Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Direction of the War

The loss of the Fury Wind Fortress was so simple that no one even reacted. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

At the beginning, the armies of the Fenrui Empire and the Kingdom of Leesius barely broke through the Fury Wind Fortress led by Lai Chenyi with new recruits after more than ten consecutive days of strong attacks, and even the legion in Lai Chenyi's hands was not full at all. However, now the Fenrui Empire has 300,000 elite soldiers in Fury Wind Fortress, including three regular mage legions, and there are still 100,000 troops in the nearby Kaschi Fortress that can be supported at any time, but it seems like a dream that Fury Wind Fortress was lost in half a day......

Without the fortress, those forces of the Three Kingdoms that were still in the Xinglan Empire were completely left alone with no personnel to replenish, no supply lines for the army, and all contact with their own borders

Qin Lan's move, is it true that no one thought that the imperial capital, which was besieged by a large army, would still have the energy to raid the Angry Wind Fortress hundreds of miles away?

Fury Wind Fortress is the turning point of the entire Xinglan Campaign, if Qin Lan's return only reverses the fate of the destruction of the Xinglan Empire, then the recapture of the Fury Wind Fortress means that the Xinglan Empire has begun to control this war, if the Fury Wind Fortress is not retaken by others within a month, then the three armies remaining in the Xinglan Empire are afraid that they will starve to death, unless they disregard the ban of the Human Alliance to loot civilians or go all out to defeat the imperial capital of the Xinglan Empire.

Qin Lan sent a message to Zhao Yun, who had returned to the imperial capital, "I have closed the door, now is the time for you to fight the dogs, let it go." ”

Before Zhang Jiao could control those captives, Qin Lan still had to guard the Angry Wind Fortress, so the internal cleaning of the enemy army could only be handed over to Zhao Yun and his Violent Flame Legion, and Qin Lan also believed him. Although it may seem that the enemy army still has millions of people, the more numerous, the more difficult it will be.

The commanders of the Fenrui Empire and the other two countries obviously know this truth, especially the Fenrui Empire can't march fast at all because of the existence of magic cannons, so they simply set up temporary bases in the territories they control, and began to build defense lines in a region, and now the two sides are competing to consume strength, see that one can't hold it first, after all, in their minds, the Fury Wind Fortress is lost, and there is no reason to watch them fall in the country, and they will inevitably attack the fortress with all their might, with the meager strength of the Xinglan Empire now, the defense is slightly insufficient, and there is still the ability to exterminate themTherefore, it is necessary to collect taxes and grain in the areas under control to get them through this difficult time.

Is this really the case?

The Finrui Empire controlled a vast area to the southwest, the kingdom of Loesius to the northwest, and the Bickerstaff Free Alliance, fortunately and unlucky, had their sphere of influence in the northeast, sandwiched between the Imperial Capital and the Fury Fortress. Fortunately, once the Fury Wind Fortress is back in the hands of the coalition forces, they can be the first to evacuate the Xinglan Empire without worrying about any changes, unfortunately, the Xinglan who controls the Fury Wind Fortress will inevitably find a way to open a passage between the Fury Wind Fortress and the Imperial Capital, so they will definitely be the first to face the Xinglan Emperor ** team.

There are a total of thirty-two cities in the northeast of the Xinglan Empire, and the Bickerstaff Free Alliance has sent a total of 300,000 troops to invade the Xinglan Empire this time, but because they wavered during the battle and tried to curry favor with both ends, the result was naturally that neither end had a good impression, but their troop losses were the least, and so far, there are still more than 260,000 troops left. This huge number of troops is difficult to raise in any town, after all, the town is not a fortress dedicated to raising troops and garrisons, so the commander of the Bickerstaff Free Alliance had to use Genting, the largest city in the northeast, as the main base, and then disperse some soldiers to the surrounding cities, one is to control and defend the guard, and the other is to collect taxes and surplus food from the regions of each city to support the army.

