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Outside Xi Cong City, Qian Jinhang stood on a high ground, holding a telescope and looking down at the city billowing in thick smoke in the distance.

Behind him stood a row of officers, even with some accompanying photographers.The atmosphere was very good, everyone was talking and laughing, as if they were celebrating the glorious victory of our troops entering the city.

This was indeed a great victory. After paying the price of more than 10,000 people, the army of the Great Empire finally rushed into the urban area of ​​Xicong and started a cruel and bloody street battle with the Tang army.

Despite the fierce artillery fire of the Tang army, despite the heroic fighting of the Tang army, the large army has achieved phased results regardless of the cost.

Although a lot of time was wasted in the battle of Lijiacun, in the battle of Xi Cong, the large army seemed to catch up with the progress a lot.

Time seems to be on the big side again, Tang Jun is clearly at the end of the road, and everything is advancing according to the planned timetable.

However, there was also a lot of bad news. For example, Qian Jinhang's troops had already lost too much, and they did not continue to maintain this desperate offensive momentum.

If it hadn't been for the constant replenishment and the constant offensive combat state, Qian Jinhang's troops would have collapsed long ago.

The loss of troops was huge, the replenishment of ammunition became difficult as it gradually moved away from the supply station, and the weather was bad. In short, the morale of the large army has begun to decline.

"Too much ammunition is consumed, and the combat effectiveness of the supplementary recruits is not good..." Putting down the binoculars, Qian Jinhang complained to an officer standing behind him.

"General, don't worry! The reinforcements have arrived in Lijia Village, two divisions! You can continue to attack soon." The officer said indifferently, with his hands behind his back, looking down at the mud on his military boots.

This is a prince, the younger brother of Emperor Zhao Kai, and a younger brother of the same father and mother.He made great efforts to help Zhao Kai fight for the throne, so he won Zhao Kai's trust.

Zhao Chen doesn't care about losing two to 3000 people every day, he cares more about the mud on his expensive leather boots.

"My lord, although there are millions of troops on the southern line, there are more than 40 troops on the front of Xi Cong. This kind of long snake formation always makes people feel that it is not so safe." Qian Jinhang looked worried, I hope the prince in front of me will go back and remind the big brother sitting on the throne to stop micromanaging.

The current military plan to attack the Tang State was drawn up with the intervention of this ignorant emperor. Everything seems reasonable, but there is a whiff of wishful thinking everywhere.

The plan is sure that the Tang country will be affected by the disaster and slump. The plan is sure that the weather in the Tang country will continue to be bad.

But Qian Jinhang, the frontline general, knew that the Tang State was not as weak as the Great Empire had imagined, and the implementation of the offensive plan was quite different from what was planned.

The original plan was to use 20 to 30 people to rush into Xicong, and after the Tang army was eliminated, attack Sishui eastward.In the end, the front line was pushed to the vicinity of Sishui, and it was stabilized by taking advantage of the terrain, threatening Tongcheng to force Tang to beg for surrender.

But because Tang Jun's resistance was very successful, the big side had to concentrate more troops to break through Tang Jun's defense.

In this way, the large army in the direction of Xi Cong seemed a bit too much - a full 500,000!Almost half of the assembled troops gathered around Xi Cong.

And what's worse, this may not be the final number yet.As the war progressed, in order to quickly deal with Xi Cong and attack Sishui to the east, Zhao Kai ordered troops to be dispatched from various places, preparing to increase the number of troops in the direction of Xi Cong to 70 to 80!
With so many troops, the required logistical support system cannot be satisfied by the preparations made in the original plan.

Therefore, it is not necessarily a good thing to say that increasing troops, at least until the supply problem is solved, it is not a good thing.

As the war progressed, the frontline troops of the Great Empire had clearly felt that their own artillery support was not as violent as it was a few days before the war started.

The shells are getting fewer and fewer, and the caliber is getting smaller and smaller, which makes the attack of the large troops more and more weak. If it is not for the street fighting in the past few days, these situations may become more obvious.

No way, transporting a 300mm shell to the front line is much more difficult than transporting two 150mm shells.

In order to transport the rations of 100,000 people, as well as the ammunition of individual soldiers, the supplementary recruits, and the already fragile logistical supplies of the large army, it has been overwhelmed for many days.

If it weren't for the high quality and sufficient quantity of railways in Tang State, the offensive force of the Great Empire might have collapsed by itself.

"If you can take down Xi Cong as soon as possible, these problems will not be a problem." Wang Ye Zhao Chen raised his head and said to the city under the cloudy clouds and black smoke in the distance.

