Chapter 134: Strategic Turn
Sampu listened to the soldiers' reports, laughed coldly, and said, "Hmph, Colenva is just capable of this, specializing in stealing chickens and dogs!" If you want to provoke me with this little trick, I also underestimate my Marshal Sampu too much! I don't care what tricks you Colenva plays, I just won't take it, the troops are stronger than you, cross the river with all your might, and see what you can do to me! ”
But Samp can't cross the river right now, he still needs to cut down trees and build a pontoon bridge. Although the surface of the Marshall River on the plain is not wide, less than 50 meters, but early summer is the flood season of the Marshall River, and without a pontoon bridge, it is impossible for Kenben to swim across it.
Early in the morning, while ordering the trees to be cut down, Samp sent messengers to the south bank of the river, demanding that Colenva must surrender within a day, otherwise the bloodshed of Misland and the revival of the city would be ruined.
In addition to persuading him to surrender, Sampu sent an envoy with another meaning, which was to find out the truth of the strange incident that the Chinese army camp in Kolenwa did not move south and the pontoon bridge was not demolished.
Colenva received the envoy at the Chinese camp on the north bank, and was very ambiguous about whether to fight or surrender, and had a fierce argument with his generals in the Chinese camp tent. In the end, Colenva said that he was willing to surrender, but half of his army was now composed of people from Fuxing City, and Fuxing City was not willing to surrender, and Colenva needed time to persuade Fuxing City's army.
Sampo's emissary demanded that Kolenwa's army must stop harassing Sampo's army, and Kolenwa said that it was not his own soldiers who were attacking Sampo's army, but Fuxing City, and he had nothing to do.
In order to show his sincerity, Kolenwa sent an envoy to Sampu with 100 pigs, 500 sheep, 20 carts of military rations, 8,000 jars of wine, and many fruits and vegetables, and sent 500 people to escort the labor army, telling Sampu that he needed time to control the army in Fuxing City, and asked for a one-day delay in the deadline for surrender.
Although Sampu was skeptical of Kolenva's surrender, the other party's demands were reasonable, and he needed time to recuperate. In the face of absolute military strength, Sampu is not worried about what danger the remaining 30,000 troops on the other side can pose to his 200,000 army, in short, his overall situation has been decided.
On the north bank of the Marshall River, Samp's army began to slaughter pigs and sheep in the evening when the supplies of the labor army arrived, and it was very lively. At the labor army meeting in the evening, the envoys of Colenva frequently advised the generals to drink, and they themselves were very drunk. The labor assembly was held until late at night, and most of the generals and soldiers were drunk.
On the south bank, in the tent of the Chinese army camp in Colenwal, Colenwa also warmly entertained Samp's envoys, but the whole camp seemed very quiet.
At the same time, Colenva secretly dispatched troops, and more than 20,000 troops, who had already crossed the south bank, began to secretly assemble on the north bank through pontoon bridges.
It was nearly midnight, and the sound of drums and trumpets sounded in the depths of the jungle on time, but again only sound was heard, and no one was seen.
Although Samp's generals were annoyed by the ambush in Kolenva, which was deep in the jungle, most of them scoffed at it, and the few men and horses, at most, harassed themselves to sleep, and there were 5,000 cavalry patrolling, and there was no big noise. So the whole of Samp's camp went back to sleep after the Labor Army Conference was completed.
Last night's harassment caused the patrolling 5,000 cavalry to focus their patrols on the ambush in the dense forest, which was the rear of Samp's camp and the location of the baggage troops, and was the focus of Samp's protection.
This kind of harassment again occurred every hour, and almost everyone in Sampu's camp was accustomed to numbness, and his own army of nearly 200,000 troops was stationed, and the enemy on the south bank was only 20,000 or 30,000, which was not worth mentioning at all. The harassment of war drums and horns that the other side was accustomed to made the long-tired soldiers unable to arouse any interest, so everyone continued to sleep with their heads covered.
