Harf was not really ready to surrender. He had no other choice. In his opinion, if the Tang army could slow down their attack, feigning surrender was also an option.
This option can confuse the enemy, make them relax their vigilance, and even allow the opponent to suspend attacks; it can also ignite hope among your own people, allowing them to persist for a while.
As long as this lie is not exposed, this trick can be used for at least three to five days. After all, any negotiation takes time.
Seeing that our side may not be able to hold on for three to five days, then negotiation is naturally a better option.
With this idea in mind, Harf sent a confidant, along with a negotiator composed of dozens of officers, to Benn to start surrender negotiations.
Unfortunately, Harf's representatives fell into a passive position from the beginning of the negotiation. The Tang Army only offered the path of unconditional surrender. Even because they wanted to liquidate the culprit of "squeezing the people", the Tang Army did not give Harf a guarantee.
Its security promise.
According to the Tang Army, Harf's surrender was a meritorious service, but oppressing the people was also a sin. Whether the merits and demerits can be balanced in the end depends on how the military court decides.
The old lord of Benn City was put on trial. His merit was small, but his crime was huge. He was finally sentenced to death and all his family property was confiscated.
The body of the city lord is still hanging on the street lamp. It is said that it will take a week to take it down. It is precisely because of this body that the Tang army gained the support of many dwarf civilians in the city.
How to distinguish between invaders and liberators? Whoever cooperates with the invader will be left alone, no matter what evil things he has done in the past; and whoever the liberator stands against the people will be eliminated, regardless of whether he cooperates or not!
During the negotiation process, the Tang Army did not relax its attack on Position 1. Harf was at the end of his rope, so he personally supervised the battle and promised that as long as he persisted and defeated the Tang Army's arrogance, he could surrender and return home safely.
information.
Encouraged by such news, the dwarf troops gained some courage to continue fighting. They fought tenaciously and actually withstood the fierce attack of the Tang army.
However, the Tang Army soon began a psychological warfare offensive. They announced that as long as they laid down their weapons and surrendered, grassroots officers and soldiers would be safe.
The Tang army promised to punish only the culprits and not harm innocent people. This statement was confirmed by countless dwarf prisoners in front of the battle.
More and more dwarf troops chose to surrender, and Harv became increasingly unable to control his troops. On the third day after the Tang army occupied the snow fort, Harv finally lost the main peak of Position 1.
Subsequently, the dwarf defenders were defeated and a large number of troops surrendered. Harv was also captured alive in his temporary headquarters. He was shot to death by his own guards, and his body was found and confirmed by the Tang army. As for why the guards
If he knew how to do it, there must be someone inside who was ordered to help Harv look good.
The Tang Army won a great victory and solved the trouble behind it. Subsequently, the Tang Army's 1st Armored Division, which had been replenished and repaired, began to move south. Position 8, which the dwarf troops had defended for ten days, was controlled by the Tang Army.
At this time, the steel barrier really existed in name only: it had a total of 10 positions, and now the Tang army had occupied 8 of them. Moss's combat plan had completely lost its effect.
His original attempt to rely on 10 positions to consume the Tang Army's ammunition supplies completely failed. The Tang Army's supplies were much more than he imagined.
In desperation, Moss could only put part of the reserves he had finally accumulated into the battle. The Dwarf's 4th Army was replenished and continued fighting with the Tang Army near Position 9.
The 1st Army of the Dwarfs also barely held on to the defense line. They fought and retreated, and were now at least 70 kilometers away from Benn.
On the 15th day after the Tang Army landed, the first batch of support from the Dorne Empire finally arrived near Everwinter City.
Dorne showed great sincerity this time, because Dorne I knew that once the Tang army won in the Eastern Continent, his empire would definitely be destroyed.
Therefore, Dorn mobilized 300 aircraft, 410 pilots, and more than 2,500 ground crews this time to support his ally, the Ice Empire.
However, due to technical reasons, more than 300 planes went all the way north. Due to technical problems, about 70 planes had to stay in various countries along the way, and less than 230 planes reached the front line.
In addition, about 100 pilots and more than 400 ground staff were stranded in various countries along the way with the malfunctioning aircraft. Only more than 2,000 ground staff and more than 300 pilots actually reached the front line.
But even so, these supports are already a timely help: the Ice Empire has lost a large number of pilots due to continuous battles with the Tang Air Force, and their air force combat capabilities have been almost exhausted.
With these additions, the Ice Empire can continue to take off aircraft to fight, at least to interfere with the Tang Army's use of air superiority to suppress the already very passive ground battlefield.
In the past few days, the Ice Empire's air force has been relying on air force pilots from the Lions Empire and the Nanla Empire - these pilots entered the Ice Empire as mercenaries, and their losses were also huge.
It can no longer support the combat needs of the front line.
Moss was not happy at all after waiting for reinforcements to arrive, because his steel barrier had lost its effect, and the subsequent battle would depend on the ground forces' adaptability.
This is precisely the weakness of the dwarves: the war experience of the dwarves is not applicable to the new battlefield. The Tang army's combat style is completely different from that of the elves. Field battles will definitely become a nightmare for the dwarves.
But Moss did not dare to easily withdraw his troops to defend the city, because doing so would create the illusion of "a rout of the dwarves" on the scene. This effect was enough for Binghan I to hang him to death.
Moreover, there is no field battle to maintain the basic front, and there is no way to persist in street fighting. The solid defenses of the steel barriers have not been able to last for several days. Who can guarantee that street fighting in the city will be feasible?
So many problems caused Moss to sit back and wait for death. He could only maintain the existing defense line and continue to consume the Tang army, filling all the reserves in his hands into the trenches where a large number of people died every day.
The only thing that pleased him was that Yongdong Port was still in his hands, and the Tang Army did not seize any port to expand its logistics supply capacity. In Moss's view, this meant that the Tang Army still faced logistical supply pressure. He also
There is a slight possibility of turning defeat into victory.
