Conquest

Chapter 563: Difficulty (6) Rodriguez!

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The Boluo Military Region surrendered from the governor below, which immediately brought an end to the battle to pacify the Boluo area.

For the record of this war, the historical materials of later generations describe it very simply - because there is really nothing to say. It seems so simple that it can be described in one sentence: Char is here, Char has seen it, and Char has conquered.

Some people even described that Char Leiming's pacification of the north was not like a war at all, but more like Char Leiming took his invincible cavalry on a tour in the north - just ran around like this, the enemy They all surrendered.

Although the Bolo area has been pacified, Char's "parade" has not really been completed.

He and his invincible cavalry were only in the capital city of the Boluo military district for three days. After waiting for the troops catching up from the rear—some guards mobilized from the Corsica region, Char handed over the task of continuing the surrender to these guards, and then went on the road to continue his "grand parade".

Xia Yagan was very bold - because he only defeated the main force of the Boluo Military Region, and only the capital of the Boluo Military Region was really conquered, and there were at least a total of tens of thousands of defenders left in other Boluo regions at that time. And Xia Ya left directly with the people, and handed over the following matters to the Northern Army Garrison.

Facts have proved that his boldness is very reasonable - in the subsequent action of surrendering the entire Boluo Military Region, there was no resistance and resistance, and it went very smoothly.

After all, the three generations of governors of the Beinrich family are more "tough" than the other. Obviously, under the tossing of the governor of polo, the governor of beasts, and the governor of streaking, their prestige has been pitiful. After the Governor surrendered, the people below did not have much interest in dying for such a boss.

With his invincible strong cavalry battalion, Xi Ya rushed to his next target: Newwicka Military Region.

As the second neighbor to the east, the Newwicka military region is even weaker than the Boluo people.

At the same time that Charya launched an attack on the Boluo people, Sogel, who was guarding Corsica, had already been ordered by Charya to drive to the border with thousands of troops and attacked Newica. gesture.

It is worth mentioning that Suogel is indeed worthy of being a subordinate of Xia Ya, and what he has done is almost the same as Xia Ya!

The general first wrote a letter to Newwicka. The content of the letter was: One of my caravans disappeared in your territory. You must have done it, so you must put our people back and apologize at the same time. Apology and financial compensation.

Very familiar, right? That's right, Sogel directly changed the title of the letter that Charya had written to Governor Boluo, and sent a copy to the Newwickians.

He's easy, and the Newwickians act more directly: Blackmail me into giving me money? If you have money, you will give it to you, but you can't afford to lose that person! Let's fight!

It should also be said that at this time, the governor of Newwicka has received a contact letter from the governor of Boluo: Let's work together to kill Char's northern army.

With allies, the confidence of the Newwickans was a little more firm, so they sent troops and then faced off on the border.

But just as they were about to fight Sogel, the Newwickians received a second message.

The news is: The Boluos are finished.

quick! Quickly frustrating! !

What puzzled the Governor of Newwicka was that he only received a letter from the streaking Governor of Boluo a few days ago. Is he finished

Although Governor Boluo likes to run naked, he still has 20,000 or 30,000 troops under his command, right

The news shocked the Newwickians and dared not play.

After a few more days, Xia Ya arrived.

Xia took his cavalry to the place where the two armies confronted each other, and then sent someone to the Newwick Army to deliver a letter: the next battle.

Governor Newwicka was in the military camp and roughly looked at Char's cavalry on the battlefield.

Xia Ya's cavalry lineup is very majestic and imposing, and the cavalry's brave and sturdy appearance is not good at first sight!

As a result, the governor of the Newwicka Military Region came to a fairly sensible decision: the opponent in front of him was absolutely unbeatable by him.

Obviously, the 20,000 to 30,000 troops on Boluo's side were cut off by Xia Ya in three strokes, and I am afraid that I am not an opponent.

However, the Newwickians decided to pinch their noses and beg for mercy.

