Chapter 367

The response of the general headquarters of the imperial army to lugao, the commander of the northwest army, was somewhat unexpected.

In their "change of defense" military order, they stipulated a march route from the northwest to the East and then to Beishan. They ordered the northwest army to strictly follow the march route of the military headquarters within the required date. However, no one would think that Lu Gao of the northwest army would really accept this "order".

To put it bluntly, the Empire knew that lugao, who was actually a warlord, could not easily give up his family property and power. Therefore, this order of changing the guard is just forcing against lugao. When lugao rebelled first, the Empire would then be able to send troops to "put an end to the rebellion.".

At least, in the morality of war, the central Empire needs to stand at a commanding height. This is also the usual practice.

So when lugao's official documents were delivered to the imperial capital, a group of staff and generals in the headquarters thought they were wrong.

Did lugao really surrender so easily?

What about the separation of the northwest warlords, which has been a headache for the Empire for 20 years? One year's war preparations, large-scale military mobilization, preparation of weapons and equipment and other materials... All of them are useless?

At this time, it was the acting Minister of military affairs, the old prime minister, who played a leading role in the military headquarters.

"What are you doing?" Although the old prime minister was old, his voice had a sense of authority: "immediately issue another military order to order Lu Gao, commander of the northwest army, to report to the imperial capital today! He must arrive at the imperial capital within ten days after receiving the military order

The old Prime Minister snorted, thinking that we would be at a loss. Hum, lugao. No matter what tricks you want to play, do you really dare to come to the imperial capital alone? If you are not willing to come, you can still be sentenced to disrespect for the military order.

"Ask the magic trade union to help you pass the military order as soon as possible!" This is the decision of the old Prime Minister.

After making the decision, the old prime minister looked at camisilo with a smile. His tone was very polite: "Mr. camisilo, please report this to your Highness The Regent. It's urgent. I think his highness will agree. "

Emergency military orders were sent back and forth between the imperial capital and the northwest army.

At the beginning, just as old robustscher had expected, this lugao immediately wrote back to plead, saying that the whole army of the northwest army was moving northward for a change of defense, and that he could not get away from a large number of complicated military affairs, asking for a postponement of the order to report to the imperial capital.

Then robustscher wrote a very severe official document, ordering lugao to return to the imperial capital. Otherwise, it is disobedience.

At the same time, a division of the storm Corps going south was only a hundred miles away from nurin Province, and a division of Wang Cheng's guards in the East had reached the city of sin, big ear.

Strategically, the encirclement of the northwest army has been completed.

To the west of the northwest was Dewey's army. To the south is governor Bohan's army, to the southeast is the royal guards, and to the northeast is a division of the storm Corps.

Of course, it's all troop movements. There is a best excuse for "spring drill.".

Lugao had a water fight with the military headquarters. For every document that was delayed back and forth, an hour after a military received it, a copy was placed on Duwei's desk. This is a file transmitted from the magic circle of the mainland magic society. As one of the founders of the magic society and one of the members of the magic academy, Du Wei made full use of his resources this time.

Although the Regent said nothing. But this time, when dealing with the northwest legion, it is hidden that Duwei is the main place.

Robischer is too old. And after all, he is only a literary minister.

In the army, the Regent did not appoint a clear commander. It means that everything is headed by the Duke of tulip. After all, in terms of military power, Dewey controls more than half of the army. If he had not been too junior, I am afraid he would have been appointed commander in chief.

"The cunning lugao." After reading lugao's evasion, Dewey found that it was the only excuse.

But then, Lu Gao actually made a more unpredictable move.

According to the latest military news from the northwest army, army commander Lu Gao finally said that he accepted the order of the army headquarters, and one day later. Really on the road to the imperial capital. and. He actually took only two hundred cavalry with him.

Even Dewey was surprised by the news.

The news that Lu Gao went to Beijing. One by one from the road back. In addition, Lu Gao and his party marched along the main road to the imperial capital, and even after he left Fort Watt, he passed the garrison of the imperial city guards. As if nothing had happened, Lu Gao met the general of the division and encouraged him a little. Is he crazy?

