Chapter 280: 280 Academy 2nd term
Chapter 280 280 Academy Phase 2
With the counterattack of the Kingdom of Wright, the situation in this melee between 11 countries seems to have changed fundamentally.
But soon, conflicts broke out in other areas, making the outcome of the war confusing again.
In the north, a war broke out between the Elm Kingdom and the Poplar Kingdom, and a scuffle broke out between the two sides on the border.
Compared to the war situation in the eastern part of the Leyte Kingdom, the war situation here is a little different. The two sides are still using the tactics of two years ago to attack each other, but the weapons used are advanced needle guns and breech-loading cannons.
This instantly made the **** level of the war rise to an unbearable level. Both sides lost more than 30,000 people within 3 days after the war broke out.
The Poplar Kingdom had an absolute advantage in machine gun firepower, but the Elm Kingdom had an advantage in the number of troops and artillery, so the two sides were tied, but the losses were escalating rapidly.
The Pinewood Kingdom also had to withdraw its troops from the border of the Poplar Kingdom to deal with the attack from the Redwood Kingdom.
However, the Songmu Kingdom recharged its batteries and equipped itself with some weapons and equipment from the Tang Dynasty, so it gained a certain degree of advantage on the battlefield.
They invaded the territory of the Redwood Kingdom, but due to the lack of follow-up, they could only fall into a bitter battle. They honestly stabilized the front line in an area about 50 kilometers deep into the Redwood Kingdom.
For a time, they were unable to attack and were reluctant to retreat. They could only hold on there and consume their troops bit by bit.
A war also broke out between the Kingdom of Susus and the Kingdom of Farak. Because the tax reform of the Kingdom of Susus triggered a small-scale civil strife, it also fell into passivity on the battlefield.
With the support of Tang Mo, although Susas stabilized the defense line, it was impossible to expect them to counterattack.
Furthermore, a large amount of Tang Mo's supplies have been transported to the eastern theater of the Leyte Kingdom, so there is no spare capacity to support a large-scale counterattack in Susas.
Now, the biggest pressure on the Datang Group is actually the Kingdom of Dorne in the south - a coup has just occurred here, and the Kingdom of Dorne has to face the attack of two neighboring countries alone. The situation is quite dangerous.
The Kingdom of Talon assembled a 30,000-strong army on land, and cooperated with the Kingdom of Shiron's more than 50,000 troops to attack Dorne from two directions.
These troops were overwhelming at first. The troops of the Kingdom of Shiron in the southeast had already approached the King of Dorne, while the troops of the Kingdom of Talon in the southwest had also approached the Port of Rewind.
Because Dorne's troops wanted to control the occupied area, most of them were scattered over a vast territory and were completely unprepared to assemble for war.
So, even though Dorne had 70,000 troops on paper, it was unable to withstand the sudden attacks of its two neighboring countries and was constantly retreating.
However, they retreated to key areas, and the commanders of the Kingdom of Dorne also knew that they had no way to retreat.
Therefore, in the direction of the royal city, Dorne's new commander-in-chief led a barely assembled 20,000 troops to meet Heron's 50,000-strong army in a narrow road. This young general who graduated from the second phase of Datang Military Academy is named Bolton. He is 27 years old this year and was a blacksmith two years ago.
In the direction of Port Rewind, the young naval commander of Dorne led 10,000 soldiers against the 30,000 army from the Kingdom of Talon. This young general, who also graduated from the second phase of the Datang Military Academy, is named Strauss. He is 28 years old and is the son of a fisherman.
These two battles are almost the decisive battles that will determine the fate of Dorne, or the fate of the Datang Group.
No one is optimistic about Dorne, because Dorne is really passive to the extreme. The person commanding the battle was not a famous general, and the number of troops mobilized was too small.
But what no one knew was that Dorne was not fighting alone. Almost at the same time as the coup, the Datang Group responded.
The world's only steam-powered transport ship made entirely of steel has just been put into use. Its mission is to transport a battalion of the Datang Group's 1st Regiment to Rewind Port.
At the same time, Strauss, as the commander of the southwest, unexpectedly ordered the troops to retreat. They ran back more than 100 kilometers in one breath and retreated to the vicinity of Rewind Port before setting up their positions and starting to build defensive positions.
His retreat cleverly avoided the sharp edge of the Talon Kingdom's troops, forcing the opponent's supply line to be extended by more than 100 kilometers.
Then, after the troops of the Tarun Kingdom arrived at Rewind Port and rested for a day to prepare for the attack, the battalion of the Datang Group also arrived on the battlefield.
There has indeed been no earth-shaking change in the strength comparison between the two sides, but each infantry platoon of the Datang Group's infantry battalion has two heavy machine guns. The Datang Group's security force has one company plus the company's independent machine gun group. There are 7 machine guns, and the full battalion has 23 heavy machine guns.
