Xiang Ningxuan had just returned from Xiazhou when he happened to meet Valiera and Cao Wenhuan to ask to see him.

Although the internal control of Xianyang City is not strict, it is also a great risk to bring out a civilian with average strength.

However, Cao Wenhuan repeatedly requested, and even said that if he was discovered, Valera could also kill him first before leaving, because he had important information that he had to report to Xiang Ningxuan in person, so he did not hesitate to take risks for this. Fortunately, the two of them finally slipped out of Xianyang City safely.

Cao Wenhuan also had a separate interview with Xiang Ningxuan, and no one knew what to talk about.

In addition, the two brought back the detailed information in Xianyang City, and the professionals of the staff department analyzed it overnight.

Through the number of clay, weapons and equipment and other data, it can be roughly estimated that the strength of the Qin army is about 50,000. However, most of them are newly made recently, and they are also new recruits in the Qin figurines.

The main armament of the Qin army was chariots, swords, spears and crossbows, with about 10,000 charioteers, 10,000 crossbowmen and 30,000 infantry. Veterans generally have armor, while recruits have not yet had time to make armor.

Among them, charioteers and crossbowmen are the main force, which can be deduced from the sophistication of equipment.

Of course, the Qin army is using the same bronze and wooden weapons and equipment as it was two thousand years ago, and in that case, even the armor of the current army cannot be broken. They use a special process to create psionic equipment.

The First Emperor should have woken up at the beginning of the apocalypse, but he was stunned and held back in the imperial mausoleum for a year, that is, he was building troops to upgrade the attack and defense.

The quality of these psionic equipment is very good, almost not inferior to the mass production equipment of the Taichu Group, and it is much better than the various weapons and equipment of various local armies. There was also an equipment factor in the last defeat of the Yongjun.

The newly built workshop in Xianyang is only responsible for front-end manufacturing, and the final psionic enhancement process can only be carried out in the Imperial Tomb. The Qin army recruited 5,000 people to take charge of this matter, and their families were all under centralized care, and if they disobeyed, they would sit together.

The same is true for the manufacture of terracotta figurines, which are completed in the workshops of Xianyang and then sent to the imperial tomb by special personnel to transform into real terracotta warriors.

The Qin army only took the initiative to attack now, also because during the battle of the Imperial Tomb, the Qin army's own casualties were also very serious, and the troops that could be used before were only one or two thousand. The restored and newly manufactured figurines have only recently been completed and are being reorganized and reorganized.

More than 30,000 Qin figurines were repaired and newly created in less than a month, and such a speed of explosion may not last, but Xiang Ningxuan will definitely not let the Qin State explode another round of troops.

Since the Qin State is ready to take the initiative, let's play with them. Of course, because the main force of the Long Xiang army has not yet arrived, Xiang Ningxuan is not ready to push the Qin army back all at once, on the contrary, if there is a chance, he will release water to let the Qin army take advantage of it first.

After the main force of the Long Xiang army is in place, there will be a chance to annihilate the main force of the Qin army in the field battle. It is also the way to win with the least cost and the fewest civilian casualties.

Xiang Ningxuan was not only the commander of the Yongjun Army, but also the deputy commander of the Westward Expansion Group Army. The Tuntian area in the Hetao area can solve the grain problem after the autumn harvest, and Xianyang is the ideal industrial base in Xiang Ningxuan's mind, which must not be allowed to be destroyed.

After handing over the intelligence information, Valera took Cao Wenhuan back to Xianyang.

It's difficult to get out and go back, but it's easy, just take a plane through the defense line at night and send people to a hidden corner. Xianyang is so big, the Qin army can't monitor it at all, and there are a lot of dead spots for smuggling.

Moreover, at this time, the main force of the Qin army had also been assembled and ready to attack, and the remaining troops were insufficient to guard the temporary palace and several other important points.

Valera and Cao Wenhuan returned to Xianyang, in addition to continuing to collect intelligence, they also shouldered the task of organizing the people, protecting the industrial system, and saving themselves at critical moments.

