Another huge artillery shell landed on the position. It exploded in the soil several meters deep, sending everything around it flying into the air.
The black smoke that towered into the sky was steaming and rolling upwards, forming a small mushroom cloud that looked spectacular.
The ground was trembling, and all the Mirage soldiers were so frightened that they cowered up. The air around them was filled with the choking smell of earth. After everything calmed down, the entire position was extremely silent.
How powerful was this cannonball? It was so huge that even a command post of the Mirage Army clearly felt the shock.
The water glass on the table jingled incessantly, and the ash above his head fell down and fell into the glass. The water inside was no longer drinkable.
The map was covered with dust, and the officers inside looked through the gaps at the firefighting positions in the distance. The Tang army's artillery shells fell one after another, and black smoke covered the sky.
"How long has it been since we had no contact with the 1st Regiment and 3rd Battalion?" Mirage's division commander asked the staff officer around him worriedly.
About half an hour ago, we lost contact with this battalion's position. The Tang Army has been attacking there. The surrounding 2nd Battalion and 1st Battalion said they saw the activities of the Tang Army. How many people are left in the 3rd Battalion?
No one can tell how many positions are in the hands of the Mirage Army.
"I sent someone to contact him, but there's no reply yet." The staff officer couldn't say for sure, so he could only tell his solution.
The division commander nodded, and then asked about the situation of the 1st Battalion next to him: "How is the position of the 1st Battalion next to the 3rd Battalion?"
"Their ammunition is about to run out. The other party is attacking them. Five minutes ago, the commander of the 1st Battalion sent someone to request support." The staff member answered very clearly.
"Send someone to bring some ammunition over! No need to keep it!" The division commander picked up the binoculars and looked at the position in the distance. The flag of the Mirage Kingdom was full of bullet holes and was planted on a small high ground. It was stubborn and refused to fall.
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"Yes!" The staff officer nodded and went out to find someone to deliver ammunition. But he had just walked out two steps when a shell fell right in the trench where they were.
The huge explosion blew away the staff officer, killing several guards at the division headquarters and several goblin officers who were smoking outside.
The exaggerated air wave rushed into the division headquarters bunker, knocking off the division commander of the Mirage Army. Several officers in the division headquarters also fell on their backs. When they got up from the ground, their ears were still buzzing.
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The dust had not completely subsided and was rolling in the dark room of the headquarters. The division commander groped his way out of the room and saw the shattered bodies on the ground.
"Sir!" A soldier hurried over, grabbed the goblin commander's hand and shouted loudly, but the commander could not hear his voice clearly.
After a long while, a distant voice faintly appeared in the division commander's ears: the soldier was reporting to him that the Tang Army had broken through the 1st Regiment's defense line.
"Sir! The enemy is less than 50 meters away from here! Get out of here quickly!" Finally, the goblin commander heard clearly what the soldier shouted.
He was stunned for a moment, and then he realized: the enemy was now close at hand! He was so frightened that he shouted to the soldier: "Retreat! Retreat! Take me out of here!"
The place they were in was a converted trench. Behind them was the collapsed outer wall of a building. Behind them was the Great South Bay Port.
This city can be said to be one of the few modern cities in the Mirage: it was built better because of its frequent trade with other empires.
Even if there are no sky-high buildings, there are many concrete houses here. Compared with the wooden houses in other cities in Mirage Kingdom, this place is obviously stronger and can withstand attacks.
The Tang army had no intention of holding back: Feng Kezhi didn't mind destroying the Great South Bay. Anyway, the port here had been destroyed, and the remaining things were actually not very important to the Tang army.
A city, a port city, only has these few places that are crucial: first is the port, followed by power plants and water plants.
Apart from these places, the remaining houses and the like are not valuable and can be destroyed at will. Mirage Wuzhong can destroy docks and ports, but he cannot be so ruthless as to destroy power plants and water plants.
After all, there are hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the entire Great South Bay who need drinking water and electricity. If the power plant and water plant were to blow up, wouldn't it be a joke?
But it's obvious that if you don't blow up these places yourself, the Tang army will take special care of them. As long as these are destroyed, the determination of the resistance forces in the city can be broken down.
Because there is no water source and no electricity, most of the mirage troops standing in the ruins cannot hold on. They either choose to surrender or retreat.
On the position, just a few minutes after the goblin division commander left the abandoned headquarters, soldiers of the Tang Army had already rushed into the headquarters along the trenches.
A Tang Army soldier walked into the messy headquarters bunker, grabbed a map from the table, and threw it aside with disdain.
