Rise of the Overlord

Chapter 297 The Abandoned Seriously Wounded

The words of Zhao Zeling, the deputy minister of the Ministry of National Defense, made many leaders of the factions in the conference room frown. Street fighting in the urban area of ​​the city, the more than 300 million civilians of the Great Qin State who stayed in the urban area of ​​Yueyang City will suffer, and the army of the Ice Lion Kingdom will never take civilian casualties into account.

At this time, Sun Hongwei, another deputy minister of the Ministry of National Defense, said: "Now we can only evacuate as many people from Yueyang City as possible, and at the same time find a way to delay the advance speed of the Ice Lion Army. From Phoenix Mountain to the urban area of ​​Yueyang City, about There is still a distance of more than 40 kilometers, and we can let the troops who have withdrawn from the front line of Fenghuang Mountain block each other on the road of more than 40 kilometers."

Due to the mutual containment of the various factions of the Great Qin Army, in addition to one minister, there are six deputy ministers in Daqin's Ministry of National Defense. In addition, there is a chief of general staff and five deputy chiefs of general staff. The thirteen senior officials represented the thirteen major factions of the Great Qin Army.

The army unit that belonged to Sun Hongwei's Sun family before suffered heavy losses in the battle with the army of the ice lion country. This time, they only reluctantly gathered an army of less than 2 people to join the battle to defend Yueyang City.

Chief of the General Staff Zhou Botao said with a wry smile: "The urban area from Phoenix Mountain to Yueyang City is a plain, so it can be said that there is no danger to defend, but most of the troops withdrawn from the front line of Fenghuang Mountain are already in disarray. It's not easy to block each other on the road!"

Chief of Staff Zhou Botao's Zhou family is more in the navy of the Great Qin State, and has a huge influence. Originally, four of the five main fleets of the Great Qin Navy were controlled by the Zhou family. The Ice Lion Navy lost a lot in the fierce battle. Now the five main fleets of the entire Daqin Navy add up, leaving only one dreadnought battleship, one battlecruiser, one heavy cruiser, three light cruisers, and four destroyers. and seven submarines.

Originally, the Daqin Navy had a medium-sized aircraft carrier, but unfortunately it was sunk in a naval battle with the Ice Lion Navy.

In the world where the Great Qin Kingdom is located, the capital ships of the navy are named exactly the same as the capital ships of the navies of other countries in the Tang Empire. Battleships are divided into ironclad ships, pre-dreadnought ships, dreadnought ships, super dreadnought ships, and battlecruisers. In addition, in the world on the side of Great Qin, every naval power has already equipped aircraft carriers.

In this world, aircraft carriers are divided according to their displacement. A small aircraft carrier has a full load displacement of less than [-] tons, and a medium-sized aircraft carrier has a full load displacement of between [-] tons and [-] tons. tons for large aircraft carriers.

The Ice Lions Navy, ranked third in the world, currently has two large aircraft carriers, three medium-sized aircraft carriers and two small aircraft carriers.

Although the Zhou family, the chief of the general staff, Zhou Botao, is mainly in the navy, but in the army of the Great Qin Kingdom, the Zhou family also has forces under its own control. This time, the Zhou family sent an army under their command to defend Yueyang City. Joined the battle on the front line of Phoenix Mountain.

Deputy Minister of National Defense Zhao Zeling suddenly gritted his teeth and said: "No matter what, we have to give it a try. Our Zhao family can let the No. 16 army that has withdrawn from the front line of Fenghuang Mountain stop it between Fenghuang Mountain and the urban area of ​​Yueyang City. , to slow down the advance of the Ice Lion Army as much as possible."

Immediately afterwards, Minister of National Defense Liu Fuchen sighed and said: "I can't let the No.16 Army stand alone against the hundreds of thousands of elites from the Ice Lion Kingdom. I will let the Fifth Army stay and fight side by side with the No.16 Army."

After Zhao Zeling and Liu Fuchen expressed their views, the other military leaders in the meeting room no longer spoke out. Everyone knew what it meant to keep the troops between Phoenix Mountain and Yueyang City.

Minister of National Defense Liu Fuchen saw that no faction was willing to send troops to participate in the blocking, so he had no choice but to say: "Then the Fifth Army and No. For a moment, let's keep some troops to defend Yueyang City!"

In fact, the leaders of these factions in the Great Qin State military are very clear in their hearts that it is impossible to defend Yueyang City, but as the capital of the Great Qin State, the army of the Great Qin State cannot easily abandon Yueyang City, no matter what the final result is, Yueyang City must also be defended.

