Young people are so energetic.

Maybe it's also a way to express feelings?

Sa Huolin's light brown eyes moved, and he suddenly felt that he could rest assured, they were originally worried that Qianshan would have no joys, sorrows, and sorrows like Bingtuozi, but now it seems that although the feelings are indifferent, there are still feelings. Ruthless, not ruthless. Xiao Yuezhi's affectionate way seems to have had an impact on her.

…… That's actually pretty good.

***

The years of Mount Kinabalu were peaceful.

While Xiao Yan and Murong Jue were recuperating peacefully in the cabin in the sacred mountain, the war in the northwest of Yan Zhou experienced a strange turn.

The offensive of the Tang and Ukrainian armies was fierce from the beginning, and the vanguard troops were the armies of both sides stationed in the capital of Yan and Zhou.

Both armies were in a state of anger and urgently needed to vent, after all, the drama belonged to the strategy of the upper class, and the lower soldiers did not know it, and they were deeply ashamed and angry at the despicable methods used by the other party in the "friendly game", and when their comrades were seriously injured or even killed because of these despicable methods, this anger almost exploded; Although the investigation in the army said that this was a conspiracy of the remnants of Yan Zhou and the traitors of the enemy countries, Euroton Dashi, no one was caught, and it was impossible to calm the anger just by saying it, and some soldiers wondered if the upper echelons were covering up the truth, for the sake of the overall situation of the alliance. When the indignation of the garrison reached a dangerous flashpoint, an order was suddenly issued from above to transfer the garrison in the city, ostensibly to the rear outside the city, but secretly as the vanguard of the attack on the northwest of Yanzhou, secretly transferred to the front.

The long-suppressed anger of the two armies poured out on the battlefield, but the surprise attack of the cold winter Layue launched a fierce offensive, and the outpost of the Yan and Zhou armies stationed east of the Kulu River-Huge Mountain defense line was immediately torn apart. The vanguard armies of the two countries thrust in like sharp knives, tearing two holes in the Kuhu defense line.

The main forces of the Don Army and the Oghuz Army immediately followed, tearing these two openings wider......

In December, the climate in the northwest of Yanzhou was so cold that it turned into ice and frost, but this did not affect the intensity of the war.

The Oghuz soldiers and the garrison army in the northwest of Yan Zhou were in ice and snow or cold climates all year round, and they could adapt to fighting in the middle of winter, but the army was not as mobile as it was in summer - of course, this was a problem that the armies of all sides of the war had to face.

On the side of the Tang Army, the East Route Army is the Anbei Army, and the West Route Army is the Hexi Army, all of which have experienced cold training in winter all year round, but the northwest of Yanzhou is colder, but the army is kept up with the cold-proof equipment such as boots, coats, hats, and gloves. The Middle Route Army is the Central Army, the Longwu Right Army, the Tiger Ben Right Army, the treatment and status are higher than the Zhenshu Army, but the training is also higher than the Zhenshu Army, it is an all-weather combat army, every winter and summer to carry out "cold and summer polar combat training", winter is to Anbei, Andong Protectorate of the snow field, snow forest, glacier training, the first two years and joined the Anzang Prefecture of the Snow Mountain, plateau combat training, midwinter combat adaptability than the Northland Garrison Army, said that the "Central Army" is not raised with high salary, but real training, Hit it out.

Therefore, the war of the three sides is like the battle of the beasts in the polar ice field, although the army maneuver and cavalry charge, and the infantry melee are affected by the deep snow and ice, but the war scene is obviously more cruel because of the harsh climate and geographical conditions.

Because neither the Euroton Army nor the Yan-Zhou Northwest Army expected the Tang-Ukrainian coalition army to attack in this season, they were relatively psychologically relaxed and were caught off guard, and the momentum of the Tang-Ukraine armies was like a rainbow, and the battle was fierce, and within half a day, the Kulu River-Huge Mountain defense line that the Yan and Zhou armies had worked so hard to build collapsed.

The Tang-Ukrainian coalition continued to advance, and after a fierce and brutal battle, the rear guard of the Kuluhe-Huge Mountain defense line, six fortresses in a single line were pulled out, and the second line of defense built by the Yan and Zhou armies was all broken.

After Yan Zhou's "new emperor" Yu Wenjian received the battle report from the front, his always resolute face also changed, and he immediately sent an attendant to invite the Marquis of Paviv, the commander of the Euroton garrison, to discuss the alliance against the enemy.

