Chapter 1242, Winter Song (31)
As Ning Yuan's order was passed to Changgang Town, the Condor Army and the logistics department located in Changgang Town immediately took emergency action.
People filled every carriage with food and cold protection materials as much as possible, and the materials on each carriage were stacked like a hill.
If it weren't for the limited load capacity of the pack horse, there might have been a miracle that would only happen in Changgang Town.
In addition to pack horses and vehicles from the logistics and transportation department, many centaur civilians who were recruited have also become the main force in rescue supplies.
In order to transport more food, the centaur civilians basically carried three or four times the usual things on their backs. They staggered eastward and couldn't run at all.
Because Ning Yuan had ordered that all the food and supplies that could not be taken away must be destroyed.
So in order to avoid waste, Baikal seals located near Changgang Town welcomed their most abundant feast in this winter.
As long as Baikal seals like to eat and as long as they are found in the camp in Changgang Town, the officials of the Condor Empire who are responsible for managing the supplies will directly open the quantity to Baikal seals who are staying here to rest.
After tens of thousands of Baikal seals had a full meal, there was a small bag on their backs.
The bag contains the fresh frozen fish they rely on for their living here.
Now everyone is trying their best to rescue the food and supplies that supply the army, and they can only rely on themselves to rescue their own food.
Looking at the groups of Baikal seals carrying bags and struggling to move towards the eastward cicada, and then looking at the various food and supplies that were still piled up in Changgang Town, many of the logistics personnel of the Condor Empire who were still in Changgang Town couldn't help but sigh.
Although they were reluctant to burn the batch of food and supplies they had finally transported here, the military orders were as high as a mountain, and Ning Yuan's orders were greater than anything else, and they had no choice.
"Two hours have passed, except for the remaining troops, all others will immediately evacuate from Changgang Town."
Soon, two hours came. The soldiers of the Condor Heroes who were responsible for setting fires, regardless of how reluctant the logistics personnel were, faithfully implemented the order issued by Ning Yuan, driving people to the food and supplies that had not been transported away.
When all the combustible materials in Changgang Town were sprinkled with tinder oil, the soldiers of the left-behind Condor Army began to ignite piles of bonfires in the town, and the bonfires continued from the west to the east to the west of Changgang Town.
After all the preparations were made, the soldiers came to the bonfire at the westernmost bonfire of Changgang Town, waiting for further orders.
About ten minutes later, a large black shadow suddenly appeared to the west of Changgang Town, and Li Yufeng's army arrived.
“Start the ignition.”
Although the officer in charge of the left-behind Condor Army did not want to ignite the entire Changgang Town with his own hands, with the emergence of Li Yufeng's army, he still issued this somewhat cruel order.
After hearing the superior officer's order to ignite, the soldiers in the formation immediately ignited the arrows on the bonfire and then shot the flames at places that had been marked.
As the soldiers in charge of setting fires fired rockets from west to east, the entire Changgang Town soon began to burn.
At this time, Li Yufeng's army was only less than two kilometers away from Changgang Town. When Li Yufeng saw the sudden blazing fire in front of him, he immediately ordered the army to stop.
Through the telescope, looking at the increasingly prosperous fire in Changgang Town, Li Yufeng couldn't help but admire Ning Yuan's ruthlessness.
If a town can ignite such a big fire, there is no need to think that it must be a large amount of food and supplies stored there.
Ning Yuan was able to burn the town and supplies without even blinking. How cruel is his experience!
After all, as long as everyone knows, the Condor Hero Empire has just encountered a food shortage and they have not yet fully recovered. Each batch of food and supplies is very important to them.
However, even so, Ning Yuan would rather burn it all with fire than send his centaur army to block it. It seemed that he was indeed becoming more and more difficult to deal with.
"Master, Ning Yuan could not really burn all the food and supplies stored in Changgang Town. Before we came, he must have sent a lot of people to move them out.