The Governor of Newwicka wrote a letter to Xia, which meant: Stop fighting, I'm soft, aren't you blackmailing me for money? Can't I give it

Shame, be ashamed.

But Char's answer made the Newwickians desperate.

In the face of the last extortion letter before, the feeling of the Newwickians was: the money can be given, but this person cannot be lost.

And now they find out: they are willing to lose this person, but can't afford the money.

Because Char Ya announced the price increase.

"Eight million gold coins!"

It must be said that what Xia Ya did is really shameless.

Eight million gold coins! You must know that the Byzantine Empire had only 30 million gold coins per year during the Taiping period.

A small area of Newwicka can support thousands of troops. Where can I get eight million gold coins? Even if you smash the pot and sell iron, you can't get it together!

What made Governor Newwicke even more desperate was that he understood the meaning of Char's letter: what I want is not your money, what I want is your territory! If you resist, it will kill you by the way.

Facts tell us that although the Boluo Army is very soft, there is at least one eunuch general who has a seed in the end. But Newwicka Military District, but there are no eunuchs.

They surrendered immediately.

In this way, the two military regions in the east were pacified, and it took Xia Ya a total of 19 days from the dispatch of troops to the end.

Counting the time spent running back and forth on the road, in fact, Xi Ya really just played a parade in the east with his troops and horses.

The east was handed over to Sogel to send troops to accept the surrender and take over the territory, and Char turned his attention to the west.

The first opponent in the west: Beckerp Military District.

Well, I don't need to remember this name, because Xi Ya pacified the two opponents in the east in 19 days, and when he ran back to the west, it happened to be in time for the surrender ceremony of the Beckerpe Military Region.

In nineteen days, this opponent has been killed by the brave General Green.

In fact, the Beckerpe people are not weak, but also very kind and very brave. In the face of the provocative enemy, they made a stubborn confrontation.

The course of the war went like this: Green took 5,000 men from the 1st Corps of the Northern Army to the door, and then wrote a letter to the Governor of the Bekkerp Military District - don't ask the content of this letter, because Bolow's streaking The Governor and the Governor of Newwicka have already received something of the same content.

I have to say that Xia Ya's subordinates are really lazy, and the pre-war plans are the same...

The Bekelps immediately sent troops to confront, and then the two armies collided for the first time on the border.

And then... Green retreats!

Yes, you read that right, our mad dog, Lord Green, withdrew after only one fight!

He retreated to a small border town in his territory, and then waited for a day. The enraged Beckerp military district came to kill him!

The logic of the Beckerpe people is very simple: you come to beat me, but you can't beat me and run away. How can there be such an easy thing? Chase it! !

The roles of offense and defense have reversed.

The thinking of the Beckerpe people is very simple: Green seems to have so much ability, and the small city where the northern army retreated, it seems that the city wall is not very high, the city is not very large, and the fighting power of the northern army is not that strong. , just attack the city and teach them a hard lesson!

Maybe, you can take the opportunity to grab a few pieces of land!

It is a pity that the commander-in-chief of Beckerp's army left out a very crucial question: he did not take a good look at Lord Green's resume.

There is such a glorious record on Mad Dog Green's military resume. Many years ago, he served in the eastern army of the empire, with 2,000 second-line troops of the empire like the local garrison, in a small town, resisted the eastern alien race He resisted the siege of the tribal army for a full month!

At that time, the military report used such a sentence: "The enemy cannot advance"!

And how many enemies were attacking Green at that time? There is a saying that it is 20,000, there is a saying that it is 50,000, and there is a saying that it is 100,000...

Anyway, it was a lot, many times the strength of Green's men at that time.

However, Green successfully completed the resistance, relying on the 2,000-strong local garrison army, and defended it for a full month. The enemy bit his teeth and bumped his head, but none of them could break his line of defense!

This example is enough to show that among General Green's military talents, at least in defensive warfare, he is extremely good.

If the commander-in-chief of the Beckerp Army knew about this, he would not dare to take the army to attack the city guarded by Green! Because according to the previous example, Green resisted an enemy more than ten times his own, and he could hold it for at least a month under normal performance!