“…… O Lord Almighty! After listening to the battle report, Marquis Paviv was stunned for a moment, and dropped his gloves, "I have to report to His Majesty the Emperor of our country immediately!" O Lord Almighty! These two madmen! "Of course, the two madmen refer to the emperor of Datang and Oghuz, no, Datang is the prince of the prison country!" …… Oh! O Lord Almighty! The blond-haired, dark-eyed commander cried out in a rage, and while making a cross on his chest, he said, "These terrible women! The Lord said, "It is unreasonable for a woman to go mad!" O my lord......"

Yu Wenjian's brows jumped slightly, these Euroton people, that's it, exaggerated actions, exaggerated words, there are seven or eight rhetorical sentences in a sentence, can you say something practical? Fortunately, His Royal Highness the former King Xin, who was very military courageous and talented, was once full of suspicion by Emperor Yan Zhou and had considerable forbearance, and after enduring the commander's "lyricism" for more than ten minutes, he finally fell to the point.

"Your Excellency Marquis, our country needs the help of your country's mage corps."

Yu Wenjian frowned and said worriedly.

"In previous wars, the Tang army used ballistas that could shoot explosive shells and huge iron bullets, and now they are again on the battlefield. According to the description of the battle report handed back from the front, I am afraid that our army city will not be able to resist the attack of these solid iron bullets. Although the cold winter will make the walls stronger, if these iron bullets are continuously projected at the city gates, I am afraid that the city gates will be broken. Of course, he didn't know that the accuracy of the Tang Army's artillery was not so high, and it was impossible to accurately locate the city gate from a long distance to achieve continuous positioning and artillery bombardment.

Yu Wenjian also made the worst estimate, facing Commander Euroton, of course, he had to praise the Tang Army's new weapons as much as possible, otherwise how could he ask their mage group to support?

Yu Wenjian's command also has shamans, but Yan Zhou's sa witch is a body witch, meat. Stronger than steel, he can tear down the castle with his bare hands, but he doesn't know those long-range attack spells, he is envious and jealous of the Oghuz sorcerer line - why wasn't it the sorcerer line to Yan Zhou when the shamanism split in the first place?

He said with a solemn face: "If these explosive bombs are thrown at the head of the city, the lethality of the soldiers defending the city will be far greater than that of stone bullets, so that the enemy army outside the city can cause great damage to the soldiers defending the city." If we choose to fight out of the city, we will also face the blow of this explosive bomb in the field, and the killing range of shock waves and fragments is compared to long-range crossbows. Arrows do more damage. ”

"Your Majesty, your analysis is very reasonable."

Marquis Paviv touched his beard, which was even covered by his lips, and after thinking for a while, he said, "When I return, I will immediately consult with Archbishop Ruel of the Templar Mage Order, and ask them to provide your country with front-line support. ”

Paviv's army included the Imperial Mage Regiment, but he pushed Yu Wenjian's request to the Holy See's Mage Corpus.

Of course, Yu Wenjian knew what he was thinking, nothing more than to preserve the empire. The strength of the army, the strength of the consumption of the Holy See, the struggle between the imperial power and the clerical power in the Euroton Empire, although it has not been fought to the surface, but which country does not know?

Yu Wenjian was worried that there were still internal contradictions in the Allied Army, but his face did not show any light, only a sincere expression, and a more sincere voice, "Thank you for your strong support." The Tang Empire and the Oghuz Khanate are like tigers and wolves, and their ambitions are endless, and only by working together can our two countries resist a strong enemy and defend our territorial subjects. "The implication is that if Yan Zhou's last territory is lost, you will be the next one.

"Oh, Your Majesty the Emperor, the sincerity of our alliance is full!" Marquis Paviv immediately assured.

Their mage regiment must be dispatched, but the location of the battle must be carefully considered, after all, the number of mages is limited, and with so many battlefields, it is impossible to invest in every battlefield.

In the afternoon of the same day, Yu Wenjian's Privy Council, Paviv's Staff Committee, the Captain and Deputy Commander of the Holy See Templar Legion, and the Archbishop of the Mage Corps Ruel sat together in the Council Hall of the "Imperial Palace" to convene a joint military meeting of the two countries and one court to discuss combat matters.

At the meeting, the three parties were indispensably calculated, but the common threat came first, and finally a compromise was reached, and an operational agreement was signed, with the north line west of the Kulu River as the northern front, the west of Huge Mountain as the southern front, the northern front against the Oghuz army, and the southern front against the Tang army.

