Chapter 720: All or Nothing
"Report ......"
Qin Ning's eyes widened and said, "Speak!"
"General Qiqi, the Northern Prince and the Eastern Prince have gathered a large number of troops and are marching towards the Qin army area, with a ...... number of troops"
When Qin Ning heard the number of troops assembled by the Eastern Prince and the Northern Prince, he thought for a moment that he had misheard.
The Northern Prince mobilized 1.2 million troops, and the Eastern Prince mobilized 1.5 million troops, and the mighty troops pressed the territory from both directions, which was clearly a decisive posture.
Under the continuous attacks of the Qin army, the territory of these two princes shrank a lot, and the troops were hit repeatedly. Coupled with the losses suffered by the Qin army in the previous initiative to attack, how did so many troops come together?
Qin Ning is not afraid of the opponent's madness, but once the information reported is true, this will be another large-scale battle of extremely large scale.
The important thing is that the Qin army will fight on two fronts, and if there is the idea of paralyzing and underestimating the enemy, it will be a big loss!
After thinking about it for a while, Qin Ning felt that it was the wisest choice to make a more detailed intelligence work and make corresponding preparations according to the detailed and accurate situation.
Qin Ning asked the personnel who reported the intelligence to do two things, the first was to verify in detail the number of troops of the Eastern Prince and the Northern Prince, and the other was the direction and location of the enemy's troops on these two sides, and on this basis, it was also very important to find out the enemy's strategic intentions.
When the intelligence officers left, Qin Ning was still a little uneasy, and immediately contacted the generals of the northern border garrison and the eastern border Qin army through guò communication equipment.
Qin Ning emphasized that one thing is to pay close attention to possible enemies.
If there is a small force of the enemy, it is not necessary, if there is a large army of more than 10,000 people attacking. It can rely on strong defensive strongholds such as cities, and give full play to the power of the Qin army's long-range high-level alchemy ordnance to deal with the enemy. Don't take it lightly and fight with the enemy.
After the arrangements were made, Qin Ning still had a faint uneasiness in his heart. went directly to the border area where the Northern Front of the Qin Army was stationed, and Qin Ning wanted to see the situation of the Qin Army's border garrison.
Unexpectedly, Sha Xingping was also patrolling here, and the two ran into each other.
Qin Ning was happy, and immediately quipped: "General Sha is not staying in his commander's position, what are you doing here?"
Sha Xingping smiled and said, "Didn't General Qin stay in the position of the president and marshal either?" The intelligence shows that the prince of the north is a bit desperate, and even you, the president and marshal, can't sit still, can I, the border marshal, sit still?"
Qin Ning nodded and said, "Yes." At present, the Qin army has an absolute advantage in the Blue Star Empire, and there is a tendency to sweep and unify the Blue Star Empire. Under such circumstances, the Northern Prince and the Eastern Prince did not think about self-preservation, but instead fought back with such fanfare, I was afraid that there was something greasy in this. ”
Sha Xingping groaned and said, "General Qin, I think this may be inevitable. ”
Qin Ning was stunned, how could Sha Xingping be said to be inevitable in such an obviously abnormal situation? However, Qin Ning knew that Sha Xingping had always been old and serious, and would not express some groundless opinions, so Qin Ning motioned for Sha Xingping to continue.
"General Qin. At the moment, the Northern Prince and the Eastern Prince have been forced to a desperate point with no way out, and you think, if you are in such a position. What will happen?"
It was really a wake-up call for the people in the game, and Qin Ning suddenly brightened up.
yes, if you're pushed to the edge of a cliff. It will definitely not sit still, and it will definitely fight to the death with the opponent.
Such a desperate effort may still have a chance to survive. You can sit back and wait for your opponent to adjust slowly, forming an absolute advantage. It's just a situation of waiting for death.
Sha Xingping knew that Qin Ning could easily figure out the key to this: "General Qin, according to the demographics of the territory of the Eastern Prince and the Northern Prince that we have mastered, the two of them have actually exhausted themselves with such troops. It should be that all the armies in the sphere of influence are drawn up, plus some forcibly recruited soldiers, to form such a scale. ”
Qin Ning sighed and said, "Yes, according to the previous intelligence analysis, it should be like this." But to be on the safe side, let's wait for the latest information from the intelligence department. ”
Sha Xingping asked Qin Ning to inspect the situation of the Qin army's camp with him, and said as he walked: "General Qin, I'm afraid this battle will be very different from the past. I believe that this time, whether it is the northern prince or the eastern prince, it will be very crazy. In the past, they still had the capital to retreat, but this time they have two ways to choose between winning or losing. ”
Qin Ning didn't answer Sha Xingping, these words not only touched Qin Ning's heart, but also caused fluctuations in Qin Ning's heart.
The Qin army now guards its territory according to the conventional garrison method, which means that in every occupied city, there are a different number of Qin troops stationed there.
Because the Qin army has achieved impressive results in the Blue Star Empire, the territory has suddenly expanded to a point of expansion, and the territory that the Qin army needs to protect is too big.
