War has always been given too much legendary color in the books of human history. And some of the famous battles, regardless of whether the two sides won or lost, have been added with too many unnecessary colors and meanings in the writings of later generations.
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And only when you are in it, you will find that when steel and flesh impact and collide amidst countless shouts, and decide whether to stay or go for each other's will, the embellishments that those who came later added to it with their own imagination are
It looks so dry and pale.
The large group of packhorses and people spread from the road above the plain. From a high-altitude perspective, this group of people meandered for several kilometers on the simple road paved with loess in the old days, all the way to the end of the horizon. p>
This is the original battlefield condition created by backward productivity and blank infrastructure.
No matter how advanced an organization is, when its meticulous plan is finally implemented in this environment, it will be like a knight in white who has to fight the enemy in mud and water. It will inevitably reveal the ugly form of war. p>
Once the number of the crowd exceeds a thousand, it will fill the field of vision; once it exceeds a thousand, it will be boundless. This is especially true when such a team marches on a relatively narrow road.
Calvin was standing next to the central attack group, on a high ground outside the torrent of cavalry and dragoons, observing the marching status of the entire army from the perspective of the highest will of one of the war parties.
The troops in front of him, including logistics support personnel, totaling 161,000 people, are operating closely under the organizational structure he personally set up with seemingly chaotic but actually orderly inertia.
The troops carry a lot of supplies, but they are actually only enough for a short period of time. More supplies are being assembled from the rear as planned, and then rushed towards their reserved battlefield, so that the main force he leads can be replenished nearby after the war.<
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Since the beginning of the war, the tribal side led by Calvin has used its cavalry advantage to the extreme with a clear purpose.
The vanguard of nearly 90,000 people formed nine legions in units of 10,000 people. The three legions were in the same main attack direction, led by Alan Janus, Elvis, and Mars respectively. They were like sharp knives heading towards the south.
The long border of the neighboring Principality of Norton is inserted.
The elite leading troops had already dispersed into the enemy's rear on the eve of the war. With their cooperation, the main force, with the close cooperation of cavalry and dragoons, penetrated and surrounded various local passes, and then started one battle after another with absolute strength superiority.
A short but extremely intense small-scale battle.
This is the end of the era of cold weapon warfare and the beginning of the emergence of gunpowder weapons.
The gunpowder technology that the southern countries regarded as a treasure was a joke in Calvin's eyes. But he did not rush to come up with equivalent weapons after the southern countries had gunpowder technology. Instead, he chose to give it to the other side when the war started.
A big surprise.
Small-scale passes were easily captured, and difficult-to-conquer fortresses also fell with huge roars in the face of prepared high-energy explosives.
As for the truly large-scale fortress city, the light-armed legions who came forward chose to surround it rather than attack it, leaving it to the main force that arrived later. Calvin's heavy artillery would let them know what the roar of the God of War is.
The effect of such tactics is obvious, and it is a war model that is difficult for enemy countries still in the era of feudal knights to understand.
Under this mode of targeted strikes, the enemy's top brass cannot even have a clear understanding of their own situation. The pass in front has not been lost, but the passage in the middle and the warehouse in the rear have both been lost.
But the commander in charge of this direction did not wait for the warning from the rear until he died in battle...
The commanders of the royal city could not understand the war situation they were facing. The border alarm had just sounded, and before the knights from various places responded to the call and had time to assemble their troops, snow-like reports of area loss had already appeared in the royal city before their flags.
In the eyes of the nobles.
But even these reports have little timeliness left. After they have been processed through a crude and backward mechanism with unclear rights and responsibilities, and then submitted to higher levels, they have already delayed too much precious time.
Inefficient battlefield information appears on the desks of the monarchs of the southern countries, but it is actually out of date before it is put on it.
More alarms were not even reported, but died silently in the targeted interceptions of the leading troops.
This is a cross-era collision of tactical concepts. It is also a tactical thinking that clearly recognizes the dimensions of intelligence, timeliness, organizational strength, execution effectiveness, etc. It is a unilateral crushing of the understanding of combat that is still stuck in the farming era.
Pressure.
For a whole month, the legionnaires who marched forward did not even encounter any organized resistance during their leap forward. Medieval knights led dozens or hundreds of militiamen. In the eyes of professional soldiers, they were the same as their lords.
