The daily battle report of the Xinghua Army in Jiangzhou was delivered to the hands of the high-level of the Xinghua Empire every day, so that the high-level officials could understand the changes in the battle situation in Jiangzhou in real time. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In addition, the high-level leaders of the Xinghua Empire also need to prepare various materials in advance and send them to Jiangzhou according to the update of the battle report and the changes in the battle situation shown in the battle report.

Not long ago, the Xinghua Empire had only sent 50,000 Xinghua soldiers to Tai'an City at one time, so Yi Xingchen was not worried that Leon would not be able to stabilize the war situation in Jiangzhou due to insufficient troops.

Yi Xingchen was concerned about when Leon would be able to break the deadlock and completely defeat the Xia army.

Of course, Yi Xingchen will not think that the Xinghua army is invincible just because the strength of the Xinghua army has been replenished, because he knows very well that while the Xinghua army is strengthening its military strength, the Xia army must also be in full swing to strengthen its strength.

Yi Xingchen's judgment was also confirmed.

In Leon's battle report, it was mentioned that the Xia army had secretly popularized a long-range attack weapon called the Shenwu small cannon to the whole army.

The range and power of this Shenwu small cannon are not smaller than mortars, and once it is used on the battlefield, it will definitely be able to cause considerable casualties to the Xinghua army. And the Xia army's intensified deployment of this long-range attack weapon in a short period of time is undoubtedly aimed at the Xinghua army.

And this move of the Xia Army naturally changed the situation that the Xinghua Army could suppress the Xia Army, and whether the Xinghua Army could still have the certainty of a decisive victory is now a little confusing.

And now, Xia Jun is even more ready to move and wants to fight back. In this regard, the Xinghua Army should be cautious.

Jiangzhou, Tai'an City, Xinghua Army Headquarters.

At this time, Leon was presiding over a military meeting against the Xia army.

"Since the Xia army is in a big move, we have to seize this opportunity. ”

"We use the walls of Tai'an City to build layers of defense lines, build a human flesh grinding plate, and consume the military strength of the Xia army. ”

"This method is good, but we must consider whether our Xinghua Army can hold out to the end. ”

"Staff Officer Zhao's words are right, there are too many Xia troops in Yangcheng. ”

"There is a way, we arrange a surprise army to stay outside the city. As long as the Xia army suffered heavy losses, their morale would inevitably be severely damaged. Periphery, if a new force joins the Xinghua Army, it will be able to completely determine the direction of the war and benefit our Xinghua Army. When the time comes, the Xia army will be defeated like a mountain, and they will not be defeated! Then, we will break through Yangcheng in one fell swoop. ”

At the military meeting, the staff officers did their best to express what they thought was the best plan for defeating the enemy.

Leon, who presided over the meeting, never said a word, and he silently watched the quarrels of the staff officers at the military meeting. This seems to have become a common practice, and almost every military meeting is indispensable to have such a scene. Of course, since this is an internal discussion of the staff officers of the General Staff, after their discussion, they will naturally come to a relatively reliable conclusion, and Leon does not need to rush to participate in it.

Sure enough, after a few more moments, the staff officers seemed to have finally come to a final conclusion, and the chief of staff had sorted out all the points of discussion and submitted a battle plan to Leon.

"General, our battle plan is mainly to build a three-tier defense system centered on Tai'an City.

The first layer of defense is the mine front. However, we believe that there is no need to lay mines on the main roads, but rather to divert the route and lay mines around the main roads outside the city and spread them on both sides of the roads. This will naturally cause great psychological pressure on the Xia army, forcing them to finally enter the city to attack us only from the main road outside the city, and cannot use tricks to ambush us from both sides of the road. In this way, it is convenient for us to concentrate our firepower and respond without having to disperse our forces;

The second layer of defense is the heavy machine gun position. After pushing the enemy forces to the main road, we will set up heavy machine guns at the main passes, just waiting for them to throw themselves into the net......

The third layer of defense is the mortar attack front, which replaces defense with offense. The advantage of our mortars over the enemy's Shenwu small artillery is that our mortar attack route is parabolic, and we can hide the mortars in the city and wait for an opportunity to attack ......"

"Very good battle plan! I think that such a plan can also do less damage to the residents of Tai'an City. After listening carefully to the staff officer's detailed explanation of the battle plan, Leon immediately felt that it was a clever plan, and immediately his face was happy, and he gave the staff officer a positive approval.

