Realm of Power

The sound of night rain falling on the roof of the tent went straight into the tent, which made the fat man feel a little more annoyed. He leaned on a camp bed, took off his boots, and looked at the statistical report that had just been sent. Rui Tangtingna invited herself to go to heaven. Lang Mansion was recovering from his injuries, which was equivalent to completely handing over the command of the East Court Department. It seemed that his words had an effect. He gave up his unrealistic ambitions and honestly collected himself and became the princess of the empire.

But the troops in the East Courtyard were really miserable this time. More than 28,000 people were killed in the battle. The wounded were removed and sent to Tianlang Mansion for recuperation. The remaining troops were not even 15,000 people. It was really true. It's really broken. The cavalry of the East and West Courts were originally the main force of the empire's war on the grassland. But now that the war has not even started, the empire has already lost a powerful arm.

In terms of the situation, due to the defeat of this battle, the empire's war situation suddenly changed from active to passive. Not only the previous advantages were wiped out, but also the attitude of the right minister of Dongting who had a secret agreement with the empire. :. I'm afraid there will be some fluctuations. The Right Prime Minister was originally playing two sides. On the one hand, he used the East Court to contain the Empire, and on the other hand, he used the Empire to frighten the East Court.

The game is to fish in troubled waters between the two forces and get cheap benefits.

If the empire's deterrent power is no longer there, the right prime minister will not be so easy to talk to. The right prime minister did not come with a bunch of old and weak women and children, but with one of the Eighth Army of Dongting with a strength of 60,000. According to the intelligence, this is the bodyguard regiment that guards the royal court all year round. In terms of combat strength, it is enough to rank among the top three in the Dongting Army, and even in On top of the Lei Army that severely damaged the Dongting Army, after the death of King Dongting, the three princes hurriedly sent their troops south. This guard army that stayed behind in the royal court gradually became the Rightist faction under the various means of the Right Prime Minister. The military power, and this time, under the banner of stabilizing the west, came all the way from Baihe where the royal court is located, and settled in five hundred Lyonnatso,

For more than ten days, there was no intention of sending anyone to contact us. It was obvious that he wanted to wait and see, but the right prime minister's vacillation made the situation a little uncontrollable. Is it a fight? Or not? Fatty really wanted to send someone to contact him. However, since the Lei army withdrew into Onnatso, the entrance road has been tightly blocked. In order to avoid exposing the existence of the secret agreement, Fatty could only hold back this idea for the time being. He believed in the internal contradictions in Dongting. I will let the right minister make the decision. Cooperation with the empire is the only way out.

"Your Majesty, Lord Murphy O'Brien asks to see you!" the guard's voice sounded outside the tent.

"Invite him to come in!" The fat man put down the report in his hand, rubbed his swollen temples, raised his head and saw Murphy O'Brien opening the curtain of the tent and walking in eagerly, with rain still on his body.

"What's wrong?" The fat man was a little curious. Murphy O'Brien was a pure Gallic soldier, and he always walked and did things with a strong military atmosphere. But today, he actually saw a trace of panic in Murphy O'Brien

"The spies I sent to sneak into Onnatso have just returned bad news. Although it has not been completely confirmed, I think it is better to report it to His Majesty immediately!" Murphy O'Brien hesitated for a moment. , took out a piece of cloth from his arms, it was crumpled, and there were residues of mud on it. It looked really urgent, so much so that Murphy O'Brien ran over as soon as he got it.

"Huh? What's the news?'

The fat man looked at Murphy O'Brien's nervous face and stretched out his hand to take the cloth. It felt like there might really be some trouble. Murphy O'Brien was a famous brave general in Gaul. He was not a person who would lose his bearings at the slightest thing. He glanced over. The fat man's calm expression also changed. He clenched the hand holding the cloth, took a deep breath and asked, "Can this news be confirmed?" It should be possible, but it will take some time, and what I'm worried about is It's this, I'm afraid..." Murphy O'Brien said with a hesitant look on his face. "You think if the situation is true. So the enemy will choose to attack early? "The fat man stood up with a solemn expression, holding the vital piece of cloth tightly in his hand, and walked back and forth a few steps. The news came so suddenly, even the fat man was a little confused. The people on the grassland were gathering and dispersing, and the troops were gathering. If you can fight, you can't chase them if they are scattered, so the reality and reality are very different. One thing that is difficult to figure out is that fortunately Murphy O'Brien has been managing the Tianlang Mansion for more than half a year and has gathered many grassland people who originally belonged to the East Courtyard. With his kindness and power, he can be regarded as gaining the allegiance of some tribes, so Being able to send people to sneak into the Onnatso area to detect intelligence,

The population flow on the grassland is very large, and the herdsmen are grazing one after another. Fortunately, it is the transition season between winter and spring, and the tribes that gathered for the winter have not dispersed yet, so the people who sneaked in got this information, otherwise I really don’t know how I died.

