Rise of the Overlord

Chapter 328
On the evening of June 2538, 26 in the divine calendar, at the front headquarters of the Ice Lion Army outside Yueyang City, Vicor, the disgraced commander of the Third Guards Tank and Armored Division, sadly said to Marshal Kayano: "Marshal , I have failed your expectations, this time the battle plan to cut off the passage to the south of Yueyang City has failed."

Marshal Kayano said with a gloomy face: "A Janissary Tank Armored Division, four Janissary Mechanized Infantry Divisions and six Garrison Infantry Divisions add up to about 27 people, and it took just over two days. There are only 7 people left for me, how can I account for such a big loss to the cabinet!"

Vicor said sadly: "Marshal, the heavy tanks equipped by the Daqin Army in Yueyang City are so powerful in all aspects, even the Golden Lion heavy tanks of our [-]rd Imperial Guard Tank Armored Division are not The opponent, the eleven divisions we attacked, could only be chased and killed by thousands of tanks of the Daqin army after a tank encounter failed. In addition, the Daqin army sent another army to cut off a forbidden area of ​​ours. It is not easy to withdraw more than [-] people from the retreat routes of the Guards Tank and Armored Division, the four Guards Mechanized Infantry Divisions and the six Garrison Infantry Divisions."

At this time, the deputy commander-in-chief, General Gelu, said: "Marshal, after the failure of this operation to cut off the southern channel of Yueyang City, it can be seen that the current Daqin army stationed in Yueyang City is more powerful than we expected in terms of combat effectiveness. High, and according to the news from the intelligence department, the total strength of the Daqin army in Yueyang City and the five counties to the south is at least 200 million. In this way, with the troops gathered around Yueyang City in our Ice Lion Kingdom, we want to completely capture Yueyang City will be a very difficult task."

Vicor, the commander of the Third Imperial Guard Tank and Armored Division, followed up and said: "The strength of the Daqin army stationed in Yueyang City is simply unbelievable, especially their heavy tanks. Tanks are difficult to match, and heavy tanks from other countries should not be its opponents."

Marshal Kayano sighed and said, "But no matter how difficult it is, Yueyang City must be taken down. If we don't take down Yueyang City, our Ice Lion Country will not be able to completely take over the entire Great Qin Country."

General Gelu, the deputy commander in chief, hesitated for a moment and said: "Marshal, I feel that according to the current situation, we can't rush to capture Yueyang City. The divisions have suffered too much from the continuous onslaught without regard to casualties. The infantry division has just joined the street fighting in Yueyang City for only one day, and it has lost almost half of its troops. Even if our ice lion country has a strong army, it is really difficult to bear such a loss speed."

"Grew, what suggestion do you have?" Marshal Kayano asked immediately, "This rate of loss is indeed unacceptable, and the effect achieved is not obvious."

"Marshal, first of all, let the domestic troops send the supplementary troops to Yueyang City as soon as possible to supplement the damaged divisions. Of course, like the Third Imperial Guard Tank and Armored Division, whether to supplement here in Yueyang City, or return to the country to supplement, That's up to the War Department to decide."

The deputy commander-in-chief, Army General Gru, paused for a moment and continued: "In addition, I think we should send troops to cut off the connection between the five counties south of Yueyang City and the rest of the Great Qin Kingdom, although we want to cut off the five counties south of Yueyang City The passage to the county is very difficult, but the Daqin troops stationed around the five counties south of Yueyang City do not belong to the troops under Su Yi's command. These Daqin troops are not even as good as the human soldiers in our Ice Lion Army in terms of weapons, equipment and combat effectiveness. The main garrison infantry division, so if you want to encircle Yueyang City and the five counties to the south, it should still be possible."

Marshal Kayano nodded slightly: "We can still cut off the connection between the five counties south of Yueyang City and other parts of the Great Qin Kingdom. In the territory of the Great Qin Kingdom, except for the troops under Su Yi, we The Ice Lion Army can even be said to have no opponents, and the other troops of the Great Qin Army are too weak in combat effectiveness and weaponry."

"Marshal, let me say a word of frustration. Even if our Ice Lion Army has been unable to capture Yueyang City, as long as we capture all the other areas of the Great Qin Kingdom, only Yueyang City and the five counties in the south will be left. What is the big wave, maybe at that time, Su Yi will choose to lead the troops to surrender to our Ice Lion Country, of course, even if Su Yi does not surrender, our Ice Lion Country will definitely be able to conquer Yueyang City in the end." Deputy Commander Army Admiral Grew said.

