Chapter 715: 715 long snake array
Chapter 715 Chapter 715 One-word long snake formation
Outside Xicong City, Qian Jinhang stood on a high ground, holding a telescope and looking down at the smoke-filled city in the distance.
Behind him stood a row of military officers, and even some photographers who accompanied the army. The atmosphere was very good, everyone was talking and laughing, and seemed to be celebrating the glorious victory of our troops' entry into the city.
This was indeed a great victory. After paying the price of more than 10,000 people, the army of the Dahua Empire finally rushed into the urban area of Xicong and launched a cruel and **** street battle with the Tang army.
Despite the fierce artillery fire of the Tang Army and the heroic fighting of the Tang Army, the Dahua Army still achieved initial results regardless of the cost.
Although a lot of time was wasted in the Battle of Lijiacun, in the Battle of Xicong, the Dahua army seemed to have caught up a lot of progress.
Time seems to be on the side of Dahua again. The Tang army is obviously at the end of its rope, and everything is progressing according to the planned timetable.
However, there is a lot of bad news. For example, Qian Jinhang's troops have suffered too many losses and cannot continue to maintain this desperate offensive momentum.
If it had not been constantly replenishing and maintaining an offensive combat status, Qian Jinhang's troops would have collapsed long ago.
The troops suffered huge losses, it became difficult to replenish ammunition as they moved further away from the supply depot, and the weather was bad. In short, the morale of the Dahua army had begun to decline.
“The ammunition is consumed too much, and the new recruits’ combat effectiveness is not enough...” Qian Jinhang put down his binoculars and complained to an officer standing behind him.
"General, don't worry! The reinforcements have arrived at Lijiacun, two divisions! You can continue the attack soon." The officer said nonchalantly, clasping his hands behind his back and looking down at the mud on his boots.
This is a prince, the biological brother of Emperor Zhao Kai, and he is the biological brother of the same father and mother. He worked hard to help Zhao Kai fight for the throne, so he won Zhao Kai's trust.
Zhao Chen didn’t care about losing two to three thousand people every day. He was more concerned about the mud on the expensive leather boots on his feet.
"Your Majesty, although there are millions of troops on the southern front, there are more than 400,000 in front of Xicong. This kind of long snake formation always makes people feel that it is not very safe." Qian Jinhang looked worried. I hope the prince in front of me will go back and remind the eldest brother sitting on the throne to stop micromanaging.
The current military plan to attack the Tang Dynasty was drawn up with the intervention of His Majesty the Emperor, who knew nothing about anything. Everything seemed reasonable, but there was a whiff of wishful thinking everywhere.
The plan is sure that the Tang Kingdom will be affected by the disaster and languish. The plan is sure that the weather in the Tang Kingdom will continue to be bad. The plan is sure that the Tang Kingdom will fall into the unfavorable situation of a three-front war. The plan is also sure that the Great China Empire will become the final winner.
But Qian Jinhang, a frontline general, knew that the Tang State was not as weak as the Great China Empire originally imagined, and the implementation of the offensive plan was also very different from what was planned.
The original plan was to use 200,000 to 300,000 men to break into Xicong, deal with the Tang army, and then attack Sishui eastward. Finally, the battle line was advanced to the vicinity of Sishui, and the terrain advantage was used to stabilize it, threatening Tongcheng and forcing the Tang state to surrender.
However, because the resistance of the Tang Army was very successful, Dahua had to concentrate more troops to break through the Tang Army's defense.
In this way, the Dahua army in the direction of Xicong seems to be too much—a full half a million! Almost half of the troops assembled by Dahua gathered around Xicong.
What's more terrible is that this may not be the final number. As the war progressed, in order to quickly deal with Xicong and then attack Sishui to the east, Zhao Kai ordered troops to be mobilized from various places, preparing to increase the number of troops in the direction of Xicong to 700,000 to 800,000!
With such a large number of troops, the required logistics support system cannot be satisfied by the preparations originally planned.
So adding more troops is not necessarily a good thing, at least not until the supply problem is solved.
As the war progresses, the frontline troops of the Dahua Empire have clearly felt that their own artillery support is not as fierce as it was in the first few days of the war.
The artillery shells are being fired less and less, and the caliber is getting smaller and smaller, which makes the attack of Dahua troops more and more weak. If it were not for the street fighting in recent days, these situations may have become more obvious.
There is no other way. It is much more difficult to transport one 300 mm caliber artillery shell to the front than two 150 mm caliber artillery shells.
In order to transport and supply rations for hundreds of thousands of people, as well as ammunition for individual soldiers, and supplementary new soldiers, the already fragile logistics supplies of the Dahua Army have been overwhelmed for many days.