And now, what he has in his hand is not the 2,000-brand troops, but the elite First Corps of the Northern Army, whose strength has also changed from 2,000 to 5,000! The quality of the army... The northern army was reorganized from the original imperial central army!

Therefore, the Beckerpe people are tragic.

The Beckerp army had been besieging the city for ten days, and they fought very resolutely and bravely, but the small town in front of them could not be beaten down.

Green's defense of the city, he made a very shameless move, and afterwards, when later scholars studied the process of the war in which Xia Yaleiming swept the Fourth Military Region of the North, they all focused on the war of Green's pacification of Beckerp, because He performed very well, and it can be called a textbook example of war!

It's not that Mr. Xia Ya's performance is not good, it's just that his performance is too unbelievable, to the point that it goes against the rules. Everyone thinks that this guy is no longer human at all, and his actions are impossible. replicated, so no research is necessary.

Research point 1: Green killed only 5,000 people.

You must know that when the military plan was drawn up before, Char had asked Green to pull over the First Corps of the Northern Army, and the dispatch plan should be 15,000 to 20,000.

But Green took only five thousand men, what about the rest of the army

Research point 2: Green is neither a mediocrity nor a coward. Why did he immediately lead his troops back to his own city after fighting at the door, and let the other side kill him

Both of these questions can be answered by the Beckers.

When Becker popular crossed the border aggressively and besieged Green to that small town, their commander was very depressed and found that there are many strange places under this small town...

A group of trenches with a depth of 100 steps have been dug under the city wall!

On the walls are archers.

Beckerp's army attacked for three days, and the men below gave up.

To siege a city, the trenches must be filled first, and while the trenches are filled, they must endure the "baptism" of the archers on the city wall.

Then there is only one answer: Green had already prepared for this place, dug trenches, prepared defenses, and then deliberately attracted the Beckerpe people here.

And why attract the enemy to your own home to fight

Green's answer is that in the military academies of later generations, the standard answer of the instructors is: fighting on the inside!

There are many advantages to fighting on the inside: one's own territory, the terrain is familiar, the situation is familiar, and the opponent is not. In addition, everyone knows that in a war, the troops and horses are not moved, and the food and grass go first. When you go out to fight other people's homes, the army must go out with food. If you fight in your own home, the food is in your own home, and the supply line is short, which is very economical.

After a few days of attacking, the Bekkelps lost a lot of troops, and finally came to the conclusion that they really couldn't fight, so they were ready to retreat.

At this time, Green finally delivered his fatal blow! This blow proved to the world that he was once praised by countless people as the most talented among the eagle generals, and it was justified!

The Bekelps fought across the border and killed other people's homes from their own homes, so they had to do one thing: transport food.

The logistical supplies were to be transported from the Beckerpe military district by convoys to the small town in the county of Syltane for use by the army.

And as mentioned earlier, Green only brought 5,000 people here, what about the rest of the First Corps of the Northern Army

The answer is simple: cut the grain and copy the back!

Using eight words to describe Green's strategy this time is: Bring wolves into the room, close the door and beat the dogs.

The three banner regiments of the Northern Army, who had been lurking in the dark for a long time, calmly copied the back path of Beckerp's army, cut off their supply lines, blocked their food routes, and then gave Becker from behind. The Erps are a stick.

Immediately, Lord Green took his defenders out of the city to meet them.

Attacked from the front and back, the Bekkerpe people were in other people's homes, and the supply line was cut off again, and the army was in chaos.

Green wins!

It took Xia Ya 19 days to settle the two military regions in the east. Greene also took nineteen days to deal with the Bekelps—this time also included the completion of the surrender.

When Xia arrived west with the strong cavalry battalion, it was just in time to sign the document at the surrender ceremony with the Beklp people.

The Beckers are screwed.

The last remaining opponent is the last military area on the Western Front: Notting.

The Notting Military Region is the weakest of the four military regions around Char's territory.

