Chapter Seventy-Six: Wulan Offensive and Defensive Battle Five
The next morning, Bayange, who was already a little crazy, decided to make one last bet. If he couldn't capture Ulan City today, he would have to go back. After all, he was short of food and ammunition. If he didn't take action quickly, the remaining hundreds of thousands of troops would be left behind.
They are all going to die here.
The Monte Army used all its strength, and all the troops, including the active wounded, went into battle. Unfortunately, their dream was doomed to be shattered. Now that thermal weapons are becoming more and more developed, the numerical advantage has become increasingly inconspicuous, especially
It was a siege without artillery support, and it was simply a massacre.
Under the crossfire blockade of artillery, mines and grenades, the Monte army suffered heavy casualties but was unable to attack the city wall. Seeing the heavy casualties of the soldiers, Bayange sighed: "Let them all withdraw, we can't capture Ulan."
City, don’t make any more unnecessary sacrifices, let’s retreat.”
Following Bayange's order, the Monte army began to retreat in an orderly manner. They did not return to the military camp. They discarded all useless things, including bedding, tents, destroyed guns, and even more than 3,000 seriously wounded people.
After that, all the Monte troops who could retreat mounted their horses and began to retreat slowly through the Helan Pass.
After getting the news, Fang Xiaoyu rushed to the north city wall, looked at the Monte troops retreating neatly, and asked Fu Mingcheng: "Can we give chase?" Fu Mingcheng shook his head: "No, their formation is neat, and their combat effectiveness cannot be underestimated.
Our numbers are too small, and we are likely to be wiped out by others." Fang Xiaoyu gritted his teeth and looked at the retreating Monte army and said: "One day I will eliminate them and wipe out the Monte Empire from the Eastern Continent."
Bayange retreated, but his retreat was destined to not be easy. At this time, Zhang Zhonglin was lying on a cliff watching the Montenegrin army retreating slowly. He asked a scout next to him: "Are you sure this is Helan?"
The narrowest part of the mountain pass?" The scout said affirmatively: "Yes, Sir, you see, only three horses can travel parallel here at most, and it would take at least a whole day for hundreds of thousands of Monte Cavalry to pass through here.
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Zhang Zhonglin said with a bad smile: "In that case, let's send them off. We can't let these guys go too easily." Zhang Zhonglin ordered the soldiers to carefully load gunpowder into the holes that had been drilled, because among the soldiers in the garrison,
Some of them were miners, and they were very good at drilling holes in the mountains. They had already calculated the distance and drilled a whole row of holes on the cliff. Seeing that the Monte cavalry was approaching, Zhang Zhonglin waved his hand to keep the soldiers away.
hid.
The Monte Cavalry was getting closer and closer, and the forwards began to pass here one after another. As the road narrowed, the Monte Cavalry began to slow down. Seeing that there were two thousand cavalry passing by, Zhang Zhonglin nodded to the miner soldiers next to him.
The soldier carefully crept to the cliff and lit the fuse with a fire stick. Then Zhang Zhonglin and the soldier disappeared into the forest.
A Monte cavalry yawned and inadvertently looked up, and found a little scarlet crawling slowly on the cliff. He pointed there strangely and asked his companion: "What is that?" Before his companion could look up to observe, he yawned.
, there was a shocking loud noise, and the entire cliff seemed to have been pushed. First it arched upward, and then a large number of broken boulders smashed down on the Monte Cavalry below. For a time, there was a loud howling sound, and hundreds of Monte Cavalry were heard.
Together with their horses, they were buried alive under the pile of rocks, and many people were injured.
Bayange came to the stone pile with a pale face. Seeing the dead and wounded on the ground, he asked the captain next to him: "How long will it take to move this place away?" The captain said: "Marshal, I will send someone.
After some inspection, we found that this pile of rocks is more than 100 meters long and more than three meters high. We don’t have any tools at our disposal, and it’s too narrow and there are too many people to move around. It would take more than a month to clear it.
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Of course not for a month. The Monte army has very little food left, and it will be enough for three days. If it is cleaned up for a month, not to mention whether the roads can be cleared, people will definitely starve to death. Bayange sighed and said
: "There is no other way. Order the soldiers to abandon their horses and retreat over the pile of rocks."
The ten thousand captain said in surprise: "Marshal, how can we get back to the grassland without horses?" Bayange said: "There must be cavalry in front of us. Let them hurry up and apply for assistance at home. As long as we persist for a few days, we will be able to get help from home."
