1578 The battle of Everwinter City is about to begin
On the 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 trenches and a variety of horizontal and vertical trenches.
Between these trenches, they laid out barbed wire fences to the best of their ability, and also used camouflage nets to cover some artillery positions.
Although the combat effectiveness of the 4th Army was not as strong as that of the 1st and 2nd Army, it was still pretty good. In order to defend Everwinter Harbor, Moss also temporarily added 2 infantry divisions to this force.
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 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 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-faced 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, a cannonball from the Tang Army in the north of the city.
It fell, presumably the caliber was a 155mm gun, and there were no casualties."
Of course, he couldn't tell Moss that a civilian was frightened by a shell and ran away in panic, only to be shot to death by one of his own people. To him, this was just a trivial matter.
Moss nodded, he was sure that the Tang people would come over eventually. 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 official was very 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..." At this moment, an officer came over and sent the latest naval battle report: "The Steel was sunk.
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Because the Tang Empire's naval fleet has fewer and fewer tasks to protect 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 and submarine forces that posed the greatest threat to the northern route. The dwarf submarine and speedboat forces that originally relied on strong bunkers and hidden bases to be active in the north immediately suffered a devastating blow.
When it comes to 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 when he heard that the precious aircraft carrier was sunk and asked immediately.
As far as he knew, the navy's aircraft carrier had been out hiding 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."
Not only did the opponent happen to hit the dwarf's aircraft carrier, but after evading the three escorting destroyers, it calmly launched four 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 giant ship to sink.
After the heavy losses of the Air Force, the Navy also began to fall into passivity, which showed 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 his access to the outside will soon be cut off.
From his personal point of view, the existence of this passage is bad news in itself. He hopes that the Tang army will completely surround Yongdong City, so that his men will have no intention of retreating and escaping.
But the Tang army has never completely surrounded Yongdong Port, which actually makes Moss very uncomfortable. Now countless people in the city want to get out, and the life passage looks more like a door to hell to Moss.
"In order to ensure the safety of the aircraft carrier Steadfast, the naval fleet decided to continue heading south to the Rewind Port area to receive supply assistance from the elves..." Seeing that Moss was silent, the officer continued to add.
Moss waved his hand and said that he already knew. He didn't care about the location of the other aircraft carrier at all. In his opinion, the navy had no room to play.
Being able to effectively harass the Tang army on the night of the landing was already the limit of what the navy could do. It was really too much to expect the navy to do anything else.
"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 the whole world.
