"What!" Ying'an jumped up from his chair, stared at Loew's face, and froze in disbelief, unable to even continue to ask.
He never expected that the emperor of the Lions Empire, the farthest country participating in the war, would become the first emperor of the Tang Empire to be captured!
In comparison, the Great Qin Empire has been fighting fiercely until now, and the battlefield is still in the Dahua area. Although the scene is ugly, it has not completely collapsed... This is simply a miracle.
"Don't be so excited! Lu Qianshan, the naval general of the Datang Empire, called to confirm that the main force of the Lions naval fleet will be annihilated and the Emperor of the Lions Empire, Lions I, will be captured alive." Loew calmly repeated what he just said, and also said some more
detail.
In fact, before this war, few generals from several countries in the world knew that there was a person like Lu Qianshan. Even those who have experienced a lot and have a strong memory may still remember Lu Qianshan as "Zheng Guo's border".
"will" such an impression.
No one knew that this "unknown" general who transferred from the army to the navy would achieve the great achievement of "annihilating the enemy fleet" and "capturing the enemy emperor alive" when he led a fleet alone in a naval battle for the first time?
"Isn't your naval marshal Bernard? He is unwell and did not personally command the fleet to attack?" Ying'an still knew something about the military commanders of the Tang Empire.
He knew that the most powerful commander of the Tang Empire's navy was Marshal Bernard. After all, the Tang Empire only had three marshals until now.
"Oh, this is what I will tell you next... Marshal Bernard personally commanded the main force of the Imperial Navy to go south and annihilate the combined fleet composed of the Qin Empire and the Dorne Empire... Your three aircraft carriers and Dorne's seven
The aircraft carrier sank..." Loew added.
As the chief of the imperial general staff, he certainly knows the results of all battles. Now the Tang Empire has almost stabilized the situation, and the war situation in all directions is beneficial to the Tang State.
In fact, as Emperor Tang Mo of the Tang Dynasty held a press conference to announce these results, the Binghan Empire, Yangmu Empire, and the goblins on the mirage island that were about to make moves in the north immediately became honest.
They were so lucky that the battle was over before the sword was drawn. These countries can now continue to sit back and wait for the real result to be announced.
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!" Ying'an was already dumbfounded. He simply did not believe that the combined fleet, which seemed to be the most powerful in the plan, was completely wiped out so quickly.
Somewhat understanding the other party's mood, Loew walked up to Ying'an, reached out and patted his shoulder twice: "I understand, you may not be able to accept it... but it doesn't matter, I will send you to the imperial capital Chang'an soon.
Go...there, you will definitely see Lions I."
"You can communicate more..." Loew said and walked out of the room: "The food is cold. Eat it quickly and don't give it away to me."
How could Ying'an, who was standing there, still be in the mood to continue eating? All he could think about now was "Qin is over"...
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"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!" After Yingduo heard the news that the Lanes Empire fleet was destroyed and the emperor's life or death was uncertain, he waved his hand and shouted with a smile.
He did not want to believe that such a thing would happen, and he was unwilling to admit from the bottom of his heart that the overall situation of the three countries uniting to conquer the Tang Dynasty had collapsed.
"Your Majesty! No matter what, the combined fleet has really suffered heavy losses..." Prime Minister Ying Ke reminded from the side.
The chief of staff of the combined fleets of the two countries, who later succeeded the commander-in-chief John Cleeves and commanded the subsequent operations, is still alive. His identity has been confirmed. After he was fished ashore, he reported
Conclusive news of the fleet's destruction.
In fact, except for the destroyer HMS Courage, all 73 warships of various types in the entire fleet were sunk. In addition, Qin also boarded several submarines.
Qingluan Port was attacked by Tang Army carrier-based aircraft. The entire Shu coastline was full of loopholes and reinforcements were needed everywhere. The senior officials of the Qin State were extremely anxious for a while and had been arguing about this for a long time.
Finally, in order to protect the sea, Qin had no choice but to deploy more than 200 aircraft to strengthen the defense of coastal areas. However, these forces were scattered along such a long coastline, which was still a drop in the bucket.
Therefore, in the days to come, Qin State will send more troops to the coastline every day, mobilize troops, deploy heavy weapons and equipment... and these are undoubtedly draining the blood of the frontline troops! They are weakening the frontline combat power!
"I know!" Ying Duo interrupted Prime Minister Ying Ke's words with some annoyance. He was already subconsciously escaping from matters related to the combined fleet.
"There can't be any worse news!" He ended the meeting impatiently, stood up and walked out: "Just write a report about the navy and give it to me! Strengthen the defense near the old capital.
, is what we should be most concerned about right now!”
No one could have imagined that early the next morning, greater excitement would follow: the leaderless and dying Dongqing defenders finally chose to surrender after being bombarded for several days.
Hundreds of thousands of troops surrendered their weapons and honestly began to build prisoner-of-war camps for themselves just like the Qin army near Xiajuan.
Dongqing was preserved, and facilities such as the oil pipeline from Dongqing to Heishui, the smelting plant, chemical plant, and oil refinery on the outskirts of Dongqing were not damaged and were handed over to Tang Jun intact.
For the Tang Army, the greatest significance of this surrender was to save the railway line from Dongqing to Xiajuan. Now, the engineers of the Tang Army only need simple repairs to rebuild the railway line from Hezhe to Dongqing.
connect them.
With the support of this railway line and other roads, the Tang Army's logistical supply problem was fundamentally solved, and the Tang Army's frontline troops were on the move again.
But this time, their attack suddenly encountered unprecedented difficulties: on the outskirts of the Qin army's defense line on both wings of the old capital, the Tang army encountered a minefield and actually dug up mines.
For Qin and Tang, this was a very bad incident: both countries are parties to the ban on weapons, and landmines are one of the banned weapons.
Now, Qin has openly violated the treaty it signed, which has touched the bottom line of the Tang Empire.
Soon, the Tang State held a press conference to confirm to the outside world the news that the Qin army had used landmines. Public opinion was in an uproar for a while, because the last time the Mirage openly violated the treaty, it paid a heavy price.