The Tang Empire's reconnaissance force was indeed not prepared to tear through the outer defense line of Josilaina, and they did not have much ability to attack the enemy.
These formations of armored reconnaissance vehicles and infantry fighting vehicles can easily encircle and defeat the elven troops, but they really can't gain much advantage in front of the Josilaina defenders who still have a somewhat defensive line and are very powerful.
But... the main force of the Tang Army can!
One day later, the elf officer who vowed to shout "long live the emperor" had to consider retreating his headquarters.
The Tang Army's Type 96 main battle tank has crushed the poorly built defense line in the north, occupied some factory facilities in the suburbs, and opened up the suburban roads of Joslina.
The enemy had already entered the city, and the elf troops were not ready to resist. The situation was very chaotic for a time. It was not until some elf troops spontaneously organized a defense that the situation seemed to be a little bit like a war.
It was when these scattered elven troops began to fight back that the citizens of Ruosilaina realized that the troops of the Tang Empire had already arrived at their doorstep.
"Boom!" A deafening loud noise woke up the elf girl lying on the bed. She got up from the bed in fright, opened the curtains and saw a plume of black smoke rising from the block in the distance.
Immediately afterwards, fierce gunfire continued, as dense as raindrops hitting the eaves. She was horrified to see elven soldiers carrying Mauser rifles passing by the street, shouting incomprehensible orders to each other.
The soldiers were obviously defeated. They retreated from the next block. A truck passed by in panic, as if there was some wild beast chasing it behind.
"Danger! Don't stand by the window!" An elf soldier downstairs waved to the civilians looking upstairs, warning these civilians who had no idea what danger was to hide quickly: "The Tang people are over there, and they will be here soon.
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While talking, a few elf soldiers holding M35 helmets on their heads with their hands retreated to this street. They stopped at the corner and leaned against the wall, breathing heavily. Two others were changing themselves.
Submachine gun magazine in hand.
They were not willing to throw away the exhausted magazines, so they reinserted them into the magazine pouches on both sides, and pulled out new magazines from another magazine pouch and inserted them into the gun.
It was these soldiers who had just detonated the buried explosives, blowing up a building and barely blocking the advancing Tang army with rubble.
However, this is obviously not a long-term solution, because the Tang army can quickly bypass the ruins, or they can quickly clear the ruins and rubble and continue to move forward.
Usually in street fighting, the attacking side is not willing to destroy too many buildings, which may hinder their advancement. The only exception is some heavenly soldiers and generals in the Middle East, after all, the purpose may be completely different.
On the contrary, it is usually the defensive side that destroys buildings. They will block some streets in a planned way, and then lure the enemy to their preset ambush position to attack. However, such tactics require organization, and the elven defenders at this moment
In fact, there is no decent organization and coordination at all.
To put it bluntly, they were simply delaying the Tang army's advance. As for why they were doing this and what they were going to do next, they actually had no plan.
Therefore, the Tang army advanced in a very orderly manner. They cleared the ruins, occupied the street buildings that should be occupied, and maintained a complete defense line to avoid being infiltrated by scattered elf troops into the areas under their control.
By clearing block by block and occupying street by street, we can quickly establish an offensive bridgehead - the war has reached this stage, and being steady is obviously more cost-effective than rushing forward.
It happened to be thanks to the stability of the Tang army that Yang Mu I in the palace had more time to organize his so-called defense plan.
It's just that his so-called "defense plan" is more like a joke from beginning to end: to sum it up with a meme, it is "if you hold on firmly, there will be a way"...
Yes, he believed that as long as the front line was held, there would definitely be a solution. As for what solution to use and whether his conditional surrender would be successful, he had not seriously considered it until now.
The frightened elf girl had just returned home after working the night shift all day, and now her face turned pale when she saw the chaotic fighting outside.
She is a nurse, and she just received an order from her superiors yesterday, saying that the hospital may have to receive a large number of injured people, so everyone should be prepared.
But she didn't expect that her home would become the front line of the battle today: she stood in front of the window and watched some elf soldiers leaning on the corner to shoot in the distance. She could even see the bullet casings popping out of the soldiers' weapons.
It fell onto the road and rolled over.
Just when the elf girl was looking at the soldiers who kept firing, her door was suddenly knocked. The sound startled her, and she didn't dare to open the door for a while, so she could only let the other party knock.
Looking at the door that may fall apart at any time.
"Bang!" The door was kicked open from the outside, and an elf soldier rushed into the room with heavy steps. He glanced at the panicked woman who didn't know what to do, snorted and said: "Let
Open! This place has been requisitioned! Leave quickly!"
After saying that, he took out the wooden handle grenade and placed it on the windowsill, and stuck his rifle out of the window: "Hey! I'm ready!"
The few elf soldiers at the corner of the street heard the shouts of their comrades and gestured to him to indicate that they knew. Then a few people continued to rely on the bunker to fire, not knowing what they were fighting.
Anyway, the enemy could not be seen from this window. The elf nurse huddled in the corner and did not dare to move: How had she ever seen what war looked like? Now that she had seen it, how could there be any romance?
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Suddenly, a small figure rushed down the street and hit the elf soldiers who were gathering at the corner.
It was a small remote-controlled aircraft. Although the Tang Empire did not yet have the technology to produce intelligent drones, it was not difficult to get some remote-controlled aircraft with cameras and bombs.
Anyway, the enemy has no means of interference at all, and similar things can obviously also play the role of drones on the battlefield.
This "drone" hit directly at the feet of several elven soldiers, and then the bomb on it exploded, and countless shrapnel instantly swallowed up several elven soldiers like a storm.
