After the defeat in the first battle, the Second Corps of the Right Army had to give it time to collect the bodies of the fallen soldiers, so Helen had no choice but to postpone the time of the battle. She couldn't charge forward while stepping on the bodies of the fallen soldiers. Therefore, except for the busy Second Corps of the Right Army, the other four corps all remained on hold.
If Helen knew what the consequences of her decision would be, she would never do it.
At nightfall, it really started to drizzle. At the same time, the three hundred cavalrymen led by Inr had crossed the ridge and arrived at the foot of the mountain.
All the horse hooves were wrapped with thin leather, because only in this way could the sound of the hooves be made lighter. Clamping the horses was also necessary, as any noise during the night raid could ruin all previous efforts.
Fortunately, Yin'er was familiar with the roads in this area, otherwise the drizzle in the dark night would have completely ruined the plan. Even so, Yin'er and others did not see the fire of the enemy camp from afar until after midnight.
After reining in his horse, In'er called six temporary cavalry leaders to his side.
"The enemy camp on the left is about five miles away from here, and the enemy camp on the right is about three miles away. The distance between the two camps is about four miles." Yin Er pointed to the faint firelight ahead and said, "Now, we split into two groups..."
Coincidentally, just as Yin'er was making arrangements in a low voice, Pu Tong was also making arrangements in a low voice near the abandoned town dozens of miles away: "Damn it, listen to me, although this is not the enemy's food warehouse, we can't come here for nothing. Anyway, they have few soldiers and the defense is sparse. Go up and kill them. One battalion will cause chaos, the second battalion will set fire, and the third battalion will follow me to seize their small warehouse. Don't leave anything that can be taken away."
As Pu Tong was making arrangements, he secretly cursed his bad luck. He had come all the way here in the rain and wind, but he didn't expect that this was actually a camp for wounded soldiers. Apart from the small warehouse for medicinal materials and the small granary, there was really nothing to rob...
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The commander of the First Legion of the Left Army was Li Moli. Like Jia Chi, he was also conferred the title of second-class duke after defecting to the Tianjuan Empire. However, unlike Jia Chi, Li Moli was not tired of fighting, because he felt that he needed to accumulate more military merits to prove his usefulness to the emperor.
But Jia Chi's failure yesterday made him feel a little regretful. He even felt that Helen deliberately sent the Second Legion of the Right Army to die, because among the five legions participating in this battle, only he and Jia Chi's army did not have soldiers from the Tianjuan family. Moreover, over this period of time, Li Moli also vaguely felt that the Tianjuan generals looked down on them.
But there is obviously no medicine for regret in this world.
I hope everything is fine. Li Moli said to himself after the meeting yesterday. In terms of legion combat power, his First Left Army Legion is naturally superior to Jia Chi's legion, but what about artillery? Whose subordinates are not flesh and blood? Although Helen's new battle plan has not yet come out, Li Moli guessed that the next legion to be the vanguard must be his own, which undoubtedly made him very uneasy. If it were not for avoiding suspicion, he would like to talk to Jia Chi, even if it was just to complain and vent, which would be better than tossing and turning until late at night and unable to sleep.
If Jia Chi and I had not done this at the beginning, the Tianjuan Empire would not have collapsed so quickly... Li Moli was muttering when he suddenly heard a loud rumbling sound in his ears. The whole tent began to shake, and it seemed that even the earth was shaking.
Oh no, enemy attack! Li Moli jumped up quickly, and there was a sound of shouting and neighing outside the tent.
"The enemy has sneaked into the camp! Fight them quickly!" someone shouted.
Li Moli ran out of the tent, only to see a faint fire outside and a chaotic crowd of people. It seemed that there was noise and bustle everywhere, and for a moment he could not tell where the attack was coming from.
"Bang, bang, bang, bang"... After another series of loud noises, someone, whether a general or a soldier, shouted in the chaos: "Right front camp gate, the enemy is at the right front camp gate! Charge! Kill!"
Shouts and cries of killing suddenly rang out, and the sounds of countless footsteps running penetrated the cold night rain and reached Li Moli's ears.
Camp gate? Li Moli was just startled when more than ten riders passed by him, galloping and shouting, "The general has an order! Chase the enemy!"
The general has given an order? Which general? It's dark, windy and rainy. Where should we chase them? A series of questions popped up in Li Moli's mind. But before he could come to his senses, a large group of people ran past him. Many soldiers held torches, shouted slogans, and rushed to the camp gate regardless of anything...
"Stop! Stop now!" Li Moli was extremely anxious. He thought that this didn't look like the enemy sneaking into the camp, it was clearly a camp roar.
