June 19, 363 Gregorian calendar, Pinks. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Captain Grez of Pamiswan received information from his scout from Verkhniognorod that a group of guests suspected to be from Renosk had visited Odros the previous morning. Odros entertained them and then gave them a gift out of the country after letting them stay for the night.

After reading the contents of the linen, Grez crumpled the piece of cloth into a ball. He was not entirely unaware of the movements of the Reynosk army on the other side, and according to his estimates, they would soon have a real fight with each other. He was also fully aware of the biggest problem facing the Parmis Army at the moment - the lack of a proper front-line commander. Based on their friendship with him, Wolfgar and Yoneyama are willing to cooperate with him, but Odros is a different story. In short, the guards of Verkhniny Novgorod and they could not pee in the same pot, and the two sides had a lot of grievances over trivial matters. This contradiction was reconciled when the original general Belyuzas was still alive, but since the death of the older generation of generals, Arslang I did not arrange the right person to take on this responsibility in time.

For these reasons, Grace quickly drafted four documents for the Dragon Knight to deliver. Two of them were addressed to Wolfga and Yoneshan, reminding them to prepare for a major battle. One was sent to Lubata, again begging the king to appoint a commander-in-chief of the front to restrain the four horsemen. The last one was sent to Verkhniognorod, where he tentatively asked Odros if he wanted to switch guards and return home to recuperate.

On the afternoon of June 20, Grez received two replies. The first came from Poltava, where the guards reported that the scouts had detected a large number of Reynosk troops attempting to bypass his area and advance towards Nizhny Novgorod. The second came from Verkhniny Novgorod, and Odros bluntly rejected Grez's proposal. This alarmed Grez, who feared the worst-case scenario - Odros defected. So he ordered his troops to prepare for a march on Novgorod, and to prepare to attack Odros directly and control his troops if things went bad.

On June 21, Grez received three more letters. The first came from Odessa, where Vovga reported that the Lenosk fleet had appeared off the coast of the port, and his own fleet was maneuvering with it. The second was an urgent letter from Poltava, which had now been besieged by the Reynosk army, and the defenders had already withstood several of their attacks, and it would have been difficult to hold them off for more than three days without reinforcements. The third came from Verkhniy Novgorod, where Odros reported that he had received an urgent letter from Poltava and had commanded his headquarters to march to Nizhny Novgorod, preparing to take Kharkov through there and encircle Wei to save Zhao. At the same time, it is hoped that Grez will reinforce Poltava as soon as possible and wait for the opportunity to cover up.

When Grez saw the third letter, he was almost furious. Although he clearly knew that it was very easy to attack from Upper Novgorod to Lower Novgorod in terms of the art of war, it was more difficult to reinforce Poltava, but he was very dissatisfied with Odros's self-assertion. And the two sides were on an equal level, and Grez was unable to restrain Odros's actions. Therefore, he could only write to him on the one hand, hoping that the other party could join him first and go together to relieve the siege of Poltava; While reorganizing his troops, he quickly rushed to Poltava.

On June 22, two battles took place at the same time, one at sea and one on land. The Parmis were defeated at sea and victorious on land.

Odessa is a deep-water port with a natural harbor, and the Parmis fleet is numerically inferior, and it will take some cunning to defeat the Reynolds fleet. On that day, the plan of the Pamis was this: first send 30 of the 80 warships to the sea to meet them, and after the defeat, introduce the Lenosk fleet into the harbor, and then the rest of the ships in ambush in the harbor blockade the harbor, and cooperate with the shore catapults and others to annihilate the Lenosk fleet that broke into the harbor.

In the battle of the fleet that morning, the Pamis lost 3 ships, and the Lenoskes lost 1. However, after the Pamis fled into the harbor, the Renoskes did not pursue them, much to the confusion of Wolfga. After consulting with the naval commander, he had to go to battle again in the afternoon. The engagement lasted an afternoon. In the evening, the Parmis retreated into the harbor again after losing nine ships, and the Lenosk battleship pursued into the harbor this time. Seeing that the plan had succeeded, the Parmis hurriedly sent their main fleet to block the entrance and exit of the harbor.

At this moment, the Reynolds fleet in the harbor seemed to not care about being surrounded, reflexively or collided, or hooked the gunwale, in short, tried all kinds of ways to get involved with the Parmis fleet. Then the Reynolds ships did only one more unexpected thing. After confirming that they were secured with the Pamis, they broke down one after another, leaving both sides immobilized.

As an army general, Wolfga naturally did not understand the enemy's thoughts. And his naval commander immediately realized that the wind was blowing from the sea to the land at this time of summer, and the other side was clearly preparing for a fire attack. Sure enough, a few minutes later, in the afterglow of dusk, dozens of fireships stood out. They soon took advantage of the wind to set ablaze all the fleets blocking the harbor mouth, and the Reynolds ships in the harbor also set themselves on fire. The Parmis fleet was caught in the middle, and there was nowhere to avoid it.

