Chapter 252: Counterinsurgency Plan
readx;? When the report of the victory in Marin was delivered to the military headquarters by 800 miles, a group of military bigwigs, including Moses Trorence's father, were still meeting day and night to study counterinsurgency tactics. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoOld Trorens was racking his brains to plan the next military layout and arrangement, but when he turned around, he found that his second son, who seemed to be physically weak, had already beaten the main force of the rebels to ashes with a joke.
At first, the military bigwigs who received the good news were still wondering if Moses had lied about the military situation, but the information sent by the military intelligence officers in Marin City who followed them made them really believe this fact. For a while, everyone was dumbfounded, the Bols rebel army, which had once made the imperial court helpless, was actually beaten back to its original form by a twenty-four-year-old hairy boy without much effort after defeating two batches of imperial armies in a row, and this kid was not a soldier in the imperial military at all.
Except for the red face of old Trorence, the other bigwigs felt a little shameless, but they still did not dare to report the good news to His Majesty Boothman Roland without the slightest delay.
This good news was one of the few news that His Majesty Busman Rolland had received in the past year that made him happy, and he was so happy that he immediately decreed that he should be honored and canonized Trorens as a viscount of the first class of the Empire, and that the decree would take effect immediately.
Canonizing a twenty-year-old general is estimated to be the only way for a young emperor like Higg XIII who doesn't know what to do.
As soon as the will was drawn up, before it was issued, there was already an uproar, countless ministers knelt down at the court meeting and begged Higg XIII to take back the holy order, although Moses Trorens made great contributions, and the knighthood was enough to recognize his merits, but the official worshiped the general, after all, he was too young and too shallow, and the occasional victory may be more luck, if he really became a general, how could a group of proud soldiers obey the orders of a hairy boy who was only twenty-four years old.
The minister persuaded him like this, and Higg XIII was a little at a loss, take back his fate, where to put his face as an emperor, the result of the Bauhinia War has already made him lose face, if this matter is retreated again, who will obey the emperor's will in the future? But don't take it back, in the face of the minister's unanimous opposition, he also felt a little bottomless about his decision, the Bauhinia War was not only the army of the Higg Empire, but also the confidence of Higg XIII, at this moment, Higg XIII habitually hesitated again, but he saw the old Trorense, who was also kneeling in His Highness and begging him to take back his life, his eyes suddenly lit up.
So a few days later, the finally prepared Imperial counterinsurgency army, led by General Trorentens, swore out from Triumph City. After passing through Baden, an army of 50,000 marched towards Lua, while Moses Trorense led 5,000 elite troops from Maringuan to the southeast to attack Lua, and joined up with the main force of Old Trorense to form a new counterinsurgency army.
Higg XIII's decree did not move a word, but the general changed from little Trorense to old Trorence, but the emperor added a holy decree appointing little Trorense as the supervisor of the counterinsurgency army, in fact, exercising the right to command, the father is the commander-in-chief, the son is the second-in-command, and it should not be a problem for the son to overstep his authority to command, which is what Busman Rolland thinks is clever.
The ministers who persuaded naturally understood the emperor's cleverness and the character of dying to save face, but since he had achieved his goal, he would accept it when he saw it, and he couldn't really tear his face with the emperor, so what was the difference between it and the rebels.
So after a turmoil of rivalry, the monarch and his ministers focused on the progress of the war in the eastern part of the rebellion, and everyone eagerly awaited the news of the final victory. But what disappointed them was that the daily routine battle report showed that the tactics of the Trorens father and son this time were very different from the previous ones, they did not seem to be in a hurry to make achievements, but adopted a steady strategy of internal siege and external attack, on the one hand, the main army led by the old Trorens to use the advantage of strength to trap the rebel regiment in Lua City, on the other hand, Trorens Jr. led about 10,000 troops to begin to sweep the areas and forces occupied by the rebels on the periphery of Lua City, and swept away the imperial administrative structure that was restored one by one, the purpose of which was to try to stabilize the periphery first and cut off the back route of the rebels, without foreign aidThe rebels trapped in the lonely city are like turtles in an urn. Moreover, this has the greatest advantage of being able to avoid the rebels from becoming rogues after their defeat, and the strength of the rebels is mainly cavalry, and the rogues led by cavalry will be difficult to exterminate, and the war will drag on indefinitely.
Of course, this is only a superficial phenomenon, and the real situation is that Moses Trorens planned to use this method of clearing the perimeter to force Pores, who was trapped in Lua, to take the initiative to attack, so as to turn a difficult siege battle into a decisive battle outside the city. And Moses also believed that Bols would definitely take the bait, because if he couldn't defeat the besieging enemy before Moses recovered the entire occupied area in the eastern part of the empire, and when the people in the eastern occupied area rejoined the empire with the tilt of the war, they would only have one way to defend Lua City, and they would have no reinforcements outside and be trapped in the isolated city, and their own military strength and logistics would be completely in an absolutely weak situation, and they would only have one way to die, just a little earlier and a little later. So Moses concluded that Bols would not choose a path of sitting and dying.
Moses led 10,000 elite soldiers to attack everywhere with the team in the first two months, recovering some large towns and important strongholds around the city, and then leaving only 3,000 troops to continue to clear the surrounding small towns, and Moses himself led the remaining 7,000 men and horses back to the vicinity of Lua City, and at any time to spy on the changes in Lua City, once Bols seeks a decisive battle outside the city, then his 7,000 men will suddenly appear and give the opponent a fatal blow at a critical moment.
Due to secrecy concerns, Moses did not reveal his plans to the military headquarters, and even Boothman Rowland was kept in the dark, because he had enough reason to suspect that the military headquarters was hiding the eyes of the rebels. However, it was this arrangement of secrecy that caused him to lose the trust of the emperor.
More than two months passed, and Higg XIII was very disappointed by the slow progress of the counterinsurgency, and in his heart, Moses Trorence, who was favored by him, should be able to capture the rebel leader Bols and immediately bring the rebel leader Bols to the imperial capital to rectify the law, so that he could also prove to the Holy See the military strength of the empire, even without the assistance of the Holy See, he Busman Rolland was still capable of quelling the rebellion. But I didn't expect that two months had passed, not only did the thief leader not see him, but the two sides didn't even fight a big battle, and the 50,000 counterinsurgency army ate every day, and saw the imperial warehouse deflated, which made Higg XIII how to endure it.
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