Call of the Heroes of Chaos in Another World

Chapter 2123 Huli strikes directly at the scalper, Dawu turns the tables.

Sheng Lan said.

Su Dingfang's 50,000 border troops quickly gathered in the north, while Meng Wu's 50,000 garrison troops moved from various places in Shenglan Road to harass Dahao in the west.

Within Shenglan Road, troop transport vehicles traveled day and night through various key routes, carrying not only troops but also countless amounts of money, grain, and supplies allocated by Fang Xuanling from various counties and prefectures along Shenglan Road.

Hulü Guang's troops haven't arrived yet, but money, food, and supplies must be sent ahead of time.

Once Hulü Guang's troops officially arrive in a few days, they can directly declare war on the Great Sword in the north.

Between the Great Sword and the Great Hao, Su Dingfang first decided to deal with the Great Sword in the north, and only then would he deal with the Great Hao in the west. He would attack from the north and defend from the west, and then launch a two-pronged attack on the Hao territory.

Although the Great Sword is stronger than the Great Hao, the Great Sword is located in the north, facing the Northern Di Golden Tent Royal Court along the Great River. They cannot possibly mobilize all their troops to the southern front.

After all, the Golden Horde was an ally of the Han Dynasty.

During the Battle of Henan in the Han Dynasty, the Golden Horde also fought a local battle with the Tuoba tribe.

However, Da Hao is different.

Although Da Hao is weaker than Da Jian, it has the backing of Da Wu, but it can still mobilize all its troops to the front line.

During the Battle of Hedong, four minor dynasties joined forces to invade. At that time, under the counter-espionage scheme of the Han Dynasty, the Great Hao Dynasty broke with the other three minor dynasties and briefly stood under the banner of the Han Dynasty.

Next, Su Dingfang destroyed two of the four minor dynasties within half a year.

This made the remaining Great Swordsmen and Great Hao feel insecure. Although they did not return to their original state, they began to restrain themselves from their previous rift and started to guard against the Great Han together, both openly and secretly.

After that, with the arrival of people from Da Wu, the two families were finally able to temporarily put aside their conflicts once again.

With the Great Martial Kingdom as its backing, and without needing to deploy a large number of troops behind it like the Great Sword Kingdom, the Great Sword Kingdom is actually more likely to break through at this time.

Under Su Dingfang's border army, there is only one general of god-like caliber, Chu Qingtian. Yuwen Chengdu, the original general, has been transferred back to the Central Imperial Guard.

Chu Qingtian was first transferred to Meng Wu's army to temporarily assist them in battle. If the Great Wu army were to appear, the Great Hao army would be relatively closer to them than this great sword.

As for Meng Wu's troops, let alone divine general-level combat power, there aren't many even at the heavenly level.

The strongest generals of the Han Dynasty were mostly concentrated in the Central Imperial Guard, the Border Army, and the Field Army. As for the local defense forces and the occasional auxiliary forces in battles, the Han Dynasty did not have the luxury of arranging generals of god-like strength within them.

However, although he transferred his only god-level general, Chu Qingtian, to Meng Wu's side, he still had other peak-level generals like Qin Qiong and Yuchi Gong by his side.

Qin Qiong and Yuchi Gong, working together, would definitely possess god-like combat power. Besides, where would the Great Sword Dynasty find god-like combat power?

Not to mention, apart from Chu Qingtian, Su Dingfang no longer had any general-level combat power under his command. However, this did not mean that Hulü Guang's troops were gone.

The Central Imperial Guard is the military force with the most powerful generals among all the various military units.

As for the Great Hao and Great Sword factions, after the demise of the remaining two dynasties among the four minor dynasties, most of their military forces were concentrated on the border.

After the fall of those two dynasties, feeling a sense of shared fate, they became extremely wary of the Han Dynasty.

After continuous expansion since the beginning of the year, the main force of the Greatsword Army has grown to 80,000, and with the addition of some scattered second-rate garrison troops in the local areas, the total strength has exceeded 100,000.

Meanwhile, the army of Da Hao expanded to 70,000.

However, what troubled them was that although their troops had been recruited, they had not been trained enough. Judging from the mobilization of the Han army, it was clear that they were going to attack.

No concrete evidence is needed; the recent troop movements of the enemy are enough to prove this point.

In the past, the Battle of Hedong and the subsequent conflicts between dynasties had already resulted in heavy losses for their elite troops.

