Order all ministries to immediately burn all supplies according to the plan and leave immediately without delay. Anyone who violates this rule will be killed without mercy! "Tabulaki's loud voice echoed in the small school yard in the grain storage room, and the muffled sound of burning fire all around could not be suppressed. The burnt smell rippled in the air, and the heat brought by the fire made the entire place... The temperature in the area has risen several degrees.
Tabulaki watched all this with satisfaction. The entire grain storage area had turned into a sea of fire. The material warehouse was opened, and large barrels of tung oil were poured on the surface. As soon as the fire signal was ignited, flames soared into the sky. Law enforcement After the team killed several soldiers who wanted to sneak away supplies, the discipline of the army was strictly guaranteed, and everything was proceeding in an orderly manner according to the plan. The residents of Liushan Terrace fled in fear into the surrounding wilderness. These guys who didn't know what loyalty was, according to Tabulaqi's idea, they should all be sacrifices, but time was limited, so they had to wait for the next opportunity.
The mission was completed very smoothly, everything was completed within the scheduled time, and the quantity of grain and material warehouses exceeded the original expectation. Tabulaqi was even imagining that after learning about this request, the Tang Army in the south I don’t know what to think, but the Tang Army, which has lost this supply, will have to organize material transportation from Vito or even the East again, and this coming and going may even force the Tang Army to withdraw from Eastern Luzon. What kind of reward would you get from Marshal Frederick for having made such a huge contribution? Will he replace Hilliard as the head coach of the entire Malone area
However, the shrill police whistle broke his fantasy. When a soldier blew his whistle crazily and rushed toward him while rolling and crawling with panic on his face, Tabulaqi's heart clicked. Falling from the sky to the ground.
After asking about the situation in a few words, Tablaki knew that he had really met his opponent this time. This was a trap. It was an out-and-out trap. At this time, he had no time to guess how the other party expected that he would choose Liushan Terrace as the target of the attack. He also had no time to ask why the intelligence department knew nothing about such an ambush here. Now The first priority is to escape for your life and lead the entire army to rush out.
The enemy came from the northwest. Could it be reinforcements from Huoshan Mansion? Tablaki quickly denied this idea. Such a well-timed ambush could not be a spur-of-the-moment move. It was definitely an ambush that had been laid for a long time. Think of this. A chill ran down Tabulaki's spine. It seems that his opponent has been thinking about him for a long time, but he is a little careless. Now we can only grit our teeth and break through to the west. There may be more interceptions going south, and then I am afraid that my army will really have to bury all its bones in Northern Luzon.
But his realization came too late. The three mountain regiments led by Gillette quickly formed a semi-arc encirclement in the west. The armies of both sides almost collided with each other before they could take a breath. One came prepared and vowed to completely annihilate this enemy force that had caused endless trouble to them. The other fled in a hurry. Breaking free from the prison was a vast world without any tricks. There is no room for compromise, only one battle will determine the outcome.
This undulating slope became the main battlefield for the decisive battle between the two sides. The Imperial Army did not have much advantage in terms of strength, and the morale of the Luzon Army, which was trying to fight to the death, was not lower than that of the Imperial Army at all. It was a bit too wide. The encirclement restricted the Imperial Army's tactics to annihilate them all in one fell swoop. At this moment, all tactics seemed of little value. Only face-to-face killing with real swords and guns was the only way to solve the problem.
Tabulaqi could no longer remember how many Tang soldiers fell down with the ring knife in his hand. The blade of the Bailian Huan Dao has become a little dull, and the arms have become slightly sore, but the Tang army who is chanting in front of them still pounces on them tirelessly. Ru Lin's spears continue to make the Luzon soldiers around him fall down. The assault group continued to become thinner, and there were fewer and fewer soldiers around him. Tablaki was already a little desperate, with mucus-like blood splashing all over his body. At this time, Tablaki only had one goal in mind. That is to rush out, dance wildly with the ring knife, roll up waves of swords, and constantly tear open cracks in the Tang army's blocking formation.
The well-prepared Tang Army's joint attack was equally ferocious. With the help of the terrain, the Tang Army used the depth to construct multiple strangulation squares. Several columns of the Tang Army formed an angle-style encirclement and strangulation array. The Luzon Army's troops who were eager to escape were first released. Break into the defensive front, then use the shield-shaped defense support to block the shock wave of the Luzon Army, and finally concentrate the troops to squeeze and strangle from the two wings to the middle.
