At this critical moment, Samp made a fatal mistake, which was extremely low-level.

Sampu saw that his army had been in the mountains for a long time, and the patrol sent back to report that the battle was not fierce, in fact, the patrol did not see the tragic situation of the front army, and reported Sampu to the confrontation between the middle army and the rear army, and after Sampu hesitated, he decided to send 10,000 reinforcements to the middle lane, and 5,000 reinforcements on each flank.

If you step forward to cover the retreat of the army, you will inevitably meet with the defeated army, so that the already crowded army will be more crowded, and become a live target for the enemy on the slopes on both sides, if you turn the reinforcements into a supervising army and order the defeated army to kill back, it is possible to turn defeat into victory, but who will listen to you at this time, one listen, two listen, who dares to guarantee that they will turn around and kill back, and others will also follow back to kill?

"Quick, disperse to the high ground on both sides and seize the high ground!" The commander made a wise decision, so that he could avoid his 10,000 people, be attacked by the rout, block the mountain pass, and form a dead end!

Although this seemed wise, the commander forgot that the reinforcements were for rapid mobility, half of them were cavalry, and some cavalry could go up to the hills on both sides, but some cavalry could not cross it, so they could only look forward and backward to find suitable positions where they could spread the area on both sides. But surrounded by his comrades-in-arms, it is almost impossible to make the war horse turn around, and there is no choice but to run forward.

The consequences of the collision of the two vehicles can be imagined, although the commander of the reinforcements has done the fastest and best reaction he can do, but he cannot stop the surging rout, just like the locust plague passing through the realm, a tragic situation......

More than 100,000 troops entered the mountain pass, and when they came out, only 60,000 remained, and more than 40,000 were missing and dead, and the only advantage was that these 60,000 people had no wounded soldiers, or very few, not serious, and the wounded were either caught up or trampled to death by their own men and horses.

Half of the losses of more than 40,000 people died at the hands of their own people, trampled to death by their horses, trampled to death by people who fell, and were killed by their own comrades-in-arms in a big fight...... Appalling.

Sampu looked at his achievements on the first day, his face turned green with anger, and he lost more than 40,000 people on the first day, and he didn't gain an inch of land, which became a laughing stock.

But Sampu did not learn nothing, from the defeated army learned about the composition of the strength of the Fuxing City, the general situation of the entire hilly area, and knew that the army of the Fuxing City was far more than 50,000, but more, but many of them were new recruits without much training. Recruits are also soldiers, and they will slowly become veterans.

"What's new in the Fourth Theater?" Sampu asked his staff officer.

The staff officer said: "Lord Marshal, the Fourth War Zone was bitten by Guayada's Second Army, and the two sides are now also fierce soldiers, and it seems that they are going to fight to the death, and His Majesty has transferred 100,000 people from the Fourth War Zone, and the 100,000 troops in the First War Zone are about to go to the Luojia River Plain to encircle Wei and save Zhao!" ”

"What about the Sixth War Zone?" Sampu asked, "Did the warships of the Sixth War Zone also sail to the Luojia River Plain?" ”

The staff officer said: "There is no news from the Sixth War Zone so far, and as soon as there is news, I will report it to the marshal immediately!" ”

"Order, set fire to the mountain!" Samp angrily ordered, "Burn the mountains bald, I don't see them yet!" ”

"Burn the mountain, marshal's good idea!" The staff officer immediately complimented.

The winter in the south of Erathia is dry and rainless, and most of them blow the north wind, and Samp, who has suffered heavy losses, has to order all the hilly barriers to be burned, and the fire will follow the wind and burn all the way to the Fuxing City, and the defenders of Fuxing City stationed in the mountains, even if they are lucky not to be burned to death, there is nowhere to hide on the bare mountains, and they will be completely exposed, and the third war zone can use the griffin army to carry out air strikes.

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"General, commander-in-chief!" Snoring came to report to Daniel and Rogson on the situation of the battle, our army lost 13,000 killed and wounded more than 8,000, most of them reserves! Veterans suffered less than two thousand casualties! ”

"More than 20,000 casualties, General Snowing, you are responsible!" Daniel said, "The enemy's front army should concentrate its strongest forces to attack!" ”

Snowlin said ashamedly: "What the general said is that he also hates iron and steel, and wants them to quickly adapt to the war, but he didn't expect it to backfire!" ”

"Hahaha! Is the general too unkind? Rogson laughed and said, "General Snorlin personally went into battle, and he will be criticized for a big victory!" If those reservists can't adapt quickly, it will be difficult for them to adapt to the more brutal battles that follow! If you want to blame it, blame them for not training hard and not being flexible enough, this is a common problem of recruits, every batch is like this, the general should not be too persistent! ”

"General!" The guards came to report, "Oh no, the enemy has set fire to the mountain in more than a dozen places, what should I do?" ”

"Got it, let's go down!" Daniel said.

"Yes!"

Daniel looked north, and saw a raging fire, drifting south with billowing smoke, and in the twilight sun, it looked brilliant.

"It seems that Manager Charlie can't sleep tonight!" Daniel said, "Herald, immediately give the order to Governor Charlie, immediately organize the people, check the fire barrier overnight, and strictly guard it!" If any of the fire barriers are breached, military law will do it! ”

"Yes, General!" The herald replied and turned to leave.

