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Chapter 446 Attacking An Ancient City (1)
Not long after, more than 600 soldiers under Zhao Hu's command drove thousands of residents, carrying basins of water, to the outside of the granary, joined Zhao Hu, and looked at the raging flames in the granary with disbelief.

Hundreds of granaries burned extremely quickly after being doused with black oil, and the flames were so strong that the sky of half the castle was burned red. Zhao Hu and others standing outside the granaries could clearly feel the flames the heat.

"Captain, what should we do now?"

Looking at the raging flames burning in the granary, a team leader asked Zhao Hu helplessly.

The flames in the granary were so strong that they didn't dare to enter at all. Once they entered, they were guaranteed not to be able to get out. Being burned to roast pigs or burned to ashes was the only result after they entered.

"What else can I do! Immediately send someone to inform the captain and the joint captain of the situation here, and quickly move away the flammable materials around to prevent the fire from spreading, and set the entire castle on fire!" Hearing the question from the squad leader , Zhao Hu loosened his shoulders and said helplessly.

Hearing Zhao Hu's words, the team leader nodded lightly, and conveyed Zhao Hu's order. Several elite soldiers left the scene, looking for the team leader and regiment leader to report, while other soldiers drove thousands of residents , Move the combustibles near the granary to a safe place.

However, the place where the granary was located was originally relatively desolate, and there were no residential buildings and inflammable materials around. Therefore, the transfer operation was very smooth, and the surrounding inflammable materials were quickly removed, so that the fire in the granary would not spread. to the whole castle.

The fire in the granary was burning very vigorously. Everyone in the castle knew that the granary was on fire. A large number of soldiers from the new imperial army rushed towards the direction of the granary, but they could only watch the fire from outside the granary as Zhao Hu did. Yue Wang dared not enter the granary to put out the fire, and Sheng Pai was burned to ashes by the fire.

Not long after, Zhao Hu heard the order from Captain Luo Mingcheng, asking him to keep the soldiers of the squadron and guard the granary to prevent the fire from spreading, while he went to the inner fort for a meeting.

After getting the order from the captain Luo Mingcheng, Zhao Hu didn't hesitate at all, and immediately ordered his soldiers to guard the granary to prevent the fire from spreading, while he walked towards the inner fort.

At this time, the inner fort had already been easily breached by the captain of the third regiment and his direct guards, and the entire inner fort was under the control of the third regiment. Gu Wende, the head of the brigade, also entered the inner fort and sent orders The soldiers convened a meeting of all officers above the rank of squadron leader.

When Zhao Hu rushed to the conference hall of the Baron's Mansion in Neibao, all the officers above the squadron leader level of the new army had already waited in the conference room, and when Zhao Hu entered the conference hall, they cast admiring and envious eyes on on Zhao Hu's body.

Sensing the different gazes of many officers, Zhao Hu quickly saluted the brigade commander and the regimental captain on the rostrum respectfully, then walked to the squadron leader and sat down, and turned his attention to the brigade commander and the regimental commander. On the captain's body, he was waiting for the orders from the brigade commander and the regimental commander.

"Not long ago, the Imperial Army sent an order to allow us to expand our army on our own, allowing us to carry out unlimited military expansion according to the needs of the battle and the actual situation! However, the military pay, food, weapons and equipment for the expansion are all materials, and we need to prepare them ourselves!
Of course, given our current situation, we don’t need the imperial army to provide weapons, equipment, food, military pay and other supplies. After all, we captured Baron Gao Liquan’s castle and converted the supplies in the castle into our military supplies.

As long as we pursue the victory and capture all the more than ten cities of the Gao Liquan Barony, and bring the villages and towns of the Barony into our rule, we can obtain countless supplies, enough for us to carry out large-scale military expansion and continue to expand to other baronies. The attack is on! "

Scanning everyone in the conference hall with sharp eyes, Gu Wende said slowly with a calm face.