In addition to the attacking infantry on the front line, this joint strangulation gave full play to the role of archers. The archers on the second line used the wide radiation surface to set up a cascade shooting formation, causing huge damage to the two wings of the Luzon army that were busy breaking through and escaping. Injury, the Luzon Army, which lacked preparations, suffered heavy casualties under such an attack, even far exceeding the losses suffered by the front-line killing force, and multiple leading officers carried out targeted group attacks under the bows of the group shooters. The lives lost also belong to the Luzon Army.
The breakthrough brought great passivity, and the loss of the Luzon Army's leading officers also had a great impact on the morale. The accumulation of these bits and pieces eventually led to the failure of the Luzon Army's overall strategy to seize the road and break through.
Even so, Gillette, who participated in a foreign war for the first time, also felt the hardship and cruelty of this battle. The two words "trapped beasts fighting" and "dogs jumping over the wall" are very suitable to describe the Luzon army in front of them. The high morale of the Luzon soldiers Gillette's first contact with the Luzon Army was a bit surprising because of his strong fighting spirit, but it also aroused Gillette's strong interest.
In his mind, it should be impossible for the Luzon Army's combat effectiveness to reach this level, and not inferior to the three rapid mountain regiments he selected. You must know that this is the ninth army that specially selected from various regions after learning that it was going to fight in the central continent. The regiment mobilized some elites and formed it. The purpose was to use these three regiments to have the most rapid response ability to attack the cluster during the mountain march. Unexpectedly, they got a hard nut in the first battle, even if they occupied the favorable location, momentum and even the number of people. With the upper hand, the ratio of casualties in the fight between the two sides was not much different. The Luzon army's attack was like a mad tiger, which made its own defensive forces pay a considerable price. If it were not for the bow and arrow troops deployed by themselves, they exerted their power With the enemy's eagerness to break through the encirclement, this battle will probably bring irreparable pain to themselves.
Unfortunately, if he had one more regiment of soldiers, he would be absolutely sure to annihilate the Luzon Army in front of him. But now, Gillette had to face a difficult choice. The Luzon Army chose several breakthrough points, each of which The combat effectiveness of the attacking front was quite fierce. The wave after wave of charges made the Emperor, who had a slightly wider front, feel a bit overwhelmed. Although Gillette had adjusted his subordinates in time to move the two wings closer to the center, it was already too late. , the ferocious impact put several defense focal points under tremendous pressure. If all of this army was to be retained, it might eventually lead to the entire front being breached. Perhaps only by making certain trade-offs could the results of the battle be ensured to the greatest extent.
When Tambulaki finally led less than a thousand men to break through the defense line and fled, the remaining thousands of abandoned Luzon soldiers fell into the abyss. Facing the superior Tang army soldiers and the escaped general, Luzon The originally rock-solid morale of the Song soldiers finally collapsed. After several consecutive failed attacks, they finally realized that this kind of resistance was purely a suicide. When an officer put down his weapon, the Luzon soldiers with the leader finally Being able to lay down arms and accept the reality of surrender.
Three days later, when Tambulaki led his exhausted body and led less than 800 remnant soldiers back to Manlon City, Hilliard, who had been worried about the lost contact with the assault group, could not believe his eyes. .
The fruitful results in the early stage did not let Hilliard get carried away. While achieving great results, Hilliard was already keenly aware of the risks faced by this kind of assault battle. Although the Tang Army had the advantage in strength, it had a long supply line. This weakness, but our own side also faces the huge risk of going deep into the opponent's front line in order to cut off the opponent's supply line. For this reason, he specifically reminded Team Brachi not to relax his vigilance and not to go deep easily without being 100% sure. The combat effectiveness of the Tang Army was not weaker than that of the 10,000-man team selected by Tan Brachi. Faced with several successes by his side, he would inevitably take corresponding measures. Hilliard even hoped that Tal Brachi could temporarily stop attacking and rest for a while. Tang Jun relaxed and launched another attack, but he didn't know how difficult it was to stay calm enough to deal with Brachi in the face of huge results.
But no matter what, Hilliard did not expect that the final result would be so miserable. An elite team of ten thousand people only suffered hundreds of casualties in several early attacks, but this last battle turned out to be the complete destruction of the entire army. In addition to temporarily dismissing Tabraki from his position as lieutenant general, Hilliard could only report the news to Aslan and Robin. People from the military law department would investigate and determine Tabraki's responsibility. It was a pity. Faced with such a fierce attack by the Tang Army, Hilliard had already given up any plan to attack the Tang Army's supply line. The intelligence coming from the north showed that the Tang Army was heading due north. Activities also began to become more frequent, and small groups of troops began to appear in many areas in the north. What does this mean? Is it the beginning of a full-scale war? Maybe this is what you need to pay attention to.