Chapter 626: The Final Battle (Part I)

"General, this is the latest information from the Great Tang Dynasty, according to what they learned during the negotiations with the Great Qin Mission, the Great Qin intends to send heavy troops to recapture Byzantium in the near future." Amdullah, who had already taken the entire Thracian region, received the latest information from the rear on an urgent basis.

"Why didn't Your Excellency Ayebi negotiate with Datang? Their release of Great Qin prisoners of war will affect the current difficulty of our battle against Byzantium. Ulam, who was next to Amdullah, asked with some resentment: "Your Excellency, the Great Food Empire, my Great Food Empire has paid a whole piece of fertile land, can't the Tang Empire, as our upper kingdom, withstand the pressure of Great Qin for us?" "He has been in high spirits recently, after taking Byzantium, he swept the entire Thracian region non-stop, and his record is second to none among the main generals of the Great Food Empire, and the continuous war has brought him great achievements, and naturally he is full of enthusiasm when he speaks, and it can be seen that he has a lot of opinions about the Tang Dynasty's practice of releasing Great Qin prisoners of war.

"General Ulam, you must know how to be in awe when you speak to the Tang Dynasty, that is not a country that we can provoke. Your Excellency Ayebi is the person who knows Datang best, and since he didn't mention it to Datang, it means that we don't have the power to influence Datang's national policy. Amdullah glanced at the emerging general and shook his head, "What's more, Datang has done his best to be benevolent to us, otherwise this information would not have been sent to us." This is the end of this matter, we are now going to discuss how to deal with the next offensive of Great Qin, I have a hunch, this should be the last large-scale dispatch of troops by Great Qin, if we can thwart them, then Thrace and even the entire Balkan region will become the territory of the empire forever. If not, then our Great Food Empire may be completely destroyed, not only will it lose the last force in our hands, but more seriously, the empire will also face the inability to resist the counterattack of Great Qin, and thus be completely defeated by the other party. "There is one thing that Amdullah did not say, that is, once defeated, I am afraid that even if Great Qin does not counterattack, the empire will be torn apart, and the Abbasids will completely lose the power to suppress other tribes within the empire, and those tribes they conquered in the past will definitely break away from the rule of the empire. The difference with a famous battlefield general like Eridogan is that Amdullah thinks more about the problem from a political perspective, which also leads to the fact that he is always inferior to Eridogan when fighting on the battlefield, but he is not inferior to the other party outside the battlefield.

"Since Daqin feels that he can't fight enough, then let's fight them again, although there are some difficulties within my Great Food Empire, the heroic imperial warriors will completely defeat this group of damned heretics on the battlefield." Ullam's words made everyone present nod. During this time, they had hardly encountered any opponents, and the most elite legions of the Great Qin Empire had been completely defeated by themselves, even if the Tang Dynasty returned all the original prisoners of war to the other party, what would it do? Could it be that it can be stronger than the previous elite troops? On the other hand, during this period of taking Thrace, a large number of seizures allowed the current military to have a large amount of supplies, even if it did not send supplies from the rear of the empire, the forward army led by Amdullah was able to fight independently. You must know that when Dorder was defeated, he lost almost all his weapons and baggage, and the huge capture even made Amdullah directly expand the original three musket teams to four, nearly a hundred artillery pieces and a large amount of elixir and food made generals like Ulam more confident, and this kind of crowd situation also made Amdullah unable to refuse, What's more, Ayebi sent this information from the rear, but did not bring the Abbasid order to withdraw the troops, which shows that the chief official in the rear is also secretly supporting this wave of counterattack to completely defeat the Great Qin Empire. In fact, Amdullah also felt that if he couldn't defeat this attack of the Great Qin Empire, even if he retreated across the strait and held on, it would not be a long-term solution. His old adversary, Elidogan, had enough means to charge, using the naval power in his hands that he had absolute superiority, to force himself to the point of no way out.

