1925 The Empire's Counterattack (IX)

The night is like water, the moonlight of the spring night is a faint layer of silver, the emerald green forest in front is like a large flower garden, the faint white shoots down pillars of light on the dense mountain forest road, the war horse bows its head and chews the fresh stems and leaves, from time to time there is a rustling sound, and the rest of the falcon guards and the war horse that is foraging for food,

Rushing north for 300 miles non-stop, running from the southern mountains to the central and southern parts of Gangfei, not only was the horse tired enough, even the people couldn't stand it, and the whole army rested in this hidden wood

"Redo, do you know where this is?"

Hukochili leaned against the trunk of the tree, swung his arm, and turned to ask the guards behind him who were delivering food, "I don't know either"

The guard looked left and right, shook his head,

"Even you can't tell the direction, it seems that the past two days have really been rushing too fast, bring the map, I don't want to run in the wrong direction, it would be bad!" Hukochi poured a mouthful of water bladder and raised his hand,

The guard hurriedly took down the map from his horse, and with the help of the moonlight shining from his head, Hu Keqili spread the map on the rocks, and after carefully examining it for a while, his solemn face finally relaxed, and said, "Fortunately, our direction is not wrong, although there is some deviation, but at present, the terrain looks like the southern mountains are beginning to become relaxed and flat here, and it should be the Alavi Mountains as a transitional area between central and southern Gang-Africa! In the first 150 miles is the base camp of the Gangnon people." What, it's only 150 miles from the stronghold of Gangfeiren!"

When the nearby guards heard the news, they were immediately shocked, and they all gathered around, this time they rushed forward with all their might, and the speed was very fast, and everyone was looking forward to the look of astonishment on the face of Gangfei when the imperial military flag suddenly appeared under the city of Besuka, the stronghold of Gangfei, thought of this. All the guards felt the blood boiling on their bodies: "Order all squadron leaders to come to me!"

Hukochili ordered, and soon, more than a dozen squadron leaders all arrived,

Hu Keqili looked at more than a dozen subordinates, and said in a cold voice, "According to the military reports we have, although the main force of 100,000 Gangfei is still contained in Baruta, and the reserve troops have also been put into Putao, so the strength of Beisuka, where the Gangfei court is located, is not enough for 10,000!" "Beisuka's Gangfei army is less than 10,000!, at most, we will be able to reach Beisuka!" A guard squadron leader said with an excited expression, "Yes." Not only do we think so, but I think the Gangfei people think so too!" Hukochili's eyes flickered, his face was a little sickly red, and his fingers connected the punctuation points on the map, apparently in a straight line, and said, "So the Gangfei people must do their best to mobilize reinforcements from the front"

"Our 10,000 elite cavalry suddenly turned violently from the south to the north, and fiercely pierced into the gap of the Gangfeiren, which was completely unexpected by the Gangfeiren, and the speed of our northward movement was extremely fast, and the Gangfei defenders along the way had no time to form a blocking force and had been easily passed by us" "But now it is different, the Gangfeiren have received the news. Although the strength is limited, according to the walls of Besuka, how can they struggle, the other side only needs to wait for reinforcements to arrive. We're going to be in a dilemma."

A captain of the guards said with a solemn face, "Even so, with our combat strength, a desperate battle is enough to take Besuka!" "And then?" Hukochili glanced at him and asked with an expressionless face, "This ......" The captain of the guards squadron was stunned for a moment. Gritted his teeth and said, "I didn't think about it,

Hukochili's eyes were as sharp as knives, and he said, "The Gangfei people are in Baruta, and there are 90,000 troops fighting against our army. The distance from Besukka to Baruta is only a hundred miles, and before sunset tomorrow, the reinforcements will arrive, and going to Besukha is a dead end!" "What do you mean?"

