Chapter 416: The Southwest Corridor
"Setig!" Dun Mu said in a deep voice: "Don't you want our decades of hard work to be in vain? ”
"Hmph." Settig snorted heavily, stood under Liu Xianglian, and tilted his head to the side. Dun said: "General Liu, please continue. Liu Xianglian smiled: "Lord Setig, you came just in time. Just now, I have some ideas, and I have exchanged some ideas with Ye Qia and Dun Qi, and I want to hear your opinions. Settig snorted noncommittally, turned his head in surprise, "You did this?" "Sand table, not uncommon.
But the sand table with such realistic contour lines was extremely surprising to Setig.
"Exactly down there." Setig rarely complimented: "It's not useless. Seeing that the attention of the three of them was attracted by herself, Liu Xianglian stretched out her hand and pointed to the sand table and said, "Lord Setig, according to the information and maps you detected, I made this sand table, do you see if there are any omissions." ”
"Nope." "It's so much more detailed than my map, it's hard to believe that you have such a skill," he said. I'm starting to look forward to what kind of battle plan you can come up with. ”
"Look, here, here, here...... Like what? Liu Xianglian no longer talks nonsense, the loss of hundreds of lives today has a great impact on him.
How to minimize your own casualties as much as possible, that is naturally to kill and destroy the opponent's strength as much as possible.
"Like a long worm, but what's the use of that?"
"What's the use of that?" Liu Xianglian explained: "I have seen the map given to me by Setige, and we will definitely pass through this narrow southwest corridor when we go to the Falcon King, and today, the archers of the Falcon tribe have discovered us, and I think from now on, every day the march will be attacked to varying degrees." And it is very likely that the other side will set the location of the decisive battle in this southwest corridor. ”
"This ......," the group frowned as they looked at the narrow southwest corridor on the map. This corridor is nearly 40 kilometers long, the corridor is surrounded by vast deserts on both sides, and there are two weathered hills on the left and right sides of the corridor less than a kilometer in the middle.
"If I were the leader of the Falcon Tribe, these two hills would be the best place to ambush!" Dun Mu pointed to the place highlighted by Liu Xianglian in the rift canyon on the map.
"Not bad!" Liu Xianglian nodded in agreement: "The Falcon Tribe itself is established in the rift canyon, and they are familiar with the advantages and disadvantages of this terrain, I think they must have this combat instinct." ”
"We march slowly, and although the bear soldiers have strong defense and amazing combat effectiveness, they can't do anything about it in the southwest corridor! So they will definitely ambush us here and catch us off guard, and after that, we will definitely be greeted at the end of the Southwest Corridor by the army of the Falcon Tribe. ”
"But it's a full two hundred miles away from the Falcon King, and they're going to ambush here?" Setig raised his own question: "The steppe tribes are not like the Central Plains Dynasty, they have a strong logistical supply capacity, and they can't carry enough supplies to attack at such a distance. ”
"Lord Settig, I'm certainly not 100% sure about that. However, today, hundreds of soldiers have died in our coalition army, and the Falcon tribe has also lost more than 100 horses, who do you think will not be able to carry it first? ”
"We are in pain, and they may not be easy." Setig thought for a moment and said, "As far as I know, although the Falcon Tribe is good at riding and archery, it must be their elite who can travel nearly thousands of miles to attack. Even if these people didn't come from the Falcon King, they were all hastily assembled soldiers from a hundred battles. And we've only lost a few skins. ”
"Yes, as Master Setig said. Although we have lost a lot of people, they have lost a lot of elites. In this way, if I were the leader of the Falcon Tribe, I would never sit idly by and let this situation continue. Therefore, I will definitely set up an ambush here and fight a decisive battle! Liu Xianglian continued to analyze: "When all the adults and generals come to this bitter cold place, it must not be the last time they come into contact with the Falcon Tribe, right?" They were able to survive and fight resolutely, and I think that in addition to the powerful archers, there were also masters. ”
"Not bad." "The Falcon Tribe is the most powerful tribe in the surrounding area, and with five archery masters, it should not be underestimated. Even if we can't find each other's location, it's dangerous. "As the saying goes, it's easy to dodge an open gun and a dark arrow is hard to defend against, and how terrifying the archery master is, even Setig doesn't dare to underestimate it.
"So, if we can't defeat them here, or if they can't defeat us here in the Southwest, then the two sides will go into bloody hand-to-hand combat, and I don't think a serious commander would like that kind of war. War is a means, not an end. Setig nodded approvingly, and the eyes that looked at Liu Xianglian were a little less hostile.
"General Liu, I agree with your judgment, what are you going to do?" Liu Xianglian smiled: "I am very happy to be recognized by Lord Setig, if I succeed this time, I will ask Lord Setig to have a good face in the future." ”.. Setig laughed: "General Liu, if you can defeat the Falcon Tribe this time, I promise not to give you a face in the future." But I still want to give you a friendly reminder. The archery master is extremely terrifying, and as a pioneer officer, he must pay attention to hiding his identity. ”
"Thank you, Lord Settig, for reminding me, I'll pay attention." Setig didn't pay attention to Liu Xianglian, so he didn't say anything more.
