Chapter 161: The Third Prince of the Great Food Country
However, the Great Food Country has not yet assembled its soldiers and horses, and the grain and grass have not yet arrived, and the Byzantine Empire has a deep grudge with the Great Food Country, although there is a Roman Empire to contain it, but who dares to guarantee that the Byzantine Empire will not stab him in the back, so if he is not fully prepared before the expedition, how dare the Great Food Country hastily dispatch troops and horses.
"Then what are the results of the Great Zhao Expeditionary Force this time, and has the Rakshasa taken effective defensive measures?"
Suleiman hurriedly replied: "According to Da Zhao's spies, because the Rakshasa was not prepared, the Great Zhao Expeditionary Army was like a bamboo, and in just one month, Da Zhao had already pushed the battle line to the north of Yinshan, and with the speed of the Rakshasa march, at least two months did not pose a threat to the Great Zhao Expeditionary Army. ”
"And the most terrible thing is that the Rakshasa hoarded unimaginable grain, grass and weapons and materials in Bayan Zhuoer City, and after Da Zhao captured Bayan Zhuoer City, these huge quantities of grain and grass equipment were fully received by Da Zhao, which not only severely weakened the Rakshasa war strength, but also allowed Da Zhao to cut off the unimaginable logistical pressure. ”
Liu Lu slapped the table angrily, "Rakshasa These polar bears are really well-limbed and simple-minded waste! It's really useless to put so many materials in Bayan Zhuoer and not send a large army to guard them closely, Da Zhao is a hard bone, otherwise how would we need three super empires to join forces, and now that Da Zhao is supported by a large number of materials, wouldn't it be even more difficult to perish!!"
Suleiman looked at Liu Lu and didn't dare to speak, and only after Liu Lu calmed down did he continue: "Your Royal Highness, according to the spies, Bayan Zhuor City is not unprepared, and Bayan Zhuo's guard is Rakshasa who is famous for being immobile like a mountain. Not only did a lot of deployment be made beforehand. In addition, all the cattle, sheep and horses were gathered and migrated 7 days in advance. Bayan Zhuoer City has 150,000 elite Rakshasa troops, 100,000 Rakshasa famous Viking warriors composed of heavy infantry and 50,000 brave Cossack cavalry, plus the Yellow River in the south, it can be said that Bayan Zhuoer City can hold out for at least a month even in the face of a million troops, and Da Zhao attacked Bayan Zhuoer City is only more than 600,000 pure cavalry without siege equipment. ”
Liu Lu frowned, and said unhappily: "But now Bayan Zhuoer City has not been broken!"
Suleiman reported the truth: "The army attacking Bayanzhuor City was personally commanded by Ye Lingyan!"
Liu Lu suddenly realized that Ye Ling was a peerless general who was famous all over the world. With him personally in command, there is indeed no general who dares to say that he can resist the enemy head-on, "How many days did it take to break through Bayan Zhuoer City?"
Suleiman hesitated for a moment and said, "Four days!"
"What?" Liu Lu was shocked, "More than 600,000 Dazhao troops, who were completely cavalry, were able to capture Bayan Zhuoer in four days?!!"
Suleiman nodded, although he himself thought it was incredible, offensive and defensive battles could not only look at the number of troops, Sun Tzu had a cloud in the art of war: "If you double it, you will attack it, and if you do it, you will encircle it." "Bayanzhuor is a strong-walled city and well prepared. Grain and grass are abundant, and the water source is stable. The general is wise, no matter how powerful Ye Ling Yan is, he shouldn't have been captured so quickly!
Liu Lu was silent, and he also had a new understanding of Da Zhao's strength, and it seemed that this coalition attack might not be as smooth as imagined.
Suleiman said suddenly: " However, the spies also sent back a very important piece of information, the Da Zhao cavalry had previously attacked Bayan Zhuoer City for three whole days, under the command of Ye Ling, a peerless general, the Da Zhao cavalry suffered heavy losses, there was no infantry, Ye Lingyan let the cavalry dismount and become infantry, and also temporarily manufactured a large number of siege equipment, but the general of the Rakshasa Luo Wei is also quite not simple, the soldiers will block the water to cover the earth, Ye Ling Yan tried his best to take Luo Wei has no way, and let the Da Zhao soldiers suffer more than 20,000 soldiers. If it weren't for the emergence of a mysterious archer cavalry in Da Zhao, who was unparalleled in the world in cavalry and archery, and had been suppressing Bayan Zhuoer City, not only killing and injuring the Rakshasa soldiers, Da Zhao's losses would have been even more heavy, and the proportion of casualties would have been very different. ”
Liu Lu said: "It's the lightning iron cavalry of Great Zhao Rouran, that lightning iron cavalry is indeed very powerful, I'm afraid that the most elite cavalry of our Great Food Country is not their opponent." ”
Suleiman shook his head, "It's not the Lightning Iron Cavalry, according to the spies, although those archers are very similar to the Rouran Lightning Iron Cavalry, the range is even better, and when the city of Bayan Zhuo was burned, the range of this group of archers reached a terrifying more than two thousand meters!!"
