Text: The Great Power Controversy_Chapter 373 Humanoid Bomber
The 500,000-strong army of the Northern Army, led by Lin Hu, the deputy general of Zhang Han, marched directly westward to support the Xia State. The 500,000 troops of the Northern Navy went straight to the Xia Kingdom under the leadership of Zhang Cheng, a newly promoted young general of the Beichen Kingdom. Among the 1 million troops of the capital army, there were also 800,000 troops gathered in the north, because Yue Fei needed to stay in the capital, and it was Shi Yan who led the troops. Secondly, the Western Army did not stop, mobilizing 200,000 troops led by Zhao Guangliang and heading to the Xia Kingdom.
The support of Beichen Kingdom's two million troops is definitely a lifesaver for Xia Kingdom. The 1.8 million Xia State army convened by Han Xin is finally finished, and now it is waiting for the army to assign tasks and carry grain and grass to the front line. Grain, grass, pruning weapons, armor and other materials, the Xia Kingdom is still gathering towards the capital. The troops of the Beichen Kingdom will arrive soon, and in less than ten days, the 500,000 people of the Northern Army will definitely arrive. And the rest of the 1.5 million Beichen Army will not take more than a month.
It is necessary to prepare various materials in advance, according to the quality of the officers and men of the Beichen Army, as long as the grain and grass materials are sufficient. After the troops arrived in the capital, they probably didn't need to rest and recuperate, and they could definitely go directly to support the front line in less than two days.
After the second day, good news came from the front, defeated seventeen times in a row, and Zhuge Liang, who lost nearly 20 cities, finally came with good news. In the face of the enemy's army of 3 million, Zhuge Liang, who only had more than 450,000 people, defeated the enemy army in an ambush, beheaded nearly 200,000 people, and lost nearly 40,000 of his own soldiers.
This time Zhuge Liang's ambush came at a very good time, and the hundreds of thousands of demoralized troops on the front line must have recovered their morale after a big victory. Moreover, in the First World War, he beheaded more than 100,000 enemies, and only lost less than 40,000 soldiers, which vigorously dealt a blow to the war strength of Prussia.
After losing sixteen battles in a row, Zhuge Liang only lost more than 10,000 people. And the seventeenth battle after that was also an ambush, but because of the secret hidden in the army, Zhuge Liang lost more than 30,000 people, and the plan failed. But this is just one of the details of Zhuge Liang's entire arrogant strategy, a plan in exchange for producing spies in the army, and also dispel the enemy's defense.
After all, after losing more than a dozen battles in a row, just killing more than 10,000 enemies, anyone will be suspicious. And an ambush by the enemy, with the information provided by the internal response, easily broke the enemy's ambush. It's just that the enemy's leading generals are too cautious. As soon as the plan failed, he led the army to run away, and he only achieved the result of destroying more than 30,000 enemy orders, which is really not a great achievement.
And after defeating the enemy's ambush once, and killing and wounding many enemy living forces by the way, the general of the Prussian army also completely put down his mind. That little suspicion was wiped out by this ambush. As a result, he really didn't expect that this was actually a ploy for arrogance.
Just after the failure of an ambush, within two days, Zhuge Liang ambushed the Prussian army again. This time it's a lot more actual than the last performance. First a fire, and then several armies came out, cutting off the Prussian army, so that it could not take care of each other. After a period of slaughter, the Xia army immediately retreated.
The Prussian army, which was ambushed by the enemy and lost more than 20,000 people, was extremely angry and kept chasing the Xia army's butt beating. As a result, within two hours of catching up, it was flooded again. The river that had been flowing for two days swept away the front line of the Prussian troops in one fell swoop. Subsequently, the army of 200,000 Xia Kingdom came out and covered up for a while. The Prussian troops fled in all directions, and suffered heavy losses under the pursuit of the Xia army.
The successive ambushes and defeats of only a few hundred thousand Xia troops had already caused the morale of the Prussian troops to drop a little. At night, when the Prussian army saw that the pursuit was hopeless, they immediately set up camp. As a result, at three or four o'clock in the morning of the next day, Zhuge Liang sent his warriors, carrying fire oil bombs purchased from Beichen Kingdom, to kill them from the tunnels prepared in the afternoon and burn them everywhere.
The 200,000 soldiers of the Xia Army, who were hidden within a radius of five miles, immediately rushed out of their respective hiding points, gathered into fire dragons, and slaughtered the Prussian camp that was already on fire. The soldiers of the Xia Army, who held torches in their hands, burned all the places that could be ignited in their eyes. The Prussian soldiers, who were not much prepared, were in a panic and had no ability to resist for a long time. I don't know how many soldiers died in vain, and I don't know how many generals died in the chaos.
