Rise of the Overlord

Chapter 313 Can't Even Negotiate
In the basement under the ruins of the former Ministry of National Defense Building in Yueyang City, Su Yi met five representatives of the uprising soldiers, encouraged them, and immediately promoted four of them as deputy company commanders.

Cai Zhenyang, a soldier king with high prestige among the uprising soldiers, was directly promoted by Su Yi to be a company commander of the guard battalion of the headquarters.

This time, more than 30 human soldiers from the 8 garrison infantry divisions of the Ice Lion Country all participated in the pre-battle uprising. Human soldiers lost a lot, with more than [-] dead.

Of the 22 human soldiers who survived, there were also nearly 6000 wounded, including more than [-] seriously injured.

The 20 human soldiers who could continue to fight were immediately divided up by the nine temporary divisions under Su Yi's command, causing Su Yi's troop strength to suddenly expand to more than 50. More than [-] wounded were recuperated in field hospitals.

The Ice Lion Army, which was advancing by leaps and bounds on the battlefield in the Great Qin Kingdom, did not expect to encounter such a big and hard nail in Yueyang City, the capital of the Great Qin Kingdom.

As of the evening of February 2538th, 47 in the divine calendar, the army of the Ice Lion Kingdom had lost more than 30 people in Yueyang City, and this did not include the [-] human soldiers who rebelled. Although Yueyang City was almost reduced to ruins, However, most of the city is still under the control of the Great Qin Army, and it is still far away from the Ice Lion Army's complete capture of Yueyang City.

The defense of Yueyang City seems to have become a kind of spiritual sustenance for the soldiers and civilians of the Great Qin Kingdom. At present, the Great Qin Kingdom has no occupied areas. The God of War of a generation, Yueyang City was called the city that will never fall by many newspapers.

In order to capture Yueyang City, the capital of the Great Qin Kingdom as soon as possible, and break the will of the soldiers and civilians of the Great Qin Kingdom to resist, the Ice Lion Army almost suspended the military offensive on other battlefields in the Great Qin Kingdom, and dispatched a large number of troops from various battlefields to go to Yueyang City battlefield.

At the same time, the Ice Lion Kingdom recruited a large number of reservists in the country, and began to supplement the seventeen guard mechanized infantry divisions and 26 garrison infantry divisions on the Yueyang City battlefield.

These 26 garrison infantry divisions are the main garrison infantry divisions composed of orcs. As for the [-] garrison infantry divisions mainly composed of human soldiers, Ice Lion Kingdom has no plans to rebuild them.

Marshal Kayano, who commanded the army of the Ice Lion Kingdom to attack Yueyang City, wished to capture the entire Yueyang City overnight and kill all the humans in Yueyang City, but after the human soldiers of the [-] garrison infantry divisions successfully revolted, Marshal Kayano ordered the troops of the various divisions of the Ice Lion Kingdom to suspend the attack on the Daqin defenders in the city first, and mobilize heavy troops. The guards still control about a quarter of the DC area and a fifth of the Ice Lion Kingdom army. Beicheng District.

Marshal Kayano is going to wait until the troops drawn from other battlefields, as well as the reserve officers and soldiers supported by the country, have arrived at Yueyang City, and then launch a fierce attack on Yueyang City again.

At this time, the strength of Su Yi's troops has increased to more than 50, plus the large amount of weapons and equipment that Su Yi brought from the world of the Tang Empire and the Han Kingdom, in fact, Su Yi already has the strength to break the encirclement of the Ice Lion Army on Yueyang City .

At present, the Ice Lion Army on the battlefield of Yueyang City has less than 50 troops excluding the wounded, and it needs to be divided into four directions to encircle the entire urban area of ​​Yueyang City.

However, the area around Yueyang City has been occupied by the Ice Lion Army. Even if Su Yi opened a passage on the encirclement, he would not receive support from other Daqin troops. Therefore, after the Ice Lion Army slowed down the attack However, Su Yi did not order his troops to take the initiative to attack, but stepped up a new round of reorganization of the nine temporary divisions under his command, hoping to integrate the 20 uprising soldiers into the nine temporary divisions as soon as possible.

As a result, the battlefield in Yueyang City, which was originally full of artillery fire, suddenly fell silent. Of course, this does not mean that the battle in Yueyang City will end. Both sides are actually gathering strength to prepare for the next more brutal battle.

On February 2538, [-] in the divine calendar, in Jinzhou City, the capital of Nanjiang Province of the Great Qin Kingdom, Cai Yongchang, the current president of the Great Qin Kingdom, called the top military and political leaders of the Great Qin Kingdom and held a secret meeting.

