Life in Montenegro was spent peacefully and happily in this way, but the good times were always short-lived, and that night, the armies of the Montenegrin front had received from the imperial court one after another, "launch an offensive overnight to recover Montenegro for a month" After receiving the order, the left guard and the right guard of the eastern front and the northwest army of the northern front quickly launched the first wave of attacks on Montenegro, and the gendarmes and local armies were also ready to enter and occupy when the city was broken, and the Northwest Army of the northern guard quickly launched the first wave of attacks on Montenegro. The Montenegrin defenders who were attacked immediately fought back, and at the same time urgently sent a message to Mo Cong.

"Since the court is so faceless, let's fight. The old man sighed when he heard the news, and suddenly disappeared from the hut in the middle of the lake.

On the night of the same day, the imperial siege troops on the northern line of the eastern line of Montenegro fought hard overnight to conquer five passes and six county towns, and at the same time, the Montenegrin army suddenly launched an offensive from the southern front to the rear guard of the central army and the neighboring local armies. The Montenegrin army that went out of the city to fight was divided into four waves of more than 200,000 horses, the first and second waves were respectively commanded by the governor of Montenegro, Mo Cong, and a mysterious female general, and it took only a few hours to open up the junction of the six rear guard battalions and the local army after leaving the city, and before dawn, the six cavalry battalions of the central army had been cut out of the southern front of more than 200,000 troops and surrounded by more than 100,000 people, and less than 80,000 people were surrounded by all kinds of sharp sieges.

Fang Tianhao, the commander of the southern front, urgently ordered the local army to copy the rear road of the Montenegrin army, but the local army had just begun to move in a roundabout way when the sky was bright, and before it could complete the outflanking of the left and right flanks of the Montenegrin army, it was immediately defeated by the third and fourth waves of hundreds of thousands of troops pouring out of the Montenegrin province.

On the morning of the fourth day, 50,000 of the six battalions of the Central Army's rear guard were killed or wounded and 30,000 were captured, and more than a dozen senior guards generals, including Fang Tianhao, deputy commander of the guard, and Hou Shensi, the commander of the Feilian battalion, were all captured. The Montenegrin army did not continue to pursue the local troops who withdrew from the southern front, but only cleaned up the battlefield and quickly escorted the prisoners back to the territory of Montenegrin Province.

After the Montenegrin army withdrew from the southern front, it did not pause at all, leaving the Montenegrin left guard under the command of Ding Xiaolong to guard the prisoners and guard the southern front, and the rest of the men and horses marched north and east overnight. Urgently reinforcing forces on the Northern and Eastern Fronts.

The siege armies arranged by the imperial court on the eastern and northern fronts are the elite of the Central Army and the Northwest Army, and the generals are also fierce generals who can fight well, these two directions are not as easy to clean up as the southern front, Gao Lingfei, Gu Kai, Ding Xiaofeng and other generals of the Montenegrin Army discussed various battle plans all the way.

"Mrs. Mo, what is your opinion?" Ding Xiaofeng and the others didn't know Chen Ruoping after changing back into women's clothes, and they couldn't hear the voice, but they knew that this governor's wife was a character who fell from the sky and fought extremely powerfully.

"My opinion...... It is not enough to blindly defend, it is necessary to look for the enemy's weak point and take the initiative to attack. Chen Ruoping said. "The current situation is that the imperial army on the eastern and northern fronts is advancing all the way, but the places they occupy are much more empty in defense than the places we occupy now, and we can only wait for the local troops behind to follow up and enter step by step to strengthen, which gives us a lot of opportunities to divide and encircle, and in the face of such an opportunity, we can take the initiative to attack, and cut off the back road to encircle and annihilate them while their foothold is not stable. ”

"Will this work?" a group of generals hesitated.

"There's nothing that can't be done, when the war comes to this point, we want them to fight theirs, we fight ours, the overall level is that they are attacking, and we are attacking in parts of the battlefield. They attack against our well-walled fists, and we go around to them to target their weak underbelly, so while both sides are attacking, the difficulty of the attack is completely different. Chen Ruoping said. "Now the initiative of the war is still in our hands, we can attack and retreat, we can defend, if we do not seize this opportunity to take the initiative to attack, sit back and wait for them to press the local army to strengthen the city defense. The situation will be even more unfavorable, and we will have to fall into a situation where we are blindly defensive. ”

When the generals heard this, they all felt that it made sense, and then they all formulated battle plans based on this opinion.

