The Face Changing Warrior

Chapter 169 The Rise of a Famous General

The war begins!

The Bright Empire is ready for war. On a cloudy morning, the Duke of Tulip led 50,000 of the most well-equipped "Thunder God's Whip" to march north, and there were also 20,000 local garrisons escorting a large number of war materials. Shipped to the north.

The North has been designated as a war zone, and the North Command has been formed. Two experienced generals have been transferred from the Imperial Military Command. At the same time, the Duke of Tulip has been appointed as the supreme commander of the theater. Within the theater, the Northern Army must also listen to Tulip. Duke's dispatch.

The war has just begun!

While everyone was waiting for news from the north, the north was surprisingly quiet.

Although the coalition forces of more than a dozen kingdoms on the Roland Continent had already put on a posture of crossing the sea, they still did not act.

When I thought that the Duke of Tulip would be the first hero of this war, the first hero of this war was born!

Not in the north, but in the northwest! At Watt Fortress! Just when everyone's eyes were on the north, within a month, the situation in the northwest had undergone tremendous changes! A shining star is rising in the northwest...

General Elliot, commander of the Northwest Army, is forty-two years old this year. A soldier and aristocratic family who came from one of the traditional forces of the military.

The 169th graduating student of Imperial College, a fourth-level warrior, has a good military course. Once served as the deputy commander of the empire’s provincial garrison, the commander, because of the merits of suppressing the bandits, was promoted and added to the influence of the family, and was promoted to the imperial command department as deputy chief of staff, and served in the command department. After civilian work in the year, after accumulating sufficient qualifications, he was transferred to the deputy commander of the Central Cavalry Corps. After the Northwest War, he was transferred from the Central Cavalry Corps to the commander of the Northwest Corps to preside over the military affairs of the Northwest Corps.

Andy's evaluation after reading this information is: Zhonggui is mid-range, there is nothing special.

Indeed, from the information point of view, there is nothing special about this general Elliot. Born into an upper-class noble family in the empire, he entered the army at the age of twenty, and after 22 years, he sat down as the first commander of a legion. From any angle, there is no obvious place-besides. He also has no dazzling military exploits.

The only small amount of credit is that he used to "snap out the bandits and chaos" when he was young-but, you know, this kind of "excuse" is often used when the noble officers of this kind of family are promoted. Although it is impossible for a person with a strong family power to sit in a high position immediately after entering the army, it is often just a cutscene, starting from the middle and low-level officers, accumulating qualifications, and when the time is almost up, the appreciation is often in terms of qualifications. Randomly add a sum of military merits like "suppressing bandits". Suppress the bandits? Where are there so many bandits in the interior of the empire?

Then he climbed up the army step by step without showing any signs of dew. After climbing for 22 years, he finally commanded the army of one party, took charge of the military affairs of one party, and became the first person in the northwest.

Many high-ranking officials in the imperial military actually did this.

But Andy still saw something unusual from this information-this general Ellio passed the knighthood succession test when he was 22 years old, and got the title of earl!

This is already a very remarkable thing! You know, under the special and strict criteria of the imperial title assessment, it is definitely not an easy task to pass the assessment at the age of twenty-two! In fact, General Elliot was not the eldest son in the family, but after his brother lost the right to inherit the title after the assessment failed, he came forward to participate in the assessment, and he succeeded in one fell swoop!

Andy checked the records of that year, and this general Elliot actually passed the knighthood assessment with the qualifications of a third-level warrior!

At the age of twenty-two, he reached the third rank. Although not too powerful, it is already very rare in a spoiled noble family! You know, in order to reduce the difficulty of the knighthood assessment, many nobles deliberately lower their samurai rank so as to participate in the low-level knighthood assessment. For example, when Roddy participated in the knighthood assessment, he was only a first-class warrior - and there were only a few of the two hundred nobles who signed up for the third-class warrior assessment!

This Elliot didn't hide his strength, and he had openly obtained the qualifications of a third-tier samurai before he inherited the title. Isn't he afraid that the assessment of the title would become more difficult because of his third-tier samurai title? If this is the case, then it can only show that he is confident of his own strength!

There is a reason why Andy studied the information of this general Elliot so seriously!

