Chapter 1941: Chapter 1934: The Day of the Decisive Battle
The Aud Army took nearly a month and a half to assemble, during which ti Lipei was also actively preparing for war.
Under constant propaganda from the publicity departnt, Lipei people of all sizes began to take action. The young and strong started receiving military training, preparing to supplent the reserves. Won, the elderly, and children were all mobilized to ensure logistics support.
No one dared to guarantee that Lipei would definitely withstand the Aud Army’s attack, but they all understood very clearly that once Aud Army conquered Lipei, their good life would cease to exist. This fear was deeply rooted in everyone’s heart.
To calm the people’s hearts, Lin Wei assured Luo’er that Shenghua District was stationed with two regints of Rapid Reaction Force, ready to be transferred to Lipei to join the battle whenever needed.
With the decisive battle approaching, Luo’er began large-scale relocations of Lipei residents, temporarily moving them to Shenghua District for resettlent. This freed up space, reduced logistics pressure, and facilitated response to imminent war.
anwhile, the Xuanwu airship had already taken off, carrying fighter jets, heading towards Lipei to support the war there.
After assembling 300,000 soldiers, the Aud Army, led by Brolan, began to advance into Lipei’s territory.
To prevent artillery strikes, they continuously dispersed their formations, spreading across over a thousand square kiloters of Lipei’s territory.
However, the battlefield outside Lipei City was limited in width, able to accommodate at most around 50,000 troops for deploynt, making it difficult for the Aud Army to leverage their nurical advantage.
But even so, the attacking force of 50,000 still exerted imnse pressure on the Lipei Defense Army.
Through ideological reform and high-wage recruitnt, the Lipei Defense Army recruited 20,000 soldiers from Aud Army prisoners of war, supplenting their combat strength.
Actually, Luo’er was quite envious of the over 10,000 elite Aud Army that Oklo Laf brought, but he also clearly understood that Oklo Laf could not fight for Lipei.
After all, he was an Odelanqi noble and a relative of the king. Even if he was willing, Luo’er could not avoid concerns.
As the clouds of war arrived, all excess population inside and outside Lipei City were transferred, leaving the whole city feeling very desolate. Only soldiers were running back and forth, each with a serious expression.
But on the other hand, the whole city was unusually bustling, with the lights shining brightly inside and outside. The artillery positions fired incessantly, with piles of tal shells accumulating, while new shells kept arriving.
However, with the arrival of heavy rain, the Lipei Defense Army’s artillery accuracy and frequency noticeably declined.
Luo’er redistributed the three lines of defense into two, facilitating the concentration of defensive forces for more focused defense. Both the outer and second lines of defense were mixed with elite and militia forces.
Both lines of defense were very important, so they were all held by subhuman soldiers.
The Aud Army advanced very quickly, crossing the artillery blockade line of the Lipei Defense Army in less than three days and beginning contact with Lipei troops at the outer frontline.
Even though the battlefield width only allowed the deploynt of 50,000 troops, the simultaneous attack by 50,000 troops still imposed imnse pressure on the Lipei side.
On the second day of reaching Lipei’s outer defensive line, despite the sky still pouring heavy rain, the Aud Army braved the storm and launched their first attack.
On the battlefield, the gunfire and explosions echoed, and the support artillery struck continuously on the Aud Army’s attack routes, raising high mud walls, with blood and mud splattered everywhere.
anwhile, the Aud Army artillery had also approached and deployed, starting to shell the Lipei Defense Army positions.
Artillery from both sides fired in unison, although the rain curtain reduced precision, it also brought both sides’ advantages to roughly the sa level. Aside from caliber advantage, Lipei artillery had little else.
Among the defenders of Lipei outer defensive line, subhuman troops and Aud Army POWs each accounted for half.
These ideologically reford Aud Army POWs showed vigorous combat power in the positional warfare, actively resisting the attacks of their forr comrades with fierce engagent.
The Aud Army launched over a dozen attacks in a single day but achieved little. Each ti they were repelled by the Lipei defenders, leaving corpses of Aud Army soldiers all along the attack route.
