When Li Rujin received the news and rushed to the front-line headquarters from Xining, it was already more than eight o'clock in the night, the sky was already dark, and the battle on the front line was over. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

There are too many things to deal with, the entire defense area of the Dawen Empire has basically been defeated, and a large number of troops have retreated to the rear of the defense line without command, and at this time the defensive deployment of the entire northwest region has been basically disrupted, repeated orders, and contradictory orders are constantly issued.

For a while, the troops of the Dawen Empire were in chaos like a pot of porridge, and the support troops were ordered to stand by, to rush to the war zone at full speed, and to move closer to the nearby big cities.

The chaos lasted for about an hour, and the command of the Dawen Empire was able to sort out the clues and began to deal with various post-war matters in an orderly manner. The support troops approaching the theater rushed to the vicinity of the theater at full speed and gathered the remnants along the way, while the support troops on the road moved closer to the nearby large cities, relying on the buildings of the big cities and the local garrisons to form a defensive line to prevent the attack of the Europa Empire tank forces.

The remnants of the troops outside the theater of operations, close to each other, obeyed the command of officers of the highest rank, formed temporary units, and retreated to the rear of the empire, while the command also sent a large number of receiving troops to move closer to the vicinity of the theater of operations to rescue the remnants.

At this time, Li Rujin was in a small room with Marshal Yuwen, discussing what to do next in the Northwest Theater, whether the troops of the Europa Empire would attack again tomorrow, take advantage of the collapse of the entire Northwest Theater of the Dawen Empire, expand the results of the battle, and continue to attack the interior of the Dawen Empire?

In the face of the chaotic war situation, Li Rujin's suggestion was to comprehensively shrink the defense line, exchange the land for time, and in the face of the armored forces of the Europa Empire, if he wanted to fight face-to-face with positional warfare, the Dawen Empire was still in a situation of losing more and winning less, and even the probability of winning was less than 10%, and it had to pay a huge price.

The biggest advantage of the armored forces is to attack, especially in the geographical environment of the great northwest, whether it is the desert or the Gobi or the grassland, it is impossible to restrain the armored troops on the terrain, this is the natural battlefield of the armored forces, and it is basically not feasible to resist the armored forces with flesh and blood, and it is a stupid act of looking for death.

The armored forces are not without weaknesses, in the previous life, during World War II, why did Rommel the Desert Fox lose to Montgomery in the North African theater? It was not that Rommel was not smart and cunning enough, nor that the German army was not brave enough in battle, the defeat of the German army in the North African battlefield was entirely because the German army's supplies could not keep up, so Montgomery had the opportunity to defeat Rommel.

The German army is also an armored force, but it is an elite division, but unfortunately the fuel supply cannot keep up, and no matter how awesome the tank is, it was finally blown into a pile of scrap metal, and Rommel and his troops retreated from North Africa helplessly.

A 30-ton tank consumes more than 1.5 diesel fuel per kilometer, and about 150 fuel per 100 kilometers on flat roads, while the northwest is dominated by desert and desert terrain, and the ground is soft and undulating, and the fuel consumption of tanks of the Europa Empire should be more than 200 per 100 kilometers in the northwest.

This means that the nearly 400 Europa Empire vehicles in the territory of the Dawen Empire will consume 80,000 oil every 100 kilometers of advance, plus other consumption, such as rations, drinking water, etc., so supply is the Achilles heel of the Europa Empire's armored forces.

It is not feasible to attack the armored forces of the Europa Empire, but attacking their supply forces is a shortcut to victory, and of course, the Europa Empire will also attach great importance to the supply of armored forces, and will also attach great importance to supply lines.

But now they are fighting away from home, and they are subject to more restrictions, such as unfamiliar terrain, road traffic and a series of problems, while the Dawen Empire is a home battle, although it has just suffered a crushing defeat in the front, but it can still use its local advantages to ambush the supply lines of the Europa Empire.

Considering that if the supply of Europa's armored forces was affected, they would definitely search for supplies everywhere, so extreme measures were taken in the northwest to cut off the Europa Empire's method of obtaining supplies from the territory of the Dawen Empire.

If these small and medium-sized towns still exist, they will become one reliable and unscrupulous supply point for the Europa Empire, and the armored forces of the Europa Empire can easily break through these small and medium-sized towns.

Although it was a desperate move, it could cut off the idea of the Europa Empire's armored forces getting supplies on the spot, so that they could not get a single piece of food, a drop of fuel, or a sip of drinking water in the territory of the Dawen Empire.

Li Rujin's suggestion made Marshal Yuwen ponder for a long time, Li Rujin's idea is very good, but the difficulty of implementation is not ordinary, although the northwest is vast and sparsely populated, to move all of them, it is also a million-level population migration, involving too many aspects.

In the end, after discussing with Li Rujin for a while, he finally came up with a compromise method and demarcated a certain range, within which all the people needed to relocate, and those outside the range still lived in the same place, but they should remain vigilant and be ready to retreat anytime and anywhere.

After careful calculation, Li Rujin and Marshal Yuwen of this range, considering that the targets of the Europa Empire's attacks should be mainly large cities, they respectively demarcated a range centered on Xining, Yinchuan, and Lanzhou, and all the people within this range were temporarily relocated.

With Marshal Yuwen's order, the relocation order was issued, although it was already night, there were still a large number of assisting troops to leave the barracks and disperse to the relocation area, and time waited for no one.

Marshal Yuwen is the commander-in-chief of the Northwest Theater of Operations, the highest commander of the battlefield, and in wartime, the military administration is higher than the civil administration, so Marshal Yuwen's order is the highest voice and the highest instruction in the Northwest Region.

With the assistance of the military and local government staff, they packed up their belongings, and if they could not take it away, they found a safe place to bury it, and if they could not take it away, they took it away, and slaughtered it on the spot if they could not take it.

Since there were not many means of transportation, horse-drawn carts and ox-carts came in handy, and the vehicles of the troops were mainly used to relocate people in remote areas, to large cities or to transport them outside the relocation areas.

Groups of displaced people, temporarily leaving their homes and their homeland, moved to the big cities, and the fighters who did the final thing buried all the wells, roads, destroyed the bridges, and blew them up.

Exhaust all means that can delay the advance of the Europa Imperial tank forces, and compress the enemy's space for maneuver to the greatest extent.