Chapter 723: Chestnut in the Fire
In General Gore's tent, dozens of generals sat precariously.
General Gore looked smug.
In the more than a year of the conquest of the Great Qin Empire, General Gore can be described as smooth sailing, destroying all the way to the withering and decaying like a bamboo, even General Gore himself did not expect that the seemingly impregnable Great Qin Empire would be so vulnerable.
Originally, General Gore planned to occupy the entire Great Qin Empire for three years, but as a result, the expected goal was achieved in just one year, and the plan was planned to be two years ahead of schedule.
The success of the military operation made Gore overjoyed, and it also made him anxious, because the battle plan was originally planned for three years, and after it was greatly advanced, some shortcomings were revealed, first of all, General Gore encountered the problem of lack of manpower.
General Gore's army was mainly cavalry, supplemented by infantry, and the speed was very fast, and the total number was only more than one million, and it was naturally overstretched to occupy the huge country of the Great Qin Empire with a million troops.
The accident at Zhenshui Pass was actually expected by General Gore.
In fact, now the Crusaders are facing the dilemma of Zhenshui Pass in the Great Qin Empire, and the dispersion of troops has lengthened the Crusader front and made them unable to take large-scale military operations, which caused the forces that originally occupied the towns to be forced to compress to the big cities, and they had to concentrate superior forces to fight the resistance in full swing to avoid the resurgence of the Great Qin Empire.
Of course, all the problems can be solved quickly, because millions of infantry are coming from the other side of the sea in a steady stream of ships, and the first batch of 200,000 infantry will soon be able to reach the territory of the Great Qin Empire, as long as the early 20 infantry arrive, the urgent need of the crusaders will be solved.
During this time, General Gore adopted a siege policy against Blackwater City, but it was not impossible to capture Blackwater City.
In fact, as long as Gore gave the order, at all costs, at most a week, it would be possible to take Blackwater, however, General Gore did not do this.
The reason is simple.
Now that the last elite of the Great Qin Empire is in Blackwater City, if it is too hasty, in addition to causing heavy casualties on its own side, the other party will definitely jump over the wall in a hurry, and if the troops break through the way, it will form a hidden danger.
Gore is very clear that as long as the vitality of the Great Qin Empire enters the territory of the Great Qin Empire, it will inevitably form a new force, and even grow stronger and stronger, because now the crusaders are unable to organize a large-scale corps to encircle and intercept in order to control the vast territory of the Great Qin Empire, which will instead give the other party the opportunity to grow stronger, so the siege is the best policy.
In addition, behind Blackwater City, there is the vast Thorn Slave Prairie, if the little emperor is forced to the Thorn Slave Prairie, if you want to find it again, it will really be a needle in a haystack.
In fact, Gore didn't know what to do, and his tactics had long been debunked by Guo Axe, but because Guo Axe was not good at words, and General Changkong was bent on protecting the little emperor, he didn't have the idea of preferring jade to be broken rather than whole, which allowed General Gore's plan to be carried out in an orderly manner.
However, just today, the appearance of a mysterious army shattered General Gore's plans.
According to the information obtained by the Black-winged Kunpeng, in the Black Forest, there is an unknown number of cavalry lurking, conservatively estimated to be around 30,000.
In the face of tens of thousands of cavalry, General Gore had to pay attention.
At first, General Gore thought that the Blackwater soldiers were trying to sneak attack, but he quickly rejected the idea, because, according to the information transmitted from Blackwater, Blackwater seemed to know nothing about the cavalry that appeared in the Black Forest.
What could happen for Lang?
Who is this mysterious cavalry army?
What struck Gore most strangely was that the cavalry in the Black Forest seemed to not want to take military action for the time being, but lurked in the woods and set up camp.
What the hell are they going to do?
A large number of Black-winged Kunpeng and Scouts were dispatched.
A steady stream of information was fed back to the Crusader headquarters.
After combining all the information, the identity of the other party was finally revealed.
Thorn Slave Cavalry!
General Gore was no stranger to the Assassins, because the Crusaders, like the Assassins, were born nomads, and there were many similarities between the two.