Later, Lu Gao and his party went on the road with a swagger. Whenever they passed through towns, Lu Gao also received the local garrison government officials with a swagger. On the road, naturally, the spies from the imperial capital sent the news back to the imperial capital one by one.

For three days in a row, old robustscher had received information about which city Lugo had been to, who he had met, and which road he had taken... And all the spies who had brought back the information had written in the secret newspaper that they had really seen Lugo himself!

Well, this problem is in front of the Empire... Fight or not?

In the imperial capital, someone immediately claimed that when the tiger left the nest, and Lu Gao had only two hundred guards around him, he immediately sent someone to catch this guy. If the enemy chieftain is captured, the northwest army will have no leader.

But the proposal was immediately rejected.

Catch? Do you need to catch it? Now lugao is coming with only two hundred people and all the way to the imperial capital. He has fallen into the trap. Is it necessary to send someone to catch him? On the contrary, he got the tongue of "maiming meritorious officials"?

Diduli repeatedly confirmed the source of the information, and also checked the situation of Fort Watt, the headquarters of the northwest army. In Fort Watt, a main division of the northwest army had been set up a day ago. The whole army honestly followed the route set in the military order and went all the way north. And still under the supervision of the storm corps, there was no change at all.

A large number of supplies, weapons, chariots and horses were also on the road.

Everything, as if lugaozhen gave up, decided to surrender to the Empire. The northwest army was honestly "changed" to the north.

At this time, even robustscher and Prince Chen were vaguely shaken: lugao, maybe he really surrendered.

After all, this is a war that is bound to lose. There's no need for lugao to fight to the death. Moreover, as long as he surrendered back to the imperial capital, no matter what. Although he had previously ruled the northwest, he still kept the same face as the emperor, and did not really rebel, and, to speak of it. He also made some contributions. As long as he handed over military power and became a pure minister, he would return to the imperial capital. Anyway, the Regent will not kill him. On the contrary, he will be given a high official position and a vacant post to keep him well. At most, he will lose power, but his life will never be a problem. Maybe, as long as he is honest, he can guarantee his life's prosperity.

After all. Without charge, the Empire would not openly execute a senior general like the former commander of the army.

Moreover, no matter what, from the bottom of our hearts, it is the best way to peacefully solve the problem of the northwest army without fighting or killing people. The Regent, in particular, knows very well what he will face in the future, if he can not kill or injure the army. There is no doubt that it is good for the Empire.

So. Even the Regent was shaken. An order was immediately given to the troops on the northwest front.

"Stand by."

"Stand by?" After receiving the order, Dewey scolded. Then he tore up the order with disdain.

Old robustscher is old Yan. Are you dizzy, Prince Chen? Who is Lu Gao and how can he give up easily?

Hum, lugao, lugao, you can cheat others, you can't cheat me, Dewey!

By the time Dewey received the order, he had left Loulan and arrived at the military camp on the border of Desa province. There are 20000 tulip army and 50000 private army of Rowling family.

"What do you think?" Dewey took a look at Philip.

"The people of the imperial capital have been deceived." Philip is worthy of being a student of blue ocean, immediately said: "I only hope that the attack direction chosen by lugao is us! If the northwest army suddenly breaks through and attacks at this time, I'm afraid those troops will suffer. "

"Send the message to governor Bohan at once!" Du Wei sighed and looked at the sky: "I hope it's not too late."

"I just hope that the attacking direction chosen by lugao is ours." Philip also had a worried face.

February 2, 964.

This day is firmly remembered in history, because it has been given a name.

"Civil war day."

It came back that a group of people from lugao, who went to the imperial capital to report on their work, had already boarded a boat at the upstream wharf of Lancang canal two days ago and went down the river south. A lot of people were relieved... It seems that there is no need to fight.

Even governor Bohan, who had been paying close attention to the itinerary of lugao and his party, general Andre, commander of the second division of the northern storm corps, and the general of the division transferred by the royal city guards, were relieved.

Lu gaozhen went to the imperial capital.

At the same time, a division of the northwest army and a large number of leading logistics troops, which had already moved northward, were under the supervision of the second division of the storm corps, led by general Andrea of the storm Corps. They walked slowly in strict accordance with the marching route in the military order, without any deviation.

But soon, the experienced Andrea found a slight mistake.

