The ancient military book says: "Hanyang is an important town in the hinterland of Eminor. Surrounding Hanyang, it is surrounded by water on all sides, crossing Sanggan in the south, Han River in the north, Langlang in the east, and Hucheng in the west."
This sentence incisively describes the strategic geographical location of Hanyang City. The city was originally located at the intersection of the Han River and the Sanggan River. The two rivers plus the natural port Langlang Lake on the east side resulted in the water alleys in the city.
There are more than 1,600 springs in the city, and Hanyang has become a city of boats. There are no less than 10,000 large and small ships in the city. There are more than 500 crab-leg clippers on hand for the Hanyang navy alone. The combat power of the inland rivers and lakes navy ranks first among the seven major theaters.
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"Whoever gets Hanyang gets Sanggan, and whoever gets Sanggan gets the plains in the hinterland." The importance of this city can at least be ranked among the top three in the Sanggan River Basin.
Note: The tiger city is the same as the moat (river).
——"The Classic of Mountains and Seas"
Chapter 42 Running Dog General
After the bloody defeat of the Chi Aotian Expeditionary Force at Guiyao Town, looking at the situation on the Eminor continent, the West Emperor Group has an absolute advantage at this stage.
Although General Chi Hantong cleverly divided his troops and went south to build twin cities on the ground, these two cities only brought some variables to the war situation of the original mercenary empire, and they did not have an immediate impact on the local war situation, let alone the mainland.
The battle situation, in a sense, is a double
The establishment of the sub-city is a double-edged sword. The concentration of scattered mercenary forces in various places will certainly form a fist and form a local advantage, but at the same time, the far-reaching suppression troops of the Eastern Legion of Fanos can also be liberated.
Then they gathered around the Twin Cities to form an encirclement.
Except for this local area, the war situation in various parts of the continent fell to the West Emperor Group: Hamburg City as a strategic unit disappeared forever on the map. From then on, the Amy Empire no longer had A-level or above dangerous castles to rely on on the northern side of the continent.
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There were 300,000 fierce soldiers on the east and west sides of the Jielin War Zone. They were like a nutcracker with flashing blue paint. In the middle of the clamp was the Jielin War Zone commanded by Marshal Chi Datong. At that time, Jielin
War zone, together with swordsman battalion, ready
The total number of mercenaries was only a little over 100,000. Thirty iron troops surrounded the boundary forest. Just as a small staff officer named Takenaka Hanhei of the Nishi Emperor's staff headquarters said: Use all your strength to swing a 90-pound hammer to ensure that a 90-pound hammer is smashed.
Quail eggs. This sentence is true
It fully reflects the winning mood of all the officers of the West Emperor Group from top to bottom in the Jielin Battle. There is no reason why 300,000 elites cannot win against 100,000 miscellaneous troops. Even if they face Chi Aotian's expeditionary force, it will definitely happen again.
The battle of twists and turns.
The morale of the Xidijun Group is as high as ever, especially among the mid-level and senior officers, who generally have the idea that "win or lose will be decided in one battle, fight the Battle of Jielin with all your strength, and then you can have a good rest for several months after receiving rewards based on your merits."
In theory, this idea is definitely not that soldiers underestimate the enemy. When the siege of Jielin Battle was formed, the comparison of the territory occupied by the three parties in Eminor continent was as follows: West Emperor Group 46, Alcatraz 17, and the original force 35. The comprehensive combat strength comparison is as follows
: The Western Emperor Group 55, Alcatraz 15; the original force 30. The specific combat strength comparison of the Jielin Theater is as follows: Fanos Eastern Army 41, Fanos Western Army 32, Jielin Army 27.
