"Haha, Chief, you're here so soon? I thought it would be a while. Pang Lingming received Zhang Sheng and his party on the shore of Lake Timsach with the top of the Anxi Corps. As a result, Egypt also ushered in a complete field corps formation, and with the Marine Corps controlled by Li Shaozhou, the number of the Tiance Army skyrocketed to nearly 70,000, almost catching up with the total number of people dug in the canal controlled by Lin Yuantu.

"You kid has been fighting hard enough in Egypt these past few months." Pang Lingming was the earliest old man brought out by Zhang Sheng back then, so Zhang Sheng was also straightforward when he spoke, "But soon the deputy marshal and they will come, don't make trouble for me, don't be careful of being caught by the deputy marshal." ”

"How can I be, I haven't done anything." Pang Lingming said with a smile while walking forward with Zhang Sheng: "This hellish place is good for everything, but there is a shortage of water, if we don't take down this Lake Tim Sah now and occupy a few rivers next to it, I'm afraid that it will be really difficult for so many people to gather here." These lakes are saltwater lakes and cannot be drunk at all. Pang Lingming's complaint also made Zhang Sheng frown, looking at the boats in and out of the lake in the distance, salvaging the silt at the bottom of the lake, widening the channel, and nodded: "We should not have any combat missions before the deputy marshal comes, you go and arrange it, starting tomorrow, the soldiers on the front line will take turns to take off their uniforms and join the engineering team to help them build the canal as soon as possible." One more day of our army of tens of thousands of people will save one more day of consumption. ”

"Don't worry, I've already told Li Shaozhou from the Marine Corps that even if the General System and the brothers didn't come, we have already discussed it with Minister Lin, and arranged for the Marine Corps and our brothers from the Anxi Corps to take a five-day rotation to assist them in digging canals and rushing to transport supplies." The importance of the Phoenician Canal does not need to be said by everyone, so when Zhang Sheng just gave the order, Pang Lingming said the method he had discussed with Li Shaozhou before.

"Good job, the rear plus the follow-up men of the Marine Corps will gradually come over in the next few days, and you will be dispatched by you when the time comes, and I will devote all of them to the project of repairing the canal. Our Tiance Army has a tradition and responsibility to help the locality, and this should not be forgotten by the brothers. Zhang Sheng's arrival also greatly increased the number of engineering teams in Egypt. Since Gauss Ji had not yet arrived at the front line, in the absence of a major tactical task, Zhang Sheng only left the basic troops on duty, and the rest of the troops were based on two or three battalions and quickly threw themselves into the tide of digging canals. These soldiers are much more powerful than the people on the other side of Dashi, and they can dig out several miles of waterways in almost a day, and with the supporting siege of the city, they are basically advancing northward at a rate of more than one to two miles a day. Soon after the interior of Lake Tim Sah was forcibly deepened to a depth that required the canal project, the entire engineering team began to advance on a large scale, and actually entered the northern part of Egypt.

The Phoenician Canal was greatly accelerated after tens of thousands of troops participated in the excavation out of thin air, and when it was getting closer and closer to the important city of Baylah in central Egypt, the Byzantine front in the north, the army of the Great Food was ready for the last preparations under the management of Amdullah. More than 100,000 troops were mobilized, and the narrowest part of the Bosphorus outside the Byzantine walls was completely blocked by the last abundant mass raft from the Black Sea region, and countless soldiers who had been ready for a long time braved the fierce naval fire, although because Amdullah relied on the tactics of crowds, many soldiers were transported over at the expense of sacrifice. However, since Eridogan entered the city to meet with the army commander, the Byzantine Great Qin Army also concentrated a large number of troops outside the city to snipe these soldiers who were lucky enough to escape the naval fire and landed on the shore. The two sides fought for a whole day in landing operations and anti-landing operations around the strait. The Great Food Army had to deal with the artillery fire of the Great Qin Navy and the attack of the Great Qin Army on the shore, and the casualties were naturally very heavy. But this almost endless fighting still caused the Great Food Army to send more than 10,000 people ashore for an unprecedented time, although most of them were scattered. But Amdullah had anticipated this in advance, so almost every soldier knew where to go to regroup if they were scattered, and these soldiers would quickly join up with those who had landed earlier, and then carry out harassment missions to cover the smuggling operation on the Ulam side.

