Section 4 Fighting Wisdom and Bravery (1)
Ling Tianfang was shocked. Could it be that Luo Beiren really launched an attack? While thinking, his eyebrows were stern and he asked in a deep voice: "Come on the detailed battle situation quickly."
"Sir Hui, at 5 a.m. today, the Northern Battalion was attacked by the enemy's heavy armored cavalry. The estimated number was about 5,000, and there were following infantry about 10,000. Our army immediately launched a counterattack, but the enemy's heavy cavalry was quite fierce. They broke through many fences and walls in the Northern Battalion and filled up the trench about 1,000 meters on the front of the Northern Battalion. Our army organized effective defense. One of the light infantry registrars suffered a great loss. Later, our army organized a counterattack and the enemy retreated. At 5:30 a.m., the Southern Battalion was also attacked by the enemy's heavy cavalry. The enemy once broke through the outer defense line of the Southern Battalion and fought fiercely with a heavy infantry registrars in the Southern Battalion. Half an hour later, the enemy retreated, and our heavy infantry registrars suffered a great loss. The specific losses are still under statistics."
Tongling was very clever and his words were clear and organized, and he could explain the situation clearly in a few words.
The 4th Division of the Gerok Legion was responsible for the defense of the Northern Battalion, and the 5th Division of the Gerok Legion was responsible for the defense of the Southern Battalion. Both divisions were once broken through the defense line by the enemy's heavy cavalry, which made Ling Tian feel ecstatic and a little worried. The enemy began to use heavy cavalry to launch a tentative attack, which proved that the big fish of Luobei people had bitten the hook, and the focus of the attack was finally on the purpose of eliminating his main army. This also proved that his empty city plan finally had an effect, and finally attracted the main force of Luobei cavalry to the war of attrition, but the enemy's iron armored heavy cavalry was like this.
The fierceness also made Ling Tianfang secretly startled. He seemed to be able to imagine how Luo Bei's cavalry surrounded his divisions and encroached on them. This kind of passive defense in the wild was originally the clumsy defense method, but he had no choice. If he wanted to avoid Luo Bei's people breaking into the mainland, the bait had to be heavier. He was reluctant to let the child fall into the trap and could not trap the wolf. Ling Tianfang was considered to truly realize this time. No matter whether the only tens of thousands of people in his hands could persist until the end of his plan, Ling Tianfang was sure that this war would probably hurt the vitality of the Derlock Legion.
But at this time, Ling Tian could not make any statement in front of Kang Jianguo, the commander of the Gerok Legion. No matter how big fish bit the hook, it was a happy event worth celebrating. At least the goal had been achieved strategically. As for how the bait used to lure the enemy into a thorn hook that made Luo Bei difficult to swallow, it would test the defense and combat will of the officers and soldiers of the Gerok Legion. At this point, Ling Tianfang could not help at all, and could only rely on Kang Jianguo and others. The only thing Ling Tianfang could do was to put the armed Mot and Tubu reserve cavalry teams on the backs of Luo Bei's wings as much as possible, and to reduce the impact pressure on Luo Bei's front line as much as possible, but whether it could play a role in its expectations was not very sure in his heart. In the end, Ling Tianfang still needed to rely on the Gerok Legion itself.
"Kinguo, the fish bit the hook. Now it depends on your army. Whether you can last until the end depends on the performance of your soldiers. Although Luo Beiren launched the attack two days later than we expected, the attack strength they launched today may have exceeded our pre-conceived. It seems that Tu Da has put in a lot of effort on their heavy cavalry. We need to be prepared for worse mentality. The cruelty and difficulty of this battle are probably far beyond our expectations." Ling Tianfang glanced at the commander of the Tellock Legion, who seemed to have not yet reacted to the fact that the enemy broke through the defense line of the north and south battalions, and warned the other party in a low tone.
"Mr. Ling, Jianguo has this mental preparation. Luo Beiren is not a vegetarian. Since they dared to come to provoke this time, they naturally have some reliance on it. However, our Jerok Legion has fought countless old teams with hard battles and experienced many ups and downs. I believe that the Lian Kamans did not make any good in front of us. He Luo Beiren did not. I, Kang Jianguo, was going to put this 180 pounds on this Tuqi Plain. If Luo Beiren wants to cross here, he must cross over my body. "Kang Jianguo may have been more calm after being stimulated at this time, but the determination revealed in his words is unquestionable.
