54. Chapter 54
"The sand table terrain you see now is the location of the Red Dragon Gorge at the junction of the Haotian Empire, the Blue Moon Empire, and the Chishui Kingdom, and today I will mainly tell you about the famous battle - the Battle of the Red Dragon Gorge!"
"The Battle of Chilong Gorge is a famous battle that military academies around the world are studying, a typical battle in which a small number of troops are defeated, with the help of favorable terrain and a small number of troops, a powerful enemy is defeated!"
"In this battle, the leading leader of my Haotian Empire will be General Du Fengzhong! This is also the most proud battle of General Du!"
Wow!
On the student's seat, there were bursts of exclamations and discussions, and many people who knew Du Fengzhong's name turned their attention to the freshman student Du Long, for the simple reason that Du Fengzhong was his own grandfather.
couldn't help but touch his nose, Du Long was obviously a little embarrassed, about the battle of Chilong Gorge, he had heard his grandfather brag about it when he was a child, and he had heard it a lot, he had always thought that the old man liked to brag, but he never thought that he was really so famous, and he was actually used as a typical teaching material by the military academies of various countries on the Star Continent to study!
The military cultivation instructor who was lecturing was interrupted by the sudden exclamation from the audience, and following the direction where many students were looking, he naturally saw Du Long with an embarrassed face, and it happened that this military cultivation instructor knew him, the young master who was famous in the capital.
"Hehe, that's right! I've talked about the battle of Chilong Gorge countless times, but I never thought that among the freshmen of the martial arts cultivation department this year, there happened to be the grandson of the old general Du Fengzhong, Du Long!" Stretching out his hand and pointing at Du Long, the military cultivation instructor said with emotion.
was named by him on the spot, and the whole class realized that Du Long, a classmate who dared to love him, was the grandson of the old general Du Fengzhong, and the freshman students who didn't know it all turned their hot eyes to him.
Of course, there are also unhappy ones, such as Fan Wei, Park Junjie and others who had a holiday with Du Long, for some reason, that Park Junjie's face was pale, and he seemed to have a bit of a big reaction!
"Okay, everyone, be quiet for the time being, from now on, we will re-enact the battle of Chilong Gorge through the sand table deduction, at that time, I believe everyone will have a deeper understanding of the rules of the sand table military push!" The military cultivation instructor continued his course, and all the freshmen students also listened attentively.
To be honest, this kind of lecture through prop demonstrations is many times more interesting than talking about it on paper, just like playing a game, showing a battle to the fullest!
Chilong Gorge is located on the border of the Three Kingdoms, with the Blue Moon Empire in the southeast, the Haotian Empire in the northeast, and the Chishui Kingdom in the west!
The unique geographical location has created its important strategic position, if you control the Chilong Gorge, you will master the throat of the Three Kingdoms, you can attack, retreat can defend!
Decades ago, the Red Dragon Gorge in the Borderlands, and the three surrounding countries all realized its importance and wanted to control it in their own hands, and the Blue Moon Empire took the lead in sending 100,000 cavalry to march towards the Red Dragon Gorge, wanting to occupy this strategic location.
Once the Chilong Gorge is occupied by its 100,000 soldiers and horses, both the Haotian Empire and the Chishui Kingdom will lose the opportunity, and finally be occupied by others, and the Chilong Gorge can only be reduced to another side of the Blue Moon Empire!
In this regard, as soon as the Haotian Empire received the news, it immediately dispatched troops and rushed to the Red Dragon Gorge, wanting to occupy it before the Blue Moon Empire occupied it!
It's a pity that the Blue Moon Empire is prepared, and the Haotian Empire's temporary deployment of troops and horses is a bit beyond the scope of the whip!
At this critical juncture, General Du Fengzhong happened to lead 10,000 loyal soldiers to train at the edge of the Demon Beast Forest dozens of miles away from Chilong Gorge, and after receiving an urgent order from the empire, he immediately gathered men and horses and rushed to Chilong Gorge!
The 10,000 soldiers of the Haotian Empire descended from the sky like divine soldiers, rushing to occupy the Red Dragon Gorge in front of the Blue Moon Empire, and also set up a checkpoint in the direction of the Red Dragon Gorge near the Blue Moon Empire, informing the 100,000 troops of the Blue Moon Empire that the Red Dragon Gorge is the territory of the Haotian Empire, and asking them to retreat, otherwise it would be equivalent to declaring war on the Haotian Empire!
In this regard, Park Sang-long, who led an army of 100,000 troops from the Blue Moon Empire, learned from the information he received that the Haotian Empire also temporarily sent troops to occupy Chilong Gorge, and due to the suddenness of the incident, only a 10,000-strong army was dispatched.
With only 10,000 people, he dares to occupy Chilong Gorge, how can he embarrass his 100,000 army? !
So, Park Sang-ryong sent troops on the spot, destroyed the outpost set up by Du Fengzhong at the mouth of the Chilong Gorge, and then led a large army to drive straight in, wanting to defeat and drive away with a thunderbolt when the Zhongwu Legion failed to gain a foothold!
Du Fengzhong, who arrived at Chilong Gorge half a day in advance, had long expected that Park Sang-long, the main general of the Blue Moon Empire, would definitely not be obedient, and he would be ready to defend against all kinds of enemies the moment he arrived.
