All this is just Zhang Chao's plan for the long term. This operation against Victor's legion is actually a knife practice, but in the eyes of others, this target is a little too big, and some are too risky.

Wealth is sought in addition to the middle. Nothing in the world is easy, people are living in practice, it is a very hard thing, the difference is that everyone takes different actions and mentality when facing problems.

Zhang Chao is confident that no general wants to lose the battle, and even more so the generals of the Celestial Empire. With the experience of leading troops to fight in the past two years, I think that this time in the matter of the Victor Legion, everyone will definitely do their best. If this is the case, there is absolutely no possibility of defeat.

In the face of Wenchen's worries, Zhang Chao didn't mean to explain, some things still have to be figured out by people, which may be considered a process of growth.

Because Zhang Chao is in a high position, stands tall, sees far, and gets a lot of news, he naturally understands the situation very well. At least some information about the Victor Legion is not known to the advisors like Pang Tong and Feng Ji.

It was precisely because he knew that the morale of the Victor Army was now low that he did not organize a large-scale attack, but adopted the method of fighting the enemy in small groups. He just doesn't give the opponent's main force a chance to fight a decisive battle.

And it was Zhang Chao's choice that made the Victor Legion fall into a comprehensive passivity in the next war.

The Celestial Empire's army suddenly began to assemble and mobilize, and these things naturally could not be hidden from General Victor who was on the march.

As the only Five Tiger Generals and the surviving Five Tiger Generals, Victor naturally has extraordinary wisdom. It's just that he was smart and prepared for a decisive battle, but he really didn't expect that Zhang Chao, the emperor of the Celestial Empire, would ignore this set at all and adopt the most dangerous method of dividing troops to attack.

The so-called method of dividing the army into multiple routes to carry out a sectional attack.

The advantage of this is that the strength of the army can be preserved to the greatest extent, and if one army has problems, it will not affect the other armies. But the shortcomings are also obvious, when the number of troops is not enough, if you want to inflict trauma on a large army, the possibility becomes much smaller, and it is easy to become a tactic to add fuel to the army, so as to find the possibility of being defeated one by one.

It was because of this understanding that Victor did not expect Zhang Chao to make such a choice, he believed that the army of the Celestial Empire would start a decisive battle, for which he was preparing for the transfer of troops, and also wrote to the prince Anatoly in the city of Great Rus, requesting that once a decisive battle occurred, please don't see the opportunity to take the opportunity to kill out of the city, as long as the two sides can converge at that time, you can launch a two-sided attack, at that time, victory is in sight.

Anatoly, the prince of the city, did exactly this after receiving the letter sent by Victor, and he first found the national teacher Philadimir to do some verification, and when he was sure that it was indeed feasible, he prepared the 300,000 troops in the city to go out of the city and fight.

In Anatoly's view, as long as Viktor can contain the main force of the Celestial Empire's army, then even without the help of the Kazakh and Ukrainian armies, he is confident that he will fight out of the city, so as to join the Viktor army and come to a meeting inside and outside.

Even at this time, the eldest prince Anatoly was still full of confidence, waiting for the decisive battle of the main force of the Celestial Empire army to happen, and then he firmly believed that the Kazakh and Ukrainian armies who saw the opportunity would also cooperate with him to fight out of the city.

In fact, these two countries did send a large number of scouts, listening for military intelligence, in search of opportunities to fight. After all, in their eyes, the Celestial Empire was too powerful, and its sense of threat had even surpassed that of the declining and Rus' kingdoms, and if they could inflict a heavy blow on it, it was obviously something they would be happy to see.

And just when everyone's eyes were on the decisive battle, the division of troops under Zhang Chao's organization began to be implemented.

The first thing to feel was naturally the Victor Legion in the middle of it. They were the first to be attacked by the infantry cavalry.

When he first heard that the army of the Celestial Empire had begun to move, General Victor was still a little excited, although he was injured by Guan Yu, there was still no problem in commanding the army. With his preparation, even if the main force of the Celestial Empire launched an attack on him, he was confident that he would be able to resist for more than two months, and then the Great Prince would have enough time to prepare, after all, this was the border of Rus, and once the two sides were entangled, it would be beneficial and harmless to him.

It didn't take long for the excitement to turn into disappointment. Because he was very sorry to find that the army that attacked him was only a few, only tens of thousands of cavalry. His judgment on this was that this was a tentative move by the Celestial Empire's army. In this regard, in addition to strictly guarding the army, he spent time waiting.