On the sand table exercise map of the Xidijun Staff Headquarters, the Battle of Jielin, known as the "ж (Nutcracker) Plan", is expected to be completely concluded within three months. Immediately, the two major groups in the East and West will repair on the spot for 20 days, and then, the West
The group went south to meet Amy
The remnants of the Gyeonggi War Zone under his leadership launched a battle. The Eastern Group also went south along the boundary forest, attacked the important town of Tongyunguan, surrounded the point for reinforcements, and attracted Chi Changyun's troops from the south. After attracting Chi Changyun's troops from the south, they attacked from the north and south, and hunted the Empire's Holy Snow Mountain with at least 350,000 troops.
war zone.
The key point in this plan is that the Sanggan River War Zone can successfully attract the Amy Expeditionary Force for three months, not seeking merit, but seeking no faults, and even allowing the top commander of the Sanggan River War Zone to abandon some peripheral cities in exchange for this valuable
Three months later. During the sandbox delay, the Xidijun General Staff Headquarters came to the following conclusion: With the current strength of the Sanggan River War Zone, even the Amy Group with Dragon Knights can fight every 30 kilometers on the mainland highway.
Reduce the number of troops by 100, and reduce the number of troops by 1,000 for each small and medium-sized city conquered. If you want to conquer a medium-sized and large city with more than 100,000 people, it will take at least a month, and the number of casualties will never be less than 5,000. Such time and battle damage numbers are enough, Staff
The headquarters chose the final decisive battle site on the Hanyang City line on the north bank of the Sangqian River. In the deduction conducted by the General Staff Headquarters, no one ever thought that Hanyang, a city that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, would be captured.
Since the Bloody Night in the Imperial Capital, Hanyang City, the site of the Four Battles, has been firmly controlled by the Western Emperor camp.
Becoming one of the most important chess pieces of the new dynasty, Hanyang City's strategic status has improved, but the city's vitality, people's living standards, and the treatment of soldiers have dropped a lot.
As a water and land transportation hub city, tolls and boat and bridge taxes have always been the largest sources of income for Hanyang City Guards. This alone accounts for 5% of the entire Amy Empire’s tax revenue. Why did the former deputy minister of the empire arrange for his children and relatives to live here?
Being a local general, amassing money is also one of the most important reasons. The so-called daily income makes money... This kind of argument means nothing in Hanyang City. In peacetime, the four major gates of Hanyang City used the head tax collected every day to enter the city.
basket to measure.
After the Bloody Night in Scambrai City, the entire continent of Eminor fell into war and the separatism of kings. Hanyang City's income suddenly dropped to less than 3% of the original. This huge gap was immediately reflected in the city, and business gradually became depressed.
Business groups were laid off in large numbers
Tens of thousands of workers were lost, followed by rumors of dissatisfaction among the people. Under this situation, the Imperial Vice Minister had to remove the best and most combat-savvy "lackey general" in his system, Count Rebaton.
Transferred to guard this strategic location.
Speaking of Earl Rebaton, he is an absolute outlier among the many senior generals in the Imperial Army.
Most of the promotion paths for imperial army generals can be divided into three different camps. The largest proportion is the knight school faction. They graduate from the three major knight schools in the empire. After entering the army, they start as middle and low-level officers, and eventually become senior generals step by step.
, most of them are children of imperial families; the officers who are from imperial civilian backgrounds are taking the second path, that is, starting from the lowest level of soldiers, steadily accumulating military exploits, and relying on their own strength to be promoted step by step, and finally
He finally became a general who won the support of his subordinates. Although it is difficult for this group to have a handsome staff, it accounts for 1/2 of the ranks at the levels of captain, squadron leader, and squad leader; there is also a small number of officers who are responsible for staff, operations, and planning.
When the civilian officer system gradually reaches senior officers, this type of officer is often known for his resourcefulness, which is often called a wise general. The officers of the three camps are also the main components of the Phantom Beast Knight. Therefore, the Phantom Beast Knight is not regarded as a separate
system.
The lifelong Earl of Ray Barton was completely different. He was originally an unknown shepherd in the territory of the Marquis of Delaware family. He definitely did not look like a strong man, and could even be said to be a bit frail.
