Chapter 655 War
Such an undeniable attitude blocked the mouths of many ministers. No one in the court dared to confront Ye Junwen. Now Ye Junwen’s backer is not just the army. To be honest, even the people are on Ye Junwen’s side. Ye Junwen’s reputation is unprecedentedly high, and the reason is very simple. I said before that the unification of the human empire is what all human race yearn for. The people don’t know what the country is difficult or not. In short, what they saw was that Ye Junwen destroyed the Segus Empire. This is a substantial achievement, so how can they not support him?
The prime minister here also thought for a while and asked, "How many troops are the marshal going to dispatch?"
"The First Legion should be enough." Ye Junwen said. The empire is reorganizing the legion. Before, Ye Junwen's troops were the joint forces of the First Legion and the Second Legion, but now they have been separated and re-entered two legions. The First Legion is basically Ye Junwen's old subordinates, and the First Second Legion has gradually changed into modern troops.
The First Legion is the highest modern legion. At present, the Legion has raised a total of 100,000 troops, of which 30,000 are modern troops, and there is even a tank unit. Although there are only ten tanks in total, it is already a very awesome troops here.
In the current situation, it is still very difficult to make a full-scale war. Although the newly occupied areas are fertile and have abundant minerals, food and grass, it is not time to collect money. The empire cannot support the previous war, but if it is just a legion, it should be possible to do it. But the question is whether this legion can win the war? If it cannot win, it will be a gift for people and money, and the ministers are still unsure.
"Is the Marshal personally in command?" asked the prime minister. All the ministers also looked at Ye Junwen. Although many of them were unhappy with Ye Junwen, they also knew that this guy was really powerful in wars and had never lost yet. If he came on his own, they would be more at ease. Of course, they didn't want to lose.
"No, I won't command myself this time." Ye Junwen had no time to command the war anymore. He looked at the general next to him: "Edron, it's okay to leave it to you."
"No problem, Marshal." At present, the commander of the First Legion is still Edron. Because the First Legion has returned to the capital to station, Edron also appeared at the court meeting. The Fourth Legion is currently in the northeast, and the Legion Commander Goff did not come to attend the meeting.
Of course, Edron also wants to prove himself at the moment. After all, his current achievements are basically given to him by Ye Junwen. Everyone knows that the First Legion is powerful and elite, but there is generally no mention of him as the commander of the Legion. All the people mentioned are the troops under Ye Junwen. Edron's current position is indeed stable. After all, Ye Junwen supports him, but he also wants to make a name for himself.
Although these ministers were worried about death in this battle, Edron knew that this was a great opportunity to earn military merits. With these 30,000 modern troops, the old-style troops of the Massodra Empire could not be opponents at all. The distance between the two sides was like the distance between heaven and earth. This battle was indeed too easy.
Of course, the ministers did not know how big the gap between the troops on both sides was. They were even more worried when they heard that Ye Junwen did not command himself. At present, the empire seemed very powerful. After all, the Segus Empire had just been destroyed, but the problem was that there were a lot of practical problems. They were worried that if they really suffered a defeat, a lot of problems would be highlighted, and the empire would have a great crisis at that time.
Seeing that these civil servants were about to make trouble again, Ye Junwen was too lazy to break up with them, so he slapped the table and said, "So they said that this is an order, not a negotiation. I immediately declared war on the Massodra Empire. This is my decision. General Edron is someone I value. Please believe him. If there is really a problem, I will lead my troops to fight in person, and it is absolutely impossible to fail."
Sure enough, Edron still couldn't help but feel relieved to the ministers. If the First Legion was really defeated, there was still the Second Legion. Ye Junwen took the Second Legion to fight and could still make the situation come back. It was indeed much more stable at this point. However, if it reached that point, the empire would have to support a larger-scale war, which was still a little trouble.
In short, although there were a lot of worries, no one dared to oppose Ye Junwen, so the war plan was passed. At noon that day, the Saint Wilan Empire officially declared war on the Massodra Empire, and there was no need to find the reasons for this war. Unifying the human empire is the best and most just reason.
