Chapter 11: Breakout
Kong Ming looked at the map and said: "What we know from Sun Zhixing's mouth is that the other party is 30,000 people, but this number is not reliable, you must know the art of war: "Use the method of war, ten will surround it, five will attack it, and the multiple will divide it, the enemy can fight, if you are less, you can escape, if not, you can avoid it, and if you are a small enemy, you can capture a big enemy." In other words, if the enemy wants to surround us, then they will use ten times the strength of their forces, of course, this is not fixed, because the combat strength is also a part of the force, and it is not convenient for many people to conceal, then it is estimated that their strength should be about three to four times our strength, that is to say, they are about 3 to 40,000 people. Their expected encirclement was thirty kilometers ahead, so in front of us, on the left and on the right, there should be a large part of the enemy's forces waiting for us. In order to prevent us from escaping, the enemy should have a force equal to ours, that is, about 10,000 cavalry, or there will not be so many cavalry, because the battlefield is set up by them, and they can hide part of their forces on our left and right sides, so that we can subtract a part of the force behind us to about 5,000. I don't know if you have any opinions?"
Kong Ming looked left and right, only to see their eyes blank, obviously didn't know what Kong Ming said again, really made Kong Ming a little helpless, these things are some commonly used methods of estimating wars, there is a saying, when fighting, the more budget, the higher the winning rate, and the smaller the budget, the lower the winning rate, if you don't go to the budget, then there is no victory at all, only luck. Now that they looked, Kong Ming finally knew why those mercenary armies were defeated before, thinking that they were all taking it for granted that they were fighting, and it was strange that they could not be defeated. Shook his head: "Forget it, I didn't say this, now give the order, one regiment and two regiments, you are turning into the front team, return from the original way, if you encounter the enemy, attack immediately, no matter how many enemies there are, you must kill a way for the infantry, the third, fourth, and fifth regiments will follow behind, when the first and second regiments fight, you quickly kill from the middle, remember not to fight with the enemy, after the killing, wait for us in the town of the chaotic land." The special detachment operates with one regiment and two regiments, and during the battle, arrows and magic are used to strengthen the attack of one regiment and two regiments. When the three forces in the rear are killed, one or two groups will be swept back, and they will retreat step by step with me, and they will not be chaotic. Remember?"
"Remember!"
"Remember!"
"Remember!"
"Remember!"
Seeing them like this, Kong Ming was very uneasy in his heart, although these people have been trained for more than two months and have also experienced a battle, but this can't be compared at all, but at the moment it can only be like this, if this battle can highlight five thousand people, Kong Ming will ask God to bless. It's just that it's impossible to tell them right now, because it might affect morale, which is very bad for the upcoming battle.
"Prepare at once, and then thirty minutes later, do as I say. β
Thirty minutes later, Kong Ming watched the first and second regiments pass in front of him, and the team behind was also waiting to set off, Kong Ming beckoned, and set off with a special detachment, and the other regiments behind also slowly moved forward according to Kong Ming's words. Kong Ming walked for less than twenty minutes when he heard the sound of battle coming from ahead. At this moment, Kong Ming's face was a little gloomy, because the current cavalry was not deployed at all, the cavalry at this time was very fragile, as long as the two were attacked by the enemy on both sides, then the advantage of the entire cavalry would be completely lost, Kong Ming did not guess wrong, the two armies met, and it was with Harvey's cavalry, but what Kong Ming did not guess was that Hanan's cavalry did not unfold, because according to the plan, they had to go forward another twenty kilometers before they could be deployed, only in this way would the combat effectiveness of the cavalry be brought into play, and more importantly, they did not expect that the mercenary army would turn around, just like that, when both sides were not fully readyAnd so began a battle.
