Leo V formally confirmed his status as emperor and obtained the temporary recognition and allegiance of a group of governors.
He began to exercise his own power and asked: "Okay, now the most important thing for us is how to leave safely.
You can tell us what you think about heading to the northern Carpathian Mountains here, and we will discuss it, Grete, what do you think?"
Seeing that Leo V was the first to call his name, Grete was still a little happy and said: "Your Majesty the Emperor, I think the sooner we leave, the better.
If we wait for the main force of the follow-up brigade from Western Qin to arrive, we will I can’t leave even if I want to.”
The Governor of Serbia sneered: "Grit, aren't you talking nonsense?
Now who doesn't know that the sooner you leave here, the safer it will be?
And you are saying that His Majesty the Emperor means to ask how to leave safely?"
Having said this, he turned to Leo V and said: "Your Majesty the Emperor, I think we should pack up and leave immediately, and try to discard some things that slow down the march."
"I think this is a good idea."
General Dalmatia objected.
He said: "Your Majesty, it would be too hasty to leave right away.
If we are attacked by the enemy on the way, we have no defense plan and measures to deal with it.
It will be a total defeat, and there will be no chance of a comeback.
I think we should work out an evacuation plan before dark today, and make all the soldiers and generals fully prepared.
After dark, we will take advantage of the darkness and stay up all night.
Retreating to the north, the night is not favorable to our march.
It is beneficial, but it also brings inconvenience to the Western Qin cavalry.
They should not go out in large numbers at night.
The only ones around us are some sentries monitoring us.
We only need to find a way to kill these sentries in one night. , the continuous rapid march is enough for us to temporarily escape the pursuit of the Western Qin cavalry.
In addition, we can also keep the camp intact.
Maybe during the day tomorrow, the Western Qin people will not find that we have secretly evacuated.
In this way, This gives us more time to retreat."
Grete sneered: "I really don't know how you became a general.
Your idea of using the cover of night to evacuate is indeed good, but do you know where the enemy is?
You don't know.
Do you know how divided the enemy is?"
We all know that the night can indeed hide a lot of things, but marching at night is also the most vulnerable to ambushes.
Once we fail to clear out the enemy's sentinels monitoring us, Chu Qingqing, as long as one of them escapes back, I don’t need to tell you the consequences.
I heard that the generals in the East are very good at reading people’s hearts.
Every move we make may be used by them to predict our next move.
If they guess that we want to With the intention of withdrawing to the north, and then setting up an ambush along the way, our scout posts will not be able to carry out effective reconnaissance in the dark, and it is a certainty that they will be beaten to death."
The Governor of Serbia was unconvinced: "What you said makes perfect sense.
Then tell me what you can do."
Grete spread his hands: "I don't know, at least I haven't figured it out yet, but I know your idea is definitely not good."
Several other people were still arguing.
Leo V could not let this kind of quarrel go on endlessly.
Time was precious now.
It would be safer to leave as early as possible.
He raised his hand to stop the quarrel and said: "Let's make sure first."
A premise is that the sooner you leave here, the better.
I think this is what you We all agree that it is dangerous to stay here for a moment longer.
However, we must be fully prepared before leaving, otherwise it will not be safe on the way.
Once we are ambushed by the enemy, we will be in danger.
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Okay, just now you all mentioned the question of whether to go during the day or at night.
Let’s go during the day.
If so, our whereabouts cannot be kept secret, and we will definitely be exposed to the eyes of the people of Xi Qin.
There are advantages and disadvantages to leaving at night.
I personally think that the advantages slightly outweigh the disadvantages.
As long as we can leave the enemy behind, our safety will be guaranteed.
The number has increased a lot, and when the enemy pursues us at night, It’s not that we are in a hurry to escape, but that the enemy is worried about being ambushed by us, so as long as we can get rid of the enemy as quickly as possible and arrange reconnaissance sentries behind us, once we find that the enemy is catching up , we can quickly deploy an ambush and give the enemy a head-on blow."
After hearing these words, several governors had to admit that what Leo V said made sense.
They had never thought before that the night could actually reverse the initiative on the battlefield.
Trit asked: "Your Majesty is very thoughtful.
If you think about it carefully, the night can indeed give us a layer of concealment, but how can we jump out of the enemy's attack range and leave the enemy behind?
If this question If there is no solution, there will be no way to talk about retreat.”
Leo V asked: "How many ways out of here are there?"
A captain stood up and replied: "Your Majesty, you can go in six directions from here, southeast, northwest, southwest and southeast."
Leo V said: "If my guess is correct, the Western Qin people must have arranged sentinels in these six directions.
