1321 Cease and Desist Order (9)
In March of the 3rd year of the Falcon Empire, 20,000 Salander expeditionary forces stationed near Kyoto in Normandy claimed independence in northern Normandy and established the New Salander Kingdom, with the independent Starshuil as the king of the New Saland Kingdom, and Envit of the Northern Coalition Army of Salander as the Minister of War of the Kingdom.
For this rebellion that broke out by Salander's insiders, the initial vague attitude of the imperial side was undoubtedly to throw a handful of dry wood on the raging flames of this rebellion, because the chief and deputy legion commanders who had the power to suppress this infighting had not returned for a long time, and there were even rumors that both legion leaders were under house arrest by the despicable Vekia Falcon,
What was originally a situation of evenly matched infighting quickly turned into a one-sided trend towards the independents.
As of March 29, more than 65 expeditionary force teams announced to join the new Salander Kingdom, with a total strength of more than 41,000 people, the silent posture of the Falcon Empire undoubtedly made the self-reliant expeditionary force more and more convinced that the empire lacked the necessary preparations in the face of this sudden outbreak of rebellion, except for the 10,000 Central Army, in the front of the entire expeditionary force, there was no single force to enter, 40,000 to 10,000, a huge disparity, so that the generals of the expeditionary force believed that it only needed a short time to quickly defeat the Central Army, and then enter the vast central plain region, even if the empire wanted to launch a rebellion war, it must also take into account the almost exhausted logistics
In this war, the harvest of the Salander expeditionary force far exceeded the previous expectations, only the gold harvested in central Normandy was melted and synthesized, reaching 14 tons, not counting other jewelry, expensive items, etc., what is the concept? If all 14 tons of gold are made into gold coins, at least more than 50 million, that is the total annual income of the entire imperial treasury,
This is also the basis on which Starshuil was able to respond to the expeditionary force, which this time was up to the soldiers. According to the imperial military regulations, two-thirds of the wealth captured in the war must be handed over, and only one-third can be retained, and now if you want the expeditionary force to spit out the fat in your mouth, it is simply a fool's dream, and under the great common interest, the expeditionary force has long forgotten its duty as a soldier.
So much so that on April 2, the complacent Starshuyl swore an oath to the so-called army in Normandy and Kyoto, announcing that he would regain the land that originally belonged to the Salander people and let the Salander dynasty reappear in the world.
He violently led the 20,000 Salander expeditionary force south, into the area where they had been ravaged, looking for 10,000 Central Army for a decisive battle, but the expected Central Army disappeared without a trace.
All he saw was the vast expanse of weeds and the towns that were almost in ruins, and the population of the central part had all moved to the relatively stable and safe southern region under the advance mobilization of the Central Army. The current central part is almost a wasteland, and according to the fat man, this is a natural depth. Unless the other party is ready to go to the bottom of the consciousness, the only choice that can be made is to retreat
Really. After more than ten days of wandering around the north-central region, the expeditionary force was accustomed to burning and looting all the way in the north-central region, and had developed the habit of feeding the war with war, and only brought a week's dry food at most each time he went out to fight, and now the surrounding area was barren, the logistics were tight, the army was disheartened, and the starvation of the soldiers was becoming more and more common.
No matter how high the morale of the soldiers, the lack of food is all in vain, if it was before, it would be good to say, everyone is a hard-working person, it would be good to have food, but now it is different, all of them are rich people, who will stand this, the soldiers of the expeditionary force surrounded the main tent of the center, and as a last resort, Starshuil could only order the 20,000 exhausted expeditionary force to temporarily return to Fort Tru, the border, and another heavy army cluster, Salander's second army formed horns with each other,
Because it is located in the mountains, although it is still very cold in early spring, this castle built on the cliffs of the plateau, there is another more beautiful name, called the White Castle, this is a beautiful castle built in the period of the third Grand Duke of Normandy, and it is said that the whole castle was built according to the builder's childhood dream.
Towering spires, huge temple columns. The exterior walls of the castle as a whole are completely whitewashed with white, and the ceiling is paved with blue, just like a castle in a fairy tale, but unfortunately the construction of this castle is too expensive, so his builder has not completed the construction of this greatest building until his death, but as a native Norman, he prefers to call this castle full of mystery called Winter City,
Because of its location in the high collar, the temperature of this beautiful castle, the perennial deep cold wind roaring environment, and the occasional snowflakes fluttering, are beautiful, but in winter, especially at night, the climate is even colder, as if as long as the wind blows, anything will condense into frost. The scattered leaves. Those who fall from the branches and fall from the tree will also be drained of water in the short fall process, and then fall to the ground and shatter like ice cubes.