Fortunately, although the Pamis army in the harbor was busy, at least they did everything that needed to be done. They arranged for the remaining ships in the harbor to rescue the crew members who had fallen overboard to escape the fire, and then clear the fire barrier at the pier to stop the fire from spreading to shore. The fire burned for an entire night, and the Pamis built fortifications on the pier overnight in preparation for the enemy's landing.

By the end of the day, the Parmis army on the Odessa side had lost all 80 warships and 12 other ships, with 1,300 killed and more than 5,000 wounded. The Lenosk side lost 28 warships and 30 other ships, and the number of killed was about 350 people.

And on the same day, the army of Pamis scored a victory in Nizhny Novgorod.

Odros's scouts detected a Reynosk army approaching their side, with roughly the following forces: 10 winged Husa Horugvi and 20 infantry Horugvi. Odros was slightly superior in numbers, so he decided to snipe the enemy directly on the main road, and if he won, take advantage of the situation to attack the supply base of the Renosk army in Nizhny Novgorod.

Disguising his own infantry corps as reinforcements eager to rush to Poltava, Odros turned a blind eye to the scouts of the Lenosk army in order to lure the Lenosk to attack him. His plan worked, and the Reynolds army intended to attack while the enemy was resting in the afternoon.

It was the hottest time of the day, and the Parmis camped by a small river outside a village, and the soldiers scattered to rest in the shade of the trees after drinking the cool water of the river. At this moment, the Lenoske army began to shoot at them across the river, and then the Winghusa crossed the shallow river with their sabers and killed the Pamis.

The Pamis soldiers on the banks of the river looked panicked, and they scattered and fled with their weapons and equipment. The Wing Husa quickly suppressed their little resistance and scattered in pursuit, with a portion of the main cavalry advancing towards the headquarters of the Parmis army in the village, preparing to annihilate this part of the Parmis army in one fell swoop.

However, the group soon found themselves in the trap of the enemy.

A large number of Parmis infantry lay in ambush in the fields of the crops that had not yet been harvested, and did not rush out of the fields until the enemy approached them, and they were well prepared with anti-cavalry weapons, various spears and scrambles, and countless traps and stumbling ropes. Due to the obstruction of the farmland, the Wing Husa could not effectively counter the attack of the infantry, and they had no choice but to retreat. Just as they were returning to the main road, the cavalry of Pamis appeared in front of them. The first charge commanded by Odros dashed the distraught Reynolds to pieces, and they had to flee again. When they retreated to the river, they found that their infantry was also in a scuffle. And the arrows of the Parmis had already caught up, and the Renosk were driven by them to cross the river, disrupting the infantry positions of their own army, and the Renosk army was defeated.

Taking advantage of the situation, Odros led his army directly to the city of Nizhny Novgorod and began to besiege the city. The Renosk army could only hold on behind closed doors, but fortunately, after the defenders gathered the remnants, there were still as many as 20 Khrugwee troops, and the supplies were quite sufficient, so it was not a problem to hold on for a while. Yes, about 3,100 men were killed on the Lenosk side; The Parmis army lost about 1,100 men and captured more than 300 horses, weapons and armor.

Odros camped outside the city, and was about to write a letter to Grez to inform him of his victory, when an emissary from Gretz arrived. Of course, the envoy brought him no good news, and the long-delayed Pamis was finally determined as the commander-in-chief of the Renosque side, and Arslang I could not withstand Grez's repeated urgings, and appointed Grez as the commander-in-chief, with the right to control the other three 10,000 cavalry commanders. At the same time as sending an emissary to inform Odros of the news, Grez ordered him to immediately gather his troops and move closer to him to reinforce Poltava, which greatly angered Odros, who had just won. His anger was palpable to those around him.

On June 23, the Tsar of Renosk received a report of battle in his barracks outside Poltava.

"Konstantin Yevremovich has suffered a lot on the side of the Pamis." After reading the war report, the Tsar said, "Although it is true that the plan is to defeat Odros, the price is a little greater. ”

"There will always be all kinds of accidents on the battlefield, my esteemed majesty, even a veteran general like Konstantin will inevitably have times when his horse stumbles, not to mention that none of the horsemen are easy to deal with." General Timoshenko replied to the Tsar in this way.

"The situation in Odessa is good, it's a pity that we don't have more troops to allocate to General Gorshkov, otherwise he might have been able to conquer Odessa himself."

"Not necessarily, my majesty, the Parmis army in Odessa is the strongest, not to mention the fact that it is easy to get reinforcements from Kafbas." The veteran of Renosque poured cold water on him.

"Alright, dear Mikhail, tell me what the situation is now, it's still in our original plan, right?" The tsar turned to Kutuzov, and the entire battle plan was drawn up by him.

