Chapter 1806: 1807 Chaos Headquarters
Chapter 1806 The Chaotic Headquarters of 1807
Flix certainly knew that his ability to sustain for five days depended entirely on the strong defensive positions deployed in advance. The problem is that even with a solid defensive position, his troops were very passive when facing the Tang army's attack and were unable to parry it.
But the key to the problem is that the Tang Army has only been attacking for five days, and Flix's carefully prepared defense line is almost completely lost: at the deepest point, the Tang Army has advanced forward more than ten kilometers, which is almost to the third A line of defense is in front of us.
If the third line of defense is also penetrated, then the subsequent battle will only be a field battle with the Tang army. This was not what Flix wanted to see, because he had no confidence in stopping Tang Jun in a field situation.
In other words, it's not that he's not sure, but he already knows that as long as he loses the defense line, he'll be completely finished. So he mobilized his troops and sent all Dorne's reinforcements to the battlefield, hoping to stabilize the situation.
The elves did not trust human troops before, because on the dwarven battlefield, Susas's troops defected, leading to the collapse of the Ice Empire. Therefore, the elves did not place human troops in important defense areas.
But now they no longer care about so much. If the defense line is penetrated, everything will be over. Even humans who are not very reliable will be sent to the front line as cannon fodder at this time.
They are indeed cannon fodder... The firepower of the Tang army is very fierce. If a unit is sent to the front line, it may be disabled in a few hours. The front-line soldiers are almost expendable.
Although the number of casualties of the Tang army is also rising, the proportion of losses on both sides is difficult to look at. Often when a cluster bomb falls, a company or even a battalion of coalition troops suffer heavy casualties. This kind of battle is no different from massacre.
Due to the lag in communications, the response speed of the coalition forces was extremely slow. The Tang Army, like the Lighthouse State in the Gulf War, easily destroyed the effective forces of the coalition forces.
It seems that the coalition forces have an absolute advantage in strength, and hundreds of thousands of troops are continuously marching to the battlefield, seemingly endless. But before they reached the battlefield, they were ignited and evaporated like matches approaching a stove.
Soldiers are killed every minute and every second. Normally, if a soldier persists on the battlefield for 7 hours, he may be promoted to a squad leader or platoon leader.
But even the squad leader and platoon leader could not escape the fate of death. As time went by, the most determined warriors were all lost, and even the follow-up troops of the elves began to surrender.
Everyone knows that once surrenders begin to increase on the battlefield, it means that one party's will to fight is close to collapse. Everyone knows what will happen next. The party that approaches the limit first will collapse on a large scale, and the losses will skyrocket.
General Felix threw the battle report in his hand on the table irritably, and the parchment was crumpled into a ball, just like his mood at the moment. There is nothing new in the content of the battle report. It is nothing more than which line of defense was breached again and which division suffered more than 50% casualties.
There were messages asking for support everywhere, but he himself was also waiting for support. The problem is that the entire defense line is being attacked by the Tang army from east to west.
The elf troops in the east were about to be penetrated by Feng Kezhi. A little further to the west, Ying'an's troops were also attacking the city. Strauss's army was also rampaging and unstoppable... The attack power displayed by the Tang army this time was greater than theirs. It's even more terrifying in the dwarf area.
This is also a normal phenomenon: after a truce for several months, after receiving a large number of reinforcements and integrating transportation and supply resources behind them, the Tang Army has certainly become stronger.
They no longer have the barrier of the endless sea, and have powerful strategic depth and an invincible air force.
"Damn Tang Jun! Are they all devils?" Felix cursed in a low voice, scratching his messy beard vigorously with his long fingers, as if he wanted to vent all the anger on his head.
He is a typical elf noble general. He looks gentle and elegant on weekdays, and he has a very trustworthy image. Unfortunately, several days of torture have made him look like a downtrodden middle-aged uncle.
On the side, his adjutant, who was also a young nobleman, cautiously suggested: "Marshal, we should probably ask your Majesty to send more reinforcements. Other places are obviously feints. Our side is the main direction of the Tang army's attack. . Based on our current military strength alone, I’m afraid…”
"Shut up!" Flix slammed the table, interrupting the adjutant, "Now we can only rely on ourselves! Tell those idiots in the northernmost Lanes that they can't take a step back no matter what! They If it is penetrated, the entire defense line will be completely destroyed!”
"Yes!" The adjutant bowed his head and agreed, and then hurried to deliver his order.
Flix paced back and forth in the room irritably, his heavy footsteps hitting the wooden floor, as if beating everyone's heart.
Soon, the adjutant did not dare to speak. He just lowered his head and secretly glanced at the map on the table from the corner of his eye. 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 wild beasts.
Obvious protrusions can now be seen in several key areas attacked by the Tang Army. The first line of defense of the coalition forces is now beyond recognition, leaving only some relatively remote areas that have not been occupied by the Tang Army.
At the edge of the map, the logos of two strange-looking aircraft are particularly conspicuous. They are 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 thunder and lightning attack aircraft have been dispatched again..." The officer who had just opened the door and entered to report the situation trembled slightly, with a trace of unconcealable fear.
They heard the name of this thing from the Tang Army's radio, and there were many legends about thunder and lightning within the coalition forces. It is simply a nightmare for ground troops and a fearful monster for coalition soldiers.
This thing is the most frequently deployed attack aircraft by the Tang Army for ground support. Although more precision-guided weapons are dropped by intruder attack aircraft, the intruder attack aircraft are always far away from the target when dropping bombs, and have no way to attack the enemy on the ground. Force creates a visual impact.
