Chapter 936: 937 Fengjiang suburbs
Chapter 936 937 Fengjiang Suburbs
Compared with the peace and tranquility in the Tang Empire, the Xifeng River in the Great China Empire was already a real battlefield.
Zhao Chen's recent results made Zhao Ji, who was supervising the battle on the front line, very satisfied because he really felt Zhao Chen's eagerness and efforts.
In other words, when the troops of the Dahua Empire attacked, they really tried their best: hundreds of people were killed and injured every day, and the reserve medicines were consumed at a rate that was visible to the naked eye.
Despite this, Zhao Ji still sent a telegram to his father Zhao Kai. In the telegram, he praised Zhao Chen for his hard work and also praised himself.
Zhao Kai was of course delighted by Long Yan, and immediately commended Zhao Chen again... Of course, along with the commendation order, there was also an order in Zhao Chen's hands urging him to seize Fengjiang as soon as possible.
Even without Zhao Kai's order, Zhao Chen knew that he should seize Fengjiang at all costs. He pushed all the troops he could mobilize to the front line and pushed desperately towards the suburbs of Fengjiang.
In order to better appease Zhao Kai, or to better shut up Zhao Ji, a layman, Zhao Chen's tactics were very direct and targeted.
He did not outflank Fengjiang from both wings and compress Fengjiang's strategic space. Instead, he rushed towards Fengjiang City in a relatively small area.
In this way, in the battle report, he can tell Zhao Ji very intuitively, and tell Zhao Kai behind Zhao Ji a piece of data: Our army still has a few kilometers left from Fengjiang.
This data can shut up Zhao Ji and Zhao Kai who are far away in the imperial capital. However, the disadvantage is that this style of play is equivalent to creating a protrusion.
The positions on both wings were still under the control of the Fengjiang defenders, but the Dahua army built a protrusion about 8 kilometers long along the railway that pointed toward Fengjiang.
Although the Fengjiang defenders did not have the energy to launch a pincer offensive against the troops commanded by Zhao Chen and surrounded the Chinese army rushing towards Fengjiang City, they still controlled both wings of Fengjiang.
The current situation is that the Dahua Army is indeed getting closer to Fengjiang, but no one knows the significance of this protrusion.
Just today, the troops of the Great Chinese Army finally reached the edge of Fengjiang City: what stood in front of them was no longer wilderness-like hills, but a small farm.
A very simple-looking fence surrounded several small houses. These houses had been destroyed by artillery fire, and all that was left in place were some half-collapsed wreckage.
The jubilant Dahua troops continued their attack. Under the cover of a Type 3 tank, the soldiers launched an attack on the farm.
On a battlefield full of craters, the Fengjiang defenders defending here were a group of dwarf mercenaries. They did not retreat, but relied on the craters and the communication trenches between the craters to launch a counterattack.
These dwarf soldiers were originally the regular army of the Ice Empire, and their fighting will was still very tenacious: because if they died in battle here, they would receive the Tang Empire's death compensation standard. If they died, they would be paid far away in the Ice Empire. The family members will be financially free for almost their entire lives.
"Charge! For His Majesty the Emperor!" Officer Dahua shouted loudly, and led his soldiers under the cover of tanks to rush towards the trenches that did not look very strong.
The dwarves were concealed at first. They did not fire hastily, but let the Type 3 tank drive past their defense line.
Seizing the fighter plane that was a little far away from the infantry and tanks attacking the Dahua Empire, the dwarves caught these Dahua soldiers off guard.
A dwarf soldier holding a long pole rushed towards the Type 3 tank and pressed the magnetic anti-tank bomb fixed on one end of the pole against the side of the tank.
He was quickly beaten into pieces by the Dahua soldiers who were covering the tank in the distance, but then the anti-tank bomb detonated. The jet formed by the explosion penetrated the thin side armor of the Type 3 tank and detonated the shell inside. .
A huge explosion blew off the tank's turret. With this explosion, the dwarves' counterattack began.
“Hurrah!” In hysterical cries, the dwarves rushed towards their enemies with Mosin-Nagant rifles. The Dahua soldiers with bayonets were not polite and immediately got entangled with the dwarves who fought back.
