After Manninger's order to withdraw the army was spoken, his spirit could no longer support him. His mind was greatly damaged. He was in high spirits a moment ago. To Dabei, it has always been the most hurtful. Although Manninger is a generational hero, after all, he is also a little old, and he can't stand such a sudden change.
After his command was spoken, he no longer had the spirit and strength to speak, and he only had the leaders of the battalions dispersed in the tent.
The coach is like this, and the people below are naturally at a loss.
It's just that although Manninger was vomiting blood and almost fainted, he was not confused after all. It was just an order, but no explanation was given. He just suppressed it with the majesty of the leader. Although the people below had doubts about his order, they did not dare to violate the order.
Everything has advantages and disadvantages. The military system of the Odin Empire is crude and loose. It is not as complete and clear as the Byzantine army. However, Odin's army has always been the legion of each tribe, and the leader of the legion is the commander. The identity of the tribal chief, and the identity of the clan chief. Under the dual identity, the majesty and power are much greater than that of the corps general of the Byzantine army. As the leader of the Odin Legion, no matter how absurd the order is, the people below will not dare to disobey.
When the order to withdraw troops came, all the battalions moved in succession.
But after all, it is a large army of 10,000 people withdrawing troops, where can they move when they say it
Moreover, there are many Odin troops besieging Green here at the moment. What Manninger ordered is "the whole army gathers", the meaning is naturally very clear, not only his main elite will be withdrawn, but even the surrounding is responsible for the siege. Several of the troops will also be assembled to withdraw all of them.
Tens of thousands of troops set off, but they didn't just leave with a word of mouth. Dispatch cavalry out of the camp, go to other directions to notify other troops to gather, order to come and go for instructions, plus the soldiers of each battalion pack their bags and set out...
One thing by one thing, it can be said that one hair moves the whole body.
But Manninger immediately ordered and urged again and again, and even the orders were full of anxiety and eagerness. He even ordered that the entire army can give up heavy and difficult to carry luggage and materials, gather lightly, and even discard the surplus food stored in the army!
"The entire army carries six days' rations, the reindeer cavalry will go first, and the main infantry soldiers will follow."
After resting for half a day, Manninger finally recovered a little bit of energy, and pressed down with continuous orders: "Leave 5,000 people here in the rear!"
The army assembled and started, and the chaos was delayed for a whole day.
During this period, Manninger was said to have vomited blood twice and fell into a coma once. Finally, in the afternoon of the second day, the whole army was ready to withdraw.
The Odin reindeer cavalry, which had been scattered on the flanks of Green's army, were also taken back, and the army behind Green was also pulled out. Under Manninger's order, they even didn't even want the camp. , the whole army took only weapons and equipment, and lined up to bypass Green's camp and entered Manninger's main army camp.
Until all the preparations were finally completed, Manninger did not announce the real news!
Even before he fell into a coma, the first thing he did was to have his confidants and personal guards behead all the rout soldiers who had come back from Xincheng to report the news!
Poor these guys, they were originally elite soldiers of the Basak tribe. They fled all the way from Xincheng, and they were defeated along the way. , Some of them were carried on them, and a few died on the road, and a small number of them fell behind because their mounts were out of power. They were able to go to Manninger Camp alive to report the news. There were only more than 30 horses, but they were killed Manninger ordered all of them to be directly beheaded!
It's not that Manninger is ruthless, but that he understands in his heart that at least at this critical moment, the news that the nest has been copied must not be spread in the army!
The whole army is assembled here, but the old nest is lost! More importantly, tens of thousands of troops are here, and they eat and drink every day. The consumption of food is a huge number! The army is fighting, although the food in the army is also carried, but more of it is delivered by the continuous deployment of the rear. Originally, these were all handled by the son Morka, who was sitting in the new town of the old nest, but now that the nest is lost, one of the direct consequences is... My army of tens of thousands will immediately run out of follow-up supplies! Relying on the food stored in the army, it is impossible to support it for a long time!
Once the news of the old nest's loss is spread, the military's heart will be unstable immediately! At this time, there is still a Byzantine army with a number of nearly 20,000 in front of him. In case the other party takes advantage of the situation, if something goes wrong... He Manninger will really not be able to cry at that time!
At such a time, even if it was a 1/10,000th danger, he would not dare to take it!
The army must return to the division! !
To say that Manninger's mood is naturally very sad!
Morka is his parent and son, and the eldest son whom he has spent the most time cultivating! After training for many years, watching such an eldest son grow into an adult, he was finally able to march with him, share his worries, and even deliberately cultivate him, help him establish prestige, and faintly be his future heir!
But now, his son was beheaded under the city in the rear nest that he thought was the safest! The old nest is also lost! What's more terrible is that in the new city, most of the property that he looted and seized after Manninger occupied the Syltan County and the Corsica Military Region was reserved!
