Otherworldly Castle Era

Chapter 2 End of punishment

The foreigners who temporarily lived in Jiehe City didn’t expect that there would be another war so soon.

When the war broke out, Xia Guo was the first to clear out the indigenous people in Jiehe City, because there were too many spies among these people.

Although these spies didn’t do much because of the strong control of Jiehe City, the work was not redundant at all in order to prevent any accidents.

Maybe there will be no foreign barbarian coming to Jiehe City from now on, but this doesn’t matter, because Xia Guo has passed the chaotic period when he first occupied the land outside the pass.

At this time, the land south of the Boundary River has been firmly grasped by Xia Guo, and it will no longer be easily invaded by spies from other forces.

Even if some fish slip through the net, the city guards are not vegetarian. Most of Xia’s city guards were deployed outside the pass.

At this time, soldiers of the First Infantry Division were stationed everywhere in and outside of Jiehe City. In addition to guarding the bridge, there was also a general headquarters that protected the city.

When Li Jing and the Fourth Heavy Equipment Division arrived at the northern border, he set up his headquarters in Jihe City, the nearest to the empire.

One is that in addition to facilitating the command and dispatch of the army, the second is that Li Jing wants to know the battle ahead earlier.

The Jiehe Bridge in Jiehe City just passed a large number of troops of the 1st Infantry Division a few days ago, and at this moment it has captured the local pass on the north bank.

Although the northern lords could not seize the north bank bridge head, they could build a fort around the north bank bridge head just like Xia Guo built a fortified pass on both the north and south sides of the Jiehe Bridge.

However, this pass was blasted by the artillery battalion of Xia State’s First Infantry Division as soon as the war started, and it was captured by Xia State’s army after a few days.

It is precisely because of this that the princes federation on the north bank of the boundary river can have time to mobilize troops to deal with Xia State’s offensive.

When the news of the princes’ federation mobilizing heavy troops to come to defend was learned by Li Jing, he did not give any orders to the divisions, but let the divisions decide how to fight.

After Qi Jiguang of the 1st Infantry Division learned of the news, after discussing with Chief of Staff Lu Su, he decided to suspend the march and rely on local key gates for defense instead.

The reason why Qi Jiguang and Lu Su made the defensive decision is that they have been close to the boundary river since then and can receive support from the navy fleet and even the Marine Corps.

The second reason is that there are so many enemy forces. Rather than rushing to destroy them one by one, it is better to let the enemies gather and then annihilate them together to be effective and easy.

This move has certain risks. For example, if you can’t hold on, the enemy will re-occupy the pass. It will also put the Jiehe Bridge within the enemy’s offensive range. In severe cases, it may even threaten Xia’s homeland.

However, these risks are all based on the defeat of the 1st Infantry Division, but will Qi Jiguang, Lu Su and even Li Jing let this happen? The answer is definitely not!

After Huo Qubing of the 4th Heavy Equipment Division in the middle offensive position learned that the enemy would gather heavy troops, he made a decision that was completely opposite to that of the 1st Infantry Division.

Huo Qubing doesn’t like defense, he likes to take the initiative, or he likes to attack.

Not to mention the optimal choice made by the 1st Infantry Division because of its favorable time and geographical position, it can be said that the Fourth Heavy Equipment Division was originally a unit with sufficient mobility and offensive power.

Therefore, if the Fourth Heavy Equipment Division is allowed to defend, it is to give up its own advantages. This is a waste of the Fourth Heavy Equipment Division’s combat power.

Besides, the position of the Fourth Heavy Equipment Division is not like that of the First Infantry Division with a bridge as convenient as the existence of the passage, so instead of defending the land that does not need to be defensive, it is better to take the initiative to attack and have more advantages. .

Therefore, after Huo Qubing crossed the river, he immediately divided the Fourth Heavy Equipment Division into two parts. One part was the main force consisting of three infantry regiments, two artillery battalions, rear guard battalions, and division headquarters. A mobile unit composed of a cavalry regiment.

After the two cavalry regiments crossed the river, they attacked in all directions, making the enemy completely confused about the main attacking direction of the Fourth Heavy Equipment Division, so that they had to use a large number of troops for defense.

The main force of the Fourth Heavy Equipment Division opened a zigzag marching and offensive route. In addition to destroying the enemy, wherever it went, it would destroy towns and clean up foreigners, so that the fourth heavy equipment division would go. The place became a desolate no man’s land.

Seeing the sharpness of Xia’s Fourth Heavy Equipment Division, the Federation of Princes had no choice but to abandon part of the area, and instead began to assemble a large army, preparing to fight to the death.

Abandoning part of the area to concentrate the force in the decisive battle will suffer some losses, but it is better than being defeated by Xia’s Fourth Heavy Equipment Division and gradually eroded.

The princes fed the thought that the long pain is not as good as the short pain. Of course Huo Qubing is willing to accompany him. After all, he and the Fourth Heavy Equipment Division have never been afraid of anyone in the field battle, although he is not worthy even if it is a siege. .