The sound of battle continued to come from the front, the flashes of fighting spirit and magic, shining the entire sky that was about to darken, and the sound of arrows made it clear to this side, Kong Ming didn't know how big the scale of the battle in front of him was, but now was obviously not the time to take care of these, Kong Ming hurriedly cast a detection magic, and in front of Kong Ming and the others, a mirror was displayed, and what was shown in the mirror was the scene of the battle ahead, and the others were not surprised, because they had long known that Kong Ming was a magician, but they were just strange about how a magician could become a commanderγ The two sides in front have long been mixed together, the cavalry on both sides has completely lost its role as a mobile impact force, and now they are dismounting and fighting, releasing a lot of magic and shooting a lot of arrows from the back of the enemy, and the mercenaries on this side, the people in front are fighting, and the people behind are watching the battle, there is no way, the people in front are blocked, and the two sides are also expanding the trend of the battle, Kong Ming knows that now is not the time to entangle with the enemy, if once the team behind the enemy comes up, then it is definitely to let the enemy make dumplings, you must know that the ambushes on both sides of the enemy are not very far away from here, Once the enemy knows about the battle, he will definitely come, and the enemy must have a mobile cavalry, which is simply a nightmare for a team that wants to evacuate, so now the only way to press is to press the whole line.
"Give the order to let the three regiments bypass from the left and the four regiments from the right and join the battle directly, and the fifth regiment will be in the rear, keeping an eye on the enemy in the rear at any time. In addition, let the first and second regiments increase the intensity of the attack, and don't be like a. β
"Yes!"
"Yes!"
"Yes!"
"Yes!"
"Yes!"
Several heralds quickly rode in several directions. After a while, the three regiments in the back all moved, and the two regiments in front even the regiment commander went to the front line to increase the attack power a lot, and the magic and archers as a special team were constantly casting magic and throwing arrows towards the enemy's rear in the rear, perhaps, Kong Ming's command may be no problem, but Kong Ming ignored an important thing, that is, this is a mercenary army that has just been organized, this army has just had a history of fighting with the enemy's old, weak, sick and disabled, how can it completely implement Kong Ming's intentions? The left and right sides are bypassed, but they did not expand into a battle formation while bypassing, they are still marching in columns, what is the difference between this and adding fuel, perhaps because the battle in front is too tight, the enemy has been forced to the side of Kong Ming, most of Kong Ming's energy is focused on the front, and he didn't find this fatal problem, and the rest of the people are a group of people who have not been on the battlefield, where do they understand this?
This is a melee, a complete melee, the mercenary regiment in front desperately resists the attacking Harvey army, the Harvey cavalry and the mercenary cavalry have lost the speed they rely on to survive, but there is no difference with the infantry on foot, in most cases, they can only dismount and fight, shouting and killing, explosions, neighing into a one, empty eyes watching these, this is the price that an army must pay to grow, for any good commander, only after a long period of training can reduce the sacrifice of the army in this situation, or after a battle of blood and fire can make an army completely matureThe only difference between the two is that one sweats more and sheds less blood, and the other is that it sweats less and bleeds more, and now the Snow Wolf Mercenary Army has chosen to shed more blood when there is no way. The battle continued, the outflanked mercenaries on both sides were already in place, although they passed in a linear formation, but this unfavorable battle formation made them pay a great price in advance, the people in front were almost killed and wounded, fortunately, the people in the rear followed up quickly, and almost all of a sudden formed a local advantage. The battle shape shì gradually leaned towards this side of the mercenary, because at this time, if the whole battle is seen from the sky, you can see that the glue of the two sides has become the shape of a moon cake that has eaten a few bites, the moon cake is the mercenary army, and the gap is Harvey's cavalry, from this situation, the energy of the Harvey people is obviously concentrated in the center, strive for a breakthrough in the center, divide the mercenary group into two parts, and then annihilate the mercenaries together with other Harvey troops, but obviously because Kong Ming concentrated the three regiments and the special detachment in the middle, it directly caused the difficulty of the Harvey army to break through, because they chose the most powerful routeinstead of the usual chosen mercenary's weakness. The mercenaries are too strong because the central force is too strong, but it is difficult to deploy on the narrow front, which directly causes a waste of strength, and although the troops on both sides are flanking the enemy, but because the troops are relatively weak, it is impossible for the mercenaries to eat these Harvey troops at once, so at this time of the battle, the two sides have formed a more stalemate situation. Kong Ming's heart couldn't help but be a little anxious, because this was the first time he commanded a battle of more than 10,000 people, not just a regiment as before, more than 3,000 people, and at that time, his subordinates had officers who had gone through the war or had been trained by the Military Academy, these officers with professional qualities, so his orders could be effectively conveyed, and they could be executed according to his requirements, which was an out-and-out execution. However, now he is commanding a group of people who only know how to fight, but not how to fight, and he can only do his best to fight for a chance to escape from here, because the battle here must have been discovered by the enemy, and the enemy's cavalry coming to reinforce is already an ironclad thing, only the difference between morning and evening. There is a melee tactics in the melee, and there are regular battles in the regular war, and Kong Ming is helpless now, thinking of this, Kong Ming took the five regiments and the special detachment to bypass the attack of the Harvey army from the left side, and is constantly using magic and bows and arrows to strengthen the firepower of the mercenaries of the other two regiments. Kong Ming's team is moving, and those mercenaries on the side of Kong Ming's movement find that their battle is obviously easier than before, because their enemies are constantly attacked by magic and arrows, and the casualties are incalculable, and the obvious pressure on the front of the mercenaries and the Harvey Army is much greater, because the transfer of the mercenaries' long-range firepower has reduced the frontal pressure of the Harvey Army a lot, this kind of thing is always positive and negative, but at this time, no one will think so much, only fighting.
