Chapter 1370: 1371 Tang army entered Shu
Chapter 1370 1371 The Tang army entered Shu
Why not invest so many troops in the battle to enter Shu city? Because there is no... time does not allow it, this is Qin's embarrassment.
They could only fill the subsequent troops into larger holes, and then be crushed by the Tang army with larger millstones. In order to maintain the front, they had to continue to recruit more troops to do the same thing.
In fact, there are not that many newly trained troops at all. There are hundreds of thousands of troops, but most of these troops have been dispersed, most are still on the road, and only a small number can reach the front line.
Entering the Qin Army's position south of Shu City, a general named Ying Qing received his own letter of appointment and an order: As a relative of the emperor, he was temporarily promoted and appointed commander-in-chief of the northern theater of Shu, commanding the front line. All troops.
According to the plan, his authority was frighteningly large. He had the power to report directly to Emperor Qin Yingduo, and the scale of his command troops was also unprecedented.
It's just that those are all things used to deceive people on paper. In fact, as a general who has been commanding the Qin army near Shu, he knows best how much stuff he has in his hands.
The Qin army originally had only a few hundred thousand troops entering Shu, but they were surrounded by Tang troops and captured at least 200,000 troops in the city. Now the total number of remaining troops is less than 300,000.
The number of troops promised to support later sounds like 700,000, but those are just cakes drawn by Emperor Qin.
In fact, the total number of Qin troops that have begun to reinforce the northern theater of Shu is only 70,000 or 80,000. This is the limit that Qin can mobilize.
With these 70,000 to 80,000 troops, part of the troops that were to be sent to the Shu coastline were moved out and temporarily strengthened for him.
Yingqing certainly knew the quality of these 70,000 to 80,000 people. They were all new recruits and even lacked the backbone to support the army. The most qualified officers in these units are almost always drawn from the units stationed on the second line.
It is very dangerous to count on these troops. They can only be used as reserves to fill the defense line and be consumed. If used on a large scale, they will definitely be defeated and even affect the battle situation.
Zhang Xuan is a famous general of the Qin State who has been famous for a long time. However, Zhang Xuan's troops asked for 200,000 reinforcements but only received less than 30,000. How can he win the Qing Dynasty and get the Qin Emperor to gather 700,000 reinforcements for him? Impossible, absolutely impossible.
So Yingqing actually knew that he could only have less than 400,000 men at most, and the Tang army he had to block had more than this number.
As long as he can count, he can almost guess something: the Tang army invested more than 200,000 troops in attacking Shu, and these troops only had a small amount of armored troops.
Proportionally speaking, the Tang Army must have had a large armored force following the Tang Army that attacked Shu City.
His guess was correct. In fact, the Tang State was building roads and making final preparations for the 1st Armored Group Army to rampage in Shu.
If Yingqing has enough troops, the most important thing he should do now is to counterattack immediately, recapture Shu, and block this hole, so as to shorten the defense line to the maximum extent and maintain the security of his flanks.
But he didn't... let alone attack, he couldn't even defend well now: 300,000 Qin troops were scattered and had no mobility, it was very difficult to maintain the front line, and the reserves were very few.
They have no heavy weaponry, almost no tanks, and air support is a joke. Even if they were ordered to retreat, it would only be an ugly escape. Being unable to defeat and move became the Qin Army's greatest sorrow at this moment.
Yingqing knew that his biggest support now was actually the remnants of the Qin army who had entered Shu city and were still resisting sporadically. If these remaining soldiers are cleared away, then Luo Xiao's army will definitely start to move south. When the time comes, his defense will collapse in an instant.
The actual situation was faster than Yingqing expected: the Tang army did not start moving south after wiping out the Qin army that entered Shu City.
Luo Xiao's troops were very fast and he directly commanded the troops to start an assault southward. Although they were only infantry, they were still very fast.
The Qin army could not resist and had to give up its defense line. In three days, Yingqing lost 14 villages and two small towns in a row, almost losing all the positions it could lose.
What annoyed Yingqing even more was that the battle was in chaos because his troops had lost their determination to fight to the death.
In order to avoid responsibility, some troops lied about seeing Tang troops with different numbers, which greatly interfered with Ying Qing's judgment.
In fact, the Tang Army was not in a hurry to invest the elite 1st Armored Group Army in this direction, but Yingqing had already judged that the Tang Army had used its reserves.
This was like a bolt from the blue. Ying Qing felt that he could no longer hold on, but the Tang army actually sent fresh troops. This frightened him, and he gave up more positions overnight, retreating to the edge of Shushan's defense line before stopping.
In this way, it is equivalent to giving up a large amount of territory and giving the Tang army a protrusion into Shu.
The Tang army could use this protrusion to back-stab Zhang Xuan directly to the east, or to threaten the connection between Qin and Shu to the west. Of course, they could also continue to penetrate the Shushan defense line to the south...
The furious Ying Duo ordered Ying Qing to be executed and replaced with a general named Ying Xu. It can be seen that this is another clan general, which shows that Yingduo has some psychological problems.
Yingxu is luckier than Yingqing. He has the Shushan defense line at his back, so he has some support. Although most of the Qin army had been wiped out at this moment, the remaining troops still relied on the mountains to stabilize their position.
Coupled with the fact that the Qin State urgently sent tens of thousands of troops to support Sun Guang to the Shushan defense line, the situation was somewhat stabilized. Luo Xiao was not prepared to go deep alone, so he temporarily stopped the attack.
But the problem still exists: Zhang Xuan's flanks have been threatened, and the connection between Qin and Shu is also at risk of being cut off.
So...how Qin will break the situation has become the key to the next step. Now, Emperor Qin Yingduo had to find the message from Zhang Xuan again, and carefully considered the possibility of giving up the Chu Territory.
He had to admit that if Zhang Xuan's troops were finished and Qin's last seemingly intact group was annihilated, the war would be almost over. By then, he, the Emperor of Qin, might really have to go to his son-in-law to become an idle prince!
This is unacceptable to Yingduo. He wants to continue to hold on and look forward to seeing if he can end this war that is not honorable no matter how he looks at it.
The premise is that he must block the Tang army! Let Tang Jun stop...
(End of this chapter)