Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 1030 Chapter 1031
Before an empire perishes, there will always be some tragic heroes.If a dynasty lasted for a hundred years without even cultivating a few loyal ministers and good generals, it would be really weird.

Zhao Chen is the loyal minister of the empire who is dedicated to the Great China Empire and has certain abilities.What he still thinks at this moment is to bring as many troops back to the lower reins as possible.

It's a pity that he is one of the few generals in the Great China Empire who wholeheartedly cares about the country, and in the rising country of the Great Tang Empire, there are too many generals who think like Zhao Chen.

After occupying He Zhe, Luo Xiao, the general of the Tang Empire, immediately realized that his strategy was too shallow, and defending He Zhe might let Zhao Chen, a big fish, go.

So he left 9 troops to garrison He Zhe, and personally led the remaining [-] troops to attack eastward.

Luo Xiao's judgment was this: it was impossible for the troops of the Dahua Empire in the lower direction to go back and fight for He Zhe. If they dared to come back, or if they had the intention to regain He Zhe, they would not have given up He Zhe and retreated in the first place.

Since the Dahua troops in the lower rein direction will not turn around and return eastward, it is impossible for him to fall into the unfavorable situation of being attacked by the enemy on both sides in Hezhe.

Then if it is already certain that the real threat comes from the east, then why don't you take a pre-emptive strike and take the lead in killing the enemy fleeing west while the enemy's foothold is not stable?
According to Luo Xiao's theory, only if he keeps attacking eastward can his strategic depth be long enough, and the opponent's breakthrough along the railway line will be less able to penetrate his control area.

To put it more intuitively, Luo Xiao believes that as long as he can reach the Fengjiang City, the Dahua troops surrounded by Fengjiang City, even if they are broken into pieces, cannot go all the way westward and escape to Xiazhe. .

This is what he planned, and he also did so: Except for a regiment of troops going north along the railway line to the wilderness, Luo Xiao assembled about 9 troops, including the only armored regiment in his hand, and started eastward like this. Enter.

At that time, Zhao Chen's vanguard, which had already arrived around He Zhe, never expected that there would be enemies in front of them.They thought that He Zhe was in the hands of Prince Zhao Ji, so they were not ready for battle at all.

Because in their view, they are "retreating" this time, not a dangerous "breakthrough"!These troops who arrived near Hezhe had neither a security force nor sufficient weapons and ammunition.

After all, when they set off to retreat to He Zhe, Zhao Chen gave the order to retreat to He Zhe, without fighting or carrying sufficient ammunition.

The ammunition that originally belonged to them was left to the rear guard, and they didn't bring much food. They agreed to eat whatever they wanted when they arrived at Hezhe...

In such a state of relaxed vigilance, an army of unknown origin came from the west.Everyone was ignorant, and everyone looked ignorant and didn't know what happened.

So, dizzy by the sudden attack, the Dahua Empire troops near Hezhe started their familiar rhythm: defeat!

Of course, it is impossible for them to flee to the west, because the enemy came from the west!So they chose to retreat eastward, after all, there were hundreds of thousands of their own people behind them.

That afternoon, Luo Xiao ran forward for [-] kilometers. If it weren't for the limited ability of the Fengjiang rebels, Luo Xiao might have advanced another [-] kilometers...

The sadly urged Dahua troops retreated 70 kilometers in one breath before barely gaining a firm foothold. After stabilizing their ground, they counted the losses, and found that there was actually nothing lost at all.

Aside from the fact that thousands of troops were scattered and whether they were wiped out or could not be found for other reasons, the rest of the troops just lost some supplies and equipment.

However, the most important thing they lost was actually the 70 kilometers of strategic depth they reduced by retreating all the way back.

When Zhao Chen rushed from Fengjiang to the western front to personally command, he was almost so angry that he vomited blood: the retreating troops lost their luggage, including precious shells and some food, tents and other camping supplies.

In the absence of supplies, needless to say how precious ammunition is, those lost tents can also be said to be extremely important: now almost all troops have to sleep in the wild, how to set up camp if the tents are lost?

Behind Zhao Chen, the defenders who knew they were going to run away had actually lost almost all the ruins in Fengjiang City. Now Zhao Chen couldn't even turn around and spend the night in the city.

Some troops are still dawdling in the barracks where they were, and their condition is not bad.The troops that had already set off were about to stop before they had traveled ten miles, Zhao Chen didn't even dare to think about that scene.

It took five days for his troops to reach Hezhe City, and now it took only one day to return to the position they had been in three days ago.

The armored troops and the main elite who originally wanted to break out in the direction of He Zhe were blocked on the road and could not gather. The entire retreating army was in a mess, like crabs in a pot, dragging each other's hind legs.

The marching and combat of the large corps itself is a complex matter that pays great attention to the commander's dispatching ability and the level of troop training.Many people were unconvinced, thinking that they would have been able to lead troops and fight in ancient times, but in fact they didn't know how large the camp of 2000 people was spread out.

Can make hundreds of thousands of troops move in an orderly manner, that is already the best commanding talent in the past and present.If it weren't for the leap in communication technology in the modern warfare system, no one could have done it at all.

Zhao Chen was actually the same, he couldn't see the 80 troops under him intuitively at all, he could only control and dispatch the troops in his hand according to the radio communication equipment.

But now, the command and dispatch are in chaos, and the original plan has no reference value at all. The main offensive troops are still blocked in the middle of the cluster, and the rear guard troops have begun to give up their blocking positions.

This is the normal state of dispatch at the level of World War II. Zhao Chen's current state is the reason why the troops quickly collapsed and were wiped out and captured once they were surrounded.

