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As Ning Yuan's order was passed to Changgang Town, the Shenying Army and the logistics department in Changgang Town immediately took emergency action.

People tried their best to fill each carriage with food and cold-warming supplies, and the supplies on each carriage were stacked like a hill.

If it weren't for the limited load capacity of the packhorse, we might have seen the miracle that only happened in Brother Asan here in Changgang Town.

In addition to the packhorses and vehicles of the logistics and transportation department, many centaur civilians who were recruited also became the main force in rescuing supplies.

In order to transport more food, the centaur civilians basically carried three or four times the usual amount of things on their backs. They staggered eastward on foot, unable to run at all.

Because Ning Yuan has ordered that all grain and grass supplies that cannot be taken away must be destroyed.

So in order to avoid waste, the Baikal seals near Changgang Town ushered in their most abundant feast this winter.

As long as the Baikal seals like to eat, as long as it is available in the Changgang Town camp, the officials of the Condor Empire who are responsible for managing supplies will directly supply it to the Baikal seals who stay here to rest.

After tens of thousands of Baikal seals had a feast, there was a small baggage on their backs.

The baggage contains the fresh and frozen fish they rely on for a living here.

Now everyone is trying their best to save food and supplies for the army, and they can only save their own food by themselves.

Looking at the groups of Baikal seals carrying their burdens and struggling to move eastward, and then looking at the mountains of various grain and grass supplies still piled up in Changgang Town, many of the logistics of the Condor Empire are still left in Changgang Town. The staff couldn't help but sigh.

Although they were reluctant to burn this batch of food and supplies that they had finally delivered, but the military orders were like mountains, and Ning Yuan's orders were more important than anything else, they had no choice.

"Two hours have expired. Except for the remaining troops, everyone will evacuate Changgang Town immediately."

Soon, the two hours were up. No matter how reluctant the logistics personnel were, the soldiers of the Condor Army who were responsible for setting the fire faithfully carried out the orders given by Ning Yuan. While driving people away, they began to transport the people away. Sprinkle kerosene on the food and grass supplies.

When all the combustibles in Changgang Town were sprinkled with kerosene, the soldiers of the Condor Army who stayed behind began to light piles of bonfires in the town. The bonfires extended from the west to the east of Changgang Town. .

After making all the preparations, the soldiers held arrows dipped in kerosene and came to the bonfire in the west of Changgang Town, where they waited for further orders.

About ten minutes later, a large black shadow suddenly appeared on the west side of Changgang Town, and Li Yufeng's army arrived.

"Start the fire."

Although the officer in charge of the Shenying Army who stayed behind did not want to set the entire Changgang Town on fire with his own hands, he still issued this somewhat cruel order with the appearance of Li Yufeng's army.

After hearing the order from the superior officer to light the fire, the soldiers in the formation immediately ignited the arrows on the bonfire, and then shot the flames towards the places that had already been marked.

As the soldiers responsible for setting the fire fired rockets from west to east, the entire town of Changgang soon began to burn.

At this time, Li Yufeng's army was less than two kilometers away from Changgang Town. When Li Yufeng saw the sudden burst of fire ahead, he immediately ordered the army to stop.

Looking through the telescope at the increasingly fierce fire in Changgang Town, Li Yufeng couldn't help but begin to admire Ning Yuan's ruthlessness.

For a small town to be able to ignite such a fire, there is no need to think that there must be a huge amount of food and supplies stored in it.

Ning Yuan could actually let people burn the town and supplies together without blinking an eye. How cruel was his attitude!

After all, everyone knows that the Condor Empire has just encountered a food shortage, and they have not yet fully recovered.

Every batch of grain and grass supplies is very important to them.

However, even so, Ning Yuan would rather burn them all with a fire than send his centaur army to stop them. It seems that he is becoming more and more difficult to deal with.

"Commander, it's impossible for Ning Yuan to really burn all the grain and grass supplies stored in Changgang Town. He must have sent people to move a lot out before we came over.

