On March 17, the final battle of Rongcheng began, the coalition army mobilized more than 500,000 people, carried out a comprehensive attack on Rongcheng from three directions, and dispatched 15 empty boats, 20 torpedo boats, and a team of frogmen to strike at the ships moored in the port, until October 23, Rongcheng was recovered, and the armpit retreated to the port to continue to resist stubbornly.

The coalition forces mobilized more than 300 howitzers and heavy artillery to fire the ironclad canning ships entrenched outside the harbor, forcing them to withdraw from the coastal waters.

On March 26, the armpit once again repeated the old trick, pinning his hopes on the key hot explosion bomb to save the tide of the war, and successively launched two key hot explosion bombs, causing a total of more than 12,000 people of the coalition army to be directly killed, more than 6,000 people were seriously injured and permanently blinded, and the Xian army suffered more than 4,000 casualties at a time.

In April, the coalition forces launched a final offensive on the port, and after six days of fierce fighting, the armpit defenders were extinguished, and most of the enemy was annihilated, except for tens of thousands of people who fled by sea.

In this battle, more than 158,000 people were killed, more than 124,000 were captured, nearly 300,000 guns were captured, and more than 1,400 artillery pieces of various types, including more than 230 heavy artillery pieces, and countless ammunition were captured.

Since the beginning of the battle last year, the coalition forces have suffered 610,000 casualties and more than 263,000 casualties, while the Xian army has suffered more than 147,000 casualties and more than 48,600 casualties, accounting for half of the number of troops dispatched.

Although the port of Rongcheng was recovered, the battle still left both sides dissatisfied, and more than 600,000 casualties not only shocked the world, but also shocked the Xian army.

Liang County's First World War Xian army was less than half of Rongcheng's soldiers, and the casualties accounted for only a quarter, and the casualties of Rongcheng were more than half of the troops' troops in the First World War, and since the founding of Xianguo, there has not been a vicious battle with 150,000 casualties in a single battle.

At the same time, since the armpit was almost completely annihilated by the armpit army, the loss of more than 270,000 men seriously dampened the morale of the army, so that after the news spread, the generals of all walks of life thought that they had heard it wrong, because it should be 27,000 people.

The coalition army was greatly injured and began to be repaired, and Bailiyan sent a team of experts and supplementary soldiers to Yan to replenish the formation, and at the same time investigated the materials left on the battlefield.

Outside the port of Rongcheng, several ironclad canned ships were sunk, and the beach crashed into the granite belt below the sea level, Bailiyan still wanted to dismantle all the power equipment on the ship and move it back, and at the same time, more than 700 alcohol internal combustion engines of various types were left on the battlefield and transported back for domestic production and construction.

If you want to say who benefited from this battle, it seems that no one has benefited, but when you turn back and divide the spoils, you find that Jin Xuedi people are the happiest, they only exchanged a few hundred beasts for more than 30,000 guns, more than 50 artillery, and countless ammunition, and only more than 2,000 people died.

The impact of the Battle of Rongcheng also spread to the battlefield of Cuicheng Jinye, and Cross lost the courage to continue the attack after learning that Yarka was almost captured alive.

Because he had also suffered more than 20,000 casualties in the frontal offensive in the past two months, but he did not capture a strategically important position, he immediately stopped the offensive and quickly demanded to evacuate. He knew very well that the Rongcheng Human Alliance had not reinforced, and was obviously going to turn back to clean him up after repelling Yarka.

The Battle of Rongchenggang had far-reaching implications, breaking the invincibility of the armpits, and at the same time influencing the princes of various countries on a deeper level, and the complex emotions of unification.

At the end of April, news came from Wei Guo that King Wei had died and his eldest son Zhong Xian succeeded to the throne, which also confirmed Bai Liyan's previous speculation that King Wei's political will was indeed influenced by the Chu family.

Due to the heavy casualties in the first battle of Rongcheng and the vitality of the coalition army, the battle against Cuicheng Jinye had to be postponed, but at the same time, Bailiyan had more time to train the army and prepare armored vehicles and guns and ammunition to be transported to the front line.