The enemy can concentrate more than a million troops at once and storm a little, because people are barefoot, and those who are barefoot are not afraid to wear shoes. And on his own side, he is suffering from gains and losses.
To concentrate forces against the enemy, you will have to give up some territory, and you will have to stick to each one, and the battle line is too long to form a force large enough to compete with the enemy.
These things all require Qin Ning to make a trade-off.
Qin Ning was different from Sha Xingping, who was the commander of the army, and his only goal was to achieve military victory at any cost. And Qin Ning can't, as the spiritual symbol and leader of all the resistance of the Qin army, Qin Ning also has to think about it for the common people in the Qin army's jurisdiction.
Sha Xingping saw that Qin Ning was deep in thought, and he didn't disturb Qin Ning anymore, so he simply took Qin Ning back to the Chinese army camp where he was stationed.
In Qin Ning's constant gains and losses, a few days later, the intelligence of the intelligence department was generally gathered to Qin Ning.
The situation was similar to Qin Ning and Sha Xingping's judgment, but what the Northern Prince and the Eastern Prince did was far crazier than Qin Ning and Sha Xingping imagined.
The Northern Princes and the Eastern Princes have recruited all the cultivators in the Qi refining period and above into the army in their own territory. All food and materials are controlled as controlled materials, and all the population in the area under their jurisdiction is given rations only enough for half a meal every day, and all non-military personnel, except for the old, weak, sick and disabled, provide wartime services for the army.
When Qin Ning received this information, he immediately took the case, and he was extremely angry: "Beasts! Beasts! For the sake of their own selfishness, they actually pushed the fate of everyone in the jurisdiction into the fire pit! If you don't punish these two fangs, I, Qin Ning, will be the commander of the Qin army in vain!"
Sha Xingping was also furious, and he carried out military operations in disregard of a single qiē, Sha Xingping had never imagined that there would be such a crazy act like killing chickens and taking eggs after so many years in the army.
"General Qin, it seems that the information is already true. It is necessary for us to requisition all the districts under which the Qin army belongs, except for the minimum number of guards, to the front line. ”
Qin Ning nodded, and immediately ordered all the group armies to stay with the necessary personnel according to the situation in their own jurisdictions, and the rest of the troops were all drawn to the battlefields of the eastern and northern fronts.
According to the current military strength and territory configuration of the Qin army, there are about two million troops that can be transferred to the front line. According to the principle of nearby transfer, the Southern Group Army transferred 600,000 troops to move closer to the east, while the Qin Army Group Army on the Eastern Front could provide 400,000 troops and merge with the Southern Army Group Army to form a large army of 1 million on the Western Front against the Eastern Prince.
The Qin Army's Central Group Army transferred 500,000 troops, gathered them on the Northern Front, and merged with the Qin Army's Northern Front Army to form a 1 million Northern Front Army to face the army of the Northern Prince.
What Qin Ning didn't expect was that the Northern Prince was already completely red-eyed, and when the coordinated command of the 1.2 million army was not yet in place, the Northern Prince had already ordered the 200,000 vanguard troops to carry out a frantic attack on some of the northernmost urban strongholds of the Qin army.
This is a taboo for soldiers, once the attack is blocked, the troops pressed behind will be mixed with the attacking troops in front, and under the premise of no coordination, there may be chaos, and even there will be stampede incidents. That's fatal for a large army of 1.2 million.
It's not that the Northern Prince didn't think of this, but what the Northern Prince understands even more is that once Qin Ning arranges the Qin army, there is no need to attack, just a solid defense, and what awaits him is only the fate of failure.
Therefore, the Northern Prince directly gave the death order to the vanguard troops, and while the Qin army was still adjusting, he attacked the city with his life!
As long as it is captured, all the wealth in the city, the woman is allowed to be plundered and enjoyed by the soldiers who captured the city!
If you can't take the city, you can all wait for death!
Under the dual effect of death orders and robbery and plunder, the vanguard of the Northern Prince broke out with amazing combat power. The Qin army had less than 100,000 men in each city, and under the heavy firepower and suicidal charges of the vanguard of the Northern Prince, many cities were missed.
The fall of every Qin army city was accompanied by a slaughter of the city without humanity. All the men, young and old, were killed, and the women were left with only the younger ones for sexual pleasure, and the rest were all exterminated.
Destruction, slaughter, rape, all the ugliest atrocities in the world are being staged over and over again in the fallen city.
Qin Ning received the battle report from the front, and he was furious, and he was about to single-handedly take on the army of the Northern Prince who had committed the atrocity.
But Sha Xingping hugged Qin Ning to the death: "General Qin, if the heavens want it to perish, they must first make it crazy." The more the enemy does such inhumane bad deeds, the more his despair is exposed. At the moment, our army has not been assembled, so you must not follow the impulse. ”
Qin Ning's face was distorted to the point of hideousness: "Impulsive? If you don't have any anger in the face of such atrocities, then you won't be called a man! I must let these bastards know that the crimes they have committed will be punished." (To be continued......)