Steel Dynasty - Chapter 1176

[Chapter 1163 Frontline]

Venice.

Franz came here after the imperial army arrived. When he saw the imperial soldiers armed to the teeth, his gloomy mood suddenly improved.

“Your Majesty Franz, this is Ye Qingyun, commander of the Southwest Military Region, one of the six military regions of the empire.” Lu Jun introduced to Franz.

The situation in Europe deteriorated in an instant, so Ye Qingyun was transferred to the city of Suez to temporarily take charge of European affairs.

After all, as the empire deploys troops all over the world, the jurisdiction of the six military regions can no longer be limited to the country, but has to look at the world.

“Commander Ye, I am very happy that you can come to Austria.” Franz was a little surprised. After signing the treaty with the empire, he made up for the situation in the empire and was very aware of the weight of the military commander.

Just from this point, it was enough to see that the empire attached great importance to Austria, which made him very happy.

“Protecting the allies is the responsibility of the empire, and of course it is also my responsibility.” Ye Qingyun smiled. Lu Jun was from the Southwest Military Region. Because of this, he was ordered to come here to direct the war in person.

Already exhausted at home, he came here by boat as soon as he received the order. At the same time, he also took out 36 tanks that had just been equipped by the Southwest Army and brought them here.

The tanks are now being lifted off the transport ship.

Ye Qingyun’s words made Franz even more confident. He said: “The situation in Austria is urgent now, and I hope Commander Ye can save his life.”

Hearing this, Ye Qingyun’s expression became serious, and he said: “In this case, I hope that your Majesty will save the lives of Austrians .”

The situation and the specific situation in the war zone tell us that the first batch of landing troops this time is only 8,000 people. I will lead these 8,000 people to stop the advancement of France and Prussia. Follow-up reinforcements from the empire will arrive one after another until our All the enemies have been driven out of Austria.”

After a pause, Ye Qingyun continued: “But this battle involves cooperation between the Austrian and imperial armies. I hope that your majesty can send troops to participate in the war to cooperate with us in running-in exercises during this period. Leave the command of the battlefield to us.”

Franz was stunned for a moment. The command of the army was a very sensitive matter, but thinking of the crisis of national annihilation facing Austria, he gritted his teeth and nodded.

At this time, in order to appease Franz, Ye Qingyun specially led Franz to visit the empire’s equipment.

When he saw machine guns, mortars, tanks, and personnel carriers that he had never seen before, Franz had a big smile on his face.

In his opinion, they had hope of victory in this war.

In the next six days, Ye Qingyun and Lu Jun were not idle. They divided their forces into two groups, marching all the way north to fight Prussia, and all the way west to fight France.

At the same time, they took over the temporary command of the Austrian army on the battlefield and completed the coordination drill between the two armies in six days.

In Article 7, Ye Qingyun led four thousand imperial soldiers to personally go north to deal with Henry’s French army.

He was interested in the battle-hardened French army, which only used imperial equipment.

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Paris.

When Henry learned that the imperial army had landed in Venice, his expression changed drastically. From the beginning, he did not believe that the empire would really help Austria, which was absolutely weak, but now facts have proved everything.

Faced with the Haikou he boasted about, he couldn’t back down now.

After a brief hesitation, he immediately ordered the frontline army to immediately select a backup officer. Once the main officer was shot and killed, the backup officer would immediately take over, so that the army would not be in chaos after losing the officer.

The reason why Henry made this decision was because he considered the existence of imperial snipers. During the war to unify France, he saw the power of imperial snipers.

It is conceivable that now it is his turn to face these terrifying battlefield gods.

“I really should have kept those three snipers.” Henry regretted it. After the Austrian withdrawal, the three snipers of the empire left. At that time, he had not fallen out with the empire.

At the same time, Ferrie II also received the news soon. After being slightly stunned, Ferrie II also did not choose to retreat.

Like Henry, now they were strapped into the chariot, and this battle with the Empire had to be fought.

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Vaduz.

After leaving Venice, Ye Qingyun arrived at the war front line after a day’s trek.

When the imperial soldiers arrived at the trench-filled battlefield in green-painted military transport vehicles, the entire Austrian army boiled.

They had learned that the country and the empire had signed an agreement, so they were mentally prepared for the arrival of the imperial army.

Ye Qingyun got off his military jeep and waved to the Austrian soldiers in the trenches. Also coming down with him was Franz’s eldest son Obinna.

The 24-year-old Austrian prince insisted on coming to the front line with Ye Qingyun and cooperating with Ye Qingyun’s command of the Austrian army.

After getting out of the car, Obina immediately summoned the officers to meet with Ye Qingyun and announced Franz’s decision.

“There are currently 60,000 Austrian soldiers here. Vaduz is an extremely important city for us. If it is occupied by France, Vienna will directly face the threat of France.” Obina introduced to Ye Qingyun.

Ye Qingyun nodded. He had a good impression of Obina, a humble young man. This time they arrived here first. Austria’s 40,000 reinforcements were still on the way and it was estimated that it would take three days to arrive.

In order to prevent the Vaduz front from collapsing, he arrived here early.

Facing a two-front battlefield, even though Austria has strong national strength, it is still too much to bear. After Ye Qingyun’s understanding, Austria’s veterans on the front line have lost a lot, and they are all on the front line.

Those who came later were just new soldiers, and the 40,000 people supported this time were the new soldiers.

“With me here, Vaduz’s defense line is as solid as a rock.” Ye Qingyun was very confident.

After saying that, he immediately asked the machine gunners to enter the trenches and build machine gun positions in the trenches.

Most of the empire’s support materials for France are rifles, and the artillery is direct-fire artillery, but when combined with explosive ammunition, it is still quite powerful.

Therefore, the real threat to them on the battlefield is these artillery. As long as the enemy’s artillery is destroyed, their pressure will be much less.

The best target to suppress this kind of direct-fire artillery is undoubtedly a sniper. After all, the empire’s sniper rifles have a long range and can completely suppress the enemy’s artillery. So he ordered the snipers to enter the battlefield to find suitable shooting points to kill the French army’s artillery.

Of course, this is not the big killer this time. Thirty-six liang tanks are his weapon to break through the French army this time.

For him, offense is the best defense, and he is too lazy to waste time squatting in the trenches.

(End of chapter)