The right flank of the Western Expedition Army is located in the city of Qunu, fifteen miles south of the camp of the three armies.
Han Peng, the general of the Dragon Pioneer Cavalry, Coors, the military deputy general of the Hapu Dynasty, and Zamuna, the translator of the Western Regions, walked out of the Tianzhu-style Qunu City with different expressions.
The three of them came to Qunv City this time as the dragon envoys to persuade the Polo Dynasty to surrender. Although they met the noble ministers in Qunv City as they wished, they did not see the Polo King Roye Polo III.
From the words translated by Zamuna, we learned that Royepolo III disappeared after giving the order to the Prime Minister of Polo State Aipola to defend the city and defend the country five days ago.
According to Han Peng's calculations, if we want to calculate the date when King Boluo disappeared, it happened to be the day when Guluo City, which was adjacent to the royal city in the territory of Boluo Dynasty, was captured.
Guluo City is the last city leading to the royal city Qunu City. Once Guluo City is captured, it means that Qunu City will no longer have any defense and will be completely exposed like a naked beauty.
Under the attack of hundreds of thousands of dragon cavalry.
After Han Peng left the city gate, he silently looked back at the Polo guards standing on the city wall who were secretly watching the three of them, and cursed in a low voice: "Damn it, this Royepolo III can't be
Did he abandon his people and flee from the city?
If this is the case, this King Royepara III is really ashamed to be a king, and he is worse than Bahori!
At least Baholi knew that the city would be destroyed and the country would be destroyed, but he still held on until the final moment when the city was destroyed."
Coors has been working hard to learn Chinese since he surrendered to the rule of the dragon army. However, due to the short time and the continuous march, Coors' time to study Chinese is really limited.
Hence, he could only half-understand Han Peng's whispered curses, and had to look for help at Zamuna, the translator from the Western Regions.
“Brother Zhamu, what did General Han just say?”
“General Coors and General Han have some doubts that the reason why the king of the Polo Dynasty did not show up is because he abandoned the city and fled after learning the news that our heavenly army was approaching the city.
It is said that King Loyepolo III is not as brave as your King Bahori.”
Kors smiled bitterly when he heard this but said nothing. He did not feel happy because Han Peng praised his former king Baholi for his bravery.
The Hapu Dynasty was destroyed under the iron cavalry of your Great Dragon Kingdom, and King Baholi and the noble ministers who participated in the massacre of the people of the Great Dragon became prisoners.
With such a bleak ending, what's the use of praising King Bahori?
The three of them had walked about three to five miles when hundreds of elite cavalry immediately rolled up a long dragon of smoke and rushed towards them.
“Hurry!”
“Hurry!”
When the two sides were more than twenty steps away, they tightened the reins of their horses. Cheng Kai, the general of the trapped army, dismounted and walked towards Han Peng and the others.
“The last general Han Peng meets the great general.”
“The last general Coors meets the great general.”
“The small civilian Zamuna meets the great general.”
Cheng Kai waved his hands nonchalantly and glanced at Qunv City, where the city gate could be vaguely seen: "How was it? Did you see King Polo after you arrived at Qunv City? Is he willing to leave the city and surrender?"
Han Peng shook his head with regret: "I didn't see King Polo, I only saw their so-called Prime Minister Ai Pola. After Ai Pola received us...
This is probably what happened. As for whether King Polo really abandoned the city and the people abandoned the city and fled, this is just a guess by the general.
Does not rule out the possibility that he deliberately avoided seeing her.
Epola said that because their king is not in the city now, he alone cannot make the decision regarding their surrender. He must convene the noble colleagues in the city to discuss the matter before he can give us the result.
The general didn’t know what to do, and he was worried that the Boluo people in the city might use dirty tricks on the three generals, so he didn’t dare to stay in the city for a long time, so he had to go out of the city and come back to join you, the general.”
After listening to Han Peng's words, Cheng Kai looked at the wall of Qunu City with a gloomy look in his eyes. He gently stroked the handle of the sword on his waist and said fiercely.
"You really don't know how to praise me! Since you are seeking death, you can't blame us, the Great Dragon Celestial Empire, for not being kind!"
“What does the general mean?”
“Go back to the military camp first and report to the commander truthfully. The commander will decide how to act.”
“Get the order!”
