NFBE Chapter 277 Night Attack, Demon God Arrives!
Chapter 277 Night Attack, Demon God Arrives!
Chapter 277 Night Attack, Demon God Arrives!
Lin Zheng, Qin and Tu hurriedly sent someone to send the interrogation results to Xiao Qi.
Then began to collect the captured warships, clean the battlefield, and send the prisoners of war to prisoner-of-war camps to let them dig canals with the previous prisoners of war.
Xiao Qi who received the battle report of Lin Zheng, Qin and Tu was very upset, not only because his judgment was wrong this time, the Byzantine Empire, which was close at hand, did not come, but the Holy Roman Empire, which was farther away, came to make trouble first .
Ordering the [-] Ever-Victorious Battalion in the north to be on alert, Xiao Qi went directly to the western camp and personally interrogated several living viscounts and barons of the Holy Roman Empire.
After detailed interrogation, Xiao Qi learned the reason why the Byzantine Empire was so close but slowed down.
It turned out that the kings of these two empires knew very well that it was impossible for them to coexist peacefully, and sooner or later there would be a battle of life and death.
When the two empires were accumulating strength and preparing for a life-and-death collision in the near future, the two empires acquired the place of Suez almost at the same time, and an oriental army suddenly appeared.
A bazaar for the trading of Eastern and Western goods was established here. According to the merchants who passed on the news, although the bazaar established by the Orientals brought countless gold and silver goods in and out every day, the defense was not strict.
The earth city that was temporarily built as a trading place is a good proof.
The businessmen told the rulers of the two countries that these Easterners seemed to have no understanding of the powerful fighting power of the two empires.
That earthen city was built very crudely, not even half as solid as the smallest stone castle of the two empires, it was just a shoddy one.
King Frederick I of the Holy Roman Empire, who got the news, immediately felt that this was a golden opportunity.
If you win this Tucheng Bazaar, which is getting more and more money every day, you can use the large amount of wealth you get to grow your empire's army faster.
But Frederick I was also a very cunning ruler. He knew the sphere of influence of the Byzantine Empire and was very close to the Tucheng Bazaar.
Moreover, the place in Suez is the closest to the nest of the Byzantine Empire on the northern side of the Mediterranean Sea.
Therefore, he ordered to quietly mobilize troops. The troops closer to the Byzantine Empire did not move. They only strengthened their vigilance in place and prepared to go to war with the Byzantine Empire.
The soldiers who came to attack this time were all mobilized by the Holy Roman Empire from places far away from the Byzantine Empire, because they were worried that the large-scale mobilization of soldiers on their side would be noticed by the Byzantine Empire.
Frederick I coerced several small countries near the Mediterranean Sea and sent troops to join their army for this sneak attack.
Who knew that he had calculated thousands of times, but he didn't calculate that these orientals were so powerful. Almost half of their troops were killed before the armies on both sides had a face-to-face fight.
When interrogating those noble officers of the Holy Roman Empire, Xiao Qi clearly saw fear in their eyes.
In fact, it is very simple to think about it. If they want to make a sneak attack, of course they choose to land at night.
They were suddenly blown up by artillery cast iron bombs they had never seen before, coupled with the shooting of those new rifles with a much longer range, it is no wonder that these guys who have been living in the world of cold weapons are not deceived.
What made Xiao Qi very vigilant was the prudence of this Frederick I. This guy actually made his own empire and those kingdoms and principalities bordering the Byzantine Empire stand still and prepare for war with Byzantium.
I would rather coerce other small countries to send troops here than to always guard against the Byzantine Empire.
It seems that in the history of the previous life, the Byzantine King Manuel I Comnenus finally suffered a big loss in the war with the Holy Roman Empire. He finally fell into despair and died in depression a few years later. It was indeed this Manuel. Erbi Frederick I is one move away from chess!
During the interrogation, Xiao Qi also got another news that Frederick I was still actively preparing for the follow-up army.
The purpose is that the troops who came to attack in advance can have timely reinforcements after they succeed, so that they can firmly control the land here.
Moreover, Frederick I's main target was the Byzantine Empire, as long as the Byzantine Empire's army really came here to attack them.
Then at the junction of the two empires, the troops of the Holy Roman Empire, which had long been prepared for war, would directly attack the Byzantine Empire and fully engage them!
Xiao Qi ignored the fact that the Holy Roman Empire had follow-up troops coming.
