The encirclement of Ironforge remained unchanged during the ten hours of negotiations, but outside the encirclement, ten hours had allowed Tang Jun to redefine what advancement speed was.
The 3rd Army suddenly started racing. After crossing the Pot River, the 3rd Armored Army never stopped advancing.
Strauss's troops advanced an average of more than 30 kilometers per hour, and captured a series of important cities by breaking up the entire army.
The resistance of the dwarves had completely collapsed, and the dwarf cities where the Tang Army arrived encountered no resistance at all. The civilians looked nervously at the Tang Army entering the city, and the Tang Army had no energy to disturb the civilians who had no resistance.
On the contrary, they brought out their glorious tradition: they began to divide the things they carried. They gave chocolate candies to the children, gave the bread and luncheon meat on their bodies to the women, and gave the men spare socks, raincoats and other things.
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After dividing all the way and reaching a state where there was nothing to give, the Tang army stopped advancing. This time, the Tang army controlled a large area of the southwestern region of the dwarves.
Although this way of advancing would most likely be forced to retreat as long as it encountered resistance or counterattack, the Tang army did not encounter decent resistance, so they stood firm.
The coalition forces were not in the mood to arrange troops to enter the dwarf area to fight. They were worried that their troops would be coerced into surrendering, so they did not organize any large-scale counterattack at all.
In a quiet small city in the south of the dwarves, several children were playing carelessly on the street. To them, it seemed that the war had never broken out, and they had always lived under the sun.
Anyway, due to the exploitation of the local nobles, their lives have always been very difficult, so the shortage of materials seems to have little to do with them.
As for the impact, it is not completely absent. At least their brother and father were drafted and left their hometown. No one knows the exact news whether they are still alive today.
On this not-so-wide street, a Warrior jeep drove past, followed closely by several military trucks.
Because the advancing speed was so fast, the various wheeled vehicles of the Tang Army rushed to the front. They did not have any protection, they just looked tall and mighty.
The jeep stopped in front of the building with the sign of the City Lord's Mansion, and a company commander jumped out of the co-pilot. Looking at his service logo, it was clear that he was an engineering company commander.
He led a soldier to the nervous dwarf guards and asked condescendingly, "You have surrendered. We came here to take over this city. Now it belongs to me. Go back to your barracks. Do you know the way?"
"I know, I know." The two soldiers swallowed and tried to put down the Mosin-Nagant rifles they were carrying.
"Take this back and disarm them uniformly in the barracks." The engineer company commander of the Tang Army took out a cigarette case from his pocket, lit a cigarette at the door, and waved his hand to indicate that the other party could leave.
Just like that, the two dwarf guards carried their weapons and left, leaving their posts to the new human soldiers.
These human soldiers wear good-looking camouflage uniforms, complex tactical vests, and short-barreled assault rifles hanging on their chests. They look more handsome than the dwarf guards from any angle.
Still carrying a guard, the engineer company commander walked into the city lord's palace, and in this way swaggeringly took control of the city, including several barracks outside the city, as well as thousands of dwarf soldiers who were ordered to dig trenches to prepare for resistance just a day ago.
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The same scene appeared in many dwarf towns and villages. Wherever the Tang army went, the dwarf troops laid down their weapons. They had given up on this war, especially when Ironforge had been completely surrounded.
It seems that Binghan I is no longer in the mood to care about the resistance in the southern region. What he is considering now is whether he wants the less than honorable position of Marquis.
This issue is so entangled that he has not yet sent a telegram instructing the southern cities that have lost their command to let them resist the scattered troops of the Tang Army that are rushing over.
A city surrendered to a regiment or a battalion, a town surrendered to a company, a village only needed a platoon or even a squad to capture... The dwarves' fighting will seemed to have disappeared overnight.
The actual situation is indeed like this. Things like war are often a competition for the last breath: if the breath lasts one second, the two sides can still maintain a stalemate, but if the breath breaks the next second, the situation will change.
It became one-sided.
Because gamblers will not stop before betting the last dollar. Everyone thinks that the other party will collapse at the last second, so no one will give up halfway.
Then, the moment the losing side lost the last chip, the defeat suddenly came, and the originally stalemate situation plummeted... just like the dwarves now.
No one was in the mood to continue fighting. All the soldiers looked at the far fewer humans standing at the door of the barracks in confusion, and then calmly handed over their weapons without any resistance.
Each barracks has been transformed into a ready-made prisoner of war camp. Compared with the seniors who left here a few months ago and fought to the death, the newly recruited soldiers in these barracks seem to be luckier.
They did not have to lie in the trenches under artillery fire and wait for the Tang Army's tank tracks to run over their heads, so they survived and did not need to sacrifice their lives for a war that was destined to fail.
Judging from the performance of the Tang army who captured them, this war seems to be meaningless. Compared with the oppression of the landlords and the bullying of the nobles, these new humans seem to be easier to get along with.
At least, they didn't show any violent tendencies. Apart from collecting the dwarves' weapons, the other party didn't even have any intention of entering the barracks.
The time is still short, and everyone has not yet become familiar with each other, so they all maintain restraint among themselves. Soon the dwarves will feel the changes of the times. The arrival of the Tang Army will not bring them humiliation, but a new life in a certain sense.
The children curiously stood on the other side of the street and looked at the Tang army cars parked in front of the city lord's palace. Even they could easily see that these cars were completely different from those used by their army.
Just by looking at the appearance, you can easily tell which army has more advanced equipment. Just looking at the camouflage painting on it will make you feel the powerful combat effectiveness of the Tang army.