This number is similar to the number of heavy machine guns in the Kingdom of Dorne, so Strauss instantly surpassed the opponent in front of him in terms of firepower.
And then…
Even more so that the commander of the Talon Kingdom cursed his mother.
Strauss came and did everything without stopping, and directly released more than 300 sailors and officers of the Talon Kingdom's naval fleet that were fished out of the sea. Yes, let it go! He released these prisoners in front of the two armies, and asked them to bring the news of the annihilation of the Talon Kingdom's main fleet back to his army officers and soldiers.
This move is the "Besieged on All Sides" he learned in the class of Datang Military Academy, and it can be called a critical strike to the heart, directly cutting down the army of the Kingdom of Talon.
The frustrated commander of the Talon Kingdom desperately attacked Rewind Port by relying on his large number of troops, and then he suffered a tragedy.
The Rewind Port defense line supported by naval artillery is simply a meat grinder that transcends the times. The troops of the Talon Kingdom tasted what is called despair here.
After a fierce attack, 2,000 soldiers lay dead on the spot, and the attacking troops did not even touch the edge of the Dornish troops' defensive position.
Subsequently, the unbelieving commander of the Talon Kingdom once again launched a more frenzied attack. He pressed 4,000 people at once, trying to penetrate the Dornish army's defense line in one go.
This time he heard the continuous roar of machine guns, crossfire and intensive artillery fire, which shattered all his dreams of penetrating the defense line in an instant.
The troops of the Kingdom of Talon, whose military morale was already shaken, could only barely hold on to their position after being frustrated by their continuous attacks.
The commander of the Talon Kingdom who commanded this army tried his best to restrain the army, but early the next morning, Strauss led all his troops to launch a counterattack.
This completely disorganized the troops of the Talon Kingdom, whose morale had collapsed. They only made a token resistance and then retreated across the board.
Things started to become bizarre from this moment: the commander of the Talon Kingdom knew that nothing could be done, so he had his own little idea.
While retreating with his troops, he plundered the people along the way, preparing to bring some benefits to the Talon Kingdom to make up for the losses of this failure.
As a result, their robbery angered the local people. Comparing the two, the people who were originally dissatisfied with Dorne's occupation found that those who claimed to liberate them were even less of a thing.
As a result, these people began to take the initiative to contact the Dornish troops who were scattered in the occupied area and had not been assembled originally, sent them intelligence and news, and organized them to intercept the retreating Talon Kingdom troops.
In the end, the rout turned into a group of scattered Dornish troops who were already in disarray in the rear. They blocked all the way and finally pushed the main force of the Kingdom of Talon out of the border. This was a strange war.
Furthermore, everyone originally thought that after Strauss won a great victory, he should pursue and kill the troops of the Kingdom of Talon along the way.
But Strauss divided his troops into 7,000 troops and went to look for trouble with the troops of the Kingdom of Heron.
Just as these 7,000 troops rushed towards the royal city, Bolton led 20,000 Dorn troops, taking advantage of the terrain, dividing his troops into an ambush, and intercepted the supply line of the Kingdom of Heron.
After a **** battle, Burton led 2,000 troops to a great victory, burning more than half of the food and baggage of Heron's army, destroying at least one-third of the ammunition, and then returned in triumph.
At the cost of 1,200 men, he made it impossible for the 50,000-strong army of the Kingdom of Heron to continue moving north, ensuring the absolute security of the royal city.
What made Cyric's contact furious was that the Kingdom of Shiron had to wait in place for five precious days and sent troops back to protect its supply lines.
When this army began to creep forward again, in front of them were three lines of trench defense built by Burton.
These defense lines, which were harder than tortoise shells, blocked the progress of the Heron troops. After five days of fierce attacks, and at the cost of 2,000 men, the commander of the Heron Kingdom realized what tricks his opponent had played.
Boton has been building defenses non-stop. Every time he built a defense line, he took the initiative to abandon a broken defense line in front, and maintained a slow retreat bit by bit.
These difficult defense lines indeed consumed the strength of the Heron Kingdom's troops, which made the commander of the Heron Kingdom very angry.
More importantly, these lines of defense delay time! After so many days, Dorne is recovering from the blow of the coup, and the entire Dorne army is regrouping.
All fools know that if the consumption continues like this, Dorne, which has obviously restored its national strength, will have a home field advantage and make the Kingdom of Heron and the Kingdom of Talon pay a heavier price.
Therefore, the commander of the Kingdom of Heron sent a messenger to urge the Talon troops on the other side who were responsible for attacking Rewind Port, hoping that they could attack quickly...
What he didn't know was that an army of 7,000 people had already approached the battle area of the royal city, and relying on the advantage of being familiar with the terrain, moved at full speed towards the side and rear of the Heron Kingdom troops.
(End of this chapter)