Chapter 6701 Fall

Chapter 6701 Fall
"Hmph, even if there is a super model cloud, they must die this time!" Kou Feng said with a sneer. If he had fewer people, this super model cloud would indeed be a trouble, but now he has more than 90,000 people, and later Taishi Ci and others took a boat to the Rama Bridge. After the two sides joined forces, their strength exceeded 100,000.

By then, no matter how powerful the Kushans are, Kou Feng doesn’t believe that these things can really withstand his attack!

"Land!" Soon the warships approached the coast of Ceylon. The seventh-generation ships had a deep draft and could not get too close, so they could only be transported to the shore by small boats. Fortunately, Galan had led the legion to the depths of Ceylon Island at this time to avoid being hit by naval guns. Otherwise, if they launched a few waves of attacks at this time without fear of death, it would definitely cause considerable damage to the Han Dynasty.

"Boyan, are you landing, or?" Gan Ning asked Lu Xun with some curiosity when Kou Feng landed with his infantry.

Gan Ning was actually very clear about Lu Xun's current situation. When Chen Xi sent Lu Xun to Central Asia, he actually wanted to seize the opportunity to give Lu Xun a military achievement. Unfortunately, the overall situation got out of control, and Lu Xun finally missed the opportunity and failed to catch up with the decisive battle of Kandahar. Although he helped the Central Asian family to curb Ardashir's backhand, this little achievement was far from enough for him to take over Gan Ning's position.

This time, with Lu Xun as the chief strategist, he took action to destroy the strategic fulcrum of the Kushan Empire, and indeed won great merit. However, if we really rank them by seniority, Lu Xun's merits are still not enough.

"I will follow Shang Xianghou to Ceylon Island and see if we can take over the entire island." Lu Xun did not hesitate. He used to think that he was very young, and with Chen Xi and excellent abilities, he would be able to make it sooner or later. But now, Kou Feng, who was younger than him, appeared in front of him. Lu Xun really felt the pressure. If he continued like this, it seemed that he would be pressed down on the beach by the waves behind him before he could make a breakthrough.

"Okay." Gan Ning nodded when he heard that, then sent a team of elite soldiers to protect Lu Xun, and had someone send Lu Xun to Kou Feng.

Kou Feng did not have any special feeling when he met Lu Xun. From the perspective of the lower history, Kou Feng was not as good as Lu Xun. But if we look at it from the present perspective, Kou Feng was 25 years old, a marquis of a county, had the ability to breathe out of his body, and had legion talent. He had mastered a certain degree of military training skills and could manually adjust his talent. He was only one step away from joining a large legion, and was not much behind Lu Xun.

Although Kou Feng’s current level is entirely the result of a good era and sufficient resources, for a successful person, the background of the times and the resources behind him are only one aspect; success itself is the most critical.

Therefore, Kou Feng did not have any special feelings when he met Lu Xun, the planner of this strategy. He just thanked Lu Xun again for giving him the opportunity to free up his hands to deal with the Kushans, and said that he would definitely repay Lu Xun if he had the chance in the future.

Lu Xun felt somewhat sad at this statement, but he accepted it with a smile on his face. After all, Kou Feng was such a frightening young man that he really had no choice but to accept it.

At this moment, Lu Xun further understood what Chen Xi meant when he said that talent is talent and resources are resources.

Natural talent is the upper limit of a person, but the accumulation of resources can enable a person to better display this talent. Lu Xun boasts that his talent is definitely not inferior to most people in the world, but even his teacher Chen Xi would not arrange tens of thousands of people for Lu Xun to practice.

Even though Chen Xi and Lu Xun both felt that if there was just one chance, Lu Xun might be able to become the commander of a large army, neither of them would do such a thing. After all, neither of them was stupid.

"You and I are of similar age. The title of Marquis of Shangxiang is inherited from my ancestors, not my merit. Why don't we call each other by our courtesy names?" Kou Feng said with a smile. He didn't have any special feelings for Lu Xun, but the other party was Chen Xi's apprentice, and he was able to come up with such a strategy quickly after Zhou Yu's accidental death. He was definitely not an easy person to deal with. As a person who had received a complete education from an aristocratic family, Kou Feng was still willing to be friends with Lu Xun.

