Chapter 1319: 1320The bigger one is coming
"What!" Ying'an jumped up from his chair, stared at Loew's face, and froze in disbelief, unable to even continue to ask.
He never expected that the emperor of the Lions Empire, the farthest country participating in the war, would become the first emperor of the Tang Empire to be captured!
Comparatively, the Great Qin Empire has been fighting fiercely until now, and the battlefield is still in the Dahua area. Although the scene is ugly, it has not completely collapsed... This is simply a miracle.
"Don't be so excited! I, the Tang Empire Navy Admiral Lu Qianshan, called to confirm that we will annihilate the main force of the Lanes naval fleet and capture alive the Lanes Empire Emperor Lanes I." Loew calmly repeated what he just said, and also said some more detail.
In fact, before this battle, few generals from several countries in the world knew that there was a person like Lu Qianshan. Even for those who are well-informed and well-informed, their memory of Lu Qianshan may still be limited to the impression of "Border General of the State of Zheng".
No one knows that this "unknown" general who transferred from the army to the navy will achieve the great achievement of "annihilating the enemy fleet" and "capturing the enemy emperor alive" when he alone leads a fleet in a naval battle for the first time?
"Isn't your Admiral Bernard? He is unwell and did not personally command the fleet to attack?" Ying'an still knew something about the military commanders of the Tang Empire.
He knew that the most powerful commander of the Tang Empire's navy was Marshal Bernard. After all, the Tang Empire only had three marshals until now.
"Oh, this is what I will tell you next...Marshal Bernard personally commanded the main force of the Imperial Navy to go south and annihilate the combined fleet composed of the Qin Empire and the Dorne Empire...your three aircraft carriers and Dorne's seven aircraft carriers sank. ..." Loew added.
As the chief of the imperial general staff, he certainly knows the results of all battles. Now the Tang Empire has almost stabilized the situation, and the war situation in all directions is beneficial to the Tang state.
In fact, as Emperor Tang Mo of the Tang Dynasty held a press conference to announce these results, the Binghan Empire, Yangmu Empire and the goblins on the mirage island who were about to make moves in the north immediately became honest.
They were so lucky that the battle was over before they even drew their swords. These countries can now continue to sit on the sidelines and wait for a real result to be released.
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!" Ying'an was already dumbfounded. He simply did not believe that the combined fleet, which seemed to be the most powerful in the plan, was wiped out so quickly.
Somewhat understanding the other party's mood, Loew walked up to Ying'an, reached out and patted his shoulder twice: "I understand, you may not be able to accept it...but it doesn't matter, I will send you to the imperial capital Chang'an soon. … You’ll definitely see Ryans I there.”
"You can communicate more..." Loew walked out of the room after saying: "The dishes are cold, eat them quickly, and don't give them away to me."
Ying'an, who was standing there, was still in the mood to continue eating. All he could think about now was "Qin is over"...
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“Impossible! Absolutely impossible!” Yingduo waved his hand and shouted with a smile after hearing the news that the Lions Empire fleet was destroyed and the emperor’s life or death was uncertain.
He was unwilling to believe that such a thing would happen. From the bottom of his heart, he was unwilling to admit that the overall situation of the three countries uniting to attack the Tang State had collapsed. "Your Majesty! No matter what, the combined fleet has really suffered heavy losses..." Prime Minister Ying Ke reminded from the side.
The chief of staff of the combined fleets of the two countries, who later succeeded the commander-in-chief John Cleeves, and commanded the subsequent operations, Mike Ravel is still alive. His identity has been confirmed. After he was fished ashore, he reported Definite news of the fleet's destruction.
In fact, with the exception of the destroyer Courage, all 73 warships of various types in the entire fleet were sunk. In addition, Qin also boarded several submarines.
Qingluan Port was attacked by Tang military carrier-based aircraft. The entire Shu coastline was full of loopholes and reinforcements were needed everywhere. Qin's senior officials were anxious for a while and had been arguing about this for a long time.
Finally, in order to protect its maritime borders, Qin had no choice but to deploy more than 200 aircraft to strengthen the defense of coastal areas. But these forces are scattered over such a long coastline, and they are still a drop in the bucket.
Therefore, in the days to come, Qin will send more troops to the coastline every day, mobilize troops, and deploy heavy weapons and equipment...and these are undoubtedly draining the blood of the frontline troops! It is weakening the front-line combat power!
"I know!" Ying Duo interrupted Prime Minister Ying Ke's words unhappily. He was already subconsciously escaping from matters related to the combined fleet.
"There can't be any worse news!" He ended the meeting impatiently, stood up and walked out: "Just write a report about the navy and give it to me! Strengthen the defense near the old capital. , is what we should be most concerned about right now!”
No one could have imagined that an even bigger stimulus would follow early the next morning: the leaderless and dying Dongqing defenders finally chose to surrender after being bombarded for several days.
Hundreds of thousands of troops surrendered their weapons, and like the Qin army near Xiajian, they began to build prisoner of war camps for themselves.
Dongqing was preserved. The oil pipeline from Dongqing to Heishui, the smelting plant, chemical plant and oil refinery on the outskirts of Dongqing were not damaged and were handed over to the Tang army intact.
For the Tang army, the greatest significance of this surrender was to preserve the railway line between Dongqing and Xiajian. Now, the engineers of the Tang Army only need simple repairs to reconnect the railway line between Hezhe and Dongqing.
With the support of this railway line and other roads, the Tang Army's logistical supply problem was fundamentally solved, and the Tang Army's frontline troops were on the move again.
This time, their attack suddenly encountered unprecedented difficulties: on the outskirts of the Qin army's defense line on both wings of the old capital, the Tang army encountered a minefield and actually dug up mines.
For Qin and Tang, this was a very bad event: both countries are parties to the ban on weapons, and landmines are one of the banned weapons.
Now, Qin has blatantly violated the treaty it signed, which has touched the bottom line of the Tang Empire.
Soon, Tang State held a press conference to confirm to the outside world that the Qin army had used landmines. Public opinion was in an uproar for a while, because the last time Mirage openly violated the treaty, it paid a heavy price.
Now, it’s Qin’s turn.