Therefore, although these two dynasties have expanded their armies to such a scale this year, at this time, about half of them are new recruits who have not been trained much. How can they fight against Su Dingfang's army?

The fighting strength of an army cannot be determined solely by its apparent numbers!
Furthermore, although both dynasties received support from the Great Wu, acquiring a large amount of weapons and equipment, and even pig iron, to support their military expansion.

However, at least in terms of armor, they were all leather armor; there wasn't a single piece of iron armor.

In any faction, armor is not a luxury that can be easily given away. After all, if ordinary people hoarded it, they could win at least three races' worth of candy-making games.

Although the Treaty of Hulao between the Great Wei and the Great Tang included 30,000 pieces of armor, these were light armor such as leather armor, and did not include heavy armor such as iron armor.

Even a dynasty-level power wouldn't trade 30,000 armored soldiers. Giving away 30,000 armored soldiers would be a painful blow even for a dynasty-level power.

Therefore, the gap lies not only in the quality of the soldiers, but also in their equipment.

As for the pig iron that Da Wu sold them, with such a small amount, they couldn't possibly afford to lavishly forge large quantities of iron armor. If they were to actually do that, they wouldn't be able to produce many.

After all, Da Wu's support for them was by no means a selfless and unconditional support; it required them to exchange real money, silver, and even food.

Therefore, even though it would take several more days for Hulü Guang's troops to arrive, Su Dingfang's troops alone had already put the Great Sword Dynasty in a state of impending doom, like dark clouds looming over the city.

In particular, Su Dingfang was notorious among the four minor dynasties.

In the Battle of Hedong, the Great Sword Dynasty suffered a heavy loss at the hands of Su Dingfang.

After that, Su Dingfang destroyed two dynasties in half a year. Although they did not include the Great Sword, these two dynasties were their neighbors. How could they not feel anything?
In particular, Su Dingfang's slaughter during the destruction of those two dynasties was so devastating that it terrified the rulers of the Great Sword Dynasty.

However, just as the two sides were in a tense standoff, and just as Su Dingfang was waiting for Hulü Guang's troops to arrive in preparation for a general offensive, Hulü Guang himself had already appeared in the Great Sword Dynasty.

It wasn't until Hulü Guang's army appeared that the Great Sword Dynasty realized they were still blinded by Hulü Guang. Although the Great Sword Dynasty also bordered a great river, its banks were filled with mudflats and marshes, and the few ferry crossings they had were all small and couldn't support a large number of ships.

A crossing of this size is not suitable for large-scale troop landing operations.

That is why they actually didn't deploy many defensive troops at these crossings.

There's no other reason than that Su Dingfang's army was pressing in from the south, and the Golden Horde was only separated from them by a river to the north. Even if they wanted to deploy more troops, they didn't have the authority to do so.

Moreover, judging from the information shared by Tianwu Academy, the Han Dynasty's Tianhe Navy is not large enough to transport 100,000 troops at once.

The Tianhe Navy was ultimately just an inland navy, consisting mostly of small and medium-sized warships, with only a small number of large warships.

However, Hulü Guang did not bring a large number of troops, nor did he actually mobilize the Tianhe Navy.

With spies from all sides closely investigating, the Tianhe Navy might not be able to hide if it were to launch a large-scale operation.

Therefore, he only mobilized a small portion of the Tianhe Navy's warships to help him secretly transport a thousand troops. With the cooperation of the Luo Wang, they unexpectedly captured a ferry crossing, allowing his thousand troops to officially land on the Greatsword.

On the Great Sword side, they made the same mistake as the previous Great Wei Hulao Pass. This ferry crossing had been quiet for too long. Although there were some small caravans coming and going on weekdays, they were just some unknown small caravans.

Those famous caravans weren't qualified to come to those small ferry crossings.

The long period of peace had made them complacent and they never imagined that anyone would target them.

As a result, with the combined efforts of Luo Wang and Hulü Guang, they easily captured them.

What happened next was even more unexpected for Hulü Guang. In fact, even he hadn't imagined that his small force would directly lead to the annihilation of 30,000 troops on the Greatsword front.

Although Hulü Guang's thousand troops successfully landed, what could they possibly do?

With such a small force, it would be very difficult to take over any city, as long as the city's officials have a certain will to resist and do not surrender directly.

After all, Hulü Guang not only had few troops, but also no siege ladders, so how could he conquer cities and seize territory?

His goal was not to conquer many cities with these thousand soldiers.

