Chapter 694: Before the counterattack

"We should let the 2nd Division of Yan State and the 12th Infantry Regiment of the 3rd Brigade retreat from this direction for twenty miles. The 13th Infantry Regiment covered the retreat of its 12th Infantry Regiment." In the army retreat plan, the staff of the Qin State Staff Headquarters were quite diligent, and they had already worked out a marching route for the retreat of the Yan army. The plan has been detailed to the point where the infantry regiment serves as cover and the infantry regiment retreats. Then the plan will be sent out by telegram. Although it is a bit long, the Qin State Military Observer Group can do the same. In fact, the Qin State Military Observer Group served more than two-thirds of the military command of the Yan Army. In addition to the frontal large-scale offensive and transfer. They are responsible for the distribution of supplies for the Yan army. This is Qin's aid to Yan's military materials, the replacement of weapons, and the training of soldiers are all done by the Qin Army's Military Observation Group.

Most importantly, Qin Jun also supported the Yan Jun with an aerial protective umbrella, although this umbrella would not be of much use now. But it still existed before. Qin State is busy cutting military expenditures. The remarks of the two factions were arguing endlessly in the newspaper. These disputes reduced Qin's work efficiency. Because fighting over, fighting over, nothing can be resolved. This gave the Qin government no time to straighten out Qin's terrible situation. In particular, the military has issued additional airpower. But the government did nothing at this point. King Qin had to weigh the pros and cons of the excessive growth of military expenditure.

In the "Report on Strengthening the Military Air Force on the Eastern Front", the Qin Army Staff Headquarters clearly told the Shangwen cabinet government. Airpower must be dispatched in time. Because Wang Jian had a hunch that things were not going well. Especially Yan's attitude to withdraw troops. Ju Xin came in anxiously, but after receiving the order from Qin State to retreat. So he started to shirk, or he just ignored Shangwen's call without giving any reply. This attitude makes Wang Jian feel bad. Because only King Yan can issue the retreat. Obviously King Yan was blinded by the benefits in front of him. The country of Yan has expanded its territory. No way to retreat.

But this felt very passive to Qin State. Because next will be in an extremely passive military and diplomatic environment. For this reason, Wang Jian reminded Shang Wen several times that he could not increase troops. Then withdraw the army. Either take the initiative to retreat to the national border of Yan State, or it is away from Zhao State Highway No. 3. A highway leading directly to Yandu, Yan State. The highway started and stopped, and it was slowly repaired because of Yan Guo's continued opposition.

It is best for the Qin army to withdraw from Highway 3 to the territory of Zhao State. Then turn into South Korea and return to the mainland. For such suggestions. Shang Wen thinks it is feasible. So let the telegrapher send the report to King Qin. King Qin directly gave orders to the Guowei Mansion. Let it retreat.

The order was soon transferred to the airport on the eastern line of the Qin Army. The Qin army began to retreat quickly. Because that's what the telegram says.

"Your ministry will retreat all within three days to within the border of Yan State. Materials are distributed, destroyed, and quickly withdrawn."

The content of such a telegram was received. The Qin army retreated quickly, their personnel were originally not many. But the material reserves are large.

"Report sir. What should we do with our ammunition and fuel reserves?" a major logistics supply officer ran over and asked. When the order is issued. The supply officer thought this was too difficult. Because the Qin Army stockpiled a large amount of military supplies and aircraft fuel on the Eastern Front, these fuels were originally used on combat aircraft, but now they are no longer needed. Moreover, the Qin Army did not supply tracked vehicles on the Eastern Front. Especially large traction equipment such as tractors are used to tow material vehicles. It is impossible to transfer the fuel in a short period of time.

"Specifically, what do we have?" the base commander asked.

"We still have tens of thousands of boxes of ammunition. These ammunition include more than 7,000 boxes of rifle ammunition, pistol ammunition and machine gun ammunition. More than 900 boxes are loaded with various aviation bombs. The rest are some artillery ammunition and grenades. These materials, We have no way to move away overnight. And that is. There is no item on the list of these supplies that can be given to Yan Jun. The above means that Yan Jun cannot be transferred to Qi Jun. If this is the case, the entire front line will accelerate its collapse. Yes." The major's supply officer said anxiously.

"En. I understand this." The base commander said.

"Since we can't take it. We can't stay. Then destroy them. As for the clothing, food and so on. Give it to the Yan army. All those weapons and ammunition are blown up in a concentrated manner. The oil is also, blow him up, destroy him , Burn him. In short, fast." The base commander issued an order.

"Yes, sir." The major supply officer saluted and left.

"Quickly, install the detonator and connect the wire." A Marine Corps engineer sergeant loudly ordered a corporal to install the detonator on the safety yellow explosive.

The corporal quickly ran back dragging the wire.

