Horse on the World

Chapter 274
The battle of Uyan Bator has been stalemate from the very beginning. On the battlefield tens of miles away, the snow has been trampled without a trace by the soldiers of both sides. It was frozen hard, but the color was particularly glaring compared to the whiteness outside the battlefield.

After several days of fighting, neither side can take advantage of the situation. Dingzhou's soldiers are numerous and powerful, and their weapons are excellent, especially long-range weapons. They suppressed the Wolf Running Army so much that they couldn't hold their heads up. They often had to pay a huge price before they could fight each other. .In Uyan Bator, the generals of the two generals applied the catapults and ballistas used in siege to field battles for the first time.

Hu He is indeed far superior to Lu Dalin in terms of impromptu changes on the battlefield and command skills. Often when Lu Dalin has just revealed a flaw, or is about to reveal a flaw, Hu He can accurately catch it and give a targeted blow. After Lu Dalin suffered a few losses, he changed his strategy and played steadily. Let you expose all kinds of flaws and plant all kinds of traps. I have only one way to deal with it. Happily.Don't be greedy for merit, don't take tricks, and compress the opponent's living space step by step.The current Lu Dalin has this capital.

Under Lu Dalin's seemingly stupid style of play, Hu He was also helpless.Comparing the combat strength of the two sides, the [-] cavalry soldiers of the Wolf Run cavalry are indeed stronger than the cavalry of the Dingzhou Army. On the side of the Dingzhou Army, only the two battalions of the whirlwind battalion and the Changsheng Battalion can compete with it. But in terms of infantry, the Dingzhou soldiers won too much. Even if they fought against the cavalry, the Dingzhou soldiers did not lose the wind in the slightest.

After discovering this fact, Lu Dalin quickly made a change. All the soldiers on the left wing, headed by Wang Qinian's Tianlei Battalion, were transferred to the central battlefield. The other ten thousand cavalrymen were transferred to the left flank.

The Wolf Ben Army is divided into three battalions, and in the middle is Huhe's Central Army, where more than [-] main forces of the Wolf Ben Army gather. The horns support each other and contain the opponent's attack.But since the start of the war, Lu Dalin has not launched any major attacks on the two wings at all. He just ordered Wang Qinian and Yang Yidao to keep an eye on their opponents, while his central army focused on Hu He's central army and attacked with all their strength.This unreasonable and brutal style of play made Hu He feel uncomfortable, and he could only fight back with all his strength and wait for an opportunity to counterattack.

Nuoqia and Haoge are also very bearable. Standing in front of them are the famous Whirlwind Battalion and Changsheng Battalion in the Dingzhou Army. , there is only a motley army with thousands of wolves as the backbone, not to mention their excellent equipment, sometimes looking at the opponent's excellent armor and expensive hand crossbows (on the grassland, even wolves cannot Soldiers are equipped with hand crossbows), and look at the miscellaneous troops under their own hands, it would be good for them to have a suit of leather armor.Nuo Qi'a couldn't help feeling a sense of sadness from the bottom of his heart, how can we fight this battle, really, as Hu Shuai said, when we faced the Dingzhou Army, we only had blood and fearlessness left Dead spirit.

After several confrontations, they were unable to break through the blockade of the Changsheng Battalion. In fact, it was not a breakthrough at all, but the opponent did not use all their strength at all, but firmly blocked themselves on the side of the battlefield, so that they could not form a strong support for Hu Shuai. I didn't dare to make a single throw, because beside the Changsheng camp, Yang Yidao's selection camp was still standing. If I made a lonely throw, even if I broke through the blockade of the Changsheng camp, there was a great possibility that I would lose Zuo Dao. camp, the loss outweighs the gain.

On the other side, Hauge faced the same problem.The thousands of wolves in his hand are released only when the front can't hold back, to stabilize the situation on the battlefield and maintain the balance of power between the two sides. If the army loses too much, the opponent's army will overwhelm, and the [-] miscellaneous troops in hand will not be able to withstand the opponent's impact.

Looking at the densely packed chariots of the opponent that appeared in his field of vision again, Hauge's scalp felt numb. He was not afraid of confronting and hacking the enemy cavalry, but he hated the Dingzhou army's style of play. The chariot is used as a cover, the bow and crossbow are used to open the way, approaching step by step, the cavalry is roaming on both sides, if you show a little weakness, he will pounce on you like a mad dog, tearing a piece of your flesh, and when you gather strength to confront him , but he shrank back to the side of the infantry.

How to break the chariot phalanx of the opponent's infantry, Hauge thought about it, but he didn't think of any tricks. If he had enough large weapons in his hand, which were as sharp as eight oxen crossbows, he might have a try, but now, apart from using There is no way to fill it with human life.What the grassland lacks most now is human life.Even breaking through the pawns in front of him would not change the passiveness of the war at all.

Nuoqia and Haoge were at a loss and watched helplessly as Lu Dalin took the time to concentrate his superior forces and nibble away at the Chinese army bit by bit.

Lu Dalin is now fighting Hu He for consumption.

