Text: The Great Power Battle_Chapter 318 Street Fighting
Stimulated by the cavalry of the Cossack State, Xiao Chen immediately ordered the ten divisions in the central part to transfer all the cavalry to the eastern front. &δΉ&ζ&{}. {l} {xs520}. {c} At the same time, cavalry was called up from the country, and all the cavalry in the troops left behind in the country pulled down the front line. Xiao Chen wants to have a cavalry decisive battle with the cavalry of the Cossack State, which will determine the outcome of the battle on the Eastern Front.
Needless to say, if you win, a million infantry immediately pressed on it and directly destroyed the Cossack * team on the opposite side. Then occupy the eastern territory of the Cossacks, and complete the plan of the living forces of the Cossack state with a decisive battle. If the cavalry of the Cossack state wins, then it is better for the million-strong army to retreat quickly on the plain. Otherwise, tens of thousands of cavalry will kill, and even a million army will not be so easy to resist.
And the top brass of the Cossack State finally came up with a good idea four or five days after receiving the news of the full-scale invasion of Beichen and Xia.
At present, on the battlefield of the Western Front, the 500,000 troops of the western frontier troops of the Cossack State are about to be surrounded by 1.1 million troops of the Xia State and 450,000 troops of the Beichen State, and the situation is extremely critical. However, the high-level did not say that the army would go directly to the rescue of the 500,000 soldiers and horses. Shaman's plan was to let the army of Beichen and Xia first surround the 500,000 border guards in the west, and then mobilize the million troops concentrated near the capital to directly press over. Under the counterattack of the 500,000 western frontier guards who held the two cities, the 400,000 soldiers and horses of the Beichen Kingdom would definitely be defeated in a short time in the face of attacks from both sides. Finally, concentrate the main force and fight a decisive battle with the Xia army, and strive to fight a battle.
In this way, not only will a part of the Beichen* team be annihilated, but the crisis of the battle situation on the middle front will be completely lifted, and the entire war will be turned into a two-front battle. Subsequently, he mobilized troops and horses from the capital to assemble on the Eastern Front, not seeking to defeat the army of Beichen. As long as it can delay the army of Beichen Kingdom, it is enough, and when the Western Front defeats Xia Kingdom, the backhand can force the main army of Beichen Kingdom to retreat. As for the hundreds of thousands of Beichen troops who are still in the country, they can only pull out some soldiers and horses to block their chaotic roads for the time being. In any case, it is important to stabilize the whole situation at present.
If the whole situation festers, Xia and Beichen* occupy the west, the main force of Beichen occupies the eastern region, and the southern part has already been lost. Even if all the 800,000 Beichen troops who broke into the country were wiped out, it would have no effect on the entire situation. In such a situation, instead of being dragged down by these 800,000 Beichen troops, it is better to besiege them with a small number of troops and mobilize the main force to stabilize the situation in the whole country.
Throughout the war, both sides had their own strategies and clashed with each other.
Two days later, Xiao Chen led the main force and ushered in all the cavalry of the ten divisions of the central line, about 40,000 people. Coupled with the original 50,000 soldiers and horses, the scale of 100,000 cavalry has been restored again, and it can finally continue to compete with the 170,000 cavalry of the Cossack State again. Of course, Xiao Chen wouldn't be stupid enough to have a decisive battle with the cavalry on the opposite side now. After all, he is still at a disadvantage, and the winning rate is not very big. Besides, the domestic cavalry will be able to rush over in a day or two, and it will not be too late for a decisive battle by then. I've been waiting for two days anyway, and I don't mind waiting two more days.
On the Western Front, the more than 1 million troops of Xia and more than 400,000 troops of Beichen have completely surrounded the 500,000 border guards of the Cossack State. It's just that the 500,000 Cossack border guards who relied on the horns of the two cities were too strong to resist. Under the attack for two consecutive days, the Beichen Kingdom and the Xia Kingdom not only suffered a lot of losses, but also did not make any progress. There is no way, the battle can only be suspended for the time being, and wait until the Beichen Army and the Xia Army prepare enough siege weapons first.
Zhang Han was surrounded and intercepted by the Cossack army, and his life became more and more difficult. The most obvious is the lack of food, and the grain and grass carried by the army have long been almost eaten. It would have been possible to loot dozens of surrounding cities to get some supplies. It's just that after the Cossack army was fully encircled and suppressed, in the face of millions of enemy troops, Zhang Han did not dare to let his troops run around, for fear of being blocked by the Cossack * team.