The rain has just stopped, the air is still full of the smell of dampness, and the city in the distance has finally started to smoke, all of which make people feel refreshed.

"I heard that the rain in the south has decreased a lot. How is the situation in Chu State?" Qian Jinhang didn't want to mention his attack, so he changed the subject.

He really didn't want to say anything more. I heard that the commander on the opposite side was a general named Tiger, who was an officer under the command of Fischero, a noble from the North Ridge of the Laite Empire.

However, after following Tang Mo, his reputation was not obvious all the time, but after Qian Jinhang met this Tiger, he realized that he could definitely be said to be a famous general in the world.

The opponent's tactics and tactics are not fierce, but give people a sense of law-abiding.All the plans and mobilizations seem to have traces to follow, but the combination seems to be the correct answer like the optimal solution.

This general Tiger's style of dispatching troops was so stable that Qian Jinhang panicked. It was a cruel sense of reality that saw through everything but could not break free from the shackles.

Qian Jinhang can probably guess what Tiger wants to do every time, but he just can't stop it, and he can't take countermeasures. In the end, he can only act in accordance with Tiger's script, and even he can see it. The ending Tiger prepared for him.

This is also the reason why Qian Jinhang is worried about the safety of his two wings: he feels that Tiger is preparing to surround him, and that the armored force in the hands of Redman, another Tang general in the north, is Tiger hanging over Qian Jinhang's head. sharp edge.

Once the rain stopped, the weather improved, and Tang Guo recovered, under the cover of the air force, if Redman's troops quickly launched an attack to the south, Qian Jinhang's troops might really be surrounded by Xi Cong.

At that time, hundreds of thousands of troops will be wiped out, and the southern part of the great empire will be in a very dangerous situation.

In fact, the Great Empire was not unprepared. The 20 Rui borrowed from the Qin State was actually used to fill the line of defense.

It's just that because of the bad weather and the relationship with the transportation capacity, these Qin troops are still on the road, and it will take some time to arrive at the scheduled location.

And during this period of time, whether the rain in Tang country will stop is a question of metaphysics.

If God blesses the great empire and keeps the rain in the territory of Tang country going, then the great empire does hope to win this war.

However, if the weather conforms to objective laws, and the rain in the Tang Kingdom stops naturally after so long, then the Great Empire may fall into a passive state.

The matter was such a matter, but as the person involved, Qian Jinhang felt it more clearly than others.

"Relying on Chu State? Don't think too much, they can hold back part of Tang State's troops. If they really fight, they will probably ask us for support." Zhao Chen gave his own evaluation disapprovingly.

To be honest, as a prince, Zhao Chen is still very discerning. He is much better than those second-generation officials who are just waiting to die, but he has to maintain his dandy image. This is his alternative to his brother." dear".

"Anyway, please let Han Zhiyuan hold on to the north... don't let anything happen." Qian Jinhang heard shells flying over his head, and his artillery began to shell the city in front of him again.

Despite the dampness and the rain on the ground, the artillery shells still set off a huge column of smoke. From a distance, the entire Xi Cong seemed to be shrouded in the powerful firepower of the Great Empire.

The ground was shaking slightly, and the low-pitched loud noise exploded in the distance. Another battle in the city kicked off with the explosion of shells, and a cruel fight began.

Qian Jinhang couldn't see this, he could only see the black smoke that was newly raised by shells in the city of Xicong, he didn't know
How many more soldiers rushed out of the ruins and took steps towards the enemy.

On the other side of Xi Cong, Tiger was also looking at this city from a distance that was destined to be abandoned as a bait in the plan.

One-third of it is now in ruins, and in the foreseeable future, it is likely to be completely in ruins, and there will be nothing left.

After the war, it will be rebuilt here, and a brand new city will be reborn from the ruins.And as a hub city for oil pipelines, it will become richer and more splendid.

But now, the suffering of this city cannot be alleviated in the slightest. The soldiers of the Tang army stationed in this city with almost no civilians will stop the large army for a month in this city that has become a fortress!
"Send another division into Xi Cong! Just the 28th Infantry Division! Remember! Don't fight too fiercely, and scare the enemy away! Be weaker, act more resembling, and attract the enemy as much as possible Come here!" Tiger ordered to the adjutant behind him without turning his head.

"Yes! General!" The adjutant stood at attention and saluted, and then grabbed the phone receiver on the table: "Hello? Get me the division headquarters of the 28th Infantry Division."