For the sake of the big picture, no matter how much sacrifice is made, it is worth it!

Qin Ning thought about it for a long time and finally made up his mind. Sometimes, methods and tactics are not unexpected, but making up one's mind is extremely tangled.

Qin Ning immediately asked Mu Xiongtian to arrange it according to the scale of 350,000 troops, no matter what, for the sake of the overall situation, he also had to make a posture that he wanted to break through.

Mu Xiongtian did not have any objections, because at the moment of life and death, no matter how brave Mu Xiongtian was, he would not dare to make Qin Ning's determination. He has only one principle, that is, what the leader tells him to do, he will do.

The mobilization preparations in wartime were very quick and fast, and it took less than a day for Mu Xiongtian to complete all the mobilization and assembly work.

During this time, Qin Ning had already thought of all the false breakthrough plans.

The heavy artillery battalion was all concentrated on the position in the eastern city of Lingtu City, where the straight gate to the Blue Star Empire was located. The current situation of the Qin army is that it must break through to the east in order to cause tension in Xirong.

If you break through in other directions, Xirong Po can even let you out of the encirclement, anyway, the Qin army doesn't have too many bases in the Abyss Empire. Even if the Qin army broke out of the encirclement, it would eventually march eastward. All Xi Rongpo had to do was to firmly block the route of the Qin army's eastward advance.

In the way of breaking through, Qin Ning chose the charge of the dense charge formation that he was most reluctant to use. Such a charge formation will take the most damage when the enemy has ample heavy firepower.

But there is no way, for the sake of the overall strategic layout, this sacrifice is what the Qin army must bear!

In the interval between the coalition attacks, the Qin army immediately moved and placed a heavy artillery battalion in the eastern city facing the coalition forces. The vanguard of 50,000 also quietly moved directly behind the heavy artillery battalion. Behind the vanguard was Mu Xiongtian's 100,000 follow-up troops, and at the end was the 200,000 raid troops under Qin Ning's personal command.

Once the team is set, wait for the opposing coalition to set up an attack formation before launching a surprise attack. This will disrupt the enemy's formation to the greatest extent.

Xi Rong Po naturally couldn't predict that the Qin army would have such a counterattack method, or according to his predetermined strategic plan, he dragged the heavy artillery battalion out from behind when the time came, and set up a position to prepare to attack Lingtu City.

In the direction of Dongcheng, before the vehicle-mounted heavy artillery battalion outside could set up a position, the Qin army observed this side, and immediately gave an order, and the heavy artillery fired in unison.

The coalition army outside the eastern city is the army belonging to the king of the south. In terms of combat effectiveness, it was slightly worse than the troops of King Yelan and the Second Prince, and slightly stronger than the troops of King Zhenyuan.

The troops of the king of the south are also similar to the troops of the king of Zhenyuan, and it is okay to fight a smooth battle, but if they are beaten by the opponent, they basically belong to the type that can't find the north.

When the Qin army smashed all the remaining ammunition into the hail, the Southern King's troops were all stupid, because they had not yet tasted the taste of this kind of high-density heavy artillery firepower.

For a while, the vehicle-mounted heavy artillery battalion, plus the Gongwei troops next to it, watched the heavy artillery and soldiers in their camp fly into the sky one by one, and even forgot to escape.

It took a long time for these people to react, this is the enemy attacking, hurry up and run.

The 100,000 troops, if they retreat in an orderly manner, will not lose much at all. But this chaotic routine simply cannot carry out an orderly retreat.

The commanders of the Southern King's troops did their best to gather the troops, but these soldiers did not listen to the command at all, but instead overwhelmed the commander.

As a last resort, the commander saw that the general trend was gone, so he also fled.

The vehicle-mounted heavy artillery battalion and more than 50,000 soldiers in Dongcheng were thus buried under the blow of the only remaining artillery fire of the Qin army.

Xi Rong Po immediately learned the news, and when the shelling was over and 50,000 Qin soldiers were directly killed out of Dongcheng, Xi Rong Po was facing huge psychological pressure.

In the hands of Xi Rong Po, there are 1.2 million troops, and Xi Rong Po has also made corresponding plans for the various possibilities of the Qin army.

One of the things that worries Xirong Po the most is that the Qin army is desperately breaking through, it is obvious that the direction of the Qin army's breakthrough can only be east, and the Qin army has no base in other directions.

The key now is that Xirong Po has made a plan to deal with it, but what he needs to judge is whether the Qin army has broken through or not, if there is a mistake in judgment, and the Qin army attacks the other parts like a fish in a dead net, then Xirong Po will be dangerous.

Thinking of this, Xirong Po first contacted the commander of the Southern King's troops.

Before Xirongpo could inquire about the battle, the commander of the southern royal army complained to Xirongpo in a mournful manner, saying that his troops had suffered a fierce attack and asked the commander of the coalition army to hurry up and reinforce him.

Xirong was so angry that he really wanted to go over and kick him twice, but Xirong Po barely suppressed his anger and said in an unquestionable tone: "You remember to me that there are enemy troops in your direction, and your only choice is to resist me stubbornly! If I find out that your troops have escaped from the battle, not to mention you, even your prince, will not escape the blame!"

