Zhao Chen's life in the past month was really not good. He was on tenterhooks and even a little scared, because he was facing a situation that he had never experienced before.
On the one hand, there was a ceasefire in the Fengjiang direction where he was responsible for attacking, and the frontline troops began to rest. This was a good thing for him, but the railway was like a fishbone lying across the place where he would attack in the future.
This is like a huge vase placed on the battlefield. Both warring parties must ensure that the vase will not break, otherwise no one will be responsible.
Such strange attack conditions gave Zhao Chen a thorn in his throat. He had been making a fuss around this railway, hoping to make the most of this "invincible" link.
Sadly, due to the greedy nature of the people below, the frontline troops are now in a very bad state. They are called rest but are actually degenerate, and their combat effectiveness has dropped sharply.
As the commander, Zhao Chen intended to manage it, but he couldn't move any of his subordinates. They all had connections or backgrounds.
It just so happens that this is a particularly sensitive period, and as the commander-in-chief, it is really not easy for him to directly deal with those corrupt worms.
Why not take action directly? This brings us to the second headache for Zhao Chen: His Majesty the Emperor is injured!
Zhao Kai's injury itself was not a big deal, but Prince Zhao Jili was so stunned that he didn't know what to think and rushed back to the imperial capital.
This was tantamount to poking a hornet's nest. Zhao Kai was furious, placed Zhao Ji under house arrest, and even started discussing the abolition of the reserve in the court.
Suddenly, the court became unstable, and the princes who had no chance at all became active one after another. For a time, these rats jumped up and down, making the entire court of the Great China Empire a mess.
If this had happened a year earlier, perhaps the officials would have cheered: Zhao Kai deposed Zhao Ji, and then everyone was relieved that Zhao Yu came to power. Everyone was happy. The Tang Empire had no excuse, and the Great China Empire was at least still alive.
I can survive for another three to five years.
But now Zhao Yu has become a rebel in Fengjiang. If Zhao Ji falls again, all that will be left will be a pile of mud that cannot hold up the wall. It is better to expect these princes who are less successful than others to inherit the throne.
Let's all just break up.
What time is it now? There is the powerful Qin in the west who is eyeing it, and the Tang Empire in the east that is coveting it. Someone with a brain may be able to persist, but if you find someone who is a little bit stupid, the Great China Empire will be destroyed in half a year.
The court was in chaos. The prime minister asked for the emperor's approval to resign, and the prince Zhao Ji was placed under house arrest. His majesty, the emperor, can only lie in bed to recuperate...
Under such circumstances, your frontline commander replaced the confidants of Zhao Kai and Zhao Ji, father and son, in the army. What on earth do you want to do?
Zhao Chen didn't know what he wanted to do. He only knew that if he really wanted to kill the emperor's confidants, he would definitely be labeled as a rebel prince.
The third thing is also very interesting. Because of the chaos in the rear, the quantity of supplies has really entered a random mode: if Shen Chuan of the Ministry of War intervenes, there will be more supplies, but if Shen Shangshu does not inquire, then there will be very few supplies.
Under such circumstances, it was very difficult to keep the troops from defecting, and Zhao Chen had no control over the corruption of the troops.
As soon as the ceasefire treaty expired, Zhao Chen hurriedly began to organize an attack around the southern cities far away from the railway zone. As a result, something went wrong with this attack.
The two divisions deployed in the frontline city surrendered directly. The Dahua troops following these two divisions were divided and surrounded before they could figure out the situation, and then they also surrendered their guns.
That's right, an entire army of more than 70,000 people, including weapons and ammunition, surrendered to the enemy with almost no fighting. This may be the largest unit in history that directly surrendered to the enemy without being surrounded by the enemy.
Already.
Under the leadership of this force, some surrounding Dahua troops also began to surrender. These troops even had white flags ready, which is called a proficiency.
Immediately after contacting Fengjiang's troops, the Dahua army rushed to surrender to the enemy: they were afraid that if it was too late, they would be transferred and lose the chance to surrender.
"Hello? What do you mean by surrender? Tell me clearly! Tell me clearly? Hello? Hello!" The officer holding the phone asked angrily, but there was no voice in the receiver to answer him.
On the other side of the table, another officer from the Great China Empire was also looking for his own troops. The two divisions he commanded were the main force. Before the ceasefire, they were the offensive pacesetters, and they were very capable trump cards.
But now, someone said that he saw white flags erected on the positions in charge of these two divisions. The phone could not be connected. He was trying to find a way to contact his troops. He did not believe that his troops would surrender to the enemy so simply...
