Chapter 220: Broken Tail
Lower Osay, here is the southernmost exit of the Grand Canyon in the middle of the Rila Mountains, from Lower Oya to the south to Symi, northwest to Carmen, southeast to Sinoco, blocking this is equivalent to blocking the southbound exit of the Grand Canyon.
It took only more than an hour for Tolong to arrive at the Lower Olympian with five hundred cavalry to meet with Muren, and after the two met, they joined forces together, according to Qin Dong's order, with Muren as the chief general and Tolong as the deputy.
"Muren, this time you are happy, you can lead the army independently, and you are invincible all the way, not only captured Hall's territory, but even the city of Carmen of Odoase was taken by you, after this battle, the reward for you will definitely not be less!" Tolong was a little envious, saying that it was false not to be envious, but not jealousy, when it came to war, no one was convinced.
Among Qin Dong's officers, so far only Mu Ren has led the troops independently, according to his current record, he can completely stand alone, but although Tuo Long is envious, he is not jealous, he has no chance to lead the troops independently, if there is this opportunity, he believes that he will not do worse than Mu Ren.
Muren smiled: "I don't care about the reward or anything, everyone is doing things for adults, and being able to gain the trust of adults is the most important thing, although the time you follow adults is a little shorter than mine, but it's not bad, I believe that next time if you have the opportunity, adults will let you stand alone!" โ
"Hopefully!" Toron nodded, "By the way, when the remnants of the 14th Legion leave the valley, how are you going to fight?" โ
Muren pointed to the endless pastures outside the valley mouth and said, "You see, the weeds within ten miles around here are so deep. It's not very cold yet, and the weeds haven't turned yellow, so it's just right for us to hide in. As soon as the remnants of the enemy left the valley, we killed them from both sides, and with the speed of our cavalry's impact, they were killed by us before they could be deployed, as long as we dispersed them, the rest of the matter would be easy to do, what do you think? โ
Toron frowned and said, "You probably don't know yet. The remnants of the Fourteenth Army were now divided into three parts, each with a mile in between, if we attacked one of them. Several other parts will definitely support quickly, and there is also a heavy infantry of several hundred people, so things are a little troublesome! โ
"Oh? And this kind of thing? Makiren also felt a little tricky, but quickly thought of a way. He said, "In that case." Then we will cut off its tail first, and destroy the hundreds of people after the break first, so as to increase the pressure on the first few parts, and also make them panic, and continue to run forward without their lives, you think, in such a critical situation, I am afraid that any general will only run forward. And will not turn back to the rescue, because then it is easy to trap the rest of the army here. If the other general's thinking is still normal, he should know how to choose! โ
"Makes sense!" Tolong nodded, he had to admit that Mu Ren had an accurate grasp of the enemy's mind, on the way to escape, no general could still have the determination to fight to the death, and Mu Ren just grasped the psychological condition of the enemy general in this critical situation, cutting off the enemy's tail is the best way, he asked: "This method is good, what about after cutting off the enemy's tail?" What are you going to do? โ
Mu Ren smiled: "Hahaha, against a few hundred people, I'm afraid we won't need so many troops, right?" Since they can divide the army into several parts and evacuate, then why can't we divide all the troops into several parts? I have here 1,300 cavalry, and your 500, a total of 1,800 cavalry, of which 1,000 are light cavalry and 800 archers, and we can divide these 1,800 cavalry into six parts, each of which is 300 cavalry, and the light cavalry is the majority, and the other half is the archers, and we make sure that each part has light cavalry and archers, and we will lay an ambush on both sides of the road that the enemy must pass, and ambush a soldier and horse every five or six miles, and after we cut off their tails, they will surely hasten and flee, and when they have run five or six miles, A military horse that happened to be lying in ambush there killed and cut off its tail again, so they ran forward again, and when they ran out of another five or six miles, another military horse came out and continued to cut off its tail, they were already frightened, and they must run again, and so on, and so on, and when they ran out of thirty or forty miles, all the troops were intercepted and killed by us in batches! The first three hundred cavalry to intercept and kill will immediately pursue and join up with those in front of them at the end of the battle, help them in their mission, and then pursue them again, so that we all meet at the final ambush point."
Hearing this, Toron couldn't help but give a thumbs up: "Gao Ming, you are really stronger than me, you can think of this method, but this is just your wishful thinking, whether the enemy will flee quickly after being cut off as you imagined, I don't know, if they immediately send someone back to support?" โ
Mu Ren nodded: "Yes, the enemy's head grows on their own neck, what will they do, we are just speculating now, they may not necessarily run forward as I envisioned, but it doesn't matter, didn't you say that they have no cavalry now, at most only a few dozen cavalry for reconnaissance?" โ
"Yes!"