What a pathetic joke
The vanguard force of 30,000 people in the central direction, under the command of Alan Janus, captured all the planned tactical targets along the way. Even the only remaining large fortress city was deceived out of the main force under his intelligence inducement, and was subsequently declared to be lost.
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Against the background of such a war situation, the functions of the base camp underwent changes that made Calvin and his staff members dumbfounded:
The expected siege mission no longer exists, but the planned heavy siege supplies are still arriving one after another along with the supplementary troops from the second line.
Under this background, the footsteps of the 150,000 people in the base camp became slower and slower, and eventually it became a mobile logistics support point, and a large-scale mobile military camp that continuously dispatched security forces to maintain stability along the way to receive the results of the battle ahead...
The war continued like this. The other six legions in the two directions also ran like wolves, strangling the unformed lords' troops at the doorstep.
The war started in March and ended in September. Within six months, the first country adjacent to the northern continent collapsed under the iron heel of the tribe. Tens of thousands of troops directly under the royal family and powerful nobles scattered throughout the country,
It also didn’t delay the Horde’s attack plan for another day.
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Until the central cluster led by Allen arrived at the foot of the royal city, the remaining two countries did not even have time to complete their respective war preparations.
Until the city was destroyed, the nobles and merchants of the royal city were still reluctant to wake up from the reality of failure as if they were in a dream. It was difficult for them to understand why they failed so simply despite having tried their best.<
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After the king presented his crown and seal, he was imprisoned in the palace and awaited Calvin's trial.
The wings of the once-powerful palace nobles were completely cut off under the clear and clear power takeover plan of the General Staff.
Calvin's policy direction is very clear: bypass these large nobles and direct the butcher knife at the middle-level nobles of the kingdom. After killing these real maintainers of the ruling class, the large nobles who have lost contact with the grassroots will completely lose the possibility of rebellion and restoration.<
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The great nobles without their subordinates and vassals are like fish out of water, unable to make waves anymore. They can only huddle in the dark corners of their mansions, waiting for their end in hatred and curses... The northern continent has entered the cold season since July, and the increasingly cold environment has sharply increased logistical pressure.
Calvin was no longer eager to attack the remaining two countries. Under his order, the various legions of the tribe began to garrison on the spot to absorb and digest the results of the previous battle.
The first phase of the war came to an end, and Calvin's attention shifted away from the war and began to examine the management level of the army.
A war that goes too smoothly is a double-edged sword. While it builds the tribal army's confidence in victory, it also encourages their contempt for the enemy and their increasingly obvious arrogance.
Whether it is Allen who is commanding from the front or Calvin's own subordinates, an overly optimistic view of the war begins to appear among grassroots officers, and even some legion leaders and middle-level staff officers also vaguely reveal this tendency.
This is the inevitable result of human nature, and it is also a manifestation of the insufficient training foundation of the officer team.
Calvin knew this and had been prepared for it. The leaders of the legions in the base camp who had not been able to participate in the frontline war were summoned, and under Calvin's order they rushed to the frontline with the middle-level officers from the staff headquarters.
At the front, Allen, Elvis and others also redeployed their troops and began to quietly replace the original troop leadership composition with the addition of rotating legions from the rear.
The officers who returned from the front line were transferred to temporary posts in the newly formed staff department, and were re-trained in the army training brigade beside Calvin.
They will temporarily withdraw from the war and review the previous war from an outsider's perspective.
The decisions of these commanders in previous wars will also be evaluated one by one by Calvin during this period, so that together with their learning results, they will decide their future destinations.
This reinvention mechanism is not only applicable to high-level generals, but has also been extended to low-level officers in various legions.
War is a melting pot, and a victorious war is a feast. The law of the capable and the mediocre is particularly evident at this time.
A large number of middle- and low-level officers with outstanding abilities emerged from this half-year campaign. In a short period of time, they will go through the path that their predecessors have gone through for more than ten years and directly become the backbone of the army.
Because of this, the stability and purity of their thoughts must be guaranteed, which is also the focus of the entire tribe's work at this stage...
It is already December in the depth of winter, and cold air currents are sweeping down from the north, making the principality of Norton, located in the temperate zone, covered in silver and covered with heavy snow.