Without any preparation at all, these elven soldiers immediately staggered and stopped making any movement. After about a few seconds, two people staggered up from the ground. Apparently they were shaken to pieces by the explosion and needed time.
Slowly, you can distinguish the southeast from the northwest.
The few elf soldiers closer to the center of the explosion were obviously dead. Their uniforms were stained red with blood, and one of their arms was still moving, but it looked like they could not be saved.
The elf soldier at the window looked anxious, but there was nothing he could do. Even if he ran down, he couldn't do anything. He was not a medic.
Just as he was watching a few elf soldiers struggling in the corner, a huge figure suddenly appeared in the corner.
The gun barrel of a Type 96 main battle tank poked out first, followed closely by the rolling tracks and the cold and hard body.
"Damn!" the elf soldier cursed, then pulled the bolt of the gun to load the bullet, and then he pulled the trigger on the tank without hesitation: "Bang!"
The bullet hit the thick armor of the tank without even causing sparks. He couldn't see clearly where his bullet hit. The elf soldier responsible for covering upstairs continued to pull the bolt and prepared to reload his rifle.
One bullet.
The elf soldiers who saw the enemy tanks struggling on the street corner also realized the danger. They grabbed their companions' submachine guns from the ground and fled into the distance without looking back: It is simply unrealistic to expect them, the light infantry, to fight against the armored troops.
It will take a few seconds for them to be crushed.
When escaping, they didn't even care about other things. The soldiers who were riflemen didn't even have time to pick up the magazines from the corpses of their comrades, and fled in embarrassment.
The elf soldier who fired upstairs also realized that the rifle in his hand was unlikely to cause trouble to the tank below. So he put down the rifle, unscrewed the cover of the wooden handle grenade, and pulled it out.
rope.
With all his attention focused on the tank, he completely failed to notice that the soldiers of the Tang Army who had followed the tank to the corner had discovered him hiding high up there.
Patting the precision shooter on the shoulder, the squad leader of the Tang Army pointed to the high window. The Tang Army precision shooter raised his rifle and aimed at the dangerous target who was preparing to throw a grenade.
In the quadruple scope, the target at this distance was extremely clear, and the precise shooter of the Tang Army pressed the crosshair on the elf soldier very calmly.
"Bang!" After a crisp gunshot, the elf nurse crouched in the corner heard a heavy bang. She opened her eyes nervously and saw the soldiers who had been firing outside the window just now. At this moment, they collapsed.
On the ground, there was no movement.
His helmet rolled to one side, and he had just unscrewed the cover and pulled out the rope. The grenade that had not yet been fired was still in his hand. His face was facing the other side, so that the nurse could not see him clearly.
Downstairs, the huge roar of the tank engine still did not stop, but the gunshots became much sparse. Soon the nurse who was hiding in the corner without daring to move heard the footsteps going upstairs, which were leather boots stepping on the wooden stairs.
The sound it makes.
The two Tang Army soldiers who came upstairs to check the situation saw the corpse lying on the ground as soon as they entered the door. Because they saw the blood spreading on the floor and the hole in the chest of the elf soldier.
"Safe!" After the soldier holding the rifle put down his weapon, he saw a frightened elf girl squatting in the corner: "There is another one... who should be a civilian."
The veteran who followed him had a displeased look on his face. It was obviously an idiot to call for safety without checking the situation in the room. So he carefully looked at every corner of the room again before walking to the body and bending down to grab it.
The grenade in the corpse's hand.
Carrying a grenade, he walked up to the elf girl, looked down at her and confirmed, "Are you a civilian?"
"I, I am..." The elf nurse also saw the corpses on the ground at this time. Although she had never seen dead people, she still couldn't bear the thought of two humans shooting an elf to death in Joslina with a gun.
It was my first time meeting, so I was a little nervous.
"Don't stand at the window recently, you may be accidentally injured." The veteran warned, then walked to the window and made a gesture to the outside, and threw the Mauser rifle on the window sill.
"Check him, don't leave weapons." After the veteran warned, he took the grenade and walked out the door.
"Don't be afraid, you are safe." The young recruit smiled at the girl. Frankly speaking, he was not handsome. There were many handsome men and beautiful women in the street like Joslina... His smile was even more...
It can easily be seen as an ugly intimidation.
Sure enough, the elf nurse became even more nervous: she didn't know what the other party meant by leaving alone, so she subconsciously tightened her collar.
The soldier of the Tang Empire did not mean to violate military discipline. He rummaged through the corpse a few times. After finding no pistols or grenades, he took out the compressed biscuits and other items from the soldier's pocket.
The child was thrown onto the girl's bed.
This move frightened the elf nurse to the point of almost crying: in her opinion, this human was planning to use these things in exchange to take possession of her body...
Unfortunately, the next development made her a little embarrassed: the human seemed to be more interested in the corpse than her. He grabbed the collar of the corpse and dragged it into the corridor: "Sorry to bother you, ma'am, bye."
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When the other party left, he even closed the broken door for her, leaving only blood stains on the floor that had begun to become sticky...
For a moment, the elf nurse didn't know whether to be grateful that the other party was a polite gentleman, or to be angry that the other party had no interest in her at all.
But by the time she came to her senses, the sound of the tank engine outside the window had faded away, and the human soldier who helped her get the body out of the room had long disappeared.
The Battle of Joslena has just begun, but the war on this street seems to have ended. Except for the corpses of a few elven soldiers in the corner of the street and the shallow crater next to the corpse, there seems to be nothing here