After all, he was an excellent general in the storm Corps. When Andre learned that the northwest army had accepted the order to go north, he sent more than 20 hundred scouts and cavalry to closely monitor the first army to go north, and at the same time ordered his soldiers to be ready.

But with the passage of time, Andrea's doubts become more and more. At the risk of causing a dispute, he even sent two cavalry teams to stop the army of the northwest army, which went up to the north, and asked to check each other's lines and wagons.

That's the demand. It's too much to put it on weekdays. But the northwest army agreed. And after the search, there was no problem.

There are grain, grass, weapons, ordnance and all kinds of materials in the wagon... These things are not fake.

It was as if Lu gaozhen had decided to move the family of the northwest army to the north.

What really made Andrea suspicious was the commander of the northern army!

Andrea doubted that the northwest army was an imperial landlord army after all. I heard that its combat effectiveness was quite good. Lu Gao is also a strong general. But this general, the commander of the north division, was actually a fat man who made people feel wretched!

The fat man's name is DORO. When Andrea's men came back, they all described the fat man as a philistine and a lustful man.

Andrea knew right away that it was wrong!

The army is out. The first troops in the front are all the vanguard troops responsible for fighting in the front. Any commander-in-chief will send his most trusted ministry to take up this task. But this fat man named Dorothy doesn't look like an excellent soldier!

Although Rugao is rebellious, Andrea does not admit that Rugao should be an excellent military commander, but he sent such a rubbish guy to fight in the front

Andrea immediately made a decision that later was considered very wise!

"The whole army set out and stop them!"

These 20000 stormtroopers are the elite cavalry drawn from the stormtroopers, and they are also Andrea's old subordinates. Twenty thousand elite cavalry set out. Soon after a day, they caught up with the army and stopped them outside a city.

Then Andrea immediately made a decision, the whole army ready to fight, while sending orders to the other side. Order the northwest army of the other side to immediately lay down their weapons and accept cross examination.

By the time he made this decision, Andrea was ready to fight. But to his surprise. Duoduo Luo, the general of the other side's leader, accepted his "inappropriate" request without even thinking about it for a quarter of an hour.

Soon, the 20000 northwest troops laid down their weapons, and Andrea "captured" DORO and his men without a single soldier. Then, after interrogating the poor fat man, Andrea immediately broke out in a cold sweat!

Cheated!!!

This DORO is indeed a general, but he is just a general in charge of logistics and ordnance! And this "vanguard" going north. It is not the main division of the northwest army at all, but a logistics division! A group of reserve soldiers and the Logistics Department of the army! And the number is not enough for one division at all!!

When he found out the truth, Andrea's forehead was sweating that the other side had successfully dragged down his elite cavalry division with such a miscellaneous army, wasting his whole days!!

"Come on! Send the message right away! Come on

Andrea ordered that three thousand people be left to guard the prisoners of war. The rest of the cavalry mounted immediately. He ordered that no rest be allowed all the way. March fast. To Fort Watt, northwest army.

But there was a question in his mind.

Is there still time?

When Andrea was in a cold sweat. Bohan, governor of nurin Province, is already sweating!!

One day!

Last night, he received the news that shocked him! The northwest army is fighting back!

Then ten thousand elite cavalry of the northwest army suddenly went south, and Bohan's defense line, which had been operated for many years, was almost broken through face to face!

The northwest army broke through the block of one of Bohan's infantry divisions, but did not stop at all. Instead, they quickly headed for the capital of nurin province. One day later, Chen Bing was under the eye of governor Bohan!

But Bohan sent out the message of asking for help.

He was very angry that an infantry division, which was originally on the front line, had been broken through so easily, but the people who escaped from it were wronged.

Because the order they got was "stand by.". Facing the cavalry of the northwest army, they were caught off guard.

Moreover, when the northwest army rushed over, they didn't fight too much with these Bohan troops. It seemed that they didn't want to fight at all. Instead, they directly used the mobile advantage of cavalry to break through the defense line. Go straight South and target the capital of nurin province.

Bohan looked at the ten thousand northwest cavalry under the city and sent out a signal for help, but suddenly he felt a thrill in his heart!

