Felix certainly couldn’t commit suicide for losing a position; he was rely pushed to a sowhat awkward position along with the remnants of the 5th Corps.
He was still seeking ways to halt the Tang Army’s advance and help the Elf Race’s 7th Corps stabilize the flank defense.
However, his efforts were ultimately in vain, as a day later, the Tang Army’s vanguard Armored Corps successfully joined forces with the Navy Marine Corps inside Hotwind Port.
At this point, the Tang Army had achieved its strategic objective of spreading the flas of war along the coast to the Elven Holand, stretching the entire front line wide enough for the Tang Army to spread out.
Strauss’s 3rd Corps launched a fierce assault, and the Dwarf Troops continued to retreat, abandoning nurous positions and retreating over 100 kiloters before stopping.
It wasn’t that they stopped the Tang Army’s advance, but the Tang Army itself halted. At this stage of the war, the Tang Army already controlled the battlefield initiative and was unlikely to change its combat plans due to the Allied Forces’ counterattacks.
The bombing from the sky continued unabated. Despite having a huge nurical advantage, the Allied Forces failed to form an effective offensive punch. Innurable supplies were paralyzed on the roads and consud for various reasons.
Allied troops seized civilian food on the front line, while civilians lacking dicine and supplies showed little restraint in looting those increasingly precious resources.
Incidents of plundering military transports occurred more than once: train cars destroyed by bombing and convoys stopped due to road destruction all beca targets for the frenzied populace.
These civilians were also unable to survive; their food was seized by the military, and their barely pieced-together lives lost all hope due to the war. Therefore, they turned into outlaws, looting whatever resources they could find to survive.
The entire war zone fell into chaos, as if resisting the Tang Army had beco a distant task, and eliminating each other had beco the primary mission for these people.
Civilians gathered to plunder various things, their weapons and equipnt improving daily; rifles, machine guns, and even rocket launchers found on military transports granted them military-equivalent firepower.
The military, unable to secure supplies, grew more frenzied, slaughtering villages and towns and treating everyone as insurrectionist saboteurs.
The Tang Army, upon arriving, could hardly believe their eyes. They saw burned villages and piles of corpses... For a mont, they even wondered if the opposition had made so mistakes.
Although in propaganda, the Tang Army was portrayed as returnees and liberators... this was just propaganda. Now, everyone seed to believe it, as everything they witnessed indeed proved they had co to liberate this place.
As ti passed, the Tang Army’s advance seed to beco increasingly easy. In many places where the Tang Army vehicles passed through, traces of the hasty retreat of Dwarf Troops were evident.
Abandoned airports were littered with aircraft wreckage, as the approaching Tang Army left no ti to dismantle and retrieve valuable parts from these planes.
Previously, Dwarves would dismantle airplane engines and other valuable parts for transport; now, these items remained on the wreckage, lying innocently inside the hangars.
The hangar ceilings were dotted with countless shrapnel-pierced holes, with sunlight streaming through, showering the tilted airplane wings, solitary and desolate.
Next to the potholes on the unfilled airport runways lay abandoned construction vehicles, and so immovable trucks remained parked in open spaces.
The flagpole that should have flown the national flag stood empty, the building’s glass shattered, the broken iron gate slumped to the side, and the sandbag-reinforced bunkers were long devoid of weapons. Everything conveyed to the passing Tang Army Soldiers how embarrassing the Dwarf Troops’ departure was.
The 10th Corps had retreated over 110 kiloters in a month, even without the Tang Army making a fierce thrust, demonstrating their speed in escaping.
Now, with several Tang Army groups continuously advancing, the front line was increasingly closing in on Furnace Fortress. Many Dwarves began to doubt whether the broadcasted events were true.
"Citizens of the Empire! We continue to resist the evil Tang People’s dood invasion in the north! Our soldiers are very brave, repeatedly repelling enemy attacks and defending our sacred holand!"
"His Majesty The Emperor visited a farm in the suburbs of Furnace Fortress this morning, where the milk produced is delicious... the enemy cannot destroy our production, and we can still drink fresh milk!"
"Last month, we produced 1,000 cannons. For every one cannon destroyed by the enemy, we manufacture ten! We will conquer iron with iron! The will of the Dwarves is indestructible! Under the great Emperor’s leadership, we will ultimately achieve final victory!"
"This morning, our Air Force bombed Ben... now it is a sea of fire. Air Force commanders stated that the enemy suffered heavy losses, and the air raid was highly successful."
"Click..." A dwarf walked up to the radio and reached out to turn off the switch. The room suddenly beca much quieter, and the sigh of a female dwarf seed conspicuous in the quiet atmosphere.
"Dear, aren’t these all good news? Why turn it off..." Recently, many civilians within Furnace Fortress have beco irritable, as by any asure, the war seed to be drawing closer to them.
Nevertheless, the broadcast tirelessly reported so seemingly unreliable lies. Although many were willing to believe, a portion scoffed at these claims.
"Have you ever seen continuous victories on the front line but the capital getting bombed worse and worse?" The man snorted; he was an official, naturally aware of so inside information.
Even if he didn’t know, deducing from the frequency of Furnace Fortress being bombed, it was clear that the enemy was getting closer.
"Didn’t the reports say that the enemy is very crazy, recklessly bombing our capital, just to destroy our fighting spirit?" The woman remained optimistic, as the industrial area-targeted bombings had no impact on her.
Despite the rising vegetable prices lately, for their official family, slightly higher prices were still bearable.
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