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However, none of this could stop the reorganized Kaman soldiers from being stimulated, braving the rain of arrows and stones, the vehicles full of sandbags and rocks were soon pushed by the rushing soldiers to the moat, and the truckloads of sandbags and stones were poured down, and then retreated, everything was in order, one fell, the other immediately took over, and the shieldmen also held high huge shields and did everything possible to cover the retreating soldiers to ensure that the formation was not chaotic. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

At such a close distance, the tragic situation can be imagined, and even the first Mengchong vehicle (Note 2) could not withstand the continuous bombardment of boulders and collapsed, and the tragic end of being exposed to the enemy is difficult to describe in words. Stepping on the limbs of their comrades, the soldiers went forward one after another, and one after another of the sand and gravel were poured into the river, stirring up a whirlpool, and the red blood soaked into the filthy moat, swirling, curling and scattering, dyeing the moat water slightly purple, looking indescribably weird.

The fierce battle continued until the middle of the day, when the whining horn sounded, and the slightly tired Kaman soldiers immediately began to retreat, and the cavalry, which had been watching the formation, also began to rush forward to respond, preventing the city army from taking advantage of the retreat of their own side to cover the killing. Everything was carried out in an orderly manner, and until the besieging soldiers were completely withdrawn, the cavalry team still maintained an attack formation in case of contingency.

Seeing the steadily retreating enemy army in front of him, Balins couldn't help but sigh slightly, in the face of such a strong enemy, as a soldier, he naturally longed to encounter a strong opponent to live up to his own skills, but as a commander, he also knew that the stronger the enemy, the more bumpy the fate of his side would be.

The Kamans showed not only their advanced siege weapons and equipment, but also the extraordinary quality of the soldiers in their army, good psychological quality, tenacious style, and steel-like discipline, all of which made Balins sigh and worry about the fate of his country.

The logistics soldiers on the wall were nervously cleaning the battlefield, preparing for the battle in the afternoon, and some melancholy eyes swept over the horrific corpses, which were all trained by their own painstaking efforts, but after only one morning, they turned into cold corpses, bringing only endless sorrow to their relatives.

Balins once again deeply experienced the cruelty of war, it has been a long time since he felt so deeply, and this time it directly fell on his shoulders on the responsibility of guarding the royal capital, and it can even be said that he shouldered the inheritance of the entire Principality of Gerook, if it fell before the reinforcements arrived, everything that His Majesty the Grand Duke did in advance would lose its meaning, and the sacrifice of Princess Anne was even more worthless, all of which weighed him a little breathless.

Just when the storm was raging under the city of Merrington, Li Wufeng, who was thousands of miles away in Qingyang City, was also in full swing making the final preparations before the expedition.

The Northwest Military and Political Authorities issued a martial law order, declaring that the Western Regions countries and Sun Yuanhui's troops in the Ganlan Fortress in the north had made changes that were not conducive to the stability of the Northwest and needed to be vigilant; the War Readiness Administration made full use of the tremendous power conferred by the political axe under the state of emergency, and in addition to using all the transportation capacity at the disposal of the political axe, it also urgently requisitioned a large number of civilian means of transport, but fortunately, when Wufeng was no longer interested in sending troops to Gerlock, it secretly notified the combat readiness department, so that the War Readiness Administration won an extremely valuable period of preparation time, and a large number of war readiness materials were urgently shipped as soon as they received the order, and arrived at Guide and Lulong, which were close to the border of Gerok, within the specified timeto fill the last clockwork for the war machine.

The Fourth Guards Division of Reading was also making final mobilization and preparations before the operation, and except for a very small number of officers who remained behind to form a new garrison division together with some graduates of the Northwest Military Academy, the rest of the divisions were ready to go; the Fifth Division of the Northwest Army Corps also left the Partridge Pass defense overnight, drilled into the steep Liupan Mountains, and marched non-stop toward Lulong; while the First Cavalry Division of the Northwest Reading Division, which had been stationed between Guide and Yinchuan in advance, also began preparations for the battle and quickly moved its garrison eastward so that it could be put into battle at any time。

Ling Tianfang, who received the message from the Bladeless Snow Pigeon, also acted quickly, in addition to increasing the reconnaissance of the situation in the Kaman occupied area in the western part of the Principality of Gerook, he also secretly contacted the local forces loyal to the royal family of the Duchy of Gerok in the original occupied area, mobilized these local forces to collect espionage information for their own side, and secretly prepared supplies, so that they could get the best treatment after their own army entered, and actively make the final preparations before the war. In accordance with Wu Feng's order, the 3rd Corps of the Northwest Army Corps and the 3rd Garrison Division of Reading Force were already ready to make all the preparations, and they could deal a fatal blow to the Kamans when the 5th Division of the Northwest Corps went north came to converge.

