One Piece: In the Name of the Father

Chapter 173 Three Legs Standing as One
Marquis Tam is still a sensible person, but his thinking has completely changed now. He doesn't want to fight against King Yagyu II's order just to avoid a mistake.

The Marquis of Tam has already seen that Matsurize must have a certain conspiracy, and the only way for him to protect himself at this time is to keep the [-] veterans from the [-] army he brought out.

These ten thousand veterans are indeed veterans. Compared with Wang Ling who is thousands of miles away, they still believe in their commander-in-chief. When the Marquis of Tam said to shrink his troops, the ten thousand veterans and some recruits gathered in the tower. Next to the Marquis Mu, he slowly moved forward.

What Marquis Tam can now confirm is that he has secured half of his army's strength, and because of the existence of these veterans, he has also secured most of its combat effectiveness.

At this time, Songli Ze was outside the city wall of Xiaohe Town in Xiaoheling.

He did not lead the army to engage in any ambushes and raids, because the surrounding low mountains made it impossible to ambush like the Goat Ridge area.

And at this time, through the intelligence of the spies, Matsurize was very sure that the king's army's battle line was very, very long.

And Matsurize also believes in the Xiaohe army that can be said to be brought out by himself.

Different from the Vengeance Army fighting in the Devil's Corner area, the Vengeance Army's ability to successfully conquer the Devil's Corner area and Sanchuan City was largely due to the wisdom of its own commander, the bravery of its generals, and the contempt and slackness of the enemy.

The Xiaohe army was different. Matsurize had considered the attack of the king's army from the very beginning. At the beginning, he was thinking of relying on the [-] Xiaohe army in his hand to resist the enemy.

However, due to the excessive success of the Devil's Horn plan, six thousand Xiaohe troops were kept in Xiaohe Town, and only two thousand Xiaohe troops chased after the revenge army.

Not to mention anything else, let's just talk about the weapons and equipment. The soldiers of the Xiaohe Army have a high-quality Xiaohe knife in their hands. You must know that Allen used this kind of treasure knife to buy Draenei's hearts from the beginning.

The Xiaohe army is full of expensive weapons and equipment. They can get this kind of treatment because they are all the elites of the Xiaohe collar, so they are named after the territory.

Moreover, the Xiaohe Army is not only able to produce a large number of people, but now when Matsurize thinks about the loyalty of which team, he will think about how many of them have graduated from the Young Tiger Camp.

Among the Xiaohe army, the soldiers who graduated from the Young Tiger Battalion accounted for the largest proportion of all the professions in the Xiaohe collar.

The Young Tiger Camp has only been established for six years, and it was only three years ago that the Young Tiger Camp began to supply talents to the outside world.

In the past three years, not all members of the senior class of each graduating class have graduated. In the past three years, excluding those who stayed in the school as teachers and the students who stayed in the same grade, there were only about [-] people who were hired by Xiaoheling.

Of the 200 or so people, the Xiaohe Army accounted for more than [-] people, and now they are all officers, and the highest-ranking one has become the commander of the Xiaohe Army.

You must know that in the army led by Xiaohe, whether it is the Xiaohe Army, the Revenge Army, or the temporary militia, the rule is that the capable go up and the weak go down.

Being born in the Young Tiger Camp can only represent your excellence. The fact that you are better than others makes it impossible for you to join the army. Those who have privileges are not allowed even if they are the heirs of lords like Gerald and Allen.

The [-] soldiers of the Xiaohe army, all of whom are like Matsurize, are all in armor and holding Xiaohe knives. On the whole, they look like countless herringbone charging formations. Can't wait to kill the king's army.

The king's army who first appeared under the city wall outside Xiaohe Town in Xiaoheling was a little surprised. They originally wanted to surpass their companions quickly, otherwise the credit would be robbed. But six thousand well-armed enemies, devils.

This fight lasted for a whole day, from morning to sunset.

In the direction from Xiaohe Town to Shipwreck City, there were corpses of the king's army all the way. The Xiaohe army showed no mercy and killed everyone they saw along the way. Even if they surrendered, they did not leave a single prisoner behind.

This is because Matsurizawa knows that most of the enemy's combat power is still advancing steadily in the rear, and knows that the real crisis has not passed, so he doesn't want to accept the burden at this time, or the burden that may counterattack.

Matsurize made it very clear that he would not accept prisoners, but the entire Xiaohe army agreed with Matsurize's order because the king's army had committed many crimes on the territory of Xiaohe territory along the way.

Although Matsurize had already ordered all the residents of Xiaohe Territory in this area to retreat, there were still some people who did not obey the order.

In addition, there are still many civilian and public properties that are not so easy to move along this road.

And all of this happened to meet a group of mobs who were eager to grab credit and didn't get rid of their common people's style. They can be said to have committed all kinds of evil along the way.

The reason why the army has strict management and strict military laws is because without restraint, the army is likely to release the most evil existence deep in people's hearts.

And why Song Rize's Xiaohe Army, Song Rize wants people from the Young Tiger Camp to join the army and join the Xiaohe Army, because he wants to inject a little spirit, a little soul, into the Xiaohe Army, little by little, It not only improves the reliability of the Xiaohe Army, but also improves the capabilities and abilities of the Xiaohe Army step by step.

Finally, on the second day, Matsurize returned to the city wall of Xiaohe Town with almost no casualties.

It's not that Matsurize doesn't want to continue fighting with the Xiaohe army. With the elite level of the Xiaohe army, even if they fight for two or three days, the Xiaohe army can hold on.

This is because Matsurize and the others met the large army of the king's army that was gathering the rout.

After all, Matsurize and the others still had too few people, and they had already caused a lot of damage to the enemy. Matsurize was very knowledgeable, and just had a face-to-face meeting before taking the Xiaohe army back.

The Xiaohe army suffered very little loss, and even if there were very few accidental deaths, the bodies were brought back, which fully demonstrated the success of the Xiaohe army in this war.

Marquis Tam was able to count the casualties of his troops. He regretted a bit, regretting that he should not have indulged the king's indiscriminate life, because the total number of troops he had not shrunk was more than 7000, but now He only collected more than 5000 soldiers from the routs, plus some routs scattered around here.

The Marquis of Tam can now be sure that the loss was huge, at least estimated to have lost 1 horses.

In the early morning of the next day, Marquis Tam had collected all the rout troops. As expected, Xiaohe led the way to lure the enemy into a deep place, and lost a total of 1 horses from the king's army.

(End of this chapter)