He now feels that the reason why the Byzantine Empire has not yet started to attack here is not because of cowardice or any conspiracy.
Xiao Qi knows the Byzantine Empire's past and present life very well. These guys were jokingly called in the previous life: Huskies among men!
It is definitely a stunned existence, and fear of hands and feet does not exist in their dictionary at all. In case of trouble, it is definitely the master who will talk with guns and knives. Unless you destroy him, he will scratch your arm The limb sockets will kill you too.
After thinking about it for 3 minutes, Xiao Qi figured it out, the Byzantine Empire was definitely holding back its big move.
It is very likely that they thought that the Holy Roman Empire would also come back, and they were mobilizing the power of the entire empire to prepare for a big game here.
Presumably, the people of the Byzantine Empire also felt that it was easy to deal with their own troops from the east. They planned to gather superior forces and not only occupy all the land on the Suez side.
There will also be a decisive battle with the army from the Holy Empire here, and the army of the Holy Empire will be wiped out together.
After thinking about this point, Xiao Qi immediately ordered Qin Tu to lead the [-] Changsheng Battalion troops in the west, and take half of the trebuchets and artillery to the north for defense.
Lin Zhengze took the remaining [-] troops and guarded the west side tightly, in case the second batch of the Holy Roman Empire's army came to attack.
At the same time, he also ordered the sailors of the Changsheng Battalion on the east sea to withdraw some of their manpower to familiarize themselves with the control of the hundreds of captured European warships.
After checking the ammunition supplied by him, Xiao Qi found that after such a long period of supply, and in order to quickly dig the canal before, people brought in a large amount of gunpowder continuously.
At this time, apart from the [-] soldiers in Changsheng Battalion who had been equipped with new firearms, after a battle, they had less than [-] rounds of ammunition per person.
Ammunition such as artillery, trebuchets, and muskets are enough to support the consumption of the Changsheng Battalion for several battles.
So Xiao Qi changed his previous strategy of only defending. He decided to follow the route of the Byzantine army to attack here immediately after repelling the invasion of the Byzantine Empire.
For this reason, Xiao Qi once again issued a military order, ordering the [-] Changsheng Battalion soldiers who were equipped with new-style guns to save ammunition and only be responsible for accurate shooting.
He also sent an order to Long Yongsheng of the Navy to bring as much new ammunition, cast iron bombs and artillery supplies as possible for future supplies, and the food can be replenished later.
After this series of commands are issued.
Xiao Qi ordered people to carefully repair all the four-wheeled carriages that had been transported here. He wanted to use these four-wheeled carriages to transport supplies and fight all the way to the old nest of the Byzantine Empire.
Sure enough, only three days later, a scout from the Changsheng Battalion came back and reported that a large group of Byzantine troops had been discovered three hundred miles to the north and were heading here.
According to the captured Byzantine scouts, this is the vanguard of the Byzantine Empire, with more than 5 people, of which 4 are cavalry and more than [-] infantry.
There are [-] Byzantine troops behind, and [-] Byzantine men who are recruited to transport supplies.
Xiao Qi knew that the [-] people transporting supplies were said to be ordinary people, but they were actually the Byzantine reserve army. There were not many people from various European countries during this period.
And the empire's finances are not rich, and it is simply impossible to support the expenditure of a large-scale army, and most of the army cannot be fully staffed.
We had to gather the young and strong to form the main force, and the older ones were made into civilian workers such as logistics supplies.
In this way, if the battle on the front line goes well, these people who deliver the supplies are the real civilians. They only need to give them food, and give them some money.
If the main force is defeated, these civilians will turn into real soldiers.
Of course, in this case, the empire would not be able to save money. From this moment on, these civilian husbands became real soldiers, and all treatment would be the same as that of soldiers.
Although Byzantium came this time together with the reserve army, a total of 25 people, Xiao Qi still didn't take them seriously.
He ordered the scouts of the Ever Victorious Battalion to do everything possible to find out where the supply lines of these Byzantine troops were.
After all, he planned to fight all the way. Although it was not difficult for the current victorious battalion to support the war with war, he still had to guard against the defeated Byzantine troops who burned or poisoned the food before escaping.
For this reason, find out the supply route of the Byzantine army in advance, and snatch all their food and grass supplies, so as to clear away your worries for the next step to fight all the way to the Byzantine Empire's lair.
Just when the vanguard of the Byzantine Empire arrived less than a hundred miles away from the defensive position of the Changsheng Battalion, and began to set up camp to take a rest and then go to war.