For Ista Shouil, tonight's cold wind is even colder and more mournful, because he doesn't know why, he always feels that something will happen tonight, but what is it can't be known, push open the window, let the cold wind blow, bring people a kind of sobriety, can envelop the hearts of the entire expeditionary force soldiers, Isda Shuyl is naturally not a simple character,
He was born in the military and lived an ascetic life, just to maintain his instinct for the dangers of war, which had saved him more than once, and tonight, it was so strong,
"Is it really just a gut feeling?"
After going around the camp again, Isda Shuyl smiled bitterly at the corner of his mouth, his fingers skillfully untied the knots of the armor, and he must have been too careful, in such a cold and biting night, unless the other party can fly, he will never have the opportunity to get close to his own defense line, but unfortunately, Starshuil does not know that in the place where he can't see, there is a force crossing the sideline,
There was no moon at night, and the clear night was like a black velvet garment, enveloping the whole vast land, and dense cavalry swept over this wide field, like black ghosts.
In the early spring season, the earth has projected a green green, the northern fields have begun to be dyed with a faint layer of green, many deciduous wood leaves have begun to sprout, the flat fields have been very barren because of the land relationship of war, looking at the past, these dark black cavalry in groups shuttled from the inside, like a hunting wind blowing across the earth
As the descendant of the fat family, he stands the sharpest. The cavalry cluster of the Central Army broke through the fastest in the three-way army, and they were like a light and unusually sharp thin blade, which had quietly passed from the weak point of the expeditionary force to the back of the expeditionary force before they had time to react.
The cavalry of the Central Army advanced very fast, but the sound of horses' hooves was very soft, and here were endless plains. For galloping horses, there was no more ideal place to gallop than here, even in the central part of the empire, there was no such good wilderness and weeds taller than men, it was simply the best cover for cavalry clusters, and the horses were scattered their hooves.
Because the patrol team in charge of this section is 42 people. has long been cleared by the advancing legion scouts,
Expeditionary Force patrols, on the other hand, generally do not have any real military training and therefore do not use the passwords used by the regular army. They can only judge whether the other party is their own man or an enemy with their own eyes, and the basis of their judgment is the most ridiculous armor style.
Hukochili just arranged for a group of cavalry to put on the clothes of the patrol, and it was all settled, and the expeditionary force did not think of it at all. In this quiet night, the gap in his own border was opened by the Central Army. Tens of thousands of cavalry swooped down from this gap about 500 meters long into the area behind them like mercury.
In order to ensure suddenness, each cavalry of the Central Army prepared two war horses, and the four hooves of the war horses were wrapped in thick cotton cloth. The cavalry all lay on horseback, and most of them rode in rotation on war horses.
Flanked by 500 scout cavalrymen in charge of the cordon, they were dressed in light armor and carried modified cavalry assault crossbows on their backs, like sharp scythes that swept around the entire cluster, and quickly galloped past the flanks of the entire cluster.
The sound of the horse's hooves of the cavalry woke up many people in the villages along the way, even at night, and some of them were cautiously lying on the windows. Looking out through the crack in the window, the cavalry like black ghosts seemed to have no end in sight, and a group of horses rode across the vast flat near the village, raising the head of the city on the ground, and the murderous armor made a whooper like a night's whimper
The villagers who saw the black cavalry galloping past were very curious, they didn't know where this cavalry came from, where they were going, what was their purpose?
The other party's target should be the north, and many people are guessing, and they can't help but want to gloat in their hearts. The target of these black cavalry is likely to be the murderous Salanders in the north, if that is the case, the Salads will be unlucky, in this land that has been hit hard by the war, there is no one else except the Salanders themselves, and they will have a good impression of their extermination behavior like locusts transiting, most of them are revenge against the Salanders, from the initial support to the current disgust and fear, and no one has come to report the whole process!
"My lord, ahead is the garrison of the Second Legion of the Expeditionary Force!" After sneaking in the middle of the night, the morning star in the sky has risen into the sky, and the report from the scout from the front has made Hukochili stop his warhorse,
Following the direction of the scout's finger, Hukochili could see a lot of lights lit up, it was a small town, and the sound of men and women laughing could be faintly heard, and a large bonfire was burning, illuminating the whole town very clearly.
Some soldiers were already drunk and swaying, some were drunkenly chasing the woman's skirt, the sound of giggling and laughing continued to drift with the night wind, according to intelligence, the number of the second army of the expeditionary force was about 18,000 people, all of them were by, obviously not aware that death had come to their side, rolled up the map in his hand, looked up at the North Star above his head again, and after making sure that the target he was traveling towards was not wrong, Hu Keqili waved his hand to several squadron leaders who led the team, and said coldly
"Everyone has seen it, according to His Majesty's order, because it is the first battle to defeat the rebellion, in order to play a role in deterring the small group, so this time we don't want to take prisoners!
"Yes!" the fierce-looking squadron leaders nodded in response
"That being the case. Then let's get ready to begin!" Hu Keqili waved his hand to these people, and the restless war horse under his crotch spewed out a breath of white gas violently, such a night, such a quiet, so that the low friction sound of the swords out of the sheath made the swords seem so strange in this quiet night, and it made people's blood boil, as the surroundings fell silent, the swords were like a layer of phosphorescent light on the surface of the water in the dark night,
"Forward!"
