Chapter 624: Alien War

The content of the land-for-peace agreement signed in Chang'an was divided into several spare parts on the ninth day of the fifth month of the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse and sent to the Northwest Xingyuan and the Western Expeditionary Army Headquarters, and in order to completely receive this largest overseas territory of the Tang Dynasty so far, in the following days, Prime Minister Zhang Jianzhong submitted a formal application to the Senate and Li Xuanqing as soon as possible, proposing to turn Egypt to the surrounding Wolong Port and Barracuda Island and other places into the official overseas territory of the Tang Dynasty and establish Egypt Province. And immediately after the Senate and Li Xuanqing signed the agreement, Li Chengyu, the deputy prime minister in charge of overseas affairs, immediately set off with a team of officials with a complete administrative establishment to prepare to take over all subsequent civil affairs, so that the army could free up its hands as soon as possible to deal with the upcoming changes.

The emergency speed of the Tang Empire's base camp is not fast, and before Ah Yebi leaves the Tang Dynasty, the order of the General Staff and the copy of the treaty sent out before have already arrived in the hands of Qu Chengmei and Wan Yi who rushed to the West Pole City. At the moment when Wan Yi received the order from the General Staff, the command of the Western Expeditionary Army officially issued a formal combat order, ordering Gauss to lead the advance command of the Western Expeditionary Army to immediately take over the entire territory of Egypt and make every effort to ensure the territorial integrity and inviolability of the empire. Until the arrival of the Cabinet receiving officials, the Forward Command of the Western Expeditionary Army can use all means to ensure internal stability. This battle order was later called the same as the land-for-peace agreement signed in Chang'an, which completely broke the original situation of Taixi. Because when Gauss received the battle order urgently sent by the secret guard, in fact, the Great Qin army had already advanced all the way from the northwest of Africa to Tunisia, in order to increase the speed of pursuing the remnants of the Great Eclipse army, the Great Qin army gave up the few remnants who fled to the depths of the desert, and put all its main forces and energy on sweeping the fertile plains near the Mediterranean coast. In this way, not only was it much more efficient, but it was also able to occupy in fact most of Tunisia's land and cities in a short period of time. The Great Qin soldiers came all the way from the west and approached the Egyptian border, and less than 10,000 of the army originally stationed in Tunisia retreated into Egypt, and then they were taken away by the Anxi army led by Zhang Sheng and sent back to Phoenicia and other places, and handed over to Gauss to deal with. However, all of them were returned to Baghdad shortly after. And Zhang Sheng also followed Gauss's order, and when the combat orders of the General Staff and the Western Expeditionary Army Headquarters were not sent, he directly chose to counterattack and drove out the Great Qin army, which had rushed into Egypt without understanding the situation. The powerful firepower output almost blinded the Great Qin army, which was accustomed to fighting with the cold weapons of the Great Food, and the wind and sand set off by countless explosions almost wiped out the vanguard of the Great Qin army on the Egyptian border. But after all, I didn't know what was going on in Chang'an, so Zhang Sheng didn't choose to lead the army to pursue, and stopped at the border after repulsing the other party. But it was really because of this caution that he almost regretted it later. Because only three days or so later, Gauss, who had already placed his headquarters in Phoenicia City, received an order from Wan Yi and a contract sent with him. But at this time, the Great Qin army had also gathered all its forces, and also sent people to summon the navy to help in the war. The huge strength of more than 100,000 people made the leading generals of Great Qin full of confidence, and they planned to teach the Tiance army stationed at the border to meddle in the Great Qin and Great Food War an unforgettable lesson. Therefore, on the 23rd day of May in the 13th year of the Apocalypse, the western border of Egypt, which had just been quiet for several days, was once again in flames of war. Zhang Sheng met the attack of the opponent's more than 100,000 troops with the strength of more than 40,000 field troops of a corps, including more than 30,000 cavalry charges, and more than 10 Great Qin Navy warships that originally escorted them across the strait also appeared on the sea, bombarding the positions of the Anxi Corps with artillery to provide artillery support for their own army charge.

