After conquering the Phoenix of the Great Qin State, the Ice Lion Army did not immediately wave its troops to take Yueyang City, the capital of the Great Qin State, and did not even send troops to pursue the defeated Great Qin Army, which gave Su Yi, who was ready to hold on to Xinji Town, a precious night of precious time, which was the town where more than 2,000 seriously wounded people were located.

Since Xinji Town was the only way from Phoenix Mountain to Yueyang City, the capital of the Great Qin State, from eight o'clock in the evening of December 8 to the early morning of the next day, Su Yi gathered more than 1,300 defeated troops who were willing to hold on to Xinji Town, and most of these defeated troops came from the 16th Army and the Fifth Army.

Even Su Yi also met Yu Hongtu, the commander of the 48th Division of the 16th Army, who was slightly injured, Yu Hongtu saw that Su Yi, the acting company commander of the 48th Division, actually wanted to gather a group of remnants to stick to Xinji Town, and couldn't help but say to Su Yi with a wry smile: "Although the Ministry of Defense issued an order for our 16th Army to block the army of the Ice Lion Country along the way from Phoenix Mountain to Yueyang City, so as to buy more time for the people of Yueyang City to evacuate, but from Phoenix Mountain to Yueyang City, it can be said that there is no danger to defend, and I will not hide it from you, The army commander and our three division commanders have secretly agreed that our 16th Army will not gather troops before returning to Yueyang City. ”

Yu Hongtu's meaning is very clear, the top brass of the 16th Army is not ready to sacrifice the entire 16th Army to complete the task of blocking the army of the Ice Lion Country, even if this order is personally issued by Vice Minister of Defense Zhao Zeling, the top brass of the 16th Army is unwilling to carry it out.

Before, on the front line of Phoenix Mountain, the Ministry of Defense of the Great Qin State had gathered troops of six armies, and these six armies were relatively complete, with a total strength of more than 230,000, but they only lasted about seven days on the front line of Phoenix Mountain, and then the whole line collapsed.

And between Phoenix Mountain and Yueyang City, it can be said that there is a flat river, in this way, it is the turn of the armored forces of the Ice Lion Country to perform, if the Sixteenth Army and the Fifth Army really carry out the orders of the Ministry of Defense, then it will inevitably become the background of the performance of the armored forces of the Ice Lion Country, maybe these two armies can be removed from the establishment of the Great Qin Army after this battle.

Although the 16th Army belongs to the faction of the Zhao family, where Vice Minister of Defense Zhao Zeling belongs, the commander of the 16th Army and the commanders of the three divisions below are not the children of the Zhao family, and the reason why they can have a certain status and voice in the Zhao family is entirely because they directly control the military power in their hands.

Su Yi sighed and said to Hongtu: "Division Commander, even if I don't want to defend it now, what should I do with the more than 3,000 seriously injured people left in this town?" Do you just leave them here to die? ”

After Su Yi decided to hold on to Xinji Town, several field hospitals from other units retreated to Xinji Town, and the number of seriously wounded people who could not walk on their own in Xinji Town suddenly broke through to more than 3,000 people.

Yu Hongtu, the commander of the 48th Division, frowned slightly, "But even if you stay in this small town with hundreds of families, you won't be able to change the outcome of these seriously injured people in the end, but will put yourself in it." ”

Su Yi shrugged his shoulders and said, "Just like the commander of the 46th Division, at least I stay, and at the last moment, I can give those seriously injured brothers a ride, so that they don't fall into the hands of the Ice Lion Army and suffer." ”

Yu Hongtu opened his mouth, and did not persuade Su Yi to retreat to Yueyang City with him, but patted Su Yi's shoulder vigorously with his uninjured left hand, "Company Commander Su, you are good, since you insist on this, I, as the division commander, will not say anything more, now I appoint you as the commander of the 48th Division's temporary independent regiment, reorganize the rout of this town, and block the invading army of the Ice Lion Country, I can only do so much for you." ”

After appointing Su Yi as the commander of the 48th Division's temporary independent regiment, Yu Hongtu took more than 200 people from the 48th Division's headquarters to quickly leave Xinji Town and continued to retreat to Yueyang City.

From the company commander to the regiment commander, the deputy battalion commander, battalion commander and deputy regiment commander spanned in the middle, which can be described as a four-level winning streak, but unfortunately Su Yi is not interested in this regiment commander, you must know that in the other two time and space, Su Yi is the respect of the emperor, a small regiment commander, not in Su Yi's eyes at all.