The people in power of the thirteen factions of the Great Qin State military all participated in this secret meeting, including Zhao Zeling, the Deputy Minister of National Defense who left from Yueyang City, and the people who participated in this secret meeting on the government side, except for President Cai Yongchang and Vice President Apart from Li Qingwei, only the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Industry participated.

As soon as the meeting started, President Cai Yongchang said to everyone in a deep voice: "Right now, about 200 million square kilometers of our Great Qin Kingdom's 750 million square kilometers have been occupied. Half of the total population, I feel that our Great Qin Country can no longer continue to stand firm, and we should immediately start negotiations with the Ice Lion Country, even if we pay a huge price, we must end this war and keep our Great Qin Country, the only human being. s country."

In the past, President Cai Yongchang also proposed to start truce negotiations with the Ice Lion Country. However, when President Cai Yongchang just made this proposal, he was strongly opposed by various leaders in the military. However, this time President Cai Yongchang proposed again. The truce negotiations with the Ice Lion Kingdom were launched, but the leaders of the thirteen factions of the military looked at each other, and no one immediately stood up and raised objections.

Vice President Li Qingwei then sighed and said: "The strength gap between our Great Qin Kingdom and the Ice Lion Kingdom is too great. According to the current situation, if we continue to fight, our Great Qin Kingdom may really perish. I also feel that It is better to start the truce negotiations with the Ice Lion Country as soon as possible."

Minister of National Defense Liu Fuchen suddenly sighed and said: "Our military also knows that if we continue to resist, the chance of winning this war is very slim, but the ice lion country has too much appetite. If we start armistice negotiations with the ice lion country now, the ice lion country will The lion will definitely open his mouth, and if it is not done well, our Great Qin Kingdom will cede half of the country."

President Cai Yongchang immediately said: "I think even if half of the country is ceded, as long as our Great Qin Kingdom is not completely annexed by the Ice Lion Country, it is not impossible to accept it. In the face of the crisis of national subjugation, our Great Qin Kingdom must endure humiliation."

At this time, Zhao Zeling, the deputy minister of the Ministry of National Defense, suddenly couldn't help but said: "Your Excellency, the main force of the ice lion country's army is now restrained in Yueyang City, and Yueyang City is still controlled by our Great Qin Army. Should we now Let’s discuss how to support Yueyang City first, and then discuss how to take the opportunity to expand the strength of our Great Qin Army, I think as long as Yueyang City is not completely captured by the Ice Lion Army, our Great Qin Kingdom will have a chance to turn defeat into victory.”

After Zhao Zeling left Yueyang City, he couldn't help regretting it. He didn't expect that Su Yi could hold Yueyang City firmly with the remaining troops in Yueyang City, and even successfully planned the uprising of 30 human soldiers in the Ice Lion Kingdom. Now Su Yi has become the hero of the entire Qin Kingdom, controlling at least 50 elites.

You must know that the Daqin Army now has only 350 million soldiers, except for the troops under Su Yi's command. Most of them are recruits, and there is a shortage of weapons and ammunition. A rising faction, and its strength has already surpassed the thirteen old factions of the Great Qin Army.

President Cai Yongchang immediately said with a wry smile: "If it is possible, as the president, I certainly don't want our Great Qin Kingdom to cede land to the Ice Lion Country to pay compensation, but our Great Qin Kingdom really can't hold on. Now let the Ministry of Finance Minister Zhang and Minister Sun from the Ministry of Industry, please introduce the finances of our Great Qin State, as well as the production of weapons and ammunition."

The Minister of the Ministry of Finance sighed and said: "Generals, in order to resist the invasion of the Ice Lion Army, our Ministry of Finance has done everything we can to raise military expenditures, but as more and more areas fell, the fiscal revenue of our Great Qin State dropped sharply. Now it is in a serious deficit, and next month it may not even be able to make up the 1000 million Qin Yuan military expenditure."

Qin Yuan is the currency issued by the Great Qin Kingdom. Before the invasion of the Ice Lion Kingdom, the Qin Yuan was relatively strong. One Qin Yuan could buy about ten kilograms of rice. Qin Yuan was greatly affected. Now within the territory of the Great Qin State, one Qin Yuan can buy three or four kilograms of rice.

The Minister of Industry followed up and said: "Due to the bombing of the various arsenals of our Great Qin by the Ice Lion Air Force, our Great Qin has lost more than 90.00% of its weapons and ammunition production capacity, not to mention the current 350 million Great Qin Army. Now the weapons and ammunition production capacity of our Great Qin State cannot even guarantee the supply of weapons and ammunition to the 50 Great Qin Army."

