"Trust is mutual!" Higg smiled, "I have made my promise, and the marshal must prove that he will not go back on his word!" ”

Marbot smiled: "You and I are both commanders of the First Army, your promise is believed by the commander, and the promise of the commander is worthless in the opinion of Earl Higg?" ”

"It's not worth it, it's not me who has the final say, it's the current situation that has the final say!" Higg said, "Now whether it is before the military formation, or in this camp, I have turned my hands over to the marshal and the fourth theater of war into clouds and rain, how do I know if the marshal is making compromises and dealing with me for the time being?" ”

"What kind of vote?" Ma Potter knows very well that the so-called vote is an irreversible path, as long as he offers the vote, he has actually become the bag of the Fifth Legion, and being self-reliant and neutral is just an excuse and a joke to give himself a decent step.

"The southern barrier of the Guanzhong Plain, the Karaka Fortress! I will send the Marshal Yuping Pass and a large area as the base camp of the Fourth War Zone, and of course the Marshal will return me a checkpoint! Higg said, "The Karaka Fortress is four hundred kilometers away from here, and while the city of Krodina does not know what is happening here, please cooperate with our army and seize the Karaka Fortress immediately!" ”

"You want Ben Shuai to help you win the level?" Marpot was surprised.

Higg said: "I give the Marshal five days, send at least 20,000 troops must arrive at the Karaka Fortress on time, our army will fully cooperate with the Marshal to capture the pass, after capturing the Karaka Fortress, when the Katherine army enters the pass in the future, it will naturally remember the merits of the Marshal, which is also for the sake of the Marshal in the future!" ”

"Four hundred kilometers in five days?" "This is an extreme march, our army is unprepared, hastily rushed, how can we do it?" ”

"Marshal, don't worry, just let the army march lightly, the marching route is already under the control of my Fifth Legion, and supplies will be supplied to the army along the way, all you have to do is march and sleep!" Higg said, "In order to prevent the matter here from being known to the city and ruining our plan to seize the pass, Lord Marshal, please block the camp immediately, the later the enemy knows about the apostasy in the Fourth Theater, the better it will be for our operation!" ”

"I think Marshal Higg has been planning for this matter for a long time, and he must have a detailed plan!" Ma Potter said helplessly, "This nomination, the handsome man has to offer, and if he doesn't offer, do I still have a choice?" Lord Earl gave Ben Shuai a step down, and gave the Fourth War Zone a decent one, this favor, Ben Shuai received it! That's it, General Rosta, you will lead the troops to go with General Wicks, but Nyala's eyes are suspicious, and the commander still needs to sit in the army and control the situation! ”

"Yes, Marshal!" Rosta said happily, "I am glad that the Marshal has made a wise choice, and on the day of success, the Marshal will certainly not regret the decision he made today!" ”

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That night, Wicks and Rosta, with 5,000 cavalry and 15,000 bows, suddenly launched an attack on the eastern base camp of the Fifth Army......

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Karaka Fortress, when Elva's left army entered the Guanzhong Plain, the troops were divided into three routes, among which 30,000 troops were assigned to keep an eye on the Karaka Fortress, he was unable to capture the fortress, so he had to temporarily stationed in Mirata City, not far from the Karaka Fortress, and did not block the Karaka Fortress!

The autumn harvest season is coming, and the Karaka Fortress has become the focus of attention inside and outside the Guan! The logistical supply of the Arad army from the Guanzhong Plain to the defense line along the river all need to pass through this throat pass, and the defense line along the river cannot only rely on the Guanzhong Plain to maintain the expenditure of more than one million troops, most of which need to come from the Guanzhong Plain, and if the defense line along the river cannot get the military food supply of the Guanzhong Plain after the autumn harvest, then it can only last for three or four months. If this is the case, this will lead to the possibility that Arad's army may take the risk of withdrawing from the defense line along the river to protect the Guanzhong Plain, after all, the value of the Guanzhong Plain is much more important than the entire defense line along the river.

After being unable to unify the whole country, Arad is likely to retreat to the next thing, drive the army into the Guanzhong Plain, and then expel the Fifth Army, blockade the entire Guanzhong fortress, establish a country within a country, and temporarily favor peace, in order to advance backward, which the Fifth Army does not want to see! Therefore, when the Fifth Army entered the Guanzhong Plain, it did not deliberately block the Karaka Fortress to stimulate Arad and the army along the defense line along the river, but let Arad retain the hope of victory, so that he would not take risks! But now, the Guanzhong Plain has been decided, the fourth theater of the largest Qinwang force is no longer under the control of Arad, the time is ripe to seize the Karaka fortress, and the fifth army has finally set its sights here.

