Text: The Battle of Great Powers_Chapter 317 The Bloody Battle Town Guocang
Zhang Han led a million-strong army of the Northern Army to wreak havoc among nearly 100 cities in the Cossack Marquis. The old Maozi of the Cossack country, who was supposed to be the home field, was made miserable by the army led by Zhang Han. The millions of men and horses of the northern army were all scattered among these dozens of cities according to the establishment of the regiment. Their task was not to storm cities, not to plunder the enemy's baggage. They are here to kill people, specifically to kill those old hairy civilians.
Twenty-two divisions, sixty-six regiments, plus the division's direct subordinate units, were scattered within the territory of the Cossack state. All the villages that the Beichen army saw, as well as some towns with weak defenses, were reduced to nothingness. Needless to say, the best defense is nothing more than a fence, and some have nothing at all. In the face of the fierce soldiers of the Beichen Army, Lao Maozi civilians did not have the slightest power to fight back. Although the town has some low walls, it is still so fragile in front of the soldiers of the Northern Army.
Not to mention that the cavalry of the Northern Army was able to directly cross the wall, and every regiment in the Northern Army had chariot troops. There weren't many catapults or bed crossbows inside, but they were enough to destroy the walls of a small town. In the midst of such indiscriminate raids, a storm of fear was set off in the entire Cossack state. In just a few days, hundreds of villages and towns were destroyed, and more than 1.5 million people were killed or injured. This is something that the Cossack state could not stand and the people of the country would not want to.
As a result, all the cities attacked by the Cossacks began to leave the city, besieging and suppressing the soldiers of the Northern Army in all directions. However, under many encirclements and suppressions, not only did they fail to kill a few Northern Army, but they were annihilated by the Beichen Army. As early as after the troops dispersed, Gai Yin Zhang Han strictly required each regiment commander to send scouts to observe the movements of nearby cities at all times. As soon as the enemy leaves the city, immediately unite the surrounding friendly forces and engage in an encirclement and annihilation battle. Therefore, not long after the Cossacks * left the city, the news reached the ears of the officers and men of the Northern Army.
Although tens of thousands of infantry were lost, the top brass of the Cossack state still did not care, but mobilized heavy troops to enter in an attempt to completely annihilate these clowns in the country. In their eyes, there are certainly not too many people who are messing around. After all, to destroy hundreds of villages and towns, it is impossible to have too many manpower. It only takes a dozen people to conquer a village, so it is estimated that the following enemies are only one or two hundred thousand men. Therefore, among the troops mobilized to encircle and suppress the Northern Army, there were only 300,000 infantry and 200,000 cavalry.
It's just that when this heavy army has not yet arrived at the battlefield, the Northern Army has once again expanded its results. Because many of the Cossacks* of the city ran out to trouble the Northern Army, but they were beaten instead of encirclement. Not only did they lose a large number of troops, but they were also given more than a dozen cities by the soldiers of the counterattacking Northern Army. All this was caused by the carelessness of the Cossack * team, as well as the lack of combat effectiveness. The garrison of a few dozen cities is only a few thousand, and even if the Cossack state has hoarded a lot of troops on the border, it is absolutely impossible for the strength to reach 500,000 troops.
The southern frontier army of the Cossack State was not here, but near Donglan County, which was also the ultimate goal of Xiao Chen's main army.
It was impossible to count on the border army to come to the rescue, and when going out of the city to encircle and suppress, the garrison suffered heavy losses. Zhang Han, who originally only wanted to slaughter civilians, resolutely launched more than a dozen regiments and more than 200,000 troops to counterattack the city when he saw that there were not many defenders in the city and there were more people. After easily taking a dozen or so cities, the Northern Army soldiers slaughtered civilians in the city. This made Xiao Chen's task to the Northern Army rise from more than 1.5 million beheadings to more than 2 million in one go. And in addition to these dozen or so cities, the soldiers of the Northern Army also made a landscape with those heads, and a monument was erected next to it, which read: Northern Army! Revenge!
In addition, I don't know where Zhang Han found a lot of skilled painters, and he also painted several pictures. Among them, there are several pictures of the soldiers of the Northern Army when they kill people in the city, and there are several pictures of the soldiers of the Northern Army standing on the tower and cheering. There is also a picture of the soldiers of the Northern Army laughing in front of the majestic landscape. Later, these drawings were collected by Xiao Chen in the library (7731) and moved to Tianlongtai, becoming the most frequently discussed topic among the people of Beichen Kingdom.