"We're here to win the victory, and you're not going to die by handing over 10,000 elites to me!" and Besuka is very attractive, but the Gangfei people who have received it will inevitably turn it into a trap" Kochili pursed the corners of his mouth, his voice paused, his gaze swept over the attentive Guards cavalry, and his finger tapped on the map

"So from here, we're the real battle, first we'll continue north, and then here" Hukochili's finger stopped near Besuka City, raised his head, his eyes lit up, and said in a deep voice, "Turn to Baruta!"

"Turning to Baruta?" the guards looked at Hukochili's abruptly turned fingers, their eyes widening in disbelief,

"Yes, Baruta! You can't think of it, and you can't think of it," Hukochili took a deep breath, smiled at the corner of his mouth, stood up and said, "They must think that our target is Besuka, our army's elite cavalry advances quickly, although it can shock the Gangfei, but our number is too small, only 10,000 people" "No matter how outstanding the combat strength is, facing Besuka, who is in the center of defense of the Gangfei army, at most, it is to force the Gangfei court to temporarily move away! Although we have His Majesty's 30,000-strong army to postpone, the distance between the two armies is already more than 100 miles today, and it will even exceed 150 miles tomorrow, and the far water cannot save the near fire, and we are already equivalent to fighting alone in the hinterland! Moreover, the goal is very clear, just waiting for the kind that crashes head-on, just non-human is not a fool, as long as the other party calculates a little, he will be able to know the time of our arrival, the scale of the attack, and then he can calmly arrange and take the opportunity to swallow us in one bite!" Then why did we turn to Baruta?" Someone asked in a low voice, "No, just because this is the place where the army of 100,000 people is not stockpiled!" Hukochili said coldly at the corner of his mouth, put his hand on the map, and said loudly. A surprise blow, as long as it hits the right position, it is far more deadly than a head-to-head confrontation, our 10,000 elite horsemen rush for hundreds of miles, and we can't shake Besuka, but only for the military food warehouse that Gangfei people have spent a lot of money to hoard in Baruta, it is more than enough, the other party's attention is all in Besuka, no one would have thought that we could be so aggressive, in fact, we are rushing to get their food, we just need to burn the military food of Gangfei, and then directly rush back to the side of our army in the direction of Baruta."

"I see, just burn the other party's military rations, and just if you are not human, you can only go over and drink the northwest wind!" The captains of the guards squadron heard it one by one, their eyes lit up, and they were all habitual criminals who were best at killing people and setting fires. Thinking of the embarrassment of the non-army being in a situation without food, I felt very relieved

"You can rest and recuperate! Tomorrow will leave at dawn!" Hukochili stood up and raised his hand to the squadron leaders who were meeting around him, "Put the horse on the head of the horse, you must not let the war horse neigh, tomorrow it will enter the state of combat at any time!"

Just not the Ministry of Military Affairs, the adjutants ran to the door with orders in their hands, hardly daring to delay in the slightest,

A squadron of herald cavalry waited there, and each herald cavalryman, who had taken the order from the adjutant's hand, galloped away in a continuous manner. It has been a long time since there has been such a tense situation, and being able to let the herald cavalry assemble directly at the entrance of the military affairs department often means a big battle "Marcos Secretary, with our troops, can we really eat this lone Falcon cavalry in one bite?" In the office of the Minister of War Marcos, Xiao Huang, with great interest, looked at the full-body armor standing on both sides of the office. There are four pairs of these full-body armors, two on each side, and they seem to be well maintained on weekdays. The support made of precious mahogany frames, the high-quality plate armor that has been finely polished and polished, and the shiny and mighty heraldic shield are completely protected from top to bottom. Virtually invulnerable.

But the weight is not light, the little emperor estimates that the lightest pair is difficult to wear before the age of fourteen, on the wall of the room. There are also long spears, axes, and swords that are placed crosswise. Heraldic shields, the surface of these cold metals glows with a cold and characteristic white halo, "As long as you pick up the weapons on the wall, you can fight, Marcos is really old and strong!" The little emperor sighed, his eyes looked through the windowsill, and he just saw the figure of a herald cavalry disappearing in the distance, "Your Majesty is too famous, these armors were put here when the minister was eleven, eighteen, twenty-nine, and fifty years old, so that the minister always remembered the courage when he faced the enemy that day!" And don't worry, there shouldn't be any problems, although the other party's combat power is outstanding, but after all, it's only 10,000 people!"