Marshal Kayano pondered for a moment and said: "It seems that I have to send another telegram to the cabinet."

Vicor, the division commander of the Third Guards Tank and Armored Division, then said to Marshal Kayano: "Marshal, I hope that the lost personnel, tanks and armored vehicles of the Third Guards Tank and Armored Division can be directly transported from China to Yueyang City. Our Third Guards Tank Armored Division has never suffered such a big loss since its formation, I hope the Marshal can give our Third Guards Tank Armored Division a chance for revenge."

Marshal Kayano glanced at Vicor, "I hope that your Third Guards Tank and Armored Division will not insult the name of the three main divisions of our Ice Lion Army in the next battle."

The army of the Ice Lion Kingdom has only formed three guard tank and armor divisions, and these three guard tank and armor divisions are known as the three main divisions of the Ice Lion Kingdom Army.

After the failure of the Ice Lion Army's plan to cut off the southern passage of Yueyang City, the Ice Lion Army's offensive on the east, west, and north districts of Yueyang City has also weakened a lot, and even entered the Ice Lion Country in Yueyang City during the day Most of the army is mainly defending the captured neighborhoods. Only after night falls, the Ice Lion Army will increase its offensive strength, but compared with the previous attack strength, it is still much weaker.

In the mid-July of the year 2538 in the divine calendar, the army of the Ice Lion Kingdom had three Imperial Guard Mechanized Infantry Divisions and four Garrison Infantry Divisions as one route, and four Imperial Guard Mechanized Infantry Divisions and five Garrison Infantry Divisions as the other route. The area outside the five counties to the south of the city launched a large-scale attack. At the same time, the Ice Lion Army that besieged Yueyang City also suddenly increased their attack on the city.

As of the end of July in 2538 in the divine calendar, the areas around the five counties south of Yueyang City had all fallen into the hands of the Ice Lion Army. Five counties, Lanping, Danyan, and Huining were surrounded.

Regarding the attack by the army of the Ice Lion Kingdom on the surrounding areas of the five counties south of Yueyang City, Su Yi did not send troops to support the other army units of the Great Qin Kingdom. Under the attack of the two armies of the Ice Lion Kingdom, the Daqin army was completely defeated and hardly formed any effective resistance.

At the temporary base of the Ministry of National Defense in Jinzhou City, the capital of Nanjiang Province in the Great Qin State, Liu Fuchen, the Minister of National Defense, slapped the table fiercely and shouted angrily: "What does Su Yi want to do! He has more than 200 million troops in his hand, but he just sits and watches." The friendly army was attacked by the Ice Lion Army, but he was unwilling to send a single soldier to help, and even asked him to send his fighter planes to support him, but he refused. Could it be that he, Su Yi, wants to completely break away from the ranks of the Great Qin Army!"

Zhao Zeling, one of the six deputy ministers of the Ministry of National Defense, immediately said in a deep voice: "It should be some time ago that some people went too far and annoyed Su Yi. response."

Zhao Zeling's words made the faces of several senior officials of the Ministry of National Defense suddenly look a little ugly, and some of them snorted coldly.

It turned out that after the Ice Lion Army launched the second attack on Yueyang City, some factions of the Great Qin Army still did not stop secretly wooing the leading generals under Su Yi's command, and threatened and lured them with various means.

Not all the officers under Su Yi's command are loyal to Su Yi, and even the officers who are more loyal to Su Yi only account for a very small proportion. After all, the officers under Su Yi's command are ordinary people. Humans are incomparable.

Fortunately, Su Yi has some precautions in this regard. He has placed eyeliners around many officers. After some officers under Su Yi's command were bought by various forces in the Daqin military, Su Yi immediately revoked the military posts of these officers. And forcibly sent people to send these officers out of the country, including two division commanders and two deputy division commanders, and more than 30 brigade-level officers and regiment-level officers.

Next, Su Yi sent a stern telegram to the Ministry of National Defense of the Great Qin State, telling the various factions of the military that if they continue to carry out these small actions that cannot be put on the table and pull the defenders of Yueyang City back, then Don't blame Su Yi for being cruel.