There was no doubt that the Tang army was the strongest, and the strongest in the Yan-Ou alliance was the Templar Legion—there were fanatical Templars and a regiment of Holy Mages—but in terms of combat distribution, the Templar Legion was assigned to the northern front, uniting with the Yan and Zhou armies to fight against the Oghuz army.

However, this was tactically reasonable, because there were many shamans in the Oghuz army, while there were fewer sorcerers and more martial artists in the Tang army, so the Templar legion with strong mages was most suitable to be placed on the northern front.

The southern front had the largest number of soldiers, with a total of 75,000 men in three legions under Paviv, and Yu Wenjian personally commanded five Yanzhou legions with a total of 220,000 cavalry and infantry, with a total of about 300,000 combat soldiers, to fight against the Tang army.

However, in the choice of a strategic location to resist the Tang-Ukrainian coalition forces, "there is no most suitable one, only the secondary."

The three states in the northwest of Yan and Zhou were originally border states, and the strongest fortress defense line was on the border of the three states, and the defense line of the three major military towns - the two towns in the west defended Euroton; A town in the north defended the Grand Duke of Gothol, which was the domain of the former Grand Duke of Gosol and the current Emperor of Oghuz, known as the "Iron Goshawk". But what is helpless is that now the enemy has become the Tang and Ukrainian troops attacking from the east, and the strongest defense line of the three major military towns has become a turtle shell behind it, which is useless.

Yu Wenjian could only build the core of the defense line in the first county of the three states, which was originally built as a military city, with sufficient water in the city, complete military facilities, and high and strong city walls.

Among the three states, Kusuzhou is located between Tailu and Tuha, and is in the westernmost position, it is the most marginal state of the three states, and now the enemy comes from the east, it becomes the "innermost state", Yu Wenjian weighed it, and will "line in" in the first county of Kusuzhou Chaogt County, the center of the new dynasty is of course Chaogt County.

However, it is not advisable to defend a city passively, especially if the enemy has siege weapons. Moreover, guarding, will only make yourself weaker and weaker. Victory in the war is possible only if the enemy is constantly weakened.

Yu Wenjian was a courageous military commander who advocated "offense is defense", and this offensive character was also one of the reasons why he was deeply suspicious of Emperor Yan Zhou.

After he himself became emperor, he still valued offense more than defense militarily, and was not inclined to defend the city at the battle meeting, but proposed to take advantage of the Yan and Zhou army's familiarity with the terrain and use the three capital county cities as a base to annihilate the living forces of the Tang-Ukraine coalition army in the guerrilla annihilation battle.

It can be said that this is a fairly correct strategy, which proves Yu Wenjian's military vision and long-term strategy.

From a military point of view, the three northwestern prefectures are vast and sparsely populated, and even if hundreds of thousands of troops start a guerrilla war, there will be a vast space to display them. Second, the Tang army is very strong, and the Oghuz army is also very strong, these two strong forces are combined, and the strength of most of the Yan and Zhou dynasties is ironclad evidence that people are saddened, although there are 150,000 troops of Euroton and the Holy See, Yu Wenjian is not fully confident that he can defeat the Tang-Ukrainian coalition army on the frontal battlefield. Yu Wenjian has been thinking about strategy and tactics, and the new weapons of the Tang Army have inspired him.

The Tang Army's new "ballista", Yu Wenjian did not see the real thing, but according to the firing range, it can be inferred that such a ballista must be cumbersome and difficult to move, plus the northwest ground is covered with deep snow, and the carriage is also difficult to travel. Swimming annihilation is to fight speed, divide the enemy in high-speed movement warfare, and then gather and destroy the enemy. In addition, Yan Zhoujun was familiar with the terrain, so he had more advantages for guerrillas.

Realistically, from an economic point of view, the Tang-Ukraine coalition army has occupied most of the territory of Yanzhou, the rich areas and grain-producing areas are in the east and south, the ordnance and ordnance industry manufacturing is in Zhili Prefecture, and the Tang-Ukraine coalition army also has resources to fight a protracted war. And the three northwestern states occupied by Yu Wenjian are not rich, the food is only enough for self-sufficiency, and after the weapons are finished, they have to rely on Euroton for support, how can they fight a protracted war? And the game of annihilation can quickly annihilate the enemy in motion, and it can also effectively save itself.

Moreover, the longer the war was fought, the more familiar the Tang-Ukrainian coalition army would be with the terrain, and the advantage of the Yan and Zhou armies in being familiar with geography would become smaller and smaller. This is equivalent to the removal of another winning factor.

Yu Wenjian only dissected the military reasons.