There are 30,000 defenders stationed in this fortress, and if they want to forcibly capture the pass, they do not have more than five times the number of troops, pay two or three times the number of casualties, and the corpses are sea of blood, and it is absolutely impossible to break the pass, whether it is the Fifth Army or the generals of the Arad camp, they all know very well in their hearts that the Fifth Army is now scattered everywhere and has no ability to take the pass. Moreover, reinforcements along the river defense line could arrive in three days at the earliest, and if the Fifth Army launched an attack on the Karaka fortress, the defense line along the river would inevitably send reinforcements to strengthen the defense.

Elva's Left Army, with a total strength of 140,000, cooperated with Thomas's cavalry to collect a part of the territory of the Guanzhong Plain, and gradually, before the arrival of autumn, also gathered in the city of Mirata, and finally gathered an army of 80,000. After receiving the order from the Fifth Legion Commander to attack Karaka, Elva drove his army to the front of Karaka Fortress and launched a fierce attack on Karakacheng.

Although the equipment of the Fifth Legion, especially the baggage, was extremely fine, and for a whole day, relying on ladders and siege vehicles, it was difficult to shake the fortress of Karaka, but it paid a heavy price of seven or eight thousand casualties, and this was only the first day.

The intensity of such an attack also surprised the general Emmett, although he only suffered one or two thousand casualties, the fortress walls and city gates had been seriously damaged! The enemy went crazy and ignored the cost of casualties, and the attitude of being determined to win made Emmett feel that the situation was serious.

During the day, the siege had just been completed, and at night, Elva again organized a large army to launch a fierce attack on the city walls and gates, but with catapults and crossbow chariots, and without infantry ladders, it never stopped. Until the other party thought that this was the enemy harassing with baggage, and relaxed a little, Elva began to line up and organize troops to attack the city again, and all night, the attackers and defenders did not get any rest. Although the Fifth Legion suffered heavy losses, it did make Karaca's walls dangerous many times, and even the soldiers on the ladder once climbed the walls to engage in hand-to-hand combat, and finally were overnumbered before being crushed.

Early the next morning, the siege operation had just stopped, Emmett, who thought that the enemy knew the difficulties and retreated, but found that the enemy had just changed a group of people to continue to attack the fortress, and the fierceness did not decrease at all, the stones and stone bullets thrown by the catapults, and the * crossbow arrows fired by the crossbow chariots, continued to strike at the city pass like raindrops, and after a burst of indiscriminate bombardment, the infantry phalanx pushed the ladder, and the siege vehicle phalanx continued to fight under the cover of the shield soldiers, which was simply a group of hungry wolves, trying to eat the sheep in the fortressAt the drop of a hat.

If the defender of the city is not careful, there will be a gap to be caught by the enemy, causing a huge annoyance, and he will not dare to be careless at all. Although the strikes of the opponent's catapults and crossbow chariots are continuous, the siege of the infantry and siege vehicle phalanx is very casual, so that you can't feel when they will suddenly attack, maybe when you are napping, maybe when you are just about to eat. Sometimes it is 10,000 people as the attack unit, and after you are used to it, you send an additional 20,000 people to force the onslaught.

There are countless corpses piled up under the city pass, and the walls of the entire Karaka fortress are dyed red, Emmett has never seen such a siege method and determination to attack the city, even he feels frightened, there must be a mistake in the hundred secrets, if the enemy is allowed to seize any gap to expand the results of the battle, it is not impossible for the Karaka fortress to break through, and even he began to shake the defense of his fortress a little.

In the afternoon, when the two sides were fighting fiercely, there was chaos in Elva's rear......

"Woo woo woo ......" a cavalry of thousands of people, from the rear of Elva's army to kill, the untouchable Elva army suddenly became a pot of porridge, his army itself has no cavalry, on the plain to the cavalry and do not have the strength of Mevo, the army soon collapsed, together with the infantry phalanx, baggage phalanx, siege vehicle phalanx that was besieging the city, were all defeated by this overwhelming cavalry, and fled to all sides. In the rear of the enemy's cavalry, there were countless infantry and crossbowmen who followed closely behind, and launched a siege and annihilation of the scattered Elva troops.

For a time, on the plain position at the front of the Karaka fortress, there were all kinds of killings, and the large number of Elva troops could not resist the enemy's sudden attack from the rear at all, and all the troops were instantly defeated, throwing away their armor and fleeing for their lives. On the battlefield, countless baggage, supplies, tents, and the corpses of many soldiers were left......

Emmett watched all this from above the city pass, and his spirits were greatly lifted, and he shouted, "Our reinforcements have arrived!" "All the soldiers on the fortress of Karaka are in high spirits.

The reinforcements seemed to be marching long distances, and were extremely tired, and did not pursue Elva relentlessly, and the results received as soon as they went out of battle were already to the great satisfaction of everyone!

5,000 cavalry and more than 10,000 bows finally assembled, cleaned the battlefield, and set up camp under the fortress pass, and the military flag of the fourth war zone fluttered on the camp, and the whole army looked tired but triumphant because of the new victory......