Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 1727 1728 A New Line of Defense

Yangmu I and his staff have recently been thinking about a question: how to stop the Tang army from moving south.

In their view, the fall of Ironforge was already inevitable, so how to manage the chips in their hands became a problem they had to face.

In fact, there is no particularly good way, there are only a few options: first, counterattack; second, defend. Because the situation is very passive, more people advocate defending.

After all, looking at the current situation, attacking is almost like putting out a fire, which is another option to speed up the historical process.

Fighting a decisive battle with the Tang army's armored forces on the plains was no different from committing suicide. As long as the Tang army deployed its formation, the allied forces would be killed in almost any battle.

Therefore, Yangmu I decided to strengthen the fortifications on his own border, connect them with the dwarf border fortifications, and transform the dwarf border defenses to form a defense zone with a huge depth.

Relying on this defensive zone, he would gather an army of more than 300 million and confront the Tang army on the front line, bringing the war into a stalemate.

Although this would have a serious impact on the mainland, it was still better than sitting and waiting for death. Therefore, Yangmu I recently began to mobilize forces to reinforce the "border defense line" of which only about four-fifths remained.

As for the areas that had been breached by the Tang army and Hot Wind Harbor, Yangmu I had already stopped considering them. He knew that he would most likely not be able to recapture these places, so he could only put them aside.

Of course, he did not completely give up these places. If he could hold the existing defense line and withstand the attack of the Tang army, then the next step would be to consider the action plan of counterattacking Hot Wind Port.

"We have assembled 30 tons of cement to the border area, and the troops are cutting down surrounding trees to reinforce the existing defense lines." The minister in charge of transportation in this area introduced the progress of his work to Yang Mu I, who was looking down at the map.

In fact, the Yangmu Empire has been transporting construction materials to the border, and they have been strengthening their border defenses. This is what they have been doing.

It's just that because the Tang army is about to surround Ironforge, the plan to build fortifications has been accelerated, so it seems that they have been frantically expanding their border defense positions recently.

All bunkers must be renovated and reinforced, and new bunkers must be built in places where there were no bunkers originally, to increase the firepower density of the entire defense line.

Some 50mm anti-tank guns that had been proven to be outdated were also reinforced to the positions and became firing points hidden under camouflage nets.

Although these weapons have been proven to be unable to penetrate the Tang army's tanks, they can still pose a certain degree of threat to infantry and armored vehicles.

"The dwarves are willing to provide 10 laborers to help dig some trenches and connect the existing defense lines." The diplomatic official responsible for contacting the Ice Empire also talked about his work results.

Under the current circumstances, the dwarves are willing to provide 10 laborers to cooperate with the Yangmu Empire to build a defense line. This is already a remarkable diplomatic achievement.

The Minister of Civil Affairs also added: "We have also recruited 30 workers to complete the construction of the border defense line before the end of winter." If they want to build it fast enough, they have to mobilize enough people. After all, this is an extremely long defense line that stretches for hundreds of kilometers. If they want to fully reinforce it, it will take many people and a long time.

Pointing to some marked points on the map, the general of the army said to Yang Mu Yi: "In the entire defense zone, we plan to build 121 large circular fortifications. Each of these fortifications can accommodate more than 3000 people and can fight alone for more than a week."

These circular fortifications are solid defensive fortresses. Although they do not have walls or anything like that, they have super-wide anti-tank trenches, stone piers similar to the Dragon's Teeth anti-tank obstacles, and are equipped with some rotating howitzer turrets.

These turrets were modified directly based on naval ship drawings, and many were even installed directly from turrets on naval warships.

The Elf Navy had been completely wiped out, and many of the spare parts that had been left behind were no longer useful, so they were taken over by the Army for recycling.

These naval artillery have almost no mobility, so they can only be installed on fixed turrets, and at most use rotating turrets to increase the flexibility of firepower.

With these cannons, the elves' artillery will no longer be passive in the artillery battle with the Tang army, at least until they are destroyed.

In addition to these artillery pieces, the army also blew up some bridges over the rivers and built new fortifications along the river banks, taking advantage of the terrain to shorten the length of defense they needed to hold.

With the support of these turrets and solid fortifications, these circular fortifications can fight alone and can hold out for a long time even if surrounded by the Tang army.

Of course, everyone knows that the Tang army’s most powerful weapon is air suppression. These fortifications targeted by the air force will soon be destroyed by bombing, but everyone is still willing to believe that with such fortifications, the soldiers can hold out for a long time.

Another general pointed to a diagram nearby and continued to explain: "We plan to build a bunker every 35 meters, and deploy an anti-tank gun every 100 meters! This firepower density is definitely denser than all the previous defense lines."

The map showed examples of bunkers and positions, with gun lines crisscrossing on them, and they looked like they were not easy to deal with. Even if the Tang army was powerful, they would probably lose some soldiers if they ran into such a defense line.

The general who spoke first continued to add: "In order to prevent the entire defense line from being bombed by the Tang army, we will build enough anti-aircraft artillery positions within the defense line and deploy a sufficient number of anti-aircraft guns."

They also knew that they could no longer rely on their air force, so they had to rely on their own air defense weapons to resolve the air threat posed by the Tang army.

At least, they felt that there should be some means to deal with those damn helicopters of the Tang army, so that their fortifications could survive longer.

"We will strengthen the anti-aircraft firepower as much as possible. As long as the replenishment speed can keep up, we are confident that we can hold the border area for more than half a year." Finally, several generals made a guarantee to Yang Mu I.

This guarantee is necessary because the Yangmu Empire's investment in this line of defense has been exaggerated to an alarming degree.