Rise of the Overlord

Chapter 336 Southwest Truce
After Su Yi's Yueyang Front Army took control of the entire central region of the Great Qin State, the Ice Lion State urgently held a cabinet meeting to discuss the situation in the Great Qin State.

Originally, due to the war with the Blood Wolf Country, the Ice Lion Country was ready to give up some interests in the territory of the Great Qin Country, but when the Yueyang Front Army under Su Yi captured the entire central region, other voices suddenly appeared in the Ice Lion Country , And this voice, even the cabinet of the ice lion country must pay attention to it.

In the official residence of the Prime Minister’s Mansion in Bingshi City, Zahar, the Prime Minister of Bingshi’s cabinet, said to several other cabinet members in a deep voice: “Everyone is very clear about the current situation in the Great Qin Kingdom, and I brought you here today to discuss our situation. I hope everyone can speak freely about how the Ice Lion Kingdom should deal with the Yueyang Front Army of the Great Qin Kingdom."

As soon as the Cabinet Prime Minister Zahar's words fell, Field Marshal Gurit sighed and said: "I have always believed that in order to deal with the blood wolf country, we should not lower our defenses against the Yueyang Front Army of the Great Qin Kingdom. Now the entire central region is covered by Yueyang. After the front army captures the Northwest and Northeast regions of the Great Qin State occupied by our Ice Lion Country, they will all be threatened by the Great Qin Yueyang Front Army, and even the millions of troops of our Ice Lion Country in the southwest of the Great Qin State With the risk of being flanked by the army of the blood wolf country and the front army of Qin Yueyang, of course, the probability of that happening is not high."

After a pause, Field Marshal Gullit continued: "If our Ice Lion Country still ignores the existence of the Yueyang Front Army, then the Northwest and Northeast regions of the Great Qin Kingdom will not belong to our Ice Lion Country soon."

David, another Field Marshal of the Ice Lion Country, said helplessly: "Our Ice Lion Country was not willing to reduce our troops in the central area of ​​the Great Qin Country before, but the Blood Wolf Country is in the southwestern part of the Great Qin Country. Investing more troops forced our Ice Lion Country to send the army troops in the territory of Great Qin to the battlefields in the southwest region one after another. We can't let the Blood Wolf Country take advantage of it."

Field Marshal Gullit frowned, "Are we really going to give up the benefits we have already gained in the Great Qin Kingdom? That was paid for by the lives of millions of officers and soldiers!"

Admiral Mochka suddenly said: "Now that the central region is lost, it will be lost, but I personally think that the five northwestern provinces and six northeastern provinces of the Great Qin Kingdom should not be given up. The northwest and northeast of the Great Qin Kingdom can be described as The land is vast and abundant, and there are huge reserves of various resources. Even if we launch a war against the Great Qin this time, our Ice Lion Kingdom only got the five northwestern provinces and six northeastern provinces of the Great Qin Kingdom, which is tantamount to making a lot of money."

After a pause, Admiral Mochka continued: "In addition, the five northwestern provinces and six northeastern provinces of the Great Qin Kingdom are adjacent to the south of our Ice Lion Country. The troops of our Ice Lion Country can be transferred to the northwest of the Great Qin Kingdom more quickly Five provinces and six provinces in Northeast China, this is also beneficial for our ice lion army to stick to the eleven provinces of the Great Qin Kingdom mentioned above."

Field Marshal David shrugged and said: "But now our Ice Lion Country not only needs to fight against the Blood Wolf Country in the southwestern part of the Great Qin Country, but also needs to keep enough elite troops on the western border of the country. It is already impossible to send too many army troops to the Northwest and Northeast regions of the Great Qin Kingdom to guard against the restless Eastern Xiong Kingdom. If we continue to form new troops, where will the military expenses come from?"

At this time, Cabinet Prime Minister Zahar suddenly said: "Many domestic consortiums have jointly put pressure on the cabinet, requiring our Ice Lion Army to guard the northwest and northeast regions of the Great Qin State, so as to ensure that the many consortiums in the Great Qin State For the benefits obtained by these eleven provinces, various financial groups are willing to provide a large amount of special military expenditures to help our cabinet carry out large-scale military expansion."

The five northwestern provinces and six northeastern provinces of the Great Qin Kingdom are rich in various resources. After these eleven provinces were captured by the Ice Lion Army, many financial groups in the Ice Lion Kingdom entered these eleven provinces one after another. Crazy plundering of various resources, such as oil fields, coal mines, forest farms, and pastures.

Field Marshal Gullit hurriedly asked: "Prime Minister, how much money are those consortiums willing to pay?"

Cabinet Prime Minister Zahar immediately said: "That is an astronomical sum, which is enough for our Ice Lion Country to form tens of millions more army troops. Even if all the standard mechanized infantry divisions of the Imperial Guard are formed, this fund can also form two hundred troops. above."