"That's fine, if the enemy's tail is attacked by us and does not choose to continue to run forward, but chooses to stop and send reinforcements, then we will withdraw, we are all cavalry, and they are all infantry, we will first play their reconnaissance cavalry, and then use the high-speed mobility of the cavalry to harass constantly, they have no food now, and there is no water near here, I think how can they support it?"
Tolong is really convinced, Muren's brain is very flexible, his grasp of the situation is also very clear, he can clearly recognize the advantages and disadvantages between the enemy and us, and is good at quantifying and widening this gap.
"Hahaha, okay, Muren, your method is good, whether they escape or not, they will inevitably perish, you give the order, I will listen to your dispatch!"
Mu Ren smiled: "Then I'm not welcome, so let's do it, you are responsible for commanding the three ambushed armies in front, and I am in charge of the three ambushes in the back, if the situation you just said occurs, you should know what to do, but you must inform me in time!" โ
Toron nodded: "Of course, you are the main general!" โ
The two men then began to divide the 1,800 cavalry into six parts, each with light cavalry and archers, with light cavalry in the majority and archers in the minority, with Tolong leading three cavalry in ambush near the mouth of the gorge in the first half and Muren leading the other three cavalry in the second half.
After walking for nearly two hours, the sound of horses' hooves was heard from the front, and the captain of the wing who opened the road in front immediately raised his palm to signal the army behind him to stop, and when the sound of horses' hooves was close, he knew that it was his own reconnaissance cavalry.
The scout cavalry rode over and stopped, and reported: "General, two miles ahead is under Osay, and we have found no abnormality!" โ
After hearing this, Herolius said: "Continue to investigate, be careful, and report the situation as soon as you find it!" โ
"Yes, General!"
Helorius waved his hand: "Keep going!"
It didn't take long for Herolius and the others, who were at the forefront on horseback, to feel that there was a sudden brightness in front of them, and the dark shadows of the high mountains in the distance in the dark night were gone, and what appeared in front of them was an endless emptiness.
"There are still four hours before dawn, and my order is to speed up the march and try to reach Symi at dawn, as long as we reach Symi, we are relatively safe, and we must leave before the Hun army arrives from the city of Kรกrmรกn!"
"Yes, General!"
After walking out of the long canyon for dozens of years, the Roman soldiers relaxed from their hearts, and their steps were much brisker, but their vigilance also dropped a lot, not only in the canyon were worried about being ambushed by the Huns, but also the dangerous terrain around them gave them a lot of pressure, after all, no one wanted to stay in a dangerous environment, but now it was different, now the surroundings were very empty, and the pressure of the surrounding precipitous environment was gone, these Roman soldiers naturally relaxed their mood and relaxed their vigilance.
The army of more than 4,000 people dragged six or seven miles long, when the last army, the remnants of Homsis walked out of the mouth of the canyon for a mile, suddenly from the grass on both sides of the grass out of the hundreds of cavalry, these cavalry raided very quickly, only a few breaths of time to kill in front of the eyes, Homsis and his Roman soldiers did not react at all and were scattered by the Hun light cavalry in the front, many people did not even know how to die, after the light cavalry rushed over, followed by the free scattering of the archers, Arrows kept coming in waves, and the Roman soldiers, who were still terrified just now, were attacked again, almost everyone dropped their weapons and ran, and some people took off their armor and ran away, lest they would be caught up and killed by the Hun cavalry if they ran slowly.
There were a large number of shouts of killing from the rear, which immediately attracted the attention of the troops in front, and soon someone reported to Herolius, "General, the Hun cavalry appeared, they raided the army of Homsis, listening to the sound of horses' hooves and momentum, there are at least hundreds of cavalry, if we don't rescue in time, it is estimated that Homsis and his army will be finished!" โ
Helorius's heart trembled, what he was worried about still happened, this Huns are really chasing after us, do they want to eat us all in one bite? He thought for a while and then gritted his teeth and said, "Order, keep going, don't stop!" โ
The centurion of the report hesitated: "General, then we will not care about Homsis and them?" โ
Helorius sighed: "Judging from the current situation, we can only pray that God will bless them with safety, and hope that they can survive some more people, go and give orders!" โ
"Yes, General!" The centurion retreated. (To be continued......)