I had just sent a team of cavalry to go around the sea of fire to investigate the east of Changgang Town, and found that there were heavy ruts on the east side.
The ruts are very fresh and deep.
It seems that the enemy's transport convoy has not only just left, but has also been seriously overloaded.
Grandmaster, if we send cavalry to the east now, I will probably be able to catch up with the enemy's transport convoy soon."
A few minutes later, Li Kun came to Li Yufeng with the latest information.
In fact, Li Kun does not need to report, and Li Yufeng can guess this situation.
Because even if Ning Yuan was cruel, he would not really be willing to burn so much food and supplies into a fire.
He will definitely ask the logistics department to transfer part of it as much as possible first, and then send someone to guard the part that is not too late to transfer.
If his army had not appeared in Changgang Town, then Ningyuan would not have caused people to ignite.
Only when they lead the army here will they have no choice but to burn the remaining part of the food and supplies together with Changgang Town.
Judging from Ning Yuan's strategic layout, he will definitely not leave him time to lead the army to pursue, at least the infantry will definitely not be able to catch up.
If you want to lead your army to pursue the Condor Army logistics convoys evacuated from Changgang Town, you can only let the infantry and the cavalry separate.
Once the cavalry regiment loses the cover of the Modao Army and the Divine Arm Army and lets them face the centaur army alone without a trace, they will eventually be walked to death by the centaur soldiers.
There is no way, those centaur warriors are born with four legs, and their racial talents are born to suppress all cavalry on the ground. It is too difficult for other cavalry to defeat them in the wilderness.
Although Li Yufeng had sufficient confidence in his Xuanjia Cavalry and Jingsai Army, if his opponent was a centaur army, he would have no clue in his heart.
Send a cavalry regiment to pursue the east, so when the cavalry regiment is finished, they should be able to catch up with the logistics convoy evacuated from Changgang Town and then destroy some of the vehicles.
But accordingly, they should not be able to come back, because the centaur army that had been following them all the time could not miss this rare opportunity.
Once the cavalry regiment is finished, the remaining infantry regiment will follow. Without any logistics supply, the soldiers of the two infantry regiments will probably find it difficult to survive this cold winter night.
If the cavalry regiments were not sent to pursue them on their own initiative, but the army continued to turn around and head to other places, then with Ning Yuan's personality, he should continue to order people to ignite the villages and towns where they went. After all, Changgang Town has been ignited, and there is no other place or two.
In this way, they can not only force Ningyuan to take the initiative to light more villages and towns, but after night, they can also spend this cold winter night safely by slaughtering war horses.
A war horse is enough for fifty people to eat for a day.
Now he still has more than 60,000 war horses, enough for the 200,000 people under his command to eat for half a month.
If they could find sufficient firewood and other combustible materials for making fires, they could last at least fifteen days.
Although the hope of their army's escape from the day of birth is very slim, fifteen days are enough to see if Ning Yuan can really tolerate them wandering around the eastern Henan plain for fifteen days.
After making a decision, Li Yufeng immediately ordered: "Transfer our military orders, and the army immediately turned around in the northeast direction, and we went to Shangtun Township."
With Li Yufeng's order, more than 200,000 troops immediately headed towards Shangtun Township.
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After learning about the latest developments of Li Yufeng's army, Ning Yuan immediately ordered the Condor Heroes near Shangtun Township to carry out a strategic transfer. He would take away what could still be taken away, and burn all the fires if they could not be taken away.
When Li Yufeng's army's vanguard came to Shangtun Township, many villages here had turned into a sea of fire.
Since the Condor Heroes did not store much strategic materials here, the fire here was not very big. Basically, some houses were burning after being ignited.
After arriving in Shangtun Township, Li Yufeng immediately sent someone to start putting out the fire.
There were many people and great power. After countless soldiers kept throwing ice and snow at the fired houses, the flames that were not too big were quickly extinguished.