Marcos saw the little emperor's pretended calm look, thinking that the little emperor was only seven years old and was still a child, no wonder he had no confidence in this battle, and couldn't help laughing, "I have urgently ordered the 30,000 people on the Baruta side to turn back, at most tomorrow at noon, the 30,000 army can arrive in Besuka, of course, in order to avoid the possibility of this big battle affecting the city, the best way is to ask His Majesty to temporarily move out of Besuka City!" Isn't it too hasty to choose to move away because of a small ripple, but I am also the emperor of the empire?

The little emperor is a little unwilling, in the history of the empire, those ancestors bloody battlefields, the deeds of the war made him proud of his bloodline, although young, but the emperor also saw the tragedy of the battlefield at the age of ten, several monarchs have been ten years old with the army to the battlefield "Your Majesty, war is not a child's play!

Marcos obviously knew what the little emperor's entanglement was, and said with a smile, "Your Majesty's fascination with the battlefield is understandable, and it is not the case with his first subordinates, when he was eleven years old, he followed his father to see the first war, and at that time he saw the corpses and bones all over the mountains, mutilated and broken limbs, and what thoughts were in his mind at that time, all of them were nausea and vomiting, "pop"

There was a knock at the door,

"Come in," Marcos continued, signing the paper

An adjutant of the Ministry of Military Affairs walked in, saluted the little emperor and Marcos, and said, "Your Majesty, my lord, I just received news that the vanguard of the Falcon cavalry has arrived at Kaweisa 80 miles away from here, and the other party did not attack, but directly bypassed Kaweisa and came directly to this side!"

"Oh, I see!"

Marcos waved his hand to the adjutant,

"So fast!" the little emperor was a little shocked in his tone

"It's normal to be so fast, the opponent is hundreds of miles north, and after approaching the target, he is unwilling to entangle along the way, and the tactic of going straight to Besuka has long been expected."

Marcos stopped his pen, took a deep breath and said, "The commander of the other party is very clear about the main points of the surprise attack, one is to be fast enough, so that the other party can guard against it, and the other is to launch a fatal blow without any drag, just like a scorpion hook with a poisonous scorpion, at the moment when there is no fatal blow, there will be absolutely no superfluous action, although our army uses Besuka as a bait to launch an ambush, but if we want to completely annihilate the other party." The price paid must be quite tragic, if Your Majesty really wants to see this Shura field, your subordinates can arrange it!" "Forget it, forget it, that's how I think about it!" Hearing that he would see all kinds of dead people up close, the little emperor who had recently been tormented by insomnia turned pale when he heard it, "Although it's a pity that you can't sit in command, but can you watch it from afar?"

"This, it should be no problem, the subordinates will arrange it!" Marcos hesitated, it was not bad for the emperor to have such a heart. Seven years old is a little younger, but in the history of Gangfei, there has never been such a precedent.

Baruta, as the first front line against the Falcon Army, the Gangfei people have set up close surveillance within twenty miles in front of the Baruta Line, hundreds of wooden lookout posts, all with braziers, once the Falcon Army attack is discovered, the watchtower will set up a fire brazier to pile up wood. The smoke that reached into the sky could be seen on the flat land of Baruta even from a distance of twenty miles, and if it was night, the light of the fire could be seen from the position of the headquarters of the defense line, and the Gangfei people had placed 100,000 people on the Baruta defense line.

