The battle of Dawu City started at noon yesterday and lasted until the early morning of the next day.
The Shuanglongqiu position had already fallen, and the main cavalry forces of both sides started a bloody battle around Dawu City.
With the 500,000 reserves led by General Zhao Zhiyi also entering the battlefield, Guo Changyu no longer had any troops at his disposal.
After seven or eight hours of hard fighting, more than half of the three million human light cavalry had been lost.
The forward general Guo Hailong died in battle at the age of 22.
The heroic cavalry general Zuo Shan died in battle at the age of sixty-one.
Alishi, the third prince of Dawan Kingdom, died in battle at the age of eighteen.
Guo Changzhuo, deputy commander of Beiting, died in battle at the age of fifty-seven.
General Zhenwu He Shulu died in battle at the age of twenty-four.
General Guangwei, Lieutenant of the Central Cavalry, Colonel of the Yue Cavalry...the names of high-ranking generals appeared on the list of those killed in battle.
These are all names, and there are countless others who cannot be named.
Everyone wants to be Yang Sanlang, but there is only one Yang Sanlang in the world, and the others are all nameless Yang Sanlang.
Countless unknown Yang Sanlang created one famous Yang Sanlang.
But those unknown Yang Sanlang did not have any regrets.
Looking at the battle reports that kept flying in, Zhao Zian's heart was bleeding.
The Beiting and Xiting Protectorate both guarded the borders of China, and the enemies they fought were all ethnic groups from the Western Regions or grasslands, so both Beiting and Xiting paid great attention to cavalry.
It can be said that seven out of ten of the elite cavalrymen of the entire Central-Turk court were located in the North and West Courts.
Zhao Zian's father, Zhao Xianfeng, guarded the border for many years and commanded almost all the Chinese cavalry in the northwest.
Nowadays, we see so many cavalry dying on the battlefield. Many of them followed the Zhao family and his son on the expedition to southern Xinjiang. There are also some young people who died in the battle, almost all of them young hawks from the princelings.
This made Zhao Zian very sad. He began to doubt himself. Was he really right to insist on fighting?
Pessimism began to spread among senior generals at Yumen Pass.
Even some hawks who once took the lead in the battle began to consider whether the cavalry should be withdrawn.
A middle-aged general said: "The situation is now clear. The plan to rely on Dawu Ancient City to block the enemy for two to three days has almost failed.
The vanguard of the enemy's three legions of madmen, giants, and skeletons are less than a hundred miles away from Dawu City.
At their speed, they can reach the Dawu City battlefield in one hour at most.
The city wall of Dawu City is not high. Although it can temporarily block the six-legged beast cavalry, it cannot stop the attack of the giant army at all.
According to time calculation, 1.6 million prairie wolf riders will arrive at Dawu City half an hour earlier than the Tianjie Marine Corps.
This is Guo Shuai's only chance to retreat and transfer.
Relying on the 1.6 million grassland cavalry and the Pegasus Army of the Heavenly Lady Kingdom, Guo Shuai has the opportunity to withdraw the main force of the Beiting Cavalry."
Another general said: "Yes, General Manager, you can't hesitate any longer.
Once other legions from Heaven arrive on the battlefield, not only Guo Shuai and the remaining more than one million cavalry will be in danger, but also the 1.6 million prairie wolf cavalry who rush to help will be in danger.
The world just wants us to have an attitude of resistance. Now we are resisting, fighting hard, and more than one million cavalry have died, which is enough to boost the morale of the world.
In the next war, we will rely on the tall and strong Yumen Pass to keep the enemy out of the country just like ten years ago."
Zhao Zian looked at the young hawks who were taking the lead in the battle.
Those young generals became silent at this moment. It was obvious that they felt that it was meaningless to continue fighting in the Western Region battlefield.
Originally, according to the plan, the cavalry could rely on Dawu Ancient City to resist for two or three days.
Then use the Longmen Defense Line to resist for two or three days.
In this way, they can resist for five or six days, which is enough for the people of the Western Region to retreat from Tianying Pass, and it can also buy enough time for the Changsheng Army to station in Longmen.