Therefore, almost twenty-five or six of the thirty-two cities in the Northeast are occupied by the Bickerstaff Free Alliance, and at the same time, they are also building defensive lines on the periphery of the cities.

The Finish Empire and the Kingdom of Leeusius are similar, except that they control a much larger territory than the Bjkstaff Free Alliance, and they control a much larger number of cities.

This is the situation that the Xinglan Empire is facing now, it is torn apart, completely torn apart. With the edict of Empress Yun Xianglan to regain the border, countless civilians fled in the direction of the imperial capital every day, their homes were invaded, and their relatives were enslaved, and they were willing to join the army and fight the invaders

Zhao Yun really moved to the northeast first, as everyone expected, and it was crucial to open the road connecting the Angry Wind Fortress, so under Sima Yi's suggestion, the Violent Flame Legion sent troops, Deng Ai's main combat force and Fu Zhiyi's Magician Legion moved forward along the way, and Jiang Wei's cavalry was divided into two roads, the light cavalry unit was responsible for patrolling around the main force to ensure the integrity of the logistics supply line, and the flying dragoon was responsible for harassing and confusing the enemy's line of sight, as well as quickly maneuvering from the enemy's rear to cut into the battlefield to give support。

The standard equipment of the human regular legion on the Mutu continent is 100,000 people, divided into five brigades, generally speaking, three infantry brigades, one cavalry brigade, and then one magician legion. Of course, this number is not necessarily, depending on the actual situation of each legion. Among the three infantry brigades, there are also a certain number of cannon fodder troops, which are generally captured slaves or prisoners of war from other countries, and their existence is only to consume the opponent's physical strength and ammunition and disrupt the rhythm of war. However, no matter how it is divided, the soldier management of the corps system generally takes the form of a thousand people, that is, a thousand commanders manage a team of a thousand people and command them to fight, and there are centurions below the thousand commanders, but this position does not have much significance.

Zhao Yun's army was on the main line to the Angry Wind Fortress, and it was impossible for him to make a detour every time to recover the small cities next to him, so many times, it was also Deng Ai's combat troops who scattered out to fight alone.

When the Praetorian Swordsman Brigade led by Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang collided with the Infantry Thousand Men of the Bickerstaff Free Alliance, what would happen? The Praetorian Swordsmen were actually similar to He Lian's Jade Guards, but they did not use flying knives, but one-handed swords, and they were also agile and they could quickly rush to the enemy's side, and what was stronger than the Jade Guards was that they also had the ability to stab and use their fighting spirit to pierce the bodies of the soldiers in front and hurt the soldiers in the rear. Therefore, once the Praetorian Swordsmen form a neat formation and advance, the power is enormous, especially ...... Zhang Bao also has the ability to stealth soldiers

The giant swordsman corps led by Guan Ping Guan Suo also waved their violent side, although the replacement of a one-person tall giant sword made these soldiers of the original Mu Tu continent a little uncomfortable, but the carefully selected tall they quickly liked this profession, and the violent giant sword in their hands could even sweep all the surrounding enemy troops at the same time, with the use of fighting spirit, the range of the strike was farther than the weapons of the long halberd, with more than one enemy is what they are best at, once they break into the enemy, it is like a tiger running into the flock.

The heavy crossbowmen led by Zhang Yi and Chen Zhi are the killers in the world, especially after the heavy crossbow has been improved into a Zhuge repeater by Zhuge Liang and Huang Yueying, it can reach more than 1,600 meters in range, with the piercing skills of the fighting spirit and the heavy crossbowmen, the soldiers who do not have the strength of the seventh order can only resist two attacks at most, but with a range of more than 1,000 meters, the heavy crossbowmen can only shoot twice...... You must know that the crossbowman's piercing skill can damage six soldiers in a straight line at the same time, which is the strongest

Zhang Mancheng and Zhang Yan led the heavy archers, which is a strengthened profession, an upgraded version of the ordinary class archers, their bows and arrows are strengthened special manufacturing, maybe the range is not as far as the heavy crossbowmen, but they can launch a projectile attack after their own army, if the heavy archers are in front of the heavy infantry or heavy halberds who are good at defending in heavy armor, then the power will be amazing...... This is completely different in the Mutu Continent, including the elven race, which uses archers as crossbowmen, and shoots arrows straight and straight, the difference between archers and crossbowmen is that the archers shoot faster, and the crossbowmen's attacks are stronger.

