Chapter 266: I would rather slaughter a country than lose a single soldier
arrogantly clapped his hands together: "If it's possible, then let's send elite scouts and golden eagle messengers to pass the message to Brother Huyan in two directions, and ask him to mobilize troops and horses as soon as he receives the message.
The matter of marching into Rome.
The matter has come to this, there is no need to delay, map.”
“Get the order!”
The soldiers on both sides immediately pulled out the bamboo tubes behind their backs and spread a huge map on the spot in front of Zhang Kuang and other generals.
Zhang Kuang and the others immediately squatted next to the map and silently examined the terrain and routes on the map. After a while, Zhang Kuang tapped heavily on the map.
"Brothers, we have been in the Big Food Country for about a year, and we have also experienced the winter in the Big Food Country. Although there is heavy snow over the Merovingian City in the Frankish Country, the Baghdad King City in the Big Food Country is now as warm as
Early spring weather.
At such a time, it was the best time for Huyan Governor to use a large number of troops.
Especially since the Kingdom of Rome and the Kingdom of Dashi are adjacent to each other, it would only take about half a month at best for Huyan Governor to lead his troops to attack from the Baghdad city of the Kingdom of Dashi to the city of Tantine in the Roman Kingdom.
It would take at least twenty-five days or even a month for Acrylic and his troops to withdraw from the Frankish country to the Roman country.
What I said is that this is based on the premise that the road is clear and suitable for marching. If the obstruction of wind and snow is added, it is estimated that it will take five to ten days for Acrylic and his 50,000 troops to return to Rome.
In this way, as long as God bless us, the Dragon Heavenly Dynasty, and the Huyan Warlord can receive our golden eagle message in time, then the Huyan Warlord can completely take a detour to the royal city of Rome and lead his troops to ambush the Roman legions in the middle of their retreat.
The little guy Acrylic was caught off guard.
You must know that the Roman legion under Acrylic's command was mainly infantry, but the soldiers and horses under Huyan Governor's command were mainly cavalry.
In this situation, if one can ambush and catch the Acrylic Legion by surprise, the cavalry's encirclement and attack on the unprepared infantry legion will be a one-sided massacre.
Coupled with the help of artillerymen on the side with infantry cannons, taking down the Roman legion will definitely minimize the losses of our soldiers to the minimum for Brother Huyan.
But this is just my conjecture about a good place. After all, the current weather has greatly affected the golden eagle's ability to identify directions. No one can guarantee whether the letter can reach the hands of the Huyan Governor in time!
This is my idea, do any of you have any different suggestions?”
Yereha pondered for a long time, took off the dry tobacco bag from his waist, lit the tobacco leaves and puffed out the smoke silently, just like he had just done.
After the pot of tobacco was burned out, Yaleha looked at Zhang Kuang with eyes filled with tears: "Commander, you said it yourself, this is just our unilateral conjecture. Whether the letter can be delivered to brother Huyan in time depends on
An unknown number!
If the message cannot be delivered to brother Huyan in time, and if we continue to use troops with this idea, it will not be brother Huyan who leads the troops to ambush and catch the Roman legions under Acrylic by surprise, but brother Huyan and his commander.
The soldiers and horses will be cut off by Acrylic, who has already fled back to Rome.
If the escape route is cut off, the supply of food and grass will inevitably be insufficient, and once the food and grass cannot be supplied in time, big trouble will occur!
If brother Huyan wants to break out, he will inevitably have a head-on confrontation with the Acrylic Legion. If he has a head-on confrontation with the Roman state when there is insufficient food and grass, then the losses of our soldiers will be higher than the head-on confrontation after the Acrylic Legion returns to the Royal City of Rome.
The attack was even more disastrous.
After all, in the two situations of sufficient food and grass and shortage of food and grass, the steps that the general must consider in deploying troops are often completely different.
I have to say that this is a pretty good plan, but there is also a huge element of gambling in it. If the gamble fails, Brother Huyan's losses will most likely exceed our expectations.
Finally, I feel that given our absolute advantage, it is better not to take risks.
After all, even if we were to attack the Roman city head-on, Huyan brother still had 30,000 soldiers and horses from the Dashi Kingdom to act as the vanguard of our soldiers, which could completely minimize the losses of our soldiers.
Since there is a sure way at hand, why should we take the risk to pursue the perfect plan?
So I think it is more appropriate to let Brother Huyan lead our soldiers steadily and gradually conquer the Roman Kingdom.
Commander, what do you brothers think?"
A group of generals stopped staring at the route on the map and looked at each other, not knowing for a moment whose strategy was better.
What the commander-in-chief said makes sense, and what the deputy commander-in-chief said also makes sense.
Both of them are thinking about their own interests, and it’s difficult to make a decision at once, which one’s idea is better?
Zhang Kuang once again took out his dry tobacco bag, filled it with cut tobacco, and lit it against Yaleha's pot: "Brother Yale, your plan is indeed more reliable than my plan, but it also reminded me of a new idea."
“Oh? I would like to hear the details.”
“Brother Yale, Brother Yale, you mentioned all the shortcomings in the plan I just talked about. I don’t deny that I took it too naturally.
