Chapter 169 The Rise of Famous Generals

The war begins!

The Empire of Light, which was ready for war, on a cloudy morning, Duke of Tulip led 50,000 of the most well-equipped "Thunder Whip" to the north, and 20,000 local garrisons mobilized escorts a large number of war materials to transport them to the north.

The north has been classified as a war zone, and the Northern Command was established. Two experienced veteran generals were selected from the Imperial Military Command, and at the same time, Duke Tulip was appointed as the supreme commander of the war zone. In the war zone, the Northern Legion must also obey the Duke Tulip's dispatch.

The war begins like this!

Just as everyone was waiting for news from the north, the north was surprisingly quiet.

Although the coalition forces of more than a dozen kingdoms in the Roland Continent have already acted like crossing the sea, they have not taken action for a long time.

When I originally thought that the Duke of Tulip would become the first hero of this war, the first hero of this war was born!

Not in the north, but in the northwest! In Wat Fortress! Just as everyone's eyes were aimed at the north, within a month, the situation in the northwest changed tremendously! A shining star rose slowly in the northwest...

General Ello, the commander of the Northwest Legion, is forty-two years old this year. He was born into a military noble family, one of the traditional military forces.

A graduate of the 169th class of Imperial College, a fourth-level warrior, and a good military course. He served as deputy commander and commander of the Imperial Guard Army. Because of his contribution to the extermination of bandits and chaos, he was promoted and transferred to the imperial capital and served as deputy chief of staff. After serving as civilian work in the command center for several years, he accumulated sufficient qualifications and was transferred to the deputy commander of the Central Cavalry Legion. After the Northwest War, he was transferred from the Central Cavalry Legion to the Northwest Army and presided over the military affairs of the Northwest Army.

After reading this information, Andy's evaluation was: There is nothing special about the standard and the distance.

Indeed, from the information, this General Elohsiung has nothing special. He was born in an upper-class noble family of the empire and entered the army at the age of 20. After 22 years, he sat down as the leader of a legion. From any angle, there was no highlight - and he did not have any dazzling military achievements.

The only little contribution is that when he was young, he once made contributions to "sweeping bandit chaos" - but, you should know that when such noble officers from big families often use this "excusation" when they are promoted. Although such powerful family members cannot immediately take a high position after entering the army, they often go through a formality, starting from middle and low-level officers and accumulating qualifications. When the time is almost over and about to appreciate, they often add a military merit like "sweeping bandits" to their qualifications. To eliminate bandit chaos? Where are so many bandit chaos in the empire to suppress?

Then he climbed up step by step in the army without showing any signs of water. After twenty-two years, he finally commanded a legion and took charge of military affairs. He was able to survive until the first person in the northwest.

This is actually the case with many senior executives in the Imperial Military.

But Andy still saw something unusual in this information - General Elliot passed the title inheritance assessment at the age of 22 and obtained the title of Earl!

This is already a very amazing thing! You should know that under the special and strictness of the imperial title assessment, it is definitely not an easy task to pass the assessment at the age of 22! In fact, General Ello was not the eldest son in the family, but his brother lost the right to inherit the title after failing the assessment, and he succeeded in one fell swoop!

Andy checked the records of that year and said that General Elliot actually passed the knight test as a third-level warrior!

He reached the third-level samurai at the age of 22. Although it is not very powerful, it is already very rare in a spoiled noble family! You should know that in order to reduce the difficulty in the title assessment, many nobles deliberately lower their samurai level to participate in the low-level title assessment. For example, when Roddy participated in the title assessment, he was just a first-level samurai - and there were only a few out of two hundred nobles who signed up for the third-level samurai assessment!

This Eloh, who did not hide his strength, openly obtained the qualification of a third-level samurai before inheriting the title - isn't he afraid that the title assessment will become more difficult because of his third-level samurai title? If this is true, it only means that he is very confident in his strength!

There is a reason Andy studied General Elliot's information so seriously!

