Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 735 Chapter 735
Frankly speaking, Zhao Kai still hopes to cause some trouble for Feng Kezhi, so that the general will lose part of his power.

However, Zhao Kai would not be willing to use the southern oil fields and the large areas in the southeast in exchange for such an opportunity to weaken the power of the general.

The price is also too high.

So he let out a sigh of relief, adjusted his emotions, and said, "Let Zhao Chen be responsible for the southeast affairs..."

He paused for a moment, and then continued: "As for the general, you...please do your best to rescue General Qian Jinhang!"

"I take the order! I will do my best to rescue Qian Jinhang...with hundreds of thousands of soldiers under his command!" Feng Kezhi bowed his head and accepted the order.Of course he knew that what Zhao Kai cared about was not Qian Jinhang, but the outskirts of Xi Cong, his Dahua Empire...the hundreds of thousands of troops!
Only by bringing these hundreds of thousands of soldiers back to the empire can Dahua be able to continue fighting!After all, they can't afford to lose!

From the perspective of the Dahua Empire, the southern oil fields that have been blown up to the sky are actually still safe and sound.However, Tang Guo knew about this news very late.

Redman, who occupied Nanfengkou, was still focusing on the direction of Lijiacun at this time. The main force of the Tang army was narrowing the encirclement, preparing to encircle Dahua's troops in Xicong under the city of Xicong.

Qian Jinhang, who had just received the news that Nanfengkou had been lost, was shocked. This news was tantamount to negating almost all his previous judgments.

The Tang army's strength in the direction of Nanfengkou has been strengthened. The Tang army that defeated Nanfengkou's reinforcements saw that they had Nanfengkou and Lijiacun as their backing, and they had already gained a firm foothold.

And Qian Jinhang's previous judgment that he could gather [-] rout troops was also wrong. He wasted two days and only recovered tens of thousands of troops.

However, his capital is still very thick. The Dahua army near Xicong still has more than 60 troops, and these troops still control a large area.

But what made Qian Jinhang desperate was that there was almost no hope for his breakthrough: the thinnest part of Tang Jun's encirclement circle was already very thick in the direction of the south wind outlet, and it was impossible to break out from this direction.

You must know that he is deeply trapped in Xi Cong now, he can't even capture Xi Cong, and it is even more impossible to go back and capture Nanfengkou.

So Qian Jinhang blocked the news that Nanfengkou was lost. He tried his best to appease his subordinates, telling them that he would act immediately when he received the order to break through, and lead his troops to kill Nanfengkou.

For this lie of his own, he even actually mobilized troops, and transferred the armored troops that were originally planned to attack Sishui City in Tang State to the direction of Lijia Village.

But in fact, he had actually received a death order from Feng Kezhi, ordering him to immediately break out in the direction of Nanfengkou, and take back Nanfengkou at all costs.

Feng Kezhi's order actually had two purposes. One purpose was to really let Qian Jinhang break out, because there were no Dahua troops near Qian Jinhang that could rescue him.

Another purpose is actually to sacrifice Qian Jinhang, so that Qian Jinhang's breakout will attract the attention of Tang Jun, and buy more time for Prince Zhao Chen to strengthen the defense line of Cangjian Gorge.

This is definitely a plan that kills two birds with one stone. The only question is whether Qian Jinhang has the ability to break through, or how long Qian Jinhang can last in Xicong.

Qian Jinhang was not prepared to carry out Feng Kezhi's order because his troops could not persist in fighting in the wild.The reality is: if he sticks to Xicong, he may be able to persist for more than ten days. If he leaves Xicong and goes to Lijiacun, he may collapse completely halfway.

To the north is the line of defense that the Tang army has strengthened, and there are no strategic strongholds. There is no way for hundreds of thousands of troops to go in this direction.

Not to mention going south, that is the border of Tang and Chu, and the mountains in ten directions are rolling up and down. If the 60 people went to Chu and saw the people, it is estimated that there will be 2 left.

What's more, even if he really fled to Chu State with tens of thousands of people, he lost all the cannons, tanks and cars, and the fuel for the shells... How can he go back to Dahua?

After receiving Feng Kezhi's order, Qian Jinhang knew that Feng Kezhi's breakout order had two meanings, he had to fight!No matter how he fights, he has to fight to attract Tang Jun's attention.

Therefore, fleeing to the state of Chu is not allowed. If the Dahua troops escape into the mountains, the Tang army only needs to arrange some troops to ensure that Qian Jinhang's troops will not turn back.

At that time, at least 20 Tang troops will press in the direction of Cangjian Gorge, threatening the Jiange... The situation of the Dahua Empire is really in jeopardy.

If the southern oil field is lost, and the Jiange is lost, the face of the Dahua Empire will be lost.What will be left at that time, whether Feng Kezhi or Zhao Kai, I dare not even think about it.