I have to admit that the news sent back this time was a bit shocking, and it made Fatty feel troubled. After the Lei army withdrew into Angnacuo, it received a lot of reinforcements, and its strength was restored to 70%. Secondly, mainly because it was in Angnatso. The record of severely damaging the emperor's army in the border area of ​​Nacuo somehow touched the strongest prince in the East Courtyard. He probably thought that Lei Jun had given the second prince a face, and his reputation increased greatly. He tried his best to overwhelm his younger brother, so this time Dongting originally only sent reinforcements from the Right Chancellor's Baihe Army, but suddenly it became a situation where in addition to the Baihe Army, the eldest prince's 70,000 Wolf Rui troops were sent. The cavalry also came to Onnacuo. It seemed that they were preparing to capture the emperor's army again, or simply take back the land they lost last winter and push the front line back to the Tianlang Mansion.

In other words, in the 500-lyon Nacuo swamp that looked blurry in the dark night ahead, the Dongting people had not the expected 100,000 troops, but a huge cavalry group close to 200,000. Recruiting the gathered tribal forces, genius knows the best What will it be in the end? The fangs in the enemy's huge mouth are clearly visible, and here, the empire's army of more than 100,000 is still wandering hundreds of miles from the Yue Valley to the Onnatso Swamp. Under such circumstances, The main cavalry group of 200,000 people spread out and swarmed in In the wilderness, Murphy O'Brien no longer dares to imagine what it is like. The collapse is still good. I am afraid that the empire's controlled area will be hit to the long wall in one go. It takes two years of hard work and a hundred thousand troops. The brutal fighting was all in vain. "Your Majesty, the strength of the enemy and our troops There is a huge disparity. Before the enemy has figured out the details of our army, we should evacuate from the Onnatso area first! "Murphy O'Brien doesn't know this, and he is really anxious. The troops in Dongting are too huge, and the target is obviously Wanting to take back the land that the empire took last winter. That was all the hard work of Murphy O'Brien. An area of ​​hundreds of miles could be thrown away, but what would happen if it was not thrown away? Here is endless wilderness. Without any fortress passes, what could the empire do to stop this 200,000 cavalry group? If His Majesty Falcon insists on not retreating, once the other side figures out the situation, he will be trapped and killed by the army.

"There is no need to rush to evacuate. Just order the army scouts to move out fifty miles away. The whole army is in a state of combat readiness. If the situation goes wrong, we will leave immediately!" The fat man waved his hand. Fortunately, this time he brought cavalry troops. Murphy Orb's cavalry, plus the remaining troops of Dongting, total more than 30,000 people, enough to deal with various situations.

Seeing that Murphy O'Brien still wanted to say something, the fat man waved his hand and said in a solemn voice, "The other party's intention. It should be that they want to lead our army into the Onnatso Swamp and annihilate it because we don't know. If our army evacuates in a hurry , is tantamount to telling the enemy that our army has learned about the enemy's secret increase in troops. When the time comes, the enemy will definitely launch an all-out attack on us. We are chasing them, but the Dongting Army and I have no big problem. Most of your Murphy Army are heavily armored. How far can you escape when faced with the fast prairie light cavalry? On the contrary, we pretend not to know what we are doing. The posture of pressing forward at any time is actually secretly replacing the heavy armor, and the opponent will stupidly open his pockets and wait for us to get in! "

"Yes. This subordinate knows what to do!"

Murphy O'Brien showed a look of surprise. This place is hundreds of miles away from Tianlang Mansion, which can block a large cavalry group. The emperor's guards cavalry and prairie cavalry are both very mobile cavalry. If you want to evacuate, just retreat. However, among the more than 10,000 Murphy cavalry, there are still 8,000 heavy armors, and the heavy armors cannot be discarded. Escape all the way. Those heavy cavalry armors were all piled up with money. They were most of my property. Without the Murphy Dragon Armor, what else would they call the Murphy Dragon Armor Cavalry? This cavalry would be considered useless.

"Go and make arrangements. Even if it's a lie, it won't last long. We don't have much time!" The fat man patted Murphy O'Brien on the shoulder.

