"It seems that the messenger has delivered our news..." After hearing the news that the Tang army's bombardment had stopped, Qin's Prime Minister Ying Ke said with a sigh of relief.
He was very glad that he sent a messenger in advance, which allowed Wuyang to escape a catastrophe. The city was now in chaos. If the Tang army's bombardment continued, he would soon lose effective control of the entire city.
Already.
That is simply unimaginable: countless rioters will run around in the city, and they will be more destructive than artillery fire, turning the entire city into a purgatory.
"It seems so, sir." The officers around him also breathed a sigh of relief. They were really confused now. If the Tang army attacked, none of them knew what to do.
Zhang Xuan should have experience, but he really has no way to pass on his experience to everyone. Those Imperial Guards who are usually responsible for public security in the city, no matter how sophisticated they are, cannot possibly know those field defense techniques.
"Let Zhang Xuan come here for a meeting and tell him that within 48 hours, the Tang army is unlikely to launch another attack... Let's work together to find a way to see if we can solve this crisis." Ying Ke looked at the faces of the people next to him.
The nervous minister told his confidants: "Just send someone."
"General Zhang Tuo, there is really no chance of winning in the battle in Wuyang City. You and I both know this very well. There is no preparation here to face the enemy. Under such circumstances, once the war resumes, the situation will immediately get out of control.
"After finishing speaking, Ying Ke looked at Zhang Tuo next to him, and began to persuade: "Do a good job in your brother's ideological work, and try not to make him feel that... everything he has done is in vain..."
"I understand." Zhang Tuo nodded. He was actually the first among the generals of the Qin army to know that the defeat was certain. His air force had lost a total of more than 1,900 brave pilots from the beginning of the war to the present, and there were others.
There are more than 4,000 people including navigators, machine gunners and so on.
Qin lost a total of about 4,000 aircraft of various types, a large part of which were destroyed on the ground...
There was no time to make up for such losses. The little wealth accumulated before the war was almost wiped out within two months of the war.
After several frantic efforts failed, Qin could hardly see any of its own aircraft in the sky. Those expensive jet aircraft, even if they were partially replenished, were not controlled by qualified pilots and were almost completely unable to fly.
Air combat.
Now the Qin State has a total of more than a hundred jet fighters, hundreds of propeller fighters and bombers... But these planes are all hidden in the airport behind, and they are completely unable to organize to participate in the war.
As an air force commander, Zhang Tuo has long been aware of these issues, and he is even more aware of what losing air supremacy means to a modern war.
"It's just." He looked at the minister not far away and motioned to Prime Minister Ying Ke to follow him farther away. Then after the two people moved a few steps away, he lowered his voice and continued to say to Ying Ke: "It's just Sir,
General Liu Zhian is desperately returning to the defense. His... identity... you know, will our actions here put him in danger? "
"I know...I know everything...but his army going north is our only bargaining chip. If we ask him to stop, what else do we have to use to negotiate with Tang?" Ying Ke looked bitter.
said.
He sighed and said to Zhang Tuo: "The empire has reached this point, and we can only wrong General Liu...or in other words, we can only wrong some people. When everything is over, I will give them an explanation."
"Sir!" Zhang Tuo was startled, then suddenly looked at Ying Ke, and grabbed Ying Ke's arm bitterly: "You must not act out of emotion... General Liu Zhian will definitely understand your difficulties and will not blame you.
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"So what? Someone will be responsible for the whole thing, or this war, after all. Your Majesty is naturally a wise Majesty... so the responsibility naturally belongs to me, the arrogant prime minister. It doesn't matter... two months
I had already thought about it before." Ying Ke said to Zhang Tuo with a wry smile.
"Alas..." Zhang Tuo also sighed bitterly. He suddenly felt very aggrieved. It was clear that everyone made the original decision together, and everyone was advocating that they would defeat the Tang Dynasty and dominate the world... But in the end,
How did it end up like this?
After a brief silence, Zhang Tuo continued to ask: "There is one more question, sir. Before he fell into coma, His Majesty gave the order to defend Wuyang to the death. The order my brother received was also to assemble the troops and fight to the death in Wuyang."
"Disobeying His Majesty's will is a big or small matter. If Your Majesty wakes up, we have surrendered the city. By then..."
"You don't have to worry about this... I said, someone must be responsible for this. Since I can resist the guilt of the war, I can naturally resist the guilt of resisting the decree. I am enough to make this farce go quickly.
Let's end it soon." Ying Ke felt a little tired. For him personally, he was already looking forward to his ending.
After all, death is sometimes a kind of relief. Compared with the long and tortured process, the final result is actually not that terrible.
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In Zhang Xuan's headquarters, after confirming that the Tang Army only fired two artillery shells, he roughly guessed that someone had stopped the Tang Army's bombardment.
However, the order he received from Ying Duo was to defend Wuyang, so he naturally did not relax his arrangements. He let the second-line troops enter the position and drove the civilians east of Wuyang City to a relatively safe place.
In addition, he also gathered almost all the forces he could find outside the city and piled them near the railway and highway lines on the south side.
As long as the Tang army rushes from this direction, his troops can block the Tang army and launch defenses along the railway line. Once the Tang army penetrates his defense line and penetrates deep to the west of the railway line, his troops can fight with Liu Zhian's troops heading north.
Forming a pincer attack, this Tang army was restrained.
If a miracle happens and they eat up this Tang army, then Wuyang's offensive and defensive situation will be much better. As long as it lasts for a few days, His Majesty's condition will improve, and Ying Duo, who has regained his strength, can end this battle more honorably.
A war.
That's right, Zhang Xuan didn't expect to turn defeat into victory. He was just prepared to use all his strength to win the last bit of dignity for the defeated Qin State. This little bit of dignity might allow the Qin people to live a better life after being ruled by the Tang people.