However, after Su Yi became the regiment commander, he made it clear that his leading position among the more than 2,000 defeated soldiers in Xinji Town, after all, until the early morning of December 9, among the more than 2,000 defeated soldiers in Xinji Town, in addition to Su Yi, the highest ranking people were only company commanders, but among the more than 3,000 seriously wounded, there was a deputy commander of the Fifth Army, but this deputy regiment commander was seriously injured and had been in a coma.

There are about six or seven hundred households in the entire Xinji Town, and almost all of the people have fled all the way to Yueyang City with the rout of several armies, and only more than 30 young men remained, expressing their willingness to defend their homes with the army, and Su Yi immediately incorporated these more than 30 people into the 48th Division Provisional Independent Regiment that he had just established.

More than 2,000 defeated soldiers were reorganized by Su Yi into twelve infantry companies, a guard company, three air defense companies, three artillery companies and a logistics company, each company has about 100 people, due to the lack of officers, and it is convenient for Su Yi to control, so the independent regiment did not set up battalion-level units, and twenty companies were under Su Yi's direct command.

In order to strengthen the firepower of the entire independent regiment, Su Yi took more than 20 horse-drawn carriages out for two more laps at night, and finally made the soldiers of each infantry company equipped with Type 95 automatic rifles and Type 92 pistols, and each infantry company also formed a reinforced platoon with twelve Type 89 heavy machine guns, as well as several combat groups equipped with individual anti-tank missiles.

Each anti-aircraft company was equipped with twelve Browning M2 anti-aircraft machine guns, twelve Erlikon 20-mm quadruple anti-aircraft guns and twelve Bofors 40-mm twin anti-aircraft guns, as well as a number of individual anti-aircraft missiles.

Each artillery battery was armed with twelve 57-mm anti-aircraft guns, twenty-four 60-mm mortars and twelve 100-mm mortars.

The soldiers of the guard company were armed with 30 Type 88 sniper rifles, that is, 30 sniper teams were formed, and several special operations teams were also formed, armed with Type 95 automatic rifles, Type 92 pistols, Type 88 sniper rifles, 60-mm mortars and individual anti-tank missiles.

Because the height of the Star Gate is two meters and the width is only one meter, Su Yi cannot transport many large weapons from the world of the Tang Empire or the Great Han Kingdom, otherwise Su Yi will move dozens of Type 69 main battle tanks to the world of the Great Qin Kingdom, and then get dozens of F-16 fighters, let alone defend the new market town, and it is even likely to completely disintegrate the attack of the Ice Lion Kingdom army on the capital of the Great Qin State this time.

The main role of the logistics company is to transport ammunition and food for the various combat companies, as well as to care for some of the seriously wounded.

The more than 3,000 seriously wounded people left in Xinji Town were also reorganized into several combat groups by Su Yi, and the seriously wounded who were still conscious were equipped with rifles and grenades, and some of the seriously wounded were even carried directly to the forefront of the position.

In order to hide people's eyes, Su Yi set up a regimental headquarters in the new market town, and used a house with a large cellar to change it into an ammunition depot for the regimental headquarters.

Xinji Town is only about ten kilometers away from the first line of Phoenix Mountain, at ten o'clock in the morning of December 9, 2537 in the divine calendar, outside Xinji Town, a vanguard of the Ice Lion Army, a mechanized infantry regiment belonging to the Seventh Division of the Ice Lion Guard, the Janissary Guard of the Ice Lion Country, the largest establishment is at the division level, but each division of the Ice Lion Guard's Praetorian Guard has more than 30,000 people, and each division of the Great Qin State is only about 15,000 people.

This mechanized infantry regiment of the 7th Division of the Ice Lion Janissary Army has a strength of more than 2,800 men, 36 tanks and nearly 100 armored vehicles, and 12 122mm self-propelled howitzers.

