Chapter 1 The Backhand

Once you have such a one-hit kill method, frontal attacks immediately become an auxiliary means. At this time, Cheng Chi felt even more that the Yunzhou army was really easy to command. Once the order was issued and the battlefield situation was reported, every part of the battlefield would seek its own adaptations while completing the requirements of the chief officer. When Zhao Yao and Dai Mo set off with two battalions, the instruction "Attract the enemy to the front, making them unable to attend to other matters" was communicated throughout the entire line, and the generals below naturally discovered the difference from the previous orders. Cheng Chi must have found a backhand, the generals below understood this, and the atmosphere on the battlefield began to change quietly. The direction that originally relied on the Longbow Battalion and the Heavy Infantry Battalion to attack strongly had not changed, and still maintained a huge attack intensity, while the other routes began to try to add all kinds of tricks to the attack, constantly changing. Some began to change the continuous attack into several echelons taking turns to exert force, some tried to use grenade launchers to constantly throw kerosene bombs, relying on spending money to forcefully open up a path forward, and some used smoke and feigned attacks, etc., making the entire Dalun Mountain, where the two armies were facing each other, even more lively.

When Zhao Yao and Dai Mo arrived at the back mountain, good heavens, the soldiers of the Special Operations Battalion were still continuing to reinforce the road. When Barrett came to report just now, there were actually only two shaky ropes, one for the feet and one for the hands, barely able to pass, and the situation must have been extremely dangerous. But by the time the troops of the two battalions made a big circle to the back mountain, several simple suspension bridges had already been built. Each simple suspension bridge had three ropes as the base, with some wooden boards simply tied on top, and two ropes on both sides as handrails. For the soldiers of the Special Operations Battalion, this was already the best result they could achieve in a short period of time.

Zhao Yao and Dai Mo naturally had nothing to complain about. Zhao Yao commanded the Veterans Battalion, and Dai Mo led the Dai family's clan soldiers. Cheng Chi handed over this task of attacking the heart to them, naturally because the two battalions they commanded were powerful, and there was no problem with their sense of honor and spirit of sacrifice, but he also accurately saw that these two battalions bore too much expectation, and they could not retreat in the face of such a good opportunity. If they retreated at this juncture, their two battalions probably wouldn't even have a chance to wait for military law to deal with them. Perhaps, this was the only troublesome thing about Yunzhou, that is, the judicial system had not been able to completely replace clan law...

The two immediately separated a part of the vanguard and the soldiers of the Special Operations Battalion to move forward to拔 out the哨所 ahead and prepare to attack the starting point, while the troops behind them quickened their pace to cross the mountains and tried to organize materials to widen the road. Having more people made things easier, and the apprentices who came from craftsmen in the Yunzhou army played a huge role at this moment. The two battalions without engineer support actually quickly created a rough wooden bridge, although it was still narrow and dangerous, it was much better than the suspension bridge just now. After about two hours, the elites who had been re-selected from the two battalions were already holding their breath in the forest by the pool, waiting for the attack order. The two battalions pieced together more than a thousand elites among elites, plus three hundred soldiers from the Special Operations Battalion. As soon as they attacked, they could immediately burst out their power. And the troops behind were waiting at each node, ready to rush forward one after another.

Barrett was at the forefront at this moment. The Special Operations Battalion officer, who came from a prairie shaman, seemed to have every pore on his body breathing in his favorite atmosphere of war. Others said that Barrett was a born soldier, the more dangerous he was, the calmer he was. In fact, he himself knew that it was not the case at all. The more dangerous he was, the more he could concentrate and the more excited he was. That was his true color. He was usually lazy and difficult to perform well.

Zhao Yao and Dai Mo were lying behind Barrett, watching Barrett's gestures. Some vanguards had quietly followed behind them, and the short crossbows in their hands were all strung with short arrows. The soldiers of the Special Operations Battalion had already communicated with their unique gestures and assigned the targets in front of them. It was hard to imagine that less than a li away from the enemy's entire Dalun Mountain command core, the defense could still be so lax. The quality of the defense was not a matter of the number of people. The water collection pool was definitely a relatively important place for the entire mountain defense, especially for long-term defense, but now, there were only about a hundred people stationed in the camp by the water collection pool, and the others had been sent to the front to fight. Even these hundred people were constantly sending people to the main camp where the central command was located to understand the battle situation ahead. Everyone's mind was on the front, but they were completely unaware of the danger that was already close to them.

"This group of people, not one can escape, only... five minutes. Dai Mo, you take your people over first and block that mountain pass, remember, never let one escape. We will launch an attack in ten minutes. Block them all, at least to buy us... twenty minutes to a quarter of an hour. Then, we can gather a battalion of troops to attack the back door of the main camp." Barrett climbed back and whispered.

