When the first Tang Army soldier who entered Matus City saw this rather grand city, he really didn't expect that such a city could be captured without a single shot.
He looked nervously at the elven civilians standing on both sides of the street. If it weren't for the huge white flag hanging on the city wall, he wouldn't even have the courage to face so many people.
But it doesn't matter, besides him, there are actually his comrades. Seven soldiers stood on the street holding assault rifles, behind them was an infantry fighting vehicle that had transported them all the way here.
"Good guy...it's really a nice city." The commander of the infantry fighting vehicle sighed as he leaned on the hatch cover of the turret.
The traditional elven buildings line both sides of the streets, and occasionally you can see the reinforced concrete high-rise buildings that have emerged in recent years. Although the entire city is not as prosperous as the cities of the Tang Empire, it is still a large-scale and good place.
"What should we do? Occupy the city lord's palace?" A soldier walked up to his squad leader and asked in a low voice.
The squad leader in charge of commanding this mechanized infantry squad scratched the back of his neck in embarrassment and looked up at the commander: "Should we do something? But this is my first time encountering such a situation."
"Haven't we already reported the situation? It is estimated that reinforcements will arrive soon, right?" the commander shouted guiltily. His words made some of the surrounding elven officers extremely embarrassed, because they were just surrounded by
There are almost 100 elven soldiers here.
So many soldiers surrendered to seven or eight humans, which was simply a shame for the elven officers. But they had no choice. Their top commander ran away, and the city lord ordered them to surrender.
Now that they have been ordered to surrender, logically speaking, they have lost the chance to resist. No matter how humiliating or embarrassing they are, they must be responsible for their decision.
What's more... it's easy to kill people violently now, and maybe you can succeed. But the Tang army who comes later will not be reasonable, and maybe they will massacre the city.
"Alas..." The squad leader of the Tang Army, who felt that he had too little experience and had embarrassed his troops, slung his assault rifle behind him, walked up to an Elf officer, and asked: "You are in the barracks outside the city.
How many troops are there in total?”
"This... this question is not easy to answer." The officer was a little embarrassed and stuttered when he spoke: "There should be at least 2,000 people when I left, but now... maybe there are still 1,500?"
His tone was so uncertain, because he really didn't dare to tell an exact number: There was no way, soldiers were escaping every minute, and he was in no mood to restrain them, so he didn't know how many would be left.
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In fact, those left behind were not lunatics hoping to fight the Tang army, but some soldiers who didn't know where to go: some of their hometowns had already been occupied by the Tang army, while some just wanted to stay and try their luck.
Let's see if we can make a living.
Just as they were talking, the crowd started to commotion, and soon a convoy appeared outside the city. The huge Warrior jeeps drove into Matus City one after another, and then parked on the streets full of people.
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The doors of these jeeps were pushed open, and some heavily armed Tang Army soldiers jumped out of the cars and formed a simple defensive formation on both sides of the convoy.
On the roofs of these cars, half of the body of a soldier was protruding, pressing the muzzle of a large-caliber machine gun, watching vigilantly at the embarrassed elf soldiers not far away.
The elven soldiers had been disarmed, and their weapons had been placed in the barracks. They came with them to maintain order at the scene. So when they were pointed at by weapons, they instinctively became afraid, and the atmosphere became a bit tense.
Weird.
"What are they doing?" A captain walked out of the convoy. He was obviously much higher in rank than the squad leader of a mechanized infantry squad. He walked to the side of the infantry fighting vehicle and asked the squad leader who got here first.
Finally, a senior officer came, and the squad leader breathed a sigh of relief. He briefly introduced the situation and pointed at the slightly cramped elf soldiers: "They are here to maintain law and order. We have already controlled this place...
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"What do you call control?" the captain laughed, but it seemed that he was not as vigilant as before: "Okay, I was ordered to support here. Since they have surrendered, let them return to their homes immediately! Everyone
We will ensure everyone's safety, don't be afraid! Disperse immediately! Don't take to the streets at will!"
While giving orders loudly, he shouted to the elf officers in the distance: "Call your stewards over here! We need to confirm some things! Try to get your people to cooperate with us! Don't cause any trouble!"
The scene suddenly became noisy again, the civilians began to disperse driven by the elven soldiers, and the streets became empty.
The Tang Army's convoy opened some distance and controlled a longer area, and then some trucks and armored vehicles entered Mattes one after another.
Because the city surrendered so suddenly, the Tang army was not well prepared. It was not until dinner that day that the first dragon flag representing the Tang Empire was raised on the flagpole of the city lord's palace in Mattes City.
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A large number of Tang Army troops passed through the city, and the elven residents looked curiously from behind the windows at the Tang Army vehicles passing downstairs. To them, those different vehicles seemed endless, and they were obviously more advanced than the coalition forces they were familiar with.
Of course they couldn't recognize those anti-aircraft missile launch vehicles specially used for air defense. In their opinion, the rectangular and cylindrical things on those vehicles were probably used to hold oil or drinking water, and were not as powerful as tanks or armored vehicles at all.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! For them, those tank self-propelled artillery with cannon tubes or quadruple-mounted self-propelled anti-aircraft artillery are more scary, after all, those things do not look like
Too easy to mess with.
"These lunatics... don't they know that people who poke their heads behind the windows can easily lose their lives?" A lieutenant colonel of the Tang Army who had just entered the city frowned at the elf civilians who were not afraid of death, and complained to his colleagues around him.
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The Tang Army attaches great importance to counter-sniper training. What those civilians who don't know the heights of the world are doing can easily arouse the Tang Army's vigilance or even counterattack.
As long as there is such a lunatic with ulterior motives, hiding in a corner and firing a shot, the Tang army will soon enter killing mode in the entire city, clearing out all the sneaky targets.
