Warlord: Red Alert Base, I challenge the whole world alone

"What? The 21st Division surrendered, and Tong Yong committed suicide?"

This news was like a bolt from the blue, which made Cao Guofeng, the commander of the Anding Army, feel his scalp numb and fear surge in his heart.

The 21st Division was finished before they even got out of Zhangqiu.

This means that they are caught in a pincer attack from both sides by the Restoration Army.

Moreover, He Banshan and Zhu Jiayu are their last line of defense.

There is a vast expanse of land between Zhangqiu and Daguanzhuang...

Cao Guofeng knew very well what this meant.

"What a loser! The 21st Division has over men and women, and they're fighting on difficult terrain, yet they couldn't even gain a whole morning. Damn it! Damn it!"

However, Tong Yong had already committed suicide, which also showed his loyalty to Yuan Shicheng, which made Cao Guofeng unable to say anything more.

Otherwise, he would have to take Tong Yong to Quancheng.

But judging from the current situation, their hope of retreating to Quancheng is very slim.

"All troops immediately retreat to Zhangqiu and build a defense line with Zhangqiu County as the core."

In desperation, Cao Guofeng could only issue this order.

Now their only hope is that the reinforcements from the Quancheng defense line can open up the Daguanzhuang passage.

But the 7th Mechanized Infantry Division's defense line was as solid as the Great Wall.

The 35th Division suffered more than casualties due to artillery and bombing. It is unknown how many more lives will be lost before this line of defense can be broken.

But Duan Yunfeng gave a death order, requiring the recapture of Daguanzhuang and the opening of the defense line to Zhangqiu.

If Duan Yunfeng allowed the Anding Army and Anyuan Army to be defeated by the Fuxing Army, his political career would be over.

The Anwu Army is finished. If it loses the Anding Army and the Anyuan Army, the Northern Frontier Army will be severely damaged.

No one can afford this price.

Just when Duan Yunfeng wanted to send more reinforcements to Daguanzhuang, bad news came.

The main force of the Fuxing Army appeared in the area south of Longhe River in Qiyang.

This force moved south along the road on the south bank of the Long River and posed a threat to Quancheng's flank defense line.

You should know that the south bank of Qi Yang is only more than 30 kilometers away from Quancheng.

This also forced Duan Yunfeng to give up the idea of continuing to send reinforcements.

He knew very well that the main force of the Fuxing Army appeared in Qi Yang at this time in order to tie down their forces.

But he knew this, but there was nothing he could do.

"I'm afraid Quancheng can't be defended!"

Duan Yunfeng knew in his heart that the fall of Quancheng was inevitable, but he didn't dare say it out loud.

If these words came out of the mouth of him, the commander-in-chief, it would be a huge blow to morale.

Although morale may seem illusory, it can often determine the victory of any war.

However, we cannot let Cao Guofeng give up easily.

So Duan Yunfeng personally sent a telegram to Cao Guofeng.

"I have already sent out more reinforcements and am working to open up Daguanzhuang. Your troops will coordinate their attacks and attack the enemy forces in Daguanzhuang from both front and back. Recapture Daguanzhuang at all costs."

This telegram also gave Cao Guofeng a glimmer of hope.

Let the remnants of the 15th Division and the 16th Division garrison Zhangqiu County and make sure to stop the Fifth Motorized Infantry Division of the Fuxing Army coming from the east.

He himself led the 17th Division, which still had relatively intact combat effectiveness, to reinforce the 13th and 14th Divisions of the Anyuan Army.

In the command center of the 7th Mechanized Infantry Division, Liang Yuming looked at the offensives of both sides on the sand table and sneered.

"As a mechanized unit, our 7th Mechanized Infantry Division is best at attacking, not defending.

Order the 21st and nd Battalions of the th Tank Regiment and the st Mechanized Infantry Regiment on the eastern front to immediately launch a counterattack and repel the enemy offensive from Zhangqiu."

After the eastern front troops received the order, the deputy commander of the 7th Mechanized Infantry Division, who was in command, immediately organized the troops to launch a counterattack.

The attacking force of the 13th Infantry Division of the Anyuan Army, which was launching an attack on the eastern defense line of Daguanzhuang, was immediately subjected to an extended barrage of fire from the artillery unit of the th Mechanized Infantry Division.

Directly split their attacking force into two.

Under the covering fire of the barrage, the attacking forces in the front could not retreat, and the attacking forces in the rear could not move forward.

"Armored troops, charge!"

One after another, the Leopard medium tanks drove out of the defense line like tigers out of the cage.

Hundreds of BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles followed closely behind.

Soon an unstoppable torrent of steel formed on the plain.

Just as Liang Yuming said, what they are best at is attacking.

"Tanks! They're the Restoration Army's tanks! Their tanks are coming!"

"Run!"

But there was an endless barrage of bullets behind them, and if they wanted to run, they could only rush through the artillery line.

This is no different from gambling with your life.

"Whoosh whoosh..."

The rocket artillery battalion, which approached to within only 6 kilometers, launched a round of covering rocket artillery fire on the front-line attacking forces of the 13th Division.

Continuous explosions sounded among the crowd, and flames bloomed one after another among the crowd.

It caused massive casualties and widespread chaos to the offensive forces of the 13th Division of the Anyuan Army.

Under the cover of artillery fire, the Leopard tank troops rushed directly into the crowd like a tiger into a flock of sheep.

The attacking force of the 13th Division was directly dispersed.

The mechanized infantry regiment in the rear followed up and launched a joint attack on the scattered defenders.

In less than 10 minutes, the attacking force was either killed or surrendered.

At this time, the Leopard Tank Regiment was already pursuing the retreating 13th Division.

“Boom…Boom…”

The remaining artillery on the Northern Frontier Army side also became furious and fired shells at the Leopard tank cluster that was charging.

