Chapter 737: Feint Retreat under the cover of night
PS: General Anthony is ready to use a feint in exchange for retreat time, can the Blood Eagle Legion escape back to the Heavenly Saint Empire?
How to annihilate all these million troops? It is indeed a headache for Murong Yu, although he has a lot of big killing weapons, but he must find a place to exert the maximum power of these big killing weapons, and it is best to annihilate all the main forces of the Heavenly Saint Empire at one time.
"When will the Yulin Legion arrive?" Murong Yu asked abruptly.
"Your Highness, it is estimated that it should be noon or afternoon tomorrow. General Pan Bao replied.
"In your estimation, will the Blood Eagle Legion come back tonight for a sneak attack?" Murong Yu asked again.
General Pan Bao frowned, looked at the sand table and pondered: "It's possible, if the Feather Forest Legion arrives, we can take the initiative to attack, and then the Blood Eagle Legion will be in a dilemma." ”
The 400,000 reinforcements of the Heavenly Saint Empire are slower than the Yulin Legion, and if General Anthony is not stupid, he will retreat to the territory of the Heavenly Saint Empire before noon tomorrow, waiting for reinforcements to arrive, and then he will have a chance to make a comeback again.
Because as soon as the Yulin Legion arrives, it is enough to suppress the Blood Eagle Legion in terms of numbers, and it is possible to take the initiative to break the siege of the Blood Eagle Legion on Jay Baha. At this point, General Anthony must have taken this into account.
Murong Yu asked again, "Is there any movement in the Blood Eagle Legion?"
"Not yet. Pan Bao replied with certainty.
"Very good, let me know, all the staff are ready to fight, but don't make too much noise. After some careful consideration, Murong Yu finally decided to attack the Blood Eagle Legion.
General Pan Bao was overjoyed and immediately received the order to prepare. The clouds of war once again loomed over Jerebach.
After a while, General Pan Bao turned back. Behind him were the ten generals under him, who stood in a row. Collectively bowed to Murong Yu.
"Okay, generals, don't be polite, now I'm going to give tonight's battle order, everyone listen carefully. Murong Yu said.
And in the camp of the Blood Eagle Legion not far from Jeerbahá, General Anthony was standing on the sand table, watching the distribution of enemy forces, and behind him stood a group of generals, all of whom knew very well that it would be noon or afternoon tomorrow. The Feather Forest Legion is coming.
For everyone, this news has long been known, the army is pressing, with the remnants of the Blood Eagle Legion defeating the general, want to take root here, if it is only the Jingyue Legion less than 100,000 people, you can continue to stay here, if you add the 200,000 troops of the Yulin Legion, then the Blood Eagle Legion is estimated to be removed soon.
General Anthony has reported to the Empire. Let His Majesty Hutton make a decision: retreat or attack Jaerbach? These are two choices, but the consequences are different.
Open the eastern trail and prepare to attack the Hedis from the east. General Anthony agrees with this. Avoid the enemy's main force and make a detour to attack the henchmen of Heddis. Strategically, it's absolutely right.
Just now. General Anthony received the latest order, two words: retreat.
General Anthony decided to set off overnight. Lest the night be long and dreamy, if the Pure Moon Legion takes the initiative to attack and bite itself, it will be troublesome.
However, there are many ways to retreat, whether to retreat to the borders of the Heavenly Saint Empire or retreat to the five strongholds that have just been taken will have to be decided by General Anthony, and this decision will be related to the life and death of the Blood Eagle Legion.
After much deliberation, General Anthony finally gave the order to retreat.
"Go down and prepare, and set off in an hour!" ordered General Anthony.
"Report!" came the voice of the herald outside the tent.
General Anthony was taken aback: "Come in!"
"Your Excellency, Commander of the Legion, just now, the lights of the entire city of Jayer Baha were completely extinguished, and it fell into darkness. The herald reported.
General Anthony immediately realized that there was an abnormal movement in Jeerbach, which seemed to add a lot of variables to the retreat, and when he heard this, General Anthony waved his hand and rushed out of the tent with a group of generals.
Looking at the pitch-black Jeerbaha, General Anthony understood that the Pure Moon Legion must have made a move, so it seemed that tonight's retreat would have to be canceled.
"General, this must be a suspicious tactic of the enemy!" said one of the generals.
"Even if it is the enemy's suspicious plan, we don't dare to act rashly!"
"It seems that the enemy is well aware that we are preparing to retreat. ”
"We started to retreat during the day. ”
A few generals under your command talked about it with you and me.
Anthony frowned, his old face darkened, secretly calculating the true intentions of his enemies. From the city of Jie Er Baha, only more than ten miles, if it is a war horse rushing over, it is estimated that it will only be a few minutes at most, once the retreat is known by the enemy, Jie Er Baha will definitely pour out.
A single horse charge will cause heavy losses to the Blood Eagle Legion, but if it does not retreat, wait until tomorrow, it will be the destruction of the entire army.
It was a difficult decision!
General Anthony has been through a lot of battles, and at this time he needs to think carefully about how to resolve the situation in front of him, and it is best to turn defeat into victory.
