"General General, this is a battle report sent by Li Shaozhou, and he suggested that the engineering team can continue construction." Qu Chengxing received the latest battle report from Li Shaozhou in Wolong Port. After the end of the Battle of Phoenicia, Wu Sanxing returned to Qu Chengxing's side and served as Qu Chengxing's chief of staff when the chief of staff of the Western Fleet sat in the Persian Governorate to form the Persian fleet. This is a direct step to the sky for a person like him, who was originally just a staff officer of the Operations Department. However, at this time, Wu Sanxing's face became extremely serious, and he continued under Qu Chengxing's instructions: "What Li Shaozhou means is that Pang Lingming's division of the Anxi Corps should not evacuate from Egypt for the time being, and continue to work with his marines to support the engineering team with force to continue digging the canal. ”

"The armed forces have come to support the digging of the canal?" Qu Chengxing nodded thoughtfully and said, "This is a good idea, you can immediately take a boat to Suez City to discuss with Minister Lin Yuantu, and if he has no opinion, then agree with them." ”

After Wu Sanxing turned around and went out to convey the order, Qu Chengxing stared at the map and said, "This stinky boy doesn't seem to have this idea from him, why does it look like the style of Pang Lingming's Anxi Corps?" Qu Chengxing had met Pang Lingming when he was in Persia before, and he knew some of the deeds of the number one general of the Anxi Corps, but at this time, he had no intention of breaking Pang Lingming's careful thinking, but carefully studied his opponent's methods. With the current strength of the Tiance Army in Egypt, it is possible to physically support the engineering team to dig the canal, but it is not enough to rely on the threat of force, and it is also necessary to convey the will of the Tang Dynasty to Daqin and Dashi in a timely manner. Fortunately, the Great Food Empire was doing well, the actions of the Tiance Army were actually indirectly helping them fight against Great Qin, which in turn was not so reluctant for Great Qin. Especially at present, Daqin is determined to win Egypt, which is the most important breakthrough point of their central breakthrough strategy, and they will never give in on this issue.

After thinking for a long time, Qu Chengxing asked people to immediately notify the personnel of the Foreign Affairs Department in Baghdad, who on the one hand contacted the Great Eclipse side, and on the other hand, asked the secret guard to notify the Byzantine side to negotiate urgently with the Great Qin Empire.

However, after Qu Chengxing notified the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Wu Sansheng also quickly arrived in Suez City, the deepest part of the Red Sea, from Wolong Port to see Lin Yuantu, which was different from what he expected, Lin Yuantu and Xu Anmo agreed directly when they heard that the army was preparing to arm support and escort the engineering team to continue digging the canal. And on that day, that is, on the 15th day of December in the 12th year of the Apocalypse, the fleet was mobilized into the canal and a large number of people and materials were loaded onto the ship to transport north. And one of the two Marines who were on escort duty in Suez City also accompanied them north. In this way, the troops in the hands of Li Shaozhou and Pang Lingming became 20,000 men and two battalions. Large-scale canal digging was followed by an increase in troops, which was quickly resumed in the following days.

The Tang Dynasty's continued excavation of the canal, despite the imminent war in the north, was also known by the Great Qin and the Great Food in the following days. Especially in the ensuing escort of more than 20,000 Tiance Army troops, which also made the Great Food reinforcements who came from afar ecstatic, thinking that these troops would definitely fight with them against the Great Qin army, and even sent people to contact. It's just that what the big cannibals didn't expect was that Li Shaozhou, who was in charge of receiving them, said that the Tang army in Egypt was only guarding the canal and not participating in the war between the two countries. In other words, as long as the war between the two countries does not affect the continued construction of the Phoenician Canal, the Tang Dynasty will remain neutral in Egypt.

This statement surprised the Great Qin people, but before they could react, Da Shi also received the latest instructions from Baghdad, and although the envoys sent to contact him were disappointed, Baghdad got another guarantee from Datang, that is to say, Da Shi in the area controlled by Datang can transport soldiers and materials. In this way, a large number of reinforcements from the Great Food Empire in the direction of Tianfang City have received the latest support routes, and they will take ships from Tianfang City directly through the newly built canal to reach the front line from the direction of the Great Bitter Lake. This is a rare opportunity for the Great Food Empire, which urgently needs to open a front from other directions at this time. Therefore, the generals of the Great Food Army at the front quickly understood Baghdad's intentions and began to seriously prepare for the upcoming big battle. They originally went north to Jerusalem to exterminate the Crusaders, but halfway through the march they found that Phoenicia had been taken by the stormy blows of Eridoan, and even the entire province of Egypt began to be stormy, so they hurriedly returned to Egypt in a hurry, preparing to drive the Great Qin people out of the land.