Then he immediately ordered to open the city gate and sent his own army to fight with the other side. Under the first World War, Bohan managed the army for many years and finally did not disgrace him. His most elite army and the other side fought a match, bloody battle for half a day, the northwest army suddenly gave up the fight. Then the whole army retreated.

After counting the results, the losses on both sides were roughly equal. Bohan suffered a little, but the proportion was within the acceptable range.

But the other party's remnant cavalry, actually made an almost absurd move!

They gave up their attempt to attack the provincial capital of nurin, and went all the way south!!

Bohan ordered to send all his cavalry all the way to catch up with each other, and the two sides fought and walked, fighting for two days. This northwest army is very tenacious. Although they suffered huge losses, they only had 3000 soldiers left in the end. It's the past two days now!

And then, received a signal for help Bohan. A division of the royal guards has arrived quickly.

Together, the two sides finally surrounded the cavalry

With victory in sight, Bohan was not happy at all.

Because he understood that he was deceived!!

Lu Gao pretended to be the main combat division with 10000 logistic troops. And also took out a large number of supplies and weapons as bait, dragging Andrea of the storm Corps. He also sent 10000 dare to die cavalry to feint at Bohan, and let the inexperienced Bohan send out a signal for help. As a result, the ten thousand cavalry troops held back Bohan's army and the imperial city guards.

So, what about the real main force of the northwest army?!

A total of 70000 iron cavalry crisscross the wilderness. What a spectacular scene it is!!

Black cavalry, like dark clouds, block out the sky! The sound of the horse's hooves is like a wave on the sea!

Under the black flag of the northwest army. Lugao, wearing a full suit of ground armor, sits on the horse!

In fact, he also took a lot of risks and took a lot of losses!

After all, in order to deceive Andrea of the storm corps, the logistics teams he sent out were real. Those ordnance, grain and materials were all his family's wealth accumulated over the years. But lugao knew that if he lost something, he could earn it again. But there is no chance of victory. Only once!

As for the "lugao" who went to the imperial capital. It's just a stand in for him.

People in the imperial capital still don't want to fight. Hum... They want to settle it peacefully. Where is such a cheap thing!

His real main attack is Dewey!

Looking at the iron and steel torrent under his command, lugao is full of confidence. Even if Duwei is doing business, he relies on the army to fight! Hum, that guy, he knows what bullshit military strategy, tulip family army, how can I compare with my elite northwest army on the ground!

Even if that lombardon under him is still a character, but in addition, there are no people who can fight under Dewey!

"Send orders! It's duvet's fortress over that hill! Don't stop. The main force will rush in at one go. Don't get entangled with each other. If Dewey sends someone to stop him, let the reserve team fight! We're racing against time now! Cross this guy's line

There is another plan in lugao's mind.

Now the stormtroopers are lying in the north, 1400 miles away. And Bohan, that fool, is a layman in war. I've been cheated to the south by my feint troops. It's a thousand li away from here!!

As long as the concentration of strength, through the defense line of Duwei, all the way to the west, you can rush out of the encirclement of the other side! After that, the sea is wide and the sky is wide! Tiger returns to mountain!!

Moreover, in addition to the 70000 cavalry, lugao was followed by more than 40000 elite infantry of two divisions. Their mission

"Anything they want is death." Lugao sighed in his heart.

His plan is not to stop, not to entangle with Duwei, directly through Duwei's military fortress. Then, the infantry from behind catch up. Attack the military fortress with all your strength.

It's good to be able to fight. Then you can immediately occupy this military fortress and use it as your own barrier. When the storm corps, Bohan and Wang Cheng's guards find that they have been cheated and come after them, the army here can also hold them for a period of time. Their own cavalry can sweep through the province of Desa like a whirlwind, and then... Enter the northwest grassland!

That's where lugao's final destination is.

The rear area is also the elite heavy armour infantry of the northwest army. And the one who is in charge of commanding this army is guhuadoro, whom lugao trusts most!

Wanma Benz!

After crossing the last hillside, not far away, a military fortress is under the eye! Lu Gao's horse stood on the hillside, pointed to the fortress in the distance, and issued an order.

"Rush through!"

Black armor, black flag, tens of thousands of cavalry in charge. Like a wave, it swept to the fortress in the distance.