Carnivores such as wild wolves and brown bears are often found in the Messis Snow Mountains. In a year, at least 10% of the livestock are plundered by these carnivores. As a shepherd, if you have a flock of sheep or cattle under your jurisdiction, such tragedies often occur.
, will inevitably be punished by family officials.
When Rebaton was 14 years old, there were several heavy snowfalls at the beginning of autumn in the Messis Snow Mountains. Two feet of ice and snow covered the mountains thousands of miles away, making it impossible for wolves and brown bears to hunt normally, even if they were frozen.
Some of the dead animals were covered under the deep snow, and not even a trace of their smell was exposed. The wolves were lucky, these brown bears were about to hibernate, and they were just missing this last bite of food, and their eyes were red with hunger.
Dozens of hungry wolves and four or five bears that were also dizzy with hunger just happened to break into the sheep flock that Rebaton was in charge of. These guys were probably frightened by hunger. Not only did they eat and drink, they all had to retreat in the end.
When they arrived, each wolf actually had to pack up and take away a portion. As for the brown bears, it was even more annoying.
These big guys, presumably to ensure the quality of their hibernation, held a sheep in their mouths and carried two on their shoulders. They also hummed a mountain village tune: 3--5--6--3--5-
-,6--5--3--1--2--just like a triumphant look of "returning from target shooting".
When something like this happens, no matter how charitable the steward is, he cannot let it go. Even if he has pity in his heart, he cannot not punish him. Otherwise, if such a thing happens again, then all the animals on the mountain will be sent away with singing and dancing.
Into the mouth of a beast? The young boy Ray Barton was pushed to the ground, beaten severely, and fined a year's salary.
The 14-year-old boy immediately showed his genius. Gritting his teeth, the boy first gathered all the sheep in the sheep pen and starved them for two days. Then he borrowed a wolf skin from the old shepherd and sprinkled the sheep with salt water.
On the most delicious fresh grass, and then put the fresh grass into the wolf skin, filling it with the appearance of wolves and bears. The goats saw these carnivores
I was scared at first, but also very hungry. Then I found that these carnivores didn’t seem to attack me, and I smelled the delicious aroma of food in their bodies. I couldn’t help but be hungry, so I tried to pick open the wolf skin with my horns, and wow - I finally ate it.
Food... baa - baa - baa - this sandwich tastes good too, and the sheep started to praise it.
Reibator saw that there was a door, and then began to add the smell of the animal itself on the wolf skin and bear skin. Finally, he simply replaced it with freshly peeled bloody wolf skin and wrapped it in fresh grass to train the sheep's courage.
The young man is very careful. He is worried that if he encounters a pack of wolves, if one of the sheep is killed by the wolves first, the whole flock will be nervous. By throwing stones, he directed the sheep to line up in a neat square formation and charge -
―From a distance, he even looks like a regular knight. Moreover, he brings in sick wolves and disabled wolves to let the sheep practice their skills. Once the wolf is killed, the sheep are rewarded with salt water. In the process
, he specially found a few famous great white bear dogs to herd the sheep. These dogs are much larger than ordinary dogs. From a distance, they look about the same size as the snow wolves in the frozen continent. They are not afraid of wolves at all.
, even if it encounters a brown bear, it dares to pounce on it and bite it. It is usually used to guard the sheep. During training, it uses a whistle to command the big white bear to bite the disobedient sheep into the sheep charging group.
A child in his 10s commanded a flock of sheep to do this. The adults didn't bother to pay attention. Even if they saw it, they would just treat it as their own entertainment. Children all like to ride horses and fight, so they will never remember this.
In my heart.
However, since then, Rebaton's sheep have never been lost to wild beast attacks. In one encounter with 20 wild wolves, more than 150 sheep actually killed 16 wild wolves with their weak horns.
One winter, Rebaton harvested a lot of sheep from his flock.
There are more than 30 wolves. Rebaton is young and has a very tight mouth. No one tells anyone these things - in fact, it is a child who is greedy for money. If you tell this matter, someone in charge will definitely come over immediately and ask for wolf skins to make a coat. If
You can sell it without saying anything and add something to yourself.