The Lulong Garrison Division will not participate in this campaign, and Mi Feng, who is Lulong's acting city guard, has a lot of opinions on this matter, thinking that Wu Feng is suspected of looking down on the combat effectiveness of his army, but under the persuasion of Ling Tianfang's bad words, he reluctantly accepted Ling Tianfang's statement, and gave up the idea of personally looking for Wu Feng to discuss the long and short.

The whole northwest seemed to be transformed into a huge military camp in an instant, and it seemed that the smell of war could be smelled everywhere, and the tense atmosphere could be faintly felt even by ordinary people, not to mention the merchants and gentry with a keen sense of smell.

On April 18, the "Northwest Star" first disclosed that certain countries in the Western Regions and the Sislo Empire in the north had intimidated and blackmailed against the Northwest ally, the Wusun State, in the early stage, which immediately caused an uproar in the entire Northwest and even the neighboring Sislo, Kaman, Luope, and even other nomadic territories in the Tengger steppe.

April 19 "Northwest Star" The newspaper insinuated in the form of a front-page headline that Sun Yuanliang, the last city guard of Yinchuan a year ago, had expressed his hope to return to the empire during his illness, but was poisoned to death on the hospital bed by his brother Sun Yuanhui in collusion with foreign forces, this news was like pouring cold water on the boiling oil pot, stirring up a thousand storms, the people of the entire Yinchuan Prefecture were indignant, and there were small-scale anti-Siathrow demonstrations in Yinchuan Prefecture, and there were constantly representatives of the people who went to the military and political festival in the northwest of Qingyang to petition the embassy, demanding that the murderers be severely punished and the sovereignty of the Ganlan fortress should be recovered。

On April 20, Wang Mi, a senior assistant in charge of foreign affairs at the Northwest Military and Political Legation, was ordered to summon the diplomatic envoy of the Siathrow Empire to the northwest county of the Tang River Empire, and solemnly warned the Siathrow Empire to restrain Sun Yuanhui's garrison stationed in the Ganlan fortress and not to stimulate public opinion in the northwest, otherwise all the consequences caused would be borne by the Siathrow Empire. This is the Northwest's toughest statement to date on its huge neighbor.

On 21 April, the North Luzon Express, the largest non-governmental newspaper in Northern Luzon, carried a news that on 20 April, a caravan in Vito City was being attacked by unknown armed bandits while trading in a small market town near the border with Loulan, and only one of the 20 people in the caravan escaped. According to the survivors, the bandits who attacked the caravan were wearing the uniforms of the border guards of the Loulan State and were armed with the standard weapons of the Loulan border guards, and the accent was also Loulan accent, which should have been done by the Loulan border guards. This unconfirmed news sparked hatred of Loulan in Northern Luzon and the northwest, and angry popular sentiments were rising, and representatives of the gentry continued to go to the Governor's Office in Vito to ask the remaining officials to convey the wishes of the people to the Governor in Qingyang.

On the night of 22 April, patrol soldiers of a squadron of the Vito Garrison Division engaged in skirmishes with Loulan border guards in the border area, resulting in casualties on both sides. On 24 April, the diplomatic attaché of Loulan State in Northwest County urgently met with Wang Yi, senior assistant in charge of foreign affairs at the Northwest Military and Political Envoy's Office and the Governor's Office of Northern Luzon, and asked both sides to exercise restraint to prevent further escalation of the situation, and suggested that the two sides form a joint investigation team to investigate the attack on the Vito caravan that occurred in the border area on 20 April.

For a time, the intelligence and analysis departments of the neighboring countries were wondering what kind of storm Li Wufeng, who had only returned to the northwest for less than half a year, was going to set off, and who would be the target of this storm?

The Sithlos are not quite the same, although the military strength of the northwest has been greatly improved, it is obviously not enough to challenge such a large empire as Sithro. It is very likely that the aftermath of the Wusun throne change incident has not subsided, and the military in the northwest has always been haunted by it, and although Li Wufeng has forcefully suppressed it, the military's mood for war is still very strong.

Another of the biggest targets is the Ganlan Fortress in the northern part of Yinchuan Prefecture. Originally, the entire Yinchuan Mansion has always been a scar in the heart of the Tang River Empire, and now it is not easy to return to the empire, but Sun Yuanhui is entrenched in the dangerous place of the Ganlan Fortress, which makes the original dream of return flawed again, and has been unwilling by the people of the Northwest.

While the neighboring countries were suspicious, none of this seemed to affect the rapidly moving war machine in the northwest.

In the northwestern provinces, especially on the roads leading to Yinchuan and Vito in North Luzon, transport vehicles of all sizes covered by black and brown curtains can be seen running on the roads leading from Qingyang to various places anytime and anywhere. Wu Feng also greatly appreciated this cooperative action between the military and the combat readiness department.

Later it turned out that this all-round large-scale camouflage operation did achieve quite good results, so much so that the Kaman intelligence agency always thought that the Northwest Army was preparing to use troops against the Western Regions again when the Northwest Army broke into the territory of Gerlock.

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