After shouting for just a few words, Li Moli was knocked to the ground by the soldiers who swarmed over. Fortunately, the guards who rushed over quickly grabbed him and dragged him into the tent, otherwise his bones might have been trampled into a pile of debris.
"Duke Limoli, it's chaos outside. It's safer for you to stay here," said the guards.
"Who gave the order to pursue? Who was it?" Li Moli broke away from the support of the guards and asked sternly.
The guards looked at each other, thinking, in the dark, who knows? The soldiers of the First Corps of the Left Army launched the pursuit, firstly because of the loud warning in the dark night, and secondly, it was a risk-avoidance behavior - the bang bang bang sound was the artillery, so the best thing to do now was to leave the camp first, and then, of course, run towards the place with more fire. The more people around, the safer it seemed.
It seemed that in just a moment, nearly half of the soldiers of the First Legion of the Left Army rushed out of the camp gate and chased in the direction of the fire, shouting and killing as they chased - this was nothing more than a way to give themselves courage.
In fact, it was difficult not to shout, because there was always someone in the chaotic crowd who was leading the shouting and killing. Fortunately, the terrain in this area was flat, otherwise, in such a chaotic run, who knows how many people would have died under the feet of their own people...
Where is the enemy? After running for a long time, some soldiers began to wonder, but they still had to run because if they stopped, they might be pushed to the ground by the people behind them.
Those high-pitched voices quickly gave a hint: "The enemy is just ahead! Kill them!"
The soldiers in the front looked up and saw torches coming. What were they waiting for? Charge! The shouts of killing shook the sky. Before they stopped, the shouts of killing came from the other side...
In just a moment, the sounds of fighting, blade clashes, screams of the wounded, and wails before death became one. In the splashing rain and blood, there were fewer and fewer torches, and more and more people fell down...
In the chaos, no one noticed that more than a hundred riders had left the two sides fighting and ran in another direction...
After a while, the hundred or so riders stopped by a dry riverbed. After waiting for a while, a little fire came running from far away...
"Hurry up and get on your horses and go back to the camp! Go around the forest path on the left!" Yin'er shouted. Although the disruption plan was extremely successful, she was also caught by hundreds of cavalrymen.
"Yes!" The hundred or so cavalrymen who had just rested for a while immediately jumped on their horses...
At the same time, the abandoned town that Helen had designated as a camp for wounded soldiers was filled with smoke and flames, and there were explosions and wailing sounds...
"Move, move whatever can be moved! Burn the rest!" Pu Tang shouted loudly and spat fiercely at the corpse at his feet. He was too much of an advance guard just now. He kicked open the door of the small warehouse and rushed in without looking carefully. As a result, he was stabbed in the cheekbone by a dagger from an enemy hiding behind the door. Fortunately, he had high cheekbones and hard bones and reacted quickly, so he knocked the guy down with one sword, otherwise, if he had been slashed upwards, he would have lost his eyes.
Even so, it still hurt him so much that he was upset.
"Burn! Set this whole town on fire!" He shouted while covering his face. There were only a few hundred soldiers defending here originally, so they were no match for the hungry wolf Sixth Regiment. Some were dead, some were wounded, and even their armors were stripped away by the Sixth Regiment.
After a while, Pu Tong finally remembered Wu Lai's instructions and quickly ordered: "Stop burning! Stop burning! Retreat!"
When the Sixth Regiment left, its retreat speed was always faster than its charge speed. It took away all the stocks in the medicine warehouse and most of the food in the small granary, leaving behind only half of the town that was not in the flames and thousands of wounded soldiers from the Second Corps of the Right Army who had just been transferred from the front line...
"If you dare to use this place again, I will come back." Pu Tong ran a long way, still feeling unsatisfied. Looking back at the fire, he said viciously, "No, I will burn and rob wherever you go..."
That night, all five Tianjuan Corps were mobilized. Some went to meet the enemy in battle, some went to reinforce, and the Right Army Second Corps rushed to rescue people...
At dawn, the First Corps of the Left Army, which had been fighting all night, discovered that the one it had been fighting with all night was actually the Second Corps of the Left Army. What was even worse was that the Central Army that came to reinforce the Second Corps of the Left Army became the enemy of both sides in the chaos.
"What a shame! What a shame!" Helen slammed her fist on the table. The chaos last night not only caused nearly 10,000 casualties in the three armies, severely damaging morale, but also caused a sudden rift between the various legions.
The generals looked at each other, all with gloomy faces, not daring to say a word.
