Text: The Great Power Battle_Chapter 269 Hunt down Galahad
After several days of quiet advance, Yue Fei led an army of 500,000 to the bank of the river, more than a hundred miles north of Wentir City. Hundreds of thousands of troops rushed down one by one after the warship quickly approached the shore. Subsequently, Yue Fei also hurriedly went ashore, while letting his generals lead the cavalry to take the lead towards Wentir City. Along the way, it doesn't matter whether it's an enemy city or a village or town. After arriving at the city of Great Wentier, if you can force your way into the city, then kill it. If not, set up camp in the city of Wintier.
The cavalry of more than 40,000 people quickly gathered, and then, under the leadership of Lin Hu, they quickly slaughtered towards the city of Wentil.
In fact, if the previous plan is implemented, I am afraid that at this time, hundreds of thousands of Beichen soldiers are still floating on the river. The previous plan was to arrange some actions to attract the enemy's attention, and then hundreds of thousands of troops would give the country where the sun never sets. In this way, as long as the sun does not set on the country to grasp our movements, then they will be in a strategic disadvantage. This point is very important to the Beichen Army.
According to the plan, he should lead an army of 500,000 and continue to march all the way, passing through the city of Wentier. Then, directly intersperse the location of the enemy's capital. If Yue Fei was to arrange it, the best way would be to find out where the enemy's grain was stored? With just a small fire, the enemy's food and grass will be burned, and the entire defenders of Wintier City will face a starvation situation. But now Yue Fei suddenly changed his mind, and also thought that he had accidentally overlooked a big problem.
If you go to burn the enemy's food and grass, what if they put all the food in the city of Wentil? There should be a high probability of this, knowing that in the face of enemy troops several times their size, the general of the country where the sun never sets is very likely to put food in the city. Otherwise, once the Beichen army besieged the city, wouldn't it be a big embarrassment.
Yue Fei also thought of this problem, so he hurriedly changed his strategy now. Secondly, it was also because his own king sent him the latest battle situation information two days ago. A few days ago, Galahad, the defender of the city of Wentil in the country on which the sun never sets, led 100,000 soldiers and horses, intending to relocate the people on the front line and retreat to the city of Wentiel. However, now Luo Cheng has led 100,000 cavalry to strike at the enemy's soldiers out of the city and the displaced people.
By the time the envelope came, Luo Cheng had annihilated nearly 30,000 soldiers and horses of the enemy, as well as more than 100,000 civilians. Moreover, the latest news, Luo Cheng also trapped the defender of Wentir City, Galahad, in a valley, and was planning to annihilate the enemy.
When Yue Fei saw this letter, he immediately changed his plan. Previously, according to the king's plan, he directly attacked Xilong City, the lord city of Xilong in the Duchy of Sunset, because now the elite troops of the Xilong Lord's army have all been concentrated in Wentir City. In the rear, there are less than two or three hundred thousand elite troops, and nearly one million recruits. Although it sounds like a lot, don't forget that the nearly 100 cities in the Xilong Territory still need troops to protect them. Just guarding the place, Xilong Commander will almost have to divide more than 100,000 elite troops, as well as 500,000 recruits.
Therefore, as long as the Beichen army attacks Xilong City, it will definitely be a disaster for Xilong City. Because Xilong City is only more than eighty miles away from the Erbuna River, it almost forms a straight line with Wentir City. However, because it was in the rear, and a large number of naval divisions were not far from the opposite bank. Moreover, the navy also sent a large number of small boats to guard the river. In such a safe rear, who would put most of the troops in a safe rear, regardless of the tense battle situation on the front line.
Therefore, according to the reconnaissance of the intelligence officers of the Military Intelligence Agency, there were only 50,000 elite troops and 50,000 recruits in Xilong City. Most of the troops were deployed in a few cities behind the city of Wentier, and as for the cities further behind, there were few soldiers and horses to garrison.
That is to say, as long as the Beichen army takes advantage of the weakness, even if it can't take Xilong City at once, it is not a problem to take the rear city where the Xilong Commander's garrison is empty. In this way, the army of Beichen Kingdom immediately cut off the enemy's rear route. Unless the sun does not set and the country sends sailors to cross the river to rescue, otherwise Xilongling can only declare the fall. And if the sailor of the country where the sun never sets wants to cross the river, it depends on whether Li Ancheng, the commander of the sailor of Beichen country, is willing.