"Although General Voroshilov's losses are a bit large, maybe it will be more effective for our actions in the next step. Overall, the current situation has not exceeded our expectations. According to the plan, Grez also gained the authority of the so-called acting general, which shows that the pillow wind we let people blow for King Parmis is still working. The next thing we have to do is to borrow a knife to kill someone. Kutuzov replied.

"Speaking of which, Nasardin has been quite skilled in using this kind of strategy in the past." The Tsar laughed.

On 24 June, Odros met again with Gretz's messenger. Odros was furious by the letter, and Gretz, acting as the acting general, demanded that Odros immediately retreat to join him, and mentioned that if Odros did not obey his orders, he would be court-martialed. No military commander would be willing to be dictated by others when he has gained the current advantageous situation, lest the fruits of the victory that are about to come be wasted. What's more, Odros and Grez are not compatible in the first place.

"Please go back and tell Acting General Grez that our troops are currently entangled with the enemy and cannot get out, and that I will join him at the right time. If His Excellency the Acting General loses the city because of his cowardice, then there is nothing we can do to help. ”

The messenger heard Odros's sarcasm clearly, and he had to clean up and take his leave of the Captain. Just as the messenger had left the tent of Odros, he saw an emissary from the Renoske people also come to visit the captain. Grace's messenger wanted to stay a little longer to find out more information, but Odros's men also hated Grace's subordinates and yelled at him to send the obnoxious guy away.

Voroshilov's envoy did not come to discuss anything important, but only to ask for the return of the remains and relics of several Lenosk nobles who had died in battle the day before yesterday. Although Odros was angry, he still agreed to such a request, after all, it was also a kind of etiquette on the battlefield. The people of Renosque thanked him for their kindness, claiming that one of his brothers happened to be one of them, and Odros kindly reassured the messenger. The messenger came forward and kissed his hand, and with tears in his eyes expressed his heartfelt gratitude, and in the middle of the exchange, Odros was dragged out of the tent by him. The Reynolds nobleman then bowed respectfully and left. And all this was clearly seen by the messenger of Pamis who hovered at the gate of the camp.

Although Grayz was more confused when he received the report, he did not think that Odros would defect. After all, the Pamis cavalry has its own sense of honor, and they will never die for the alien race if they do not use some righteous name. Grez can now only cautiously march towards Poltava. The three commanders of his side, for their own reasons, could not join him, and his forces were at a disadvantage to the Lenosk army, even if the Pamis cavalry was confident that they could deal with a wing Husa twice as large as theirs. Wolfga was pinned to the harbor by the Reynolds fleet off the coast of Odessa, and Yoneshan's cavalry was coming at full speed, but it would take two or three days, and Odros refused to cooperate with him.

On 25 June, Grez marched to the town of Donetsk between Verkhniny Novgorod and Poltava, and set up camp outside the town, where he prepared to wait for several days for the cavalry of Mishan and the main force of Odros. It is located right in the middle of Verkhniy Novgorod and Poltava, and is almost the same distance from the two cities. To the southwest of the town is a mountainous hill that is also an iron ore producing area, with flat grasslands to the east and north. The road to the southeast leads to Verkhny Novgorod, the road to the northwest leads to Poltava, and the northeast road leads to Pinks. A river parallel to the road connecting Poltava and Verkhniy Novgorod is located on the northeastern side of the town. Grez set up his camp on the east bank of the river, less than 1 fatah from the town.

Grez sent a herald to Novgorod to ask for reinforcements from the remaining troops. In the evening, the herald brought back the news that there was no shortage of supplies, but that there were no more transport forces in Verkhniognogorod, and that they had already gone to support the siege of Nizhny Novgorod. Want to get supplies, unless Grez himself sends someone to transport them.

On June 26, after thinking about it, Grez decided to send a team of 3,000 men to Nakhniy Novgorod to carry some supplies, after all, it only takes two days to make a round trip to Nakhniognorod, and it takes the same amount of time to get from Pinks even one way.

As an industrial and mining town, although Donetsk is not only large, but it should have a lot of entertainment facilities. Some of the Parmis officers, who had a little more leisure, secretly went to the town in the evening to have fun. By the evening of 27 June, Grez had taken a surprising turn of events—officers who had been having fun in the town had been raided, suffering heavy casualties. And Grace saw the embarrassment of a few of the guys who had survived, and did not have time to reprimand them for their lack of discipline and insensitivity. Because a larger attack had already been directed towards his camp, the opponent's target was heading straight for the Chinese camp, apparently directed at the commander.

At the same time, Grez received another piece of bad news, as the supply transport he had sent to Verkhniy Novgorod had been wiped out, and they had been attacked by a night attack on the Reynosk wing Husa on the way. With the exception of a few who escaped, none of them were spared. Captain Pamiswan clenched his fists, knowing that this shouldn't be the last bad news of the day.