"Report!"

The voice of the herald resounded through the city, making Jian Xiao and Wang Jinghong look in the direction of the staircase at the head of the city at the same time.

Behind them, the flames were blazing, and countless enemy troops were blocked from the flames, unable to advance an inch.

"General Jian, Commander Wang! The enemy forces have retreated! The direction is southeast! ”

"Southeast!?"

Wang Jinghong and Jian Xiao exclaimed at the same time, and then turned their heads to look at each other at the same time.

Things are beyond their imagination.

Originally, in their plan, Zhu Zhan Yan would send people north, after all, from Vienna to the border of the Kingdom of Poland, they only needed to pass through the pass between the Sudeten and Western Carpathians.

It can be said that it will arrive very quickly.

If Zhu Zhan's support arrives, the Kingdom of Poland's offensive against Rava will inevitably decline, and it will turn back to the defense capital Krakow, because Krakow is on the southwest side of the Kingdom of Poland, and as long as Zhu Zhan's reinforcements arrive at the position, they can basically directly threaten Krakow.

However, according to the plan, the enemy should have withdrawn in a southwesterly direction, not in a southeasterly direction.

The vicinity of the Vistula River is basically flat, there is no terrain at all, and there is no need to bypass anything unstoppable.

Besides, Krakow and Rava are both part of the territory of Greater Poland, and they are surrounded by the Vistula River from the south to the southeast, and if you retreat to the southeast, you will have to cross the Vistula River, and if you want to return to Krakow, you will have to cross the river twice!

Wrong!

Wang Jinghong and Jian Xiao both saw that something was wrong, but there was more to it than that.

"Report!"

It was the urgent shout of the herald again, which made Wang Jinghong and Jian Xiao turn their heads again.

"General Jian, Commander Wang! Enemy reinforcements from the north retreat! The direction is northwest! ”

"Northwest!?"

Jian Xiao and Wang Jinghong exclaimed again.

According to their plan, the direction of the enemy's retreat should be southwest, but now the enemies in the north and south have all withdrawn, but all of them are beyond the plan.

One is northwest and one is southeast, that is, none of them are southwest.

"This can be calculated." Jian Xiao secretly pinched herself and forcibly calmed herself down.

"The enemies in the north are basically the people of the Kingdom of Denmark who support the Kingdom of Poland, and it is precisely because of this force that they plan to besiege Masovia and drive you back to sea."

"If their plan is to drive you back to sea and then stop you at the mouth of the strait, the current move means that there is something wrong with them, or that some other enemy has appeared, disrupting their plans and forcing them to defend themselves."

"I agree." Wang Jinghong opened his mouth to agree with Jian Xiao's statement, but turned his head and asked a question.

"And what's going on in the southeast direction?"

"Let's go!" Jian Xiao didn't explain, but pulled Wang Jinghong down the city and plunged into the room of the city lord of Rawa City.

"Here!"

Jane smiled and tapped on the map in the room.

"This is the battlefield of the main army led by His Royal Highness the Prince last year, and this is a huge basin, but we have received news that His Royal Highness the Prince led the army to raid Vienna, set up a pocket array here, and then sent people to slowly sweep away and encroach on the enemy in this pocket."

"You mean ......" Speaking of this, Wang Jinghong also understood what Jian Xiao wanted to say.

"That's right!" Jane smiled and nodded vigorously, with some excitement in her words.

"Although we don't know if the remnants of this basin have been swept away, one thing is certain, that is, they will not form too powerful forces, and even if they do, the first thing they will face is the clean-up force sent by His Royal Highness, not to threaten the Kingdom of Poland from the north!"

In other words, there is only one possibility...... Our people? Wang Jinghong also laughed when he heard this, but his tone was also solemn.

"But then the question arises, what are we going to do?"

"Is it as planned that I will lead people south to approach Karakov, and you will lead people into the territory of Black Rus to attack Grodno and relieve the pressure on General Zhu?"

"Or will Krakow be handed over to His Royal Highness, and we will go to the territory of Black Rus together?"

"Or ......"

In the middle of speaking, Wang Jinghong stopped.

It's not that he doesn't want to say it, but he can't say it, because the last way is for them to lead people south together, approaching Krakow, and strive to form a two-sided or even three-sided attack with Zhu Zhanqi, and destroy Krakow, the capital of the Kingdom of Poland, in one fell swoop.

But don't forget, Jian Xiao had promised Zhu Sanfeng that he would definitely attack Grodno on time, and use the method of encircling Wei to save Zhao to relieve Zhu Sanfeng's pressure, so that Zhu Sanfeng could take Kleva.

If he and Wang Jinghong led the army south, not only did they give up Zhu Sanfeng, but they also threw Zhu Sanfeng into the enemy's encirclement, the result would be ......

Go without saying.

"Go ahead, I have to go back to support Sanfeng." Jian Xiao didn't hesitate, and made a decision directly.

"Although there is no news from His Royal Highness the Prince, I believe that His Highness will definitely arrive on time, and there has been an accident in the southeast this time, so the difficulty of attacking the Kingdom of Poland should be much less than we expected."

"That's fine." Wang Jinghong didn't say anything more when he heard this, this decision was very easy for him to make.

The city of Rawa soon fell silent, and then it was busy again, but compared to a few other places, it was a quiet place.

Frisian Islands.

