Chapter 1419: 1420 Impact of Diffusion
The 93rd Army's food shortage rebellion is actually far from over, and a bigger storm is brewing. The Qin army, which was short of food and ammunition on the front line, was waiting to see whether His Majesty the Emperor would give them justice and give them a bright future.
However, the subsequent development of the situation was different from what they expected: first, the aggrieved 93rd Army was completely dismissed, and all its rioting soldiers were punished on the spot to serve as a warning to others.
At once, the hungry soldiers on the front line were filled with resentment. They had nowhere to vent their resentment and could only boil in their chests.
Immediately afterwards, the logistics supplies became worse: although the Qin army's front line was getting closer and closer to their hometown, the supplies they distributed became less and less.
There is no way, the production capacity in the rear cannot keep up, and less and less materials are produced, so naturally they cannot be transported to the front line. The army that cannot get supplies naturally becomes more resentful.
The third thing that made Qin soldiers complain was that the top officials of Qin did not deal with any of the so-called culprits. Hundreds of thousands of tons of food disappeared, and the matter ended like this.
No one cares about the starving soldiers, no one comforts the lives of those who died on the battlefield, and the nobles who have betrayed the country are still singing and dancing in the rear... Who can tolerate this kind of thing?
The soldiers who couldn't swallow this breath met some officers who were deeply influenced by the Tang Empire. The chemical reaction produced was very mysterious.
Sometimes, a country's influence bursts out in such an inconspicuous place and in an inconspicuous way, and ultimately has a huge impact on the situation.
The Tang State has been accepting foreign students from various countries for many years, cultivating military talents for various countries, and even letting these foreign students come into contact with many new theories and new technologies of the Tang Empire. It is not in vain.
On the surface, these people will strengthen their own countries after returning and in turn resist the expansion of the Tang Empire. But in fact, as long as you make good use of these "Knowing Tang Factions", they will play a huge role in unexpected places.
Just imagine, if China’s economy hadn’t been what it used to be, would those public intellectuals influenced by the lighthouse countries have been jumping up and down to control public opinion and stir up feelings of hatred for the country? How many of today's wired electronic pets have been deceived by these public figures?
The Qin State was different. The Qin State really began to become corrupt due to its rapid expansion and rapid defeat. The previous aggressiveness had covered up many problems, but now due to repeated failures, these problems have begun to be exposed.
The invincible Qin State is united, but the weak Qin State is different. How many people who admire Qiang have lost their faith and begun to despair after repeated failures?
While Chen Li was reorganizing his defense in Shahun, another army rebelled! What is different from the last time is that this time this force is an organized and planned rebellion.
Under the command of the officer, the Qin soldiers who had no food to eat performed a beautiful backstab, penetrated their own defenses, took a large number of Qin soldiers who did not know what was happening, and surrendered to the Tang Dynasty.
The defection at the end of the battle suddenly caused huge chaos. The Tang army took the opportunity to launch a rapid attack, and even used special forces and paratroopers to participate in the battle, quickly disrupting the Qin army's deployment.
Following the complete collapse of the Qin Army's defense line, hungry Qin Army soldiers surrendered in large numbers, and the Shahun Defense Line became a joke overnight.
Marshal Tiger, the frontline commander of the Tang Army who originally planned to fight steadily, suddenly changed his strategy and ordered two generals, Strauss and Burton, to advance rapidly.
This marked the beginning of the general offensive in March. More than 300,000 Tang troops stormed forward 110 kilometers day and night, until they broke into Qin's territory, and then stopped. Chen Li, who was preparing to hold on to Shahun, saw that the situation was over, so he could only lead his troops to retreat, abandoning most of the baggage that was finally transported back from Daxiguan, and fled back to Qin in embarrassment.
At this point, all the old areas of the Dahua Empire fell into the hands of the Tang army. The territory of the Tang Empire spanned Dahua and Zheng, from Qi in the north to Shu in the southwest, tens of millions of kilometers long, and extremely vast.
Even with advanced means of transportation like airplanes, it was still not easy to travel from the east to the west of the Tang Empire. Similarly, if you want to go from the north to the south of the Tang Empire, you will need a plane to fly for a long time.
On March 13, the two armies of the Tang Army all crossed the Qin border. Qin Guangmian had become a frontline city. Chen Li was ordered to hold on here and not take a step back.
At the same time, it seems that because of the disastrous defeat of Shahun, Qin took the initiative to abandon Huaishan where it had been fighting for more than 20 days, and the main force of the southern front retreated rapidly into the country.
The remaining Qin army gave up a large area of land and retreated to Shushan City. They built a defense line here and assumed a posture of defending to the lowest level.
At the same time, the Qin army carried out a large-scale purge of officers who had studied in the Tang Dynasty. Thousands of people were affected and killed. The organizational structure of the Qin army, which had finally recovered a little bit of vitality, fell into chaos due to lack of personnel. middle.
Up to this time, the influence of the 93rd Army's rebellion was still continuing. If Ying Duo, Prime Minister Ying Ke, and the big bosses in the army had not realized that the expansion of the problem was destroying the army, I am afraid that the disaster of purging the officers studying in the Tang Dynasty would have lasted for a long time.
The Tang army was attacking the Qin army fiercely, and they had to investigate their own people, and then killed their own people based on guesswork and trivial evidence... This chaos lasted for a few days amid curses and then subsided.
The Qin army, which basically destroyed the Great Wall, gained a firm foothold in Guangmian thanks to the efforts of Chen Li and Zhang Xuan. The Qin army, which fought in the local area to defend the country, also regained some strength and stabilized the front line.
It’s a pity that they have lost too much. They were defeated all the way from Wangdu to Guangmian. The troops on the northern front basically lost all their heavy weapons. The Qin people themselves lost all the money they had managed to save...
After learning that the front line was completely defeated, Emperor Qin Yingduo felt that his head hurt even more. He grabbed the medicine bottle at hand, grabbed a handful of pills and stuffed them into his mouth. After swallowing them, he quickly regained some energy. .
As the things in front of him became blurry and distorted, he felt an intoxicating pleasure. This pleasure made him temporarily forget the pain of failure and put a sick smile on his face.
Unfortunately, happiness is always short-lived, and illusion will eventually fade away. Yingduo, who returned to reality, still had to face the reality that Guangmian was surrounded by Tang troops on three sides.