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Chapter 581 Chapter 581 The collapse of Qi
Near the Donghe Bridge, Xiang Ziyu was lying in the trench, looking boredly at the front Qi troops launched another attack.

They rushed forward in a dense mass, and then were pressed back by machine guns.The sound of the tearing machine was continuous, making it impossible for the troops of the Qi army to approach.

The Maxim heavy machine guns equipped with the Qi army are not equipped with shields and wheels. They are improved lightweight versions. Although they are easier to transport and carry, they also lose the ability to attack frontally.

Without the cover of an anti-shield, it is a very difficult task to lift the heavy machine gun against the sniper to within the range of the enemy's machine gun and fire back.

Without the cover of heavy artillery, it is very difficult to capture a blockhouse, especially a thick and high fortress like a bridgehead.

However, Tang Jun is not without pressure. They don't have much ammunition, and it is difficult to replenish, so they have to save ammunition.

The two sides fought fiercely until the afternoon, and then this army of Qi State, which had never seen the Tang State Air Force, witnessed a real strategic bombing.

Tang's flying fortress bombers bombed the Qi army deployed along the railway in a dense formation, making the Qi army's heavy weapons stuck halfway and unable to deploy to the Donghe Bridge in the first place.

The second prince also knew the news that his way forward was blocked, he rushed to the front line himself, and then realized that his troops were blocked on the way back to Wangcheng.

It would be easy if the rebels from Qi State were in front, but it would be different if the Tang army blocked the Donghe Bridge.

He had to work hard to break through here, because this was the only chance for him to return to Wangcheng to become the king of Qi and master the orthodoxy of law.

So he personally returned to the bombed railway section, personally supervised the Qi army behind him, got down the paralyzed cannon on the railway, and tried his best to transport it to Donghe Bridge to join the war.

Just as the second prince was trying to get his troops to regain the Donghe Bridge and open up the road ahead, another tank unit of the 4th Armored Division rushed into King Qi's City.

Meeting almost no resistance, they seized the outlying positions of Wangcheng.After only a simple bargain, Qi's troops stationed on the wall of the king's city handed over their weapons.

Without the knowledge of the remaining ministers in the city, the dragon flag of the Tang Dynasty had already been hung outside the city wall.

In the industrial area on the outskirts, Qi Guo workers who were going to work were surprised to see Tang Jun trucks driving into their factory area one after another.

Tang Jun wearing a helmet is easy to identify, not to mention the red dragon flags painted on the hoods and roofs of these trucks.

Everything was business as usual, and the Tang military officer who came to promote the policy assured everyone that the Tang army would not threaten the personal safety of any civilians.

At the same time, in the royal city, Tang Jun's tanks swaggered on the streets, frightening the civilians of Qi who were still in the dark.

They only vaguely knew that the Tang army seemed to have captured Nanye, but they never expected that the Tang army had already reached the core of the Qi country so soon.

It can also be seen from here that as the paratroopers killed the main decision-makers of Qi State, the remaining Qi State officials' ability to control the entire country has collapsed.

Their structure is too small, apart from setting up a new King Qi to divide the cake, they are unable to resist powerful external forces at all.

Even these officials couldn't even control the royal city where they were, and they didn't even have the ability to make the soldiers stand firm for a while.

The officials who were still thinking about letting the first prince come back to inherit the great rule, or let the second prince come back to preside over the overall situation, didn't realize that they were finished until they saw Tang Jun's tanks parked at the gate of King Qi's palace.

Not surprisingly, the officials of Wangcheng did not have the courage to sacrifice their lives for their kingdom.So they chose to surrender and chose to cooperate with the new ruler.

They were even willing to take the tokens from the royal city and rush to the northern part of Nanye non-stop, announcing the news that the royal city had been breached to the Imperial Guard troops who were besieged there.

Ever since, on the night when King Qi's city was breached, the besieged 1 guards elite chose to lay down their weapons and surrender.

Half of the Qi State has been completely wiped out so far. Without any resisting troops from Qi State, the logistics line of the Tang Army is completely safe, and even the railway has been repaired.

As if overnight, Qi's resistance collapsed in a daze. King Qi chose to surrender without firing a single shot, and the paratroopers standing behind the Donghe Bridge were no longer threatening.

What's even more exaggerated is that the decomposed corpse of Qi Wang Jiangxian, who was finally transported back to Wangcheng, became the trophy of the Tang army again.

When Qi's 2nd Army pulled the heavy artillery near the Donghe Bridge, Tang's 4th Armored Division also pulled the cannon captured near the Qi King City to the Donghe Bridge to support the paratroopers.

