On a cloudy morning, Duke Tulip led 50,000 of the best-equipped "Thor's Whip" to the north, and 20,000 mobilized local garrisons escorted a large number of war materials to the north.
The north has been divided into a war zone, the Northern Command has been formed, two veteran generals with deep qualifications have been transferred from the Imperial Command, and Duke Tulip has been appointed as the supreme commander of the war zone.
The war, and so began While everyone was waiting for news from the north, the north was surprisingly quiet.
Although the coalition forces of more than a dozen kingdoms in the Roland Continent have put on a posture of crossing the sea, they have not acted for a long time.
It was thought that Duke Tulip would be the first hero of this war, and the first hero of this war was born Not in the north, but in the northwest, in the Watt fortress, just when everyone's eyes were on the north, within a month, the situation in the northwest changed dramatically A shining star rose in the northwest, General Eliho, the commander of the Northwest Army, who is forty-two years old this year.
Born into a military aristocratic family, one of the traditional forces of the military.
The 169th graduating cadet of the Imperial Academy, a fourth-class samurai, has a good military course.
He once served as the deputy commander of the garrison of the Imperial Fenli Province, the commander, because of the merit of the suppression of bandits, and then promoted to the influence of the family, he was returned to Yanjing and entered the Imperial Command as the deputy chief of staff, and after several years of civilian work in the Command, after accumulating enough qualifications, he was transferred to the deputy commander of the Central Cavalry Corps, and after the Northwest War, he was transferred from the Central Cavalry Corps to the commander of the Northwest Corps and presided over the military affairs of the Northwest Corps.
Andy's evaluation after reading this information is: Medium and medium distance, nothing special.
Indeed, judging by the data, there is nothing special about this General Eliho.
Born into an upper-class aristocratic family in the empire, he entered the army at the age of twenty, and after twenty-two years, he sat down to the position of the first leader of a legion.
The only little credit is that when I was young, I had "exterminated banditry and chaos" This article, however, you know, when this kind of aristocratic officer from a big family is promoted, he often uses this kind of "excuse", although this kind of person with strong family power cannot immediately sit in a high position after entering the army, but it is often just a formality, starting from middle and low-level officers, and accumulating qualifications.
Suppress the bandits, and there are so many bandits in the interior of the empire Then he climbed up step by step in the army, climbed for 22 years, and finally commanded a legion, took charge of a party's military affairs, and survived to the first person in the northwest.
In fact, this is the case with many high-ranking people in the imperial side.
But Andy still saw something unusual in this information, this general Eliho passed the title succession examination at the age of twenty-two and received the title of earl This is already a very remarkable thing, you know, under the special and strict assessment of the imperial title, it is definitely not an easy thing to pass the assessment at the age of twenty-two in one fell swoop In fact, General Elliot is not the eldest son in the family, but his elder brother After losing the right to inherit the title, he came forward to participate in the assessment, and the result was successful in one fell swoop Andy checked the records of that year, and this General Eliho actually passed the knighthood examination with the qualification of a third-class samurai At the age of twenty-two, he reached the third-level samurai, although it is not too powerful, but in the pampered aristocratic family, it is already very rare to know that in order to reduce the difficulty in the title assessment, many nobles deliberately lower their samurai level in order to participate in the low-level title assessment.
For example, when Luo Di participated in the knighthood assessment, he was only a first-class warrior, and the nobles who signed up for the third-level warrior examination that time were only a few out of two hundred This Eliho actually didn't hide his strength, and he openly obtained the qualification of a third-level samurai before inheriting the title, isn't he afraid that the title assessment will become more difficult because of his title of third-level samurai, if this is really the case, then it can only show that he is very confident in his strength There's a reason why Andy is so careful about the information on this General Eliho A month ago, Rosenthal led his troops to raid Fort TrierOriginally, Fort Trier was occupied by the Great Moon Kingdom in the previous Northwest War, but after the war, according to the negotiations that Rodi participated in, the empire paid 500,000 gold coins to redeem it, and as a result, the vanguard troops led by this Eliot to ambush Rochenthal outside the city defeated the enemy army in one fell swoop, killing 10,000 people of the Great Moon King's team Then the main army of Rochenthal arrived and collided head-on with the Northwest Army, which was defeated by the steppe iron cavalry in the field battle and retreated.
