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Chapter 75 Norway is in my hands!

The Battle of Hardangerfjord is over.

Vondorf was reading the post-war summary.

Since the troops were divided, and then they were eaten away by interspersed maneuvers, leaving only more than [-] people in the Oslo army.

More than 800 casualties, more than [-] prisoners, and more than [-] escaped.

In addition to personnel, a large amount of materials were also seized.

There is not much food, mainly weapons, armor, clothing, tents and other armaments.

Bergen is rich, Oslo is not bad, and the standard of armaments is very high, which is enough to meet the high requirements of the Southern Expeditionary Army.

If you fill it up, you can re-arm a regular brigade of 5000 people!

Harvest!
If you refer to the weak casualties of the Southern Expeditionary Army with only 200 extra, it is enough to call it a hearty victory.

According to the Nordic house's habit, recruit more poets to promote and publicize, and it will become an epic battle in a few years.

Make a fortune by surprise in Oslo.

Make a fortune by raiding the food and grass camp once.

Now he is making a fortune again.

It doesn't feel like they are here to fight, more like they are here to purchase goods.
Good purchase!

The soldiers of the Southern Expedition Army who cleaned the battlefield all grinned at the corners of their mouths.

The eyes looking at Feng Daofu are even more fanatical.

Who can refuse to follow such a leader who has low casualties, big gains, respects people, and doesn’t drink the blood of his soldiers?
Vondorf was also happy.

But when he heard the news from Willy, he calmed down.

The blond king Chen Hai.
The blond king, king of Oslo, jumped into the sea at the last moment, wearing heavy chain mail, sword and shield in hand.

Someone tried to catch the golden-haired king before he sank, but the golden-haired king raised the shield above his head and pulled it down hard, and then disappeared into the deep ice sea.

This is the end of a generation of ice and sea legends.

Willy was a little sad: "I didn't expect that he would end up like this."

Vondorf felt the same way.

It lacks the feeling of fighting the boss when dealing with Blood Axe.

But this is also normal, now it is no longer two or three big cats and kittens, but a strategic game between the army and the army.

The old blond king is not the Blood Ax King. He is a medieval man in a chaotic world, not a magical medieval man.

If you want to change it to fantasy, this battle will be fought to the end, and it will become a Dark Souls style.

He can imagine what the import interface looks like.

Nordic land of blood, iron and stormy seas.

The priest listens to the murmurs of the gods in the sacrificial fire.

The northern lights on the Valkyrie parade are the first to go out.

Viking clans wander in the lightless darkness.

The blond king decided to continue the era of fire with water.

And you are the witness!
Please select your origin.

1. Samurai (an unknown warrior who fell while wandering, wearing a metal armor that can take advantage of physical strength, and can use a Viking sword to deal with various enemies)

2. Priests (recorders and narrators who collapsed from exhaustion during travel, and who can use witchcraft by the command of the gods)

3. Mage (a lonely scholar who left his hometown for exploration, and manipulates magic with extremely high rationality and knowledge)

4
You have chosen: Samurai.

Now you no longer have a fiefdom, and all your ancestors left you is a suit of armor and a Viking sword.

You seem to have forgotten a lot.

Your blood has been baked dry from being too close to the Great Sun.

Can a tree that has lost its water still be called a tree?

Anyway, give yourself a new name.

Get on the road before you forget the name.

The battlefield was filled with thick fog.

There is a faint flicker of fire in the depths.

Countless shadows of ships suddenly appeared, they were warships used by the Norwegians to go out to sea for trade.

At its peak, countless masts rose above the sea of ​​ice, like black pillars supporting the sky and the earth, making people feel like they were in a giant's palace.

However, the trade will stop one day, so the war broke out, and warships turned into firewood.

The charred hull stood silently in the sea breeze, like continuous tombstones.

These tombstones are lined up in a row, guiding you towards a huge golden ship.

When you board the giant ship, the sails of the giant ship suddenly raise, and the roaring golden lion on the sail lights up.