Food, money, ordnance... These things, Manninger has gathered in the new city. He originally hoped to make the new city a base camp for his Basak tribe to take root in this land in the future. Those money, grain and materials are all for the beginning of spring. It was prepared for the large-scale migration of clansmen after that!
But now, it's all lost! !
Since the expedition to the south, almost all the loot and the loot, most of them have been stored in the new city! Even before the winter, Manninger ordered most of the food collected in the county to be concentrated in Xincheng in order to survive the winter!
Therefore, no matter from any angle, the new city cannot be lost! !
Absolutely not to lose! !
He Manninger has ambitions, and all future plans, abacuses, and ambitions are placed on this foundation!
The most terrible thing is that the new city is now occupied. If there are no reserves in the new city, the tens of thousands of troops will not even have winter food! !
That's right, Syltan is big, Corsica is big! However, the Odins are not good at farming and production. They have been entrenched here for more than half a year, but they have messed up these two territories. At this moment, even if Manninger is willing to give up the new city and take the army to eat elsewhere, he can be a big Siltan In the county, almost all the food has been looted! Only a small amount of surplus food was left in a few places to satisfy the small garrison! Where else is there a place that can supply tens of thousands of troops with food? !
So, he has to go back! The new city must be taken back! Otherwise, in this cold winter, my tens of thousands of Odins will have to rely on drinking the northwest wind to survive!
Don't talk about war, in ten days and a half months, I'm afraid people will starve to death!
To say distressed, I am afraid that distressed in this respect is still better than the grief of losing a child!
Now for Manninger, it's a time-scramble! Every time he delays, Xincheng is more dangerous! Although he didn't know which of the Byzantine army had attacked his own nest, and which general led this strange army.
But Manninger has led the army for many years, but he can be sure that the person who dares to take such a big risk and sneak into the enemy's nest with a small force must be extremely courageous, and after all, he is the kind of lunatic who behaves unreasonably!
He is not afraid of anything else, just in case the enemy general who attacked his own nest, if he goes crazy and sets fire to it...
Presumably, eating Green's department in front of him would be of secondary importance.
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Manninger is in a hurry, and Char is also racing against time here.
Xia Ya's 800 cavalry came all the way south and fought several times in a row. No matter how powerful these transformed cavalry are, and how amazing the muscle fruits left by those ancient goblins are, no matter how strong the people and horses are, they will still be hard to beat. After all, it is still flesh and blood.
After several battles, some people were injured and some were killed, and the number of 800 cavalry was inevitably reduced.
After Xia Ya occupied the new city, the cavalry around him, plus those who were not seriously injured and could continue to fight, only the number of 700 cavalry generals, and more than ten seriously injured cavalry, can only be temporarily placed in the cavalry. Manninger's handsome mansion in Xincheng cultivated.
Fortunately, Char has more time than Manninger. He calculated in his mind that even if the defeated soldiers who escaped from the city could go to the frontline Manninger camp to report the news, and then the whole army of Manninger would be sent back to the division, and they would go back and forth, no matter how eager Manninger was, no matter how eager they were. Even if Manninger sent the most mobile cavalry to return to the army first, even if it was all cavalry in this cold and freezing weather, even if it was all cavalry, it would definitely not be able to come back for at least three days.
When he entered the city he disposed of the Odin captives. All the severed feet were left outside the city gate. After freezing for a night, when someone was sent out of the city to check the next day, there was indeed no one who was angry.
Xia Ya still refused to stop, and even ordered people to collect the corpses of hundreds of Odin warriors, hang them with ropes, and hang them on the city wall! ! And among the row of corpses hanging on the city wall, right in the middle was a pair of armor—this armor belonged to Morka.
Pity the son of the commander of the dignified Red Snow Legion, the future heir of the Basak clan, who died under the hands of Xia Ya. In Xia Ya's last blow that shattered the city gate, even the body was directly blown into pieces. Fragments of , not even a complete outline can be recovered. Only some broken armors were left, which were also ordered by Xia Ya to hang on the city gate!
After the city gate was covered with the bodies of the Odins, Char began the next move.
He first gathered all the descendants and enlisted troops in the city. Most of these enclaves were descendants from the Corsica Military Region, and there were also a small number of local garrison troops from the former Sirtain Military Region. There are about 2,500 soldiers in the city.
When the Xia cavalry entered the city, they annihilated more than a thousand Odin defenders, killed Morka on the spot, and smashed the might of the city gate. How could these descendants have the courage to resist
Xia ordered all these descending troops to be assembled, and then began to lecture.
He is pressed for time, and he does not have so many tender methods to slowly appease people. The bloody means of dealing with those Odin's battle axes before have made these people discouraged, and now he has gathered the whole army to give lectures, many people are uneasy in their hearts, I am afraid that this ruthless Byzantine general will also like it. Lord of the slaughter of prisoners of war...