Since the temporary abandonment of the three prefectures of Dongtenger County, Zhou Tinggui, the governor of Dongtenger County, has become even more busy. At this time, he, the governor of Dongtenger County, had no other government affairs, and only one goal was to expel these Luobei people from the territory of Dongtenger County in the shortest time and restore the economic development of Dongtenger County as soon as possible. As the commander-in-chief of the entire Western Front War Zone, the only task of him, the governor of Dongtenger County was to mobilize the Mot and Tubu reserve cavalry from the Spark Mansion and Daqingshan Mansion, and form a revival team that could immediately be put into battle at the fastest speed. The one who assisted Zhou Tinggui in carrying out this work was to draw hundreds of cavalry veterans and officers from several Ranger regiments.
Zhou Tinggui believed that his early ideological work was quite in place. Since then, his main task has been to mobilizing and organizing the Mot and Tubu cavalry and providing them with various materials to support them. It should be said that this work has been carried out very smoothly. Out of envy of the generous treatment received by the soldiers of the Western Xinjiang Army, the temporary recruitment of soldiers quickly recruited more than 60,000 riders. This was the result of Zhou Tinggui's failure in the situation and still unable to stop the recruitment of soldiers after he still had to announce the suspension of recruitment after seeing that the situation was not good.
A large number of poor herdsmen from Luobei who had originally expeditioned the east also demanded qualifications to enlist, but Zhou Tinggui politely refused this suggestion after repeated consideration. Although this way of using the cavalry of Luobei who expeditioned the east to deal with other cavalry of Luobei could force the expedition to enlist in the east to be more thoroughly tied to the Western Xinjiang, considering the importance of this war, there could not be any mistakes, Zhou Tinggui would rather choose a safer method. Moreover, the craze for Mot and Tubu herdsmen to enlist in the army exceeded his expectations, and the recruited soldiers and war horses far exceeded the 40,000 bottom line he set in advance.
Of course, Zhou Tinggui had to temporarily sign the largest debt since he took office. The emergency collection cost of up to 100,000 war horses and a large number of weapons was as high as 12 million imperial gold coins. If such a huge debt was to be returned by the Finance Department of Dongtengeri County, I don’t know how many years it would take to pay it off. Fortunately, with the order of the Director of the Military Affairs Department as a backing, Zhou Tinggui seemed confident when signing the debt. As for who should pay this temporary war fund after the war, should it be paid from the military expenses that the Military Affairs Department annually deposited from the unexpected emergency funds of the Finance Department of the Government Affairs Department or Dongtenger?
The two-level government finances of Li County and Northwest County were borne by the government. This issue became a headless case that many parties quarreled after the war. The Financial Department made the expenditure unauthorized by the Military Affairs Office to deduct the annual military expenditure of the Military Affairs Office because the expenses were not approved by His Highness the King of Qin, but the Military Affairs Office agreed without authorization. The Military Affairs Office said that this was an emergency measure taken to defend Northwest County in an emergency, and the Finance Department should bear the finances of the Northwest County and East Tenggeli County. East Tenggeli County and Northwest County firmly disagree to bear the expenses that have nothing to do with them, so that the Finance Secretary James and the Military Affairs Director Ling Tianfang even made resentment and injustice.
Although the 60,000 newly recruited cavalry were not as good as the Rangers that had officially formed a military range, the natural excellent qualities of the nomadic peoples also formed the scale of two Rangers under the organization of a large group of temporary veterans and officers of their tribe. Although the combat effectiveness was still uneven, this time the task was not to confront Luobei cavalry face to face. The combat mission they accepted was relatively simple, that is, to be responsible for harassing and attacking their logistics supply lines in the back of the entire Luobei army, and to choose the right time to launch an attack on Luobei Eastern Expedition Army.
The profound impact of the formation of these two reserve rangers on this war was that the initiator Ling Tian had never expected when he issued the establishment order. It was these two rangers who continued to raid and harass the rear of Luobei's main army. They not only attacked the food, fodder, and supplies, but also often concentrated their forces to siege Luobei's transportation team and escort team, and even developed to launch harassment and attacks on Luobei's camp. This result made Tu Da, who originally believed that he had an absolute advantage in his troops, planned to send a small group of cavalry into the mainland to raid and fight the plan to siege and fight in the mainland, and to encircle and suppress these two local buns that had just changed from herders to cavalry. It was the outstanding achievements of these two troops that won the opportunity to preserve the economic vitality of Qingyang, Yinchuan and even the entire northwest county, and also made great contributions to defending His Highness's absolute prestige in the northwest.
Compared with the war on the Tuqi Plain, the war on the Western Regions front was in full swing from the beginning. Adhering to the intention of the commander and serving as the commander of the Western Regions Front, Koldo, who served as the commander of the Western Regions, thoroughly implemented Tuda's policy from the beginning, concentrating his forces to attack the prosperous economy of the Western Regions, especially those industries developed and operated by the Tang people in the five prefectures of the Western Regions. In the first phase of the battle, Koldo's flexible tactics achieved quite good results. He divided the 100,000 cavalry into four attack clusters. According to the configuration of 2224, two 10,000 cavalry teams into one.
