Chapter 342: Guarding the Granary
The task of guarding the granary seems to be easy, but in fact, there is also a hidden crisis, you must know that Aria's granary is one of the targets of the Thunder Dragon Army. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
If you are accidentally attacked, the entire granary will be lost, which will also deal a serious blow to the main forces.
Therefore, protecting the granary is not an easy task.
However, the location of the granary is in the rear of the main force, and if the Thunder Dragon Army wants to sneak attack, it can only send a cavalry army.
As long as you can deal with the cavalry and don't give the slightest chance, it is still very easy to defend.
Coming to the location of the granary, this is a plain, which is very advantageous for the cavalry, but unfortunately the main force in the mountains is too far away, so the granary can only be built here.
Since there were no obstacles, they had to make them artificially and dig a large deep pit directly near the granary to make trouble for the cavalry as much as possible.
After doing this, Li Yuanfang's troops began to be stationed to prevent a sneak attack by the Xiaolong Army.
I have to say that the Thunder Dragon Army is worthy of being the number one force in the rebel army, and the main force of Aria has no way to take it, and it can only slowly wear down the other party.
However, the appearance of the Vulcan cannon frustrated the dragon army and began to retreat, and even the elite cavalry was hit.
In order to deal with this situation, the Thunder Dragon Army could only thicken the armor of soldiers and war horses, and only then did it fight back, and it could start to receive too severe blows, and it was still at a disadvantage.
If it continues to fight like this, it will be very disadvantageous for the Thunder Dragon Army, and I am afraid that the entire territory will be lost in the future.
In response to this situation, the command of the Thunder Dragon Army aimed at the granaries of the Aria forces, and every time they encountered a crisis, they would attack the granaries.
The enemy army lost food, and naturally the army was unstable and directly routed.
Without incident, the commander of the Dragons ordered the infantry to pin down the Aria troops, and the cavalry army attacked their granaries.
Soon, news of a large-scale counteroffensive by the enemy army came from the troops of the Aria front, which inflicted considerable losses on the troops.
This was not the most important thing, and then news came from the granary, and it was found that a large group of cavalry of the Thunder Dragon Army was coming straight to the granary.
There are only twenty or thirty thousand troops stationed in the granary, all of them are new recruits, and it seems a little impossible to want the elite of tens of thousands of enemy troops in the lower grades.
The granary directly launched a support signal here, and within half an hour, 50,000 reinforcements would arrive, that is, the troops stationed in the granary needed to hold out for half an hour.
Li Yuanfang had heard of the strength of the cavalry of the Dragon Army, and it was almost hopeless to resist with such a few people.
To this end, he made a suggestion to flee in several ways with the food, and try to keep as much food as possible.
This suggestion was directly rejected, and in the opinion of the current supreme commander, they could hold out for half an hour, and when reinforcements arrived, they would be able to deal a heavy blow to the enemy's cavalry.
Li Yuanfang is too lazy to argue, he can do everything he can, and he can't blame him if something goes wrong when the time comes.
A few minutes later, the cavalry of the Thunder Dragon Army had arrived, and the obstacles near the granary caused them a lot of trouble.
However, the Xiaolong army had already taken precautions, and after resting, they launched an attack again.
The garrison troops were not such elite opponents at all, they were wantonly slaughtered, and the defense line was broken in the blink of an eye.
The granaries were not spared, they were badly damaged, and they were set on fire.
Half an hour passed, the reinforcements arrived, and the garrison wanted to counterattack, but the Xiaolong army didn't give a chance at all, rode a horse, and quickly withdrew from here, and couldn't catch up if they wanted to.
Although it was remedied in time, more than half of the grain was lost in the granary.
For such a serious dereliction of duty, every general is responsible, and the first commander is the most responsible, after all, he makes the decision.
Not giving the first commander had anything to do with the king, and he was not punished in any way, but only lost the title of first commander.
This title fell directly to the head of the second commander, Li Yuanfang.
There was no surprise at this result, Li Yuanfang behaved relatively calmly.
Because the granary was attacked, the 50,000 soldiers who came to support did not leave, and were stationed near the granary, but they were not under the control of Li Yuanfang.
Li Yuanfang didn't care much about this, and then he directly ordered and began to carry the grain.
It is divided into three batches, the first batch is all sand, the second batch is also all sand, and the third batch is the real grain.
After doing this, the soldiers began to transport food to the front.
On the way to transport grain, the grain transport team was indeed attacked by the dragon army, but they attacked the first batch, and it was all sand.
Finding this, the Xiaolong Army was also very angry, and soon discovered the second batch of grain transportation teams.
But there was still sand inside, and by the time they turned around to deal with the third convoy, the grain had already been delivered to the front.
The main force that received the food was naturally greatly boosted in morale, and in the absence of the enemy's elite, it played a great advantage.
These cavalry armies who wanted to attack the granary could only rush back in order to redeem their disadvantage.
The cavalry army of the Thunder Dragon Army was still very powerful, and the power of the Vulcan cannon was effective, so they were restrained by them, and they were immediately beaten back.
The Thunder Dragon Army, which can move its hands and feet, naturally has its eyes on the granary again, but there are a large number of soldiers stationed there, and it will take a great price to take it.
Those weak grain convoys became their targets, cutting off the grain routes was no less than burning the grain.
This time, the grain convoy was divided into three batches, the first two batches were sand or dirt, and the third batch was grain.
With the same trick, the Xiaolong army was still fooled, and they didn't cut off a little food, and the pressure on their front line increased again, after all, the elite was not there.
In desperation, the cavalry army of the Dragons had no choice but to return to support the besieged friendly forces and repel the main force of Aria.
Then came the third delivery of grain, this time Li Yuanfang reversed the order, and the first batch was the real grain.
But he also moved a little, the top layer is sand, and the bottom layer is food.
The cavalry units of the Dragons arrived as promised, and they attacked the first grain convoy in front, and when they opened the bags, they found that they were all sand.
The commander of the cavalry unit was unusually angry, it was enough to play him once, and he dared to use the same trick three times in a row, did he take him for a fool?
Without checking the remaining bags, the cavalry unit went straight to the third convoy of rations.
Seeing the enemy departing, the scattered soldiers returned and re-set up the grain trucks to deliver food to the front line.
When they came to the cavalry units of the third batch of grain transport teams, they found that the third batch was also sand, and they hurried to chase and kill the second group while they had time now, but it was still sand.
Is it all sand this time?
The commander of the cavalry unit did not understand that if Aria did not have logistics in place, they would be able to go to fight against the encirclement.
But when they came to the front line, they found that Aria's main force still had plenty of food, and they realized that they had been tricked again! (To be continued.) )