Chapter 203: Like a Fish in the Throat
Under the dim light of the fringe lamp made of animal fat, General Buffalo was able to get a glimpse of the Duke of Montreal's meticulous plan:
First of all. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 INFO's "deterrence by force" against Dongbui Kanchi must be delivered and implemented under the premise of proper control and repeated prudence. Because even the Duke of Monreal himself did not know what the consequences would be of provoking the beast of Dongbui Kanchi, which was several times more ferocious than themselves.
That's why the Duke of Monreal showed this piece of paper to his trusted colleagues. It is difficult for him alone to deduce the intricacies of the factors between the two countries. Give the arrogant big boar "come for a moment", and the big wild boar will know the pain and flee back to his own mountain and forest territory with his teeth covered? Or just stand up with broken teeth and rush towards Orion with red eyes to fight to the death? No one can give an answer with certainty.
In his letter, the Duke of Montreal made it very clear: this is not a matter for one person. The prosperity of the state, the family business, is in his own hands, and he has neither the power nor the ability to make decisions about direct retaliation by force - even in small-scale "unofficial actions".
The current border between the two countries is demarcated at the core of the hilly line that neither side was able to break through in the last war. Both the attackers and the defenders knew that as long as they used a little more troops, organized a wave of cavalry assault, and even if they took a breath more, they would break through the "solid defensive line" or "reverse the defeat", solve the division of the Bui Kanchi country in one go, and enjoy the highest glory of Bui Kanchi.
It's all fart. Bui Kanchi, which is a small country, already has no war potential, let alone the split East and West two Bui Kanchi? Seeing that we have reached the precipice edge where the war potential and national strength are about to be exhausted, it is not a question of "whether to jump or not," but that both countries no longer have the strength to move their bodies out of the precipice.
The last Bouikanchi Civil War ended with a victory in the East, which is also the common outcome of several Bouikanchi civil wars - what was the Duke of Monreal worried about? It is nothing more than that the conflict, like a previous war, began with a small conflict and escalated step by step, and finally ended with the defeat of Sibui Kanchi in the main battlefield.
General Buffalo also knew that by this day, the "defensive" deployment of the East Buikanchi side to the west was extremely mature. The strategy of "clearing the field and retreating" in the buffer area of the front line will cause the light infantry under the command of the general to struggle in a whirlpool of supplies and a direction of advance, and then be beaten into dogs by the well-organized ambush troops from the east. General Buffalo had more than once imagined how he would use his forces to break the puzzle of his men in the east if he had to face such a battlefield - the answer was no.
On the premise that the supply is sufficient and the domestic follow-up soldiers are also sufficient, this problem can be solved. However, in the vast hills of the current East Bui Kanchi border buffer zone, if you want to find out the enemy army and find out where there are "people" under the limited resources, you can only let the West Bui Kanchi army be equipped with some reconnaissance planes and other fierce goods......
The observation effect of the flying dragon in the hilly area is worrying. Fly high with clouds under your feet, and fly down a fart-sized ravine to fly several times back and forth. What's more, this delicate thing, Sibu Ikanchi can't afford to raise!
Then, according to General Buffalo's deduction, once there is news of a large-scale war, the buffer area of East Bui Kanchi will enter a state of human and earth-to-earth space at the speed of wind and clouds.
Combined with the "standing army" cobbled together by thousands of localities, what can the "Sibui Kanchi Coalition Army", with a total of 40,000 or 50,000, do on this hill that was once its homeland but look around uneasily? With each step forward, they had to face five more points of unknown danger, as well as a ladder-like multiplication of pressure on the back of the logistics department.
The elongated lines of communication must be guarded by scouts - but this is a drop in the bucket. In his letter, the Duke of Monreal cites three battles, two defeats on the side of Sibuikanchi and one rare victory for Sibuikanchi, both of which have in common a successful battle of cutting the line of communication as the core, followed by the division and encirclement of the enemy's front-line forces, which were deprived of supplies.
"I am absolutely sure that in our great and enlightened self-governing state, there are many moths sent by the East, or bought by the East."
The Duke of Monlire's handwriting was so clear that General Buffalo could not avoid this fact. He could fully imagine that as long as the order to mobilize his troops was issued to all departments layer by layer, someone would inevitably relay this vital information to neighboring countries "in duplicate" so that they could prepare for war in advance......