"Blood with blood!"

An old voice echoed, and a giant hand with distinct joints grasped the edge of the hull.

"The storm will bring new life!"

The blond head was lifted up, the sea water slid down from the cheeks, and the figure was as tall as a god.

A piece of unburned sail floated over.

Your mind is flooded with a name.

The golden mad king, Harald!
That's probably how it feels.

It's a pity that this is just a normal medieval brawl. Although there are some fierce people, they are not so violent that they are against the sky.
Fondorf thought as he watched Brunhilde approaching.

"Many war chiefs also fled, don't you pursue them?"

Looking at the calm and beautiful fjord, the silver-haired girl moved her sore arms.

Feng Daofu shook his head: "I can't chase him."

"That"

"Brünnhilde, do you know why we won?"

Fondolf looked at Ava and the other officers: "You should also tell me."

It is said that the saints are strategists and are unparalleled in wisdom and courage.

It is said that Io bless you.

Excluding those who are not nutritious, these officers who have received military training for more than half a year can analyze the reasons.

"Our army is well equipped, morale is high, and the battlefield is our choice, we have a terrain advantage."

Ava concluded: "Surrounded by water on three sides, we only need to defend one side, and the defensive advantage is huge."

"Besides, there is no retreat. Behind you are your comrades and your trophies. The quality of our army is enough to inspire courage and perform at a super level."

"Well said."

Vondolf nodded and pointed in the direction of the retreat of the Oslo army deserters.

"We have no retreat, but the Oslo army has a retreat."

"Whether they win or lose, they can row away."

"With this way of retreat, they won't be too desperate."

"This increase and decrease allowed us to defeat the Oslo army with less than two hundred weak casualties, creating such a huge battle result."

"But the price is that you can't take the initiative to pursue it. You can defeat it but you can't annihilate it."

Feng Daofu preset the battlefield and arranged the formation, referring to Liu Yu's Queyue Formation.

Facing the elite cavalry of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Liu Yu used chariots and shields to build arc-shaped fortifications by the river. The infantry hid behind the chariots, and the three arms of infantry, cavalry and chariots fought together.

There are a large number of Liu Yu's warships on the river. If something goes wrong, they can quickly get on the ship and transfer, and they can also use the navy to make quick maneuvers.

This formation is backed by a river and covered by naval forces, which can reduce the length of the line and better protect the crossbowmen. The naval forces can not only improve the mobility of the army, harass the enemy, but also reduce logistical losses. In the end, nearly 2700 infantrymen defeated the Wei army of more than 3 cavalry.

The reason why it is short-lived is because this tactic requires a lot of terrain.

If the terrain is wrong, it is very easy to be outflanked by the enemy from behind. It is also necessary to ensure that the opponent does not have the ability to effectively attack our warships.

Therefore, there were only a few examples of the moon formation, and it did not become the mainstream method of warfare.

He is also using the simplified monkey version.

the purpose of all this
"I think a head-on battle can annihilate them."

Someone asked suspiciously.

"Every soldier's life is very important to me," Vondorf said.

"Rather than pursuing greater results by any means necessary, I value how to create the desired strategic goals with the lowest casualties."

As soon as this statement came out, everyone around was shocked.

Feng Daofu didn't seem to notice. He picked up the tin trumpet and shouted to the soldiers cleaning the battlefield: "When you entered the military camp on the first day, I promised that I would never give up a comrade!"

"So, I tried every means to reduce casualties as much as possible!"

"We are far away from our families and home, and we go out to fight. We are not only united during the battle, we should treat our companions as family members, and treat the military camp as our home!"

"When we face the enemy's spear, the shield of our comrade-in-arms resists the attack for us!"

"When we were injured, the hands of our comrades bandaged us!"

"We help each other! We live and die together!"

Under Vondorf's loud sermon, the soldiers arranged for the wounded in an orderly manner.

Since the North Tribe, Vondorf has been cultivating a team of doctors and improving medical concepts.

