Alien Arms Empire Chapter 1811

Chapter 1811 1812 Arrival at Matus

The Tang Army's offensive front was an L-shape at the beginning, lined up in almost a straight line in the north, and extended along the coast to the Refeng Port area.

Such a shape made the Tang army's attack direction a little different. Feng Ke's and Ying'an's troops, who had previously been responsible for attacking the dwarf capital, chose to advance further east.

The elite 1st Army's attack target was the Osa Military Port, so it did not invest much energy in the central part of the Elf-controlled area.

Therefore, this time approaching Matus City and preparing to attack the Elf Imperial Capital Joslina, they were the 10th Army commanded by Allen, the 7th Army commanded by Eric, and the 3rd Army commanded by Strauss.

The three armies were approaching Mattes, and the elves did not have any troops to organize a new line of defense: countless coalition troops were surrounded and annihilated on the way to defeat. Now, in almost all directions, the Tang army can be said to have gained a lot.

Approximately 2 million coalition soldiers became prisoners of the Tang army, and this was only because the fighting lasted only 21 days. As time goes by, everyone knows that the number of prisoners of the Tang Army will definitely exceed three million, or even four million.

The coalition forces have assembled more than 6 million troops on the long border defense line, but now it seems that these troops are just giving away lives. The huge force did not create an advantage, but instead became a drag on logistics supplies and command and dispatch.

In fact, not many troops were actually wiped out by the Tang army. The vast majority of the troops collapsed inexplicably. They could only retreat desperately, hoping to regroup in a safe place.

The problem is that the Tang army's advancement speed is faster than their retreat speed, so they have no time to breathe and no position to assemble.

While running, the commanders of these troops found that they had lost their supplies, burned out their fuel, and ran out of ammunition...even half of their soldiers could not be found.

They might as well have stayed where they were. After running all the way, they had already lost their combat effectiveness and became meat on the chopping board. Without any capital to fight back, the only option left was to surrender in embarrassment.

As a result, the Tang Army's troops kept advancing, followed by allied prisoners who could not see the end. These prisoners were dressed in various military uniforms, without weapons, and walked on both sides of the road in disgrace.

The middle of the road must be given to the advancing mechanized troops of the Tang Army. Whoever dares to occupy the transport road without fear of death will definitely end up worse than inciting prisoners to riot.

Because of the chaos, there have been vicious incidents where crazy coalition prisoners tried to rob the Tang Army's logistics troops. However, after thousands of rebel soldiers were defeated by a platoon of Tang Army's logistics troops, similar things never happened again.

There is no way. The transport trucks of the Tang Army's logistics troops are also equipped with heavy machine guns. Those seemingly harmless drivers and porters consume more bullets in training every year than the most elite main force of the coalition forces.

The most convenient position in the transport vehicle, those top-notch submachine guns that cannot be used on the frontal battlefield, no matter from any angle, are much more fierce than the bayonet pistols and other things hidden in the hands of the prisoners.

Strauss's order to all the troops was very cold: Don't stop because there are too many prisoners. If the prisoners cooperate, let them roll to both sides of the road; if they don't cooperate, let the tanks run over them. past…

This is not a joke. Once the Tang army went crazy on the battlefield, they did have a little bit of energy to disown their relatives: if they were civilians, it might be okay, but if there were idiots in military uniforms blocking the road, they would definitely be crushed instantly.

Despite this, countless prisoners still caused huge troubles to the Tang army's advancement: these prisoners occupied transportation capacity and also consumed a large amount of supplies.

We can't really let these prisoners walk back to the prisoner of war camp on their own with hungry stomachs: so the Tang army had to arrange for soldiers to guard the prisoners, organize supplies for these prisoners, and tolerate these prisoners occupying some roads.

No matter how reluctant they are, these prisoners can only be allowed to march in groups close to the road. If they are allowed to move further away from the road, they will break up. The undisciplined rebels are much more difficult to deal with than the prisoners. That will only It would make the Tang army waste more troops to clean up the mess.