The emperor of the Massodra Empire, Mudeves, who received the letter of war, was also confused. He only received a report from a spy yesterday, saying that the Saint Wilan Empire could not launch a war or something, and then it was announced today? What are these spies doing? No matter what the matter is, he should still panic. Should he become the king of the destruction of the country? The Segus Empire, which is almost as powerful as them, endured for two weeks and destroyed the country. How could he not panic?
Of course, it is impossible to surrender. Mudevis could only order preparations for war. After some reconnaissance, good news came. It turned out that the Saint Wilan Empire was not going to war in full swing. This time they only sent 100,000 troops, only one legion of troops, and the people leading the troops were not the war god. Mudevis was a little happy. Isn't this trying to really destroy them, but just a threatening war for some political purpose?
The Massodra Empire now has more than 400,000 troops. After being destroyed by Ye Junwen Group, they have been recruiting crazy in the past few months. Although many of them are recruits, there are many people after all. After hearing that the other side is only 100,000, Mudevis felt a little relieved and immediately let 300,000 of them go to the front line. Then he also issued a statement saying that they would not surrender to the evil Saint Wilan Empire and decided to fight the invaders in an all-round way. If you dare, come, or something like that.
About a week later, the troops on both sides had arrived at the battlefield. The battle took place in the east of the Saint Wayland Empire, which was the original Segus Empire. According to the original combat plan of the Massodra Empire, one of their troops chose to attract the enemy's troops head-on, and the other attacked from the side, attacking the enemy's enemies on both sides. Since they already knew that the troops of the Saint Wayland Empire had cannons and machine guns, the Massodra Empire here also responded to some problems, such as digging trenches to reduce the killing of cannons and machine guns, and also prepared a large number of steel shields and other things to resist bullets. Although they could not make machine guns themselves, they still had some experience in defense.
However, this was useless. Although they had a very sympathetic understanding of the tactics of facing machine guns and cannons in the late stage of World War I, the troops of the Saint Wilan Empire had already changed their tactics at this time. They had the key weapon to face trenches, namely tanks.
When Edron saw the opponent's situation, he directly let the tank troops rush forward. Although there were only ten tanks, pressing them over could cause the opponent's troops to collapse. At this time, the remaining troops followed the charge and simply defeated the front-facing defensive force.
Because the frontal troops collapsed so quickly, the troops responsible for the pincer attacks did not keep up at all. As a result, when they arrived at the battlefield, the frontal troops were already defeated. When they saw this situation, the general in charge of supporting troops immediately chose to retreat, which was very decisive and avoided greater losses.
In short, in the first battle, Edron won a beautiful victory, annihilated more than 20,000 enemies and captured tens of thousands of people. These people continued to send them back to dig the ground. Edron and Ye Junwen were different from fighting. Ye Junwen always seemed to catch a train, as if he would lose even if he didn't end the battle for a week, but Edron was very stable. After this battle, he was not busy chasing, so he let the enemy run away. They took care of themselves to slowly clear the battlefield, build camps, and then sent the prisoners back without panic.
The good news came to China, of course, just like Edron thought, and his reputation has also increased a lot. However, some people say that he used Ye Junwen's tactics and so on. Anyway, Edron wanted to completely escape from Ye Junwen's shadow, and he didn't have this idea. He thought it was pretty good to be a "Serina second generation" and was not even better than before.
On the good side, the war on the front line has diverted a lot of internal conflicts. Originally, the empire had many crises, but they are not in chaos at present. The war to unify the human race is currently a great thing, and no one can come out to find trouble at this time, otherwise how do you want to oppose unification? This is going to be killed by someone. So after fighting here, the internal stability is much more stable, and even the chaos in the occupied areas before was less. As for the reason, I don’t know, and I don’t know why these rebels from the Segus Empire did not jump out at this time. It may be that the suppression in front was too bloody, and now I take advantage of this opportunity to lie dormant for a while.
Of course, the Massodra Empire on the opposite side was even more panicked at this time. Unexpectedly, it was a big defeat at the beginning. Emperor Mudeves quickly ordered full preparations, so all parts of the country began to dig trenches to strengthen city defenses and resist cannons. This time, Edron's siege was probably not as smooth as before. After all, no one was guarding against cannon artillery before, but now the city has begun to strengthen. If you want to blow it up, it will probably cost more shells.
Chapter completed!