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"Empire Hegemony" Chapter 1241
In the dark night, a whole army was holding torches and marching along the provincial highway towards Zicheng Mansion. People were noisy and horses neighing, and the mighty marching team winded into a long torch line with no end in sight.
Commanding the army along the way was Chen Zi'ang. They were blocked by the Holy See Knights during the day, so their marching speed was slow.
After nightfall, Heigulongdong couldn't see his fingers, which greatly restricted the movement of the cavalry of the Holy See.
Once the rangers of the Qinghe Army found the Knights of the Holy See approaching, the main force of the Qinghe Army would immediately extinguish their torches to hide.
Because they are not familiar with the surrounding terrain, and the night is not conducive to the actions of the Knights, the Knights of the Skitarii dare not attack without authorization.
At the beginning, they sent a few small groups of troops to try to attack the Qinghe army's marching ranks, but after rushing up, they were ambushed and lost a lot of cavalry, so they were more cautious and did not dare to act rashly.
Under the cover of night, the main force of the Qinghe Army hurried towards the direction of Zicheng Mansion, because they got the news that Zicheng Mansion was still in their hands.
The Zicheng Mansion is in their hands, which means that a large amount of food and fodder stored in the Zicheng Mansion is still in the hands of the Qinghe Army, and the Guardian Army is about to face the risk of running out of food.
As long as they arrive at Zicheng Mansion in time, so that the cataracts cannot get the food and supplies in the city, then the cataracts will collapse due to lack of food.
At this moment, the Zicheng Mansion is like a huge magnet, firmly attracting the cathars.
The purpose of the general in red, Kenan, ordering the main force to storm Zicheng Mansion was also to seize the food, fodder and supplies in the city.
The surrounding area was cleared by the Qinghe army, and they couldn't find a grain of food.
In the absence of supplies, their entire army, let alone fighting, probably won't be able to go back when they withdraw to the country.
Therefore, the importance of food and fodder in Zicheng Mansion to them is self-evident, and it is precisely because of this that they stormed Zicheng Mansion.
Zhu Yimao and the others originally thought that it would be enough to intercept the remnants of the Patriarchal Army here. Who knew they would be besieged by the main force.
If they had known this was the case, they would have set fire to the city's grain and supplies and withdrew.
But when they realized that something was wrong, the Zicheng Mansion was already surrounded by the Knights of the Skitarii.
The changes in the situation forced Zhu Yimao and the others to stick to Zicheng Mansion, so that they fell into the current situation.
"Report!"
Chen Ziang was on his way surrounded by the Banner Guards, when scouts came galloping in the distance.
"Your Majesty, we have received the brother who reported to Zicheng Mansion."
The scout Qingqi reined in his horse in front of Chen Ziang, and reported loudly.
"What's the situation over there now?"
Chen Ziang also had a serious face, and asked hastily.
"This brother has already passed out. He said that he broke out last night to report that the Zicheng Mansion is still in the hands of the 37th Banner Regiment, and the food and fodder have not been burned, but they only have less than 5,000 brothers left. gone."
Hearing that there were less than 5,000 people left in the 37th Banner Regiment of Zicheng Mansion, Chen Zi'ang's expression sank.
You must know that the 37th Banner Regiment in the field has four banner battalions and 20,000 elite brothers.
Last night, there were less than 5,000 people left. It has been a full day and night. It is estimated that the situation is even more dire now. It is a question of whether they can last until they arrive.
"Give the order, and all the staff will rush forward with light clothes. Even if you are exhausted, you must rush to Zicheng Mansion before dawn!"
Thinking that a brother from the Banner Regiment was in danger of being besieged by the main force of the Patriarchs, Chen Ziang was very anxious.
If they can't arrive at Zicheng Mansion before dawn, then the Knights of the Patriarchs will step forward to stop them during the day, and the speed of the march will be greatly slowed down at that time, and whether they can arrive at dark tomorrow is a problem.
"Your Majesty has ordered that all the staff advance lightly and arrive at Zicheng Mansion before dawn!"
"Your Majesty has ordered that all the staff advance lightly and arrive at Zicheng Mansion before dawn!"
The messenger galloped along the road, passing on the orders one by one.
More than 200,000 people from the eight banner regiments belonging to the Guards Corps and the four banner regiments belonging to the Eighth Army rushed towards Zicheng Mansion like a surging river.
"General, the Qinghe army is advancing towards Zicheng Mansion!"
Although the darkness of the cavaliers restricted their movements, they kept staring at the Qinghe army.
As long as the day breaks, they dare to pounce on the Qinghe Army and bite the Qinghe army. After all, they are cavalry, and they still have a great advantage against infantry.
It's just that they didn't expect the Qinghe army to speed up. If it continues like this, the Qinghe army might really be able to reach the Zicheng Mansion at dawn.
"Send down the order to harass them and delay their march!"
Their knight group also launched several attacks on the Qinghe army during the day, but the Qinghe army's banner regiments were like thorny hedgehogs.
Qinghe Army's scout Qingqi was far away. Before they arrived, the Qinghe Army learned of the situation and immediately huddled into a ball.
They also forcibly attacked, trying to defeat the infantry of the Qinghe Army, but the weapons of the Qinghe Army were too sharp, and they dared not go up directly after suffering a loss, but wanted to find the weak points of the Qinghe Army's defense to make a surprise attack.
However, the Qinghe army's banner regiments were so heavily guarded that they had no place to talk.
Fortunately, their task was only to slow down the opponent's pace, not to destroy the opponent, so they did not attack with all their strength.
Now seeing the Qinghe army marching towards Zicheng Mansion with all their strength, if their knights did not stop them, General Kenan would blame them, but they would not be able to bear the responsibility.
So even if it's dark, they don't care about anything now, they can only attack to intercept.
However, it is not an easy task to stop the elite army of more than 200,000, but the matter has come to this point, they can only bite the bullet.
"Your Majesty, their cavalry are rushing towards us!"
As soon as the Knights of the Holy See were dispatched, the scout Qingqi from the Qinghe Army discovered it and reported it quickly.
"The first, second, and third banner regiments of the guards hold them back, and the rest advance at full speed!"
Facing the catechist cavaliers rushing forward, Chen Ziang naturally knew their purpose, so he was not fooled, and directly sent three banner regiments to fight.
Tan Feng, the head of the Guards Army, personally led the three flag regiments to form a formation, with various octagonal ox crossbows, bed crossbows, trebuchets and other weapons lined up.
Holding a torch, the Guardian Knights rushed towards the Qinghe army, trying to eat the forward troops of the Qinghe army to create chaos.
But before they approached, the dense arrows of locusts roared towards them, and the fire oil cans thrown by the trebuchet fell on the cavalry, and immediately burned the cavalry into burning men.
However, this time the Knights were determined to intercept the advance of the Qinghe army, so they charged over regardless of the casualties.
Seeing these knights pounced on, Tan Feng, the head of the guards, also showed a cruel sneer.
"Thunder!"
The Qinghe army dared to march unscrupulously along the road under the eyes of the cavalry, and naturally they relied on something, and that was their precious thunder.
Following the order of Tan Feng, the commander of the Guards, more than ten boxes of Tianlei were carried up.
The sky thunder that ignited the fuze was put on the trebuchet, and they were thrown towards the charging knights one by one. (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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