Chapter Seventy-Four: A Grim Situation

In the evening, news came from the rear that Asan had launched an attack on the border army.

When Zhu brought the telegram from the rear, I was analyzing the situation in front of the laptop screen with Qiao Zhijun and Yun Changan, who had just arrived.

At present, the three armies and two independent divisions of the Second Army have all rushed to the front line of Kathman, and the two divisions of the last army will arrive at the designated positions tomorrow morning, and they will be able to complete the encirclement of the capital of Nepal, which is also the capital of the Kingdom of God.

The condition of the troops was good, and in the course of the four-day rapid march, less than 10,000 of the million-strong army were short of men due to illness and falling behind, and the rest were in high morale. The 1st Battalion and 2nd Company of the 29th Regiment of the 13th Division of the Fourth Army, as the spearhead company of the whole army, actually hard-topped and broke through the mixed troops of more than 10,000 Ni and Ahsan soldiers with all-hot weapons and equipment in the attack operation, and created a record of 51 to 2,000 in the white-knuckle battle. I also did not hesitate to award them with the banner of an invincible vanguard company.

After reading the telegram brought by Zhu, my brows furrowed, and Zhu said: "The left-behind personnel of the Second Group Army also sent a telegram, and Ahsan used rocket artillery and large-caliber howitzers, as well as a large number of helicopters, and the border group army fought very hard. ”

At the end of the telegram, the border group army said that the war situation was stable, and that Member Xu would rest assured that not a single soldier of the Asan State would be allowed to enter the country. The insignee was Zhang Zhizhong, temporary commander of the border group army and commander of the 79th Army.

Yun Changan said: "There are still hundreds of kilometers from the border to the capital of the snowy province, if the border situation is difficult, can the border group army temporarily retreat and let the enemy in to fight." After all, on the opposite side of the border army group is two million Asan troops, which is ten times the size of the border army. ”

Qiao Zhijun said: "No, behind the border is a plateau meadow, if you let the enemy in, not to mention that the rear is hundreds of kilometers easy to attack and difficult to defend, even if it is defended, what if the Ni people break in from this opening?"

I stood up and paced a few steps and said, "Which unit is closest to the Asan army in our rear?"

Qiao Zhijun said: "It is the garrison division of Lingqiu City, and now there are nearly 50,000 people after the strengthening of Lingqian Pass, all of which have been equipped with modern equipment. They are also the rearguard of the whole army group"

I nodded and said to Zhu: "You go in person, take the Lingqiu City garrison division to raid the headquarters of the Asang army, even if you can't find the headquarters, you will have to beat the Asang army, and I will hand over the escort team to you." ”

Zhu said ecstatically: "Thank you, Your Highness, thank you, Your Highness, I will definitely live up to my mission." In a blink of an eye, he felt that something was wrong, and said: "Your Highness, I won't take the escort team with me, I'm leaving, what about your safety?"

I said, "The convoy is not there to charge, it is to protect you, and you must come back with all your tails." I'm in the army here, and I don't need anyone to protect me, and besides, isn't there Zhou Huai'an?"

Zhou Huai'an said proudly to Zhu: "General Zhu, you go, if Your Highness is missing a hair, you cut off Zhou's head." Besides, Zhou is not talking big, and the combat strength of the entire escort team is not necessarily higher than Zhou. ”

Zhu smiled and said: "This is, this is the story of the Lingxiao City Lord vs. the forty thousand divine beasts, I have heard it since I was a child. ”

Zhou Huai'an slanted at the top of the tent, stroked his non-existent beard with his hand, and laughed.

After Zhu left, I asked Zhou Huai'an and said, "Old Zhou, why are you always soothing the air? What is the situation of the Great War against 40,000 Divine Beasts?"

Zhou Huai'an's old face flushed, and he said with a smile: "Touching your beard is a habitual action, a habitual action." ”

Then he turned straight and said: "The battle against 40,000 demonic beasts is really a thing, back then, the Divine Mirror made a mess, put millions of demonic beasts into the fairyland, and ate people everywhere. The King of the Four Extremes is busy with the punishment war against the Divine Mirror, and does not take it as his responsibility to save the people. We, Lingxiao City, have formed an alliance with a number of immortal sects, and decided to go down the mountain to quell the beast tide and save the people from fire and water. Because of my high immortal power, I was assigned to the plateau meadow of the Southern Boundary Mountain, where I encountered tens of thousands of demonic beasts besieging the herdsmen's gathering place, so I fought with a sword to meet the beasts, and fought for seven days and seven nights, and the immortal power was not continued, fortunately, I met the team of the Mochizuki Immortal Sect to help the three levels of the human world, otherwise His Highness would not be able to see me now. Counting later, I slaughtered more than 40,000 demonic beasts in those seven days and seven nights. ”

Yun Changan said with a smile: "This is true, because when the divine servant archmage of the imperial beast fled back, the Zhou City Lord had one sword and three palms in his body. At that time, I was in the Northern Front Army, and the Great Elder of the Devouring Division also issued a reward and killing order to the Zhou City Lord, but no one dared to go. ”

I nodded and said, "Old Zhou, it seems that you have a very high status in the fairyland." ”

Zhou Huai'an stroked his beard again and said: "Wherever and wherever it is, it is the love of friends in the rivers and lakes." ”

I rolled my eyes with Qiao Zhijun and Yun Changan, and went out on my own to get into the car and prepare to set off overnight.