Ibáñez, the capital of the Province of Mendoza, is also the largest port city on the border between the Principality of Norton and the Kingdom of Fallas.
The prosperity here, which once benefited from the northern fur and medicinal trade, has been trampled beyond recognition by the war.
The once bustling Central Market and the tax collector's residence had been deserted a few months ago and had become homes for homeless people and refugees.
This is not an accidental phenomenon. When the royal city fell and the news came here that the king had surrendered to the enemy, the merchants and lower-level nobles had already begun to pack up their belongings and flee to neighboring countries.
Count Palio, the lord of the city lord's palace, showed extraordinary loyalty in this context.
He stayed at his post until the legion under Allen's command arrived, and then led the crowd out of the city under the petition of the whole city's elders, surrendering in exchange for the peaceful takeover of the legion and basic respect for the local people.
Alan Janus personally attended the surrender ceremony because the geographical location here is of special value to the tribe:
As the southernmost territory of the Principality of Norton, when this city was conquered, it meant that the last flag of the former Principality of Norton was also lowered.
All the legal signs of the Principality of Norton have been erased so far. The civil resistance has also rapidly collapsed after losing its last spiritual reliance...
This is now the headquarters of Alan Janus's legion. Tens of thousands of soldiers gathered here under his command.
When winter comes, as the only transportation hub within a hundred miles nearby, this is not only the base camp for the legion's repair and rotation, but also the starting point for the legion's attack after the snow clears up next spring.
Calvin mobilized more armor, weapons and winter supplies here, and at the same time, more soldiers were moving here to replace those soldiers who had been away fighting for half a year.
The logistics supply vehicles transported from the base camp to here are connected to the city, and they do not stop day and night. Even ice and snow cannot stop them.
The border of the Kingdom of Farias, a hundred kilometers away, was in shock three times a day. Even though they knew that winter was not conducive to the use of troops, they watched every move here nervously. They remained silent in the face of the increasing power of the legion and did not dare to move. p>
In the hall of the former city lord's palace, Allen sat alone behind the table under the dim candlelight, handling the government affairs of the legion.
Within a few months, his identity had undergone tremendous changes.
He is no longer the former Chapter Master of the Fire Eagles and a warrior of the Astartes. Instead, he has unknowingly become the leader of a legion with tens of thousands of troops under Calvin's command.
The identity of the former has been completely abandoned by him with his awakening, while the responsibility of the latter has made this warrior who transcends mortals feel heavy pressure.
The management of the legion is an extremely complex task, and it is also a heavy responsibility.
But fortunately, this kind of pressure is still within the range of Allen's handling. It is probably due to the information processing ability of the Mary's Gland. His genetically modified body obtained from Calvin is naturally adapted to this kind of complex government work.<
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He can even work hard every day and still have enough energy to exercise for a long time and recover his martial arts skills.
But right now, he is laughing and crying because of the letter he received in his hand.
The attitude of the tribe towards the southern countries is very obvious, and the monarchs and ministers of the Kingdom of Fallas also clearly read this dangerous signal in the increasing size of the troops under Allen's command.
But they dare not fight back.
The tribe's previous offensive of sweeping fallen leaves in the autumn wind caused Norton's century-old foundation to collapse in a few months. It really frightened these indigenous nobles who had built their country on commerce and had enjoyed peace for hundreds of years.
This is evident from the situation in the province of Mendoza.
They didn't even dare to take a bite of the corpse of the Principality of Norton, but were willing to wait until Allen and his legion arrived, watching helplessly as the legion conquered the entire province, but they didn't dare to use a single soldier or armor rashly.
They dreamed of a non-existent peace, but the tribe's endless reinforcements made them smell the smell of blood.
The monarchs and ministers thought hard about the approaching destruction to no avail. In the end, I don’t know who suggested it, but they actually hit Alan on the body:
"You are like a dragon or a phoenix among men, with tens of thousands of soldiers and countless armors. In life, you are in power, and in death, there is a bell to accompany you. At this time when heroes are vying for the throne, can you be the successor to others?"
Allen didn't think much about it, but chose to send the messenger and Xin together overnight to deliver it to Calvin, who was still in the royal city.
While the latter was also busy with government affairs, he saw this letter from his new adjutant that pleased him: