Section 4 Fighting Wits and Courage 1

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Ling Tian was relieved, did the Mo Fei Luopi people really attack? While thinking about it, his thick eyebrows rose sharply, and he asked in a deep voice, "Quickly tell me the details of the battle situation." Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info”

"My lord, at five o'clock in the morning today, the north camp encountered the enemy's heavy armored cavalry attack, the estimated number was about 5,000 people, followed by about 10,000 followers, our army immediately launched a counterattack, but the enemy's heavy cavalry was quite fierce, broke through many fences and walls in the north camp, and filled in the front of the north camp about 1,000 meters of trenches, our army organized an effective defense, one of the light infantry wings suffered a large loss, after which our army organized a counterattack, and the enemy retreated; at half past five in the morning, the south camp was also attacked by the enemy's heavy cavalry of about 10,000 troops, the enemy once broke through the outer defense line of the south camp, and fought fiercely with one of our hoplite wings in the south camp, and after half an hour, the enemy retreated, our hoplite wing suffered heavy losses. The exact losses are still being counted. ”

The commander was very articulate, and his words were also clear and hierarchical, and the situation was clearly explained in a few words.

The 4th Division of the Gerlok Regiment was responsible for the defense of the North Battalion, while the 5th Division of the Gerlok Regiment was responsible for the defense of the South Battalion, and both divisions were once broken through the defensive line by the enemy's heavy cavalry, which made Ling Tian feel ecstatic and worried at the same time. The enemy began to use heavy cavalry to test the attack, which proved that the Luope people had bitten the hook, and finally put the focus of the attack on the purpose of destroying their main army, which also proved that their empty city plan finally had an effect, and finally attracted the main force of the Luope cavalry to the war of attrition, but the enemy's ironclad heavy cavalry was so fierce that Ling Tian was secretly frightened, he seemed to be able to imagine how the Luope cavalry surrounded his divisions and frantically encroached, this kind of passive defense in the field was originally the most clumsy means of defense, but he had no choice, in order to avoid the Luope people from breaking into the interior, this bait had to be heavier, The meaning of the words "reluctant to let the child trap the wolf" Ling Tianfang really realized at this time, no matter whether he could hold on to the end of his plan with only these tens of thousands of horses in his hands, one thing Ling Tianfang could be sure of was that this war would greatly hurt the vitality of the Gerlok Legion.

But at this time, Ling Tian could not say anything in front of Kang Jianguo, the commander of the Gerlok Legion, no matter what, the bite of the big fish was a happy event worth celebrating, at least the strategy had achieved its goal, as for how this group of bait used as a lure for the enemy could turn the bait into a barbed hook that was difficult for the Luope people to swallow, this would test the defensive combat strength of the Gerlok Legion and the fighting will of the officers and soldiers, at this point, Ling Tianfang could not help anything, and could only rely on Kang Jianguo himself. The only thing Ling Tianfang could do was to do his best to put the already armed Mott and Tubu reserve cavalry teams on the flanks of Luo Pei's flanks, and try his best to reduce the impact pressure of the Luo Pei people on the front defense line, but whether it could play the role he expected, Ling Tianfang was not too sure in his heart, and in the end he still needed to rely on the Gerlok Legion itself.

"Jianguo, the fish bite the hook, now it depends on your legion, whether you can hold out to the end, it depends on the performance of your soldiers, although the Luope people launched an attack two days later than we expected, but from the perspective of the strength of their attack today, I am afraid it is also beyond our expectations, it seems that Tu Da's efforts in their heavy cavalry are not small, we need to be prepared for worse, I am afraid that the cruelty and difficulty of this battle will far exceed our original expectations." Ling Tian glanced at the commander of the Gerlok Legion, who didn't seem to have reacted from the fact that the enemy had broken through the defense line of the northern and southern battalions, and admonished the other party in a somewhat low tone.

"Lord Ling, Jianguo has this ideological preparation, the Luope people are not vegetarians, since they dare to send out the army to provoke this time, they will naturally have some fear, but our Gerok Legion is also an old team that has fought countless battles, and has experienced a lot of ups and downs, I believe that even the Kaman people did not please us a little bit, and he Luobei people will not, my Kang Jianguo is one hundred and eighty pounds ready to be left on this Tuqi Plain, if he Luobei wants to cross here, he has to step over my Kang Jianguo's body. At this time, Kang Jianguo may have been more calm after the stimulation, but the determination revealed in his words was undoubted.

