Rise of the Overlord

Chapter 172 Fantastic Start
After the Seven Kingdoms Alliance formally declared war on the Tang Empire and the Ziyue Empire, the Tang Empire and the Ziyue Empire quickly converted [-] reserve infantry divisions into temporary infantry divisions, and adopted the standard weapons of the field infantry divisions of the Royal Army of the two countries Equipped, almost half of the provisional infantry divisions were armed.

The remaining half of the temporary infantry divisions are basically armed with some sealed weapons and equipment for the time being. According to the number of army weapons that Su Yi can buy every month, as well as the many arsenals of the Datang Empire and the Ziyue Empire The current output will take about four more months, and the weapons and equipment of the other half of the temporary infantry divisions can also reach the standard configuration of the field infantry divisions of the Royal Army of the two countries.

While converting the 64 reserve infantry divisions into temporary infantry divisions, Su Yi asked every village, town and city in the 33 provinces of the Tang Empire and the 35 provinces of the Ziyue Empire to form militia units, Young men from the age of [-] to the age of [-] in the Tang Empire and the Ziyue Empire must join militias in various places, receive military training, and become reserve soldiers of the Royal Army of the two countries.

In this way, the Royal Army of the Tang Empire and the Royal Army of the Ziyue Empire will not only have more than 7000 million troops, but will also have about [-] million supplementary soldiers. Su Yi believes that just fighting for consumption will be enough to destroy the seven-nation alliance. Being dragged down, of course Su Yi, who has a system, has not yet fallen to the point of fighting for his life with the Seven Nations Alliance.

After declaring war on the Tang Empire and the Ziyue Empire, the seven countries of Inaba, Sharad, Noomi, Monia, Jisk, Rielan, and Orenza also started a larger-scale military expansion. The Noomi Empire, with a population of 13 billion, even announced that it would reorganize 37 new infantry regiments with reservists, bringing the size of the Royal Army infantry regiments to [-], doubling the total strength of the Noomi Royal Army. More than doubled.

With a population of 600 million, the Yingluoba Empire originally had [-] infantry regiments and [-] independent infantry divisions in its Royal Army, with a total strength of [-] million. Before war was declared, the Yingluoba Royal Army had already started Fifteen new infantry regiments have been expanded.

Before the declaration of war, the Sharad Empire had already expanded forty infantry divisions. After the declaration of war, the Sharad Royal Army announced that it would build another 180 infantry divisions, increasing the number of infantry divisions in the Sharad Royal Army to 800. Reached [-] million.

The entire Sharad Empire was designated as the Western Theater by the Alliance of Seven Nations, while the armies of the Inroba Empire and the Noomi Empire were all assigned to the Western Theater. Therefore, shortly after the war was declared, the Royal Noomi Army first went to the territory of the Sharad Empire, Ten infantry regiments were dispatched, followed by five infantry regiments from the Inaba Royal Army, which began to be transferred to the territory of the Sharad Empire.

Su Yi has already learned that the seven-nation alliance has divided the army into three theaters, of which the western theater will be the most powerful theater in the seven-nation alliance. After all, the armies of Noomi, Sharad and Inrobah were originally ranked The top three armies in the world, but Su Yi temporarily ignored the actions of the armies of the three countries, but focused on Liuyun Empire and Ziyue Empire.

Although the two sides declared war earlier than Su Yi expected, Su Yi did not change his battle plan against Liuyun Empire and Tianxing Empire.

At eight o'clock in the morning on October 3013, [-] in the Tang calendar, Su Yi brazenly ordered the Royal Army of the Tang Empire and the Royal Army of the Ziyue Empire Invaded the Liuyun Empire and the Skystar Empire respectively.

At this time, in the border area between the Datang Empire and the Liuyun Empire, the Royal Army of the Datang Empire has gathered [-] field infantry divisions and [-] temporary infantry divisions as attacking troops. After Su Yi's order, These sixty infantry divisions invaded the territory of Liuyun Empire with overwhelming momentum.

In the border area between the Ziyue Empire and the Tianxing Empire, the Ziyue Empire Royal Army also concentrated [-] field infantry divisions and [-] temporary infantry divisions as an attacking force, and divided their forces into the territory of the Tianxing Empire. .

At around three o'clock in the afternoon on October [-]rd, in a large hall of the Liuyun City Imperial Palace, the capital of the Liuyun Empire, the Emperor Li Hong shouted angrily to the Prime Minister Cao Ziliang: "Su Yi is simply deceiving people too much! It was a waste of what I had before. I thought about uniting with Datang and Ziyue, but I never thought that Su Yi would send troops to our Liuyun Empire without any scruples!"

Prime Minister Cao Ziliang said with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, it's too late to say anything else. Now that the front line is tight, it's better to ask for help from the Sharad Empire! In addition, I feel that since Su Yi doesn't care about the friendship of the same country as the Tang Dynasty, then our Liuyun Empire There is no need to save face, we should join the Seven Nations Alliance as soon as possible, maybe after the war, our Liuyun Empire can get some benefits."

Thanks to the support of funds and weapons from the Sharad Empire, the Liuyun Empire currently has an army of more than 500 million, of which the Royal Army of the Liuyun Empire is about 850 million, and the various noble armies of the Liuyun Empire add up to about 650 million. Ten thousand.