Zhou Huaian chased him to the car and sat in the front seat. He turned his head to me and said, "Your Highness, I really don't understand this march and fight, your escort is also gone, but I am going to follow you closely this time." You see where you go, can you say hello to me first, lest you really make any mistakes, but I can't be punished. ”

I smiled and said, "I'm fine, didn't you also say that my immortal power is about as strong as yours?"

Zhou Huai'an said solemnly: "Your Highness, your immortal power is indeed very strong, only stronger than me, not weaker, but the use of immortal power is not something that can be mastered overnight." Because His Royal Highness did not get the cultivation method of immortal power, he relied on the strong immortal power of the natural immortals and the little martial arts of the human world that he practiced when he was a child to turn evil into good fortune again and again. Therefore, your combat power is greatly inferior to mine, and even inferior to any immortal in the escort team. ”

"Oh?" I said strangely: "You mean that in fact, I have always had strong immortal power, but I can't use it myself, just like the deep internal power said in martial arts novels but can only be used to strike iron?"

Zhou Huai'an smiled and said, "Your Highness's analogy is appropriate. ”

I smiled and said, "Then why don't you just give me a method?"

Zhou Huai'an shook his head and said: "Your Highness has already cultivated the Xu family's method, and the immortal vein has been formed, and you can't cultivate the method of other sects, otherwise the immortal power will be lost, not to mention, the effect of the immortal power prolonging life will be damaged." ”

I shook my head and said, "I don't understand, I only have a miscellaneous book of Longshou Mountain Immortal Arts in my hand, and I have learned the method of releasing immortal power, and there is no method, and there is no one in my Xu family except me." ”

Zhou Huai'an shook his head and sighed, and suddenly said: "His Highness's way of using the immortal power of one hand is the unique method of exercising the immortal power of the Moon Immortal Sect. And there have long been rumors in the market that the Xu family of Longshou Mountain is from the Moon Sect, and His Royal Highness can go there to find it. ”

I smiled and said, "Okay, when the war is over, I'll go and see." ”

I took a nap in the car, and in the early hours of the morning, Zhou Huai'an woke me up.

When I arrived at Qiao Zhijun's headquarters, I found that all the officers of the Second Army at and above the division level had arrived.

Qiao Zhijun saluted me and said, "Your Highness, the first wave of attacking troops has entered the position, and the Dani people are aware of it. ”

I waved my hand and said, "Let's talk about your arrangements first." ”

Qiao Zhijun said: "Yes." Then he turned on the computer reflexively, and a map of Kathmandu and its surroundings appeared on the projection screen.

According to the information that the advance force returned at the cost of 3,000 people sacrificing two-thirds, it can be determined that Kathmandu and its surrounding areas have gathered more than 1 million Nepalese hot* weapons troops and nearly 5 million cold weapons troops, in addition to no less than 100,000 human troops, most likely Nigerian surrendered soldiers and Asan sent troops.

At present, our army has four corps and three divisions of the Second Army, plus a supplementary corps of the SAR reserve, with a total number of more than 900,000, as well as two artillery regiments and an armored brigade in the Western Theater.

"At present, the high-end combat power of the Nepalese is still unknown, and according to the confessions of captured Nepalese surrenderers, they saw no less than 300 winged Nepalites in Kathman. We infer that there will be at least two hundred and fifty ninths in Kathman. ”

I nodded and said, "The Eater has summoned about five hundred high-level mages and immortals from the Wizards Association, the Qiyun Society, the First and Third Armies, and the Passage Army, and about one hundred and fifty people from the Wizard Hunters Guild. The number of our high-end combat power should be higher than the number of high-end combat power of the Ni people. ”

Yun Changan said: "Your Highness, Commander Qiao, we currently have about a thousand cannons, you see if tomorrow we will destroy a part of the Ni people with artillery fire first, and quickly attack the city, otherwise there will be too many Ni troops in the attack, and the battle line of the troops is too long, and it is easy for the Ni people to break through a little and jump to the outer line to counter-encircle." ”

Before Yun Chang'an could finish speaking, a telecommunications officer barged in and brought him a telegram. After reading the telegram, he said eagerly: "Your Highness, Zhu sent a telegram that the Asan army had given up attacking the border army and was heading towards the territory of Nepal, probably to make our dumplings." ”

Qiao Zhijun hurriedly walked to the electronic screen, looked at it for a long time, pointed to the screen and said to me: "Your Highness, Kathmancheng is on the plateau steps, if the Asan army wants to attack us, it must pass through about five hundred square kilometers of mountains and one hundred square kilometers of plains, we can fortify and block in the mountains, and at the same time send armored brigades and artillery regiments to attack it in a wide range in the plain area. If the armored vehicles are inferior to ours, the air force will be even worse, and we can completely contain them with a small number of troops or even annihilate their living forces in large numbers, and when the fighting in Kathmandu is over, we will turn around and annihilate them all. ”

I smiled and said, "Yes, the attack mission arrangement of Kathman City remains unchanged, and the high-end combat power will start attacking the city after it arrives tomorrow." The planned tasks of the Lingqiu City Garrison Division remain unchanged, interspersed in a large area, disrupt the deployment of the Asang army, delay the Asang army for one or two days, and then retreat to the mountains to take on the task of blocking it. The armored brigade and artillery are no longer needed, and the air magic array in the area we have passed through is no longer there, and a report is sent to the central government, requesting that the air force be sent to support, and the army aviation at the border airfield is also all dispatched, bombing me day and night, and I want to let the two million people of the Asan country lose half of it, or even more, before entering the mountains. ”