Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 691
Except for the three armies in the Southwest European theater led by Gao Ning, on the other hand, the three armies in the Southern European theater (including two Italian armies) led by Shang Zhonghe also made great strides.

The Ming army sent troops from Chambery and directly launched the Battle of Lyon. This important French city was broken after only four and a half days under the defense of the Qing army.On the Mediterranean coast, the Ming army and the Italian army also successively conquered important cities such as Nice and Marseille, complementing the friendly forces operating in the north.

Bai Mingxiu had settled for the lack of coping ability of the Xiqing side. In November, the 24th year of the recovery, a total of four large-scale battles were set off, which shocked the world.

In Slovenia, an Italian territory, the 19th Army of the Ming Dynasty and the 3rd Army of the Italian Army marched out of Maribor along the plains and valleys in the Alps and entered Austria.

At the foot of the Alps with pleasant scenery but ice and snow, the Ming army equipped with a large number of snow light assault vehicles gallops across the beautiful mountains and rivers. Then a brilliant artillery fire flooded their positions.

On this side, another Ming army sent troops from Croatia and invaded Hungary.At this time, the Qing army had dispatched a large number of tanks and artillery to France, and the troops in Hungary were already considered second-line troops, so they couldn't resist the frontal charge of hundreds of tanks from Ming Dynasty, and they were quickly defeated.

In the direction of Yijing, the two-week bombardment made the Qing army tense up, preparing to deal with the forced landing of the Ming army.But the Qing army never expected that the Ming army chose to land from Greece.At this time, the Kingdom of Greece has completely fallen to Ming, and opened up its own port for the Ming army. The Ming army was able to successfully land on the coast of Greece, and loaded and unloaded a large amount of heavy war equipment.

On the shore of the Aegean Sea, a large number of Ming tanks and armored vehicles galloped on the road between the sea and the sky, and raided the city of Ipsala in the Western Qing Dynasty.The Qing army didn't react at all, and was suddenly broken by the Ming army.In order to guard against the enemy on the other side of the strait, the Qing army surrounded Yijing with a large number of troops in three layers, but the defenses in other places were relatively empty, which also left Daming with a chance.

After discovering that the Ming army had landed suddenly, the hurried Qing army immediately mobilized troops in an attempt to reorganize the defense line.However, when the Qing army transferred six divisions in an attempt to prevent the Ming army from landing in Greece, the 22nd Army of the Marine Corps of the Ming Army, the 9th Army of the Army Ace, and the 29th Army of the Army launched a large-scale landing operation.The Ming army, which completely controlled the sea, almost filled the entire Sea of ​​Marmara with ships. Under the cover of overwhelming artillery fire and bombing, a large number of Ming troops landed on the European land on the other side of the strait.

Only at this time did the Qing army know that the troops that landed from Greece were not the main force of the Ming army, but the group armies of two Indian vassal armies.

The Ming Dynasty mobilized nearly 50 troops from five group armies and launched the Yijing Campaign. At this time, the Qing army's campaign goal had been changed to defending Yijing.

More than 20 Qing troops were confined by the Ming army to an area of ​​only ten square kilometers, and they had become chickens surrounded by iron walls.

Nie Guanyong, the commander-in-chief of the Xixia theater, was once the head of the 101st Regiment who accompanied His Majesty the Emperor Guangfu to conquer the world. The defense posture of the Qing army was disintegrated.

Knowing the situation of the battle, Bai Mingxiu called Nie Guanyong very excitedly, and this old subordinate also told His Majesty the emperor very well, that the victory is dedicated to His Majesty the Emperor and Daming.

"This battle is over. After 22 days of fighting, although the Qing army still has a large number of soldiers, they are confined to a narrow area by us." Nie Guanyong said proudly.

Bai Mingxiu asked on the phone: "What are you going to do with them, persuade them to surrender?"

Nie Guanyong shook his head: "Your Majesty, the final general doesn't think persuading surrender will have any effect. The Xiqing side has carried out too long and too in-depth discredit propaganda against us Ming Dynasty, so ordinary soldiers demonize us so much that they dare not surrender at all. From the beginning of the war to the present, we have won one victory after another, but no large-scale Qing army has voluntarily surrendered to us."

Nie Guanyong stated his plan: "The final general intends to carry out devastating bombing and shelling of the last 10 square kilometers guarded by the Qing army. This operation is tentatively named 'Operation Ascension'."

Bai Mingxiu smiled: "Operation Ascension, you are being straightforward. Are you planning to use napalm bombs, cluster bombs and other things to completely bombard that area? This will cause a large number of casualties, so dense If the Qing army is concentrated in this area, the killing effect will be doubled."

"Yes, this is what the general intends to do. Although such an action hurts peace, since they refuse to surrender, in order to quickly end the Yijing campaign and march towards the Balkans and Ukraine, the general has to adopt this method. This is also an effective deterrent to the rest of the Qing army, if they don't want to surrender, they can just die."

Bai Mingxiu didn't think much about it. He lacked the compassion of the Holy Mother for the enemy. After all, he was also a fierce brother who used Wushuang on the battlefield and slashed people with big knives.

"Then, let's do it."

On December 12th, the Daming Xixia theater mobilized about 15 sorties of military aircraft, including more than 1400 strategic bombers, and launched a shocking bombing on Yijing's last stubborn position.The Ming Air Force and HNA dropped more than 60 tons of bombs on the entire Ming Dynasty, turning the entire area into a kingdom of flames.

It took a long time for the entire area to be completely cleared after the incident. The exact number of casualties cannot be accurately counted. However, according to estimates by later historians, at least 17 Qing troops were killed or injured in this bombing, and almost all of the Qing troops who survived Injuries, especially burns.Many suffered from severe post-war psychological trauma and even committed suicide afterwards.And Nie Guanyong's "Ascension to Heaven" was also criticized by those Xiaoqing who had never seen the tragedy of the war, but this did not affect Nie Guanyong's title of Marshal of the Ming Dynasty after the war.

People originally thought that the war of conquest of Europe by the Western Qing Dynasty was the most tragic peak of the war, but the Ming and Qing wars refreshed people's cognition, raising the intensity and destruction of the war to an unprecedented height.

Not only in Istanbul, but also in France, Holland, Germany, Poland and all the battlefields of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the destruction of the war is still fresh in the memory of a generation!

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