In order to guard against the Great Tang Empire, the Liuyun Empire deployed more than 900 million troops in the border area adjacent to the Datang Empire. The Royal Army of the Liuyun Empire accounted for about 550 million, and the other 350 million belonged to various nobles. army.

Facing the Royal Army of the Tang Empire with weapons and equipment several levels higher than their own, the high-level officials of the Liuyun Empire knew in their hearts that even if they deployed more than 900 million troops in the border area, if they wanted to block the attack of the Royal Army of the Tang Empire, they would still It's a very difficult thing.

However, what is unexpected is that as soon as the troops of the Royal Army of the Tang Empire entered the territory of the Liuyun Empire, there were countless royal troops and noble troops of the Liuyun Empire. The Royal Army of the Tang Empire surrendered.

There have even been many low-level young officers of the Royal Army of the Liuyun Empire, who directly led troops to control the regiment headquarters of the infantry regiment, the division headquarters of each infantry division, and the regiment headquarters of each infantry regiment, and then announced that the entire infantry regiment The farce of the legion battlefield uprisings, but what makes people speechless is that most of these battlefield uprisings were successful.

Within eight hours of the battle, there were already three full-staffed infantry regiments of the Royal Army of the Liuyun Empire, and a full-staffed infantry regiment under the command of a hereditary duke of the Liuyun Empire. The other Liuyun Empire Army who surrendered or revolted to the Royal Army of the Tang Empire made it so that the Royal Army of the Tang Empire captured many border fortresses of the Liuyun Empire without bloodshed, and received more than 250 million Liuyun Empire soldiers who revolted or voluntarily surrendered. Army officers and soldiers of the Yun Empire.

And some of the Liuyun Empire Army that chose to resist quickly fell apart under the extremely fierce offensive of the Datang Empire Royal Army. The Liuyun Empire Army that was wiped out, captured and defeated by the Datang Empire Royal Army within eight hours, It must be more than 200 million. It can be said that the defenses carefully arranged by the Liuyun Empire in the border area have been completely disintegrated.

Because of the Liuyun Empire Army, the four infantry divisions deployed by the Sharad Royal Army on the border of the Liuyun Empire were surrounded by the Royal Army of the Tang Empire.

Emperor Li Hong of the Liuyun Empire pondered for a while and said to Prime Minister Cao Ziliang, "Immediately ask for help from the Sharad Empire, and also express to the Seven Nations Alliance that our Liuyun Empire is also willing to join this alliance against the Great Tang Empire and the Ziyue Empire."

Then Emperor Li Hong turned his head to Yan Song, Minister of the Army, and asked in a deep voice: "Should your Ministry of the Army give me an explanation? Why did we have so many troops in the Royal Army of the Liuyun Empire in less than a day after the war started? Surrender to the army of the Tang Empire? How did you become Minister of War!"

Yan Song, who had just served as Minister of Army of the Liuyun Empire not long ago, had a look of helplessness on his face at this moment, "Your Majesty, I am also very shocked now. According to the news from the front line, many troops who surrendered were from the regiment headquarters and divisions. Some young officers in the Ministry and even the Legion Department directly launched a mutiny, which made the entire regiment, division, and regiment of the Imperial Army of the Liuyun Empire surrender to the army of the Tang Empire without resistance. All senior military officers have been strictly ordered to strengthen the security forces around them to prevent such a thing from happening again."

When Emperor Li Hong heard this, he suddenly became a little discouraged and said: "It seems that many people in the Royal Army have been bought by the Tang Empire. Reinforcements coming?"

Emperor Song Cui of the Skystar Empire, who had the same fate as Emperor Li Hong of the Liuyun Empire, was also overwhelmed by the fact that a large number of Army troops of the Skystar Empire voluntarily surrendered to the Royal Army of the Ziyue Empire.

However, the Jisk Empire deployed more than 250 million troops on the border of the Sky Star Empire, so the border defenses of the Sky Star Empire did not completely collapse like the Liuyun Empire.

But in the Xiande Hall of the Imperial Palace in Chang'an City, Su Yi said with a smile on his face, He Yunfei, the commander-in-chief of the Royal Army of the Tang Empire: "I didn't expect the military intelligence bureaus of the two countries to make great achievements this time. It took less than a day. In the Liuyun Empire's army deployed on the border, more than 250 million people chose to revolt on the battlefield or voluntarily surrendered to the Royal Army of the Tang Empire. On the side of the Skystar Empire, almost 140 million people voluntarily surrendered to the Royal Army of the Ziyue Empire. The military fortress was occupied by the Royal Army of Datang and Ziyue almost without bloodshed, it was a fantastic start, and I must reward the meritorious personnel of the military intelligence bureaus of the two countries."

He Yunfei smiled and said: "Actually, thanks to His Majesty's national theory that is superior to that of the Tang people, the Military Intelligence Bureau of the two countries was able to persuade a large number of young officers to pledge their allegiance to His Majesty among the Liuyun Empire Army and the Tianxing Empire Army. I will advise His Majesty to launch an attack on the Liuyun Empire and the Skystar Empire as soon as possible."

(End of this chapter)