Chapter 569 (1/2)
The gray sky was covered with dark clouds, and occasionally thunder snakes swam in the clouds.
Strong and ferocious.
Soon, rain began to fall.
In fact, as early as yesterday, there had been a heavy rainstorm with a long duration on this land.
In the barren chilav collar, because it is close to the wild land and there are huge mountains, even in the rainy season at the end of summer, there is little rain here. It is precisely because of the lack of rain moisture that the land of chilav collar has always been very barren, and even few prey. Therefore, for the residents of chilav, the rain is a very happy thing.
Of course, this is only for residents, but for others, it's hard to make them happy on this damn rainy day.
Because in less than ten seconds, the rain, which was originally just a drizzle, gradually increased. In a moment, the whole world was gray, and the water vapor completely shielded people's vision, and the visibility was even less than five meters. But if it's just like this, the hilly terrain is uneven, and there are many pits and soil. It's certain that the road is muddy and difficult to walk, not to mention the problem of ponding.
Therefore, this will certainly greatly slow down the marching speed of the troops.
Nock wiped the rain on his face, and his frown fully showed his anxiety at the moment.
According to the normal marching conditions, the most important thing to do at this time is to find a place to stop for rest, and then continue to March when the rain is less or the field of vision is slightly better. After all, marching under such circumstances, in addition to the team disconnection and falling behind, it will bring many negative effects to the whole team because of many problems such as the reduction of body temperature and physical consumption.
Let alone anything else, the decline in combat effectiveness is certain.
However, even though he knew these things, nock still didn't dare to stop to have a rest.
Because today is the seventh day of their counterattack against chilav.
Originally, nock led his second infantry regiment to cut into the battlefield on the side of Huigu hill at the first time, give a heavy blow to the enemy and support Stalin at the first time. However, when he received the news that the enemy force led into the back Valley and hills from berbis was only 15000, nock changed his mind at the first time and chose to rush to help ardorf who was attacking the second enemy line in the valley and hills.
It has to be said that nock's choice is indeed correct.
In one day, with only 4000 troops, aldorf took dabion's army, which was located in two important towns in the East and west of the valley and hills, annihilated 5000 enemies, captured 2000, and the remaining 3000 fled. Of course, aldorf's losses were also quite heavy, and there were less than 2000 people left in the end. This is because aldorf's first target of attack happened to be the enemy's armory, so he was able to win the second important town, the granary, with the weapons seized at the armory.
Then, Adolf didn't give the enemy a chance to breathe. On the night when the enemy learned that the two important towns had been taken and urgently sent 5000 soldiers to the important town in the granary, Adolf led the army composed of 2000 prisoners just collected to launch an extremely fierce night attack on the main camp of the second line of defense.
In this battle, although ardorf won a great victory and completely tore the enemy's defense line, so that the other party could not continue to take advantage of the geographical advantage, his loss also reached the level of breaking bones and muscles.
In a strategic sense, this can only be regarded as a draw.
But at dawn the next day, nock led his second infantry regiment directly into the battlefield.
At this time, the enemy had just experienced an almost nightmarish defeat: in the night attack last night, less than 5000 of the 10000 Dabian troops survived, and 3000 of them were completely defeated. At this moment, the enemy is sending a team to gather the defeated troops, so there are actually less than 2000 troops in the newly formed camp.
However, as long as we wait until the morning, the 5000 troops sent out can return to defense, and then our battalion can still recover to 10000 troops. As long as they survive another day, the 10000 reinforcements on the other side of the Luohua Valley led by chilav can reach the battlefield. At that time, their strength will surge to 20000. At the same time, they have also received the news that the berbis leader sent reinforcements. As long as their berbis reinforcements converge, the total strength will be as high as 35000.
At that time, not to mention the chilav leader, even the panda leader may be won at one stroke. After all, there are 50000 own troops in the jedby leader, and an infantry regiment of 10000 people has entered the panda leader first.
As long as the confluence, this is an army of 100000 people!
Therefore, at present, their weakness period is less than an hour.
Aldorf's troops have been completely crippled, and they have no reason to worry and fear.
However, in this short period of weakness of less than an hour, the second infantry regiment of nock seized the opportunity!
So this war can be said to be without a trace of suspense.
Nock easily captured the count of the other party's General Commander, and killed three barons and a Viscount on the battlefield. The enemy's two thousand defenders were even wiped out. The second line of defense led by chilav was completely destroyed. After that, nock and the remnant of less than a thousand people left by ardorf met, and in turn ate the remnant troops of the enemy in the valleys and hills.
So far, there are only more than 10000 of dabion's 30000 troops stationed in the chilav collar, and two of the three lines of defense have been broken. It is only a matter of time to recapture the chilav collar. Of course, the most important thing is the significance of strategic layout. This move completely slowed down or even stopped the enemy's large-scale invasion of panda collar.
But no one thought that there was an unexpected accident in this almost complete victory.
In the south of the valley bottom hills, there were reinforcements led by burbis. According to the reconnaissance, the number of enemy troops was about 5000. So at this time, both Adolf and nock knew that Stalin's back Valley and hills were completely lost, and even the whole army was likely to be destroyed. Moreover, seeing the arrival of Dabian reinforcements, nearly 4000 Dabian soldiers originally captured by ardorf and nock immediately mutinied.