Since the order to temporarily abandon the three prefectures of East Tengger County, Zhou Tinggui, the governor of East Tengger County, has become more busy, at this time, he, the governor of East Tengger County, has no other government affairs to speak of, and there is only one goal left, that is, to expel these Luope people from the territory of East Tengger County in the shortest possible time, and restore the economic development of East Tengger County as soon as possible, and as the commander-in-chief of the entire Western Front Theater, the only task given to him as the governor of East Tengger County is to mobilize the Mott and Tubu reserve cavalry in Huohua Mansion and Daqingshan Mansion, and form a team of troops that can be put into battle immediately as soon as possibleAssisting Zhou Tinggui in carrying out this work were hundreds of cavalry veterans and officers drawn from several ranger regiments.

Zhou Tinggui thought that he was quite in place in the early stage of ideological work, and since then his main task has shifted to the primary work of mobilizing and organizing the Mott and Tubu cavalry and providing them with various material supports, it should be said that this work has been carried out very smoothly, out of envy of the preferential treatment received by the soldiers of the Western Xinjiang Army, the work of temporary recruitment of soldiers quickly recruited more than 60,000 riders, which is the result of Zhou Tinggui seeing that the situation is not good, and after raising the recruitment standard three times in a row, he still could not stop this wave of army defection, and had to announce the suspension of recruitment。

Although this method of using the cavalry of Luobei to deal with the cavalry of other parts of Luobei can force the eastern part of the expedition to be more thoroughly tied to the western frontier, but considering that the important surnames of this war cannot be flawed, Zhou Tinggui would rather choose a more secure method, not to mention that the craze of Mott and Tubu herdsmen to join the army has exceeded his expectations, and the recruited soldiers and war horses have far exceeded the bottom line of 40,000 that he has set in advance。

Of course, Zhou Tinggui also had to temporarily sign the largest arrears since he took office, as many as 100,000 war horses and a large number of weapons for the emergency collection of up to 12 million imperial gold coins, such a huge amount of arrears if it is to be returned by the East Tengger County Treasury I don't know how many years it will take to pay off, fortunately, with the order of the director of the military affairs department as a backup, Zhou Tinggui also appeared full of confidence when signing this arrears, As to who should pay for the temporary war after the war, whether it should be paid from the annual military expenses of the Military Affairs Administration, whether it should be paid from the unexpected emergency funds of the Financial Department of the Administrative Affairs Bureau, or whether it should be borne by the two county governments of East Tengger County and Northwest County, this question has become a headless public issue that has been debated by many parties since the war. The Financial Affairs Department requested that this expenditure be deducted from the annual military expenditure of the Military Affairs Administration on the grounds that this expenditure was not approved by His Royal Highness King Qin, but that the Military Affairs Administration had agreed to the expenditure without the approval of His Royal Highness King Qin, and that the Military Affairs Administration claimed that this was an emergency measure taken to defend the Northwest County in an emergency situation, and that it should be borne by the Financial Secretary in conjunction with the finances of the Northwest County and the East Tengger County, and that the East Tengger County and the Northwest County resolutely did not agree to bear this expense, which had nothing to do with them, so that the Financial Secretary James and the Military Affairs Director Ling Tianfang even complained about it.

Although the 60,000 newly recruited cavalry were inferior to the ranger regiments that had already been formally formed in terms of weapons and horses, the natural excellent qualities of the nomads were organized by a large group of veterans and officers of their own nationality who had been temporarily transferred, and the scale of two ranger regiments was initially formed. Although they were still uneven in terms of combat effectiveness, this time they were not tasked with confronting the Rope cavalry, and they were given a much simpler combat mission, which was to be responsible for harassing and attacking their logistical supply lines in the hinterland of the entire Lope army, and choosing the right time to attack the Rope Expeditionary Army.

The formation of these two reserve ranger regiments had a far-reaching impact on this war, which was not thought of by the initiator Ling Tianfang when he gave the order to form the army, and it was these two ranger regiments that constantly attacked and harassed the rear of Luopei's main army, not only sneaking up on grain and heavy storage points, but also often concentrating their forces to besiege Luopei's convoys and escort teams, and even developed into a harassment and sneak attack on Luopei's camp。 It was the outstanding achievements of these two armies that won the opportunity to preserve the economic vitality of Qingyang and Yinchuan and even the entire northwest county, and also made great contributions to defending the absolute prestige of His Royal Highness King Qin in the northwest.