The war on the Changsun Peninsula is still stuck in the encirclement of several besieged counties in the north of the peninsula, and the fundamental purpose of Oka choosing the encirclement strategy is out of fear of the inland rainforest and landform, the armpit people are not good at flexible and mobile small group operations, and the rainforest and hilly terrain divide the rapid support channel of friendly and neighboring troops, and it is difficult for large troops to deploy.

At the same time, human beings have dug a large number of traps and laid mines underground, which has seriously affected the operation of large forces, and if they are only besieged and not destroyed, tens of millions of people in hundreds of thousands of square kilometers will continue to harass their rear areas and transportation and supply routes, and delay their attacks.

At the beginning of July, the Zhi army successively marched to the Liang State, and the allied army repaired in Rongcheng rushed to the Liang State to participate in the war at the same time.

Rongcheng suffered heavy losses in the first battle, and lost the ability to continue fighting in the short term, Xiao Gongyi decided to continue to stay in Yan State, and the Yan army strengthened the coastal vigilance, so the princes who participated in the battle of the Liang State were jointly sent by Xiansun Zhiwei Liang Five Kingdoms, with a total strength of more than 1.5 million, and the number of troops participating in the war was about 1.2 million.

Because of Yiyang Hou Zhentai, Sun Guo obtained a batch of 50,000 old 647648 guns and more than 100 rear-loading guns in 658, and added 100,000 and some artillery pieces after the beginning of the year.

At the same time, Bailiyan also assisted him in opening three Erlang schools and two juvenile schools in the capital of Sun Guo, and three years later opened a middle school hall and a hospital, and sent an additional medical team of 200 people to the capital to train doctors for him, and allowed him to purchase some light textile industry equipment and set up his own factory.

The Battle of Cuicheng began on 17 September, the Xian army carried out three consecutive days of fire preparation in Cuicheng, and then dispatched more than 50 tracked armored vehicles, under the cover of hundreds of heavy artillery howitzers and rocket artillery, to carry out a forced breakthrough on the enemy's front, and the infantry followed the armored vehicles 30 paces away to carry out a surprise attack, and tore the defensive line frontally on the same day.

Due to the well-prepared forces of the coalition forces, which outnumbered the frontal enemy by eight times, and launched non-stop offensives day and night, after the frontal gaps were torn, the troops continued to pour in from the four gaps, and for the first time used the tactic of battlefield division and isolation.

Divide and besiege a part of its forces with absolute superiority, then concentrate superior firepower to inflict heavy firepower on the enemy who has already divided and encircled the front line, and finally destroy it with an infantry assault.

The battle for Emerald City turned out to be a one-sided one-sided massacre, and Cross did not expect the humans to develop their own armored vehicles, resulting in firepower in the fortifications and trenches of the frontal defenses.

At the same time, the coalition forces used a large number of howitzers with a longer range, and pre-aerial reconnaissance. At the beginning of the campaign, most of its howitzer positions were eliminated, and the battlefield firepower was reduced to unilateral suppression by human beings.

As a result, the Battle of Cuicheng completely collapsed within seven days of the battle, and on the twenty-fifth day of September, the enemy north of Cuicheng retreated to Tianyungang and began to retreat.

At this time, the progress of the Jinye offensive was slow, the terrain constraints did not allow the use of a large number of armored vehicles, the battle line was still advancing in the traditional way, and the complete victory of Cuicheng also intensified the mentality of the Jinye side to wait for reinforcements from the Zhi army, so there was little progress in the first twenty days of the offensive.

On the third day of the first month of October, the enemy entrenched in Tianyungang failed to retreat as he wished, and the howitzers, torpedoes, boats, and airboats of the Xian army crossed to block all the sea, land and air passages in the port, and the enemy ships could not dock, except for thousands of people who risked swimming to escape, most of them were annihilated in the port, and the Battle of Cuicheng ended.