Qian Jinhang understood Feng Kezhi, or he had already seen through Zhao Kai.In this situation, he has no other choice, and he can persist as long as he can. This is what he can and must do.

Therefore, he secretly sent a telegram to Feng Kezhi, telling the great general of the empire the situation he faced: It is impossible for me to break through the encirclement, and I may persist for a few more days if I stick to Xicong.

After seeing this reply, Feng Kezhi was suddenly moved.Only then did he realize that whether it was Han Zhiyuan or Ding Hong, it was Qian Jinhang who could really understand him.

But now there is no way to get Qian Jinhang back safely, so Feng Kezhi decisively sent a telegram to Qian Jinhang, ordering him to stick to Xi Cong and fight to the death.

At the same time, Feng Kezhi went to the palace again, met Zhao Kai, asked Qian Jinhang for a higher military rank, and added big characters in front of the general's name.

Yes, Qian Jinhang has also become a general, but he is only a second-rank general, which is still inferior to Feng Kezhi's imperial general.

But this title is already very bluffing within the Dahua Empire, because in the past few decades, the Dahua Empire has not had a second "general".

Ever since, the alien version of Paulus, like the real Paulus, was successfully promoted after being surrounded, which meant a little bit of being an extremely human minister.

This is how the magic started. When almost everyone knew it, Feng Kezhi sent a new telegram, ordering Qian Jinhang to stick to Xi Cong and not to take a step back.

Emperor Zhao Kai trumpeted Qian Jinhang's loyalty and patriotism in the court hall, hoping that Qian Jinhang could hold his ground in Xicong and attract the main force of the Tang army.

Shen Chuan announced that the Dahua Empire has recruited 100 million new soldiers to join the army of Qin and Chu, preparing to take back Nanfengkou, and then fight to the death with the Tang army!

After a series of official appointments and promises, a series of true and false guarantees, the military spirit of the Dahua troops near Xicong was more or less appeased, and there were no more officers clamoring to break out of the siege for a while.

But the difficulty will never really disappear just because you don't look at it.While Qian Jinhang tried his best to maintain the status quo and began to strengthen the fortifications near Xi Cong, his supplies were decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

After all, it is 60 people!You have to eat every day, and you have to fight every day. If the hoarded supplies are not in short supply, it will be a strange thing.

Soon, the Dahua army did not dare to waste the ammunition in their hands: some small-scale operations were not allowed, and many positions were abandoned in a planned way.

After all, one shot of shells is one less shot, and one shot of bullets is one less shot. Under such circumstances, who would dare to let go of their hands and feet and waste it casually?So we can only retreat to save supplies.

For Qian Jinhang, giving up part of the defense area is not completely useless. At least the distribution of supplies and troop dispatching have become more convenient, and it has also saved a lot of waste on the road.

However, everyone found that they were getting farther and farther away from the Nanfengkou. The Dahua armored unit that had been transferred to the direction of Lijiacun retreated more than 30 kilometers in one breath after being squeezed by the armored unit of the Tang Army.

During this retreat, everyone discovered another fact: the fuel in their hands seemed to be constantly being consumed.Tanks are in use, cars are in use, soldiers are still in use for heating.

The division headquarters of each division need lighting, especially for troops stationed in the field. The officers also need to burn some fuel for heating and drying. In addition, in order to maintain smooth communication, they also need to generate electricity.

Therefore, as time went on, various units experienced fuel shortages.Many cars and tanks were abandoned, which in turn caused the combat effectiveness of the Dahua army to plummet.

Food was the fastest thing to run out. Although the Tang army was squeezing the Dahua troops in the encirclement, they intentionally did not wipe out the Dahua troops in the encirclement on a large scale.

Therefore, the large-scale Dahua army did not lose soldiers, so the daily food consumption was very huge.

Qian Jinhang can reduce the amount of ammunition and save fuel costs, but the only thing he can't do is to make the soldiers eat less.

Dahua soldiers crowded in smaller and smaller positions, no matter what the people above think, they must eat two meals a day.

This is already the bottom line: under normal circumstances, troops should have three meals a day to maintain better physical strength and combat effectiveness.But after all, there are not many countries in this world that have enough food and clothing, so the basic guarantee for conscription in most countries is two meals a day, not the three meals a day for the Tang army.

But if they can't get enough to eat two meals a day, then the troops of these countries will not only lose their combat effectiveness: they will mutiny, they will collapse, and they will pull out their chiefs and beat them to death.

This kind of incident is not without precedent. In the early years of the Dahua Empire, similar incidents occurred in its own troops, and there were countless such incidents in the armies of Chu State and Zheng State Qi State, which were even worse in combat effectiveness.

In the end, Qian Jinhang, who had no choice but to let some of his troops attack Xi Cong, hoped to find some food from the city and supplement his already depleted military rations.
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Here is the make-up for yesterday's leave.

(End of this chapter)