Dai Mo nodded, secretly waved his hand behind him, and led his men quickly through the forest, rushing towards the mountain pass.

"Get ready..." Barrett took a deep breath and said to Zhao Yao. Zhao Yao's expression did not change at all, he just blinked to indicate that he knew.

Waiting for a few minutes in the dark and in silence was difficult. When the scheduled moment arrived, the small hammer on Barrett's watch, which was tied to his forearm, gently tapped his skin. Barrett really liked these things from Tissot watch shops. These little things turned the battlefield into a stage where people with brains like them could have more control. Unfortunately, for the sake of secrecy, he could never bring those artistic Tissot treasures to the battlefield, such as the "Minute Repeater" that was just released last month...

Barrett didn't wait a second longer, and slashed down with his right hand. Immediately, the sound of shooting filled his ears. The Yunzhou army, since when, the stronger the troops, the quieter they were. When attacking, the meaningless shouts and roars had been abandoned. For the Yunzhou army, which already had the power to despise all enemies, it was meaningless to use shouts to embolden themselves and intimidate the enemy...

In the first silent attack, one-sixth of the more than one hundred enemies had already fallen. The soldiers slid down the hillside, taking advantage of the momentum brought to them by the slope of the mountain, and launched the first impact. And it was only this one impact. With absolute superiority in troops, only this attack solved the enemies by the water collection pool. They gathered slightly and rushed towards the back door of the main camp. There was no chance to earn開 the back door of the camp. They could only rely on absolute strength.

When the entire army began to attack the back door, which was defended by only a small number of troops, Barrett let the signal soldiers next to him notify the bottom of the mountain with signal arrows and colored smoke: everything was going smoothly.

"Good!" Cheng Chi immediately received the report. With airships to observe, he could actually understand all the dynamics on Dalun Mountain. "The whole army attacks, a general attack! ... The personal guard team, with knives ... Generals, everyone, go to battle. We'll meet on the mountain."

Cheng Chi spoke heroically, and the generals and营正 who were still staying in the main camp had long been impatient. They shouted in unison: "Die for Yunzhou!" and rushed towards their troops impatiently. Cheng Chi, wearing a helmet and armor, quickly appeared on the front line, and under the personal leadership of the main general and generals at all levels, the entire army launched wave after wave of attack climaxes.

As the battle continued, the inequality between the two sides became more and more obvious. Under the harassment and communication of the airship team, almost no reinforcements could arrive at the front line intact to confront the Yunzhou army. This comprehensive harassment and key attack was even more helpless than the previous comprehensive bombing. When dusk arrived and night gradually enveloped the earth, the Yunzhou army had no intention of stopping the attack at all. They continued to launch attacks. The soldiers of each battalion took turns to attack in front, and the heavy infantry and longbowmen took turns many times. After all, in this mountain battle, although there were many contact surfaces between the two sides, it was impossible to fully deploy troops on each front. The two sides turned a big battle into fragmented small battles.

Before the sun set, the back door of the main camp was finally breached. The Special Operations Battalion, the Veterans Battalion, and the Dai clan soldiers rushed into the interior of the camp like wolves and tigers, causing a wail of ghosts and wolves. At this time, the entire Western Route Army of Dalun Mountain, which had actually lost command, had inevitably failed. Dalun Mountain, this hoped-for fortress group, only lasted for a day. Although the mopping-up work did not basically come to an end until noon the next day, it was all irrelevant. After occupying Dalun Mountain, the frontal offensive led by Dai Yun no longer had anything in the way. It was all smooth sailing, and there were only small and medium-sized cities along the way. And for the Yunzhou army, which had mastered various powerful siege methods and had strong mobility, these were not a problem. Almost from the next day, Dai Yun launched a full-scale attack, forcing the Western Route Army to retreat steadily with harsh methods.

If there was anything unsatisfactory about the Battle of Dalun Mountain, it was probably that the casualties were too great. Due to the lack of geographical advantage, although relying on airships and multi-arms cooperation, and relying on surprise soldiers, Yunzhou had always maintained the initiative on the battlefield, but the total number of troops invested before and after actually had more than 7,000 casualties. Half of them were killed in battle. This number made the Yunzhou army up and down cheer up. More than one battalion was killed in battle, and more than one battalion was injured and withdrew from the battle... These were enough to make everyone realize that the Western Route Army of Northern Liao was still very strong, especially since they still held such great and impractical desperate illusions.

And where was Gao Senqi, who injected this desperate power into the entire Western Route Army and led this destined to fail resistance? No one could have imagined that he was actually leading the most elite force of the Western Route Army, quietly waiting for Ye Zhao on the southern line, waiting for a fierce collision with the Blood Kirin Army.

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