With a low and murderous order. The guards cavalry put down the face armor, revealing only a pair of murderous eyes, the left hand grasped the reins of the horse, the right hand of the war knife with a patterned hilt, a kind of blood boiling in the heart of the guard, the bent back and the horse jumping horse back closely together, in the cold night fog. A thousand cavalry guards were the first to rush to the pass outside the town like a demon god who haunted the night, and a row of wooden fences made of sturdy cedar blocked the way of the army's advance
The sound of horses' hooves rumbling in the night was like a dull winter thunder. The strange noise quickly caught the attention of the Salander guards, who poked their heads out of the watchtower outside the town to look around
"Bump. The first batch of galloping war horses were pressed like a mountain collapse, and the war knives were like snow. Galloping like thunder, even if the Salander people are stupid, they must know what has happened to them
"Enemy attack!" a terrible scream came from the position of the watchtower, and the swords of the guards cavalry had already slashed through one of the guards. The horse slammed into the wooden fence outside, and the guards above fell from it because they didn't have time to stop. Bright red blood flowed from the uneven position of the armor
"Quickly pull down the fence and open the passage for the main force" The cavalry squadron leader who led the team reined in his horse suddenly, he was not frightened by the tragic situation in front of him, but turned behind him and shouted to the other cavalry guards who followed closely behind, hearing his fire, those comrades who were feeling a little constrained by the wooden fence stopped, and the swords in the hands of the cavalrymen flashed. A few knives can cut off several thick ropes that bind the fence and the pass,
"Shoot, don't let them break the fence!" Countless clusters of arrows fell from the towers on both sides of the pass, and the arrows from the horses let out a terrible scream, and some of the guards cavalry were shot, and they tumbled off their horses, but they lifted the shields and weapons that had fallen to the ground, and joined the siege team again
"Knock!" there was a crunch of the outer fence, and countless hooks with hemp rope at the tail were thrown like raindrops from the hands of the speeding cavalry, and with a loud crackling sound, a wooden watchtower turned from tilting to collapsing. And the fallen watchtower
"Flee!" The Salander Expeditionary Force soldier was frightened by such a tragic sight, and suddenly became a mess, the whirring flames drowned out the sound of the horses' rumbling hooves, and a Salander soldier who was beating the flames with a tree branch felt the ground shake, and turned his head in surprise, a shining knife light slashed his throat, and his head flew into the air with disbelief eyes.
"Kill!" the black cavalry leaned on his horse. Crossing through the flames like splitting the waves, the afterimage of the war knife fluttering lightly and swiftly, and the death scythe harvested life, a dozen unprepared Salander soldiers clutched their bloody throats down, "Forward, kill!" Then the hundreds of war horses that followed were like a heavy hammer, crashing into the enemy's ranks, and the figures flew sideways, and dozens of people in the back row were knocked out. The comrades in front of the collision were in a mess, the heavy and tall Guards cavalry horses were like light tanks, plowing a bloody passage in the enemy's ranks, the horses' hooves were chaotic, the flashing swords broke through the night sky, and the enemy who had not yet reacted fell like a gourd.
"Don't mess around, stop them!" a shouting Salander officer was trampled under his horse by the oncoming cavalry. There was a terrible scream, the flesh and blood rolled on the ground in a blur, and hundreds of Salander soldiers watched in amazement as their captain was trampled into flesh by a group of galloping war horses, and then they reacted, discarding the fire-extinguishing tree skill in their hands in a panic, and ran forward, shouting "There is an enemy!"
The fire was accompanied by panic, which completely overwhelmed the camp of the entire Salander Second Army, and the Guards cavalry drove the rout of the Salander expeditionary force forward like a flock of sheep, and the rout was like a snowball that was getting bigger and bigger, even if it encountered a team that wanted to resist, it would be scattered by this powerful rout,
Some of the high-ranking generals of the expeditionary force began to appear, and just now there was a group of Mamunouk knights escorting the two generals trying to rush out,
But there were too many routs, and the general, who wielded a knight's sword to drive away the soldiers, was pulled off his horse by the angry soldiers,
The guards and knights were also overwhelmed by the chaotic crowds, people were in a desperate situation, they could do anything crazy, people were crowded, shoulder to shoulder, thousands of pairs of feet stepped on it, and it was estimated that they had already stepped on it into meat scraps,
On this night, Salander's 2nd Army completely collapsed under the sudden blow of the Central Army, and one of the corners of the expeditionary force was torn off by the Central Army
My wife was hospitalized with gallstones.,There's no way.,Stay in the hospital every day to accompany me.,This chapter can only be done in such a hurry.,Don't be funny.,Everyone (to be continued.) )