Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 1692 1693 The Hidden Truth

Street fighting is like this. Sometimes the two sides are less than ten meters apart and separated by several walls, so they cannot see each other.

You go east and I go west, and we just pass each other by as if there is no desire to fight between us.

The Tang army was clearing out the dwarf soldiers building by building. They couldn't blow up every building into ruins. After all, they wanted to occupy a city, not wipe it off the map.

It is very difficult to clear the ruins and rebuild the city. If the Tang army does not want to increase the difficulty and create trouble for itself, it cannot use artillery shells to turn the entire city into ruins.

There are still millions of dwarf civilians in this city. If the city is blown up, it would be tantamount to massacring all these civilians. Such accumulated hatred would only make it more difficult for the Tang army to occupy the Ice Empire.

In fact, the dwarves had already died in large numbers even without the Tang army's massacre: they had lost their water and electricity supply, their food source, and could only live among the ruins without any protection.

But this city has a population of millions after all, and thousands of deaths a day is actually not a big deal. Especially in a state of war, no one cares whether those strangers who live a block away are dead or alive.

Just a few buildings away, on the other side of a seemingly wider road, dwarf soldiers were strengthening a new line of defense.

They reinforced the sandbags behind the barricades that had been built earlier, placed the prepared rocket launchers in a convenient place, and observed through the gaps in the direction where the enemy might appear at the end of the street.

The Tang army was close at hand and could launch a new attack at any time. They had to prepare as soon as possible, deploy firepower points in the buildings on one side, and form a solid defense line of mutual support with the barricades.

The dwarf infantry could shoot down the Tang troops trying to attack the barricades from their high vantage points in the buildings until they were driven out of them.

If the enemy uses heavy firepower, it will be exactly what they want: as long as the buildings collapse, they can block the road, and then the Tang army's tanks and armored vehicles will not be able to pass through here.

This tactic would certainly result in huge losses, but they didn't have any better solutions: they had almost no heavy artillery support and very few anti-tank weapons.

If there was no way to stop the Tang army's tanks, the only thing they could do was to use obstacles to stop the Tang army's advance. What else could they do? Throw stones at the tanks?

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In the basement, Binghan Yishi ate all the beef and potatoes on the plate and wiped his beard with sauce with a napkin. His food was still very exquisite, cooked by a special chef, and it was delicious.

Ironforge had not been completely surrounded, and no matter how scarce the supplies were, the Emperor's supply was impossible. When millions of dwarf civilians had no food to eat, Ice-Han I could still choose the food he wanted to see that day from his own menu.

Although his appetite has not been very good recently, he can still eat something. Today he chose a kind of beef from the back of a local specialty of the Ice Empire, which has a chewy texture.

"Did Marshal Xie Ke launch a counterattack on the eastern front?" Putting down his napkin, the dwarf emperor looked at the chief of staff Larbu who came to report the battle situation. Larbu was stunned for a moment, and he remembered what the prime minister reminded him before coming here, and then he reported: "Your Majesty, Marshal Xie Ke's counterattack was very successful, and he recaptured part of the defensive position in the suburbs, but the Tang army was very powerful, and Marshal Xie Ke was unable to completely drive the Tang army out of the suburbs."

The prime minister reminded Larbu not to undermine Xie Ko, because if the emperor lost trust in Xie Ko, then it is very likely that he, as the chief of staff, would have to do the job that Xie Ko was doing.

Larbu naturally did not want to be the commander of the Eastern Front. Even if he was given the title of marshal, he would not be willing to take over Sheko's mess.

Things have come to this point, and everyone knows what the ending will be. It is better to save some dignity for yourself than to be stubborn and unyielding...

Therefore, Larbu helped Sheko conceal the fact that the Eastern Front did not counterattack, and even lied and fabricated a limited victory.

Sure enough, after hearing that Xie Ke's counterattack had achieved certain results, Bing Han Yishi felt much better. His expression was visibly relaxed, and he rubbed his hands back and forth on the napkin a few times: "Send a portion of beef to Marshal Xie Ke... Oh, and send one to Marshal Barov as well! Thank them for everything they have done for the empire."

As an emperor, he still had the basic skills. Even at this time, Binghan Yishi did not forget to win people's hearts.

But his beef couldn't solve any problems. What Xie Ke lacked was effective air support, tanks and anti-tank weapons, medicines and huge quantities of ammunition supplies.

In today's dwarven army, even steel helmets have to be used by several people in turn, and new recruits can only equip themselves by picking up supplies from corpses...

In this situation, a plate of delicious beef would not have any effect. While eating the beef sent by Binghan I, Xie Ke had to order the abandonment of the defense of a street.

His troops were retreating, leaving behind a lot of bodies: not only soldiers, but also civilians. The dwarves' scorched earth policy was not only causing trouble for the Tang army, but also brought untold suffering to their civilians.

"Marshal... we didn't launch a counterattack, so why did His Majesty send you these foods?" The adjutant asked, somewhat worried about his commander-in-chief.

Xie Ke smiled indifferently while eating: "No one is willing to take over my mess at this time, this is obvious... As for His Majesty, perhaps he has no idea how badly the war situation has deteriorated in the past two days."

His guess was absolutely correct. No one dared to tell Binghan Yishi the true situation of the battle. In the last few days, everyone chose to conceal the truth in order to gain a moment of peace.

The truth is no longer so important. After all, everyone already knows the ending: since the dwarf army cannot stop the Tang army outside Ironforge, then they have no way to defend the city of Ironforge.

Even a fool knows that the Tang army will occupy this place in a while, and only God knows how much will the Frozen Empire, which has lost Ironforge, will have to resist.

In recent days, Binghan I has rejected the ministers' proposals several times in a row and refused to retreat to the south... It is very clear what he means.