Upon hearing this, Lu Xun smiled and nodded, and Kou Feng catered to his wishes by assigning one third of his more than 90,000 troops to Lu Xun. After all, Kou Feng knew more or less about Lu Xun's deeds. He had actually been on the battlefield and had performed well, but he was unlucky and failed to achieve good results.

What's more, even though Kou Feng had brought over 90,000 men, it was still quite stressful for him to command such a large force alone. Even with Huangfu Song's instruction and training on the Nordic Odin battlefield, which had allowed Kou Feng to take firm steps in commanding a large army, he still had to practice more if he wanted to fully display his ability to command a large army.

Of course, Huangfu Song also said that based on Kou Feng's youth and the unique integration of the legion's talents, he can display considerable combat effectiveness in a head-on team fight at his current level, but this level still requires more training.

In the words of Huangfu Song, if Kou Feng wants to take revenge, he'd better practice more. He is now in a period of rapid growth. If he can continue to grow, at least when the Han Dynasty and Kushan fight a decisive battle, Kou Feng will be able to command all the way.

"The Kushan army should have all gone to the mountainous areas. I have sent people to explore some bunkers in the plains, but they are not easy to attack." After reorganizing the army and completing the dispatch, Lu Xun informed Kou Feng of the information collected by the people he sent out to investigate.

"I have already located some Kushan soldiers in the mountains, but the area where they are is not easy to attack. The fortress has blocked the cliff. If we want to force our way through, the casualty ratio will be very ugly. It seems that the other side intends to rely on the complex terrain and various defense facilities in the mountains to buy time." Kou Feng also informed Lu Xun of the intelligence he had collected.

Compared to what Kou Jun taught Kou Feng, after meeting Kou Feng, Huangfu Song systematically sorted out the military knowledge that Kou Feng had learned to form a context.

What's more important is that unlike when he taught elite talents, when Huangfu Song taught Kou Feng how to command a large army, he taught more about methods. It's not that he didn't want to teach Kou Feng the deeper "Tao", but the knowledge of the Tao level explained by Huangfu Song was different from what Kou Jun understood. The simplest one is Sun Tzu's Art of War. If you understand it, master it, and know it, you can do well even in modern times, but most people just read it.

The Art of War by Sun Tzu is something that actually points directly to the great principles of military strategy, and Sun Tzu has tried very hard to write it very clearly, but it just doesn't work. You can't learn it even if you read it. This kind of thing can only be understood by talented people themselves. It would not only be useless for Huangfu Song to tell Kou Feng about his understanding, it might also affect Kou Feng's judgment and thinking.

So what Huangfu Song told Kou Feng was the method, which was Huangfu Song's summary over the past few decades, and was the operation at the strategic level of large army command, namely, to influence the opponent's mentality, to explode the opponent's intelligence gathering capabilities, and to destroy the opponent's ability to judge the battlefield. As long as these three are accomplished, you can basically kill the opponent as long as he does not crush you.

Kou Feng had actually realized these things earlier, but realizing something and being able to express it clearly are two different things. Huangfu Song pointed out that Kou Feng's path to command a large army was actually very clear, but the first one was difficult for Kou Feng to do as he had qualifications issues in this regard. He could only be said to be able to use it, not to be proficient in it, so Kou Feng focused on the second one.

"Have you collected intelligence about the mountainous area?" Lu Xun was a little surprised. Even if Kou Feng would definitely leave some more elite soldiers for himself when allocating troops, it was not easy to collect accurate intelligence in such a short time.

"Uncle Zhang!" Kou Feng called out to Zhang Lin, who was standing aside acting as a wooden figure. This was the Xiliang Iron Cavalry. After the battle of Qunu City, many surviving soldiers of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry left the Three Idiots. And because of his age, Zhang Lin joined the Kou family and made a name for himself.

Upon hearing this, Zhang Lin spread out his hands, and then a cone of light formed in Zhang Lin's hands. Lu Xun's pupils suddenly shrank. In this cone of light, he saw Kushan soldiers who were deploying defenses in the mountainous area not far away. What kind of rare reconnaissance ability is this?

"My suggestion is to attack here." Kou Feng said, pointing to a point behind the fortress.

"It's not easy to get in." Lu Xun shook his head and said.

"It's just an elite team of a hundred people. I definitely won't try this plan if the number is larger, but the Kushans are too scattered." Kou Feng said disdainfully, pointing at the fortress built on the mountain.

"But it will take us too much time to attack them one by one like this." Lu Xun frowned. The Kushan tactics were obviously to delay time, but faced with this tactic, they could only choose to eliminate them one by one. There was no other way. This thing was really difficult to deal with.

"What's your suggestion?" Kou Feng raised his eyebrows, wanting to hear Lu Xun's opinion.

"The enemy has few people, so it's difficult to destroy some large siege equipment." Lu Xun said slowly, "Compared to advancing rashly, since the enemy wants us to remove them one by one, we can do as they wish and push them forward one by one, which can also force them to fight a decisive battle with us."

Kou Feng touched his chin and had to agree with Lu Xun's suggestion. Indeed, if there were thousands of people guarding a fortress or a fortress, it would be difficult for them to use large and dilapidated siege equipment. But now there were hundreds of people. If they built a siege tower that could accommodate dozens of people standing on it and could be pushed from the bottom, could the hundreds of people on the opposite side really destroy this thing?

"It's a good plan indeed. Sharpening the knife does not delay the chopping of wood. Let's do it. When the time comes, we will make up for the secret method of solidifying the road with cloud gas. I want to see how long the Kushans can hold out." Kou Feng said with a sneer, and then he started to build siege towers that day. When Taishi Ci came ashore, more than a dozen of them had been built. After all, they did not require much strength. They only needed to be made by splicing huge logs together and adding wheels.

When the siege tower was pushed to the first mountain pass fortress, the Kushan defenders were a little confused. Although they were prepared to rely on the fortress to fight back, with less than 200 people facing the three siege towers of the Han Dynasty that were taller than the fortress, they could not do anything and were doomed to failure.

With their mentality broken, the Han army's three siege towers approached the fortress and first launched a large-scale rain of arrows to suppress the Kushan soldiers. Then a group of people jumped down from them and beat the Kushan soldiers defending the city, forcing them to flee in panic.

There is no way. If they rely on the mountainous terrain to fight guerrilla warfare, Kou Feng has no good way to deal with it. However, the level of the Kushans, well, let's not even talk about the level of the Kushans. The three major empires can have legions that can be divided into small-scale guerrilla warfare. In their own countries, they are all top-notch elite troops.

It was a great achievement for Gal'an to be able to fight back step by step by relying on mountain fortresses, bunkers, trenches and other things, but due to the huge gap in the strength of the two sides, an elite force of a hundred people would have no choice but to die if they were to defend such a place against Kou Feng's tactics.

"The effect is good." After quickly strangling a group of Kushan soldiers, Kou Feng spoke to Hu Hao on the side. This style of fighting is beneficial to the Kou family, because the Kou family's sound-killing warriors have a bonus when strangling in complex terrain, and they first suppress with rain of arrows and then face the ground head-on, which is a huge advantage.

At the same time, Kou Feng only heard a dull sound coming from Lu Xun's direction in the south. Before he realized what happened, Lu Xun had already commanded the spearmen to rush in under the suppression of scattered arrow rain.

"Sure enough, this kind of small-scale blocking relying on mountain fortresses and fortresses is completely useless against the Wu Dang Legion. The super model cloud gas does suppress the legion attack of the Wu Dang Legion to a great extent, but the fortresses built by Kushan relying on the mountains, as well as those small bunkers, are not strong cities." Lu Xun said with a smile as he looked at the battle line that had been completely cleared.

The Kushans had a good idea, but facing an army of more than 100,000 strong consisting of Kou Shi, Taishi Ci and others, they were unable to demonstrate their due strength at all. Faced with this kind of divided troops fighting back at each step, the soldiers who fought back could not come back at all. Even if Galan was essentially using these people as consumables to delay time and squeeze the super model cloud energy, the Kushan officers were not fools. They could accept that the people who blocked them did not come back once or twice, but they were not stupid if they did not come back every time.

It is true that from a strategic point of view, every time Galan deploys a team of 100 men, he can block Kou Feng and Lu Xun for about an hour. If they follow this strategy, Kou Feng and Lu Xun will win, but Galan will definitely be able to hold out until Meng Kangbu withdraws before his entire army is wiped out.

But the Kushan soldiers were not mentally ill, so how could they just go and die like this? They were willing to listen to Galan's command before only because Galan's strategy sounded like the best strategy under the circumstances. After all, no Kushan was willing to give up the strategic point of Ceylon as long as they could. But if the condition for guarding this strategic point was the lives of all of them, then the Kushan soldiers would have to think twice.

Although they had suffered losses of several thousand soldiers before, what happened today, where a team of a hundred men rushed forward silently without a single retreat, was something the Kushan soldiers could not endure. This kind of psychological pressure was too great for the Kushan soldiers, so much so that now the look on the faces of the Kushan soldiers when they looked at Galan was clearly something was wrong.

"General, we can't go on like this. None of the brothers who set out earlier have withdrawn yet. If they continue like this, we'll have to resort to military rebellion." An old soldier who was closer to the Ceci family pulled Galan's sleeve and said. Everyone is not stupid. Not many people would be willing to fight a war that is bound to end in death.

"It hasn't come to that point yet. It doesn't matter even if they fight passively." Galan said coldly. When he implemented this plan before, he knew that the soldiers would definitely rebel against him after a period of time. But Galan knew better that only this plan could last for eight days. Any other plan would not have this effect.

Sometimes if you want to win, you have to be cold-blooded and cruel enough. The limited military force on Ceylon Island is not enough for either a head-on attack or a delaying attack. The difference between the two is that if you attack head-on, you may be defeated by the Han Dynasty in one fell swoop, but if you fight a delaying attack, as long as you keep going like this, even if you sacrifice yourself, you can hold on until the eighth day when Meng Kangbu returns.

"General!" the centurion grabbed Galan's sleeve and shouted.

"Execute the order!" Galan gave the order coldly. The life and death of the soldiers were no longer in his calculations. What he wanted now was to hold on here and delay until the eighth day to fulfill his promise to Ansar, to hold on to this strategic point that was extremely important to the Kushans and return it to Meng Kangbu. As for other things, they were not within Galan's consideration.

"If this continues, the brothers might rebel!" The centurion who was pulling Gal'an's sleeve said angrily, "General, you can't let this go on."

"It hasn't reached that point yet. They won't rebel until at least the fourth day." Gal'an said coldly, "It doesn't matter whether they are passively following orders or actively following orders. As long as they appear in those fortresses, it will be fine. Of course, I don't care if they want to flee."

Even if they escaped, they could not escape from the mountains under the current circumstances, and as long as they appear in the mountains, they are enemies. The Han Dynasty's current way of attacking the Kushans is not to capture the enemy as soon as they lay down their weapons as soon as they see them. Because of the invasion, the Han Dynasty currently uses reconnaissance methods that can obtain accurate information from hundreds of meters or even thousands of meters away. This is also the reason why the Kushan soldiers are wiped out and cannot return every time.

In other words, the probability of a Kushan traveling alone in the mountains being killed directly by a long-range attack from the Han army is higher than the probability of dying by staying in the fortress and waiting for the Han army to capture the fortress and surrender.

This is also the reason why Galan’s military orders can still be executed.

On the fifth day, the Minotaur appeared in the mountain bunker as a supervisory team, but did not cause any damage to the Han Dynasty, and Kou Feng continued to advance.

On the eighth day, Galan fulfilled his promise to Ansar, but Montcomb did not show up. Galan, who understood everything, committed suicide with his sword.

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