If this method of warfare is facing the Great Food Army, then if the disparity in strength is also so big, then this war is basically won by Great Qin, while the navy and its own artillery are constantly bombarded, the cavalry assault is used to chisel through the fortifications and bunkers built by the opponent in a hurry, and then the huge army infantry swarmed up, and it is impossible for 40,000 people to block such a strong attack. In the past few years of the armistice and recuperation, the Tiance Army has equipped all field units with infantry covering firepower, the artillery brigade has been delegated to the battalion level combat unit, and the mortar brigade has also become the standard configuration at the capital level, not to mention the firepower of the gang that has become rich enough to be equipped with revoltainer machine guns. At the very beginning, the artillery of the Anxi Corps was divided into forces, and a full sixty artillery pieces were aimed at the sea and the attacking Great Qin Army. This fierce artillery battle also opened everyone's eyes, and the artillery used by the Tiance Army was far stronger than the opponent's in terms of range and the power of the shells. The battleship of the Great Qin Navy was caught off guard, and almost a shell directly overturned a battleship. Qin Yao's equipment department has already embarked on a complete path in the production and research and development of new gunpowder. The explosive power of this new type of white explosive even surprised Li Xuanqing at the beginning of the experiment, thinking that it was a picric acid explosive of later generations. However, although it is different from later generations, Li Xuanqing is too lazy to say anything. Anyway, Qin Yao's side has already walked out of his own way, and whether it is R&D, production or storage, he has a complete system. It's just that Li Xuanqing didn't say it, but it didn't mean that at this moment, when the self-used artillery shells and export shells exploded together on the battlefield, it caused repercussions. Many of the Tiance Army's own artillery were surprised by the explosive power of the shells they fired, and they didn't feel anything when they were used to it before, but at this time, when compared in front of the export shells, both the artillery and the infantry were disdainful of the export shells, so that after the war, many Tiance Army soldiers were unwilling to count the captured export shells even as trophies, if it wasn't for Pang Lingming on the front line, he was afraid that this pile of shells that the Great Qin Army was usually reluctant to use would be thrown directly on the spot.

However, on the battlefield, after the artillery of the Tiance Army showed their might, and was able to rely on the example and the precise operation of the artillery to steadily suppress the opponent, the Daqin cavalry that rushed forward suffered a death-like end. Although the rate of fire of the revolver machine gun cannot be compared with the battlefield terminator killer weapon in Li Xuanqing's later generations, there is not much room for improvement, and even the new machine gun developed by the equipment department has begun to be tested, but the machine gun is a machine gun, in front of the large array composed of hundreds of revolver machine guns, the Great Qin Cavalry Corps, which was still immersed in the tactics of intensive charging and could not extricate itself, was hit in the face. The machine guns fired together in a kilometer-long arc trench and the metal storm tore the enemy to shreds. Daqin's cavalry corps was not as fast as the light cavalry formed by Da Shi, and the tactics were outdated and backward, although the cavalry group charge seemed to be huge, but the Tiance army had basically been fighting cavalry with infantry since it was equipped with muskets, so no one knew how to fight against cavalry better than the Tiance army, not to mention that they also had epoch-making new weapons. So in less than half an hour, the entire battlefield was already full of blood, countless cavalry companies with war horses were put down on the battlefield, blood soaked in this dry land, a strange black and red made this massacre even more cruel. This is the first battle after the Tiance Army is equipped with machine guns on a large scale, and it is also a battle that shows the most powerful weapon of this kind of mass killing, and even the other infantry deployed in the infantry positions around the machine gun array can't intervene, and the machine gunners who don't have any opponents and threats at all need to do on the battlefield is to keep chasing the figure in front of the crosshair, and then keep shaking the wheel, watching the barrel of the gun continue to spit out tongues of fire, and then take away a piece of fresh life. The ammunition man next to him reloads the bullets as fast as he can, connecting the original 200 rounds of bullet belts to each other and then swinging them in the direction of rotation of the minigun to prevent jamming.

The mighty group charge of the Great Qin Cavalry Corps quickly disappeared in front of this large machine gun array, and after countless cavalry were killed and torn apart, the entire battle line began to waver, and the huge battlefield seemed to have become a man-eating beast at this moment, and no matter how many people rushed up from the Great Qin cavalry, it would be ruthlessly swallowed up. This kind of scene even made Zhang Sheng, who was on the front line in command, couldn't help but show his unbearable expression, this was no longer a war, but a bloody massacre. The slaughtered side simply had no room to fight back. However, as a commander of the army for the rest of his life, Zhang Sheng's figure standing in front has never changed, standing on the battlefield like a monument. He is a remnant of Anxi, and he knows better that even if he stops this massacre today, then this kind of thing will happen later. Wasn't the Anxi Tang people a hundred years ago strangled by other ethnic groups because of the decline of the empire's power? He can't tolerate this situation to befall the people of Datang again one day, so he would rather bear the charge of being a butcher and completely eliminate all opponents who are hostile to Datang, not to mention that this is on the battlefield where the two armies are fighting, there is no mercy on the battlefield, only winning and losing. The losing side not only loses the war, but also the future of a race.

