Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 770 Chapter 770
If you simply look at it from the map, the Tang army's offensive posture near Fengjiang is easy to understand.A part of the Tang army has already entered the urban area, and the Tang army on the two wings is trying to separate the city from the actual control line of the Dahua Empire.

Along the edge of the city, the 1st Armored Division of the Tang Army was in full swing, taking down a quarter of the perimeter of the city at an almost unstoppable speed. On the other side, the 5th Armored Division of the Tang Army attacked at a slightly slower speed. But it also cut into the defense line of the Dahua defenders.

In less than half a month, Fengjiang City has changed from a distance of more than ten kilometers away from the front line to a state where it is almost half surrounded.

Its two wings are full of Tang army troops. If the Tang army is compared to sea water, then Fengjiang City will become a peninsula hanging on the sea.

The Dahua defenders stationed in Fengjiang City are resisting tenaciously. After receiving the assurance from the commanders that "the Tang army will not continue to use white phosphorus bombs", they gradually regained their fighting courage.

But their line of defense has been broken, Tang Jun has entered the urban area and controlled a large area, so the Dahua troops have lost the best time to drive Tang Jun out of Fengjiang City.

The battle between the two sides was fierce in the urban area. Soldiers from the Tang Army and the Dahua Army fought repeatedly block by block, and sometimes it took several hours to fight a two-story building.

Of course, such cruel competition is still a minority after all, because of the characteristics of the city's buildings, it is doomed that Fengjiang City cannot become Stalingrad, and it is impossible for the Chinese Army to fight against the Tang Army for too long by virtue of this city.

Most of the houses in this city are one-story, and more than half of them are wooden structures. It has not changed much from decades ago, and all the changes are concentrated in the hastily developed industrial areas on the outskirts of the city.

That's why in the white phosphorous bombing, Fengjiang City lost so many buildings, caused such a big fire, and caused people to collapse tragically.

Because there are not so many masonry structures, not so many buildings, and no complicated urban structure, there are countless possibilities for street fighting relying on blocks.

At this point, Fengjiang City is different from Beiyuan City in Qi State.Because Beiyuan City is a coastal city, in order to prevent the disasters brought by the sea wind, a lot of stones were used to build houses, and the urban environment is much more complicated.

In Fengjiang City, often two grenades, or one shell, the structure of a whole building is often destroyed, and it becomes very difficult to hold on and rely on it to fight.

Of course, this environment also created some troubles for the attack: the buildings that were knocked down were not easy to use, and most of them became dilapidated buildings and lost their function.

Feng Kezhi's idea is simple: Since Fengjiang may not be able to hold, then destroy the city.It made it impossible for the Tang army to use the buildings in the urban area to survive the winter, and minimized the advantages gained by the Tang army after occupying the city.

Because the great general of the Great China Empire himself supervised the battle in Fengjiang, the combat thinking of the Great China Army was very clear.

When they abandon certain blocks, they often plant bombs in advance, or use grenades to destroy or turn these buildings into dangerous buildings.

The parts that are too late to be destroyed will then mobilize artillery for shelling, trying to prevent the Tang army from using the area they occupied.

This idea was especially obvious when the two sides competed for Fengjiang Railway Station. When Tang Jun's tanks began to approach Fengjiang Railway Station, Dahua engineers immediately blew up the station without even half a moment's hesitation.

After Tang Jun's tanks covered the grenadiers and captured the railway station, it was already in ruins, and the broken rails were even taken away.

What Tang Jun got was some unrecognizable platforms, broken stones and rubble, and some remaining wooden boards and half-collapsed waiting rooms and other buildings.

"The opponent is not trying to keep Fengjiang, but to destroy everything that can be used before losing it." Standing in front of the map, several generals reported the latest battle situation to Bolton helplessly.

"Their purpose is very clear, that is, they are not going to allow us to rely on Fengjiang to spend the winter in a month or two." Another general shook his head and said.

Bolton looked at the bearded commander of the 7th Army and asked his opinion: "Your troops have been fighting in urban areas, what do you think?"

"This is completely different from the battles I'm familiar with. To be honest, I'm not very used to this form of war. This is not fighting for a city, but destroying it." The bearded army commander sighed and said.

"In the past, when we started wars, we often just fought in the wild. As long as the opponent's field troops were eliminated, the war would usually end." He paused for a few seconds, as if recalling the time when he was in Northridge: "At that time The purpose of the war is to determine the outcome..."

"We are also deciding the winner now." Bolton felt that the opponent's thinking was a bit too old.

"I'm not talking about this." The bearded man also felt that he was a bit hypocritical: "I mean, if it was ten years ago, the commander of the Dahua Empire would have given up on Fengjiang, and they would send envoys, made peace with us."