"Are you connected? Corporal." The sergeant asked.

"Okay," the corporal replied.

"Connect the line, we are going to blow up." The sergeant commanded.

"The wires are connected." An engineer shouted loudly.

"Blow up." The sergeant gave an order.

"Boom. Boom." There was a burst of huge explosions, and Qin Jun destroyed all the ammunition in his base. The huge explosion made the earth tremble.

And on the other side. The other troops of the Qin Army are also destroying everything they can destroy.

"Open all and pour it out. Hurry up. Hurry up." A ground crew lieutenant instructed the ground crew to open all the gasoline tanks in the fuel depot and then toss them down. Soldiers of the Qin Army cannot use swords and axes to destroy, because sparks will be generated.

"Then, that, can you give us some gasoline?" the two Marine Corps privates asked cautiously.

"Guys of impolite manners, hasn't it happened to see that there is still one with epaulettes?" the second lieutenant cursed. Among the ranks of the Qin Army, the second lieutenant does not wear any badges as signs. That is, there are only epaulettes and nothing at all. Therefore, in general, with epaulettes especially refers to the rank of second lieutenant.

"Sir, I'm sorry, sir. We didn't see it." The two privates saluted immediately.

"Well, time is running out. I am too lazy to teach you. There is a lot of gasoline here. If you want to burn it to death, take it away." The ensign said angrily.

"Yes, sir, thank you sir." The two privates quickly left with two gasoline drums.

"Keep on working." The ensign ordered.

Then the destruction continued, and at night. A raging fire began to ignite in the base. The fire lit up the entire base. And Qin Jun's other places. Such as tower post, bunker. Inside the bunker. There are fires everywhere. These fires swallowed the entire Qin Army base.

"Look. The fire. What happened to the Qin Army base?" A Yan Army soldier looked in the direction of the blazing Qin Army base in surprise.

"Qin Gou is going to **** off." An veteran looked at the flames over there blankly.

"Goodbye. Goodbye. I will miss you. Hahahaha." At this time, the retreating Qin army passed by the Yanjun camp. To express the excitement of retreat. Qin Jun took the initiative to say hello.

"Go away. Go away. Coward." Yan Jun yelled and cursed.

"Get off." A Yan Jun clerk poured out a basin of water.

"Hahaha." Qin Jun laughed loudly.

"This is for you." As he said, Qin Jun kindly handed out the supplies they distributed. can. Sausages, bread and other foods were thrown to the Yanjun soldiers.

"Fuck it." The Yanjun soldier cursed, bending over to pick up the supplies. The supplies that Qin Jun sent to them had already been hoarded by Yan Jun's supply officer. These supplies can be sold to locals for a little money.

And these supplies will not be given to soldiers who can only eat all day but can't do anything.

Qin Jun quickly withdrew from the front line. Only the burning airport is left. Yan Jun's soldiers watched Qin Jun disappear blankly. They don't know when they can go home.

If you run away, you will be hung up alive and beaten to death. The Yan army's handling of deserters became more and more severe, because the phenomenon of escape occurred every day. Even if they can escape the barracks, they cannot escape the guerrillas outside. Only a few people returned home. But even so, the escape phenomenon still occurs.

The morale of Yan's army fell extremely. The opposite is Qi Jun. Qi Jun is already actively preparing for a big counterattack. In order to make up for the lack of artillery, the Qi army prepared a large number of barrel guns. The accuracy of the barrel guns was poor, but they were powerful. Although the firing range was short, the Qi army quickly invented a digging tactic.

All over the front line were Qi army soldiers digging trenches with shovels. These soldiers from farmers are no strangers to digging trenches. They can advance ten miles a day. But they only need to dig a certain distance. Because the rest is all about the Qi Army’s iron barrel cannon.

Barrel guns require a lot of black powder. This drastically reduced the amount of black powder on the market. But this still cannot meet the needs of Qi Jun. And at this time. In the name of providing black gunpowder, the State of Chu asked their military observation group to visit the Qi army. Qi Jun naturally agreed to such a proposal, but Qi Jun himself had a look at it. They began to develop and configure their own black powder. In order to produce their own black powder.

In this way, Chu State continued to sell black powder to Qi Jun. The Qi army continued to manufacture a large number of barrels of cannons to deploy to the front line for fire preparation. In order to reduce the amount of gold used. Black powder purchased by Qi State. Qi Jun also sold his own special product, the imitation Qin Kingdom 17 pistol. This kind of pistol soon spread in Chu country. Moreover, the Chu State Military Observer Group also suggested that its own country set up a small-scale commando combat method like Qi State.

With the completion of the excavation of the traffic ditch, a large number of barrel guns began to enter their gun positions, everything was ready, the gunpowder on the front line had been disbursed, and everything was waiting for the counterattack.