Episode 24 The deployment of Tianlun Peak's position and mortal legions
After Lin Da and the others came out of Marshal Su's tent, they glanced at each other, suppressed the strong thoughts in their hearts, and quickly returned to the temporary camp. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć As soon as they returned to the camp on the front foot, they immediately received an order from the high command to immediately lead the levy corps to a position on the front line.
Lin Da naturally knew that the position they were stationed in was the location arranged by Marshal Su to monitor the nobles, and it was one of the main battlefields of the battle between Gui and Yue not long after. Although he was very reluctant to be a cannon fodder unit, he couldn't choose it at the moment, and after receiving the order, Linda immediately gave the order to set off.
Under the leadership of an officer of the command headquarters, the mortal legionnaires left the temporary camp with their own heavy equipment, walked a mountain road that was more than ten miles long, and after a journey of more than half an hour, they came to a fortress called Yongwuguan in the south of the main peak of Tianlun Peak on the front line.
The terrain here is mainly hilly, the highest peaks are only a few hundred meters, but they are close to each other, and only a few trails are gentle in the mountains, which can be said to be an easy fortress to defend and difficult to attack. The Gui army originally had a unit stationed here, but the number was only a few hundred, and the protective array of the fortress was only a temporary defensive array, not to mention much power, and the defensive force was obviously insufficient.
After Linda led the army to this place, under the arrangement of the officers of the headquarters, he quickly made a simple handover with the Gui army here, and after receiving the flag for the control of the fortress protection battle, he officially settled here.
"Damn, let's guard this hellish place! There's not even enough bed!" Tang Long quickly walked around the camp and found that the size of the camp simply couldn't accommodate the 8,000 troops of the mortal legion.
"Does this big array work?How does it look like it can be pierced with a single shot?" Schroeder couldn't help but ask suspiciously, looking at the looming spiritual power fluctuations above the fortress's head.
Sonya, on the other hand, complained angrily: "What are you kidding! There are no toilets or bathrooms! There are a lot of female soldiers in the army!"
The various conditions of the fortress were quickly summarized by Linda, who immediately convened the members of the convention committee to discuss and organize some careful observation of the nearby terrain, and immediately drew up a plan for the renovation of the camp.
The camp at Yongwuguan Fortress could only accommodate a maximum of 1,000 people, but Lin Da asked the army to temporarily set up a temporary camp outside the fortress and arrange the vigilance troops, so he allocated most of the manpower to expand the fortress first.
The mortal legions first cut down all the trees within miles of the fortress to build barracks and fortifications. The trees near these camps are so tall and dense that they are clear from the perimeter of the forts and prevent Vietnamese spies from hiding under the cover of trees.
Then, Linda found an open but protected area in the fortress and transformed it into an artillery firing field. As the main combat weapon of the mortal legions, artillery is naturally regarded by Lynda as an important killer weapon against the enemy. Linda has deployed all 16 howitzers and 30 mortars here, and with the range of these guns, they can cover a range of more than 10 kilometers in the perimeter.
Linda also built a large number of small pillboxes and fortresses in various dangerous hiding places of the fortress, and deployed a large number of snipers in these places, although I don't know how the Xiuzhen army fights mountain warfare, but if the mortal legionnaires who are also cultivators become snipers, they will definitely be able to deal a fatal blow to the other party.
Of course, these deployments of the mortal legion cannot be completed in a day or two, and the Arden, Kangnai and others of the autonomous regiment are good at construction projects, so they are naturally responsible for them. Linda, on the other hand, took people familiar with military affairs, such as Schroeder and Tang Long, to conduct detailed reconnaissance near the fortress and make various plans for future battles.
More than ten miles northwest of Yongwu Pass, it was the forward position of the confrontation between the Gui army and the Vietnamese army. The defense line on the side of the Gui army is about ten miles long, backed by the main peak of Tianlun Peak, and a stone wall about 30 meters high connects several mountains dangerously, constituting the entire forward position.
The Gui army stationed here is composed of nearly 10,000 scattered cultivators from all over the country of Gui led by a few royal officers, including more than a dozen scattered cultivators such as Shen Hao from Xiaoyu County. Although they are also cultivators, these people are all from various small and medium-sized families in the Gui Kingdom, except for the royal family and nobles. As legitimate cultivators under the management of the royal family, their recruitment was not hindered by the nobles, and they were recruited by the royal family to garrison here from the beginning, and they can be said to be "cannon fodder" higher than the mortal legions.