Both the Euroton Legion and the Templar Legion were opposed to this strategy, and they also preferred field warfare - legions equipped with mages, field battles were sharper than defending cities, mages were the most mobile and powerful ballistas, and defending the city was a constraint.

The strategy is certain, and the armies of the three parties are immediately transferred to the north and south.

Yu Wenjian also did not sit in his temporary imperial capital, and led the army to the east, taking the opportunity to attack the Tang army advancing west from the middle road.

***

Yu Wenjian's strategy was well set, but a strange change took place on the side of the Tang-Ukrainian coalition army.

At the beginning of the two armies, after taking the six forts west of the Kulu River-Huge Mountain defense line with a thunderbolt of "blitzkrieg", they actually stopped, rested for two days, and then began to march westward, and the speed of the march was no longer fast, but maintained a moderate speed.

When the southern reinforcements led by the Marquis of Paviv arrived at the capital of Tairu, and the northern reinforcements led by the Templar Legion Commander Felder arrived at the capital of Tuha, the Tang-Ukrainian coalition was still slowly advancing on the edge of these two large states.

After receiving the scout's report, the three commanders of Yu Wenjian were all stunned - could it be that the Tang-Ukrainian coalition army abandoned the "fine tradition" of blitzkrieg since the attack on Yan Zhou and changed it to the tactics of Xu Tu's slow advance?

Such a sudden change was like lightning striking their brains!

Is it really a change of tactics, or is there another conspiracy?

……

The Tang-Ukrainian coalition has really changed its tactics.

The march was only forty miles a day, and the camp was pulled out at dawn, and the camp was camped at dusk, because the marching speed was not fast, the large army was in strict shape, the battalions were distributed in an orderly manner, and the baggage and heavy artillery battalions could not be delayed at all. - The Yan-Ou coalition army has nowhere to go if it wants to fight a surprise attack, no matter which section it is fought from, it is a strict frontal battle. This is a tough battle, which is inconsistent with their guerrilla tactics of attacking and harassing and annihilating them fiercely.

The Yan-Ou coalition had no choice but to look for a possible place to set up an ambush.

However, if there is a dangerous section of the road that may be ambushed, after receiving the scout report, the commanders of the Tang and Ukrainian armies will immediately change the route, preferring to take a detour rather than a flat and wide road.

The fierce and fierce style of the Tang-Ukrainian coalition army has changed at once.

This sudden change in style made the three commanders of Yu Wenjian grit their teeth - what about your courage? What about your ferocity? Are you like wolves? How did they all become foxes? Or a cunning, cautious, and timid fox!

The marshals of the Tang-Ukraine coalition army didn't hear the gnashing of the three commanders of the enemy army, anyway, they just maintained a medium-speed march, and they didn't pay attention to it when they passed through the village, the Yan Zhou army would definitely be strong and clear, the young and strong army, the old and weak entered the mountains, and the village was empty. - Yan Oujun was so angry that he silently vomited blood, and dug the tunnel in vain!

When the Tang and Ukrainian armies marched to the fortress or city, they would stop and camp, and then open up their positions and begin to attack.

As a result, the Yan-Ou coalition army took advantage of the Tang and Ukrainian armies to attack from the outside, but the Tang and Ukrainian armies were in a double-headed snake formation, and either end could be attacked. If the main force of the Yan-Ou coalition army came to fight, the siege battle would become secondary, and the peripheral battlefield would become the main battlefield.

The Yan-Ou coalition army retreated for a while, and the Tang and Ukrainian armies did not pursue, and the other side continued to attack the city, while the peripheral army waited for the Yan-Ou army to turn around and fight again. - Yan Oujun silently vomited blood again, who is this guerrilla? It's all of them who are tired.

After a few battles, the Yan-Ou coalition forces did not take advantage.

The tactics of annihilation that had been set before seemed to have become a joke.

If the enemy does not run, does not pursue, and honestly does not rush to attack and break the fortress, how can this fight guerrilla attacks and disturb annihilation?

Yu Wenjian was worried, the Tang-Ukrainian coalition army had become a turtle, no, it was a fortress that could move, such a strict march, with strong defense and attack power, wasn't it just a fortress with cannons advancing?

Yu Wenjian realized that they had to change their tactics.

The situation on the battlefield is constantly changing, and the tactics that were reasonable at the time are not necessarily reasonable now, but must change with the situation.

If the previous guerrilla attack and annihilation tactics were adhered to, the main armies of the two sides would not have won or lost, and the land of the three northwestern states would be encroached upon by the Tang-Ukrainian coalition forces little by little.

So......