On the wall of the fortress, Dewey stood there, looking at the raging tide in the distance, as if he were very relaxed, and sighed: "what a magnificent scene."

The tulip flag at the head of the city has been raised. Above the wall, archers and soldiers are ready.

But Dewey shook his head: "no need, lugao didn't want to attack the city immediately... Hum, he's busy now. There's no time to fight with me. "

Sure enough, when the tide of tens of thousands of cavalry was thousands of meters away from the city wall, the well-trained northwest cavalry automatically separated from the line, and the huge tide split into two, so it went around the two sides of Duwei's city wall.

They are far away, even beyond the range of the archer!

Dewey didn't let the archers waste their arrows. They didn't even order the troops out of the city to intercept.

After a full meal of effort, the huge cavalry army all over their walls. Dewey even saw it in the northwest line-up from a distance. Under a huge black flag, a general in black armor galloped by under the protection of the crowd. It must be lugao.

"I'm in a hurry." Dewey smile: "but when his cavalry ran ahead and saw the gift I gave him, he would be very surprised."

Then Dewey turned and gave orders to his men behind him.

"Order, all the infantry divisions guarding the city to prepare for the battle on the city wall, and then order the Longbottom cavalry division to be ready, and open the city gate to pursue after half an hour later..." he took a deep breath. Dewey had an evil smile on his face: "order. The air knights are ready to take off... Tell Zig it's his first battle. Give me a good fight

Galloping for about a quarter of an hour, what surprised Rugao was that Duwei didn't run out of the city to intercept! Is he afraid to fight? Or did he give up when he thought there was no chance of winning after weighing the military strength of the two sides?

But lugao won't accept Duwei's kindness! He had already thought that once he crossed duvet's line and entered the province of dessa, his cavalry would burn, kill and plunder all the way!

After all, although cavalry mobility is strong, but it can not carry too much food and supplies! If you want to rush through Desa province and enter the grassland at the fastest speed, you must "supply on the spot".

This is the only way.

"Dewey, I'll thank you for letting me go!" Lugao immediately grinned, but then he immediately saw a scene that made him angry!

The cavalry brigade in front of them suddenly slowed down, and then the cavalry regiment galloped slowly. Finally, they crowded together and stopped.

"What's going on!" Lugo roared angrily.

Someone disobeyed his orders! Don't these bastards know that time is the most precious thing now!!

"Report to marshal... You'd better come to the front and have a look!" A ministry rushed from the front, his face a little panic.

Lugao's face was gloomy. He resisted the impulse to whip this guy. He immediately ordered the cavalry in front to separate. He rushed to the front with the people.

Then, lugao saw the "surprise" given by Dewey.

Seeing the scene in front of him, Lu Gao's first reaction was to take a deep breath!

God... This, what is this?!

In front of a piece of open wilderness. A large stretch of trench, hundreds of meters long, is listed in front of us! Each trench is two meters wide and more than one hundred meters long. Looking at it, I don't know how many trenches there are!

A thousand?

Two thousand?

son of a gun! See the hell!!

What's more, the trench covers a large area, and the two sides extend out all the time. It's actually a horseshoe shaped arc! A "U" shaped terrain. In front, on both sides, there are trenches hundreds of meters away! Dense!

How can the cavalry rush through!

What made lugao even more desperate was that if it was just these trenches, it would be OK. Even if he lost some soldiers and horses, he could barely fill up a place to rush through.

But the problem is, in front of this dense can not see the end of the trench position. It's covered with an endless stream of weird stuff.

On the long iron shelf, there are countless thin iron wires with sharp barbs and edges

That's right. These are the most common things in some of duvier's war movies.

wire mesh!

This chain of barbed wire. Dense, crisscross together, hundreds of meters wide, several kilometers long! You can't see the end on either side.

Rush? I can't make it!

Send someone to open the way?

Hell... How? It may not be difficult to fill the trench. But how can we get rid of these barbed wire?

The most exasperating thing is

This duvet, he has the ability to make such a "trap". Why doesn't he do it in front of the fortress wall?

In all kinds of wars in ancient times, where did you put the "trench" behind you?!