However, the current task is too difficult for the reinforcement corps of only more than 50,000 people, especially when Elidogan is constantly taking advantage of the superior navy to transport more troops from the rear to Egypt, and even if a bad one, the 50,000 people who rushed back to help may be surrounded and annihilated by the other side. However, after receiving instructions from Baghdad, the Reinforcement Corps immediately began to move to the defense on the spot, attracting the attention of the Great Qin army and keeping Elidogan's eyes blind to the threat from the south. In fact, since Li Shaozhou's remarks were known to the warring parties before, Elidoan no longer paid much attention to the affairs of the Tiance Army. After all, after not being the opponent's opponent in terms of force, and the Tang army only followed the engineering team and did not go north to participate in the battlefield competition, Eridoan began to plan to take down the Great Food reinforcements entrenched on the east bank of the Nile estuary immediately before the arrival of the new reinforcements of the Great Eclipse. As a result, the situation on both sides began to change dramatically, and the atmosphere became more tense day by day.

"General Pang, this is a report from the Great Food, they have nearly 50,000 people who need to go ashore from our temporary dock in Dakuhu." Li Shaozhou handed the notification he received in his hand to Pang Lingming and said, "We also need to make some cover at the right time, so as not to be discovered by the Great Qin people in the north." ”

"What's so difficult about this, we still have at least 60,000 or 70,000 people on the north shore of the Great Bitter Lake, and it is not a problem to cover their tens of thousands of people, but what we have to make clear to them is that they can't go straight north after they go ashore, and they can make a detour from the east." Pang Lingming said: "At present, our northern front is being spies by Great Qin almost every day, and once the matter of their landing is known to Great Qin, it will inevitably make us fall into passivity." ”

"That's no problem, they'll do everything we can when they get ashore. At this point, the people of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have already negotiated with their top brass in Baghdad. When the time comes, I will also take all the officers and men of the Marine Corps to supervise by force. Li Shaozhou's words made Pang Lingming feel relieved, for this thoughtful Marine colleagues, Pang Lingming felt that the more he was everywhere, the more he felt that the other party was rare.

Pang Lingming glanced at the other party and said, "I'm afraid that before they come, the north will already be at war." Eridoan's opponent is not a mediocre person, even if he can't see that the Great Eclipse army will land from the south under our control, but he can still see the fact that the Great Eclipse army is encircling and suppressing the Great Eclipse southward army less than a hundred miles east of Phoenicia before the arrival of the Great Eclipse reinforcements. And don't you think that the camp of the Great Eclipse Army is too close to the coast? Once it is surrounded by the Great Qin Army from the land and then compressed in the direction of the sea, under the continuous artillery bombardment of the navy, I am afraid that it will suffer heavy losses. ”

"That can't be helped, Elidogan controls most of the drinking points near Phoenicia in Egypt, and this is the only place that has enough fresh water to supply the army." Li Shaozhou smiled bitterly: "In other words, we can't hoard the army in other directions, I don't think it's a deliberate attempt by Eridogan." ”

"You tell the guards to hurry up and keep an eye on it, I feel like Elidogan should be attacking in the next two days." When Pang Lingming said this again, Eridogan, who was far away in Phoenicia, was also thinking about the same question. Unlike the Tiance Army, which was still speculating, Elidogan had already begun to give direct orders, and the Great Qin Army began to set out from Phoenicia and head east that night.

Because the distance between the two sides was too close, the Great Qin army soon learned about it after the Great Qin army was dispatched, so the two sides began to fight halfway through. Although it was a hasty attack, both sides did have their own preparations, and the army on Daqin's side still relied on the ironclad corps to block the cavalry assault of the big cannibal and block the other party back. Because it was night, in addition to being able to distinguish clearly at the beginning, the two sides were in a scuffle, and it was dark that they hastily withdrew their troops at dawn the next day.

