Online Games Barbarism and Civilization

The Amu Darya River almost traverses the entire Central Asian continent. It originates from the Pamir Plateau, passes through many Central Asian countries, and finally flows into the Aral Sea.

After occupying Termez in Tajikistan, Sousa Warhammer immediately led 150,000 cavalry and 50,000 centaur logistics troops to kill all the way west along the north bank of the Amu Darya River.

Along the way, any village or town close to the Kem River will be ruthlessly attacked by them.

Kill all the players, surrender all the aboriginal people, and help the Centaur logistics army collect and transport food in the war.

All those who refused to surrender were killed on the spot, and their bodies were thrown directly into the Amu Darya River to feed the fish.

Under Sousa Warhammer's high-pressure attack, an escort team of tens of thousands of people soon appeared behind them.

For those indigenous people who surrendered, Sosa Warhammer just sent a thousand warriors from the Centaur Logistics Army to look after them, while he continued to lead the main force of the cavalry to the west.

After four days of long-distance attack, Sousa Warhammer led the main force of cavalry to the Turkmenabat area.

Turkmenabat is the second most populous city in Turkmenistan. It is located on the south bank of the Amu Darya River and guards the transportation artery connecting Turkmenistan to several northern countries.

After several countries in Central Asia and the Middle East formed an alliance, Turkmenabat became a relatively safe hinterland in the alliance, so there are usually only 10,000 permanent garrison troops responsible for guarding it.

Although the last ten game days have ended, the player leaders in Central Asia and the Middle East have already learned the news that the Condor Empire has arrived on the banks of the Amu Darya River.

But Zhigui knew that the deployment of troops and generals they wanted could not be accomplished in a short time.

Because as the Condor Empire expeditionary force reached the Termez region and moved westward along the Amu Darya River, most of the upper reaches of the Amu Darya River were gradually shrouded in dark clouds of war.

As the dark clouds of war gradually spread along the Amu Darya River, many urban teleportation arrays along the Amu Darya River became ineffective.

Without the teleportation array, the Central Asia and Middle East Alliance would have to walk there if they wanted to prevent the army from setting up defenses.

It is not an easy task for two-legged infantry to march long distances. Sufficient supplies of food and grass must be prepared, otherwise the army may collapse due to lack of food before it reaches its destination.

Sousa Warhammer knew this very well, so he took advantage of the mobility advantage of the cavalry to play a tortoise and the hare race with the Central Asian and Middle Eastern coalition forces.

The 150,000 elite cavalry he leads are the rabbits, and the Central Asian and Middle Eastern coalition forces that rely on their legs to travel are the tortoises.

The destination of their rabbit is the Aral Sea, the end point of the Amu Darya River. They will never stop casually until they reach their destination, so the winner of this tortoise and hare race must belong to the rabbit.

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"Umu, you lead two thousand rock sheep cavalry, two thousand elven archers and two thousand camel cavalry to cross the river immediately. We will cover you here.

After reaching the other side of the river, your task is to cut off all connections between Turkmenabat City and the outside world, and wait for General James to lead the army and the main force of the Somersault Cloud Corps to come over.

During this period, I don’t want to see anyone escaping from the city, let alone reinforcements entering the city. Do you understand? "

Looking at the tall city on the other side of the river, Sousa Warhammer immediately began to mobilize his troops.

"Please rest assured, General, my subordinates promise to completely surround the city of Turkmenabat. Except for mosquitoes and flies, no other living creatures can leave the city."

After hearing that Sotha Warhammer ordered his general, Umu immediately took orders by the thousands.

"Okay, now you cross the river immediately."

Sousa Warhammer pointed directly at some ships docked by the river.

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"Sir, the Condor Empire cavalry on the other side of the river have begun to board the ship. Should we go out of the city to attack them and give them a half-crossing attack?"

As soon as Sousa Warhammer and others appeared on the other side of the Amu Darya River, the defenders of Turkmenabat City immediately discovered their presence.

At this time, they were standing on the north city wall watching every move of the sea of ​​black cavalry on the other side of the river.

"The enemy is trying to lure us out of the city to fight.

You don't even think about where they came from.

It is more than 400 kilometers from Termez to us. On this more than 400 kilometers of river section, if the enemy wants to cross the river, they cannot cross from there. Why do they choose to cross the river in front of us?

