Cui Wenxiu ignored the bickering between He Lianbo and Bayin Zhuo. His eyes remained on the map in front of him. The three ranger regiments dealt with the 60,000 light cavalry active between the Dodon and the Puer people, and adopted After mobilizing some means, the number of enemy light cavalry may still decline. Cui Wenxiu believes that Bayinzhuo can complete this task. However, Helianbo's Second Army does bear greater pressure. Once it is discovered that the two armies have been divided, regardless of whether Both the Poole and the Doton people knew what the consequences would be. Re-uniting was their only way out. At this time, the main burden had to be borne by the infantry, and the rangers could only play a cooperative role, so as Although Helianbo's Second Army was a heavy infantry army composed mainly of Gaoyue people, it had to face the impact of armored cavalry from two directions. This heavy burden could crush people to death if they were not careful.
Which part should be solved first? The strength of the Doton people is undoubtedly weaker. Cui Wenxiu is absolutely sure of concentrating his forces to deal with the Dodon people. However, once heavy troops are assembled to encircle and suppress the Dodon people, if the Puer people see that the situation is not going well, they may leave the Dodon people and head west. Fleeing to join the Kaman people, Cui Wenxiu is also unwilling to see this phenomenon. Even if the Dodon people are annihilated and the big fish of the Pu people join forces with the Kaman people, the next step of the war may still be delayed. towards the long term.
What about dealing with the Poole people first? The Puer people now have more than 300,000 troops. It is very difficult to take them all in one bite. However, if the Tuopu people can be eliminated, the Doton people will have nowhere to go. Even if they join up with the Japanese, they will not have much impact on the battle situation. . This is also the most critical point. On this issue, Cui Wenxiu, He Lianbo, Song Tianxiong, Jin Zhengyang and Ying Jianming all discussed it many times, and finally decided to deal with the Pu people first and then free up their hands to deal with the Dodon people. If it was not possible, they could defeat the Dodon people. The method is to make it lose its combat effectiveness and withdraw from the war, making time to enter the center-line battle situation as soon as possible.
On January 28, 702 in the Gregorian calendar of the mainland, there was only less than a week before the Spring Festival of the Tang people. One of the most brutal cavalry battles in history broke out on the plains in southern Yunzhong. The 90,000 Rangers of the Tang Dynasty suddenly inserted into the narrow area of less than 60 miles between the Puer people and the Doton people, and fought with the 30,000 Puer people gathered here. The light cavalry and more than 20,000 Donton light cavalry engaged in an unprecedented cavalry battle. The Tang Rangers, who had an absolute advantage in terms of numbers and combat effectiveness, intervened in a surprise attack. Poole's light cavalry and Doton's light cavalry The light cavalry suffered a devastating disaster. The Tang Rangers, who were divided into three assault groups, used two assault groups as the main force of the attack, and the other assault group as a flank to encircle and suppress the troops. Fifty thousand light cavalry experienced a brutal six-hour bloody battle. , only less than 8,000 people were able to escape the bad luck, and the Tang Rangers also suffered losses of more than 20,000 people.
This raid by the Tang Rangers kicked off the campaign on the Eastern Front. The second army followed closely and surged forward like thunder, quickly cutting off the connection between the Puer and the Doton people, while the third army, the ninth army and the thirteenth army also quickly dispersed, immediately A huge long arc-shaped encirclement was formed to firmly lock the Puer cluster that was caught off guard.
Schiller stared at the map in front of him motionless. As the commander of Poole's army, he had been paying close attention to the progress of the coalition forces. After the middle-line army was frustrated in a fierce battle under Fanlin City, he realized that the eastern-front army he led was moving a little too fast. It was obvious that the Tang people had a conspiracy.
A Fanlin city allowed the Kaman army to fight fiercely for a week without achieving any results worth mentioning. While he despised the Kaman people for being strong on the outside and hard on the inside, Schiller was also surprised by the tenacious fighting will of the Tang army. The Kaman people gave up Jiama and Yulin and used all their strength to attack Fanlin. With an army of more than 400,000, they could fill up Fanlin City even with corpses, right? But the Kaman people were so beaten that they couldn't get over the edge.
The Western Front Army did not seem to be going well either. The Ganlan Fortress was like a wedge firmly pressing against the throat of the Hessi Luo people as they marched south, hindering their plan to show off the majesty of the Hesi Luo people. However, bypassing the Ganlan Fortress and attacking Yinchuan City often encountered obstacles. Ganlan Fortress was harassed by prominent rangers. The Sisluo people were always unable to launch an offensive smoothly, and pulling out the Ganlan Fortress became the only option for the Sisluo people. But no one would have thought that the small Ganlan Fortress would be turned into a living iron nail by the Tang army. In order to remove this nail, the Hesiluo people invested 300,000 troops in the battle. For a whole week, the Hesiluo people No fewer than 80,000 corpses were dumped in Ganlan Fortress. Such tragic losses made the people of Sisluo heartbroken. In the end, thousands of rangers were able to escape from the fortress.
