Seeing that there was no hope of peace talks with the Ice Lion State, the military high-level of the Great Qin State immediately held a military meeting of the Ministry of Defense to discuss how to provide favorable support to Yueyang City.

At the beginning of the meeting, Minister of National Defense Liu Fuchen said in a deep voice to the other twelve senior officials of the Ministry of National Defense: "The defense of Yueyang City is very important to our Great Qin State's war against the army of the Ice Lion Kingdom, although Yueyang City has been firmly surrounded by the army of the Ice Lion Kingdom, but our military must also try to find ways to support the defenders of Yueyang City as much as possible." ”

After a pause, Minister of Defense Liu Fuchen continued: "According to intelligence, the army of the Ice Lion Kingdom has transferred six Praetorian Mechanized Infantry Divisions and eight Garrison Infantry Divisions from various battlefields, and has also mobilized 500,000 reinforcements from the country, and these troops and reinforcements will all join the battlefield in Yueyang City. ”

Chief of General Staff Zhou Botao said with a wry smile: "The area around Yueyang City has been captured by the army of the Ice Lion Country, and the closest troops of our Great Qin Army to Yueyang City are also five hundred kilometers away, even if we have that heart, we don't have the ability to do it." ”

Zhao Zeling, Vice Minister of National Defense, immediately said in a deep voice: "No matter what, we have to try, once Yueyang City falls, it is likely to cause a series of chain reactions, and the army of the Ice Lion Country can also immediately idle millions of elite troops, and then our Great Qin Kingdom will really be finished!" ”

In the end, the thirteen high-ranking officials of the Great Qin Ministry of Defense, representing the thirteen factions of the Great Qin military, reached an agreement to try to support Yueyang City at all costs to avoid the loss of Yueyang City, a city that would never fall in the eyes of the military and people of the Great Qin State.

Soon the Great Qin Army mobilized more than 500,000 troops to try to open the passage of Yueyang City from the south of Yueyang City, but the more than 500,000 Great Qin Army was defeated by the two Praetorian Mechanized Infantry Divisions of the Ice Lion Army in just two days, and the more than 500,000 Great Qin Army lost nearly 200,000.

After this attempt, the Great Qin military was still unwilling, and organized more than 300,000 army troops to launch a major attack from the west of Yueyang City, but the result was still not to break through the defense line of the Ice Lion Army, and a mechanized infantry division of the Ice Lion Army was almost outflanked by the Ice Lion Army.

After the failure of the two attempts to reinforce Yueyang City, the Great Qin military changed its strategy, increased its actions in other battlefields, and even launched active attacks in many battlefields, hoping that through this method, some pressure could be relieved for Yueyang City.

However, a series of actions of the Great Qin Army did not interfere with the transfer plan of the Ice Lion Army, as of March 15, 2538 in the Divine Calendar, the Ice Lion Army had gathered 23 Praetorian Mechanized Infantry Divisions and 34 Garrison Infantry Divisions in the Yueyang City area, and these troops had basically reached full strength, with a total strength of more than 1.3 million.

On the evening of 15 March, at the forward headquarters of the Ice Lion Kingdom army outside Yueyang City, the deputy commander-in-chief, Army General Gru Langsheng, reported to Marshal Cajano: "Marshal, more than 500,000 additional troops have been replenished to all divisions on the front line by rail, road and air transportation, and all ammunition and other material supplies have arrived at the front line of Yueyang City on time. ”

Marshal Kayano nodded slightly and said: "Since the troops and materials are in place, then early tomorrow morning, order all divisions to launch a fierce attack on the urban area of Yueyang City in accordance with the battle plan formulated before, no matter how much price is paid this time, the hard bone of Yueyang City must be gnawed down." ”

Deputy Commander-in-Chief Army General Grulang hesitated for a moment and said: "Marshal, more than 500,000 additional troops have just been incorporated into various divisions, should we give these more than 500,000 additional troops some time to integrate into the troops, so as not to affect the combat effectiveness of each division." ”

Marshal Cajano said indifferently: "These more than 500,000 supplementary troops were originally trained reserve officers and soldiers, and they had conducted long-term targeted training in the country before, which should not have much impact on the combat effectiveness of each division, and the battlefield is the fastest place to integrate into the troops, and only blood and sacrifice can cast an iron-blooded lion." ”

At this time, in Su Yi's city defense headquarters in Yueyang City, Sun Guodong, the deputy commander of the city defense, said to Su Yi with a solemn face: "Commander, according to the reports of the reconnaissance battalions of each division, the reinforcements and a large number of additional troops from the Ice Lion Country should have arrived in the Yueyang City area, and I believe that the next wave of the Ice Lion Country's offensive will come soon." ”

