Chapter 379: The Conquest of Urgan (3)
With the experience of a regiment of Zheli's Seventh Army, Afard's Fifth Army learned a lesson, and did not lightly advance the enemy, but steadily and steadily, and advanced steadily, Urgan was found to have ambushed several times on the road of Affald's army, and after being discovered, he chose to retreat after several battles, no way, the forces on Afard's side had an absolute advantage, and the result of the hard fight was that Urgan's losses were greater.
In the face of the two armies of Qindong that were pressing step by step, Wuergan could only choose to retreat helplessly, retreating from the west bank of the middle section of the Elbe River and the south bank of the tail section all the way to the northwest, while the east and north armies of Qindong followed closely behind and always hung behind and followed the pursuit.
After half a month, Urgan had to abandon the plains of northern Germania, because there was basically no danger to defend in the northern plains, and Urgan led the army to defeat and winless in several battles with the two armies of Qindong in the plains, so he could only choose to continue to retreat, abandoning the northern plains and retreating to the mountains in the middle.
Seeing that Urgan had abandoned the northern plains, Qin Dong sent Zheli to lead his army to pursue on the one hand, and on the other hand, let Afar take the opportunity to occupy the Germanic towns on the northern plains, collect the Xiongnu tribes and Germanic tribes scattered everywhere, and make them submit.
After Urgan led the army to retreat to the central mountains, he plunged into the low mountains and forests, he thought that this should be safe, in the mountains and forests the large army could not be deployed, Qin Dong could not give full play to his superior forces, and fight for individual combat ability, Urgan thought that his Hun cavalry did not belong to Qin Dong's cavalry.
Urgan was wrong again this time, he only thought that in the mountains and forests, Qin Dong could be limited from exerting the advantage of his troops. But he didn't expect that the combat effectiveness of his cavalry was also limited in the mountains and forests, and the cavalry could maximize their combat effectiveness on the plains and entered the mountains. The combat effectiveness is worse than that of the infantry, but in his army, there is basically no infantry, only cavalry, and after entering the mountains and forests, his cavalry can only be used as infantry.
Braunschweig is a small town in the northern foothills of the mountains of central Germania.
Most of Afald's Fifth Army was stationed here. When he led his army to this town, he inquired about the whereabouts of Urggan's army from the native Germanic inhabitants, and learned that Urgan had led his army into a large area of mountains and forests to the south. Combined with various indications and other intelligence, the Xiongnu army in Urgan now has only more than 15,000 people left, but these people have horses, except for these Hun cavalry. Four thousand Germanic soldiers were also accompanied as servants. These people only have generals and officers, and the soldiers are poorly armed and equipped.
On the one hand, Afald hastened to collect all kinds of information after Urgan entered the mountains and forests, and on the other hand, he ordered to be stationed around the town, and the Hun soldiers who had set up camp were to go out of the camp and come to the town to buy some local food and handicrafts after obtaining the permission of the officers.
The Germanic women of the town were a little frightened when they saw these well-equipped Hun soldiers, and these Hun soldiers who came out to hang out did have some eyes shining with thieves after seeing the women, and they also laughed, but they were still obedient and no one messed around. After picking out a few things you like, you took out the glittering coins to pay the bill, and there were even Hun officers drinking in the only tavern in town. The Germanic lame boss of the tavern only thought that he was unlucky, thinking that the money for wine and meat would not come back, but he didn't expect that these officers of the Hun Empire grabbed a handful of golden coins and threw them on the table after eating and drinking, which made the lame boss of the tavern stunned, could it be that the sun came out in the west? The Huns still pay money for eating?
Many facts tell the original inhabitants of this town, this wave of Huns is obviously different from the Huns who passed by before, and the Germanic residents of the town who found that this wave of Huns have no malice began to try to talk with some Hun soldiers walking on the streets of the town, the Hun soldiers did not refuse people thousands of miles away, nor were they fierce and vicious, and the original Germanic inhabitants of the town soon knew that this was the royal court army that came from the Xiongnu court Saidika, and was an army commanded by Qin Dong, the regent of the Xiongnu Empire. This army was disciplined, well equipped, and formidable, and unlike any army of our time, each of them had a spirit that no other army had, and they had come here to quell the rebellion and to conquer the remnants of the wave led by Urgan that had passed before.
The Germanic inhabitants of the town not only knew this, but they soon knew that serving as a soldier in the army of the regent Qin Dong could not only get a good salary to support their families on the fifteenth day of each month, but also get a share of the spoils after winning the battle, which was definitely an irresistible temptation for the Germanic residents who had been engaged in mountain hunting and lived a hard life for a long time, no one forced them, and when the news spread to the ears of the residents of the entire town, almost all the Germanic boys in the town had already gathered at the gate of the barracks.