The attack group uses its own mobile advantage to sweep apart one or two palaces, while the attack core composed of four 10,000 cavalry teams is responsible for selecting important targets to attack, such as specifically attacking the Western Xinjiang army that came out to fight. When the strength is insufficient, it can even temporarily summon one of the other three attack groups to concentrate its forces to launch an attack. This tactic has achieved quite good results in the early two weeks. Five regiments of the Western Xinjiang army's three divisions were cancelled in the face of this super-large-scale cavalry impact.
However, the Western Xinjiang Army quickly came up with a countermeasure, using one or even two divisions to form a group as a response cluster, taking advantage of the special geographical environment of the Western Regions, the desert and Gobi are everywhere, and there are not many convenient channels between the various prefectures. They choose key passes to conduct blocking operations. Once they are discovered, they immediately set up camps on the spot to organize defensive counterattacks, which also greatly reduced the effect of Koldo's blitzkrieg's blitzkrieg's strategy.
The stalemate of the war once again put Kurdo in a distressed situation. These damn Tanghe people actually came up with such a stupid way. Although the Luobei cavalry did not suffer in this kind of battle, the Tanghe people's huge human resources were far from comparable to their own nation. They lost a warrior and could soon add three. However, they came from thousands of miles away, losing one was one. This war of attrition was not cost-effective for their own side. They tried their best to concentrate their troops to find one or two divisions and could not hurt the other side's vitality. This was quite a matter of time for their side, who had not achieved their strategic goals.
Unfavorable, unless you find a suitable target to give the other party a heavy blow. If time allows, you don’t need such a headache, but the damn Mots and Tubu people seem to force themselves to take this step and the rear is frequently attacked and the supplies and food pairs are often looted. It has affected the normal operation of the entire army. Although after understanding that those timid and humble guys are just some of the local buns that have gathered together, everyone knows on the grassland that once these guys gather, they can exert unexpected power, which is another reason why Kurdo is worried about this.
While carefully reading the information sent by the scouts and local intelligence departments in the Western Regions, Koldo's eyes moved on the long map of the Western Regions. It should be said that the intelligence department's foundation in the Western Regions is much stronger than that in the Western Regions. Li Wufeng's implementation of the Baojia joint position policy in the Western Regions and the public's fanatical worship of him made it difficult for the intelligence agencies to establish a foothold in the Western Regions. Even if it is a tenacious one, it is difficult for the top leaders to obtain valuable intelligence clues. Koldo has a deep understanding of this. As early as when he was the deputy commander of the Eastern Region, he was worried about it and obtained a valuable piece of information every time.
Intelligence is harder than climbing to the sky. Many things have been obtained for a long time, and often at this time these intelligences have lost their due value. In the land of the Western Regions, although the Luobei tribe, which has occupied a strong position for a long time, has temporarily been pulled down from its hegemony, the dominant position established for decades has still left a lot of legacy for the current Luobei tribe. The long-term awe of the strong has allowed their nation to find partners on this land. Perhaps they dare not openly provoke Li Wufeng's rule, but they are still quite enthusiastic in providing them with necessary intelligence information.
Kuche, Wusun, Beiga, Loulan, Gaochang, and the arrangement of candied haws made the Tanghe people’s defense system very difficult here. In order to prevent the possible rebellion in this not-so-tamed area, Li Wufeng almost wiped out the local armed forces in this area. This also caused the weak local defense force in the Western Regions, and also forced this area to defend completely by the so-called regular army in the Western Xinjiang, which was undoubtedly an opportunity for him. The black dots marked on the map were the divisions belonging to Li Wufeng’s two major garrison corps in the Central Continent. Except for a newly formed reserve division, the only ones were ranked in the second legion, the five divisions and the four Indian Legion.
There are only ten divisions, even if the nine divisions are added to the newly formed reserve division, there are only ten divisions. It is obviously a bit difficult to defend such a land that is not conducive to defense, which is also the advantage of our side. Now the Western Xinjiang army gathers heavy troops in Wusun and Loulan, which can not only protect Beiga in the central position, but also take into account Kuche and Loulan at both ends. It seems to be barely considered as a form. However, this chain defense has a great disadvantage for the Western Xinjiang Army, which lacks mobility and does not have the advantage of the total force, that is, if you put all your strength into attacking one point, it will be difficult for the Western Xinjiang reinforcements hundreds of miles apart in a short period of time to arrive, which creates a good opportunity for you to encircle and annihilate the enemy.
