At the same time, Kapil looked at the swollen Helmand River and made the same judgment as Xun You and others. Oswin had already carried out the final stage of siege, and victory or defeat was at hand.
"Urdu, Oswin's side has burst its embankment and flooded the fortress upstream. I guess the battle between us and the Han army should begin." Kapil immediately went to inform Urdu, the commander of this route, that he was here.
More of a staff presence.
"Tsk, that guy Oswin is really brave. I thought the water was stored to deal with the group of people chasing behind us." Urdu said with a bit of a smile.
"What we have to consider now is whether to slow down and wait for the arrival of the Han army, or continue to go up the Helmand River Valley." Kapil looked at Urdu and asked.
"No, I'm actually thinking about something else." Urdu looked at Kapil and asked with a bit of curiosity, because this plan went very smoothly, and Urdu was now curious about who made the plan.
Is it Kapil?
"What's the matter?" Kapil looked at Urdu in confusion.
"I'm curious who made this plan." Urdu said casually, "By the way, let's find a way to contact Oswin upstream to see when he can join us, and we can also
Make plans.”
Just when Urdu was thinking about how to contact Oswin upstream, Oswin looked at the river valley in front of the Han army's fortress that was still flooded and fell into deep thought. It seemed that it was completely impossible to fight. I seemed to have tricked myself to death.
.
Looking at the position higher up where the flood had receded, the dark brown mud made Oswin understand that it seemed that even if the flood receded, he would not be able to attack the city. This was the end of the road.
"Salman, you lead your troops to Kabul. I will take the mountain trail to pick up Kapil and the others." Although Oswin had understood his mistake at this time, as a commander and a commander who dared to take responsibility, he realized
Mistakes will be corrected.
"Huh?" Salman looked at Oswin with a ghostly expression. Are you taking the mountain trail now? I'm afraid it's not the time to finish.
"This is the only way. We cannot trap Kapil and the others in the hands of the Han army, otherwise it will be impossible to hold Kabul." Oswin said calmly, "So, I have to go there, and I will take the Sun Knight there. If
It would be good to win that."
Oswin didn't say anything else later, because at this level, if they can't win, to be honest, Kushan's main force in the Beigui area will be basically defeated. At that time, whether Beigui can hold on is a question.
Therefore, Oswin must save people.
"Are you sure you can make it in time?" Salman looked at Oswin solemnly. This is not a joke, but it is really possible that it will not be in time.
The mountain trails here are more or less known to the noble people in the north, but these mountain trails are very difficult to walk. Although it is more difficult to walk on the Helmand River side, it takes more than ten miles to walk in one day.
The march is over.
You can take the trail in the mountains, bypass the fortress, and go from the front of the fortress to the back of the fortress for more than ten miles. This detour may take seven or eight days.
This is why generally speaking, the Han Army and the Kushan Army do not take the mountain trails in the Hindu Kush Mountains very much, because it is too confusing. Once the size of the army exceeds a certain level, your logistics and transportation capabilities will basically be defeated.
, after all, not everyone is Zhuge Liang.
What's more, even Zhuge Liang mostly took the main road in the mountains from Hanzhong to Qishan, because the small roads were too difficult.
Think about the Western Han Dynasty Expressway or even the Western Han Dynasty High-Speed Railway. The latter only takes less than two hours from Huyi District to Hanzhong. Huyi District was included in the scope of Shanglinyuan in the Han Dynasty. This shows how long the straight-line distance is.
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However, in ancient times, it would have taken several months even with Zhuge Liang's talent to walk on the mountain road. This shows how pitfalls the mountain road has.
"Okay, anyway, first inform Urdu and they to retreat as far as possible to the fortress, so that I can run less, maybe I can escape in seven or eight days." Oswin said solemnly, having to admit that this man
He is really indomitable and determined. Even though he had shaken himself in the face of the flood before, he quickly adjusted.
After all, if you think about it carefully, it doesn't matter if the flood hinders your own plans. Oswin has experienced so many deceiving things. For example, when he was in the south, he met Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhang Liao, and Zhao Yun.
, encountered a series of monsters.
However, even so, Oswin remained unwavering and had nothing to fear.
Therefore, after encountering a flood and it didn't work, but instead tricked him, Oswin was just in a daze for a while and then quickly adjusted. This man has experienced too much, and it is almost impossible to be defeated by reality.