It started to snow again, and Lu Dalin was very happy. The more extreme the weather was, the more it could highlight Dingzhou's huge advantage in terms of supplies compared to the other party.Hu He thought that the logistics supply line of hundreds of miles would cause great trouble to the Dingzhou army, so he was very wrong. For this winter battle, the Dingzhou army has been preparing for too long, and various emergencies They were all considered extremely thoughtful, and the contingency plans formulated in advance minimized the impact of such things.Behind them, tens of thousands of civilians were mobilized to send urgently needed supplies to the front line. In the words of the commander-in-chief, Dingzhou will fight a civil war. The soldiers will fight the enemy on the front line, and the common people will also mobilize to support the front line. Of course, the government of Dingzhou will pay these peasants a certain amount of remuneration. Although the remuneration is not much, the hundreds of years of grievances between Dingzhou and the barbarians have made the people of Dingzhou enthusiastic. The state sent all kinds of things, everything that one could expect.

Looking at a strange-looking guy in front of him, well, the commander called him a sleigh cart without wheels. In fact, the Dingzhou Craftsman Camp has solved the bearing problem of the cart. Now the transportation efficiency of horse-drawn carts or other vehicles in Dingzhou has been greatly improved. , but in the snow, this thing is indeed much more useful than a carriage.The polished and smooth floor ran on the snow without much effort, which amazed Lu Dalin, who was watching on the spot. The commander's head is always full of these strange things. With this sleigh, no matter Whether to let livestock pull the cart, or simply use manpower, it is much less labor-intensive and much faster.

When the sleigh carts came, they were full of supplies, and they were not empty when they returned. The remains of the dead and wounded soldiers would also be transported back to Dingzhou along with these sleigh carts. They are all equipped with military doctors, and there is even a medical battalion in the entire army, but the conditions on the front line are always much worse than in Dingzhou. As long as the wounded can withstand the long journey, they will be transported back to Dingzhou. After wounded soldiers recover from injury, as long as they can still set foot on the battlefield, they will become the backbone of the Dingzhou Army in the future. This is a consciousness that Li Qing instilled in his generals after he came to power. After several years of fighting, Lu Dalin and others I also really realized this point. The soldiers who returned from injury not only greatly improved their combat skills, but also far stronger in ferocity than before. As long as they have experienced everything for the first time, they will encounter the same thing again. There is always more confidence.

The fierce battle between the two sides also brought great losses to the Dingzhou Army. There are thousands of soldiers alone, plus the wounded, the [-] Dingzhou Army has lost more than [-] people, but Lu Dalin believes that, The price Hu Hyuk paid would not be lower than his own, and he could afford it, but Hu Hyuk couldn't afford it.

Will Hu Hyuk choose to retreat?Lu Dalin repeatedly weighed in his heart, if he retreats, then the Guan Xinglong he sent earlier will play a big role, but if Hu He doesn't retreat and chooses to forcefully support him here?Lu Dalin felt faint sorrow in his heart, the military supplies that Guan Xinglong carried with the army could not last long, and it was impossible for him to supplement him, how would he deal with this situation!

"We must not retreat!" Hu He flatly rejected the suggestion of his generals.

"There is no way for us to retreat!" Hu He sat behind the big case and said decisively: "If we retreat, we will send the [-] enemy troops into the grassland. If we can retreat there, we can only retreat to the royal court. The result of returning to the royal court was that the war was directly directed to the royal court, and now His Majesty the Emperor is concentrating on dealing with the Shiwei people. If we lure this group of enemies away, have you thought about the consequences? Now His Majesty the Emperor will send Shiwei People have no power to fight back. Once we retreat, the enemy will be relieved and the two groups of enemies will merge. Then all our plans will be in vain, and we will be surrounded in the royal city. If this is the case, How far are we from destruction."

"But Commander Hu, if we don't retreat, we will not be far from being destroyed!" A general stood up excitedly, "Commander Hu, did you hear that? We are dying in agony, our war swords are cut and broken, but we cannot be replenished, the feathers and arrows in our quiver are seriously insufficient, our food and grass are no longer enough to feed our soldiers, and our war horses are not enough because of lack of food. The food has become sluggish, Hu Shuai, how can we persist!"

Hu He stood up and said solemnly: "Without food, we will kill the horses. If the wounded soldiers can't get better, we will give them a good time. The knife is broken, the arrow is gone, and we still have two hands. In short, we must Stay in Wuyan Bator, wait until the emperor comes to rescue us, or perish here!"

The generals looked at Hu Hyuk in shock, and confirmed that Hu Hyuk was indeed talking about this matter seriously, they were a little dumbfounded, kill the horse?In the past, this was something that you didn't even have to think about.

Hu He gave up fighting and chose to stick to it. Overnight, rows of fences were erected in front of Hu He's camp, filled with soil and watered between the fences, and a shiny ice wall appeared in the camp Before and behind this ice wall, more earth barriers were being frantically built by soldiers.Seeing all this, Lu Dalin and Shang Haibo looked at each other, Hu He was about to fight a trapped beast, he had no plan to retreat at all.

"Mr. Shang, where is Guan Xinglong? Do you want him to withdraw? It is meaningless for him to stay in Menglu." Lu Dalin asked.

Shang Haibo shook his head, "General Lu, instead of letting him withdraw, it is better to let him fight out."
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After working hard to code until early in the morning, and changing another chapter, I finally got the confidence to howl: Is there a monthly pass?
(End of this chapter)