Compared with the fighting on the Tuqi Plain, the war on the Western Regions Front was in full swing from the beginning. Adhering to the commander's intentions, Kurdo, who served as the commander of the Western Regions Front, thoroughly implemented the policy of Tu Da from the beginning, concentrating his forces on attacking the thriving economy of the Western Regions, especially those industries developed and operated by the Tang people in the five provinces of the Western Regions. In the first phase of the operation, Kurdo's flexible tactics achieved quite good results, 100,000 cavalry were divided into four attack groups by him, according to the configuration of 2224, 20,000 cavalry as an attack group, using their own mobile advantage camera to sweep between one or two provinces, and the attack core composed of four thousand cavalry was responsible for selecting those important targets to attack, such as specifically attacking those Western Xinjiang troops who came out to fight, and when the strength was insufficient, he could even temporarily summon one of the other three attack groups to concentrate on attacking, this tactic achieved quite good results in the first two weeks, the five wings of the Western Xinjiang Army, which had three divisions, were canceled in the face of such a super-large cavalry impact.

However, the Western Xinjiang Army quickly came up with a countermeasure, taking one or even two divisions into a group as a response group, taking advantage of the special geographical environment of the Western Regions, the desert and the Gobi are all over the country, and there are not many convenient passages between the provinces, so it chose key roads and passes to carry out blocking operations, and once the enemy attack group was found, it immediately camped on the spot to organize a defensive counterattack, which also greatly reduced the effect of the Kurdo blitzkrieg strategy.

The stalemate of the war once again put Kurdo in a distressed situation, these damn Tanghe people actually came up with such a stupid way, although the Luobei cavalry did not suffer in this kind of battle, but the huge human resources of the Tanghe people are far from being comparable to their own nation, they lose a soldier, they can soon replenish three, and they come from thousands of miles away, the loss of one is one, this kind of war of attrition is not cost-effective for their own side, and it is difficult to hurt the opponent's vitality by concentrating their forces to find one or two divisions, which is quite unfavorable to their own side that has slowly passed in time but has not achieved its strategic goals, unless looking for a suitable target to give the opponent a heavy blow. If time permits, he doesn't need such a headache, but those damned Motts and Tubu seem to be forcing themselves to take this risky move, and the frequent attacks in the rear and the looting of heavy food and straw pairs have affected the normal operation of the entire army, although after understanding that those timid and humble guys are just some dirt buns that have just been gathered, everyone in the steppe knows that these guys can exert unexpected power once they are assembled, which is another reason why Kurdo is troubled by this。

As he perused the information sent by the scouts and the local intelligence services in the Western Regions, Kurdor's gaze wandered over the long strip map of the Western Regions. It should be said that the foundation of the intelligence department in the Western Regions is much stronger than that of the Western Xinjiang itself, Li Wufeng's implementation of the policy of protecting armor and sitting in the Western Xinjiang region and the people's fanatical worship of him make it difficult for Luo to gain a foothold in the Western Xinjiang mainland, and even if he has a foothold, it is difficult to break into the high-level to obtain valuable intelligence clues, which Kurdo deeply understands, as early as when he was still the deputy marshal of the eastern expedition, he was troubled by this, every time he obtained a valuable piece of information, it is difficult to climb to the sky, many of them have been obtained for a long time, and often at this time these information has lost its due value。 In the land of the Western Regions, although the Luope tribe, which has occupied a strong position for a long time, has been temporarily pulled down from the hegemony, the dominance established for decades still leaves a lot of legacy for the current Luope clan, and the long-term awe of the strong makes their own nation still able to find collaborators in this land, maybe they dare not openly provoke Li Wufeng's rule, but they are still quite enthusiastic to secretly provide them with necessary intelligence information.

Kucha, Wusun, Bega, Loulan, and Gaochang are arranged in the shape of a sugar gourd, which makes it very difficult for the Tanghe people to defend themselves here, and Li Wufeng almost wiped out the local armed forces in this area in order to prevent possible rebellions in this not too tame region, which also caused the weakness of the local defense force in the Western Regions, and also made the defense of this region have to rely entirely on the so-called regular army in Western Xinjiang, which is undoubtedly an opportunity for himself. The black dots marked on the map are the divisions and regiments of Li Wufeng's two major garrison corps in the Central Continent, except for a reserve division that has just been formed, only the five divisions of their Second Army Corps and the four divisions of the Indean Regiment are ranked first, and even if the nine divisions plus the newly formed reserve division are only ten divisions, it is obviously a little stretched to defend such a piece of land that is not conducive to defense, which is also where their own advantages lie. Now the Western Xinjiang Army is concentrated in Wusun and Loulan, which can not only protect Bega in the center, but also take into account Kuqa and Loulan at both ends, and it seems that it can barely be regarded as formed, but this kind of chain defense has a great disadvantage for the Western Xinjiang Army, which lacks mobile strength and is not superior in total strength, that is, if it attacks it with all its might, it will be difficult for the Western Xinjiang reinforcements hundreds of miles away in a short period of time to arrive in time, which will create a good opportunity for themselves to encircle and annihilate the enemy army.

