Alien Arms Empire

Chapter 1849 1850 We are the ones who get beaten

The Yucheng defenders began to shrink. They abandoned all warning areas outside the first line of defense and regarded the first line of defense as their outermost border.

This arrangement can further increase the troop density behind the Yucheng defense line, but the shortcomings are also obvious: they voluntarily gave up a large defensive area and abandoned the deep defense space.

The Tang army was naturally unable to waste such an opportunity. They immediately filled the gap between the two armies and took advantage of the chaos of the opponent's retreat to penetrate the first line of defense.

Because the 91st Division of Dorne was collapsed by a night attack before, in fact, the first peripheral defense line of the Yucheng Defense Line had already been broken through by the Tang Army. Now that it has been broken through in several places, it is actually not a big deal.

Therefore, Paul has focused his defense on the second line of defense. He is preparing to preserve his strength as much as possible to meet the coming storm-like attack of the Tang Army.

In fact, the Tang Army is indeed mobilizing a large number of troops to go south: Strauss's 3rd Army is moving towards Ice Crystal City, and a large number of artillery is already gathering. A large amount of materials landed from the Bunas Port Pier can arrive very smoothly. Two fronts in the northwest.

This road has been completely simplified, and the supplies of the Tang Army are unimpeded: ships departing from the Western Continent are unloaded directly in Bunas, then loaded on trains in Bunas and transported directly to Wolf City, and then transported directly from Wolf City to Ice Crystal City...

The lines used for transportation in this way were all built by the Datang Group. Not only were they of good quality, but the distance was also greatly shortened. In comparison, the transportation pressure was not as great as that of the northern railway.

It is completely opposite to the route to reinforce Bunas from the north, so it will not interfere with each other at all. Therefore, in a short period of time, the Tang Army could easily accumulate a large number of artillery shells in Ice Crystal City.

With a supply advantage and stronger troops, the Tang Army began to put pressure on Yucheng in the direction of Bunas. Paul was not sure for a while which side the Tang Army's main attack direction was.

After all, there will definitely be more and more Tang troops in the direction of Ice Crystal City, and the Tang Army's troops going south will obviously go in the direction of Ice Crystal City.

However, Paul could not care about the future. He had already ordered the northern part to be handed over to the Dornish garrison and deployed his troops in the two directions southwest of Jade City.

It was another new day. The Tang army did not repeat its old tricks and launched a sneak attack at night. After a peaceful night, a fierce battle broke out early the next morning.

Near the first line of defense, the Tang Army detachment, which had already taken advantage, exchanged fire with the Lions Empire defenders who were still holding on to their positions. The two sides fought over several highlands.

Lines had no good solution except to send out more light infantry to try to strengthen the defense on these highlands.

The Tang Army directly used artillery to cover and shoot these highlands. For a time, there were a series of explosions on the mountain tops, and the smoke engulfed the seemingly solid defenses built on the highlands.

Then the Tang Army infantry rushed to the high ground under the cover of tanks and armored vehicles, and the remaining Lines Empire troops also launched a tenacious counterattack.

The two sides started a fierce battle near the trenches. As several Thunderbolt attack aircraft from the Tang Empire arrived on the battlefield, reinforcements from the Lines Empire were blocked.

The Lanes garrison, which lost reinforcements, eventually collapsed. About 1,000 soldiers surrendered, and several highlands were also occupied by the Tang army. Such attacks occurred one after another within a few hours, and the Tang army was trying to compress the space of Lyons' troops.

After losing thousands of people, the troops of the Lines Empire had to give up a large part of the defense nodes on the first line of defense, making their peripheral defense line more discontinuous.

"Commander! The people below are all very dissatisfied... They feel that it is unfair to place all our troops in the south and west..." In the headquarters of the Yucheng underground air defense bunker, an officer from the Lions Empire complained to Paul.

Recently, the Tang Army has launched attacks in the west, targeting the defense line stationed by the Lions Empire troops. The defense area of ​​the Dorne Empire troops in the north is quite calm, with almost no losses.

The bombings of the Tang Army seemed to be deliberately targeting the defense line stationed by the Lines Empire, and a large number of attack aircraft were invested in the battle to cover the attack on the west.

In this context, the troops of the Lions Empire naturally suffered heavy losses, so many people felt that it would be fair to transfer the Dornish troops who were living a comfortable life to the west.

Paul didn't think so. He glanced at the other party and asked, "What do you think is fair? Is the north safe?"

He knew that the north where Dorne was stationed would definitely not be free of pressure in the future, or that Dorne's side would be the place where the real pressure was. As long as the main force of the Tang Army arrives, a fierce battle will definitely break out in the direction of Ice Crystal City.

Paul is not an idiot to let his troops be beaten by Tang troops in the west, and then transferred to the north to be beaten by another group of Tang troops.

"But now, we are really the only ones fighting against the Tang people." Unfortunately, many generals and officers could not withstand the pressure, so some people immediately started complaining.

"Shut up! Don't you think things are chaotic enough? In one morning, you lost 11 highlands! 11!" The anxious Paul was no longer in the mood to comfort his men.

If the people below are playing well, then of course he doesn't mind encouraging them, and is even willing to spend more energy to coordinate internal conflicts.

But the problem now is that he has lost thousands of soldiers in one morning! This rate of loss is simply not something he can afford.

Calculating like this, he will lose tens of thousands of people in the direction of Yucheng in ten days, and hundreds of thousands in one hundred days! Just kidding, it won't take more than a year for the Lines empire to collapse from the stress of losses.

The same goes for Dorne! If there were the Susas Empire and the Yangmu Empire, and the four countries shared the burden, perhaps such losses could still be tolerated, but now it is completely different. There are only two empires left in the anti-Tang alliance, and there is not much wealth left.

In fact, everyone knows the outcome of this war. Those who are still struggling just hope to use their own struggles to delay the arrival of the outcome.

Some people do it to escape reality, like Paul; some people do it for the greater good, hoping to sell themselves for a good price.

"No matter what, you must hold your position! Otherwise, it will be useless to move you anywhere!" Paul glanced at his men and ended the meeting with this sentence.