Life and death are fateful, and wealth is in the sky. How can there be no bloodshed in war, everything depends on the will of God.
"That's what I think, Lord Dunmu, our current marching speed is about forty miles a day, and we will reach the Southwest Corridor on the fifth day, so we will calculate it, and when the time comes, Lord Setig and Lord Dunmu, you two will lead the Ghost Fang people to hide on the hill to the west of the laser cannon, and once the other party has an attack. Break the ridge with a laser cannon and cause a landslide to bury their ambushed archers! Curious, "How do you know they're going to be ambushed to the east!?" And there must be spies from the Falcon tribe around us now, how can we quietly transport the laser cannon over? Liu Xianglian said with a smile: "Mountain people have their own clever plans!" After a few days, he lowered his head and whispered, and soon he was stunned, and Ye Qia and Setig all showed expressions of approval and surprise.
Especially Setig, looking at Liu Xianglian's eyes at this time can really be called cordial.
"Boy, I really didn't misunderstand you, my stomach is full of bad water, but I like it." Liu Xianglian said with a smile: "My mother told me that to be a bad person you need a woman, and to be a good person you need to be a better woman, I just want to be a good person." Ye Qia said with a smile: "Setig and Dun Qi both have such a heavy responsibility, so what about me, what arrangements do I have." ”
"Uncle Ye Qia, I heard that you can call the wolves"
"Heh, you know this little hobby of mine, it seems that the eldest lady really doesn't treat you as an outsider. Yes, I can call out to the wolves! Liu Xianglian complained in her heart, it was obvious that Ye Qia, who had not occupied the position, had an indissoluble relationship with the wolf, which was really strange.
Ye Qia, that is the person of the earthly branch sheep. [Maybe it's because wolves like to eat sheep.] 】
"In this way, then there will be Uncle Lao Yeqia, after the army pulls out the camp, call for as many wolves as possible, and ...... all the corpses left by both sides Eat it. ”
"This ......" Ye Qia was a little unbearable: "Don't you converge and bury?" Death is a great ......"
"Lord Ye Qia, I also know that human death is great, but I want their deaths to be valuable and meaningful." The death of man is great, and everyone thinks about it.
Falling leaves return to their roots, which is the tradition of the Great Zhou. If it weren't for Liu Xianglian, no general in this era would dare to give such an order that the soldiers would spurn.
What happens to a comrade-in-arms after death also indicates what happens after his death......
"Does it have to be? I'm afraid it will affect morale! Liu Xianglian said helplessly: "This must be the case, otherwise my plan will not be implemented perfectly, as for morale...... I would also like to ask you to take care of it, and tell the general that you have raised the reward. ”
"That's all it takes." Setig was the first to agree: "If you can preserve your strength and reduce your casualties, a temporary reduction in morale is nothing." All it takes is a brilliant victory, and morale will return. If you fail......" Tun smiled bitterly: "If you fail, of course everything is gone." "The Hundred Clans Alliance looks strong, but everyone knows how many crises there are.
This is an army that can only win and not lose, not because of how strong their combat effectiveness is or how strong their desire to win is, but how much heart they have in these soldiers.
Always winning, it will be a hundred battle elite, and losing one will fall apart. Many small tribes have dragged their families along with the larger armies, and you can expect them to fight to the death in defeat?
"Lord Dun, don't grow the ambition of others and destroy your own prestige." Ye Qia said with a smile: "With my understanding of the Falcon Tribe, if they start a hand-to-hand fight, they may not lose, if they play with intrigues and tricks, their culture is completely at the level of a three-year-old child in front of General Liu." Only the four of us know about this matter, such a clever plan, I don't know how to lose," Ye Qia was very confident in Liu Xianglian's plan.
Tsutsumi and Setig also nodded, going their separate ways. Outside the tents, more than a dozen pairs of eyes watched in the darkness.
The sky, with the occasional silent eagle owl flying by, acts as the eyes of the falcon tribe, and every move of this army is in the eyes of others.
At that time, the agitated war drums sounded, and the army slowly pulled out, and before it had gone far, a large cloud of smoke and dust on the grassland rushed to the camp where the coalition forces had been stationed before.
"Wolves, it's a pack of wolves!"
"These brutes seem to be eating the corpses left behind by the Southerners."
"They must be in a hurry to march and fight us fiercely!"
"They don't have much to offer, and the leader expected it well." One by one, the elite spies of the Falcon tribe were intensively passing on the news.
The alliance of the hundred tribes is a joke in their eyes, except for those very powerful men, the rest of the rabble is a piece of fat that goes deep into the grassland.
It was a gift from heaven to them.