However, General Gore never took the Thorn Slave people seriously, because, he knew that a few years ago, Zhao Yuan, the undefeated god of war of the Great Qin Empire, was unscrupulously ravaged in the Thorn Slave Prairie, and the Thorn Slave had declined and lost its former glory.
"Will they form an alliance with the Great Qin Empire?" said one of the generals.
"No, it won't. ”
Almost at the same time, including General Gore, everyone shook their heads, because, everyone here knew that the Assassin Slave had an enmity with the Great Qin Empire, and in the past few years, Zhao Yuan, the undefeated god of war of the Great Qin Empire, not only killed King Zuo Xian and Shan Yu, but also killed the most powerful martial witch king of the Assassin Slave in the imperial capital of the Great Qin Empire.
It is safe to say that every Thorn Slave has a deep hatred for Great Qin.
The information collected also shows that the Thorn Slaves have a gloating attitude towards the fall of the Great Qin Empire, and there are even clues that the Thorn Slaves are also preparing to fall into the well.
If it was a fall, why did it go deep into the hinterland of the Great Qin Empire?
It stands to reason that if the Assassins want to attack the army of the Great Qin Empire, it is best to attack Blackwater City from the direction of the grassland, so that Blackwater City will be exposed to the enemy.
And now, the Assassin Slave is sneaking deep into Blackwater City.
Obviously, this cavalry, which is not a small number, has ulterior motives.
In addition, intelligence indicates that there is also a large cavalry build-up on the Thornnut steppe.
All evidence points to a large-scale military campaign on the part of the Assassins.
What General Gore couldn't understand the most was why the Assassins were so sneaky? Theoretically, the Assassins and the Crusaders had a common enemy, and the two sides should have exchanged hostile information, and such a large-scale military operation should have been informed in advance.
After a period of deliberation, General Gore's team of thinkers came up with two possibilities: first, the Great Qin Empire formed an alliance with the Thorns, and second, the Thorns wanted a piece of the pie.
Obviously, the possibility of an alliance between the Assassins and the Great Qin Empire was very small, and even if they wanted to form an alliance, they would not need to sneak from the dangerous Black Forest to the hinterland of the Great Qin Empire.
Moreover, the intelligence transmitted from Blackwater City showed that the soldiers of the Great Qin Empire did not make the slightest movement, and it did not seem to be a sign of large-scale military operations at all.
For intelligence work, the Crusaders can be said to be extremely proud, the Catholics all over the Great Qin Empire provide a steady stream of intelligence for the Crusaders, and the Black-winged Kunpeng is also a powerful intelligence weapon for the Crusaders.
The Crusaders were able to conquer the entire Great Qin Empire in just one year, and the Black-winged Kunpeng can be said to have made great contributions.
If the alliance cannot be established, then the only reason for the Thornnut cavalry to penetrate deep into the territory of the Great Qin Empire is to try to take a piece of the pie.
Now, the crusader army of one million troops is distributed in the major cities of the Great Qin Empire, if the army of the assassins goes all the way and conquers the city, it is very likely to form a confrontation with the Crusaders, after all, the army led by Gore must not leave Blackwater City, because the emperor of the Great Qin Empire is in Blackwater City.
If the last army of the Great Qin Empire is relieved, there will be endless troubles.
For the crusaders, the emperor of the Great Qin Empire was far more important than the army of thorn slaves.
General Gore found that if the army of thorn slaves really entered the territory of the Great Qin Empire, he would have no way to deal with it, and even if he couldn't organize a decent army to deal with the army of thorn slaves, after all, the thorn slaves were also a country on horseback, and they came and went like the wind like the crusaders.
Through a large number of black-winged Kunpeng reconnaissance intelligence, it was revealed that the cavalry of the thorn slaves assembled outside the Blackwater City Pass had exceeded 100,000.
What is the concept of 100,000 cavalry?
Inexplicably, Gore was scared for a while.
Fortunately, the army of the Thorns lurking in the Black Forest was discovered, otherwise, by the time they launched a military operation, it would have been really out of control.
Once the army of the Assassins is raging in the Great Qin Empire, the military layout of the Crusaders will inevitably be disrupted, and the Great Qin army in Blackwater City will also take advantage of the chaos to attack.