king of the castle

Chapter 362 Cutting off water, food, and fodder

To maintain an army with tens of thousands of people and mainly cavalry in the desert, a large amount of supplies needs to be transported, so this supply line is actually very busy. 【】

Roger had only waited a day before a supply team approached the oasis.This supply team was composed of hundreds of sand beasts, and they walked towards the oasis mightily.On both sides of the team are hundreds of sand beast cavalry acting as guards. Like Mumba and others who were eliminated by Roger, they belong to the soldiers of the second-line army.

It has been many days since the supply team left the last oasis. Everyone was very tired from the trek in the desert for many days. Now that a resting place is close at hand, everyone including the guards breathed a sigh of relief.

As long as you arrive at the oasis, you can have a good night's rest, and you can drink the cool well water to your heart's content, so that your tired body can relax.Leaving this oasis is the last stretch of the journey to the front line. It only takes about ten more days to deliver all the supplies delivered to the army, and then transport back the good things the soldiers looted.

Although the amount of property looted by the soldiers has become less and less recently, these properties are very valuable in desert countries, and even if the amount is small, they can still earn a lot of money.This made everyone in the supply team look forward to it, hoping to complete the journey earlier.

Seeing that the oasis of the supply team was close at hand, arrows were suddenly shot out like raindrops from the quiet oasis, and the sand beast cavalry cruising on both sides of the team fell down in an instant.

"Are you blind? We are our own people!" Everyone in the supply team was still confused about the situation for a while, and waved their arms to show their identities to the "defenders" of the oasis.

But the answer to these guys was another round of deadly arrows.Now even the idiots knew that something was wrong, and everyone ran for their lives, even the sand beast cavalry.

Roger has long planned to wipe out the supply team, how can these guys escape?Under his command, a light cavalry rushed out of the oasis like a whirlwind, and rushed towards the enemy quickly.And dozens of griffins also soared into the sky, chasing the escaped sand beast cavalry from the sky.

Under the pursuit of the light cavalry, members of the supply team were killed or wounded, and the remaining few also knelt down and begged for mercy.But Roger didn't intend to keep prisoners, and everyone's food soon became food for corpse-eating bugs.As for the sand beast cavalry who fled in all directions, they were also wiped out under the attack of the griffin.All the supplies transported by this supply team also became Roger's possession.

Except for a few ironware and medicines, the materials transported by the supply team are all bulk consumables such as food, water, and fodder.These supplies are essential to the frontline army, but they are worthless in Roger's eyes, and he set them on fire and burned them to the ground.

"Oh, there are so many things, at least [-] soldiers can eat for several days." Looking at the raging fire in the desert, Roger said to Sophia beside him without emotion: "As long as we cut off a few more Without a supply team, the enemy's army will definitely be in chaos."

"I think it's a bit chatty." Sophia pouted her sexy lips and said, "It's a good thing to grab things, but it's boring to keep grabbing these useless things!"

Roger took an attitude of contempt for Dragon Girl's complaint, turned and walked away without saying a word.It's useless to say anything to a sexy-looking girl who can say things like "snatching is a good thing."

In order to support the army assembled on the border, the Three Desert Kingdoms sent many supply teams to serve them, and another supply team arrived near the oasis two days later.The fate waiting for them was different from that of the previous supply team. After a violent attack, no one in the supply team survived.

In the next ten days or so, several supply teams fell headlong into the traps set up by Roger and became the prey that was sacrificed in his hands.

The dry water desert has a vast area, and it is a long way from the hinterland of the three desert countries through a series of oases to the army on the border of the Thorn Kingdom. Under such circumstances, it is very difficult to transmit news.Coupled with Roger's secretive methods when destroying the supply team, several attacks were done very cleanly, without leaving the slightest flaw, so at this time no one in the desert three kingdoms knew that there were already six teams delivering supplies for the army The team disappeared in the desert.

Of course, just because the Desert Three Kingdoms didn't know about it didn't mean that no one else noticed that something was wrong.At least the [-] troops on the border were an exception. Everyone in the army sensed that something was wrong.

The supply team that should have arrived half a month ago never showed up, which made everyone in the expeditionary force, from the commander to the ordinary soldiers, feel very uneasy.Right now, the army has no way to enter the Thorn Kingdom to plunder, and all food and drink are delivered by the supply team.Now that the supply team has been delayed, everyone has nothing to eat or drink.