Xiao Qi also received a scout report from the Changsheng Battalion. The information was very strange. Not far behind the [-] Byzantine Empire vanguard troops were their large quantities of food and supplies.
It is strange because this supply team is heavily guarded and has a large number of troops, which is not at all like a supply army that escorts food and grass.
Then another detective report came, this time from the Changsheng Battalion scouts who went deep behind enemy lines to inspect the food and fodder supplies of the 10-man army.
This report is very similar to the previous one. It is said that these teams transporting supplies and food are very strange.
Moreover, the security was so strict that the Changsheng Battalion lost more than a dozen scouts because of this.
Because these scouts needed to search for information quietly, they only brought sabers, and they didn't bring any spears that would affect their close inspection.
Just to prevent detection, each man brought two cast-iron bombs for use in a breakout.
Even so, after these dozen Changsheng Battalion scouts were discovered, they were pursued by a large number of elite Byzantine soldiers. After each person's two cast-iron bombs were used up, they were still surrounded and all died in battle.
Xiao Qi was immediately confused after hearing the news. Is this Byzantine army so powerful?
Everyone is brave enough to die?
Since they were selected into the scout camp, these dozen scouts from the ever-victorious battalion are definitely top-notch soldiers who are worth ten. Those Byzantine soldiers actually wanted to capture these dozen people regardless of the death or injury of 200 people?
Suddenly Xiao Qi suddenly realized.
I once read an article introducing the Byzantine Empire in my previous life, but I didn't pay attention to it at the beginning, so I didn't think about it for a while.
The introduction described that the Byzantine Empire has always been short of soldiers. In order to make up for this shortcoming, the kings of the Byzantine Empire like to recruit mercenaries!
And the reason why these mercenaries are willing to die for the Byzantine Empire is because of the face of money. More importantly, these mercenaries basically require that they must get the bounty before the war.
This is not difficult to explain why those supplies of food and grass are strictly guarded, and they are desperately chasing and killing the scouts of the Changsheng Battalion who spied on their supplies.
They felt that all those who spied on their supplies were people who wanted to snatch their bounties, so they desperately wanted to kill those who spied on their supplies.
It must be like this, there will be no second possibility!
After trying to figure out what was going on, Xiao Qi immediately ordered that fifty thousand cavalry be assembled immediately.
He wanted to take advantage of the night to lead the [-] cavalry to defeat the [-] Byzantine army in the distance and grab those supplies.
At the same time, Qin Tu was ordered to lead the [-] infantry here to raid the [-] Byzantine Empire's vanguard at night, making sure to defeat them as soon as possible and grab all the supplies.
After solving the [-] vanguard troops, [-] soldiers were left to clean the battlefield and take care of the luggage, and the remaining [-] Changsheng Battalion soldiers immediately rushed to the back to meet their [-] cavalry.
Xiao Qi also specially ordered that all the soldiers of the Changsheng Battalion must leave a part of the soldiers to carefully clean the battlefield after the battle.
In short, the tradition of touching corpses in Changsheng camp cannot be discarded. No matter whether they are alive or dead, they must be searched thoroughly for me!
After a hearty dinner, Xiao Qi led [-] cavalry troops, led by scouts, quietly bypassing the Byzantine vanguard and heading toward the [-]-strong army dozens of miles away.
Qin Tu also quietly gathered the [-] troops here, and quietly approached the [-] Byzantine Empire vanguard.
Because Qin Tu and the others had to carry heavy artillery and trebuchets to surround the 5 people, not only were they moving slowly, but also making noise was inevitable.
In order to delay the time of being discovered, Qin Tu sent out all the scouts of the Changsheng Battalion, in order to kill all the bright and dark sentinels sent by the Byzantines.
It has to be said that these mercenaries were not given for nothing. Qin Tu and the others were discovered by Byzantine secret sentries just as they were a few hundred meters away from the Byzantine vanguard.
As the secret whistle screamed 'enemy attack', seeing Qin Tu who had no chance to sneak attack, he directly ordered a strong attack!
Not long after Qin Tu's attack started, Xiao Qi brought fifty thousand cavalry to the place tens of miles away, where the one hundred thousand Byzantine army had just set up camp and had dinner.
This night became the first time the demon god came to the west, and it was destined to be a night that would make westerners tremble when they mentioned the eastern demon god!
(End of this chapter)