Chapter 411: The So-called Suspicious Soldier
There were less than 800 of Temur's 1,000 men left after the battle, and many of them were wounded, which was quite a heavy loss. After all www.biquge.info he was the first to initiate the battle, and he was besieged by the main force of the steppe people, and he has been suppressed since then, and naturally the loss is not small.
But what Sophia didn't expect was that Sadland's side was also not optimistic, a thousand cavalry were okay, there were less than 100 casualties, and only a dozen slave soldiers were injured, not even a single one was killed in battle. But the infantry side is a little ugly, a flag regiment of 300 people, the number of main battles is about 2,000 and 500, almost more than half of the casualties, and as many as five or six hundred people died in direct battle!
Although this number is only one or two hundred more than the steppe people, Sophia knows very well that this is not as simple as a few numbers. You must know that the infantry regiment sent by Jose is the most well-trained and elite infantry regiment, and it is also under the command of many generals under Alok, and it can be regarded as the skeleton of a veteran.
Coupled with the more than 2,000 cavalry of Temur and Sadland, there are more than 5,000 cavalry infantry in total, and there are 1,000 steppe cavalry and 1,000 Sadland cavalry with the same elite, and the rest is equivalent to fighting 1,000 cavalry with 3,000 soldiers of a banner regimental army, even so, it is a loss of one-fifth of the troops, and the strength of the steppe people's combat effectiveness can be seen.
Such a summary of the battle will naturally not be summarized by Yarok and them, and Sophia has also fulfilled her responsibilities as a staff member very well at the moment. She quickly sent the news and results to Boulder, and at the same time negotiated with Alok not to return to Sadland for the time being, but to wait for José's orders to arrive before leaving.
After all, now Jose is their boss, and no one will make any rash decisions without the order of this viscount. Although Sophia is smart, she also has a bit of a mind, so she naturally doesn't make her own decisions. And now that they have just finished a tough battle, whether it is Temur or Yaroke, they have a lot of things to deal with. It always took a few days to arrange such things as the placement of soldiers, the treatment of the wounded, the management of prisoners, etc., and it always took a few days to arrange these things, which always waited for Joseph's order to arrive.
But what even Sophia didn't know was that Jose was not in Boulder Town at all, and he also mobilized all the remaining 6,000 soldiers in Boulder Town, and sent a logistics team of nearly 1,000 people and a large number of chariots and horses to transport food and fresh water from Boulder Town.
Such a move to mobilize the people is undoubtedly for a greater victory!
Thousands of miles away from the county town of Sadrand, on the edge of the Tadam Desert, an army of about 2,000 men was struggling to march south from the desert.
This is the third day of their journey south, and there is not much food in the army, but the most uncomfortable thing for them is that they have been without water for a day. A day of water shortage in a place like the Tadam Desert is really unbearable torture, but after all, the Northwest Army has been honed in various battles, and although everyone is tired and thirsty, no one openly expresses any dissatisfaction. Most of these guys have only one thought in their hearts: go all the way south and get out of this place as soon as possible!
This army was naturally the Northwest Army under Gray, since they had left that new army behind two days earlier to attract Jose's attention. Under Gray's orders, this team went out day and night every day, trying not to expose and leave any traces, and carefully sneaked on the vast Gobi Desert.
Gray had made this decision for a reason: there were now less than a hundred cavalry and two thousand Northwest Army left with him, and three days earlier he had sent out a sentinel to pursue the defecting cavalry, only to bring news that an army of about a few thousand men had been found a hundred miles away, and that they were wearing Imperial armor, although they did not carry banners.
After Gray learned of such news, he immediately judged that this army must be Jose's army, and he knew that in the entire Sadland, and even in the entire Moxi, the most reasonable and suspicious person to calculate himself was the Viscount of Sadland. Over the next few days, as the Sentinels continued to bring more detailed information, Gray's suspicion was confirmed that this army was indeed led by the Viscount of Sadland.
This result did not surprise Gray, but after learning about the situation, it made him very worried. Although he didn't know why this guy had such courage, Gray knew very well that if his army was discovered by him, he would probably have a fierce battle. This Viscount of Sadland dared to calculate himself, and he must have bad intentions in his heart, and at this moment he sent such an army to Tadam, saying that he had no idea, and I am afraid that a fool would not believe it.
But Gray was at first a little skeptical about this result, and although he did not doubt that José would come to intercept him, according to the Sentinel's report, the army numbered about five or six thousand. Where would this Viscount of Sadland have such an army? Even if that guy from Alok had taken refuge in him, Gray expected that the ambush would be no more than two or three thousand at most. However, according to the current intelligence, this Jose actually brought so many troops, and this result naturally made Gray suspicious.
But soon, with the reports of several groups of sentinels, he had to accept this fact. This made Gray not surprised, hell, where did this guy find so many troops, could it be that this guy Sistine secretly sent him reinforcements from the Guannai, could it be that the empire can't help but go to war with the Northwest Army?!
He couldn't help but be startled by such a conjecture, but after careful consideration, Gray quickly overturned his conjecture. Originally, the Sistine did not have many troops outside the pass, and the total number of troops under his command was only 20,000. And what made Gray even more suspicious was that if it was really the Sistine who sent reinforcements to Jose, then it was impossible for them to avoid General Ronkdor!
Now the entire river valley corridor, except for Sadland, is guarded by the Northwest Army, and such a blatant transfer of troops will inevitably not be able to hide from Ronkedo's eyes. But when you think about it this way, where did this guy get these troops?
When Gray thought of this, he couldn't help but be shocked in his heart: 6,000 people, the Northwest Army and the recruits he left in the city of Sadland, isn't this number combined? Could it be that this Viscount of Sadland has already mastered the armament of the county town of Sadland?
This conjecture couldn't help but make Gray break out in a cold sweat, he naturally didn't know about Joseph's private training in Boulder Town, and at this moment, facing these six thousand soldiers, he naturally subconsciously thought that it would be Joseph's ghost.