Chapter 1563: 1564 worries relieved
Chapter 15631564 Relief of worries
Harf was not really ready to surrender, he had no other choice. In his opinion, if the Tang army could be slowed down in attacking, feigning surrender was also an option.
This option can confuse the enemy, make them relax their vigilance, and even make the opponent suspend their attacks; it can also ignite hope among your own people, allowing them to hold on for a while.
As long as this lie is not exposed, this trick can be used for at least three to five days. After all, any negotiation takes time.
Seeing that our side may not be able to survive for three to five days, negotiation is naturally a better option.
With this idea in mind, Harf sent a confidant and a negotiator composed of dozens of officers to go to Benn to start surrender negotiations.
Unfortunately, Harf’s representatives were passive from the very beginning of the negotiations. The Tang Army only offered the option of unconditional surrender. Even because they wanted to liquidate the culprit of "squeezing the people", the Tang Army did not give Harv a promise to ensure his safety.
According to the Tang Army, Harf's surrender was a meritorious service, but squeezing the people was also a sin. Whether the merits and demerits can be balanced in the end depends on how the military court decides.
The old city lord of Benn City was judged. His merit was small, but his crime was huge. He was finally sentenced to death and all his family property was confiscated.
The body of the city lord is still hanging on the street lamp. I heard it will take a week to take it down. It was precisely because of this corpse that the Tang army gained the support of many dwarf civilians in the city.
How to distinguish between invaders and liberators? Whoever cooperates with the invader will be left alone, no matter what evil things he has done in the past; and whoever the liberator stands against the people will be eliminated, regardless of whether he cooperates or not!
During the negotiation process, the Tang army did not relax its attack on position No. 1. Harf was at the end of his rope, so he personally supervised the battle and spread the news that as long as he persisted and defeated the Tang army's arrogance, they could surrender and return home safely.
Encouraged by such news, the dwarf troops gained some courage to continue fighting. They fought tenaciously and withstood the Tang army's fierce attack.
However, the Tang Army soon began a psychological warfare offensive. They announced that as long as they laid down their weapons and surrendered, the safety of grassroots officers and soldiers could be guaranteed.
The Tang army promised to punish only the culprits and not harm innocent people. This statement was confirmed by countless dwarf prisoners in front of the battle.
More and more dwarven troops chose to surrender, and Harf became increasingly unable to control his troops. On the third day after the Tang Army occupied the Snow Fortress, Harf finally lost the main peak of Position 1.
Subsequently, the dwarf defenders were defeated and a large number of troops surrendered. Half was also captured alive in his temporary headquarters. He was shot to death by his own guards, and his body was found and confirmed by Tang Jun. As for why the guards took action, it was probably because there were people inside who were ordered to help Harv look good.
The Tang Army won a complete victory and solved the troubles behind it. Subsequently, the 1st Armored Division of the Tang Dynasty, which had been replenished and repaired, began to move south. Position 8, which the dwarf troops had defended for ten days, was controlled by the Tang Army.
At this time, the Steel Barrier really existed in name only: it had a total of 10 positions, and now the Tang Army had occupied 8 of them. Moss's combat plan had completely lost its effect.
His original attempt to rely on 10 positions to consume the Tang Army's ammunition supplies completely failed. The Tang Army's supplies were much more than he imagined. In desperation, Moss could only put part of the reserves he had accumulated with great difficulty into the battle. The Dwarf's 4th Army was supplemented and continued fighting with the Tang Army near Position 9.
The 1st Army of the Dwarves also barely held on to the defense line. They fought and retreated, and were now at least more than 70 kilometers away from Benn.
On the 15th day after the Tang Army landed, the first batch of support from the Dorne Empire finally arrived near Everwinter City.
Dorne showed great sincerity this time, because Dorne I knew that once the Tang army won in the Eastern Continent, his empire would definitely be destroyed.
Therefore, Dorn mobilized 300 aircraft, 410 pilots, and more than 2,500 ground crews this time to support his ally the Ice Empire.
Just because of technical reasons, more than 300 planes went all the way north. Due to technical problems, about 70 planes could only stay in the countries along the way, and less than 230 planes reached the front line.
In addition, about 100 pilots and more than 400 ground staff were stranded in various countries along the way with the malfunctioning aircraft. Only more than 2,000 ground staff and more than 300 pilots actually reached the front line.
Even so, these supports are already a timely help: the Ice Empire has lost a large number of pilots due to continuous battles with the Tang Air Force, and their air force combat capabilities have been almost exhausted.
With these additions, the Ice Empire can continue to take off aircraft for combat, which can at least interfere with the Tang Army's use of air superiority to suppress the already very passive ground battlefield.
In the past few days, the Ice Empire's air force has been relying on air force pilots from the Lions Empire and the Nanla Empire - these pilots entered the Ice Empire as mercenaries, and their losses have been huge. It can no longer support the combat needs of the front line.
Moss was not happy at all after waiting for reinforcements to arrive, because his steel barriers had lost their effect, and the subsequent battles would depend on the ground forces' adaptability.
This is precisely the weakness of the dwarves: the war experience of the dwarves is not applicable to new battlefields. The combat style of the Tang army is completely different from that of the elves. Field battles will definitely become a nightmare for the dwarves.
But Moss did not dare to easily withdraw his army to defend the city, because doing so would create the illusion of a "dwarf rout" on the scene. This effect was enough for Binghan I to hang him.
Moreover, there is no field battle to maintain the basic front, and there is no way to persist in street fighting. The solid defenses of the steel barriers cannot last for several days. Who can guarantee that street fighting in the city will be feasible?
So many problems caused Moss to sit back and wait for death. He could only maintain the existing defense line and continue to consume the Tang army, filling all the reserves in his hands into the trenches where a large number of people died every day.
The only thing that pleased him was that Yongdong Port was still in his hands, and the Tang army did not seize any port to expand its logistics supply capacity. In Moss's mind, this means that the Tang army is still facing logistical supply pressure, and he still has the slightest possibility of turning defeat into victory.
(End of this chapter)