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The Qin army spent three days regrouping and fighting, gathered 30,000 troops, left the Xianyang garrison on June 30, and approached Tongguan in a mighty way, and the commander of the troops was the Qin general Wu Chenghou. He was accompanied by 30,000 people who were requisitioned and dispatched, who were responsible for the logistics and supply of the Qin army.

The Qin army had a tight formation and a strong barracks, with a group of five people and a team of ten people, forming a military formation at each level, which was completely a textbook march, and it was almost impossible to be attacked by sneak attack.

As for why an almost, it's because the people of the rear team are dragging down. These people who were requisitioned were not the people of Great Qin, but people who grew up under the red flag of the republic, if Xiang Ningxuan was ruthless enough and directly attacked the rear, he might be able to defeat the logistics defense forces in one fell swoop.

But in that case, 30,000 people will inevitably suffer heavy casualties. There were still hundreds of thousands of people in Xianyang City, enough for the Qin State to recruit several times.

Using the lives of innocent civilians to delay the Qin army's march, Xiang Ningxuan couldn't do it, at least the current situation was not critical enough to do so.

At this time, the strength of the Republic in the direction of Tongguan was only more than 20,000 people, and most of them had experienced the last fiasco, and the weapons and equipment were also seriously lacking.

In terms of troop strength, the strength of the 20,000 Tongguan garrison was about the same as that of the Xiazhou army, and there was a cavalry division to help at that time. Now, the 1st Cavalry Division is still helping to clean up the mess in Xiazhou, and it can't get over at all.

The overall combat effectiveness of the 30,000 Qin army on the opposite side was much stronger than Ma Xin's 10,000 apologetic army.

Therefore, Xiang Ningxuan set a strategy of harassing small troops day and night, and large troops fortifying the walls and clearing the wilderness to defend the fortified city.

In several small-scale disarming battles, the fighting quality of the Qin army gave a great touch to the elite regiment. In terms of single combat power, the Qin Warriors are much worse than the mutated aberrations of the Guardian Army. But the ability to organize and cooperate is much stronger.

The elite regiment assault team can take advantage of a lot in small-scale battles, but they don't dare to go deep at all, and if they are not careful, they may be surrounded by the Qin army. The harassment did not slow down the advance of the Qin army, and the Qin warriors did not need to sleep and rest, so the effect of harassment was not ideal.

The Qin army soon advanced to a large settlement where the Tongguan army was stationed.

The survivors inside have been evacuated, leaving only a large patch of jagged buildings that have been converted into fortified blocks. A total of 10,000 soldiers were deployed in the fortified area to prepare for defense.

Tian Tingfeng, commander-in-chief of the engineering corps of the Long Xiang Army, pointed to the sand table and said, "This is the defense system we designed for the characteristics of the Qin army. The advantage of the Qin army was that it was well-disciplined and tightly formed. Ordinary armies would suffer greatly from fighting with them in large legions. But their shortcomings are also obvious, the individual has low intelligence, dull behavior, and only a few simple attack patterns. ”

"Therefore, I used trenches and breastworks to destroy the most elite charioteers of the Qin army. Several large defensive fulcrums needed to be garrisoned by elite troops, making it impossible for the enemy to calmly destroy the fortifications. To pull out these defensive fulcrums, the enemy could only divide the infantry formations. ”

"The defensive fulcrum was surrounded by complex terrain of street fighting, and our men were deployed in reinforced concrete houses. In this way, the Qin army's spear and bow can be abolished, and only the swordsmen can fight with our army. ”

"In addition, the target of this search is to delay the loss of the Qin army, so an escape tunnel has also been dug in the large fulcrum. Even if you are attacked by heavy enemy forces, you can withdraw from the encirclement. ”

Xiang Ningxuan nodded, and said to Chen Qing, the sledgehammer at the other end of the sand table: "This time it is the Yongjun army that is the main force of defense, and I will assign you fifty elite team members, your task is to cover the evacuation of the defenders at a critical moment, and do not make a move unless you have to." ”

Chen Qing rubbed his hands and said, "Don't worry! ”

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