Chapter 157: Hwaseong Tragedy
"Listen, I'm not discussing with you now, this is an order, everyone must carry it out, otherwise the military law will deal with it!" Higg looked at all the officers, picked up the warrior order, and said: "In order to prevent the evacuated army from being bitten by the enemy's tail, I need a death squad to defend Bobohua City to the death, and hold the enemy for at least two days, and your general is willing to take responsibility?" ”
"I'll do it!" Simak said without hesitation.
"General Simak!" Gambochi smiled, "Don't rob me of this kind of thing!" I will defend Bobohua City, and I will drag the enemy for three days! ”
"I'm defending the city with General Gampoch!" Corincha also got up and said.
"General Corincha, I need your elven guards as a reconnaissance advance team to choose a good route for the retreat of the army, so you can't defend the city!" Higg said, "General Gampoch, do you know what it means to defend the city of Bobohua? ”
"Young marshal!" "How can I be left behind when General Johnson can die calmly?" More than twenty years ago, I should have gone with the marshal and his wife, and now that I have lived so long, I am already satisfied to see the young marshal lead the Fifth Legion with my own eyes! ”
"General Korincha, your 10,000 men are transferred to General Gampoch!" Higg said, "General Gampoch, all the baggage of the whole army will be handed over to you to defend the city!" Higg paused for a moment, then said, "After completing the delaying mission, I will allow your army to surrender!" ”
"Young marshal, don't worry about defending the city!" "Now let's discuss the retreat plan in detail!" ”
"Good!" Higg nodded, and then said, "However, General Gampochi, as the general defending the city, has a lower rank and cannot attract the attention of the enemy, so I order, the deputy marshal of Zaire as the commander of the city, General Gampoch assists, and Lord Asaymer personally supervises the city of Bobohua!" ”
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The evacuation plan was discussed until late at night, and all the officers were asked to keep it a secret or they would be killed.
In the early morning of the next day, two armies, each with 10,000 men, were transferred from the large camp of the Chinese army to reinforce the defense line of the Haman River due south and southwest respectively, and put on a posture of holding the defense line of the Haman River to the southwest, while at night, the defense line in the south and southwest directions withdrew two armies, 20,000 men each, to the city of Bobohua.
On the Eastern Front, the elite of 30,000 Guards of SMS quietly crossed the Leiden River on the night of the third day, truly reinforcing the eastern battlefield.
On the night of the fifth day, when the last 20,000 men of the due south and southwest lines were evacuated, the Haman line was left with empty fortifications and a large number of scarecrows, but the barracks on the north bank were still lined with battle flags and flashing lights.
The 30,000 Guards of the Simak Army on the eastern battlefield, together with the original 40,000 defenders, engaged in a real hand-to-hand battle with the allied forces of Arad. Allah's coalition forces, who had been seeking a decisive battle for a long time, did not expect that the enemy would take the initiative to find their own decisive battle, and the unprepared eastern battlefield was immediately torn open. After a night of fierce fighting, the two sides re-established a confrontation at dawn, except that Simak had a lot more territory.
When the battle on the eastern battlefield was in full swing, ox carts, horse-drawn carts, and camels began to carry large quantities of military rations and supplies, crossed the Leiden River from eight pontoon bridges, reached the east bank, and continued to advance eastward.
In the early morning of the sixth day, when the allied forces of the Arad on the south bank of the Haman River due south and southwest found that the Fifth Army had withdrawn, they began to cross the river nervously by bridge, and sent 20,000 cavalry to pursue the defenders of the Fifth Army, who had withdrawn overnight. But the 20,000 troops of Arad's advance army, greedy for merit, were surrounded and ambushed by the 40,000 cavalry of the Fifth Army on the plain on the north bank of the Haman River, and after suffering heavy casualties, they withdrew to the banks of the Haman River, waiting for hundreds of thousands of troops to completely cross the river before pursuing!
At night, there was only the last night left for the soldiers of the Fifth Army to evacuate, and the 130,000-strong army crossed the Leiden River smoothly through eight pontoon bridges and reached the east bank, and the Fifth Army remained unmoved, only the 20,000 defenders of the city of Bobohua and the defenders of the 50,000 Kuba fortress of Habaisa, which had declared neutrality, and all the troops on the east bank of the Leiden River combined, exactly 200,000, were the only remaining main force of the Fifth Army.
Arad's coalition was not a fool, and when he saw the intention of the Fifth Army, he immediately made adjustments, and divided his troops into two routes, besieging the city of Bobohua all the way, crossing all the way to the east bank of the Leiden River, and pursuing the main force of the Fifth Army. At the same time, the hundreds of thousands of allied troops in the east were ordered to plug the gap, and the main force of the Fifth Army must not be allowed to jump out of the encirclement.
But when the coalition army pursuing the Fifth Army had just crossed the Leiden River with more than 10,000 men, Higg personally led an army of 50,000 and appeared at the landing site of the coalition army, killing all 10,000 people or driving them into the icy Leiden River. The 300,000 pursuing coalition troops were forced to suspend the forced crossing of the river and instead build bridges in multiple places to cross the river separately.