"What?!" Liu Lu was really shocked, the range of more than 2,000 meters, what kind of concept is that!!The average elite archer can have 600 meters, which is already very terrifying, and more than 2,000 meters, at least a fifth-order peak phantom archer can barely reach it! Of course, a fourth-order wind archer blessed by the Holy Arrow Aura of the elf clan can also reach this level, is it?" Are those archers pretending to be elven archers in order to confuse us?"
Suleiman shook his head, "At first, Suleiman also thought the same thing with His Highness, but this archer personally served as the vanguard when he captured Bayanzhur City, and the first to attack Bayanzhuor City were these archers, and they also had 10,000 archers in the city and outside the city with 20,000 Cossack cavalry led by Rovich, The heavy infantry of 20,000 Viking warriors and more than 10,000 Cossack cavalry under the command of the Cossack cavalry commander Modko faced each other head-on, and this group of archers won a great victory without being superior in numbers, and the losses were minimal. ”
Liu Lu frowned, and said to himself: "Although the elven archers are superb in archery, their bodies are very delicate, and it is impossible to confront the cavalry head-on without great damage, it seems that this archer has another origin." ”
Suleiman nodded approvingly.
Liu Lu thought for a while and said: "When the time comes, you let the Tianji Pavilion focus on checking this mysterious archer cavalry, if I guess correctly, they must be the Great Zhao Xiao cavalry that defeated the orc wolf cavalry in the previous battle of Tianwolf Pass, I heard that the number of Xiao cavalry is 130,000, you send someone to carefully touch the bottom of the Xiao cavalry!"
"Suleiman understands!"
Just as Liu Lu wanted to discuss with Suleiman about the action of arranging Da Zhao Neiying, someone disturbed Liu Lu again.
"The Rakshasa envoy asks to see His Royal Highness!"
Liu Lu and Suleiman glanced at each other, and saw that the Rakshasa was now in a hurry by Da Zhao's expeditionary force, but the envoys were all over, and the journey from St. Petersburg to Hua Thorn Zimo was quite far, even if it was a griffin specially cultivated by the Rakshasa royal family, I am afraid that it would not be able to come in half a month, presumably this Rakshasa envoy had just received the news that Da Zhao might have a big operation when he set off. Liu Lu cleaned up his image, "Let's go, let's go meet the messenger of the rakshasas!"
After passing through the first line of Wolf Mountain and Yin Mountain, the Fifth Route Army led by Ye Lingyan successfully converged with the 250,000 Rouran Iron Cavalry of the Fourth Route Army led by General Luhui and the 250,000 Rouran Iron Cavalry of the Fifth Route Army led by General Bu Luzhen, and the Middle Route Army finally succeeded in meeting the division, and the strength increased greatly, because the north is basically a grassland or desert, the significance of dividing the troops is not great, and the expeditionary force is not to expand the territory, and there is no need to quickly occupy every Rakshasa settlement, as long as the predetermined strategic goal is achieved this time, the infantry behind will gradually occupy those small towns and small tribes, and the blitzkrieg of Germany in the former time and space is a meaning, it's just that after Da Zhao's occupation this time, it was just to implement the clear of the wall.
Huang Jiafu also led two cavalry battalions and two Janissary cavalry battalions in Huled (in the former time and space Mongolia) successfully intercepted Bayan Zhuoer's migratory army, and also fought with the 50,000 Rakshasa cavalry who rushed from Mandale, 50,000 Rakshasa cavalry is not the elite of the Cossack cavalry, in the face of the Cossack cavalry can not resist the cavalry, in just a quarter of an hour, the 50,000 Rakshasa cavalry was completely defeated, the pursuit army was invincible, the Rakshasa cavalry corpses were all over the field, less than one or two of them could successfully escape, and they were frightened.
After killing more than 40,000 Rakshasa cavalry, all the horses in the Rakshasa migration army naturally became Da Zhao's bag, but what made Lin Ruofeng and Ye Ling grit their teeth angrily was that the cautious Rovitch not only separated the horses and cattle and sheep to the north, but also divided the more than 1 million strong adult horses and other horses that only needed to be trained to become war horses into two batches, so that all the war horses that could run were separated from the main army and went to Mandal first.
More than 1 million high-quality war horses slipped away from their eyes like this, and the resentment of Ye Ling and Lin Ruofeng can be imagined, although the number of horses captured this time exceeded Ye Ling Yan's expectations, reaching 5 million, but these are all ~ horses, young horses, old horses, or ordinary adult horses, and even a considerable number of skinny and malnourished inferior horses.
Although they were angry, Ye Lingyan and Lin Ruofeng didn't have any good ways, those high-quality adult horses that could become war horses would definitely not be able to catch up, so they could only see if they could quickly break Mandal and capture this war horse first.
However, it is also quite a pleasure to get these 5 million horses, Da Zhao also has his own pasture, but the annual output of horses has not been high, it is good to produce 500,000 high-quality war horses a year, it can only just supply the 1 million cavalry and 2 million cavalry of the border guards, and the war horses of other local troops can only be replaced by inferior war horses, and Rou Ran is about the same, although there are many horses, but they can be used as high-quality war horses every year, four or five hundred thousand, plus lightning iron horses, Rou Ran himself has more than 2.7 million cavalry, just enough to be self-sufficient, so Da Zhao is still quite short of horses, which is also why Ye Ling Yan and Lin Ruofeng are so desperate for these war horses. (To be continued......)