Field Marshal David's eyes brightened, "If there is enough military expenditure, it is not impossible to form more new troops and defend the northwest and northeast regions of the Great Qin Kingdom!"

In the face of an astronomical amount of military expenditure, the cabinet members of the Great Qin State quickly reached an agreement, and decided to increase the military strength in the northwest and northeast regions of the Great Qin State, while using the huge military expenditures donated by many financial groups for free in the country. Carry out large-scale military expansion again.

This time, the new troops expanded by the Ice Lion Army will be divided into two, half of which will enter the northwest and northeast regions of the Great Qin Kingdom, and the other half will go to the battlefield in the southwest region of the Great Qin Kingdom.

After sweeping through the remnant clouds and capturing Ludong Province, Song'an Province and most of Sui'an Province in the central region, Su Yi immediately set his sights on the six provinces in the Northeast region.

The six northeastern provinces of the Great Qin State have a combined area of ​​about 300 million square kilometers and a population of about [-] million.

Most of the six northeastern provinces are plain terrain, which is very suitable for tanks and armored units to attack. You must know that the tank regiments of the Yueyang Front Army equipped with Type 69 main battle tanks almost flattened all the way in the process of attacking the Ice Lion Army. However, the Ice Lion Army has extremely limited means of dealing with the Type 69 main battle tank.

Seeing that the Ice Lion Army chose to avoid war in the central region, Su Yi hoped that the Ice Lion Army would adopt the same strategy in the Northeast.

However, when Su Yi learned from the intelligence department of the Ministry of National Defense that the Ice Lion Kingdom had urgently sent a large number of reinforcements to the Northwest and Northeast regions, he immediately decided to suspend the attack on the Northwest and Northeast regions.

Su Yi was not afraid of bloody battles with the Ice Lion Army in the Northwest and Northeast regions, but worried that the Yueyang Front Army under his command would fight too hard in the Northwest and Northeast regions, which would make the Ice Lion Kingdom do something wrong on the battlefield in the Southwest. What changes? Su Yi also hopes that the battle between the Ice Lion Kingdom and the Blood Wolf Kingdom in the southwest region will continue until exhaustion!

Moreover, many places in the central region have just been acquired by the Yueyang Front Army. It can be said that the Yueyang Front Army has not fully grasped the entire central region. Now Su Yi also needs time to bring the entire central region under the jurisdiction of the Yueyang Front Army.

The battle between the blood wolf country and the ice lion country in the southwestern region of the Great Qin Kingdom was not affected by the capture of the central part of the Great Qin Kingdom by the Yueyang Front Army. The fierce battle between the armies of the two sides was still very fierce.

As of the end of January in the year 2539 in the divine calendar, the number of soldiers killed in battle of the Ice Lion Kingdom had approached 360 million, and the death toll of the Army of the Blood Wolf Kingdom had reached almost 450 million. In addition, affected by the war between the armies of the two countries, the people of the Great Qin Kingdom , Also in this battle between the blood wolf country and the ice lion country, millions of people lost their lives, many of whom were killed in the bombing of the air forces of the two countries.

Neither the Ice Lion Country nor the Blood Wolf Country cared about the civilian casualties of the Great Qin Country. Sometimes, in order to increase the casualties of the other party, they would even blow up the cities of the Great Qin Country where the opposing army was stationed into rubble.

In the headquarters of the blood wolf country dispatched army in Yanxi City, the capital of Ganchang Province, the Great Qin State, Nyad, the commander-in-chief of the blood wolf country dispatched army, said in a deep voice to the commanders of the forty armies: "Our blood wolf country and the ice lion country are in the same position. The battlefield in the southwest region has been fiercely fought for almost ten months. The army of our blood wolf country has paid a very heavy price for this war. The number of officers and soldiers killed in battle alone exceeds 450 million. Many soldiers of the frontline troops They have been changed several times, but we still haven’t completely defeated the Ice Lion Army, and the northern part of Yongkang Province and the eastern part of Qiannan Province are still firmly in the hands of the Ice Lion Army.”

Although the blood wolf country army only sent forty armies into the southwestern region of the Great Qin State, it sent millions of supplementary troops to these forty armies, so that the establishment of these forty armies has never been too large Big shortfall.

Virito, the commander of the First Army of the Blood Wolf Country Army, frowned and said: "In order to compete with our Blood Wolf Country for the southwest region of the Great Qin Country, the Ice Lion Country even reduced the number of troops they stationed in other parts of the Great Qin Country. Let the army of Great Qin take the opportunity to take back the entire central region, so if we want to completely defeat the army of the Ice Lion Country on the battlefield in the southwest, our Blood Wolf Country can only consume it with the Ice Lion Country until the Ice Lion Country can't bear it. live."