However, there is a big problem with such actions. That is, there is almost no living force that kills and injures the other party, and even the grain and grass materials may not be able to be cut off. If the army led by himself can't take Xilong City, then he can only retreat and take the city behind the enemy. In this way, the enemy's forces will definitely be concentrated on a large scale between the hundreds of miles of land between the cities of Xilong and the cities of Wentil. And relying on Wentir City and Xilong City, two super fortified cities, it is not so easy for the Beichen Army to eat the troops of Xilong Territory.
Even if it is a siege, as two super fortified cities, and more than thirty cities in between. Coupled with the grain and grass that Xilong Ling had stored before the war, no matter how you look at it, the Beichen Army can't survive others. Therefore, Yue Fei planned to change his plan and change the raid on Xilong City to a raid on Wintier City.
As his lord had said, Galahad left the city with an army of 100,000 men. First of all, this is a great mistake, as a commander, before the arrival of the enemy's army, not staying in the city and actually running out to fight his own side, it is absolutely a tragedy.
Luo Cheng's martial arts, Yue Fei knows very well, although he is not as good as Ma Chao, but this guy has a hand in training cavalry. The 200,000 cavalry of Beichen Kingdom were trained by two people in different styles. Needless to say, Ma Chao's has always been a Yongliang cavalry, and he tends to charge into battle. And the cavalry trained by Luo Cheng is the Youji cavalry, which is biased towards light cavalry, and is good at marching thousands of miles to attack the enemy unprepared. Both types of cavalry have their own advantages and disadvantages. However, Yue Fei believed that the 100,000 cavalry under his command had been completed, and if the enemy's main general was trapped, the outcome would be almost certain.
Now that two days have passed, I believe that Luo Cheng should also eliminate that group of enemies, and I don't know if he killed the enemy general. However, this time it is no longer important, the short distance of a hundred miles is less than half a day for the cavalry. Even if the cavalry led by Lin Hu was numerous, they were able to arrive this afternoon. You must know that this time the cavalry does not have the towing company of the infantry, and can run as much as you want.
As long as Lin Hu plays beautifully, he can take advantage of the enemy's lack of time to react and enter the city. As long as the cavalry is the first to enter the city, then the city of Wentil will be destroyed. Without a garrison, the city is very fragile, and it is easy for subordinates to be unable to command a large army.
After Lin Hu led 40,000 cavalry to leave first, Yue Fei gathered 200,000 elite troops, all of whom only carried three days' worth of grain and grass. Then, marching as fast as you can, go straight to the city of Wintier. As for the local city that blocked the road ahead, there were more than 200,000 infantry escorting food and grass equipment behind it. Of course, this is also the premise of being able to ensure that the siege equipment and grain and grass are delivered to the front army in time. If it doesn't work, it's better to just give up the cities that stand in the way.
Lin Hu led 40,000 cavalry, galloping along the way, kicking up bursts of smoke, making the entire army almost completely hidden in the dust. It was almost noon now, and the troops were still about thirty-five miles away from the city of Ventiel. The three cities he met along the way were all directly ignored by Lin Hu. However, after crossing the city, Lin Hu still assigned a few cavalry squads to hide outside the four gates of the city, specifically intercepting and killing the cavalry of the Sunless Kingdom who carried the message for Wentir City.
Lin Hu's approach was very correct, after leading the cavalry to leave the vicinity of the city. Several enemy cities encountered immediately sent messengers, rushed out of the city gates, and reported to the city of Wentil. Subsequently, they were completely wiped out by the cavalry squad of the Beichen Army that was specially hidden outside the city gate. It is precisely because of this that when Lin Hu and other cavalry troops arrived in Wentir City, they found that the army of Beichen Kingdom had already arrived at the gate of the city.
After marching for a while, Lin Hu asked the soldiers to start cooking to fill their stomachs, and by the way, they fed the war horses. Now the distance from the city of Wentil is no more than twenty miles, and the horses can arrive in half an hour at most. By that time, the enemy was almost having lunch, and the garrison at the city gate would definitely not be too many, just in time for an assault on the city.
