Chapter 3 Sweeping Liuhe Chapter 1 Jin Ge's First Move Section 36 The Flames of War 1
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The vigilant Luzon soon received information from their scouts that the Don Rangers had rushed into the territory of Selms from the border area of Lahore, sweeping the leaves with a strong wind, apparently targeting the Luzon army that had raided the city of Selms. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 At this time, the commander of the 7th Luzon Corps finally understood why these Punjabs would resist so desperately, and even retreat when they had a chance to escape. Fortunately, the astute scout found out about this situation, although the scout's feedback came a little late, but at least this can also prevent him from being caught off guard by the other party's counterattack.
In fact, the Luzon people's inference is somewhat wrong, the Punjab New Army does not know where Cui Wenxiu arranged the ambush, but in the blind worship of Cui Wenxiu and in order to defend the honor of the Punjab New Army, Radu, a cadet who graduated from the Northwest Military Academy, faithfully performed his duty as the most Selmus defender, and the 20,000 Punjab New Army exerted their combat effectiveness to the extreme in this battle to defend Selms, which was able to withstand the charge of the Luzon Seventh Corps, and this also created a good opportunity for the Imperial 1st Ranger Regiment that had been wandering the border between Lahore and Punja。
As the commander of the entire Central Continent Theater, Cui Wenxiu is not sure whether the Luzon people will send troops north to attack their own territory with weak defenses, and in the long run, the Luzon people certainly do not want to see them and the Hansen alliance being broken by each other, and being able to maintain a certain degree of balance of power in the Indean region should be the situation they are most happy to see, and once the Hansen alliance is expelled from this land, then Luzon will inevitably face the powerful Tang people, which is not in the interests of Luzon.
But from the immediate point of view, it is not very wise to provoke a battle with the Tang army, the Tang army's power in the Indean region is already superior, once the Tang people are angered, they may do their best to retaliate, Luzon's situation in Comini and South India has not been completely stabilized, Frederick personally sat in Comini and gave power, that is, he hoped to be able to integrate Comini, a territory that was enough to become another core area of the Luzon Kingdom, with the original Grand Duchy of Luzon as soon as possible, and even did not hesitate to let the Tang army advance step by step in Eastern Luzon, and at this time a full-scale conflict broke out with the Tang army, and it was even possible to spread the war to the entire Luzon mainlandWhether the timing is right is not only the focus of debate between Frederick and Crouff, but also the main reason why Cui Wenxiu has always been unsure whether the Luzon people dare to send troops.
According to Cui Wenxiu's prediction, if the Luzon people really want to provoke a full-scale war, they will inevitably send troops from these two places, and their current strength is simply unable to maintain such a long border line, rather than being so dry and prepared, it is better to send all the infantry to the front line of the battle with the Hansen Alliance, and strive to solve the battle with the Hansen Alliance as soon as possible, leaving only a small number of rangers in the rear who are not right and mobile, and the Luzon people really dare to attack, and the attack of the rangers can also force the Luzon people not to dare to let go。
But Cui Wenxiu didn't expect that the Luzon people seemed to see through their own arrangement and avoided things like Kada, Kunduz and Lahore, which may be entangled in the hinterland, but chose the Punjab territory of the empire's vassal territory as the target, such as Selmus and Jaipurdu, which are now almost the quasi-territories of the empire, and the Luzon people coming to this war must have greatly dealt a blow to the prestige of the empire in the eyes of the Punjabs, but they did not expect that under the Pauling-like training of the Punjab New Army, not only has the combat effectiveness been greatly improved, but also the senior officers have made great progress after the rebirth of the training and training of the Northwest Military Academy, and they can fight with the Luzon army in a short period of time, and even attract the surprise attack of the Tang Army rangers who have been watching in the border area。
Bayindra led the 1st Ranger Regiment to swim in Lahore, but later after exchanging a piece with the deputy commander of the Seventh Army, Jiang Bin, he felt that the Luzon people might choose Cerms as the target of attack if they really wanted to attack, so he would move his army to the border area not far from the city of Celmus, so that he could take into account Lahore and monitor the situation in the Cerms area at any timeIt seems that another 10,000-strong cavalry will not be able to catch up with this feast because they are out on a parade deep into Lahore.
The Luzon Seventh Corps retreated quite quickly, and as soon as the scouts were reported, the head of the Seventh Corps knew that it was impossible to annihilate the Punjab New Army, and that they needed to consider how to retreat safely if they failed to achieve their goal.