Su Yi sighed and said: "The Ministry of Defense has gathered hundreds of thousands of army troops twice in a row to try to open the passage to Yueyang City, but unfortunately they all failed, and the next battle to defend Yueyang City still has to rely on the three temporary armies in our hands." ”

During the period when the war in Yueyang City fell silent, Su Yi also established the military headquarters of the three provisional armies, and appointed Zhou Jianmin, Wu Youliang, and Qian Rongli as the commanders of the provisional First Army, the provisional Second Army, and the provisional Third Army, respectively, and these three were originally division commanders of other units of the Great Qin Army.

For this reason, Su Yi established three new provisional divisions, each of which still has 20 infantry battalions, one reconnaissance battalion, five air defense battalions, five artillery battalions, and three logistics battalions, each of which has a strength of about 1,300 people.

The other three provisional divisions also set up guard battalions, artillery battalions, air defense battalions, and a number of supplementary battalions directly under the military headquarters.

The troops directly under the city defense headquarters have all been upgraded to regimental levels, and the entire Daqin army in Yueyang City has been newly reorganized, with a total strength of 520,000, including many officers and soldiers who have returned from wounded.

During this period of time, Su Yi also ordered the soldiers and civilians in Yueyang City to use the steel and cement that Su Yi brought from the world of the Tang Empire to build many strong fortifications in the urban area of Yueyang City, which had become ruins, and these fortifications extended from the ground to the underground.

It can even be said that during the period of the increase in the army of the Ice Lion Country, Su Yi had turned Yueyang City into a huge military fortress.

Sun Guodong, deputy commander of the city defense, immediately sighed and said: "I didn't expect that the Ministry of Defense would gather hundreds of thousands of troops, and they would be defeated so quickly, and the troops we were ready to receive had not even had time to set off. ”

Although Yueyang City has been firmly surrounded by the Ice Lion Country army, but Yueyang City's communication with the outside world has not been interrupted, when Su Yi learned that the Ministry of Defense has mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops, ready to break through the ice lion country's army encirclement of Yueyang City, and reinforce Yueyang City, he immediately mobilized several temporary divisions to deal with the hundreds of thousands of Great Qin Army troops who came to help.

However, before several provisional divisions under Su Yi could attack, hundreds of thousands of Great Qin Army troops were defeated, and the same was true for the second time.

Su Yi glanced down at the Yueyang City defense map on the table, and then said categorically: "Now the three provisional armies have twelve provisional divisions under their jurisdiction, plus the troops directly under the three military headquarters and our city defense headquarters, the total strength exceeds 520,000, and there is still the support of more than one million people in the city, even if the Ice Lion Country army gathers two million, or even three million troops, we will definitely crush the Ice Lion Country's army's plot to seize Yueyang City." ”

Early in the morning of March 15, the army of the Ice Lion Kingdom concentrated thousands of artillery pieces and first launched the most fierce artillery bombardment on some neighborhoods occupied by the Great Qin army in Yueyang City.

Immediately, the artillery unit under Su Yi was not to be outdone and launched a mutual bombardment with the artillery unit of the Ice Lion Country, but because of the artillery unit under Su Yi's command, the largest caliber artillery was only a 105 mm howitzer, which was compared with the 150 mm howitzer equipped by the artillery unit of the Ice Lion Country, and the firing range was closer, so that in the bombardment of the artillery units of the two sides, the artillery unit under the command of Su Yi suffered a little loss.

However, the gap between the artillery units of the two sides was not large, and the artillery units under Su Yi occupied a numerical advantage, and the number of artillery far exceeded that of the other side.

With the extension of the artillery fire of the Ice Lion Country's army, the Ice Lion Country's armored troops and infantry began to attack, but what the Ice Lion Country army didn't expect was that under such intensive artillery fire, the Great Qin Army still had a large number of reinforced concrete fortifications unscathed, and the Ice Lion Country's armored troops and infantry suffered very large losses in front of these reinforced concrete fortifications.

Although the troops attacking the Ice Lion Kingdom suffered great losses, the Army of the Ice Lion Kingdom did not weaken the intensity of the attack, making the street battle in Yueyang City very tragic at the beginning.