"Since everyone agrees to completely defeat Great Qin, then I order, and all armies immediately prepare to fight." As soon as Amdullah gave the order, his personal guards broke in again, and walked up to Amdullah in spite of his faux pas, and said anxiously: "Your Excellency, our back has been re-blocked by the Great Qin Navy, and their warships have sunk all the rafts on which we transported supplies. ”

"Looks like Eridoan is moving so fast." Amdullah sighed and then said with a solemn face: "Immediately find a way to notify the logistics army on the other side of the strait not to send supplies across the strait for the time being." ”

"As you've all seen, Eledoan is more difficult to deal with than the Dodel we've faced before, so I won't allow any mistakes this time, this is a big battle for the survival of the Empire. So everyone has to give it their all. Go and tell the Pope and Elder to pray to the true God that we can defeat the Great Qin army, maintain the empire and occupy the Balkans, and let the light of the true God shine on Thrace. ”

When Amdullah was carrying out the final mobilization on the front line, Wan Yi, who was far away in West Pole City, also received information from the front line, and Hammud's side sent the news to Wan Yi after joining forces with Wujie.

"Chief of Staff, you go and inform the logistics department and the deputy prime minister to speed up the delivery of the latest batch of weapons and ammunition to Daqin. Since they are going to fight hard, how can they do it without weapons. Wan Yi's calm words made Liu Xuan nod, and began to use the Western Expeditionary Army's own logistics and transportation forces to help with transportation, to send this batch of weapons to the battlefield before the two sides went to war, otherwise, if they fought in advance, wouldn't they not plan thoroughly? You must know that at present, after Daqin lost the expeditionary legion, the army has fallen into an absolute disadvantage, which is not something that Elidoan can solve in a short period of time with all his might. Although the Russians in Kiev have sent their last royal city guards south to participate in the battle, Wan Yi is still not optimistic.

And this is also a headache for Eridogan, the main general who is also on the other side of the war. After the defeat of Dodel, Eridogan finally took command of the army and took all the army and navy of the Great Qin Empire under his own control. This feeling of being in power did not satisfy him, but secretly worried, Datang's prisoners of war have been continuously delivered, but the 40,000 people handed over in the early stage need time to be rearmed, and in the scorching heat of Egypt, these soldiers' bodies have also been greatly damaged, even if Datang guarantees that their lives are safe, but it does not mean that they can return to the battlefield in the short term. Moreover, compared with the issue of soldiers, the biggest problem lies in weapons and equipment. After all, after gathering the remnants of the defeated generals from all walks of life, regrouping and transferring the last batch of recruits, Elidogan has gathered 100,000 troops, plus the 40,000 troops sent by the Russians in Kyiv, a total of 140,000 troops will not be much worse than Amdullah. But when Dodel was defeated, there was no time to bring out the weapons and baggage that had been stored in the Balkans and Byzantium. And because Byzantium has always been the main battlefield in front before, almost all the weapons reserves of the Great Qin Empire over the past hundred years have been reserved. After this defeat, almost all of them were given to the other party. Therefore, the current army of the Great Qin Empire can't even get together weapons, not only the new weapons purchased from the Tang Dynasty, but also the large number of cold weapons in the country. As a last resort, Elidogan even used violence to directly collect all the weapons hidden by all the nobles and wealthy families in the Apennine Peninsula for emergency. While such an approach would seriously increase the resentment of the wealthy families who were already dissatisfied with the Empire's ability to cope with large-scale wars and increase taxes and soldiers, Eridoan could no longer care about it.

However, although Elidoan did not have a good solution in the army for the time being, he used his own navy to deal a heavy blow to Amdullah in advance. The naval fleet, led by Joseph and Luther, sealed off the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus, respectively, and directly sank the transport rafts and ships of the Great Food Logistics Fleet, which were transporting supplies, by surprise. After the victory in the first battle, Joseph and Luther agreed to take charge of a strait, and then use the Sea of Marmara as a meeting point, cruising day and night, and directly using artillery to fight back against all the big cannibals who dared to smuggle supplies. This method of Josel, who attracted the previous experience, was indeed very good, and in a short period of time, he directly cut off all communication between Amdullah and the rear. Moreover, the secret smuggling point in the Black Sea was also discovered by Josel, and then directly flattened with shells. As a result, even the messengers sent by Amdullah to summon them were killed.