When the third war drums and trumpets were remembered, the enemy on the north shore still laughed at this kind of pediatric harassment in their hearts, but the army of 30,000 led by Colenva, who had already landed on the north bank, poured out of the nest and killed from the south.
"Enemy attack—" The sentries shouted loudly and blew their horns when they saw the heavy cavalry pressed by the black press.
However, although most of the sleeping Sampu troops were awakened, they listened to the distant sound, which did not seem to attack their own corner, but continued to lie back in ignorance.
Colenva's army quickly rushed into the enemy camp and cut down anyone they saw.
The drunken ambassador of the labor army suddenly came to his senses, and with the "people" of the five hundred labor army, quietly killed more than 20 sentries guarding them, and then hid in the major camps, and while lighting the camp tents, he shouted loudly, "Your Excellency Marshal is dead, run-"
The camp of the 200,000-strong army, which stretched for five or six kilometers from south to north, and four or five thousand kilometers from east to west, suddenly panicked and confused. At this time, the 5,000 cavalry patrolling was a sneak attack in the dense forest at the northern end of the main camp, and they had no idea what was happening at the southern end of the large camp a few kilometers away.
When countless tents were set on fire, countless people were killed, and countless enemies rushed into the camp, the officers and soldiers woke up in a drunken sleep, and hurriedly looked for clothes and equipment and weapons in a panic. Those who woke up from their sleep could not distinguish between east and west, north and south, where the enemy came from, and could not find their own captain and commander, so they were in a mess.
The 30,000-strong army of Colenva entered the flock like 30,000 vicious wolves, desperately slashing and chasing in the face of a chaotic and unresisted enemy.
"The marshal is dead, run—" More and more people shouted as they fled to the north.
When the angry Sam Pu came to his senses, he saw that the soldiers who had no fighting spirit were desperately fleeing like headless flies, and his own officers were also drunk and had no fighting spirit, and no one organized the soldiers to resist, Sam was very angry and hurriedly took his guards out to organize a counterattack. But his battalion was in a panic, fear, and wailing under the onslaught of the overwhelming Kolenwa army, and Samp killed several officers who fled in the panic, trying to stabilize or control the situation. However, in the deep darkness of the night, fear had already spread throughout the entire camp, and no one cared whether you were a marshal or a soldier in the panic, and your own life was the most important thing.
More and more tents were set on fire, stables were opened, the cavalry could not find their horses, the infantry could not find their armour, Samp retreated, and the officers lost their fighting spirit and fled for their lives. The sound of war drums and trumpets was everywhere, and the sound of screams and swords was everywhere, and all the people in the camp felt that the enemy was everywhere, as if they were right behind them, chasing them with swords and spears.
More than 200,000 men and horses were chased and killed by 30,000 people, trampling on each other, and countless casualties were inflicted.
After discovering that the sneak attack was coming from the south, the 5,000 cavalry patrolling turned around the dock to the south to resist, but was blocked by the panic and confusion that had spread throughout the battalion. The five thousand centaurs went south, but the others went north, and immediately drowned the five thousand men and horses, trampling on each other. As a last resort, the 5,000 men and horses on patrol also turned around and fled.
Thousands of infantry and crossbowmen rushed out of the dense forests on both sides, slashing along the perimeter of the camp, not daring to penetrate deep into the depths of this fugitive army.
There is no suspense at all, and the defeat of Samp's 200,000 army is decided, and the game is over like this, completely losing his armor and losing everything.
The 30,000-strong army led by Colenwa followed the chase all the way, and several thousand men of Shante and Charlie also joined the chasing army.
After three nights and two days of pursuit, the entire battlefield was expanded to several hundred square kilometers, and on the morning of the fourth day, the 30,000-strong army that followed and Rogson's 6,000 cavalry finally joined forces.
In the end, it was not only the 200,000 troops who were hunted down, but also the troops transporting supplies on the road, the garrison of the small town of Dowanc...... The large armies along the way were affected by this 200,000-strong army, and they abandoned their supplies and positions and retreated north to the city of Masult.