In an underground fortification in the northern city of Yueyang City, Ma Sibao, the battalion commander of the 18th Infantry Battalion of the 12th Division of the Great Qin Army, shouted loudly into the phone: "Third Company Commander, no matter how big the losses of your company are, you must also give me the North Street Market to defend, if the North Street Market is lost, then there will be a big gap in the entire defense line of our battalion!" ”

The battalion commander Ma Sibao was originally one of the four surviving soldiers by Su Yi's side when he had just come to the world of the Great Qin Kingdom, and he was the only veteran among the four soldiers.

As Su Yi's military rank became bigger and bigger, Ma Sibao, who had been following Su Yi, also rose to the top, and was promoted from an ordinary soldier to a battalion commander.

An anxious voice immediately came from the phone: "Battalion commander, there are less than fifty people left in our third company now, the orcs of the Ice Lion Country are simply crazy, rushing up batch after batch, not caring about casualties at all, I am worried that our third company will not be able to stand up, the casualties are too great!" ”

The battalion commander Ma Sibao pondered for a moment: "I will immediately send you two platoons of the Eighth Company, even if there is one person left in the position, you must guard the North Street Market." ”

Hearing that the battalion commander had transferred two platoons from the eighth company as a reserve to support his third company, the tone on the phone was obviously relaxed, "Rest assured, battalion commander, as long as there is still one person in our third company, the North Street Market will not be lost." ”

After the battalion commander Ma Sibao put down the phone, he immediately turned his head and ordered to the deputy battalion commander Feng Hao: "Let the first and second platoons of the Eighth Company immediately support the North Street Market, the Third Company has lost more than half, and some of them can't stand it." ”

Feng Hao, the deputy battalion commander, was also one of the four surviving soldiers by Su Yi's side when he just came to the world of the Great Qin Kingdom, but Feng Hao was originally just a recruit and was only sixteen years old this year.

In a series of fierce battles, Feng Hao has completed the transformation from a recruit to a veteran, and because of the reason for following Su Yi at the earliest, he was exceptionally promoted by Su Yi to be the youngest battalion-level officer under his command.

Feng Hao hesitated for a moment and said: "Brother Ma, the location of the North Street Market is quite important, if the North Street Market is broken through by the Ice Lion Country army, not only will the defense line of our battalion be cut off, but the defense areas of several surrounding battalions will also be affected, or I will personally take the two platoons of the Eighth Company to the North Street Market!" ”

Ma Sibao shook his head categorically and said, "Xiao Feng, the battalion headquarters still needs the two of us to be responsible for coordination and command, so let's send the two platoons of the Eighth Company to the North Street Market first!" ”

Ma Sibao has treated Feng Hao as his own brother in the past few months, the battle in the North Street Market is so fierce, an infantry company of more than 130 people, there are less than 50 people left in less than two hours, Ma Sibao doesn't want Feng Hao to have any accidents in the North Street Market.

You must know that even Su Yi has explained to Ma Sibao and asked him to take more care of Feng Hao, the little brother, on the battlefield.

The fierce battle in Yueyang City, under the onslaught of the Ice Lion Country army regardless of casualties, became more and more tragic, even at night, the attack of the Ice Lion Country army did not stop, but increased the intensity of the attack.

In an underground fortification in the northern city of Yueyang City, the battalion commander Ma Sibao put down the phone with a gloomy face, and said to the deputy battalion commander Feng Hao: "Xiao Feng, you stay in the battalion headquarters, and I will lead the soldiers drawn from the guard platoon, artillery company, and air defense company to take back the North Street Market!" ”

When Feng Hao heard this, he couldn't help but say in surprise: "More than an hour ago, didn't you just send a platoon from the Fifth Company and a platoon from the Seventh Company to the North Street Market?" How did it fall so quickly? What about the troops stationed at North Street Market? ”

Ma Sibao said gloomily: "I don't know where the Ice Lion Nation army came from, went around to the south of the North Street Market, and rushed into our position in the North Street Market. ”

Feng Hao immediately picked up a Type 95 automatic rifle beside him, and said loudly: "Brother Ma, you are the battalion commander, this kind of thing is not your turn, otherwise I, the deputy battalion commander, will be poked in the backbone, I will lead the soldiers drawn from the guard platoon, artillery company, and air defense company to take back the North Street Market!" ”

In the troops, the death squads of the general organization are led by the deputy, and after listening to Feng Hao's categorical words, Ma Sibao had no choice but to grit his teeth and say: "Bring the soldiers of the battalion cooking squad with you, I will contact the artillery battalion to provide you with artillery support, Xiao Feng, you must come back alive!" ”

Feng Hao smiled and said: "The commander said that when the army of the Ice Lion Country is defeated, he will send me to the military academy, and in order to go to the military academy, I will not die." ”