Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 1806 1807 Chaotic Headquarters

Felix certainly knew that he could hold out for five days entirely because of the solid defensive positions he had deployed in advance. The problem was that even with the solid defensive positions, his troops were very passive when facing the Tang army's attack and were unable to resist at all.

But the key point is that the Tang army has only been attacking for five days, and the defense line carefully prepared by Felix is ​​almost lost: at the deepest point, the Tang army has advanced more than ten kilometers, which is almost reaching the third line of defense.

If the third line of defense was also penetrated, then the subsequent battle would have to be a field battle with the Tang army. This was not what Felix wanted to see, because he had no confidence at all in stopping the Tang army in a field battle.

In other words, he was not unsure, but he knew that if he lost the defense line, he would be completely finished. So he deployed troops and sent all the reinforcements from Dorne to the battlefield, hoping to stabilize the situation.

Previously, the elves did not trust the human army, because in the dwarf battlefield, Susas's troops defected and led to the defeat of the Ice Empire. Therefore, the elves did not deploy human troops in important defense areas.

But now they can no longer care about so much. If the defense line is broken, everything will be over. Even unreliable humans will be sent to the front line as cannon fodder.

They were indeed cannon fodder... The firepower of the Tang army was very fierce. A troop sent to the front line would probably be crippled within a few hours, and the front-line soldiers were almost consumables.

Although the number of casualties of the Tang army was also increasing, the ratio of losses on both sides was too high to bear. Often, when a cluster bomb fell, a company or even a battalion of coalition forces suffered heavy casualties. This kind of battle was no different from a massacre.

Due to the delay in communications, the coalition forces were extremely slow in reaction. The Tang army, like the beacon country in the Gulf War, easily destroyed the coalition forces.

It seemed that the coalition forces had an absolute advantage in terms of manpower, with hundreds of thousands of troops heading to the battlefield continuously, seemingly endless. But before they arrived at the battlefield, they were like matches approaching a stove, ignited and evaporated.

Soldiers are dying every minute and every second. Normally, if a soldier can survive on the battlefield for seven hours, he may be promoted to squad leader or platoon leader.

But even the squad leader and the platoon leader could not escape the fate of being killed. As time went on, the most determined warriors were lost, and even the elves' follow-up troops began to surrender.

Everyone knows that once surrenders begin to increase on the battlefield, it means that one side's fighting spirit is close to collapse. Everyone knows what will happen next. The side that reaches the limit first will collapse on a large scale, and the losses will rise sharply.

General Felix threw the battle report in his hand on the table in annoyance. The parchment was crumpled into a ball, just like his mood at the moment. The content of the battle report was nothing new, it was nothing more than which defense line was breached again, and which division's casualties exceeded 50%.

There were messages asking for support everywhere, but he himself was also waiting for support. The problem was that the entire defense line, from east to west, was being attacked fiercely by the Tang army.

The easternmost elven troops were about to be defeated by Feng Kezhi, and a little further west, Ying An's troops were also attacking cities, and Strauss's army was also charging forward and unstoppable... The attack power displayed by the Tang army this time was even more terrifying than when they were in the dwarf area.

This is also a normal phenomenon: after several months of truce, the Tang army has certainly become stronger after receiving a large number of reinforcements and integrating the transportation and supply resources behind it.

Without the barrier of the endless sea, they have a strong strategic depth and an invincible air force.

"Damn Tang army! Are they all devils?" Felix cursed in a low voice, scratching his messy beard hard with his slender fingers, as if he wanted to vent all the anger in his head.

He was a typical elven noble general, who looked gentle and trustworthy on weekdays. Unfortunately, after several days of torture, he looked like a down-and-out middle-aged uncle.

At the side, his adjutant, also a young nobleman, cautiously suggested: "Marshal, perhaps we should ask His Majesty to send reinforcements. Other places are obviously feint attacks. Our side is the main attack direction of the Tang army. With our current strength alone, I am afraid..."

"Shut up!" Felix slammed the table and interrupted the adjutant. "Now we can only rely on ourselves! Tell those idiots in Ryans in the far north that they can't retreat a single step! If they are penetrated, the entire line of defense will be completely destroyed!"

"Yes!" The adjutant nodded in agreement and hurried to convey his order.

Felix paced back and forth in the room anxiously, and his heavy footsteps hit the wooden floor, as if beating on everyone's heart.

Soon, the adjutant dared not speak, but lowered his head, secretly glancing at the map on the table. On the map, the coalition's defense line had been torn to pieces by the Tang army's attack, like a broken rag doll that had been eaten by a wild beast.

Obvious bulges can now be seen in several places where the Tang army focused its attack, and the first line of defense of the coalition forces has now been completely destroyed, with only some relatively remote areas that have not yet been occupied and captured by the Tang army.

At the edge of the map, two peculiarly shaped aircraft logos stood out. They were like two falcons from hell, hovering over the battlefield, ruthlessly harvesting the lives of the coalition forces with their sharp claws.

"Marshal, the latest news is that the Tang army's lightning attack aircraft has been dispatched again..." The officer who had just pushed the door open and came to report the situation had a slightly trembling voice, with a hint of fear that could not be concealed.

They had heard the name of this thing from the Tang Army's broadcast, and there were many legends about thunder and lightning within the coalition. It was simply the nightmare of the ground troops and a monster that the coalition soldiers feared.

This thing is the most deployed attack aircraft by the Tang army for ground support. Although it is the Intruder attack aircraft that drops more precision-guided weapons, the Intruder attack aircraft are always far away from the target when dropping bombs and cannot create a visual impact on the enemy's ground forces.

