Chapter 19 The North Sea Wind Rises
Ten points in the world, the Chengtian Empire occupies half of the country. Although on the surface, the Chengtian Empire only ruled four counties, plus the extremely northern steppes. However, the land area of the Chengtian Empire is much larger than that of neighboring Beihai. Speaking of the largest county in the world alone, the area of Tianlong County is equivalent to the sum of the three counties of Beihai combined. Therefore, from the simple comparison of national strength, the Beihai Kingdom is in an extremely unfavorable situation. Moreover, the disadvantage of the size of the country is directly reflected in the total strength of the two sides. The Extreme North Legion of the Chengtian Empire, with a total strength of 1.3 million, is almost dominated by cavalry, and retains the most traditional combat methods of the Chengtian Empire, and is extremely brave; the Tianlong Legion of Tianlong County has a regular strength of 2.5 million, mainly infantry, and fights in combination with cavalry; the Black Bear Legion of Hejian County, with a regular strength of 2 million, mainly infantry; Shangdang Legion of Shangdang County, with a total strength of 2.4 million, mainly a combination of infantry and cavalry; and the Yunhe Legion across the two counties of Shangdang and Hejian, with a total strength of 1.2 million, is mainly responsible for guarding the north bank of the Yunhe River and guarding against the Great Song Dynasty on the other side of the Yunhe River; in addition, in addition to these regular legions, guarding Chengtian County, the Chengtian Legion, the royal pro-army directly under the emperor, with a total strength of up to three million, is the real main force of the Chengtian Empire. The Chengtian Legion is not only well-equipped, but its soldiers are also elite selected from other legions.
In addition, the Chengtian Empire has the same special air combat unit as the North Sea Kingdom, the Flying Eagle Legion. The Eagle Legion has 100,000 Flying Eagles. These flying eagles mainly live in the Arctic Prairie, and compared with the great white birds of the North Sea, they have a ferocious personality and extremely fierce combat effectiveness. However, it was the Holy Cavalry Regiment of the Chengtian Empire that was really terrifying. Compared with the cavalry of the regular legions of the Chengtian Empire, the heavy cavalry under the command of this cavalry regiment, Shurachou and Futu Annihilation were so well equipped that they were simply armed to the teeth. The breed of its war horse is actually the best Maxima horse on the Tianyun Continent - Gale Horse. Gale horses are produced in the steppes of the heavens, not only can travel thousands of miles a day, but what is even more surprising is its strong weight-bearing capacity, so that the speed of the heavy cavalry of the Holy Cavalry Regiment is not inferior to that of ordinary light cavalry units. For the Beihai Kingdom, the Holy Cavalry Regiment would be the most formidable opponent they would ever encounter, and the reason why Chen Sheng, the Iron Sword and Ice King, had set up a twelve-level defense line in Beihai County was also because he was deeply jealous of the strength of the Holy Cavalry Regiment of the Chengtian Empire.
The entire Holy Cavalry Regiment has a complete 500,000 Shurachou and 500,000 floating slaughters, and can travel long distances for thousands of miles without rest. In the North Sea Kingdom, only the Snow Wolf Cavalry can compete with it. But the total strength of the Snow Wolf cavalry was only half that of the Holy Cavalry Regiment. Moreover, the Chengtian Empire also has a large number of heavy cavalry in other legions. Therefore, the strength of the cavalry on both sides can be described as very different. It is foreseeable that the Northern Navy people will use their flesh and blood to resist the charge of the countless heavy cavalry groups of the Chengtian Empire.
Compared with the vastness of the Chengtian Empire, the Beihai Kingdom is narrow and has few people. There are four counties in the entire Beihai Kingdom, namely Mulan County, Beihai County, Menglan County, and Hanshan County, where the Holy Land Daxue Mountain is located; In order to deal with the Chengtian army, Han Youxin, the Ice King of Fengyue, led the Mulan Legion to garrison Mulan County, with a total strength of 840,000, the Ice God Baishi led the Menglan Legion to guard Menglan County, with a total strength of 700,000, and Beihai County was guarded by the Beihai Naval Regiment and the Beihai Royal Janissary Guard, led by Chen Sheng, the Iron Sword and Ice King, with a total strength of 1.5 million, and in addition, the Ice God Qinghe led all the snow wolf cavalry as a mobile force to support the three counties at any time, with a total strength of 500,000. It is worth mentioning that the combat effectiveness of the Snow Wolf Cavalry is slightly higher than that of the Shurachou and Futu of the Holy Cavalry Regiment of the Chengtian Empire, and it is the only force that can block the Chengtian Heavy Cavalry head-on, and it is also the only key combat force in Beihai that can win in this war. As an air combat force in the North Sea, the White Bird Legion has a total strength of 200,000, which is twice the size of the Flying Eagle Legion. However, although the Great White Bird has excellent mobility, its attack power is very lacking, and it is difficult to compete head-on with the Flying Eagle Legion of Chengtian.
The difference in strength between the two sides means that the North Sea Kingdom will have a total strength of four million against the tens of millions of troops of the Chengtian Empire, and these four million troops will be all the forces that the North Sea Kingdom can gather. After the start of the war, the North Sea army will not be replenished with any reserves. On the contrary, in addition to the regular army, the Chengtian Empire also had 20 million reserve troops in the rear who were training day and night. It was a terrible death match for the people of the North Sea. But the soldiers of the Beihai Kingdom were not the slightest timid, because, behind them, there were their wives and children, and their elderly and frail parents by their side. Whether they live or die, they will never take a step back. More importantly, the existence of the wooden door makes the Beihai soldiers still full of confidence. As the first sect in the Tianyun Continent, Mumen undoubtedly chose to stand on the side of the North Sea. Its unpredictable tricks will add many variables to this battle.
However, the attribute of peace was too rare in the Chengtian Empire at this time. Because the image of King Hailing among the people has been too deified for a long time, the worship of King Hailing by the people of Chengtian has reached an extremely fanatical level; since the founding of the country, the expansion of territory seems to be an innate attribute in the blood of the people of Chengtian for all generations. Therefore, after the war mobilization order was issued, the war machine of the entire Chengtian Empire was running non-stop. The men of Chengtian are all extremely enthusiastic to join the army, and everyone's eyes are full of four words, adding officials to knighthood. In this way, the population and land of Beihai, which are significantly less than those of Chengtian, in addition to the geographical advantages, can be said to be defeated only a matter of time. What made the people of insight in the Tianyun Continent speechless was that seeing that the Beihai Kingdom was about to face annihilation, the Tianbao Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty and his courtiers were drunk and dreamed of death, and they were on the verge of destruction step by step in the song and dance. Seeing Chengtian showing his fangs, the strength of the defenders of the Great Song Yunhe did not increase in the slightest, and he ignored Beihai's several requests for help. After the Great Song Dynasty refused to form an alliance with Beihai and officially made peace with the Chengtian Empire, Emperor Tianbao personally repaired the book to King Hailing, once again expressing the position of the Great Song Dynasty to strictly abide by neutrality and not help each other. It is said that after receiving this letter, King Hailing first looked strange, and then he was overjoyed, and kept sighing that this emperor of the Great Song Dynasty was really wonderful. Isolated and helpless, Haitian had to fight alone with his own people to resist a strong enemy.
As the saying goes, prosperity is exhausted, and how much wind and flow are blown away with the rain and wind. Everything is just the beginning, what will be the outcome of what awaits Beihai?
Tianyun Continent, the North Sea Wind Rises.