For high-level professions such as magicians and swordsmen, the influence of the night on them decreases with the increase of strength, and now seeing the mercenary headquarters moving, the Harveys have no choice, because they are already completely entangled by the mercenaries. It's like a person who is entangled in a rope, and there is nowhere to use it. I just watched it. Kong Ming saw that the battle line between the two sides had already been blurred, intermingled together, and until later, those magicians didn't know how to support the mercenaries in battle, and there was really no way.
An hour later, Kong Ming with the five regiments and the special detachment has arrived at the rear of the Harvey, and the battle between the two sides is still entangled, Kong Ming faintly feels that something is wrong, this is an intuition that anyone has, the battle time at this time has exceeded his expectations of the battle, the original plan was to take two hours to shoot the enemy across, but Kong Ming muttered a little, that is, the people of the Harvey Army know that there is an army in front of them ready to support them, while the mercenary army does not, and the training of the mercenaries is not as good as the Harvey army, the Harvey people can support in twos and threes, and the mercenaries can only fight the enemy alone, which is a big difference, know that a friend who can protect your flanks in the middle of a fight can make you take 200% less damage. So until now, with 8,000 men against 5,000 people, the two armies are still entangled. Kong Ming thought for a while and said, "Order, after the fifth regiment and the special detachment are divided, the other detachments will immediately leave the battlefield." Sound the horn. β
The horn is a very primitive and effective way for Kong Ming to command the battle, in this kind of cold weapon confrontation, many times people can not hear the transmission of orders, and the horn is different, different sounds indicate different meanings, can make people know the meaning of the battle more clearly. A horn came from Kong Ming's side, and at this moment, the undisciplined mercenaries gave Kong Ming an intuitive understanding of the army that had not really trained and experienced battles, and this understanding made Kong Ming's requirements for the army more strict and orderly in the future. After the sound of the horn sounded, the mercenaries of the four regiments ran over to Kongming's position one after another, there was no organization, there was no appearance of an army, like a flock of sheep driven by wolves, fortunately, Kongming took precautions, so that the five regiments and the special detachment were configured in a straggler formation, otherwise I really don't know what to do. But even so, let the Harvey Army take advantage of the situation to kill it, looking at the mercenaries who were constantly killed by the Harvey Army in front of him, there was some gloom in his empty eyes, this is war, sometimes you have to give up some people and things, this is inevitable. But when those Harveys wanted to attack again, Kong Ming moved, Kong Ming drew his long sword, and raised it towards the sky, and the magic and arrows of the special detachment rushed towards the Harvey people who attacked them, and the rows of Harvey people fell down in an instant, this time the attack made them all stunned, they originally thought that those mercenaries had long run out of strength, where did they think that there was such a new force. The Fifth Regiment and the Special Detachment had let the mercenaries come over and rushed towards the Harvey. This is the reserve, the new force, and at this time, an energetic army is a disaster for a team like the Harvey Army, which has been fighting for two hours. Soon, the superiority of the reserves was revealed, and the Harvey army, which was in front of the shock, fell in front of the mercenaries, and more than a thousand people lost their lives at once. The 5th Regiment and the Special Detachment suffered only a small number of casualties. After the remaining Harvey soldiers saw it, they fled one after another, and the mercenaries wanted to pursue, but they stopped Kong Ming, because Kong Ming knew that time was really running out, and it was still unknown whether he could go back now.