Yu Wenjian suddenly clenched his fist and smashed it down, and a fist hole was cracked in the case.

Just hit it!

***

On December 16, the fourth day of the outbreak of the Yan-Zhou Northwest War, His Majesty Emperor Charleman received an eagle news from the Marquis of Paviv, only to know that the Yan-Zhou War broke out again, and the Tang-Ukrainian coalition army attacked and broke the defense......

His Majesty the Emperor was heartbroken, and casually took out an enamel tea cup, summoned the director of the Military Intelligence Department, and the general threw it on his face, with surging anger in his eyes, "You are all blind, deaf, and foolish!" ”

The chief of military intelligence crouches. I picked up the military newspaper, opened it and read it quickly, and immediately sweated.

Eight days ago, the information handed back by the General Intelligence Bureau of Yanzhou Zhili Prefecture also said that after the change of guard between the troops of Tang and Ukraine in Chahede, the imperial capital, disputes broke out again over the new garrison, and the negotiations between the two countries reached a complete deadlock.

This is...... False information!

In this case, there are only two possibilities: one is the defection of the Zhili Prefecture Intelligence Bureau; Second, the General Administration was exposed, and all spy personnel were arrested.

The director of the military intelligence department turned his mind quickly, and immediately penetrated the front and back, and couldn't help but break into a cold sweat, and reported: "Your Majesty, all kinds of discord between the negotiation team and the garrison of Tang and Ukraine in Chagade before were all appearances and plays, and their purposes were: first, to paralyze and lax us, and second, to fish. ”

What kind of fish to catch?

Of course, it is Yu Wenjian's meticulous work in Chahede, the spy agencies and spy personnel lurking in Yanzhou from all over the world!

Their military intelligence department is in Chagatai, the capital of the Yan and Zhou Emperors, no, the spy personnel of the entire Zhili Prefecture have probably been arrested by the Jing'an Division of the Tang Empire and the Black Wolf Platform of Oghuz.

Charleman's face was like iron, "All in one, huh——? ”

The last sound was extremely threatening.

The head of the military intelligence department didn't dare to wipe the sweat in his head, and he hung his head and replied: "The Zhili Prefecture Intelligence Bureau, headquartered in Chahede, should have been wiped out. However, in order to avoid the risk of foreign spy agencies, the various foreign spy bureaus are set up independently according to the large regions of each country, and only have direct contact with the military intelligence department, and do not have horizontal contact with each other. However, the actions of the Tang-Ukrainian coalition army have not been reported by the General Administration of the South and the General Administration of the North so far, which shows that the news of the Tang and Ukrainian armies is tightly blocked, and the transfer of troops and marches has not leaked at all; The second shows that the Jing'an Division's Black Wolf Observatory is very tight in the search and arrest of spy agencies, and the Southern and Northern General Administrations can only temporarily hide and not act in order not to expose them. "—maybe acted, but was caught. What's more, these two directorates have been terminated.

The chief of military intelligence shuddered at the thought of the latter possibility.

If all of them are terminated, how many people and years will it take to restructure a country's spy agency!

The military intelligence director's heart is dripping blood, and his heart is distressed.

The emperor's light blue eyes were like the sea with a dark tide, and he said, "I can do it well." ”

"Minister, swear allegiance to Your Majesty." The chief of military intelligence saluted to his chest, and the sweat dripped from his forehead as his head drooped, sinking into the golden-red carpet, and disappeared in an instant, as if his heart sank into the abyss and could not be fished up.

The emperor's three-dimensional and deep face was grim, "As quickly as possible, let the Great Food Embassy know about the war in the northwest." ”

The chief of military intelligence immediately understood, and was notified by their intelligence department, of course, of a "inadvertent" leak, for the spies of the Great Food Embassy to find out.

To test whether the spy agency of the Great Food Country in Yanzhou has also been terminated, just look at the reaction of Amaia IX after receiving the information from the embassy.

After von Benigg stepped back, Charlemann walked to the long window and looked at the dim winter sun, his light blue eyes narrowed slightly, and a sharp light rippled in them.

Amaia is indeed old and hesitant, the matter of sending troops has been delayed for too long, and it is better to use this matter to give him a stimulus and push him to make a decision.

The sunlight slanted down, leaving shadows in his sunken eye sockets, making the emperor's face more three-dimensional and more heroic.

He suddenly raised his hand and touched the golden cross hanging from the collar of his shirt, but what he thought in his heart was not the Almighty Lord, but a vague image or feeling in his mind......

It seems to be, the road of crossing.

One horizontal, one vertical.

- End of chapter.

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