A month ago, Royantal led his troops to raid Trier Castle (Originally Trier Castle was occupied by the Great Moon Kingdom in the previous Northwest War, but after the war, according to the negotiation that Roddy participated in, the Empire paid five One hundred thousand gold coins were redeemed). As a result, General Ellio led the vanguard troops to ambush Royantal outside the city, defeating the enemy in one fell swoop, and beheading 10,000 people in the Great Moon Kingdom!

Later, the main army of Royantal arrived and had a head-on collision with the Northwest Army. The Northwest Army was defeated by the prairie cavalry in the field, and it was defeated. However, Elliott took the initiative to break through and abandon Trier Castle before the Great Moon Kingdom army besieged the city, and the whole army withdrew from Trier Castle! !

This move is undoubtedly surprising-after all, in the Northwest Defense Strategy of the Imperial Command: The only two remaining military fortresses in the northwest, Trierburg and Watt Fortress, are important military strongholds, as long as they are maintained. The two military strongholds, the two divisions are horns of each other, echoing each other, so that the northwest can be preserved!

But the next thing surprised Andy even more!

Royantal's army of 200,000 had just entered Trier Castle and its footing was not stable, and Ellio immediately killed a carbine!

The Northwest Legion immediately surrounded the Trier Castle group! !

This is a very clever trap!

Before Elliot withdrew from Trier Castle, he had poisoned all the wells in the city, and then according to the terrain in front of the Trier Castle gate, countless fortifications were arranged outside the city gate—— Those who were dissatisfied with the sharp-edged sturdy opponents had originally made Royantal a very headache. He was worried that he would suffer a big loss in the siege-but Elliot suddenly gave up Trier Castle. But let him occupy this important fortress in the northwest without a single soldier.

But before Luoyantal had time to dismantle the fortifications outside the city gates, the Northwest Army actually killed a carbine? !

Instead, it surrounded Trier Castle!

Luoyan Tal immediately fell into trouble.

The densely packed refusal of horses under the city gate prevented his cavalry from rushing out of the city to break through the enemy's field. Although this kind of terrain will also affect the opponent's infantry, it is deadly for the steppe cavalry who need to rely on a large-scale charge! It is a dead place full of murderous every step!

Ellio is almost a lunatic! Regardless of the loss, he sent the heavy armored infantry of the Northwest Army to block the city-he basically used the heavy armored infantry as a meat shield! With tens of thousands of meat shields and the terrible rejection of horses under the city gate, Royantal's cavalry could not rush at all, and could not exert an advantage at all! And Elliot seemed to see the fatal flaw of the prairie cavalry at a glance-Royantal had no infantry! When the cavalry is useless, the opponent does not have excellent infantry! Those brave cavalry on the steppe, dismounted, as if they would not be able to fight... Facing the well-trained infantry and tight infantry formations of the Bright Empire, the steppe warriors of Rayantal lost the power of the horse, as if Like hitting the wall.

After many days of **** battles, the Northwest Army lost nearly 20,000 excellent infantry, and Royantal's cavalry was constantly attrition in that dead place!

Fortunately, Ellio's troops were not enough, so he just besieged the city instead of attacking the city, putting all his power on blocking the city gate to prevent the opponent from coming out. Although the Northwest Army has been expanded and its strength has reached 200,000 before the previous Northwest War, Elliott still has to leave 50,000 people to defend the Watt Fortress. His strength under the siege of Trier Castle is only 150,000. .

But relying on this subtle trap, the 150,000 Northwest Army trapped Rayantal’s 200,000 cavalry inside Trier Castle!

All the water sources in the city have long been poisoned, causing Royantal's army to lose its water supply! Although there is enough food in the army-but there is not much water!

After drinking poisonous water in the city on the first day, thousands of soldiers died and tens of thousands lost their combat effectiveness. And as time goes by, the army that lacks water becomes less and less effective!

Finally, after being under siege for the fifth day, Luo Yantar had no choice but to make a desperate bet and ordered a breakthrough at all costs!

Ellio knew that his troops were insufficient and could not really swallow Royantal, so he was wise not to fight the opponent. After opening the city gate and letting the opponent break through, he led the army to chase and kill for more than a hundred miles.

Luoyantal's soldiers lacked water supply for a few days, and they were already weakened. As a result, they were defeated all the way, losing their troops, and returning to the important town of Mudan.