The commander-in-chief of the dispatched army, Nyad, suddenly sighed and said: "Now the ice lion country is not unbearable, but our blood wolf country can't hold on anymore. The huge casualties have made the people in the country passionate. A large-scale demonstration broke out demanding an end to the war, and most of the people participating in the demonstration were the families of the fallen officers and soldiers."

Nyad's words immediately made almost all the army commanders frown.

Roffett, the commander of the Second Army of the Blood Wolf Army, immediately asked: "Commander, what is the cabinet's opinion now?"

The commander-in-chief of the dispatched army, Nyad, shook his head and said: "Several cabinet members have suggested negotiating with the Ice Lion Country as soon as possible to reach an armistice agreement to carve up the Great Qin Kingdom with the Ice Lion Country. Now the Prime Minister has sent a telegram, Ask us what the dispatched army thinks about this, let's talk about it!"

"Commander, we can't just give up so easily. In the previous fierce battles, our Ninth Army killed more than 14 people. Now the Ninth Army's recruits even account for 80.00% of the total number five, Even two of my division commanders died in the line of duty, and after paying such a high price, we ended up having peace talks with the Ice Lion Country, how can we explain to those soldiers who died in battle!" the Ninth Army Commander Special Jill said sharply.

After the Ninth Army Commander Tejill finished speaking, several other commanders spoke one after another, expressing that they did not want to start truce negotiations with the Ice Lion Country, and that they should continue to fight with the Ice Lion Country's army in the southwest of the Great Qin Kingdom.

Virito, the commander of the First Army, hesitated for a while and asked Nyad, the commander-in-chief of the dispatched army: "Commander, what's your opinion?"

The commander-in-chief of the dispatched army, Nyad, smiled bitterly and said: "Everyone, although the prime minister sent a telegram asking for the opinion of our dispatched army, since the prime minister can send this telegram, the opinion of our dispatched army is actually not important. On the issue of the ice lion country's truce negotiations, our dispatched troops have no say."

Field Marshal Kayano, who was commanding the army of the Ice Lion Country in the southwestern region of the Great Qin Kingdom, was urgently recalled to Ice Lion City, the capital of the Ice Lion Country, by a telegram from the Cabinet Prime Minister Zahar.

"Kayano, I am so anxious to get you back because the blood wolf country has conveyed to our ice lion country through the red tiger country that we hope to carry out the truce negotiations between the two countries and end the conflict between our two countries in the southwest of the Great Qin Kingdom. This war in the region." Prime Minister Zahar said to Kayano in a deep voice.

Kayano pondered for a long time before asking: "Prime Minister, what are the opinions of the cabinet members?"

Cabinet Prime Minister Zahar sighed and said: "Everyone's opinions are not unified. Some people are very much in favor of starting armistice negotiations with the Blood Wolf Country, while others are very opposed to it. As for those who oppose it, they all insist that the Blood Wolf Country should not be allowed to enter the Great Qin Dynasty. country to gain any benefit."

Field Marshal Kayano sighed and said: "Prime Minister, in my heart, I am not willing to start truce negotiations with the Blood Wolf Country, but our army of the Ice Lion Country has lost too much on the battlefield in the southwest region. Now, next, we still need to guard against the Yueyang Front Army of the Great Qin State, and stick to the northwest and northeast regions of the Great Qin State. Perhaps a truce with the Blood Wolf Country is also a correct choice for our Ice Lion Country. Of course, the truce negotiation For the conditions, our Ice Lion Nation must fight for it, and at least we have to share the southwestern part of the Great Qin Kingdom equally with the Blood Wolf Nation."

Due to the huge losses of the Ice Lion Country and the Blood Wolf Country on the battlefield in the southwest of the Great Qin Kingdom, these two countries finally sat on the negotiating table, but the truce conditions offered by the two countries were too different. , can never reach an agreement on the terms of the armistice.

While the Ice Lion Country and the Blood Wolf Country were secretly negotiating a truce, the armies of the two sides in the southwestern region of the Great Qin Kingdom still did not stop fighting.

The militaries of the two countries even hope to rely on some victories achieved on the battlefield to add more weight to their own countries on the negotiating table.

This made the fierce battle between the army of the ice lion country and the army of the blood wolf country on the battlefield in the southwest region even more tragic after the two countries secretly started the truce negotiation.

Because the ice lion country and the blood wolf country did not have a truce, other countries did not know that the two countries had started secret negotiations. It was not until February 2539, 28 in the divine calendar that the ice lion country and the blood wolf country suddenly jointly announced that they would end the conflict between the two armies. The conflict in the southwestern region of the Great Qin State has only awakened other countries from their dreams.

(End of this chapter)