This kind of massacre was not noticed by the Great Qin generals who commanded in the rear at first, and after the noisy battlefield and the cavalry charged, they went forward one after another, and it was too difficult to change the deployment. With the attainments of the army generals of Great Qin in cavalry tactics, they still couldn't play with the cavalry assault, and then suddenly changed their tactics, so they almost watched their cavalry being wiped out by the opponent's metal storm, but they couldn't do anything. Of the more than 30,000 cavalry regiments, except for the last less than 10,000 people, who were stopped because of the order of the charge, almost all of the others were strangled within half an hour. Moreover, after sinking several Great Qin warships and forcing the opposing fleet to escape as a whole, the combined artillery began to extend its fire and attack the main position of the Great Qin army. With the charge raised by Zhang Sheng's personal guards, the assault group led by Pang Lingming's headquarters began to quickly launch a counter-charge, and the mortars and other close-range support weapons that accompanied the action began to gradually join the chorus, and countless explosions began to gradually take over the place of the revolver. But in addition to those that had already turned red and had to stop firing, some of the machine guns were even dragged away by a four-wheeled bracket to accompany the infantry into the charge. Zhang Sheng did not interfere in all this, the Anxi Corps has come to this point, becoming a front-line combat corps that is not inferior to other troops, he has devoted a lot of effort, not only did he go to Chang'an Military Academy several times for further study, and even all the soldiers have received the most rigorous training and transformation, so that this corps that joined the Tiance Army halfway has today's progress. The three-three tactics are already proficient in their hands, comparable to those veteran regiments. After tens of thousands of people launched a charge, the waves of attacks formed one after another, and the various artillery cover seemed to be orderly, without the slightest chaotic stance. This kind of increasingly rigorous, almost textbook-like combat is a new type of thinking that is popular in the Tiance Army today. All combat units, from the Supreme Commander down to the individual soldiers, know what they need to do on the battlefield and how they should cooperate with the surrounding friendly forces.

Seeing that the machine gun that set off at the end quickly rushed to the battlefield of fierce fighting in the distance with the assistance of the four-wheel bracket that was constantly being dragged out, Zhang Sheng already knew that this battlefield was won by himself. After losing the main force of cavalry, the chances of the Great Qin army even escaping after the break became extremely slim. The empire they belong to not only has the most advanced military technology, but also their front-line commanders and combat soldiers have tactical literacy that surpasses each other. There is no doubt that Datang occupies this land.

"Go and give Pang Lingming an order, unless the Great Qin people surrender on the spot, otherwise they will all be strangled." Zhang Sheng asked the guards behind him to personally go to Pang Lingming with his own orders, which was equivalent to setting a tone for this war.

On May 23, the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse, in this wasteland on the northwest border of Egypt, there was a big battle between the newly arrived Tang Tiance army and the Great Qin army that swept all the way here. With 40,000 against the 140,000 infantry and cavalry mixed corps of Daqin, the Tiance army won more with less, not only nearly completely annihilating the opponent's mobile forces, but also the main infantry force was also quickly defeated, and the huge old-style army was stripped of its bright coat in front of the Tiance army, and its weakness and vulnerability were vividly exposed. This battle almost wiped out the Great Qin Expeditionary Legion, and the Great Qin Empire completely lost the strength to expedition to Africa. With Byzantium still occupied by the Great Cannibals, the Great Qin Empire was already facing the same predicament as the Great Cannibals.

After the war, Gauss and the officials who came to negotiate the delivery of the Great Eclipse held a grand ceremony in Phoenicia, announcing the official handover of Egypt to the Tang Dynasty, and this land with a long history but never stopped fighting ushered in the master of the distant East. This ceremony also officially announced to the outside world that no country or force could cause a war in the land and sea of Egypt without the consent of the Tang Dynasty, which was regarded as putting the previous war on the table and announcing the Tang Empire's official involvement in the dispute between the two countries.