The words of Zhao Zeling, vice minister of national defense, made many faction bigwigs in the conference room frown, the military discipline of the army of the Ice Lion Kingdom is corrupt, and the news of the massacre of civilians and prisoners of war of the Great Qin State from time to time reaches Yueyang City, if street battles are fought in the urban area of Yueyang City, the more than three million civilians of the Great Qin State who remain in the urban area of Yueyang City will suffer, and the army of the Ice Lion Kingdom will definitely not care about civilian casualties.

At this time, Sun Hongwei, another deputy minister of the Ministry of National Defense, said: "Now we can only evacuate as many people as possible from Yueyang City, while trying to find a way to delay the advance speed of the Ice Lion Country's army, from Phoenix Mountain to the urban area of Yueyang City, there is still a distance of more than 40 kilometers, and we can let the troops withdrawn from the front line of Phoenix Mountain block the road of more than 40 kilometers." ”

Due to the fact that the major factions of the Great Qin State army contain each other, in addition to one minister, there are six deputy ministers in the Ministry of Defense of Great Qin, in addition to a chief of general staff and five deputy chiefs of general staff, and these thirteen senior officials of the Ministry of Defense represent the thirteen major factions of the army of the Great Qin State.

The army units that were previously subordinate to Sun Hongwei's Sun family suffered heavy losses in the battle against the army of the Ice Lion Country, and this time they only barely mobilized an army of less than 20,000 men to join the defense of Yueyang City.

Zhou Botao, chief of the general staff, said with a wry smile: "The urban area from Phoenix Mountain to Yueyang City is a plain, and it can be said that there is no danger to defend, and most of the troops withdrawn from the front line of Phoenix Mountain have become a mess, and it is not easy to block layers of attacks on the road of more than 40 kilometers!" ”

The Zhou family, where Zhou Botao, the chief of the general staff, is more in the navy of the Great Qin State, and has a huge influence, originally the five main fleets of the Great Qin Navy, four of which are equal to the control of the Zhou family, but the Great Qin Navy suffered huge losses in the fierce battle with the Ice Lion Navy, and now the five main fleets of the entire Great Qin Navy add up, leaving only one dreadnought battleship, one battle cruiser, one heavy cruiser, three light cruisers, four destroyers and seven submarines.

Originally, the Great Qin Navy also had a medium-sized aircraft carrier, but unfortunately it had been sunk in a naval battle with the Ice Lion Navy.

In the world where the Great Qin Kingdom is located, the capital ships of the Navy are exactly the same as the capital ships of the navies of the world on the side of the Tang Empire, and the battleships are divided into ironclad ships, former dreadnoughts, dreadnoughts, super dreadnoughts and battle cruisers.

In this world, aircraft carriers are divided according to their displacement, with small aircraft carriers with a full load displacement of less than 15,000 tons, medium aircraft carriers with a full load displacement of between 15,000 and 30,000 tons, and large aircraft carriers with a full load displacement of more than 30,000 tons.

The Navy of the Ice Lion Nation, ranked third in the world, currently has two large aircraft carriers, three medium aircraft carriers, and two small aircraft carriers.

Although the Zhou family, where the chief of the general staff Zhou Botao is located, the power is mainly in the navy, but in the army of the Great Qin State, the Zhou family also has its own control of the forces.

Vice Minister of Defense Zhao Zeling suddenly gritted his teeth and said: "No matter what, we also have to try, our Zhao family can let the Sixteenth Army withdrawn from the front line of Phoenix Mountain block between Phoenix Mountain and Yueyang City, and delay the advance of the Ice Lion Kingdom army as much as possible." ”

Immediately afterwards, Minister of Defense Liu Fuchen sighed and said: "I can't let the Sixteenth Army alone resist the hundreds of thousands of elites of the Ice Lion Country, I will let the Fifth Army also stay and fight side by side with the Sixteenth Army." ”

After Zhao Zeling and Liu Fuchen made a statement, no one in the other military bigwigs in the conference room spoke out, and everyone knew what it meant to leave the troops between Phoenix Mountain and Yueyang City.

Minister of Defense Liu Fuchen saw that no faction was willing to send troops to participate in the attack, so he had no choice but to say helplessly: "Then the Fifth Army and the Sixteenth Army will try their best to buy some time for the evacuation of the people of Yueyang City. ”

In fact, the bigwigs of these factions in the military of the Great Qin State know very well in their hearts that it is impossible to hold Yueyang City, but as the capital of the Great Qin State, it is impossible for the army of the Great Qin State to give up Yueyang City easily, no matter what the final result is, Yueyang City must also be defended.

However, after half a year of fierce battles with the Ice Lion State, the army of the Great Qin State suffered heavy losses, and the twenty-one armies gathered in Yueyang City were almost all the elite of the Great Qin Army, and if these twenty-one armies were all trapped in Yueyang City, it would be an irreparable loss to the entire Great Qin Army.

