Chapter 620: The Battle of Byzantium
"Commander Qiqi, the big army outside has been figured out, they are the Ulam Legion smuggled from the Dardanelles, about 100,000 people, three musket corps and three cavalry corps plus two artillery brigades." On the outskirts of Byzantium, Qin Kong received information urgently sent by the secret guards.
"It seems that it will be up to who can turn the tables in the next few days, pass the order, all the secret guards will temporarily withdraw from Byzantium, Ah Liu, you will take people to Northern Thrace, and the others will go to other regions according to the original plan to standby. Ah Gui, your team is responsible for staying in the local area, remember to pay attention to safety, and if necessary, you can abandon Byzantium and join Ah Liu. Qin Kong nodded and suddenly smiled: "No matter who wins or loses in this battle, Taixi will not be dominated by these two big powers." ”
After Qin Kong arranged for the evacuation of all personnel, he also began to summon all branches in other regions to immediately start the plan for the deployment of the Xuanying Guard, which also means that in the vast land of Taixi, the plan of the Xuanying Guard's layout for nearly three years has finally reached the harvest period. But for the separated people at this time, especially Agui and others, who were in charge of staying behind, how to survive in this chaotic battlefield was a huge problem. Therefore, even an intelligence leader like Qin Kong, who has been on the front line all the year round, is a rare surprise to show a hidden worry.
"Rest assured, the commander has his own way to deal with small things." Ah Gui and several other deputies are a new generation of Xuanyingwei intelligence rookies who have gradually grown up over the years, although it is dangerous in the Taixi battlefield, but it is a good opportunity for their younger generation to make contributions, so whether it is Ah Gui or the other personnel in charge of staying behind, they don't care. After all, the Ulam army outside the city has begun to continue the shelling and blasting, although the Byzantine city wall is strong, but Ulam is determined to use violence to blast open the city gate, so almost at all costs to cover the blasters to approach the blasting, and in the continuous experiment, he accidentally obtained a similar experience of overlapping blasting, so Qin Kong has already foreseen the destruction of the Byzantine city. However, not long after he left, Ulam had already decided to use the method of night battle to launch a non-stop assault on the city, and without counting the casualties of the blasters, the Byzantine city walls finally blew up the buildings near the city gate on the night of April 15, the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse, and all the bunkers were razed to the ground after the explosion of almost endless explosive packets at close range. The three musketeers who had been on standby for a long time began to rush into the city frantically, and began the stage of tragic and cruel street fighting.
Ulam, who had managed to break through the limits of the city walls, even once forced the cavalry corps to enter the city to participate in the battle, and also dragged the artillery brigade into the city to launch an artillery bombardment at close range.
Ulam's street battle against the Great Qin Army with inferior crowds in Byzantine City also made Amdullah see the opportunity, and after secretly sending people to the other side, the previous 20,000 people were quickly brought under Ulam's command, thus basically making up for the losses of the previous war. Although the ammunition reserves of Ulam's artillery are close to the limit, the street battles that have begun to fight have gradually caused the artillery to lose their dominance, and only when they encounter a difficult bunker will they call for artillery to come to attack. Therefore, Ulam was overjoyed to receive military support, but in the follow-up battle, the 20,000 people played an extremely crucial role.
After mobilizing troops on the other side of the strait to rush to the aid of Ulam, Amdullah also began to think about how to break through the blockade of the strait in Eridoan and transport his own large forces over. Amdullah knew that although Ulam was now suppressing the Great Qin in Byzantium, Amdullah felt that once the other party reacted or if a general like Alidoan could play a dominant role, Ulam would definitely be squeezed out little by little by the other party's superior forces. Therefore, the main forces in their hands must cross the strait as soon as possible, and only in this way can the strategic position of the two countries be reversed.
