385. Pacify the Southern Theater of Operations
The Thundering Edge is an elite army that Asuna has really spent countless efforts to build, and this army has made countless achievements in the first great war with the Kingdom of Dabion, and has also become a lingering nightmare for all the southern nobles of the entire Kingdom of Dabiang.
Because they are also armies that have won the honor of independence, there are few armies that can defeat this army called the "Devil's Fang" by the Darby Expensive clan on a frontal battlefield, except for the Tequila army of the Boulder family. But in that battle, the Boulder family also paid a lot of price, at least in that war, there were two Boulder marquises' private troops were brutally beaten to the point of being abolished.
So for the kingdom of Dabiang, the only thing to be thankful for is that this "devil's fang" is only 10,000 people.
However, after the great battle between the Gap Rift and the Sanctuary powerhouse of the Nugus family named Lawrence, Thundering Edge actually only had 7,000 men left, after all, it was not easy for this army to replenish its resources. However, although the battle was fierce, it at least made this army successfully reach the level of a quasi-fifth-level army, and it was only one kick away from becoming an ace army comparable to the elite troops of the empire.
Therefore, let such an army ambush in the Forest of Gray Shadows, and its scale is still 5,000 people, not to mention a mere army that can play the level of a fourth-level army with the assistance of the mage regiment and the advantage of equipment and geographical advantages, even if the mountain lion army has not yet been destroyed, it will be equally hated if it is blocked by the thundering edge.
Therefore, the battle from the Forest of Grey Shadows was a one-sided slaughter.
In this massacre, William's side only paid the price of hundreds of Thunder Edge soldiers and more than a dozen fifth- and sixth-order demon hunters killed in battle, and successfully annihilated the mage regiment and 3,000 guards in the southern theater of the Dabion Kingdom.
In William's confirmed massacre order, none of the soldiers on Dabion's side were able to leave alive.
And after this battle ended, William asked Thundering Edge to change his clothes as soon as possible. At the same time, the thirty priests accompanying him were also disguised as mage groups.
This kind of Trojan horse tactic is simply a conspiracy tactic that William could not have been more familiar with.
At the same time, in order to cooperate with this Trojan force, William also ordered the large army that had been standing by Yedeby to start a fierce attack, and within two days, he completely tore through the defense line of Dabiang's army in Yedeby, and engaged the enemy's main force. Taking advantage of this chaotic moment, the Trojan Horse troops naturally appeared on the edge of the battlefield "just right", giving Panda's army a lethal attack, allowing Dabiang's main force in Yederbi to win a breathing time, and at the same time easily gaining the trust of this force.
A second battle ensued. It can almost be said that there is no suspense.
A special force of 3,000 Thunder Blades and 30 Priests of the Church of Ice and Winter easily broke through the enemy's base camp, successfully hijacking and paralyzing the local command center, causing complete chaos on the battlefield ahead, and then being eaten away by Iron Wings and Cecilia's Guard. Of course, in this battle, the casualties of Thundering Edge were also not small. Only over 1,000 of the 3,000-strong troops survived, and this was due to Shefanio's extreme activity on the battlefield. If it weren't for such a person who could be regarded as a quasi-holy domain powerhouse, he was crisscrossing the battlefield. I'm afraid it will not be easy to paralyze the entire command center of the enemy army.
However, the gains from this extremely risky behavior are also enormous, especially its strategic significance.
The fall of Yederbiling also means the complete fall of at least half of the southern part of Dabion.
If the Dabion army in Burbis and Kiraf did not retreat at this time, then they would most likely have to withstand a combined siege attack from all sides or even from five sides. But if they retreat. Then this is also tantamount to handing over the strategic advantage that was hard to gain to others, and even completely losing the advantage because of the lack of strategic depth space due to their retreat.
Therefore, regardless of whether the Dabion army of Burbis and Kiraf will withdraw or not, it is only a matter of time before the Duchy of Lane wins a great victory in the southern theater.
In terms of regular military exploits. The complete victory of the first major theater can win a lot of honors and merits for the commander in charge of this theater, so if Sean can become the first commander to end the war in the three theaters divided by this war, then he will naturally add a very strong stroke to the resume of the Principality of Lane, and even the military department in the Principality of Lane can occupy a more important position in the future.
And in a sense, if the Southern Theater that Sean is in charge of is the first theater to pacify the war, then this is definitely an extremely loud slap in the face for those nobles in the Northwest Theater. Because whether it is from the logistical support attitude of the military headquarters of the principality, or the mobilization of the nobles of the principality, or the difference in status, the Northwest Theater should be a well-deserved place where the strong gather.
