Seeing that there were 25 planes when they departed, but only 4 were left when they returned, Lieutenant General's scalp was blown.
The entire Turtle Kingdom invasion force only had 50 aircraft, and it lost 40% in one go!
The lieutenant general felt that he was beginning to feel unsteady even before he sat in the warm command position.
However, in order to recover the losses, after asking Saburo Ibe who had escaped, he not only did not stop the loss, but instead gritted his teeth and sent two divisions towards Donglin County. At the same time, he sent people to threaten Sanhuangguan: If not
If we surrender to the Divine Turtle Kingdom, the entire Donglin County will be reduced to ruins.
Hearing this, Fang Xiaoyue laughed, and Li Chizhang and other disciples also laughed.
But the commanders of the two divisions sent out by Lieutenant General cried.
The two divisions they led encountered a series of unimaginable bad luck from the moment they entered Huangshui Mansion.
The originally flat official road suddenly became bumpy. Not to mention that many soldiers stepped in the pits and had their feet sprained. Once the horses ridden by more than a thousand cavalry were sprained, they would be completely useless.
We camped by the river. At night, the river suddenly set off huge waves, which swept groups of soldiers, cannons, weapons and ammunition into the river.
Less than twenty minutes later, after the huge waves subsided, they counted the losses and found that two entire battalions of soldiers, plus ten cannons, and several firearms and ammunition had been swept away.
When marching into the mountains, the sudden landslide was even more difficult to guard against. In an instant, hundreds of soldiers were buried under the rocks.
As for the usual poisonous insects, wild beast attacks, and sudden thunderstorms from time to time, etc., it makes people feel like stepping into an abyss every step they take.
To be honest, it is simply a miracle on earth that these two divisions from the Turtle Kingdom can reach the Three Emperors Temple.
It can only be said that they had no way out. During the previous march, some soldiers had already taken advantage of the chaos and escaped. Unfortunately, they died for various reasons before they could run very far.
If this were not the case, I am afraid that these two divisions would have collapsed long ago, and there would be no way they could reach the Three Emperors Temple.
Fang Xiaoyue stood on the bell tower and looked over from a distance. Those turtle soldiers who were as embarrassed as beggars appeared in his field of vision.
It has to be said that after he learned that an army of divine turtles had entered Huangshui Mansion, he asked the Taoists to mobilize and ordered the ground forces to intercept, and the effect has been very good until now.
The number of these turtle soldiers in front of them is less than ten thousand. It can be said that two-thirds of the soldiers have died on the way to the Three Emperors Temple.
"Crazy thunder!"
Fang Xiaoyue had no sympathy at all for these turtle soldiers who were as embarrassed as beggars.
Since these guys invaded the Qinglong Kingdom, they have burned, killed, looted, and committed all kinds of evil. They have simply set a new limit for human evil.
Since they dare to come, Fang Xiaoyue will naturally not let them come in vain.
Before that, he had just bound the Crazy Thunder Talisman into his natal Talisman.
Speaking of this Crazy Thunder Talisman, among the many talismans he has researched, it can be regarded as the most damaging.
Once released, large dark clouds appeared out of thin air in the sky. After a few breaths, silver-white lightning bolts flew towards the ground like spears!
When those turtle soldiers saw the lightning, they were struck directly.
Each bolt of lightning can blast a one-foot-square dent in the ground.
Any turtle soldier struck by lightning will be instantly reduced to ashes by the powerful electric energy.
This made that area feel like the arrival of the God of Thunder. Countless turtle soldiers fled desperately, fearing that they would be hit by lightning accidentally.
Even a lot of ammunition exploded under the bombardment of lightning.
The thunderstorm came and ended quickly. In less than ten minutes, the dark clouds dispersed and the thunder and lightning disappeared.
On the ground were numerous pits scorched by lightning and densely packed charred human bodies.
In this sudden thunder disaster, only a few lucky turtle soldiers escaped.
But even so, seeing the mighty turtle army of tens of thousands lost in an instant, this scene really frightened them so much that they became crazy after they escaped.
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After they managed to escape back to their base, they cried loudly and recounted their previous experiences.
The turtle lieutenant general was completely stunned.
It can be said that it was okay to lose 21 aircraft before, because they were originally used for testing.
But one and a half infantry divisions were lost before, and now two infantry divisions were lost. This loss is huge.
You know, the army of the Turtle Kingdom that invaded the Qinglong Kingdom only had 15 infantry divisions.
Under the resistance of the Qinglong Kingdom army, the total battle losses were about one and a half infantry divisions.
Coupled with the current losses, that is to say, the Turtle Kingdom's invading army has lost 5 infantry divisions! One-third of the total strength!
The territory occupied by the Turtle Kingdom's invading army in the Qinglong Kingdom has reached 16 provinces. With the only remaining troops, not a single division can be assigned to each province.
The most terrible thing is that the people of the Fragrant Ginseng Country are in riots during this period. Basically, all the troops in the Divine Turtle Kingdom have been invested in the Fragrant Ginseng Country to suppress the riots, and there is no way to send troops to the Qinglong Country to support them.
After all, the regular army of the Turtle Kingdom only has thirty divisions in total. After excluding the fifteen divisions that invaded the Qinglong Kingdom, the five divisions that invaded the Fragrance Kingdom, and the five divisions that reinforced the Fragrant Ginseng Kingdom to suppress the riots, there is only one division left in the country.
Ten divisions are down.
These ten divisions must not move.
And the new recruits recruited after the invasion of Qinglong Kingdom, even after they come out of the new barracks, their combat effectiveness is far inferior to that of the veterans.
Because the three and a half divisions lost outside Sanhuangguan were actually drawn from the occupying forces in several resource-rich provinces of Qinglong Kingdom.
In order to ensure the resource plunder of several resource-rich provinces of the Qinglong Kingdom and ensure the war resource channels of the Divine Turtle Kingdom, the Lieutenant General of the Divine Turtle immediately withdrew the three divisions on the front line of the battle.
But he also knew in his heart that this was drinking poison to quench his thirst.
What happened next just confirmed the idea of the Lieutenant General Turtle.
As the three divisions were removed, the warlords of the Azure Dragon Kingdom suddenly realized that the war pressure had been reduced a lot, and the troops of the Turtle Kingdom no longer took the initiative to attack, but instead retreated.
This made the warlords excited, and the intelligence obtained later confirmed the fact that the invading force of the Turtle Kingdom was insufficient in strength.
This gave the warlords a chance to breathe.
Recruiting and training new recruits is a must, and a series of methods such as sending a large number of manpower to enemy-occupied areas for intelligence reconnaissance, sneak attacks and destroying arsenals, railways, etc. are also routine operations.
After all, the invading army of the Turtle Kingdom is short of troops. They can only huddle in important strongholds such as big cities, resource mining areas, train stations, etc., but they are completely unable to control the vast areas outside these strongholds.