I just sent a team of cavalry to go around the sea of ​​fire to investigate the east side of Changgang Town, and found that there were heavy ruts on the east side.

Those rut marks are very fresh and very deep.

It seemed that not only had the enemy's transport convoy just left, but they were all seriously overloaded.

Commander, if we send the cavalry to pursue eastward now, I estimate that we will be able to catch up with the enemy's transport convoy very soon. "

A few minutes later, Li Kun came to Li Yufeng with the latest information.

In fact, Li Kun did not need to report, Li Yufeng could also guess this situation.

Because no matter how cruel Ning Yuan is, he will not really be willing to burn so much food and supplies.

He would definitely ask the logistics department to move as much of it as possible first, and then send people to guard the part that was too late to move.

If his army had not appeared here in Changgang Town, Ning Yuan would not have let people set fire to it.

Only when they appear here with their army, they will be forced to burn the remaining food and supplies together with Changgang Town.

Judging from Ningyuan's strategic layout, he will definitely not leave himself time to lead his army in pursuit, at least the infantry will definitely not be able to catch up.

If he wanted to lead his army to pursue the logistics convoys of the Condor Army that had evacuated Changgang Town, he would have to separate the infantry and cavalry.

Once the cavalry regiment loses the cover of the Mo Dao Army and the God's Arm Army and allows them to face the centaur troops who come and go without a trace alone, they will eventually be walked to death by those centaur warriors.

There is no way, those centaur warriors are born with four legs, and their racial talents naturally suppress all cavalry on the ground. It is too difficult for other cavalry to defeat them in the wilderness.

Although Li Yufeng had full confidence in the Xuanjia cavalry and the Jingsai Army under his command, if the opponent was a centaur army, then he would have no confidence at all.

If the cavalry regiment is sent to pursue eastward, then when the cavalry regiment is finished, they should also be able to catch up with the logistics convoy that evacuated from Changgang Town, and then destroy some of the vehicles.

But correspondingly, they should not be able to come back, because the centaur troops who have been following them cannot miss this rare opportunity.

Once the cavalry regiment is destroyed, the remaining infantry regiment will also be destroyed. Without any logistical supplies, it is estimated that the soldiers of the two infantry regiments will find it difficult to survive this cold winter night.

If the cavalry regiment is not sent to actively pursue, but the army continues to turn around and head elsewhere, then with Ning Yuan's character, he should continue to order people to set fire to the villages and towns wherever they go. After all, Changgang Town has been set on fire, and it is no different from other places. That's one or two places.

In this way, not only could they force Ningyuan to take the initiative to ignite more villages and towns, but at night, they could also spend this cold winter night safely by slaughtering war horses.

One war horse was enough to feed fifty people for a day.

Now he still has more than 60,000 war horses, which is enough to feed the 200,000 people under his command for half a month.

If they could find enough firewood and other combustible materials for heating, they could last at least fifteen days.

Although the hope of their army escaping was already very slim, fifteen days was enough time for a lot of changes to occur. He wanted to see if Ningyuan could really tolerate them wandering around on the plains of eastern Henan for fifteen days.

After making the decision, Li Yufeng immediately ordered: "Send my military order and the army will immediately turn around to the northeast. Let's go to Shangtun Township."

Following Li Yufeng's order, more than 200,000 troops immediately headed towards Shangtun Township.

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After learning about the latest movements of Li Yufeng's army, Ning Yuan immediately ordered the Shenying Army near Shangtun Township to carry out a strategic transfer. He still took away what he could, and burned everything he couldn't take away.

When the vanguard of Li Yufeng's army arrived in Shangtun Township, many villages here had been reduced to a sea of ​​flames.

Since the Condor Army does not store much strategic materials here, the fire here is not very big. Basically, some houses are set alight and burning.

After arriving in Shangtun Township, Li Yufeng immediately sent people to start fighting the fire.

There is strength in numbers, and after countless soldiers kept throwing ice and snow at the burning house, the originally small flames were quickly extinguished.

After the fire in the entire Shangtun Township was extinguished, Li Yufeng immediately ordered the soldiers to collect various burning objects.