But in the face of the Great Qin naval fleet, which had been strengthened inside the Bosphorus, Amdullah's brows began to wrinkle, and Amdullah had never felt that the navy could play such a big role in a country's foreign wars. However, it is precisely because of the smuggling of Ulam from the Dardanelles Strait before, so Elydogan has strengthened the patrol of almost the entire sea area, and all the fleets have been dispatched, day and night, so it seems that the precautions have been greatly strengthened before, but because the patrol distance has become several times longer, the density of patrols has been relaxed. Moreover, Eridogan should not be able to figure out the specific situation on the Byzantine side now, so as long as his attention is not all focused on the blockade of the strait, then he has a chance. So Amdullah thought about it all night and came up with a solution.
On the second day, Amdullah convened a secret meeting of all the high-ranking generals, and divided the nearly 200,000 troops under his command into four teams, two of which secretly marched to the vicinity of the Dardanelles, and the other two continued to disguise themselves as the main force in the Bosphorus to attract Elidogan's attention. All the troops secretly crossed the strait in batches and transported their troops to the other side of the strait little by little. In order to prevent small groups of troops from not knowing how to act after they came ashore, Amdullah strictly ordered all the generals to give instructions to the grassroots combat units, and all the soldiers who went ashore should not wait for the follow-up troops, and immediately go at full speed to find Ulam after going ashore, and automatically belong to the command of Ullam. So almost as soon as the meeting was over, Amdullah sent someone to sneak into the Byzantine side from the Black Sea side that night to inform Ulam.
Amdullah's method can indeed play a major role, and Eridogan has no time to take care of Amdullah's Great Food Army Headquarters who are still facing each other on the shore, because if Byzantium is broken and the army is defeated, it will be meaningless to hold this strait by itself, and even if Byzantium is taken by the other side, he will be completely blocked in this narrow strait by the other party using the method of encirclement at both ends, after all, whether it is the Dardanelles Strait or the Bosphorus, it is not very wide.
"Josel, Luther is not here, all the naval warships will be handed over to your commander, remember to hold these two straits and do not let Amdullah pass." After handing over the fleet to his subordinate Commander Josel, he secretly went ashore with his guards and entered the area controlled by the Great Qin Army in Byzantium City, preparing to give advice to the army. Anyway, in Allydogan's opinion, his own army generals are no longer saved, and although Eridogan has no way of knowing the exact situation of the current battle situation, how many people can Ulam bring over by relying on smuggling? Moreover, the cover fire was also sunk by its own fleet with dozens of guns. As a result, he found that his army of more than 200,000 people was actually beaten back by such a small number of troops from the other side, and the strong royal capital was blown apart by the other party. He has been thrilling several times along the way, and the fierce attack momentum of the Great Food Soldier even makes him a famous general in a hundred battles.
It is impossible for Ullam, who is in the front line to command, know about Elidoan's secret entry into Byzantium, even if he knows it, he has no interest in intercepting at all, and the further he fights in this street battle, the greater the pressure he will face, after all, the other party has more than twice as many troops as himself, and in the case of the territory under his control is getting smaller and smaller, the number of Great Qin troops that the Great Food Army needs to face every step forward will be, and the situation faced by the Great Food is the opposite, the more the area in the city is controlled by his own side, The more his own forces are diluted with less troops than the other side, and his offensive momentum will inevitably weaken as a result. Although all the soldiers of the Great Eclipse were ready to die on the battlefield, the Celestial Sect members who accompanied the army even prayed during wartime to encourage the soldiers to move forward bravely. But the pressure of this reality still made Ulam frown, and he would look back from time to time, if Amdullah's army could come up at this time, then he would definitely be able to wave his army and directly drive out the Great Qin army.
"General Qiyu, General Amdullah urgently." Ullam did not wait for reinforcements from Amdullah, but he did wait for the heralds he had sent. And when he received the military order written in secret language, his face also changed greatly, but after a while, he nodded again and again.
After sending the herald back, Ulam thought about it and started his own actions, but what stunned Daqin's side was that after Ullam's order was transmitted to the front line, the attack momentum of the Great Cannibal was weakening intentionally or unintentionally, and even the frequency of night battles that had been continuously arranged at night was gradually decreasing. And in the following days, Ulam's army began to be gradually driven out of various areas by the counterattacking Great Qin army.
