Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 1757 1758 Becomes More Advanced

The coalition did have a counterattack plan, which was named "Tropical Storm". The whole plan was designed around trying to retake the Hot Wind Port occupied by the Tang Empire, and it was envisioned that the elves' troops and Dorne's troops would work together to accomplish this.

However, the plan was a bit of a joke. From the large town to the details, it actually had a weird feeling that it could not be completed, which made many senior officials of the coalition sneer at it.

In fact, no one had any hope for this plan. Everyone felt that such a counterattack was no different from committing suicide, so the entire plan could not be carried forward during the preparation stage.

Grassroots officers and soldiers had no enthusiasm, middle-level cadres had no confidence, and senior commanders did not take the plan seriously at all.

According to the plan, by January not even half of the troops that were supposed to be assembled in the direction of Hot Wind Port had arrived, and the troops that had arrived were unable to launch offensive operations due to lack of ammunition.

Everything seemed to be planned artificially. There was insufficient ammunition and manpower, and all the numbers were stuck exactly in that delicate position of "enough for defense but insufficient for offense."

The Spring Festival is just around the corner. This is a traditional festival originated from the Tang Empire. It is said that the date was chosen personally by the Emperor of the Tang Empire: because there is no so-called lunar calendar in this world, February 1st was chosen every year.

In the past, in order to please the Tang Empire, almost all countries in the East Continent would celebrate this emerging festival and regarded it as one of the most important festivals of the year.

But now, these countries have unanimously announced a ban on the Tang Empire's festivals. This "traditional festival" that has been popular for seven or eight years has been abolished.

Although these countries banned the Spring Festival, a Tang Dynasty holiday, the Tang Empire would definitely celebrate it. Millions of soldiers would celebrate the festival on the front lines, so they naturally needed to prepare.

Tang Mo will deliver a New Year's greeting to all the officers and soldiers on the front line, and Tang Kingdom's Spring Festival Gala will also devote a large amount of space to praise the frontline soldiers who are fighting for the country.

In any case, judging from the war results, the Tang Dynasty still won great victories in its foreign wars, so the atmosphere of the entire New Year remained at a relatively joyful level.

On the other hand, the coalition forces were in a rather depressing mood. On the one hand, without the atmosphere of the Spring Festival, they naturally seemed to be quite quiet; on the other hand, because of the continuous defeats on the battlefield, everyone was not in a happy mood.

There was a depressing atmosphere everywhere, the feeling of failure was spreading, and many people even began to discuss whether there was any possibility of winning this war.

From a logical point of view, the coalition forces seemed doomed to failure after losing the barrier of the Endless Sea.

However, the emperors of various countries were unwilling to accept this fact. They preferred to believe that as long as they united and maintained a large force on the front line, they would have hope of repelling the Tang army and seeking peace.

In the past few days, the areas controlled by the elves, especially the areas in the north close to the Ice Empire, have been bombed to varying degrees.

The Tang army dispatched a large number of aircraft to carry out high-intensity bombing on the targets they had discovered. Countless bombs fell from the sky, destroying the elves' cities, blowing up bridges, and damaging roads, while also completely crushing the confidence of the coalition commanders. The Yangmu Empire, which had not been affected much before, finally realized how much pressure the dwarves had withstood for them: the attacks from the air alone had already made the Yangmu Empire miserable.

Destroyed factories meant a decline in production capacity, destroyed roads meant a collapse in transportation capacity, and bombed cities would cause public unrest... The Tang Dynasty's air strikes made the Yangmu Empire extremely passive, and many places even began to understand the dwarves whom they looked down upon a few months ago.

What made the elves a little upset was that the Tang army's means of attacking them seemed to have been upgraded again: the large-scale bombing began to decrease, and was replaced by a more efficient and strange precision strike method.

No matter from which aspect, the accuracy of Tang Empire's bomb attacks has made a qualitative leap. It is not necessary for planes to fly over the bombing target to drop bombs and easily destroy buildings the size of houses.

First of all, the power of these aerial bombs should not be underestimated. Often, one bomb can easily destroy a large building. Compared with the bombs used by the Tang Kingdom before, the new bombs seem to have a much greater power.

Secondly, this bomb is equipped with small wings, which can glide in the air for a long time and attack targets far away. This means that the Tang army's planes no longer need to fly over the city to drop bombs, which greatly increases safety.

Finally, this new type of bomb could still accurately hit the target after flying dozens of kilometers, as if it had eyes. This cost-effectiveness allowed the Tang army to launch this type of ammunition unscrupulously and destroy any target they wanted to destroy.

Despite the long attack distance, these bombs can still surprisingly hit the most important buildings of the elves: for example, radio stations, factories that produce important parts... In short, recently they have been completely destroyed by just one aerial bomb and cannot be repaired or used.

Although it is still unclear how the Tang army did it, it is an indisputable fact that the elves suffered heavy losses. In addition to increasing the air defense deployment at important locations without any clue, the elves' top leaders did not have a good way to deal with it.

It was later proved that such preparations were completely futile: the Tang army's attacks were all beyond the range of anti-aircraft guns, and those 88mm caliber anti-aircraft guns that looked majestic were actually useless.

The elves' air defense forces didn't even see the shadow of the enemy, so they naturally couldn't open fire to intercept those guided air bombs that were much smaller. So they could only wait out the time in the anti-aircraft artillery position.

The workers in the factories that were actually bombed, as well as some city officials who worked tirelessly, could only listen quietly to the footsteps of death approaching outside the window before they died.

This kind of bombing continued for a week. During this week, all kinds of wartime supplies and factory roads of the elves were destroyed, causing the elves' already not so smooth transportation scheduling to fall into a semi-paralyzed state.

As the effects of the Tang army's bombing began to become apparent, the elves' plan to counterattack Hot Wind Port was completely ignored.

Even Yangmu I, who was in the imperial capital for daily meetings, no longer urged his trusted general Felix to launch a counterattack. He seemed to have accepted his fate and had completely forgotten that it was he who insisted on counterattacking Hot Wind Port when they met at the station...