After the fire in the entire Shangtun Township was put out, Li Yufeng immediately ordered the soldiers to start collecting various things that could burn.
Although Ning Yuan did a great job, the fire was quickly put out, so Li Yufeng still collected a lot of unfinished wood, beams and other things from the places where the fire was on fire.
Seeing that it was getting darker, Li Yufeng didn't want to make trouble anymore. After he arranged the defense work on the periphery, he immediately started to slaughter the war horses and prepare the army's dinner.
When they heard that they wanted to slaughter the war horses they had been with day and night, the cavalry of the two cavalry regiments were reluctant to leave, but they knew that they had no way out now, and they could only do so now.
So after saying the final farewell to the war horses that had been with them for many years, they all made excuses and handed over the task to the soldiers of the Modao Army.
As the sword shining with cold light continued to swing, the entire Shangtun Township suddenly became a river of blood, and the sad roar of the war horse lasted forever.
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"What? Li Yufeng slaughtered all the war horses?"
Ning Yuan, who returned to the camp, was stunned by the unexpected news.
He originally thought he was sure to win. After losing logistics supplies, not many of the more than 200,000 troops under Li Yufeng's command will be able to survive until tomorrow's dawn.
So he went back to the camp to deal with the Taurus heavy infantry legion.
However, he never expected that Li Yufeng was even more cruel than him and directly slaughtered all the war horses.
If he remembers correctly, there are 60,000 or 70,000 war horses!
So many war horses are enough for Li Yufeng's 200,000 people to eat for more than half a month.
And the most important thing is that the blood that flows out when the war horses are slaughtered can dispel the cold for soldiers who gradually lose their body temperature.
After drinking the hot horse blood, eat some horse meat and some broth in the evening, and then the soldiers leaned together to keep warm with the dried horse skins, so they would definitely be able to see the next day's sun alive.
Shangtun Township is less than ten kilometers away from Sui County.
Although Sui County has been directly frozen by the Condor Heroes bombarded with ice hockey, if Li Yufeng brought the army of 200,000 to break the ice, the ice in the county would not be able to withstand the disaster of 200,000 people!
If Li Yufeng led his men to successfully break the ice and then obtain the food and supplies stored in Sui County, then with the 60,000 to 70,000 war horses they slaughtered, they would definitely be able to hold on with Sui County for a long time.
In Ningyuan's plan, the Northern Expedition coalition on the eastern Henan plain should be eliminated as soon as possible.
Because his entire strategic plan has been launched, the battles in several other regions will soon begin, and it is impossible to stop.
So he must not let Li Yufeng hold himself in the eastern Henan Plain. He must deal with Li Yufeng, a difficult opponent as soon as possible.
Although Ning Yuan's Han Ye offensive has basically been declared failure, he has not gained anything, because in order to fight against Ning Yuan's Han Ye offensive, Li Yufeng has slaughtered all the war horses in the army.
The reason why Xuanjia Cavalry and Jingsai Army are powerful is that in addition to the elite soldiers themselves, the most important thing is that they are cavalry and heavy cavalry who are good at rushing into the formation.
Once these two cavalry lose the war horses that rely on to rush to the battlefield, their strength will be directly discounted.
For heavy cavalry dismounted as infantry, their real strength may be far inferior to those real heavy infantry, so if Li Yufeng wants those heavy cavalry dismounted to replace the original role of the Taurus heavy infantry, he would be a little too naive.
Moreover, after losing all the war horses, Li Yufeng's army completely lost its mobility and turned into a pure infantry legion.
Before, Ning Yuan was afraid of the sudden charge of the Xuan Armored Cavalry during his battle, and he did not dare to use many tactics.
Now, he no longer has to worry about it, because the Xuan Armored Cavalry has disappeared completely for the time being.
It is much easier to deal with a pure infantry legion than a mixed legion of infantry cavalry.
Without the threat of the Xuan Armored Cavalry, Ning Yuan's tactics suddenly became more and more available.
Chapter completed!