will be reported immediately!" ”
Zhao Ziliang frowned, didn't speak for a while, Zhao Lei stood up and hugged his fists and said: "Father, this Peacock Pass is easy to defend and difficult to attack, the terrain is dangerous, and the coalition army has many soldiers and horses, and the materials are sufficient, if we want to attack in a short time, it is almost impossible to capture it!" Erchen asked himself to take a detachment of his division around this mountain range to attack the western flank of the coalition army! ”
Zhao Ziliang got up and walked to the map next to him to observe for a while, and asked, "Zheng San, how long can we eat this batch of grain and grass?" ”
Zheng San said: "King, our army's food and grass are still sufficient for the time being, so there is no need to worry!" Grain teams from all over the country are still delivering them in a steady stream! ”
Zhao Ziliang thought of using explosives to blow up Peacock Pass, but after thinking about it, he still gave up this idea, there is no need to get the explosives out, and the formula is easy to leak out, if it is obtained by the enemy, once the formula spreads, it will be like opening Pandora's box, and it can't be covered if you want to. He didn't want to use it unless he had to.