Since the Blue Moon Empire was close to the direction of Chilong Gorge was a huge Qingyun grassland, it had a powerful cavalry corps, and the soldiers were very fast, so they sent a hundred thousand cavalry to Chilong Gorge.
In view of this important information, General Du Fengzhong spent half a day setting up layers in the Chilong Gorge to block the cavalry's various hand breaks, and also borrowed the terrain of the Chilong Gorge to send 5,000 soldiers to block the enemy, first showing the enemy to be weak, and leading the enemy to go deeper.
Another 3,000 volts were set up on the peaks on both sides of the Red Dragon Gorge, and after the enemy army penetrated deeply, a large number of temporary triangular wooden horses were set up at the other end of the Red Dragon Gorge, which directly caused the cavalry of the Blue Moon Empire to lose the ability to charge at high speed.
Subsequently, the 5,000 soldiers and horses who had originally retreated and the 2,000 archers who had already been lying in place for a long time, cooperated with the ambush soldiers on the peaks on both sides to throw down the rocks and rolling logs, blocking the 100,000 cavalry of the Blue Moon Empire in the Red Dragon Gorge and beating them all indiscriminately!
In the end, only half of the 100,000 cavalry withdrew, and more than 50,000 people were lost in one battle!
After the war, the Blue Moon Empire issued a solemn protest to the Haotian Empire, saying that the Haotian Empire had set up an ambush in the Red Dragon Gorge and ambushed the Blue Moon Empire's cavalry that was training normally, and demanded that the Haotian Empire compensate for the losses and give an explanation!
In this regard, Du Fengzhong's sentry at the mouth of the Red Dragon Gorge became the key point, and the Haotian Empire directly rejected the Blue Moon Empire's protest, saying that there were already sentry posts of the Haotian Empire at the mouth of the Red Dragon Gorge to prevent the Blue Moon Empire army from attacking, on the contrary, it was the Blue Moon Empire army that attacked these sentry posts for no reason, killed a number of Haotian Empire sentries, and demanded that the Blue Moon Empire compensate for the corresponding losses!
In summary, it was the Blue Moon Empire that took the lead in waging the war, and the Haotian Empire was still a victim, but it was just the final victorious country!
At this point, the Blue Moon Empire knew that it was in the wrong, and after only a symbolic protest, it died down, and although it suffered a huge loss, it could only admit it.
Even the 100,000 army has lost most of it in Chilong Gorge, and now that the Haotian Empire is prepared, no matter how many troops you send forward, it will be in vain, you can only be dumb and eat Coptis chinensis!
In this battle, the Red Dragon Gorge was included in the Haotian Empire, and its own losses were only two or three thousand, most of which were still losses in the blocking battle to show the enemy weakness and lure the enemy to go deeper, so far, the Haotian Empire has one more dangerous pass in the northwest direction bordering the Blue Moon Empire, which is more conducive to the Haotian Empire!
This strategic significance is extremely significant, directly causing the two empires to have a strategic balance, and the Blue Moon Empire, which was originally ambitious because of its strong national strength, had to re-examine its relationship with the Haotian Empire, and since then the two countries have entered a period of peace for decades!
It can be said that the Battle of Chilong Gorge has brought decades of peace and tranquility to the Haotian Empire!
It was precisely because of this battle that Old Man Du was rewarded by the old emperor, not only did he have the fiefdom of the Du clan in the direction of the nearby Demon Beast Forest, but the Loyal Martial Legion was also promoted, upgraded from the original 50,000 to the 100,000 Loyal Red Dragon Legion, and was stationed in the edge of the Demon Beast Forest for a long time, in fact, it was also guarding the Blue Moon Empire's second attack on the Red Dragon Gorge!
In the military cultivation hall, the military cultivation instructor is explaining, and the two sand table assistants operate on the sand table from time to time according to the step-by-step development of the battle of Chilong Gorge, sometimes planting the military flag in the corresponding area, sometimes sending detailed reconnaissance of the battlefield situation, sometimes sending troops to cut down trees to make wooden horses, sending troops to the peaks on both sides of the mountain to accumulate rocks and set up ambushes, etc.!
The instructions of the offensive and defensive generals were perfectly displayed through the sand table, which opened the eyes of all the first-year freshmen present and had a deeper understanding of the rules of sand table deduction!
In this class, the students from the Haotian Empire naturally listened to it, and a few students from the Blue Moon Empire looked a little unkind.
There's no way, after all, this is Haotian Royal Academy, people want to pick their own victorious battles as an example, you can't accept it and have to bear it, who told you to come to other people's territory to study?!
Among the several foreign students from the Blue Moon Empire, Park Junjie's face looked particularly ugly, it turned out that the commander of the 100,000 army of the Blue Moon Empire, Park Sang-ryong, was actually his own grandfather!
Due to the defeat in this battle, the Park family was widely criticized and rejected in the Blue Moon Empire, but fortunately, his eldest uncle was one of the several spiritual level existences in the Blue Moon Empire, although that battle had a great impact on the Park family, but it did not shake its roots!
Looking at Du Long, who was surrounded by a group of beauties in the student's seat, this would fall in the eyes of Park Junjie, not to mention how eye-catching it was, thinking about how successful his challenge with him this time ended, is it a repeat of history?!
At this moment, Park Junjie couldn't help but have such a thought in his heart, and soon made a decision: 'No!