After the two ministers of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Industry finished speaking, President Cai Yongchang said with a wry smile to Vice Minister of National Defense Zhao Zeling: "Minister Zhao, if but possible, our Great Qin Kingdom will never surrender to the Ice Lion Country." , but now we Daqin really can't hold on."

Chief of General Staff Zhou Botao frowned and said: "Your Excellency, Yueyang City is still firmly in the hands of our Great Qin Army. The people may not understand the truce negotiations with the Ice Lion Country at this time."

Vice President Li Qingwei immediately said: "According to the information obtained by our intelligence department, the Ice Lion Army has dispatched six Imperial Guard Mechanized Infantry Divisions and eight Garrison Infantry Divisions from various battlefields to the battlefield of Yueyang City. In the country of Ice Lions, they are ready to send more than 50 supplementary soldiers to the various divisions of the Ice Lions Army gathered in Yueyang City. With the current strength in Su Yi's hands, even if they can block the new round of attacks by the Ice Lions , but in the end they will definitely not be able to defend Yueyang City, the Ice Lion Country can definitely mobilize more troops to join the battlefield in Yueyang City, but Su Yi won't get any reinforcements at all."

Then President Cai Yongchang pondered for a while and said: "We have started truce negotiations with the Ice Lion Country, and we will not be able to reach an truce agreement right away. I think we can talk about it first. When the two sides reach an agreement, maybe Yueyang City has been destroyed. The army of the Ice Lion Country has captured it, and even if our government signs an armistice agreement with the Ice Lion Country, the people in the country should understand."

In the end, under the initiative of President Cai Yongchang, the leaders of the [-] factions of the military reluctantly agreed to start truce negotiations with the Ice Lion Kingdom, striving to end this war that exhausted the national strength of the Great Qin Kingdom as soon as possible.

However, what the military and political leaders of the Great Qin Kingdom never expected was that the Ice Lion Kingdom would have such a big appetite.

When the Great Qin Kingdom contacted the Ice Lion Country through some channels, hoping to start truce negotiations with the Ice Lion Country, the Ice Lion Country directly asked the Great Qin Country to surrender unconditionally.

Once the Great Qin Kingdom chooses to surrender unconditionally to the Ice Lion Kingdom, then the Great Qin Kingdom will let the Ice Lion Kingdom dispose of it, and all the troops of the Great Qin Kingdom will have to surrender to the Ice Lion Kingdom army. It is also very easy to annex the entire Great Qin State. The Great Qin State, which has lost its army, is powerless to resist.

On February 2538, [-] in the divine calendar, still in the same room, the top military and political leaders of the Great Qin Kingdom gathered together again.

President Cai Yongchang said with a sad face: "I never thought that the Ice Lion Country would be so ruthless, requiring our Great Qin Country to agree to unconditional surrender before we are willing to start truce negotiations."

Deputy Minister of National Defense Zhao Zeling gritted his teeth and said: "They have surrendered unconditionally, so there is no need for truce negotiations. It seems that our Great Qin Kingdom can no longer have any illusions. We can only mobilize all the forces that can be mobilized to continue with the Ice Lion Kingdom. Fight on."

Minister of National Defense Liu Fuchen shook his head and said, "Unconditional surrender is impossible. If the Ice Lion Country insists on such conditions, our Great Qin Country will have no other way to go."

Chief of Staff Zhou Botao said in a deep voice: "I think that since the Ice Lion Country has cut off the way for the two sides to negotiate a truce, it is better to announce the unreasonable demands made by the Ice Lion Country and let the people of our Great Qin Kingdom know that only resistance can lead to peace." Let the Great Qin Kingdom survive, otherwise all the Great Qin people will become subjugated slaves."

President Cai Yongchang, who has always supported the peace talks with the Ice Lion Country, also said desolately: "Everyone, unconditional surrender is unacceptable. If that is the case, it will be no different from the subjugation of the country. Now our Daqin country only has to continue to resist this one." It's time to go, I think it's okay to announce the unreasonable demands made by the Ice Lion Kingdom, so that people like me in the Great Qin Kingdom who still have illusions about the Ice Lion Kingdom can recognize the reality."

In the early morning of the next day, the news that the Ice Lion Kingdom demanded that the Great Qin Kingdom be willing to start truce negotiations only after accepting unconditional surrender made it to the headlines of newspapers all over the Great Qin Kingdom. Putting out the idea of ​​ending the war with Ice Lion Nation through armistice negotiations.

(End of this chapter)