One wrong step, one wrong step. General Buffalo pricked up his head and smiled bitterly helplessly. Since the second war after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Sibuikanchi Autonomous State has not been able to gain strategic superiority, so it has been unable to avoid being gradually eroded by the "natural enemy country" with a steady and steady style of fighting that consumes national strength. Later, the declining national power made Sibui Kanchi unable to gain the initiative and advantage in the war, and since then, Sibui Kanchi has entered a death vortex that cannot be escaped with his own strength.
In fact, not only Sibui Kanchi, but also the succession of forces on the Bahsivita continent has always been like this. As long as the side with the advantage in national strength can always use this method to collapse the opponent.
This is why many small states want to be supported by outside powers, even if the united Buikanchi is just a small state that is divided on the basis of a divided Grand Duchy. The great events of the world must be divided for a long time, and the changes in the continent of Bahivita have lasted for decades, and both General Buffalo and the Duke of Monreal have worried about this - and now, the Duke of Monreal has written this worry on paper in full.
Once upon a time, their predecessors were not afraid to meet directly with the east, and it was not a pity to let the war rag throughout the country, in order to fight to the death with the east. Now when they take a punch and want to retaliate, they can only let a few elite soldiers disguise themselves as peasants, and do some work that is no different from bandits and bandits across the border under the premise of keeping secrets, which is neither happy nor very dishonorable.
If the Duke of Monreal had known the expression "one generation is not as good as the next", he would have written this sentence heavily at the end of this letterhead, so that it would have beaten the reader's confidence.
At this moment, this letterhead is gradually being swallowed up by tongues of fire, turning into flying ash from the flames inside and outside the lampholder to the ceiling. After General Buffalo loosened his fingers and put the last piece of paper into the tongue of fire, he sat for a long time, and finally drew the pen from the pen holder.
In the misty morning, a horse rhythmically struck the stone pavement of the capital of Sibui Kanchi with its farrier, and then gently departed in the sweet dreams of most people. In the capital, no one except for a few people knew what had happened last night.
In the same misty morning, twenty or thirty soldiers disguised as peasants, armed with short knives, sickles, and even axes, crept through the path of the hilly border, infiltrated the stone tower of the pass, and killed all the miscellaneous servants and militia in the tower, including the chief of the border guard who personally seized the goods of the Sibui Kanchi merchants.
After destroying the stone towers at the pass and crossing the beacon towers, these soldiers drove straight in, armed with weapons to "loot" and kill the nearest border villages.
Years of peace have paralyzed the vigilance of the officers and soldiers and the villagers in the buffer zone, who are not even aware of the sharp blade when it reaches their necks. At first, the villagers thought it was a caravan. The first villagers to be killed were shocked to find themselves in a different place when they came forward to sell food and fruit.
The reason why it is said to be "looting" is that after the fact, the Dongbui Kanchi side found that all the valuable and soft goods in the village were nowhere to be found—they were only taken for a few kilometers and then thrown into the mountain stream, so that the soldiers who attacked the village could walk quickly; As for the killing, the entire village did not leave a single living mouth from top to bottom, which is naturally worthy of the name.
The local military and political governor of the Dongbui Kanchi Kingdom, who was in a hurry, immediately ordered all villages and strongholds to immediately begin to dispatch messengers to report the situation in accordance with the pre-war mobilization posture, in the direction and frequency of communication predetermined before, and at the same time to send additional militia to the border. This time, however, it was too late—General Buffalo's men had already left for the capital from the Duke of Monreal and his own guard, and there would be no second attack—and they were ordered to "take a leave", and now that the leave was over, they should also return to the army.
Soon after, the kingdom's spies in Sibui Kanchi reported back to the joints: before the massacre, not only did Sibu Ikanchi have no orders for the movement of troops, but even the standing armies were lazily playing cards in the barracks, basking in the sun, drinking, and going out to find women to be happy.
Of course, it was true that they had been reinstated by order from the east after their response from the east, but this was a normal reaction - and the information obtained by the spies could only tell the face of it that Sibui Khanchi's military was clearly unaware of the attack - at least for the very part.
When the King of Moah heard the news, of course, he was furious and threw his glass on the spot. Blocking the path of the "Chinese goods" to the west had been warned by his courtiers that he would be subjected to a backlash from the traitors in the west, but he really did not expect such a violent backlash.
There's nothing worse than feeling teased like this. Moe really wanted to use the sword in his hand to cut off the claws of the demons that had broken into his land, but this claw had already retracted into Sibui Kanchi, so what could he do with even a lightsaber?