The commander of this mechanized infantry regiment, seeing the position on the outskirts of Xinji Town, said to a deputy regiment commander beside him without being surprised: "Great! I thought that our regiment would go all the way to Yueyang City, and there would be no battle at all, but I didn't expect that the army of the Great Qin State also arranged a unit in this small town, which just happened to give our regiment a war feat, and our regiment was not a pioneer in vain. ”

The deputy regiment commander hesitated for a moment and said, "Do you need to contact the air force first to launch a round of bombardment of the Great Qin Army in this town?" ”

The commander of the mechanized infantry regiment waved his hand, "How many troops of the Great Qin Army can be in a small town, our regiment is enough to eat this enemy force, I don't want to give some of the credit back to the air force." ”

As soon as the mechanized infantry regiment of the 7th Division of the Ice Lion Guards arrived outside Xinji Town, it launched an attack on Xinji Town, first of all, the twelve 122mm self-propelled howitzers of this mechanized infantry regiment launched a fierce artillery bombardment of the outer positions north of Xinji Town.

Su Yi saw through the telescope the forward position in the north of Xinji Town, which was shrouded in bombs, and couldn't help but sigh and said to Sun Guodong and He Zhihong beside him: "It's a great loss that we don't have large-caliber artillery, if the army of the Ice Lion Country keeps bombarding it with large-caliber artillery, our town will be directly razed to the ground." ”

Sun Guodong and He Zhihong, two company commanders, have now been appointed by Su Yi as the deputy commander of the 48th Division Independent Regiment to assist Su Yi in commanding the entire Independent Regiment to hold Xinji Town.

He Zhihong said in a deep voice at this time: "Regiment commander, the three special operations teams of the guard company have been lurking outside the new market town, and they are the only existence of our independent regiment that can pose a threat to the enemy's artillery units. ”

Su Yi gritted his teeth and said, "Immediately contact the three special operations teams of the guard company, and let them destroy those large-caliber artillery pieces of the enemy for us at all costs." ”

Su Yi also brought a lot of high-power radio walkie-talkies from the world of the Han Kingdom, which allowed Su Yi to directly issue orders to various companies at the regiment headquarters, and even to each squad under the company's jurisdiction, and each special operations team of the guard company was equipped with two or three high-power radio walkie-talkies.

Before Su Yi's order was delivered, a special operations team of the guard company had already launched an attack on the 122mm self-propelled howitzers of the seventh division of the Ice Lion Guard's Praetorian Guard, a mechanized infantry regiment, and used mortars and sniper rifles that could shoot armor-piercing shells to quickly destroy two 122mm self-propelled howitzers, but then under the siege of a large number of soldiers of the Ice Lion Country, they had to choose to fight and retreat.

As a result of this attack, the enemy strengthened the guard of the remaining ten 122-mm self-propelled howitzers, so that the other two special operations groups of the guard company did not find an opportunity to move until the enemy's armored forces charged the forward positions north of the new market town.

In order to conquer Xinji Town in one fell swoop, the commander of the 7th Division of the Ice Lion Guard, after a suppressive artillery bombardment with 122mm self-propelled howitzers, sent two-thirds of his tanks and half of his armored vehicles, as well as more than 800 infantry, to press the forward position north of Xinji Town with great momentum.

"Boom-" A tank of the Ice Lion Army, about 300 meters away from the forward position north of Xinji Town, was destroyed by an armor-piercing shell fired by a 57mm anti-aircraft gun.

The tanks equipped by the Janissaries of the Ice Lion Country are mainly medium tanks known as the Silver Lion, and the 36 tanks of the Seventh Division of the Praetorian Guard, a mechanized infantry regiment, are all Silver Lion medium tanks.

The total combat weight of the Silver Lion medium tank is only 19 tons, and the front turret armor is only 40 mm, which cannot withstand the 57 mm armor-piercing projectile at all, not to mention that this kind of armor-piercing projectile is still produced by the Han Kingdom, and the power is far greater than the armor-piercing bullet of the same caliber in this time and space.

There were a total of twenty-four Silver Lion medium tanks that launched the charge, but before they could get close to the forward position north of Xinji Town, more than 10 were destroyed by the 57-mm anti-aircraft guns of the Independent Regiment, and more than a dozen armored vehicles were also blown up by 57-mm anti-aircraft guns.

The more than 800 officers and soldiers of the Ice Lion Guard's Praetorian Guard, who were charging with tanks and armored vehicles, were even shelled by dozens of mortars, and a large number of them fell in an instant.

The commander of the mechanized infantry regiment of the Seventh Division of the Ice Lion Guard's Praetorian Guard Army shouted anxiously: "Quick! Order the artillery to carry out suppressive fire and knock out the opponent's artillery for me! The Great Qin Army units in this town are actually equipped with so many battle defense guns and mortars! ”