The thick black charcoal pen moved slowly on the map, and Kurdo put his eyes on a dot on the left, Anyanji, located at the junction of Wusun and Kuqa, belongs to the current Wusun Mansion of the Western Regions, and the trade road that runs through the entire Western Regions connects the two cities of Wusun Kuqa through here, and leads to the south to the south of the iron mine under development in the territory of Shuangdui Province in North Luzon is not far away and has a good road connection, the excellent geographical location makes it a large market town second only to the five prefectures in the Western Regions County, and it is also an important material distribution center in this area, Wusun and Kucha and a large number of Tang merchants gather here, because of thisThere was a division of Li Wufeng's Indean Regiment stationed here, and three divisions were stationed in Wusun City to the east as a countermeasure, so Kurdo never chose this place as an attack site, but now it seems that this place has become the best place to encircle and bait.

Kurdo twisted his beautiful short beard under his nose while carefully considering the gains and losses, Wusun is the hometown of Hu Yanqiu, who is now the commander of the Indean Legion, if he chooses this place as the attack point, whether it is public or private, Hu Yanqiu stationed in Wusun City will not let An Yanji fall, if the three Western Xinjiang divisions in Wusun City can be transferred out, the drama of this scene is enough to taste, it is best to put on a posture that seems to be strong and weak to seduce out the more than 20,000 light cavalry reserves they prepared, even if this battle is really played home。

However, in order to not let the people of Western Xinjiang focus all their attention on this, but also to attract enough troops, this fire is really difficult to grasp for a while, fortunately, the enemy's cavalry strength in this area is not strong, 20,000 light cavalry want to challenge their own 100,000 soldiers who can fight habitually, the fire is still too bad, and the most unfortunate can choose the opportunity to retreat at any time, this strategy of attacking and retreating is the best way to fight with their own cavalry, and now the problem that needs to be considered is how to play this encirclement and reinforcement war more successfully, the corner of Curdo's mouth flashed a hint of a gloomy smile。

While Kurdo was painstakingly designing his encirclement tactics, Helianbo, who served as the deputy commander-in-chief of the Western Front and the commander-in-chief of the Central Continental Theater in Bega, was also worried about how to end the battle as soon as possible. Ling Tianfang handed over the command of the four ranger regiments to himself, which was equivalent to putting a heavy burden on himself, Helian Bo naturally knew Ling Tianfang's intentions, and solved the battle on the Western Regions front in the shortest possible time, freed up the four ranger regiments and all the forces that could be used, cut off the way back of Luopei's main force, even if he could not completely annihilate Luobei's main force, he would force the opponent's strategic intention to fail, this was the commander's intention, for this reason, Ling Tianfang personally sat on the northwest front, and even did not hesitate to use several divisions of the Gerlok Legion as bait, boldly singing empty city plans, taking such a big risk to seize the fighter plane himself, concentrate superior forces to defeat the army of the southern front of Luopei, and finally join forces to invite the main force of the eastern front of Luobei.

However, the battlefield is changing rapidly, although they have mastered the forces that occupy absolute superiority in local areas, but the Luope people are mainly cavalry, and if they want to completely defeat this cavalry army, they have higher requirements for the capture of fighters. Although a series of measures taken have curbed the crazy offensive of the Luope, it is necessary to find better opportunities to achieve the goal of completely defeating the opponent.

There is not much new in the news from the intelligence system, the Luope people still continue their old tricks, erratically moving and attacking in the north of the five prefectures and counties, and when they encounter a suitable opportunity, they pounce on it like a wolf and bite it, except for the main attack group, the other three are difficult to capture their specific direction, this Kurdo is really unusual, the power is decentralized, and the three attack groups choose the right opportunity to attack, and these guys are obviously familiar with this set of combat methods, although the measures taken by themselves in the early stage to intercept and hold have a certain effect, but these guys quickly learned to behave, as soon as it is intercepted, it will no longer be entangled in a fight to the death and drift away, looking for the next more suitable target for attack, this method of not abandoning makes Helian Bo and Hu Yanqiu feel a big headache, but for a while to find a solution, unless the four ranger regiments that have been hidden in the southern region are used, but in this way it is impossible to achieve the goal of completely defeating the other party.

It's difficult, Helian Bo couldn't help but sigh from the bottom of his heart, the Luobei people are not stupid, they have been defeated repeatedly, they have been defeated again and again, and no matter how stupid they are, they have learned to act cautiously, not to mention that the opponent on the other side is not stupid. The Western Frontier Army on the Western Front has taken huge risks and pressures, watching its own performance, and now it is helpless, I am afraid that I will not be able to say anywhere, could it be that I, Helianbo, will really be planted in this battle? Subconsciously shook his head, Helianbo cheered up a little, and refocused on pondering the enemy's thoughts.

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