If it were not for the high quality and sufficient quantity of railways in the Tang State, the Dahua Empire's offensive force itself might have collapsed.
"If you can capture Xicong as soon as possible, these problems will not be a problem." Prince Zhao Chen raised his head and looked at the city with black smoke under the clouds in the distance.
The rain has just stopped, the air is still full of moist smell, and the city in the distance finally begins to smoke, all of which makes people feel relaxed and happy. "I heard that the rain in the south has decreased a lot. How is the situation over there in Chu?" Qian Jinhang was unwilling to mention his attack, so he changed the topic.
He really didn't want to say anything more. I heard that the commander opposite was a general named Tiger, an officer under Fisherow, a nobleman from the North Ridge of the Wright Empire.
However, he later followed Tang Mo and never gained much fame. However, after Qian Jinhang faced this Tiger, he realized that he was definitely a famous general in the world.
The opponent's tactics are not fierce, but give people a quite satisfactory feeling. All the plans and arrangements seem to be traceable, but the combination seems to be the correct answer as the optimal solution.
The Tiger General's style of mobilizing troops and generals was so steady that it made Qian Jinhang panic. It was a sense of cruel reality that he had seen through everything but could not break free of the shackles.
Qian Jinhang could probably guess what Tiger wanted to do every time, but he just couldn't stop it, and he couldn't take countermeasures. In the end, he could only act according to Tiger's script, and he could even see it The ending Tiger had prepared for him.
This is also the reason why Qian Jinhang is worried about the safety of his two wings: he feels that Tiger is preparing to surround him, and the armored troops in the hands of Redman, another Tang general in the north, are Tiger's life-threatening weapons hanging over Qian Jinhang's head. Sharp blade.
Once the rain stops, the weather improves, and the Tang Dynasty recovers, under the cover of the air force, if Redman's troops quickly launch an attack southward, Qian Jinhang's troops may really be surrounded near Xicong.
At that time, hundreds of thousands of troops will be wiped out, and the southern part of the Dahua Empire will be in a very dangerous situation.
In fact, the Great China Empire was not unprepared. The 200,000 elites borrowed from Qin were actually used to fill the defense line.
Just because of bad weather and transportation capacity, these Qin troops are still on the road, and it will take some time to reach their scheduled location.
Whether the rainfall in Tang State will stop during this period is a metaphysical question.
If God bless the Great China Empire and allow the rain in Tang State to continue, then the Great China Empire does have hope to win this war.
But if the weather conforms to objective laws, and the rain in Tang State has stopped for so long, then the Great China Empire may fall into passivity.
The thing is just like this, but as a party involved, Qian Jinhang felt it more obviously than others.
"Counting on the Chu State? Don't think too much. As long as they can hold back part of the Tang State's troops, they will probably come to us for support if they really fight." Zhao Chen gave his own evaluation disapprovingly.
To be honest, as a prince, Zhao Chen is still very discerning. He is much better than those second-generation officials who are just waiting to die, but he has to maintain his image of a playboy. This is his alternative to his brother." Beloved".
"No matter what, please let Han Zhiyuan hold on to the north...don't let anything happen." Qian Jinhang heard artillery shells flying over his head, and his own artillery began to shell the city in front of him again.
Even though it was wet and the ground was covered with rain, the shells still raised huge plumes of smoke. From a distance, the entire Xicong seemed to be shrouded in the powerful firepower of the Dahua Empire.
The ground was shaking slightly, and a low and loud noise exploded in the distance. Another battle in the city began with the explosion of artillery shells, and a brutal fight began.
Qian Jinhang couldn't see this. He could only see the black smoke raised by the shells in the city of Xicong. He didn't know how many soldiers rushed out of the ruins and took steps towards the enemy.
On the other side of Xicong, Tiger was also looking at the city from a distance that was destined to be abandoned as a bait in the plan.
A third of it is now in ruins, and in the foreseeable future it is likely that it will all be in ruins and nothing will remain.
After the war, this place will be rebuilt, and a brand new city will be reborn from the ruins. As a hub city for oil pipelines, it will become richer and more brilliant.
But now, the suffering suffered by this city cannot be alleviated at all. The soldiers of the Tang Army stationed in this city with almost no civilians have to stop the Dahua army in this city that has been turned into a fortress for a month!
"Send another division into Xicong! Just the 28th Infantry Division! Remember! Don't fight too fiercely and scare the enemy away! Be weaker and act more realistic to attract the enemy as much as possible. !" Tiger ordered the adjutant behind him without looking back.
"Yes! General!" The adjutant stood at attention and saluted, then grabbed the phone receiver on the table: "Hello? Pick me up from the 28th Infantry Division headquarters."
(End of this chapter)