In this battle, the Northwest Army lost nearly 30,000 people, and more than 20,000 of them were lost in the siege as a meat shield! And the 200,000 troops brought out by Rayantal’s Great Moon Kingdom ran back to less than 100,000... Among them, more than 30,000 people were lost in the fighting for several days, and they were defeated by a hundred miles during the breakout. Nearly 30,000 people were captured by the Northwest Army and nearly 10,000 people were captured by the Northwest Army. There are still more than 30,000 people in the city who have lost their combat effectiveness due to severe water shortages or drinking poisonous water. These people are the log of Luoyan Tal. He broke his wrist and decided to give up mercilessly.

After Elliot counted the results, he made another move that shocked everyone!

The 30,000 soldiers in the city and the 10,000 captured enemy troops in the city were chased by Elliot, all of them were executed, none left! Such a ruthless decision caused an uproar in the imperial capital!

This kind of action was immediately attacked by the civilized scholars in the empire-the empire is a powerful civilized country. The massacre of prisoners of war and civilians has always been the shameless means of the barbarians of the steppe. How can our great imperial warriors do it? This kind of thing! ! The slaughter of prisoners of war without the ability to resist is tarnishing the glory of the empire! !

And Elliot seemed to be a wooden person at all, he ignored any curses and attacks, and simply gave a report to His Majesty.

The report is very simple, and one of the passages made Andy really appreciate it!

"The Great Moon Kingdom is vast and sparsely populated, and the population of the grassland is less than one million. Excluding the old and weak women, there are only a few hundred thousand young adults. If you kill one, you will lose one! If you consume one point, you will lose one point! Such young and mature men will lose. The more the other party's national power becomes, the weaker the opponent's national power. The minister's approach is to root out the northwestern disaster for the empire for a hundred years!"

Andy immediately ordered the newspaper to carry out propaganda, avoiding the massacre of prisoners of war, publicizing the victory of the Northwest, and praising the commander of the Northwest Army, Elliot, and relying on the powerful means of public opinion such as newspapers to suppress He made a nasty attack on the commander of the Elliot Army. Then Andy sent a commendation order to the Northwest Army in the name of the Emperor!

Looking at the Northwest Battle Report in his hand, Andy sighed and muttered to himself: "Rody, there is one thing you most lack in Elliot at present! That is, cruel!"

At this moment, Roddy is a little depressed in the north.

The Guangming Continent gathered in the north has nearly 400,000 troops. The 200,000 troops of the Northern Army have already been mobilized and assembled. In fact, Milo had already made preparations when the court incident happened. Unfortunately, because of Andy’s sudden appearance, Milo All of the preparations are useless.

But the war broke out immediately, and those preparations became prescient...

One hundred thousand flame warriors belonging to the cult of the Guangming Empire also arrived in the north. The head of the flame warriors was an indifferent middle-aged man named Gudu. From the outside, he looked like a pious ascetic monk. Although he was wearing a set of peculiar light leather armor of the Fire Warriors, he was always covered with a set of gray robes—it looked a bit like a bishop elder of the gods—if he held another law in his hand The stick is more like it.

Forget it for the ancient capital, his indifferent temper made him seldom speak. But the bishop elder sent by the cult made Roddy extremely bored.

Because of the incident in the court, the relationship between the cult and the Duke of Tulip was a bit stiff, so the bishop elder did not get too affectionate with the young commander of the empire.

But this bishop elder is a religious fanatic. Before the war, he brought a group of religious missionaries around in various military camps every day to promote his religious beliefs and praise how great God is. The religion is God in the world. He was the only spokesperson for the actor, and so on. He even strongly asked Roddy to order the army to set aside a period of time from the daily training and exercises to pray to God... Although this behavior made Roddy very upset, the bishop did Said: This is a holy war, a war against "infidels", so the theological propaganda of the army before the war can enhance the soldiers' faith and piety to the gods, and the morale can be boosted through the godly faith in the gods. And improving combat effectiveness...

If it weren't for his current identity and the unity before the war, Roddy would have ordered people to kick this fly-like guy out of the barracks.

The morale of the soldiers does not rely on such empty theological preaching, nor does it rely on praising some **** gods! If it hadn’t been for the inconsistent hatred between the two continents, Roddy couldn’t help but think that this guy was a spy sent by the cult to disrupt the military’s morale...