And Xia Ya's pre-war plan, to deal with this weakest opponent, sent his strongest army, the independent cavalry regiment!

This cavalry unit of Char, composed of the remnants of the former Rodriguez cavalry and the pirate cavalry, completely wiped out the elite of the Odin cavalry vanguard during the Battle of Syltan.

The case said that to deal with the weakest guy among the four opponents, he sent his strongest army, and the other three opponents were killed. This opponent should have been solved long ago.

And when Xi Ya finished the surrender ceremony of the Beckerpe people, he got the news: There is trouble in the Notting Military Region.

His independent cavalry regiment, under the command of Sharba, actually failed to deal with the weak Nordins!

The war is in a stalemate, and Sharba really has nothing to do with his opponent.

In this situation, not only was Xia Ya's accident, but Green was also puzzled when he got the news.

But soon, they knew the real reason.

Because when Xia Ya killed his neighbors one by one, one of them couldn't sit still and finally shot.

This man is Salvador.

The former speaker of the Red Round Table, the former supreme leader of the Warlord Party of the Empire's Tema Military Region.

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Turning over the map of the northern Byzantine Empire, you will find a very interesting phenomenon.

One of Char's territories, in the southwest of Shirtan County, borders the Notting Military Region.

And to the southwest of the Notting Military District, bordered by a name that is familiar to the entire empire: the Rodriguez region!

The most famous place in this area is that hundreds of years ago, a powerful and invincible army emerged from this area. This army is recognized as the strongest ace army since the founding of the empire, and the most heroic and combative army-the No. 1 Central Army of the Empire The Thirteenth Corps, also known as the "Rodrian Cavalry".

This area has always been known for its martial arts and sturdy folk customs.

And many people understand a truth. Generally speaking, if we say that a place has strong folk customs, then there is usually another meaning: this place is very poor, very poor!

Because of poverty, people living here are generally more vicious.

A hundred years ago, the empire began to establish the Tema military district system. At that time, the emperor of the empire divided the land in the north of the empire into separate Tema military districts, and appointed a group of generals in the army as governors to guard the place for the empire. and the northern frontier.

When the Rodriguez region was drawn, there was a very funny scene: all the generals, no one was willing to go to the Rodriguez region to be the governor.

Because the place is so poor.

Soldiers are also human beings. Who doesn’t like being sent to a prosperous, lively and fertile place? Who wants to be sent to such a backcountry, where birds don't lay eggs

But just when everyone was arguing, a very smart general took the initiative to apply and asked to be entrusted to the Rodriguez region. The man's name was "Argus Carlin"—he was the current head of the Red Round Table, El Salvador's great-grandfather.

At the time, everyone thought that this Argus was an unlucky person, and he helped everyone take a blame that everyone was unwilling to take.

But later, everyone found out that they were all wrong!

Rodriguez is definitely not a black pot, but a gold mine! A huge gold mine!

Because of the existence of this shrewd ancestor, the direct consequence was that the Tema military region gradually split with the imperial family, and formed a warlord party with the Red Round Table as a group. For the past 100 years, the Rhoderia region has always been a warlord party. The most powerful military region recognized by the entire warlord party!

Attention, is the strongest! none of them"!

That Argus was the first governor, he was shrewd, and he chose a place that would produce strong soldiers—because he was a believer in the supremacy of force. He believes that as long as he has a strong force in his hand, he can stand in any bad situation.

But, to be fair, in his years as governor, he failed to solve one problem: money.

Rodriguez is too poor. Even if he can recruit a strong and skilled army, he does not have the financial resources to maintain a large army.

And it was his son who solved the problem.

Second Governor of the Rodriguez Military District.

Many Tema military regions in the empire have their own advantages and resources.

For example, the Armenian Military District, which has the best iron ore in the Empire, is famous for producing armor and weapons, and it is also their biggest source of finance.

For example, the Corsica military region used to be a grain-producing area, producing grain and selling grain in exchange for financial revenue.