In less than a day, the ancient city of Dawu is in danger.
Moreover, the main force of the Marine Corps from Heaven came too fast. At this speed, the entire defense line of Dawu Ancient City will collapse at noon today, and the enemy will be able to reach Longmen by dusk.
Zhao Zian sighed and said: "What the generals said is reasonable. This war in the Western Region was too hasty and it was my commander's dereliction of duty. Since the situation is irresistible, let me follow what the generals said and order Commander Guo to retreat south. The Tianma Army and the
The Prairie Wolf Cavalry is responsible for containing the enemy and covering Guo Shuai's evacuation."
Nangong Yan said: "Now that the Longmen defense line has almost been built, if the battle plan is suddenly abandoned, wouldn't the fortifications be built in vain?
I have hundreds of thousands of red feather troops and nearly one million people from the Western Regions who are still in Longmen. With this withdrawal, won’t we just leave these people to fend for themselves?”
Zhao Zian said: "General Nangong, you have also seen the current situation.
The enemy's Storm Legion is extremely powerful and cannot be dealt with by light cavalry.
In several battles, the human light cavalry has suffered losses of nearly 2 million, while the enemy only lost less than 100,000.
We cannot afford a battle loss of twenty to one.
Once all the light cavalry outside Yumen Pass were destroyed, the peripheral containment force in the direction of Yumen Pass would be lost.
Now it is the wisest choice to retreat before the enemy's main land force has arrived.
The catastrophe is a catastrophe for the entire human world, and victory or defeat cannot be determined by a single battle.
I want to save hundreds of thousands of people outside the Pass, but there are still hundreds of millions of people behind me. I think General Nangong should know clearly what is more important than the other.
Let the people outside the pass flee for their lives.
As for the 300,000 red feather troops still stationed at Longmen, they can retreat south immediately."
Nangong Yan said: "Retreat to the south?
Can they outrun the enemy's six-legged beast on two legs?
If you don't fight Longmen, our Red Feather Army will.
Although we, the Red Feather Army, are women, we will only die on the battlefield and never on the way back."
Nangong Yan left.
She left the war meeting room angrily.
As soon as she came out, she immediately ordered the female general following behind her: "Inform Princess Nvyan to implement the second set of combat plans.
Only when we beat the enemy to the point of pain at the dragon gate can we reverse the current passive battle situation."
The two tall female generals following closely behind him glanced at each other.
Then they all said in unison: "No!"
Nvyan is now the general manager of logistics, ensuring that tens of millions of Red Feather troops will be fed, drank and fed in the future.
Now she is in the world.
But it's not at the Yumen Pass defense line, but at the Kunlun Mountains.
Princess Nvyan received the news from Nangong Yan.
She said without any hesitation: "Open the first, second, third and third warehouses of Nanshan Warehouse."
The so-called Nanshan Warehouse is a huge valley located in the south of the Holy Mountain where the Tiannu Kingdom uses to stack supplies.
It's not a cave or a newly built warehouse, but a mountain of supplies.
These supplies are definitely not food. They are covered with several layers of oilcloth and cowhide.
At least 10,000 nuns from the Heavenly Lady Kingdom are stationed here, and not even a fly can fly in.
Following the order from Princess Nvyan, three mountains of supplies were uncovered, revealing wooden boxes of almost equal sizes.
Each wooden box is four feet long, two feet wide, and two feet high.
In every warehouse, there are at least tens of thousands of wooden boxes piled up.
When Nvyan rushed to the warehouse, the nuns from the Sanqiantian Nu Department were quickly loading wooden boxes into the storage magic weapons.
Nüye stretched out her hand and opened a wooden box. Inside was a layer of oil paper. She unwrapped the oil paper and found quietly in the box a bamboo tube as thick as an arm, a foot long, and a lead wire on the bamboo tube.
She picked one up casually and weighed it in her hands.
She said to a nun next to her: "Auntie, the war in Longmen is urgent. These 120,000 boxes of black fire bombs and black rocket launchers must be delivered to Longmen before dusk today."