While Amdullah's side was painstakingly executing tactical feints, even at great sacrifices, the Ullam side was already ready, and even in order to cover his tracks, all the rafts and ships that were ready for landing operations were not hidden in the harbors of the Dardanelles, and these days even Ulam did not let these things appear in the sight of passing ships. So after the preparations were made, on the last day of the third month of the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse, in the dark strait, countless rafts quickly began to be driven out of various garrison locations under the operation of the soldiers, and then a bridge was built out of thin air on the strait, and countless soldiers advanced rapidly under the light of a few torches, and gradually this black silent army gradually crossed the middle line of the Dardanelles Strait and began to move towards the territory of Daqin on the other side of the strait. Ullam led the way with his own guards to play the striker. Although there were soldiers and horses who fell into the water due to unsteady footsteps, the sea at the end of March was bitterly cold, and these people were soaked in the icy sea water and sank quickly. But there was no mercy in Ulam's eyes, it was not that he was ruthless, but that at this moment, the entire Great Food Empire was looking forward to him, and the final fate of hundreds of thousands of soldiers relied on his own blow to achieve a reversal. So even if he fell into the water, Ulam would not ask the people around him to rescue him. This silent army of the Great Food was hastily taken away by Ulam after the main force came ashore, and the subsequent artillery brigade could not use this method to smuggle in, but needed to transport it one by one on rafts, which could not be completed in a moment. And the purpose of landing on his own shore is to take the Great Qin people by surprise, and only in this way can he play a covering role for Amdullah's frontal forces, forcing the Great Qin people to not be able to focus on them.

However, Ulam's idea at this time was not wrong, the whole night of smuggling made his three musket teams and three cavalry regiments all come over, nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses in hand, and Ulam was even able to directly lead the army to attack the Byzantine royal city under surprise, not to mention that he had already fought with the other party once two days ago, and even several naval warships were sunk. Therefore, except for a small number of troops who were left to find a place to hide and prepare for the follow-up artillery brigade, all the men and horses quickly headed towards the mountains west of Byzantium. As the Balkan Peninsula stretched here, there were two mountains that blocked the cold snap from the north, and gave Byzantium two natural passes. What Ullam needed to do now was to counterattack these two passes when Amdullah attracted the attention of the Great Qin army, and then completely block the Byzantine Great Qin army in this narrow coastal plain.

The cavalry led by Ulam had a strange speed, and had arrived in the Thrace region in the northeast on the second day, that is, on the first day of the fourth month, and cleared a series of strongholds stationed here, and in order not to give the Great Qin people time to react, after the cavalry cleared the plain obstacles, the musket team immediately set out, seized the key obstacles in the Balkan Mountains, and then formed a momentum of closing the door and fighting the dogs.

There was no time to react to the actions of the Ulam in some columns in Thrace, and in fact even the soldiers of the Great Cavalry Regiment were suppressed by these columns of intense fighting. In the first few days of April, they had almost no time to rest, and even ate in a hurry to gnaw dry food on horseback, or directly broke into the captured strongholds to rob the Great Qin soldiers of supplies. On the Ulam side, taking advantage of the fact that the Byzantine Great Qin Army did not react and advanced southwest from Northern Thrace to the southwest, preparing to sweep away the last stronghold and achieve encirclement, more than 20,000 soldiers of the Great Eclipse who had sporadically crossed the Bosphorus also began to carry out harassment tactics, attacking the Byzantine city day and night. I have to say that the overall quality of the soldiers of the Great Food Army is a cut higher than that of the Great Qin soldiers, at least in this kind of harassment tactics that most elaborate the combat quality of grassroots soldiers, the Great Food soldiers can even spontaneously figure out all kinds of tactics. However, the tactically rigid Great Qin Army is much worse than its own navy. At least under the command of Elidoan, whether the Great Qin Navy is carrying out attack tactics or interception tactics these days, no matter how Amdullah racks his brains, he has been blocked one by one, and counterattack strategies are endless, which is not at all comparable to this group of rigid army forces that know how to charge in groups. And under the uninterrupted execution of this harassment war, the huge number and powerful firepower of the Great Qin Army in the city could not be brought into play at all, and the tactics of these people gathering and scattering made them feel that they had hit the sea with a fist, and it had no effect at all.