More than ten miles in front of the main position of the Gui army was the position of the Vietnamese army. In the previous battle, the Vietnamese army occupied more than a dozen mountains in the Tianlun Mountains in one fell swoop, except for the main peak, and surrounded the Gui army of Tianlun Peak on three sides. It can be said that the positions of the Vietnamese army were more open and the front was longer.
Standing on the forward position of the Gui army, if you are a person with strong eyesight, you can clearly see the various deployments of the Vietnamese army on the opposite peak. Of course, if the Vietnamese army released the Great Array to protect the town and cover the spiritual sense, even the monks above the Guijun Dan realm would not be able to easily see through it. The defense of the Vietnamese army was like this, and the Gui army was naturally similar.
On Tianlun Peak, a few miles behind the Gui Forward Army, it is the main position of the Gui Army. That's where the main army of the royal family really focuses on defense. There are a total of 50,000 troops stationed on the entire mountain peak, and there are their respective fortresses and secret outposts of the Gui army everywhere on the mountain, as well as various large warships and formation platforms for long-distance attacks.
About four or five kilometers west of Yongwu Pass, southwest of Tianlun Peak, the Gui Army's forward land acquisition is on the side, which is the garrison of the four noble clans, and the patriarch of the four clans and more than 2,000 noble elite soldiers led by him are stationed here.
Although the position of the four clans army was not in the center of the confrontation between the two armies, once they crossed their defensive line, they could go around to the rear of the Gui army's Tianlun Peak position and cut off the Gui army's road to the rear. Although in the rear of the noble army's defensive line, the royal army also deployed several troops as reserves, but once the defensive line was breached, these reserves could not stop the enemy invasion.
Therefore, Marshal Su arranged the requisitioned corps behind the aristocratic army, so that they could not only monitor the nobles, but also serve as the first line of defense to block the invasion of the Vietnamese army, and it was also the most important line of defense. Once the aristocratic army rebelled, and the requisitioning corps and the aristocratic army and the Vietnamese forward corps were defeated here, the royal army behind the yellow finch could enter in a big way and annihilate the invading enemy.
After seeing the deployment of the Gui army's position, Lin Da obviously guessed the intention of the Gui army headquarters. For the Gui army, whether it is the Loose Cultivation Legion, the Noble Legion or the Conscription Legion, these three non-royal armies are just cannon fodder for the royal family. Marshal Su's intention was very obvious, that is, to let the three armies consume the living strength of the Vietnamese army as much as possible, and then send the main force of the royal family to fight a decisive battle at the last critical moment. This can not only defeat the enemy army, but also greatly reduce the loss of royal forces, which is a multi-effective strategy.
However, what Marshal Su didn't know was that the Levy Legion had been reorganized into a mortal legion by Linda and others, and its strength far exceeded his imagination. In addition, when Lin Da killed the Weihu Corps of the Vietnamese Army and subdued the Three Ethnic Levy Corps, he discovered a big secret from the secret letter found from the killed Li commander. The time for the nobles and the Vietnamese army to conspire to break through the defense line of the Gui army turned out to be a month earlier than the original plan!
It can be expected that when the Gui army, because of the information it had before, thought that the Vietnamese army would launch a general offensive in two months, and was still trying to make various preparations. The Vietnamese army, under the response of the nobles, unexpectedly entered the position of the Gui army from the defense line of the nobles when the Gui army was not fully prepared, and killed the Gui army by surprise. In this case, the Gui army will definitely be defeated!
Although Linda knew about this situation, he did not immediately report it to Marshal Su, and even when he was coerced by the patriarchs of the four nobles in the big tent, he did not come up with this evidence that could prove the rebellion of the nobles, but kept the matter a secret. But he naturally has his own plans for doing so.
In Lin Da's opinion, whether it was the mortal army assisting the Gui army to defeat the Yue army and eradicate the rebellious nobles, or the Vietnamese army defeating the main force of the Gui army and occupying the Gui country in one fell swoop, it was also a sad thing for ordinary cultivators who were born in mortals. In a world dominated by cultivators, they are just tools that can be used in the eyes of cultivators, they are used when they are useful, and when they need to be sacrificed, they will be abandoned immediately. Marshal Su's deployment is a clear manifestation of this ideological intention. If the Blue Star Autonomous Group wants to be truly free and not be manipulated by cultivators, it must have its own plans. Linda's idea had been secretly discussed many times with Arden and other convention members along the way, and they unanimously agreed.