Large camps hid behind makeshift fortifications,

It was dark and there were no stars in the sky, but it didn't stop Shukochili from using the binoscope in his hand to observe the Gangfei military camp full of bonfires in the distance. The Baruta region is a large alluvial plain with a river in front of it, and the huge Bakuta Fortress is at the other end of the river. Now occupied by the Falcon Army, the city below the fortress looks like a giant U-shape from the high hills, and the 100,000 Gangfei troops who lost the Baruta fortress are based on the river and large tidal flats, plus the six mountains behind it that take on a zigzag shape,

The moonlight is bright, and countless military flags flutter like clouds,

Through the lookout and the familiarity with the layout of the barracks, Hukochili almost effortlessly found the protruding targets in the direction of the eastern barracks of the Gangfei army outside Baruta.

More than thirty temporary grain warehouses, in this plain that can be seen clearly at a glance, there is really nothing to block the line of sight, from the layout of the barracks, the warehouses are basically located at the rear of the barracks, there is an army on the front and back, there is an army on the left and right sides, the Gangfei army is also a battle-hardened army, and it has not been carelessly numb to the point of being completely undefended, among the four armies, three are obviously leaning forward, forming a cascade for the breakthrough, but if the direction of the raid is changed to the back, there is only one barracks to be considered

What a godsend! Hu Keqili looked at the sky, the time was already in the second half of the night, the dew was thick, the cold was biting, and the armor of the Imperial Guards cavalry who had been running for most of the night was stained with a layer of water vapor similar to a hundred frosts, and exhaustion pressed on everyone's face.

"Squadrons prepare!" Hu Keqili ordered in a low voice, the dense Falcon cavalry behind him jumped on the mound in front of him, like a shadow of a wave, a layer of elevation on the mound out of thin air, in the direction of the Gangfei military camp, the second half of the night is the easiest time to fall asleep, there are dense lookout posts in front, and there are as many as five layers of defensive lines along the way, no one will notice a faint black long line, which began to appear on the mound three hundred meters behind, the air is filled with a kind of Xiao killing before the big battle, the cavalry looks cold, their fingers nervously clench the reins of the war horse, the surrounding tranquility is terrible, and the suddenness is the main factor of this raid, whether it can completely alarm the enemy on both wings, igniting the food of the gang is the key to the success or failure of the whole campaign,

"Forward!" Hukochi raised his hand,

The black cavalry began to move like water in the dark night, and countless black lines slowly advanced in the direction of the barracks, and the sentries inside were either sleeping or roasting fires, so that when the black shadow troops advanced to a hundred meters away from the camp, the rumbling horses' hooves began to get louder and louder, and a sentry tower made a rapid bell ringing "Boom" Hu Keqili was already able to see clearly ahead, he pulled out the sharp war knife at his waist, and the snow light was like a battle flag erected, shouting loudly, "The whole army is marching!" The sword fell, the cavalry iron flow like a landslide accelerated, and the linear queue rolled forward like a wave,

At five o'clock in the morning, in the faint morning light, the Falcon Guards cavalry rushed into the barracks of Gangfei in Baruta like a divine soldier.

The horse's hooves cracked like a storm over the earth, and at the moment of contact, the tent of the camp was blown down like a strong wind blowing down weak grass.

The heavy horse's hooves stepped directly over the sleeping Gangfei soldiers,

As soon as the non-soldiers ran out of the tent in a panic, they saw a field of war knives like snow in front of them.

Countless cavalrymen with spikes hanging on the front of their horses swooped down from the front like an avalanche, and their companions crawled on the ground in fright.

The whole camp was like a sieve shot through by countless arrows, and the impact of the ten thousand guards cavalry, like a black iron plough quickly impacting the black line, cut into the scene of the Gangfei military camp, like a swirling spiked flail slammed into a thin piece of armor,

debris splashing,

Many of the panicked Gangfei soldiers were directly involved by the galloping war horses and turned into a cloud of meat on the ground, "Kill!"

Ten thousand Falcon Guards swords, like frost before the dawn,

The horses' hooves roared, the earth trembled like an avalanche, and it slammed into the weak rear of the Gangfei army camp along the arc of the slope (to be continued......