Although the decision of the leaders of the Seventh Corps was quite decisive, they still underestimated the mobility of the First Ranger Regiment of the Tang Army, and it took only six hours for the Tang Army Rangers to arrive one hundred and eighty miles, and at this time they had just received the news for only three hours, and they were caught up by the First Ranger Regiment before they even had time to retreat to the territory of Luzon. Seeing that it is impossible to escape with the whole army, the Luzon army is also very simple, a 10,000-person team surnamed Suo fully meets it, while the other 20,000 troops take the opportunity to escape, fortunately, the border area is already a shallow hilly terrain, and the Luzon Seventh Corps can finally escape more than 10,000 people into the mountains, but the remaining 10,000 people have become a stepping stone, except for a few captured, most of the rest were annihilated.
Although he has always been suspicious of the Luzon Army's Northern Expedition, but deep down he still hopes that he will not start a full-scale war with the Luzon before solving the problem of the Hansen Alliance, but now it seems that the Luzon people will not sit idly by, Frederick and Crouff's suspicion of their own side is not generalized, and they even ignore the olive branch they threw away, since they have torn their faces, and the movements of the rangers have been exposed, if they don't get the Luzon people to completely tear their faces with the empire, this needs to be pondered。
But now Cui Wenxiu also knows that it is not the time to consider the southern issue, he can only let the two ranger regiments temporarily take care of the south, and the war with the Hansen Alliance has entered the most critical time, as long as the battle on the southern front of Kerman is extremely tragic, the southern front cluster under the leadership of Zhan Botao is struggling to resist the impact of the main force of the Hansen Alliance, and thousands of corpses are left behind almost every day, and although Mashhad, the capital of Khora Province, has been captured by the Seventh Army, it has not been able to annihilate the main force of the Hanover First Corps, and the bad wind and sand weather has greatly slowed down the offensive speed of the Seventh Corps after the capture of Mashhad, and the 30,000 troops of the 1st Corps of Hanover also engaged in a battle with the 7th Army Corps in the west of Huluo Province, making it impossible for the 7th Corps to achieve effective results.
But these are not the things that worry Cui Wenxiu the most, the reinforcements of the Hansen Alliance finally appeared, and there were as many as 100,000 people, which is what Cui Wenxiu was most worried about. This support army is composed of 30,000 people (cavalry) of the White Stork Corps of Dfien and the First Corps of Sparta, which is coming rapidly, and has quickly passed through the province of Destin and divided into two parts, one south to the province of Fahan, and the other south to enter the province of Mana, and it is very likely to reinforce the first corps of Hanover that is surrounded in the ancient city of Bam in the east of Kerman.
For this reason, Cui Wenxiu strictly ordered Kang Jianguo, commander of the Kerman Eastern Front Cluster, to completely deal with the 30,000 men of the Hannover First Corps trapped in the ancient city of Bam within two days, otherwise the military would be punished, and at the same time ordered the commander of the Seventh Army Corps, Hu Yanqiu, to advance westward without delay, and to be sure to delay the reinforcements of the Hansen Allied Army, which had already entered the province of Mana, and not to move south into Kerman.
Kang Jianguo stood in front of the position with red eyes, his helmet had already been taken off, and a few blisters appeared on his dry lips, obviously he was angry by the unfavorable war, and his heart was on fire, the huge broad-bladed saber was in his hand, and the armor button on his chest had been loosened twice, and he took the water bladder sent by the guard next to him, poured a big mouthful, threw the water bladder back into the hands of the guard, turned around, and said with a hideous face:" Lao Qiu, Cui Shuai has already come to the third strict order, if we say that we can't take this broken city, I'm afraid that you and I will have to engage in military law, and it's a trivial matter to lose your head, but our Gerlok Legion and the Tenth Legion have made a statement, then you and I have really become sinners, and we seem to have to get out of the way, victory or defeat in one fell swoop, so don't hide it, even if you die today, Lao Tzu will die at the head of this city!"
Throwing the helmet on the ground, Qiu Zicheng, who was full of red face, was not cautious, licked the corners of his mouth that was a little astringent, and said in a proud voice: "Brother Kang, the head is just a big scar, don't wait for tomorrow, we will take this city today! You rest first, let my brother lead the reserve team first, if my brother is unfortunately left behind, you step on your brother's corpse again!"
(To be continued)