Chapter 46: The September War

Before people could react from the shock of the sudden collapse of the Haixi regime, the two remaining unicorns in Qinghai began a series of battles.

The tragic and frequent war between the two sides lasted for a full month in September 2023, known as the September War.

After Doomsday Phoenix captured Heka Town, it unexpectedly encountered the army of Tianjin City, and the two sides lost a 2,000-strong infantry regiment and an armored battalion as soon as the two sides made contact with Tianjin.

The army of Tianjin City retreated in a panic, and Doomsday Phoenix City did not rush to pursue it for fear of encountering an ambush, but turned around and ate the two regiments that the Doomsday Salvation Army placed on the defense line facing Phoenix City.

Tianjin's army took advantage of this opportunity to cooperate with the Doomsday Salvation Army to successfully ambush Ling Mingjian, annihilate the forces of the Haixi regime, and capture Haixi in one fell swoop.

Doomsday Phoenix City and the Doomsday Salvation Army can be said to have their own gains, but both sides are unwilling to make a truce, putting aside the personal grievances of Chi Hua and Shan Xiongzhong, Qinghai can only have one voice and a super force.

No matter who wins, the two superpowers will dominate the whole of Qinghai!

Chi Hua and Shan Xiongzhong both understood the significance of this war to both sides, so they came up with a desperate posture and sent all their respective armies.

Shan Xiongzhong's Doomsday Salvation Army claimed to have more than 30,000 infantry divisions, but the successive battles of the western team of Tongtian Zi Minghai were attritional, plus the two regiments that were eaten by Phoenix City, and more than 18,000 infantry. There are also two independent tank battalions, nearly 40 tanks and a helicopter squadron, six helicopter gunships, and two transport aircraft. In addition, there are more than 150 evolutionaries in an independent special operations battalion under Jin Fei.

The Tianjincheng army supporting Shan Xiongzhong also had more than 6,000 infantry regiments, an armored battalion with 30 armored vehicles, and a special combat team with more than 70 people left.

Compared with the combined forces of the Doomsday Salvation Army and the Tianjin City Army, Doomsday Phoenix City is at an absolute disadvantage in terms of the number of troops and weapons and equipment. Doomsday Phoenix has only four brigades of 12,000 men and a 200-man special operations team, with almost zero heavy weapons such as artillery and armored vehicles, and only four gunships captured from Heaven's Gate.

Although Doomsday Phoenix is inferior in terms of the number of troops and heavy weapons, the proportion of evolutionaries in the army and their personal combat power far exceed that of the Doomsday Salvation Army and the Tianjin City coalition army. The cadres above the platoon level and even individual squad leaders in the regular army of Doomsday Phoenix are all served by evolutionaries, while only the battalion level and above are evolutionaries in the two-party coalition army, and the Phoenix army built with the evolutionary as the backbone is far stronger than the two-sided coalition army in terms of combat effectiveness.

At the level of the special combat team, the Phoenix special combat team wearing the phoenix battle armor also completely crushed Jin Fei's special combat battalion and the vine armor special combat team of Tianjin City in terms of combat power.

The reason why the September War is recorded in the annals of history, in addition to the fact that the outcome of the war directly determined the hegemony of the Qinghai region, is also that this battle was the first head-on confrontation between the evolutionary and the modern army at the level of large-scale corps operations.

The outcome of the war has a direct impact on the transformation of the way mankind conducts war.

After Shan Xiongzhong's Doomsday Salvation Army captured Haixi, the whole army only rested for a day before immediately turning around and rushing towards Heka Town.

The Doomsday Salvation Army marched to Heka Town for several days but unexpectedly pounced, the original military camp had been burned to the ground, and the local residents fled without a single left, and the already depressed Heka Town became an empty ghost town.

The Doomsday Salvation Army, which had lost its target for a while, decided to temporarily station in Heka Town, and sent scouts to search for traces of the main force of Doomsday Phoenix.