At present, after continuous expansion, the total strength of the Great Qin Army is still maintained at more than four million, but the proportion of new recruits is very high, and the twenty-one armies gathered in Yueyang City at this time, at the beginning of the war, are basically mainly veterans, for the next war considerations, the military of the Great Qin State can not sit back and watch these twenty-one armies are lost in Yueyang City.

In the end, after the discussion of the thirteen faction bosses, it was decided to transfer nineteen divisions from the nineteen armies to stay in Yueyang City and engage in street battles with the Ice Lion Army, and if the Fifth Army and the Sixteenth Army could withdraw into the urban area of Yueyang City, these two armies would also be involved in street fighting.

Zhao Zeling, vice minister of national defense, took the initiative to ask to stay and serve as the commander-in-chief of the defense of Yueyang City, while the other faction bosses of the Ministry of Defense would leave Yueyang City with the troops withdrawn from each army.

At about 4 o'clock in the afternoon of December 8, Su Yi received an order to protect the field hospital of the regimental headquarters to retreat to Yueyang City, and the regiment headquarters also transferred ten veterans and ten recruits from other units of the 329th Regiment to supplement Su Yi's second company, increasing the strength of the second company to 41 people.

However, when Su Yi came to the field hospital of the 329th Regiment with the second company, he was dumbfounded, it turned out that the field hospitals at all levels of the 48th Division under the jurisdiction of the 16th Army were gathered together, and now except for the 329th Regiment sent Su Yi to lead a company of forty people to rush over, there were no other troops to help the field hospital retreat.

Wu Changqing, the director of the 48th Division Field Hospital, said to Su Yi with a wry smile: "Company Commander Su, there are more than 600 wounded here now, and most of them are seriously wounded, and our doctors and nurses add up to less than 100 people, you only brought 40 people over, and you can't withdraw all the wounded to Yueyang City at all." ”

After a pause, Wu Changqing sighed and said: "The front line of Phoenix Mountain is basically undefensible, in this way, the army of the Ice Lion Kingdom can directly attack the urban area of Yueyang City, even if so many wounded people are withdrawn to Yueyang City, it will be difficult to leave Yueyang City in the end." ”

Su Yi frowned and asked, "Dean Wu, what about the guards of the field hospitals and the people who carry stretchers?" Didn't the division headquarters send troops to help the field hospital retreat? ”

Wu Changqing sighed again and said: "Because the front line is tight, the guard units and civilian men of the field hospital of our 48th Division, as well as the guard units and civilian men of the field hospitals of various brigades and regiments, have all been supplemented to the front-line troops, as for the division headquarters, it is no longer possible to contact the division headquarters, let alone the division headquarters now, the brigade headquarters and regimental headquarters under the jurisdiction of our 48th Division cannot be contacted, it seems that the entire communication system of our 48th Division has a problem." ”

In fact, Su Yi can't contact the regimental headquarters of the 329th Regiment now, before Su Yi took the remaining officers and soldiers of the second company, after giving up the position, he withdrew all the way to the vicinity of the regimental headquarters of the 329th Regiment, and then received the order to assist the 329th Regiment Field Hospital to withdraw to Yueyang City.

Su Yi pondered a little and said: "The army of the Ice Lion Country may be killed at any time, no matter how difficult it is, we must retreat immediately, otherwise the doctors, nurses and wounded in the field hospital will not survive, Dean Wu must have heard how murderous the army of the Ice Lion Country is, as for what to do after returning to Yueyang City, let's talk about it then!" ”

Wu Changqing said in embarrassment: "But how do those seriously injured go? You can't just give them up, can you? ”

Su Yi said in a deep voice: "Dean Wu, you first ask the doctors and nurses to pack up their things and prepare to retreat, and count the wounded who can walk on their own and those who can't, respectively, after half an hour, we must retreat, I will now take people to find more rout soldiers to help." ”

Since the entire Phoenix Mountain defense line was already crumbling at this time, the officers and soldiers of the Great Qin Army of all units were defeated in the direction of Yueyang City, and a large part of the defeated troops were no longer established.

Although Su Yi was forced to enter the world of the Great Qin Kingdom out of desperation, but seeing the same black-haired and black-eyed Great Qin people, Su Yi really couldn't harden his heart, and directly activated the interstellar gate and hid back in the world of the Tang Empire or the Great Han Kingdom.

Su Yi led the officers and soldiers of the second company under his command and quickly blocked more than 100 defeated soldiers, in fact, Su Yi encountered at least 4 or 500 defeated soldiers, but only these more than 100 defeated soldiers were willing to help the field hospitals at all levels of the 48th Division retreat.

In the face of the routs who were unwilling to stay, Su Yi did not force them, after all, many of the routs had guns in their hands, and if they were in a hurry, they would become a rush.