Having received Leon's approval, the staff officer's heart immediately boiled with enthusiasm, and he added with great enthusiasm: "Sir Xie, we also feel that before the outbreak of war, we should move the residents of the periphery to the city and gather and settle them properly. First, it can protect their safety at close range, so that our officers and men will not have to worry about fighting and avoid injuring innocent residents; second, it can also prevent the enemy from sending lurking personnel to sabotage among the residents and distract the attention of our troops. ”

"Okay, I agree with this battle plan! The troops supporting the periphery are mainly supported by Wei Yingcai. He integrated the recruits, and the combat effectiveness should have recovered a lot. "Lyon was 100 per cent in favor of the battle plan, immediately approving, and supplementing it.

Inside the headquarters, all the staff officers thought about Leon's suggestion and nodded one after another. Wei Yingcai is the deputy commander of the Xinghua Army in Jiangzhou, and it is indeed more appropriate for his troops to insert the last knife into the Xia Army.

After drawing up the battle plan, Leon immediately sent their battle plan by telegram to the Ministry of Defense for the record.

This is the national policy requirement of the Xinghua Empire. Although the Ministry of Defense of the Xinghua Empire will not arbitrarily interfere in the command of the strategic arrangements made by the front line for the war, it must ensure that it can grasp the strategic plans of each war at any time, so that the Ministry of Defense can control the overall situation and make overall arrangements.

Therefore, after the Xinghua Army's battle plan is submitted, it is used for the record, and if the Ministry of Defense does not need to make temporary adjustments or changes, most of the time it is collected as a battle column. First, it can be used as a record, and secondly, it can also be used as a teaching material for the officer training college of the Xinghua Empire in the future.

The situation in Jiangzhou is also one of the most concerned battles of the Xinghua Empire's Ministry of Defense in the near future, so before Lyon's battle plan was submitted, the Ministry of Defense quickly discussed and finally adopted Lyon's battle plan, and at the same time sent the news back to Lyon.

Not only that, Minister of Defense Allen also personally ordered the Yunzhou Army to go to Jiangzhou to support the army in Jiangzhou, help the Xinghua Army in Jiangzhou, and maintain order in the western part of Jiangzhou.

Not only the Ministry of National Defense has some focus, but even the Ministry of Finance is trying its best to support the war in Jiangzhou.

The Ministry of Finance introduced a tax reduction policy to encourage businessmen in Yunzhou, as long as they are willing to go to Jiangzhou to do business during this period and help the Xinghua Army control the situation in Jiangzhou, as long as they have significant contributions, they can get tax cuts or even tax refunds. At the same time, the Ministry of Defense also accepted the application of the Ministry of Finance, agreeing that caravans could make an exception to have their own armament.

In addition, the Xinghua Chamber of Commerce also contributed to the war effort, selling various high-grade weapons to various caravans in Yunzhou who were willing to go to Jiangzhou to do business, so that the caravans could arm themselves. Among these weapons, in addition to the usual swords and crossbows, you can also get a revolver developed by the Xinghua gunsmith factory.

When the Xinghua Chamber of Commerce launched the revolver, it was popular with many Yunzhou caravans. There were even some caravans, in order to obtain revolvers, who took the initiative to take on the task of going to Jiangzhou to trade.

In fact, when Lyon occupied the area west of Tai'an, Jiangzhou, it took many measures to reassure the people, including but not limited to tax exemption, handing out some rice porridge, providing interest-free loans, and granting Jiangzhou citizens a certain degree of autonomy. Therefore, during the confrontation between the two armies, some refugees who had left or hid in the mountains and forests began to return to their hometowns. No one wants to live in an uninhabited area. As a result, many areas in Jiangzhou are gradually recovering from population.

Wei Yingcai received Leon's warrant, and he was a little surprised and a little admired. Originally, Wei Yingcai thought that Leon would take some measures against him to punish him for his defeat on the battlefield. Unexpectedly, Leon would trust him and give him an important task.

In the warrant, Leon asked Wei Yingcai to intervene in the war at the time of the Battle of Tai'an, waiting for an opportunity to inflict heavy losses on the Xia army. When the time comes, the two troops will cooperate with each other through wireless walkie-talkies to eliminate the main force of the Xia army.

"As long as we eliminate the main force of the Xia army, the capture of Yangcheng is just around the corner!" Wei Yingcai said.

Then, Wei Yingcai said to his adjutant Wang Zhongping: "How many soldiers are there in my department that can fight?"

"Report to the sir, our unit has received more than 10,000 Xinghua recruits! The number of soldiers in our unit who can fight is 13,500!" Wang Zhongping replied.

"Recruits need to fight in order to become veterans. Wei Yingcai said while thinking, "We have to cooperate with the combat plan of the headquarters, these recruits are the key, and we must not drop the chain." ”

"Sir, should we do something?" asked Wang Zhongping.

