The coalition forces did have a counterattack plan, and this plan was named "Tropical Storm". The entire plan was designed around trying to recapture Rewind Port, which was occupied by the Tang Empire. It was envisioned that the elves' troops and Dorne's troops would jointly complete it.
However, the planning of this plan was a bit tricky. From Dafang Town to the details, there was a strange smell of being impossible to complete, which made many senior leaders of the coalition sneer.
In fact, no one had any hope for this plan. Everyone felt that such a counterattack was no different than risking death, so during the preparation stage, the entire plan could not move forward.
The grassroots officers and soldiers have no enthusiasm, the middle-level cadres have no confidence, and the senior commanders do not take this plan seriously at all.
According to the plan, not even half of the troops that were supposed to be assembled toward Rewind Port were in place in January, and the troops that were in place were unable to launch offensive operations due to lack of ammunition.
Everything seemed to be artificially planned, with insufficient ammunition and insufficient manpower. All the numbers were stuck in that delicate position of "enough for defense but not enough for offense."
The Spring Festival is coming soon. This is a traditional festival originated from the Tang Empire. It is said that the Emperor of the Tang Empire personally selected the day: because there is no so-called lunar calendar in this world, it was chosen on this day.
February 1st every year.
In the past, in order to please the Tang Empire, almost all countries in the Eastern Continent would celebrate this emerging festival and celebrate it as one of the most important festivals of the year.
But now, these countries have unanimously announced that they will no longer celebrate the festivals of the Tang Empire. This "traditional festival" that has been popular for seven or eight years has been banned.
Although these countries have banned the Spring Festival, a festival of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Empire will definitely celebrate the Spring Festival. Millions of soldiers will celebrate the festival on the front line, so they naturally need to make some preparations.
Tang Mo will give a New Year's greeting to all the officers and soldiers on the front line, and the Tang Dynasty's Spring Festival Gala will also devote a lot of space to praising the front line soldiers who fight for the country.
In any case, judging from the record, Tang Guo's foreign war was still a complete victory, so the atmosphere of the entire New Year was also maintained at a relatively happy level.
On the other hand, the coalition forces were more depressed. On the one hand, without the atmosphere of the Spring Festival, it would naturally seem more quiet; on the other hand, because of the defeats on the battlefield, everyone was no longer in a happy mood.
There is a depressing atmosphere everywhere, the mood of defeat is spreading, and many people have even begun to discuss whether there is any possibility of victory in this war.
From a logical perspective, the coalition seems to be doomed to failure after losing the barrier of the Endless Sea.
It's just that the emperors and majesties of various countries are unwilling to accept this fact. They prefer to believe that as long as they unite and maintain the huge force on the front line, they have hope of repelling the Tang army's request for peace.
In the past few days, the areas controlled by the elves, especially the northern areas close to the Ice Empire, have been bombed to varying degrees.
The Tang army dispatched a large number of aircraft and conducted high-intensity bombing on the targets they had discovered. Countless bombs fell from the sky, destroying the elven cities, blowing up bridges, damaging roads, and completely defeating the
Confidence among coalition commanders.
The Yangmu Empire, which had not been too affected before, finally realized how much pressure the dwarves had withstood for them: just the attack from the air had already caused the Yangmu Empire to suffer terribly.
The bombing of factories means a decrease in production capacity, the bombing of roads means the collapse of transportation capacity, and the bombing of cities will cause public unrest... The air raids of the Tang State made the Yangmu Empire passive to the extreme, and many places even began to understand that a few months ago
They also looked down upon the dwarves.
What made the elves somewhat vulnerable was that the Tang army's methods of attacking them seemed to have upgraded: the large-scale bombings began to decrease, and were replaced by a more efficient and bizarre precision strike method.
No matter from which aspect you look at it, the Tang Empire's bomb attack accuracy has made a qualitative leap. Without the need for aircraft to fly over the bombing target, bombs can be dropped to easily destroy buildings the size of houses.
First of all, the power of these aerial bombs cannot be underestimated. Often one bomb can easily destroy a large building. Compared with the bombs used by the Tang State before, the new bombs seem to be much more powerful.
Secondly, this kind of bomb is equipped with small wings, which can glide in the air for a long time and attack targets far away. This eliminates the need for Tang Army aircraft to fly over cities to drop bombs, greatly increasing safety.
Finally, this new type of bomb could still hit the target accurately after flying dozens of kilometers, as if it had eyes. This cost-effectiveness allowed the Tang Army to project such ammunition unscrupulously, destroying what they wanted.
Destroy any target.
Despite spanning a long attack distance, these bombs can still surprisingly hit the most important buildings of the elves: such as radio stations, such as factories that produce important parts... In short, only one aerial bomb has been hit recently.
It was completely damaged and could no longer be repaired or used.
Although it is still not clear how the Tang Army did it, it is an indisputable fact that the elves suffered heavy losses. In addition to adding clueless air defense arrangements at important locations, the elves' high-level officials did not have a good way to deal with it.
It later proved that such preparations were completely in vain: the Tang army's attacks were all outside the range of anti-aircraft anti-aircraft guns, and those majestic-looking 88 mm caliber anti-aircraft guns were actually useless.
The elves' anti-aircraft troops couldn't even see the enemy's shadow, so naturally they couldn't fire to intercept those too-small guided air bombs. So they could only spend time in the anti-aircraft gun positions.
As for those workers in the factories that were actually bombed, as well as some dedicated officials within the municipal government, they could only listen quietly before they died, listening to the footsteps of the god of death getting closer and closer outside the window.
This kind of bombing continued for a week. During this week, various wartime materials and factory roads were destroyed by the bombing of the elves, which put the elves' originally not so smooth transportation into a half.
A state of paralysis.
As the effects of the Tang army's bombing began to show, the plan drawn up by the elves to counterattack Rewind Port was completely ignored.
Even Yangmu I, who holds meetings every day in the imperial capital, no longer urges his confidant Ai Felix to launch a counterattack. He seems to have accepted his fate, completely forgetting that when he picked up the station, he insisted on counterattacking against the Rewind Port...