However, after the two sides fought all night, they did not achieve any results, the Great Food Army had not yet broken out of the encirclement of Great Qin, and the Great Qin army had not achieved the goal of encircling the other party. So Eridoan led the main force of the Phoenician defenders eastward the next day, and the two sides fought again at the gates of the Great Food Barracks. Eridoan mobilized nearly fifty artillery pieces to participate in the battle, and the rumbling artillery fire forced the Great Eclipse army to not be able to move forward, and at the critical moment, the Great Qin Navy warships on the sea behind him also began to appear and participate in the battle. After taking Phoenicia, Elidogan's artillery not only had a steady stream of weapons from the rear, but also captured a large number of weapons from the Phoenicia. At present, only Datang is the only one that can produce guns, ammunition and artillery, so both Daqin and Dashi are actually universal in the face of firepower weapons. After the firepower was rich, Elidogan was also not stingy with firepower output, and after the artillery continued to bombard all morning, Daqin finally blasted the main formation of the Great Food Army, forcing the Great Food Army to dispatch its own cavalry units in advance, so that in the face of Great Qin's strong firepower output, the tactics of the Great Food Cavalry had won many battles before, and the powerful firepower coupled with the desperate blocking of the heavy armor corps made the Great Food Eaters suffer from the enemy on their backs and could not concentrate on fighting at all. Therefore, after the two sides fought for a whole day, the Great Food Army had no choice but to retreat as soon as possible. Because the Great Food Army, whether it is infantry or cavalry, is basically lightly armed, if it retreats, the short-legged troops of Daqin will not be able to catch up at all, so they can only helplessly return after chasing for dozens of miles. Although he didn't do his best, Elidoan successfully achieved his goal, gnawing on the hard bone before the Great Food reinforcements arrived. In this way, the trouble of the heart is also avoided. And the most important point is that the more Eridogan stirs up in Egypt, the more it will affect the overall situation of the two countries. After Egypt was occupied by itself, the Great Food Expeditionary Corps in the Iberian Peninsula completely lost contact with its headquarters, so that although the Great Food Expeditionary Corps was strong, it became a complete lone army. The Great Qin side can calmly mobilize troops to strangle the strength of the expeditionary corps little by little. As long as the flank attack of this expeditionary legion is lost, the Great Cannibal will completely lose the strength to compete with the other party.

And the victory of the current big battle has undoubtedly brought this goal one step closer to reality, and this big war has undoubtedly made the situation of the great cannibals more severe. Therefore, at this time, Baghdad could no longer care about holding accountable for the failure, so he hurriedly let the defeated army repair in place and wait for reinforcements from Tianfang City to arrive.

The facts were similar to what Pang Lingming and others expected, and the reinforcements of Tianfang City arrived on the north shore of the Great Bitter Lake on the 20th day of December in the 12th year of the Apocalypse, and then landed in batches under the leadership of Li Shaozhou, and then advanced along the northeast direction of the Great Bitter Lake. These more than 50,000 people suddenly appeared on the battlefield, to the surprise of Elidogan, who originally thought that the Great Cannibals would draw troops from the front line in Central Asia to the south, so after defeating the reinforcements, he really set all his eyes on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean. Therefore, when the reinforcements of Celestial City suddenly appeared on the battlefield, he directly caught Elidoan by surprise, if it wasn't for the fact that he left enough troops in Phoenicia Harbor, I am afraid that this ancient city would have changed hands again.

However, Eridoan quickly stabilized his position and led his army back to recapture, and a great battle began outside Phoenicia. This time, the Great Cannibal began to launch a new tactic that had never been used before, and in the fierce battle, hundreds of soldiers launched a decisive attack with explosives packs, directly blasting the encirclement of Eridoan with flesh and blood, disrupting his deployment, and even almost turning defeat into victory in the middle of the battle.

After a day of fierce fighting, the battle was suspended, but the previously routed army on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean began to regroup to support, and the Celestial Legions, which had been replenished by the troops, were very fearless in their weapons, and even the guards who came up close to observe them were terrified. As soon as the battle entered a state of scorching, these warriors dressed in the costumes of the Celestial Sect immediately used the tactic of killing and killed their opponents.

"If we continue to fight like this, I'm afraid that Phoenicia City will really be recaptured by the Great Cannibals." Li Shaozhou's words made Pang Lingming smile, but he shook his head and said: "It's hard to say, it mainly depends on how Elidoan plans to break this tactic next?" Pang Lingming's words made Li Shaozhou nod thoughtfully, looked at the engineering team coming and going outside the window, and his face showed a trace of worry.