The fire barrier is something that has existed in all the hilly areas of Fuxing City for a long time, but it was only strictly inspected and repaired by Charles before the war. Along the defense line to the north of Fuxing City, an area more than 10 meters wide was drawn on the mountain, and all the solid trees and shrubs in this area were cut down along the east-west direction, and even the grass on the ground had to be removed. If it is too steep, the burning tree will lead the flame from the bottom to the top to one end of the barrier, or fall down the steep slope from the top to the end of the barrier.

In the defensive area of the hilly area in the north of Fuxing City, a total of six fire isolation areas are set up, three of which run through the east and west, and three run through the north and south, dividing the mountainous and wooded places in the north into 16 areas, in order to make the fire happen, there will not be too much overshooting, and the difficulty of fighting the fire is relatively low, so as to avoid the safety of Fuxing City when a fire occurs in the entire hilly area.

"What to do? Commander-in-Chief Rogson, General Snowlin, the worst fears still happened, earlier than we expected! "Fire barriers are useful for natural fires, but they are not very effective for arson." Sampu will definitely find out about the fire barrier early tomorrow morning, and if we force our way over the quarantine area and light the fire, we really won't have anywhere to hide! ”

"Burn, burn, burn, without the forest, we still have a cave!" "The forest has been divided into so many areas, it's enough for him to burn for a while!" Even if there is only this mountain, we can rely on the arrow tower and the commanding heights, and we can completely deal with them! ”

Rogson said: "Without further ado, now we should let Charlie break all the roads, or dig holes, or block them, and lead the enemy to the mountains, I don't believe it, we have such a big geographical advantage, we can't bear it for a month or two?" Let them fight mountain by mountain! ”

"Alas, it's another battle of corpses and a sea of blood!" Daniel said, "These are all our soldiers of Fuxing City, so young!" ”

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After completing the complete encirclement of Lobit City, Ulingo led 10,000 cavalry soldiers to sweep away all scattered forces within 200 kilometers of Lobit City in two directions to the west river and south, radiating the strength of the main army outward, so that Sampu's army attacking Fuxing City had some scruples, and could prevent the scattered garrisons from completing the assembly, causing harassment to the main force of the Fifth Army under Lobit.

The first step for the Fifth Army was to eliminate the returning Crusaders.

After Simak occupied Amman City, he sent troops to gather all the ships within 200 kilometers of Amman City to the west bank of the Roja River, and then left only 10,000 men to defend Amman City, and led a large army to assemble in Lobit City to join the Higg army.

Thomas ordered 30,000 cavalry to lead a sweep all the way to the southeast, forcing the port of Truto, and stationed in the city of Todnum, more than 100 kilometers northeast of the port of Truto, to the southwest can threaten the home port of the sixth theater of operations, to avoid the fleet of the sixth theater of operations rash moves, to the northeast, can cross the Luojia River at any time, and at any time to launch operations against the returning third theater of war armies.

Lufasi's 70,000-strong army lurking in the jungle on the border of the forest country did not take any action, it was less than 500 kilometers away from Amman City, and the Eastern Expeditionary Army in the third theater was at least more than 900 kilometers away from Amman City.

As a result, the entire territory of the Third War Zone has formed such a situation:

The main army of 135,000 Hig and Simak laid siege to Lobit without fighting, and another 10,000 men guarded the entire transportation hub of Amman City.

Ullin's 20,000 cavalry centered on the city of Lobit and radiated to the west and southwest, monitoring the returning armies and preventing them from gathering.

Thomas's 30,000 cavalry were stationed in Todd Denham, a city more than 100 kilometers from the port of Truto and less than 500 kilometers from the city of Lobit, ready to cross the Rhoja River and attack eastward.

Lu Fasi lurked in the jungle of the Forest Country, keeping an eye on the return of the Eastern Crusade Army.

There was also a crusader army of 20,000 men, led by Shante, who constantly attacked the logistics of the Eastern Expeditionary Army in the rear of the Eastern Expeditionary Army, giving headaches to the more than 200,000 Eastern Expeditionary Army who were closely returning to help. This army also did not fight with the main force of the Crusade Army, but only harassed, although the number was small, but it was all one as ten Catherine Royal Guards, if the Crusade Army wanted to destroy this army, it would be difficult to do it without 100,000 people. But it was impossible for the Crusade to do so, because their goal was to return to the city of Lobitt, and the military order was like a mountain, and they had to wait until the army had reached the crossing of the Luojia River and the army was assembled, and then they would consider turning back and destroying this nasty fellow.

In addition, Samp's army of more than 200,000 troops stormed Fuxing City north of Fuxing City.

If you add the army of Fuxing City, the total strength of the Hig group is also 500,000 people, although it is not superior in numbers, but it hesitates to attack it unprepared, but strategically occupies the initiative, and the combat power of the Fifth Army is terrifying, and the forces of all parties in Arad have long understood it.

The key to the victory or defeat of this battle is that if Fuxing City can hold on, Higg will concentrate on eliminating more than 200,000 people of the Eastern Expeditionary Army in the Third War Zone, and everything will be solved.

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