This is the reason why the long shot of the Huangwei Corps advancing in the decisive battle is known as the most spectacular and classic piercing shot in history: Troops that can walk out of such an advancing formation are the best of the best in the world. If the Huangwei Corps had this No one can surround him...

In most cases, there is no need to see the enemy. If something goes wrong, these troops will start to riot by themselves. Sometimes it is not bad to be able to walk more than ten kilometers a day.

"Let the guard troops stop retreating! Stop retreating! Hold your ground! You must hold on until tomorrow evening! You must hold on until tomorrow evening! You can't retreat even one step!" Zhao Chen angrily grabbed the officer in charge of delivering the order, and ordered viciously.

Then he pulled another confidant and threatened sharply: "You go to the 1st Armored Division yourself! Tell them, if they can't reach the westernmost position in three hours, they will fight with the Fengjiang Army! I will send He will be dealt with by military law!"

He doesn't have to worry about anything now, anyway, Zhao Kai has already passed away.No one knows who actually sat in the last position, he, Zhao Chen, can deal with these generals however he wants now!
"Yes! Yes!" The confidant supported the military cap on his head, agreed hastily, and ran out.

When Zhao Chen angrily commanded the troops to move westward, Zhao Yu, who had been trapped in Fengjiang, was resurrected.He can be said to be proud of the spring breeze now, and it really is that even the temperament of his speech is different.

After all, the more obvious the civil strife in the Great Hua Empire, the more likely he would return to the position he had been looking forward to for a long time with the support of the Great Tang Empire.

Now he is dispatching troops in Fengjiang, desperately pressing down on Zhao Chen's troops who have withdrawn from Fengjiang.

At this moment, the beauty of his identity as "the most outstanding prince of the Dahua Empire" came to light: the Dahua troops, who were theoretically desperate, began to surrender to him, the prince of Dahua, in an organized way.

It was also because of the good propaganda of the Tang Empire that these Dahua troops knew that the best way out might be to follow Zhao Yu, so they made the most "wise" choice by coincidence.

In the beginning, troops at the battalion and company level surrendered, and then began to develop into a whole regiment or a whole division.More and more troops surrendered, spreading and affecting Zhao Chen's entire rear guard.

Zhao Chen was still busy breaking through to the west, and the troops behind him began to disappear in an organized manner: By the time Zhao Chen found out, Zhao Yu's army had already caught up and bit Zhao Chen's tail tightly.

"This Luo Xiao is really a lucky general." Almost at the same time, in the general staff of the Great Tang Empire, Tang Mo, the Emperor of the Great Tang Empire who attended the meeting, looked at the map on the west side of the Fengjiang River and laughed.

Marshal Redman and Marshal Tiger who participated in the meeting also laughed, and Marshal Loew joked, "When he was attacking Shanping, Shanping's guard, Zhao Zheng, surrendered. He took advantage of it."

"When he fought Guiguang, Guiguang surrendered, and he took another advantage." Admiral Strauss, who was sitting by the side, couldn't help but added with a smile.

Admiral Bolton next to Strauss also said: "When he was fighting Wanliang, the defenders of Wanliang surrendered, and he took another advantage."

Sometimes I have to envy a person's luck. Luo Xiao won Gui Guang and was promoted to major general. Now that he has made continuous contributions and encircled Zhao Chen's group, he can already be said to be a rising star.

"Now that he has taken He Zhe, he picked it up for nothing, hahaha." Tang Mo was in a very good mood and laughed again.

"Then Your Majesty, the order to promote him?" Marshal Tiger asked after laughing enough.

Tang Mo answered his question very graciously: "There is nothing to say. If you win, you win. If you want to be promoted, you will be promoted! But he still needs to train hard, be promoted to lieutenant general, and give him the 8th Army!"

"Yes!" Tiger immediately agreed.The position of the commander of the 8th Army has been hanging in the air. No one thought that it was the young general Luo Xiao who won the first place.

"Zhao Chen, I want to live! I like such a courtier very much, if not, let Feng Kezhi or Qian Jinhang go again!" Tang Mo added the order with a thought of saving materials.

"Like Wang Yucai, he has worked in the household department of the Dahua Empire for so many years. He is definitely an economics talent. Putting him in the financial department can help Alice a lot. Chen Jing can also help Matthews or Parker to make up for it. The problem of their lack of administrative ability. Not to mention Chu Muzhou, the prime minister is talented, mature and prudent, and he is very suitable to be the vice chancellor of the empire." Tang Mo is very familiar with some officials of the Dahua Empire.

The Tang Empire is short of talents, and lacks older and stable talents.Although these talents from the old era have nothing to recommend them in terms of innovation ability, it is indeed a very good choice for them to help the young officials of the Tang Empire.

As long as there is nothing wrong with their conduct, these talents who have been officials for many years still have many magical uses.Facts have proved that the officials of the Great China Empire are not all mediocre.

For example, Qian Jinhang who is currently serving in the General Staff Headquarters, Feng Kezhi, the commander of the Ninth Army, Lu Qianshan and Bai Fei, and many former officials of Zheng Guo and Qi Guo among the middle-level cadres of the Tang Empire.

They are all very good. If they weren't really worthy of use, then there wouldn't be the growing power of the local faction today, wouldn't it?

"I understand." The marshals and generals at the meeting agreed one after another.

"So, get them back to me!" Tang Mo stood up and ended the meeting: "No one can be too careful, or I will be very angry."

"Long live my emperor!" Everyone stood up and stood at attention to salute.

"Long live the empire!" Tang Mo waved his hand and walked out of the meeting room.

(End of this chapter)