However, although Amdullah was completely in a situation of no way back, he did not panic too much with sufficient captures in his hands, but instead made a large-scale attack when Elidogan could not mobilize the army to counterattack in a short time, crossed the Balkan Mountains and entered the central region of the peninsula to continue to attack the foundation of Great Qin's rule in the Balkan Peninsula, and to increase the army's long-lasting combat capability by fighting war.

At the beginning, when Elidoan did not rush to the front line, this trick did play a huge role, not only every time he sent troops, but also the Pope Elders of the Celestial Sect who accompanied the army even began to establish the foundation of the Celestial Sect in various places, although the missionary faced difficulties in wartime, but it had a huge effect on the army's stability of the place.

However, Amdullah was not happy for long, and the situation was gradually contained after Eridoan arrived in Belgrade and other places in early June of the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse. Knowing that his troops were inferior to the other party, Elidogan adopted the method of resisting and consuming the opponent's troops layer by layer, and used a small number of troops to firmly contain Ulam and other leading generals in various places, and unlike the previous tactics adopted by Dodel to fight for every inch of land, Eridogan directly exchanged space for time, and deliberately gave up a large number of unsafe territories to dilute Amdullah's troops, In a short period of time, the Great Eclipse army led by Amdullah occupied almost all of the Balkan Peninsula, but also diluted its 200,000 troops on this land.

And in mid-June, when Amdullah tried to adjust the deployment and shrink the forces to hold the fortresses and communication arteries after Amdullah's reaction, the latest batch of weapons from Datang that was sent to the border after expedited transportation was also received by Elidogan. At this moment, Elidoan even felt grateful to the Tang Empire, and when he was most helpless, the other party sent the most timely weapons and equipment, although this was ordered by his Great Qin Empire a long time ago, but the other party was able to send it in time It still shows that the other party has moved his mind. Although from Eridoan's point of view, the other party may not be motivated by good intentions, but he has solved his own real problems. With a crucial new weapon, Elidoan's confidence suddenly increased a lot. And according to Datang's behavior, I am afraid that my own batch of weapons cannibals will not know, so I can completely catch the other party off guard.

In order to increase the suddenness of his actions, Elidogan transferred the 40,000 prisoners of war who had been recuperating for nearly a month directly from the rear to form a separate corps, and instead of equipping them with heavy heavy armor, they all used muskets to form a complete musket team. The only formed musket corps currently in his hands was pinned on by Elidogan with great hope that it would be ready to go into battle at a critical moment in the war. With the addition of the elite 40,000 troops of the Slavic Corps, Elidogan, with the cooperation of other troops, began to raise funds in various ways for the final movement. This time, with the navy blocking Amdullah's back road, Elidogan planned to completely wipe out Amdullah and not give the other party a chance to live.

Eridogan and Amdullah, both old rivals from admirals to army commands, are destined to win or lose in the Balkans. However, at this time, Gauss, who was far away in Egypt, asked Zhang Sheng to divide the Anxi Corps into several ways to sweep all parts of Egypt, and wiped out all the forces that were originally entrenched in various places to resist the entry of the Tang Dynasty. Moreover, after Pang Lingming and Li Shaozhou led their troops along the Nile River to the south and swept most of the entire Nile River basin, this large river about thousands of miles long gave everyone great interest, and even Li Chengyu, who took him to investigate, even paid attention to the interest of this river whose length was not inferior to that of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River in the Central Plains, and put forward the idea of blocking the river in the middle reaches of the river to build a dammed lake and then increase the water source in the middle reaches.

Gauss did not participate in these civil affairs, and after the battle of suppressing bandits that lasted for more than half a month in the Anxi Corps, the advance headquarters of the Western Expeditionary Army began to carry out a plan to dismember the Taixi Continent in advance with the Xuanying Wei Taixi Branch led by Qin Kong.