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Just when Montenegro was nervously arranging for the war situation. Hang Xiao was also in the capital to urgently discuss the situation in Montenegro with a group of civil and military ministers. Judging from the battle reports sent back in the past few days, the imperial army's army suffered a crushing defeat on the southern front, the six battalions of the central army's rear guard were all wiped out, and the rest of the army retreated south in a hurry. The battle situation on the eastern and northern fronts was relatively smooth, and although the speed of advance on both sides could not be regarded as a god's speed, it was relatively stable, and within a few days, more than 400,000 men and men of the 32 battalions had entered the territory of Montenegro and advanced all the way, and the local armies on the periphery were also advancing one after another to the places that had already been captured.

"It seems that someone was really pretending to be a ghost and disturbing the morale of the army before, this time we solved the problem of poison, and those horse thieves in Montenegro will not be able to play any tricks. Hang Xiao listened to the battle report and said with relief.

"But the army on the southern front is indeed a hard-fought fiasco, and judging from the combat effectiveness of the Montenegrin horse thieves, the eastern and northern fronts may be luring our army to go deeper. Pavilion elder Tan Zhenyun said uneasily.

"The deployment of troops on the southern front is indeed a little weak, and only the six battalions of the rear guard can fight a tough battle, and those horse thieves also took advantage of this to carry out such a surprise attack. The Eastern Front and the Northern Front are different, the Eastern Front and the Northern Front are either the Central Army or the Northwest Army, and the horse thieves can't resist even if they desperately resist, and letting go of the city to lure our army deep will only lead to faster defeat. Hang Xiao said.

"However, it is still necessary to beware of horse thieves taking advantage of the unstable foothold of our army to return to the rear to engage in some actions of separation, encirclement and destruction, or disguise themselves as residents and take advantage of the large army to reoccupy the pass and block the rear road of our army. Tan Ge Lao said.

"Well, this has to be guarded against, so I have ordered the local army to follow up and quickly strengthen the defense and clear out the horse thieves who may be hiding, and we must occupy a stable area when we lay down, and we will advance steadily step by step, those horse thieves can't use any tricks they want, and the bandits will be eliminated soon. Hang Xiao said.

Zhao Rong and the others naturally praised the emperor and the saints, and they could even come up with such a good way. Now the two guards on the left and right of the Central Army and the six battalions of the vanguard and the six battalions of the Northwest Army are attacking fiercely, and the local troops behind have also entered the territory of Montenegro one after another to connect with the siege troops.

That night, as if to annotate the words of Hang Xiao and Zhao Rong, two large armies that did not know where they came from suddenly appeared on the northern line of the eastern line of Montenegro, and quickly followed the pace of the local army into the province of Montenegro.

As their groups of men and horses entered the Black Mountain one after another, the previously breached Black Mountain Pass was inexplicably repaired automatically, and many of the stones that were knocked down during the siege and the stones scattered inside and outside the pass as stone bullets as stone throwers suddenly flew to the sky and were densely combined strangely, and when they fell, they had been integrated with the original passes, turning ordinary passes into a city defense that was as strong and exquisite as the Giant Spirit Pass. With some clattering sounds, one after another stone-throwing crossbows appeared on the city's head, and those mysterious troops who had just entered Montenegro immediately skillfully boarded the city wall, skillfully adjusting the shooting direction of a city-defying crossbow stone-throwing machine, and carrying all kinds of giant crossbow stone bullets.

The tens of thousands of local troops who entered Montenegro in the early stage were still marching overnight, and the hundreds of thousands of local troops behind had been isolated outside the northern line of the eastern line of Montenegro. Since these passes were gradually recovered from the outside to the inside, the local troops in front did not notice what was happening behind them, but only marched to the designated occupied area while the night was hasty, and it was not until the next morning that they found that they were not followed by the local army troops, but the central army troops. (To be continued......)