Chapter 105: Make a plan
In fact, before my order arrived, the harassment operation against the Swadia army had already begun, Dong Xiao took nearly two hundred white horse guards, divided into twenty groups to guard in front, although he knew that there would be a strong new force arriving today, but how strong it was, how many people, he didn't know, he still thought in his mind at the moment, those last night may have been the limit, after all, it was more than a hundred cavalry, each of them is a treasure worth ten thousand gold, and it takes time to adapt to the environment when he first arrives, this time is the most vulnerable and dangerous moment for the new armyγ So after sending a scout to me www.biquge.info he immediately organized twenty groups of white horse guards, waged a guerrilla attack in the dense wooded area, and hurriedly retreated after firing a few arrows at the Swadia army from a distance.
In the early days, this was a headache for the Swadiaans, who had to keep their shields in their hands, moving carefully step by step, always on the lookout for cold arrows in the woods and traps under their feet. But after an hour of harassment, General Svadia, who was leading the group, figured out what was going on, and suddenly the team began to rush towards the wooded area where we were, regardless of losses.
This time Dong Xiao is completely out of line, he only has a total of 200 people, and he has to be on guard against the drive of the Swadia light cavalry at all times, so he can't really cause much damage to the Svadians. There was even a group of white horse guards, because they were too far ahead, they were wrapped in dumplings by the Swadia light cavalry, and the ten brothers were separated by yin and yang in the blink of an eye, and Dong Xiao was separated by a dense forest of several hundred meters, so he couldn't help, so he had to watch as the Swadian light cavalry, the leader of the Redels, harvested the heads of the brothers like wheat.
Now, in the face of the sudden acceleration of the Swadians' rush, the only thing he can do is to continue sending messengers to my base camp.
There have already been three batches, and there have been three messengers who have come back to report the news, and the interval between them is so tight that even the first batch of messengers who reply have not had time to return to Dong Xiao's side. After all, Dong Xiao and the others had already started to fight guerrillas, and he didn't know which damn dense forest he would stop in twenty minutes.
But fortunately, after an hour of speeding up the Swadians' attack, a messenger finally found Winter Howl and told him my order to return to the base camp!
I spread out a hastily drawn map of the Eldego Valley woodlands on a stump as thick as a round table, and showed it to the remaining Chopping, Lingling, Vicente, Wuke, and Tex.
"Judging from the information obtained from the current harassment of Dong Xiao, the Swadia army that invaded this time is about 4,000 people...... Well, maybe three thousand eight hundred more now. Among them were up to two thousand light cavalry, four hundred heavy cavalry, one thousand infantry acting as auxiliaries and six hundred crossbowmen. Judging from the number of cavalry, it was an army organized in response to the information that Reddils had sent back, and oh, we only had a thousand white horse guards at that time. These two thousand light horsemen almost came specifically for the White Horse Guard, and for the 1,000 White Horse Guard, this is almost a crushing force advantage, and it is impossible for us to fight, let alone escape. I smiled and said, "But Reddils wouldn't have thought that after he left, our strength would skyrocket so much in an instant, and at present, we have a crushing advantage for the Swadians, so this battle, winning is certain, the key is how to get more results." β
Ling Ling immediately said: "General, in this way, I led the personal guards and directly pushed them back, and by the way, St. Luz Goddaburg also pushed!"
I smiled and continued: "Judging from the information we have before, under normal circumstances, there are at least 8,000 to 10,000 garrisons in Fort St. Ruz Godda, and the usual establishment of the Svadian army, about a quarter of the garrison is cavalry, so it seems that the other side has sent out most of the cavalry in Fort St. Ruz Godda, and now it should be the main infantry and a large number of crossbowmen who are guarding the castle." If we attack the city directly, even if we succeed, our losses will be very large, which will not be conducive to our next move. β
Ling Ling let out an "oh" and sat down, and it could be seen that he also knew that it was irrational to use cavalry to gnaw on such a castle.
I continued: "From the present point of view, our greatest advantage over Fort St. Ruzgoda is not in numbers, but in the report. There is a time lag between the information Reddills received and your arrival, and this time difference is the key to our victory. Next, then, I will talk about the operational objectives and lines of action in this war. First of all, our first goal is to completely destroy all the cavalry that came out of Fort St. Ruz Godda, and secondly, we will not be able to show our full strength until the final flop......"
When Dong Xiao returned to the base camp with more than 180 white horse guards, I rode to meet him. He looked at the empty camp and the other white guards with strange faces, and his lips couldn't help but tremble.
He said, "Boss, what about your people from yesterday?"
I smiled and said, "Let's go." β
Dong Xiao choked on saliva and coughed: "Go, cough, go, go, what, cough, joke!
I continued to laugh and said, "Of course, I heard that there were more than 4,000 people in front of me, so I ran away......
Dong Xiao looked at me as if he was looking at a lonely man who had betrayed his relatives.
I laughed twice and said, "It's okay, we'll fight without them, where do you think those Swadians have gone?"