This is the territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, and after Zheng He forcibly "replenished" the Channel Islands, he led people into the English Channel and came here.

Originally, this was not the end of Zheng He, his end point was the Skagerrak Strait, in order to avoid any accidents when Wang Jinghong returned, and he had a good plan here.

However, while passing through the Frisian Islands, Zheng He's fleet was fiercely attacked by the fleet of the Kingdom of Denmark.

As a result, a war that was neither in Wang Jinghong's plan nor in the plan of the Kingdom of Denmark suddenly began.

suffered the same situation as Zheng He, as well as Qian Yong.

He had been recuperating from his injuries, but in the end he couldn't bear it, and after Zhu Zhanqi led the army to leave Vienna, Qian Yong also took people to the plain of the middle reaches of the Danube.

Originally, I thought that I would bring someone over to clean up the battlefield and clean up the tail left behind by not having time to clean it up at the beginning.

However, what Qian Yong didn't expect was that he hit all the way to the lower Danube plain.

Originally, this was nothing, before he received Zhu Zhanyan's order, he just wandered here, but at the mouth of the Danube, he met the prince escort who went to the battlefield in Eastern Europe to deliver a letter to Jian Xiao.

are all old acquaintances, and Qian Yong's name is synonymous with Zhu Zhan's loyalty, so the news that should have reached Jian Xiao's hands was known by Qian Yong first.

When he learned that Zhu Zhan was going to make a big move, Qian Yong immediately led people north, killing all the way from the mouth of the Danube River to the southernmost point of the Kingdom of Poland, that is, the Galich of the Red Rus' territory.

One Zheng He, one Qian Yong.

These two unstable factors unexpectedly disintegrated the plot of the Kingdom of Poland and the Kingdom of Denmark to force Wang Jinghong to return to the Baltic Sea and encircle and trap Wang Jinghong at sea, and also plunged the Kingdom of Denmark and the Kingdom of Poland into the crisis of national annihilation.

Not only that, Zhu Sanfeng, who was far away at the easternmost tip of the battlefield in Eastern Europe, also threw people to conquer Minsk and Slutsk successively, and was heading for Novogrodok.

The main army led by Zhu Zhanyan, Qian Yong in the south, Wang Jinghong in the north, plus Jian Xiao who is about to turn back to the east and Zhu Sanfeng in the easternmost part of the east, and finally Zheng He.

Surrounded from four directions, southeast, northwest and northwest, and six battlefields were attacked at the same time, allowing everyone to see a possibility.

The possibility that the eastern European theater of war is coming to an end.

……

At the exit of the pass of the Sudetenland and the Western Carpathians, Zhu Zhan Yan arrived here in two days and two nights.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Zhu Zhanyan rubbed his temples with a little headache, and then threw the letter in his hand into the brazier.

"You father, you really don't let people live in peace for a while."

"Huh?" Qian Zhong, who was thinking hard about Zhu Zhan's thoughts, raised his head, his face full of confusion.

Own father? Isn't it recuperating from an injury? Why don't you let people live in peace?

"Let's go, don't look at it, what can you see if you lack the necessary conditions?" Zhu Zhanyan stood up and patted Qian Zhong on the shoulder.

"Go out and take a look around, and I'll test you by the way."

Qian Zhong still looked confused, but he still stood up and followed Zhu Zhanyan out of the Chinese army's tent.

Walking out of the camp with Qian Zhong, looking at Fan Zhong who had just followed the team, Zhu Zhanyan did not speak, but took Qian Zhong and walked towards the foot of the Western Carpathian Mountains.

"Do you remember where the main forces of our Ming army are basically now?"

"Remember!" Hearing Zhu Zhan's question, Qian Zhong nodded busily.

"At present, the two generals Chen Mao and Zheng Heng led by my grandmother are in the easternmost part, and Uncle Jian Xiao is leading people to meet with Wang Jinghong in the gap between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania."

"Now that you are leading people straight to Krakow, a three-point breaking trend has been formed, the destruction of the Kingdom of Poland is just around the corner, and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania will not last long."

"The villain dares to speculate on His Royal Highness's thoughts, it should be to draw a complete end to the eastern battlefield before winter, right?"

"One error, one omission." Zhu Zhanyan smiled and shook his head.

"You left out your father, he is not a safe master, when he knew that I personally led the army to the Kingdom of Poland, he led people from the mouth of the Danube River to the north, and now he has reached the territory of Red Rus', forcing the Kingdom of Poland to divide its troops."

"Of course, I don't blame you for this, because I just received the news."

"Your mistake, though, is a real mistake, for I didn't intend to finish off the eastern battlefield before winter came, but to destroy the limbs of the Holy Roman Empire at the same time as the eastern battlefield."

"Huh?" Qian Zhong was dumbfounded when he heard this.

He is still too young, there is no problem in the art of war and strategy, he has read a lot of books, but as the saying goes, it is better to travel thousands of miles than to read 10,000 books, and the reading and actual experience have to face different.

In the actual experience, you have to face not cold numbers, but hard soldiers, the blood of the enemy, and the cruelty of life or death.

What Qian Zhong didn't know was that in Vienna, this extremely important city seemed to have been mobilized by Zhu Zhan Yan into an empty city, but it was actually disguised.

The hunter, already camouflaged, is waiting for the ignorant prey to slowly step into the trap.

(End of chapter)