But on the night of the station, nearly one hundred and fifty evolutionaries from four special forces in Phoenix City attacked the camp of the Doomsday Salvation Army.

Under the leadership of Chi Hua, Yi Fengleng, Xiao Yu, Qin Yurou, Duan Jiangpeng, and Mo Yingyang, six second-order evolutionaries, the four special combat teams entered the barracks from four directions at the same time, and went on a killing spree on the periphery of the barracks, taking the Doomsday Salvation Army by surprise.

Then they quickly withdrew before Jin Fei's special operations battalion arrived, and the helicopters that rushed to the air did not track the traces of the Phoenix special operations team in the vast night. But in just ten minutes of raid, nearly 1,000 soldiers died at the hands of the Phoenix special combat team.

Most of the scouts sent out by Shan Xiongzhong from all sides did not return, and they were obviously intercepted and killed by the evolutionaries in Phoenix City.

Shan Xiongzhong immediately retaliated, and the helicopter squadron of the Doomsday Salvation Army attacked a Phoenix affiliated camp closest to Heka Town on the morning of the next day, and thousands of residents and escort soldiers were killed by aerial machine guns in the camp.

Phoenix City took counter-retaliatory measures on the night of the third day, and Yan Ying and Yi Fengleng sneaked into the heavily guarded airport tarmac and blew up all eight helicopters of the Doomsday Salvation Army helicopter squadron in one fell swoop.

This blow was almost fatal to the Doomsday Salvation Army, completely losing air superiority, which made the always calm Shan Xiongzhong also thunderous.

Shan Xiongzhong decided to take a gamble.

Both sides understand their respective strengths and weaknesses, and Phoenix is trying to avoid a head-to-head confrontation with the Doomsday Salvation Army and the Tianjin City Alliance, wanting to use the advantages of the Evolver to eat away at the Alliance's vitality little by little. The coalition forces want to force the army of Doomsday Phoenix to fight head-on with themselves, so as to use the advantage of dense firepower to defeat the army of Doomsday Phoenix in one fell swoop.

There is only one way to force the Doomsday Phoenix army to fight a decisive battle, and the attack must be saved. Therefore, Shan Xiongzhong exhausted the coalition troops and killed directly in Phoenix.

Chi Hua and Yi Fengleng quickly understood Shan Xiongzhong's attack intentions, and the two immediately adopted a series of targeted attack and harassment strategies against the coalition forces.

Since the Doomsday Salvation Army and the Tianjin City coalition army started from Heka Town, the Phoenix City Special Combat Team has never stopped harassing and sneaking up on the coalition forces every night.

The coalition forces strengthened their vigilance to no avail, some of the sneak attacks were launched by Yan Ying directly from the center of the barracks, and Yi Fengleng launched them from the air, and Gao Yiming dug a hole directly into the camp of the tank battalion, and put a * bag under the tank and directly blew up several tanks.

Yan Ying even tried to assassinate Shan Xiongzhong, but at a critical moment, she was detected by a spiritual evolutionary beside Shan Xiongzhong. Even so, Shan Xiongzhong was scared half to death, and since then, he has asked Jin Fei to personally guard him when he sleeps every night.

Shan Xiongzhong is already like this, and the soldiers below are even more nervous, and they sit and fall asleep with guns in their arms when they sleep every night, and there are several incidents of guns going off every night, and the entire military camp is full of rumors.

The soldiers who stood guard and patrolled each shift were even more like going to the execution ground, and when they saw the slightest disturbance in the darkness, they immediately opened fire, and the entire barracks continued to sound intermittently throughout the night.

Naturally, the coalition forces could not tolerate such wanton harassment and sneak attacks in Phoenix, and they also adopted a series of countermeasures, and various strategies also emerged one after another.

The Doomsday Salvation Army first set a trap to lure the Phoenix Special Operations Team into the camp to encircle and annihilate them, but who knew that Phoenix only killed on the periphery but did not penetrate deep into the camp.