So what about the Rodriguez region

After thinking about it for a long time, the governor finally found his real advantage: people!

What you produce is resources, and what I produce is warriors!

As a result, the Rodriguez region has ushered in glory, and their way to get rich is to be a thug!

The official scientific name is: Mercenaries!

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Do you have an enemy you hate to the core, but you can't be ashamed after tossing and turning

You have a life-and-death enemy that you can't deal with in your life, but you are too weak to resist

So, go to the Rodriguez Military District! The Governor of Rodriguez will generously solve these problems for you, provided that you have the gold coins.

Even within the Tema military region, there are contradictions between the governor and the governor, and there will be frictions and even wars between them - especially after the development of the Tema military region system has reached its peak, the imperial power has declined, and these warlords cannot be restrained. .

At this time, the Roderians found their own way to make a fortune.

They are the most powerful warlord army in the empire, with the richest combat experience, all kinds of battlefields, you can see the figure of Rodriguez mercenaries.

The vast majority of men born in Rodriguez have one final fate: to take up arms and go to war.

Rodriguez is poor and they do not produce food because the land is poor. They don't have mines, they don't produce minerals, they're geographically remote, and they're not a prosperous trade route.

People in Rodriguez, every boy is told from an early age: if you want to get ahead, you have to fight with your own hands!

The rite of passage for every boy in Rodriguez is a sword and a shield.

They knew from an early age that if they wanted to succeed, they had to work hard to receive training and become qualified fighters.

They know from childhood that they have no other way out than this one.

They will eventually go to the battlefield, take up arms, and fight for life and death with enemies who are completely strangers to them and have no hatred. Because they understand that this is the only way to get ahead.

And all kinds of records about the life of the people in Rodriguez, reading it will make people feel a kind of fear from the heart!

You must know that in other places, when the husband or son of the family enlists in the army, the whole family will often say goodbye with tears, and then the parents or wives will tell the soldiers on the expedition with tears, the scene is warm, or touching, even A little sad.

But in the Rodriguez region, no! !

In Rodrians, if the male in the family becomes a soldier and joins the army, then the whole family will celebrate like a festival, greet relatives and friends to eat and drink, and then send off their son or husband to take up arms and go out to kill the enemy, before parting. Before, I would also warn: Be sure to kill! Cut well! Try to kill more enemies and chop more heads! Earn more bounties! The whole family relies on you to go out and hack people in exchange for getting paid to eat!

Elsewhere, at friend gatherings, boasting between men and men, or saying "how much money do I have", "how much money do I have", and the one with the most money or the most women gets everyone's envy.

But in Rodriguez, men often boast about things like: "How many people have I killed", "How many heads have I chopped off", "What battles have I fought"... Finally, everyone drinks If there are too many, take off your clothes and count the scars on your body. Whoever has the most scars on his body, the most terrifying and the worst, will become the object of admiration and envy by all.

Every year, the Governor of Rodriguez collects a lot of remuneration, and sends the fierce and adept Rodriguez army to help countless clients to kill and set fire.

With an elite and skilled army, there is an abundant source of financial resources.

The Rodriguez Military Region has become the strongest among all the warlord parties, which is a matter of course.

And Xiaya swept the four surrounding opponents one by one, and when they hit the Notting Military Area, one person couldn't sit still.

The current governor of the Rodriguez Military District, El Salvador.

This cunning and cunning leader of the Red Roundtable immediately realized a danger!

Xiaya must never be allowed to sweep the West so easily! Because he saw Xi Ya's potential threat! Once Xia Ya's power continues to expand, no one will be able to subdue him in the entire north, or even the entire empire!

Char's territory is bordered by the Nordins, while the Notting Military District is bordered by Rodriguez.

If Xia really kills Nordin, it will border the Rodriguez Military Region! At that time, he would have to face the powerful enemy Xiaya directly!

So... The Notting Military Region can't perish. Keeping him can at least serve as a shield for himself.

So, Rodriguez Military District, sent troops!