Dong Xiao roared violently: "Big, what's the big one? Hit a mallet! At this time, you must be fleeing quickly! Didn't you listen to the heralds I sent out, they have more than 2,000 light cavalry, fight your sister!"
I smiled and said, "I don't have a sister...... In other words, it's just two thousand light horses, it's nothing. β
Dong Xiao continued to roar: "There are still five hundred heavy cavalry, the heavy cavalry of the Svadia Empire, and a thousand infantry, six hundred crossbowmen!"
I nodded: "Well, I know, so let's get out of here, don't talk nonsense here." With that, I turned my horse and ran back, and Maimaiti and Choming jumped on their horses and ran back.
Dong Xiao watched me run back blankly, until the white horse guards hiding in the bushes also ran up, he reacted, muttered a few words: "After a long time, you still don't want to run?
Dong Xiao also ran after us.
But we were running slowly, so we hadn't been more than two or three miles before I saw smoke billowing from the campsite behind us.
Dong Xiao looked there solemnly and said, "It's the light cavalry of Swadia, they caught up, burned the tent we left behind, and marked the people behind. β
I let out an "oh",
Dong Xiao immediately roared exaggeratedly: "I said, you self-proclaimed god, can you fight at all? Or do you never fight in the God Realm, so you don't have this skill at all?"
I smiled and pointed to a valley in the distance, which was the ambush site we had chosen earlier, but because of Reddils' trouble, it was not settled there.
Now I'll ask Dong Xiao to bring the team up.
It was actually a perfect ambush terrain, the valley was extremely narrow at both ends, and could only allow two horses to pass side by side, but in the middle was a wide and flat basin, which was more than enough for a thousand-man battle. But the ambush terrain had a fatal flaw, that is, the slope of the valley was not steep, and as long as you did not enter the Death Canyon, you could climb a gentle slope five miles on either side of the canyon with some difficulty, and at that point, the ambusher would become the ambushed and stage a yellow finch behind.
So after being hit by Redears, we abandoned the terrain at that time.
Now I asked Dong Xiao to bring the team up and prepare for an ambush, this order obviously touched Dong Xiao's bottom line, he almost jumped up from his horse, and shouted: "No, no! Didn't you get the news from me, that damn Reddice is also in there, he is familiar with the terrain, we go up to ambush, the final result must be a counter-ambush! Do you want us brothers to die here?"
I shook my head and said, "Trust me, I'm not going to die." β
Dong Xiao asked, "Why, why do you say that?"
I pointed to myself and smiled, "Because I am God." β
"......" Dong Xiao looked at me and said very seriously: "You're insane......"
But in the end, Dong Xiao listened to me, and led the team into the ambush field, where they set up an ambush in the dense forest of two valleys sandwiched between the basins.
Dong Xiao stared at me and said, "You promise me that we will never die!"
I nodded: "I promise." β
Dong Xiao continued to be unrelenting: "If you promise me again, our brothers will not die!"
I hesitated for a moment and said, "I promise...... As long as they are not killed by the enemy......"
Dong Xiao pulled out his scimitar silently.
I laughed twice.
"Hehe, your sister!" said Dong Xiao angrily.
"Okay. I nodded, "You just need to do your part, the dead are certain, but how much to die is in your hands." β
Dong Xiao gritted his teeth, but he didn't speak, because someone had already come out of the death canyon.
There was only one man, a Svadia hussar. With a fan-shaped shield missing a horn on his back, he held a riding spear in one hand and a handguard sword in the other, and as soon as he got out of the canyon, he rode quietly on his horse.
Reddils!
"Come out. Reddirs said coldly, "I have already seen through your tricks." β
"His mother!" Dong Xiao jumped out, "I'll say it, I'll say it! The Swadians won't eat this, and now their army must have gone around the gentle slope five miles away, and they must have gone to copy our back path!"
I nodded solemnly: "Judging from the current situation, it seems to be so. β
"It seems like your sister!" Dong Xiao roared, his scimitar pointed downward, and roared: "Release the arrow, kill him, and we will change the scene immediately, quick!"
But as soon as he spoke, Reddhirs rushed at us almost at the same time, his body almost attached to the horse's back, revealing only a shield on his back, and the whole front of the man was hidden behind the horse's back.
The random arrows thrown from the height barely touched his body, except for two arrows stuck in the shield behind his back.
Taniguchi wasn't very far from where we were, just within range of the arrows, so Reddhirs was at a gallop and soon approached violently.
Dong Xiao was a little panicked, he was shocked by the scene of Reddils charging single-handedly, and looked back at me: "What now?"
I looked coldly at Reddils, who was getting closer and closer, and said, "Are you afraid of four thousand people, but you are also afraid of one person?" Don't forget, the position we are standing on is on a steep slope, and he can't get up with a light cavalry. β
Dong Xiao hurriedly said: "Hey, that's what Truman said at the beginning, what is the result, what is the result! You see that he is closer, closer!"