The commander of the king of the south almost cried: "Dashuai, you know how powerful the Qin army is, I'm afraid that the brothers won't be able to resist it." ”

"Fart!" Xi Rong Po was a little angry, and when he saw the 50,000 vanguard troops of the Qin army, he was scared like this bear, if there were more of them, he would not have fled from the wind? Xi Rong Po roared: "Your first-line troops have attracted a lot of artillery fire, your second-line troops have an extremely broad strategic depth, and there are corresponding various trap configurations, so it is no problem to resist the impact of 200,000 troops." ”

Speaking of this, Xi Rongpo even felt a trace of sadness, it is estimated that putting hundreds of thousands of dogs there is much stronger than these stupid pig-like teammates.

"Don't worry, I'm not saying that I won't give you reinforcements here, what rushed out of Lingtu City was only 50,000 Qin troops, which is not a matter at all in front of your second line of defense. I need to observe again, as long as the Qin army wants to break through from your side, I will definitely go all out to reinforce it. ”

Xi Rong broke the coaxing and scared, and finally shocked the commander of the Southern King. At this moment, the battle situation in front was immediately reported again, and in the direction of Lingtu City, 100,000 Qin army troops were killed again, followed by 50,000 vanguard troops, and directly attacked the defense line built by the Southern King's troops.

It's already 150,000! Xi Rongpo felt as if his little liver had been picked up. This is a critical node, according to the conventional breakthrough mode, after the 150,000 troops are scattered, if the other side breaks through, it should be pressed by a large force. If the other party really breaks through, the Southern King's troops will be able to withstand it.

Xirong Po also has a mobile vehicle-mounted heavy artillery battalion in his hand, and what he is preventing is a large-scale sabotage attack by the Qin army. If Xirong Po does not dispatch this mobile heavy artillery battalion again, I am afraid that it will be too late!

At this time, the emergency communicator of Xirong Po rang, and after receiving the notification, it was a report from the observation post ahead.

"Great Marshal, in the direction of the east city of Lingtu City, a large number of troops have been gathered, just from visual inspection, there are no less than 150,000, the enemy army is still gathering, and it is not clear how many troops will be assembled. ”

Hanging up the communicator, Xirong's broken eyes narrowed into a slit. In the middle of the night, Xi Rongpo immediately ordered his 100,000 troops and a mobile heavy artillery battalion to immediately rush to the aid of the Southern King's troops on the eastern front.

At this time, the 50,000 troops of the Qin army had approached the defensive position of the second-line troops of the Southern King. The Qin army no longer had heavy firepower to cover and tear through the enemy's defensive line, so it could only rely on the hand artillery group to approach the enemy's line and strike with firepower.

The range of the hand artillery strike can only be a quarter of that of the heavy artillery, and when the Qin army's 10,000 hand artillery brigade forced close to the second line of defense of the Southern Wang's troops, the enemy's crossfire attack designed in depth played an important role.

Xirong has been defeated by the Qin army repeatedly, and it can be said that he knows the roots of the Qin army. In the arrangement of the second line of defense, it fully reflects his research experience in some tactics of the Qin army.

In the design of the second line of defense, the position arrangement of two flanks protruding and the middle retracting backwards was adopted. If the Qin army charges from the front, then the two flanks will strike, and if the Qin army attacks from the two flanks first, the frontal fortifications can carry out uninterrupted fire strikes.

The fortresses on the second line of defense are all built in the pattern of permanent fortifications, and the power of hand cannons is very powerful for the enemy without fortifications. But for permanent fortifications, it is still far from it.

Under the powerful blow of the fortifications, 2,000 people of the 10,000 hand artillery brigade of the Qin army immediately fell in a pool of blood. With these losses, the hand artillery brigade finally occupied the range of the hand artillery.

With the order of the captain of the hand artillery brigade, the hand cannon shells of the hand artillery brigade poured out. Although the power of the hand cannon was not as strong as that of the heavy artillery, it could not withstand the dense bombardment, and the defensive strongholds were instantly submerged under the rain of bullets from the hand cannons.

Because the Southern Wang's troops were on the best breakthrough route of the Qin army, Xirong Po was very concerned about the operation here. Dedicated personnel were assigned to assist in the construction of a defensive stronghold here. The Qin army was able to break through these strongholds without heavy artillery, which required a lot of human resources.

The further forward the Qin army went, the slower the speed of the advance was due to the fact that the sacrifice of the hand artillery brigade was too great, and the firepower of the guide was reduced. Breaking through the permanent defensive strongholds on the periphery, the artillery brigade sacrificed as many as 6,000 people.

Most of the remaining 40,000 men in the vanguard were soldiers armed with rainstorm pear flower shells, and they could hardly do anything to help in the face of the permanent defense of the stronghold.

Whenever they saw the brothers of their artillery brigade fall one by one, they were eager to rush at once, but the commander of the vanguard knew that it was useless. R1152