Chapter 25 Finally Going to Battle
The 50,000 new army trained by the Xia Navy was chaired by Xiang Chen and conducted a military exercise in front of all the senior leaders of the Ice and Snow Kingdom.
As the leader of the Ice and Snow Kingdom, Benedict Keo naturally participated in this military exercise, while Li Bao participated as a military representative of the Xia Kingdom as a bystander.
Li Bao is very clear about the combat power of these 50,000 new troops, but the Xia Kingdom, as the support party and the sect leader, also need to have a representative.
"The military exercise begins!" Everything is ready. With Xiang Chen's order, the 50,000 new troops were divided into two parts for a confrontation drill, and the content of the drill was an encounter in the wild.
One side has only two 10,000 teams as the defensive side, and the other side has three 10,000 teams as the offensive side. This is a military exercise conducted according to the scripts of Li Bao and Xiang Chen.
As the defensive party with a disadvantage in force, after encountering the "enemy army" with superior force, he found that there were no loopholes in the opponent's army, and then he decisively retreated to a high ground to build a defensive position.
As an offensive party with the advantage of military strength, he decisively launched an attack after encountering the enemy. However, when he saw the enemy retreating and wanted to establish a defensive position, he immediately took advantage of the opponent's foothold and wanted to take it down in one fell swoop.
However, after seeing that the defense party had no time to build a defensive position, he also decisively gave up the construction of the position and instead listed the defensive formation based on geographical advantages.
The positional battle between the two sides began in a warm and orderly manner on a high ground. Because it was just a military exercise, it was impossible to actually fight, so the military exercise basically ended here.
Because the quality of the soldiers and weapons and equipment of both sides are the same, this military exercise focuses more on combat command. The victory or defeat of the confrontation between the two sides is determined by the host of the military exercise, which is the final result of the attacking side's miserable victory.
Although the defense side has a certain geographical advantage, the number of troops on the attacking side is still half higher than that on the defense side, so the final judgment is made by the attacking side's tragic victory.
This wonderful military exercise opened the eyes of the senior executives of the Ice and Snow Kingdom, especially the cavalier Benedict Keo, who was very excited to watch the whole process and wanted to come out to participate.
"General Li, I have seen the combat power of this army." After seeing the military exercise, Benedict Keo sighed to Li Bao next to him: "I wish we had such an elite army in the past."
Benedict Keo knew that Xia Guo’s training of the new army was not only training ordinary soldiers, but even the knights as officers were “trained”.
Otherwise, the various outstanding commands in this military exercise were not something that the knights in the past could do. With this alone, Benedict Keo felt that many of the costs paid were worth it.
It was also from this cooperation that Benedict Keo had a profound understanding of the powerful military corner of Xia State. His various methods of combat command were simply an art in his opinion!
Benedict Keo never thought that there were so many ways to command the army to fight, and there were so many ways. Not only the other knights, but even he learned a lot of knowledge from it.
Regarding Benedict Keo's praise and emotion, Li Bao shook his head and said, "Your Excellency is over-reputation, these are normal."
Li Bao is not being modest. What he taught to the Ice and Snow Kingdom is really just some superficial things. If you are a little deeper, you are afraid that he will teach the other party, and the other party may not be able to learn it.
Because the knights of the Ice and Snow Kingdom have worked a lot of effort to learn these things.
"When can we send troops?" Benedict Keo suddenly changed his mind and asked Li Bao about the time of sending troops. Although he sighed at all, he still knew what these were for.
Li Bao looked at the other party in surprise, but he still replied: "We can send troops after this military exercise."
"That's great." Benedict Keo clapped his hands happily, then pointed to the slowly withdrawn army and said proudly: "Then send troops immediately after that. The Knight Commander believes that with such an elite army, he will definitely be able to recover the lost territory."
At this time, it was Xia's plan, otherwise the military exercise would not have been carried out at this time.
As the saying goes, the three armies have not moved, food and grass will come first. After the Ice and Snow Kingdom put the logistics supply of 50,000 new troops to the preparation number, it will be half a month later, which is already very fast for the Ice and Snow Kingdom.
Seeing the hope of regaining the country was right in front of him, Queen Aisha gave a deadly order to mobilize all forces from the whole country to prepare for this war.
Of course, such a big disturbance can't be hidden from the Beihan Kingdom, which is not far away, so the Beihan Kingdom has also begun to mobilize troops to fight.
Li Bao and Xiang Chen received a secret order from the country a long time ago. In order to achieve the purpose of the Xia Kingdom, Li Bao sent troops to let Xiang Chen take over the command of the 50,000 new troops this time.
Although Benedict Keo was a little dissatisfied with this, he knew that this army could exert its strength in the hands of the Xia people. In order to recover the country, he could only endure it even if he was a little dissatisfied.
Moreover, in addition to these 50,000 new troops, within half a year, Benedict Keo still pulled up an army of more than 30,000 people, which naturally contained the interests of the Ice and Snow Kingdom itself.
Fifty thousand elite new troops and the 30,000 "miscellaneous army" led by Benedict Keo, a total of 80,000 people headed towards the North Han Kingdom in the West.
The Beihan Kingdom had long prevented the counterattack of the Ice and Snow Kingdom. After all, with the participation of Xia Kingdom and the experience of the greatness, the Beihan Kingdom could not be unprepared.
According to the information, the Beihan Kingdom once again gathered a hundred thousand troops to deal with the counterattack of the Ice and Snow Kingdom. However, because time is still geographically, a large part of the 100 thousand troops are still on the way.
The Beihan Kingdom has gathered more than 60,000 troops in another town fifty kilometers west of Weihai City, some of which are the remnants of the retreated last year.
As the knight commander of the Northern Han Kingdom, Rivet Atwick was of course responsible for commanding the army here. He had seen the power of the Xia Kingdom's army, but this time he learned that the army coming to attack was only people from the Ice and Snow Kingdom, and he was no longer worried.
He was very cleared out what the army of the Ice and Snow Kingdom was like. Last year, he used the same army of 100,000 to beat the same number of troops in the Ice and Snow Kingdom to run away with a small casualty.
Now if Rivitt Atwick hadn't been concerned about Xia's army, he would have wanted to start annihilate the troops attacking the Ice and Snow Kingdom.
But what Rivet Atwick didn't know was that the army of the Ice and Snow Kingdom, which was unthreatening in his eyes, had already been the army of last year.
If he continues to underestimate the enemy like this, the army he despises on the opposite side will give him an unexpected "surprise"!
Chapter completed!