Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 1738 1739 Changes in Plan

Outside Anriqi, the dwarf soldiers who were preparing to attack suddenly discovered that there seemed to be more Tang army troops in front of them.

Unlike the Tang troops who fired two shots and ran away a few days ago, they did not seem to intend to hand over Anliqi, but were preparing to have a serious fight with them outside Anliqi.

The dwarf commanders, emboldened by their successive victories, felt that they would not be afraid of the enemy even if they had to fight, so they immediately deployed their troops, preparing to first eliminate the stragglers of the Tang army outside Anliqi, and then rush into Anliqi to plunder.

The plan was well thought out, but the actual situation was not as smooth as they thought. Just after they deployed their troops and started the attack, a fact was finally proven: what stood in front of them was not the Tang army's reconnaissance force, but an alarming number of them.

On the Tang Army's position, a regimental commander grabbed a radio and loudly confirmed the situation of the battle: "Yes! Immediately cover the coordinates we provided with firepower! Long live the Emperor! Send them to hell!"

As he shouted, rockets flew over his head one after another. The huge noise made his shouts unclear, and the air was filled with the pungent smell left after burning.

Then, these rockets shattered as they flew over the dwarf troops. The thin outer shells were blown away by the air currents, and the warheads inside, which were neatly arranged like grapes, also scattered like stars.

These bullets fell like raindrops, just as dense as yesterday's snowflakes. A few seconds later, the Tang army commanders who were standing on the starting position watching this feast were waiting for the earth to shake.

The mountains in the distance were almost instantly covered by the smoke from the explosion. All that could be seen was fire, and the entire battlefield was engulfed by the explosion.

After a while, a deafening sound floated over. Facing such noise, the chariots of the Tang Empire began to roll forward, followed by thousands of soldiers.

"Long live the emperor! Attack!" Raising his arms high and slashing forward suddenly, a Tang army captain loudly encouraged his soldiers. Smelling the exhaust left by the chariot, his soldiers stepped on the soft snow and marched forward.

The Invader attack plane flew over the road full of craters, and two guided bombs fell from the sky and landed at the intersection, turning it into a huge crater.

The burning wreckage of a car parked at the intersection disappeared, presumably having been completely torn into pieces by the bomb.

The dwarf soldiers who had been constantly on the road and attacking yesterday finally regained their lost memories. They finally remembered how terrifying their opponents were, and finally realized how stupid the things they had done were.

Along the way, they delivered themselves to their opponents' faces, or even fed themselves into their opponents' mouths... But after knowing everything, they also realized that it was too late.

Bombers destroyed transportation lines, anti-radiation missiles took out active communication stations, and armed helicopters turned the few remaining tanks of the Eastern Front into burning scrap metal. The entire battlefield instantly turned into hell on earth.

The 9th Army of the Ice Empire, which was at the forefront, was now facing the Tang Empire Air Force, which had rested for nearly ten days, and the 3rd Army, which was one of the top three elite forces.

These troops were no longer troubled by insufficient ammunition or long supply lines, and they even waited for them for a day and a half near Anliqi... The Tang army's counterattack was fatal from the beginning, and the 9th Dwarf Army was overwhelmed before they could even surrender. They could only keep running back, and died on the roadside in the wilderness.

As in the past, the complete paralysis of communications meant that Xie Ke had no idea what was happening. His troops didn't even have time to send back feedback before they were killed along with the cavalry responsible for communication.

Countless soldiers raised their hands in surrender, and hundreds of prisoners of war squatted in the wild waiting for the Tang army to escort them back to the prisoner-of-war camps: the weapons were right next to them, but no one dared to touch them even once.

Even these prisoners of war were left unattended because the Tang army felt they were not worth wasting time on.

All the troops were rolling forward, but the plan soon changed because the Tang army commanders who were attacking found that it seemed a little difficult for them to encircle and annihilate the Eastern Front Army of the Ice Empire.

The enemy surrendered so quickly that the pocket formation that was originally planned turned into a shape with three routes advancing in parallel... The 3rd Army was pushing forward in a flat manner, rather than the planned pincer attack.

Everyone was embarrassed. The central troops fought so fast that they were almost approaching Dalcas in just one morning.

Now, behind them, there are almost 20 dwarf prisoners of war... Even they themselves couldn't believe that they had "captured" the entire Eastern Army of the Ice Empire.

At first they did not take these prisoners seriously, but as they walked, they realized that there seemed to be too many dwarves left behind.

Thus, a scene rarely seen in the history of military warfare appeared: because they rushed too fast, the Tang army had to arrange personnel to go back and find those dwarf captives who were ignored, organize them and build a prisoner-of-war camp to detain them on the spot.

There was no way. Things happened too suddenly. According to Strauss's plan, a large number of POW camps would not be needed until a few days later, so there was no task of repairing the POW camps.

What's funny is that when the Tang army went back to look for the prisoners, almost one-fifth of the prisoners had frozen to death. They didn't have much supplies, and they were scared to death. They had to wait there for a whole morning without food or water, and the temperature was so low... It was a tragic scene.

What's even more ridiculous is that these dwarf soldiers, who treated their own civilians like wolves and tigers, didn't even have the courage to flee when faced with the Tang army. They just waited there, and few of them dared to leave.

Until this time, Xie Ke did not know that his troops had collapsed. He was still trying to prepare and hold out in Dalcas for a while, at least so that the Eastern Front could establish a decent defense line along the Port River.

But what he never expected was that the Tang army was actually not too far away from him at this time, and every time they arrived at a village, the local dwarf civilians even lined the streets to welcome these humans who had just left. Their enthusiasm was completely different from that of the soldiers who met the Ice Empire.

For them, this is probably their second liberation...