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Chapter 1521 Northwest War (17)

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    "Master Legion Commander, Lord Commander has an order to stop the advance of the whole army and ask you to go there immediately to hold a military affairs meeting."

    In the mighty marching team, an orderly chased up from behind, and after paying a military salute to Li Changqing, the head of the Security Corps, he spoke loudly.

    "knew."

    Li Changqing, the regiment commander whose shirt was covered with wind and snow, nodded, but his face was full of doubts.

    "Now we can catch up with the desert empire's army with more effort. What does it mean to stop advancing now?" Han Tao, the deputy head of the army, asked puzzled.

    "Who knows, it may be that the enemy's situation has changed." Li Changqing was also full of doubts.

    Li Changqing ordered: "Order the whole army to rest on the spot, and I will go back as soon as I go."

    "No!"

    After Han Tao, the deputy head of the army, responded, Li Changqing immediately turned his horse's head, surrounded by the guards, and headed towards the marching team of the headquarters.

    Legion Commander Li Changqing rode his horse and galloped. Seeing that all the flag regiments along the way also stopped advancing, his doubts grew stronger.

    A village next to the main road was surrounded by heavily armed soldiers. Li Changqing, the head of the army, led the guards straight into the village.

    ?In a large house, the temporary command headquarters of the Third Field Army was set up here. In the living room burning with charcoal fire, the commander Liu Yidao, the chief of the military department Li Qiye and others were talking.

    "Brother Li is here, sit down quickly."

    Seeing Li Changqing step into the living room, Commander Liu Yidao warmly greeted him to take a seat.

    Li Changqing sat down in front of the brazier, and cast his eyes on Liu Yidao, the commander of the third field army.

    "My lord, what happened?" Li Changqing asked.

    "One of our convoys was attacked in the Yunshan Township area."

    After Li Qiye, Chief of the Ministry of War, brought Li Changqing a cup of steaming tea, he said solemnly.

    "The transportation team was attacked in Yunshan Town?"

    After hearing this, Li Changqing, the head of the Security Corps, couldn't help but frown.

    "Did the broken soldiers of the Desert Empire do it?" He guessed.

    "According to a report from one of our escaped brothers, there are at least 10,000 to 20,000 soldiers from the Desert Empire who attacked the 17th convoy. It doesn't look like a rout." Li Qiye, chief of the Ministry of War, shook his head and said.

    "10,000 to 20,000 people?!"

    Li Changqing also took a deep breath. There was such a large-scale enemy hidden behind them, which made him look serious.

    You must know that their army has been chasing westward, hoping to catch up with the main force of the Desert Empire army before it escapes the Xiqiu Mansion, and then solve it.

    But now suddenly the transport team behind them was attacked by a large desert army, which undoubtedly made Li Qiye, who is more sensitive to the battlefield, realize that something is wrong.

    Although temporarily stopping the advance may allow the enemy to escape, but in the face of uncertain enemy situation, Li Qiye still feels safer.

    After all, if they continue to advance westward, the logistical supply line will be longer. Once the rear supply line is cut off, the army will be in trouble.

    "We have already dispatched the most elite scout team to investigate in the Yunshan Town area, and soon we will have exact information on the number of enemies." Li Qiye said.

    "Before the scouts send back the news, we can't sit still. We are going to let your Security Corps send cavalry to turn around and go back to Yunshan Town immediately."

    "If the number of enemies is only 10,000 to 20,000, it is estimated that it is a deserted army from the desert empire. With the strength of a cavalry battalion, it is enough to deal with and wipe them out."

    Li Qiye, chief of the Ministry of War, quickly gave Li Changqing, the army commander, a combat mission.

    The Field Sixth Army also had a certain number of cavalry troops, but some went to Daning City, and some went to Xiqiu Mansion by detour, trying to intercept the desert empire's rout.

    Now the third field army has no cavalry units available, only the security corps has a cavalry flag battalion.

    "Our legion only has one cavalry banner battalion, and the enemy has at least 10,000 to 20,000 people. Could it be that the strength of the army is a little thinner?" Li Changqing said with a frown.

    "We are going back to the cavalry unit. Even if we can't beat it, we can always run it. Don't worry."

    "Okay, I'll go back and make arrangements."

    After learning about the specific situation, Li Changqing immediately agreed, and decided to dispatch the cavalry flag battalion of their security corps.

      After all, the logistics supply line is extremely important to their army's operations in such cold weather.

    Once the logistics supply line is cut off for a long time, it will inevitably affect the operations of their frontline troops.

    It is precisely because of this that Li Qiye and the others could not wait for the scouts to report the specific situation, so they could only send a cavalry flag battalion back first.

    But Li Qiye and the others did not know that they had fallen into the trap of the Desert Empire because the other party was waiting for them.

    When the cavalry flag battalion to which the security corps belonged was marching swiftly towards Yunshan Town, when it passed a canyon, it was ambushed by heavy troops from the Desert Empire.

    The White Feather Army, the First Frontier Army, and the New Army led by Ashnad suffered a disastrous defeat in the Ganshui River, killing more than 80,000 people.

    This was the most costly battle for the Desert Empire in hundreds of years, with 80,000 soldiers lost in the first battle.

    On the battlefield of the Ganshui River, it can be described as corpses strewn all over the field, bleeding and floating oars, and the blood stained the river red.

    In addition to the 80,000 lost troops on the battlefield, in order to ensure the separation of the main force, they had to treat the new army as an abandoned child.

    The result was that the nearly 100,000 new army troops were completely defeated, and now they fled in the direction of Daning City in a panic.

    Now Ashnad naturally does not dare to return to the desert empire. He has suffered such a disastrous defeat, and he will definitely be cut into pieces when he returns.

    Therefore, he pretended to be defeated, but actually led the elite main force to hide in the Yunshan Town area, trying to eliminate the pursuit troops of the Far East Army in order to reverse the situation on the battlefield.

    ?They attacked the logistics convoy of the Far Eastern Army, not only cutting off the supplies of the Far Eastern Army, but also allowing their soldiers to eat steaming meals to boost morale.

    Now seeing that the Far Eastern Army really sent troops back to wipe out their so-called "broken soldiers", Ashnad was also very happy, knowing that everything was proceeding according to his plan.

    When the troops of the cavalry banner battalion of the Far Eastern Army entered the canyon, they found that the road ahead was blocked.

    At the exit of Kuanyidi, a wall has been temporarily built by densely packed sandbags, and behind the sandbags are deployed strong bows and crossbows.

    "There is an ambush, withdraw!"

    Seeing that the passage ahead was blocked, the commander of the cavalry flag battalion who led the team also froze, and decisively ordered to retreat.

    They came in a hurry along the way, and they were a little careless just after winning the battle. The scouts didn't report back for a long time, and they didn't pay attention.

    Now that he suddenly broke into the ambush circle and realized that something was wrong, it was not easy to withdraw.

    Because the hooves were thundering like thunder behind them, a large number of Desert Empire cavalry appeared behind them and blocked their back path, their swords shining like snow.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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