Samp's army, together with the logistics troops, logistics escorts, and defenders of various strongholds along the way, totaled 2560,000 people, and only no more than 50,000 remnants of the defeated army fled into the city of Masilt, and the other soldiers who fled for their lives in a panic were still surrounded and intercepted by Colenva's army on a battlefield of hundreds or thousands of square kilometers.
The 40,000-strong army garrisoned in the city of Masirt was also frightened by the defeat of Samp's remnants and the tragic scenes outside the city, and they did not dare to leave the city.
The weary army of Colenva began to return before nightfall, and it took three days and three nights to complete the victory.
Colenwa doesn't know how many people were killed or how many escaped, but everyone knew the significance of the victory. Sampu lost all his baggage, rations, and horses, and all his morale and fighting spirit. Although there were still 100,000 troops in the city of Marsilt and the fortress north of the city, and more than 100,000 troops on the east bank of the Marshall River desperately trying to cross the river, in fact, Colenwa was already doomed to victory in this battle, and Samp had no chance to make a comeback in the short term.
On the plain of nearly 200 kilometers from the Marshall River to the city of Marsert, there were dead bodies everywhere, supplies and military rations everywhere, and war horses without owners everywhere.
Colenva's army was stationed south of the city of Marsilt and confronted the defenders of the city. The 40,000-strong army of the newly victorious Kolenvachi Rogson Division was fearless in the face of the 100,000-strong army in the city of Marsert, and calmly ordered the soldiers and civilians of the city of Mithland to clean up the battlefield.
After getting the news of Samp's defeat, Mapote in the Fourth Theater had been fighting with the Second Army in the west of Andalu Province for more than three months, and Arad finally failed to hide the news of the fall of the base camp of the Fourth Theater, and had been on an expedition of 3,000 kilometers to fight the Fourth Army of Mapote, but finally demoralized, unwilling to fight, withdrew from Andalu Province, and withdrew to the city of Anan, the base camp that had been recovered 3,000 kilometers to the north, and the city of Mislan in Colenwa finally bordered the territory of the Second Army again, and the encirclement was lifted.
With the reinforcements of the Second Army included in the province of Andalu, Samp had to withdraw from the fortress north of Masert and the city, and returned to his own territory, and the hundreds of thousands of troops east of the city of Mithland also withdrew eastward when they heard the news. Arad planned a grand strategy of all operations in several theaters of operations, which ended in a total defeat of his own.
The grand strategic operation on the battlefield, the complete defeat of Arad, not only in the south, but also in the north The losses were huge. But everyone knows that the impact of this strategic operation will continue to ferment and will become an important turning point in the civil war in Erathia.
In the northern theater, Arad not only allowed the Fifth Army to successfully complete the counterinsurgency, but also lost more than 100,000 people in the north, not including the 200,000 rebels of the Fifth Army, of course. lost a large amount of territory, and also let Meng Gesa show off his power in the Guanzhong Plain, destroying three fortresses.
In the southern battlefield, although the gap between the losses of the two sides in the naval battle was not large, the sixth theater lost the right to control the sea. Sampu lost more than 300,000 troops, a large amount of supplies, horses, and baggage, and his morale was low, and the third theater of operations changed from the strongest theater to the weakest theater, and in the future, the territory of the third theater had to enter a comprehensive strategic defense.
The Fifth Army in the Northern Theater benefited from counterinsurgency, and the losses were also enormous, and the flooding of the Haman Plain caused devastating damage to the territory of the Fifth Army, which required years to restore operations.
The interests of the south were similar, with only 60,000 of the 140,000 people left in Colenva, but Fuxing City retained the main force, sending 40,000 troops, and only 10,000 were lost. The battle left the province of Andalu largely scorched, and the economy of Colenva's territory was devastated.
Although the loss of troops together with the naval army reached more than 10,000, Fuxing City made a lot of war money, and Denilson made a lot of money, and the influx of more than 300,000 refugees in Andalu Province made the population of Fuxing City reach one million, and Denilson had to lose a lot of arable land to settle these refugees, completely transforming Fuxing City into a commercial and manufacturing metropolis.