He disguised his 1,000 troops as 3,000 and moved directly towards Huangniu City after landing.

It wasn't that Hulü Guang didn't want to disguise himself as more soldiers, but if he really did, it would look too fake.

If the number of people at such small ferry crossings continued to increase, there would simply be no basis for it. After all, if there were too many people, a large number of small boats would be needed just for transportation, and such a large number of small boats would not be easy to hide from others.

Huangniu City was built on the foundation of a small town fifty years ago, and the city was continuously reinforced with the goal of becoming a military fortress.

The purpose was to target the small ferry crossings along the coast, preventing small groups of enemy troops from appearing there. After all, it was unlikely that a large number of enemy troops would appear at those small ferry crossings.

With such a military fortress standing here, it is enough to ensure that their troops at the front line will not be outflanked, and that no enemy troops will appear out of nowhere behind them.

Meanwhile, Huangniu City is also the largest grain and supplies transit base on the Greatsword Front. This is because the city bears such an important responsibility, and therefore, decades ago, the city was continuously fortified, transforming this ordinary little town into a military fortress.

Although the city is small, after such a long period of continuous fortification, its fortification is so strong that even if tens of thousands of troops attack, with all kinds of supplies readily available, as long as the defending general doesn't make any foolish mistakes, it should be able to hold out for several months without any major problems.

Even if Hulü Guang only had a thousand men, or even if he really only had three thousand men, or even ten times that number, there was no way he could threaten this city in a short time.

However, perhaps it is true that the fate of the Great Sword has run out. It is no longer the battlefield of Hedong. After that group of Great Sword's strong generals died at the hands of Su Dingfang, the Great Sword now really has no one worth mentioning.

After receiving news that a large Han army was advancing towards Huangniu City, Xie Jun, the general at the Great Sword Front, foolishly mobilized a large number of troops to return.

Many of the generals below him tried to persuade him, but none of them changed Xie Jun's mind.

Xie Jun even cited the already extinct Great Sheng and Great Lan dynasties as examples. After all, the capital of one of these two unfortunate dynasties was captured by Su Dingfang with a small-scale military raid.

Upon learning of the troop movements at the Great Sword front, even Su Dingfang and Hulü Guang were stunned. They had never imagined that the enemy commander would cooperate with them so readily.

Therefore, the success of many generals in this world, and their ability to leave their mark on history, is not necessarily purely due to their abilities, but may also be due to the strength of their opponents.

In fact, throughout history, there has never been a shortage of examples of opponents using all sorts of unorthodox tactics, ultimately leading to their own destruction.

Honestly, Hulü Guang never imagined that he could take Huangniu City with his small force. He didn't even dare to think that way, but the enemy thought he could do it. He didn't know what to say!
Hulü Guang's initial objective was not Huangniu City at all, but rather the 10,000 reinforcements that the enemy had sent to the front lines of Dajian.

Although his troops were few in number, they were all elite, while the 10,000 reinforcements were just some new soldiers.

If it weren't for the enemy general's overconfidence, Su Dingfang and Hulü Guang would never have imagined that they could find an opportunity so quickly to annihilate all 30,000 troops on the Great Sword front line in one fell swoop.

It's important to understand that the quality of the 30,000 troops on the Greatsword front lines far surpasses that of the 10,000 reinforcements in the rear. Sixty percent of the Greatsword's combat-capable forces are concentrated among these 30,000.

From then on, Su Dingfang and Huli Guang began their plan to annihilate the 30,000 main force troops on the Great Sword front.

Meanwhile, shortly after Hulü Guang's main force of 100,000 entered Shenglan Road, Da Wu's 50,000 troops also crossed the river and entered the Da Hao Dynasty.

Of course, the 50,000 troops of Da Wu were not all of Da Wu's forces. There was another portion of troops still in the rear at this time.

When the Han Dynasty launched its campaign against these two great dynasties, Fang Xuanling needed to mobilize a large amount of resources and supplies. Similarly, when the Wu Dynasty mobilized its troops to participate in the war, it also needed to prepare a large amount of resources and supplies.

Although they should have Da Hao and Da Jian to supply what they need, whether they can actually use it is another matter entirely, not to mention whether they are prepared to do so themselves.

Which power would dare to entrust their entire destiny to someone else? They must have contingency plans for any possible unforeseen events.

It was during this period that Da Wu, with these 50,000 troops, staged a magnificent turn of events, turning the tables on the guest and taking control of the situation.