This is much easier and more important than steelmaking.

Some people cleaned up the blood, some drove away the flying mosquitoes, some were responsible for carrying and helping the wounded, and some deftly helped the doctors pull arrows, debride the wounds, and bandage them.

Others cut branches, made stretchers and fixed planks.

A thigh fracture used to be nicknamed the last fracture in life. The muscle is very thick, it is difficult to reset and deal with, and it is easy to endanger the large blood vessels on the leg.

But now such seriously injured people have a chance to be cured, and most of the minor injuries can return to the company.

The entire rescue operation was carried out in an orderly manner with high efficiency.

It didn't take long for the wounded to receive treatment.

"They will become veterans and the source of combat effectiveness of the First Brigade."

Vondorf never forgets to give lectures: "These pre-war and post-war work are the most important places in the military."

"Just like this battle."

"When we complete the Ice Strait Blitz, we have basically grasped victory in our hands."

When Feng Daofu said this, he thought of the Battle of Pengcheng during the Chu-Han War.

The 3 elite troops led by Xiang Yu faced the hundreds of thousands of vassal coalition forces led by Liu Bang.

With such a disparity in strength, Xiang Yu was still able to defeat the strong with the weak. The reason was that before the battle, the coalition forces were cut off by Xiang Yu.

In ancient times, communications were backward, and commanders may not necessarily know the overall situation.

Xiang Yu beat Fan Kui hard first, and then began to maneuver. This caused Liu Bangjun to only know that someone was defeated, but he didn't know how many people were defeated.
As soon as there was more news of defeat, it gave people the illusion that the entire army was under siege, which had a powerful blow to the morale of the coalition forces.

Xiang Yu then used the tactic of directly attacking Liu Bang's command center, insisting that the enemy commander chase and fight, paralyzing Liu Bang's command system. He was unable to organize an army to resist, and was finally completely defeated.

It can be done here. On the one hand, Xiang Yu is strong enough, and on the other hand, Liu Bangjun gave him the opportunity.

Liu Banghan set out from the capital Yueyang in March of the second year and occupied Pengcheng in April. The Battle of Pengcheng took place in the same month.

It will not exceed two months and no more than sixty days from Liu Bang's dispatch of troops to the end of the Battle of Pengcheng.

The straight-line distance between Yueyang and Pengcheng (Xuzhou) is more than 760 kilometers, which is more than 1500 miles. Taking into account the tortuous route of Liu Bang's march and the conversion between Han Dynasty and modern times, Liu Bang's march distance was actually more than 2000 Han miles. It was a veritable expedition of thousands of miles to the east.

After deducting the marching time, it took Liu Bang no more than ten days to assemble the army.

Assuming that the Han army marched [-] days from Liyang to Pengcheng, the average daily march would be more than [-] Hanli.

On the way, he stayed in Luoyang for three full days to mourn for Emperor Yi and actually attacked Hanoi.

There was a price to be paid for such a hasty march.

That is, "struggling for profit within thirty miles" requires "two-thirds to".

The marching speed of the Han army exceeds forty miles. How many people can reach Pengcheng?
The coalition forces' long and fragile supply lines are also their culprit.

The Han army was scattered, so the Chu army encountered only sporadic resistance along the way from Xiao to Pengcheng.

But Xiang Yu was able to march so accurately, in addition to his keen sense of smell on the battlefield, he must also clearly know Liu Bang's deployment and collect a lot of intelligence before the battle.

——If you can still march accurately without intelligence, then it’s not called smell, just call it divination.

Feng Daofu's battle was somewhat similar to the battle of Pengcheng.

He thought he didn't have Xiang Yu's innate sense of the battlefield, but his intelligence work was better.

After crossing [-] kilometers of mountainous terrain and completing the Ice Gorge blitz, the forced Oslo army must turn around to deal with him, and at this time they disperse and encroach.

By the time the Oslo army came back to their senses, half of them had been eaten away.

