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Chapter 1489 Conquering the Empire (35)

Zhao Hu smiled: "It's not that the surrounding countries don't want to destroy the empire in one go. They have long coveted the empire. After finally finding an opportunity, how can they be polite. But they have to have the ability to do it."

"Don't you have that ability? Even if so many countries can't destroy the empire, it's still possible to half-destroy the empire."

Zhou Wen blinked with a confused face. Although he is the chief of secret guards and in charge of a lot of confidential information, his character only pays attention to things related to Zhao Hu, and he still doesn't have a big picture.

However, Zhou Wen doesn't care about this point. The people below will sort out these matters and hand them over, and he can hand them over to the master himself. In this way, he can't allow himself to be troublesome in deciding the direction of the master.

Zhao Hu smiled, recalled the report he saw, and casually explained the reason to Zhou Wen: At the beginning, when the surrounding countries saw the internal strife and warlords in the empire, they immediately swooped over with salivation, and even started to communicate with each other and prepare to cooperate to take the empire. Divided up, they are a bit self-aware in this regard, knowing that they can't eat such a large piece of fat.

However, they obviously forgot the mentality of the former imperial army commanders. At that time, they won the promotion and went to Beijing for retirement, and they were defeated and dismissed to return to the countryside to farm. If there is no strict order, no one is too lazy to do anything.

But now he is a warlord, and victory or defeat is related to his own prosperity, wealth, wealth and life, and the most important point is that the warlord can mobilize all the manpower and material resources that can be mobilized to cooperate in the battle. During the imperial army, there were many restraints and concerns.At least one trick behind the back is enough to make people want to cry without tears.

Under the resistance of the warlords who let go of their hands, the invading enemy army occupied a place that the warlords would not even bother to look at. It was impossible to break into the world of flowers and flowers in the hinterland of the empire to make a big profit.

Moreover, these invading enemy forces have other enemies besides the empire. It is impossible to dispatch the entire army, and even if the entire army is dispatched, the gains will outweigh the losses.

Why do you say that?Just look at how many warlords there are in the empire now, and how many troops each warlord has. The Liberty Alliance has done statistics in this regard with the caravans that are equivalent to spies and spread throughout the empire.

When this result appeared in the hands of the dignitaries of the Freedom Alliance, they smacked their tongues and completely gave up their plans to send soldiers to rob the imperial port in the recent period.

500 million armed forces, 200 million troops, and 300 million elite troops.

How did such a large number of troops come from?It was all brought about by the warlord's desperate expansion of the army.

Although the warlords' melee caused a significant reduction in the population of the empire and destroyed the social economy, it was still somewhat capable. At least the infrastructure industry related to the army was established by these warlords.

Although it was entirely caused by the destruction of other industrial structures, within a short period of time, the armaments of the imperial warlords were number one in the world!

At the same time, although the warlords are desperately expanding their army regardless of people's livelihood, they are not idiots. A group of mobs will definitely not be able to defeat the elite troops. Ordinary soldiers can go to the battlefield with a little training, but how to get elite soldiers to protect themselves as the main force? ?
The warlords don't even need to think about it, just use the horrible and bloody recruit training that could not be implemented in the empire period, so that the elite soldiers eliminated at the cost of their lives can fully meet the needs of the warlords.

It can be said that any warlord has an elite army in his hands, most of which are comparable in combat effectiveness, but there is a difference in the number of troops.

For this elite army that can decide the outcome of the battlefield at a critical moment and can save their own lives, all warlords have tried their best to cultivate and maintain such an army.That's why there are such a terrifying number of elite soldiers in the entire empire.

The nobles of the Freedom Alliance, who were originally merchants, immediately began to calculate how much loss they would have to pay to destroy an empire with such a force, and how much benefit they could gain from paying such a huge loss.

After the results came out, the Liberty Alliance, which had the least territorial requirements, was the first to change its strategy and began to vigorously implement blood-sucking and support operations.

However, the Liberty Alliance, a country second only to the Empire, gave up its military actions. The other countries were like wild wolves without a wolf leader.

Since there is no need to fight, the so-called alliance will naturally fail. After all, each of these countries has conflicts, and things that can be done together cannot be done, so they have to continue to compete with each other.

Because of these circumstances, the war on the frontiers of the empire quickly subsided.

While these invading countries changed their attitudes and began to develop relations with the frontier warlords, they silently watched the warlords in the hinterland and sea areas of the empire engage in scuffle.