The generals and commanders of Prussia were completely dumbfounded by the chaos before them. There are not 3 million soldiers gathered here, but there are 2 million troops. Now it is good, the camp of the two million army was ignited in an instant, and there were fires everywhere, and there were soldiers fleeing everywhere. In such a situation, let alone organizing troops to resist. Even the Marshal of Prussia didn't know where to go, for fear of meeting the Xia soldiers and saying that he would cut it down with a knife. Or they met the soldiers who bombed the camp and died in the chaotic camp for no apparent reason.
In one day and one night, they were ambushed three times in succession, which was a complete terrification of the Prussian soldiers. In just one day, he was ambushed three times, and he suffered heavy losses each time. Especially in the attack on the camp at night, more than 100,000 soldiers were lost, and I don't know how much food and grass were lost.
Early the next morning, the Prussian army, which had just gathered nearly a million troops, hurriedly retreated thirty miles, not daring to make a single move. It was not until night that the Prussian state collected the defeated army scattered all over the place, and saw that it lost more than 100,000 men. Coupled with the loss of tens of thousands of people during the day yesterday, in the blink of an eye, nearly 200,000 troops were gone. And the Xia army that was eliminated was less than 50,000 people, which was really a big loss.
The Prussian army, which had suffered a crushing defeat, was stationed on the spot, recovering its morale while waiting for the grain and grass to be carried behind. As soon as the fire was burned, more than half of the grain and grass carried by his army were burned, and the rest could last for more than ten days, and it could hold out until the arrival of the transport troops behind.
Zhuge Liang's mood was much better, and he ambushed the enemy three times in a row for one day and one night. Not only did he gain a lot, but his losses were very small. Secondly, he was able to save the situation after defeat, and the morale of the soldiers under his command finally recovered.
The soldiers of the Xia Army under Zhuge Liang were also very happy. Although the two days were very tiring, the physical exertion of the three consecutive days of fighting was naturally needless to say. Secondly, the three ambushes were successful, and the brothers were very happy. Counting the large amount of wine and meat seized last night, today I had a beautiful meal and rested for two days, anyway, the Prussian army did not dare to act rashly at all.
The battle report on the front line, although they had no personal experience, Long Ye and Xiao Chen still read it very happily. Zhuge Liang is worthy of the gods of the Yu Three Kingdoms period, and perhaps scheming is not his strong point. And his people are also cautious by nature, do not dare to take risks, and do not have a combination of strange and positive in the art of war. But its operation and planning, one plan after another, is absolutely called a god. is good at capturing the other party's psychological thoughts, as well as discovering the enemy's lack of defense, making Zhuge Liang a great military strategist with all his might.
After lamenting Zhuge Liang's strategy, he was happy to achieve a big victory at the front. Xiao Chen and Long Ye fell into contemplation again, and their troops were still insufficient. Zhuge Liang, who only had 450,000 horses, had little chance of blocking the enemy.
Prussia still has the advantage of this force, and it is believed that after being defeated by Zhuge Liang's strategy one after another, the enemy commander will definitely attach importance to his Zhuge Liang. There are still more than 2.5 million Prussian troops, as long as they are careful all the way, they can directly press Zhuge Liang head-on. Kong Ming, who had only more than 400,000 troops left, had no way to stop the advance of Prussia.
Han Xin's army of 1.8 million soon embarked on the journey, and a major battle on the front line not only brought high morale to the Xia army, but also brought greater danger. In the past, the Prussian army, which had always been calculated by the arrogant army, did not pay attention to Zhuge Liang's hundreds of thousands of troops at all, so it suffered a great defeat. But from then on, the Prussian army will pay full attention to the hundreds of thousands of troops under Zhuge Liang's command, and the battle situation will be more slightly more favorable for the Xia State.
It will take more than twenty days for Han Xin's army to reach the Northwest Front, and in these more than twenty days, it all depends on how much ability Zhuge Liang can exert himself. It would be the best result if a small number of troops could be used to block and retreat at the same time, and to destroy the living forces of the Prussian army. If it is really impossible to resist, Long Ye hopes that Zhuge Liang can retreat with a large army and reserve more elite troops for future large-scale battles.
From the moment he asked Beichen Kingdom for reinforcements, Long Ye already had the idea of giving up the Northwest Territory. As long as those hundreds of thousands of elite troops can be withdrawn unharmed, after waiting for the arrival of the Beichen army in the future, he will be able to have more elite troops to ensure the victory of the battle.