Without food and grass, without spoils of war, more than half of the army was lost.

This heavy blow, originally expected by Vondolf, the Oslo army was likely to disintegrate on its own.

No matter how organized the Viking warriors were, no matter how tenacious their will to fight, they were not regular troops, nor did they have the discipline of those historically powerful troops.

They fight for their own reasons.

Now that there is nothing left, the possibility of mutiny is extremely high.

—if it wasn't for King Blonde.

The blond king could stabilize the morale of the soldiers, which was something Feng Daofu didn't expect.

But that doesn't matter anymore.

Even if military morale can be stabilized, conflicts will still exist, and internal conflicts must be transferred to the outside.

Certain that the Oslo army was going to turn around and attack him, Vondolf was already choosing the battlefield.

The carefully selected Queyue Formation successfully defended the initial offensive when the Oslo army had the highest morale.

Again and again, again and again, and three times.

Facing the Queyue Formation, which gave up its mobility and maximized its defensive advantage.

When the Oslo army was unable to attack for a long time, and their morale and physical strength were completely exhausted, it was the plate armored ascetics who led hundreds of heavy infantry and completely defeated them.
It can be said that being able to win a hearty victory is the result of Feng Daofu's exhaustion.

Although it has not been wiped out, sometimes these people are more useful alive than dead
"Obtain the Golden King's treasure: Heimdall's Horn!"

When the salvage blond king unexpectedly salvaged a high-level treasure.

Feng Daofu also got the desired news from the spies.

"Olav III personally led the Bergen army in pursuit. When they marched 60 kilometers in a hurry, they encountered the remnants of Oslo who had returned."

"Due to physical exhaustion and no time to arm, the Bergen army's military formation was impacted and collapsed."

"Not only that, because the ground is muddy, Olaf III rode his horse in fear of getting dirty."

"While he was trying to save the situation, the horse's hoof 'accidentally' slipped in the mud, and Olaf III fell off his horse and was seriously injured and fell into a coma."

When Feng Daofu watched the news, although he had a smile on his face, he was very sad and indignant in his heart.

"For the safety of No. 3 father-in-law, and for the princess's dowry, Bergen will not be attacked by pirates."

"I have decided that the army will go to Bergen!"

　King Xiang went from Xiao to the west, attacked the Han army in the morning, and then reached Pengcheng in the east. In the middle of the day, he defeated the Han army.Killed more than [-] Han soldiers.The Han soldiers all walked south into the mountains, and Chu pursued them to the Suishui River east of Lingbi.However, the Han army was overrun by Chu and many of them were killed. More than [-] Han soldiers entered the Sui River, and the Sui River stopped flowing.
　　The story behind the Battle of Pengcheng is a bit fantasy.

　　Where is Lingbi Dongshui?In the south of today's HB City near Suishui, HB City is more than 50 kilometers away from Xuzhou (Pengcheng).

　　The distance between Huaibei and Xuzhou is farther than the distance between Xiao County and Xuzhou, and it is impossible to reach it by marching at ordinary speed in a day.

　　The Chu army moved eastward from Xiao County to attack Pengcheng in the morning, arrived at Pengcheng at noon and defeated the Han army, and then the Han army retreated to the south, and the Chu army continued to pursue.

　　How could the Chu army continue to pursue Baili without stopping after fighting for more than ten hours?

　　I think Liu Bang knew that the troops in Pengcheng were too limited to resist, so he gathered his troops and retreated south.

　　——The Chu army attacks from the west. The north needs to cross the river and will be attacked by the Chu army. The east is still Chu land, so it can only retreat south.

　　The Han army fought and retreated, and the Chu army was also pursuing, but both sides were exhausted.

　　By nightfall, the Han army had retreated to Sui River, and the Chu army also gave up pursuing the Han army.

　　Firstly, the soldiers were exhausted, and secondly, they were unable to fight at night.

　　Liu Bang fled the next day.

　　Naturally, the legendary rescue by gale did not happen, it only exists in the story.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)