Because of these complicated relationships, the warlords in the empire can fight each other so recklessly, and they are not afraid of destroying the country by foreign enemies.

Hearing this, Zhou Wen was stunned for a while before sighing: "Is it because of this reason that the empire was not annexed?"

Zhao Hu smiled and said, "Fortune and misfortune are unpredictable. Well, since the trench has been almost dug, we can issue orders."

"Hurry up! Cross this mountain pass and you will reach the grassland! Our Kate army must seize the grassland before the enemy!"

An officer on horseback stopped by the side of the road, shouting to the cavalry who rushed past him.

The cavalry, who had been grooms for several days, all galloped furiously, finally they could ride horses, and finally they could kill people to get rid of the pent-up breath they had been holding these days!
The cavalry at the front rushed out from the mountain pass, and saw a vast withered yellow grassland in front of them.

After being suppressed for several days in the mountains, the mood was released immediately. The cavalry just took a deep breath and muttered: "This is where our cavalry should stay..."

With a whoosh, a sharp arrow shot the cavalryman off his horse.

The first batch of Kate cavalry who rushed out first, just saw the vast world, and they ushered in a burst of arrows, immediately knocked down dozens of them, but the cavalry behind did not react, continued to charge, and continued to be shot down.

In such a short time, nearly a hundred cavalry fell on the spot.And the most terrifying thing is that no trace of the enemy was found!

Startled by this sudden blow, the Kate cavalry did not expect to encounter an attack when they left the valley. They all thought that they should encounter the enemy in the middle or end of the grassland.

This psychological contrast made the few cavalrymen who survived the first batch of attacks almost subconsciously prepare to turn around and flee.However, the cavalry who followed closely had to stop because of the blockage in front.

Seeing the situation, several officers present broke out in cold sweat immediately. If their own brigade was blocked at the mouth of this valley, the entire army would be wiped out, but the forward must have suffered heavy losses!
Thinking of this, several officers gritted their teeth and shouted: "If you are going to advance but not retreat, follow me!" Then they rushed out from behind with their guns.

The officer set an example, and the cavalry immediately came to their senses. They didn't bother to figure out where the enemy was hiding. Anyway, they had a whole cavalry division. As long as they entered the grassland, no matter how many enemies there were, they would not be afraid!So without further ado, he immediately picked up his spear and rushed to the grassland with the officer.

Their actions not only cleared the way, but also drove the cavalry behind to follow them to charge.

Another burst of arrows came.

Due to the preparations, only a dozen or so unlucky cavalry fell off their horses, and it was only at this moment that the cavalry found the enemy's figure, which was hundreds of archers wrapped in a layer of hay!

No wonder they couldn't be spotted just now, they were lying on the grass, and they couldn't be spotted if they were within a certain distance!

The cavalry immediately became furious, not to mention the rotten enemy army with no chivalry, but the enemy army who didn't even have a brigade dared to attack the cavalry division? !This is blatant contempt!How insulting!
"kill!"

The officer roared and rushed towards the hundreds of enemy troops wrapped in hay, and the cavalry even gritted their teeth and charged fiercely, as if they were going to trample these enemies to death with their horses.

The hundreds of enemy soldiers, I don’t know if they were stupid or something when they saw the nearly thousand cavalry charging. Not only did they not draw their bows to shoot, but they immediately stuffed the necklace hanging around their necks into their mouths, and then immediately threw away the bows and arrows. Draw your saber and prepare to fight.

Seeing this scene, the slightly knowledgeable officer was a little puzzled, why are these guys religious?Otherwise, how could they come up with such a unified movement before dying?

Of course, this thought just passed by, no matter what religion he believes in, killing them is what he should do now!
The officer's spear easily pierced the chest of an enemy soldier. When the officer was about to throw down the spear and draw out his saber, he was shocked to find that the enemy soldier who had been pierced by the spear had already spurted blood from his mouth, but did not He fell, but took the opportunity to slash at himself with a knife.

Just so dazed, it was too late to block with a knife, the officer subconsciously raised his left arm to block, and of course he was cut off with a knife!

The officer grunted, gritted his teeth to endure the intense pain, and raised his knife to cut off the enemy's head.

Seeing the blood gushing into the sky, the officer was slightly relieved. The bright red blood showed that the enemy army was not a demon, and he must be too strong to be able to make a death blow.

The officer didn't stop, first rode the horse with one hand and galloped out for a while, then quickly looked around and prepared to bandage himself, but just by looking around, the saber that was bitten by the officer in order to free his right hand immediately fell off.

(End of this chapter)