Since the drawback of my plan is whether our message can be delivered to brother Huyan in time, then under the premise that none of us can guarantee it, we can settle for the next best thing to achieve a perfect result.
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For example, delaying the speed of the Acrylic Legion's withdrawal to Rome and buying time for Brother Huyan's actions.
It has been some time since the Acrylic Legion fled from the Frankish country after succeeding in the sneak attack. Our army, carrying a large number of baggage equipment, really cannot keep up with them.
But what if our army only pursues the pursuit with light and simple cavalry brothers? This should not be difficult for the experienced soldiers of our Western Expedition Army, right?"
“Hiss——General, do you mean to attack without attacking, and just delay their march?”
“That’s right, we only need to dispatch five thousand elite cavalry, which is enough to delay the retreat of the Acrylic Legion’s fifty thousand troops.
At that time, not only can Brother Huyan gain time to ambush the acrylic army midway, but he can also cooperate with Brother Huyan to carry out front and rear flanking attacks.
Thousands of cavalry can cover thousands of people.
Even though the five thousand cavalry of our army cannot break through the formation of the Acrylic Legion's fifty thousand soldiers and horses, it is not a big problem to wrap them in the battle formation.
As long as our five thousand light cavalry can trap the soldiers and horses of the Acrylic Legion, then the heavy cavalry and artillery under Brother Huyan can treat these barbarians as living targets and gradually kill them.
If the infantry artillery shells fall into a dense infantry phalanx, the result is needless to say.
With a bang, it was a big piece.
It is much easier to attack infantry in the wild than to attack infantry defending a fortified city, right?
Didn’t Acrylic seize the right opportunity? At this time, I, Dalongerlang, couldn’t pursue them immediately due to the weather? Then we just went in the opposite direction and acted against common sense.
If you dare to stab my big dragon in the back of the heart, I must let them know how many eyes Lord Ma has.
These barbarians must be shown how to do things they thought were impossible, despite all obstacles.
Only by being able to do what ordinary people cannot do can we live up to our emperor’s high expectations!
Three years. Within three years, our Western Expeditionary Army must capture all the barbarians in the Western countries at one stroke.
If only these barbarians could obey the king like the great food country and obey the orders of my great dragon.
If you dare to act against your will and commit such treacherous and backstabbing villainy as the Roman Empire, then it won’t be a big deal if one or two small foreign countries are missing from our Great Dragon Kingdom map.
To borrow the words of our junior nephew Jiang He, those who disobey the power of our great dragon will be slaughtered. What a big deal."
Zhang Kuang put away his tobacco pouch and glanced at the generals in the palace calmly: "What's the matter, you killers are still afraid that your shirts will be stained with the enemy's blood?"
The generals were stunned for a moment, then grinned, and the fierce and bloody aura emanated from their bodies from the inside out.
“We are willing to open up territory for the great dragon and conquer all directions. We are willing to sacrifice our lives for His Majesty the Emperor, even if we die.
There are people buried in the loess all over the world, so why return their corpses wrapped in horse leather? Long live the dragon, long live my emperor."
“We are willing to open up territory for the great dragon and conquer all directions. We are willing to sacrifice our lives for His Majesty the Emperor, even if we die.
There are people buried in the loess all over the world, so why return their corpses wrapped in horse leather? Long live the dragon, long live my emperor."
“We are willing to open up territory for the great dragon and conquer all directions. We are willing to sacrifice our lives for His Majesty the Emperor, even if we die.
There are people buried in the loess all over the world, so why return their corpses wrapped in horse leather? Long live the dragon, long live my emperor."
Hang Kuang stood up with a solemn expression, took out the tiger talisman from his wristband and held it in his hand.
“Ke Yan, Xiong Kaishan, Ning Chao, and Jiang Lei obey orders.”
“The end will be here.”
"I order you to immediately dispatch five thousand elite cavalry from each of your own battalions, bring enough food, grass and things to keep out the cold, and lightly equip yourself to go to pursue and suppress the Acrylic Army."
“We take the order!”
“Except for Deputy Commander Yeluha, the rest immediately went to each battalion to mobilize sophisticated troops, food and supplies, and fully assisted Keyan and his four men in chasing down the bandits.”
“We accept the order.”
“Act immediately.”
“We take our leave.”
After the generals left, Yeruha looked at Zhang Kuang with a complicated expression: "Brother Zhang, you have become much more murderous recently!"
Zhang Kuang sneered twice, took off the bearskin cloak behind him and laid it across the corpses of the three Longwu Guards officers on the ground. He touched the eyes of the twenty-three corpses one by one. Zhang Kuang's voice was slightly hoarse.
"If these barbarians are not completely frightened and subdued, today there are twenty-three brothers, tomorrow there may be two hundred and thirty brothers, and in the future there may be two thousand three hundred, twenty-three thousand,
Even more brothers in life and death will encounter bad news.
Most of the brothers are still young men! They are in their prime, and they will have great years waiting for them in the future! I don’t want to see this kind of thing happen again.
This incident can be regarded as a wake-up call for us. From now on, I would rather slaughter an enemy country than kill one of our soldiers."
Jerusa looked at Zhang Kuang's resolute expression in silence, sighed and nodded, patted Zhang Kuang's shoulder gently and walked out of the hall.