Although the Battle of Ganlan Fortress did not damage the vitality of the Hesi Luo people, the 80,000 killed and tens of thousands of wounded still affected the Hesi Luo people's next plan. The defense strength of Yinchuan Prefecture is no less than that of Ganlan Fortress. If the Sisluo people are to pay a price that is even higher than that of attacking Ganlan Fortress, the Sisluo people will never be willing to do so. The Xuanfu fortifications were quite complete before Jiayuguan changed hands, and they had always played a backbone role in resisting Sisluo and Kaman's southward march. Moreover, there were still Tang Army rangers stationed at Jiayuguan to harass them, so it was impossible to capture them easily. The Heathrow people were in a dilemma as soon as they came. They didn't want to pay too much, but they also wanted to make a breakthrough. It seemed difficult to find the best of both worlds.
Schiller didn't know if the Hesiluo people were planning to make a desperate move now. If the Hesiluo people were bold enough, they could get rid of Yinchuan and Taixuan and directly attack Qingyang. Capturing Qingyang would not only shake the military morale of the Tang Dynasty, but also It can cut off the connection between the Tang Dynasty territory in the mid-continent and the Tang Dynasty itself, but now the Hesi Luo people seem to be hesitant and have not received any battle reports so far.
But Schiller doesn't need to think about such distant things now. What he needs to deal with now is how to deal with the difficulties faced by the more than 300,000 troops he leads. Although he realized that he and the Duodun Allied Forces were moving south too fast, especially the performance of Yunzhong City, which made him even more worried, but thinking about the fact that he and the Duodun Allied Forces had more than 500,000 troops, and the Tang Army on the opposite side had more than 500,000 troops. Even worse than himself, he did not expect to swallow up the Tang army at once. As long as he could delay the Tang army and wait until the Kamans in the middle line eliminated Fanlin and headed south, then he would be considered a success.
But he never expected that the Tang Army's appetite would be so big that it actually wanted to swallow up the Eastern Route Army. When the Tang Army's rangers broke into the junction between the Puer Army and the Doton Army, he didn't even realize the Tang Army's intention until When several legions of the Tang Army appeared around him, he felt that the situation was not good, but he still did not believe that the Tang Army on the opposite side could kill his more than 300,000 troops, especially in Duodun, which had more than 200,000 troops. Less than a hundred miles away to the east, Schiller would never believe that he would not be able to support an army of more than 500,000 people just by pushing eastward.
However, when the scouts confirmed the numbers of the Tang Army's Second and Third Army, Schiller became a little worried. It was not surprising that the Tang Army's Ninth Army had been stationed in the north of the Tang Dynasty, and the Thirteenth Army also came from India with great fanfare. Transferring to Beiyuan is also within the scope of consideration. The Third Army has been stationed in Zhongzhou. It was adapted from Li Wufeng's Imperial Guards and has strong combat effectiveness. It is reasonable to transfer to the north at a critical moment. However, the Second Army's It's a bit disturbing that the number appears here too. Although Schiller had never come into contact with this second legion, as the first heavy infantry legion of the Tang Army, it had always been the strongest shield against the Liberian heavy cavalry. At this time, when it pushed to the eastern front, it was obvious that the Tang Army could not Have good intentions.
The Tang Army cut off its contact with the Duodun Army. At this time, it was the Second Army of the Tang Dynasty that stood between the two armies. Could it be that the Tang Army wanted to divide and encircle them and defeat them one by one? But even if the Tang army had this idea, they should have targeted the weaker Duodun people. Why did the intelligence from the scouts show that the Tang army was conducting a large-scale movement, but the posture was to surround its own army? ? If the target is really him, then where does Tang Jun rely on? Schiller didn't believe that the Tang Army's current legions could kill him, and the Dodon people couldn't just sit idly by. It is this problem that puts Schiller in a dilemma. Now the Tang army is moving westward from the north and south, and it looks like it is building an encirclement. If he throws away the Doton people and advances directly to the west, I believe the Tang army will not be able to intercept him, but in this way It is possible that the more than 200,000 people of the Doton Army will be pushed into the tiger's mouth. The more than 200,000 people of the Doton Army will never be able to survive facing the Tang Army alone. Schiller knows this very well.
While the commander of Poole's army, Schiller, was still hesitating about how he should react, the Tang army was advancing rapidly according to the established plan non-stop. In addition to the Second Army's comprehensive construction of fortifications to prepare for the upcoming fierce battle, they also performed their respective tasks. The army is also following up quickly, and the Fire Gun Team has also joined the Second Army's front line, because in the upcoming war, this place will bear unprecedented huge defensive pressure. The Third Army moved to the south, and the three heavy cavalry divisions and armored beast troops also followed. Together with the Third Army, they would become the main force to end Poole's army, while the Ninth Army was moving westward with all its strength. , striving to complete the encirclement with the Thirteenth Army in the west as soon as possible, and completely wrap the entire Poole Army into a big dumpling.