Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 1650 1651 The farther you attack, the farther away you are.

"The first day! We attacked for a day, retreated 10 kilometers, and lost more than 12000 people? The second day we lost 100 tanks, and there was no result? On the third day, more than 1000 people were killed in Susas, and even the border of the enemy's position was lost. Didn't you touch it?" After hearing this battle report, Flix suddenly felt dizzy: He is already over years old, and he is not young enough to bear such a big stimulation.

If the losses continue at this rate, he won't have to fight anymore, and in a few dozen days he'll be left alone.

"Marshal...it is not an option to continue fighting like this. We have to find a way to continue the attack. Otherwise, His Majesty's order..." a staff officer lowered his voice and reminded.

His Majesty the Emperor's order to the front line is that the Holy Lo must be recaptured, and no matter how great the losses are, they must fight back. If they fail to complete this task, there will be no happy ending waiting for them.

"I know! Of course I know. But there is nothing I can do about this situation." Flix said to his men with some embarrassment: "We are always attacking, but we can go forward ten meters and retreat five meters." Ten meters...can you blame me?"

His efforts to gather armored troops ultimately failed. The next day, the Elf troops prepared to use armored troops to attack the Tang Army's paratrooper position, which they considered a weakness.

Since the Tang Empire's tanks can't beat them, let's look for trouble with the paratroopers. So the main force of the attack the next day was the Elf's 5th Army. They assembled about 110 tanks and showed the greatest sincerity.

As a result, these tanks were air-attacked by the Tang Army as soon as they were assembled. Dozens of bombs fell from the sky. Half of the tanks lost their combat capabilities before the attack began.

The remaining tanks bravely began to attack, but were massacred by Army helicopter gunships that came to assist in the battle. Of the 110 or so tanks, fewer than 20 were finally returned to the position.

Three entire battalions of tanks were lost in one day, and the 5th Army's assault force could not slow down for a moment. They had no choice but to give up the attack, and the offensive plan for this day could only be cancelled.

Although the losses on the second day were still less than those on the first day, every time the elf troops lost a man from afar, they had to be replenished from home, which indeed cost them a lot of time.

As a last resort, Flix placed his hope on the Susus troops on the flanks: let them consume some of the Tang army's power, and then let the elves launch a decisive battle.

Susas's troops were all light infantry, so they did not need to make any preparations. They entered the battle on the third day, but the outcome was not much different from that of the elves.

About 3000 elite Susas infantrymen were bruised and bleeding on the defense line of the Tang Dynasty paratroopers. After leaving more than 1000 corpses, they had to retreat to the position where they started.

As time went by, the Tang Army's supporting firepower became more and more intense: a large number of self-propelled artillery units rushed to the combat zone, and helicopter units also apparently attacked more and more.

Backed by the field airport of San Luo, dozens of armed helicopters were frequently dispatched to provide continuous fire support to the Tang army's ground troops.

The carrier-based aircraft taking off and landing on the aircraft carrier were not idle either. They kept dropping bombs and bombing, destroying a large amount of materials and equipment of the coalition forces in advance, preventing them from appearing on the battlefield. After three days of fighting, the coalition forces found that they had suffered heavy losses, but not even a single Tang Army position had been captured. The three days of fighting were like a joke, the kind of joke that made them ashamed.

"How should I explain to His Majesty?" Felix asked with a tearful tone, not knowing whether he really wanted an answer.

"We have to wait for the follow-up heavy artillery troops to come up. If we use infantry to fight hard, we will definitely suffer losses." A staff officer suggested: "Our artillery has lost too much and cannot support infantry operations. This is a problem."

"Moreover, we can't just wait for artillery, but also for anti-aircraft artillery... Without anti-aircraft artillery, enemy helicopters can easily destroy our artillery positions." Another staff officer added.

It's not that they haven't used artillery in the past few days, but several artillery positions have hardly played any role and were all lost.

They were either destroyed by guided bombs or blown up by helicopter rockets. These heavy artillery pieces were turned into spare parts, giving the coalition offensive forces that relied on these artillery pieces a complete hopelessness.

Immediately afterwards, another officer expressed his opinion: "Mobilize more aircraft and find ways to interfere with the Tang Army's air power. If we continue to attack with the Tang Army's aircraft, our losses will definitely be more."

They have been attacking continuously these days, but they haven't even seen a single plane on their side, and they are already very angry. A common complaint among the infantrymen was that while they were fighting tooth and nail on the front lines, the air force never fired a single shot.

"Yes! We must let the Air Force cover our operations! Marquis Lane can't just be a tortoise, right?" When the Air Force was mentioned, many people immediately nodded in agreement.

The officer responsible for liaising with the Air Force had a sad look on his face: He was really dumb and couldn't tell how hard he was eating Coptis chinensis. The Air Force had actually put in a lot of effort!

Earlier, in order to support Facruz's combat plan, the Air Force squeezed out more than 80 pilots and more than 80 aircraft to support the Saint-Lo Airport.

But these pilots and planes did not play a role at all, and they all became prisoners of the Tang army! Now the Air Force is asked to find dozens more pilots. How can the Air Force agree?

Pilots are not cabbage. They lose a hundred and eighty pieces in three to five days. Who can bear this speed? What's more, in today's situation, how many pilots are willing to fly a plane into the sky and die?

You can't force those pilots to commit suicide, right? So you must at least formulate a plan that seems reasonable and has certain operability before you can fool the pilot into taking off for combat, right? It takes time to formulate combat plans, and it also takes time to convince pilots to carry out these missions, right?

This unfortunate Air Force liaison officer wanted to shout loudly: Why don't you bastards let the Navy be dispatched? It’s not like the Air Force is easy to bully!

Seeing that a group of staff had no decision, Marshal Flix could only issue an order based on these needs: "Let the transport troops seize the time to transport artillery... let the rear send more anti-aircraft artillery weapons to the front line... let the air force think about it." We will provide all support..."

However, these orders will not have any effect in a short period of time: the Tang army's defenses in the Saint Luo area are still impregnable, and the coalition forces are getting further and further away from Saint Luo.