The more than 1,500 Chixue Army elites were easily slaughtered and killed. Although the number of their descendants was larger, their combat effectiveness was worse than that of the 1,500 Chixue Army elites. Several grades. If the person in front of him really wanted to raise the butcher's knife, how could they have the ability to resist
Just when everyone was afraid, Xia Ya exhorted.
The icy north wind was still blowing, but Xiaya didn't even have armor on his body, so he carried his fire fork in his hand and strode to a large stone that was temporarily moved in front of him.
He deliberately paused for a moment, so that every soldier in the descending army in front of him could see his figure carefully!
When he broke the city yesterday, he flew to kill Morka, and when he smashed the city gate, his figure had been seen by many people. At this moment, he was standing in front of him, who would not recognize him as a fierce man
Yesterday's majesty like a god, who can forget
Xia Ya's face was cold, and after a moment of silence, he finally spoke.
The tone of his lectures is the same as his eyes at the moment, sharp, stern, and sharp-edged!
"I know that you are afraid of death now! If I want to kill you, it will only take a moment! I don't care about the life and death of you people at all! To kill or not to kill is just a matter of my thoughts!"
Good guy, he didn't mean to be soft at all, he just used this imposing appearance to forcibly oppress people!
However, his overwhelming divine power from yesterday is still vivid in his mind, and at this moment, when he speaks out such arrogant and domineering words, it seems to be a matter of course.
"However! I won't kill you! Lao Tzu graciously spared your lives! It's not because of my kindness! I don't know how to be kind! I won't kill you, just because you are still useful to me! This point, I also Don't shy away from telling you! So I saved your life, and you don't need to be grateful to me!"
After a pause, Xia Ya snorted heavily, and the cold voice was even more cruel, and he withdrew from the audience.
"Next, you have to work for me and work hard for me! I know that some of you must be lucky! You are afraid of me now, surrender to me, and obey me! Some of you may think, Manninger knows that the news will definitely bring his army back! He has tens of thousands of troops, and when the time comes, the city will have a different owner. You people surrendered once or twice, and gradually you will get used to it! The big deal is to surrender again! Haha! I'm afraid there are not a few of you who have such thoughts, I know very well in my heart, and I don't need to go around in circles with you!"
After saying this, it turns out that among the more than two thousand troops who surrendered, many people's expressions fluctuated.
Although Xiaya's cavalry is outrageously strong, the number of troops is still too small. And the strength of the Odins is also deeply ingrained in the hearts of everyone. These hundreds of cavalrymen were able to copy Manninger's nest, and their strength accounted for three points, but seven points were luck and tricks. Once the Manninger army returned to the division, it was absolutely impossible to defend the new city with hundreds of cavalry.
At that time... it's a big deal to drop it again.
When holding such thoughts, it is indeed not a few.
These are all people who have surrendered. Once the bones soften, it will be very difficult to try to harden them again.
"But I'm just going to tell you now! You must stop this kind of thought as soon as possible! Because you won't have another chance to surrender! Not at all! It's not that I don't give you a chance to surrender! It's Manninger, He won't give you another chance to surrender!"
Xia Ya's face was full of hideousness, and he shouted fiercely: "You have all seen those corpses on the city wall! The Odin people in this new city are all the elites of Manninger's closest relatives! They were all slaughtered by Lao Tzu! Even his own son, Manninger, was slaughtered by Lao Tzu! He lost more than a thousand elites in the direct line, and even his own son died. Anger!!! You are not idiots, just think about it, even if Manninger came back and came to this city and saw the corpse hanging on the city wall, what kind of anger would burn in his heart! Seeing his son's armor hanging On the city wall, there are no complete corpses, he will be furious and vomit blood!! Hahahaha!!"
Having said that, Xia Ya's eyes were vicious and he slowly swept the audience. His eyes were as sharp as swords at the moment. Everyone who was swept by him was shocked by his eyes and did not dare to look at him.
He heard Xi Ya's vicious voice ringing in his ears: "Think about it again, when the time comes, Manninger will know that when the city broke down, when more than a thousand of his elite descendants were slaughtered by me, his own son was killed. When I slaughtered, more than 2,000 of you stood by and watched, and didn't move at all! You didn't even dare to put a fart, so you surrendered to me obediently and offered the city!! Hahahaha! When the time comes, When Manninger knows this, will he spare you? Will he accept your surrender again?! As long as you are not idiots, you can measure it yourself! His anger of Manninger will be poured out in On you!! Therefore, if there are half-hearted guys who are half-hearted and will turn to Odin’s mind in the future, let’s get rid of this idea as soon as possible!! I’m afraid I won’t give you a chance to speak up, so I ordered them all to be buried alive!!”
Everyone changes color! ! Looking up at Xia Ya, there was fear and panic in his eyes.
"So! What I want to tell you now is that you have no other choice! All paths have been exhausted! Now the only way to survive, the only chance for you, is to choose me! Only You can choose to follow me! Other than that, everything else is a dead end, a dead end!!”