Chapter 1577: 1578 The battle of Everwinter City is about to begin
Chapter 1577 The Battle of Everwinter City in 1578 is about to begin.
Outskirts of Everwinter City, countless civilians are digging so-called trenches. They can only get very little food a day, but they have to do very heavy physical work.
In order to speed up the construction of fortifications, Moss has thought of all the ways he can think of: he has driven almost all the civilians in Everwinter Port out to work.
In addition to building some strong concrete bunkers, the dwarves also dug anti-tank ditches and a series of horizontal and vertical trenches.
Between these trenches, they laid out barbed wire fences as best they could, and also used camouflage nets to cover some artillery positions.
Although the combat effectiveness of the 4th Army is not as strong as the 1st and 2nd Armies, it is still pretty good. In order to defend Everwinter Port, Moss also temporarily added 2 infantry divisions to this army.
The main tasks of the troops composed of these new recruits are to transport ammunition, supplies, and recover the wounded... If necessary, they can also be disassembled and temporarily added to the combat troops.
In addition, Moss also armed more than 30,000 civilians in Yongdong Port, issued them with weapons, and deployed them in coastal areas to guard against possible landings by the Tang Army.
After doing all this, the total strength of the dwarf garrison force in Everwinter Harbor has expanded to 160,000, which is not a small number by any means.
Just when the outer fields were busy, a cannonball fell among the people working. This sudden attack shocked everyone.
“The Tang Army is coming!” A civilian dropped his shovel and turned around to run. As a result, he was shot in the back by a dwarf soldier on the side and fell to the ground without moving.
"Stand still! Don't run!" the dwarf soldiers guarding these civilian workers shouted loudly. Several nearby dwarf soldiers also took off their rifles and looked around nervously.
"It's okay!" After waiting for a while and finding no new shells falling, all the soldiers breathed a sigh of relief. They ordered the pale civilians to continue working, without any mercy at all: "Keep digging! When the enemy really comes, you will know how important these trenches are."
Ten minutes later, the phone rang in Moss's underground headquarters. The staff officer quickly informed General Moss, who was studying the city defense map, of the news he had just received: "General! The news just came that a cannonball was fired by the Tang Army in the north of the city. It fell, presumably a 155mm gun, and there were no casualties.”
Of course he couldn't tell Moss that a civilian was scared by a shell and ran away in panic, only to be shot and killed by one of his own people. To him, this was just an insignificant thing.
Moss nodded, the Tang people would come over eventually, he was certain of this. It seemed a little too late to come now. According to his idea, the Tang Army should have launched a tentative attack yesterday.
"The Tang Army launched a crazy attack on the 5th Army Group yesterday. It seems that they also know that there are hidden dangers on their flanks." While looking at the densely marked bunkers and trenches on the map, he commented on his opponent: "The command of the Tang people The officer was cautious and did not let the victory get to his head."
Of course he didn't know that the Tang Army was fighting almost with the map fully lit, so he was full of respect for the opponent who had always been able to make correct judgments.
“The Tang Army fleet heading south launched an air attack on our submarine base... and bombed the area where the speedboat troops were located...” At this moment, an officer came over and sent the latest naval battle report: “The Steel was sunk.”
Because the Tang Empire’s naval fleet has fewer and fewer tasks responsible for protecting the landing zone, they can finally spare some of their strength to really put some pressure on the Ice Empire’s navy. First of all, the Tang Army eliminated the dwarf speedboat force and submarine force that posed the greatest threat to the northern route. The dwarf submarine force and speedboat force that originally relied on strong bunkers and hidden bases to be active in the north immediately suffered a devastating blow.
Speaking of the few aircraft carriers in the hands of the Dwarf Empire, the accidental sinking of the Steel is another story.
“The Steel was sunk? What happened?” Moss was shocked to hear that the precious aircraft carrier was sunk and asked immediately.
As far as he knew, the navy's aircraft carrier had always been away from the Tang army, and was not even in the port most of the time. How could it be said that it was sunk when it was sunk?
The officer responsible for liaising with the Navy looked embarrassed and explained: "The Navy said that it seemed that it was tracked and sunk by a Tang Army submarine while avoiding an air attack by the Tang Army."
The other party not only happened to hit the dwarf's aircraft carrier, but after concealing it from the three escorting destroyers, it calmly launched 4 torpedoes, all of which hit the giant ship with a displacement of more than 40,000 tons.
Immediately afterwards, the aircraft carrier began to roll, and the aircraft parked on the deck even slipped into the sea water. After several hours of rescue, the water intrusion caused one side of the flight deck of the aircraft carrier to be submerged in the water.
The last few escorting destroyers had to pick up the survivors on the aircraft carrier and then allowed the huge ship to sink.
Following the heavy losses of the Air Force, the Navy also began to fall into passivity, which shows that more and more Tang Empire forces were liberated, including air and sea forces.
For Moss, this is definitely not good news. Everwinter Port has been effectively blocked, and the channel connecting him to the outside will soon be cut off.
From his personal point of view, the existence of this channel is bad news. He even hoped that the Tang army would completely surround Yongdong City, so that his men would have no intention of retreating and escaping.
But the Tang army never completely surrounded Yongdong Port, which actually made Moss very uncomfortable. Now that countless people in the city want to get out, the life passage looks more like a door to **** to Moss.
“In order to ensure the safety of the aircraft carrier Steadfast, the naval fleet decided to continue southward to the Rewind Port area to receive supply assistance from the elves...” Seeing that Moss remained silent, the officer continued to add.
Moss waved his hand to show that he already knew. He didn't care at all about the location of the other aircraft carrier. In his opinion, there was no room for the navy to develop.
Being able to effectively harass the Tang army on the night of landing is already the limit of what the navy can do. It is really difficult to expect these navies to do anything.
"Civilians are prohibited from leaving the city! Arrange machine gun anti-aircraft defense on the higher roofs...The battle of Everwinter Harbor is about to begin." Taking a deep breath, Moss looked at his subordinates: "The fate of the empire depends on it. Everyone."
(End of this chapter)