Zhao Tong and Zhou Cang led the heavy halberd soldiers, they are actually the upgraded troops of the pikemen, and they have been greatly strengthened in defense, once they are wearing heavy armor and put on a good posture and formation, the cavalry team that collides head-on is simply into the hell of death. The halberd in the hands of the heavy halberd can use the pick-and-slash skill, which is specially used against cavalry.

Wang Ji and Bao Xin led the heavy infantry, the four-dimensional attributes are very average and similar to the two can give the most balanced bonus to the heavy infantry, the upgrade of this sword and shield soldier has risen sharply in defense, basically as long as you don't touch the iron cavalry, or hit the bed crossbow and catapult, they are the longest surviving group on the battlefield, especially the restraint is the long-range troops, such as archers or heavy crossbowmen and throwing knives of the guards......

The burly and fierce Meng Shu and the lead were assigned to lead the Heavy Hammer Soldiers, which were a special type of troops that appeared after Xianyang City was upgraded to Chengdu City. The reckless men who hold the hammer in their hands are like the legendary berserkers, but they are more domineering and wild than the giant sword swordsmen, and the hammermen's skill is earth-shaking, when they use this skill, all enemies within a radius of five meters with the hammer will stand unstable and suffer heavy blows, especially when hundreds of thousands of hammermen use this skill together on the battlefield, and can even cause a small earthquake

In all the battles on the periphery, the troops of the Bickerstaff Free Alliance simply had no power to fight back, all of them were crushed at the touch of a button, and the Flame Legionmen led by famous generals could get many bonuses, which, combined with their own fighting spirit, made them themselves unable to believe that they had become so strong.

After the Bickerstaff Freedom Alliance lost more than a dozen thousand troops in succession, the army all shrank in the city, not daring to continue to come out, the remnants of the Xinglan Empire in their impression seemed to be too brave, originally thought that as long as they did not touch Qin Lan's cavalry troops, the remnants of the Xinglan Empire should be well cleaned up, but now the result makes everyone speechless, and they can only vainly try to help defend with the help of the city's city defense. However, with Qin Lan's scout brigade temporarily seconded under Deng Ai, Zhao Yun knew the deployment of troops in each city along the line, and after making sure that they were no threat to his main force, Zhao Yun directly ignored them and pressed straight to the location where the main force of the Bickerstaff Free Alliance was located.

In the face of Zhao Yun's army approaching Yunding step by step in the main line, the commander of the Bickerstaff Freedom Alliance tried to use the encirclement tactic, and he also learned Qin Lan's strategy of cutting off the supply line in a similar way, and sent several cavalry brigades to detour behind the Storm Flame Legion. However, he misses a very important point.

Qin Lan's tail cutting tactic was carried out with a huge number of scouts completely controlling the situation on the battlefield, and the enemy's every move was well understood...... The Bickerstaff Free Alliance Legion also has scouts, but like other human nations, scouts are only temporary part-time jobs for some thieves in the legion, and they can deal with ordinary people, but if they want to deal with scout legions from the professional three worlds, they are powerless. The commander of the Bickerstaff Free Alliance sent out a cavalry brigade in this blind situation, and his only advantage was that because the city was still in the hands of the Bickerstaff Free Alliance, the cavalry brigade could be resupplied or rested at any time.

