Lyon, the camp of the Qindong army.

Since the Western Route Army led by Qin Dong himself and the Eastern Route Army led by Duoyin met under the city of Lyon more than a month ago, Qin Dong ordered a fierce attack on the city of Lyon for more than a month, and both sides suffered heavy casualties, the only difference is that the casualties on the side of Qin Dong's army are basically prisoners and slaves, and their own army has not lost at all, but has rested for more than a month, while the Burgundian Kingdom has died on its own soldiers.

At this time, in Qin Dong's Chinese army tent, the generals were surrounding Qin Dong looking at the wall is the Lyon city defense map, and everyone is already discussing how to attack the next siege battle.

Qin Dong said: "The city defense of Angcheng here really lives up to its reputation, we have been attacking for more than a month, and the city defense has not yet shown the slightest sign of shaking, most of those captives and slaves have died, and now the morale of the captives and slaves is very low, and the situation is not very good, what do you think we should do now?" ”

Agul said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that now you can't let those slaves and captives continue to attack the city, and if this continues, the minister is worried that they will mutiny!" ”

"How dare they?" Balhan was furious and said, "If they dare to have a trace of rebellion, Lao Tzu will bury them all alive!"

Qin Dong said: "It's easy to bury them, but there's no need for that, those captives and slaves are still useful, I want to keep them to use them somewhere else, and send an order to let the captives and slaves rest in the next few days, when to attack the city and wait for my will!" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

At this moment, a messenger walked in quickly from the outside, and reported: "Your Majesty, news from the Roman side." The coalition army of 150,000 men has been assembled in Valence, and will soon go north to relieve the siege of Lyon, and then have a decisive battle with our army! ”

All the soldiers and horses of the coalition came from different places. Some of them are far away, some are relatively close, and before going north to reinforce Lyon, they will definitely have to take a rest, and as for how long they will rest, it will depend on whether the morale and combat effectiveness of the various military horses are restored.

Hearing this, Qin Dong immediately found Valence's location on the map, and gestured with his finger: "If the normal marching speed is followed, it will take them six days to reach Lyon." Including the two days of rest, it will take about eight days, which means that we only have eight days to break through Lyon. Ladies and gentlemen. What do we do next? Do you continue to storm or choose to evacuate? ”

Balhan stood up and said loudly: "Your Majesty, we have been in contact for more than a month, and so many people have died, we can't just give up halfway." Give me three days. Within three days, I will bring my headquarters to defeat the city of Lyon! ”

Hearing this, Qin Dong said coldly: "Three days? Why did you take Lyon in three days? Can you take Lyon with your cavalry? Can your cavalry fly up the walls? Don't talk with a long brain, and then talk nonsense in the future, watch me pump you with big ears! ”

"Uh, yes, Your Majesty!" Barhan stepped aside, and the other generals turned their faces away and snickered.

Agul saluted and said: "Your Majesty, it is better to withdraw the troops among the ministers, because of the natural geographical environment and the tall city walls of Angcheng here. It's really hard to break, otherwise we wouldn't be here for more than a month. And the Burgundians hide in the city like shrunken turtles and don't come out, and we really can't do anything about them for a while, so I think we might as well retreat first, and when we retreat, they can't stay in the city forever, right? As long as they open the city and let the people out of the city, we have a way to break the city! ”

Agul didn't finish his words, there was a mystery hidden in these words, Qin Dong's eyes lit up when he heard it, and he knew that Agul wanted to tell him in private, so he waved his hand and said to the generals: "It's been a day of fighting today, let's go back and rest first!" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

After driving away the other people in the big tent, only Qin Dong and Agul were left in the big tent, and Agul said: "Presumably His Majesty has already guessed the minister's thoughts, it's like this, the minister thinks that we can retreat first, but not the real retreat, but the fake retreat, but in order to make the Burgundians believe that we are really retreating, we have to make the illusion of a real retreat, once the Burgundians believe that we are really retreating, they will definitely open the city gates and let the people go out of the city to make a living, the consumption of hundreds of thousands of people is too great, and the reserves of the city of Lyon are also limited." So the people must go out of the city to make a living, then this is our chance, there are many Burgundian captives and slaves among us, we can let these people pretend to be the people who go out of the city and follow those people into the city before closing the city gate at dusk, as long as we can mix in a few hundred people enough to control the city gate, when we come to the city again, our own people who have mixed into the city and us outside the city should be together, and the city will be broken in one fell swoop! ”

Qin Dong nodded again and again when he heard this: "Yes, very good, this method is very good, Agul, you are worthy of being a wise man, okay, just do it according to your method, the herald immediately makes a fire to cook, sleeps well after dinner, and retreats north in the middle of the night tonight!" ”

"Got it!" Agul wanted to ask why he had to wait until midnight to pull out the camp, and tomorrow morning he couldn't pull out the camp and retreat? However, he quickly understood, if you want to pretend to be decent, retreating in the middle of the night can play a sudden role, and when the Burgundians in the city find out, the camp is already empty, which will cause the Burgundians to cause the Qindong army is likely to get the news that the coalition is coming, so they choose the illusion of a sudden retreat, so that the Burgundians will be relieved to open the city gates, and then relax their vigilance, once the Burgundians relax their vigilance, it will be the end of the Burgundians.