Speaking of this, Gu Wende deliberately paused for a while to allow everyone in the conference hall to react before continuing: "Since I have obtained the authorization from the military department, I am going to expand the army by five times! Now I will announce the details The military expansion plan,,,,,"

After Gu Wende finished explaining the detailed military expansion plan, everyone in the conference room showed excited smiles on their faces. Everyone's position was promoted, and some lucky squadron leaders were even promoted two ranks in a row, becoming a member of the League. Captain, you can expand the army to more than [-] people.

Looking at the smiles on the faces of everyone in the meeting room, Zhao Hu also had an excited smile on his face. He was one of the two ranks promoted in a row.

Of course, Zhao Hu still needs to recruit enough soldiers from the surrendered troops if he wants to be successfully promoted from squadron leader to regiment leader.

After announcing the detailed army expansion plan, Gu Wende let everyone in the conference room leave, and went to the barracks to recruit new soldiers and expand the army.

The officers who received Gu Wende's order immediately left the meeting room without any hesitation, gathered the soldiers under their command, went to the barracks, and recruited new soldiers from the surrendered troops.

Since the noble alliance belongs to the Ultron Empire in name, the army of the noble alliance and the army of the empire are actually the army of the Ultron Empire. Therefore, the soldiers in the barracks have no resistance to the recruitment of officers such as Zhao Hu. Seeing that Zhao Hu and other officers had good recruitment conditions, they joined the new army and became a member of the new army.

Of course, it is easy for these soldiers to surrender, but their loyalty is not very good. Once the new army fails in battle, the guarantee will collapse immediately, or even directly rebel and surrender to the enemy.

However, the loyalty of the surrendered soldiers is a problem to be considered in the future. Now the problem that Zhao Hu and other officers have to consider is how to reorganize the army in the shortest time so that it has a certain combat effectiveness.

For this problem, the officers in the new army used their brains to come up with all kinds of weird methods. As for whether these weird methods are effective, we can only wait for time to verify them.

The army has expanded to 1 people, and Zhao Hu, who has more than 1 soldiers under his command, received enough weapons and equipment from Gu Wende in the first time, equipped more than 1 soldiers under his command, and began to control the more than [-] soldiers under his command. Reorganize.

After the reorganization is completed, the squad leader, squadron leader, and squad leader in the wing are all old men from the new army, and all the soldiers who surrendered are ordinary soldiers. Only after making contributions can they have the opportunity to become squad leader, squad leader An officer of the rank of captain.

In fact, Zhao Hu didn't want all the officers to be the old men of the new army. He wanted to appoint some surrendered soldiers as officers, but the officers and powerful soldiers among the surrendered soldiers were all picked away by Gu Wende and became Gu Wende's direct subordinates. The guards, the people left behind for these officers are all strong and first- and second-level fighters who are not very strong, which makes the officers like Zhao Hu very helpless, so they can only be forced to accept this situation. The first- and second-level fighters should be included in one's own command to enrich the troops under one's command and improve the overall strength and combat effectiveness of the army under one's command.

After completing the simple reorganization, Zhao Hu knew that time was tight, so without the slightest hesitation, he immediately dispersed part of the gold and silver that Gu Wende had rewarded him, and bought a lot of meat, so that the soldiers under his command could eat meat every day. Enhance the soldiers' sense of identity with themselves.

In addition, Zhao Hu also conducted moderate-intensity training for the soldiers under his command, so that the new soldiers and surrendered soldiers in the army could be integrated together to quickly form combat effectiveness.

Knowing that it takes time for the army to adjust, so after capturing the Baron's Castle, Gu Wende did not rush to attack the more than ten cities in the Baron's Land. Instead, Zhao Hu and other officers had a month's preparation time to reorganize and adjust the army under his command to form a Certain combat effectiveness.

A month passed in the blink of an eye. Gu Wende exhausted his stamina and ordered Zhao Hu and other officers to attack more than ten cities in the baron's territory.

Zhao Hu, who was ordered by Gu Wende, led a regiment of more than 1 soldiers, left the baron's castle in a mighty manner, and rushed towards a city near the Xinhai Grassland.

At the same time, more than a dozen people from the worship hall with the strength and combat effectiveness of fourth- and fifth-level fighters went out with the army to help Zhao Hu's alliance deal with some powerful enemies that were difficult to deal with.