Isn't this just trying to lure us out of the city to go to the river bank to stop them?

We only have more than 10,000 defenders in the city, but the enemy on the other side of the river is overwhelming and must number at least hundreds of thousands.

What if these hundreds of thousands of people are not all the enemy?

What if there is a cavalry ambushing in the distance now?

If we rashly leave the city and go to the river to stop the enemy, then when the enemy cavalry ambushing in the distance suddenly comes out and blocks us outside the city, wouldn't we be doomed?

Although the soldiers of the Condor Empire on the other side of the river are all aborigines, the generals who command them in battle are all experienced. Their level of insidiousness is no worse than that of our players, so you must not underestimate them, otherwise you will die. Don't know how he died. "

The player city guard of Turkmenabat City was watching the densely packed cavalry on the other side of the river while teaching the player assistants around him.

Seeing that the army led by Umu was almost reaching the other side of the river, and the enemies in the opposite city were not making any movement, Sousa Warhammer couldn't help but curled his lips.

The city guard of Turkmenabat really guessed correctly. Sousa Warhammer indeed ambushed two thousand dwarf rock sheep cavalry five kilometers away from the city.

As long as the enemy dares to come out of the city to intercept Umu and others who are crossing the river, the two thousand dwarf rock sheep cavalry will immediately come over and eliminate all the enemies who leave the city outside the city.

This was originally just a little trick on the way to the west. It would be best if the enemy were fooled, but it didn't matter if they weren't.

So Sousa Warhammer immediately put it behind him after feeling a little disappointed.

After signaling that the two thousand dwarf rock sheep cavalry who were notifying the ambush appeared immediately, Sousa Warhammer led the main force of the cavalry regiment and continued to rush westward along the Amu Darya River.

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Two days later, while the player generals in the city were still boasting about their ingenuity, the reinforcements they were waiting for did not arrive. Instead, the first to arrive in Turkmenabat City was an army of 400,000 people led by James.

During this march, James not only brought over most of the Somersault Cloud Legion and the two Orc Legions, he also brought over all the 250,000 soldiers of the Tajik Legion.

Facing the upcoming large-scale enemy counterattack, he prepared to fight the enemy in several important transportation hub cities along the Amu Darya River.

This time, in order to cooperate with the actions on the Ningyuan side, James is planning to build a barrier across the East and West along the Amu Darya River, using the Amu Darya River to divide the Central Asia and Middle East Alliance into two, completely cutting off the enemy forces that penetrate deep into the territory of the Kazakh Khanate. All connections between the elite army and the rear.

As long as they can prevent the follow-up armies of those countries south of the Amu Darya River from continuing northward, then Ningyuan will have enough time to eliminate the absolute main force of the enemy army that penetrates deep into the Kazakh Khanate.

As for Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan on the north bank of the Amu Darya River, the remaining armies of these two countries are obviously not enough whether they come to attack them here on the Amu Darya River or go deep into the Kazakh Khanate to rescue the elite alliance.

Because in the border area between Kyrgyzstan and the Condor Empire, hundreds of thousands of troops from the Condor Empire are waiting to attack.

Just guarding against the sudden attack by the Condor Empire army there would be enough for them to drink, not to mention the elite cavalry led by Sousa Warhammer on the Amu Darya River.

As long as the enemies on the north bank of the Amu Darya dare to take the initiative to attack, the cavalry led by Sousa Warhammer will launch uninterrupted harassment attacks against them.

A small army is not enough to fill Sosa Warhammer's teeth. A large army can compete with Sosa Warhammer's cavalry regiment, but their bloated logistics will be in bad luck by then.

Because under the investigation of the Seraph scouts, their logistics transport convoy was completely invisible.

At that time, as long as their logistics, transportation and defense capabilities are insufficient, the cavalry regiment led by Sousa Warhammer will immediately deal them the most fatal blow.

Therefore, in James' view, as long as the enemy reinforcements from the south bank of the Amu Darya River are blocked, everything on the north bank will be under control.

Among all the oasis cities along the Amu Darya River, Turkmenabat is undoubtedly the most important place, because the river here is the gentlest and most suitable for crossing the river.

