Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 1812 1813 Tang Army Enters the City

When the first Tang soldier who entered the city of Mats saw this rather magnificent city, he really did not expect that such a city could be captured without firing a single shot.

He looked nervously at the elven civilians standing on both sides of the street. If it weren't for the huge white flag hanging on the city wall, he wouldn't even have the courage to face so many people.

But it doesn't matter, besides him, there are actually his comrades. Seven soldiers stood on the street holding assault rifles, and behind them was an infantry fighting vehicle that had transported them all the way here.

"Wow...it's really a nice city." Leaning on the hatch cover of the turret, the commander of the infantry fighting vehicle sighed.

The traditional buildings of the elves lined the streets, and occasionally you could see reinforced concrete high-rises that had sprung up in recent years. Although the entire city was not as prosperous as the cities of the Tang Empire, it was still a good place of considerable size.

"What should we do? Occupy the city lord's mansion?" A soldier walked up to his squad leader and asked in a low voice.

The squad leader in charge of commanding this mechanized infantry squad scratched the back of his neck awkwardly and looked up at the commander: "Should we do something? But this is the first time I've encountered such a situation."

"Haven't we already reported the situation? I guess reinforcements will arrive soon, right?" The commander shouted with a guilty conscience. His words embarrassed some of the elven officers around him, because there were about 100 elven soldiers surrounding them.

So many soldiers surrendered to seven or eight humans, which was a shame for the officers of the Elven Clan. But they had no choice, their supreme commander had fled, and the Lord of the City ordered them to surrender.

Now that they have been ordered to surrender, they have lost the opportunity to resist. No matter how humiliating or embarrassing it is, they must take responsibility for their decision.

Moreover... it is easy to kill people suddenly now, and it may succeed. But the Tang army that will follow will not listen to reason, and it may even massacre the whole city.

"Alas..." Feeling that he had too little experience and had brought shame to his troops, the Tang army squad leader put his assault rifle on his back, walked up to an elven officer, and asked, "How many troops do you have in the barracks outside the city?"

"This... this question is not easy to answer." The officer was a little embarrassed and stuttered. "When I left, there should have been at least 2000 people, but, but now... maybe there are still 1500?"

His tone was so uncertain, because he really didn't dare to give an exact number: there was no way, soldiers were escaping every minute and every second, and he was in no mood to restrain them, so he didn't know how many would be left.

Those who stayed behind were not crazy people who wanted to fight a battle with the Tang army, but some soldiers who didn't know where to go: some of their hometowns had been occupied by the Tang army, while others just stayed to try their luck and see if they could make a living.

Even as they were talking, the crowd started to stir, and soon a convoy appeared outside the city. One after another, huge Warrior jeeps drove into the city of Mats, and then stopped on the crowded streets.

The doors of the jeeps were pushed open, and some fully armed Tang army soldiers jumped out of the cars, forming a simple defensive formation on both sides of the convoy.

On the roofs of these cars, soldiers with half of their bodies sticking out were holding the muzzles of large-caliber machine guns, watching vigilantly the embarrassed elf soldiers not far away.

The elf soldiers had been disarmed, their weapons were placed in the barracks, and they came here to maintain order. So when they were pointed at by weapons, they instinctively became afraid, and the atmosphere became a little weird.

"What are they doing?" A captain came out of the convoy. He was obviously much higher in rank than the squad leader of a mechanized infantry squad. He walked to the side of the infantry fighting vehicle and asked the squad leader who had arrived here first.

Finally, a senior officer arrived, and the squad leader was relieved. He briefly introduced the situation and pointed at the slightly embarrassed elf soldiers: "They are here to maintain law and order. This place is under our control..."

"You call this control?" The captain laughed, but he didn't seem as vigilant as before. "Okay, I'm here to support them. Since they've surrendered, let them return to their homes immediately! We will ensure everyone's safety, don't be afraid! Disperse immediately! Don't go out on the streets at will!"

While giving orders loudly, he shouted to the elven officers in the distance: "Call your officers over here! We need to confirm something! Try to get your people to cooperate with us! Don't cause any trouble!"

The scene suddenly became noisy again. Civilians began to disperse under the drive of the elven soldiers, and the streets became empty.

The Tang army's convoy pulled away some distance and controlled a longer area, and then some trucks and armored vehicles entered Mats one after another.

Because the city surrendered so suddenly, the Tang army was not prepared. It was not until dinner time that day that the first dragon flag representing the Tang Empire was raised on the flagpole of the City Lord's Mansion in Mats City.

A large number of Tang troops passed through the city, and the elves looked curiously from behind their windows at the Tang army vehicles passing by their building. To them, those different vehicles seemed endless and were obviously more advanced than the coalition forces they were familiar with.

Of course, they could not recognize those anti-aircraft missile launchers that were specifically used for air defense. In their opinion, the rectangular cylindrical things on those vehicles were probably used to store fuel or drinking water, and were not as majestic as tanks or armored vehicles.

For them, those tank self-propelled artillery with large cannon barrels, or quad-mounted self-propelled anti-aircraft artillery are more scary. After all, those things don't look easy to deal with.

"These lunatics... don't they know that it's easy to lose their lives if they peek behind the window?" A lieutenant colonel of the Tang army who had just entered the city frowned at the fearless elf civilians and complained to his colleagues around him.

The Tang army attaches great importance to anti-sniper training. What those ignorant civilians are doing can easily arouse the Tang army's vigilance and even lead to counterattacks.

If there is a madman with ulterior motives who hides in a corner and fires a shot, the Tang army will quickly enter a killing mode in the entire city and eliminate all targets that look sneaky.