A month ago, Royantar led his troops to raid Fort Trier (original Fort Trier was occupied by the Great Moon Kingdom in the previous Northwest War, but after the war, the empire paid 500,000 gold coins for redemption based on the negotiations that Rody participated in). As a result, General Ello led the vanguard troops of Royantar who ambushed Royantar outside the city, defeated the enemy in one fell swoop and killed 10,000 troops of the Great Moon Kingdom!

Then the main army of Luo Yantar arrived and had a head-on collision with the Northwest Army. The Northwest Army lost to the Iron Cavalry of the Grassland in the field and indeed retreated. However, before the army of the Great Moon Kingdom besieged the city, Eloh took the initiative to break through and abandon Fort Trier, and the entire army withdrew from Fort Trier!!

This move is undoubtedly surprising - after all, in the northwest defense strategy of the Imperial Command: the only two remaining military fortresses in the northwest, Fort Trier and Watt Fortress are important military strongholds. As long as these two military strongholds are guarded, the two troops are divided into each other and echo each other, so that the northwest can be preserved!

But what happened next surprised Andy even more!

Royantar's 200,000 army had just entered Fort Trier and had not yet established a foothold, and Ello immediately killed and shot back!

The Northwest Legion immediately surrounded Trier Fort!!

This is an extremely clever trap!

Before evacuating Fort Trier, Elliot poisoned all the wells in the city, and then based on the terrain in front of the Fort Trier gate, countless horse-rejected fortifications were arranged outside the city gate. Those solid horse-rejected horses that were dissatisfied with sharp blades had originally given Royantar a great headache, and he was worried that he would suffer great losses in the battle of siege. However, Elliot's sudden abandonment of Fort Trier allowed him to occupy this important fortress in the northwest without a single soldier.

But before Luo Yantar had time to demolish the fortifications outside the city gates, the Northwest Army actually killed a retaliation?!

Instead, it surrounded Trier Fort!

Now Luo Yantar immediately fell into trouble.

The densely packed horse-resisted horses under the city gate made his cavalry unable to rush out of the city to break through with the enemy. Although such terrain will also have an impact on the opponent's infantry, for the grassland cavalry that needs to rely on large-scale charges, it is a dead place! It is a dead place full of murderous intent every step!

Elliot was almost a madman! He sent heavy armored infantry from the Northwest Legion to block the city regardless of losses - he simply used his heavy armored infantry as meat shields! With tens of thousands of meat shields and the terrible refusal of horses under the city gate, Luo Yantar's cavalry could not rush up and could not play their advantages at all! Elliot seemed to see the fatal shortcomings of the Iron Cavalry of the Grassland at a glance - Luo Yantar has no infantry! When the cavalry has no place to use its skills, the opponent does not have excellent infantry! Those brave cavalry on the grasslands seem to be unable to fight after getting off the horse... Faced with the well-trained infantry and strict infantry queues of the Light Empire, Luo Yantar's grassland warriors lost the help of their horses, as if they bumped into a wall.

After several consecutive bloody battles, the Northwest Army lost nearly 20,000 excellent infantry, while Luo Yantar's cavalry was constantly lost in the dead land!

Fortunately, Ello's troops were insufficient, so he just besieged and did not attack the city, and placed all his strength on blocking the city gates and preventing the opponent from coming out. Although the Northwest Legion had expanded and its troops reached 200,000 before the previous Northwest War, Ello had to leave 50,000 people to guard the Wat Fortress, and his troops besieged under Fort Trier were only 150,000.

But relying on this subtle trap, the Northwest Army 150,000 people trapped Luo Yantar's 200,000 cavalry in Fort Trier!

All the water sources in the city have long been highly poisoned, causing Luo Yantar's army to lose its water supply! Although the army carries enough food - but there is not much water!

After accidentally drinking the toxic water source in the city on the first day, thousands of soldiers died and tens of thousands lost their combat effectiveness. As time goes by, the army lacking water is becoming less and less combat effectiveness!

Finally, after being besieged for the fifth day, Luo Yantar had no choice but to make a bet and ordered to break through at all costs!

Elliot knew very well that his troops were insufficient and it was impossible for him to really swallow Luo Yantar, so he wisely did not fight with the other party. After leaving the city gate and letting the other party break through, he led his army to chase after him for more than a hundred miles.