The wars of that era were small in scale because the advance speed of the troops, as well as firepower, troop strength, and logistical supplies could not keep up.

Even if a victory is won on the battlefield, the attacker has no way to expand the victory in a local area into a comprehensive victory at will.

Therefore, even if they win a battle, the loser is nothing more than paying compensation, losing one or two cities, and even using compensation or slaves to redeem the lost city.

Today, ten years later, the scale of the war has completely escalated.A thousand times the size of an army invested in a war!The benefit that the victorious party needs to obtain is naturally thousands of times that of the past.

The logistics strengthened by ships, trains and automobiles can support a vast all-out war, and the combat effectiveness of the army strengthened by advanced machine guns, artillery and even tanks and planes will naturally far exceed the previous ones.

"But now, they are fighting us in the city, and relying on such a decision, they have consumed my troops and destroyed the city I am about to occupy. This makes me feel that I have not achieved the goal of the attack." After thinking for a while , the bearded man expressed his feelings.

"I think so too. If we continue to fight with them repeatedly in the urban area, what we get before winter will be a big ruin, not Fengjiang City." Bolton nodded, agreeing with the bearded man back view.

Then he changed the subject, pointed to the two wings of Fengjiang City and continued: "So I then changed my tactics and started to use the armored forces to launch an attack on the two wings, trying to surround Fengjiang, and first drive that man named Feng Kezhi out of Fengjiang City .”

In fact, this is the purpose of the Tang army trying to surround Fengjiang: Bolton felt that, as the general of the empire, Feng Kezhi would definitely not put himself in danger, and he would definitely retreat his headquarters to a safe place before the city was surrounded. place to go.

Once Feng Kezhi left Fengjiang, under the pressure of being surrounded and without Feng Kezhi's supervision, the Fengjiang defenders' determination to carry out the order to turn Fengjiang City into scorched earth would be shaken, and their flaws would be exposed.

Compared with street fighting with the Dahua Army in Fengjiang City, Bolton still felt that the Tang Army in the field state seemed to be more able to use his fists and feet and give full play to his own advantages.

In fact it is.

After fighting fiercely with the Tang army for almost two or three months, the Qin army who came from afar seemed to be tired from the old soldiers and lost their vigor.

Although they received supplies from Dahua, they belonged to the "guest army" after all, and it was not as convenient as previously planned.

You know, the reason why Qin Jun came here was not the previous agreement: their purpose of coming here was to take advantage of the fire, not to give charcoal in the snow!

The original promise made by Dahua to the Qin army was: the Dahua army would invade the territory of the Tang state, and the Qin army, as a reserve force, would enter the battlefield at a critical moment, crushing the last line of defense of the Tang army.

When the time comes, the Great China Empire will take away the land and population of the Tang State, and the Qin Army will take away the wealth of the Tang State. Everyone will share the technology, and the family will enjoy themselves happily.

But the current situation is: the Tang Kingdom is clearly the victor, the battle line has been pushed to the front line of Fengjiang, the Dahua Empire has been completely defeated, and the situation has become very clear.

Therefore, the Qin army could neither obtain a large amount of Tang's wealth as agreed, nor could it obtain the desired technology.

In addition, the problem of logistical supplies must be added.The Qin army came from afar, and there was no need for too much supplies in the plan. They appeared on the battlefield at critical moments, and as the final decisive force, it was enough to crush the Tang army that was about to collapse.

Even in the logistics supply plan of the Dahua Empire, they did not draw up a special plan to provide supplies to the Qin army too seriously.

As a result, the Qin army finally filled the collapsed central defense line of the Dahua Empire as a reserve team, which was completely different from the plan.

The Dahua transportation line, which is already operating at overload, is already very difficult to ensure the supplies of its own troops. There is no extra energy wasted on Qin's "guest army".

In this case, it is not a big problem to fight against the wind, but it is another situation to fight against the wind.

Because the weapons and ammunition of the Qin army are the same as those used by the Dahua Empire, some can be borrowed from the Dahua Army for use.But other things are not easy to handle, after all, the Dahua Army is not rich.

For example, for things like medicines, the Dahua Empire itself doesn't have enough, and the Qin army doesn't carry much, so they are consumed directly.After all, what you want is to take advantage of the fire, who needs a lot of medicine if the wind is going smoothly?

But who would have thought that the last battle would be a tough battle, a brutal defensive battle, and the medicines he brought would be completely insufficient immediately.

This directly affected Qin Jun's will to fight: if the wounded couldn't get good treatment, who would dare to continue to risk their lives?

(End of this chapter)