Chapter 670 : Surrounded!
Citi retreated! Or maybe Eisen could not resist the retreat in the end.
He is not a fool. In history, he was able to become a famous general, not luck, but strength, and he became a famous general and relying on his own strength.
After he got that the Han army had arrived in Sanhul with 800,000 troops, he felt something was wrong.
Then he found that Lu Yinglin's troops were slowing down the attack speed. When he looked on the map, he understood.
The Han army wanted to eat him. If Lu Yinglin had attacked with all his strength from the beginning, he would start to retreat early when he felt something was wrong.
In order to hold him back, the Han army gave him the illusion that it could block the Han army's attack and persevere until reinforcements arrived.
At the beginning, Eisen was indeed like this. He really thought he could persevere until the arrival of reinforcements.
But in the end, his staff told him that news came from the front line troops that the Han army seemed to be intentionally letting go of water, which immediately aroused his vigilance. After the 800,000 Han army troops arrived in Sanhul, a major northern town in Fayum, he understood.
The Han army was afraid that he would run away, so they slowed down the offensive and held him here. Then they wiped out him in one fell swoop.
In this case, he hesitated for a few minutes before giving the order.
Let the troops fight against the Han army several more waves of counterattacks when it gets dark, and to repel them a little, giving the Han army an impression that he is going to fight to the death.
Then retreat quickly at night and withdraw from Fayum.
The reinforcements behind will arrive tomorrow afternoon, which means they are only fifty or sixty kilometers away from Fayum.
A distance of fifty or sixty kilometers, they will run for one night tonight, and the two armies will meet at noon tomorrow.
Of course, Eisen would not let them continue to reinforce, but would let them retreat.
What are you doing with yourself? When you have a round, you have more troops! There are a total of 500,000!
However, the Han army has a fully mechanized unit of 300,000 and an armored cluster. When they charge forward, they will run away by themselves!
The 500,000 army is probably going to be eaten by the Han army again. He has experienced the combat effectiveness of Lu Yinglin's troops, and he is not going to experience it again.
To experience this kind of thing, he was seeking death. He was preparing to retreat to the Tutong area overnight and then retreat to Ikhnasiyemaidina.
At the same time, he also ordered the troops in Benesuver to take down Benesuver before tomorrow afternoon and eat up the Han army.
Eisen has calculated that even if the Han army dispatched an armored cluster, it would definitely not be possible to get one day from Fayum to Benesuver.
But two days are bound to come, so you must take them off by tomorrow afternoon.
Night begins to slowly fall, and today is the evening of the 16th.
Lu Yinglin stood behind and observed the war in front of him with a telescope. On both sides of him were the two hob meats, Chang Dapeng and Hu Lin.
"No! Citi actually launched a counter-charge! Who gave them the ability to launch a counter-charge? Do they still want to attack us with a counter-charge?"
Lu Yinglin put down his telescope and looked at Citi, which was constantly attacking, Lu Yinglin's brow frowned.
"Marson! Could it be that we were fighting too hard during the day today, and those Citigroups wanted to attack once and increase their morale?"
Chang Dapeng next to him asked.
"This may be! But it's very small! The Citi Commander is not a fool. They are not as good as us in terms of combat power or the firepower of the troops. And their numbers are already at a disadvantage. In this case, they want to attack once and increase morale. What if the offense fails? Just like now, their morale will only be lower. Things that are not sure about taking risks are not like what the Citi Commander will do!"
Lu Yinglin's brows frowned tightly. The fact that Citi launched a counterattack was very abnormal.
Lu Yinglin knew about Eisen. He knew that this person would not do such unwise things, especially if they attacked, they would most likely lose and damage their morale. Eisen would not do it.
"There must be something strange here!"
After thinking about it again, Lu Yinglin said to Chang Dapeng beside him: "Go and send orders to six tank divisions! Let them immediately take three mechanized infantry divisions to the south and west of Fayum. Now we only surrounded half of Fayum, and the other half was not surrounded.
You ask them to rush over and surround Fayum! Remember, don’t want them to attack, I just need them to defend the defense line, and our six mechanized infantry divisions will be responsible for the attack!"
Lu Yinglin thought about it again and again, but decided to surround Fayum.
I fought for a day today. Although the attack was not strong, according to Lu Yinglin's calculations, Citi's current military force in Fayum is estimated to be only about 200,000!
The three mechanized infantry divisions have about 54,000 people.
There are about eight thousand tank divisions.
These three mechanized infantry divisions plus six tank divisions, which is about 100,000 people!
However, tank soldiers account for half of them, and tank troops cannot defend like this. After all, the purpose of tanks is to attack.
Therefore, in terms of defense, the mechanized infantry division is the main force, and tanks can only serve as auxiliary forces.
In this way, more than 50,000 people from three mechanized infantry divisions would have to surround half of the Fayum area, which was easily broken through by Citi!
This is also the reason why Lu Yinglin was unwilling to disperse his troops like this before.
Night fell completely, and Citi's last wave of counterattack did not cause much casualties to the Han army. On the contrary, they themselves left many corpses.
At this time, Eisen was packing up his luggage, and asked someone to remove the command center and burn some documents.
"General! We have received information and the Han army surrounded Fayum. Now they have a total of about 1,000 tanks and more than 50,000 army troops in the south and west!"
A communications officer quickly ran to the revoked command center and found Eisen.
"What? They surrounded us? When did this happen?"
Aisen suddenly turned around and asked at the staff officer.
"I don't know! An hour ago, our reconnaissance troops went to investigate and found that the Han army was digging trenches there. Our reconnaissance troops tried to get close to them and found that they were quite large. Then we followed their encirclement to the northwest of Fayum and found that they surrounded us.
And our reconnaissance troops roughly estimate that they have more than 50,000 people!"
Chapter completed!