Besides, Galahad wiped out more than 39,000 cavalry of the Beichen Kingdom yesterday, and the cavalry commander of the Beichen Army was shot through by random arrows. If nothing else, the general of the Beichen Army absolutely had to kneel. So, Galahad is in a very good mood right now.
In the entire valley and valley, there were corpses of Beichen soldiers everywhere, and most of the cavalry soldiers were full of arrows. Although many of the horses were injured, which made Galahad very dissatisfied, it was a war horse. The sun never sets, the city is either a mountain or a water, or it is, just like the city in the Gobi Desert. Therefore, the country where the sun never sets now has no place to raise horses at all. The scarcity of war horses naturally makes the cavalry units of the country where the sun never sets scarce. This was completely suppressed in the face of the already powerful cavalry troops of the Beichen Kingdom.
Although this time he set up an ambush by himself, he wiped out nearly 40,000 cavalry troops of Beichen Kingdom in one fell swoop. However, there are still 60,000 or 70,000 cavalry in Beichen Kingdom, and there are only about 30,000 troops left under his command, which is not good news.
When the troops were cleaning up the battlefield, Galahad directly asked his soldiers to peel off all the armor on all the Beichen soldiers and arm themselves. In addition, even those war horses that fell to the ground did not let go. All the horses that could still walk were pulled back, and the horses that could not walk were immediately killed and the good pieces of meat were cut off. When we arrive in the city tomorrow, let the big guys open meat.
Tens of thousands of soldiers, plus hundreds of thousands of civilians, quickly cleaned up the entire battlefield. All the armor that should have been stripped off was peeled off, and not a single one was left. The dead war horses have all turned into large pieces of dried meat. Only the viscous blood still flowing in the valley was left, slowly seeping into the underground loess.
At noon, the combination of soldiers and civilians led by Galahad still not left the camp and marched towards the city of Wintier. Just let all the people taste the delicious horse meat in the middle of lunch in advance. It wasn't until after dinner that the troops began to be organized and rushed back.
While Galahad was eating the delicious horse meat, a group of thousands of knights walked down the road more than thirty miles to the west of the valley. Inside the blood-stained armor was a red shirt. Coupled with a big banner of a golden dragon on a red background, this is exactly an army of the Beichen Kingdom. The leader was the head of the association who escaped death, and the thousand soldiers behind him were the cavalry troops of the Beichen Army who were defeated.
Now the cavalry of more than a thousand people, after eating all the food, can only go hungry. Now, they have been starving for a long time. From last night to noon the next day, no one had eaten a bite of food or drunk a drop of water. More than 1,000 soldiers have already been tortured by hunger and thirst, one by one hanging their heads, without the slightest spirit, just sitting on the horse silently looking ahead, controlling the change of war horses to move forward.
Just after the more than 1,000 people had just walked past a forest, several cavalrymen suddenly rushed out of the woods. Suddenly, the brain had been under a high degree of pressure, and the person who suddenly rushed out was quite frightened.
However, when I took a closer look, I found that several people suddenly rushed out wearing the same armor as him, and the shirts inside were also red.
With doubts in his heart, the head of the First Association took a few steps forward and asked, "You are the Beichen Army?" ”
"General Qiyu, we are the third assistant soldier of the Royal First Cavalry Army. Currently, detectives are being carried out to spy on the situation around the city of Wintier. Among the several knights who rushed out, they slowly walked out of the queue and said to Lin Hu.
"Then why are you here, do you say..."
"General Qiyu, now that the 40,000 cavalry of our army have gathered outside the city of Wentil, just wait for the military order to immediately attack the city of Wentil. But why is the general here? The soldier asked, too, slightly confused.
The chairman of the first association suddenly sighed and said, "Alas, it's hard to say! Who is your leading general, is it General Ma? ”
The soldier said, "General Qiyu, no. General Ma should be in the area along the river now, and now General Lin Hu is not far ahead! “
The head of the first association was immediately overjoyed, thinking that he and the only remaining more than 1,000 people under his command would die in a foreign country, but he did not expect that there were still his own troops in the rear of the enemy. Subsequently, the head of the first association immediately took the remnants of the defeated army and followed the reconnaissance cavalry to the place where Lin Hu was.