The Yucheng defenders began to shrink. They abandoned all warning areas outside the first line of defense and regarded the first line of defense as their outermost border.
This arrangement can further increase the troop density behind the Yucheng defense line, but the shortcomings are also obvious: they voluntarily gave up a large defensive area and abandoned the deep defense space.
Naturally, the Tang army could not waste such an opportunity. They immediately filled the gap between the two armies, and took advantage of the chaos of the opponent's retreat to penetrate the first line of defense.
Because the 91st Division of Dorne was collapsed by a night attack before, in fact, the first peripheral defense line of the Jade City Defense Line had already been breached by the Tang Army. Now that it has been breached in several places, it is actually not a big deal.
Therefore, Paul has focused his defense on the second line of defense. He is preparing to preserve his strength as much as possible to meet the coming storm-like attack of the Tang Army.
In fact, the Tang Army is indeed mobilizing a large number of troops to go south: Strauss's 3rd Army is moving towards Ice Crystal City, and a large number of artillery is already gathering. A large amount of materials landed from the Bunas Port Pier can arrive very smoothly
Two fronts in the northwest.
This road has been completely simplified, and the supplies of the Tang Army are unimpeded: ships departing from the Western Continent are unloaded directly in Bunas, then loaded on trains in Bunas and transported directly to Wolf City, and then transported directly from Wolf City to Ice Crystal City...
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The lines used for transportation in this way were all built by the Datang Group at that time. Not only were they of good quality, the distance was also greatly shortened. In comparison, the transportation pressure was not as great as that of the northern railway.
It is completely opposite to the route to reinforce Bunas from the north, so it will not interfere with each other at all. Therefore, in a short period of time, the Tang Army can calmly accumulate a large number of artillery shells in Ice Crystal City.
With a supply advantage and stronger troops, the Tang Army began to put pressure on Yucheng in the direction of Bunas. Paul was not sure for a while which side the Tang Army's main attack direction was.
After all, there will definitely be more and more Tang troops in the direction of Ice Crystal City, and the Tang Army's troops going south will obviously go in the direction of Ice Crystal City.
However, Paul could not care about the future. He had already ordered the northern part to be handed over to the Dornish garrison and deployed his troops in the two directions southwest of Jade City.
It was another new day. The Tang army did not repeat its old tricks and launched a sneak attack at night. After a peaceful night, a fierce battle broke out early the next morning.
Near the first line of defense, the Tang Army detachment, which had already taken advantage, exchanged fire with the Lions Empire defenders who were still holding on to their positions. The two sides fought over several highlands.
Lines had no good solution except to dispatch more light infantry to try to strengthen the defense on these highlands.
The Tang Army directly used artillery to cover and fire on these highlands. For a time, there were a series of explosions on the mountain tops, and the smoke engulfed the seemingly solid defenses built on the highlands.
Then the Tang Army infantry rushed to the high ground under the cover of tanks and armored vehicles, and the remaining Lines Empire troops also launched a tenacious counterattack.
The two sides started a fierce battle near the trenches. As several Thunderbolt attack aircraft from the Tang Empire arrived on the battlefield, reinforcements from the Lines Empire were blocked.
Without reinforcements, the Lions garrison finally collapsed. About 1,000 soldiers surrendered, and several highlands were also occupied by the Tang army.
Such attacks occurred one after another within a few hours, and the Tang army was trying to compress the space of Lyons' troops.
After losing thousands of people, the troops of the Lines Empire had to give up a large part of the defense nodes on the first line of defense, making their peripheral defense line more discontinuous.
"Commander! The people below are all very dissatisfied... They feel that it is unfair to place all our troops in the south and west..." In the headquarters of the Yucheng underground air defense bunker, an officer from the Lions Empire complained to Paul.
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Recently, the Tang Army has launched attacks in the west, targeting the defense line stationed by the Lions Empire troops. The defense area of the Dorne Empire troops in the north is quite calm, with almost no losses.
The bombings of the Tang Army seemed to be deliberately targeting the defense line stationed by the Lines Empire, and a large number of attack aircraft were put into the battle to cover the attack on the west.
In this context, the troops of the Lions Empire naturally suffered heavy losses, so many people felt that it would be fair to transfer the Dornish troops, who had been living a comfortable life, to the west.
Paul didn't think so. He glanced at the other party and asked: "What do you think is fair? Is it safe in the north?"
He knew that the north where Dorne was stationed would not always be without pressure in the future, or that Dorne would be the place where the real pressure was. As long as the main force of the Tang army arrived, a fierce battle would definitely break out in the direction of Ice Crystal City.
Paul is not an idiot to let his troops be beaten by Tang troops in the west, and then transferred to the north to be beaten by another group of Tang troops.
"But now, it is true that we are the only ones fighting against the Tang people." Unfortunately, many generals and officers could not withstand the pressure, so some people immediately started complaining.
"Shut up! Don't you think things are chaotic enough? In one morning, you lost 11 highlands! 11!" The anxious Paul was no longer in the mood to comfort his men.
If the people below are playing well, then of course they don't mind encouraging them, and are even willing to devote more energy to coordinating internal conflicts.
But the problem now is that he has lost thousands of soldiers in one morning! This rate of loss is simply not something he can afford.
Calculating like this, he will lose tens of thousands of people in the direction of Yucheng in ten days, and hundreds of thousands in one hundred days! Just kidding, in less than a year, the Lions Empire will collapse due to the pressure of losses.
The same is true for Dorne! If there were Susus Empire and Yangmu Empire, and the four countries shared it, perhaps such losses could still be tolerated, but now it is completely different. There are only two empires left in the anti-Tang alliance, and there is no
How much wealth is left?
In fact, everyone knows the outcome of this war. Those who are still struggling just hope to use their own struggles to delay the arrival of the end.
Some people do it to escape reality, like Paul; some people do it to seek greater benefits, hoping to sell themselves at a good price.
"No matter what, you must hold your position! Otherwise, it will be useless to move you anywhere!" Paul glanced at his subordinates and ended the meeting with this sentence.