Thunderbolts can directly intimidate opponents and tear apart enemies at close range, which is also an important reason why the Lighthouse Country is unwilling to retire this type of aircraft. Sometimes, sophisticated weapons are not as deterrent as a chainsaw.

This is also why nuclear submarine ballistic missiles are often not as deterrent as strategic bombers: if you don't let the enemy see you, they really don't think you have a knife. From the perspective of the coalition forces, the lightning attack aircraft has an extremely fast flight speed and fierce firepower. The coalition forces have no air defense weapons to compete with it. They don't have air defense missiles like the Tang Empire, nor do they have fully automatic self-propelled anti-aircraft guns and other weapons.

Therefore, every time a Thunderbolt attack aircraft appeared, it meant that the coalition forces would suffer a bloody massacre. General Flix certainly knew the horror of Thunderbolts. Many troops suffered heavy losses and lost their combat effectiveness in less than half an hour after encountering only two Thunderbolts.

General Felix's face was as dark as the clouds before a rainstorm, terribly gloomy. He knew what this meant. Thunder and lightning were dispatched, and it would be another one-sided massacre.

The coalition forces had no way to deal with the Tang army's damn air force. As long as those various types of aircraft appeared, countless soldiers would become casualties and appear in the report in front of him.

"Damn Tang people, how come they have so many damn weapons?" General Felix cursed with gritted teeth and slammed his fist on the table, causing the symbols on the map to jump.

When he said this, he suddenly remembered what a staff officer had said about Tang Ren: "Do those guys think about how to kill people more efficiently every day when they sleep?"

He didn't pay attention to this sentence at that time. Now it seems that these brutal Tang people may really be designing weapons to kill people during their sleep time...

"Marshal, calm down. What should we do now?" The officer who came to deliver the message asked tremblingly. He knew very well that angering General Felix at this time was definitely not a wise choice.

"What should we do? What else can we do? Order the troops to hide themselves as much as possible and pray that those damn Tang pilots are blind today and can't see them!" General Felix waved his arms irritably, as if he wanted to vent all the anger in his heart.

"Yes!" The officer didn't dare to say anything more and turned around to convey the order. When he opened the door, he happened to meet Marshal Felix's adjutant who had returned. The two of them nodded to each other helplessly, as a greeting. Then the officer left in a hurry, and the adjutant returned to the room.

"Marshal! The order has been passed on. The Lions side has promised that they will hold the line until the last man." The adjutant brought back good-sounding news. At least the Lions Empire did not question Felix's order.

Felix knew that the order he had just issued to let the troops evade on their own was meaningless, because the Thunder attack aircraft were equipped with advanced reconnaissance equipment, and it was difficult to escape their tracking even in the dense forest.

However, because the size of the coalition forces is so huge, with tens of thousands of troops, it is unlikely that the Thunder attack aircraft will attack all of them. They can only choose the most easily attacked high-value targets and will let go of those prey that do not look so delicious.

So concealment still makes some sense, at least some infantry can escape and not be chopped to pieces by the terrifying 30mm caliber machine gun.

"It seems that they also know that if they retreat again, it will be over." Felix nodded, affirming the attitude of the Lions Empire. As long as the other party is not stupid, they will know that once they give up the solid border defense line, this battle will be impossible to fight.

If they were forced into a field battle by the Tang army, they would soon be caught up, divided, surrounded and annihilated in an instant... There would be no chance of luck at all.

"Marshal! This is bad, Marshal!" Just when Felix was relieved, another officer pushed the door open and reported a frightening news: "The news from the front line is that two Thunder attack planes have crossed the defense line and are heading towards us."

They don't have air defense radars, and even if they do, they will be interfered with by electromagnetic interference, so air defense basically relies on guard posts. Such observation posts have a lag in information, and often they are prone to miss news of enemy aircraft intrusions due to laziness and other issues.

Now, it is very difficult for the message to be delivered. Just calculating the time, it is estimated that the enemy planes are not far from here.

"Damn it!" Felix cursed in a low voice. Although he had done a lot of covert work, sometimes the headquarters in a certain direction would always leave some clues to expose themselves.

There was no other way. With so many vehicles coming and going and so many important units operating every day, no one could guarantee absolute concealment. Especially when the war became tense, the frequent movement of personnel could not be stopped.

So he had known this would happen, but when the lightning attack plane that represented doom really rushed towards him, Flix couldn't help but feel a sense of despair.

"Order all air defense forces to enter a state of alert immediately! Don't panic, let people from all departments evacuate to the bunkers in an orderly manner!" Although they were prepared, it was inevitable that a commotion would occur when the time came.

After the order was passed down, some elven female officers began to leave the building where they worked, holding various important documents. This was originally a small town, but it was temporarily transformed into a headquarters. When the alarm sounded, countless people in military uniforms suddenly appeared on the street.

"Hurry up! Hurry up!" The officers waiting on the side waved to the soldiers holding various equipment, and those nervous officers rushed onto the truck in a mess.

Cars started one after another and began to move to the shelter built outside the town. During the transfer, the Tang army's lightning attack aircraft had also arrived.

Amid the noise, the anti-aircraft guns deployed in the distance began to roar. Two Thunder attack aircraft avoided the firepower, flexibly passed through the barrage, and fired missiles at the town.

In fact, the Tang army was not sure that this was the headquarters of the coalition forces. They just knew that there was a command center here. The two Thunders were very light and circled calmly after launching the missiles.

The missiles hit the buildings in the town, overturning the military vehicles waiting around. The elf officers who had gathered around the vehicles and had no time to leave fell to the ground. As for how many of them were injured and how many died... no one knew.

In the dim air-raid shelter, Felix felt the vibration of the explosion above his head, his face was uncertain. At this time, his headquarters was exposed, which was not a good thing for the entire war situation.