“Thud, tug, tug, tug!” The dwarf soldiers holding Bobosha submachine guns fired at the Dahua soldiers. On the side of the Dahua soldiers, there were also people holding various captured submachine guns and wildly pouring bullets at the dwarf soldiers. People on both sides fell, and the remaining people were mixed together with shining bayonets. There were sounds of fighting and shouts for mercy everywhere.
The sound of blood spraying, the sound of bayonets hitting, cries and muffled groans were intertwined together to form a creepy symphony.
The dwarf wearing an M35 steel helmet shouted Ula and held a Mosin-Nagant rifle. This scene is indeed a bit dumbfounding. It's a pity that the only person in the world who knows the sense of contradiction is Tang Mo, so everyone doesn't understand this joke at all.
Therefore, after this sense of disobedience is gone, there are only brutal killings and **** battles left here.
When you run out of bullets, use a bayonet. If the bayonet is lost, use a shovel or a helmet stone. In the end, both sides even used their teeth and fists directly.
When the second Type 3 tank tried to enter the battlefield, an Ilyushin attack aircraft destroyed it in the sky. This allowed the battle to continue. Both sides felt that they would be the victors today, so both sides invested new troops to compete for this position that was actually meaningless.
This place is very flat, and there are no important facilities. There is not even a machine gun bunker here. It is just a farm and a ruin.
But it seemed to have special significance to both sides, so soon an infantry company of dwarf mercenaries arrived here and joined the battle.
Dahua was not to be outdone. They asked a new infantry company to rush forward, and then sent an additional company to try to overwhelm the dwarves in numbers.
There were corpses everywhere on the battlefield, but the battle still did not subside. The fighting lasted from noon to evening. Eventually, the remaining dwarf troops began to retreat, leaving behind more than 300 corpses and essentially an entire infantry battalion.
The Dahua Empire also suffered heavy losses. They lost at least 400 people, and more than 100 people were injured. Such losses almost crippled the two battalions, but they still felt that they were winners.
Because at supper time they occupied the farm. It may be meaningless simply to look at this position, but if you look at it as a building in the suburbs of Fengjiang, the meaning is different.
Zhao Chen sent a telegram to Zhao Kai overnight. The content of the telegram was that his troops had attacked Fengjiang City!
The "distance between our army and Fengjiang" that Zhao Kai, Zhao Ji and everyone in the Dahua Empire's court was very concerned about was finally cleared by Zhao Chen!
That's right, now he can tell Zhao Kai very accurately that the distance between his troops and Fengjiang is zero! It’s zero!
That night, regardless of the disadvantages of the night battle, Zhao Chen suddenly launched an attack and advanced about 500 meters, really pushing the battle line to some buildings on the outskirts of Fengjiang.
Then, in the early morning of the next day, in order to ensure the safety of both wings, Zhao Chen ordered an attack on both wings and expanded the width of his salient to about 10 kilometers.
Although this is still a protrusion, at least on the map, it is already a huge enough protrusion.
On the same day, Zhao Yu, who was frightened in Fengjiang, moved his "command headquarters" to the underground bunker of the fort on the easternmost side of Fengjiang.
These forts are built with the strongest reinforced concrete, with a 380mm caliber cannon turret on top. Naturally, there is no need to talk about their safety.
The battle lasted for more than a month, and the shells of these giant cannons were almost exhausted, so they did not worry about the risk of being killed by explosions, so they just used the underground bunkers as their headquarters.
What makes Zhao Yu even more reassured is that as long as he crosses the river by boat, the other side is the territory of the Tang State, which is absolutely safe.
In the city of Fengjiang on the west side, the dwarf troops, goblin troops, and human mercenary troops who had just arrived in Fengjiang began to move into the ruins and buildings along the city of Fengjiang. At the edge of the area, a new line of defense was launched.
The Fengjiang troops deployed on both wings also shrank back slightly, giving up part of their defensive positions. A large number of troops began to retreat into Fengjiang City, and then strengthened the city's defense lines.
It is no exaggeration to say that the military advisors of the Tang Empire planned to turn the city of Fengjiang into the Stalingrad of this planet.
(End of this chapter)