"When the enemy was besieging the city, some veterans were sent in turn to attack with 2,000 recruits and train with actual combat. The specific training plan is in his hands. What I need is for these recruits to go through at least one combat on a scale when they launch a counterattack. Don't be afraid of sacrifice, we need a hundred battles. Wei Yingcai said.

"Yes, sir. Wang Zhongping took note of Wei Yingcai's words.

With the full support of the Xinghua Empire, the Battle of Tai'an in Jiangzhou, three days later, officially began.

First, Bai Qi, the commander of the Xia army, ordered a vanguard cavalry of 10,000 people to attack Xiguancheng in Jiangzhou. However, the cavalry of the Xia army soon discovered that Xiguancheng was an undefended city. This surprised Xia Jun.

Originally, Xia Jun still wanted to slaughter the city and teach Xinghua Army a lesson.

Just when the Xia army thought that the Xinghua army was afraid of them, the Xinghua army lurking in the Xiguan area began to attack the Xia army's cavalry.

The vanguard of the Xia army was attacked at Xiguan, and Bai Qi didn't care.

In Bai Qi's eyes, Tai'an City is the most important stronghold of the Xinghua Army in Jiangzhou.

In fact, Bai Qi was not wrong.

Under the deliberate concession of the Xinghua army, Bai Qi personally led 100,000 elite troops of the Xia army to Tai'an City.

"Order 10,000 infantry and 2,000 archers to try to attack the city of Tai'an. I want to know what hole cards the Xinghua Army has and dare to let us in. Bai Qi said to many subordinate generals.

Tai'an City is not big, 100,000 troops are enough to surround the entire Tai'an City.

However, Bai Qi found that the Xinghua Army in Tai'an City was not as flustered as he imagined. 100,000 troops surrounded the city of Tai'an, and the Xinghua army in the city was still standing still, not only did there be no noise, they were marching step by step, and there was a feeling of momentum like a rainbow.

This feeling made Bai Qi very uncomfortable.

The enemy is as immobile as a mountain, which means that the Xia army will attack the city, which will inevitably be difficult.

10,000 Xia army infantry, 2,000 archers, formed a skirmisher type, and began to test the east gate of Tai'an City.

Bai Qi rode on his horse and carefully observed the loopholes of the Xinghua Army.

Boom!

The horse under Bai Qi's crotch was suddenly startled and a little uneasy.

Bai Qi was stunned for a moment, he saw the attacking Xia Army soldiers, and many of them were blown up.

"Where is the enemy? Shenwu small cannon is ready!" Bai Qi asked where the Xinghua army was attacking from, preparing to fight back.

"Marshal Qiyu, no enemy was found. "After a short while, there will be a general report.

Then, there were several explosions for no apparent reason, blowing up the Xia soldiers.

"Marshal, this is the enemy's mine...... "A general of the Bailixi Department hurriedly reported to Bai Qi what a mine was, and the tragic situation of the Bailixi Department that had been attacked by a mine.

"Stop advancing!" Bai Qi reluctantly gave a new order. Without knowing the situation with the mines, Bai Qi temporarily stopped the tentative attack of the infantry.

On the wall of Tai'an City, Leon couldn't help but smile when he saw that the Xia army's first attack was frustrated and had to retreat.

"The unknown is also a fear. Until the enemy could not be sure whether the mines under their feet had been dismantled, few people would dare to continue walking in the mineed area. Leon said and walked down the wall.

Bai Qi, the commander of the Xia army, is not a mediocre talent. Leon was very confident that Bai Qi would not order the Xia army to retreat because of a minefield. Therefore, Leon had to return to the command headquarters and conduct operational command.

Sure enough, Bai Qi ordered his troops to retreat not long after, and then sent thousands of better-eyed soldiers to probe the ground outside Tai'an City and the situation underground.

After exploring, the Xia army discovered the mine array of the Xinghua army.

However, the discovery of a minefield does not mean that the mine has been dismantled.

After several failed attempts by the Xia army to dismantle the mines, Bai Qi had to abandon their approach.

Xia Jun changed to probe the mine array, avoid the impact of the mines, and make a detour.

After several failed attempts by the Xia army to dismantle the mines, Bai Qi had to abandon their approach.

Xia Jun changed to probe the mine array, avoid the impact of the mines, and make a detour.

After several failed attempts by the Xia army to dismantle the mines, Bai Qi had to abandon their approach.

Xia Jun changed to probe the mine array, avoid the impact of the mines, and make a detour.