In the northern field airport full of bomb craters, in some hangar bunkers built to look extremely strong, the wreckage of bombed jet fighters is no longer burning.
The original paint numbers can still be vaguely seen on the fuselage, which was blackened by the flames of the past. These expensive MiG-19 fighter jets were the pride of the Dwarf Air Force a year ago.
It's a pity that they can no longer fly, and those friendly aircraft in the south that can fly no longer dare to die near Ironforge.
Tang's air force was so powerful that the coalition forces no longer had the courage to fight it: no matter how many planes they took off, the final result would be the same.
Air supremacy has always been in the hands of the Tang people, and this has never changed. Although the coalition forces can sometimes take off hundreds of planes a day for sneak attacks, after suffering heavy losses, they can only barely cause a little trouble for the Tang army's ground troops.
In the face of individual air defense missiles and self-propelled anti-aircraft guns equipped with radar fire control, this kind of ground attack is also unable to achieve unparalleled results.
In one month, the coalition forces had lost more than 600 aircraft without realizing it. This rate of loss almost brought down the coalition air power in the Ice Empire.
Marquis Lane walked into his headquarters worriedly. This place is in the southern mountainous area more than 300 kilometers away from Ironforge and is relatively safe.
The only trouble was that in order to guard against anti-radiation missile attacks by the Tang Army, there was no large-scale radio equipment near the headquarters, and command orders had to be sent several kilometers away by phone and manpower.
"General! An order sent from the country." A female elf sergeant walked up to Ryan with graceful steps and handed over a telegram from the country.
Ryan lowered his head and looked at the content above, and his face became even more ugly: It contained an order from the Commander-in-Chief of the Elf Air Force, Barron, asking him to transfer air resources deployed in the dwarf country back to the elves' homeland as much as possible.
This includes not only the air force of the elves, but also all the air forces of the coalition: volunteer pilots from Lines, and the air force of the Susus Empire...
Those who can be taken away must be taken away, and those who cannot be taken away must be destroyed as much as possible. Before the Tang army can attack, it seems that the coalition forces have to stab themselves a few times to avoid letting their opponents catch them alive...
It sounds so absurd, but that's essentially what Barron's order to Marquis Lane was.
To be honest, this order is nothing more than adding insult to injury to the current dwarves. The frontline is already so passive, and moving the remaining air force away will only make the situation worse.
The already precarious ground war situation will become even worse, the morale of the coalition forces will also suffer a huge blow, and even the appearance of unity will appear cracked, which is more likely to affect future cooperation and the entire war.
But Ryan also understood Barron's order. The dwarves seemed to be on their last legs. Rather than continue to waste their strength, it would be better to save the precious air force for local operations.
But the question is, even if these backward aircraft are retained for future use, will they really be of any use in the future? Isn't it just like today, giving the Tang Army a lot of achievements?
As a soldier, no matter how unreasonable the order is, there is only one choice: execution. Lane put down the message in his hand and called his confidants.
"General Barron's order is for the two fighter regiments deployed at Airport 19 to return to the country..." After he finished the order, he could clearly see the shock on his men's faces.
So he explained with some helplessness: "The situation is already very bad. The empire itself is under attack. General Barron may want to concentrate his forces and solve the trouble in Rewind Port first..."
Although he himself knew that these were all strong words, he had to convince himself and his subordinates... and even the dwarves in the future.
Those elven officers who had only reluctantly accepted the statement "helping the dwarves is helping the elves" a few months ago obviously could not accept the sudden retreat order for a while, but they also had to carry out this order.
Marquis Lane also knew that he could not mobilize all the air power in the dwarf territory. He could only do it bit by bit, like boiling a frog in warm water.
First, the elite elves were transferred away directly, and then the remaining pilots and valuable ground staff were transported back, leaving only some less important aircraft to show off.
Wait for a while, wait for the outcome of the Ironforge battlefield, and take advantage of the chaos to mobilize more dwarf pilots to follow the Poplar Empire, win over those dwarf officers who are unwilling to destroy the country, and bring the dwarf troops back to the elves in an organized manner.
Go over there. This is a big project, and it will even last until the day when the dwarves completely fail.
"Execute the order..." Marquis Lane sighed and said this to his closest men. A few hours later, dwarf civilians from the south saw the Type 104 fighter jets flying in formation heading south.
These jet fighters are valuable night combat models, equipped with small radars and warning devices, and equipped with aviation rockets. Their combat effectiveness is relatively strong on the coalition side.
It's a pity that they only participated in one large-scale air battle from the time they arrived here to the time they left: the air battle against Everwinter City. This force lost one-third of its fighter jets, and it was not until recently that they were replenished and restored to pre-war levels.
prepared by.
"The dwarf liaison officer called and asked why we diverted so many planes south. He wanted an explanation." The female secretary opened the door of Marquis Lane's office again and brought news from the allies.
It would be strange if the dwarves didn't ask about this matter, so Marquis Lane was already prepared: "Tell them that General Barron hopes to concentrate his forces to launch a large-scale counterattack at Rewind Port, and these planes have been diverted to that direction."
The female secretary nodded and left, telling her allies this statement. Naturally, the dwarves did not believe this explanation, but there was no way to force the elves to keep their fighter planes and pilots.
On the same day, Xie Ke's 9th Army did not launch the so-called eastern counterattack, but instead retreated about 2 kilometers. However, he did not report the news to Binghan I.
Interestingly, Chief of Staff Larbu who forced him to counterattack tacitly did not interfere with the results of this counterattack, as if the 9th Army had completed his plan.
Because of this retreat, the Tang army gained a more convenient channel to attack the residential area in the east of the city, and the scale of the street fighting was obviously larger than before.