Thunder and lightning can intuitively intimidate opponents and tear them apart at close range. This is also an important reason why lighthouse countries are unwilling to retire such aircraft. Sometimes, a sophisticated weapon is not as intimidating as a chainsaw.
This is also the reason why nuclear submarine ballistic missiles are often not as deterrent as strategic bombers: if you don't let the enemy take a look, the other party really won't think you have a knife. From the perspective of the coalition forces, the Thunder attack aircraft fly extremely fast and have fierce firepower. The coalition forces have no air defense weapons that can compete with them. They don't have anti-aircraft missiles like the Tang Empire, nor do they have weapons such as fully automatic self-propelled anti-aircraft guns.
Therefore, every time a thunder and lightning attack aircraft appears, it means that the coalition forces will endure a **** massacre. General Flix certainly knew how terrifying thunder and lightning were. Many troops only encountered two thunderbolts and suffered heavy losses and lost combat effectiveness in less than half an hour.
General Flix's face was like the dark clouds before the storm, terrifyingly gloomy. He knew what this meant. Thunder and lightning were dispatched, and it was another one-sided massacre.
The coalition forces have no way to deal with the Tang Army's **** air force. As long as those aircraft of various models appear, countless soldiers will become casualties and appear in the report in front of him.
"Damn Tang people, why do they have so many **** weapons?" General Flix cursed through gritted teeth and punched the table, causing the signs on the map to vibrate.
When he said this, he suddenly remembered what a staff officer had said before about Tang Ren: "Are those guys thinking about **** people more efficiently every day when they sleep?"
At that time, he didn't pay attention to this sentence. Now it seems that these cruel Tang people may really be designing murderous weapons 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 it was definitely not a wise choice to offend General Flix at this time.
"What to do? What else to do?! Order the troops to hide themselves as much as possible and pray that those **** Tang pilots are blind today and can't see them!" General Flix waved his arms irritably, as if to suppress the anger in his heart Let it all out.
"Yes!" The officer did not dare to say anything more and quickly turned around to convey the order. When he opened the door, he happened to meet the returning adjutant of Marshal Flix. The two people nodded helplessly to each other as a greeting. The officer then hurried away and the adjutant returned to the room.
"Marshal! The order has been passed on. Lines promised that they will hold on to the defense line to the last man." The adjutant brought back a message that sounded good. At least the Lines Empire did not question Flix's order.
Flix actually knew in his heart that the order he had just given to let the troops escape on their own was meaningless. Because the Thunder attack aircraft are equipped with advanced reconnaissance equipment, it is difficult to escape their tracking even in dense forests.
It's just that because the scale of the coalition is so large, with tens of thousands of various troops, it is generally impossible for the Thunder attack aircraft to attack them all. They can only pick the easiest high-value targets to attack, and will spare those prey that don't look so appetizing.
So concealment still makes some sense. At least some infantry can escape and will not be chopped up by the terrifying 30mm caliber cannon.
"It seems that they also know that if they retreat again, it will be over." Flix nodded, affirming the attitude of the Lions Empire. As long as the opponent is not stupid, he will know that once the solid border defense line is surrendered, this battle will be impossible to fight.
If they were squeezed into the field by the Tang army, they would be overtaken quickly, divided, surrounded and annihilated in an instant... There is no chance of luck.
"Marshal! It's not good, Marshal!" Just when Flix breathed a sigh of relief, another officer pushed in the door and reported a scary news: "News from the front line, two Thunder attack aircraft It has crossed the defense line and is coming towards us."
They do not have air warning radars, and those that do are subject to electromagnetic interference, so air defense basically relies on warning posts. This kind of observation post is inherently lagging in information, and in many cases it is easy to miss information about enemy aircraft invasion due to laziness and other issues.
Now, it is very difficult to send the message here. If you just calculate the time, it is estimated that the enemy plane is not far from here.
"Damn it!" Felix cursed in a low voice. Although he has done a lot of covert work, sometimes the headquarters in a certain direction will always leave some clues to expose himself.
There is no way, there are so many vehicles coming and going, so many important units are active every day, no one can guarantee absolute concealment. Especially when the war becomes tense, frequent personnel exchanges cannot be prohibited.
So he had known this would happen for a long time, 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 units to enter a state of alert immediately! Don't panic, let people from various departments evacuate to the bunkers in an orderly manner!" Although they were prepared, it would inevitably cause a commotion when the incident came.
After the order was passed on, some female elf officials 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 sirens started to echo, countless people in military uniforms suddenly appeared on the streets.
"Hurry up! Hurry up!" The waiting officers waved to the soldiers holding various equipment, and the nervous officers rushed onto the truck in a chaotic manner.
The cars started one after another, and then began to move to the shelter built outside the town. During the transfer process, the Tang Army's thunder and lightning attack aircraft had also arrived.
Amidst the noise, anti-aircraft guns deployed in the distance began to roar. The two Thunder attack aircraft avoided the firepower, nimbly passed through the barrage, and launched missiles towards the small town.
The Tang Army was not actually sure that this was the headquarters of the coalition forces. They just knew that there was a command center here. The two Thunderbolts were very light and hovered calmly after launching their missiles.
The missile hit a building in the town and overturned the military vehicles waiting around it. The elf officers gathered around the car who had no time to leave all fell to the ground. As for how many of them were injured and how many died... no one knows.
In the dim air-raid shelter, Flix felt the shock of the explosion above his head, his face uncertain. At this time, his headquarters was exposed, which was really not a good thing for the entire war situation.