Xiaya didn't know that Roddy had already sublimated himself to a "god" in his heart. There was chaos in and out of the city. Fortunately, Roddy's army did not disturb the people. They only restrained the city's defense after occupying the Kufu, and the residents of the city naturally did not dare to go out. Only the cavalry came and ran on the streets, and occasionally there were some fleeing defenders.
Xia Ya took advantage of the chaos to get out of the city. With his ability, if he didn't want people to find out, it would be easy. Just returned to the caravan, but saw Hastings sitting on the roof of the cart, looking at himself with wide eyes, with a mocking sneer on his face.
Xia Ya glanced at the guy: "It's fine if you don't help, just stare at me for what."
"You are such a big hand that you directly knocked down other people's city gates." Hastings sneered: "The other people are not fools. The good city gates collapsed. Could it be that the leading general is an idiot?"
Xia Ya smiled embarrassingly: "Anyway, he can't find anything, I broke the city defense, he won't eat the fat delivered to the mouth, and occupy the city, maybe our caravan will be able to hit the road tomorrow. "
Hasting shook his head: "You can help him once, but you can't help him all the time."
After a pause, he said in a low voice: "You went out at night, and I didn't have time to spare. I chatted with the people in the caravan and figured it out. The guy who led the army turned out to belong to Duke Minas. Son, hum... I don't know why, I brought this army to the east to make a fuss. It has been more than a month, but his situation is getting more and more difficult. Several military districts in the army were initially taken advantage of by him, and now I have come to recall that, with only one move to shrink the defense, he was forced to have no room to stand. This time he took advantage of it with your help. This city can’t be occupied for a long time, and he will leave after looting the Kufu, but next time, people will be more heavily guarded, and he will only rely on cavalry to attack, and sooner or later he will die.”
Xia Ya nodded and sighed.
These two brothers, one is Odin Valkyrie, who has been famous for many years, and the other is the most popular young Byzantine general. The military strategy is naturally superior to others. A noisy prospect.
"Today I saw the formation. There are about 2,000 cavalry under his command. This kind of force is not too small in the east. It's a pity that he is useless in the right place." Xia Ya smiled: "Or... Let's help people Help to the end, go and wake him up?"
Hastings laughed suddenly: "Little Char, why are you so nervous about this little Lord Roddy? Are you on good terms with him? He is the son of Duke Minas. As far as I know, that old man can be with you. Not all the way."
Where is Xiaya willing to say that he had meddled with other people's girls, and he vaguely said a few words. Hastings didn't want to say anything, so he didn't ask him.
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Roddy was busy in the city all night and didn't sleep. After dawn, his subordinates had already counted the harvest in the warehouse. Naturally, the property that could be taken away was taken away, but if he couldn't take it away, Roddy simply waved his hand: "As usual! "
His so-called business as usual is to move out the food and property that he cannot take away from the warehouse and distribute it to the residents of the city. Anyway, it is a generosity to others. Roddy is very generous, not to mention that he can buy people's hearts.
This is also an important reason why the people have a good impression of Roddy after he came to the east. He didn't lay down a place. Any property that he couldn't take with him would be distributed to the local people at will, and his subordinates would not disturb the people— It has been almost 100 years since this area became the Tema Military Region. In the 100 years, it has been ruled by the warlord party for several generations. It has long since regarded itself as a Byzantine national. For the people here, who is ruled by? It doesn't matter, as long as the tax is not too harsh or too much - from this point of view, Roddy is really popular with the people here.
The transportation is done by subordinates. These guys are already familiar with this kind of work. They collect carriages, carry items, open the gate of the treasury at the same time, issue notices, and send things. Roddy does not need to worry at all.
But in the morning, the caravan from outside the city came into the city and sent someone to ask Roddy. The leader of the caravan also gave a gift, thanking Roddy for letting them go - if it were another army , I might have swallowed this caravan as fat.
For the gift money that came to the door, Roddy did not refuse. The leader of the caravan made a request at the same time. His team had to hurry and could not stay in the city. Roddy didn't intend to occupy this city for a long time, nor did he intend to become the ruler here. He didn't intend to stop them when they were leaving. After a few more polite words, the leader of the caravan left with great gratitude.
The blacksmiths in the city were all assembled to mend the broken armor and weapons for the cavalry.
While Roddy sent detectives outside the city to inquire about news, he took the time to repair in this small town and let the team recover.
In the afternoon, the guards under his command suddenly sent a letter, saying that it was sent by someone outside the door, and he wanted to present it to himself.
The personal guards around him were all personal bodyguards from his Minas family. When Roddy took this letter in his hand, he was stunned: the envelope was crookedly written, "Little Sir Roddy received. ".
Roddy is very curious. It stands to reason that no one in this small town knows his identity, but where did this letter come from
Roddy took the guards out to check. It turned out that the letter was sent by a little beggar with a runny nose and a dirty body.
The subordinates cross-examined for a long time, but could not find any clues, only that someone gave the little beggar a gold coin and asked him to send this letter to the garrison in the afternoon.
As for what the person who sent the letter to him looked like, it was unclear: the other party covered his head with a turban.
When asked about the man's attire, he said he was wearing a leather robe.
Roddy nodded, but the guard beside him said: "Sir, there are not many people wearing leather robes in this city, but there are many people in that caravan who wear leather robes."
Roddy squinted and thought for a while: "The caravan left the city in the morning, but this letter was delivered to me in the afternoon, obviously it's a good time."
"Otherwise, I'll take someone to chase." The guard whispered: "They are such a big team, they can't run fast, I'll take my light cavalry to chase, and they can catch up in an hour."