Subsequently, a series of counterattacks on the city and the destruction of the city finally made the high-ranking personnel of the Cossack state realize that there was something big about it. As a result, the speed of the 500,000 troops transferred from the capital immediately doubled, and they quickly headed towards the battlefield. The 800,000 border troops stationed in the south to defend the Beichen State army were also directly transferred back to 500,000 to participate in the war of encircling and suppressing Zhanghan.
It would have been a very good plan, if according to the ideas of the top of the Cossack state. After arriving at the battlefield, this million troops will definitely be able to quickly recover the captured cities, and then engage in a fierce confrontation with the northern army. The final result will definitely be able to suppress the raging of the soldiers of the Northern Army and protect the civilian population in the country.
However, when the Cossack army of one million entered the battlefield, it was not long before they recovered those cities. And, after seeing the landscape outside the city, he destroyed them in anger. However, Zhang Han ran away and went to the north. This is unbearable, the original battlefield is in the southern territory of the country, and it is not too big. But further north, it's the capital. If this group of Beichen troops is allowed to run around the capital and massacre, it is estimated that everyone will be implicated. When the time comes, the consequences will be unimaginable.
So, under the precise command of the Cossacks, the troops in the north quickly gathered and prepared to block the roads to prevent the Beichen army from moving north into the surroundings of the capital. Then the 1 million elite army left 200,000 people stationed in the slaughtered southern territory, and 800,000 horses continued to pursue the Beichen army.
Under the continuous encirclement and interception, the soldiers and horses led by Zhang Han suddenly fell into a predicament. The Cossack soldiers and horses had set up strong defenses around the capital, and many of the crossings were completely blocked, and it was very difficult for the Northern Army to break through these lines. The problem of casualties is small, in case it is pinned down by the army of the Cossack state, the millions of enemy troops behind it can directly explode their own chrysanthemums. When the time comes, the front and back will be surrounded, and it will definitely be a life of nine deaths.
Although the Northern Army is still difficult, its scope of activity includes more than 50 cities. Although the army of the Cossack state ran back and forth between these more than 50 cities, tracking the traces of the northern army. However, there were too many scout troops of the Beichen Army, and each time they were either run away by the Northern Army, or the Cossacks* were ambushed and defeated. In short, for several days, Zhang Han was still living happily, and the army was also wantonly slaughtering the civilians he met.
More than 20 days have passed since the beginning, and the Northern Army has been scurrying back and forth in the territory of the Cossacks. Not only did they kill a large number of Cossack troops, but they also dealt a devastating blow to the economy and development of the Cossack state. Many of the caravans stopped, for fear of encountering Beichen soldiers who came out of nowhere. And the people are also growing in fear, fearing that at some moment a group of soldiers will rush into their nests. In short, there was a sense of terror throughout the Cossack state.
On this day, the monarch of the Cossack state, Shaman. Novsky finally couldn't help it. Two days ago, the number of troops that the Beichen Army had invaded into its own country had been roughly estimated, at least more than 800,000 troops. These 800,000 Beichen troops ran back and forth under their noses every day, and the group of fools under his command not only did not exterminate them, but lost troops one after another. If it weren't for his own strategy now, I'm afraid that the Beichen Army would have killed his own capital city a long time ago.
Therefore, considering that the Beichen army was killed under the capital, it would cause extremely serious consequences. Shaman transferred back 500,000 troops from the northern part of the kingdom, leaving only 300,000 to garrison. The east and west sides were respectively transferred back to the capital with 300,000 troops, forming an army of 1.1 million, and set out from the capital again to participate in the battle to encircle and suppress the Beichen army. Of course, this is only on paper, and the messenger is still running north, east and west.
However, at this time, the seventy or eighty cities that had just been recovered in the north ushered in a bad news again. Originally, a million troops left 200,000 soldiers and horses here to garrison. If this kind of strength had been in the past, it would have been enough to cooperate with the garrisons of various cities. However, now these dozens of cities have almost been slaughtered by the Beichen army, and they can't even pull a strong man, let alone the garrison. Therefore, although there is an army of 200,000, once dispersed, it is considered good to have 3,000 or 2,000 people in a city.
It's just that people are not as good as heaven. In the opinion of the Cossack captain, 200,000 troops were enough to defend these cities, when the strength of ten divisions of the Beichen* team suddenly came. The 450,000 men and horses were organized according to the division level, and each attacked the target that had already been set. In just one day, the ten divisions of the Beichen Army took thirteen cities, beheaded more than 30,000 people, and captured more than 4,000 people.