"Report! Duke Jiachi of the First Legion of the Right Army wants to see you!" the eunuch outside the tent shouted loudly.
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"Let him in!" Helen frowned.
Jia Chi walked in quickly, bowed, and said with a look of trepidation: "Your Majesty, something terrible has happened. Last night, the wounded soldiers' camp in Mumian Town was attacked, the medicine warehouse and granary were looted, and the enemy also set fire to half of the town."
"What?!" Helen's eyes flashed coldly, "Tell me, whose soldiers are guarding Mumian Town?!"
Jia Chi was panicked, but he could only bite the bullet and answer: "Your Majesty, it is the First Corps of the Right Army."
"Jia Chi." Helen asked through gritted teeth, "Do you know how important that medicine warehouse is?"
"Your Majesty, I know." Jia Chi had cold sweat on his back. Before joining the war, he stayed in the principality leisurely. Unlike other civil and military officials, he did not need to go to the palace to take turns on duty. So he had only heard that Helen's temper was getting worse, but he had never seen her like today. Now that he saw her so angry, he remembered the recent rumors that she had punished civil and military officials cruelly, and he naturally felt a little flustered.
"Hmph, now that you know it, you'll still throw it away?" There was anger in Helen's eyes.
"This...I know my crime." Jia Chi bowed his head.
"Someone come! Bring Jiachi to me!" Helen waved her sleeves, and the guards on both sides stepped forward quickly, grabbed his shoulders and wrists, and pressed Jiachi to the ground in two or three moves.
A group of commanders quickly pleaded for mercy.
"There is no need for you to do this. The medicine warehouse is the backup of the army. Once the medicine is lost, how can we treat our wounded? Are we going to watch them die of pain and illness? This Jia Chi is the duke leading the army, but he does not know how to share the country's worries. He failed to fulfill his responsibilities in the face of war and implicated the entire army. If he is not punished, how can I govern the army? How can I govern the country?!" Helen slammed the table and asked loudly.
"Your Majesty, although I failed in my duty, at least I have the merit of supporting the enthronement!" Jia Chi shouted while struggling.
"The merit of supporting the throne is not enough to cover up your mistake today! Take him away!" Helen's face turned cold, and she waved her sleeves. Several guards immediately tied Jiachi up and carried him out of the tent.
Are they going to kill Jiachi? The generals were secretly shocked.
In fact, Helen didn't think about it at all. She just wanted to find a place to vent her anger. If she could calm down and think about it carefully, she would know that what happened last night couldn't be blamed entirely on the army under her command. If she could be more cautious, some things would not have happened.
The scene of Jiachi being tied up and carried out of the big tent was seen by someone. Who was it? Teller who came with his father.
"Li Moli, save me! Li Moli! Save me!" Jia Chi shouted while struggling. Even he thought he was going to die soon - he was tied up like this. Who would do this unless he wanted to kill him?
When he heard his father's call, Teller's heart trembled suddenly, and he took back the step he had just taken. His father, who had been very respectable for most of his life, shouted in a hurry, "Li Moli, save me!" Such words showed that the situation had become so serious that it was out of control.
"No, no, I can't let the Rommel family be destroyed. That won't do. That won't do..." Teller said this in his mind as he quietly turned around and walked quickly towards the horse tying area. At the same time, a bold plan became clear in his mind...
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"Good! Well done! They are indeed rare generals!" After listening to the report, Wu Lai could not help but clap his hands and laugh. Yin'er and Pudong had both achieved great results in battle, so how could he not be happy?
"Yes, Colonel Iner's tactic of luring the enemy to attack will definitely become a classic in war history." Sares said with a smile.
"Pu Tong's Sixth Regiment is also good. It has caused so much trouble to the enemy. I think the Tianjuan Army will slow down its offensive speed." Bailey said.
"Bailey's analysis is good. If the logistics cannot be sustained, the front line will have no confidence to attack. Of course, we have to be doubly vigilant. What if they play a little crazier and use our logistics support as an excuse to try to capture Malitania in one fell swoop and then take whatever they want? Although we are not afraid, it will be a bit tricky." Wu Lai reminded the second general with a smile that the best way is to be neither arrogant when winning nor discouraged when losing.
"Report!" The voice of the signalman came again from outside the tent.
"Come in!" Wu Lai said, his smile disappearing.
The signalman walked in quickly, bowed, raised his head, and reported loudly: "My lord, according to the scouts, the enemy camp on the left wing in front of our army suddenly retreated in large numbers, and part of the adjacent camp also followed. I don't know why."
"Oh?" Wu Lai's brows suddenly frowned...