The offensive front of the Tang army was an L-shape at the beginning, with an almost straight line lined up in the north, and extending along the coast to the Refeng Port area.
This shape made the Tang army's attack direction slightly 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 too much energy into the central part of the elf-controlled area.
Therefore, this time, those approaching Matus City and preparing to attack the Elf Imperial Capital Joslina were the 10th Army commanded by Allen, the 7th Army commanded by Eric, and the 3rd Army commanded by Strauss.
The three-pronged army approached Matus, 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 battle lasted only 21 days. As time went by, everyone knew that the number of prisoners of the Tang Army would definitely exceed 3 million, or even 4 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 has not created an advantage, but has become 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.
But 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.
As they ran, the commanders of these troops found that they had lost their supplies, burned out their fuel, and exhausted their ammunition...even half of their soldiers could not be found.
It would have been better for them to stand firm at that time. 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 troops of the Tang Army kept advancing, followed by allied prisoners as far as the eye could see. These prisoners were wearing various military uniforms, without weapons, and were walking 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 transportation road without fear of death will definitely end up worse than inciting the 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 was no way around it. The transport trucks of the Tang Army's logistics troops were also equipped with heavy machine guns. Those seemingly harmless drivers and porters consumed more bullets in training every year than the most elite main force of the coalition forces.
In the most convenient position in the transport vehicle, those top-notch submachine guns that cannot be used on the frontal battlefield are much more powerful than the bayonet pistols and other gadgets 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.
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This is not a joke. Once the Tang army went crazy on the battlefield, they did have a 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.
Therefore, no matter how they were arranged, these prisoners would cause a lot of trouble for the Tang Army's advancement. In the end, after 22 days of continuous advancement, the main force of the Tang Army had to take the initiative to stop and rest.
"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
On top.
He had just gone to see the prisoners of war passing by, and it was a huge mass of darkness 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 is ironic is that since Strauss's troops penetrated the coalition's defense line, no visible heavy weapons and equipment have been captured for a long time.
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Whether they were humans or elves, the surrendered troops did not have many cars or motorcycles, and there were even fewer heavy artillery and tanks. The coalition forces did not know if they were crazy. They formed a lot of useless light infantry, and they did not even complete the training.
Achievement brought to death on the battlefield.
"The problem is that these prisoners have seriously interfered with our marching speed." The staff officer complained helplessly: "They didn't do it on purpose, right? Surrendering these guys is 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 now the 20,000 people have surrendered, even with food and drink.
It is estimated that it will take seven or eight hours to get them settled.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Stop thinking blindly, let 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. Almost all of the casualties of his troops 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, his troops would suffer heavy losses every day.
The number of casualties is calculated as "one".
Now his troops are only a few dozen kilometers away from the elven town of Matus, and he will be able to have a meal in the city by this time tomorrow.
He had fought 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 Mattus and entering Joslina was 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, they will first go to Matus to check the situation."
"If you encounter a counterattack from the enemy, don't get entangled. If you don't encounter a counterattack...then control the area 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 stand by!"
Request the Air Force to conduct a reconnaissance near Matus to see if there are any signs of large-scale elf force activity."
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 20 days, we only took one day to rest. The entire army was still a little tired, so it was really necessary to stop and check the situation.
"Yes!" The liaison officer immediately began to convey the order: Tang Army's communication system is very advanced and is even equipped with many computers, which can assist in many tasks.
After possessing various advantages, the Tang Army was almost unscrupulous. Whether it was communication, information transmission, or troop deployment and coordination, it was countless times smoother than that of the coalition forces.
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In the city of Matus, an old elf nobleman wearing brocade silk and satin was helped by a waiter and got into an expensive Rolls-Royce. Sitting on the other side was a graceful and luxurious woman, covered in jewels.
Seeing her husband getting into the car, the woman finally hesitated and said, "Honey, can't we just leave?"
"What do you know...if you don't leave? If you don't leave, our whole family will be dead." 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 has never concealed its crimes, especially in the liquidation of the old aristocrats, gentry and landlords. Wherever the Tang army goes, they will definitely judge the landlords and gentry who oppressed the common people, and help the common people divide the land of these landlords
of.
Therefore, landowners who knew this information early would often run away with whatever property they could take away, so that 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 people of the Tang Dynasty 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 take out 1,000 gold coins and donate them to the military to build that thing called the border defense line.
At that time, everyone was donating, and everyone was afraid that the Tang Dynasty would call them, so they all 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 bastards who deserved to be killed spent their money! The border defense line, which was said to be impregnable, was penetrated by the Tang people in just 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.
The woman felt even more distressed when she heard about the donation. Although she was very rich and her husband was also very rich, no matter how rich they were, they were not willing to spend a sum of money for nothing!
Especially spending money to support those greedy officers! On weekdays, these people are shameless. They always use different methods to extort money, either to make them pay or to make them work. There are always countless excuses to come to the door.
, so annoying.
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 in complete chaos. There were originally 30,000 city guards, but within a few days only a few thousand were left, and the remaining ones had no fighting power at all.
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 massacres the city and kills prisoners begin to run out of the city. The nobles are even more panicked all day long.
Those who are capable have already run away, and the rest are those with little ability: they are not well-informed, and their wealth is highly tied to land and real estate, so they will naturally run much slower.
It's not like those big aristocrats who just leave with stock checks and the like, that's cool.
Standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the city lord's palace, the city lord of Matus looked down at the chaotic crowd outside the gate, with no expression on his face. After all the two division commanders ran away, he knew that Matus 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 already 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 Matas is like other cities, without any defense waiting for the enemy
arrival.
"Alas..." After sighing, he turned back to look at the housekeeper waiting by the door: "Has everything been arranged at home?"
The butler 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..."