Chapter Seventy-Nine: Sui Wei Ling
Stupid, Pirondamor scolded in his heart as he looked at the man on the other side who tried to run up the embankment.
Without the leader's order, dozens of rogues had already shot the crossbow arrows in their hands.
The section of the Jidang River where the Tu'an embankment is located is not wide, the distance between the east and west banks is between 100 and 60 miles, this distance, it is still a little possible for an ordinary person to dodge a crossbow arrow, but there are still some possibilities, but if you want to escape with your back and dodge dozens of arrows, there is absolutely no chance.
At least thirteen bolts were fired into the man's back, four in his legs, two in his arms, and two in the back of his head, and Pirandamus on the other side could not even hear the short, screaming of the man.
Not all the arrows beckoned to the man who turned and fled, and some of them focused on the man who jumped into the river, but no one was sure if their arrows had hit the guy, and the man was already in the water and nowhere to be seen.
"Kai Anmo, take your people, go down the river to find the three taeks, you can't let that guy live, within one room, you must return", Pirangdamo almost didn't pause and ordered: "Sedom, Cui Fei Polin, take your people, clean up the two sides of the river, separate, guard, anyone who comes close to here must be killed, do not miss it." ”
Several of the named bandit leaders suddenly agreed and went their separate ways, and dozens of rogues quickly followed their pace without saying a word.
Orders are forbidden, discipline is solemn, is this still a rogue?
Of course not.
The rogues are just their disguise, and their true identity is that of the guards under the command of the Mephiran Legion of the Great Bogar Empire.
Kai'anmo, Sedomo, and Cui Feipo are all Suiwei Ling's nephews, and Pilang Damo is naturally the leader of this Suiwei Ling-Ling.
They are both units of the Imperial Army, and 64 people in eight rows and eight columns are one unit, with a pair of men as the chief, and another pair of them as a reserve. Five is one, one is three hundred and twenty people, with Ling Luo as the long, and two deputy as the preparation.
According to the establishment of the Imperial Army, there are dags on the top, and there are levies on the top, and the conscription is formed into a regiment, and the commander and leader of the legion is the regimental general. From the regimental general to the commander, there is a three-order difference, if you look at it this way, this imperial soldier is also written to fight the front station of the small soldiers? People who think so are wrong, the legion will be in command of Wanfu, and they are related to the great responsibility of the empire, and they naturally need to be strictly guarded, and each legion general has two independent soldiers, one is called the Su Wei Ling, who is responsible for the safety of the legion general's tent and apartment, and the other is called the Sui Wei Ling, who is responsible for closely following the legion general. These two are equivalent to the pro-guards of the legion general, and the two of them are naturally the henchmen of the legion general.
These are all gossip, and the point should be that the garrison of the Mayafrian Legion should be a hundred miles away from here, and how did the more than 300 officers and men of the guards who were supposed to be closely follow the generals of the Mayafrian Legion come here? and why did they hide behind enemy lines outside the hundreds?
No one but themselves knew what the Imperial soldiers had been through.
Starting from the outskirts of Shabun in East Gagawa County, where they were stationed at the front, they managed to reach their destination quietly after spending seven days avoiding roads and entering the forest.
This is definitely a risky operation, with the military common sense of the world of Ploz, in order to balance the speed of marching, sustainable marching distance and combat effectiveness, the infantry carry no more than half a month's water and food, and their lone army, which is deep behind enemy lines, neither carries baggage, nor has follow-up supplies. Seven days each way is already their limit, and any delay on the road may mean that there is not enough food to support the return journey.
Along the way, they did not raise fires at night, did not set up tents, walked cautiously, and occasionally encountered the people who hunted in the wilderness and cut wood in the forest, all of them died under their crossbow arrows, and their corpses were destroyed. Pilondamer believed that no one else in the war zone knew that they had gone behind enemy lines in the war zone.
They had to be so cautious, not because their troops were weak, but because what they had to do was so great that once it was known to outsiders, it would affect not only their more than 300 lives, not only their generals, but also ...... It sounds very risky, but the benefits are always accompanied by the symbiosis of risks, once this matter is successful, the progress of capturing the three counties in the war zone will be greatly accelerated, and if the Zaao Valley Road can be broken before the cold wave of the moon season comes, then from the Feilan Valley County to the king's direct jurisdiction, the kingdom army will have no danger to rely on, and it is not delusional to annex half of the Miredang Kingdom in a war.
What they have to do is to let the Touan embankment burst.