After all, fire cannot be contained in paper.
When Rebaton was 18 years old, which was the fourth year after he had quietly made a fortune in sheep for three years, the ranch was moved across a distance of 400 miles. Considering that there were often gangs of thieves in the mountainous areas, the head steward of the Marquis family
A D-level mercenary group was specially hired to escort the whole process.
It is a good principle to hire a mercenary group to protect you. Unfortunately, in order to save money, the manager hired a low-level mercenary group, with a total of more than 120 mercenaries. It scared away the little thieves along the way, but in the end it attracted
The largest snow-capped mountains in Messis
One of the largest gangs of thieves is the "Iron Pickle". The Iron Pickle is both the name of the thieves group and the nickname of Robin Hood, the leader of the thieves group. As the name suggests, wherever this thieves go, like the Iron Pickle, they grab all the people they can.
Caught everything in my arms.
A group of more than 400 thieves faced off against a group of more than 120 mercenaries, and even set up an ambush in a decent manner. The mercenary group followed the mercenary's duty, knowing that they could not defeat them, but still rushed over, and were soon defeated.
The thieves who came prepared were all cut down.
Rebaton was anxious - with so many thieves rushing over, even if he was let go, they would definitely snatch away all the sheep. The young man didn't want to be greeted by a cane on his butt again. Just like that, his eyes were red.
The young man used the sheep and dog formation used to hunt wild wolves against the bandit group.
Over the past three years, the sheep flock commanded by Rebaton has grown rapidly because it has not been too much persecuted by those poor wild beasts. There are now more than 500 sheep, large and small, and more than 60 Great Pyrenees.
The Tiebazi thieves group defeated the mercenary group and thought that everything was fine. The thieves hummed "Pigs, sheep, where are you sending them... To the dear Tiebazi... Hey... Hey... Hey hey
"Yo..." and prepared to come up to pull the sheep. As a result... to their great surprise, this large group of sheep did not
Like other flocks of sheep running around, they lined up neatly, with 20 sheep in a row, big sheep, rams in front, lambs in the back, "one, two, three, four, tango, tango... just
Walking forward, lowering your head every time you take two steps, sharpening your corners every time you take four steps..." He walked over step by step - just counting by himself.
The thieves were so happy that their goats were dripping out. This was so easy. At a glance, they could tell how many sheep there were in the group. They could easily divide the sheep after looking at them. How could they guess? These seemingly obedient sheep were thinking.
While enjoying the delicious fragrant grass and flowing with halazi, he took advantage of the opportunity of pacing to adjust the formation to the best attack state.
Just when the thieves happily opened their arms and prepared to come up to share the loot, the snow-white sheep suddenly started running quickly with whistles, and 40 sheep horns more than one foot long were arranged in a row, leaving no gaps at all. These sheep turned out to be
Used to deal with wolves. The wolves are so fast that the thieves can't match them. The wolves have been defeated, so what does the thieves mean?
What the thieves couldn't have imagined was that the height of these adult rams was just up to a person's waist. When they buried their heads and stretched their two horns forward, this...this...the position of the horns seemed a bit obscene no matter how high they were.
Especially the width between the two horns, it doesn't feel like it was designed to resist ferocious predators, but it seems like it was tailor-made to reduce human reproduction capacity. The dozens of thieves in front didn't even have time to call out "Mom"
I suffered a huge loss. No matter how I poked the two horns, no matter whether they passed through one leg, at least one of them would appear in the middle of the two legs...
This overwhelming array of horns continuously pierced, poked, pricked, picked, and squeezed human vital parts... The thirty or so thieves at the front simply fainted without saying a word...
The thieves behind immediately discovered the secret, threw down the weapons in their hands and ran away... This... It seems that the thieves are quite smart. They put their shields on their buttocks while running. There is no shield.