As a result, not only was there a huge shortage of food and grass, but the range of activities was reduced to more than twenty cities, and the troops lost four or five regiments. Thinking of the increasingly grim situation, Zhang Han couldn't help frowning and looking at the map in front of him. Its own role is undoubtedly the most crucial for this war. As a nail in the eye of the Cossacks, his own army has been immediately inserted into the heart of the Cossack state. That's why the Cossacks mobilized so many soldiers and horses to encircle and suppress themselves.
However, it was precisely because of his own existence that he restrained a large number of Cossack troops, so that the whole situation won a lot of advantages for the soldiers and horses led by the king at the beginning. And the king lived up to expectations, and immediately expanded the results after gaining a little advantage. Now, as long as he contains more of the main forces of these millions of Cossacks, the king will be able to occupy more Cossack territories and compress the survival and strategic space of the Cossacks.
It's just that I'm about to run out of food now, which is not a good thing. And the road to the north is almost blocked, and there is a large enemy army behind it, so I don't have a chance to jump out at all. Perhaps, there is only one way to die, and that is to cross the red zone on that map. This red area is a sign of danger, and the area is called Death Swamp.
Based on his name, you can imagine what kind of topography this area is. The swamp, for human beings, especially those in the cold weapon period, is undoubtedly a hellish existence. Needless to say, the horror of the swamp is the most important thing that follows the existence of the swamp is the large amount of miasma, which is the real most terrifying. The existence of miasma will definitely make a force completely defeated. It doesn't matter what your last name is, or why you're more handsome than others, it won't attack you. Once suffering from miasma, there are not enough medicinal herbs, and there is only one result: death.
Zhang Han's troops have already begun to run out of food, not to mention medicinal materials, which are life-saving things that have long been used up. It was precisely with this consideration that Zhang Han did not make up his mind for several days in a row, whether to cross this swamp of death. The horror of the Death Swamp is not much to say, if the remaining more than 900,000 horses under his command are crossed, maybe half of them will be blessed by God. It is possible that even you may die in it.
Nearly a hundred miles of the swamp of death, if the army passed, it was estimated that it would take three to four days. And now the army's food and grass can still last for five days, which means that his current choice is only to cross the death swamp, otherwise he can only slowly starve to death under the main army of the Cossack state or be killed without the power to fight back.
Your own army cannot be starved to death, let alone killed by the army of the Cossack state, this is absolutely not allowed! Once he died, the task of pinning down the main forces of the Cossack state and threatening the capital of the elder brother Sark was considered a failure. At that time, millions of Cossack armies participated in the main battlefield, and it was another difficult battle for Beichen to destroy the country.
Then through the swamp of death, Ben Shuai doesn't believe that the powerful Beichen army can't conquer a small swamp!
The Great Qin army was able to conquer the thousands of miles of miasma in southern China, what else did they dare not do!
The 930,000 Beichen army, in the face of the imminent cut off of food and grass, and the 2.2 million army of the Cossack State, resolutely walked into the death swamp that the Cossack State had turned into hell!
At the same time, in the camp of the western army of Beichen Kingdom, 50,000 iron horsemen were neatly arrayed outside the main camp. In the silence of the military formation, only the neighing of war horses and the grinning of flags made everyone feel the atmosphere of war.
Zhao Guangliang rode a war horse of a divine horse, ranking ahead of the 50,000 iron horsemen. In front of him was Xue Rengui, the commander of the Western Army, and Hua Rong, the deputy general.
"Guangliang, fight hard, if you lose the prestige of our Western Army, this commander can't spare you!" Xue Rengui said solemnly to the young man in front of him.
Zhao Guangliang, in the battle of the Duchy of the Principality of the Destruction of the Beichen Kingdom, was extremely lucky. Because of the matter of picking up money, he unexpectedly participated in the all-army competition organized by Zhang Han at that time, and gloriously won the first place in the whole army, becoming the personal guard of the god general Xue Rengui. After that, on the battlefield, because of his bravery in combat and repeated achievements, he was valued by Xue Rengui. Now that he has become Xue Rengui's closed disciple, in less than two years, Xue Rengui has handed over all what he has learned to Zhao Guangliang. And Zhao Guangliang did not lose Xue Rengui's face, he originally used the standing weapons in the army, and he was only born with brute strength, and now he can defeat Hua Rong within ten rounds.
Shihe defeated Hua Rong, which is a very remarkable record. The most important thing is that Zhao Guangliang's archery skills are under the guidance of Xue Rengui, although they are not as good as Hua Rong, but they have also become the third in the army. Even, among all the generals of Beichen Kingdom, they can also be ranked. Among the Western Army, the first in archery is undoubtedly Xue Rengui, Hua Rong is closely behind, and Zhao Guangliang, a rising star, has also become the most powerful guy in archery outside the two.
"Don't worry, Marshal, when Guangliang lost the face of our Western Army, it means that I have died on the battlefield!" Zhao Guangliang said solemnly.
"Remember, bastard, you can't die even if the army is all dead! Thousands of troops are easy to obtain, but one will be hard to find, and the future of our Beichen Kingdom still belongs to you young boys. Several of us are now in our thirties. Therefore, you are more important than the handsome and the soldiers! You are shouldering the future of Beichen Kingdom! Xue Rengui said kindly.
In fact, what Xue Rengui said was also the truth. Now Xue Rengui is thirty-one years old, and Zhang Han is thirty-six years old. And Yue Fei is forty years old, and among the generalissimos of Beichen Kingdom, only Yun Qi, an aborigine, and Wang Ping and Hua Rong are still mixed in twenty-six or seven. The most serious crisis in a country is not natural disasters*, but the disconnection of the next generation that takes over the old and the younger generation. The Tang Dynasty died at this moment of inactivity, and after the death of powerful generals, the entire Tang Dynasty could not find a few famous futures.
Therefore, the current generals in the army of Beichen Kingdom are all cultivating a new generation of generals. It's as if Xue Rengui is now accepting Zhao Guangliang as a way, and Yue Fei is entrusting another star general of Beichen Kingdom with an important task, this person is Shi Yan, who is known as the lucky general.
"Alright, let's go!"
"No!" Zhao Guangliang waved the halberd in his hand and continued to the army behind him: "The whole army obeys the order and follows me to the Yunjiang River!" β
"Roar, roar, roar!"
Soon after, more than 50,000 iron horsemen ran wildly together, kicking up a long cloud of dust!
And in the Linhai camp, a young general, under the farewell of Li Zhaoliang, led 50,000 iron horsemen to gallop on the Dongjiang River!
The overseers of the Beichen Kingdom have gathered 100,000 cavalry, and the commander of the army is Shi Yan and Yun Feng, the son of Yun Qi. They are all galloping along the Dongjiang River to support the front line!
Three days later, when all the cavalry of the Beichen Kingdom were assembled, Xiao Chen feasted the four newly rising young generals in the army. Subsequently, the next day...
The sky was dark, and on a battlefield, the 300,000 cavalry of the Beichen Army were neatly divided into six phalanxes, ranking in the south. And on the north side are the 270,000 iron cavalry of the Cossack state, yes, 270,000.
When the 50,000 iron cavalry of the Beichen Army's mid-line battle situation arrived at Xiao Chen's camp, the commander of the Cossack State quickly saw through Xiao Chen's plan. As a result, the old Maozi commander also wanted to ask for cavalry support from various units in the country. After receiving the news, Shaman understood the importance of this cavalry duel to the whole situation, and immediately gathered 100,000 cavalry to support.
570,000 cavalry from both sides lined up on this plain, although the Beichen army outnumbered the cavalry of the Cossack state by 30,000. But Xiao Chen still did not have absolute confidence in victory in his heart, because he saw a terrible banner among the cavalry of the Cossack State.
Cossack!
The 50,000 horses were all dressed in distinctive black cloaks, without armor, and wielded cavalry swords nearly a meter long.
Xiao Chen's heart was greatly shocked, don't look at these 50,000 horses without armor, but if you underestimate them because of this, you will definitely lose very badly. Because, they are the legendary undefeated Cossack cavalry. On top of Russian history, the 'Eagle of the Don Valley' shook the world.
Xiao Chen was a little worried, the generals under his command might not know the power of the Cossack cavalry, but Xiao Chen knew very well. As the most powerful branch of the army in Russian history, even the Soviet Red Army was not famous. It can be said that without the Cossack cavalry, Russia would not have existed a long time ago.
At this time, Xiao Chen finally understood why this country was called the Cossack State. Damn, I didn't think of it before. Cossack country, there will definitely be Cossack cavalry. Alas, I knew that I had transferred the 20,000 heavy cavalry that I had hoarded in the capital!
If his heavy cavalry was there, plus 100,000 ordinary cavalry, Xiao Chen would have the confidence to win.
However, everything is still a mystery now~!
The Cossack cavalry made Xiao Chen very frightened, but when he thought that his cavalry troops were equipped with that kind of strength, his expression finally improved.
It's a battle of the cavalry with hole cards!