"So what if you catch up?" Roddy frowned and said, "What if they don't recognize them? Hundreds of people in the other team leave the city and go far, so they won't be afraid of us, and don't need to look at our faces. You chase after us. Go on, people ignore you, can you still use force? To deal with hundreds of people, how many soldiers do you bring? If you bring less, it is not enough, if you bring too much, what will we do in the city?"
The guard immediately closed his mouth.
Roddy also went back to the door sullenly, and after unfolding the letter, he only glanced at it, and his face changed.
Why
Because this letter starts from the first sentence, and the content in it is to point at Roddy's nose and curse!
The person who wrote this letter directly scolded Rhodey for being stupid and useless. The general content is like this, saying that although your father, Duke Minas, has a bad character, he is still a famous general of the empire, a disciple brought out. , whether it is Adric or Ruhr, are famous players. Why didn't your biological son inherit at all? Having been in the East for so long, to actually get worse and worse is a shame.
The other party also said: The number of cavalry in your hands is rampant enough in the east, as long as you don’t unite and block it, but now you are forcing people to stand, and it’s obviously a strategy The reason is wrong. You know, in this place in the east, a few small warlords, if you pull out any one of them alone, can't beat you in the field, and now people have played a one-handed shrink defense, and they have stumped you? But I don't blame you. Although your qualifications are not too stupid, and you have been educated by famous teachers, but after all, it is your first time to lead a war alone, and you have no experience. So, for your poor sake, I'll teach you a way to do what I say, so that you can gain a firm foothold in the east.
The solution is simple: aren't the local warlords playing with you a strategy of shrinking defenses? Don't just keep your eyes on those small cities.
The way to teach you is very simple: play hard and gamble, and you will win if you love to fight.
Listen carefully, here's how you can find a capital city of the military region, and then put on a stance to hit the door. went to the capital.
Aren't those bastards playing shrink defense with you? You go directly to their capital city. The opponent's troops can't beat you in the field anyway, so you can only hide in the city for defense. At this time, your chance will come. You hit the capital city, and the governor of the other party has no strength to drive you away. The only way is to order other places to send reinforcements.
In this way, the following is simple: surround the point and fight for help!
You are all cavalry, and you can run fast on four legs. There are no large-scale cavalry in these military regions in the east, and the reinforcements you send can only be infantry. You pull out the cavalry and destroy each one. , after knocking out a few reinforcements, the initiative is in your hands.
The key to this method is to use the advantages of your cavalry in the field to force the opponent's army to fight with you in the field, and then eliminate the opponent's living forces as much as possible.
If you knock out a few reinforcements, this military area will basically be emptied by you. Even if the governor continues to defend the capital city and does not go out, you can turn your horses and attack other cities, and the troops in those cities will be surrounded by you for reinforcements. It's done, it's very empty, you hit it right.
I don't need to teach you the following things. This method is enough to reverse the current balance of power in the east. As long as you are smart enough, follow this method and do it step by step, then you will have enough advantages in the east.
If this is the case, you can't stand up in the end, you just find a pillar and kill yourself.
…
That's probably what the letter is about.
After Roddy read it, his face changed a few times, and his heart was beating wildly.
Although he didn't know who wrote the letter, the content and the ideas he gave him really moved Rhodey!
However, this method is still very dangerous. To put it bluntly, it is one word: gambling!
Let yourself directly lead all the troops to attack the capital of others, force the other party's army to come to the rescue, and play the trick of encircling the point for reinforcements - this method can be used, but it is also very dangerous. Well, being blocked under the city by others, when the defenders in the city and reinforcements outside the city come to attack from inside and outside, I am afraid that I will run back to the imperial capital without my life.
But... if it's done, as the letter says, it will be able to open up another situation!
After all, Luo Di is worthy of being a general manager. After hesitating for a while, he slammed his thigh and shouted viciously: "I bet!"
The guards did not know where the little lord of his family got so excited, so he watched Roddy stride out the door, called his lieutenant officer, and ordered: "Let those guys Hurry up! Don't take anything that can't be moved! Prepare me for the road before it gets dark! Let's go play a big ticket!"
Several of the officers under his command were immediately excited, and those who had the guts couldn't help but ask, "Sir, how much fun are you playing?"
"Go away!" Roddy kicked the man: "Get ready to die!"
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As soon as the spring breeze from the sea blew, the devastated area around the great mainland city of Osgilia, which had been devastated by the war, suddenly showed some vitality again.
After a quiet winter, it seems that the breath of war has left. When the Duke of Minas went south, the suspicion of civil war once again shrouded the sky over this war-torn imperial capital. But right now, the news doesn't seem so bad.
The old duke in the south didn't know what was wrong, but he actually died down. He originally meant to intimidate the imperial capital, but now he seems to have restrained his minions, and he only wanted to be his local emperor in the south. I heard that the old man has already started to distribute the seeds for spring ploughing in the south, but he seems to be posing as if he wants to manage the southern site well.
Here in the imperial capital, even the decree is too lazy to send it to the south - everyone knows that the old duke is already in charge of the south. If you don't get mad at you, just don't bring it to your door to humiliate yourself.
In the spring, Adrick originally wanted to make a move, and the Duke of Minas to the south died. No matter what his intentions were, he could just take the opportunity to launch an attack on the rebels, even if it was a big battle. Don't move, and at least play a few games on a limited scale.
If he waited for so long, the military hearts were all scattered. Moreover, if he is in power, if he does nothing, the generals in the army who originally supported him in power will inevitably be dissatisfied.
Adrick has already dispatched the people from the two flags, even the money and food are ready, and even the leader of the army has been decided. After three days, the army will go north and take the opportunity to capture the two cities of Hughes. Get your morale up.
But at this juncture, something happened!