A piece of land is nothing, as long as it can defeat the three million elite army of Prussia on the frontal battlefield, and the subsequent five million recruits, the Xia country can take back its territory at any time, and even bite a large piece of meat from the Prussian state.
A few days after Han Xin left, the elite of the 500,000 Beichen Northern Army led by Lin Hu came to the capital of the Xia Kingdom. This surprised Long Ye, and even Xiao Chen was shocked. It will take three or four days to reach the border of Xia from the garrison of the Northern Army, and it will take half a month to reach the capital of Xia from the border. And now, excluding the time to ride back to deliver the message, it was only twenty days, and the 500,000 army came to the capital of the Xia Kingdom.
It takes time to gather the army and prepare the food and grass for the road. Even if there is enough food and grass in the camp of the Northern Army, it will not be able to go out until a day later. And with grain and grass, it only took 500,000 troops 15 or 6 days to run to the capital of the Xia Kingdom.
"King Qiqi, after receiving the order of Prime Minister Xun, the last general deeply felt that the king's matter was urgent. Therefore, more than 30,000 carriages were collected from the people, and more than 200,000 horses from Beizhou and Jiangzhou were mobilized. Along the way, the army first exchanged cars and horses, and the soldiers each carried ten days of dry food, day and night. Five days ago, the military rations ran out, and a batch of dry rations was purchased in the Xia country, and rushed to the capital of the Xia country as quickly as possible. Lin Hu stood under the main hall and reported to Xiao Chen, who was sitting on Long Ye's left hand side.
Xiao Chen and Long Ye glanced at each other, deeply feeling the speed of Lin Hu's march. However, Xiao Chen was worried that the army was in a hurry and could not march in a short time, so he hurriedly asked, "Okay, you did a wrong job." How are the soldiers now, and how long will it take for them to get to the northwest front of the Xia Kingdom?"
"King Qiqi, although the soldiers are tired, the morale of the army is high. The officers and men under his command only need one day of rest and recuperation, and they can immediately go to the front line the day after tomorrow. It's just that the king, at the end of a few days ago, he purchased 500,000 dry food for the army of 500,000 from the people of Xia for five days, and he just issued a bill. Therefore, I also hope that the king can help pay for the money and goods! ”
When Long Ye heard this, he immediately spoke: "General Lin doesn't need to worry, this king will let Wen Xiang pay the money later." In addition, the general's command today and tomorrow, what needs to be said. 500,000 soldiers of the Beichen Kingdom fought for their country, and they came day and night, and the king was deeply admired, but he mentioned it, and the king did his best to satisfy! ”
Joke, hundreds of thousands of troops have traveled nearly 800 miles day and night for their Xia country. After that, he had to go to the battlefield and fight for the Xia Kingdom, how could he let the family pay that little bit of dry food money.
Lin Hu smiled knowingly and said, "The foreign general thanks the king, the foreign general only needs the king to be able to satisfy the soldiers under his command for two days of meat." It doesn't need to be good, just get a few thousand fat pigs. ”
"Haha, it's a trivial matter, the general will go down to rest first. Later, the king sent three thousand fat pigs to the general. If it is insufficient, the general can go directly to the Prime Minister's Mansion and let the Prime Minister send enough fat pigs! Tatsuno readily agreed.
Fat pigs are just that, little meaning. Beichen raised countless fat pigs and supplied the army for training every day. Xia Guo naturally can't lag behind, although it is not as good as the output of Beichen Kingdom, but it is not a problem to maintain a fat pork meal for three days in his army. And 500,000 people for two days of pork, that's even easier.
As soon as Lin Hu came, Long Ye was relieved. 500,000 elites can go to the front line the day after tomorrow, and they are not much slower than Han Xin. If Lin Hu's 500,000 Beichen army is fast, maybe he can catch up with Han Xin. You must know that from the capital to the northwest, it is only more than 500 miles. An army of 1.8 million drove 500 miles, which was naturally very slow. And 500,000 people are different, although the speed is not a third faster, but it is normal to be faster than a fifth. If Lin Hu still came to the capital of Xia Kingdom at the same speed as before, he might be able to speed up by half.
Lin Hu has already arrived, and the rest of the 1.5 million Beichen Kingdom army will be far away. It is estimated that in less than ten days, more than one million allies and allies will appear in the capital of the Xia Kingdom. At that time, will he let the Prussian state continue to run rampant like this?