In addition, it is also connected to some of the most important cities in Uzbekistan such as Braha, and was the only place that the ancient Silk Road once passed.

If the reinforcements from the Central Asian and Middle Eastern coalition want to rescue their own elite army trapped in the Kazakh Khanate as soon as possible, then they must take the land passage of Turkmenabat.

Therefore, as long as the city of Turkmenabat and several towns in the upper reaches are defended, the enemy's reinforcements can only be blocked alive on the south bank, watching the river and sighing.

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When James led the Somersault Cloud Army to Turkmenabat, not to mention the 10,000 defenders in the city, even if there was an extra zero at the end, the city of Turkmenabat could not be defended.

After sending people to measure the wind direction and find the upwind outlet, James immediately led the Somersault Cloud Army to start attacking the city.

Half an hour later, all the more than 10,000 defenders in the city were killed.

This time, James did not take in any more prisoners of war, because the war was imminent, and he simply did not have the energy to deal with those prisoners of war, and at the same time, he was not assured of keeping these prisoners of war in the city.

After all, these Turkmen prisoners of war are very different from those in Tajikistan.

This time James led his troops and had no intention of annexing the entire Turkmenistan yet, so it was difficult for him to make those Turkmen prisoners of war truly return home in a short period of time.

Unlike Tajikistan's prisoners of war, they have all paid their votes, and Tajikistan has also become the Tajikistan state of the Condor Empire.

As long as there are no major changes, these Tajik soldiers, who have been renamed the Tajik Legion, will not easily betray the Condor Empire, and Turkmenistan's prisoners of war may rebel at any time.

So in order to end things once and for all, James didn't give them a chance to surrender at all, and directly ordered the army to eliminate them all in the city.

After capturing Turkmenabat, James immediately organized an army to reinforce, heighten and widen the city.

He left half of the Somersault Cloud Legion and half of the Orc Legion, as well as 200,000 Tajik soldiers, and then asked Pedro to lead other armies to continue westward along the Amu Darya River to help Sousa Warhammer conquer the lower reaches of the Amu Darya River. some cities.

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After leaving Turkmenabat, Sousa Warhammer had a smooth journey. Almost all the towns on the north bank of the Amu Darya River were defeated in one blow.

This time, Sousa Warhammer did not force the indigenous people to surrender. Instead, after capturing a city, he left a hundred cavalry to guard it.

One hundred cavalry sounded like a small number, but looked even smaller.

But on the north bank of the Amu Darya River at this time, no one dared to underestimate these one hundred cavalry, because facing these one hundred fully armed cavalry, even if a thousand cavalry were sent to attack, they might not be their opponents. .

At this time, the gap between the elite and non-elite is fully revealed.

Not only are these elite cavalrymen of the Condor Empire better than those non-elite troops in personal strength and combat quality, but their weapons and equipment are far superior to all non-elite troops and even elite troops here.

In Kudat, why do the expeditionary armies of many powerful countries only have tens of thousands of people, but with these tens of thousands of people, they are able to defeat hundreds of thousands of enemies and conquer one country after another?

The answer is simple. These tens of thousands of people are actually the absolute elite who have gathered most of the country's strategic resources.

They are all elite soldiers selected from thousands of people, and the country equips them with the highest quality war horses and the most advanced weapons and equipment.

Not only do they far surpass their enemies in terms of strength, but they also crush them in terms of weapons and equipment.

Although it is difficult for them to defeat one against a hundred, it is very easy to defeat a hundred against a thousand.

Because with one charge, they can kill one-tenth of the enemy, and due to their equipment advantages, it is difficult for the enemy to hurt their bodies in a short period of time.

Under this ebb and flow, they only need two or three charges to scare the enemy out of fear and defeat the enemy army.

At this time, Sosa Warhammer was basically in this situation along the way.

Before the main force arrived, the vanguard army responsible for the lead had defeated one enemy army after another, so they reached the lower reaches of the Amu Darya River almost unimpeded along the way.

There are four important cities along the lower reaches of the Amu Darya River, namely Urgench, Dashoguz and Yulongjiech on the south bank, and Nukus on the north bank.

After arriving in the Khorezm region downstream, Sousa Warhammer slowed down his progress. He was preparing to fight a guerrilla war in this huge plain area downstream of the Amu Darya River.