More than 100 defeated soldiers were temporarily incorporated into his second company by Su Yi, and there were three platoon commanders among the more than 100 defeated soldiers, who were directly appointed by Su Yi as the platoon commanders of the three platoons under the second company, in addition, Su Yi also set up a guard platoon and appointed Ma Sibao as the platoon leader of the guard platoon, and the forty soldiers of the previous second company were all incorporated into the guard platoon by Su Yi.

To Su Yi's delight, in the process of intercepting the rout, more than 20 carriages full of grain were also found, and Su Yi immediately asked the soldiers to unload the grain on the carriage, and then returned to the field hospital with more than 20 empty carriages.

More than 200 of the more than 600 wounded were barely able to walk on their own, more than 300 of the other 400 seriously wounded who could not walk were squeezed into more than 20 carriages, and more than 80 wounded were carried on stretchers by the soldiers of the second company and some male doctors.

At a little after five o'clock in the afternoon of December 8, the field hospitals of the 48th Division at all levels finally began to retreat to Yueyang City.

At this time, the defense line of the Great Qin State Army in Phoenix Mountain has been completely lost, and only some of the broken troops are still desperately resisting the Ice Lion State army, but these broken Great Qin Army troops can no longer affect the overall situation.

Su Yi retreated all the way with more than 600 wounded soldiers, and there were many defeated soldiers who lost their establishment on the way, and they also took the initiative to join this team mainly of the wounded, and when Su Yi and they withdrew to a small town between Phoenix Mountain and Yueyang City, not counting the wounded and medical personnel, Su Yi had gathered more than 300 officers and soldiers of the Great Qin Army under his hands, including a company commander named He Zhihong, who was temporarily appointed by Su Yi as the deputy company commander of the second company.

What stunned Su Yi was that in this small town, Su Yi found a large number of abandoned seriously wounded, these seriously wounded came from several armies, and all of these armies participated in the battle on the front line of Phoenix Mountain.

Soon Su Yi figured out the reason, after the field hospitals under the various armies were withdrawn to this small town, they received orders from the military headquarters of the various armies, asking the field hospitals at all levels to abandon all the seriously wounded, and quickly withdraw to Yueyang City with only the wounded who could walk on their own.

Now Su Yi also received an order from the military headquarters of the 16th Army, asking the field hospitals at the lower levels of the 16th Army to give up the seriously wounded who could not walk on their own and withdraw to Yueyang City as soon as possible, while the combat units at all levels under the 16th Army were to defend on the spot, slow down the advance of the Ice Lion Country army as much as possible, and buy time for the evacuation of the people of Yueyang City.

The person who conveyed this order to Su Yi was a company commander of the 46th Division of the 16th Army, and at this time in this small town, the company commander named Sun Guodong was the commander with the highest official rank, and the three divisions under the jurisdiction of the 16th Army were the 46th, 47th, and 48th Divisions.

Sun Guodong said to Su Yi with a wry smile: "Company Commander Su, if you are not willing to stay and stick to this town, can you leave me some more weapons and ammunition, now I have finally gathered more than 400 officers and soldiers who can still fight, but there are not many weapons and ammunition, there are only two heavy machine guns, only four light machine guns, and the rifles are enough, but each person has an average of less than twenty bullets." ”

Su Yi asked with a gloomy face, "How many seriously injured people are there in this town now?" ”

Sun Guodong said gloomily: "There are more than 2,000 people in total, but these seriously wounded people have no way to continue fighting, if the more than 400 people I gathered are exhausted, then the more than 2,000 seriously wounded can only be slaughtered by others, according to the viciousness of the Ice Lion Country army, I will not waste a little medicine for the more than 2,000 seriously wounded." ”

Su Yi suddenly showed a trace of anger in his eyes and asked, "Can't you send these seriously injured back to Yueyang City?" These are all warriors who have fought bloodily against the army of the Ice Lion Country, can they watch them be killed by the Lion people without any resistance? ”

Sun Guodong sighed and said: "Now that Yueyang City has been messed up, who can take care of these seriously wounded who have lost their combat effectiveness, now even the orders of the military department have no effect, otherwise this place will not be commanded by me, almost all the commanders of our 16th Army have fled back to Yueyang City, maybe they will flee Yueyang City next." ”

Not many officers and men of the 16th Army were willing to abide by the orders of the 16th Army's military headquarters to defend their combat units at all levels, especially those middle and high-ranking officers of the 16th Army.

You must know that the army of the Ice Lion Country has a lot of tanks, and it has lost the defense line of Phoenix Mountain, and facing the tank troops of the Ice Lion Country Army on the plain is no different from sending it to death.

At this time, Wu Changqing, the director of the 48th Division Field Hospital, who was following Su Yi, hesitated and asked Su Yi: "Company Commander Su, what should we do now?" Do you continue to retreat towards Yueyang City? ”