The thick black charcoal pen slowly moved on the map. Kurdo set his sights on a dot on the left. Anyanji is located at the junction of Wusun and Kuche. It is affiliated with the current Wusun Prefecture of the Western Regions. The business road connecting the Wusun Kuche cities through here. It leads to the south to the south to the iron mines under development in the Shuangdui Prefecture of Luzon in the south and has good road connections. The excellent geographical location makes this place a large market town in the Western Regions, second only to the five prefectures, and is also an important material distribution center in this area. Wusun, Kuche people and a large number of Tang merchants gathered here. Because of this, a division of Li Wufeng's Indian De'an Legion was stationed here, and three divisions were stationed in Wusun City in the east as support. Therefore, Kurdo has never chosen this place as an attack site, but now it seems that this place has become the best place to surround and attack aid.
While twisting the beautiful short beards under his nose, Kurdo carefully considered the gains and losses. Wusun is the hometown of Hu Yanqiu, who is now the commander of the Indian De'an Legion. If this place is chosen as an attack point, Hu Yanqiu, who is stationed in Wusun City, will not allow An Yanji to fall. If the three Western Xinjiang divisions in Wusun City can be transferred out, the scenes of this scene will be quite interesting. It is best to be able to act like a strong and weak attitude to seduce the more than 20,000 light cavalry reserves they prepared. Even if this battle is really done.
However, we must not let the people of Western Xinjiang focus all their attention on this and attract enough troops. This time is really difficult to grasp for a while. Fortunately, the enemy's cavalry strength in this area is not strong. If 20,000 light cavalry wants to challenge themselves to fight 100,000 soldiers who are used to fighting, the temperature is still too far behind. At the very least, they can choose the opportunity to retreat and retreat at any time. This strategy of advancing, attacking, retreating and defending is the best way to fight the cavalry. The question that needs to be considered now is how to make this battle of arbitrage more perfect. A slight smirk appeared on the corner of Kurdo's mouth.
Just as Koldo tried his best to design his tactic of aggression, Helianbo, who served as deputy commander-in-chief of the Western Front and commander-in-chief of the Central Continental Theater in Berga, was also frowning about how to end the battle as soon as possible. Ling Tianfang handed over the command of the four Ranger regiments to himself, which was equivalent to putting a heavy burden on him. Helianbo naturally knew Ling Tianfang's intentions and solved the war on the Western Regions front in the shortest time and freed up the four Rangers.
The cavalry regiment and all the troops that can be used cut off the return of Luobei's main force. Even if they cannot completely wipe out Luobei's main force, they will force the opponent's strategic intention to fail. This is the commander's intention. For this reason, Ling Tianfang personally took charge of the Northwest Front even used several divisions of the Gerok Legion as bait, plucking up the courage to sing the empty city plan. At such a big risk, he wanted to seize the fighter's own fighter, concentrate superior forces to defeat the Luobei's southern front army, and finally join forces to invite the Luobei's main force on the eastern front.
But the battlefield changes rapidly. Although he has already mastered the troops that have an absolute advantage in some areas, the Luobei people are mainly cavalry, and if they want to completely defeat this cavalry, they have higher requirements for the capture of fighter jets. Although the series of measures taken have curbed the Luobei people's crazy offensive, they still need to find better opportunities to achieve the goal of completely defeating the other party.
There was not much new information sent back by the intelligence system. Luo Beiren continued their old tricks and moved around the northern part of the five prefectures and counties in a vague manner. When they encountered a suitable opportunity, they pounced on them like a wolf and bit them. Except for the main attack group, the other three of the four attack clusters were difficult to capture their specific direction. This Koldo was really extraordinary. He was decentralized and let the three attack clusters choose the right opportunity to launch an attack. These guys were obviously familiar.
After knowing this combat method, although the blocking and styling measures he took in the early stage had a certain effect, these guys quickly learned their lessons. When they encountered the blocking, they no longer tangled and fought and fled away, looking for the next more suitable attack target. This method of never leaving the enemy made Helianbo and Hu Yanqiu feel a headache, but they had to find a cracking measure for a while, unless they used the four Ranger regiments that had been hiding in the southern region, it would be impossible to completely defeat the opponent in this way.
It's hard, Helianbo couldn't help but sigh from the bottom of his heart. Luo Beiren is not a fool. He has been defeated repeatedly and defeated repeatedly. No matter how stupid a person is, he has learned to act cautiously, not to mention that the opponent on the other side is not stupid. The Western Front Western Xinjiang Army took huge risks and pressure, watching his performance, but now he is helpless. I am afraid that he can't argue wherever he goes. Could it be that I, Helianbo, really fell into this battle? Subconsciously shook his head, Helianbo cheered up his spirits and focused on thinking about his opponent's ideas.
Chapter completed!