However, after half a year of fierce battle with the Ice Lion Kingdom, the army of the Great Qin Kingdom suffered heavy losses. Almost all of the 21 armies gathered in Yueyang City were the elite of the Great Qin Army. Army would be an irreparable loss.

At present, the Daqin Army has been continuously expanded, and the total force is still maintained at more than 400 million, but the proportion of recruits is very high. At this time, the 21 armies gathered in Yueyang City, at the beginning of the war, are basically veterans. Lord, for the sake of the next war, the military of the Great Qin Kingdom can't just sit back and watch these 21 armies all lose in Yueyang City.

In the end, after discussions among the thirteen faction bosses, it was decided to draw 16 divisions out of the [-] armies to stay in Yueyang City and start street fighting with the Ice Lion Army. In addition, if the Fifth Army and No.[-] Army can withdraw In the urban area of ​​Yueyang City, these two armies will also join in the street fighting.

Deputy Minister of National Defense Zhao Zeling asked to stay and serve as the commander-in-chief of the defense battle of Yueyang City, while the other faction leaders of the Ministry of National Defense will leave Yueyang City with the withdrawn troops of various armies.

At around four o'clock in the afternoon on December 329th, Su Yi received an order to protect the field hospital of the regiment headquarters and retreat to Yueyang City, and the regiment headquarters also transferred ten veterans and ten recruits from other troops of the 41th regiment to supplement the troops. The second company where Su Yi was located increased the strength of the second company to [-] people.

However, when Su Yi brought the second company to the field hospital of the 329th regiment, he was dumbfounded. It turned out that the field hospitals at all levels of the 16th division under the entire No. Except for the 48-man company rushing over, there were no other troops to help the field hospital retreat.

Wu Changqing, the dean of the 48th Division Field Hospital, said to Su Yi with a wry smile: "Company Commander Su, there are now more than 600 wounded here, and most of them are seriously wounded, and our doctors and nurses combined are not enough. Hundreds of people, you only brought 40 people here, it is impossible to withdraw all the wounded to Yueyang City."

After a pause, Wu Changqing sighed and said: "Basically, the front line of Phoenix Mountain can no longer be defended. In this way, the army of the Ice Lion Kingdom can directly attack the urban area of ​​Yueyang City. It is very difficult to leave Yueyang City again."

Su Yi frowned and asked, "Dean Wu, where are the guards and stretcher-carrying men in the field hospitals? Didn't the division send troops to help the field hospitals retreat?"

Wu Changqing sighed again and said: "Because the front line is tight, the guards and civilians from the field hospital of our 48th division, as well as the guards and civilians from the field hospitals of the brigades and regiments, have all been added to the frontline troops. The headquarters can no longer be contacted, not to mention the division headquarters, the brigade headquarters and regiment headquarters under our 48th Division can no longer be contacted, it seems that the entire communication system of our 48th Division has a problem."

In fact, Su Yi can't contact the regiment headquarters of the 329th regiment now. Before Su Yi took the remaining officers and soldiers of the second company, after giving up the position, he withdrew all the way to the regiment headquarters of the 329th regiment. Only then did he receive assistance from the 329th regiment field hospital. Withdraw Yueyang City's order.

Su Yi pondered for a while and said: "The army of the Ice Lion Kingdom may come over at any time. No matter how difficult it is, we have to retreat immediately, otherwise the doctors, nurses and wounded in the field hospital will not survive. Dean Wu must have heard of it." How cruel is the Ice Lion Army, as for what to do after returning to Yueyang City, let's talk about it at that time!"

Wu Changqing said in embarrassment: "But how will those seriously injured get away? You can't just give up on them, can you?"

Su Yi said in a deep voice: "Dean Wu, let the doctors and nurses pack up their things and prepare to retreat, and count the wounded who can walk on their own and the wounded who cannot walk. After half an hour, we must retreat. Now I'm taking people to find more broken soldiers to help."

Since the entire Phoenix Mountain defense line was already crumbling at this time, the officers and soldiers of the Great Qin Army of various units were routed in the direction of Yueyang City, and a large part of the rout troops had no organization.

Although Su Yi had no choice but to enter the world of the Great Qin Kingdom, seeing the same black-haired and black-eyed Daqin people, Su Yi couldn't help but activate the star gate directly and hide back in the Great Tang Empire or the Great Han Kingdom. world.

Su Yi took the officers and soldiers of the second company under his command, and quickly blocked more than 100 rout soldiers. In fact, Su Yi encountered at least four to 500 rout soldiers, but only these more than 100 rout soldiers were willing to help the 48th Division Field hospitals at all levels retreated.

Facing the rout soldiers who were unwilling to stay, Su Yi didn't force it. After all, many rout soldiers had guns in their hands, and if they were pressed, they would turn into a fight.