In this conflict, the count who could have been used as a good chip was naturally killed on the spot, and nearly 2000 soldiers were buried with him. However, after nock paid hundreds of casualties, he finally suppressed the unrest. At this time, nock also discussed with ardorf. Ardorf led the remnant and the remaining nearly 2000 prisoners to continue to entangle with the dabion army here in the valley and hills, and he immediately went to the battlefield on Stalin's side to see the specific situation.
After the two made an agreement, they immediately acted separately.
However, for some reason, the reinforcements from burbis did not go after Adolf, but focused on nock and his second infantry regiment.
Fortunately, at this time, a sudden rainstorm slowed down the action of dabion's army and allowed nock to get rid of the pursuit smoothly.
These are yesterday's events.
After marching in the rainstorm for two hours, nock finally felt the cold.
He knew that since even he had felt the chill, it was obvious that the combat effectiveness of the whole army had definitely dropped to a very low level. The following situation is likely to be the illness of a large number of soldiers. For him, this non combat reduction is absolutely an intolerable mistake. However, it is not easy to find a shelter from the rain in this valley and hills.
As for temporary camps, this is nonsense - no army can build camps in heavy rain.
It can be said that nock has fallen into a dilemma at this time.
He had no choice but to move on.
Next, there is a real consumption war of will and physical strength.
However, the reality is cruel after all.
In half a day's time, more than 400 non combat personnel were reduced due to heavy rain. This is a bone breaking loss for the second infantry regiment, which has experienced a series of fierce battles and has less than 2000 troops left. So when the rain was getting smaller, nock even felt relieved. He hurried to choose a flat terrain to camp. All the wounded rested here, while he himself took some rest with the soldiers who could continue to fight, and then hurried off again.
At this moment, it is not far from where Stalin laid his defense line in the back Valley hills.
When nock arrived, he saw an extremely tragic battlefield.
Countless bodies were scattered all over the battlefield. They looked like a mass grave, and even many of them were incomplete.
There was a large area of charred pit marks around the place where these incomplete bodies fell. It was obvious that these people died in the thunder fire area arranged by Stalin. From the perspective of layout, nock knew that Stalin had fully taken into account the disadvantages of the great disparity of forces when arranging the mine fire area, so he expanded the explosion range as much as possible instead of concentrating the lethality. Even so, the enemy soldiers who died in the mine fire area occupied far less than one tenth of all the bodies on the battlefield.
Most of the bodies died in the confrontation between the two armies.
Nock saw a young man belonging to the first infantry regiment, with four or five long guns inserted in his chest and abdomen. These long guns had appeared through his body, and a small spear tip was exposed on his back, but he still didn't fall down. His body fell forward and relied on the penetrating spear as the support point. His right hand still held the long sword, but there were cracks everywhere on the long sword. There were six or seven corpses lying at his feet, with a satisfied smile on his face.
Such bodies can be found everywhere on the battlefield.
The torrential rain for two days still couldn't wash away the blood on the whole battlefield, and even the bloody gas still filled the sky.
Looking at the hell like Shura blood scene in front of us, no matter nock or other soldiers of the second infantry regiment, everyone's face was shocked.
The first infantry regiment with only 4000 people, facing up to 15000 enemy troops, stood alone on this land for four days and three nights!
Although more than 5000 people finally broke through the bloody line laid by Stalin, no one would think that Stalin lost the war at this moment.
”Look!” Nock gave a crazy roar, ”even if I die, I want to see Stalin's body!”
Facing nock's order, the soldiers of the second infantry regiment soon rushed into this Shura field and began to tidy and clean the battlefield.
The sound of splashing steps rises one after another on this battlefield.
When the soldiers of the second infantry pulled out the long guns, arrows and swords that pierced the bodies of their comrades in arms, there was no blood splashing out of the wounds, because the blood in their bodies had already dried up.
Many soldiers were really in tears at this moment.
This kind of cleaning work requires a lot of physical and mental energy, but at this moment, every soldier of the second infantry regiment is very serious.
With the passage of time, the counting work on the battlefield soon came to an end.
When the last body was removed from the battlefield, the whole second infantry regiment felt relieved for some reason.
Everyone's eyes could not help looking at the young soldier who moved out the last body.
There was a happy look on the soldier's face. He looked back at nock and then shook his head: ”Sir, it's not the body of Lord Stalin! Lord Stalin is still alive! He's still alive! ”
Hearing this, nock's eyes suddenly lit up.
”What shall we do next, my lord?” An officer immediately asked.
The formation of the earliest operational style of an army largely depends on the tactical style of the first commander of the army. As the head of the second infantry regiment, nock is not as aggressive and aggressive as Adolf, and his command layout in defense is not as decisive as Stalin, but similarly, he has a talent that Adolf and Stalin did not have.
If any of Sean's generals has the sharpest intuition, it must be nock.
Although William has a keen sense of war, he relies more on strategic layout and tactical principles, because once the war situation is clear, famous generals like William can naturally judge the trend of the whole war situation at the first time. However, nock is completely different. In terms of command, he judges completely by virtue of his keen sense of smell, and his practice has always brought him great victory.