At this moment, Mirage Sixteen was organizing an "orderly" retreat of the Mirage Army in his new water city. The defense plan he had previously advocated to defend the coastline had all failed. The so-called orderly was actually a spectacular rout.
Almost all the main force was in a state of chaos. After one point was broken through, other troops scattered on the island could hardly assemble.
The damage to the roads is secondary. The real fatal thing is the continuous air strikes. Operations during the day will be ruthlessly crushed, and maneuvers can only be carried out reluctantly at night.
But compared to the extremely fast Tang Army troops, the mirage army's slow assembly actions were simply seeking death. Most of them were wiped out during the assembly process, and it was as if they were choosing a cemetery for themselves.
After leaving the garrisoned fortifications, countless troops were in the field and were attacked and defeated by the Tang army.
Now there are broken troops everywhere on the island, telegrams for help are everywhere, and there are troops everywhere who have no time to gather. Mirage Shiliu feels that he has failed. He has never experienced such a chaotic scene.
No one can handle the current situation well, at least not him. For most troops, chaos is a disaster.
The small group of troops had no way to obtain supplies, lacked understanding of the battlefield conditions, and could not even obtain correct command information.
In other words, the company commanders or platoon commanders of the Mirage Kingdom have no idea what they are going to do, and they have no way to re-obtain ammunition, nor can they contact their superiors.
This is the main reason why most troops are unable to fight and surrender directly: they don't even know what they should do, so what else can they do?
Mirage Roku's previous orders accelerated the collapse of the Mirage Army. The Mirage Army, which had left its garrison and fortifications, was as fragile as a piece of waste paper. A regiment had just been pulled out and started to move to the place requested by Mirage Roku. It took half an hour.
After that, they were bombed by planes and became a mess, and then they were rushed to pieces by several Tang Army tanks.
Then no one could find their own troops: they lost the radio, no commander, and could not identify the direction. They could only wait stupidly for their own doom.
There may be soldiers or small-scale troops who insist on advancing to the previously agreed place, but they will soon become the main target of the Tang army and be annihilated first.
In other words, Mirage Shiliu found that it was better to let these troops stationed on the distant shore march towards Xinshui City where he was than to let these troops stay where they were.
If these troops are allowed to stay where they are, they will at least still have supporting ammunition depots, some well-hidden heavy artillery cover, and trenches and bunkers to rely on.
Now they have nothing. The heavy artillery was pulled out and abandoned on the march, or was directly blown into parts by the Tang Air Force. The bullets and artillery shells in the ammunition depot could not be taken away, so they could only be left behind. The ammunition and dry food carried by the soldiers were very
It is limited and simply not enough to support their continuous operations.
Fragile logistical supplies, or logistical supply forces that could not survive the military attacks of the Tang Empire, could not take care of the Mirage troops at all.
Equipment such as trucks were soon paralyzed on the road: bombing by planes, missing parts, shortage of fuel... Vehicles quickly became a burden to the troops.
After discarding these cars, the mirage army's movement speed can really be described as crawling. They cannot gather together at all, and the battalion cannot even maintain such a unit.
As we walked, there were only 400 people left in the 500-man battalion. Some people fell behind, and some escaped - after all, many of the people in the mirage army were strong men who had just been captured a few months ago, and their actual fighting will was also limited.
that's it.
What depresses Mirage Roku the most is that Mirage troops generally only have access to regiment-level radio stations. Once battalion-level troops act alone, eighty percent of them cannot be contacted.
Normally, the march was okay, at least there were signal troops to communicate with each other, but as long as they were disrupted by the Tang army, the mirage armies themselves would not be able to find each other at all.
The 3rd Corps was assembled in advance and was in relatively good condition. The problem was that Mirage Wu Erlang led his troops and ran into the main force of the Tang Army in the battle of Yasuda Village.
The famous 9th Armored Division among the Mirage Army is not a vegetarian. The 59 tanks were in an uninhabited territory and defeated the 3rd Mirage Corps in one charge.
The rout of tens of thousands of people was a very spectacular scene. Mirage Takejiro was killed in the chaos. It is said that the cause of death was that his vehicle was hit by an IL attack aircraft strafing from low altitude.
The Mirage Army's 3rd Corps, which had lost its legion commander, was basically gone, and Mirage Sixteen knew that he could not count on them at all.
The remnants of the 2nd and 3rd Armored Divisions that retreated from the South Island were actually treated as treasures and transferred to the main island. The only ones that Mirage Shiliu could use were the garrison of Xinshui Port, the fort troops and some of the troops under his command.
Part of the 4th Corps guarding the new island.
The total number is about 30,000... As long as you look at this number, you will know that the Mirage Army actually does not even have the most basic street fighting capabilities.