As for Su Yi's threat, the various factions of the military did not care, but Su Yi soon cleaned up the five counties of Yuhong, Zhutian, Lanping, Danyan, and Huining. A group of spies from the Ice Lion Kingdom also shot and killed more than 200 lobbyists from various factions of the Daqin military who secretly entered the above five counties to win over the generals under Su Yi's command.

Chief of General Staff Zhou Botao said in a cold voice: "I think Su Yi is getting more and more inflated, and now he even ignores the orders of our Ministry of National Defense. It will become a disaster for our Great Qin Kingdom!"

This time, in order to secretly win over the generals under Su Yi's command, Chief of General Staff Zhou Botao dispatched many confidantes of the Zhou family. As a result, these confidants were all shot dead by Su Yi, which made Chief of General Staff Zhou Botao treat Su Yi The resentment is getting heavier and heavier, if not for the Ice Lion Army is still storming Yueyang City, Chief of Staff Zhou Botao is ready to find a way to get rid of Su Yi.

Yan Degang, one of the five deputy chiefs of staff of the Ministry of National Defense, then gritted his teeth and said: "Su Yi must be severely punished for not obeying the orders of the Ministry of National Defense. If all the generals of our Great Qin Army are like Su Yi, then our Great Qin State What's the use of keeping the Ministry of National Defense!"

Among the thirteen senior officials in the Ministry of National Defense, Yan Degang has the deepest hatred for Su Yi. This time, in order to secretly buy the generals under Su Yi's command, Yan Degang sent his three sons to Zhutian County. The son didn't give Yan Degang any face, and shot Yan Degang's third son as a spy for the Ice Lion Kingdom.

More than 200 people from various factions of the Daqin military were shot before, and Su Yi was charged with being a spy of the Ice Lion Country.

Deputy Minister Zhao Zeling frowned and said: "Although Su Yi's disobedience to the order of our Ministry of Defense is very bad, but now Yueyang City, Yuhong County, Zhutian County, Lanping County, Danyan County and Huining County have been killed by Ice Lion The national army is surrounded by groups, even if we want to take some punitive measures against Su Yi, we can't do it, not to mention that Yueyang City has to rely on Su Yi to lead the troops to defend to the death."

It may be that Zhao Zeling went to Yueyang City, and there was something touched in his heart. This time, various factions of the Daqin military secretly recruited the generals under Su Yi's command. Zhao Zeling did not let the factions of the Zhao family participate, so Among the list of more than 200 people killed by Su Yi, there were no members of the Zhao family faction.

Defense Minister Liu Fuchen slapped the table angrily, "Su Yi's disobedience to the Ministry of Defense's orders cannot be allowed to be allowed. I propose to revoke Su Yi's position as the commander of Yueyang City Defense, and lower Su Yi's military rank by one rank. Lieutenant General!"

In order to appease Su Yi, the Ministry of National Defense has promoted Su Yi to be a general of the army. You must know that there are only two marshals in the military of the entire Great Qin State, namely Liu Fuchen, the Minister of National Defense, and Zhou Botao, Chief of the General Staff of the Ministry of National Defense. The minister and deputy chief of staff are also generals, and Su Yi is the only Daqin officer who has been promoted to general besides the thirteen senior officials of the Ministry of National Defense.

Minister of Defense Liu Fuchen's faction of the Liu family, this time sent to Su Yi's control area, several people were also shot, and one of them was Liu Fuchen's own nephew, and Liu Fuchen valued this nephew very much, which made Liu Fuchen think highly of this nephew. Su Yi's hatred was no less than Yan Degang, deputy chief of staff.

Deputy Minister Zhao Zeling said to Liu Fuchen with a wry smile: "Minister, even if Su Yi is revoked as the commander of Yueyang City Defense, the more than 200 million elite troops under Su Yi's command will still listen to Su Yi's command. Decreasing the rank to lieutenant general is even more painless to Su Yi. On the contrary, doing so will make the relationship between our Ministry of National Defense and Su Yi worse. Compared with those well-equipped troops under Su Yi's command, our national defense The other Great Qin Army units in the Ministry are too different in terms of combat effectiveness. If you want to drive the Ice Lion Army out of our Great Qin State, I think you must mainly rely on the elite troops under Su Yi's command, so it is best not to Make the relationship between the two parties too rigid."

(End of this chapter)