But the number of their artillery pieces was too small, only a dozen or so, and they could not form a large-scale bombardment.

Therefore, it poses no threat to the Leopard tank cluster.

To stop the impact of a cluster of Leopard tanks, at least more than 50 medium and large caliber artillery pieces are needed.

Faced with the tank cluster sweeping from the rear, the 13th Division immediately went from retreat to defeat.

This defeat was fatal to the 14th Division's defense line in the rear.

Driven by a cluster of Panther tanks, the fleeing troops directly broke through the 14th Division's defense line.

This also allowed the armored forces to rush into the 14th Division's defense line through the gap created by the fleeing soldiers.

The collapse happened like dominoes, and it's contagious.

The defeat of the 13th Division not only broke through the defense line of the 14th Division, but also caused the defeat of the 14th Division.

The large-scale defeat of the Northern Frontier Army also prompted the Fuxing Army to increase its offensive efforts.

Each Panther medium tank is like a reckless man.

When encountering a crowd, they don't even fire, but just run over them.

"Surrender, we surrender, don't kill us!"

Seeing that they could not escape, more and more Northern Frontier troops dropped their weapons and surrendered.

The 16th Mechanized Infantry Regiment did not open fire on the Northern Frontier Army who had abandoned their weapons. Instead, they sent out troops to capture them all.

Soon the 14th Division's defense line was also broken.

While the 16th Mechanized Infantry Regiment was still busy capturing prisoners, dozens of Leopard tanks from the 7st and nd Battalions of the th Tank Regiment were already fighting like crazy and continued to charge forward.

Then they directly ran into the 17th Division of Cao Guofeng's army which was coming to reinforce from the direction of Zhangqiu County.

When Cao Guofeng saw the tank cluster shrouded in smoke and dust in the distance, his face changed drastically.

At this time, he knew that the 13th and 14th Divisions were finished.

"Damn it! Build a defense line immediately and stop them!"

On the plains, infantry cannot stop the charge of a tank cluster unless they have complete fortifications.

But the 17th Division had nothing.

When the two sides collided, it was like a tsunami.

The 17th Division's defense line was broken at the first touch and was penetrated without any resistance.

At this time, the 7th Tank Regiment also discovered that the mechanized infantry regiment in the rear had not caught up yet.

Therefore, they temporarily suspended their attack on Zhangqiu County and instead turned around to continue attacking the already chaotic Northern Xinjiang 17th Division.

After going back and forth several times, the 17th Division had been divided into pieces.

The two battalions of the 16th Mechanized Infantry Regiment finally caught up.

At this moment, the 16th Mechanized Infantry Regiment was cursing.

The 7th Tank Regiment rushed so fast that they couldn't keep up.

So the 17th Division followed in the footsteps of the two divisions of the Anyuan Army.

The battle lasted until after 4 p.m.

Under the armored assault of the 6000th Mechanized Infantry Division, more than 2 people from the three main divisions of the Northern Xinjiang Army were annihilated and more than were captured. Cao Guofeng led more than people to break through the Lushan Mountain defense line and plunged into the mountains.

For the 7th Mechanized Infantry Division, this was a great victory.

The 5th Motorized Infantry Division also formed a comprehensive encirclement of Zhangqiu County and launched an offensive overnight.

The two defeated armies had no morale to continue fighting without a leader.

At around 4 a.m., most of the remaining troops surrendered to the th Motorized Infantry Division, and Zhangqiu County was also occupied.

From then on, the battle of Zhangqiu came to an end.

In this battle, three divisions of the Anwu Army, three divisions of the Anding Army, and two divisions of the Anyuan Army were killed or surrendered, and more than 100,000 elite troops from the Northern Frontier were destroyed.

The 34th, 107th and 109th Divisions were also involved.

At this moment, there were only more than 70,000 defenders left in the direction of Quancheng.

The Battle of Zhangqiu also completely changed the war situation in Qidong Province, and the situation on the Northern Frontier Army's side took a sharp turn for the worse.

When Yuan Shicheng received the battle report from Quancheng, he felt dizzy.

At this moment, it was as if the sky had fallen for him.

In just a short period of time, more than two and a half of the five armies were destroyed, and Quancheng was in even greater danger.

"Retreat! Let Duan Yunfeng lead his troops to the north bank of the Dragon River for defense."

The Northern Frontier Army can no longer afford major losses.

If these tens of thousands of people in Quancheng were to be wiped out by the Renaissance Army again.

Then the Northern Frontier Army will enter the countdown to its demise.

Although he still has hundreds of thousands of troops under his command.

But the five armies are the real core of the Northern Frontier Army.

An elite force cannot be compared with an ordinary force.

An elite force of 1000 men can even defeat an ordinary force of to or even tens of thousands of men.

The core of winning with fewer troops is actually elite troops.

Because only elite veterans know how to attack and how to protect themselves, and they even know how to fight without orders from their superiors.

The situation in Qidong Province developed so quickly that it exceeded everyone's expectations.

Jiang Hua didn't expect that the Northern Frontier would give up Quancheng so decisively.

Since that’s the case, Gu Zhengyang won’t be polite either.

The 8th Motorized Infantry Division was the first to enter the city, and Quancheng, the last important town in Qidong Province, was also recaptured.

From then on, Qidong Province completely fell into the hands of the Fuxing Army.

The war in Qidong Province has ended, and Jiang Hua turned his attention to the homeland of Fuso.

The three brigades of B-29 strategic bomber units have been formed, and the next step is to carry out strategic bombing operations on the Japanese mainland.

(The storyline in Qidong Province is over. Next up is bombing Fusang and farming. There will be an update in the evening. I'm also asking for a small reward and some gifts from my godfathers.)