But in fact, the current Northwest Theater has no gains at all, and its battle report data is not even as good as the combined army battle report of only the three families of Asuna, the Boulder family, and the Dubai family.
It is not only William, Neil and others who can see this, but even Hela, who has officially joined Sean's command. Garcia, too, spent several days, and on the day William announced that he had officially taken the Yederbi Territory and completely routed the enemy army, Hela had already discovered these problems. It can even be said that she has found far more problems than Sean and others seem on the surface, after all, she is the authority in this area.
Hela then offered Sean her first ploy since becoming a member of her staff: to spread rumors.
It's not very accurate to say that it's a rumor, after all, this incident did happen.
As we all know, the raid on the Nugus family is naturally a very sensitive matter, so Hela can guess that her father will definitely hide and block the news. However, she is now separated from the Nugus family, so naturally she doesn't care about all this, so after borrowing some men from William and Ruby, she began to announce rumors of Hela's death in the Burbis and Kiraf realms.
And then it turned out to be just as Hela had predicted, and there were some very subtle panic reactions from the garrisons of the Berbis and Kiraf Orders, which of course only circulated among the upper officers, and for the lower officers and soldiers, they had no idea that all their actions from the beginning to the present day had actually come from a woman's layout.
After this subtle sense of panic began to spread, the second thing Hela did was to redraw a map of the defensive forces of the Burbis and Kiraf Territories and give it to William. After obtaining this completely classified document information, William did not disappoint Hela, he did not completely defeat the garrisons of Burbis and Kiraf in one breath, but used a slight advantage in strength to harvest the troops on the defense line little by little in a cannibalized way, and at the same time completely dragged these two troops on the battlefield and could not retreat.
Of course, in a sense, this is the first time that William and Hela have teamed up.
One carries out layout planning, and the other carries out tactical strikes.
These two wise generals, ranked seventh and tenth among the top ten generals respectively, will soon let Dabiang fully appreciate the horror of strategy.
Because when the garrison generals of Berbis and Kiraf realized that the situation was wrong, and the two sides met and decided to retreat together, they finally found that their back route had been completely cut off, and the troops blocking their retreat were not ordinary armies, but the three most powerful armies under Sean's command - the Thunder Lion, Cecilia Guard, and Iron Wings.
In the early stage of the battlefield, after successfully annihilating the Mountain Lion Legion, the Thunder Lion has been hidden in pieces, and after learning about the joint plan of Asuna and the Boulder family, Sean naturally recalled this extremely powerful force at the first time. Although the Thunder Lion did not catch up with the war against the Yedby Leader, at the last moment, Alfred led the Thunder Lion to successfully participate in the final battle planned by the two ten generals.
If this was just bad news for the garrisons of the Burbice Territory and the Kiraf Territory, then when they found out that the terrible "Devil's Fang" of the Thundering Edge actually appeared in the north of the battlefield of the Burbice Territory, it is said that the Supreme Commander of the Berbiss Territory fainted on the spot, because this was no longer bad news, but a disaster.
The ensuing war can almost be described as a one-sided situation.
The two armies that were besieged here and could not even break through could not even converge at all, so they were surrounded and fought by the army led by Panda.
Faced with this scene, Sean only thought of one sentence.
Close the door and beat the dog.
On April 11, 1874, after a month-long battle, Dabion's troops stationed in Berbice and Kiraf finally surrendered to the lord of Panda in the Duchy of Lane. Connery announced his unconditional surrender.
Although in fact, there are still several armies in the southern region of the Kingdom of Dabion that have combat effectiveness, and even Prince Hodgdi's private troops have not been dispatched, but more than two-thirds of the entire southern region has fallen under Sean's control, and the real main force has been completely annihilated.
At this point, it can basically be said that the war between the Kingdom of Dabion and the Principality of Lane in the Southern Theater of Operations finally ended with the complete victory of the Principality of Lane.
And Sean. Connally, naturally, became the first commander to end the war in the three major theaters of the Principality of Lane this time.
It is said that when the nobles of the Northwest War Zone heard about this, many people directly smashed the wine glasses in their hands.
Then, a letter of order from the Supreme Commander-in-Chief was also sent to the Void City at the same time. (To be continued......)
PS: Today's second shift, I won't say anything. Headaches, sleep.