"Yes", Murphy O'Brien turned around and left.

The fat man put his hands behind his back and carefully examined the topographical map of Onnacuo for a long time. It was given by Yelu Qiyeguang that day in order to strengthen his persuasion. From the map, Onnaco Swamp is indeed the western gateway to Dongting Grassland, connecting The important area of ​​the east-west corridor, the entire There are no mountains in this swamp, only two Y-shaped interlaced and converging rivers cross it, forming the main water source of the swamp area. In other words, it can basically be said that during this season, all the tribes and armies in the Onnacuo area should be here. two rivers area,

"Three days, if there is no news after three days, then we have to really evacuate!" The fat man rubbed his frozen hands. At this time, the heavy rain stopped outside the tent, the temperature rose a little, and the tent was full of unpleasant smells. The moisture and the flickering light in the brazier magnified the shadow he cast on the tent several times, becoming as thick as a mountain.

The turn of events came the next morning when Murphy O'Brien found the fat man with an arrow that was obviously a prairie man's. The top of the arrow cluster was tightly tied with a thin rope to a foot tube.

"Your Majesty, the soldiers on night patrol discovered this last night!"

"Put it there!" The fat man nodded, stopped writing, raised his head and asked, "How is the situation?"

Murphy O'Brien looked like he was in battle. The cape behind him and the armor on his body were all stained with mud. It seemed that he had replaced all the heavy armor of the heavy armored cavalry with light armor as ordered. He smiled proudly and said, "Already replaced." Finished dressing up, wearing Dongting Army armor, Dongting Although the Ting camp was damaged, the loss of heavy equipment such as ordnance and armor was not great. There are still light armor equipment for thousands of people. As long as there is no heavy armor to drag down, no matter how many cavalry are chasing after me, I am confident that I can attack the opponent. Escape calmly before coming up.”

"That's good!" The fat man picked up the arrow cluster, looked at it carefully, took off the wooden tube at the top of the arrow, gently twisted it open with his fingers, and poured out a leather roll from the inside. He opened it and saw that it was a map

"This is this?" Murphy O'Brien was stunned for a moment. It was a bit weird to send a map in the middle of the night, "It's Ona's wrong map!" "The fat man blinked his eyes, smiled slightly, pressed the leather roll with a heavy object, and roughly figured out what the other party wanted to do. He took out the map given by Yelu Qiyueguang and opened it to compare. Sure enough, it was exactly the same. The only thing The difference is that on the map sent, there are a few more markers in some locations.

The wolf head should be the Wolf Rui Army, the lightning should be the Lei Army, and the river should be the Baihe Army. The arrangement of Dongting's military forces in the Onnacuo area is clear at a glance. It is really a Z-shaped pocket. No wonder the right prime minister of Dongting has no news. None! It turns out that I have been caught in the middle. It seems that there are smart people in Dongting."

The fat man took a look, his eyes flashed towards the sky outside the tent, and murmured to himself, because he knew the existence of the secret agreement, so his thoughts were different from Murphy O'Brien. The coming of Baihe's pro-army, the right prime minister, may not be mainly aimed at the emperor, but rather It is more likely that it is aimed at the Right Prime Minister's faction. With Lei Jun in front and Lang Rui's army behind, the Right Prime Minister's Baihe pro-army cannot play tricks even if they want to. On the contrary, as long as there are signs of evil, they will Being brutally strangled by the two armies, the Right Prime Minister's embarrassment at this moment was probably as indistinguishable as being roasted on a fire. Don't say goodbye. You should be a little more anxious than yourself. It seems that the internal struggle in the East Courtyard has reached the point where there is no need to delay. Even if the Right Prime Minister wants to leave it alone, it has reached the point where he is unable to withdraw. "Right Prime Minister?" Murphy O'Brien was confused. This map was sent strangely, and His Majesty had it in his hands. It's even more strange that there is an identical map. If these two pictures are connected with the marks on the map, Murphy O'Brien suddenly felt sweat beads on his forehead and the corners of his eyebrows were twitching. No way, right? , Impossible, could it be that...this arrow was shot by someone sent by the Right Prime Minister of Dongting? If this is the case, then this battle is not completely without improvement. Out of the 200,000 Dongting Army, the Right Prime Minister's Army accounts for 60,000. If this force really has some collusion with His Majesty, not to mention leaking information, it is at the critical moment The role it plays is enough to reverse the entire situation. This battle can be fought! (To be continued.)