After that, he ambushed all the evolutionaries of the coalition army on the side of the barracks, and once they encountered a sneak attack, they formed a numerical advantage of several times that of the Phoenix City special operations team, and tried to annihilate the enemy who sneaked up. This plan also worked, and on several occasions it almost surrounded the Phoenix Special Operations Team.

But there are second-order evolutionaries in Phoenix, and when they saw that the situation was not right, they were immediately dragged back by the second-order powerhouses, and the special combat team members quickly withdrew, even so, more than a dozen special combat team members were killed in Phoenix City, but the coalition army died more soldiers and evolutionaries.

In the end, Shan Xiongzhong gritted his teeth and even adopted the strategy of burning jade. Wherever there is a battle in the barracks, the artillery and armored vehicles in the barracks will immediately hit wherever they are, and this practice covers their own soldiers, and in this vicious circle, no soldiers are willing to stand guard and patrol.

But Shan Xiongzhong couldn't care about it anymore, he was already starting to start exchanging money, even if it was worth exchanging the life of a squad soldier for the death of a special combat member.

The two sides attacked each other against counter sneak attacks, ambushes, lure, spurring, and pretending to be maze, and various strategies emerged one after another, and a series of battles during this period exhausted the Doomsday Salvation Army and the Tianjin City coalition army, and the army suffered heavy losses.

Doomsday Phoenix City also paid a huge price, even with the protection of the Phoenix Battle Armor, the reduction of the special combat team reached one-fifth.

This was only a sneak attack at night, and the battle between the two sides was even more fierce during the day.

In fact, the three escort brigades in Phoenix City have been following the coalition forces from a distance, resolutely carrying out the 16-character guerrilla warfare formula of "the enemy advances and retreats, the enemy is stationed and disturbs, the enemy is tired and I fight, and the enemy retreats and I pursue."

For the regular troops of Phoenix City that appeared around him, the large forces of the Doomsday Salvation Army and the Tianjin City coalition army wanted to catch up, and the small forces could catch up but were worried that they would be eaten by the escort brigade when they turned around and came back, and they were always in an embarrassing dilemma.

The soldiers of the escort brigade wreaked havoc on the roads and bridges on which the coalition forces were advancing, digging deep trenches on the paved roads, blocking mountain passes with boulders, diverting the river to the places where the coalition forces had to pass, and using all means to create obstacles to the advance of the coalition mechanized troops.

The escort brigade, with the cooperation of the special combat team, also did not let go of the ambush of the coalition forces, and the Azure Valley ambush was a more famous battle initiated by the Phoenix City Escort Brigade among many battles.

The valley of Azure Valley is low and the valley floor is open, and it is not actually a particularly favorable ambush battlefield, but it is in this situation that the Phoenix Escort Brigade suddenly launches an attack on the coalition forces.

Half of the coalition forces had already walked out of the valley, and the three escort brigades of Jiang Bai Chilie, Yang Hongquan and Zhong Liyi suddenly came up from behind, shooting out the few bullets in their hands.

The coalition forces that were suddenly attacked, the troops in the rear defended in place and fought back, and the troops that had already walked out of the valley in front turned around and returned, and for a time the small valley was crowded with coalition troops.

During the battle between the two sides, the evolutionaries of Phoenix City ignited the dead trees, weeds and other ignitions left in the valley before, causing a raging fire in the valley.

The flames ignited on all sides caused the soldiers of the coalition army to suddenly become confused, crowding each other and stamping each other out of the valley, and artillery and armored vehicles were useless.

Nearly 4,000 people were killed in the Azure Valley ambush battle between the Doomsday Salvation Army and the Tianjin City coalition army, of which not many were directly killed by Doomsday Phoenix City, and more were burned to death by fire and trampled to death by their own people.

The three escort brigades in Phoenix City also lost more than a thousand people in battle, but the battle loss ratio of one to four was enough to make the soldiers of the escort brigade proud!

The two sides are entangled with each other, constantly bleeding and dying, but they are also gradually approaching Phoenix......