Things also seemed to be as Victor thought, and the cavalry army of the Celestial Empire retreated after launching several attacks and wounding more than 10,000 of his own men. After that, he was waiting for the main force of the Celestial Empire army to appear.

However, this wait, did not wait for any main force, ushered in another Celestial Dynasty Iron Cavalry Wen Chou Division, as soon as they appeared, they were like Buqi generals, launched several fierce attacks, and after bringing them a certain amount of damage, they also retreated.

When the news came, Victor still thought that this was a tentative move by the Celestial Empire army, which could only mean that the opponent was too cautious, and he still believed that it was not far from the main force to attack.

It's just that in anticipation, several more Celestial Empire Road armies have launched attacks, all of which are still small-scale, and the number of people who attack each time is only tens of thousands, but each time it will bring more than 10,000 soldiers to his army.

In this way, waiting for Victor to feel that something was wrong, especially when he heard the scout report that the Celestial Empire Road Army that had attacked their army before had not gone far, but was following behind their army from a distance, he finally understood that the Celestial Empire had never wanted to fight him, but wanted to use the division of troops to constantly harass him and constantly reduce his strength.

After finally knowing the method to be adopted by the Celestial Empire army, Victor immediately began to shrink his army, and at the same time reported the news to the land of Great Russ City.

It's only at this time that Victor is a little slower to react. In this nearly month-long attack, he was attacked by seven road armies, and the total number of dead and wounded exceeded 100,000, which not only greatly reduced the number of his army, but also fell into a great passivity because of the continuous attacks.

A large army can win battles, and morale is a very important component. It is very difficult for an army without morale to win the war, let alone face an elite army like the Celestial Empire.

The original strength of the Victor Legion was only more than 900,000, but after the events of this month, the number of the army was reduced to more than 800,000. However, this is not the main thing, what is even more terrible is that there are problems with military rations.

Originally, after staying in the city of Beitki for a whole winter, the food of the army was not very abundant. This time, I rushed out of the city, and not all the food I could bring out. I thought that as long as I had enough food rations for two months, how could I rush to the city of Great Rus. If it doesn't work, just start collecting food along the way.

It's just that I didn't expect that under several attacks, the marching speed of the legion was slowed down to the extreme, and it had far exceeded the earliest two-month period, and what was even more troublesome was that wherever they passed, they were all taken by the army of the Celestial Empire, and they all snatched the grain here first, and called it a strong wall and a clear field, so that there would naturally be problems with food.

The morale of the army was already unstable, and there were still problems with food, and there were iron cavalry of the Celestial Empire outside, which made the morale of the Victor Army even lower under the internal and external difficulties.

The scales of victory and defeat have begun to tilt.

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Great Ross City.

For a month, Prince Anatoly waited for a long time, and did not wait for the decisive battle between Victor and the army of the Celestial Empire, but came from the rear with 300,000 reinforcements. As a result, the number of Rus' troops in the city reached 600,000, and he seemed to have more confidence.

Just when Prince Anatoly was thinking about whether he could start a counterattack, at least to meet the Viktor Army, something happened to the armies of Kazakhstan and Ukraine, and their countries actually issued a recall order.

Speaking of which, this order also has something to do with the Rus' state, because the source of everything is related to opium.

When Yaxiong Fuqiang was alive, the opium of the Celestial Empire entered the Rus' country from the Celestial Empire. The attitude of the Rus' state is that it will not stop it, but it should not be overly dependent, and in order to make money, they will sell these things to nearby neighbors, among which Kazakhstan and Ukraine are the "hardest hit areas." ”

Opium is naturally not a good thing for some people, especially some civilians who are even living in difficulty, and it is a luxury. But for some powerful and wealthy people, this is indeed good spiritual food. Once smoked, it can make people feel intoxicated and have the feeling of becoming a fairy.

Opium was widely circulated in these countries, and soon became a trend, becoming the most popular item among the local upper class, and even the Kazakh royal family smoked it, so the Zhangjia Trading Company took the opportunity to enter these countries and set up branches.

It's just that with the war between the Celestial Empire and the Rus' Kingdom, commercial exchanges have become stricter, and many goods are more difficult to circulate than usual, making best-selling items such as opium 0 a rare thing, and some addicted nobles are even more hungry and fall into pain.