Qin issued a public statement stating that the use of landmines by frontline troops was not directed by high-level officials and that they were all "voluntary."
This statement was pale and weak, but it used a lot of space to condemn the Tang Empire's use of missiles to attack the city. They condemned the Tang Empire for using missiles to attack Wuyang, the capital of Qin, and causing a large number of civilian casualties.
However, such condemnation actually had no effect, because it was impossible for the Tang Empire to modify its combat deployment in response to Qin's condemnation.
The missiles that attacked Wuyang City for the second time fell the next afternoon. This time Ying Duo's secretary received a call again, and Emperor Qin Ying Duo once again left the palace to avoid danger.
Then, the Tang Empire issued their statement: In view of Qin's extensive use of landmines, Tang will conduct a ten-day missile attack on Qin's capital Wuyang. This is a punishment and a warning.
If the Tang Empire continues to encounter landmine ambush, the missile attacks will not stop. And if within a month, Qin's front lines are still using a large number of landmines, then Qin's top leaders must be responsible for the use of landmines.
The verbal spat between the two sides at the press conference is actually not fatal. What really affects the outcome of the verbal spat is the outcome on the battlefield.
Qin was losing the war, which made their clamor lose much of its meaning. The defense line near the old capital was being broken through bit by bit by the Tang army, and without the shielding of mines, the Qin army's defenses could be said to be vulnerable.
Although one hundred thousand Qin troops had arrived at the front line and strengthened Liu Zhian's power, these troops were immediately filled into the trenches and were wasted on the battlefield bit by bit.
The 100,000-strong army that used to play an important role on the battlefield could only barely sustain itself for more than ten days under the Tang army's offensive.
If it hadn't snowed during this process, which delayed some of the Tang army's attacks, the Qin army's defense would have collapsed faster.
On the other side of the battlefield, the Qin army was shrinking its defense line. They were gathering forces in Lianshan defense line, Sishan defense line, Xishan defense line, Yecheng and other areas, trying to put up a show of force to withstand the Tang army. attack.
However, the 6th Group Army invested by the Tang Army here is very flexible. They are using a small group of mountain special forces to clean up the Qin Army's outer defense line. This kind of battle is very fragmented, but the effect is very obvious.
Zhang Xuan's troops deployed on the periphery suffered heavy losses. Gradually, the Qin army's defense line began to show breaking points. They could not look at each other from beginning to end, and the troops in each stronghold were isolated.
Then, the main force of the 6th Army easily encircled these isolated strongholds, cleared out these nails, and annihilated the Qin army inside.
Such tactics seem to be making very slow progress, but in fact the Qin army suffered heavy losses and lost positions very quickly.
What annoyed Zhang Xuan was that small groups of troops from the Tang Army often attacked his peripheral security forces and positions at night. The opponents were equipped with night vision goggles and were at home at night.
The Qin Army was very uncomfortable with the tactics of coming and going without a trace. They still killed a Tang Army night combat soldier in an accidental encounter, and only then found a relatively complete night vision system on the opponent's body. .
It was only at this time that the senior officials of the Qin State truly realized that their opponents were armed to the teeth in a real sense, and the opponent's night vision devices were simply unreasonable.
Just when Zhang Xuan's southern cluster retreated step by step and began to lose large areas of position, and even the captured Yecheng, the capital of King Chu, began to collapse, the naval fleet of the Tang Empire returned to the sea outside Shu and began to attack Qingluan. ports and other coastal areas.
The Tang Army's aircraft were so powerful that the Qin Army's aircraft along the coast had to be relocated to airports further inland to be on standby.
Airports along the coast have been destroyed, radar stations along the coast have been destroyed, barracks along the coast and various security facilities have been destroyed...
If the Tang Empire really had landing troops appear along the coast of Shu, then the Qin army stationed in Shu would definitely be unable to parry it.
Therefore, the large number of troops that the Qin army finally mobilized had to send some of them to the Shu region, to the Shu region, to the Chu region...
And those troops sent to the Shu region in the south will continue to be dispersed by the long coastline. Here is a regiment and there is a division. In the end, two to three hundred thousand troops are filled in, and not even a shadow can be seen.
The result is: The coast of Shu is still full of flaws, and if Tang lands, it will be dangerous everywhere... The first thing Sun Guang did after he was promoted to commander-in-chief of the coastline guard force was to send another telegram to the Qin mainland, Apply for 500,000 troops to strengthen coastal defense...
This is of course impossible, because there are still Zhang Xuan and Liu Zhian waiting for the supporting troops to arrive. There are naturally not many troops for Sun Guang, and there may not be enough troops for Liu Zhian and Zhang Xuan.
The millions of mobilization troops were so dispersed that in the end, only less than 300,000 reinforcements were left in Liu Zhian's hands.
And these troops still don't have much heavy weapons and equipment: the Qin army suffered too much losses in the previous wars, and there is no way to replenish a large amount of heavy weapons and equipment. The heavy-armed troops have not yet been restored.
From the defeat of Xiajuan to the present, the Qin State has lost a total of 10 armored divisions. Almost not a single tank of these 10 armored divisions has escaped back to the vicinity of the old capital.
In fact, it was good to have some officers and personnel escape. In fact, most of these armored units did not even return - they were either wiped out by attack aircraft, or they abandoned their vehicles and fled and were captured.
Due to the lack of personnel and weapons and equipment, Qin has only managed to restore the organization of three armored divisions, and the large number of tanks equipped by these three armored divisions are still found from Dahua. 4 Panzerkampfwagen and Panther tanks.
Using World War II tanks to fight second-generation main battle tanks... is obviously not possible. The armored units of the Qin Army can only move covertly and dispersed at night, and can be used as consumables on the defense line.
There is no way, as long as troops are gathered to launch a counterattack, these tanks will be destroyed by the Tang Air Force - rather than consuming one by one, gathering tanks is a faster suicide option.
Therefore, Liu Zhian could only spread out these tanks behind the defense line and take advantage of the bad weather to occasionally launch some counterattacks. This tactic dispersed valuable armored forces, but the effect it could achieve was very limited.
Facing the assembled Tang armored forces, the defense consisting of a few dozen tanks was simply not enough. For a moment, Liu Zhian's box defense began to falter.
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Another update will be posted tomorrow...
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