Rise of the Overlord

Chapter 109 Surrender in progress

The Sharad Empire soon got the news that fifteen heavy-duty airships had been destroyed, and the Emperor Herris of the Sharad Empire immediately scolded the Minister of War Valerian again.

However, cursing didn't help. The five Sharad Royal Army infantry regiments surrounded by Su's army still couldn't be rescued.

In the end, Emperor Herris decided that while replenishing the eight retreating infantry regiments with personnel, weapons and ammunition as soon as possible, he would dispatch three infantry regiments and four independent infantry divisions from the Sharad Empire to the territory of the Cangyu Empire.

The above-mentioned eleven infantry regiments and four independent infantry divisions form a two-way rescue force, and try to reach the Dingxincheng area of ​​the Cangyu Empire in the southern Hebei province and the Anzhou city in the Lunan province within half a month. Troops were dispatched in the area to rescue the besieged five regiments of Royal Sharad Army infantry.

In addition, Emperor Herris also ordered the Ministry of War to expand eight new infantry regiments, bringing the number of infantry regiments of the Sharad Royal Army to forty in order to deal with the war with the Su family army.

In fact, there are three infantry regiments of the Sharad Royal Army in the various provincial capitals and capital Cangyu City of the Cangyu Empire at this time. As well as intimidating the royal family and nobles of the Cangyu Empire, Emperor Herris dared not mobilize these three infantry legions at all.

Emperor Herris also knew in his heart that according to the new rescue plan, the five besieged Sharad Royal Army infantry regiments must persist for at least a month before reinforcements appear, and this time may even take longer.

Emperor Herris issued an order for the besieged Eighth Infantry Corps, Ninth Infantry Corps, No.12 Infantry Corps, No.20 Fourth Infantry Corps and No.20 Fifth Infantry Corps, and told the five legions Long, they must persist for at least one month.

The fighting will of the Royal Sharad Army is still relatively tenacious. The trapped five regiment commanders, representing the officers and soldiers of the five infantry regiments, sent a telegram to Emperor Herris, determined to fight until the last soldier, and would never send a message to the Su family army. yield.

In fact, the five infantry regiments of the Royal Sharad Army who were besieged did the same. Facing the attack of the Su family army, the five infantry regiments of the Royal Sharad Army resisted fiercely.

However, the troops of the Royal Army of the Cangyu Empire who were also trapped soon surrendered on a large scale, and even the entire infantry regiment collectively surrendered to the Su family army.

On the morning of June 3012, 11 in the Tang Dynasty, dozens of senior officers of the Royal Army of the Cangyu Empire gathered in a meeting room of the prefect's mansion in Fuyang City, Hongshan Province, Cangyu Empire. These senior officers were from Cangyu Empire. The Ninth Corps, Tenth Corps, No.12 Corps, and No.[-] Corps of the Imperial Royal Army are currently surrounded by the Su Family Army in Fuyang City.

Cui Shijie, the head of the Ninth Corps of the Royal Army of the Cangyu Empire, said with a wry smile: "Everyone knows the current situation. The Ministry of the Army ordered our four infantry regiments to break through as soon as possible, but we have already tried it. In front of the heavy artillery group of the Su Family Army, Our four infantry regiments have no chance of breaking through at all. In addition, because a large number of troops surrendered without a fight, the outer positions of Fuyang City have all been captured by the Su family army. Tell me, what should our four infantry regiments do next? ?”

Li Jinsong, the head of the Tenth Army Corps, sighed and said, "What else can I do? I think it's better to just surrender. About 10 of my Tenth Infantry Corps of the Royal Army have already surrendered their weapons to the Su Army. The captain of the Young Alliance directly led the entire alliance to surrender to the Su Family Army, even if we want to be loyal to the royal family, the officers and soldiers below will definitely not be willing."

Sheng Haoming, the head of the No.11 Legion, followed up and said: "The situation of our No.11 Legion of the Royal Army is similar. Outside Fuyang City, there are at least 11 people in our No.9 Legion of the Royal Army, and they have been captured by the Su Family Army. For sticking to Fuyang City, I see no hope at all."

Chen Jiyuan, the regiment commander of the No.12 Legion, shrugged and said: "The morale of the officers and soldiers of our four infantry regiments was very low because of the inability to pay the army, and then the army of the Sharad Empire treated our four infantry regiments as Now that the Army Department of the Cangyu Empire can't send reinforcements to rescue our four infantry regiments, what's worse, our four infantry regiments are not yet capable of breaking through the encirclement by themselves. Let's surrender!"

Then four deputy commanders of the four infantry regiments, sixteen division commanders and sixteen deputy division commanders of the sixteen infantry divisions, and four division commanders and four deputy division commanders of the four supply divisions The head of the division also expressed their approval to surrender to the Su family army.

In fact, many senior officers of these four infantry regiments had been prisoners of war in the Sharad army before, so they did not resist becoming prisoners of war again.

Cui Shijie, the head of the Ninth Legion, saw that everyone's opinions were surprisingly unanimous, and said with some emotion: "It's not that we don't want to be loyal to the royal family, it's because the Su family army is too powerful, so we can only feel sorry for the emperor."

On the afternoon of June [-]th, Su Yi received the news that the four infantry regiments of the Royal Army of the Cangyu Empire in Fuyang City were about to surrender. Su Yi held a telegram in his hand and said to He Yunfei and Cheng Ziwen: "The Cangyu Empire in Fuyang City is about to surrender. If the four infantry regiments of the empire want to surrender, our Su family army certainly welcomes them, but it must be an unconditional surrender, and our Su family army can only guarantee the personal safety of all surrendering officers and soldiers."

He Yunfei nodded and said: "Don't worry, Commander, the four infantry regiments of the Cangyu Empire in Fuyang City have no other choice but to surrender unconditionally!"

At [-] o'clock in the morning on June [-]th, the various units of the Su family army who besieged Fuyang City began to enter the urban area of ​​Fuyang City to take over the entire city.

In the end, the four Cangyu Imperial Army infantry regiments that guarded the Fuyang City area totaled 1104 million people who surrendered to the Su Family Army. Only about 6 people died in battle, and most of them died before Fuyang City was besieged.

In addition to the nearly 80 officers and soldiers of the Cangyu Empire Army captured by the Su family army in other areas, the number of prisoners of war in the hands of the Su family army exceeded 190 million in an instant.

In the Dingxincheng area of ​​the Cangyu Empire's Southern Jinan Province and the Anzhoucheng area of ​​Lunan Province, the Su Army not only besieged the five infantry regiments of the Royal Sharad Army, but also captured four infantry regiments of the Royal Army of the Cangyu Empire. The legion was surrounded, so the number of prisoners of war of the Su family army would definitely not stop at more than 190 million.

(End of this chapter)