Dynasty Conquest

Chapter 353 Take the initiative to attack
The winter of [-] was extremely cold. The bitter north wind howled from the ice field, and the air was filled with the smell of cold. The vegetation withered, the livestock froze to death, and the people who were transferred staggered in the cold wind.

Compared with the bad weather, the chasing troops from the dynasty made Commander Lin Chuan even more anxious. Although the Sith Corps tried their best and made great sacrifices, they still could not stop the advance of the dynasty army. With the arrival of the army, the advance speed of the Dynasty Army was significantly accelerated, and the urgent letters ahead flew to Linchuan like snowflakes to set up the headquarters in Sangganhe.

Li Yunshan, the former chief of staff of the Linchuan Legion, has been appointed as the governor of the government of the area north of the Sanggan River, responsible for resettling the transferred residents, with the assistance of Chang Hanshuang of the Thousand Guards Battalion and Zhou Jie, the former battalion chief of the Qingmuchuan Guard Banner.

The new chief of staff is Xue Wen, the former chief of staff of the frontier army. It is a taboo for military strategists to change generals before the battle, but now Lin Chuan can only hope that Xue Wen can turn the tide.

In front of Lin Chuan was a thick stack of battle reports sent back from the front. In just one week, the army of the Dynasty had already occupied the capital of Nanchuan Province and its surrounding areas. military.

"The Sith sent news that they have withdrawn to the area around Bordeaux, but they won't last long. They have only about 1 troops to fight now."

Lin Chuan's tone was low. Now Sith is facing the heaviest pressure. It is not easy for a corps to resist nearly ten times as many enemy troops as it is now.

Chief of Staff Xue Wen pointed to the map and added: "Our scouts sent news that the Third Army of the Central Army has arrived in the Hongdu area. They are advancing very fast, and they are only one day away from the Sanggan River."

"The First Army Corps of the Central Army is advancing from the west. We only have one regular army and two militia teams in the west. Now I have ordered them to retreat."

"The central team led by Lan Yu has about 30 people. At present, the forward troops have arrived in the Bordeaux area, but the main force is still in Qingmu River."

Now the enemy army is attacking in an all-round way, advancing along a wide area of ​​[-] miles, pushing towards the Sanggan River. Seeing that the Sanggan River is about to freeze, it has become extremely difficult for Lin Chuan to rely on the Sanggan River to defend.

Faced with such a precarious situation, all the generals discussed how to deal with it, but at the end of the discussion, they all found helpless. Facing the huge enemy army, all conspiracies and tricks seemed to be useless.

"In fact, the dynasty army still has weaknesses." In the end, Xue Wen, the chief of staff, sharply pointed out the key point of defeating the enemy: "As long as we win over and divide the enemy army, their numerical advantage will not exist. Now the army led by Sapphire is composed of It consists of four parts, namely the garrison troops from various provinces, the nobles' armed forces, the rebel troops brought by Zhao Feng, and the most elite Central Army troops."

"Mr. Xue, what do you mean?" Lin Chuan rubbed his tired temples and asked Xue Wen, chief of staff.

Xue Wen said slowly: "The dynasty's army seems to be large in number, but in fact there are many internal contradictions. The most elite are the Central Army and the noble armed team. We only need to fight them all the way and fear them, and the rest of the troops will surely be defeated." They will shrink back and dare not go deep alone, which buys us time."

Xiao Zhan's tone was full of frustration: "Now the enemy forces in each route are powerful, and we can't defeat them all the way. If we can't fight for a long time, the remaining enemy forces will quickly advance to Sanggan River, and then we will really There is no way out."

"No, we have now formed a recruiting force of 10 people, plus our original troops, it is still possible to carry out an active attack." Xue Wen retorted to Xiao Zhan.

The Sergeant Major Tu Yue showed a worried look: "These one hundred thousand recruits have never been on the battlefield. If we pull them up, will there be some risks?"

Lin Chuan stood up and made up his mind: "Now I don't care about so much now. If we take the initiative to fight all the way, we still have a glimmer of hope. If we wait to die, hundreds of thousands of imperial troops will gather at Sanggan River by then. It will really be time to return." The sky is powerless."

"The commander of the Third Corps of the Central Army is called Yu Feng. We fought against him at the Yunpan Mountain defense line in Luoshan Province. , the strength is a little weak, let's take him out."

After Lin Chuan set the tone of the attack, the generals began to discuss the details of the attack, such as when to attack, when to attack, and the route of retreat, etc. It was not until dawn that the generals dragged their tired bodies away Command.

In order to deter the troops of the Dynasty Army from continuously rushing in, Lin Chuan decided to fight all the way, forcing the rest of the Dynasty Army troops not to dare to rush in easily.

At the end of December, Lin Chuan appointed Xiao Zhan as the commander, led [-] recruits and [-] veterans of the former Nanchuan Army to form an assault force, and quickly advanced to the Hongdu area to hide in the dark.

Yufeng's Third Army Corps of the Central Army has three regiments with 3000 soldiers. It is the weakest army in the Central Army sequence, but its strength should not be underestimated. They also have a [-]-strong heavy infantry battalion.

When the third army marched to the Hongdu area, the weather was getting colder and colder, and the weather was getting worse the further they went north, so the commander, Yu Feng, ordered the army to rest on the spot for two days, waiting for the follow-up logistics supplies to send the cotton-padded clothes to the next keep going.

It was cold in the barracks, so Yu Feng left his troops to camp in the wilderness, and ran to Hongdu City with his guards.

The Third Army advanced for hundreds of miles, and all the villages and towns along the way were empty. The so-called rebels did not even see a shadow, so the entire Third Army completely let go of their vigilance.

"Where are the rebels?" This was the unanimous thought of the officers and soldiers of the Third Army. They were not so much fighting as they were taking a long-distance trip, because they had not even seen a single Nanchuan army since they set off from Qingmuchuan. Let alone fighting.

As night fell, in the camp of the Third Corps of the Central Army in the Hongdu area, the officers were hugging the little girl they had snatched from Luoshan Province. More soldiers gambled and had fun in the military account.

The Central Army soldiers guarding the camp saw the ghostly weather and ran to the leeward to sleep in their nests. The scout cavalry who were on guard around the camp on weekdays couldn't stand the cold, and went back to the camp early to rest. Anyway, the officers now They were all in the warm city of Hongdu, and it was rare for the soldiers to be lazy. Moreover, the rebels had already retreated to the Sanggan River area. No one would have thought that the Nanchuan Army would attack them on such a cold winter night.

(End of this chapter)