Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 732 732 Alien Version of Paulus
No matter how beautiful the dream is, it will eventually wake up. Ding Hong was woken up by the officer who hurried over. He was very unhappy when he was pushed awake, but after he heard the other party’s voice, There was no trouble at all.

"My lord! My lord! It's not good! The big thing is not good! The Tang army defeated the returning troops, we, we are finished!" The officer who came to deliver the news was about to cry, and he finally finished what he should say if.

In fact, it is really no wonder that he is so timid, as long as he hears the news that the 20 army has been defeated, no one will remain calm.

On the one hand, it was 20 reinforcements, and their own reinforcements were defeated by the enemy, which meant that they were now isolated and helpless!Who can keep calm at a time like this?It must be very desperate, okay?
On the other hand, that's an army of 20!The enemies on the periphery can even defeat an army of 20, what should we do?Wouldn't it be a piece of cake to defeat 20 troops and 5 of them?
Don't look at Ding Hong's telegram before he went to bed, saying that he defeated the Tang army's attack at Nanfengkou, but everyone knows what happened, at least those who have experienced that battle know what happened. one thing.

"What did you say! Say it again!" Ding Hong just got up, and he was still a little dazed.He thought he heard it wrong, so he asked the officer to report it again.

To be honest, listening to such a report again at this time is simply a kind of torture, but the officer still faithfully fulfilled Ding Hong's wish: "My lord, it's not good! The Tang army defeated our reinforcements, and now we... I can rely on myself!"

Hearing what his subordinates said, Ding Hong shivered for a while, then he stood up suddenly, and quickly walked to his headquarters: "How is it possible! This is impossible! This is impossible!"

Almost at the same time, Qian Jinhang also got up from his bed after receiving the news.He stood up numbly, then got dressed, and walked to the already overcrowded headquarters.

This is not a very large room. There is a map hanging on the wall, which roughly marks the areas controlled by the troops of both sides.

There is also a large table next to it. On the table is a larger scale partial map, which shows the situation of the entire southern region.

The officers who got the news stood there nervously, waiting for their generals to solve the thorny problems they were facing.

Qian Jinhang walked among these people, and said what he had been thinking about all the time: "Everyone, don't worry, I've heard about it, but the situation is not as bad as everyone thinks."

As an old general, he certainly knew what kind of ending they would face if the situation collapsed.

Therefore, he must stabilize these commanders. Only these people firmly believe that they still have hope, can they help him stabilize the situation and let them continue to persevere in Xicong.

"Everyone listen to me!" Seeing that some people were still very nervous, Qian Jinhang continued to comfort him: "I mean it, the situation is not as bad as everyone imagined, so everyone listen to my explanation."

After everyone gradually calmed down, Qian Jinhang continued to speak: "Although the Tang army defeated our army that came back to help, in fact, I think it is not very likely that the opponent has captured Nanfengkou. .”

"If the opponent takes Nanfengkou, then there is no need to continue to advance to Lijia Village, as long as we wait for our army to pass through the wall at Nanfengkou." Qian Jinhang explained very clearly, which made everyone nervous They all regained some sanity.

"Moreover! The 20 army that was defeated will actually lose a lot." Qian Jinhang talked about the defeated army again: "If you gather them together, you will lose tens of thousands of people at most, and the rest will just be scattered. It's over, it can't be contained in the chaos."

This was all his speculation, and in fact he had guessed part of it correctly. Tang Jun did not capture Nanfengkou, which was considered correct by him.

"After taking down Tengyun, Ding Hong will definitely gather his troops and mainly deploy defenses at Nanfengkou. This is also an inevitable choice, because we can't afford to lose Nanfengkou! However, this arrangement will free up the surrounding troops, so that the Tang army can move freely. That's why Tang Jun jumped over the Nanfengkou and appeared in Lijia Village." The more Qian Jinhang talked, the more he felt that what he said made sense, and after thinking about it like this, he cleared his mind.

"So we still have a chance!" With a firm tone, he said to his subordinates: "Although the Tang army seems to have surrounded us, we still have a chance!"

In fact, besides the infantry attacking Xicong, the army in Qian Jinhang's hands also had a large part of the armored troops preparing to rush to the Sishui area after the battle of Xicong.

In other words, the Dahua army in the Xicong area actually has quite a few armored troops.Now as long as Qian Jinhang is willing to invest in these armored troops and turn his spearhead to attack Lijiacun, he still has a good chance of breaking through.