More than two hundred royal griffons of the coalition circled in the air. The Royal Griffin has long been a luxury for the Fifth Legion, it has been seven or eight years since it lost contact with the main force of the Qinwang Army, and there is no supply, this special class of troops can only rely on the Queen's supply, and the Fifth Legion has long lost air superiority.
Blue Fairy stood next to Ray, watching Daniel copy Ray's mirror image, and then commanded the mirror image to fly into the sky and fight the griffins, killing two or three griffins each time before the mirror image disappeared before Daniel continued to copy. This method of slaughtering griffons is slow, but it costs nothing, and it only consumes a lot of Daniel's mana. Daniel, who had completed twenty mirror images, finally exhausted his mana, and smiled at Lan Xian'er in a tired prostration: "If I had as much mana as that demon, I could kill these nasty guys!" ”
Lan Xian'er smiled: "Since your mana value is so much, why don't you think about it and see if you can reduce the mana value consumed by each copy mirror?" ”
"Where is it so easy?" Daniel smiled, "But now that I finally know the benefits of actual combat for magic cultivation, it can indeed correct a lot of drawbacks!" ”
Lan Xian'er smiled: "I think you want to stay away from that old man Delongso, it's true to run out!" ”
"Can't you just not tell the truth like that?" Daniel said depressedly, "Hehe, I found that after you and Higg got married, you talked more and more like that guy!" ”
SMS, which received reinforcements, immediately launched a full-scale attack on hundreds of thousands of coalition troops, without any technology and tactics to speak of, only courage and will, this kind of desperate play frightened the opponent, and had to give up the position step by step, waiting for reinforcements. Finally, the blockade opened wider and wider, and the Fifth Army completely gained the upper hand in the confrontation, holding the initiative of the eastern defense line tightly in its own hands. As the convoys and caravans carrying supplies gradually passed through the gap, Higg's 50,000 troops defending along the river finally joined forces with Simak and once again united to defeat the Eastern Route Coalition Army, and then the 200,000 troops disappeared into the mountainous area of Pamela, where the terrain was complicated.
After crossing the river, the pursuing army on the east bank suffered several losses, and did not dare to go too deep into the Pamela Mountains, where the terrain was complicated, so the 300,000 troops and the 100,000 East Route Army could only slowly advance eastward, and drove to the various passes of the Pamela Mountains, in an attempt to trap the main force of the Fifth Army in the sparsely populated and harsh Pamela Mountains by blocking all important exits from the Pamela Mountains.
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Bobohua City, on the wall of the south gate of the Gampoch War, called the officers to the south gate for a brief moment when the enemy suspended the attack.
"Kids!" Gampoch looked at his bloody, scarred subordinates and smiled, "You are all good!" General Higg gave me the task of holding off the enemy for two days, but I asked for three days! You did it, and you are the pride of the Fifth Legion. There were more than 300,000 troops outside the city, and less than 5,000 of us were able to breathe. Now, the enemy asked us to surrender, and General Higg also said that we can surrender and live after completing the mission, and I laughed at the time! Children, will you surrender? ”
"Surrender fart!" A commander covered in blood shouted, "Lao Tzu has died so many brothers, tell Lao Tzu to surrender, can my dead brothers agree, what face do I have to meet them?" ”
"Killed so many people, Lao Tzu is worth it, I don't mind killing a few more!"
"Die or die!"
"Die or die!"
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"Well done, boys! Like you, I will not surrender! "There is no prohibition today, everyone can drink as you please, every soldier can drink it, and if you can't finish drinking it, you can use it as fuel, and burn the baggage!" Even if the gate is broken, we will have to fight the enemy in the streets and houses. Guys, I, Gampoch, want to fight with you and drink with you in the next life! ”
Gampoch said, holding up the jar, taking a big sip, wiping his mouth, and then handing it to the commander beside him, who took it, took a big sip, and then handed it to the next ......
After a big turn, when the wine jar was basically empty and returned to Gampoch's hands, Gampochi drank the last sip of wine, dropped the wine jar, and said loudly: "From now on, there will be no generals, no commanders, no husbands, only soldiers, only brothers, please return to your posts, we will meet again in the next life......"
All the officers raised their heads, no one spoke, but everyone walked up to Gampoch and said goodbye one by one, and then turned away without hesitation.
Before nightfall, the city of Bobo was full of fires, and there were burning catapults, ballistas, and unused military supplies everywhere.
Each of the fighters had mixed feelings, because they knew that this would be their last night, and they had completed their mission heroically, but they also had to pay with their lives. It is difficult to say clearly how every person feels in the face of death, and there is nothing to be ashamed of being afraid of death, and the fact that a warrior who dares to die does not mean that they are not afraid of death.
I don't know if the soldier sang a song, a soft and tragic hometown song, the song infected the people around him, the people around him gently hummed, more and more people hummed, sang along, the soft song lingered in the sky above Bobo Hua City, and also spread to the distance, as if to send the soul of every soldier back to his hometown, back to his relatives......