Then we can send a large number of horses." After receiving the order, the Monte soldiers had to reluctantly abandon their beloved horses and retreat over the pile of rocks. When the cavalry battalion sent by Fang Xiaoyu carefully searched the mountain pass, the scene in front of them was
They were stunned. A high stone wall between the valley blocked the road to the Monte Empire, and under the stone wall, tens of thousands of the best horses were spinning there unattended.
In this battle, Fang Xiaoyu and his less than 20,000 Lanfang troops not only repelled the attack of 200,000 Monte troops, but also wiped out more than 70,000 of the opponent's troops. More than 3,000 wounded were captured, and countless supplies and supplies were seized.
Tens of thousands of horses. The entire Lanfang garrison burst into cheers when they heard the news of victory. Everyone, whether it was the garrison or the Iron-blooded Guards, whether it was the Old Ninth Brigade or the defeated soldiers who joined later, hugged each other heartily. After this battle,
They have become brothers from strangers, real brothers of life and death, and Fang Xiaoyu's prestige has reached a considerable height due to this unprecedented victory.
At this time, in the Lanfang Imperial Palace, Emperor Xiahou Ying was sitting angrily on a chair. All the antiques in the room had been turned into a pile of fragments by him. This was the fourth time he had lost his temper in five days. Since then,
After the news came from the front line that millions of troops were wiped out and Cheng Gu died, he was in a very bad mood. He originally thought it would give the Cheng family a chance to regain their strength, but he didn't expect that they were so cowardly, many times more powerful than others, but they were all killed.
Annihilation, such a loss would be a bit debilitating even for the Lanfang Empire.
Just then an old eunuch ran in panting. He tried to calm his breathing and said: "Your Majesty, great victory, great joy, great victory." "What great victory?" Xia Houying asked hurriedly.
The eunuch finally calmed down his rapid breathing and said softly: "Reporting to the emperor, the garrison blocked the 200,000 Monte army in Ulan City for seven days. In the end, the Monte army lost 70,000 people and returned with a great defeat."
Xiahou Ying slapped the table and stood up, saying happily: "This is really great. This kid Xiahoude really surprises me. He can achieve such a great victory." The old eunuch who announced the good news said carefully: "Your Majesty, this victory is not that of Xiahoude.
Directed by Germany."
"What?" Xiahou Ying said in surprise: "What's going on?" The old eunuch replied carefully: "Reporting to the emperor, General Xiahoude led his cronies to abandon the city and flee before the Montet army arrived. It was the garrison.
Fang Xiaoyu, commander of the Ninth Brigade, temporarily gathered the defeated troops and defended Ulan City. His father Fang Weihong then led the reinforcements to defend the other four mountain passes, allowing the Monte army to retreat in the face of difficulties."
After listening to the old eunuch's words, Xia Houying sat on the chair. He gritted his teeth and said: "This damn Xiahou De has failed to live up to my expectations. I will destroy his nine tribes." As soon as Xia Houying said these words, he remembered that Xia Houde was his own.
My nephew, if he wanted to destroy his nine clans, he would also have to kill himself. He immediately changed his words and said: "I will cut him into pieces."
Xia Houying said: "Immediately order the arrest of Xiahou De and other officers who escaped before the battle and return to Beijing to question their crimes." The old eunuch asked: "What should we do with Fang Xiaoyu?"
.Promote Fang Xiaoyu to Major General and Division Commander first, and all meritorious officials will be promoted to one rank. Let him reorganize the remaining troops in Ulan City and put them under his command, and garrison Ulan City first. Let Fang Xiaoyu go to Beijing immediately to receive further rewards.
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The old eunuch immediately received the order and was about to go out to find someone to draft the decree. Before he left, Xia Houying stopped him again and said: "Come back and let the Ministry of Rites publicize Fang Xiaoyu's victory and mold him into a new imperial hero." The old eunuch understood this clearly.
Nodding, the royal family's face must always be saved. This time Cheng Hub's army was defeated and 900,000 imperial elites were wiped out. If such a thing were noticed, it would cause panic throughout the country.
In order to cover up this failure and prevent domestic people from panic, we only need to promote Fang Xiaoyu as a new god of war of the empire. Only in this way can we cover up this failure with the aura of Fang Xiaoyu's victory, allow the royal family to save face, and also allow those who
Those who heard the news of the failure found a source of comfort. In short, no matter from which aspect, Fang Xiaoyu made a lot of money this time.