Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 1739-1740 A deserving defeat

Countless ammunition was poured onto the positions of the dwarven defenders. The 11th Dwarven Army, which was originally trying to break through, had completely lost its mobility at this moment. They were fixed in place and then covered by the powerful firepower of the Tang army.

Thousands of dwarf soldiers chose to surrender. They had indeed fought to the last moment, and at this moment they were completely out of ammunition and food.

After retreating all the way here, they had very little ammunition left, and now they were surrounded. They soon ran out of ammunition and found themselves helplessly still in the encirclement.

Hundreds of thousands of troops have no way to return to Ironforge. They can only wait awkwardly in the position they have just exited from the central mountains, waiting for the fate of destruction to befall them.

Binghan Yishi's order was to let them fight to the last moment, and now they did fight to the last moment: the weapons and equipment they discarded along the way formed lines along the road, and the bodies of their dead comrades were buried in the ice and snow and no one cared about them.

Now these soldiers lack medical care and medicine, and even have very little clothing to keep warm. They have no weapons, no ammunition, and no air support...

Those dwarf soldiers who had athlete's foot but couldn't even take off their shoes either huddled in the snow waiting to die, or raised their hands high and walked towards the Tang army's position opposite.

After holding out for more than ten days, the 12th Army of the Ice Empire was the first to give up. Within one day, about 2 people surrendered to the Tang Army and handed over their weapons.

Subsequently, a large number of surrenders occurred on the front line of the 11th Army: about thousands of people laid down their arms and became prisoners of war of the Tang army together with the supervisory teams guarding them.

The battle has reached this point, and it is obvious that the dwarves can no longer hold on: even the gendarmerie supervision team that supervises the troops' operations has seen a large number of surrenders. It is already an impossible task to expect the troops to continue the offensive.

The next day, when the Tang army closed the encirclement, more dwarf troops chose to surrender. They gave up their defenses and raised their hands to welcome the arrival of the Tang army.

The entire encirclement was in chaos. Soldiers who still had a little will to resist were running around everywhere, while soldiers who had decided to surrender gathered together like refugees.

From a strategic point of view, the destruction of this force directly led to two serious consequences: the first consequence was that the plan to rely on the arrival of the 11th and 12th Army to fill the gap in the direction of Ironforge completely failed; the second consequence was that Xie Ke's idea of ​​​​delaying the Tang army's northern army was also completely impossible.

Ironforge's defenses were thus greatly weakened, and Sheko's situation became ten or a hundred times more difficult... In short, from a God's perspective, the dwarves' side was in complete chaos.

But they themselves did not know this fact: due to the existence of strong electromagnetic interference, the dwarf high-level officials were completely unaware of the collapse of the 11th and 12th Armies.

In the direction of Ironforge, the remaining Prime Minister, Chief of General Staff Larb, and Marshal Barov were still hoping that the 11th and 12th Army could break through and retreat to Ironforge to strengthen their defenses.

They still naively believed that as long as these two troops arrived, they would have hope of holding out for another month to two months.

Because of the withdrawal of the Eastern Front, the Western Front commanded by Marshal Barov was in a very difficult situation. They used half of their original strength to defend the entire Ironforge. Every block and every building was repeatedly fought for, which made them pay a heavy price. The Tang army gave up the occupied ruins to reduce casualties, but the dwarves had to pay a lot of soldiers' lives to regain the lost positions... In comparison, the situation on the dwarf side was quite bad.

Countless soldiers were killed, countless soldiers were injured, the originally well-organized 3rd and 13th Army groups are now reduced to remnants, and the situation of the second-line army groups that have been supplemented is even more miserable.

The reinforcements from Dorne have already withdrawn, and now the remaining troops in the city are all dwarves. The sharply reduced number of defenders has been forced to give up many blocks to shorten their defense line.

But they still had hope, because they felt that the 11th and 12th Armies would be able to break through and return to Ironforge, and as long as they could hold on until that day, they would be able to hold their ground.

The situation on the other side seemed even worse. Sheko certainly had no idea that the 11th and 12th Armies had collapsed. He was not even aware of the fact that his own Eastern Front had collapsed.

Seen from the sky, the Tang army's torrent was approaching Dalcas, and even because the speed of advancement in the center was too fast, the role of the two wings could not be seen.

The Tang army, which was advancing in parallel, was not in a state of encircling the Eastern Army at this moment. They simply crushed the enemy and left countless prisoners behind them.

Countless difficult problems were thrown to the civil officials who were originally preparing to sue General Strauss. The question they now had to consider was: how to deal with these damn dwarf captives.

From the perspective of their civil officials, these dwarf soldiers from the Eastern Front can be said to have committed many crimes: they have a very bad reputation among the civilians, and they owe numerous blood debts. Many of them should be tried and then justly executed to appease the public anger.

This process will gain the support of local civilians and establish the prestige of the civil officials of the Tang Empire among the local people. Local public security will immediately improve, the people will settle down, and they will be happy to support the various work arrangements of the Tang Empire.

But there are really too many people... The number of prisoners of the Eastern Front is about 21, and the number is still increasing.

If Dalcas was taken, the number would be more than 30. After all, Binghan I helped Sheke find many reinforcements, many of which were even going to Ironforge.

It is definitely not an easy task to identify so many people and whether they have committed crimes. The workload is too huge and it is impossible to complete this task with a small number of civil officials.

Of course, these troubles were the sequelae of the great victory, so the Tang army commanders and civil officials were both in pain and joy. But the dwarf commanders opposite them were different, and their hearts were as cold as the weather at this moment.

Because more and more dwarf commanders found that the Tang army had unknowingly passed them by and rushed to the next target. And they... had become prisoners for no apparent reason.