The fierce battle for more than two hours finally ended. Apart from leaving more than 500 corpses, the dwarves seemed to have made no progress at all: there were no changes in the positions of both sides, but there were just a lot more in the forest.
Rotten meat that will go rancid.
Although the 8th Dwarf Army used Black Crow III on a large scale, they did not have enough soldiers: after eating Black Crow III, they are not invulnerable, and those who die will not turn into zombies and get up to continue fighting, so
Truman finally canceled his plan to continue the attack in the following days.
He had to wait for follow-up reinforcements to arrive before he could continue the attack: the entire 8th Army had lost more than 6,000 soldiers in the attack, and this number was already too much for him to bear.
Although most of the people who went up to consume the Tang army were newly recruited cannon fodder, even the cannon fodder was still a living person, and no one could afford hundreds of deaths in a day.
People will indeed fall into a state of madness after taking medicine, but people who do not take medicine are still human beings after all, they are still rational and have the ability to think for themselves.
What will happen to those super soldiers who are not afraid of death? All normal people in the 8th Army are watching. No one wants to be the next victim, so there are fewer and fewer people willing to take the medicine. The rest are a group of very
A "smart person" who is hard to fool.
The superiors can easily make the first batch of people eat poison like Black Crow No. 3 in the name of fighting for the country, but the second and third batches of people are not so easy to deal with.
Some people refused to take this medicine, and fewer and fewer people took it voluntarily. In the end, everyone could only grit their teeth and ignore their conscience, forcing everyone to take the medicine and go to the front lines to die.
When the operation of using drugs to boost morale reaches the end, forcing soldiers to take drugs becomes a means to further damage morale - the whole process is a vicious cycle, and eventually drinking poison to quench thirst until the entire army begins to collapse.
No one is a fool, and Truman also knows that doing this kind of thing frequently will definitely cause dissatisfaction, and eventually everything will be destroyed.
But he had no other choice. He could only bet everything on the outcome that the "secret weapon" could work wonders in a short period of time and penetrate the Tang army's defense line.
Regrettably, even with the cheating device turned on, the dwarves were unable to penetrate the Tang army's defense line in a short time in the face of absolute strength. In the end, the two sides were stuck together and the battle line gradually stabilized.
And this line of defense is a bit far away from where Truman hopes to reach: Truman hopes that his troops can push the front back to the vicinity of Everwinter Port, but now they are still more than 200 kilometers away from Everwinter Port...
"Sir, we can't continue the attack. The Tang army's defense line is becoming more and more stable, and our losses are a bit heavy." A general reminded Tuluman tactfully: "The additional troops will not arrive until a day later. I heard that there are only 2,000 people.
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Soldiers, even those who serve as cannon fodder, need to be trained. No one can bear the waste of reserve soldiers who have finally been armed.
Although the dwarves have begun full mobilization and the rear claims to have armed 10 army groups, in fact these troops basically do not have the ability to fight independently.
Most of the new recruits will be sent directly to the front line to replenish frontline troops with greater losses. This can also have the effect of bringing in new soldiers from the old to a certain extent.
But in this way, there will be no increase in the number of troops. For a side that urgently needs more troops to launch a counterattack, it is not good news to only have additional troops in place.
At the very least, new troops should join the frontline combat sequence, and new heavy weapons should begin to participate in the battle. This is a virtuous cycle.
"I know...but if we stop now, everything we have done before will be in vain." Looking at the Tang Army's position in the distance, Truman muttered unwillingly.
Of course he knew how much the troops had suffered. On his worst day, more than 100 tanks were turned into scrap metal by Tang Jun's planes. That was more than 100 tanks! It was almost half the strength of an armored division!
Those tank crews can't just get excited and go into battle. After all, they have to operate equipment, and excitement alone won't do much, so they all go into battle normally. They are all serious professional warriors.
Training these tank crews is expensive and time-consuming. As a result, these armored units were lost without even playing any role on the front line. Can Truman not feel sad?
"Let the troops who are preparing to take the medicine stop first... Those who have already used it will attack again! Try again... We don't have many chances." In the end, after struggling for a few minutes, Truman decided to go first.
Stop and take a rest.
There is no way, even an iron man has to eat and drink. The troops are too exhausted and the losses are too huge. If they continue to fight, there are obvious signs of collapse.
The Tang Army has significantly intensified its air force bombings recently, which has made the dwarf army's supply very slow. The logistics cannot keep up, and the frontline operations will naturally be unsustainable.
This is not like the ancient times. Soldiers can fight with only their swords. They can survive for two days without food and eat Black Crow Three, but they cannot survive even one day without ammunition.
Those damn Tang Army planes were not large in scale each time, but their bombing efficiency was terrifying: they would accurately destroy bridges, blow up roads, damage railways... almost paralyzing the entire transportation network in the northern part of the Ice Empire.
road.
Although the dwarves were frantically repairing the damaged road sections, they still underestimated the power of guided bombs. If the dwarves repaired one crater, three more would be filled in front! With reconnaissance aircraft and satellite images providing intelligence analysis, the Tang Army's air force was very
Know which section of road the dwarf engineers are building.
Without supplies, it is difficult for materials to reach the front line. It is not difficult to guess how much the dwarves' offensive efficiency has dropped. What makes the dwarf leaders even more depressed is that not only the materials cannot be sent, but also the follow-up troops cannot be reinforced.
The 7th Army has been paralyzed on the road for several days. According to the plan, they should have arrived at the front line, but now the main force is still in a daze halfway.
The same was true for the 10th Army, but their situation was a little better. About two divisions arrived at the position and deployed behind the 9th Army.
But this was completely different from what they expected at the beginning of the battle. After 10 days of fierce attack, the dwarves found that they were still far away from their goal of recapturing Everwinter Harbor.
Sure enough, this time the attack on the dwarves was in vain: they wasted more than 200 soldiers before dinner, and there was still no change in the front lines of both sides.