In fact, there have been incidents where the supply team was late before, but at most it was only two or three days late due to a sandstorm. Never before had it been more than half a month late like this time.According to the agreement in advance, at least three supply teams had arrived in such a long time, but not even one arrived now, which absolutely cannot be explained by accident.

The late arrival of the supply team made the army's supplies very tight. The soldiers could only eat one rough wheat cake a day, and their drinking water was also very limited.And the forage of the sand beasts was almost exhausted, and many sand beasts became energetic because of lack of food. It was impossible for the cavalry to ride such mounts to fight.

What worries the army commander even more is that there have been many incidents of privately slaughtering sand beasts to satisfy their hunger.Originally, this was strictly prohibited, but in the current situation of insufficient food, even the junior officers turned a blind eye to this kind of thing, and many officers even participated in it.If things were allowed to go on like this, it would not be long before all the cavalry would become infantry.

For the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force, Prince Habasha, he is now facing a dilemma.If you don't retreat as soon as possible, the army under your command is likely to be wiped out due to hunger and thirst; but if you really order a retreat, those opponents in the country will definitely seize this point and accuse him of cowardice, avoiding war, and not fighting And retreat, in the desert country with strong folk customs, if a nobleman is put on such two hats, then he will never have a bright future.

"What should I do..." Prince Habasha's eyebrows were completely twitched as he watched the sentries stumbling around outside the tent.

"His Royal Highness!" Just when Habasha was in a dilemma, his adjutant walked into the tent and said, "I'm back."

The late arrival of the supply team was a big deal. As early as ten days ago, Habasha sent a scout team to patrol along the supply line, trying to figure out what happened.In the past few days, he has sent several scout teams, but none of them came back to report.In desperation, Habasha asked his adjutant to personally lead the team out on patrol, and he finally came back after a few days of waiting.

"How's the situation?" Habasha cheered up and asked, "Any news from the supply team?"

The adjutant shook his head dejectedly, licked his chapped lips and said, "Let's not talk about the supply team, even the scout team sent out before disappeared, and I didn't even find one of my own people on the way."

"There must be a problem with the supply line." Habasha said solemnly: "Tell all the army commanders, tell them to hold a meeting in my tent!"

It didn't take long for more than 20 legion leaders to gather in Habasha's tent. The prince first explained the current situation, and then said solemnly: "I suspect that there is a problem with the supply line, and there will be no supplies for a long time. Delivered to us, so... I feel like retreating!"

"Retreat?" Habasha's words were dissatisfied with the leaders of the other legions, and they all shouted: "We disagree. After all, so many troops have assembled, how can we retreat easily? It doesn't matter if we don't have food or drink, we can go there If the Yankees rob, as long as the army keeps attacking, there will be no fear of food!"

Although Habasha is the commander of the army, his men are a patchwork of three countries.These legion commanders who questioned him were naturally all officers from other countries.These people were originally dissatisfied with the command power in Habasha's hands, but now that he actually said that he would retreat, they all jumped out to oppose it.

One of the legion commanders was even more exaggerated, and loudly said in front of all the officers: "Since His Royal Highness does not dare to continue fighting, it is better to hand over the command and let the warriors who dare to continue fighting command the army and occupy the entire Thorne Kingdom!"

This arrogant statement immediately won the approval of many people, and a few mindless guys responded one after another: "Yes, let the officers who dare to fight command the army!"

Habasha looked at these guys' clumsy performances coldly, and the anger in his heart rose uncontrollably. He suddenly stood up and said loudly: "I have decided to retreat. As for those who are unwilling to obey, you can stay here and continue to fight. But you don't want to fight." Forget, none of the legions that entered Thorne Kingdom during this period can come back, I don’t care if you are willing to die!”

As soon as Habasha said these words, everyone fell silent.Everyone knows that the entire army that entered the Thorne Kingdom was destroyed some time ago. When the soldiers were strong and strong, they couldn't beat them. Now the soldiers are starving, and they are even more opponents from time to time.

Thinking of this discouraging fact, even those legion commanders who are fighting the battle have nothing to say.Seeing that everyone bowed their heads and said nothing, Habasha said with a straight expression: "Pass my order to retreat tonight. Everyone must leave the camp in order. If there is any competition, beheaded!"

That night, the army of the desert country began to retreat quietly, but it is difficult to hide such a large action of tens of thousands of troops from those who are interested.In the evening of the next day, the news of the enemy's retreat was spread by scouts to Sellis City, which put Patton and Raikkonen in a dilemma.