So no matter how they are arranged, these prisoners will also cause a lot of trouble for the Tang army's advancement. In the end, after advancing for 22 consecutive days, the main force of the Tang Army had to stop and rest on its own initiative.

"Damn...two million...that's really a lot." Strauss walked into his temporary headquarters, waved to the non-commissioned officers who stood up to salute, walked to the map table, and put the telescope on above.

He had just gone to see the prisoners of war passing by. It was a large, dark area with no end in sight: the accompanying officer said that these prisoners were all from the same unit, and there were as many as 20,000 of them.

An entire army of elves surrendered with little resistance. What makes people laugh or cry is that since Strauss's troops penetrated the coalition's defense line, they have not captured any heavy weapons and equipment that can be seen for a long time.

The troops who surrendered, whether they were humans or elves, did not have many cars or motorcycles, and there were even fewer heavy artillery and tanks. The coalition forces didn't know if they were crazy. They formed a lot of useless light infantry and sent them to the battlefield to die without even completing training.

"The problem is that these prisoners have seriously interfered with our marching speed." The staff officer complained helplessly: "They didn't mean it, right? Surrendering these guys will be more effective than resisting with guns."

He was not bragging. In fact, he had 20,000 people stationed in a certain position to resist. Strauss's vanguard could probably wipe them out in an hour... But these 20,000 people have surrendered now, and they probably even had food and drink. It would take seven or eight hours to get them settled.

"Stop thinking blindly, have people get rid of those prisoners quickly! Let the troops resume their advance as soon as possible! Without giving the elves any chance to breathe, this kind of mobile warfare is more suitable for us." Strauss was naturally unwilling to invest too much in positional warfare. Many, the casualties of his troops almost all occurred in the first ten days, which happened to be the critical battle... When he broke through the defense line in the later stage and began to charge, the number of casualties of his troops every day was calculated as "one".

His troops are now only a few dozen kilometers away from the elven town of Matas, and he will be able to have a meal in the city by this time tomorrow.

He had been fighting for a long time before he got the opportunity to come to the Eastern Continent to fight on the front line. You must know that Bolton is still bored in the Western Continent! If he can't make contributions, wouldn't his hard work be in vain?

Obviously, taking Matus and marching into Joslina is what Strauss should do. Thinking of this, he immediately ordered the liaison officer on the side: "Contact me the frontline reconnaissance force. If they have enough fuel, then go to the vicinity of Mattes to see the situation first."

"If you encounter a counterattack from the enemy, don't get entangled. If you don't encounter a counterattack... then take control of that place first!" He thought for a while and decided to let the front-line troops be more flexible: "The rest of the troops continue to rest in place and standby! Request! The air force will conduct a reconnaissance near Matus to see if there are any signs of large-scale activity by the elf forces."

If the Elf is really determined to defend Matus, then he will wait for the main force and let the troops rest. After running wildly for more than twenty days, we only took one day to rest. The entire army was still a little tired, so it was really necessary to stop and take a look at the situation.

"Yes!" The liaison officer immediately began to convey the order: Tang Jun's communication system is very advanced and has even been equipped with many computers, which can assist in many tasks.

After possessing various advantages, the Tang Army was almost unscrupulous. Whether it was communication, intelligence transmission, or troop deployment and coordination, it was countless times smoother than that of the coalition forces.

In the city of Mattes, an old elf nobleman wearing brocade and satin was helped by a waiter and got into a luxurious Rolls-Royce car. Sitting on the other side was a graceful and luxurious woman, covered in jewels.

Seeing her husband getting into the car, the woman finally said hesitantly: "Honey, can't we just leave?"

"What do you know...if you don't leave? Our whole family will be dead if we don't leave." The old man snorted, leaned on his seat, and waved his hands to the driver in front of him and the butler on the passenger seat.

