Chapter 113 Start
That night, Bai Zhou and the generals of the Western Qin Dynasty were discussing all aspects of this battle against Burgundy.
"Okay, there should be no problem. Then, if you don't have a task in the first stage, you should go to rest first, and if you have a task, you should bear it." Bai Zhou clapped his hands and said to the others.
Although the results obtained in the sand table were not satisfactory in the end, in the early stages of the confrontation between the two armies, Xi Qin was still confident that it could narrow the gap between the two sides.
But no matter what, this is a frustrating result. Because when a person finds that he cannot get the result he wants, the usual way is to give up and continue working hard. But doing this is equivalent to completely letting go of hope.
In the Battle of Guandu, no one thought that the final winner would be Cao Cao (except Guo Jia, Xun Yu and others), even Cao Cao himself did not expect it. But in the end, this war that was related to the position of the king in the northern part of Zhongtu was completely changed with the intervention of a small person, Xu You. If Cao Cao could not hold on any longer at that time, then it goes without saying that the history of Zhongtu would turn to another major road at this point.
The plan depends on others, and the success depends on heaven. Although the final result of the deduction of the sand table of the Western Qin side is the defeat or even the retreat of the coalition forces, after all, the opponent's troops are twice that of our own. If we do not insist on fighting now, then hope will be cut off at this point.
So, although Bai Zhou looked relaxed and his tone was relaxed now, only he himself knew what was actually.
"Young Master, I think this matter is inappropriate." The lieutenant rubbed his red eyes and said, "We discussed it with them just yesterday, but today we have to go around them directly. This is unreasonable."
"Little Wei Zi," the only ones among the generals of the Western Qin Dynasty who are qualified to call this is Wei Fu, Mengshan and the other two. Wei Fu is serious and certainly would not call his son like this. That is, Mengshan, who is disrespectful, would do this: "You are stupid enough to study and study, and don't look at what nonsense they said all afternoon yesterday. If they discuss one, two, three, and four, the Burgundians will probably have even beaten Bern."
Wei Fu squinted his eyes, glared at Mengshan, and said, "Although I agree to do this, we do need to inform them in advance on the allies, otherwise our coalition would be useless."
After all, if the troops of the three-party coalition really no longer unified the steps and began to fight their own, the final result would inevitably be to be defeated by the Burgundians.
"Leave this to me, you don't have to worry about it." Bai Zhou looked at the other people's disbelief and added: "Don't worry, I'm sure I'm sure to convince them."
In fact, it is no wonder that Wei Fu and others don’t believe it, because they have seen yesterday’s scenes. Although everyone is still relatively gentle in terms of overall situation, at least they do not speak ill of each other, they each stubbornly stick to their own positions.
In this case, it was difficult for the people of Xiqin to imagine how Bai Zhou would use to convince Wolfgang, Frank and Fein. However, as the young master said, they didn't have to worry about this.
Three days later, there was a Burgundian army in the mountains of Belfort, which was very small, with only fifty or sixty men. Taking advantage of the night, he avoided the suspicion arranged by the Western Qin army and fled out, and informed the detailed news of Belfort's fall to Duke John, who was not too far away from here.
Originally, John thought that there was no Burgundy army in the entire Belfort area, but he did not expect that Claude could hold on to this point. In the heart of John, Claude was a talent, a loyal and useful talent. Although he suffered several losses in front of Western Qin this time, he thought that even he seemed to have been put on by the Duke of Switzerland, so he did not hold Claude accountable.
Furthermore, it is difficult to find a general in a thousand troops. Duke John also understood that there was no undefeated general in this world. Therefore, John ordered five thousand cavalry - which were all the Duke's cavalry. Although the terrain of Burgundy was quite conducive to raising horses, war horses were expensive after all, and Burgundy's economic strength was also a lot of loss with the years of war. In addition to the private armed forces of small and medium-sized nobles, these five thousand cavalry were the most expensive property of the Grand Duke - rushing to Belfort first, waiting for an opportunity to rescue or respond to Claude and the other Burgundian soldiers who were still holding on. If things are difficult, at least these cavalry must do is to restrain some of the Western Qin soldiers and relieve the pressure on Claude.
What Duke John didn't know was that on that day, the day when this small force fled from Belfort, almost all the Burgundian troops that did not carry enough food chose to surrender "decently", and a few troops chose to break through. However, except for the fewest ones, the soldiers almost all floated after being hungry for such a long time. After encountering the Western Qin army, they almost did not resist and chose to surrender.
As for this lucky unit, it was actually the Western Qin people who found that their opponents were so weak that they could not even make a symbolic attack and breakout. They saw that the defense line of the Western Qin troops - even if this line was deliberately made by the Western Qin soldiers - directly chose to surrender. Therefore, the Western Qin army could only choose not to appear helplessly. Although doing this seemed to be very obvious, but now that things have come to this point, this "only seedling" cannot be strangled.
However, there were still one or two Burgundy troops who chose to continue to stick to the mountain, including Claude and his personal guards. This did not mean that they carried more food than other troops, but like Claude, the leader was more cruel than others: Claude asked ordinary soldiers to break through the dead, because he was the highest commander and had personal guards, so ordinary soldiers could only rush out and eat meat and died one after another.
The saved food, these foods that are blood-stirring, support Claude to continue to defend here in material terms. At the same time, the Western Qin side never took the initiative to attack was the main condition for them to still be able to fight the Burgundian military flag.
In fact, Claude originally planned to hold on for two or three days and then surrender decently, but the result was that the Western Qin people did not take the initiative to attack, which made Claude notice a hint of conspiracy. Although even if Western Qin had conspiracy, he could not care about it now, Claude was a guy who loved to be conspired after all. Now that he had noticed this situation, he had never "rushed into" the prisoner-of-war camp and waited for redemption honestly. What's more, if he could notice what conspiracy was, then
It was passed to Duke John, which was a great achievement, enough to offset this failure. Therefore, he fully utilized his "intelligence" and tried to keep him at the mountain peak for a few more days. For this reason, his troops, which originally had hundreds of people, now only more than a hundred people, and even a few arrows were used by him to hunt. He calculated accurately that if Xi Qin wanted to keep them, it would be impossible for him to take the initiative to attack, or in other words, Claude had already thought about it. If Xi Qin took the initiative to attack, he would surrender quickly.
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Chapter completed!