At least, he thought so himself.

But what he didn't know was that Tang Jun's troops in Lijia Village were an armored division, and it was the very main force of the 2nd Armored Division.

With this army in command, it is unlikely that the Dahua army will be able to penetrate the Tang army's defense line.The main reason why Qian Jinhang made such a misjudgment was that he did not understand the true strength of the Tang army.

Of course, even if Qian Jinhang knew that Tang Jun had indeed encircled his troops, he could only bite the bullet and say so.

Otherwise what can he say?He can tell his subordinates: Brothers, we are done playing, Tang Jun has surrounded us, we can only wait for death, go back and write the suicide note?
Don't be kidding, even at the last moment, he has to lie, not only to lie to all his subordinates, but also to lie to himself.

In the view of this more experienced senior commander, the situation of the Dahua army is already very bad, and any decision is risky.

Does anyone think that breaking through is not the most important thing at this time?In fact, it is not true!It is actually very risky to rashly mobilize troops to break through.

If troops are so easy to mobilize, just like playing games, everyone can be a commander, right?
First of all, the troops supported around the encirclement cannot be easily shrunk. These troops must stay in place and ensure their own basic strategic depth.

At the same time, it is necessary to quickly dispatch the most capable troops and transfer them to the direction that needs to break through-this is a fast job, but it must be kept as secret as possible.

Everyone understands the truth, if the news that he is going to break out of the encirclement is easily exposed, then only God knows how strong the remaining troops supporting the encirclement are.

The main force was dispatched under the premise of secrecy and speed, and then it was necessary to let this force choose the weakest direction of the enemy's encirclement to start breaking out. Whether it can win is another matter.

For Qian Jinhang, the actual situation of the battle is as follows: Today's Dahua troops actually occupy half of Xicong, and many troops are stationed in cities. In this weather, this is also the best choice.

To break out of the siege, one army must be exposed to the wilderness, and a field battle will break out with the Tang army in Lijia Village.This is actually very disadvantageous, because in the field state, the combat effectiveness of the Dahua army is obviously not as good as that of the low-handed.

Whether he can defeat his opponent is completely unknown, and Qian Jinhang himself is not sure, so he has to consider the result of failing to break through.

On the other hand, he really has no way to break out of the siege now: along the way to Nanfengkou, there are routs near the road, and it will take at least two days to gather them together.Without cleaning up these defeated troops, how could his troops drive over the crowded roads to fight?

Moreover, he had only just learned the news of the army's defeat. He still didn't know what attitude Feng Kezhi and the emperor had.

As the commander of an army of hundreds of thousands, in fact, all he can do is wait: only when the people above make a decision can he carry out the next command and deployment.

The simplest question: Did the people above let you run?If Feng Kezhi had let him continue to attack Xi Cong, but he had given up on Xi Cong to break through the siege earlier, then even if he succeeded in breaking through with his troops, he would still be a sinner who fled the battle and died.

Another problem is that if he abandons Xicong and returns to the army to break through, hundreds of thousands of troops will move to the wilderness, and the situation will be worse than if he stays where he is.

This is hundreds of thousands of soldiers eating horse chews, and the food alone consumes an astronomical figure a day. If you really give up the city and camp in the wild, your mobility and self-sustainability will drop very badly.By the time they arrived at Lijia Village, the situation had probably changed a long time ago.

So he could only wait here obediently, just like Marshal Paulus who had been waiting for a month.In other words, Paulus' state is exactly the same as that of Qian Jinhang who was trapped in Xicong.

They all have to consider the reason of the weather, and at the same time they have to face domestic high-level pressure. In short, they cannot decide their own choices flexibly, and can only honestly wait for others to decide their own life and death.

However, after hearing the explanation from their superiors, many senior commanders of the Dahua Army calmed down.

In their view, this is indeed the case: they still have hundreds of thousands of troops, and there has never been a precedent in history that so many troops have been surrounded.

So many of them were very optimistic after reacting. They felt that it would be very easy for hundreds of thousands of troops to break through anyway.

But what they didn't know was that Qian Jinhang's explanation actually guessed wrong in many details. For example, half of the defeated Dahua troops actually became prisoners of the Tang army, so they fled back to Xicong's troops, and Not as much as they thought.

(End of this chapter)