"There is no way, this kind of thing will always be like this." The officer beside him lit a cigarette, looked at the vehicles passing in front of him, and said helplessly.
Most of the heavy weapons and equipment such as tanks go around the city, and most of the vehicles passing through the city here are wheeled vehicles. After all, the city's road surface is not that strong. After a tracked vehicle passes through it once, 80% of the road surface will be scrapped.
Even the urban roads of the Tang Empire could not withstand the ravages of tracks. It was simply unrealistic to expect that the roads in the elves' cities could withstand dozens of tons of tanks.
Therefore, those elven civilians who hid upstairs overlooking the streets and thought they saw tanks, mostly saw weapons and equipment such as the Tang Army's wheeled infantry fighting vehicles and wheeled assault guns.
Anyway, they can't tell the difference between these weapons and equipment, just like many people watching the National Day military parade can't tell the difference between self-propelled artillery and tanks.
The soldiers of the Tang Army who walked into the city with weapons on their backs lined up neatly. Although there were no flowers or applause, they were still very proud.
They captured another city for their Emperor, and the world was one step closer to unification. This is their glory and their story.
"We are all warriors of His Majesty the Emperor... embarking on a great journey..." Someone started, and a whole square of soldiers began to sing their song loudly. The singing was so loud that in the streets full of Tang troops
fluttering.
One after another, the crimson flags passed by the window of the city lord's mansion, making the city lord of Mattas City, who was also standing behind the window and watching, feel extremely inferior.
His army collapsed before the Tang army arrived. The two division commanders fled without a fight, and the entire city of Matas failed to organize any decent resistance.
Looking back at these soldiers of the Tang Empire, they were the real warriors. Even from such a distance, he could clearly feel that the soldiers of the Tang Army who passed by his door were eager for war, and they were even willing to sacrifice their lives in the war.
Give up your precious life!
As the most important city in the central elves, Matus has its own airport. Now it has also been occupied by the Tang army. It's just that the elven air force there has a little more courage than the infantry, and they escaped before the Tang army arrived.
Yes, they did not surrender. After destroying about a third of the aircraft in the hangar, they abandoned everything else and drove away in their cars.
When Tang Jun arrived there, many hangar doors were open. Some of the cockpits of the aircraft inside were blown up by grenades, and some had holes blown out of their wings by grenades... But most of the aircraft were good.
It's a pity that the troops of the Tang Empire looked down upon these aircraft: most of them were completely obsolete C-47 transport aircraft, as well as some propeller fighters, and there were very few jet aircraft.
The coalition air power had actually collapsed in the early stages of the battle. A large number of aircraft were destroyed on the ground, and the remaining ones fled to the airport further south to survive.
Most of the air force aircraft originally deployed in the hinterland of the Yangmu Empire were outdated and backward equipment that had been saved from earlier times. They were reluctant to throw away and of no use.
For Tang Jun, an airport that can be used immediately is obviously more useful than those shabby airplanes from a backward era.
Even if it can only take off and land helicopters, it is already a very good front-line facility for the Tang Army: Strauss was overjoyed after learning that he had a new front-line airport, and immediately ordered some troops to be airlifted to strengthen the airport.
Warning nearby.
Now this airport has become an important facility for the Tang Army to transport supplies. At the same time, Army Aviation's armed helicopters have also begun to be deployed here.
The Tang Army's armored forces outside the city have taken control of all positions near the airport and established a security corridor to connect Matus City with the airport.
That night, around 9 o'clock, Strauss moved his headquarters to Matus City. He did not live in the city's main palace, but chose a commercial building made of reinforced concrete.
This building was built by the Chamber of Commerce of the Tang Empire. It is made of real materials and is extremely strong. It also has underground security facilities built secretly... As for why a chamber of commerce spent so much money on building an office building, you have to ask the Chamber of Commerce of the Tang Empire.
The intelligence service has become a silver fox.
At the same time, at almost the same moment when Strauss entered Matus, in the palace of the elf emperor Joslina, Yangmu I finally heard the news that the city of Matus had been occupied by the Tang army.
"What? The city of Martus was lost?" The frightened Elf Prime Minister ignored the blunder and stared at the officer who came to deliver the news and asked: "Is the news accurate?"
"The garrison in Matus City collapsed before the arrival of the Tang Army. The two division commanders led by them fled before the battle... This is the news brought by the messenger sent by Matas City." The officer lowered his head and replied.
The messenger arrived at the imperial capital after running wildly for a day, which shows how close Matas City is to Ruosilaina. If Tang Jun wanted to, he could appear on the outskirts of Ruosilaina within two or three days.
A group of ministers were in a mess, and the whispers made people irritated. Yangmu I sat on the throne without saying a word. The prime minister looked ugly and held it in for a long time before he choked out a sentence to vent his anger: "Flix has harmed the country.
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He could think of Felix at this time entirely because of the battle report about Ossa that was sent to him in the afternoon. The military port of Ossa has also been lost, and the Tang army occupied it. Felix, who had previously said that he would defend Ossa to the death
, this time he could only run away with the remaining soldiers and the defeated general.
"Mattus is lost, does that mean...we, our place, is about to become a front line?" A minister nervously asked his colleagues. If this place becomes a war-torn place, then he must at least first
Get the family out.
"It's not coming soon, it's already happening." The minister beside him replied with a wry smile: "Yesterday, His Majesty just issued an order not to allow any ministers or their families to leave Ruosilaina. What's the use of saying this now...
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"I heard that there are still 300,000 troops outside the city... It won't be over all at once, right?" The person who asked this question lowered his voice, but many people still heard it.
"Why, why did it come to this all of a sudden?" Someone sighed, and his sigh caused a series of sighs. Although these sighs were very slight, they joined together and still echoed in the hall, which made people sigh.
