"The 30,000 people closest to Wuyang have surrendered, which is probably the entire main force of the 17th Army." The adjutant awkwardly introduced the latest battle situation to the skinny Liu Zhian.
Rather than talking about the battle situation, it is better to say the process of the collapse of Liu Zhian's troops: the northernmost troops heard the news of Wuyang Xiancheng's surrender, and received the order of Qin's defeat and surrender, so they naturally laid down their weapons and chose to surrender.
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In fact, these soldiers no longer want to fight. They have long been tired of losing one after another, not to mention that they are very aware of their own status.
In a few days, I ran hundreds of kilometers northward, and then I only had a small amount of food I carried, and even less ammunition.
For them to attack the Tang army head-on in this state was no different than risking their lives. So after hearing the news, they immediately chose to surrender.
Just kidding, if we don't surrender at this time, when the tanks and armored vehicles of the Tang Dynasty come over, and when the planes start dropping bombs, will it be too late to raise the white flag?
Do you want to use your own Maxim machine guns, Mauser rifles and bayonets to compete with Tang's main battle tanks and jets?
"The 17th Army is almost gone. Where is the 31st Army that follows?" Liu Zhian asked with a wry smile.
The state of his troops was really in extremely bad condition. After receiving the order, he frantically ordered the troops to go north for reinforcements, but in the end they still did not arrive in time.
This indirectly caused his current embarrassing situation: the entire army was stretched on a road of more than 100 kilometers, shaped like a long snake formation, and had no combat capability at all.
If you want to fight, you must at least catch up with the rearguard troops, let the troops in the middle disperse to the two wings, and then let the troops in the Wuyang direction retract to form a "ring defense" before you can continue the battle.
But the problem is that in order to quickly support Wuyang, Liu Zhi'an's troops hardly carried much ammunition. The previous plan was to receive supplementary ammunition, supplies, medicines and food after arriving in Wuyang. As a result, he drove Jian Cong halfway and the supply station in Wuyang was gone.
Already...
With only a few days of ammunition and a few days of rations, Liu Zhian's troops could not hold on for a few days even if they were huddled together.
Therefore, Liu Zhian either retreated to Nanjiao City, which at least has not yet been taken over by the Tang army and is still under the control of Liu Zhian's rearguard.
Or he could only go north to Wuyang, take back Qin's capital from the Tang army, then regain his strength and stabilize his position, and continue to represent Qin and Tang.
The problem is that the Tang Army blocking the front consists of two armies, Strauss's 3rd Army, and Burton's 2nd Army. At its peak, the Qin Army could repel one of these two Tang armies and it would have been enough.
Jiuquan, now fighting two at the same time, there is no suspense about the outcome.
"I have sent someone to contact the 31st Army, but there is no news yet." The adjutant answered Liu Zhian's question awkwardly. The Tang Army had begun to implement electromagnetic interference, and the communications of Liu Zhian's unit had basically been interrupted.
The troops were scattered and there were problems with communication. In fact, there was no need to fight this battle. Liu Zhian knew very well that as time went by, more and more of his troops would surrender.
Wuyang has been occupied by the Tang army. In other words, Dayi is already on the side of the Tang state. The state of Qin has been destroyed, and the Emperor of Qin has surrendered... Under such circumstances, asking the soldiers to continue fighting is in itself a kind of going against the trend.
Gradually, most people will honestly accept the reality, surrender their guns and go home to live their lives. This is the general trend and human nature.
Therefore, if there is no way to win a quick victory, it will be a dead end. Liu Zhian knows that he is dead. He just hopes to use his last stage of life to give his last breath to the Great Qin Empire that he is loyal to. After all, the Great Qin Empire is his belief.
It is the only pillar of support for him to survive until now.
"Don't count on the 31st Army. Let the troops launch defenses on the spot, dig trenches, and build fortresses! Requisition all the houses in nearby villages, and mobilize the people to participate in the construction!" Liu Zhian waved his hand and said to his adjutant.
In his opinion, the 31st Army that could not be contacted was obviously 80% surrendered. Without the protrusions of the 17th Army and the 31st Army, the Tang Army from the Wuyang direction would soon surround him. If he was not prepared,
It will be eaten in an instant.
The adjutant immediately stood at attention and saluted, agreed and left the headquarters. Liu Zhian looked at his guard captain and asked, "Are my family members here?"
"We're already here, right next door, General." The captain of the guard answered Liu Zhian's question with a somewhat sad expression.
Liu Zhian didn't say anything, and walked straight out of the headquarters, walked to the next room, and saw his wife, concubines, and children.
He looked at his son seriously, then at his wife, and forced out an ugly smile: "You have followed me for so many years, and the good days are finally over..."
As he spoke, he pulled out the pistol from his waist and asked his wife sadly: "As my husband sends you on your way, do you have any last wishes?"
"..." Liu Zhian's wife closed her eyes and stopped talking. She naturally knew that with Liu Zhian's temper, she would have to have such a day sooner or later. She didn't speak or beg for mercy. She just stood there waiting to die. On the contrary, she was standing next to her.
Liu Zhian's daughter started crying. Liu Zhian's son looked pale. He didn't want to die, but there was nothing he could do at this time.
"Bang!" A gunshot echoed in the room. Liu Zhian shot his wife to death with his own hands, and then shot his crying daughter to death without hesitation at all.
His concubine knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, but was shot to death. His son was so frightened that he peed his pants, but in the end he could not escape Liu Zhian's bullet.
The Qin general remained strong-willed until the end and ended up killing his whole family by himself without shedding a single tear.
Along with the gunshots one after another, the crying gradually subsided. The room was full of corpses and blood flowed into rivers...
On that day, the news that Liu Zhi'an had killed all his relatives and was determined to fight to the end spread to all the Qin army's branches. At the same time, the message broadcast by the Tang State that only the culprits would be killed was also sent to the Qin army.
A few hours later, the Qin garrison in the southern corner surrendered. The Qin garrison in Zhennancheng called back and claimed to accept the arrangement of Emperor Qin Yingduo's surrender edict and chose to surrender unconditionally to the Tang army.
The Tang army encountered no resistance along the way and arrived at the corresponding position. The hundreds of thousands of Qin troops were reduced to tens of thousands overnight, and they were surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Tang troops...