However, before the army of the Great Moon Kingdom besieged the city, Eliot took the initiative to break through and abandon Fort Trier, and the whole army withdrew from Fort Trier This move is undoubtedly surprising, after all, in the northwest defense strategy of the imperial command: the only two remaining military fortresses in the northwest, Fort Trier and Watt Fortress, are important military strongholds, as long as these two military strongholds are held, the two places are divided into horns and echo each other, so that the northwest can be preserved But what happened next surprised Andy even more Rochenthal's 200,000-strong army had just entered Fort Trier and was not firmly established, and Elliot was immediately killed The Northwest Corps immediately surrounded Fort Trier This is a very clever trap Before evacuating Fort Trier, Eliho had poisoned all the wells in the city, and then according to the terrain in front of Fort Trier, countless horse-rejecting fortifications were arranged outside the city gate, and those strong horse-rejecting horses with sharp blades on them had caused Rochenthal a great headache, and he was worried that he would suffer great losses in the siege battle, but Eliho's sudden abandonment of Fort Trier allowed him to occupy this important fortress in the northwest without a single soldier.
However, before Rochenthal could dismantle the horse-rejecting fortifications outside the city gates, the Northwest Army actually killed a horse pistol Instead, Fort Trier was besieged At this point, Rochenthal was immediately in a predicament.
The dense rejecting horses under the city gate prevented his cavalry from rushing out of the city to break through with the enemy.
Although such terrain will also affect the opposing infantry, for the steppe cavalry who need to rely on large-scale charges, it is a dead place, a dead place full of killing opportunities at every step Eliot is almost a madman, he sent the heavy infantry of the Northwest Army to block the city regardless of losses, he simply used his heavy infantry as a meat shield to use, with tens of thousands of meat shields, plus the terrible rejection of horses under the city gate, Rochenthal's cavalry could not rush at all, and he could not play an advantage at all, and Eliot seemed to see the fatal shortcomings of the steppe iron cavalry at a glance, Rochenthal did not have infantry, in the case of cavalry was useless, the other party did not have excellent infantry, those brave cavalry on the grassland, Dismounted, as if they couldn't fight, facing the well-trained infantry and tight infantry of the Empire of Light, the steppe warriors of Rochenthal lost the help of their horses, as if they had hit a wall.
After many bloody battles, the Northwest Army lost nearly 20,000 excellent infantry, and the cavalry of Rochenthal also kept losing in that dead land Fortunately, Eliho's troops were also insufficient, so he only besieged the city and did not attack the city, and put all his strength on blocking the city gate and preventing the other party from coming out.
Although the Northwest Army was expanded to 200,000 before the previous Northwest War, Eliho still had 50,000 men to garrison the fortress of Watt, and he had only 150,000 troops besieged under Fort Trier.
But relying on this delicate trap, the 150,000 men of the Northwest Army trapped the 200,000 cavalry of Rochenthal in Fort Trier All the water sources in the city had already been poisoned, leaving Rochenthal's army without a supply of water, and although they had enough food to eat, they had little water After drinking the poisonous water in the city by mistake on the first day, thousands of soldiers died and tens of thousands lost their combat effectiveness.
And as time went on, the army lacking water became less and less combative In the end, after being besieged for the fifth day, Rochenthal had no choice but to make a desperate bet and ordered to break out at all costs Elliot knew very well that he was short enough to really swallow Rochenthal, so he wisely did not fight the other side.
After letting go of the city gate and letting the other party break out, he led the army to chase all the way behind for more than a hundred miles.
The soldiers of Rochenthal were already weakened after a few days of lack of water replenishment, and as a result, they were defeated all the way, losing their troops and retreating to the important town of Mudan.
