Chapter 303 Lip and Teeth (2)

In the desert, early autumn, the sky is full of wind and sand.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, the vast desert is the season when the wind blows strongly. In such a weather, it is difficult to walk.

The army of conquering in Dayi City set out under such weather conditions.

For these people who live here all year round, the wind and sand in autumn are commonplace. In this place and in this season, wind and sand may blew every day. It is abnormal if there is no wind.

Li Chaoyang sat in the truck in front of the team, looking gloomy. This war was not what he wanted to happen. In his heart, there was a long-awaited expectation, that is, to build the desert area into a national free country. He sacrificed too much and gave up too much for this goal. However, the final result made him almost disheartened. If it weren't for the help of Yang Ping, Li Ming, he would have almost died in the hands of his confidants he had trained. Until now, he had to take action personally to conquer those who were once his most proud subordinates. This cruel ending was something he could not imagine at all.

Today, he finally summoned and trained 60,000 new troops, leaving 20,000 to protect two cities. He brought the remaining 40,000 soldiers collected from Dayi City and Yunsha City to remedy his mistakes.

Four hundred kilometers south of Dayi City, it was the city of Xiefeng City controlled by his former personal guard captain. This person he trusted the most back then has now become his first opponent on the road to conquest.

The wind and sand are getting heavier and heavier. In such a weather, losing direction is the most terrifying thing. In such an endless desert, it is impossible to find the destination accurately without experienced guides. Fortunately, the assistant of the captain of the guard has returned to his side. With his leadership, I believe that the 40,000 troops can be successfully reached.

The 40,000 troops that went on this expedition were all equipped with the latest semi-automatic rifles. At the same time, he also carried more than 100 howitzers, more than 300 mortars, thirty simple tanks, and more than 100 tracked trucks transporting logistics supplies in the team. With such firepower, it is not too difficult to seize those cities.

Their march was not too fast. They probably traveled fifty or sixty kilometers in a day. At this speed, it took them seven or eight days to reach their destination. Therefore, in the evening, Li Chaoyang ordered the troops to camp and rest early.

Although he had ruled this desert area for five or six years, this was the first time he had personally led his troops to fight. In the past, all the wars were led by his subordinates. Those people have now become his opponents, and now all of his subordinates have not gone through any actual combat. Therefore, this battle really made him feel a little nervous.

After the troops hurriedly camped, the sky had already darkened under the cover of sand and dust. When he walked into the tent, he wrote a letter to Li Ming and handed it to the sender Yang Ping to send it to Li Ming.

At this time, Nanguo City was nearly midnight. After Li Ming had already rested and went to bed after handling the official duties for a day. After receiving a telegram from Li Chaoyang, Yi Yi did not dare to be negligent and hurried to Li Ming's bedroom and gently knocked on the door.

Xiaorou opened the door with sleepy eyes. After listening to B's explanation of the situation, she hurried to the door of the inner room and happened to see Li Ming walking out in his clothes.

In the hall, Li Ming hurriedly wiped his face, took the telegram from Yi Yi and hurriedly read it, and sat there silently for a long time. After a long time, he waved his hand and asked Yi Yi to retreat.

Li Chaoyang's expedition was as expected, but according to his estimate, it would take a month later. Unexpectedly, he would suddenly start to act and communicate with him in advance. Li Chaoyang had no experience in leading troops to fight, so he repeatedly warned him two days ago that he would send troops after receiving his notice, and that he would help him when Li Chaoyang was fighting, but why did he act in such a hurry?

Since the army has set out, it is impossible for him to stop his actions. At present, the only way to penetrate his own power into the desert as soon as possible.

As early as the First Legion changed clothes, Li Ming had already started planning the construction plan for Tuhu military airport. While the troops were changing clothes and training, the equipment and personnel for the construction airport were also transported to Mengyin border at the same time. Li Ming originally wanted to use his air superiority to force the establishment of an airport in Tuhu territory after everything was ready. This preparation took half a month. Unexpectedly, Li Chaoyang started to act quietly. What happened there?

Thinking of this, he could no longer sit still, so he got up and walked out of the room and came to his secretariat.

Yi Yi was leading several secretary on duty to sit in front of the radio and telephone, and when he saw Li Ming coming in, he hurriedly got up to greet him.

"Contact Li Chaoyang immediately, I want to talk to him directly." Li Ming said with a gloomy face.

The secretary hurriedly started to act and called nervously in front of the radio station.

Finally, there were intermittent answers from the receiver. It seemed that the bad weather had a great impact on short-wave communication.

After Li Ming and Li Chaoyang's hard communication, he understood the reason why he hurriedly set out.

Li Chaoyang's original guards have now become the city lords who dominate the side, and some of them have become the assistants of these city lords, some of whom are still in contact with Li Chaoyang. This time, the message from the personnel in the nearest Xiefeng City in the south of Dayi City was sending Li Chaoyang that the city lord of Xiefeng City is now leading all the troops out of the city to attack a nearby city, and it will take about half a month to come back. During this period, there were only more than 2,000 people defending the city, which is a great opportunity to conquer the city. Therefore, Li Chaoyang, who had been ready to go, hurriedly led the troops to set off. He wanted to occupy Xiefeng City at the lowest cost. In his heart, he still couldn't bear to cause too much casualties to both sides.

From Li Chaoyang's intermittent narrative, Li Ming finally had a general understanding of the situation there. Since the team had set out, Li Ming couldn't say anything. He repeatedly told him to deal with it carefully and repeatedly warned him to do a good job in investigating the enemy situation around him, because this situation may be a trap for the enemy. Li Chaoyang has no practical experience. Although he has much stronger troops than the enemy, he still cannot be taken lightly.

After talking to Li Chaoyang, Li Ming immediately asked B to call Wang Wen.

At present, in addition to the main communication means, radio communication, the telephone network between the main departments of Datang has been basically opened. Although the backward manual wiring method is still adopted, it has still allowed Datang to enter a new era of communication.

Wang Wen, who was called up in the middle of the night, hurried over to take the phone. When he heard Li Ming's voice, he was confused and immediately woke up.

"Tomorrow morning, I will implement the nail plan in advance. There is no way to do it if I haven't prepared it. You can build a simple airport within half a month. We must ensure that our plane will land and take off there smoothly in half a month. This task must be completed."

"Half a month!" Wang Wen screamed at the other end of the phone: "Your Majesty, you're not kidding, how can you do it in half a month? I only have ten airships, bulldozers, road presses, and flatbed machines here, and then transport them there, and then reassemble them. The workload itself is very large. There are cement, building materials, various communication equipment, and aviation oil reserved by the airport. This requires large-scale transportation..."

"Don't say it!" Li Ming interrupted Wang Wen's complaint and said decisively: "Tomorrow, I will send you fifteen airships from the Fourth Legion and twenty airships carrying rubber. After a maximum of two days, you will have forty-five airships to use. Now, there are so many airships, and you can transport all the prepared materials within five or six days. Now it depends on your dispatching and command ability. No matter what, in half a month, I will use that airport in Tuhu territory. This is the order!"

"Affect the order." Wang Wen answered weakly on the other end of the phone.

Li Ming knew that it was not easy to build a simple airport that could take off and land B25 bombers on the border of Tuhu and Hu in half a month, but Li Chaoyang's actions were imminent. He had to put the four B25 bombers into use as soon as possible. Although Li Chaoyang's army also had airships, in this season, airships in the desert were unusable. The fierce wind made the airships unable to stay in the air. Only aircraft with strong power could be used in that place.

Five days later, Wang Wen sent a telegram from Tuhu that all the supplies for building the airport were transported day and night by forty-five airships. The Tuhu soldiers around the predetermined target were also wiped out by the 5,000 advance troops who arrived in advance. Now, the airport is speeding up to start construction. In order to supervise and promote the progress of the site, Wang Wen even came here in person by airship.

At this time, deep in the desert, Li Chaoyang's army had approached Xiefeng City. At most two days later, they would arrive there. Two thousand defenders were really powerless to fight back in front of his 40,000 troops.

At this time, the wind and sand had completely stopped. The scorching sun in late summer and early autumn was ruthlessly roasting on the golden sand, causing heat waves to gush on the ground. Marching in this weather is really a severe test of people's will. Li Chaoyang, who was sitting in the truck, was also drowsy and the entire marching team was listless.

At this moment, a gust of dust rose from front of them, and rushed towards them like a flying dragon.
Chapter completed!