"Do you need me to follow you? It should be easier for my army to pass through the mountain trails than it is for your Sun Knights." Salman thought for a while and said.
"You can't solve the problem in the past." Oswin shook his head and said, "Go back to the Kabul Valley first and prepare for defense. If we go there together, the food and grass logistics will be a big trouble."
"Yes, but I don't plan to go back to Kabul. I plan to continue here, pretending that we are still waiting and watching, preparing to attack the city, so as to attract some attention to you." Salman said with a smile. Relatively speaking,
His brain is better than Oswin's.
Of course, another meaning of this is that there is no point in my retreating to the Kabul Valley. If I go back and you fail, then I will fail no matter how I defend myself. I might as well be here to contain the Han army in the fortress.
focus to make it easier for you.
Maybe this is really only one percent, but at this time, Salman attaches great importance to even the slightest possibility.
"That's right." Oswin said with a smile, very free and easy, "I'm going to fight to the death with Cao Jun. I will solve the problems I caused myself. Fortunately, my subordinate is a three-talented man. After the change, I should still have some energy left.
Let’s do something for Kapil and others.”
The handover between Oswin and Salman was completed and they swore an oath in the upper reaches of the Helmand River.
"Everyone here should know me." Oswin looked at his soldiers and said with a smile, "Next we need to complete a mission. There is a high probability that this mission will fail. To be honest, I
I don’t like to deceive you, half of you also have wives and children, it’s too sad to die in lies.”
"So I will tell you what I am going to do, and you can choose." Oswin stood on the boulder, standing upright, like a spear piercing the sky. "Some of you will follow me out of Beigui.
Having fought in the south, I understand that I am weak, but no matter how weak I am, there are always people who can do some things. This time, we need to take the mountain trail to rescue the Imperial Scepter."
Oswin explained the difficulty of this tactic in detail, because unlike the previous plan of the Imperial Scepter to bypass the Hindu Kush, Kushan had a lot of preparation time at that time, so the mountain path that Urdu's group took was
Food reserves.
But this time, Oswin could only bring his own food and grass, but bringing his own food and grass would seriously slow down the marching speed. Therefore, how much food and grass he brought became the most important point of this plan.
"Ten days, we can only bring ten days of food and grass. This means that we have passed and can only come back if we win. You have followed me for many years and you should know that I am not the kind of invincible general. I have failed many times.
, many of my comrades-in-arms, Pao Ze, died beside me. I am just lucky to be alive." Oswin looked at the soldiers under his command with incomparable calmness.
Oswin is not talking nonsense about this. In Oswin's opinion, Deepak, Gavin, and Gacholi are all generals who are stronger than him, not to mention Arvind who has become a legend. However, those people are
He died, and in the end it was he who shouldered Beigui's defense line.
"It may take about eight days to walk around the fortress ahead through the mountain path, so once it passes, we can't win, we can't save the Imperial Scepter, and we won't be able to come back. This is a high probability of failure, and failure is inevitable
It's a fatal mission, so I won't force you. If you're willing to go with me, stand on the right, and if you're not willing, stay where you are." Oswin said calmly.
Oswin was a sincere man, so he didn't say anything about staying where he was if he wanted to go with him, and going out if he didn't want to.
No one moved. Oswin sighed, thinking that was it. Then someone looked up and looked at Oswin, "General, are you coming over?"
"Even if you don't have any of you, I will go there. Even if I am defeated, I only have to watch how I am defeated." Oswin was very calm. The more than 8,000 backbones arrayed below began to stir, and then someone smiled miserably.
, I have followed Oswin for so many years, and the general will go to death even if he knows he will lose. What's so great about me.
The first, the second, the third, and soon a large number of Sun Knight backbones were separated from the team, one thousand, two thousand, three thousand, and finally a small half of the soldiers were suddenly separated from the eight thousand people.
Standing on the right side of Oswin.
Among these people are the elite backbone who followed Oswin to Nangui, the die-hards who joined later, and the veterans who have been wasting their lives in the Beigui Mountains for many years. Some of these people are strong and weak, the strong ones have three talents, and the weak ones
He also has the strength of dual talents.
But for Oswin, no matter strong or weak, one more person means more hope.
"Salman, record everyone's names and engrave them on the stone tablet for me." There was a certain reality lingering in Oswin, which made Salman feel in awe.