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"Tell me clearly! A regiment's position is gone when it is gone? What do you do for food? Hey! What the hell are you talking about! Bastard!" In the distance, there was an officer who threw the phone receiver down in anger.
on board.
The surrounding non-commissioned officers and civilians watched in horror as their superiors went so crazy, instinctively feeling that the situation in the battle might not be good. They were right, because there were problems with many of the positions in Fengjiang City.
Seeing his subordinates busy in a huddle and even starting to lose their composure, Zhao Chen smiled bitterly and walked back to his office.
It's not like he hasn't told these commanders that the people below have frequent private exchanges with Fengjiang, but who of these people will listen to him?
They often used the excuse that the soldiers had no food to eat to fend off Zhao Chen's questions, and even passed the responsibility to the procurement department and transportation department in the rear.
Zhao Chen had no choice, because he had indeed personally checked the supplies of the soldiers. There was no food available, and the quality of the things they needed was extremely poor... If he investigates the smuggling issue again, the hungry soldiers may directly
There was a mutiny.
The result is that he can't control these problems and can only allow them to accumulate little by little and get deep into his bones. Now that it's better, the problem has exploded. No one can do anything but let the situation collapse.
Finally, when the chain reaction began to subside, Zhao Chen discovered that after three months of hard work, almost all of the urban area of Fengjiang that they finally captured had been taken back by Fengjiang troops.
Yes, Zhao Chen lost almost all of Fengjiang City... They must fight back now, at least before the bad news is spread back to the imperial capital!
All the generals under Zhao Chen were like lost dogs. Now they finally realized the seriousness of the problem.
The court itself was already in chaos, and if the news of their frontline's defeat spread back, His Majesty the Emperor would be so furious that he might kill a few chickens as a warning to the remaining monkeys.
"General... no! Your Majesty! Save this subordinate! Save this lowly official!" An officer burst into tears and knelt on the ground when he broke into Zhao Chen's office. He also knew that he had lost tens of thousands of people, and he had also destroyed the entire city.
The main defense area was lost, and this responsibility was definitely enough to kill someone. So at this moment, he could only come to Zhao Chen to ask him to give him a way out.
If Zhao Chen really didn't give him face, then his whole family would probably die. Therefore, this general's kneeling is called skillful, and his kneeling is called simple.
"Get up! What a panic!" Zhao Chen walked over and wanted to help this poor guy with a runny nose, but before he could help him up, a second person broke in and knelt on the ground.
People rushed in one after another, and everyone knelt on the ground, so Zhao Chen had no idea of helping them up.
So Zhao Chen could only walk back to his seat, look at the senior generals kneeling in front of him, and ask: "Then... what do you want me to do?"
"Your Majesty...you guys are brave. Please allow us to perform meritorious deeds for ten days! No! Five days! We will surely regain the lost position!" The leading general quickly lowered his head and spoke out what they were thinking.
Come.
That's right, their idea is very simple: let's conceal this kind of thing first, and then everyone can regain the lost position, and then we'll talk about it!
But Zhao Chen knew that most of the generals kneeling in front of him didn't have many troops anymore. So he asked out of curiosity, hoping to get a reasonable explanation.
As a result, when he heard this, he became even more angry: This group of people planned to ask the follow-up troops to borrow people: the follow-up troops went out to fight, and the vacant positions were just empty pay. And if they borrowed the troops to fight back, they would at most
I only lost a few dollars, but at least my head was saved.
Zhao Chen, who was extremely angry and laughed, finally saved face for these people: after all, many of them were Zhao Kai's people. If the matter really got serious, he, Zhao Chen, could not escape responsibility and would definitely be dealt with by Zhao Kai.
So Zhao Chen simply pretended to be a loser. It would be good for him or me, and it would be really good if everyone was good.
The funny thing is yet to come: these generals who were ready to make meritorious deeds went to the rear troops to borrow people, only to find that these rear troops were already eating a lot of empty pay. The most ruthless local troops, even a battalion in a regiment,
Can't get it together.
In the end, this plan had to be abandoned. These generals of the Great China Empire shamelessly went to discuss with the Fengjiang defenders behind Zhao Chen's back.
They paid for it, and even used a large part of the materials and arms to pay off their debts, and bought back part of the lost part of Fengjiang City...
You read that right, they paid to buy a part of the city that had been turned into ruins and sent it over. Then Zhao Chen had to sign the battle report they wrote, admitting that in the past two days, the Fengjiang rebels
The fierce counterattack resulted in huge losses for both sides, and many troops of the Chinese Army suffered heavy losses...