Lugao made a calculation in his mind for a moment. It would take him a whole day to get rid of this strange "iron guy"!!

"Off, turn around! Find a way out from both sides! " Lugao angrily scolded: "that bastard Dewey. He can't make the whole province look like this! "

But as soon as he gave the order to turn around, he heard the message from the messenger behind.

"Marshal, the tulip cavalry is catching up from behind!"

This is not the only bad news. Suddenly a soldier exclaimed and pointed to the sky: "look! What are those things? " Above the sky, from the direction of duvet's military fortress in the back, above the sky, there was a large area, half of the dark cloud. Flying fast towards here! It's close. Just see clearly, that where is what dark cloud. It's hundreds of balloons! I'm afraid there must be thousands of them! Dense and come, for a time even the sun in the sky are blocked“ First air bombardment, and then the ground troops moved in to clean up... "Du Wei stood on the wall and said to himself with a smile:" I'm following the American way of fighting. Hum, who said the trench can't be placed in the rear. " When lugao let out his first angry roar, the first wave of the balloon brigade had reached the top of the northwest cavalry. Then, after a whistling sound, under the first wave of hot-air balloons, a lot of black spots fell from the sky... When they saw those things clearly, the northwest army and local cavalry recognized those black things that looked like iron cans. But soon, they knew that they were killing weapons! A piece of black jar fell in the dense cavalry array, the first wave of explosion, instantly devoured hundreds of cavalry! Then, in the light of the fire, in the exploding cupping, and in Dewey's improved "scatter bullet", countless pieces of iron, nails, and so on... Under the power of the explosion, splashing out in all directions, the lethality more than doubled! With the pouring of hot air balloons all over the sky, countless iron cans were dropped. These dense black spots fell from the sky, just like the call of death... The surging explosion fire sounded from all directions. Among the squashed cavalry of the northwest army, screams and exclamations came one after another. At this moment, they could not even escape! In front and on both sides are continuous trenches and barbed wire! Their only direction is to retreat“ back off! back off! The back team becomes the front team! The whole army retreats! " Lugao roared, and the generals of the northwest army desperately wanted to restrain their soldiers. Soldiers may be very elite, brave and brave... But unfortunately, their horses are not psychic creatures. In the sound of the explosion, the fire, the air waves and the smoke made many war horses lose control immediately and become frenzied. The soldiers could not control the war horses, and even hundreds of people squeezed and collided with each other. But this kind of extrusion array, causes the bombing effect multiplication! If the last time the 30 man Decepticon team just harassed the prairie people in the city of giliat, today, a thousand hot-air balloons... Is a real bombing! The battlefield was in chaos. In the light of the fire, there was smoke everywhere. The bodies of fallen cavalry and horses also blocked the retreat of the cavalry. At this time, people crowded and horses collided with each other, which made the elite cavalry of the northwest army completely in chaos. Only a small number of cavalry of the rear team turned around and fled quickly. And most of them even lost their way in the smoke and fire, like headless flies everywhere. utterly routed! And just after the first wave of bombing, the hot air balloons in the sky have been far away. At this time, I heard the sound of wheezing. In the distance, hundreds of guys on broomsticks shot from the air quickly! These guys are very fast on brooms! What's more, they quickly skimmed over the top of the chaotic northwest army. The people sitting on the broom, holding the broom in one hand, holding the short crossbow in the other hand, darting with arrows, shooting and killing the chaotic cavalry to their heart's content! Decepticons, finally! Moreover, it seems that they are very good at shooting. The elite old Decepticons headed by Qi Ge specially focused on the armored generals in the northwest army to shoot! Many officers were shot to death by flying Decepticons before they could react, while the cavalry without officers fell into more chaos! At this time, lugao finally took out his hand. He roared and jumped up from the horse. He was in the air and pulled out his sword. Suddenly, he rushed into the sky and chopped a sword at a hot air balloon in the distance! The balloon was split in two by a brilliant blade of light, then exploded and burst into pieces in the air. Lu Gao's heart is dripping blood. He is almost mad. He sees the hot air balloon team not far away and wants to rush to it. At this time, I heard a cold voice in the distance behind me, shouting: "the northwest army, lugao? Or should I call you Chishui Duan? "