The sudden retreat in the middle of the night made the prisoners and slaves who had been engaged in many siege battles for several days complain, but under the pressure of the Hu army, they could only endure it, and all the troops, whether they were the Hu army or the captives and slaves, silently saluted and packed up their tents, and quietly evacuated from the camp to the north.

At dawn, Qin Dong's army had retreated to Limone, a small town dozens of miles north of Lyon, Qin Dong sat on his war horse and let the horses walk on their own, seemingly asleep, but in fact, he hadn't slept all night, and had been thinking about how to deal with the coalition army.

The sky was shining, the sun was rising from the horizon, and the army was still walking on the road to the north, Qin Dong opened his eyes and said to the herald beside him: "Order the whole army to stop advancing and rest, and march after breakfast!" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Qin Dong used the breakfast time to gather several major generals and asked Agul if there was any news from the city of Lyon after the withdrawal of the army, and Agul said that it was only dawn and no news had arrived.

Qin Dong then said the plan he had thought about all night last night, and used the large number of coalition forces to dispatch, when the domestic forces of each country were empty, he sent a powerful cavalry force to raid their country at lightning speed, and then spread the news of the surprise attack in each country during the decisive battle with the coalition army, disturbing the morale of the Western Roman Empire coalition army, as long as the Western Roman Empire coalition army was in turmoil, Qin Dong could lead the army to break it in one fell swoop at that time.

Everyone was very excited to listen to Qin Dong's plan and command, this plan is very feasible, you must know that a considerable part of the forces of this coalition come from the Franks, Sarmatians and Saxons, and the territory of these three forces is in the west and north of Gaul, Qin Dong can send an army to move westward.

Duoyin stood up and saluted: "Your Majesty, the last general requests to bring a troop of soldiers and horses to attack the lair of the Franks, Sarmatians, and Saxons!" ”

Qin Dong looked at Duoyin and shook his head, "Do you want to go?" No, you can't go, your specialty is commanding infantry battles, you are not good at cavalry, and the army sent west to raid the west and north of Gaul this time must be a light cavalry force capable of both long-range and melee combat! ”

Balhan immediately stood up and saluted: "Your Majesty, he can't do it, I will definitely do it, please let me lead the cavalry into battle!" ”

"You?" Qin Dong touched his chin and pondered for a while before saying, "It's not impossible for you to go, but you must promise me one thing, and you must make a military order!" ”

"Yes, yes, as long as Your Majesty allows me to lead my troops west to attack the nests of the Franks, Sarmatians, and Saxons, I will agree to any conditions!" Barhan spoke out immediately.

Here, among the generals from the cavalry, only Balhan is the most qualified to undertake this combat mission, and the experience of commanding cavalry battles is incomparable, and others are beyond the reach of others, and other people with seniority older than him, such as Su He, Tuolong, Muren, Zheli, etc., are all in the country, and they did not come this time.

Qin Dong nodded and said: "Okay, since this is the case, then it is up to you to fight, my condition is first, during this battle, you can't drink, not a drop of wine is allowed to drink, I sent someone to supervise you, as long as I heard that you drank wine, no matter whether this battle is lost or won, I will not let you go after you come back, second, I only give you 5,000 people, including 3,000 light cavalry, 1,000 mountain infantry, and the other 1,000 warriors who are familiar with the mountains and forests and hills from Princess Nicola's army and can ride horses, these 5,000 people are all equipped with horses, Three thousand light horsemen with three horses, infantry each with one horse, this time there is no logistical supply, I give each of the three thousand light horsemen with ten pots of arrows, two bows, food and drink and so on by you in the battle site to raise by yourself, remember one thing, I did not let you occupy all their lair, but let you turn their lair upside down, do you understand what I mean? ”

The 3,000 light cavalry may not be as good as the archers in terms of cavalry and archery, but they are much stronger than the archers in close combat, and they are not as good as the heavy cavalry in terms of combat effectiveness in close combat, but they are not a little bit stronger than the heavy cavalry in terms of flexibility, and the light cavalry is definitely the best unit to change places with one shot.

Balhan said excitedly: "I understand, I understand too well, does His Majesty mean that he will keep changing places and attacking everywhere soon?" I'm good at this! ”

Qin Dong nodded and said, "Okay, after breakfast, immediately communicate with Princess Nicola, borrow a thousand people from her, and another thousand mountain infantry will be drawn from a division of Duoyin, and set off immediately after completion!" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" (To be continued......)