At this time, there was a sound of horses' hooves from a distance, and as far as the eye could see, a long line of cavalry with four neat columns of neat formations was jogging towards the direction of the Hun army's camp, many soldiers in the cavalry army held banners of different colors, some flags were triangular, some flags were rectangular, and a Hun soldier jogging in the front held a huge black square flag, and a golden wolf king with a majestic appearance was embroidered in the middle of the black banner, and behind the golden wolf king was followed by a group of vicious wolvesThere are wolves of various colors such as snow white, gray, silver, variegated, etc.
Before the cavalry army could reach the gate of the camp, the gate of the camp was opened, and the cavalry of the brigade rushed out of the barracks, and drove aside the strong Germanic young men who were gathered at the gate of the camp, led by the commander of the Seventh Army, Afard.
When Qin Dong led the army to the front of the camp, Afald led all the generals and officers above the regimental level in the camp to dismount and kneel on one knee, touching his chest with one hand and supporting the ground with the other, "The last general Afald led the generals to welcome the king!" ”
"Get up and get on your horses!" Qin Dong stretched out his right hand holding the horsewhip and made a gesture and said.
"King Xie!" The generals thanked loudly and got up and got on the horse, but the movements were very neat.
Qin Dong was about to ride his horse into the camp, but he saw a lot of Germanic young men wearing animal skins standing next to the gate separated by soldiers, so he asked, "Alfard, what's going on?" ”
Afald looked. Hurriedly said: "King Qiqi, these Germanic young men are all from the town or nearby Germanic villages, they came here to join the army, and the last general saw that it was a time of war, and he did not have the right to recruit soldiers, so he sent people to drive them away, but they resolutely did not leave, and it happened that the king came, so they drove them aside, so as not to alarm the king's king."
Qin Dong smiled when he heard this: "Someone who voluntarily joins our army and becomes a member of our army, we should be happy and honored for this, this is something that many people can't ask for, how can we drive them away?" This king knows that the Germans are born warriors, and they are good seedlings to be soldiers, although it is said that it is now a period of great war, but it can also be flexible, you send a team of people to register them, and if they meet the requirements, they will be accepted, and after the settlement fee is paid, they will be sent to the royal court for training! ”
Alfald was very happy to see Qin Dong say this, after all, he himself was also Germanic, and he did not discriminate against Germanic people when he saw that Qin Dong did not discriminate against Germanic people, and he attached great importance to this matter, and hurriedly agreed: "Yes, king!" ”
"Wait, you send someone to bring a few people over, and this king wants to ask about the situation!" Qin Dong suddenly remembered that these Germanic young men had lived at the foot of this large mountain forest since they were children, and they must be very familiar with this place, and some of them might be able to help find the foothold of the army in Urgan.
"Yes, King!" Alfald agreed, and hurriedly ordered an officer behind him: "Go over there and bring a few young men!" ”
After the officer agreed, he rode over and selected a few clever young men to bring them over to meet Qin Dong, Qin Dong looked at it and asked, "Have you grown up here since you were a child?" ”
Several Germanic young men looked at each other and pushed each other, and one of them, a relatively strong Germanic young man, replied to Qin Dong's words, "Yes, my lord, we grew up here!" ”
Qin Dong asked again, "Do you hunt often?" Are you familiar with the mountains and forests behind you? ”
Seeing Qin Dong ask this, the young man raised his head and puffed up his chest and said proudly: "Of course, my lord! I am the best hunter in the town, and although the 100,000 mountains stretch for hundreds of miles, I have walked almost every inch of the mountains, where the mountains are higher, where there are more prey, where the trees are more luxuriant, and where there is flat land, I know it! ”
"Then did you know that two days ago, a group of people and horses passed by here and entered the mountains and forests behind?"
"Yes, my lord! I was standing on the side of the street, and there was a nasty guy who whipped me, and of course I knew! ”
Qin Dong nodded and said, "Very good, you go and tell the others, as long as anyone can find the hiding place of those people, I will reward a hundred cows and a hundred sheep, and also allow him to directly enter my army without selection, and after training, he will be directly promoted to a chief!" Of course, you can do the same as they do to find out the traces of those people, but I have to warn you that this time in the mountains is a dangerous job, and if those people find out your purpose, you will be very dangerous! ”
This Germanic young man ignored Qin Dong's reminder at all, only remembered the previous words, and he was overjoyed: "Great King, is the reward you promised true?" If that's true, Weld is here to help! ”
Qin Dong's promise was a huge amount of money for this young Germanic man named Weld, perhaps in his cognition, even the wealth of the patriarch was far less, if he could get this wealth, he would become the richest person in the entire clan, and then the girls in the clan could be chosen by him. (To be continued......)