Since the cavalry division was reorganized into the fourth heavy armored division in accordance with the organization of the Imperial Guard, it has no longer been able to only conduct field battles like the previous cavalry divisions-that is a single purpose, but can conduct more range battles.

After the Second Infantry Division crossed the river from Anzhou in the northwest of Xia State into the territory of the Federation of Lords, because the terrain here is not as particularly complex as the western mountainous area, but the hilly terrain at the junction of the mountain and the plain is also complex enough.

Although the march in the hilly area is not as unobstructed as the plains, nor is it passable like the mountains, but also because of its topographical restrictions, there are not many places that can pass.

Therefore, Di Qing decided to concentrate his forces and steadily advance forward to attack, fight steadily, and advance steadily. This is Di Qing’s tactics this time.

Because Xia Kingdom divided the troops into three directions, and the lords in the princes federation had already lost the initiative, they could only respond passively.

Xia’s army was divided into three groups, so in order to confront, the princes federation could only divide its huge forces into three parts for confrontation.

After the 700,000 army was divided into three parts, the enemy force on each side of Xia’s army would not be so exaggerated.

But in fact, the total number of enemy forces that Xia’s army had to face had not changed at all. It was just that it had formed three small battlefields of more than 200,000 with a division of nearly 50,000 troops against the enemy.

Perhaps the people of the princes federation knew the principle of destroying them one by one, so the princes federation did not evenly divide the 700,000 troops into three parts, but gathered the 400,000 troops into the eastern battlefield.

On the remaining two battlefields, only 150,000 were allocated to contain the speed of Xia’s army. They were prepared to wipe out the Xia’s army in the east and then concentrate their superior forces to destroy the remaining two lines. After destroying Xia’s eastern army, attacked Xia’s mainland through the Jiehe Bridge.

Qi Jiguang commanded more than 40,000 and nearly 50,000 of the 1st Infantry Division, defending against the 400,000 army of the princes’ federation.

Nearly ten times the strength of the offensive team’s strength is very strong, but if you consider the weapons and equipment of the two parties, the quality of the soldiers, the command level, etc., it is actually Xia Guo that has the advantage.

In other words, in addition to the large number of troops on the princes’ federation, compared with Xia Guoyi in other aspects, it was a huge difference.

The army of the princes federation is not without elites. According to the intelligence obtained from Chen Ping’s Foreign Affairs Department, the three major dukes in the princes federation have a 10,000-strong knight group and an elite standing army. Counting the elite forces of the remaining lord, the elite army of the princes federation still has one hundred thousand.

If it were in the past, such a large elite army can be said to be invincible, and no territory can afford it.

However, it is not enough to put the 100,000 elites of the princes federation into the army of the Xia State, because the more than 100,000 troops of the Xia State are all elites, and they are still more elite than the elites of the princes federation.

Xia’s army equipped with muskets and artillery is the gap between the two eras for the army in the Cold Weapon Era. If it weren’t for the expansion of Xia’s plan, and the inconvenient transportation in this world, this world, at least this continent, is completely It can be all included in the bag by Xia Guo.

The reason why this continent has not been completely conquered by Xia Guo is that apart from Xia Guo’s own development plan, there is another benefit that the inconvenience of the world’s transportation has brought to the indigenous forces on this continent.

Even if the train can connect two distant places, the railway can not be repaired in a short time. The speed of railway construction can be said to be the development speed of Xia Guo in another aspect!

Therefore, this time Xia State’s troop dispatch is actually a weakening of the princes’ federation, and it doesn’t care how much the opponent sends, even as many troops as possible. This is also the reason why Xia State dispatched three divisions at once— —In order to put enough pressure on the princes’ federation It is precisely because of the need to attack and weaken the princes’ federation, so the army was sent to attack, and in order to weaken the princes’ federation to the greatest extent, so Xia Guo Three divisions were dispatched.

If you really want to send troops to teach and punish the opponent, it can be like dealing with the Anyuan Kingdom on the plateau, and sending a division is completely enough.

The weakening of the vassal federation is one reason for Xia’s external deployment. In fact, there is another reason for the dispatch of troops this time, which is to test the influence of the reorganization of the whole army, the exchange of generals, and the permanent logistics support units on the combat power.

After all, all aspects of the military are related to the influence of combat power. If the expected results cannot be achieved after the reorganization, then the problem must be found and then solved.

At the beginning, Xia’s army had only about three hundred people, that is, the size of a company now, and it has grown step by step to the current hundreds of thousands, but it is not easy.

I don’t know how many times the organization has been changed before and after, not to mention that weapons and equipment have entered another era.

It is precisely because of its step-by-step and rapid and stable development that the Daxia Empire has become so powerful today.

It is also because of such a powerful military force that this “punishment” war was completely ended with Xia Guo’s plan.

After more than a month of fighting, nearly a million troops ended with Xia Guo’s overall victory.

As the defeated princes federation, apart from the 700,000 troops left, the town did not know how many were burned down by Xia’s army, and even some lords were captured by Xia.

Of course, the 100,000 elites of the princes federation have basically been lost. If it weren’t for the Xia State army to see that it was almost done and take the initiative to withdraw its troops, it would be possible and capable to completely occupy the entire princes federation.