Compared with the peace and tranquility in the Tang Empire, Xifengjiang in the Great China Empire was already a real battlefield.
Zhao Chen's recent results made Zhao Ji, who was supervising the battle on the front line, very satisfied, because he really felt Zhao Chen's eagerness and efforts.
In other words, when the troops of the Dahua Empire attacked, they really tried their best: hundreds of people were killed and wounded every day, and the reserve medicines were consumed at a rate that was visible to the naked eye.
Despite this, Zhao Ji still sent a telegram to his father Zhao Kai. In the telegram, he praised Zhao Chen for his hard work and also praised himself.
Of course, Zhao Kai was very pleased with Long Yan, and immediately commended Zhao Chen again... Of course, along with the commendation order, there was also an order urging him to seize Fengjiang as soon as possible.
Without Zhao Kai's orders, Zhao Chen knew that he should seize Fengjiang at all costs. He pushed all the troops he could mobilize to the front line and pushed desperately towards the suburbs of Fengjiang.
In order to better appease Zhao Kai, or to better shut up Zhao Ji, a layman, Zhao Chen's tactics were very direct and targeted.
He did not outflank Fengjiang from both wings and compress Fengjiang's strategic space. Instead, he rushed towards Fengjiang City in a relatively small area.
In this way, in the battle report, he can tell Zhao Ji very intuitively, and tell Zhao Kai behind Zhao Ji a piece of data: Our army still has a few kilometers left from Fengjiang.
This data can shut up Zhao Ji and Zhao Kai who are far away in the imperial capital, but the disadvantage is that this style of play is equivalent to creating a protrusion.
The positions on both wings were still under the control of the Fengjiang defenders, but the Dahua army created a protrusion about 8 kilometers long along the railway pointing toward Fengjiang.
Although the Fengjiang defenders did not have the energy to launch a pincer offensive against the troops commanded by Zhao Chen and surround the Chinese army rushing towards Fengjiang City, they still controlled both wings of Fengjiang.
The current situation is that the Dahua Army is indeed getting closer to Fengjiang, but no one knows how significant this protrusion is.
Just today, the troops of the Great Chinese Army finally reached the edge of Fengjiang City: what stood in front of them was no longer wild-like hills, but a small farm.
A very simple-looking fence surrounded several small houses. These houses had been destroyed by artillery fire, and all that was left in place were some half-collapsed wrecks.
The jubilant Dahua troops continued to attack, and the soldiers attacked the farm under the cover of a Type 3 tank.
On a battlefield full of craters, the Fengjiang defenders defending here were a group of dwarf mercenaries. They did not retreat, but relied on the craters and the communication trenches between the craters to launch a counterattack.
These dwarf soldiers were originally regular troops of the Ice Empire, and their fighting will was still very tenacious: because if they died in battle here, they would receive the Tang Empire's death benefit standard. If they died, they would be paid far away in the Ice Empire. The family members will be financially free for almost their entire lives.
"Charge! For His Majesty the Emperor!" Officer Dahua shouted loudly, leading his soldiers to rush towards the trenches that did not look very strong under the cover of tanks.
The dwarves were concealed at first. They did not fire hastily, but let the Type 3 tank drive past their defense line.
Seizing the opportunity to attack the Dahua Empire, the distance between the infantry and the tanks was a bit far away. The dwarves caught these Dahua soldiers off guard.
A dwarf soldier holding a long pole rushed towards the Type 3 tank and pressed the magnetic anti-tank bomb fixed at one end of the pole against the side of the tank.
He was quickly beaten into pieces by the Dahua soldiers who were covering the tank in the distance, but then the anti-tank bomb detonated. The jet formed by the explosion penetrated the thin side armor of the Type 3 tank and detonated the shell inside. .
A huge explosion blew off the tank's turret. With this explosion, the dwarves' counterattack began.
"Hurrah!" In hysterical shouts, the dwarves rushed towards their enemies with Mosin-Nagant rifles. The Dahua soldiers with bayonets were not polite and immediately got entangled with the dwarves who fought back.