The battle suddenly became magical. The Tang army used the cannons of the Qi State to bombard the cannons of the Qi State. Because it was backed by the military factory, the shells were more abundant and more convenient to transport. The firepower was even stronger than that of the 2nd Army of the Qi State from afar. more fierce.

The second prince was stunned immediately. After confirming that the royal city had been lost, he led the second army to retreat in a panic, and fled to the relatively safe Beiyuan City without hesitation.

The embarrassing thing is that the 2th Armored Division of the Tang Army, who was about to pursue the 4nd Army non-stop, just crossed the Donghe Bridge and did not go far to the east. They found that the railway had been broken by bombers. They really couldn't catch up and lost all their luggage. Qi Guorunning Man.

So the 4th Armored Division could only wait for the engineers to come to repair the railway, and it took three days for the result.

Three days later, the day lily was cold, and the second prince's main force had already run away, and the 4th Armored Division also received a new order to wait near the Donghe Bridge.

After fighting at Donghe Bridge for seven or eight days, they executed the mission perfectly, and the paratroopers of Tang State who also killed King Qi were ordered to hand over their positions, and then went to King Qi City to rest.

This heroic army enjoyed a rare holiday: each of them received a large reward, and the bounty was paid by the state treasury of Qi State...

In the city of King Qi, who surrendered without firing a single shot, all supplies were preserved.Including the treasury of Qi State, Tang Jun seized so many things here that it is staggering.

This is the accumulation of a kingdom for a hundred years, and it is just a treasure in the palace treasury, which is enough to describe it as priceless.

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The troops of the Qi State near Luozhen no longer launched an offensive. They built fortifications on the spot, but their determination to hold on was long gone.

Because they can no longer normally obtain enough supplies from behind themselves, and even... no one cares about their lives.

When Qin Xiong was retreating, he didn't expect the Qi's defenders who were left here to fight to the end, so he didn't arrange the logistics troops to continue to provide sufficient supplies for these troops.

He just left in such a hurry, with the remnants of the 1st and 3rd armies, and some relatively complete troops that maintained their combat effectiveness.

The remaining Qi troops are basically miscellaneous brands with incomplete organizational systems, low combat effectiveness, and insufficient training.

On the second day after the eldest prince decided to retreat, the 1st Armored Division of the Tang Army launched an attack on the flank of the remaining Qi army.

Liu Guozhu's troops rushed forward for 60 kilometers in one breath, and almost surrounded the defenders of Qi State near Luozhen on three sides.

At the same time, the Eldest Prince and Qin Xiong took their remnants of the defeated generals all the way eastward, and killed the Second Prince's original defense area.

Before leaving here, the Qi army snatched all the food that could be found in the entire defense zone, killed the civilians who refused to cooperate, and did all the bad things they could do.

They didn't plan to come back at all, or they never thought that they would be able to fight back one day - the southern part of Qi State, in the eyes of the eldest prince, can basically be regarded as the territory of Tang State.

Wars are often like this: at the beginning, evenly matched fights are fought back and forth, and as one side runs out of supplies and the situation collapses, everything that follows suddenly becomes magical.

On the second day after the Second Prince withdrew to Beiyuan City, in the southern area of ​​Qi State, the troops of the First Prince incorporated some Qi State’s motley troops who stayed behind in the original Second Prince’s defense area, and then fought with some small troops loyal to the Second Prince. fire.

Qi's internal conflict started when such a foreign enemy invaded, and it became out of control in just one day.

Both Qin Xiong and the eldest prince knew that what troubled them now was not that they had too few troops, but that their supplies were insufficient.

If too many troops are taken in, it becomes a huge drag on them.So they didn't intend to recruit the troops discarded by the second prince at all, but planned to take away all the supplies of these troops.

Of course, it was impossible for the remaining troops to watch the eldest prince take away their food and ammunition, so they took up arms.

It is a pity that there are really not many Qi troops who can beat the elite 1st and 3rd armies of the Qi army, not to mention that the commanders may not dare to do it sincerely.

As a result, the eldest prince's troops took the road and fled. Instead, they showed such a powerful momentum that they snatched all the food and ammunition from the Qi army troops who stayed behind on the southern defense line.

The rest of the troops had no food, so they lost the courage to continue to stand firm. Some scattered like birds and beasts, and some simply went further south and surrendered to the remaining troops on the northern defense line of the Tang Army.

Their surrender request is also very simple: Brother, we don't want anything else, don't count it as a prisoner, but as a civilian stuttering!
As a result, after this magical operation, Tang Jun's northern troops inexplicably took a large number of prisoners, and took advantage of the opportunity to occupy part of Qi's southern defense line.

It is no exaggeration to say that in the past few days, the war situation in Qi State has collapsed. If there is no strong support, they are likely to be fully occupied by Tang State within a month.

(End of this chapter)