The city Zhao Hu is going to attack is called Angu City, with a population of more than 20 and thousands of defenders. Because of the proximity to the new seaweed, there are many hunters, adventurers, and businessmen in the city.

However, under the order of the empire, Zhao Hu could not move the interests of hunters, adventurers, merchants in the city. Therefore, Zhao Hu's enemies this time were only the thousands of defenders in the city, not everyone in Angu City.

An ancient city is only more than 200 miles away from the baron's castle. In just a few hours, Zhao Hu rushed to the vicinity of An ancient city with more than 1 soldiers, and rested a kilometer outside the ancient city of An. After waiting for the rest, Launched a fierce attack on Angu City, captured Angu City, and brought it into the rule of the upper echelons of the empire.

At this time, on the wall of Angu City, a third-level soldier Pi Mohan wearing a silver battle armor and holding a silver spear looked calmly at Zhao Hu's army who was resting a thousand meters away, with a flicker in his eyes All the way.

"You dare to rest under my nose, and you don't put me in your eyes at all, you are so impatient!"

An angry whisper came from Pi Mohan's mouth, and an order to call the soldiers out of the city to attack was quickly passed on.

Following Pi Mohan's order, the three thousand cavalry in Angu City quickly gathered under the city gate, quietly waiting for Pimohan's order, preparing to teach the imperial army who attacked Angu City a profound lesson.

After the [-] cavalry assembled under the city gate, Pi Mohan handed over the defense of Angu City to the adjutant. With the silver spear in his hand, he was ready to launch a fierce charge against the [-] troops under Zhao Hu's command.

Angu City is close to Xinhai Grassland. Every year, they go to Xinhai Grassland to catch a large number of wild horses and domesticate them into horses that can be ridden. Some of them are sold to merchants in Angu City, and some are raised in a horse farm in Angu City for horse breeding. , part of which is used as the mount of the cavalry, so Angu City has an establishment of [-] cavalry.

In fact, Gao Liquan's baronies had no shortage of war horses. Almost every city had cavalry establishments, but more or less. Among them, the baronial castle had the largest cavalry establishment, with [-] cavalry.

However, Gao Liquan was afraid of the imperial army, so he did not send cavalry out of the city to face the imperial army, but used the cavalry as infantry, which made the cavalry lose the role of cavalry charge.

After the imperial army captured the Baron's Castle, all the [-] horses in the Baron's Castle were collected by Gu Wende as mounts for his guards directly under him. The army under Zhao Hu and other officers only had a few horses for the officers of the army. Riding, there is no cavalry establishment.

Boom!Boom!Boom!

Accompanied by a violent roar, the gate of Angu City slowly opened, and three thousand cavalrymen raised their spears flatly. Under the leadership of Pi Mohan, they urged the horses under them to run slowly, passing through After crossing the ancient city of An, he charged straight to the place where Zhao Hu's army was resting.

The momentum of the collective charge of three thousand cavalrymen was astonishing, and the movement was also very loud. Zhao Hu's army, which was thousands of meters away, also felt the strong vibration of the ground.

"Not good! It's the cavalry charging, everyone run away!"

"It's the heavy armored cavalry from Angu City, we are no match, run away!"

"The heavy cavalry from Angucheng is here, everyone run away! If you don't run away, everyone will die here!"

",,,,,"

Seeing the [-] cavalry galloping fast, feeling the vibration from the ground and the powerful momentum of the cavalry's charge, the [-] troops under Zhao Hu's command quickly collapsed, and each soldier uttered a terrified cry , and fled to the surroundings, without any intention of facing the opponent's cavalry charge.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

Seeing that the imperial army collapsed and fled hundreds of meters away, Pi Mohan, who was charging at the front, showed a faint smile on his face, shouted loudly, and kicked the horse under him. His horse suddenly accelerated and charged towards the place where Zhao Hu's army was located.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

The three thousand cavalry behind Pi Mohan saw that the enemy army had collapsed and fled. Kicking the horse under him, the speed of the horse suddenly increased, and it rushed towards the direction of Zhao Hu's army like a rainbow.

(End of this chapter)