Although Ning Yuan did a great job, since the fire was put out quickly, Li Yufeng still collected a lot of incompletely burned wood, beams, etc. from the fire places.

Seeing that the sky was getting dark, Li Yufeng didn't want to bother anymore. After arranging the peripheral defense work, he immediately had people start slaughtering the horses and preparing dinner for the army.

Although the cavalrymen of the two cavalry regiments were very reluctant to give up when they heard that the horses they had been with day and night were to be slaughtered, they understood that their side had no way out and could only do this now.

So after saying their final farewells to the war horses that had accompanied them for many years, they all evaded the mission and handed over this task to the soldiers of Modao Army.

As the shimmering Mo Dao kept swinging down, the entire Shangtun Township suddenly flowed into rivers of blood, and the sad roar of the war horses lasted forever.

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"What? Li Yufeng slaughtered all the horses?"

Ning Yuan, who returned to the camp, was stunned by the unexpected news.

Originally he thought he was sure of victory. After losing their logistical supplies, not many of Li Yufeng's more than 200,000 troops would be able to survive until dawn tomorrow.

So he returned directly to the camp to deal with the affairs of the tauren heavy infantry regiment.

However, he never expected that Li Yufeng would be more cruel than him and directly slaughtered all the horses.

If he remembered correctly, there were 60,000 to 70,000 war horses!

That many war horses were enough to feed Li Yufeng's 200,000 people for more than half a month.

And the most important thing is that the hot blood flowing out of the war horses when they are slaughtered can dispel the cold for the soldiers who are gradually losing their body temperature.

After drinking hot horse blood, they would eat some horse meat and drink some broth at night, and then the soldiers would huddle together and use dried horse hides to keep warm. Then they would definitely be able to live to see the sun the next day.

Shangtun Township is less than ten kilometers away from Suixian County.

Although Sui County has been directly frozen by the Shenying Army's ice ball bombing, if Li Yufeng led an army of 200,000 people there to break the ice, the solid ice in the county would not be able to withstand the disaster of 200,000 people!

If Li Yufeng is allowed to lead people to successfully break the ice, and then obtain the grain and grass supplies stored in Suixian County, plus the 670,000 to 70,000 war horses slaughtered by them, they will definitely be able to rely on Suixian County to persist for a long time.

According to Ningyuan's plan, the Northern Expeditionary Allied Forces on the plains of eastern Henan should be eliminated as soon as possible.

Because his entire strategic plan has been fully launched, battles in several other areas will begin soon, and it is impossible to hold back.

Therefore, he must not let Li Yufeng hold him back here in the East Henan Plain. He must deal with this difficult opponent of Li Yufeng as soon as possible.

Although Ningyuan's cold night offensive has basically failed, he is not without any gains, because in order to counter Ningyuan's cold night offensive, Li Yufeng has slaughtered all the horses in the army.

The main reason why the Xuanjia Cavalry and the Jingsai Army are so powerful is that, in addition to the elite soldiers themselves, the main reason why they are cavalry is that they are heavy cavalry who are good at charging into formations.

Once these two cavalrymen no longer have the horses they rely on to charge into battle, their strength will be greatly reduced.

For the heavy cavalry who dismounted and turned into infantry, their real strength may be far inferior to those of real heavy infantry. Therefore, if Li Yufeng wants to let those dismounted heavy cavalry replace the original role of Minotaur heavy infantry, then he It's a little too naive.

And after losing all their horses, Li Yufeng's army also completely lost its mobility and turned into a pure infantry army.

In the past, Ning Yuan had to be wary of the sudden charge of the black armored cavalry during battles, and did not dare to use many tactics.

Now, he no longer has any worries, because the black armor cavalry has completely disappeared for the time being.

It is much easier to deal with a pure infantry army than a mixed infantry and cavalry army.

Without the threat of the Black Armor Cavalry, Ning Yuan suddenly had more tactics available.

As Ning Yuan thought of a tactic that could make Li Yufeng cry without tears, a bright smile immediately appeared on his face.