A total of more than 57,000 people were killed and captured, the coalition forces suffered more than 71,000 casualties, more than 24,000 people were killed, and six armored vehicles were lost.

Four days after the end of the battle of Cuicheng, the coalition forces reinforced Jinye City, changed the previous tactics of becoming a battalion step by step, divided into two lines, feinted to attack the port on the eastern front, and actually attacked the outer defense line of the western front, and concentrated on bombing the port facilities, destroying its retreat channel, giving it the illusion of cutting off the rear road, and forcing Cross to increase troops to the port.

On October 16, Oka's reinforcements and fleet arrived off the coast of Tianjin, and in order to assist Yarka in retreating, Oka used most of the warships of the Western Front, this time the reinforcements came from an inland front of the war, until the end of August, they boarded ships in September, and arrived in the sea in October.

However, under the attack and bombardment of the Xian army's airboats and nearly 100 torpedo boats, the fleet lost more than 20 ships and could hardly get close to the port for reinforcements.

The fierce battle lasted until the twenty-first day of October, and the reinforcements were unable to land for a long time, and Cross was struggling.

On the twenty-second day of October, a phone call was made from the war zone to Sima Tang in Chenling, and the news was shocking:

"General Zhao, is this true?"

Lu Gao asked solemnly, and Zhao Huan on the other end of the phone affirmed:

"It's true, armpit eyes are asking for a truce."

"Got it, I'll tell the king right away."

Hanging up the phone, Lu Gao and his son Lu Xiang said:

"Quickly invite the Marquis of Yongxing back to the palace."

"Father, what happened?"

"The armpit demanded a truce and the withdrawal of troops."

"What, they demanded the withdrawal of their troops!"

As soon as the news came out, there was an uproar, and it was the first time in seven years since the start of the war that an armpit proposed a truce.

During the seven years of the war, both the North and the South were studying each other's cultures, languages, and even habits, and it was not surprising that the Armpit people mastered the Central Plains language much faster than humans learned their language, and it was not surprising that they established linguistic communication.

The father and son acted separately, Lu Gao quickly informed King Xian of the news, and Jiang Yu was also taken aback when he heard the news:

"These brutes can also speak the original dialect?"

"Back to the king, my country and Yuke are also learning their language, and now they are also making great progress, and the armpit dwarves are more treacherous, so it is not surprising that they have learned the Chinese dialect."

"In this way, from now on, they will also be able to understand the affairs of the Central Plains."

"Yes, but not very skilled."

"According to General Lu's intentions, whether this battle will stop or not, they will not be allowed to withdraw their troops."

"At present, hundreds of its ships are stuck in the open sea, and there are a large number of ironclad ships, it is really difficult to know whether it is a fake withdrawal or a real reinforcement, and the minister is not in favor of an armistice. Now that the coalition forces have absolute superiority, it is only a matter of time before they annihilate their forces on land. ”

At this time, Jiang Yu said:

"But I'm afraid the coalition won't think so."

"The king is saying that the princes are afraid of continuing to increase casualties, and they are no longer willing to cooperate in the battle."

"Isn't it? If the widow is a guard, the casualties in the first battle of Rongcheng are huge, and the widow will not continue to fight. If it is a Zhi army, Cuicheng took a big advantage in the first battle, and if you continue to fight, you will be informed of the loss of the army, why not stop at this time and consolidate the interests of the hand. And the Son of Heaven didn't want his city to be in ruins, so he could fight again. This is both an armistice and a delaying tactic. ”

Lu Gao considered the military level, while King Xian considered the political level, and the starting point was different, and the results were different.

Two moments passed, Bai Liyan rushed back to the state of political supervision, and was equally surprised by the truce, but not surprised. After all, they have lost 300,000 or 400,000 men in the past year, and the coalition forces have shown an unprecedented strength in the combat strength of the three armies.

With a complete lack of knowledge of the potential for the mobilization of the coalition forces, the annual loss of 300,000 or 400,000 people, and the expeditionary force that invaded the south in two years will be wiped out, and there is little point in continuing to fight alone.

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