So, after spending most of the day observing the surrounding situation, Lin Da and the others immediately began their own deployment. Long-range firepower such as artillery positions and anti-aircraft machine gun positions were set up in Yongwu Pass, as well as a large number of small fortresses and fortresses, each stronghold could support and take care of each other, and also secretly found out a few paths to retreat to the Gui defense line.
After everything was arranged, the members of the Convention Society gathered together secretly again and held the first secret meeting after coming to Tianlun Peak.
"Linda, once the conspiracy of the nobles and the Vietnamese army to attack the Gui army's position in advance succeeds, the Gui army will definitely face a big defeat next. What are we going to do next? Do you have any plans?" Arden asked Lynda with a heavy face, although he was the nominal leader of the Blue Star Autonomous Order, he was still led by Lynda in the mortal legions.
Lin Da did not answer immediately, but continued to think, but Tang Long on the side hurriedly replied: "What is the best choice for this? Do we have to fight to the death with the Yue army and the noble alliance according to the arrangement of the royal family? We can completely close the camp gate, don't care about anything, and wait until they are almost finished fighting before breaking out and return to Xiaoyu County to be our soil emperor!
Hearing this, Schroeder shook his head and objected: "Hmph! That's a good idea, do you think the royal family is so easy to fool? They are forcing us to fight in the back, and we have to fight even if we don't want to!"
"Then we can't send us to death in vain! We are facing an army with a strong man in the Dan Realm! Can't we hide if we can't fight?!" Tang Long said a little unconvinced.
"It's impossible to avoid the war, what we have to do is how to preserve our strength to the greatest extent in the upcoming big war, as for what to do, we have to think about it. Arden interrupted the argument between the two and said slowly.
"Linda, do you have any countermeasures?" Seeing that Linda had not spoken, Connell reminded again.
Seeing that everyone was looking at him expectantly, Lin Da groaned for a moment before he said, "Indeed, it is not so easy to deal with the Vietnamese army and the noble army. Although the number of our mortal legions is not small, there is still a big gap between the overall strength and that of the nobles or the royal family. Whether we want to fight to the death with the nobles and the Vietnamese army, or if we want to deter both sides from remaining neutral, we must have enough power. But it's not enough to rely on our 8,000 or so people. ā
"The number of people is not enough? What do you mean? Do you want to recruit the original Blue Star Army from Xiaoyu County? This is not realistic, right?" Arden suddenly remembered something, and immediately questioned.
Lin Da smiled and said mysteriously: "Of course it is impossible to pull the Blue Star Army over, they are all mortals, and they will not play a role in this kind of war." Don't forget, how we subdued the Three Clans along the way. I think that even in the royal army, there will be people to woo, such as..."
Arden suddenly thought of something, and said strangely: "You mean, you want to win those loose cultivators to our side as well?!"
Lin Da smiled slightly, nodded and said: "That's right, it's them! Don't forget, these loose cultivators are also forced to participate in the war, although they belong to different mortal families, but according to what we have learned over the years, these families also have a lot of complaints about the royal family and nobles behind their backs, isn't our Shen family in Xiaoyu County a good example?" And now the royal family also deploys the loose cultivation corps as cannon fodder at the front line, these loose cultivators are so smart, naturally they will not fail to understand the intentions of the royal family, they must have very complaints in their hearts, and they will never be loyal to the royal family. If we send people into the casual cultivators, spread our ideas in them, develop our forces, and draw the cultivators to our side and advance and retreat with us, won't this be able to protect ourselves?"
"Good idea! I see! You're right! Just like we did when we were in Lishire!" said Arden.
Linda nodded, and added, "In addition to wooing them, we also have to continue to build up our strength. Didn't Marshal Su say that Xiangcheng would send a transport team? We can ask Xiaoyu County to organize another batch of manpower to transport more weapons and ammunition together, and equip the entire mortal army, so that our strength can definitely go to a higher level, and when we face the Xiuzhen army, we will have more chances of winning!"
Everyone agreed with Linda's words, and then everyone discussed the plans and arrangements for various battles, making all kinds of preparations for the upcoming big battle.
While Lin Da and the others were discussing, in the aristocratic camp a few miles away, the four noble patriarchs also quietly gathered together at this moment, secretly discussing something. (To be continued.) )