Chapter 8 Famous General Strategy
The Kingdom of Medin on the Galaxy Continent and the Kingdom of Sealand across the sea, the sixth all-out war between the millennium rivals, has come to an end after a year and a half of bloody battles, and both sides have paid hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilian casualties. The result is obvious: this all-out invasion of the Kingdom of Sealand, which has mobilized a large number of people and consumed a lot of national strength and is determined to win, will ultimately achieve nothing, neither can it completely defeat the power of the Kingdom of Medin, nor can it force the Kingdom of Messi to sign a humiliating treaty of land reparations, and can only retreat from the territory of the Kingdom of Medin in disgrace.
Although it was known that victory would be one's own country, for the commander of the Medin army, "the complete destruction of the invaders" and "the drive out of the invaders" were not the same in history. Therefore, in order to encircle and suppress the Western Army, which was retreating in an orderly manner, the 20,000 troops of the Mei Army were divided into two routes: the main force pursued in the rear, and the mobile troops made a detour to the front of the Western Army, captured a small town called Anipso, which was controlled by the Sealand Navy, and built fortifications before the Western Army arrived.
Port Ellen is an important seaport city on the west coast of the Kingdom of Messi, and it is also the closest stronghold to the Kingdom of Sealand. At the beginning of the war, when the weak Metin Navy was completely defeated by the Sealand's navy, which dominated the sea, the port of Airren was firmly controlled by the Western Army, and the land forces of the Sealand invaders were continuously transported to the mainland from this port. During the year and a half of the war, no matter how far the battles were fought elsewhere, the Western Army's control over the port of Allen was extremely tight and unbreakable. Therefore, if the defeated Sealand Army wanted to withdraw to the island, it would have to go to the port of Ellon, and the town of Anipso was the only way to get there. If you control the town of Annipso, you can completely block the way home of the Sealand army, and the "Eye of the Condor" and Prince Harun, who stay in the main force of the Western army, will inevitably fall back into the urn.
However, this was only the most ideal expectation of the wishful thinking of the generals of the Mei army. The low-hanging fruit victory made them ignore the man who stood against them on the other side was General Aiden Finger, known as the "Eye of the Condor".
The defenders of Medin recaptured the town of Anipso were prepared to be attacked from both sides, while the Sealand army, which had reached the front of the line of contact, was ready to storm the town of Anipso. However, the drums of war had been beating all day, and the shouts in front of the battle had almost deafened the eardrums of the defenders of Anipso, but they could not wait for the thunderous siege of the Sealand army. At night, the position of the Western army under the city was quiet, and the accuser of the defenders of Medin was very puzzled, so he sent a reconnaissance force to see what was going on.
Unexpectedly, the answer was shocking to everyone's jaws: the terrifying men and fortified positions of the Sealand army had long been empty, leaving only the huge siege machines that had been set up still in place, and the smoke rising from the pillars in the Sealand camp in the evening was only a trick, and thousands of Sealand soldiers took advantage of the night to slip away, taking only the individual weapons they had brought with them, all the horses, and some of the rations, all the heavy weapons, All the baggage was discarded, and even the tents that had been erected in an orderly manner were left to the Medins.
Where did this huge enemy army, which had been under their watchful eye, go? The generals of the Mei army were puzzled.
But soon their doubts were answered. In the following days, in a nearby area of several hundred kilometers, the Mei army's transport teams, heralds, and other units with low combat effectiveness were repeatedly attacked by small groups of Sealand troops, and these Western troops did not pursue and defeat the enemy, but fled after stealing supplies; and many villages were reported to be harassed by small groups of Western army rogue raids, and after the Western army snatched food, cloth, medicine, and other necessities from the unarmed villagers, they fled before the arrival of the Medin army, which had received the news and went to clear it. Due to the mountainous terrain in the west of the Kingdom of Medin, the Sealand army's rogue guerrilla warfare is like a loach, which cannot be caught or killed. This situation made many middle- and low-ranking officers of the Mei Army who were ordered to encircle and suppress them so angry that their faces turned green.
As for the senior generals, they have once again fallen into the myth. According to common sense, it took a long time for General Aiden Finger to gather the Western Army scattered throughout the Kingdom of Maidin to have the size of the current army. Therefore, the generals of the Mei army analyzed that General Finger would do his best to storm the town of Anipetso at this critical juncture, but General Finger did the opposite, breaking up the army that had been gathered with great difficulty into pieces and fighting guerrilla warfare on the enemy's territory. General Finger had the courage to do so, if he was either stunned by the battle, or there was an untold conspiracy behind it.
But regardless of General Finger's strategic aims, the opposing Madin army had to respond effectively. Since the May army had also used guerrilla warfare against the strong Sealand army in the previous stage of disadvantage, these Medins also knew how to deal with guerrilla warfare.
There are two most effective ways to deal with guerrilla warfare, the first is to clear the wilderness with strong walls, expel the people, seal off cities and villages, destroy mountains and forests, and thoroughly eradicate the objective conditions that allow guerrilla warfare to exist. Then there is only one way to deal with guerrilla warfare -- that is, small strand against small strand, guerrilla against guerrilla warfare.