It is now the beginning of the wet season, and the amount of water will increase further when the rainy season begins upstream. At this time, once the levee bursts, the entire West Gagawa County, and even half of the war zone will become a flooded country, although these rivers cannot break through the city defenses, and it is difficult for the imperial army to launch an attack on the flood area, but the ordinary villages and towns are absolutely unable to resist the flood, and then a large number of refugees will inevitably flee to the neighboring towns for refuge, these refugees who can only eat and drink will definitely be a greater disaster for the already tight urban supply, but in the face of their own lords, the lords are probably also in a dilemma. The floods will not only create a large number of victims, but will also destroy the food reserves and supplies of the Kingdom Army in the war zone, and will also cut off the external connection of some areas.
All of this is a huge positive for the Imperial Army.
Once this happens, there is no doubt that the morale of the kingdom army in the entire theater will be seriously damaged, especially the central army sent by the king, unlike the troops of the local vassals, who rely on the mountains and water, and a large part of their grain and grass supply depends on the rear transportation. Intelligence showed that they would not have more than a month's worth of food, which meant that if the rear transport was interrupted, they would have to get food from their local vassals if they did not want to break up. Not to mention whether the vassals will obediently share the grain and grass of the central army, even if they are willing to give, in the case of half of the war zone, unless the three princes are willing to take out their private food with old blood, it will be difficult for both the military and the people to survive for two months - not that the princes are poor, but the nobles will not hoard a large amount of grain and grass unless they plan to rebel, those things take up a lot of space, not to mention that there is a limit on the shelf life, how can there be gold, silver and jewelry? .
According to the general's prediction, as long as the levee is successfully breached, the Imperial Army will definitely be able to start preparations for the attack on the Zha Ao Valley Road before the arrival of the Luna season, whether it will immediately launch an offensive or wait for the food shortage to be serious enough to launch an offensive. Even if there are still a few cities that can be defended at that time, the Imperial Army can completely let them go first and go straight to the Zaogu Road, these cities full of disaster victims simply do not have the courage or ability to go out of the city to attack the Imperial Army's ranks.
Since the benefits of breaking the levee are so great, why didn't the Imperial Army send people to break the levee earlier? Why didn't the Imperial Army send troops to protect the levee? Isn't that too much?
Those who say this are either too ignorant or, like arrogance, from other worlds, who think that the gods are ornaments who only eat and do not work.
The gods of the world of Proz are not omnipotent, and they are absolutely unresponsive to the prayers of mortals, or even zealous. The reasons for this are complex, they have to do with the believers, they have to do with the gods, they have to do with the mood, they have to do with the weather. But what is certain is that when a tragedy of human suffering occurs, the gods will rarely sit idly by. That's right, after it happened, you ask why didn't the gods stop it from happening beforehand? Don't ask me such a stupid question, okay?
Is the burst of the levee a tragedy? There is no doubt about it – a sudden flood could have drowned tens of thousands of people in a single day. So what will the gods do? I don't know, but if the kingdom finds this suspicious and asks for a metaphor through the Protector, the Protector will most likely agree. As long as the gods intervene, there is almost no possibility of keeping this matter secret, and the person who does this kind of bad thing will naturally have to bear the punishment and even revenge of the gods.
However, the Legion General was still willing to gamble on this, and Pirondamo, as the Legion General's henchman, only asked about the execution and did not ask the reason, so he came. And what he had to be extra careful about was to make the burst of the levee seem natural and unsuspicious. Therefore, any person who may leak secrets must be completely excluded.
"Bring those mages with you. Pirondamme turned back and ordered.
Low-level mages are very common in the army, and the guards have great responsibilities, so they are naturally equipped with sleeve mages, but these mages should not be "belted".
After a short time, the five mages were escorted up, and their hands were bound by purple-black objects, and their expressions were depressed and weak, obviously caused by their long imprisonment.
None of them are of a high rank, four green sleeves and one blue sleeve.
"Ladies and gentlemen, have you all figured out whether you want to gamble for your life and freedom, and I will leave the right of choice to you," he said, and with a wave of his hand, the soldiers behind him lifted the restraints on the hands of several mages.
At the same time, behind each mage's back, there were at least ten crossbow arrows aimed at their backs and heads.
That's right, a prepared green-sleeved mage can easily subdue five armed soldiers, but a sleeve mage who is targeted at close range by multiple crossbow arrows has no hope of turning the tables. The limited mana endurance of the Sleeve Mages makes them longer than assaults and shorter than defensive—especially when they are under a dense siege, whether they use mana barriers or defensive spells, they will be consumed by the opponent.
Of course, if these five mages want to work hard, they can probably be able to achieve one life for one life, but who wants to die together if they are fine? . And in the hands of Pirondamus, there is a more effective restraint tool than fifty crossbow arrows - the families of these five mages are all imprisoned in the Imperial Army's tent, and as long as they do not receive a message from Pirandamor for more than three days, their families will all be thrown into the military music camp - not the music of music, but the music of lewd music...... Don't laugh, this is very serious, tens of thousands of strong men have been fighting away from home for many years, mentally tired and nervous, and there will be big problems if you don't arrange some entertainment projects.