At that time, Xiang Wuzhong assembled hundreds of thousands of troops to defend Da Nanwan, but he only held on for more than ten days. Now he only has 30,000 troops in hand, and he is afraid that he will lose Xinshui Port in one day.
Knowing that he was defeated by the Tang army, Mirage Shiliu gritted his teeth and finally made up his mind to prepare to live or die with Xindao.
He summoned the commander of the fort and the commander of the port garrison, and gave them their respective orders: "The fort garrison, prepare to fight to the death... Our forces are limited, and I have no reinforcements for you. I only give you one sentence, mirage
How long the country can hold on depends on you."
After finishing speaking, he looked at the officers of the port garrison: "You personally lead people to plant explosives in the port dock! The port warehouse! The dock dock! Don't leave anything for the Tang army! Within an hour! Blow them all up!
Not a tile will be left behind!"
"Yes! I understand!" The two officers pressed the dagger-like command knives on their waists and nodded in agreement.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "After blowing up the port, arm all the people in the city! Give a grenade to the women and children... Give the men guns if they have guns, and hand grenades if they don't have guns...
! When the Tang army enters the city, they must all die together with the enemy!" Mirage Shiliu, who had gone crazy, issued another order to the port garrison officer that did not sound so easy to operate.
In fact, few ordinary people had the courage to fight the Tang army with grenades. This order would only waste a large amount of reserve ammunition.
But in fact, everyone knows that with this small amount of troops, they really cannot persist in consuming all the ammunition stored in the port.
Since it cannot be used up, it is not a problem to send it out: as for whether these civilians use it or not, it is not something they, the officers, can decide.
Because we have to concentrate our efforts to defend the main island, there are actually not a large number of mines deployed on the new island, and there are actually not as many mines as expected.
After knowing that there was no way to continue to persist, Mirage secretly transferred various aircraft stationed on the new island.
Two nights ago, the Mirage Navy launched a suicide attack that actually only dispatched 35 speedboats. Tang Jun's statistics were wrong in the dark night, and some sailors double-counted the same target they sunk in confusion, so it was
Obtain data on 50 suicide speedboats.
Before the war, the Mirage Navy deployed a total of 60 suicide boats on the new island, and later added 10 temporary boats, so the north and south wings each had 35 suicide boats.
The night before yesterday, the Mirage Army only dispatched 35 speedboats hidden in the north. After confirming that the suicide attack method was effective, all 35 suicide speedboats stationed in Xinshui Port were mobilized: they will fight with other suicide speedboats on the main island.
are used intensively.
This was also Mirage Haiping's decision: he finally found a weapon that could cause trouble for the Tang army, and it must be concentrated on the defense of the island.
The new island operation is just a delay in any case. The defense of the main island is the top priority of the Mirage Kingdom: according to the Mirage Emperor's decision, they will stock up at least 300 suicide boats on the main island to give the Tang Navy a surprise!
As the Tang army approached Xinshui Port, under the crazy orders of Mirage Wu Shiliu, the Mirage seaport garrison blew up their port.
However, due to lack of explosives, they only blew up the docks and docks, leaving only the warehouse area.
Seeing that the mirage troops were planning to destroy the seaport, the Tang army's blockade fleet did not stop them, but reported the situation.
Early the next morning, the main fleet of the Tang Navy arrived at the outskirts of Xinshui Port after evading a possible second night attack.
The two battleships Dongwan No. 1 and Dongwan No. 2 repeated their old tricks, using their 380mm-caliber main guns to bombard the Xinshuigang fort, and completely destroyed the fort in just five salvos.
Originally, this unimportant fort was only equipped with some 200mm-caliber coastal defense guns, and most of the artillery was just old-fashioned 150mm-caliber guns. It had no power to fight back when it fired against the Tang fleet.
However, as one of the few elite Mirage troops, the fort garrison did carry out Mirage Shiroku's orders and fought until the last moment.
The commander of the garrison was shot to death. As the ammunition depot exploded, the Tang army's warships entered the port and began to bombard Xinshui City unscrupulously.
The bombardment continued until the afternoon. Fearing the suicide speedboats of the Mirage Army, the Tang Army's warships left the relatively narrow port area before nightfall and returned to the sea.
On the morning of the next day, the 19th Infantry Division of the Tang Army approached Xinshuicheng along the railway. Mirage Wu Shiliu committed suicide by drinking a bomb, and the Mirage Army surrendered.
The entire New Island Battle was basically over, but there were broken troops everywhere on the New Island. The Tang army was forced to clean up the New Island for another ten days before it could be considered as "finished" on the New Island.
What surprised the Tang army was that, including the time to clean up the defeated troops, the Battle of New Island was actually five or six days slower than the Battle of South Island!
Feng Kezhi suddenly had a hunch that this island... wouldn't be as easy to fight as many people imagined.