More than 100 broken soldiers were temporarily incorporated into his second company by Su Yi. Among the more than 100 broken soldiers, there were three platoon leaders who were directly appointed by Su Yi as the platoon leaders of the three subordinate platoons of the second company. A security platoon was also set up, and Ma Sibao was appointed as the platoon leader of the security platoon. The forty soldiers from the previous second company were all incorporated into the security platoon by Su Yi.

What made Su Yi happy was that during the process of intercepting the rout soldiers, he also found more than [-] carriages full of grain. Su Yi immediately asked the soldiers to unload the grain on the carriages, and then took more than [-] carriages The empty wagon returned to the field hospital.

More than 600 of the more than 300 wounded were barely able to walk on their own, and more than 20 of the other 80 seriously injured who could not walk were squeezed into more than [-] carriages, and there were more than [-] wounded who were taken by two The soldiers of the company and some male doctors were carried on stretchers.

At a little after five o'clock in the afternoon on December 48th, the field hospitals at all levels of the [-]th Division finally began to retreat to Yueyang City.

At this time, the defense line of the Great Qin Army on Phoenix Mountain had completely fallen, and only some of the broken troops were still desperately resisting the Ice Lion Army, but these broken Great Qin Army troops could no longer affect the overall situation.

Su Yi retreated with more than 600 wounded soldiers all the way. On the way, there were many rout soldiers who had lost their formation, and they also took the initiative to join this team mainly wounded. When Su Yi and the others withdrew to the area between Phoenix Mountain and Yueyang City In a small town in the middle of the city, not counting the wounded and medical staff, Su Yi has gathered more than 300 officers and soldiers of the Great Qin Army, including a company commander named He Zhihong, who was temporarily appointed by Su Yi as the deputy company of the second company. long.

What stunned Su Yi was that in this small town, Su Yi found a large number of abandoned and seriously wounded from several armies, and all of these armies participated in the battle on the front line of Phoenix Mountain.

Soon Su Yi figured out the reason. After the field hospitals under various armies withdrew to this small town, they received orders from the military headquarters of each army to let the field hospitals at all levels abandon all seriously wounded and take only those who could recover. The walking wounded quickly withdrew to Yueyang City.

Now Su Yi has also received an order from the No. 16 Army's military headquarters to ask the No. 16 Army's lower-level field hospitals to abandon the seriously wounded who cannot walk by themselves and withdraw to Yueyang City as soon as possible. Troops, defend on the spot, slow down the advance speed of the Ice Lion Army as much as possible, and buy time for the people of Yueyang City to evacuate.

The person who conveyed this order to Su Yi was a company commander of the 16th Division of the No. The three divisions under the 46th Army are the 16th, 46th and 47th divisions.

Sun Guodong smiled wryly and said to Su Yi: "Commander Su, if you don't want to stay and stick to this town, can you leave me some more weapons and ammunition? Now I have managed to gather more than 400 officers and soldiers who can still fight, but the weapons There is not much ammunition, there are only two heavy machine guns and four light machine guns, and there are enough rifles, but each person has less than twenty rounds of ammunition on average."

Su Yi asked with a gloomy expression: "How many seriously injured are there in this town now?"

Sun Guodong said sadly: "There are more than 2000 people in total, but these seriously wounded people have no way to persist in fighting. If the more than 400 people I gathered are exhausted, then these 2000 seriously wounded people can only be slaughtered. The viciousness of the Ice Lion Army will not waste a little medicine for the more than 2000 seriously wounded."

A trace of anger suddenly appeared in Su Yi's eyes and he asked: "Can't we send all these seriously wounded people back to Yueyang City? These are all soldiers who have fought bloody battles with the Ice Lion Army. Could it be that they have no resistance at all? Was he killed by the Lion Clan people?"

Sun Guodong sighed and said: "Now Yueyang City is in chaos, who can take care of these seriously wounded people who have lost their combat effectiveness, now even the orders of the military department have no effect, otherwise I will not be in command here, The officers of our No.16 Army almost all fled back to Yueyang City, maybe they will flee from Yueyang City in the future."

Not many officers and soldiers of the No.16 Army are willing to obey the orders of the No.16 Army's military headquarters at all levels of combat troops, especially the middle and senior officers of the No.16 Army.

You must know that the army of the ice lion country has a lot of tanks. Without the defense line of Phoenix Mountain, facing the tank troops of the ice lion country army on the plain is no different from dying.

At this time, Wu Changqing, the director of the 48th Division Field Hospital who was following Su Yi, hesitated for a moment and asked Su Yi: "Commander Su, what should we do now? Should we continue to retreat to Yueyang City?"

(End of this chapter)