In this battle, the Northwest Army lost nearly 30,000 people, of which more than 20,000 were lost in the siege battle as a meat shield, and the 200,000 troops brought out by the Dayue King team of Luo Chentar ran back less than 100,000, of which more than 30,000 were lost in battles for several days, and nearly 30,000 people were lost in the breakout, and nearly 10,000 people were captured by the Northwest Army, and more than 30,000 wounded patients in the city lost their combat effectiveness because of serious water shortage or drinking poisonous water.
These logs were ruthlessly given up by Rochenthal as a strong man with a broken wrist.
After counting the results, Eliho made another move that shocked everyone The 30,000 soldiers in the city and the 10,000 enemy soldiers who were captured in the pursuit were all executed by Elliot's order, and Yanjing was in an uproar by such an iron-blooded and ruthless decision This kind of action was immediately attacked by the scholars of those civilizations in the empire, the empire is a powerful civilized country, the slaughter of prisoners of war and civilians has always been the shameless means of those steppe barbarians, how can our great imperial warriors do such a thing to slaughter prisoners of war who have no ability to resist, that is to tarnish the glory of the empire And Eliot seems to be a wooden man at all, ignoring any scolding and attacks, and simply giving a report to His Majesty the Emperor.
The report was very simple, and there was one passage that Andy admired very much "The Great Moon Kingdom is vast and sparsely populated, the grassland population is only one million, excluding the old and weak women, the young and middle-aged are only a few hundred thousand, killing one is one less and one is less than one point, such a young and middle-aged man, the more he loses, the weaker the opponent's national strength will be.
The minister's practice is to pull out the root of the northwest for the empire for a hundred years."
Andy immediately ordered the newspaper to carry out propaganda, avoiding the massacre of prisoners of war, publicizing the victory in the Northwest, praising the merits of the Northwest Army Commander Eliho, and relying on the powerful public opinion means of the newspaper to suppress the vicious attacks on the Commander of the Northwest Army.
Andy then sent a commendation order to the Northwest Army in the name of the Emperor Looking at the Northwest battle report in his hand, Andy sighed and muttered to himself: "Roddy, there is one thing in this Eliot that you are most lacking at present, that is, ruthless" At this moment, Roddy was a little depressed in the north.
Nearly 400,000 troops from the Bright Continent gathered in the north, and the 200,000 troops of the Northern Army had already been mobilized and assembled, in fact, when the palace incident occurred, Miro had already made preparations, but unfortunately in the end, because of Andy's sudden appearance, Miro's preparations were all useless.
But then war broke out, and the 100,000 Flame Warriors who had prepared to become prescient and belonged to the Divine Cult of the Bright Empire also arrived in the north, and the leader of the Flame Warrior Regiment was an indifferent middle-aged man named Gudu, and from the outside, he was completely a devout ascetic.
Although he wore a strange set of light leather armor of the Flame Warrior Order, he was always covered with a gray robe, which looked a bit like a bishop elder of the Cult of God, and if he held a staff in his hand, it would be even more like.
Forget about the ancient capital, his cold temper makes him rarely speak.
But the patriarch sent by the Cult of God annoyed Roddy immensely.
Because of the incident in the court, the relationship between the Cult of God and Duke Tulip was a little stiff, so the bishop elder was not too intimate with the young commander of the empire.
But this bishop elder is a religious fanatic, and before the war is fought, he takes a group of religious missionaries around the barracks every day, propagating his religious beliefs, praising how great God is, and how great God is, and so on, and he even strongly asked Roddy to order the army to set aside a period of time from the daily training and drills to pray to God, although this kind of behavior made Roddy very unhappy, but the bishop said: This is a holy war, a war against "infidels", Therefore, the theological propaganda of the army before the start of the war can enhance the soldiers' belief in God and piety, and through the devout belief in God, it can achieve the effects of boosting morale and improving combat effectiveness, etc., If it were not for the current identity and the unity before the war, Roddy would have ordered people to kick this fly-like guy out of the barracks.
To motivate the morale of the soldiers, it does not rely on this kind of empty theological preaching, let alone praise some bullshit gods, if it were not for the hatred between the two continent gods and religions, Luo Di couldn't help but think that this guy was sent by the god sect to disturb the morale of the army and make trouble for himself.
To be continued: