Chapter 481 The troops are in short supply

Regarding the team of the Third Division, Lu Yuan nodded. Before this, he had met Ma De, the general in charge of the Third Division. Generally speaking, he was more familiar with the Third Division.

But he also didn't tell Dean about his old affair with General Mudd.

"Your Majesty's decree is given today." Lu Yuan immediately took out an imperial edict (don't complain about why Xihuan is an imperial edict, because the original plot is like this. Tang San was named King Lan Hao on a snowy night, and there was a guy who took out the imperial edict and read it out. ), said directly, "Mobilize five thousand Royal Knights to carry out the mission with this general."

He didn't give a look to a small corps commander like Dean. In fact, he could just go in and call for 5,000 troops to attack. After all, he was still the commander of the Royal Knights.

In fact, in addition to the corresponding imperial edicts and military orders required for mobilizing the army, Lu Yuan can actually give direct orders to the Royal Knights as Lu Yuan currently serves as the temporary commander of the Royal Knights of the Tiandou Empire.

Soon, Lu Yuan and Ning Rongrong entered the royal hunting grounds and directly summoned the remaining nine generals of the Royal Knights.

The Royal Knights of the Tiandou Empire is twice the size of the Royal Knights of the Star Luo Empire. The entire legion only has 50,000 people, and when there are 5,000 people per division, it is divided into ten divisions.

At the same time, each of the ten divisions has a direct-in-charge general, and above these ten there is a corps commander, who takes charge of all affairs of the Royal Knights.

However, the former commander of the army, Ranbir, was killed by Zi Ji's toxins in the battle between the soul beasts and beasts. He finally suggested that Lu Yuan should temporarily serve as the commander of the Royal Knights while the war was undecided.

Therefore, out of the original eleven senior generals of the Royal Knights, only ten generals including Lu Yuan were left.

They responded to Lu Yuan's call and came directly to the central camp of the Royal Knights.

When they arrived here, they found that Lu Yuan and Ning Rongrong were already waiting here. At the same time, behind them, the six former commanders of the Tenth Division who were loyal to Lu Yuan - Han Qiannuo, Cheng Qixiao, Russell, Hornak, Barnaby, and Gao Kai are now serving as Lu Yuan and Ning Rongrong's personal troops.

"I've seen General Tianying!" Ma De and the other nine generals bowed directly to Lu Yuan in front of them and said respectfully.

Nowadays, Lu Yuan is well-known in the mainland, but this time he is not like before. Although he has excellent cultivation and talents, he has no military achievements.

In addition, Lu Yuan is really too young. He is not even twenty years old now, let alone before.

That's why when he first came to the Royal Knights, he was looked down upon by Lian Long Xie and other former tenth division commanders, thinking that he was completely worthless.

But things are different now. Today Lu Yuan is truly famous in the mainland. Thirty thousand sky shadows can break through the stars and kill the hegemons. An army of three hundred thousand can block an army of one million. These alone are enough for Lu Yuan to dominate the Tiandou Empire. He became as famous as Goron and Andrew.

He was even named a duke and a duke by his majesty. It can be said that apart from the title of king, which is now very difficult for outsiders to obtain, Lu Yuan is now an extremely popular minister.

At this time, Lu Yuan, who had no shortage of prestige, strength, reputation, and background, should not be underestimated no matter how young he was.

Therefore, the nine generals of the Royal Knights are all respectful at this moment.

"You're welcome, colleagues." Lu Yuan smiled slightly, then without any nonsense, he directly put the imperial edict on the table, "Your Majesty has an order, ordering me to bring five thousand soldiers of the Royal Knights to carry out the orbit to harass the Star Luo Empire to the real It’s difficult to manage the task of supply lines.”

When everyone saw the imperial edict, it was indeed the case, and they had no complaints.

"My idea is that the Second Division has suffered serious losses, so we won't consider it for the time being." Lu Yuan said.

The Second Division lost nearly 3,000 soldiers in the beast tide incident. The losses were indeed heavy, so what Lu Yuan said was reasonable.

Piot, the general directly under the Second Division, breathed a sigh of relief. Now that the Second Division was being rebuilt, it was a good thing that Lu Yuan did not let the Second Division become extinct.

"As for the remaining nine divisions, my tenth division will send out ten battalions of troops, and the remaining eight divisions of yours will each send out one battalion of elite troops and follow my orders. How about that?" Lu Yuan said with a smile.

One battalion has one hundred troops, which means that the Tenth Division will dispatch one thousand troops this time, while the other eight divisions will each dispatch five hundred troops, which adds up to four thousand troops, which is exactly five thousand troops.

"It's the general's decision." Ma De and others said without complaint.

"Okay, then go down." Lu Yuan waved his hand and said.

Ma De and others immediately went down and started to raise an army. Not only them, but also Cheng Qixiao and others also went down immediately.

They went to gather the troops of the Tenth Division, which were also ten military camps led by Lu Yuan's ten most loyal commanders in the Tenth Division.

Soon, after all, the elite army of the Tiandou Empire assembled very quickly.

In just about half an hour, five thousand troops, including men and horses, gathered on the Central Campus.

Soon after, even the 10,000-strong Tianying Army gathered.

Under Lu Yuan's order, the Royal Knights let them in directly.

Under the pale sky, the ten thousand troops of the Sky Shadow Army formed ten square formations and moved slowly on the royal hunting grounds.

Facing the five thousand knights of the Royal Knights next to him.

"Rest where you are and prepare to set off tomorrow." Lu Yuan ordered loudly, "The commanders of the Royal Knights and the Sky Shadow Army will follow me in to discuss matters."

Of course, the assembly at this time does not mean mobilizing the army immediately. Generally, the army is assembled in advance, and then after a slight reorganization, the army is officially mobilized a day or even a few days later.

Lu Yuan's next step was to summon the generals to discuss matters.

He will assign tasks to the two armies and explain the tactics of warfare, especially the Tianying Army, which is responsible for guerrilla warfare. After arriving in the Principality of Hel, he will not directly command the Tianying Army, but will let the Tianying Army themselves Fight guerrilla warfare according to circumstances.

Lu Yuan needed to use Source Control to lead the Royal Knights to directly cut off the Star Luo Empire's food supply line.

Soon, Cheng Qixiao, Lu Po and other military commanders entered the camp together, and then Lu Yuan began to explain to them in detail the next tasks and strategies. Lu Po and other Tianying Army generals listened especially carefully. .

Because they knew that Lu Yuan would not directly lead them to fight.

…

Ten days later.

The border between the two empires.

A long team was walking on this deserted battlefield. The main body of this team were all men wearing cool earth-colored linen clothes. They were all bare-shouldered, but their thin arms were pushing a man in front of them. One-wheeled or two-wheeled carts filled with linen bags and yellow straw.

Although there are many animals pulling carts in the team, generally speaking, these skinny men are more numerous and constitute the main body of the team.

On both sides of the team were soldiers wearing armor and holding weapons. Behind the team, there were more than a dozen knights on horses, slowly following the team.

but……

"This job is really comfortable..." In the middle of the knights, the guy who was obviously the highest officer of the team said with a smile, holding a kettle in his left hand.

However, the kettle in his hand smelled of alcohol. It was obvious that it was not water, but wine, a prohibited item in the military.

"Commander Cui, we are on a mission, so it's not good..." A slightly younger knight couldn't help but persuade him when he saw this.

Commander Cui immediately waved his hand, "What does it matter? Anyway, there is no possibility of any accident. Even if it is a robbery of food and grass, our Star Luo Empire occupies the Zhennan Pass in the front, and the empire's border is in the back. The little chickens of the Tiandou Empire How could they be here?"

He also smiled and said, "If you don't believe it, look...it's so quiet today, there isn't even a bird in the sky."

However, at this moment, his expression suddenly changed!

I saw him immediately throwing the kettle in his hand to the ground. The kettle fell on the khaki ground, and the turbid liquid exuding the aroma of wine immediately formed waves of mist on the ground.

"The whole army listens to the order! Get ready to fight! Those civilians listen to the order! Gather the baggage. When necessary, the first priority is to protect the food and grass. The rest of the baggage can be discarded at any time!" Before everyone could react, Commander Cui shouted an order.

"Possessed by the martial spirit!" Commander Cui's eyes were filled with murderous intent. He no longer acted carelessly as before and directly summoned the martial spirit.

Suddenly, his muscles burst out and his teeth became extremely sharp. At the same time, his hands stretched out wolf-like claws, and gray-black hair covered his body.

His martial spirit was Gray Wolf, and four spirit rings appeared behind him, one white, two yellow and one purple, indicating that he was a spirit sect with a spirit power of level 40 or above.

Apart from anything else, in the Star Luo Empire where there were not many soul masters, especially in the army, his soul master's cultivation was considered to be very good.

However, the army of the Star Luo Empire did not doubt that he was present at this time. The Star Luo Empire had excellent military strength, and the soldiers at the bottom basically obeyed orders and prohibitions. They all immediately obeyed Commander Cui's order and drew their weapons.

"What happened? What happened?" The young knight was a little confused.

But soon, he knew the answer.

Commander Cui's eyes were as sharp as a wolf's and a tiger's, and he focused on the northwest direction.

"Boom - boom -!" The sound like thunder is getting louder and louder... No, it should be said that it is getting closer and closer.

Everyone immediately understood that Commander Cui heard this sound like thunder and immediately became alert.

As a soul sect with the Gray Wolf Spirit, Commander Cui's hearing was far superior to that of ordinary people. In addition, gray wolves are animals that are good at hearing and smelling, so he quickly sensed something was wrong.

Under the gaze of the Star Luo Empire soldiers, a sandstorm seemed to have rolled up in the northwest for a moment, and countless yellow sand seemed to be blasted into the air by thunder.

But everyone knew that this was not thunder, but the sound of cavalry riding their horses on the ground.

But the sound of the war horse's hoofs frightened them even more than the thunder!

"The enemy seems to be in large numbers, should we run..." A young commander looked at Commander Cui and asked.

"The opponent is a cavalry army, how can we run away?" Commander Cui said coldly with a stern look in his eyes, "Besides, the food and grass were not transported to Zhennanguan. They were all folded here. We will all be punished by military law!"

The Star Luo Empire's military laws are strict. After all, they can treat their own brothers and sisters so cruelly, let alone the soldiers in the army.

If this batch of food and fodder, which could supply a hundred thousand troops for a month of fighting, had not been delivered to Zhennanguan, even if Commander Cui and others fled back to the Star Luo Empire, they would not be able to escape the harsh military law and death penalty.

"The only chance of survival now is to kill the enemy desperately. At least it is possible to win a way out." Commander Cui looked like a hunting wolf, his eyes exuding murderous intent, staring at the place filled with yellow sand.

Then……

An exquisite and majestic flag has been rising above the dust head. Under the light of the sky, the emblem on the flag is temporarily unclear.

But Commander Cui was trembling. Amidst the thunderous sound of iron hooves, he saw... knights wearing bright armor and holding sharp long weapons appeared in front of them.

The big flag fluttered, and the emblem on it finally caught Commander Cui's eyes. A snow-white swan fluttered and soared, emerging from the unrolling of the blue flag - the "Swan" martial spirit of the Royal Xue Family of the Tiandou Empire. .

The Royal Knights of the Tiandou Empire!

Then he shook his head bitterly, "It seems we are not very lucky today."

"Commander Cui..." Suddenly, everyone else became panicked.

Commander Cui smiled bitterly and said, "The Royal Knights of the Tiandou Empire...we will all die here today!"

The next moment, the army of knights over there, riding the sound of wind and thunder, rushed directly into the Star Luo Empire's baggage force with overwhelming force.

The dust kicked up under the horses' hooves flew away in the wind, trampling the soldiers and civilians in front of them to death with a huge impact, and then trampled their bodies into bright red minced meat.

The long sword and knight's spear instantly passed through the throat and heart of the Star Luo Empire soldiers, bringing out bloody flowers.

The brutal killing directly broke the tranquility that Commander Cui had previously said. Screams, the sound of flesh and blood being torn, the sound of weapons clashing and the furious sound of iron hooves on the ground continued to resound in this deserted battlefield.

Even Commander Cui, who was not weak in cultivation, was killed on the spot by a soul king knight's spear.

…

Two hours later.

"General..." Seeing Ren slowly approaching the general, he immediately saluted.

Renn ignored him, but looked at the tragic battlefield behind him. He saw tens of thousands of civilians wearing coarse cloth and 10,000 soldiers wearing Star Luo Empire standard armor. They were all quiet at the moment. Resting forever on this deserted ancient battlefield.

Many people were even covered in blood and flesh, as if they had been chopped into minced meat, and were spread out on the ground like the crust of pancakes and fruit.

It doesn’t take much analysis to figure out that this is a body trampled by cavalry.

but……

"It was the cavalry who did it, but those who can do this are not ordinary cavalry." Renn shook his head and said, "Only those extremely powerful and tall hybrid soul beast horses can trample people like this."

"How is the food and grass situation?" He asked softly to the general behind him.

"The other party didn't leave any food and grass for us. Most of the food and grass were burned on the spot, and some of it may have been taken away." The general said immediately.

"But general... if this was done by the Tiandou Empire, how did they bypass our Zhennan Pass and come here to cut off the food and grass." He said in confusion.

Ren glanced at him indifferently, "Yeah... I can't figure out how they dispatched a large number of cavalry and appeared here..."