"Since they don't want us to go, then prepare to attack the city!" General Anthony sneered. The generals looked at each other, they did not understand General Anthony's true intentions.
Half an hour has passed, and there is still no smoke in the city of Jayerbahá, and the whole city seems to be a tomb, and it is like a dead city. There was no one on the walls, and the city seemed to be emptied, and the silence put a lot of pressure on the Blood Eagle Legion and General Anthony.
General Pan Bao and Murong Yu hid in a corner of the Jieer Baha City Tower, overlooking the Chinese army tent of the Blood Eagle Legion in the distance. Groups of soldiers pulled out and slowly pressed towards the city of Jayerbaha.
"Your Highness, didn't you say that they were going to run, and told me to prepare for the horse to pursue, but now, it seems that they are going to attack the city?" General Pan Bao looked coldly at the faint soldiers who were gathering.
"They are feints to buy time for retreat, originally the Heavenly Saint Empire didn't want to retreat, after all, they also took five strongholds. Murong Yu explained: "However, His Majesty Hutton was still afraid that the Blood Eagle Legion would be killed by us, so he had to issue an order to retreat. ”
"I don't see any signs of them retreating. General Pan Bao still didn't believe it.
"Don't worry, they're not going to really attack the city. Murong Yu was very confident in his judgment.
General Pan Bao stared into the distance and was silent, while in the city of Jaerbaha, all the horses were already covered and silent, waiting for the moment when the city gates would be opened. It's a pity that the Pure Moon Legion brought too few war horses this time, only more than 2,000, if there are tens of thousands, then the pursuit task will be much easier.
Several figures quietly landed, Wu Linfeng and Lei Zhentian landed beside Murong Yu, Wu Linfeng took a step forward and reported in a low voice: "Your Highness, according to your orders, it has been done." ”
"Very good, thank you for your hard work!" Murong Yu nodded.
Lei Zhentian approached Murong Yu and asked, "Your Highness, let's take the lead, right?"
Murong Yu glanced at Murong Yu, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, you are indispensable, rest and rest for a while, the big war will break out soon." ”
General Anthony made it look like he was going to attack the city in a big way, but secretly arranged most of the soldiers and secretly began to retreat. In his mind, once the enemy was held back, they could retreat calmly, and then ambush on the road and catch the pursuers by surprise.
As a general of a hundred battles, none of them are rice buckets, and General Anthony is not only not a rice bucket, but also a veritable general.
This kind of chain design makes the enemy mistakenly think that he is retreating, after all, the feint attack is to cover the retreat. Of course, once the enemy pursues him, then he will fall into Anthony's encirclement.
Planting ambushes in the jungles on both sides of the retreat route will not only annihilate the enemy in one fell swoop, but also counterattack the city of Jerebah. If he captures the city of Jeerbaha by himself, with the help of the fortified city cannon, he will definitely block the Yulin Legion, and then it will be a great achievement.
Murong Yu stared at the Blood Eagle Legion calmly, as far as his eyes could see, from the chaotic ranks, it could be seen that among the soldiers shuttling back and forth, some were gathering towards Jieer Baha, and the other part was busy retreating.
If it were not for the conviction that General Anthony would retreat, there would be no sign of retreat from the disorganized barracks. After all, this place is more than ten miles away from the camp of the Blood Eagle Legion, and ordinary people's eyes can't find it anyway.
According to Antony's estimate, now that they are pretending to besiege the city, Jeerbach should immediately rearm for battle. At least there will be lights in the city, but there is no movement at all.
Just when General Anthony was puzzled, the lights finally turned on, and the originally silent Jayer Bahar became a lively vegetable market for a while. Everyone is preparing for another assault by the Blood Eagle Legion.
General Anthony showed a satisfied smile and ordered the two generals beside him: "You retreat immediately, according to what I said, set up an ambush in that place, and I will arrive later." ”
The generals around Anthony seemed to understand his intentions and showed a smile that had been the same. With the ambush soldiers, they are not afraid of the pursuit of the Pure Moon Legion, and when the time comes, they can retreat safely into the territory of the Heavenly Saint Empire.
Once you cross the border of the Heavenly Saint Empire, there is not only a strong reserve army there, but also logistics supplies. As for the Pure Moon Legion, the reason of the poor Kou Mo chasing will make the Pure Moon Legion stop the pace of pursuit.
Of course, if General Anthony had fought a beautiful ambush, then he might have directly turned his army back to Jeerbach, and at that time, Jeerbach would be an undefended city, and the Blood Eagle Legion might be able to successfully enter Jeerbach.
Seeing that the Blood Eagle Legion had already been fully dispatched, Murong Yu said in a low voice: "General Pan Leopard, after the enemy's feint, once you retreat, you will immediately pursue it, but after eating this part of the feint troops behind the palace, don't be greedy and bite the enemy to the death, understand?"
"Understood, Your Highness, when will I be able to fully attack?" General Pan Bao's gaze locked on the Blood Eagle military camp and did not look back. (To be continued......)