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Chapter 914: Three Encirclement and Suppression

The lower reaches of the Tigris River, the Great Worm. At this time, if you look down from the air, tens of thousands of Sassanian soldiers are crowded on various dry roads in the lake and marsh. In addition, there are dense bamboo rafts in the lake and marsh moving along various waterways and marsh. They are all heading towards the same goal - an area called Ur in the lake and marsh.

This was the third encirclement and suppression of the Liang army personally commanded by Prime Minister Rud Sabah. The first two times ended in failure. At the beginning, the Sassanian army obtained intelligence. The central stronghold of the Liang army in the swamp was Balas City, but after mobilizing tens of thousands of troops, they were empty.

Afterwards, the Liang army continued to rob the towns in the swamp and surrounding areas. However, they only robbed grain, did not kill people, and even burned houses as much as possible. They also had to write an IOU when they robbed grain.

In fact, this is Feng Yu's way of buying people's hearts, because it is only possible to rule the Sassanian royal court directly on the Central Plains. At present, the population of the Central Plains is limited. If the Sassanians are slaughtered at will, even if they finally occupy the entire territory, they will only get a large piece of unmanned wasteland, and the expenditure is far greater than the profit. In addition, there is no need to kill people, because the Sassanian region is vast, and although the population on it is unified in language, there is no unified national identity. As long as benevolent government is implemented, people of any race as rulers do not care. Of course, the strong men may be used by Ardashire to fight against the Liang army again, but in the absence of food, excessive military strength is a burden. These are Feng Yu's entire strategic intentions.

The second time, the Sassanian Army set up open and secret posts and patrol teams in the Great Worm. It also made key defenses on several of the strongholds and battalions, built them into solid cities and battalions, and buried heavy troops in them. But even so, it was still impossible to find the other party's traces. Instead, the Liang army killed several patrol teams in succession and pulled out more than a dozen strongholds with secret posts and cards. It even broke through a camp with heavy troops, and most of the nearly 1,000 soldiers in the camp were killed in battle. The scene of many of them was very terrifying, and they were severed by some kind of heavy

The object was squeezed and died, and some parts of the person were crushed into a pool of flesh and blood. The Sassanian army knew that this was trampled by the Liang army's war elephant. As more and more casualties, the net of heaven and earth under Rudshababu naturally had huge loopholes. So when the Sassanian army finally discovered the main business of the Liang army again, the other party calmly jumped out of the Sassanian army's encirclement and fled to where they fled. Five or six days later, the news that Sassanian town was attacked one after another confirmed that the Liang army was still active in the swamp.

Finally, Rudshaba came up with another solution. He believed that so many Liang army members could only fish and collect them in the swamp, and it was impossible to obtain enough supplies through war. They must obtain supplies provided by their fleet from the sea. From the sea to the water surface of the swamp, they must pass through the mangrove forest that stretches for hundreds of miles. The Liang army must have opened a hole in this mangrove belt for transportation at sea and in the swamp. As long as this hole is found and surveillance is underway, the traces of Liang army can be found.

Unfortunately, reality is always crueler than imagined. The mangroves on the edge of the Everglades stretch for hundreds of miles, and the area burned by the Liang army is more than 200 miles long. It is impossible for Sassanthes to rely on the burned mangroves to find the location of the Liang army's daily supply handover location.

So he only sent thousands of soldiers to patrol the junction of the Great Everglades and the ocean, hoping to discover the traces of the Liang army in the Great Everglades. Most of these small boats and soldiers went but did not return. Most of them were destroyed by the Liang army's semi-submersible ships, and a small part was sunk by the other Liang army warships.

But after paying a significant price, a small boat discovered the Liang Jun's material handover point by chance and returned safely to report the situation to Rud Sabah. Rud Sabah immediately sent the most elite scouts to monitor the location.

Each time the Liang army set a junction point, it would use it three times in a row, and then establish a new junction point. When the current junction point was discovered, it was the second time that the Liang army had made. Therefore, when it was used for the last time, it was discovered by the elite scouts of Rud Sabah.

These scouts are potentially in the water and breathe with reed poles. They float with bamboo tubes in the swamp, and walk through the reeds, biting the Liang army Viking fleet that transported supplies until they discovered the Liang army's new base camp, Urcheng.

Unlike the two cities occupied by the Liang army before, this is an abandoned city without people. Because the water level of the swamp rose for a few years ago, several land passages connecting the outside world were flooded, so the indigenous population in the town gave up on it. The reason why the Liang army chose this is very simple. No matter what measures were taken, even if everyone in it was locked up, the Sassanian army would know the news. Because the Sassanian stipulated that all towns or settlements in the swamp must be reported to the Sassanian army regularly every three days. So when they did not see a report from a certain town, they would inevitably send people to check it.

When Rud Sabah learned that the main camp of Liang's army was in Ur, he was overjoyed and immediately gathered the army, divided the troops and rushed to Wur with water and land. Wur was wide on all sides, and if he wanted to encircle from the outside, more than 100,000 troops were not enough. Therefore, Rud Sabah could only use sneak attacks. After quietly approaching Wur City, he would suddenly surround Wur City.

However, he underestimated Liang's reconnaissance ability. When a team of Sassanian army's bamboo rafts carried bamboo poles through a piece of aquatic plants, he didn't know when two Liang army's East China Sea Falcons hovered in the air.

In Ur City, Meng Huo walked into Simmons' tent excitedly, raised the letter in his hand, and said to Simmons: "Brother Simon, look, we finally don't have to stay in this bubble. Your grandfather believed that we should go up the Karen River, and then go west along the Zhashan Mountain Range, and cooperate with the main force to capture the pass of Zhashan Pass."

Simmons was also excited. When he was about to order the troops to deploy the transfer marches, Meng Huo's scout rushed to report: "General, at 8 o'clock, a large number of enemy troops were found twenty miles away. Some of them walked on bamboo rafts and approached here."

Simmons wondered, "Are we exposed? Or did the Sassanians happen to pass by nearby?"

Meng Huo slapped his thigh and said, "Hey, we are leaving anyway. No matter whether he came for us or not, the best way to leave the thirty-six strategies is to get out of the camp quickly."

When Simmons heard that it was reasonable, he hurriedly sent orders and immediately set off the camp and retreated northeast along the Karen River. But when they had just completed the marching line, the Sassanian army had already rolled in and scattered, rushing from six directions.
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