The water glass on the table fell to the ground, and there were many pockets containing documents hanging on the wall. Many defense plans were scattered everywhere. It seemed that the Mirage officers here fled in a hurry.
"I didn't even take away their guns! They really ran so neatly." An officer walked to the wall where the Mirage officers' armed belts were hung, and sneered and pulled out the pistol from the belt.
Because the Mirage people are short in stature, their officers like small pistols such as PPK very much. If possible, they will equip themselves with a similar pistol.
Unfortunately, it was obvious that the officers here did not even have time to get their guns and fled in a hurry. Several prisoners confessed the level of this headquarters: it is the division headquarters, the highest-level headquarters in the vicinity.
The Tang army that captured this place had actually entered the Great Nanwan: as long as they climbed over this trench and crossed the ruins of the collapsed wall above their heads, they would enter the urban area of the Great Nanwan.
However, after two days of shelling and bombing, the Great South Bay in front of us was already in ruins: its urban functions had actually been completely paralyzed.
"I heard that the neighbors have already invaded the city?" Putting the compact PPK pistol into his pocket, the commander of the Tang Army asked the company commander who followed him in.
The company commander nodded: "Yes, several streets have been occupied by our people. The mirage army is not as effective as imagined... They may not be prepared for street fighting at all."
"Take your men and continue fighting south! Try to join up with our people next door! Drive the Mirage people out of the designated No. 1 power plant! Then ask the engineers to come over and see if they can repair it." The officer pointed at the advancing power plant.
Direction, he opened his mouth and ordered.
After the company commander stood at attention and saluted, he led the people away. The sound of machine guns had not stopped yet, the Tang army's attack was still continuing, and the troops of the Mirage were still being defeated.
In the city, in the basement headquarters, Mirage Wuzhong received bad news one after another. One moment someone reported to him that the position in the north of the city had been lost, and the next moment someone came to report that the water supply had been cut off.
His headquarters uses generators, so there is no need to consider the problem of power outage for the time being, but it is really not an option to continue like this, and Mirage Wuzhong himself knows very well.
Street fighting seems to be beneficial to the defender, but in fact it is based on the premise that there is no problem with command and dispatch! Either the grassroots officers and soldiers are good at fighting and willing to fight, or the command system is advanced and can disrupt the situation with chaos.
But the mirage army is not very good in these two aspects, so mirage Wu Zhong knows that once it enters a state of street fighting, the mirage army is likely to collapse quickly.
Mirage Wuzhong's previous idea was to first rely on the outer defense line to train the troops, and then rely on these tempered troops to continue to consume the Tang army in street battles.
Now that the peripheral battle ended too quickly, the Mirage Army itself had not even been trained yet before they all retreated into the city. This disrupted all of Mirage Wu Zhong's plans.
The half-million-strong army that he assembled by crazily arming civilians had no combat effectiveness at all, but it actually had half a million mouths and one million hands, constantly consuming Mirage Wuzhong's rations and ammunition.
Civilians with no combat experience tend to waste ammunition more, collapse at the first touch, are unable to hold on to the defense line, and often lead other troops to collapse, causing other main forces to collapse with them.
After using them for a long time, Mirage Wuzhong no longer trusted such civilian armed forces, so he could only send these civilians as supplementary soldiers to the troops that suffered huge losses.
However, these untrained soldiers reduced the combat effectiveness of the main force. After three days of fierce fighting, these civilian troops armed with mirage warriors demonstrated to him what it meant to succeed without enough and more than enough with failure.
"General! Come on, Mirage Wu Erlang... He said that his troops can't get close to the Great South Bay and the enemy's defense line is very strong." The staff officer walked to Mirage Wu Zhong and lowered his voice to report another piece of bad news.
Mirage Wu Zhong had already expected this outcome. He waved his hand and said with a sneer: "I didn't expect that idiot Mirage Wujiro! He is a coward just like those bastards in the Navy!"
Within the Mirage Army, calling someone a Marine is almost the most vicious verbal attack. The staff knew that Mirage was speaking out of anger and was just venting his grievances over the lack of reinforcements from the 3rd Corps.
"The last airport in the north has been bombed...there is no way to take off planes...In fact, according to the latest combat order No. 2, there are actually no planes available to take off there." The staff officer said another discouraging news.
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"It doesn't matter. I didn't expect that airport to be of much use." Mirage Wuzhong waved his hand, as if he didn't have to worry about too many lice and too many debts.
The so-called No. 2 combat plan is to transfer all the aircraft on the South Island to the new island to consolidate the defense there... The senior officials of the Mirage Kingdom no longer have any hope of defending the South Island.
