Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 1740 1741 Victory is at hand

At the Tang Empire's front-line headquarters in Yongdong City, several staff officers were reporting the latest battle progress to Marshal Tiger.

An officer talked about the battle situation in the encirclement of the central mountain area: "The commander of the 12th Army committed suicide. Before his death, he ordered the troops to lay down their arms. General Eric believed that there were about 13 dwarf troops surrendering, and they needed a day to clean up the battlefield."

The 7th Army commanded by Eric obviously stole the show this time. He encircled two dwarf armies and cooperated with the armored forces of the 3rd Army to launch a large encirclement and annihilation battle.

When the encirclement was formed, there were approximately 40 dwarf soldiers inside. No matter from which perspective, this number was not small.

When talking about this, the officer looked regretful: "If they had made this decision one day earlier, at least 2 more people would have survived. The severe cold tortured these dwarves who were born accustomed to the cold. Now frozen corpses can be seen everywhere in the encirclement."

The battle situation reported by Eric was so tragic that the dwarf troops' forced breakout resulted in incalculable losses.

The weather caused more casualties to the dwarf troops than the Tang army. It was said that the encirclement was like hell, with entire companies and battalions of dwarf soldiers frozen to death overnight, and the entire camp was filled with neatly arranged corpses of sleeping soldiers.

Another staff officer added with some regret: "Although the dwarven 11th Army is still resisting, it has completely lost its coordinated command. The troops are fighting on their own. In fact, even we don't know whether their army headquarters still exists."

Obviously, the remaining dwarven troops were still struggling, and they knew that if they did not break out to Ironforge, then Ironforge would be finished.

Therefore, many dwarf troops are still unwilling to surrender. They still want to continue to persevere and fight, using their lives to fight for a glimmer of hope for their country.

There have always been brave and fearless soldiers, but some of them fight for justice, while others sacrifice themselves for evil, but the process is not fundamentally different.

The Tang army commanders admired the dwarf warriors who had the courage to face powerful enemies, but they could not be soft-hearted, nor did they have any reason to give up the victory they had already won.

After completing the supplement, the officer continued to assure: "I believe that within two days, the battle in the encirclement will be over, and no dwarf soldier will be able to break through and return to Ironforge... The 7th Army is capable of doing it."

Tiger nodded slightly. He knew that the Battle of Ironforge would be much easier if the 11th and 12th Dwarf Armies were destroyed. In fact, the 3rd Army Armored Forces swept across the southern plains and then headed north to block these Dwarf troops. Wasn't it to prevent them from returning to Ironforge to fight street battles?

It is completely difficult to destroy these dwarf troops in the wild and to destroy them in the ruins of the city. The results of the 7th Army at this moment just prove this point: the 11th and 12th Dwarf Armies, which were surrounded in the field, completely collapsed within a few days after running out of ammunition and food.

"General Ying'an's troops have entered the main city of Ironforge from the west. They have controlled the West Square of Ironforge and are no more than 2 kilometers away from the central square." Then, several officers transferred the report to Ironforge. The dwarf troops fighting in Ironforge were obviously weakened, and the reinforcements from Dorne disappeared. The troops left in the city were basically the remnants of the Western Front.

After occupying the West Railway Station and West Square, Ying'an's troops began to advance towards the central area of ​​Ironforge.

Their speed was relatively fast, because Marshal Barov had to withdraw his reserve troops to take over the defense zone of Marshal Sheko's troops, so as a whole, the troops in the Dwarf City were in a defensive position and had to give up many defensive positions.

Another staff officer gestured on the map marked with the occupation flag and said, "General Feng Kezhi's troops are also continuing to attack in the east. They have occupied a large number of residential areas, but there are indeed a lot of civilians over there, which has affected their advancement speed... Of course, because the enemy has withdrawn a large number of troops, their progress in the past two days has not been slow."

In fact, everyone knew that Ironforge could not hold out for much longer because the number of troops in the city had been reduced to a certain extent.

A large number of troops were withdrawn. Obviously, this was a wrong decision made by the dwarves: relying on the street fighting in the ruins, they seemed to be able to hold on for a while, but pulling these troops out for field battles was exactly what the Tang army wanted.

Then a staff officer talked about the great counterattack on the southern plains: "The greatest progress is still in the southern plains. General Strauss's 3rd Army swept through the Dwarf Eastern Front. Now they are taking prisoners. The exact number is still being counted."

Although from the perspective of plan execution, the 3rd Army did not perform well, they managed to turn a pincer attack into a situation where both sides are advancing at the same pace.

But from the results, the 3rd Army has achieved its campaign objectives: annihilate the Dwarf Eastern Front and cut off the supply line south of Ironforge.

"If nothing unexpected happens, our troops will be able to recapture Dalcas today, and cross the Port River by tomorrow at the latest, cutting off the last few supply lines south of Ironforge." He told Marshal Tiger a very specific time, because there was nothing in front of the 3rd Army that could stop their advance.

"Once we encircle Ironforge, the war situation in the Frozen Empire will be decided. In the next stage, we can focus on going south to break through the elven defense line." He said as he made a closing gesture on the map.

The generals of the Air Force immediately announced their next phase of action plan: "General Xiao Yun is preparing to mobilize more bombers to destroy the industrial production capacity of the Yangmu Empire, paralyze the opponent's industrial manufacturing, and gain greater advantages for subsequent operations."

Tiger nodded. He also knew that Xiao Yun was planning a large-scale bombing against the Yangmu Empire. The entire bombing plan included the use of long-range ballistic missiles that had just arrived in the East Continent. The Air Force was going to use these missiles to attack the capital of the Yangmu Empire, and use Ares bombers to attack all important industrial cities in the north of the elves. The bombing was expected to last for half a month, and by then the industrial production capacity of the elves would drop to about half of its current level.