However, Ulam was not in a hurry at all, but just asked his generals to strictly guard the basic roads and strong strongholds in the city to ensure that his road to the front line was unblocked. The front-line soldiers' calls for a counterattack were directly refuted, and the departments were strictly forbidden to attack without their own orders. The timing and intensity of the daily counteroffensive had to be agreed upon by the command. At the same time, in order to prevent his arrangements from being seen by the other side, Ulam personally inspected various places, arranged for various units to carry out tactical feints, made a posture that he had to retreat because of the lack of troops, and strictly ordered his artillery units to put away all the remaining shells, and not to fire without orders.
This series of camouflage by Ulam successfully concealed the already tactical rigidity of the Great Qin Army, and the most fatal thing was that the Great Qin Navy cruising in the strait was not there, and the smuggling arranged by Amdullah was not discovered at all. From the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, such a long and narrow waterway had to patrol day and night, and Josel couldn't take care of it at all, and was soon detected by the big food army that came close to investigate, and the two big food armies that were separated used to smuggle in batches, and sent the troops in their hands to the opposite shore little by little with a scale of dozens or hundreds of people at a time. Especially at night, after figuring out the cruising rules of the Great Qin fleet, night has almost become the best time for the Great Eclipse Army to smuggle in, and thousands of people are sent to the opposite shore almost every night. As a result, by the end of April of the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse, Ulam actually welcomed nearly 40,000 reinforcements, and a batch of supplies was also smuggled over.
"Is the general's side still confusing the Great Qin Navy?" After Ulam was sure that Amdullah was still confusing the Great Qin Navy on the other side of the strait, 40,000 reinforcements were enough for him to launch a wave of surprise attacks, and if the operation was done well, it might even directly change the tide of the war. Therefore, Ulam did not rush to put reinforcements into the battlefield, but let them secretly enter the city to hide, and he began to formulate his own surprise attack plan in the direction of the current counterattack of the Great Qin army. After fighting for so long, although his side has been touched by the other party, he knows almost the same amount of troops in the other party's current position. Therefore, Ulam's plan is to use the troops that he has now put into the front line of the battle to drag down the main force of Great Qin, use the 40,000 reinforcements alone, and directly attack the base camp where the Great Qin army is currently located - the former location of the Great Qin Palace. As long as the huge raid force of 40,000 people is well managed, Ulam is confident that he will be able to take the palace.
Ulam was enthusiastic to implement his plan little by little, including how 40,000 people would secretly arrive at the front line, all the routes were planned, and the artillery he hid and a batch of shells that arrived with the army were all given to them, with only one purpose, to completely defeat the opposite Great Qin Army in a short period of time, and then fight a bloody road straight to the location of the palace.
When Ulam was implementing the plan, Daqin's side actually Eridogan had also been observing the current changes in the situation of Great Eclipse, after all, he had seen the sharp offensive of Ulam before, but now it was on the defensive. Ostensibly, this is due to the lack of troops of the opponent, and the opponent shrinks his forces to avoid being defeated by his own side. But in Elidoan's mind, the Great Cannibal had at least one battle left, but the other side was clearly accumulating strength and waiting for something.
What are the big cannibals waiting for? You must know that at present, for the Great Eclipse, time is really about the fate of the past, the Iberian Peninsula on the Western Front has basically been pacified, and once the territory of Africa is captured by its own side, the Great Cannibal is bound to fall into the embarrassing situation of fighting on the eastern and western fronts. Eridogan didn't believe that the higher-ups couldn't see the danger. For the Great Cannibals, there was only one way to take Byzantium, annihilate the 200,000 troops of Great Qin here, put down the danger on the Eastern Front, and then send the main force to block their own army in the desert wasteland of Africa, which was the best way. So a day earlier for the Great Cannibal could turn the tide of battle.
"You don't have any intention of attacking the palace directly, do you?" Eridoan suddenly felt himself in a trance as he muttered to himself, but this thought made him unable to sit still any longer, and hurriedly got up to go to the army commander, intending to tell him his conjecture and take precautions. (https:)
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