Luo Yantar's soldiers lacked water replenishment for several days and were already weak. As a result, they retreated all the way, with few soldiers and generals missing, and retreated back to the Mudan important town.

In this battle, the Northwest Army lost nearly 30,000 people, of which more than 20,000 were lost in the siege! The army of Luo Yantar's Great Moon Kingdom led by the army ran back less than 100,000... Among them, more than 30,000 people lost in the battle for several consecutive days, and nearly 30,000 people were lost in the breakout, and nearly 10,000 were captured by the Northwest Army. There were more than 30,000 people in the city who lost their combat effectiveness due to severe water shortage or drinking toxic water. These logs were ruthlessly abandoned by Luo Yantar with a hero's determination to cut off his arm.

After counting the results of the battle, Ello made another move that shocked everyone!

The 30,000 surrendered soldiers in the city and the 10,000 captured enemy troops were ordered by Elliot to be executed without leaving any one! Such a ruthless decision made the imperial capital in an uproar!

This action was immediately attacked by the civilized scholars in the empire - the empire is a powerful civilized country, and massacre of prisoners of war and civilians has always been a shameless means for the barbarians in the grassland. How could our great imperial warriors do such a thing!! Slaughtering prisoners of war who have no ability to resist is a matter of defiling the glory of the empire!!

Elliot seems to be a wooden man, and he ignores any curses and attacks, and simply gives His Majesty a small report.

The report is very simple, but one of the words made Andy appreciate them very much!

"The Great Moon Kingdom is vast and sparsely populated, and the grassland population is only one million. Apart from the elderly and weak women, young and middle-aged people are only hundreds of thousands. If you kill one, you will lose one point! If you spend one point, you will lose one point! The more you lose such a young and middle-aged man, the weaker the other party's national strength will be. My approach is to draw the root of disaster for the empire for a hundred years!"

Andy immediately ordered the newspaper to promote it, avoiding the massacre of prisoners of war, and widely publicized the victory of the Northwest. He praised the contributions of the Northwest Legion Commander Ello. Relying on the newspaper's powerful public opinion means, he suppressed the harsh attacks on the Ello Army. Then Andy sent a commendation order to the Northwest Army in the name of the imperial emperor!

Looking at the Northwest War Report in his hand, Andy sighed and murmured to himself: "Rody, this Elliot has something you lack the most! That's it, ruthless!"

At this moment, Roddy was a little depressed in the north.

There were nearly 400,000 troops from the Guangming Continent in the north, and the 200,000 troops of the Northern Legion had already been mobilized and assembled. In fact, Miro had already made preparations during the palace incident. Unfortunately, Miro's preparations were all useless because of Andy's sudden appearance.

But then a war broke out, and those preparations became foresight...

One hundred thousand flame warriors belonging to the Divine Empire of Light also arrived in the north. The leader of the Flame Warriors was a cold middle-aged man named Ancient Capital. From the outside, he looked completely like a devout monk. Although he was wearing a set of strange light leather armor of the Fire Warriors, he was always covered with a gray robe on the outside. It looked a bit like a bishop elder of the Divine Cult - if he held another staff in his hand, it would be even more like.

Forget it in the ancient capital, his cold temper made him rarely speak. But the bishop elder sent by the God Cult made Roddy extremely annoyed.

Because of the incident in the palace, the relationship between the Divine Cult and the Duke of Tulip was a bit stiff, so the bishop elder was not too intimate with the young commander of the empire.

However, this bishop elder is a religious crazier. Before he even started a war, he brought a group of religious missionaries around the various military camps every day to promote his religious beliefs and praise how great God is. The Divine Church is the only spokesperson of God on earth, etc. He even strongly asked Roddy to order the army to set aside a period of time from daily training and exercises to pray for God... Although this action made Roddy very unhappy, the bishop said: This is a jihad, a war to fight against "pagans", so the theological propaganda of the army before the war can enhance the soldiers' belief and piety for God. Through their devout faith in God, they can achieve the effects of boosting morale and improving combat effectiveness...

If it weren't for the current identity and the unity before the war, Roddy would have ordered someone to kick this fly-like guy out of the barracks.
Chapter completed!