"There's nothing we can do. Things like this will always be like this." The officer next to him lit a cigarette and said helplessly as he looked at the vehicles passing by.

Most of the heavy weapons and equipment such as tanks bypassed the city, and most of the vehicles that passed through the city were wheeled vehicles. After all, the road surface in the city was not that strong, and 80% of the road surface would be scrapped after a tracked vehicle passed through it once. Even the urban roads of the Tang Empire could not withstand the ravages of tracks, so it was unrealistic to expect the roads in the elves' cities to withstand tanks weighing dozens of tons.

Therefore, those elf civilians who were hiding in the upper floors overlooking the streets and thought they saw tanks, most of them only saw the Tang army's wheeled infantry fighting vehicles, wheeled assault guns and other weapons and equipment.

Anyway, they can't tell the difference between these weapons and equipment, just like many people watching the National Day military parade can't tell the difference between self-propelled artillery and tanks.

The Tang soldiers walked into the city carrying their weapons in neat rows. Although there were no flowers or applause, they were still very proud.

They have captured another city for their emperor, and the world is one step closer to unification. This is their glory, their story.

"We are all warriors of His Majesty the Emperor... embarking on a great journey..." Someone started, and a whole phalanx of soldiers began to sing their own song loudly. The singing was so loud that it floated in the streets full of Tang troops.

One after another, the scarlet flags passed by the window of the city lord's mansion, making the city lord of Mats City, who was also standing behind the window watching, feel extremely inferior.

His army collapsed before the Tang army arrived, and the two division commanders fled without fighting. The entire city of Matus failed to organize any decent resistance.

Looking back at these soldiers of the Tang Empire, they are the real warriors. Even from such a distance, he can clearly feel that those Tang soldiers passing by his door are eager for war, and they are even willing to sacrifice their precious lives in the war!

As the most important city in the central part of the elves, Mats has its own airport. Now it has been occupied by the Tang army. However, the elf air force there is a little more courageous than the infantry, and they fled before the Tang army arrived.

No, they did not surrender. After destroying about a third of the planes in the hangar, they abandoned everything else and drove away in their cars.

When the Tang army arrived there, the doors of many hangars were open. Some of the cockpits of the planes inside were blown up by grenades, and some of the wings were blown into holes by grenades...but most of the planes were in good condition.

It’s a pity that the Tang Empire’s troops didn’t care about these planes: most of them were completely outdated C-47 transport planes, some propeller fighters, and very few jet planes.

In fact, the coalition air force had collapsed in the early stages of the battle. A large number of aircraft were destroyed on the ground, and the remaining ones fled to the airport further south to survive.

Most of the air force planes originally deployed in the heart of the Yangmu Empire were outdated and backward equipment left over from an earlier time. They were reluctant to throw away but were of no use.

For the Tang army, an airport that can be used immediately is obviously more useful than those outdated and broken planes.

Even if it can only take off and land helicopters, it is already a very good front-line facility for the Tang army: Strauss was overjoyed when he learned that he had a new front-line airport, and immediately ordered some troops to be airlifted there to strengthen the vigilance near the airport.

Now this airport has become an important facility for transporting supplies to the Tang army. At the same time, the armed helicopters of the Army Aviation have also begun to be deployed here.

The Tang army armored forces outside the city have taken control of all positions near the airport and established a safe corridor connecting the city of Mats and the airport.

At about 9 o'clock that night, Strauss moved his headquarters to the city of Mats. He did not live in the city lord's mansion, but instead chose a commercial building made of reinforced concrete.

This building was built by the Chamber of Commerce of the Tang Empire. It is made of genuine materials and is extremely sturdy. It also has secret underground security facilities... As for why a chamber of commerce would spend so much money to build an office building, you should ask the Silver Fox, the intelligence department of the Tang Empire.

At the same time, at almost the same moment when Strauss entered Mats, in the palace of Roslina, the capital of the Elf Empire, Yangmu I finally heard the news that the city of Mats had been occupied by the Tang army.

"What? The city of Matus was lost?" The horrified Elf Prime Minister did not care about losing his composure and stared at the officer who came to deliver the news and asked, "Is the news accurate?"

"The garrison of Mats City was defeated before the arrival of the Tang Army, and the two leading division commanders fled in the face of the enemy... This is the news brought by the messenger sent by Mats City." The officer replied with his head down.

The messenger rushed to the imperial capital in a day, which shows how close Matus City is to Rosleina. If the Tang army wanted to, they could appear on the outskirts of Rosleina within two or three days.

A group of ministers were in a mess, and the sound of whispering was irritating. Yangmu I sat on the throne without saying a word. The prime minister looked grim and held his breath for a long time before he uttered a word to vent his anger: "Felix is ​​ruining the country!"

He could think of Felix at this time because of the battle report about Osa that was delivered in the afternoon. The Osa naval port had been lost, and the Tang army occupied it. Felix, who had said before that he would defend Osa to the death, could only flee with his remaining troops this time.

"Matthus is lost, does that mean... we are about to become the front line here?" A minister asked his colleagues nervously. If this place becomes a war zone, he should at least get his family out first.

"It's not about to happen, it's already happened." The minister beside him replied with a wry smile, "Your Majesty just issued an order yesterday that no minister or his family is allowed to leave Roslina. What's the point of you saying this now..."

"I heard that there are still 30 troops outside the city...it won't be destroyed all at once, right?" The person who asked the question lowered his voice, but many people still heard it.

"Why, how did it come to this all of a sudden?" Someone sighed, and his sigh attracted a bunch of sighs. Although these sighs were very light, they connected together and still echoed in the hall, making people feel very embarrassed.