On September 11, the Qin armored forces that occupied Daxi Pass moved eastward and surrounded 350,000 Dahua defenders in Wangdu.
These hastily assembled Dahua troops had no intention of resisting, and they only showed some restraint before surrendering.
Wangdu was lost and the 350,000 defenders were surrounded and annihilated, which suddenly worsened the situation in Dahua. Bingshuo was occupied by the Qin Army three days later. There was no longer any obstacle between the tracks of the Qin Army's Type IV tanks and the King's City of Dahua.
On the southern front, Qin soldiers entered Sishan, the largest city in the central part of Chu State. The defenders of Sishan only held on for 7 days before being defeated. On September 22, Sishan City was occupied by Qin.
The Qin Empire, with its unparalleled soldiers, showed the world what a complete blitzkrieg was. The millions of troops advanced in three directions, giving the impression of being unstoppable.
Having lost its four mountains, Chu State had almost no power to fight. The situation in the entire south was in collapse, and even the Nanshan Port on the coast looked a bit precarious.
Xiong Biao did not wait for the reinforcements from the Tang Empire, but instead waited for the bombs from the Qin bombers. In desperation, the king of Chu had no choice but to run away again, dragging his family with him to escape from the royal city and take refuge in Nanshan Port.
The Qin army, which joined Zhao Jie's army in the middle, was not slow. After defeating Li Mingshun's group, it continued to advance eastward and recaptured the important grain-producing town of Jutian.
After obtaining a large amount of abandoned supplies, the Qin army continued to attack eastward, taking advantage of Li Mingshun's unsteady footing to recapture Shanchong in one fell swoop.
This armored cluster thrust diagonally from the south to the north, like a sharp knife thrust into Zhao Yu's ribs.
Further north of Shanchong is Dongqing City. Dongqing City is the area beyond the Imperial City of Dahua. Outside the former imperial capital, Dahua has the largest population, the most developed and convenient transportation, and the largest concentration of heavy industry.
If Dongqing falls, the land connection between the Kingdom of Dahua and the Tang Empire will be almost cut off, and support from the Tang Empire will not be able to reach the front line.
In this way, wouldn't the Kingdom of Great China be isolated and helpless and surrounded? Zhao Yu naturally could not tolerate such a thing happening. He immediately mobilized all the troops he could find and assembled in the direction of Dongqing.
But while defending the royal city and stabilizing Dongqing, Zhao Yu really couldn't find enough troops for a while. His main force was all in the hands of Li Mingshun, and he was completely wiped out by the famous Qin clan general Ying'an in the Battle of Pingfeng...
As a result, in the Battle of Wangdu, none of the 350,000 troops that were finally gathered came back. This left a short vacuum period in the military strength of the Kingdom of Dahua. The army was inactive and unable to stop Qin's attack.
The Tang Empire's quick counterattack that Qin had been worried about never appeared. The response of the Datang Empire, which was close at hand, seemed to be very slow, and the main force had no intention of advancing.
Militarily, after the Tang army only symbolically supported the Dahua troops with some weapons and ammunition, they never expressed anything.
As for diplomacy, the response speed of the Tang Empire seemed to be much slower than usual: on September 25, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Datang Empire officially issued a statement stating that it did not support the Qin Empire’s attack on the Kingdom of Dahua and Dachu. The kingdom used force.
Just like the aging Dahua Empire back then, the Tang Empire only shouted a few words and condemned the Qin Empire, but did not take any effective measures.
The Tang army's counterattack in September, which everyone in the Qin Empire was most worried about, did not appear. They successfully grabbed a month and occupied a territory far larger than they expected.
Along with the condemnation of the Tang Empire, Qin's tanks surrounded the original imperial capital, now the royal city of King Dahua. Zhao Yu fled and died in the rebel army while fleeing.
Subsequently, the morale of the troops of the Kingdom of Dahua became even more chaotic. On October 3, the royal city was occupied by the Qin State. On October 4, the defenders of Beikou surrendered.
On October 5, Jiang Run, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Tang Empire, once again issued a statement condemning the barbaric behavior of the Qin Empire and announcing that the Tang Empire retained the power to uphold justice for its vassal states.
On October 6, Ying'an's 500,000-strong army occupied Dongqing and joined forces with Wang Luo's 500,000-strong army, basically completing the attack on the Kingdom of Dahua.
On October 20, the Blackwater Oilfield announced its surrender. This largest oilfield facility group in the Kingdom of Dahua became the possession of Qin.
At this point, except for Xiajuan, the last city where Li Mingshun retreated, all the cities in the Kingdom of Dahua have been occupied by Qin.
And all this took less than two months.
On October 21, as if in a hurry, the southern Qin army marched into Yecheng, the king's city of Chu, and held a grand military parade in the square of Yecheng.
Zhang Xuan's army of more than 300,000 people approached Nanshan Port. Qin's blitzkrieg reached its peak. Qin's territory had surpassed the Tang Empire and became the largest in the world!
The whole world has witnessed the speed of Great Qin, and the whole world believes that this time they really have hope of defeating the Tang Empire. The Great Qin Blitz Battle is invincible no matter how you look at it!
There is more hope than last time! More likely to win than last time! Such an idea has caused countries all over the world to put their chips on the gambling table, and they are looking forward to a brilliant victory!
It was early November, and the counterattack of the Tang Empire still had not arrived. The Qin army was under siege, and Li Mingshun was unable to survive alone. The destruction of Dahua seemed to have become a foregone conclusion.
The temperature in the northern region has become cold, and snowfall may occur at any time. Just when the whole world thought that the Tang Empire would pinch its nose and admit that its two vassal states were annexed by the Qin Empire, something unexpected happened. .
On November 11, in Chang'an, the imperial capital of the Tang Empire, the Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs officially held a press conference. At this meeting, the Foreign Minister of the Tang Empire, Nangong Hong, formally submitted his credentials to the Great Qin Empire and ordered the Great Qin Empire to withdraw from the Tang Empire immediately. territory of the two dependent countries, and compensate the war victims for all economic losses.
After receiving no positive reply from the Great Qin Empire, Nangong Hong once again held a press conference the next day, and for the first time used the warning "Don't say that you are unforeseen" to the outside world.
It was also on this day that Dahua's famous general Li Mingshun committed suicide in his headquarters. His last effort to fight for Dahua's chance of survival was declared bankrupt. On the same day, the rein of the world was lost and the kingdom of Dahua was destroyed.
Two days later, with Qin still going its own way and not responding to the Tang Empire's warning, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Tang Empire once again held a press conference to announce to the world.
The Tang Empire... officially declared war on the Qin Empire.
(End of chapter)