Cheng Kai swung his shirt and walked towards his horse. After getting on his horse, he whipped his whip and galloped away.
“Go back to camp!”
Hundreds of cavalry turned their horses vigorously and without hesitation, followed Cheng Kai and rushed towards the main camp of the three armies of Dalong soldiers and horses.
After less than half an hour, in the big tent of the three armies of Dalong Camp, Nangong Ye and the others looked at each other silently after listening to Cheng Kai's report.
“What do the two brothers think?”
Yun Chong placed the tea cup heavily on the table and glanced at the many generals in the tent: "Whether this is King Polo's delaying strategy or not, we can't wait any longer.
The opportunity has been given to them. Since they don’t know how to cherish it, don’t blame me, the Great Dragon Heavenly Dynasty, for using troops vigorously and resolutely!
Time is particularly important to us, there is no need to look forward and backward for a small Queen City.
This military governor suggests that we immediately mobilize the troops and horses of the three armies and rush to the foot of Qunu City, ready to attack the city at any time."
Cheng Kai stood up first and nodded in agreement: "General, I second the proposal.
General Marshal, Deputy Marshal, and War Governor, we all know without thinking that His Majesty must be eagerly awaiting the current progress of our Western Expedition Army in the capital!
Nowadays, it is not in the northern Xinjiang. Even if the war report can be passed on to His Majesty's hands, it will take about one and a half months as soon as possible.
It becomes more difficult to speak if you speak slowly.
If we delay for three or five days, it is hard to say how long His Majesty will wait.
We must end the war in the entire north and south of Tianzhu as soon as possible, so that His Majesty and the Manchu civil and military forces can completely rest assured that they no longer have to worry about the safety of our Western Expeditionary Army all the time.
So the last general agreed with Governor Yun's suggestion, and the army immediately rushed to the foot of Qunu City, striving to capture the entire Polo Kingdom in one go.
Then troops and horses were divided to station in the north and south to develop people's livelihood, and the remaining troops and horses contacted Zhang Shuai to see if they needed the assistance of my troops on the right for the war there!"
After Cheng Kai's words caused a brief silence in the big tent, Nangong Ye slapped the table and stood up, scanning the generals under the tent with sharp eyes.
“What do you think?”
“We second the proposal!”
“Okay! You will listen to the order.”
“We are here.”
“The three armies set off and rushed to Qunu City.”
“We take the order!”
On the eleventh day of the first month of the fourth year of Dalong's reign.
The sun is at the middle of the sky, around three quarters of noon.
Outside the north gate of Qunu City of the Baltic Dynasty, there were 200,000 soldiers of the Western Expedition Army in full formation, as well as a vanguard army of 50,000 organized by the Tianzhu soldiers and horses of the Hapu Dynasty.
After the first test firing of hundreds of artillery shells, in less than half a cup of tea, Qunu City was completely enveloped in flames and gunpowder smoke.
Hundreds of thousands of troops silently looked at the smoke-filled Qunu City, their expressions calm as usual, without the slightest sign of abnormality.
They have long been accustomed to their own siege tactics that utilize overwhelming artillery superiority.
First, artillery fire covered the city, arrow arrays covered the area, and kerosene burned the city. Then, the vanguard troops and horses broke through the city. The main force of the Chinese army entered the city to break the formation and kill the enemy. The rear army soldiers and horses made up for their wounds and swept the battlefield to collect loot. This has been going on for more than half a year.
The army of the Western Expedition was consistently dispatched during the siege battles in the north and south of Tianzhu.
I don’t know when it started. Under the influence of new army generals like Cheng Kai, Ning Chao, Han Peng, and Jiang Lei, veteran generals like Nangong Ye couldn’t help but fall in love with this rogue method of warfare.
In an encounter in the wild, you should form your troops and gradually surround and kill the enemy.
As long as the siege battle is carried out regardless of the details, first cover it with artillery fire without saying anything.
After that, there will be a secondary strike with various long-range weapons, and finally the soldiers will be ordered to attack the city.
It doesn’t matter whether long-range weapons such as cannonballs, bows and arrows, crossbows, trebuchets, and kerosene can completely wipe out the enemy. We must first bring out the momentum of our own troops.
As time went by, Nangong Ye, Yunchong, Wanyan Chiezha... they began to understand more and more why Young Master Liu was so fond of this rogue method of killing enemies from a distance.