The car was started and moved forward slowly. Following the car were two trucks, with several boxes filled with money and treasures, as well as carefully selected loyal guards.

The Tang Empire never concealed its crimes, especially in the liquidation of the old aristocrats and gentry landlords. Wherever the Tang army went, they would definitely judge the landlords and gentry who oppressed the common people, and help the common people divide the land of these landlords.

Therefore, landowners who knew this information early would often run away with whatever property they could take away. In this way, although they suffered heavy losses, they could at least save their own lives.

"Do these humans understand the rules? These lands are legal properties. Why do they..." The woman still didn't want to part with her family property: Just kidding, she lost two-thirds of her wealth in one fell swoop, and no one could part with it.

"Madam! Why? If I can reason with those demons, then why should I donate to the border defense line?" The old man interrupted the woman. If the Tang people did not insist on allocating land to civilians for free, wouldn't things be simple? Already?

If the Tang people were willing to compromise with the landlords, even if they had to plunder some money or take away a little bit of land, they would not be reluctant... Then they would just steal it from the powerless and unscrupulous people and cheat it...

But...but those demons had no intention of letting them go from the beginning! If everything was not negotiable, how could he be willing to spend 1,000 gold coins and donate it to the military to build that thing called the border defense line.

At that time, everyone was donating. Everyone was afraid that the Tang Dynasty would call them, so everyone paid. Everyone made a casual estimate and found that the amount raised at that time was probably several hundred million gold coins, which can be said to be sufficient funds.

But who knows where those military **** who deserve to be killed spent their money! The border defense line, which was said to be impregnable, was penetrated by the Tang people in more than ten days.

"Those moths! They must have stolen all our money, otherwise how could the Tang Dynasty come here so quickly!" The old nobleman, who was getting more and more angry after thinking about it, finally started to curse, and his expensive car was also at this time He squeezed through the fleeing crowd and drove towards the wider road outside the city.

Hearing about the donation, the woman felt even more distressed. Although she is very rich and her husband is also very rich, no matter how rich they are, they are not willing to spend a sum of money for no reason!

Especially spending money to support those greedy officers! On weekdays, these people are shameless and always use different methods to extort money. They either make them pay or make them do labor. There are always countless excuses to come to the door, which is annoying to death.

This morning, they heard an inside story. The two division commanders who were supposed to be ordered to defend the city all fled because they were afraid of the battle.

Now the soldiers guarding the city have no command and are completely in chaos. There were originally 30,000 city guards, but within a few days only a few thousand were left, and the rest had no fighting power left.

If you don't run at this time, it will be too late to run again when the Tang army arrives. Therefore, many civilians who believe that the Tang army is brutal and often slaughter the city and kill prisoners begin to run out of the city. The nobles are even more panicked all day long.

Those who have the ability have already run away, and the rest are those who have little ability: they are not so well-informed, and their wealth is highly tied to land and real estate, so they will naturally run much slower.

Unlike those big aristocrats who just left with stock checks and the like, that was cool.

Standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the city lord's mansion, the city lord of Mattas looked down at the chaotic crowd outside the gate, with no expression on his face. After both division commanders ran away, he knew that Mattes was finished.

Someone just brought him news: some armored vehicles of the Tang Army appeared only a dozen kilometers away from Mattes.

The Tang army has arrived, but none of the elf troops that were supposed to gather around them have arrived: the garrison has lost news, and there are only a few broken troops. The entire Matus is just like other cities, without any defense waiting for the enemy to arrive.

"Alas..." After sighing, he turned back and looked at the housekeeper waiting by the door: "Have you made arrangements at home?"

The steward lowered his head and replied: "Yes, sir. The woman and the young master left safely yesterday. There are family guards following, so please don't worry."

"Let the messenger go and tell your majesty that I have failed his trust." The city lord waved his hand, looking like he couldn't bear it: "Have someone hang the prepared white flag on the top of the city..."

(End of this chapter)

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