District 9

Inside the Hurricane Mouth Mountains, Meng Xi had already received a call from Tengba himself, who asked him to temporarily hand over the troops to Bablu's command and ordered him to return to the headquarters immediately.

About an hour later, the plane carrying Meng Xi, Yang Liandong and others arrived at the headquarters of Tengba Army. At this time, the headquarters camp was completely tense. A large number of soldiers were transferring supplies, armaments and other items, obviously preparing to retreat.

Meng Xi and others got off the plane and strode into the main building. But before they entered the conference room where Tengba was, they heard a fierce quarrel inside.

"The battle outside the hurricane mouth is like a stupid pig-like command! If our troops did not leave the geographical defensive area, the forward corps would never be defeated so quickly!"

"Yes, he is using our soldiers as cannon fodder. He is a foreigner, and he does not care about the life and death of our soldiers."

"If we choose to station at the entrance of the hurricane, even if we cannot defeat the opponent, we will not be occupied by the enemy so quickly. We can also buy time for the evacuation of the rear troops... His command is too failed. I don't think so." Do you know why China District asked him to be the commander..."

"...!"

The fierce quarrel in the conference room had spread outside the door. Although the two parties communicated in local dialect, Meng Xi could still understand some harsh words.

Yang Liandong frowned and opened the door and was about to break in, but Meng Xi held him back and shook his head to indicate that he should go aside and wait for a while.

…

On the periphery, before the He troops carried out the general offensive, the bombers of the EU Zone 1 had already fully flown into the Draken Mountains, preparing to clear the ground with artillery shells with clear targets.

The Temba system's anti-aircraft firepower was in full swing, but its attack capabilities were very limited. Although they belong to the official army combat order, and the overall weapons and equipment are definitely a higher level than the Red Turban Army, but when faced with the air force of the European Union Zone 1, they instantly seemed inadequate.

The three major regions have provided a lot of military support to the Tengba faction, but this should not be able to deal with fire at a distance. It is impossible for the three major regions to fully arm friendly forces 20,000 kilometers away according to the standards of their own troops. Firstly, they do not have a transfer station like Xia Dao, which can continue to provide assistance and output to the Tengba Army; secondly, they do not have that strong economic strength; thirdly, the recent battlefield performance of the Tengba Army is also very inferior, and it has already taken the lead from the main force. The city was forced to flee, and much of its heavy firepower, large firepower, was lost in the engagement or captured by the enemy.

Once the bombers arrived, the Tengba Army had little ability to fight back. The opponent's modern fighters kept raising their altitude and were equipped with fire interception systems. Ordinary anti-aircraft guns could not reach them, and the accuracy they could hit was not necessarily high enough. Therefore, in the end, only two artillery units were conducting fairly effective interceptions.

However, the movement speed of bombers is unmatched by artillery combat units. Therefore, once their bomber group passes through the coverage area of ​​the air defense unit, the infantry units behind will have no choice but to stay in the mountain air raid shelter. Dodge.

Nearly a hundred bombers passed through the outer airspace of the Tengba family, entered the central hinterland where their main infantry force was entrenched, and began indiscriminate bombing for nearly twenty minutes.

There are not only soldiers from the Tengba Army and civilians accompanying the army, but also nearly thousands of Chinese transferred from the three major regions. Most of them are military engineering technicians. Their main task here is to assist in construction. .

In the large camps in the central hinterland, sharp air-raid sirens sounded, and the camps began to become chaotic. A large number of military personnel, soldiers, and Chinese began to evacuate toward the air-raid shelters in panic and fled.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"...!"

Dense and incessant explosions resounded throughout Draken, and the mountains were filled with artillery fire, as well as shattered fortifications and wreckage.

In the outer attack area of ​​​​Torsai, He Chong has ordered nearly 30,000 troops to attack the Tengba Army's defense area on this side alternately.

As mentioned before, the entrance to the mountains here is half narrower than the mouth of the hurricane, so He Chong's troops fought very steadily. The more difficult military defense areas were filled in with tanks and armored troops. Anyway, once these things are gone, EU Region 1 will also provide them with a second round of supplies.

…

In the headquarters compound.

After the meeting, Tengba was taken into the air-raid shelter by the security unit, where he met Meng Xi.

The two sat opposite each other, and Tengba said very straightforwardly: "Chief of Staff Meng, your strategy seems to have had no effect. Instead, it caused the enemy's general attack."

"Have you not noticed that the enemy is well aware of our army's military arrangement and troop deployment?" Meng Xi did not act impatient or eager to explain because of the defeat in the battle at the hurricane mouth. He rushed calmly. Temba said: "...Every move we make seems to be in each other's sight."

"The current battle situation is very chaotic. No unit's whereabouts can be completely hidden." Tengba frowned and asked: "I just want to know now, what do you think of the subsequent battle situation?"

"Commander, please continue to place the command with me." Meng Xi said bluntly.

"If we fail again, what should we do?" Tengba asked.

"...Commander, looking around the world, which commander dares to say that his troops are invincible?" Meng Xi looked at him and replied: "Losing is normal, because you are not strong enough, and my mission is to try my best to win." Do it in the direction of winning.”

Temba was silent.

"If I can't win, neither can your generals, Commander." Meng Xi stood up and said.

Tengba looked at Chief of Staff Meng, who was much younger than him and spoke a little wildly. After careful consideration for a while, he replied: "Okay, you continue to command. If we win, we will retreat together, my allies."

Meng Xi stretched out his palm: "Thank you for your trust, Commander!"

Five minutes later, Meng Xi and Yang Liandong left the air raid shelter and rushed to the front line again. In the name of the commander-in-chief of the Tengba Army, they ordered the troops on the two fronts of Torsai and Hurricane Mouth to fully shrink inland and prepare to abandon their original positions. Defense Zone, rushing deeper into the Draken Mountains.

On the way, Meng Xi contacted Xiao Ke, gritted his teeth and said to him: "Gather all the soldiers and officers we have sent to the Tengba Army to form a combat force of three thousand people."

"Yes!" Xiao Ke still trusted Meng Xi unconditionally.

"Also, you have people go to the arms depot to collect trucks, flamethrowers..." Meng Xi continued to explain to Xiao Ke.

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After the Tengba Army troops retreated at Torsai Pass, He Chong did not advance rashly. Instead, he kept adjusting the rhythm of the troops' attack and slowly encroached forward.

At the same time, Feng Lei's First Army, which had been stagnant before, also began to slowly enter the inner corridor of the hurricane mouth. Feng Lei himself was sitting in the car, holding a phone and shouting loudly: "Tell the Air Force, don't stop." We have bombed the enemy's main combat units. Sooner or later they will be crushed by the large corps. You need the air force to specifically attack the Tengba Army's logistics corps according to the locations we marked for it, and bomb the Chinese troops that came to assist in the construction of the three major districts. camp."