"You are right, there are many such people, including my half-mentor Zuo Zongtang, isn't he?"
"The Qing Dynasty is so rotten, and there are still so many people who are willing to die for him. These people are heroes, but they are also bears."
"I admire their spirit of martyrdom, but I think it's not worth it. They sold their literary talent to the emperor, but not to the people."
"Forget it, we are not qualified to comment on them. Let's find someone to bury them properly."
"yes."
"My lord, we captured Zhaozhou in one day, and I plan to continue heading towards Shenzhou."
"Okay, strike while the iron is hot."
"yes."
Armstrong led the U.S. troops to retreat toward the Deep State.
Prepare to deploy new lines of defense in the Deep State.
Yang Shan retreated towards Zhengding Prefecture.
Zuo Zongtang is in Zhengding Mansion.
"Commander, Commander, I'm sorry, we failed to defend Zhaozhou."
Yang Shan burst into tears when he arrived in front of Zuo Zongtang.
Zuo Zongtang felt dizzy when he heard the news.
After waiting for a while, Zuo Zongtang slowly spoke.
"Where is Wen Bin, the governor of Shandong?"
"I advised Lord Wen Bin to retreat and save our strength to join the commander, but Lord..."
"What's up with him?"
"Lord Wen Bin stayed alone and died for his country."
"Ah, it hurts me too..."
"How did you lose? Tell me in detail!"
"Commander, not only have we been defeated, but the US military has also been defeated."
"Outside Zhaozhou City, we have deployed two lines of defense. The US military will guard the first line of defense, and we will guard the second line of defense."
"However, yesterday morning, the Tenglong Army suddenly launched an attack on Position No. 1. In less than an hour, the US military was defeated miserably."
"The damn U.S. military didn't even tell us what they were defeated by."
"The Tenglong Army quickly reached the second position, and we were defeated before we could hold it for an hour."
"Why did you lose so quickly?"
"Commander, their Tenglong Army dispatched the iron box that Prince Gong mentioned. We can't penetrate the iron box with bullets, and can't damage it with cannonballs. They just rushed into our position."
"After they entered the position, they were completely massacred. We could not cause any harm to them. They were tortured unilaterally."
"Of our thirty thousand soldiers, only three thousand cavalry escaped."
"When we fight, we can't beat the opponent. When we run, we can't beat the opponent. It's really difficult."
"impossible!"
"I've seen the iron boxes on the opposite side. There's just a layer of iron on them, which can't resist our shells and bullets."
"Commander, I'm not lying to you. It's all true. Their iron boxes can't be blown through at all."
"I'm not quibbling, all soldiers can testify."
Zuo Zongtang touched his white beard.
"You have already fought against the Tenglong Army once, do you have a way to deal with it?"
"Commander, both us and the US military suffer from artillery."
"As soon as our artillery fired a round of shells, the target was discovered by the artillery from the opposite side, and then our position was bombarded by the opposite side."
"The Tenglong Army's artillery range was too far, and our positions in the rear were destroyed by them."
"Oh, it seems their artillery has improved again."
"If we protect our artillery positions well, we can still fight. The iron box on the opposite side can protect against small artillery, but it may not be able to protect against our big artillery."
"How many iron boxes are there across the way?"
"I roughly calculated that there are only about 300 vehicles, but they also have smaller iron frames that run faster."
"These iron boxes with no protection outside the iron frame have three wheels and can run very fast."
"More flexible than our war horses, each iron frame has a heavy machine gun on it. These are movable heavy machine guns, which caused a lot of casualties to our soldiers."
"Especially when the battle comes to an end, it's so easy to chase our prisoners with these iron frames."
"If we were not the cavalry, the more than three thousand of us, Marshal, you would definitely not be able to see us."
"So, you were mainly defeated by these two things?"
"By the way, Marshal, there is another piece of information. Their iron boxes are also different."
"There is an iron box with a long barrel in front. It shoots fast and accurately."
"This iron box does not run on wheels, but is similar to wide iron chains, very dense chains."
"Chains can also run away. I don't know how to explain it. You will know it when you see it, Marshal. This kind of chain can make their iron boxes run smoothly on all kinds of terrain."
"There are also two iron boxes with wheels."
"One has four wheels. The wheels are very thick and the weight is not light at first glance. The main thing is machine guns."
"There is also a six-wheeled one, which is larger than the four-wheeled one. It has a cannon like a chain box on it, as well as heavy machine guns and light machine guns."
"They have a total of these four weapons, and we were defeated by these four weapons."
"Okay, get up. I already know. You can go down and rest."
"Yes, Marshal."
Wang Debang walked up to Zuo Zongtang.
"Commander, are you just going to spare him?"
"Oh, what if I don't let you?"
"Should we kill him?"
"We don't have many people left in the Qing Dynasty. What he did was right. Didn't you listen to what he said?"
"It's up to you to do it, can you hold on?"
"It's better to withdraw our troops and preserve our vitality."
"Hey, Commander, we fought too cowardly."
Xia Zhikuan also said: "Commander, what should we do next?"
"Now that we've reached this point, I can't help myself. All I can do now is delay the Tenglong Army's attack as much as possible to keep the Qing Dynasty alive."
"Commander, do we really have no chance of winning?"
"Yes, as long as Li Jingxiao dies, their Tenglong Empire will be leaderless."
"Hey, the use of guns and gunpowder is prohibited in the Tamron Empire."
"These controls are very strict. It would be too difficult to assassinate Li Jingxiao."
"Hey, I'm very confused now."
"What's so troublesome about, Marshal?"
"Nothing, nothing..."
"Report, Commander, the Tenglong Army on the opposite side has begun to attack our position again."
"Go and have a look."
Zuo Zongtang looked at the opposite position with a telescope, and sure enough, the Tenglong Army began to attack again.
"This firepower is very strong!"
"Commander, the Tenglong Army's artillery seems to be free of charge. I really don't understand how their industry can develop so fast."
"I don't know either. Anyway, this Li Jingxiao is not simple. He can develop like this in three years. He must have hidden his secrets before."
"This kind of person is the most terrifying. He will kill you while you are sick."
"Commander, look, there is an iron box on the opposite side."
Zuo Zongtang also noticed.
"Fortunately, there are not many of them."
It turned out that the armored vehicles that arrived from the Henan Military Region were basically given to Ma Zheng to form an armored division.
There were still some light armored vehicles and a lot of motorcycles left, so Li Xia formed a motorcycle regiment for the Second Army.
This motorcycle regiment was formed from remaining light armored vehicles and motorcycles, mainly for raids and transmitting intelligence.
The armored vehicles from the Henan Military Region have not all arrived, and many armored vehicles and tanks continue to be processed and produced in the factory.