At the same time, 10 divisions of the 22nd division of the Beichen State plus more than 400,000 troops of the Xia State came directly to the camp of the southern border guards of the Cossack State, and immediately launched a fierce attack. When Zhanghan ravaged the territory of the Cossacks, the southern border guards sent 800,000 horses and 500,000 troops to participate in the battle to encircle and suppress Zhanghan. Only 300,000 soldiers and horses were left in the border defense battalion, which can be said to have greatly reduced the defensive capability.
If these 300,000 horses were based on the city to defend the Beichen Army, perhaps the Beichen Army's nearly 1.4 million army would not be able to eat these 300,000 people in a short period of time. However, no one knows what the commander of these 300,000 people thinks. Obviously, there are a few cities behind him that can be defended, but he relies on the big camp to fight with the army of Beichen Kingdom. The result is self-evident, the battalion garrisoned by 300,000 horses was broken after only three days of holding out under the attack of the Beichen army.
Hundreds of thousands of troops were beheaded 130,000 ranks, 1560,000 prisoners, and the remaining more than 20,000 remnants did not know where to go. After the war, Xiao Chen sighed incomparably, and he didn't know if the commander of this old man was kicked in the head by a donkey, and he was stupid to play with his own army. If there were more such guys in the Cossacks, maybe the Beichen Army wouldn't be able to eat the Cossacks with much effort.
In the southwest of the Cossack state, the more than 1.1 million troops of the Xia state also directly attacked the belly of the Cossack state, approaching the prosperous area in the west. However, the western frontier army of the Cossack state reacted very quickly. Although 300,000 troops were transferred away by his own king two days ago, there are still 500,000 soldiers and horses. After these 500,000 soldiers and horses were attacked by the Xia State in the southwest, the army immediately moved south.
A few days later, the border guards of the 500,000 Cossacks and the Xia army officially met. Relying on the two cities as horns for each other, the 500,000 Cossacks* actually blocked the Xia army that was advancing all the way and had high morale. Under the continuous fighting, neither side took advantage of anything. At this time, the troops of the ten divisions of Beichen Kingdom, which were arranged on the central line, suddenly became brave. Just when the main force defeated the southern border battalion of the Cossack State and the Xia State was advancing with great triumph, a wave also broke out.
In one go, he took more than 60 cities, and inadvertently, he slowly made a strategic move to encircle 500,000 western border guards of the Cossack State. The main army led by Xiao Chen, after eating the army of 300,000 Cossacks, also attacked the city all the way. In a few days, he not only captured more than 30 cities in the southern territory, but also occupied more than a dozen cities in the eastern part of the Cossacks.
The movement of the main force of the Beichen Army, which was nearly 1.5 million troops, was immediately met by the eastern border guards of the Cossack state. Although 500,000 horses are not much, there are 200,000 cavalry among them, which almost scared Xiao Chen to death. You must know that now the Beichen army is scattered in all directions, and the 1.5 million army led by Xiao Chen looks magnificent and domineering, but the cavalry is only about 100,000 people.
The clash between the 100,000 cavalry and the 200,000 cavalry of the Cossack state began before the main forces of the two sides met. At that time, the battlefield was the endless Gobi Desert, when 300,000 cavalry rushed back and forth on the battlefield. The entire battlefield was obscured by dust, and those who were far away could only see the dust that went straight to the sky.
The outcome of the battle was very unsatisfactory, the Beichen army lost more than 47,000 cavalry, while the Cossack state only lost more than 30,000 men. Although this battle damage was not very large, it was enough to make Xiao Chen feel very distressed. That's nearly 50,000 cavalrymen, and they just have training fees, training fees, plus the cost of war horses, as well as equipment and food for people and horses, and countless money for phone bills. As a result, more than 30,000 Cossack cavalry were exchanged, which made Xiao Chen feel very unhappy.
The cavalry of the Cossack state was clearly bullying the few, with a difference of half in the forces of the two sides. Although he lost 50,000 cavalry, he also lost 30,000 cavalry of the Cossack State, which can show that the combat effectiveness of the cavalry of the Beichen Army is a little stronger than that of the cavalry of the Cossack State. Therefore, I need cavalry now, and I need a large number of cavalry of the Beichen Army!