There are at least two sentinels in each direction, one light and one dark.
Then we will send two groups of messengers to these six directions respectively.
Each messenger sets out in six directions.
If the Western Qin sentry wants to know where the messenger is going, To deliver a message, someone must be sent to intercept it.
To intercept a courier, at least two people are needed.
Two messengers per route require at least four sentries to intercept them.
Six routes require twenty-four sentries.
They can attack each messenger on each route.
Arranging four detection posts along the way is already the limit.
This is the first step to lure the enemy's detection posts to monitor us."
"The second step is to lure away these enemy sentries.
Who knows if there are still hidden sentries?
Therefore, our second step is to draw away the enemy's brigade.
There are still 8,000 enemy soldiers in our camp.
Dominhu, these people have no use staying here anymore.
If we stay, we will waste a lot of food.
We will let them carry out the second step of our plan.
We will put some of them in armor, issue some seriously damaged weapons, and let them dress up like us and hold a large number of flags to the southeast or southwest. direction to leave.
After sending two more groups of messengers in six directions, if there are no enemy sentries to monitor us, we can leave quietly; if there are still hidden enemy sentries, we will definitely report the news to the enemy general, who will know about it I will definitely lead the army immediately to intercept and kill those eight Thousands of civilians, so that we can march to the north in a bold manner, and no enemy can ambush us on the way forward.
Even if the Western Qin people find out something is wrong afterwards, they will react and it will be too late to turn around and come back to pursue us. " "In order to confuse the people of Western Qin, I think it is best to operate at night.
Let each of the eight thousand people who left carry two torches.
This way the enemy's sentry will think that there are sixteen thousand people who left, which is different from our military strength.
If the number of people is about the same, they will have less doubts.”
Leo III couldn't help but applaud Leo V's rigorous plan.
He highly praised it and said: "His Majesty the Emperor's plan is so perfect.
If I hadn't heard this plan with my own ears, I couldn't believe there was anything else in the world.
Who can come up with such an exquisite plan?
I agree with His Majesty the Emperor’s plan.
How about you, Lord Governors?”
Several governors were silent for a while, and then they all agreed.
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In half a day, Leo V and others made some preparations and arrangements, selected twelve loyal warriors as messengers, wrote some incomprehensible letters for them to take with them, and fed them after dark After drinking, they were divided into two batches and sent out in six different directions.
The two batches of messengers departed a quarter of an hour apart.
The reason why the interval is only a quarter of an hour is carefully considered.
First of all, we consider that the main force of the Western Qin cavalry is definitely not far from here.
If the interval is too long, the sentry report after the first return will have returned, and it will not be possible to do it in the second.
After sending out a batch of messengers, lure all the scouts away; if the interval is too short and the enemy scouts don't have enough time to intercept and report the message, the enemy scouts will definitely report after the second batch of scouts are dealt with.
Likewise, It was impossible to lure all the scouts away.
"Your Majesty, we found that there were indeed two groups of enemy scouts in six directions that were diverted by our messengers, but we cannot guarantee whether there are other enemy scouts hidden around them."
A centurion came to report .
Upon hearing this, Leo III made the sign of the cross on his chest and forehead, and said: "In order to drive out the Western Qin people and protect the Western Christian civilization, these warriors put their life and death at risk.
We will never forget them.
God bless them to be able to defeat the enemy.
Survive being hunted by others.”
Leo V said in a deep voice: "Distribute the severely damaged armor, weapons and all the flags in the army to the civilians.
In addition, give each of them two torches to lift up.
They are not allowed to put them down along the way.
Let them Set off" Grete said: "All these things have been distributed, only the torches have not been ignited."
Leo V said: "Light the fire and set off"
"yes" A large number of fires were lit in the camp, but the 16,000 torches on the 8,000 civilians were quickly ignited, and a fire dragon quickly descended the mountain from the highland camp to the southwest.
There was indeed a Western Qin sentry hidden around the high ground.
The sentry quickly reported the news to the captain of the Western Qin army who was staying nearby with arrows.
The captain was fooled and quickly attacked the eight thousand soldiers with the main force of a cavalry battalion left behind.
The civilian husband rushed over.
In this dark night, although he only had 3,000 cavalry, he had enough courage to surprise the 16,000 coalition troops.
The night gave him the convenience of surprise attack.
Three thousand cavalry moved out and made a lot of noise.
Leo V and others on the high ground heard it, and a smile appeared on their faces.
As long as they could quickly leave the attack range of the Western Qin Army, , this plan was successful, and the 16,000 coalition troops quickly walked down the high ground and headed north quickly
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