Three brigades of 10,000 cavalry marched around the rear of the Flames from three directions, and the Bickerstaff Free Alliance commander gave them orders not to kill the enemy, but to hold back the Flames and threaten their supply lines. It would be best if there was a chance to make a profit, and the Bickerstaff Freedom Alliance was in the worst situation right now, as they had sold their supplies to the Finrui Empire and the Kingdom of Leusius......

But the Bickerstaff Freedom Alliance definitely didn't expect that Zhao Yun's Storm Flame Legion had no supply lines at all, and Fu Zhiyi's Logistics Legion was now completely following the legion as a reserve...... Originally, because of the civil strife more than a year ago, the country's savings were exhausted, Yun Xianglan is a new empress, after taking the throne, she put out fires and the Storm Flame Legion everywhere, and the reconstruction of the Raging Wave Legion and the Fury Wind Legion has made the country's economy even worse, and before it has taken a breath, this war has exploded again, and because of this war, the economy of the Xinglan Empire has now been completely defeated, and the fall of many important cities and territories has paralyzed the entire empire.

The Violent Flame Legion and the Raging Flame Legion finally retreated to the imperial capital, although they withstood the attack of the army of the four countries, but the interior was far from as bright as it seemed on the outside, Yun Xianglan had not even tasted the taste of meat for most of the month, and even sometimes had a full meal, even the empress of a country, not to mention the lowest soldiers below, the accumulation of the imperial capital was not much, and it would be overstretched to support this army of nearly 100,000 on weekdays, not to mention being besieged by the army for more than half a month, if it wasn't for Qin Lan to rush back in time, maybe the city had not been broken, and the inside of the first imperial capital would not be able to hold on。

Or it can be said that now the entire imperial capital is completely raised by Qin Lan alone, and when Zhao Yun did not recover the southeast at the beginning, the imperial capital was completely an isolated city, and it was impossible to be self-sufficient at all, because there was nothing...... Of course, this is due to the fact that Qin Lan has a huge country in the Three Kingdoms World that supports him, and because of this, as soon as Qin Lan comes back, he completely disrupts all the army formations and messes around, but the old batch of imperial ministers Fu Zhiyi or Lai Chenyi and others dare not have any opinions. There's no way, the people who pay for food are the biggest, otherwise you have the ability to raise them?

Therefore, Zhao Yun's Violent Flame Legion actually went on the expedition with hundreds of baggage trucks, and the food in it was enough to support the entire legion for a month, and other things such as equipment had already been prepared by Qin Lan, and there was no need to dispatch supplies from the imperial capital at all, so the supply line in the eyes of the commander of the Bickerstaff Free Alliance was completely non-existent, and this was the disadvantage of the lack of professional scouts, because of this judgment, almost all the 30,000 cavalry of the Bickerstaff Free Alliance fell into Zhao Yun's hands。

The cavalry running out in different directions on the three roads had almost the same destination, and they carefully went all the way around the back of the Storm Flame Legion, but because of the distance and the terrain, the time of their arrival was different, so the reception staff that Zhao Yun arranged for them was also different. The first cavalry of the Bickerstaff Free Alliance encountered the heavy halberds led by Zhao Tong and Zhou Cang, and Zhao Yun's order was that horses were more expensive than people, and people could not be left behind, but not a horse could be injured

Because of the different directions of civilization, there are huge differences between the Mutu Continent and the Three Kingdoms World, one of which is about spearmen. The spearmen of the Mutu Continent are ordinary infantry units that take the group route, using the skills of spears and halberds to kill and injure the enemy in a wide range, but in the world of the Three Kingdoms, the pikemen have existed for targeting and restraining cavalry since their establishment, so it is very normal for Deng Ai to send heavy halberders to deal with cavalry, but in the eyes of the commander of the cavalry brigade of the Bickerstaff Free Alliance, this is undoubtedly a stupid act, if it is a swordsman brigade, his cavalry may have some scruples, but for the pikemen who are good at group attacks and have low single lethality, the cavalry captain yelled disdainfully, led his subordinates to add and then crashed straight up......

Then blood stained the entire plain......