After establishing the operational thinking, the Medin army also turned into countless combat detachments, lightly armed, attacking everywhere, chasing and encircling the guerrillas in Sealand, and the defenders of almost all the towns in the west of the Messi Kingdom also attacked one after another, looking for and destroying the enemy army everywhere. Under this tactic of Maiman's needle-to-needle, the guerrilla warfare of the Sealand army was dragged into the abyss in less than a week.
Relying on its familiarity with the terrain, popular support, air support, and large numbers, in the vast western part of the kingdom, the Mei army annihilated and severely damaged dozens of guerrillas of the Western Army, killed more than 1,000 people, captured hundreds of officers and soldiers of the Western Army, and defeated countless people.
However, despite the good news, the Plum Army's accusers were never able to catch or kill General Aiden Finger and Prince Harun, the two core figures of the enemy army, which made the accusers stab in their backs and vaguely feel that behind the smooth sailing of the battle, they seemed to be slipping into the enemy's trap step by step.
Sure enough, not long after, on August 28, the accusers' fears came true.
The city-state of Sole is another seaport fortress located 400 kilometers north of the port of Allen. Unlike the port of Erren, which was under all eyes at the beginning of the war, the port of Solai was farther away from the mainland of Zealand, and the sea outside the port was rough and turbulent for three-quarters of the day, making it not a good place for landing operations, and the army of Medin had built a strong fortress by the sea, and there was still a small fleet in the harbor, and there was only a narrow cliff road and connection between the fortress and the interior, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack both at sea and on land. Therefore, in the early days of the Pme War, even though a large part of the western part of the Kingdom of Medin was lost, the small amount of land in the city-state of Sole was firmly controlled by the city-state army loyal to the Kingdom of Medin.
However, it is not known whether the orders of the commander of the Mei army were too tight, or whether the commander defending the city-state of Solai was eager to make a meritorious service, or whether he was overconfident in the defense of the fortress, and most of the troops in the city-state were sent out to hunt down the wandering Sealand guerrillas. The fortress, which usually garrisoned 1,000 people, now has only a mere 200 troops left. At this juncture, a Sealand army, disguised as the wounded and fleeing civilians of the Mei army, was accepted into the fortress by the defenders who had relaxed their vigilance, and suddenly attacked from inside the fortress and killed the defenders of the fortress by surprise.
At first, the defenders of the fortress thought that the western army that infiltrated the fortress was only a small force, and they could be easily surrounded and suppressed by closing the city gates, but these young defenders never imagined that the thin old man who took the lead in killing the most ferocious among the invaders was actually the missing "Condor Eye" Aiden Finger himself!
Since General Finger personally participated in the battle, the gates of the fortress could not be closed at all. And outside the fortress, a dense crowd of Sealand soldiers suddenly appeared, frantically storming the fortress.
It can be rounded into parts, and it can also be combined into parts. Keeping an eye on its prey like a falcon and striking a killing blow where the enemy least expects it - this is how General Aiden Finger, the "Eye of the Condor" known as a famous general in the Kingdom of Sealand, uses his troops. Guerrilla warfare is not an end in itself, but a means to achieve it. In order to prevent the enemy from discovering his true intentions, General Finger deceived the enemy by playing cards out of common sense, although this caused him to lose more than 40% of his troops, but he successfully sent his troops to the periphery of Sole Fortress by moving ants.
The sharp arrows released from the shooting holes on the battlements shot the Western soldiers who rushed up the narrow path down the cliff one by one, but they still could not stop the crazy attack of these homesick Sealand soldiers, and the city gate was quickly controlled.
Complete one's misery. While the land was under onslaught, the sea was also under heavy attack by a large navy. The Medin navy, which lacked daily combat readiness and could only defend passively, made a hasty attack, but had no choice but to lose its control of the sea, and was sunk in the port one by one.
"The Kingdom of Sealand has transferred so many warships from the mainland, do they want to launch a new wave of invasions?" the lord of the city-state of Solai turned blue with fright.
In fact, the city lord is too worried, and the current Sealand Kingdom can't survive it internally, and it has long been on the verge of civil strife, and it is no longer able to support the outside world. What the generals of the Kingdom of Medin did not expect was that the Sealand defenders of Port Elren had abandoned this important strategic stronghold that would allow them to return home alive, and had gone out of their nests and made a desperate bet to storm the fortress of Solai, which was 400 kilometers away, with their own army.
It was only after the complete fall of Solai that the commander-in-chief of Medin realized that he had fallen into the hands of the cunning Sealand again, and that guerrilla warfare was simply a trick to cover people's ears. After General Finger's troops had completely occupied the city-state of Solai, the fortress was plentiful with food, forage, weapons, and fortifications, and the Sealand soldiers, who were roaming around outside and could only use light weapons against the heavy troops of the Mei army, finally felt bitter.
Commander Medin, who had recovered from his senses, mobilized his troops and gathered heavy troops to besiege the newly lost fortress of Solai, in an attempt to take Sealand while it was still unstable. However, such hasty siege warfare often does not have the desired effect. In the past half a month, the Mei army launched six large-scale sieges of the city, but in the face of the strong city defenses built by their own people, they were forced to retreat hastily and turned into a siege after leaving thousands of corpses behind.
The mysterious command ability and unpredictable strategic purpose of General Aiden Finger, the "Eye of the Condor", added a bit of confusion to the battle situation that should have been clear.