"Commander, why don't you go after it, we can kill these people in just a few minutes. β
Kong Ming shook his head, and then let the four regiments of men and horses disperse and flee separately to the rear, and then if they survived, they could wait in Haiyuan City, a chaotic land two hundred kilometers away from here, if they didn't want to come, forget it.
"Why?"
"Hurry up, now is not the time to ask questions, I can only tell you, if you run away separately, you can still escape about half, if you go together, then it would be good to live a tenth of them. Be fast, don't be together, and remember. The Fifth Regiment and the Special Detachment joined me. β
The four regiment commanders left Kong Ming one after another, and walked towards the rest of the team. Kong Ming let the fifth regiment in the rear, and the special detachment in the front, and slowly withdrew to the rear. When those Harvey soldiers saw Kong Ming's appearance, they didn't move forward to entangle the remaining mercenaries, in their opinion, these mercenaries still had a certain amount of combat effectiveness. Kong Ming looked at the direction of the evacuation of the four regiments while retreating, and what made Kong Ming really speechless was that except for the second regiment, which seriously complied with Kong Ming's plan, almost all the others retreated from the main road. Kong Ming shook his head, if it was an army, Kong Ming would definitely kill those leaders, and this kind of implementation instructions would not defeat anyone. But now is not the time to say this, Kong Ming can only wish them. After leaving the Harveys for a thousand meters, Kong Ming suddenly withdrew from one side of the main road with the fifth regiment and the special detachment to the left side of the main road, where no other team had passed, and after leaving the main road, Kong Ming let all the people run and leave the place at a rapid marching rate. At this time, time is life, and time is a qiΔ. After passing through the mountains, two hours later, Kong Ming and the others left the battlefield and escaped the pursuit of the Harvey army.
"Quick, quick!" Kong Ming rode on the horse and kept urging the team, now, the mercenaries have used three times the usual speed, reaching about fifteen kilometers per hour, this is the usual movement speed of a third-level soldier here, but if it is now traveling in the mountains, this speed is a kind of rapid speed, because Kong Ming let those captains, The squad leader is constantly riding the horse before and after, so now no one is left behind, and in this kind of march in the mountains, the horses are sometimes inferior to people, and only so Kong Ming will take this road, if you take the big road, the cavalry of the Harvey people will soon catch up, and now there is no cavalry, there is no way to block the assault of the enemy cavalry, such an action is tantamount to suicide, and Kong Ming did not give them a prescribed route and direction, that is, let them not take the same road, only such a chance of survival will be more, otherwise, it will make them helpless, you must know that as a mercenary regiment leader, the mercenaries they brought before had a wealth of experience in jungle life, and these experiences were lacking in soldiers. Mercenaries live in a cruel world of struggle all day long, from the desert to the jungle of Warcraft, where there is no figure, and the large army of the army is a cluster activity, the jungle is very unsuitable for the movement of the army, and the main goal of the army is to destroy the enemy, the enemy is usually in a town, who will run into the jungle? Not to mention that a person into the jungle, a thousand people may not be found, this is the original intention of Kongming. But obviously, those mercenary captains either misunderstood the meaning of Kong Ming, or only wanted to escape from this place as quickly as possible or at the nearest distance, and all other aspects were huddled together without thinking clearly, and at this time, if the enemy did not come, there would be something about their own people trampling to death. Sometimes the nearest road is not the best road, and the best road to the end is usually the most time-saving road, and time is the best unit to measure a road.
"Commander of the Fifth Regiment, change direction, to the north. β
"Commander, if it's not farther and farther away from Haiyuan City now?"
"There is no way, if we go to Hairong City now, we will only be taken advantage of by the enemy, and the only way is to leave that place and then take a detour. And there should be Harvey's air cavalry coming to reconnoiter here soon. If we don't get out of this direction now, when we react, the enemy may be waiting for us in front. Let's go, when it's safe to do so, we'll talk about that again. β
"Forward forward, change north. β
"Forward forward, change north. β
"Forward forward, change north. β
"Forward forward, change north. β
"Forward forward, change north. β
"Forward forward, change north. β
"Forward forward, change north. β
A voice passed forward quietly, Kong Ming looked at the sky star, and it was indeed after walking north, Kong Ming was really relieved. This battle is really a wreck.