Realm of Power

Novel Network The news that the Northland troops were withdrawing to the border was only delivered to Fatty’s desk on the third day of the northern border battle. Fatty was a little surprised and skimmed the entire battle process carefully.

In this battle, Ruitang Tingna's lack of experience was covered up by effective pre-war deployment.

The army waited for work, consuming the Ryaro people on favorable terrain, and then used the strategy of forcibly advancing the elite troops into the center line to penetrate the enemy's defense line from the front, dealing a heavy blow to the Ryaro people's will to fight.

This tactic really brought the powerful short-range assault capability of the Ruierdian Heavy Cavalry to its fullest. Fatty believed that if he had been in that situation at that time, this would probably be all he could do.

In this battle, more than 27,000 Rialu cavalry were annihilated, and the most powerful tribe on the northern border was defeated. However, the Dongting people also had a hard time. Although they won the battle in the end, the Dongting side Five thousand were killed in the battle, and the number of injured was as high as 11,000. Although most of them were tribal cavalry with weak combat power, the overall battle loss ratio was more than half.

This is a cruel melee fight. In such a tough collision, it is too difficult to reduce losses. Killing one thousand enemies and losing eight hundred, unless it is like the absolute suppression of heavy cavalry against light cavalry,

The fat man put down the battle report with a somewhat unclear expression, and looked out the window with deep eyes. The golden sunset shone in from the horizon, and the earth was dyed red by the red sunset, as if it was covered with a layer of blood.

This battle can only be regarded as a tragic victory for Dongting, but at least it proved that most of the tribes in Dongting were indeed loyal. However, the Dongting people were still ruthless and defeated the main force of the Rialu tribe's Dongting cavalry, and soon they were defeated. Slaughtered all the 50,000 Rialu people, old and young,

Even with the tenacity of the fat man, 50,000 people felt a little scared. It is said that the meadow rivers along the way were blocked by piles of corpses. The bright red blood seeped into the grass on both sides with the water flow. When the wind blew, a piece of low-hanging red grass stem, shocking,

"Your Majesty, the Northland army that has just received the latest news and invaded the grassland border has retreated to the line of the Muries Mountains on the border." An adjutant came in hurriedly from the door.

“Muriès Mountains?”

Fatty quickly asked his adjutant to get a map and began to examine this natural barrier lying between the grassland and the northern cold land. The form on the map still made Fatty take a deep breath.

As for the cavalry who are not good at climbing mountains, needless to say,

Obviously, the commander of the Northlanders is also a guy with a very sophisticated vision. After learning the news of the defeat of his ally, the Rialu Tribe, he actually gave up the border land he originally occupied and avoided the unfavorable position of fighting the cavalry on the grassland. Disadvantage, but the home field of the battle is placed in the mountainous areas with difficult terrain and freezing temperatures.

The fat man knitted his eyebrows tightly together, fumbled along the map for a while, raised his head solemnly, and shouted to the adjutant waiting at the door, "Let Urcon come to my place more often."

Soon, Urcondo walked into the fat man's room with a pale face. The fat man made a gesture to him to sit down, but the leader of the small tribe still said that it would be more natural for him to stand.

"How much do you know about this road to the North? If we send troops to attack by force, how long will it take?" The fat man spread the map between the two of them, and pointed heavily at the location of the mountains on the map with his fingers.

"Muries Mountains?" Urcondo looked at the place pointed by the fat man, and his face changed slightly. He did not know the news about the battle report ahead, but it did not affect his judgment on this matter.

"This terrain is not suitable for a strong attack." He sorted out his thoughts and drew on the map with his hand. "From the map, the Muries Mountains belong to the branch of the Muyun Mountains that runs across the northwest.

Fatty also discovered that this section of the mountain range, which is about a hundred miles long and cuts across the two places, starts from the center of the main vein. One section of the mountain range extends to the cold land in the north along with the mountain trend, and another section goes deep into the Dongting Grassland. The north is like a huge horizontal herringbone,

Urcondo paused for a moment before continuing, "In other words, even if we can conquer the first mountain range, we still have to face the main line behind the mountain range.

This complex terrain is enough to put any attacking force into a dilemma where they are unable to perform any operations.

Because if one section is captured, people must be sent to guard it to prevent the opponent from returning too much.

However, the temperature at the top of the mountain changes greatly, and it becomes extremely cold especially at night. Even northerners find it difficult to stay up there.

With such an unfavorable terrain and harsh weather, it is not difficult to hold back several times the number of enemies for half a year as long as some of the troops are stuck at the main points. By then, the victorious enemies will not be seen and they will naturally retreat due to low morale. Walk"

"Oh, is there nothing we can do?" The fat man raised his head reluctantly, hoping to find a glimmer of hope from Urcondo's expression.

"It's not completely absent." Urcondo smiled awkwardly, pointing to a section of the road on the left side of the mountain range and said, "Because of the division of power in the North, not all of this mountain range belongs to the Asuo tribe. Yes, a month ago, I heard from merchants traveling to and from the north in Jili that there is a small fork here, and a path can be extended to the territory of the Ridianke tribe at the foot of the mountain.

Urcondo explained, "The Ridianco tribe is a medium-sized tribe in the Northern Cold Land, with a population of about 40,000. They are always wavering on the border. Sometimes they call themselves Dongting people, and sometimes they call themselves Northern people. , it’s just a wall caught between the two forces. In fact, since the Asuos fell out with us Dongting people, most of the smuggled materials between the two places were transported along this fork in the road. "

"So, we can go around this fork in the road?" After hearing Urcondo's explanation, the fat man asked eagerly,

Urcondo looked at the fat man, and finally shook his head, and said with a firm tone, "No, the rugged mountain road is secondly, the main reason is that this road is sandwiched between two mountains, so it is okay to walk a small caravan, but if it is a large group The army walked in, and the positions of the gorges on both sides happened to be the observation points where the Northlanders were stationed.

They can launch an attack from a high position. No matter how many soldiers there are, they can't climb over the ice-covered cliffs to attack them. And they only need to throw rocks from above or pry huge ice blocks to cause us heavy losses."

"In other words, small groups of caravans can pass?" The fat man hesitated for a while, touched his nose, and suddenly asked

"It should be possible," Urcondo replied uncertainly. "If there are familiar faces leading the way, I don't think those observation posts will care too much."

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