On the first day of battle, Aud Army suffered over 2,000 casualties, yet they could not conquer Lipei’s outer defensive line, which enraged Brolan greatly.
He ordered cannon fire on Lipei positions, but this revealed the coordinates of their artillery positions, resulting in heavy losses after Lipei artillery retaliated.
In terms of artillery counterattack, the Aud Army and most otherworld armies were no match for humans from Earth, unable to compete at all.
The loss of support artillery caused a temporary halt in Aud Army’s offensive. By the second day, the heavy rain slightly diminished, and taking advantage of the fog, the Aud Army launched another attack in hopes of catching Lipei off guard.
But they clearly underestimated the defensive ability of the Lipei Defense Army. Soon, they t with fierce retaliation from Lipei defenders and after losing several hundred people, retreated embarrassedly again.
The fiercest concern for the eruption of Lipei’s defensive battle was not Luo’er but the Church Court. Because the Aud Army directly sealed off and isolated Lipei, making it impossible for military supplies originally transported to the Church Court to remain unimpeded.
This set the Church Court at a disadvantage in their battle against the Aud Army, and the pope urgently needed support from Lipei, even pulling around 100,000 troops from the frontline to go support Lipei just to open up a supply line.
The second day’s battle was also extrely intense, with both sides repeatedly clashing for over a dozen rounds. The outer positions even changed hands several tis, luckily blocked again by reinforcents from the Lipei army.
The second day’s engagents ended with casualties numbering in the thousands between both sides. Although defending, the Lipei army also endured considerable losses. Over 400 soldiers died, outcos that exceeded Luo’er’s expectations.
The artillery positions fired constantly, with cannons on the city walls adjusting elevation to attempt support. Luo’er mobilized all weapons capable of firing shells to compensate for manpower shortages to the greatest extent.
Everyone who was supposed to evacuate had already left the city, leaving a very desolate scene with only patrolling soldiers moving back and forth.
Headquarters staff repeatedly requested Luo’er to retreat to Earth for operational command, but Luo’er chose to refuse.
He had already ntally prepared that once Lipei fell, then he would accompany Lipei through its final monts, as he could not bear the loss of this city.
Each ti he recalled his resolution, Luo’er couldn’t help but think about when he led the Advance Team to open the Otherworld Gate, creating the magnificent city-state of Lipei.
The gate he personally opened would now close because of his own incompetence, sothing Luo’er could not accept.
What he couldn’t bear even more was the Lipei people resettled in Shenghua District. If Lipei fell, where would they go? Shenghua District could certainly provide housing, but they were all otherworld people, not everyone could adapt to Earth’s environnt.
Hence, he had made the most desperate plan. If Lipei fell, he would accompany Lipei, risking death in battle without hesitation.
Of course, the situation had not developed to an irreparable point yet.
Shenghua District still had Rapid Reaction Force ready for days. The Xuanwu airship carrying several fighter jets was on its way. Reinforcents from the Church Court were en route. Mages dispatched by the Church Court also tragically expressed their willingness to sacrifice their lives to cast forbidden magic.
The Lipei Defense Army only had disadvantages on the conventional battlefield, but outside the conventional battlefield, they still had many response plans.
The predictable outco was that Lipei would surely not fall. Even if Luo’er wanted to die to prove his worth, Earth would probably not agree, instead directly intervening.
Thus, Luo’er’s tragic thoughts remained in his heart and were not told to others.
On the third day of battle, the rain finally stopped, although still gloomy, visibility was much better.
Because of this, the Aud Army launched their biggest offensive since the war began. The 50,000 Aud Army troops on the front line launched a tidal wave of attacks simultaneously, with another 50,000 ready to follow.
That day, Lipei artillery fire intensity also reached its peak since the war began. The artillery fire continued all day long, leaving craters and bodies across the Aud Army’s charge routes.
Aud Army artillery also began extending their bombardnt, and finally so shells fell into Lipei’s inner city, fortunately causing no casualties.
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