When the Great Qin Army was scrambling to deal with the harassment of 20,000 cannibals in Byzantium, Elidoan frowned, dealing with these two people was not a big deal in his opinion, and he had a way. But it is impossible for Amdullah on the other side not to know that 20,000 people can play a very small role in front of hundreds of thousands of troops. But the other party took such pains to send these people over, wouldn't it just harass and harass themselves? There must be a bigger conspiracy in it. He didn't believe that Amdullah was just trying to vent his anger at being stuck here all these days.

"Has there been any unusual movement elsewhere in the last few days?" Elidogan prepares to send out a guerrilla fleet for a cruise, and the more Amdullah moves, the more uneasy he feels. This almost intuitive acumen gave Elidoan an an extra eye, and it was precisely because of this that he was able to hold back the last of Ullam's artillery groups at the last moment, so that only two of the original three artillery groups managed to cross the strait and land, and the last one was sunk by the patrol fleet led by Josel in the icy waters.

However, although Elidogan made Ulam lack of artillery power when he finally attacked Byzantium, he was unable to finally change the tide of the battle. After receiving the artillery brigade and learning that the last brigade was discovered by the Great Qin Navy when it crossed the sea, Ulam immediately concentrated all his forces and went straight to Byzantium, with the musket team and artillery accompanying the action, the left and right flanks of the cavalry corps were separated, and the huge military formation really showed its fangs for the first time after gathering. The rumbling sound of artillery and the sea of people in the army even made the Great Qin Army in the city think that the main force of Amdullah's Great Food Army had crossed the strait. So in the panic, Ullam was given the opportunity to get close to the city walls. Although Byzantium was the seat of the Great Qin Empire for hundreds of years, a variety of castles surrounded the city in the middle. The European-style city wall style and the fact that almost all of them are built with stone barriers, the incomparably strong defense and the more than 200,000 defenders have made the Great Qin army have been negligent in guarding, so Ulam even directly put artillery on the fortifications built by the Great Qin army outside the city at the beginning of the battle to bombard the city. The cavalry was caught off guard by the opponent and quickly swept away the scattered defensive forces around the perimeter, opening up a safe forward base for the musketeers and artillery.

Ulam's decisiveness prevented Josel from reporting that Elidoan had given the Great Qin army a chance to prepare, and also brought greater casualties to the Great Qin army. Two artillery brigades of sixty guns were constantly spewing shells into the city, most of which were blocked by the city walls, but the shells that fell over the walls and fell into various parts of the city made the city look even more chaotic.

"Gather the gates for me and blast them open." Ulam's eyes were red, he had no time to rest at all because he had been fighting these days, but with Byzantium in front of him, everyone, including him, was excited, as long as he defeated Byzantium, then the strategic disadvantage of the empire these days could be reversed in one fell swoop. Therefore, there was almost no need for Ulam to urge, and the morale of the 100,000-strong army was extremely high. Even many death squads had already organized themselves to prepare to carry out blasting tactics before the sound of the artillery stopped, using the explosives bags in their hands to blast open the city walls and enter the city to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Great Qin Army.

"Josel, take your guerrilla fleet and get me close to the camp that bombards Amdullah, don't care about casualties." When Elidogan received the news, Ulam was already attacking the Byzantine city. And the chaotic scene in the city and the sound of counterattack artillery that has not been heard for a long time also made Eridoan faintly feel bad in his heart, but the navy could not drive the battleship ashore, so even though Eridoan had secretly cursed in his heart that these army rice buckets would be sent to the gallows instead, he had to take a huge risk at this time to take the initiative to attack Amdullah with the warships under his command, and prevent the other party from taking advantage of the chaos in the Byzantine city to launch another battle across the sea.

"Haha, that boy from Ulam is really blessed by the true gods, and he has already begun to prepare. The order was given, and the whole army immediately prepared according to the original plan. This time I must press Byzantium completely. Amdullah laughed when he heard the sound of artillery coming from the other side, and all the generals around him cried with joy.