"Thud, tug, tug!" The dwarf soldiers holding Bobosha submachine guns fired at the Dahua soldiers. On the side of the Dahua soldiers, there were also people holding various captured submachine guns and pouring bullets at the dwarf soldiers crazily.
People on both sides fell, and the remaining people were mixed together with shining bayonets. There were sounds of fighting and shouts for mercy everywhere.
The sound of blood spraying, the sound of bayonets hitting, cries and muffled groans were intertwined together to form a creepy symphony.
The dwarf wearing an M35 helmet shouted Ula and held a Mosin-Nagant rifle. This scene is indeed a bit dumbfounding. It's a pity that the only person in the world who knows the sense of contradiction is Tang Mo, so everyone doesn't understand this joke at all.
Therefore, after this sense of disobedience is gone, there are only brutal killings and bloody battles left here.
If you run out of bullets, use a bayonet. If the bayonet is lost, use a shovel or helmet stone. In the end, both sides even used their teeth and fists directly.
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When the second Type 3 tank tried to enter the battlefield, a Yin Er attack aircraft destroyed it in the sky. This allowed the battle to continue. Both sides felt that they would be the victors today, so both sides invested new troops to compete for this position that was actually meaningless.
It's very flat here, and there are no important facilities. There isn't even a machine gun bunker here. It's just a farm, just a ruin.
But it seemed to have special meaning to both sides, so soon an infantry company of dwarf mercenaries arrived here and joined the battle.
Not to be outdone, Dahua sent a new infantry company to charge forward, and then sent an additional company to try to overwhelm the dwarves in numbers.
There were corpses everywhere on the battlefield, but the battle still did not subside. The fighting lasted from noon to evening. Eventually, the remaining dwarf troops began to retreat, leaving behind more than 300 corpses and essentially an entire infantry battalion.
The Dahua Empire also suffered heavy losses. They lost at least 400 people, and more than 100 people were injured. Such losses almost crippled the two battalions, but they still felt that they were winners.
Because during dinner time, they occupied the farm. It may be meaningless simply to look at this position, but if you look at it as a building in the suburbs of Fengjiang, the meaning is different.
Zhao Chen sent a telegram to Zhao Kai overnight. The content of the telegram was that his troops had attacked Fengjiang City!
The "distance between our army and Fengjiang" that Zhao Kai, Zhao Ji and everyone in the Dahua Empire's court cared about was finally cleared by Zhao Chen!
That's right, now he can tell Zhao Kai very accurately that the distance between his troops and Fengjiang is zero! It’s zero!
That night, regardless of the disadvantages of the night battle, Zhao Chen suddenly launched an attack and advanced about 500 meters, really pushing the battle line to some buildings on the outskirts of Fengjiang.
Then, in the early morning of the next day, in order to ensure the safety of both wings, Zhao Chen ordered an attack on both wings and expanded the width of his salient to about 10 kilometers.
Although this is still a protruding part, at least on the map, it is already a huge enough protruding part.
On the same day, Zhao Yu, who was frightened in Fengjiang, moved his "command headquarters" to the underground bunker of the fort on the easternmost side of Fengjiang.
These forts are built with the strongest reinforced concrete, and are equipped with 380 mm caliber cannon turrets. Naturally, there is no need to talk about their safety.
The battle lasted for more than a month, and the shells of these giant cannons were almost exhausted, so they were not worried about the risk of being killed by explosions, so they just used the underground bunker as the headquarters.
What makes Zhao Yu even more reassured is that as long as he crosses the river by boat, the other side is the territory of the Tang State, which is absolutely safe.
In the city of Fengjiang on the west side, the dwarf troops, goblin troops, and human mercenary troops who had just arrived in Fengjiang, as well as the human mercenary troops from the Lands Empire and other countries, began to station themselves in the ruins and buildings. Along the city of Fengjiang, At the edge of the area, a new line of defense was launched.
The Fengjiang troops deployed on both wings also shrank back slightly, giving up part of their defensive positions. A large number of troops began to retreat into Fengjiang City, and then strengthened the city's defense lines.
It is no exaggeration to say that the military advisers of the Tang Empire planned to turn the city of Fengjiang into the Stalingrad of this planet.