Just push the pot up - the front is the key, and the back is actually the same. In case of being pierced by the horns
... Nothing tastes good anymore... The thieves are still wondering, what are these sheep doing? Just pierce them, it only hurts a little, and you can bear it... Why do you have to pull them out when you pierce them?
Pulling it back and forth, and even seeming to open it up to take a look... What's so interesting in this butt? Many thieves never figured this out until they died.
As a result, except for the more than 60 thieves who climbed up the tree one by one with quick hands and feet, all the other thieves were knocked down. Nearly 20% of the thieves died tragically at the feet of the sheep. In the end, only more than 100 thieves escaped.
Ray Barton became famous in one battle! After gaining the recognition of the Marquis, he changed from a shepherd to a semi-professional soldier in the territory, and even had the title of a low-level officer. Tens of days later, a group of men rubbing their buttocks and just below the belly found
The leader was none other than Robin Hood, the iron pickpocket. According to Robin Hood: "
As professional thieves, my comrades and I have never been afraid of death or injury, but...your actions in the past few days still frightened me and other thieves. In order to avoid being seriously injured by your flock again, we might as well take refuge with you.
It’s enough to make a living, and at the same time ensure that we can continue our family lineage.”
Such legendary stories are not necessarily credible, but it is an ironclad fact that the thief Robin Hood finally took his trusted subordinates to join Ray Barton.
Later, Rebaton went through many conflicts with different thieves groups, and finally obtained the position of deputy commander of the territorial guard of the marquis family, and also had the title of family baron. Then, in order to have his own power in the army, the former deputy prime minister
, recommended Ray Barton to serve in the army, and eventually became a famous general. Of course, Ray Barton's soldiers were no longer animals, but the derogatory nickname of "running dog general" was still used.
What made the soldiers quite difficult to understand was that Mr. Darwin, the famous zoologist of later generations, got great inspiration from this battle. In his book "The Theory of Evolution of Species", he firmly believed that: natural selection
, for the sheep living in the mountains, the biggest enemy for thousands of years is definitely not the wolf
Herds are not like brown bears or golden eagles, but humans. Otherwise...the sheep have worked hard for tens of millions of years to evolve, so how come they have developed weapons that target the two most critical areas of human beings? Ahem...sigh...if...
If there is a heroic spirit under Marshal Rebaton’s Nine Springs, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry when I read an article like this?
Putting aside these past histories, when General Rebaton just held the seal of General Sangganhe, he looked at the panic among the many officers below, and then looked at the fact that most ordinary soldiers and low-level officers did not know which side to be loyal to.
Your Majesty the King, not to mention that most of the citizens have hungry hostility in their eyes. When soldiers pass by on the street, there must be children spitting behind them.
The general is indeed a big head. If things continue like this, there is no need to wait for other armies to come over. As long as His Majesty Hongshi sends a civilian official here to cheer up, these people may rush into the general's mansion and tie themselves up.
A small gift dedicated to His Majesty Red Stone.
The order from the imperial capital is that if it is really impossible to adopt a gentle strategy, then force suppression is a relatively safe method. For cities that are very unstable and geographically important, if necessary, the methods may be more violent. To paraphrase the former deputy imperial minister
Words from adults: In troubled times, use heavy codes.
I can’t tell the master:
Dear readers, hello everyone. In the past two months, I have taken over a new online game product. I have been so busy that I sometimes can't go to bed until 3 or 4 o'clock for several days in a row. Therefore, the progress of the mercenary has been seriously delayed.
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Please forgive me.
Mercenaries Volumes 1 and 2 have been mail-ordered. Currently, five readers have had their books returned. I will post them this afternoon.
I will post the mail order list for the third and fourth volumes of Mercenaries in the evening. The fourth volume has not been printed yet - the publishing house is quite tight on editions, so it has been delayed for a few days.
In addition, according to news from the publishing house, the situation of mercenary publishing is getting better and better, and patches have been published in Northeast, Yunnan and other places. Here, I would like to thank my readers and friends for their continuous support over the years.