Chapter 145 Three Pursuit, Pursuit, Pursuit
It took four months to take the road, and the Sindra army withdrew to the starting point in only two days, a speed that can be recorded in history. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Of course, less than a tenth of the Sindra soldiers were able to complete the 400-mile run, and the rest were either exhausted and collapsed on the way, or were scattered by Badana's pursuers, and even the soldiers who could drag their lives back to the starting point were so tired that they only had one breath left. However, their nightmare did not end there, and before the Sindra soldiers could re-establish their camp (they had already discarded all their baggage and had no materials to build it), Badana's pursuers had arrived, and the only option they could do was to continue on the run.
The soldiers of Badana were much more tired than the Sindra deserters, because they could not throw away their armor and run away like the Sindra soldiers, they had to pursue the Sindra army with weapons in hand and armor, so that the fatigue of the two days and nights was actually greater than that of the Sindra army, and the only thing that could sustain their tired bodies was the encouragement of victory - everywhere they went, they could disperse the enemy with a single shout, and there was nothing more inspiring than this.
The Badana army, which had once again dispersed the Sindra, had reached the limit of their physical strength, so many generals asked Dadaran if they could give their soldiers a temporary rest.
Dadaran shook his head and said, "I know you're doing a good job, far beyond what I expected of you, but now I can't let my soldiers rest. For within a radius of hundreds of miles, there were the remnants of Sindra's defeated army, and our soldiers were so tired that if they stopped to rest, they would lose what little will they had left. If Sindra's remnants of the defeated generals make a blow at this time, then our army will most likely not be able to support it. Moreover, there are still tens of thousands of the main force of the Sindra army that has escaped, and if they are allowed to gain a foothold, the remaining scattered Sindra soldiers will move closer to them, and once they have gathered and received supplies from the rear, there is a possibility of recovering again. So we can't stop, tell the soldiers, we're going to pursue, pursue, pursue! Don't be afraid to get tired, the enemy is more tired, more afraid, and weaker than we are. We, the Bataanans, are accustomed to horses, and although we don't have so many horses at the moment, we can still eat while pursuing, but our enemies have no food and can hardly find water, so if we keep pursuing for a day or two, they will become immobile bodies, and we will surely break up the Sindra army completely. When that time comes, we'll have a good rest! ”
Dadaran's answer was cold and unquestionable. His order caused many Batana soldiers to die of exhaustion on the way to pursue the enemy, but it was precisely because of his stubborn persistence that almost all of the more than 300,000 defeated Sindra soldiers died of starvation, thirst, and exhaustion in the mountains of Badana, and the Sindra soldiers who were able to return to Sindra alive were only less than 47,000, compared to the mighty army of 500,000 when the troops were dispatched, this situation can be said to be extremely miserable.
It should be noted that in the course of this operation, which was later called the "Dadaran Pursuit", Sindra's generals led the remnants of their defeated generals to put up some resistance. These resistances were either to shield their defeated troops or to try to create a temporary safe place to rest, and Sindra's generals were not as shameless as their lords, and they did not abandon their obligations as generals even in the most difficult times. For this reason, the Batana army fought more than 130 battles, large and small, and it is natural that they won all the battles, not because the Batana army was strong, but because the Sindra soldiers were no longer able to face this intensity of fighting. In these more than 130 battles, a total of eighty-five Sindra generals died on the battlefield, although Sindra did not emerge during this period of time with particularly outstanding military talents, but in such a short period of time, such a large loss of talent still made the people of later generations jaw-dropping. This also contributed to the fact that Dadaran attacked Sindra in the future, as there were few people in the entire Sindra who could lead the army into battle.
Through the "Dadaran Pursuit", the Badana army completely drove the Sindra army out of their territory, and after a shocking victory, Dadaran finally ordered the troops to rest on the spot.
In fact, Dadaran had already reached the point where he had to give this order, because even if his troops could continue to pursue, his logistical supplies could no longer keep up. Originally, there was no part of Dadaran's plan that could defeat Sindra's army so smoothly, so the supply plan he had formulated could not keep up with the change of situation, and it was already the limit of the Bataana army to be able to pursue the border area in these four days, and now he had to stop and wait for the supplies to arrive, and make a plan for the next step. Therefore, Dadaran could not sleep as peacefully as his men, and he had many things to do, the most important of which was to greatly advance the plan for the counterattack on Sindra, which was a very large project.
However, as the acting lord of Badana, Dadaran did not forget his position, and he had to seek permission from his lord Basbahn before he could officially invade Sindra. After all, Basbahn gave him orders to hold Bataana and prevent the Sindra army from attacking Paz from the east, and did not give him permission to attack on his own initiative.
In his letter to Baibasbahn, Dadaran gave a detailed account of the great results that had been achieved in the course of the battle, and also gave a detailed account of the current unfavorable situation in which Sindra found himself, and tentatively asked whether he could take more active measures to teach his disobedient neighbor a lesson in order to deter other neighbors from such betrayal of the Covenant.
Three days after sending the letter, when Dadaran had finished reorganizing his plan to attack Sindra, he suddenly remembered something as if he had been initiated, and he immediately returned to his desk and wrote another letter to Baibasbahn.
It was only after he sent the letter that he confidently hugged his bed and pillow for the first time, and slept peacefully for two days and two nights.